THE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

British Masters of Anatomy (16th – 19th Centuries) by Mark A. Sanders, JD, MPH.

AIDS Literature: A Cross Cultural Perspective by Clara Orban, PhD., Professor of French & Italian, DePaul University, Chicago

Civil War Medicine by Theodore Saclarides, MD, Rush University Medical Center.

The Great Mortality: The Cause of the Black Deathby Philip Liebson, MD, Rush University Medical Center.

“The History of Pediatric Infectious Diseases As Depicted by Commemorative Stamps” by Stanford Shulman, MD. Professor of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Memorial Hospital.

Speaking Globally: Building Bridges for Successful Business & Personal Relationships Worldwideby Beth Urech, Author of Speaking Globally, President, Speaking Unlimited, Inc.

September 12, 2006:

Healing Art: Images from Nine Faith and Cultural Traditions by Mary Ann McDermott, RN, EdD, Professor Emeritus, Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University and Patricia Novick, PhD, DMin., Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religion.

October 3, 2006:

Two Great Scots: John & William Hunter, by B. Herold Griffith, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Surgery and Emeritus Chief of the Section of Plastic Surgery at Northwestern University Medical School.

October 30, 2006:

Tales from the Western Front: Midwestern Nurses in the US Civil War, by Karen Egenes, RN, PhD., Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago.

November 7, 2006:

The Heretic in Darwin’s Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace by Ross A. Slotten, M.D., St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago and Northwestern University Medical School, Dept. of Family Practice.

December 5, 2006:

Vision of the Artist, by Louise A. Sclafani, O.D., Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Director, Optometric Services, University of Chicago.

February 6, 2007:

Bayard Taylor Holmes: Chicago Physician and Pioneer in Biological Psychiatry, by Richard Noll, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, DeSales University, Center Valley, PA

March 6, 2007: (Lecture was canceled)

“Early History of the HIV Epidemic: MMWR June 5, 1981 '....,5 young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.....' " by Russell H. Tomar, M.D., Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Dept. of Pathology.

April 3, 2007:

Facing Pain: Davy, Freud & Early Anesthesia, by George Bause, MD, MPH, FICS, FRSM, Honorary Curator, American Society of Anesthesiologists' Wood Library-Museum, Clinical Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Co-presented by the International Museum of Surgical Science.

May 1st, 2007

History of Cardiology, Morris Fishbein Lecture in Medical History, by Joseph V. Messer, MD, Dept. of Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center.

September 11, 2007

Michelangelo and the Brain: an Interpretation of the Creation of Adam Based on Neuroanatomy by F. Lynn Meshberger, M.D., Private Practice, Gynecology, Indiana. Click here to download the flyer for this event (PDF format).

October 2, 2007

Pain Unfixed: Medical Instruments, Enlightenment Horror, and the Marquis De Sade  by Alice Haisman, Doctoral Candidate, English Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago.

November 6, 2007

The Dead Mother Series of Egon Schiele: Psychoanalytic Use of an Artist's Image  by Prudence Gourguechon, M.D., President Elect, American Psychoanalytic Association.

December 4, 2007

Johns Hopkins and the Revolution in American Medicine by B. Herold Griffith, M.D., Emeritus Professor of  Surgery & Emeritus Chief of the Section of Plastic Surgery, Northwestern University.

 

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