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| Web-Site: Not Available Location: 1276 main St, W. Concord, MA, 01742 map Phone:978-930-4629 Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Hours: 7:00pm Cost: Free see below |
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning journalist Tracy Kidder will discuss his book, Mountains Beyond Mountains. Joining Kidder will be Dr. Serena Koenig, a specialist in infectious disease who is featured in the book. The evening is part of a community-wide reading project organized by Concord Carlisle Read. Talk. Share.
Location
Harvey Wheeler Community Center
1276 Main Street West Concord
Date & Time
Wednesday, March 9 at 7:00pm
About Read, Talk Share
The project's goal is to build community through a shared reading experience, discussion, public events and to inspire action. Mountains Beyond Mountains is the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners In Health and his work bringing first-class medical care to the poor in Haiti, Peru, Siberia, and Roxbury. Kidderıs portrayal of Farmer illustrates how one person can make a difference, and that radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable. Farmer is the recipient of a 1993 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 'genius award,' among others.
About the Author, Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder, a contributor to the Atlantic and The New Yorker earned a Pulitzer and a National Book Award in 1982 for Soul of a New Machine. More than a decade later, Kidder met Dr. Paul Farmer while in Haiti reporting on American soldiers working to reinstate Jean-Bertrand Aristideıs democratically elected government. Kidder met with Farmer again in 1999 to create 'The Good Doctor,' a profile of Farmer published in The New Yorker in July 2000. Kidderıs research for this profile was the starting point for Mountains Beyond Mountains, published in September 2003 by Random House.
Other best-selling works include House (1985), Among Schoolchildren (1989), Old Friends (1993), and Home Town (1999). Among Schoolchildren, a narrative of one year in the life of a fifth-grade class and its teacher won Kidder the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1989.
About Dr. Serena Koenig
Dr. Serena Koenig focuses on the complexities of delivering HIV/AIDS care in resource-poor settings and divides her clinical time between Brigham and Womenıs Hospital and an infectious disease clinic in Haiti. She was recently granted an International Research Scientist Development Award through the Fogarty Center of the NIH to conduct a study evaluating the health outcomes and cost of a variety of HIV treatment strategies in Port au Prince, in collaboration with researchers at the GHESKIO Center (Le Groupe Haitien dıEtude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes) and Cornell University. As the former Medical Director for Partners In Healthıs Haiti Programs, she was a major author of Haitiıs successful application to the Global Fund for monies to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis services to the 550,000 residents of Haitiıs central medical department. Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Koenig has finished a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at BWH and Massachusetts General Hospital and a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Co sponsored by Concord-Carlisle Community Education. The event is free and open to the public. Info at beeza10@aol.com or by calling 978-930-4629.
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