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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA– Clinical cardiac surgeon, Charles R. Bridges, M.D., Sc.D will be the invited lecturer for The Amos Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 4 p.m. The lecture will be held in the newly renovated Ware Center Theater on Lincoln’s main campus in southern Chester County, PA.
The lecture will be on “A Black History of Science.” The event is free and open to the public.
“Lincoln University is, indeed, honored to host Dr. Charles R. Bridges for the second Amos Scholarly Lecture this academic year,” Dean of Humanities Gladys Willis said. “Dr. Bridges’ scholarly accomplishments, his research in the area of cardiology and his patents for inventions have already earned him national and international recognition. I am sure that Dr. Bridges’ lecture will be enlightening and inspirational for all who attend his lecture.”
Dr. Bridges was admitted to Harvard College at Harvard University with sophomore standing. He graduated from Harvard University in three years, magna cum laude, with a degree in Engineering and Applied Physics. Entering medical school at age 18, he was the youngest student in the entering class at Harvard Medical School and the youngest student ever enrolled in the Harvard-M.I.T. program in Health Sciences and Technology for more than 25 years.
A Philadelphia native, he returned from Boston to complete residencies in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. This year, Dr. Bridges was promoted to Professor of Surgery in the division of Cardiovascular Surgery. He is the first African American to attain the rank of full Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
His research has been published in several prestigious basic science and clinical medicine journals including: The American Journal of Physiology, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Journal of the American College of Surgeons and The Journal of the American College of Cardiology. In addition, he co-authored the cover article in the March 25, 2004 issue of Nature.
The Amos Lecture Series was established by two Lincoln alumni Ernest C. Levister ’58, a former member of the Lincoln University Board of Trustees, and his brother, Harold H. Levister ’64, in memory of their mother, Ruth Amos Levister. The two alumni are descendants of Reverend Thomas Hunter Amos, founder and president of Harbison College in Abbeville, S.C. His father, Thomas Henry Amos, was a member of Lincoln University’s first graduating class in 1859. Thomas Henry Amos died as a missionary in Liberia, Africa.
The purpose of the lecture series is to “stimulate the minds of the Lincoln family in their Liberal Arts studies, with emphasis on the theological, philosophical, classical, historical and the mathematical and scientific disciplines.”