Speaker Topic: In Defense of Human Dignity
This event is free and open to the public!
About the Speaker
Kristin M Collier, MD, FACP
Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Residency Program Director
University of Michigan Medical School
Dr. Kristin Collier is an associate professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan where she serves as the director of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality, and Religion and as an associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. She completed medical school, residency, and chief residency at the University of Michigan. Her academic interests center on human dignity and the ways this concept grounds moral obligations at the margins of life. Her peer reviewed work has been published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the British Medical Journal, the Annals of Internal Medicine and The Journal of General Internal Medicine. She has had writings published in Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal, Theopolis, America Magazine, Public Discourse, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She is also a wife and the proud mother of four sons.
About the Newman Lecture Series
The St. John Henry Newman Lecture in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition is a new public lecture series at Newman University. Co-sponsored by the University, the School of Catholic Studies, and the Gerber Institute for Catholic Studies, the series invites distinguished scholars, writers, scientists, artists, or public figures to reflect on how the Catholic intellectual tradition has shaped his or her life and work. The series takes its name and its inspiration from the University’s patron, St. John Henry Newman, whose life testifies to the unity of faith and reason, the formative power of a genuine education, and the vocation of the Catholic as a witness in the modern world. The lectures present personal and substantive engagement with the Catholic tradition, one capable of illuminating fundamental questions about the human person, the common good, the relationship between science and the transcendent, the humane purposes of technology, and the nature of the university itself.
