Wednesday, February 7, 2024, 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Maria Cunningham, M.L.I.S.

Curator's Talk: Early Medicine Manufacturers in America

Streaming video of the event

 

October 19, 2023, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Manon Auffret, Pharm.D., Ph.D.

The Nineteenth Century Media Coverage of the Case of Phineas Gage: Myths and Facts

(recording to become available sometime in 2024)

Thursday,  October 27, 2022, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Dr. Alexis Simpkins

Cedars Sinai Medical Center

A Historical Review of African Americans in Neurology: Focus on Women in Vascular Neurology

Streaming video of the lecture

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

History of Surgery lecture

Dr. Leo Daab, Assistant Professor

OHSU School of Medicine

The Evolution of Modern Vascular Surgery

Streaming video of the lecture

Thursday, October 7, 2021, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Rosenbaum History of Neurology Lecture

Elizabeth Coon, M.D.

Mayo Clinic

Pioneering Women in Medicine and Neurology

Streaming video of the event

Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Steve Duckworth, M.L.I.S.

Curator's Talk: Exploring a Century of Trans Health Care at OHSU

Streaming video of the event

Transcript and slides

Thursday, May 6, 2021, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Research Week 2021 lecture

Kassel Galaty, M.D., M.Phil.

From the Wards to the Archives

Streaming video of the event



Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Library author event

Loren Pankratz, Ph.D.

Mysteries and Secrets Revealed: From Oracles at Delphi to Spiritualism in America

Streaming video of the event

Thursday, April 15, 2021, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Merlin Chowkwanyun, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Columbia University

Medical Student and Resident Activism in the 1960s and 1970s

Streaming video of the event

Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Audrey Tran, MD/MCR '22

Creating Visual Study Aids workshop

Streaming video of the event

Thursday, November 12, 2020, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Rosenbaum History of Neurology Lecture

Dr. Christopher Boes

Mayo Clinic

The Dr. Mary Broadfoot Walker Effect

Streaming video of the talk



Friday, June 5, 2020, 12:00 p.m.

Virtual Curator's Talk: "Exploring the Lucy Davis Phillips Collection: Surveys of Women Graduates of Oregon Medical Schools"

Pam Pierce, Digital Scholarship and Repository Librarian, OHSU

Streaming video of the talk

Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 5:00 p.m.

Virtual Curator's Talk: "Selling Health Professions to Women: Illustrations, Photographs and Text"

Pam Pierce, Digital Scholarship and Repository Librarian, OHSU

Streaming video of the talk

Thursday, January 23, 2020, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Opening Reception, "Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness"

A Traveling Exhibition Developed by the National Library of Medicine

Listen to an OHSU Week podcast story on the exhibit

Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Rosenbaum History of Neurology Lecture

Dr. Lynda Yang

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Augusta Klumpke: Remembrance of a Pioneer

Streaming video of the lecture

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Opening Reception: “A Selected History of Retinal Illustrations, 1851–1900 and Beyond

BICC building, 3rd floor – Library entrance



Please join the OHSU Library and Casey Eye Institute in celebrating the opening of “A Selected History of Retinal Illustrations, 1851–1900 and Beyond,” curated by Clinical Assistant Professor, Donald L. Blanchard, M.D. This exhibit traces the evolution of retinal imaging in ophthalmology from the 1800s to the present, weaving together art, science, and technology.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 12:00pm

Dr. Christi Hancock, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Portland

Unspeakable: Sex, madness, and the malarial treatment of syphilis in Middle America, 1925-1939

Streaming video of the lecture

Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 6:00pm

Film Screening: No Más Bebés

RLSB 3A003A & B

Join OHSU Library and the Center for Women's Health to watch a powerful documentary about citizen advocacy and reproductive healthcare reform. The EMMY® nominated film No Más Bebés tells the story of Mexican immigrant mothers who sued doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los Angeles County General Hospital during the 1970s.

Saturday, April 13, 2019, 1:00-3:00pm

Saturday Sketch at OHSU Library

BICC Building, 3rd floor

Join us for an afternoon of drawing inspired by unique materials from the history of the health sciences and the views from the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Library.  Get up close and create something personal from engaging with rare artifacts and books from the Library’s historical collections, presented for your artistic inspiration. Artists from the St. James Lutheran Church Art Group will be on-hand to offer advice on technique.

