The Community and Global Health concentration at Kalamazoo College will host a researcher and physician who specializes in infectious diseases at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 19, in Dewing Hall Room 103. 

Larry Lutwick is a specialist within the Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and is a former professor of medicine and biomedical sciences at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He will present his address, “The Pandemic Clock is Ticking. We Just Do Not Know What Time It Is. The Spread of Infections in a Connected World,” discussing how the medical field monitors and responds to epidemics in a globalized world. He received his medical degree from State University of New York Downstate Medical School and completed his residency training at Barnes Hospital through the Washington University School of Medicine. He completed an infectious diseases fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. 

A small reception follows the lecture. For more information, contact department student advisor Sofia Fleming at sofia.fleming21@kzoo.edu.