Lecture Series

Upcoming lectures

All public lectures begin at 12:15 in the Old Library Auditorium. Light refreshments served at noon.
For further inquiries, contact:
Maija Anderson 503-418-2287

Previous Lectures

2013

Friday, April 12, 2013
John A. Benson, Jr., M.D.
OHSU Medical Milestones: 125 Years of Healing, Teaching, and Discovery
Streaming video of the lecture

2012

Friday, November 30, 2012
Wendy Moore
Author and journalist
John Hunter, The Once and Future Surgeon:  Why the work of an eighteenth-century pioneer is still relevant today
Streaming video of the lecture

Friday, October 26, 2012
Shelley McKellar, Ph.D.
University of Western Ontario
“Surgical Transgressions? Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley and the Controversial Artificial Heart Case of 1969”
Streaming video of the lecture

September 7, 2012
Brion Benninger, MD
Vice Chair and Professor of Anatomy, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific
Henry Gray: Clinician, Visionary and the Original Networker
Streaming video of the lecture

April 2, 2012
Mark Malangoni, MD, FACS
Associate Executive Director, American Board of Surgery
Professor of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Evolution in the Management of Splenic Injury
Streaming video of the lecture

February 3, 2012
Thea Cooper
Author of Breakthrough:  Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
Miracle on Bloor Street: The Unlikely Story of the Discovery of Insulin
Streaming video of the lecture

2011

October 7, 2011
Dr. Simon Chaplin
Head, Wellcome Library
Doctors and the Death of History
Streaming video of the lecture

February 25, 2011
Richard Mullins, M.D.
Head, Trauma/Critical Care Section, OHSU Department of Surgery
Forward Surgery and Whole Blood Transfusion Saving Wounded Soldiers in World War II
Streaming video of the lecture

2010

December 3, 2010
Dick Stueve, RT
National leader in cardiovascular image quality and x-ray dose issues
Charles T. Dotter, MD - Not so "Crazy Charlie"
Streaming video of the lecture

November 15, 2010
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. M.D.
Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine
Charles R. Drew, MD, FACS: Surgical Paragon
Streaming video of the lecture

October 1, 2010
Thomas Hager, M.S.
Prolific author, journalist, editor and publisher
Genius or Crackpot? The Medical Odyssey of Linus Pauling
Streaming Video of the lecture

May 17, 2010
Roger E. Alberty, M.D.
Director: National Surgery Quality Improvement Program, Providence/St. Vincent Medical Center
Blue Blood and Blue Babies: The Story of Helen Taussig
Streaming video of the lecture

Friday March 12, 2010
Philip A. Mackowiak, M.D., M.B.A.
Vice Chairman, Dept. of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Chief of the Medical Care Clinical Center, VA Maryland Health Care System
Pericles and the Plague of Athens
Streaming video of the lecture

2009

September 25, 2009
Brian J. Morrison, M.D., FAAC
Cardiology Consultants, Pc.
Maladie Bleue: Major contributions in the History of Congenital Heart Disease
Streaming video of the lecture

May 4, 2009
Tom R. DeMeester, M.D.
Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Dept. of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
The History of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Streaming video of the lecture

Friday January 23, 2009

Kenneth R. Stevens, M.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiation Medicine, OHSU School of Medicine
Radiation Oncology in Oregon: Pioneers & Pioneering
Streaming video of the lecture

2008

November 21, 2008
Joseph B. McCormick, M.D.
Regional Dean and James Steele Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Streaming video of the lecture

October 24, 2008

Michael J. Aminoff, M.D.
Brown-Sequard: The Man and his Work
Streaming video of the lecture

May 5, 2008

John Cameron, M.D.
William Stewart Halsted
Streaming video of the lecture

February 1, 2008

Tom Hager
The Gorgon's Blood: a Greek Myth, a German Doctor, and the Rise of MRSA
Streaming video of the lecture

January 18, 2008

Madison Macht, M.D.
Large and noble lines: the life of Howard P. Lewis, M.D.
Streaming video of the lecture

2007

November 30, 2007

Brion Benninger, M.D.
Cranial nerves: chronological history and current controversies
Streaming video of the lecture

October 12, 2007

J. Bruce Beckwith, M.D.
Impressions of Monstrosity: Perceptions of Malformation Through the Ages
Streaming video of the lecture

