Upcoming Events

Washington Society for the History of Medicine Annual Dinner and Meeting was held at the Positano Ristorante Italiano in downtown Bethesda on Saturday, June 7, 2008, 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM.
Robert L. Martensen, MD PhD, Office of NIH History, presented a lecture.

Previous Lectures

Washington Society for the History of Medicine Annual Dinner and Meeting will be held at the Positano Ristorante Italiano, 4940-4948 Fairmont Ave, Bethesda, Tel. 301-654-1717, between Old Georgetown Road and Woodmont Avenue in downtown Bethesda; a parking garage is across from the restaurant. The Bethesda Metro Station on the red line is less than 0.5 mile from the restaurant. Robert L. Martensen, MD PhD, Office of NIH History, will present a lecture. Download a flyer

Cost: $30.00 per person. Please send payment and indicate entrée choice (chicken parmigian, lasagne bolognese, or cheese manicotti) to Judy Chelnick, 4868 Cloister Drive, Rockville, MD 20852-3370, by 30 May 2008.

Saturday, June 7, 2008, 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM

Second Annual Graduate Student Day
This is a student day for those in the Washington, D. C. region, co-sponsored by the WSHM, the History of Medicine Division at NLM and the Office of NIH History. The Graduate Symposium 2008 Flyer is available to download [PDF].
Friday, May 2, 2008, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Guenter Risse, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Affiliate Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Bridging The East-West Divide: The Genesis of a Chinese Hospital in San Francisco
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 4:00 PM

Laura Ettinger, Associate Professor of History, Clarkson University
The Birth of a New Profession: Nurse Midwifery in America
Monday, January 7, 2008, 2:00-4:30 PM

About the Washington Society for the History of Medicine

The WSHM is an academic organization established in the 1960s to promote the understanding of history of medicine and allied sciences to those in and around the Washington DC area.

Traditionally, WSHM has carried out its mission by holding occasional meetings (excluding the Summer months) where invited speakers lecture on a variety of subjects on or related to the history of medicine. These meetings have been held in several venues in the area, including federal government biomedical institutions, a private hospital, area restaurants, museums, and a medical school. The final meeting of the year normally combines an attendee-funded banquet, business meeting, and lecture. The WSHM also works to bring together area graduate students interested in history of medicine to exchange news of research projects and meet colleagues they might otherwise not know about.


WSHM is a constituent society of the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM) and is formally affiliated with the Washington Academy of Sciences.