DATE: 3:30 p.m., Oct. 18, 2007.

EVENT: Pamela W. Barnes, president and chief executive officer of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, will deliver the 2007 Vivian R. Shaw Lecture, entitled “Putting Passion into Practice.”

Founded in 1988, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs.

Barnes has served in her role at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation since 2006 and before that served as the Foundation’s chief operating officer. She was also the director of operations and finance for Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic in New York. She has volunteered for the Peace Corps in Paraguay and served as the vice president of finance and administration at the International Trachoma Initiative.

Barnes worked for more than 20 years in investments and corporate finance in New York, including stints as assistant treasurer of corporate finance at GTE and assistant treasurer at RCA.

The Vivian R. Shaw Lecture is a joint Women’s Studies and Institute for Research on Women and Gender lecture series established in 1997 by U-M alumna Ellen Agress to commemorate her mother.

PLACE: Rackham Amphitheatre, 915 E. Washington St.
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SPONSORS: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Women’s Studies, School of Social Work, and the School of Public Health

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