Ex-Surgeon General to speak

New London - Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher will speak at Connecticut College March 4 as part of a free, two-day symposium examining racial gaps in health care.

Satcher, surgeon general from 1998 to 2002, will give the keynote address, "Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health Care in America," at 6:30 p.m. in Harkness Chapel. Satcher is director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute, a group that works to reduce health disparities.

The symposium, "The Health Gap: Inequality in U.S. Health Care," will include a presentation, "African Americans and the Origins of the Campaign to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Health and Health Care," at 11:50 a.m. March 5 by Vanessa Northington Gamble, professor of medical humanities at George Washington University, in Blaustein Humanities Center Room 210.

A panel discussion is 2:30 p.m. March 5 in the Ernst Common Room in Blaustein. For information and a complete schedule visit: www.conncoll.edu/centers/ccsre/9964.htm.