AHA2003 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

10th Annual Spring Meeting Information

Registration form for printing is here.

[last updated 21 April 2003]

The Anesthesia History Association's 10th annual Spring Meeting will be held April 30 and May 1, 2003, just prior to the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine. The venue will be the Westin Copley Place Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

Westin Copley Place Hotel
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02116

617-262-9600
617-424-7483 [fax]

Hotel reservation form for printing is here.

TENTATIVE AHA2003 PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

*Morning Tour of the Ether Dome and Bullfinch Building
9:00am-11:00am
Elliott Miller, MD

*Lunch on your own

*Afternoon Tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge
Elliott Miller, MD
12:30pm-3:00pm

SEE

*Alper MH. The ether controversy revisted. Anesthesiology 25:560-563, 1964
*Gifford GE Jr. A medical tour of Boston. JAMA 245:1931-5, 1981

4:30pm
Anesthesia History Association Council Meeting
Location to be determined

Ether Monument, Boston Public Garden
[from: Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920,
a Library of Congress American Memory Collection]

*Opening Reception
Westin Copley Place
6:30pm-8:30pm

Thursday, May 1, 2003
All events at the Westin Copley Place

*Registration/Continental Breakfast
7:00am-7:45am

*Opening Plenary Lecture
Introduction by Douglas Bacon, M.D.

"Lt. Kornfield, World War II Physician-Anesthetist: Why His Story Matters"
David Waisel, M.D.
8:00am-8:50am

[See Waisel DB. Norman's war: Norman B. Kornfield, M.D., World War II Physician-Anesthetist. Anesthesiology 98:995-1003, 2003]

*Concurrent Sessions

A: 9:00am-10:30am
Moderator: William Hammonds, MD

*Dr. Mary Botsford (1865-1939) of San Francisco: More Answers
Selma Harrison Calmes, MD

*Stuart Cullen: My Years with Him in Iowa
Kenneth Sugioka, MD, FRCA

*John Snow: Midwife of "Shock"?
Kim Pelis, PhD

*Perspectives on Ambulatory Anesthesia: The 60s, 70s and 80s
Burdett S. Dunbar, MD

B: 9:00am-10:30am
Moderator: Mark Mandabach, MD

*Keeping the Airway Open: Who Was First?
Ray J. Defalque, MD and A.J. Wright, MLS

*Impact of Benevolence and a Golden Age of Anesthesia for Obstetrics
Donald H. Wallace, MD

*A Bridge to Two Worlds: Shih-Hsun Ngai and Sino-American Anesthesia
Patrick Sim, MLS

*Refreshment Break
10:30am-11:00am

Concurrent Residents' Sessions

C: 11:00am-12:00noon
Moderator: Doris Cope, M.D.

*James T. Gwathmey: An Advocate for Colonic Analgesia During Labor & Delivery
L. Tungpalan, MD; D. Bacon, MD; P. Mergens, MD; R. Caswell, MD; G. Vasdev, MD

*Memories of Sir Robert Macintosh's Last Resident
Radha Arunkumar, MD; William Hammonds, MD, MPH
[winner of the 2002 Anesthesia History Association Resident Essay Award]

*Restarting the Heart
Miriam Anixter, MD

D: ll:00am-12:00noon
Moderator: Douglas Bacon, M.D.

*The Use of Dextran in the Korean War
K. Bockstahler, MD and D.B. Waisel, MD

*Blue Skies Forever: The Enduring Legacy of Sir C.V. Raman and the Origins of the Ohmeda RASCAL
Senthilkumar Sadhasivam, MD and David Lai, MD

*The History of Subcutaneous Oxygen Therapy
Timothy Curry, MD, PhD; Douglas Bacon, MD; Richard Rho, MD

*Luncheon Plenary Session
12:00noon-1:30pm
Introduction by Douglas Bacon, M.D.

"Subspecialty Training in Pediatric Anesthesia: An Historical Audiovisual Perspective."

This presentation will feature two training films made by the prescient M. Digby Leigh. The first, a silent film, was made in 1942 at Montreal Children's Hospital. The second film was made in 1962 at Los Angeles Children's Hospital.

Robert S. Holzman M.D., FAAP
Senior Associate in Anesthesia, Children's Hospital, Boston
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Burdett S. Dunbar M.D.
Chief of Pediatric Anesthesia, Texas Children's Hospital
Professor of Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine

Patrick Sim,M.L.S.
Librarian, Wood Library of Medicine

*Concurrent Sessions

E: 2:00pm-3:30pm
Moderator: David B. Waisel, M.D.

*The Image of the Anesthesiologist in the Movies
Yoel Donchin, MD; Michael Beigel, PhD

*The "Phantom Anesthetist of Mattoon": Dispelling the Hysteria
Scott Maruna

F: 2:00pm-3:30pm
Moderator: Ray J. Defalque, M.D.

*The History of Pediatric Caudal Anesthesia
Mark Mandabach, MD

*The Expansion of Practice by Mid-level Practitioners, an Historical Perspective
William D. Hammonds, MD, MPH

*"Hatch": A Failed Aqualumnus
Selma Harrison Calmes, MD

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