University of Florida Society for the History of Medicine presents:
The History of Medicine Lecture Series
"Lecture and Lunch"

Open to anyone with an interest
Second Thursday of each month, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (unless otherwise noted)
Room C1-15 (Communicore)

Michael Okun M.D., -- okun@neurology.ufl.edu
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig -- nstoyan@vpha.ufl.edu
Philip Scherer -- pscherer@ufl.edu
Kurt Scherer -- kfs5@ufl.edu


Lecture Schedule | Links

Lecture Schedule

Click on the lecture title to hear the lecture in audio and view the slides.
Click on the name of upcoming speakers to see their biosketches.

2008

January 10, 2008
Dr. Bob Vander Griend
February 14, 2008
Dr. Erin Dunbar - "The History of Chemotherapy: What's Love and War got to do with it?"
March 13, 2008
Dr. Richard D. White (Chairman of Radiology at UF-Jacksonville)
March 27, 2008
Dr. Mark Barrow
April 10, 2008
Dr. Bruce Kraut, "Hippocratic Cases: Modern Diseases in their Ancient Context."
May 8th, 2008
Dr. Stephen Hsu on, "The Tao of Mentorship"

2007

January 11, 2007
Dr. Karen Thomas on "The Origins of Health Disparities and Health Services Research in the Federal Campaign to Uplift Southern Health"
February 8, 2007
Dr. William Friedman's on "A Bullet to the Head: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"
March 8, 2007
Combined MSRIG and HoM viewing of an NIH recorded lecture of Dr. Barry Marshall's research on H. pylori
April 12, 2007
Dr. Sharon DiFino's talk on Dr. Aletta Jacobs (this is the lecture that will be together with the Jewish Medical Ethics group) - "Dr. Aletta Henriette Jacobs (1854-1929): A Ground Breaker in Women’s Health and Rights"
May 10, 2007
Dr. Craig Kitchen's will be giving a talk - "An historical approach to unraveling DIC"
August 30, 2007
Richard J Johnson, M.D. (Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplant) - "The Beginnings of Dialysis", 12:00-1:00PM, C1-15
September 13th, 2007
Lawrence D. Klima, MD - "The History of Tuberculosis", 12:00-1:00 PM, C1-15, Lunch will be provided.
October 11th, 2007
Dr. Antoinette Emch-Deriaz, "How to improve medical care: an eighteenth century approach". 12:00-1:00 pm, C1-15, Lunch will be provided (Moe's)
November 8th, 2007
Mr. Arthur Allen on, "History of Vaccinations"
December 13th, 2007
Dr. Michael Okun on, "Paul Blocq and the History of Hysterical Gait Disorders"

2006

January 19, 2006
"Changing the Profession of Nursing" - Note: this lecture will be held in the College of Nursing facility
February 9, 2006
"Visionary Research and education: Dr. Thomas Maren"
March 9, 2006
Dr. Max Lang, Dr. Jean Bennett, Dr. Jape Taylor, Dr. Mark Barrow "Visionary Leadership: Dean George T. Harrell"
April 13, 2006
Dr. Richard Gutekunst "Campus Transformations- the College of Health Professions"
May 11, 2006
"Campus Transformations- The College of Pharmacy" - Power Point Presentation
June 8, 2006
"Florida Health, or the Debt we Owe to Air Conditioning" - Power Point Presentation
August 24, 2006
Sarah Vinson (MS07) "The Changing Face of Medicine: Confronting segregation in the short course" - Power Point Presentation
September 14, 2006
Dr. Richard Reynolds "A Mayo Clinic: Rural Health Care in Florida "
October 12, 2006
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig "Women as Physicians"
November 9, 2006
Nancy Mendenhall "The History of Proton Therapy at the University of Florida"
December 15, 2006
Bill Collett on "Completing the Plans: Growth of Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine"
December 21, 2006
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig on "The Black Stork: The History of Eugenics in America"


2005 - 2006

September 8, 2005
Chris Warren "'Always With Us': The Lead-Poisoned Child in Twentieth-Century America" - Power Point Presentation
October 13, 2005
Joe Spillane "Drug Epidemics: Historical Inquiry and the Challenge of the Illicit" - Power Point Presentation
November 10, 2005
J.S. Gravenstein "Criticism in Medicine" - MP3 Audio Recording
December 8, 2005
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig "The Human Drama: Siting and Planning a Health Center" (warning: very large, 144mb)


2005

January 21, 2005:
Edmund Cole Bearss
February 10, 2005:
Dr. Craig Kitchens
March 17, 2005:
Dr. Ed Annis
April 14, 2005:
Dr. Kenneth Kellner

2004

January 28, 2004:
Edmund Cole Bearss "Military Medicine, From the Civil Way to WW II"
March 11, 2004:
Craig Kitchens, MD A Brief History of North American Snake Bites
April 8, 2004:
Fred Gregory "Louis Pasteur, Rabies, and Human Experimentation"
May 13, 2004:
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig How can infectious disease shape history?"
September 23, 2004:
Robert Vander Griend, MD "The Study of Human Anatomy: Past, Present and Future"
October 21, 2004:
Richard Streiff, MD Winston Churchill: History and Medicine"
November 18, 2004:
Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig "Winning the war: Poster images of STDs after the introduction of penicillin."
December 9, 2004:
Eric Singer, MD "The History of Medical Futility"

