Events
James O'Connell, M.D., President of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program engages in a talk-show style interview with Rebecca McInroy, Producer and Host at KUT, Austin's NPR!
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Need a moment to remember why you’re working so hard to ace your next exam or get through those long days at work?
Then you won’t want to miss this event, featuring an individual whose compassionate hard work continues to change lives.
The Health Professions Office is thrilled to present "Reflections of a Street Doctor: James O'Connell, M.D."
Dr. O'Connell is President of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP).
It is a talk-show style interview by Rebecca McInroy, Senior Producer/Host at KUT, Austin’s NPR station.
You likely know her from KUT's "Two Guys on Your Head", "Views and Brews", and more.
Dr. O’Connell paves the path in providing healthcare to the homeless through 30+ years of doctoring in the streets.
Media such as CBS and NPR have featured his story. His eye-opening memoir is “Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor”.
Free and open to the public. Whether your passion lies in healthcare, public health, non-profits, social justice,
or acts of pure kindness and human connection, we guarantee he’ll inspire you.
This event is a part of our biennial Joe Thorne Gilbert Lectureship.
It honors the legacy of Dr. Joe Thorne Gilbert, a physician and UT alum, whose altruism and expertise healed many people in the Austin community.
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Check him out on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross!
DIRECTIONS TO AT&T CONFERENCE CENTER GRAND BALLROOM
1900 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705
The Grand Ballroom is on Level M3.
Map of AT&T Conference Center floor plan.
Directions to AT&T Conference Center.
Parking: Self Parking fees at AT&T Conference Center and nearby parking garages apply:
The nearest major UT parking garage is the Brazos Garage on 210 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78712
Bus Stops: There are many nearby bus stops:
- 21st/Whitis
- Guadalupe/21st
- 2231 Guadalupe/West Mall UT
- Speedway/21st
- 1801 Congress/18th
- 311 Martin Luther King/ San Jacinto
The lecture series, created to honor Dr. Gilbert, brings outstanding individuals in the field of medicine to discuss great ideas and vital issues current in the health professions.
Previous Joe Thorne Gilbert Lecture Series Speakers:
Charles Fraser, M.D.
Ben Carson, M.D.
Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D.
Mark W. Kline, M.D.
Dot Richardson, M.D.
Atul Gawande, M.D.
Laurance B. McCullough, M.D.
Patch Adams, M.D.
Denton Cooley
Oliver Sacks
James “Red” Duke
C. Everett Koop
Abraham Verghese
Nancy Dickey
JOE THORNE GILBERT
Dr. Joe Thorne Gilbert was born August 7, 1905 in Austin. Dr. Gilbert received his B.A. from the University of Texas and earned his M.D. from The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1929. Soon after the United States entered World War II, Joe Thorne volunteered his services as a surgeon to the Army Medical Corps.
Dr. Gilbert was deeply engaged with his home city of Austin, serving in a leadership capacity for several community organizations. In journal editorials and public speeches he urged his physician colleagues to engage in community and political service.
In an article he wrote in the International Surgical Digest he encouraged “The nurturing qualities that help fight disease: compassion, understanding and support.” The Joe Thorne Gilbert Lectureship is evidence that he lived these words. It represents donations from so many grateful patients and respectful colleagues who appreciated his quick and skillful hands, kindly bedside demeanor and wit.
Dr. Gilbert served his patients for 56 years from 1929 until Parkinson’s disease forced his retirement in 1985. As illness withered his body and finally immobilized him, Joe never complained of his condition, and his humanity and fine sense of humor remained part of him until his death in 1989.
