The Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, M.D. Lectureship in Medicine will be April 3

The 2024 Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, M.D., Lectureship in Medicine will be presented by Keith Armitage, M.D., professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease at Case Western Reserve University and vice chair for education and residency director in the Department of Internal Medicine at University Hospitals.

Dr. Armitage will speak on "Travel Medicine 2024."

The lecture will be held from noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, in Watanakunakorn Auditorium.

No registration is required. Lunch will be provided

About the Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, M.D., Lectureship in Medicine

On March 5, 2004, the family of the late Dr. Watanakunakorn, of Youngstown, Ohio, presented NEOMED with the then-largest charitable gift in the College’s 30-year history. Totaling more than $3 million, the gift is used to advance medical education in Northeast Ohio, create an endowed chair in microbiology and immunology in Dr. Watanakunakorn’s name and provide this lectureship series for health care professionals throughout the region.

From 1979 to 2001, Dr. Watanakunakorn, served as a professor of internal medicine at the University. At the time of his death in July 2001, Dr. Watanakunakorn was hospital epidemiologist and chief of infectious diseases at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. He received several awards from professional organizations, including the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Physicians Master Teacher Award, The American College of International Physicians Distinguished Physician Award, and the Infectious Disease Society of America 2000 Clinician Award. He also was a master of the American College of Physicians.

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