2003

January 9, 2003:
Leighton Cluff
February 11, 2003: *note: lecture is on Tuesday*
David Rothman
March 13, 2003:
Mark Barrow
April 10, 2003:
Richard Streiff
May 8, 2003:
The Evolution of Modern Chronic Hemodialysis - Craig Tisher (no slides, audio only)
June 12, 2003:
Of Man, Mycobacteria, and Music: How Tuberculosis Affected the Lives of Many Composers, Musicians, and Artists in the 19th Century - Anthony Gal
September 11, 2003:
Brad Bender "The History of Small Pox"
October 9, 2003:
Kenneth Kellner "Obstertics and Gynecology in Pharaonic Egypt"
November 13, 2003:
Bruce Kraut "The Hippocratic Oath" (powerpoint file - no audio)
December 11, 2003:
Bertram Wyatt-Brown "Creativity and Chronic Depression: The Case of Genetic Disorder in the Family of Walker Percy, Novelist"

2002

December 12, 2002:
Narrative Medicine: Equipment for Listening and Healing - Rita Charon, M.D.
November 14, 2002:
Infection in the Body Politic: Eugenicists and Concepts of Heredity - Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
October 10, 2002:
Infection in the Body Politic: The Socialism of H.G. Wells - Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
September 12, 2002:
Integrating Hysteria Into The Neurological Examination - Michael Okun, M.D.
April 16, 2002:
History of Western Medicine from the Perspective of Prevailing Reality Maps - Allen Neims, M.D.
March 14, 2002:
From Raising Healthy Children to Defending the Insane... Medical Wisdom from Dr. Frederick Peterson, Neurologist, Poet, and Humanitarian - Erin Dunbar, M.D.
February 14, 2002:
Balancing the Humors: Healing Traditions and Medical Practice in World Medicine - Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig -- no audio

2001

December 13, 2001:
How to Make a New Leg: A Brief History of Lower Extremity Amputations and Prosthetic Reconstruction - Bob Vander Griend, M.D.
November 29, 2001:
The History of Gustatory Sweating: the Contributions of Lucja Frey - Erin Dunbar, M.D.
November 8, 2001:
Climate Change as a Public Health Concern - Kent Bransford, M.D., Physicians for Social Responsibility -- Not History of Medicine
October 11, 2001:
The Surprising Presence of Stem Cells in the Adult Human Brain - Dennis A. Steindler, Ph.D.
September 13, 2001:
Perfect Babies and Fitter Families: Popularizing Eugenics - Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig - No Audio
April 12:
Good Morning Doctor! Rural Medicine in the 1890s and Early 1900s - Richard Rathe, M.D.
March 8:
The History of Bacteriophage Therapy - Donna Duckworth, Ph.D.
February 8:
Early Anatomists' Impact on Medicine - Kyle Rarey, Ph.D.

2000

December 14:
History of Emergency Medical Services in the United States - Jean LeMire
November 9:
Hippocrates and the Origins of Neuro-Psychiatry - Bruce Kraut, MD, PhD
September 14:
History of Pernicious Anemia - Dick Streiff, M.D.
May 11th:
From the Dancing Manias to Sydenham's Chorea - Michael Okun, M.D. and Rahil Jumanni
April 13th:
Medicine and WWII Through Diaries - Dr. William Oldson from FSU WWII Institute
April 6th:
2000 Hippocratic Award Ceremony
March 9th:
It's Hardly New: Alternative Medicine 200 years Ago - Fredrick Gregory
Feb 10th:
The 18th Century Evolution of Clinical Teaching - Antoinette Emch-Deriaz
February 7th:
Poetry in Medicine - Michael Okun, M.D.(Part of the Arts in MedicineSeries)
January 13th:
Ancient Genetic Theory - Bruce Kraut M.D., Ph.D.

1999

December 9th:
History of Infectious Diseases - Neil Clancy M.D. (Infectious Diseases)
October 14th:
Abraham Lincoln and Head Trauma - Dr. William Friedman, M.D.
September 9th:
The History of Radiology - Dr. Scott Klioze, M.D. (Radiology)
August 12th:
A Short History of Pain - Don Caton, M.D. (Anesthesiology)
July 8th:
History of the Canadian Health Plan - Bill Cumming M.D. (Radiology)
June 17th:
The History of General Medical Practice in Alachua County - Paul Psychas M.D. (Family Practice)
May 13th:
The History of Science: Case Studies in Aphasia - Heidi Roth M.D. (Neurology)
April 8th:
The History of Adult Onset Hereditary Chorea - Michael Okun M.D. (Neurology)
March 11th:
The History of Medical Ethics - Ray Moseley PhD. (No Images)
February 11th:
Routine Circumcision: Why US - Ken Kellner M.D. (OBGYN)
January 14th:
The Influence of Early Feminists and the Medical Response to the Medical Management of Childbirth - Don Caton M.D. (Anaesthesia)

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