1 / 1

Andrea Farkas Patenaude , PhD Associate Professor of Psychology, HMS

COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. Health Information Lunchtime Lecture Series. Date: Time: Location: Reception: Books: Contact:. Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:00 noon Minot Room, 5th Floor Countway Library 10 Shattuck Street Book signing & light refreshments Lahey Room, 5th Floor

damian
Download Presentation

Andrea Farkas Patenaude , PhD Associate Professor of Psychology, HMS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF MEDICINE Health Information Lunchtime Lecture Series Date: Time: Location: Reception: Books: Contact: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:00 noon Minot Room, 5th FloorCountway Library10 Shattuck Street Book signing & light refreshmentsLahey Room, 5th Floor For sale at the event by theSimmons College Bookstore Roz_Vogel@hms.harvard.eduor 617-432-4807 Andrea FarkasPatenaude, PhDAssociate Professor of Psychology, HMS Will discuss her book - Prophylactic Mastectomy: Insights from Women Who Chose to Reduce Their Risk Dr. Patenaude was among the first researchers to study the psychological impacts of genetic testing on patients and their families. Her book describes the stories of 21 women choosing to undergo prophylactic mastectomy to significantly reduce their very high hereditary risk of getting breast cancer. As the use of genetic testing in medicine increases, so, too, does the number of women facing similar dilemmas.

More Related