The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiatve at Duke Divinity School warmly invites Duke medical students, graduate students, and faculty to join us for lunch and conversation with Jim O'Connell, MD. 

Boxed lunches will be provided for the first 50 attendees at the event on the 6th floor of the Trent Semans Center for Health Education (TSCHE). 

This event is co-sponsored by the Purpose Project at Duke, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and the History of Medicine.
 

About Dr. Jim O'Connell

After completing a residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. O'Connell began fulltime clinical work with homeless individuals as the founding physician of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which now serves over 10,000 homeless individuals and families each year. With his colleagues, Dr. O’Connell established the nation’s first medical respite program for homeless persons in September 1985, which now provides acute and sub-acute, pre- and post-operative, and palliative and end-of-life care. Additionally, Dr. O’Connell designed and implemented the nation’s first computerized medical record for a homeless program in 1995. The recipient of numerous honoary degrees and awards, his work has been featured in feature-length documentaries Give Me a Shot of Anything and The Antidote, and several books, including his Stores from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor.