Posted on March 30, 2007 at 2:10 p.m.

Birmingham, Ala., -- UAB’s (University of Alabama at Birmingham) annual John N. Whitaker Lecture in Multiple Sclerosis will be delivered by Fred D. Lublin, M.D., Saunder’s Family Professor of Neurology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. The lecture series honors the late Dr. John Whitaker, former chair of UAB’s Department of Neurology. Whitaker was one of the nation’s leading authorities in multiple sclerosis.

Lublin’s lecture, “Treating Multiple Sclerosis-an Evidence Based Take on Holism”, will be delivered at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, April 3, in conference room E of the UAB Hospital West Pavilion Conference Center, 615 South 18th Street.

“John Whitaker was an inspiring physician, researcher and administrator at UAB and enjoyed an international reputation in the field of multiple sclerosis,” said Dr. Khurram Bashir, UAB assistant professor of neurology. “This lecture series continues his work by bringing the leading figures in the field together in a continuing effort to understand, treat and ultimately cure multiple sclerosis.”

Whitaker, who died in 2001, joined UAB as professor and chair of neurology in 1985. He was a three-term president of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation. Throughout his distinguished career, he received numerous honors and awards, including membership in Alpha Omega Alpha and receipt of a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award.