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Duke/UNC Collaborative Speakers Series

2008-2009 Lecture Series Coming in October 2008

Trent History of Medicine Society and Bullitt History of Medicine Club

The Trent Society (Duke) and the Bullitt Club (UNC-Chapel Hill) will alternately host history of medicine speakers.
    When
    Second Tuesday of each month during the academic year (see schedule below)
    In the event of a conflict with a basketball game, the paper will be rescheduled for the following Tuesday.
    Papers will begin at 6:00 pm. A light buffet supper will be available from 5:30 pm.
    Where
    Duke Trent Society - History of Medicine Reading Room (102), Medical Center Library, Duke University
    UNC Bullitt Club - Conference Room, 5th floor, UNC Health Sciences Library

2007-2008

September 11, 2007 - UNC
Elizabeth Dreesen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgery, UNC
Susan Dimock, MD: First Woman Physician from North Carolina
October 9, 2007 - Duke
Francis A. Neelon, MD
Associate Professor Emeritus, Duke
Editor Emeritus, North Carolina Medical Journal
Dr. Stead at Duke, or Life in the Days of the Dinosaurs
November 13, 2007 - UNC
Noelle Granger, PhD
Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology, UNC
Leonardo Da Vinci, Artist and Anatomist
December 11, 2007 - Duke
Peter C. English, MD, PhD
Professor, History and Pediatrics, Duke
A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States
January 15, 2008 - UNC (Note: 3rd Tuesday)
Sherwin B. Nuland, MD
Professor, Yale University School of Medicine
Moses Maimonides

Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland will be unable to speak as originally scheduled. Dr. George Sheldon, Distinguished Professor, Department of Surgery, UNC School of Medicine, will deliver an updated version of his Hunterian Oration, John Hunter and the American School of Surgery and Medicine
February 12, 2008 - Duke
Edward C. Halperin, MD, MA, FACR
Dean, School of Medicine, University of Louisville
The Poor, the Black, and the Marginalized as the Source of Cadavers in United States Anatomical Education
March 11, 2008 - UNC
Colin G. Thomas, Jr., MD
Thomason-Doxey Professor of Surgery, UNC
Alfred Bernard Nobel and Nobel Prize Winners in Surgery
April 8, 2008 - Duke
Gray Lyons
MSIII, Duke School of Medicine
The Art of Early Medical Illustrators
2006-2007 Speakers