Please join us February 10, 2023 from 1-2pm.
Please click the Zoom link below to join the webinar:
https://ca01web.zoom.us/j/69363159353?pwd=OW5PYlYwaHNPZWd2ZWxHRThLQmVWZz09
Passcode: 503581
Speakers
Dr. Heather Butts, JD, MPH, MA, HPM is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the author of African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era.
Host: Dr. Nav Persaud, MD, MSc is Canada Research Chair in Health Justice and a Scientist at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Unity Health Toronto.
Background
- Dr Alexander Augusta sought medical education in Canada but became a medical educator in America after the Civil War (Canadian Medical Education Journal)
- Lessons from Dr. Alexander Augusta, a Black surgeon who trained in Canada in the 1850s before serving in the Civil War (Unity Health Toronto)
- Toronto city council to commemorate Canada’s first two Black doctors (CityNews)