Scott Society Lecture, "The Life of Vivien Thomas" by Brigham and Women's Robert Higgins is March 3

Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, center, with Seth Karp, MD, left, and Sunil Geevarghese, MD.

Lecture gives new insight on surgery icon Thomas

Vanderbilt’s recent H. William Scott Jr. Lecture in Surgical History offered unfiltered insight on the legacy of surgical pioneer Vivien Thomas.

Lecture details legacies of Levi Watkins, Vivien Thomas

At Tuesday’s Levi Watkins Jr. MD Lecture, George C. Hill, PhD, delivered the keynote address, “Dr. Levi Watkins and Mr. Vivien Thomas: Memories and Lessons Learned from Two Outstanding Lives of Service.”

By Kathy Whitney

March 14, 2013

Photo: Discovery Lecture

Scott Hultgren, Ph.D., director of the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research at Washington University in St. Louis, talked about improving therapies for urinary tract infections during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.