ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, October 1, 1996               TAG: 9610010063
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-3  EDITION: METRO 

GORE ADVISER TO TALK ABOUT NURSING FIELD

Virginia Trotter Betts, a nurse attorney who has served as a health care adviser to government, will speak on challenges facing nurses and their profession Wednesday at the Holiday Inn-Tanglewood.

Betts, health adviser to Vice President Al Gore when he was in the Senate, was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing last year. She is a senior research fellow at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies in Nashville, Tenn., and a founding partner of HealthFutures, a health and nursing consulting firm.

Dinner is at 5 p.m. and Betts speaks at 6. Dinner is $16.58, but those who want to attend the lecture only can do so for $5.

Payment can be made at the door. For information, call (540) 977-5554.

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