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Dr. Clifton K. Meador will deliver WKU’s 2014 L.Y. Lancaster-Hugh Puckett Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m. Oct. 30 at Downing Student Union, room 3025.

In his presentation, Symptoms of Unknown Origin, Dr. Meador will recount a series of fascinating case studies.

Dr. Meador has been the Dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University and Chief Medical Officer at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville and is the author of 14 books.

The lecture, sponsored by the L.Y. Lancaster-Hugh Puckett Lectureship Society, is free and open to the public.

The lecture series started in 1980 in honor of L.Y. Lancaster, a former pre-med advisor at WKU, and now shares the honor with another former pre-med advisor Hugh Puckett. The series has invited a number of well-known speakers from various backgrounds to the WKU campus, including Nobel Laureate Stanley Cohen (1989), painter Ray Harm (1990), Raymond Preston (1992), former Lt. Gov. Stephen Henry (1997), former WKU president Dero Downing (1999), Pete Mahurin (2007), Dr. Sharron Francis (2009) and U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie (2012).

Contact: Ken Crawford, (270) 745-4449.