Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Distinguished professor, oncologist to present Corcoran Lecture
 The keynote speaker at the IU School of Medicine-Evansville’s 2008 Corcoran Lecture series on October 16 will be Lawrence H. Einhorn, M.D., the Lance Armstrong Foundation Chair at the IU School of Medicine and a nationally recognized cancer specialist, clinical researcher, and educator. Einhorn pioneered the development of life-saving medical treatment for testicular cancer by combining chemotherapy treatment drugs in 1974, increasing the survival rate from 10 to 95 percent. In 1996, he led the medical team who treated Lance Armstrong for the disease. Armstrong became a consecutive seven time winner of the Tour de France from 1999 to 2005. Einhorn’s innovative drug combination is of historic significance. It was the first in the world to cure cancer where chemotherapy had previously failed. Physicians and researchers will receive invitations to an 11:30 a.m. lecture and luncheon at The Centre. A 5:30 p.m. presentation in Mitchell Auditorium in the Health Professions Center at USI (IUSM-Evansville’s host campus) is free and open to medical professionals and the public. The IU School of Medicine–Evansville sponsors the annual Patrick J.V. and Margaret B. Corcoran Lecture in memory of its founding director, the late Patrick J.V. Corcoran, M.D. and his wife Margaret B. Corcoran, a nurse, who established an endowment to provide medical lectures to the Evansville community and scholarships to area medical students. Corcoran was a professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and assistant dean from 1971 to 1983. For more information or invitation inquiries, call 812/464-1831. Pamela G. Hinkebein IU School of Medicine-Evansville 812/464-1831 or phinkebein@usi.edu |
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