Healing: Our Path From Mental Illness to Mental Health with distinguished speaker Thomas Insel, MD
Wed., February 5
6:00 p.m., Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts
Free event and open to the public
5:00 p.m. doors open/general seating
About Thomas Insel
Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Insel is a national leader in mental health research, policy and technology. He served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 until 2015 before going on to lead technology development for mental health care at Verily Life Sciences. He is chairman of the board at Steinberg Institute and co-founder and executive chair of Vanna Health, which works with community partners to help people with serious mental illness in their recovery.
He authored the book Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health, published by Penguin Random House, and was a founder of MindSite News, a non-profit digital publication focused on mental health issues.
Dr. Insel is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received numerous national and international awards.
About the Carl and Jean Grosz Health Sciences Lecture Series
The Carl and Jean Grosz Health Sciences Lecture Series is made possible through the generosity of the Grosz family. The family endowed the lecture series to support inspiring talks by distinguished health sciences experts for the benefit of students, faculty and staff, and the community.
Dr. Carl Grosz was a retired surgeon who practiced medicine at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center and St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center. He did not attend Boise State but benefited from students who trained in the College of Health Sciences; he and his wife, Georgina (known as “Jean”), Dr. Grosz, who in his lifetime was also an Air Force officer and commercial fisherman, died in 2021.
Past Lectures
Jim Yong Kim (2022) former President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim is a global visionary devoted to improving the lives of people in developing countries and championing the cause of global health.
Before his time at the World Bank Kim served as President of Dartmouth College and as Executive Director and co-founder of the internationally renowned non-profit medical organization Partners In Health (PIH). At PIH, Kim helped launch a movement that changed global health forever, tackling some of the world’s most difficult health problems in communities of extreme poverty.