Lader Lecture

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Grand Rounds: This event was not open to the public. Please contact Louise King, MD, JD if you have questions. The 2023 Lecturer was Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, Professor, Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing; Interim Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of Washington, School of Nursing.

Linda Greenhouse, MSL, is a senior research scholar and lecturer in law at Yale Law School, where she has taught since 2009. For the preceding thirty years, she was the New York Times Supreme Court correspondent and earned a number of major journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, for her coverage of the Court. She has written widely about the law and politics of abortion. Her New York Times Magazine article, “Constitutional Question: Is There a Right to Abortion?”, published in January 1970, was one of the first articles for a general readership about the emerging legal framework for the abortion debate. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, Harvard, and earned a Master of Studies in Law Degree from Yale Law School. She has been a member of several nonprofit boards, including the Harvard Board of Overseers (2009-2015) and currently serves as president of the American Philosophical Society, the first woman to hold that position since the society’s founding by Benjamin Franklin in 1943.