The Soul of Medicine with Norman Levan

USC Office of Religious Life and the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics presents:

Dr. Norman Levan

 

Thursday, March 31
McKibben (MCH) 256 - Health Sciences Campus
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Free Lunch Served

Dr. Norman Levan is professor emeritus and former chief of dermatology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.  Dr. Levan earned his medical degree in 1939, at which time the school was known as the USC School of Medicine.  A literature major as an undergraduate at USC, Dr. Levan also holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from St. John's University in New York.

After serving in the Army Medical Corps during World War II, where he experienced the full fury of the battle of Okinawa, Levan began a long and distinguished career in medicine.  He began to practice in dermatology and joined the faculty at the then USC School of Medicine, where he later became chair of the Department of Dermatology.  He established the Hansen’s Disease Clinic for leprosy at the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center in 1962.

Dr. Levan endowed the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics in 2007 and the Norman E. Levan Chair in Medical Ethics at Keck in 2010.  At the age of 95, Dr. Levan still practices medicine one day a week.

Complimentary signed copies of Levan’s recently released autobiography, Life On My Terms: A Physician's Autobiography, will be available to attendees.

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