Salvatore Pablo Lucia Memorial Lectureship in Preventive Medicine
Uncorking the Controversy: Alcohol and Health

June Chan, ScD, will moderate a discussion with Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH, and Gregory Marcus, MD, MAS, experts in cancer, cardiovascular, and nutritional epidemiology, medicine, cardiology, and public health. This session will take a deeper look at what we know and don’t know about the potential harms and benefits of alcohol on health, including cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Speakers:

Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH
Professor, Epidemiology & Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Gregory Marcus, MD, MAS
Professor and Associate Chief, Cardiology, UCSF

June M. Chan, ScD (Moderator)
Professor, Vice Chair for Education, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Steven & Christine Burd-Safeway Distinguished Professor, Urology, UCSF

Agenda:

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | SEMINAR
MH-1400 and Zoom (register for Zoom link)

2:45 | RECEPTION
Mission Hall 2nd Floor Town Center

About the Salvatore Pablo Lucia Distinguished Lecture Series:

Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD, is Professor in Epidemiology & Biostatistics and the current holder of the Salvatore Pablo Lucia Chair in Preventive Medicine. Salvatore Pablo Lucia, MD (1901–1984), was a faculty member at UCSF for 53 years and was one of the University of California’s most distinguished physicians and medical educators. Lucia joined the UCSF faculty in 1932 and in 1956 became Chair of the newly created Department of Preventive Medicine, which became the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He published several books on wine and health.

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This event is presented and supported by the Salvatore Pablo Lucia Distinguished Lecture Series; the UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics; and Dr. George Rutherford, West Coast branch of the John Snow Society.