Abraham Nussbaum to deliver Leonard Visiting Scholar Lecture, Feb. 8

The Department of Medicine welcomes Abraham Nussbaum, MD, as the 2018 John M. Leonard Visiting Scholar. His lecture, “Listening to Noise: Outcomes, Quality Measures and What We Are Missing in the Physician-Patient Relationship,” will be Thursday, Feb. 8, at 8 a.m. in 208 Light Hall.

Nussbaum is a chief education officer at Denver Health, an academic safety net system, and an associate professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He earned a medical degree and completed psychiatry residency at the University of North Carolina, and also has a master’s degree from Duke University.

Nussbaum is the author of three psychiatric textbooks and a memoir, The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine, which the New York Times called "dazzling and instructive."