UC Berkeley: 9:30 a.m. Press Conference today regarding meningitis |
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20 January 2004 ATTENTION: |
Contact:
Media Relations
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WHAT
University of California, Berkeley, officials have scheduled a press conference about the death yesterday of Alisa Marie Lewis, a Cal junior and member of the women's basketball team. The suspected cause of death is bacterial meningitis.
WHEN
9:30 a.m. TODAY (January 20)
WHERE
Haas Pavilion
WHO
Attending the press conference in Haas Pavilion will be women's basketball head coach Caren Horstmeyer; Dr. Peter Dietrich, medical director of the University Health Services; and infectious disease specialist Dr. Arthur Reingold, professor and chair of epidemiology at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.