The UPMC Eye Center will hold its annual Vision Research Day on June 14, 2013 at the University Club. The Susruta Lecture will be given by Rosa Lynn Pinkus, PhD. Dr. Rosa Lynn Pinkus is the Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also a Professor of Medicine and Neurosurgery, and the Director of the Consortium Ethics Program. As a historian, she received both her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1975) from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1978, she completed a fellowship in the Medical Humanities at Penn State Hershey, and joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1980. Since arriving at the University, Dr. Pinkus gained extensive experience as an ethics consultant, and taught applied ethics for over twenty years in both the medical school, and most recently, the School of Engineering. The full agenda is attached.