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Lecture: Kay Redfield Jamison, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
July 17, 2009

LECTURE — Kay Redfield Jamison, prof. of psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine. Kay Redfield Jamison is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. A mental health advocate and author, she is an international authority and researcher on mood disorders. Dr. Jamison went public with her own struggle with manic-depression in a 1995 Washington Post article and subsequent book, An Unquiet Mind. The book became a New York Times bestseller that Oliver Sacks said, “stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance, and beauty.” The book was cited by several major publications as one of the best books of 1995, and it has been translated into 20 languages. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide was also a national bestseller, translated into 15 languages, and selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 1999. Jamison’s most recent book, Exuberance: The Passion for Life, was selected by The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best books of 2004 and by Discover magazine as one of the best science books of the year. Formerly the director of the UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic, Dr. Jamison was selected as UCLA Woman of Science and has been cited as one of the “Best Doctors in the United States.” She was selected as one of the five individuals for the public television series “Great Minds of Medicine,” and she was chosen by TIME magazine as a “Hero of Medicine.” Among many honors, she was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. Chautauqua Institutition. For more info 716-357-6200.