Tickets are now available for Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research’s annual Saward Lecture.
This year’s lecture will feature Dr. Wendy Chung, a Columbia University geneticist, physician and educator who will speak about how genetics influence a child’s risk of developing autism.
The lecture begins is 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3 Newmark Theatre, 1111 S.W. Broadway, in Portland.
Tickets to the lecture are free, but they must be reserved in advance online, www.kpchr.org/research/public/saward/sawardtickets.aspx. Organizers expect tickets to go quickly.
Chung directs the clinical genetics program at Columbia University Medical Center. She is also the principal investigator of the Simons Variation in Individuals Project, which identifies and studies people with a specific genetic variation associated with autism.
