Penn State College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, Hershey, has announced that its Department of Psychiatry will host Psychiatry Grand Rounds on Thursday, Aug. 1, from noon to 1 p.m. in Lecture Room D, C7619.
Stephen Fried will present "Dr. Benjamin Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father." Fried is an author and an adjuct professor at Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania.
Rush, known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was the founding father of the American mental health field, which became psychiatry, clinical psychology, and addiction care. In the 1780s, he started fighting discrimination against behavioral health patients. He is credited with changing the path of health care through lectures, through treatment of mental illness as a medical condition, and by writing the first American book on mental health.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, readers may email Windy Alford at walford@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
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