Medical Students for Life of America is proud to announce our 2013 Spring Medical Students for Life Tour. We will be traveling to over 25 medical schools across the country with pro-life doctors who will provide medically-accurate lectures on issues such as perinatal hospice, embryo adoption, counseling patients with an medical ethics, things you should know as a pro-life ObGyn, and conscience rights. Partnering with doctors from around the country, we will be working with Medical students to prepare them for a career as a pro-life physician. Every lecture will either be live broadcast or recorded and available at med.studentsforlife.org.
Our first event will take place this Monday, February 11th at 12pm at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas and will be held at the McDermott Building, Room D1.602 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390-9003. Dr. Marguerite Duane will lecture on “Modern Fertility Awareness Based Methods of Family Planning.”
Healthcare professionals are welcome to attend all lectures by making reservations with MedSFLA at jrussell@studentsforlife.org.
FULL 2013 MEDICAL STUDENTS FOR LIFE SPRING TOUR SCHEDULE
About Dr. Marguerite Duane, M.D., M.H.A., FAAFP
Dr. Marguerite Duane, a board certified family physician and Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University, is co-founder and Executive Team Leader of FACTS – the Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Systems. Dr. Duane formerly served as the medical director of the Spanish Catholic Center of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC and the Family Medicine Clerkship Director at Georgetown University. She received her M.D. degree with recognition in primary care from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed her Family Medicine residency at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA. Dr. Duane received a Bachelor of Science with Honors degree and a Master of Health Administration degree from Cornell University in 1992 and 1994, respectively. She is also trained as a Creighton Medical consultant and a TeenSTAR educator. Dr. Duane has been recognized for her leadership efforts by the American Board of Family Medicine which named her as a 1998 Pisacano Scholar, and by the American Academy of Family Physicians which awarded her the AAFP Bristol Meyers Squibb Graduate Medical Education Award in 2002. Dr. Duane balances her career as a teacher and Family Physician, with her role as a mother and wife.