Friday, January 11, 2019, 12:00pm

History of Medicine Society lecture

Dr. David Nardone

Emeritus Professor, OHSU and Portland Veteran's Hospital

The Doctor's White Coat

Streaming video of the lecture

February 27, 2017 5:00pm

History of Surgery lecture

Dana K. Andersen, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Scientific Program Manager, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease

National Institutes of Health

Pancreatic Surgery: Conquest of an Uncooperative Organ

Streaming video of the lecture

January 26, 2017, 12:00pm

Catherine McNeur, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Environmental History and Public History, Portland State University 

Controversies over Public Health, Local Food, and Urban Animals in 1850s Manhattan

Streaming video of the lecture

November 11, 2016, 12:00pm

Michael Helquist

Historian and author of Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions

To Engage or Avoid: Matters of Sex for Oregon Physicians, 1900-1925

Streaming video of the lecture

May 24th, 2016, 5:00pm

Bob H. Reinhardt, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Willamette Heritage Center

Variola Vanquished? The Complex History and Legacy of Smallpox Eradication

Streaming video of the lecture

February 1 - 5: #ColorOurCollections 2016

Join OHSU Historical Collections & Archives and special collections from around the world in a coloring celebration of our historical images!

Download a PDF of our coloring book

November 17th, 2015

Rosenbaum History of Neurology lecture

Christopher Goetz, M.D.

Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences and Department of Pharmacology

Director, Parkinson's Disease &Movement Disorder Program

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Jean-Martin Charcot and the Role of Art in His Neurological Career

Monday, October 12th, 2015

History of Surgery lecture

David M. Lubin, Ph.D.

Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest University

Behind the Mask:  World War I, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution

Streaming video of the lecture

Friday, May 8th, 2015

Jessica Wapner

Freelance science writer and author

The Philadelphia Chromosome: From Bench to Bookshelf

Streaming video of the lecture

Friday, February 6, 2015

Michael J. Garland, D.Sc.Rel.,

Professor Emeritus, OHSU

Creating the Oregon Health Plan: An Ethics Mosaic

Streaming video of the lecture

Monday, November 17th, 2014

David S. Mulder, M.D., M.Sc., FRSC, FACS

McGill University

Canada's Contribution to 'March Madness': the James Naismith Story

Streaming video of the lecture



March 10, 2014

John A. Ryan Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S., with commentary by Richard J. Mullins, M.D., OHSU

Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle

Surgery 1881-1901 - Pistols, Presidents, and Pancreases: The Assassinations of Garfield and McKinley

Streaming video of the lecture

December 4, 2013

Nancy Bristow, Ph.D.

“I worked day and night trying to save them”: Health Care Professionals and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

University of Puget Sound

Friday, November 15, 2013

Donald L. Blanchard, M.D.

Emily Dickinson: Poet and Eye Patient

OHSU

Friday, October 18, 2013

Kimberly Jensen, Ph.D.

“Venereal Girls”, The Cedars Detention Home, and the Portland Free Dispensary: Gender, Public Health, and Civil Liberties in the First World War and its Aftermath

Western Oregon University

Friday, April 12, 2013

John A. Benson, Jr., M.D.

OHSU Medical Milestones: 125 Years of Healing, Teaching, and Discovery

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

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”

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

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

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

October 7, 2011

Dr. Simon Chaplin

Head, Wellcome Library

Doctors and the Death of History

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

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"

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

October 1, 2010

Thomas Hager, M.S.

Prolific author, journalist, editor and publisher

Genius or Crackpot? The Medical Odyssey of Linus Pauling

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

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

September 25, 2009

Brian J. Morrison, M.D., FAAC

Cardiology Consultants, Pc.

Maladie Bleue: Major contributions in the History of Congenital Heart Disease

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

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

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



October 24, 2008

Michael J. Aminoff, M.D.

Brown-Sequard: The Man and his Work



May 5, 2008

John Cameron, M.D.

William Stewart Halsted



February 1, 2008

Tom Hager

The Gorgon's Blood: a Greek Myth, a German Doctor, and the Rise of MRSA

January 18, 2008

Madison Macht, M.D.

Large and noble lines: the life of Howard P. Lewis, M.D.

November 30, 2007

Brion Benninger, M.D.

Cranial nerves: chronological history and current controversies

 

October 12, 2007

J. Bruce Beckwith, M.D.

Impressions of Monstrosity: Perceptions of Malformation Through the Ages

 

May 18, 2007

Michael Bliss, PhD

An American Epic: Harvey Cushing and the Founding of Neurosurgery





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

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

 

October 6, 2006

John M. Barry, M.D.

The Development of Kidney Transplantation at OHSU

May 12, 2006

Michael Helquist

KAJ Mackenzie, Marie Equi, and the Oregon Doctor Train: Portland's response to the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

March 6, 2006

Joseph B. VanderVeer, Jr, M.D. FACS

Lister and Osler: Two Great Men of Surgery and Medicine

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

October 17, 2005

David Peck, D.O.

The Lewis and Clark expedition: wilderness medicine in early America

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

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

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.

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

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

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

November 5, 1999

Donald D. Trunkey, M.D.

Assassination