Greenberg-Williams Lectureship

Named for Martin Greenberg, M.D., and Stephen Williams, M.D., the Greenberg-Williams Lectureship features nationally leading figures in the bioethics and medical humanities with a special emphasis on health care for rural and underserved populations.

Topics include not only bioethical issues but also the arts, literature and religion as they apply to an understanding of medicine, illness and human well-being. Support for the lectureship is made possible through a gift to the Dr. Martin Greenberg fund, established by Dr. Greenberg’s family after he passed away in 2021.

2025 Lecture

Meeting communities where they are: A community-centered approach to organ donation and transplantation

October 16, 2025
12 PM (ET)
FREE virtual event

Featured speaker

Ieesha Johnson is the director of community outreach at Infinite Legacy, a nonprofit organ procurement organization (OPO) serving almost 10 million people in Maryland, Northern Virginia and Washington, DC. She founded the Infinite Legacy’s “Decision Project,” a grassroots initiative empowering socially disadvantaged communities affected by donation and transplantation to make educated and inspired decisions about donation. Currently, Johnson is an Expert Panelist for The Division of Transplantation within the Department of Health and Human Services Donation Education and Outreach Team. Johnson volunteers for the Maryland Medical Reserve Corps and serves as a Subject Matter Expert for the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) Impact committee. She is also the current President of the Association of Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation.

Responding speaker

Bobby Howard is director of multicultural donation education program (MDEP) at LifeLink of Georgia. A transplant recipient himself, Howard received a lifesaving kidney in October 1994 and joined the team at LifeLink the following year. Today, he leads a team of five MDEP staff with diverse community education experiences. Through workplace and community partnerships, and by expanding staff and community involvement, LifeLink has been able to substantially increase donor registrations and family authorizations so that more transplants happen in Georgia. LifeLink of Georgia serves more than 10 million people and includes nearly every county in the state, as well as a small pocket of South Carolina in the greater Augusta area.

Previous Lectures

2024 Greenberg-Williams Lectureship

Featured speaker: Micah Hester, Ph.D.

From Vocation to Profession: Developing Identity, Vision, and Accountability in the Practice of Health Care