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.