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Oliver Sacks, a best-selling author hailed as "the poet laureate of medicine," by the New York Times, will be the featured speaker at Case Western Reserve University's 2003 Fall Convocation at 4:30 p.m. today in Severance Hall.

Oliver Sacks

The program will be followed by a celebration on Freiberger Field.

A clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and adjunct professor of neurology at the New York University School of Medicine, Sacks has written more than 30 books, including "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" and "Awakenings," a book that inspired the 1990 film of the same name starring Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro.

Sacks also wrote "An Anthropologist on Mars," the assigned book this year in the summer reading program for incoming Case freshmen.

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