The C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society is one of the largest regional history of medicine societies in the U.S., with a diverse membership that includes several past and present members of the History of Medicine faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Among its activities, the Society sponsors an annual lecture series and an annual prize for the best research paper by a medical student.

Please refer all questions about the Society and its programming to Jonathon Erlen, PhD, at erlen@pitt.edu or 412-648-8927.

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2009-2010 Schedule of Lectures

All lectures will be held in Lecture Room 5, Scaife Hall, University of Pittsburgh, at 6 p.m.  A dinner for members and their guests in the 11th floor Conference Center, Presbyterian University Hospital will follow each lecture.

September 24, 2009
"Navy Medicine in the Last Campaigns: Iwo Jima and Okinawa"
Jan Herman, MA
Historian of the Naval Medical Department
Special Assistant to the Navy Surgeon General

November 5, 2009
16th Annual Sylvan E. Stool History of Medicine Lecture
"Dr. David Livingstone and the 'Open Sore of the World'"
Laurel Drevlow, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Minnesota

January 21, 2010
"Operations: Royal and Common"
Fredric Jarrett, MD
Clinical Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh

February 25, 2010
"William Osler's Impact on the Principles and Practice of Hematology"
Barry Cooper, MD
Medical Director of Clinical Hematology
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

April 1, 2010
Twenty-Second Annual Mark M. Ravitch History of Medicine Lecture
"The Law of Accelerating Returns in Surgery"
Michael Moran, MD
Urologic Surgery
Stuart, Florida

Videos of past lectures

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