Teacher Stories
The Power of Stories and Early Relationships
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March 5, 2021
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When 4th grade teacher Miriam Marecek turned down the lights and lit the reading candle, magic happened. Pediatrician and journalist Perri Klass describes what it was like being one of Ms. Marecek's students and the impact it's had on her life and professional career. Now, as national medical director for Reach Out and Read, Dr. Klass, promotes books and reading aloud, together, starting at birth.
Teacher Stories
The Power of Stories and Early Relationships
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March 5, 2021
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When 4th grade teacher Miriam Marecek turned down the lights and lit the reading candle, magic happened. Pediatrician and journalist Perri Klass describes what it was like being one of Ms. Marecek's students and the impact it's had on her life and professional career. Now, as national medical director for Reach Out and Read, Dr. Klass, promotes books and reading aloud, together, starting at birth.
Teacher Stories
The Power of Stories and Early Relationships
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March 5, 2021
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When 4th grade teacher Miriam Marecek turned down the lights and lit the reading candle, magic happened. Pediatrician and journalist Perri Klass describes what it was like being one of Ms. Marecek's students and the impact it's had on her life and professional career. Now, as national medical director for Reach Out and Read, Dr. Klass, promotes books and reading aloud, together, starting at birth.
Talk Nerdy
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Childhood Vaccines w/ Perri Klass
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Feb. 15, 2021
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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara Santa Maria is joined by NYU professor of journalism and pediatrics Dr. Perri Klass to talk about her new book, "A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future." They examine the profound impact that medical advancements like vaccines have had on infant mortality and public health. Also discussed: the often-overlooked women and minority practitioners who changed the course of human history.
Past Events
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February 27, 2024
The Columbia Narrative Medicine Journalism Workshop
Dialogues on Medical Journalism: Perri Klass
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March 9, 2023
Margaret Wise Brown Board Book Award Ceremony
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March 1, 2023
Waring Library Society at the Medical University of South Carolina
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November 9, 2022
Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children's Hospital
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November 3, 2022
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Driving Down Infant and Child Mortality: Victories, Dilemmas, and Persistent Disparities
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November 2, 2022
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
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October 31-November 1, 2022
Duke University, Trent Center for Bioethics
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October 11, 2022
University of California, San Diego
Research Ethics Grand Rounds
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October 5, 2022
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
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September 28, 2022
Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
Bioethics Grand Rounds
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September 26, 2022
Rose Bente Lee Ostapenko Center for Ethics in Medicine and Healthcare, Niagara University
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September 15, 2022
Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy, Hofstra University
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September 6, 2022
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Grand Rounds
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August 30, 2022
University of Utah, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities
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July 6, 2022
Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
In conversation with Janice P. Nimura
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June 8, 2022
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Grand Rounds
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May 19, 2022
NYU-Gold webinar
Living to Grow Up: Progress and Persistent Disparities in Infant and Child Mortality
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May 5, 2022
Montgomery Lecture, Feinberg School of Medicine, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Northwestern University
April 15, 2022
Stanford Pediatric Grand Rounds Rudene DiCarlo Memorial Lecture
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April 13, 2022
2022 Celebration of Student Writing, Indiana University East
Keynote for the fifth annual Celebration of Student Writing at Indiana University East.​​
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