Screening of Contagion

Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Speakers
Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for Global Health program, Council on Foreign Relations; Scientific Consultant, Contagion
Scott Z. Burns
Writer, Contagion
Presider
Sanjay K. Gupta
Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN; Associate Chief of Neurosurgery, Grady Memorial Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine

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