Stephen Post Lectures at SU on April 11

SALISBURY, MD-- Dr. Stephen Post, nationally known speaker and author of The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease, delivers a lecture on the ethical issues surrounding the care of Alzheimer patients on Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in the Worcester Room of the Commons at Salisbury University.

Post teaches in the medical school at Case Western Reserve University and serves as the associate director of its Center for Biomedical Ethics. The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease has been described by Health Affairs as "an outstanding, potentially classic book."

"It is such a coup to get Steven Post here to speak," said Dr. Mary DiBartolo, president of the Eastern Shore chapter of the Alzheimer's Association and co-sponsor of the lecture. There is no one in this country who has thought and written more sensitively about the ethical issues swirling around this terrible disease."

The recent news stories about the woman who gave birth to a selected embryo, free of the genetic marker for early Alzheimer's, is a case in point. Dr. Francis Kane, co-director of Salisbury University's Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement (PACE) and co-sponsor of the event, asked: "Is this a great new breakthrough or another step on the slope of eliminating any undesirable traits in our offspring? We expect that Dr. Post will shed some light on that question."

Post's visit to SU has been made possible by a grant from the Case Western Reserve's Center for Biomedical Ethics. The lecture is free and the public is cordially invited. For more information, call PACE at (410-677-5045).