Unseen Enemy, Documentary Film Screening
A documentary directed by award-winning director Janet Tobias, which explores the global, political, economic, and public health conditions that may contribute to the next global pandemic.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
Before they Strike: Viral Forecasting for Pandemic Prevention
A public lecture presented by Nathan Wolfe, the founder and CEO of Metabiota, a pioneering risk analytics company that improves the world’s resilience to epidemics, and founder of Global Viral, an independent non-profit research organization focusing on innovative and disruptive research in ecology, biodiversity and public health. Wolfe formerly held the Lorry I. Lokey Business Wire Consulting Professorship in Human Biology at Stanford University. Named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2011 and a National Geographic “Emerging Explorer” in 2010, he has traveled the world conducting biomedical research with hopes of tracking, studying, and eradicating the next pandemic before it strikes.
Thursday, February 7, 2019, at 7:30pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
The Opioid Crisis: Economic, Legal, and Clinical Perspectives
A panel lecture presented by Sanho Tree, Dr. Nicole Labor, and Judge Thomas Teodosi.
Sanho Tree is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and has been director of its drug policy project since 1998. A former military and diplomatic historian, his current work encompasses the reform of both international and domestic drug policies by promoting alternatives to the failed prohibitionist model, and ending the damage caused by the drug wars in Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. He has been featured in more than a dozen documentaries and frequently lectures at universities and conferences around the world.
Dr. Nicole Labor graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in BioBehavioral Health, and received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed a residency in Family Practice at the State University of New York in Buffalo, followed by a fellowship in addiction medicine at Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania. Dr. Labor is currently the Medical Director at OneEighty, a treatment center that offers inpatient and outpatient chemical dependency and behavioral health services in Wooster, and is also the associate director of addiction medicine for Summa Health in Akron.
Judge Thomas Teodosio received his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Akron in 1982, and the same year was admitted to the Ohio Bar Association, the bar for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, and the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He began his judicial career in 2006, when he was elected Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge, and served on this court until 2017, when he joined the Ninth District Court of Appeals. While on the Common Pleas Court, Judge Teodosio presided over Summit county’s award-winning Felony Drug Court, known as the Turning Point program, which is a specialized docket in which non-violent drug-dependent offenders plead guilty, and are then provided court-supervised treatment and substance abuse/mental health programming.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019, at 7:30pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
The Complexities of Conducting International Clinical Research
A public lecture given by Dr. Diane Jorkasky, who graduated from The College of Wooster with a major in chemistry (’73), and received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held numerous medical school appointments, including at the University of Pennsylvania, Howard University, and Yale University School of Medicine, and the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California at San Francisco. Alongside these academic appointments, the bulk of Dr. Jorkasky’s career has been in the pharmaceutical industry, where she is an internationally recognized expert on drug development and clinical research. While serving as vice president of Global Clinical Research Operations at Pfizer Global Research and Development, she led clinical research projects in the U.S, Europe, and Asia, and the research units under her supervision were the first in the pharmaceutical industry to be awarded certification by the American Accreditation for Human Rights Protection Policies. She is currently president of her own research and consulting business which emphasizes translational pharmacology.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 7:30pm, Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster
