ANESTHESIA HISTORY ASSOCIATION 

12th Annual Spring Meeting Information

[last updated 5 April 2005] 

The Anesthesia History Association's 12th annual Spring Meeting will be held Wednesday, April 6 and Thursday, April 7, 2005 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.

Registration brochure in Word and PDF formats

The venues for all events unless otherwise noted will be the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel or the Medical Forum located next door to the hotel in the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex. The meeting will be held just prior to the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Birmingham April 7-10, also at the Sheraton and Medical Forum. The program for the 2005 AAHM meeting is available here. General information about attending events at the Medical Forum is available here.

This should be a great time to be in Birmingham; the azaleas and dogwoods are likely to be in bloom, making the area a very attractive springtime destination.  Besides the meeting itself, Birmingham – “The Magic City” – offers a wide variety of attractions and dining options.  Some of these can be found at the convention bureau’s website (http://www.bcvb.org/). Some wonderful photographs of Birmingham architectural landmarks can be found on the WWW page of photographer Larry O. Gay:
http://larryogayartist.oceansfree.com/index.html  

Birmingham is served by American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest, United, and USAir, as well as a few of the smaller regional airlines.  Although the taxi fare for the short distance from the airport to the hotel is inexpensive, those staying at the Sheraton are eligible to take advantage of the hotel’s free shuttle service to and from the airport.  The city is also served daily by Amtrak via the Crescent Line (New York-New Orleans).  For those who choose to drive to the meeting, parking is available at the hotel at the rate of $9 per day for registered guests.

Sheraton Birmingham Hotel  

2101 Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard North
Birmingham AL 35203

800-325-3535
205-324-5000
205-307-3085 [fax]

Compared to many travel destinations, the lodging rates ($139 single; $149 double; $159 quad) are quite reasonable, and rooms can be reserved at the conference rate until April 1st.  Be sure to let the hotel know that you need the AAHM rate!

Registration brochure in Word and PDF formats

TENTATIVE AHA2005 PROGRAM
[A version of the program in Word is here.]

Wednesday, April 6, 2005 

*Informal Tours

UAB Anesthesiology Library
Jefferson Towers 965
19th Street South between 6th and 7th Avenues South
University of Alabama at Birmingham East Campus map is here.
9:00am-12noon

*Lunch at a local eatery
12noon-1:30pm

*Anesthesia History Association
 Council Meeting
Sheraton Birmingham restaurant
5:00pm-6:00pm

 

*Dinner/Reception
Ocean Restaurant
1218 20th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35205
(205) 933-0999

7:00pm-10:00pm

Directions and a map via MapQuest are here.

Thursday, April 7, 2005

All paper sessions will be held at the Medical Forum, 3rd floor, Rooms H and I. 
A third floor map is here.

The luncheon will be held at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel in Ballroom 11.
A map of the Sheraton ballrooms is here.

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

*Welcome
Room H
7:50am-8:00am

David H. Chestnut, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Welcome/Speaker Introduction
Room H
8:00am-8:05am

Doris K. Cope, M.D.
President
Anesthesia History Association

[abstracts submitted so far can be read in Word format by clicking on the highlighted titles]

*Opening Plenary Lecture
Room H

8:05am-8:55am
"1847--John Snow's Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Consilience?" 

Peter Vinten-Johansen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Michigan State University
and first author,
Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow
[Recipient of the AHA's 2004 David M. Little Prize for the best English-language anesthesia history publication!]

Prepared jointly with 
David Zuck, FRCA, DMHSA, Past President, History of Anesthesia Society

*Session A
Room H
 9:00am-10:30am
Moderator: Maurice Albin, M.D.

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

Session C
Room H
 11:00am-12:00noon 
Moderator: Selma Calmes, MD

*Luncheon Plenary Session
Sheraton Birmingham Hotel
Ballroom 11
A map of the Sheraton ballrooms is here.
12:00noon-1:45pm

Welcome and Comments
Doris K. Cope, M.D.
President
Anesthesia History Association

ASA Centennial Gala Announcement
Alan Sessler, M.D.

Introduction of Luncheon Speakers
A. J. Wright, M.L.S.

Charles A. ("Scotty") McCallum, Jr., M.D., D.M.D.
Mayor, City of Vestavia Hills, Alabama
President, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1987-1993
"Origins and Growth of the Medical Center in Birmingham"

Alfred Habeeb, M.D.
"Anesthesia in Birmingham since the 1930s"

*Session D
Room H
2:00pm-4:00pm
Moderator: Ray J. Defalque, M.D.

*Session E
Room I
2:00pm-4:00pm
Moderator: Maurice Albin, M.D.

"Did Columbus Know about Curare?"
David Steinberg, D.M.Sc.
Hospital Clinicas Caracas & Policlinica Mendez Gimon
Caracas, Venezuela
[Dr. Steinberg was unable to attend and present his paper.]

"The Evolution of N2O Anesthesia as Revealed in Publications by Dr. Mary Botsford, Her Staff and Her Surgeons"
Selma Calmes, M.D.
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Sylmar, California

"The Relationship Between Anesthetists and Patients"
Lawrence D. Egbert, M.D., M.P.H.
Johns Hopkins University 

"Famous Writers and Anesthetic Agents"
A. J. Wright, M.L.S.
University of Alabama at Birmingham

AAHM Book Fair
Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom
2:00pm-5:00pm

Registration brochure in Word and PDF formats

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; the published proceedings are now available from the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology. A WLM publications order form is here. 

*Anesthesia History Association 2004  
*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 

AHA2005 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Microsoft Word version is here.

Deadline for submission of all abstracts is 10 February 2005.

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 than two or three pages in length; text should be in 12-point font size. If possible, abstracts should indicate the research problem, sources used, methodological approach and should contain no more than fifteen references. 

    An excellent guide/bibliography for abstract preparation is available on the annual meeting page of the American Association for the History of Nursing.

    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/aha2005.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 10 February 2005.

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 

This page is part of the WWW site of the UAB Department of Anesthesiology http://www.anes.uab.edu/