Dr. Stephen Kahn is the Nashville-based founder and president of the global health nonprofit Abundance Foundation and a Vanderbilt University-trained emergency medicine doctor.
On Wednesday, May 16, Kahn will moderate a question and answer with Dr. Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer of Boston-based Partners In Health and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a conversation inspired by documentary film Bending the Arc. The film will be shown in a special screening at Belcourt Theatre.
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