Doctors Without Borders Canada founder to Speak at Mount
Doctors Without Borders Canada founder to speak at Mount
The Samuel D. Affron Memorial Lecture Series will present Dr. Richard Heinzl, founder of Doctors Without Borders Canada, at 7 p.m., Friday (March 26) in Aquinas Hall Theatre at Mount Saint Mary College. The lecture is free and the public is welcome.
Heinzl will address “Lessons from Abroad: The Opportunities of a Borderless World.”
He founded Doctors Without Borders Canada in 1988 and became its first field volunteer, spending a year in remote Cambodia. He wrote about his experience in a memoir, Cambodia Calling. Hundreds of volunteers have followed him, bringing their healing skills to help many of the world's most vulnerable people.
Heinzl has been named one of the "Hundred People Who Make a Difference in Canada," and was included on Report on Business' Top 40 Under 40 list. He is also a renowned speaker, sharing his stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the midst of war and other challenges.
This will be the 11th lecture in the Affron Memorial Lecture Series. Past lecturers have included William Proxmire, former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin; Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State; and Edwin Newman, former NBC news correspondent. The late Jerome S. Affron, a former MSMC trustee, established the lecture series in honor of his father in 1982.
In keeping with the topic of the lecture, the Mount will accept donations on behalf of the earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.
To learn more about the lecture, call Kathy Barton, assistant to the vice president for college advancement, at 845-569-3215.
http://www.msmc.edu/
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