ANESTHESIA HISTORY ASSOCIATION 

11th Annual Spring Meeting Information

[last updated
21 April 2004]

The Anesthesia History Association's 11th annual Spring Meeting will be held May 7 and 8, 2004. The venue will be the Westin O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois.

Westin O'Hare 
6100 N River Road
Rosemont, IL 60018

1-800-359-4827

Hotel registration information is here.

 

TENTATIVE AHA2004 PROGRAM

Meeting registration information is here.

Invitation letter from AHA President Doris Cope, M.D. is here.

 

Friday, May 7

*Morning tours of Frank Lloyd Wright Home/Studio and Unity Temple
Led by Theodore C. Smith, M.D.
Oak Park, Illinois
9:00am-12:30pm

*Afternoon tour of Frank Lloyd Wright homes in Riverside
Led by Theodore C. Smith, M.D.
Riverside, Illinois
1:30pm-3:30pm

*Anesthesia History Association Council Meeting
6:00pm at Westin O'Hare OR WLM

*Opening Reception
Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
ASA Headquarters Bldg
7:30pm-9:30pm


Saturday, May 8
All events at the Westin O'Hare

 

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

*Opening Plenary Lecture
Introduction:  Doris Cope, M.D.

"History of Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation"
J Antonio Aldrete, M.D.
8:00am-8:50am



*Session A
 9:00am-10:30am
Moderator: William Hammonds, M.D.

"Anesthesiology in the United States: A History of Seeking Product Differentiation and Alignment"
David B. Waisel, M.D.

"The Third Bigelow: Unhappy Surgeon, Maecenas and Samurai"
Ray J. Defalque, M.D. and A.J. Wright, M.L.S.

"A Look at Pediatric Pain Management and the Father of Academic Anesthesia, Ralph M. Waters, MD"
Kathleen Larkin, M.D. and David B. Waisel, M.D.

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

 

Session B
 11:00am-12:00noon 
Moderator: Selma Calmes, M.D.

"Anesthesia in Arabic-Islamic Medicine"
Ashraf H. Salem, M.D.

"The Morton Monument at Mount Auburn Cemetery: For Dust Thou Art, and Unto Dust Shalt Thou Return"
Gerald L. Zeitlin, M.D.

"Gwathmey's Debates with Lundy and Mayo Clinic Physicians to Use Colonic Ether Analgesia for Labor and Delivery"
Robert A. Strickland, M.D. 

 

*Luncheon Plenary Session
12:00noon-1:45pm
Introduction:  William Owens, M.D.

Presentation of AHA Honorary Membership to C. Ron Stephen, M.D.

*Session C
2:00pm-3:30pm
Moderator: Gerald Zeitlin, M.D.

"Ralph Waters and Kansas City: 1924-27"
Robert A. Strickland, M.D.

"An Opportunity to Stand Up, Be Counted and Salute":
Women Physician Anesthetists in World War I
Selma Calmes, M.D.

"Harvey William Cushing and Early Theories of Shock"
Mark Mandabach, M.D.

 

 

 

Previous Annual Spring Meeting Programs

The 1999 meeting was held in Bristol, England, in conjunction with the History of Anaesthesia Society and papers published in the HAS Proceedings. No spring meeting was held in 2001. The Waters 75th Anniversary conference in Madison, Wisconsin, in June 2002 served as the spring meeting for that year; proceedings will be published. 

*Anesthesia History Association 2003
*Anesthesia History Association 2000 
*Anesthesia History Association 1998 
*Anesthesia History Association 1997 
*Anesthesia History Association 1996 
*Anesthesia History Association 1995 
*Anesthesia History Association 1994 
*Anesthesia History Association 1993 



 

WHAT:

Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are invited on historical aspects of anesthesia, critical care medicine and pain management. Abstracts on medical humanities or ethical topics that relate to the history of one or more of these broad areas are also invited. Abstracts should be no longer that one 8 1/2" by 11" sheet of paper; text should be in 12-point font size. If possible, abstracts should indicate the research problem, sources used, methodological approach and may contain no more than ten references. Abstracts may be submitted by regular mail, fax, or electronic mail [in plain text format]. Disc submission in Word is also permitted. Abstracts submitted in electronic format may be made available to registrants in advance of the meeting and on the AHA WWW site as decided by the Organizing Committee. ALL accepted abstracts will be included in material distributed to meeting registrants. Individuals who wish to organize a paper session around a theme should contact the committee as soon as possible.

Further updates, tentative program, and other material can be found on the conference web page at  http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aha2004.htm 

More information about the AHA can be found at   http://www.anes.uab.edu/anesthesia_history_association.htm 

WHEN:

Deadline for submission of all abstracts is 28 February 2004.

WHO:

Send abstracts, inquiries, etc., to:

A.J. Wright, MLS 
Dept of Anesthesiology Library 
School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham 
619 19th Street South, JT965 
Birmingham AL 35249-6810

205-975-0158
205-975-5963 [fax]

ajwright@uab.edu

 http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm 

 

 

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