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