May 18, 2007

Michael Bliss, PhD
An American Epic: Harvey Cushing and the Founding of Neurosurgery
Streaming video of the lecture

April 20, 2007

Kimberly Jensen, PhD
Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., University of Oregon Medical School Class of 1894: Oregon's Doctor to the World
Streaming video of the lecture

January 8, 2007

J. Patrick O'Leary, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Surgery's Entry in to its Modern Era: Depicted by the Art of the Times
Streaming video of the lecture

2006

October 6, 2006

John M. Barry, M.D.
The Development of Kidney Transplantation at OHSU
Streaming video of the lecture

 

May 12, 2006

Michael Helquist
KAJ Mackenzie, Marie Equi, and the Oregon Doctor Train: Portland's response to the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Streaming video of the lecture

 

March 6, 2006

Joseph B. VanderVeer, Jr, M.D. FACS
Lister and Osler: Two Great Men of Surgery and Medicine
Streaming video of the lecture

 

January 20, 2006

Tom Debley, Director of Heritage Resources, Kaiser Permanente
'Think the Unthinkable, Dream the Impossible:' The Evolution of Prepaid Group Medical Practice in the Pacific Northwest
Streaming video of the lecture

2005

October 17, 2005

David Peck, D.O.
The Lewis and Clark expedition: wilderness medicine in early America
Streaming video of lecture (OHSU only)

 

April 29, 2005

Robert Hart, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chief, Spine Section, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine.
Failed back syndrome in the life and career of JFK: The politics of low back pain
Streaming video of lecture

2004

November 30, 2004

Erik K. Fromme, M.D., Assistant Professor of medicine and senior scholar at OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care
The Frankenstein Syndrome: Monsters and Modern Medicine

 

November 4, 2004

Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D.,Yale University School of Medicine, Section of the History of Medicine.
Mary Shelley, Medical Science, and the Monster

 

October 25, 2004

George F. Sheldon, M.D., Professor of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professionalism: New and Old Concepts

 

April 5, 2004

Carlos Camargo M. D.
Art and Anatomy in the Italian Renaissance

 

February 13, 2004

Richard Mullins M.D., Professor of Surgery and Chief, Trauma/Critical Care Section, Oregon Health & Science University
A Tradition of National Service in Times of Crises

2003

December 15, 2003

Julie M. Fenster
The Baffling Pace of Medical Discovery: Six Days in Six Lives that Accelerated History

 

October 24, 2003

Michael Bliss, Ph.D.
From Osler to Insulin: The Coming of the Age of Miracles

 

April 28, 2003

Peter E. Dans, M.D.
Hollywood's View of Doctors: From the 1930s to the 1990s.

2002

September 23, 2002

Claude H. Organ, Jr., M.D.
Charles Drew: An American Surgeon with Roman Virtues

 

October 21, 2002

William Hersh, M.D.
From Index Medicus to the World Wide Web: The Origins of Modern Clinical Information Tools

 

May 6, 2002

Donald D. Trunkey, M.D.
Wounds of the Lion

 

March 11, 2002

Paul Kirk, M.D.
Operative Obstetrics: From Caesar to the Vacuum

 

January 28, 2002

Elizabeth Veenker
The Evolution of Medical Knowledge: Trials and Tribulations

2001

November 26, 2001

Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D.
Orphans and Doctors: Human Experimentation Before the Second World War.

 

October 15, 2001

Alan M. Kraut, Ph.D.
Ethnic Pluralism and Public Health: An Historical Perspective

 

May 14, 2001

Victor Sidel, M.D.
The 20th Century Role of Health Professionals in the Prevention of War

 

April 16, 2001

Ira M. Rutkow, M.D. Ph.D.
An Illustrated Tour of 19th Century American Surgery

 

March 14, 2001

Misty Payne
Charles Dotter: The Father of Interventional Radiology

 

February 26, 2001

Carlos A. Camargo, M.D.
The Medical Consequences of 1492

2000

April 17, 2000

J. Henry Clarke, D.M.D.
The Story of Anesthesia: From Laudanum to Lidocaine and Beyond

 

March 3, 2000

Annette Matthews and Albert Starr, M.D.
Development of the Starr-Edwards Heart Valve

1999

November 5, 1999

Donald D. Trunkey, M.D.
Assassination