Duke Medicine invites the media to cover its 75
th Anniversary Science Symposium, Sept. 25-26, 2006. Reporters, editors and producers interested in attending the symposium should contact Marla Broadfoot in the Duke Medicine News Office at 919-684-4148 or
marla.broadfoot@duke.edu to register.
Three Nobel Prize winners and ten other leading scientists will share their thoughts on their work, emerging great ideas in science and how these advances might change the future of medicine. Read an article about the symposium in "This Month @ Duke" at
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/08/bigidea.html.
Duke Medicine will make symposium speakers available to help you with your stories.
The Press Room will be located in The Wyngaarden Room, Room 2240 of the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (CIEMAS) Building. The Press Room hours are Tuesday, Sept. 26, from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Press Room is open only to members of the working press. Members of the press must check in at the registration desk in the Searle Center to receive their press credentials, which will allow them to access the press room and symposium activities.
The Press Room will feature the following for credentialed press:
+ wireless access
+ laptop computers
+ tables for interviews
+ background information on conference speakers
+ continental breakfast and boxed lunch
If you have any questions, or would like to arrange an interview with any of the speakers, please contact Marla Vacek Broadfoot at (919) 660-1306 or by e-mail at
marla.broadfoot@duke.edu.
