Edward M. Kovach Cura Personalis Endowed Lecture

January 9, 2025
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Riggs Library

This year’s Edward M. Kovach Cura Personalis Endowed Lecture is a conversation about
“How to Make a Difference in the Complicated Lives of Cancer Survivors”

Featuring Karen Knudsen, PhD, MBA, Executive Strategic Advisor and Immediate Past CEO, American Cancer Society
and
Nicole Faison, Business Operations Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer at HHS Office of Inspector General, and Cancer Survivor
in conversation with
Nina Kadan-Lottick, MD, MSPH, director, Survivorship Research Initiative, Georgetown Lombardi
and
Louis M. Weiner, MD, director, Georgetown Lombardi

In addition, we will be honoring this year’s Wooden Spoon Awardee:
Dr. Patrick Jackson, chief of the Division of General Surgery at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital,
director of the Surgical Residency Program, and professor of surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine