"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
– Maya Angelou
Schedule of Speakers 2011-2012
Date: First Wednesday of each month
Time: Noon - 1 p.m.
Place: Onstead Auditorium, M.D. Anderson Hospital
Speaker Schedule 2011-2012
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Sept. 7, 2011 |
Ronald L. Young, M.D. |
Obstetrical Forceps: History, Mystery, and Morality |
| Oct. 5, 2011 |
Liliana Rodriguez, DrPH |
Aztec Medicine |
| Nov. 2, 2011 |
Emil Freireich, M.D. |
The Road to the Development of Curative Therapy for Systemic (Metastatic) Malignancy |
| Dec. 7, 2011 |
Gary Eknoyan, M.D. |
Jean-Martin Charcot – Neurologist by Avocation, Nephrologist by Yearningg |
| Jan. 4, 2012 |
Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D. |
The Rise and Fall of the Doctor-Patient Relationship |
| Feb. 1, 2012 |
Hunter A. Hammill, M.D. |
Puerperal Fever from Hippocrates to Pasteur |
| March 7, 2012 |
Stephen Greenberg, M.D. |
Microbe Hunters Revisited - Paul de Kruif and the Beginning of Popular Science Writing |
| March 13, 2012 |
John P. McGovern Banquet |
La Colombe d'Or restaurant |
| March 13, 2012 |
William Butler, M.D. |
Baylor College of Medicine and the Military |
| April 4, 2012 |
William E. Fann, M.D. |
Charlatan: John Brinkley, the Age of Flim-Flam, and the Emergence of Rational Medicine |
| May 2, 2012 |
Alan Blum, M.D. |
Up in Smoke: How the Health Community Fiddled While Parliaments Burned |
