The 2022 Berkowitz Family Foundation lecture program – Finding Balance: The Promise and Pitfalls of Modern Medicine – will feature Jonathan Reisman, MD, author of “The Unseen Body” and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Cooper University Health Care.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Reception at 4 p.m. (Light refreshments)
Lecture at 5 p.m.
This free event is open to medical students, faculty, and Cooper team members. Registration is required. To register, click here.
If you have questions, please email: catherine-hardesty@cooperhealth.edu
About the Lecture:
Modern medicine is on the cusp of a new era filled with powerful therapies, but it’s also brimming with potential hazards to our profession. Today, becoming a doctor means entering a world of gene therapy and endless data, but also one in which medical institutions and expertise are questioned and often critiqued.
Dr. Jonathan Reisman will explore these big questions by drawing insights from his unique career practicing medicine all over the country and the world. The lecture will highlight ways doctors can strengthen the culture of medical ethics and humanism, especially by diagnosing themselves and the health care systems in which they work.
About the Speaker:
Jonathan Reisman, MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician
Cooper University Health Care
Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Dr. Reisman graduated from New York University with a BA in mathematics and received his medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He trained in combined internal medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since finishing residency, he has mostly worked in rural and remote emergency rooms throughout the country, including in Arctic Alaska, Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and several hospitals in rural Pennsylvania. Dr. Reisman has practiced wilderness medicine in remote parts of the world including Antarctica, the Russian Arctic, and at high altitude in Nepal. He has conducted public and global health research in Alaska, India, and Tanzania. He began writing as a medical student, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate and Discover Magazine. His first book, “The Unseen Body,” was published in November 2021 and is being translated into six languages.
