Join us via Zoom* for the next Community, Interaction, Action (CIA) Book Read!

Engage with colleagues to discuss the book, The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones. This book, described as, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this 'startling…powerful' (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race," has been selected as VCU’s 2022-23 Common Book.

Read online in VCU Libraries: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vcu/reader.action?docID=6264704&ppg=1

Links to order book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Organ-Thieves/Chip-Jones/9781982107536 

    https://www.amazon.com/Organ-Thieves-Shocking-Transplant-Segregated/dp/1529400627/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

All members of the VCU community including faculty, fellows, housestaff and Central Virginia VA Health Care System faculty are invited to this hour-long faculty discussion group facilitated by Marlon Levy, MD, FACS Professor, David M. Hume Endowed Chair, Division of Transplant Surgery and Vice Chair, Department of Surgery.

Two discussions via Zoom, please REGISTER for one:

• Monday, August 29, at 4:00 p.m., https://vcuhealth.libcal.com/event/9415077   OR
• Monday, September 12, at 7:30 a.m., https://vcuhealth.libcal.com/event/941564

An additional discussion via Zoom will be led by Emily Hurst, M.S., Deputy Director and Head, Research and Education Department. Assistant Professor. Health Sciences Library, Research and Education on:

• Thursday, September 8, at 12:00 p.m., https://vcuhealth.libcal.com/event/9481666

*Registration closes and Reminder with Zoom link is sent 1 hour before the event at the email you provide during registration. For help after registration closes, contact jody.hedstrom@vcuhealth.org or stacey.wahl@vcuhealth.org. Sponsored by the School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs. For questions, please contact Stacey Wahl at stacey.wahl@vcuhealth.org.