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Lectures on health ethics at the Mount

March 08, 2011

Newburgh, NY -

Brother Ignatius Perkins, OP, PhD, will offer two lectures related to health care ethics at Mount Saint Mary College, 330 Powell Avenue in Newburgh.

The first lecture, Tuesday March 15 at 4 pm in Hudson Hall, is titled “Dominican Charism in Health Care.”

The second lecture, Wednesday March 16 at 7 pm in Hudson Hall, is titled "Healing at the End of Life: A Journey of Hope of the Christian Community.”

Brother Perkins, a member of the Order of Preachers, known as the Dominicans, is dean of nursing at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a registered nurse and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in primary care and clinical bioethics at Georgetown University.

The internationally acclaimed nurse educator has also served as professor and chair of the School of Nursing and dean of the College of Health and Natural Sciences of Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky; executive vice president and staff ethicist of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Boston; and chair of the department of nursing at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio.

At Spalding University, Brother Perkins established the Center for the Study of Human Dignity, Ethics and Caring in Nursing.

Both of Brother Perkins’ lectures at Mount Saint Mary College are free and open to the public, sponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute. For more information call 845-569-3467.