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The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Tumistic Institute chapters around the world.

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to mystic institute.org. My name is Annette, and I am a medical student here in the college,

and it is my delight to welcome you all to this evening's talk. We are delighted on behalf

of the Semistic Institute that each one of you have come here today.

A little word in what the Thimistic Institute is.

It's an international organization that supports lectures on Catholic theology and intellectual tradition at over 90 universities throughout the world.

And tonight is a collaboration with the Catholic Society

and with the Medical Ethics Society also.

So thank you so much for all your help.

And a special thank you to Father Ben Hughes

for being so kind to allow us the chaplaincy

for refreshments afterwards.

You will see a sign-up sheet that is making its way around and you can pop your name and your email down there

and we will let you know of future Thomistic Institute events. And for tonight's schedule,

so following the talk, there will be a time for questions and answers.

And then everybody is warmly invited to the chaplaincy for pizza afterwards.

And on to tonight's speaker, so I'm delighted to welcome Professor Lydia Dougdale all the way from New York to go away here tonight.

Professor Dugdale is a physician, a clinical ethicist, a professor of medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center,

a wife to Kyle and a mother to Ella and Zena.

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