On Wednesday, April 18 from 5:30-7 p.m. join Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine for a screening of a powerful new documentary based on David Barton Smith's book The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System (2016). The screening will take place at the Great Hall in the Trent Semans Center. The event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served. 

The Power to Heal, premiering on PBS later this spring, portrays a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring David Barton Smith, PhD, Brenda Armstrong, MD, and Eileen Welch. The fathers of both Armstrong and Welch played a central role in the movement to desegregate hospitals first in North Carolina and then nationally.

• David Barton Smith, Research Professor at the Dornsife School of Public Health School at Drexel University and Professor Emeritus in Health Administration at Temple, assisted in the production of the film and will be available following the panel discussion to sign copies of his book.

• Brenda Armstrong is Senior Associate Dean for Student Diversity, Recruitment & Retention, Duke School of Medicine and appears in the film. 

• Eileen Welch is biographer of Dr. Aaron Moore, Durham's first African American physician.

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