#  Movie Night: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 25, 2017** 

 05:30PM - 07:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Medical School, TNEC Amphitheater, 260 Longwood Ave., Boston**  



 

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 Doors open at 5:00 p.m.

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 *Join us for a discussion on informed consent, bioethics, race and class in research with:*

 **Pearl O’Rourke, MD**  
Director of Human Research Affairs at Partners HealthCare Systems and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, HMS

 **Rebecca Li, PhD**  
Executive Director, VIVLI and Instructor in HMS Division of Global Health Equity, Dept. of Medicine, BWH

 Discussion followed by a screening of the HBO film:  
***The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks***  
Henrietta Lacks is known as HeLa in the scientific world. Her cells, grown in culture and still alive today, became one of the most important tools in modern medicine.

 *Based on the book by Rebecca Skloot*



 

 



 

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