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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 24, 2008

AIDS Week activities: Medical Students at Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine host free lecture and 5K walk/run

DAYTON, OHIO—Wright State University medical students affiliated with the American Medical Student Association and Physicians for Human Rights will host a free lecture by physician and author, Jan Gurley, M.D., and their third annual AIDS 5K Walk/Run Benefit in support of AIDS Week.

Jan Gurley, M.D. will speak on HIV and the Homeless on Thursday, March 27, at 5 p.m. in Room 101 of the Boonshoft School of Medicine’s White Hall. ‘Doc Gurley’ holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and ran the AIDS services for San Francisco’s Department of Public Health during the peak of the AIDS epidemic in that city. She now provides care for homeless patients in San Francisco and is the author of a soon-to-be-published book, Dodging Death.

The third annual AIDS 5K Walk/Run Benefit will be held on Saturday, March 29, at Wegerzyn Gardens MetroPark, 1301 E. Siebenthaler Avenue. Registration begins at 7:30, a.m., with the race start at 9:30 a.m. The cost is $25 per participant, with proceeds supporting the local AIDS Resource Center and Positives 4 Positives. Far Oaks Orthopedists is an event sponsor.

Wright State’s American Medical Student Association (AMSA) is a student-governed, national organization committed to representing the concerns of physicians-in-training.

Wright State Chapter of Physicians for Human Rights, is a student organization working to mobilize the health professions to advance the health and dignity of all people by protecting human rights both locally and abroad.

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