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Dr. Jon LaPook of CBS News
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Paul Farmer
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Haiti After the Earthquake
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A portion of the event proceeds will be donated to Partners In Health,
the non-profit organization that provides a preferential option for the poor in health care.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Doors open @ 8:15 a.m.)
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center
Amphitheater
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004
Metro Accessible: Metro Center and Federal Triangle
ALL TICKET HOLDERS MUST PRESENT PICTURE ID TO ENTER THE BUILDING.
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Ticket Information (AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR)
$50.00 Ticket: General Admission and copy of Haiti After the Earthquake (retail $27.99 + tax)
$30.00 Ticket: General Admission only (does NOT include copy of book)
$22.50 Student Ticket (Limited): General Admission only & requires valid STUDENT ID
(does NOT include copy of book)
Additional copies of Haiti After the Earthquake will be available for purchase.
Dr. Farmer will be signing books at the event.
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On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured.
Join Dr. Jonathan LaPook, medical correspondent for the "CBS Evening News," as he interviews Dr. Farmer about the book and his work in Haiti and across the globe.
 Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., is Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and co-founder of Partners In Health. He also serves as UN Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, under Special Envoy Bill Clinton. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. He has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 Jonathan LaPook, M.D. is a board-certified and practicing physician in internal medicine and gastroenterology. He has been an associate attending physician for New York-Presbyterian Hospital since 2001, and before that served as an assistant attending physician and an assistant physician for the hospital. Dr. LaPook has also been an associate clinical professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center since 2001, and was formerly an assistant professor of clinical medicine and an instructor in clinical medicine at the university.
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Where
Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington,
DC 20004
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Hooks Book Events, a minority women-owned business based in Washington, DC, infuses innovative thinking into organizations through interactive book and author programs. We provide enriching professional development and client events for corporations, U.S. government agencies, and non-profit associations. Engage your employees and constituents by bringing our authors to your office - thought leaders and New York Times bestselling writers who have penned books about current events and trends such as work/life balance, leadership, economics, coaching, management, and more. Hooks Book Events also specializes in producing large-scale public events with renowned non-fiction authors. For more information, visit our website at www.hooksbookevents.com.
