Thalidomide is the most enigmatic drug ever produced, causing perhaps as many as 100,000 birth defects world-wide. Since 2012, I have been consulting and evaluating thalidomide victims previously excluded from financial help to victims. My research, in part, led to the announcement on 3 December 2013 by the British company representing thalidomide of an $89 million dollar settlement for 105 Australian thalidomide victims. Then, in February 2014, I was one of 25 thalidomide “experts” invited to a meeting at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva to determine the range of defects caused by the drug. The story continues.

Location: Liberty Hall, 325 W. Benton, lecture room