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"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