ANN ARBOR—Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., a psychiatrist and expert on legal issues in medical practice, will present the Fourth Annual Raymond W. Waggoner Lecture on Ethics and Values in Medicine.

His lecture, titled “No Place to Hide: Threats to Confidentiality and Privacy in Medicine,” begins at 4 p.m. Sept.15 in the Maternal and Child Health Center Auditorium, located off East Hospital Drive adjacent to C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Appelbaum’s lecture is sponsored by the U-M Department of Psychiatry and is free and open to the public.

Author of many articles and several books on law and clinical practice, Appelbaum chairs the Psychiatry Department and is director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is the current vice president of the American Psychiatric Association and a recipient of the APA’s Isaac Ray Award for “outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence.” Major research interests include informed consent, confidentiality, and ethics in medical and psychiatric practice.

The Raymond W. Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and Values in Medicine is an annual event sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry in the U-M Medical School. The lectureship brings a national or international expert to U-M to explore cutting edge issues related to ethics and values in medicine.

The lectureship was established in honor of Raymond W. Waggoner, M.D., emeritus professor and past chair of the department, to recognize his contributions to the profession and to the study of medical ethics. The program is supported by an endowed fund created through the generosity of alumni and friends of Waggoner and the Department of Psychiatry.

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