Laurel Case Lectures

2023 Lecture: Decoding the Hidden Curriculum: The Culture of Academic Medicine through Sign, Story, and Song

Christy Ledford, Ph.D., F.A.C.H.

Culture is a communicative process. It helps group members make sense of information. It promotes a sense of order and logic that symbolically constitutes organization A strong culture creates a common language that builds a shared value system toward a shared vision of the future, whereas a weak culture stunts growth. Signs, stories, and songs can be powerful tools to cultivate a strong academic medicine culture that advances the health and well-being of communities.

This year's OHSU Family Medicine Laurel Case Lecture has been scheduled for Wednesday, October, October 11th from 11:30am to 1pm at the OHSU Auditorium. The speaker for this year's lecture is Christy Ledford, Ph.D., F.A.C.H. Christy is a Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the department of Family and Community Medicine at Medical College of Georgia at August University.

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The Laurel Case Visiting Professor spends several days as a guest of our department, interacting with clinical faculty, research team and residents of our discipline and other departments.

Laurel G. Case, M.D. was the founding chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at OHSU, leaving a 16 year private practice in the Medford, OR in 1971 when requested to accept the leadership of Family Medicine education in Oregon.

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Rebecca Etz, Ph.D.

Co-Director of the Larry A. Green Center of Advancement of Primary Health Care for the Public Good and Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University

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Rachel Hardeman, Ph.D., M.P.H.
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Eliseo Perez-Stable, M.D.
Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

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Denise Rodgers, M.D.
Vice Chancellor, Interprofessional Programs; Director, Urban Health and Wellness Institute, Rutgers University

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Kevin Grumbach, M.D.
Professor and Chair, University of San Francisco Department of Family Medicine and Community Medicine

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