Nobel Prize co-recipient to lecture at Cary Institute
By: Mitchell Trinka, Staff Reporter
09/04/2008
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READY TO TEACH: Eric Chivian, MD, will answer questions and pose his own while he talks about human impact on biodiversity next week.
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The environment is on the forefront of nearly everyone's mind, especially with recent discussions of global warming and dimming. Eric Chivian, a physician by training, has spent the last 17 years investigating how human health depends on the vitality of natural ecosystems, including how ecosystem biodiversity and humans' impact on it influences biomedical research, disease spread, and food production.
To educate the local community about these concerns the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies will host a free public lecture on Sept. 10 by Chivian on "How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity."
At this latest lecture, Chivian will discuss human health, using his experience and selections from his latest book, "Sustaining Life: How Human Heath Depends on Biodiversity."
Chivian is the director of the Center of Health and Global Environment, which he founded in 1996, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was the co-recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize after publishing "Last Aid: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War" in 1982 and co-founding International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in 1980.
In addition to his other accolades, Chivian was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time Magazine for his work in organizing scientists and evangelicals to join together in efforts to protect the global environment.
The lecture will be held in the Cary Institute's auditorium at 7 p.m., located at 2801 Sharon Turnpike in Millbrook. A book signing will follow the lecture. Copies will be available for sale to those interested. For more information call the Institute at 677-5343, or visit their Web site at www.ecostudies.org.
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