33rd Annual Rollin Daniel Lecture to address medicare physician payment crisis, Friday, Oct. 28, at 7 a.m.

John Mayer Jr., M.D., professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and senior associate in Cardiac Surgery at Children’s Hospital in Boston, will present “The Medicare Physician Payment Crisis: A Surgical Solution,” at the 33rd Annual Rollin A. Daniel Jr., M.D., Lecture.

The lecture will be Friday, Oct. 28, 7-8 a.m., in 208 Light Hall.

The Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Departments of Cardiac Surgery and Thoracic Surgery are hosting the lecture.

The Rollin Daniel Lecture Series was established in 1977 to recognize the medical achievements of Daniel, who graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1933 and was known as the “father of thoracic surgery in the Nashville surgical community.”

For more information, contact Sharon Barker at (615) 936-5500 or e-mail sharon.barker@vanderbilt.edu.