Dr. Bernhard Hennig, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, will host the Inaugural John P. Wyatt Symposium/Workshop November 5, 2008.  Invited speakers will be:

Dr. William Suk, PhD, MPH
Acting Deputy Director, NIEHS & NTP
and
Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc,
Professor and Chair, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

This event will be held at the W. T. Young Library.  For further details, contact Dr. Hennig or Jennifer Moore

This fellowship honors Dr. John P. Wyatt, M.D., who was director of the University of Kentucky Tobacco and Health Research Institute from 1974 until January 1980.  Dr. Wyatt was a pathologist who received his M.D. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1938 and completed his medical training on a fellowship at Harvard Medical School.  Before coming to UK in 1974, he was professor and head of the departments of pathology at St. Louis University where he was involved in black lung research and at the University of Manitoba.  Dr. Wyatt was a pulmonary diseases researcher who published over 100 articles covering viruses and diverse lung injuries.