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Expert in skin, wound care to discuss
role of race in health-care quality

By AMI J. SHAH
UNC School of Nursing

CHAPEL HILL -- Dr. Courtney H. Lyder, a nationally recognized expert in skin and wound care, will explore race’s role in the quality of health care in a Feb. 26 lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"Providing Quality Skin and Wound Care: Does Race Really Matter?" will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the lobby-level auditorium of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building, located at 301 Pittsboro St.

The event is free to the public.

Lyder is a University of Virginia Medical Center professor of nursing and professor of internal medicine and geriatrics. He is the first African-American man to hold an endowed professorship in nursing in the United States.

Lyder is a senior consultant on skin and wound care issues for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is the immediate past president for the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel.

He also is a member of the Office of Minority Health Resource Center for the U.S. Public Health Service Office of Minority Affairs and is a research reviewer for 12 health-care publications, including the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The lecture is a part of the UNC School of Nursing Ethnic Minority Visiting Scholars Program, established to highlight the research and contributions of minority nurse-scholars.

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(Shah, of Columbia, S.C., is a junior majoring in journalism and mass communication.)

School of Nursing contact: Sunny Smith Nelson, (919) 966-1412 or Sunny_Nelson@unc.edu