Expert On Infectious Disease To Speak At Raker Lecture At Muhlenberg College
William H. Foege, M.D., M.P.H., one of the world’s foremost experts on infectious disease, will speak at Muhlenberg College on October 12, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. in Egner Memorial ChapelFriday, September 29, 2006 01:59 PM
The lecture is a part of the Conrad W. Raker Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the College and Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network. His presentation is entitled “Do No Harm: Will We Ever Get It Right?”
Foege is a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Smallpox Eradication Program, a founder of the Task Force for Child Survival, former executive director of the Carter Center, the author of more than 125 professional publications, and a Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. In addition, he was a former director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and has taken an active role in the eradication of Guinea worm, polio and measles and the elimination of river blindness. In the 1970s, he worked on the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox.
The Conrad W. Raker Lecture Series was established by the Board of Trustees at Good Shepherd in honor of the anniversary of the ordination of the Reverend Dr. Conrad W. Raker, son of the founder of Good Shepherd, as a Lutheran pastor. Raker, a Muhlenberg alumnus, was an administrator at Good Shepherd until 1980. He served as administrator emeritus and was an active member in the Good Shepherd family until shortly before his death in 2002.
