Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture

The 44th Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture presented by Betty Ferrell, RN, PhD, MA

Betty Ferrell, RN, PhD, MA, presenter of the 44th Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture, and Dean Katrina Armstrong, April 2023. (Photo/A. Renae)

The Alexander Ming Fisher Memorial Lecture on Death and Dying was established in the early 1970s by E. Douglas Southwick to commemorate the life of Alexander Ming Fisher, MD, a graduate of Columbia University, and institute a yearly lecture series on the topics of death and dying. Since 1974, Alexander Ming Fisher lecturers have explored a wide variety of issues, including family care in terminal illness, death and public policy, the impact of AIDS on the practice of medicine, physician-assisted suicide, Medicare and terminal illness, and genetic engineering and the prolonging of life.  


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