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Date & Time
Event
Presenter

Thursday, September 19, at noon PT

"Final Wishes: California and the Rise of Body Donor Programs"

Susan Lederer, PhD, Ronald L. Numbers Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Thursday, October 31, at noon PT

"Five Centuries of Collecting Vesaliana"

Russell Johnson, Curator, History and Special Collections for the Sciences, Library Special Collections, UCLA

Monday, November 18, at 4 PM PT

"Bloody Numbers: Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Human Body in the Early Iberian Atlantic"

Pablo Gomez, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Thursday, December 5, at noon PT

"The Young Doctor is in: The Making of a New Type of Medical Student in the Nineteenth Century"

Christin Zurbach, PhD, Cedars-Sinai and Huntington Library Fellow in the History of Medicine

Thursday, January 23, 2025, at noon PT

"Speaker Series in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"

Katja Guenther, MD, PhD, Professor of History, Princeton University

Thursday, February 20, 2025, at noon PT

"Speaker Series in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"

Thomas Schlich, MD, PhD, James McGill Professor in the History of Medicine & Department Chair, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University

Thursday, March 20, 2025, at noon PT

"Speaker Series in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"

Dominique Avril Klakoski, PhD, Professor & Director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry, Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Virginia

Thursday, May 29, 2025, at noon PT

"Speaker Series in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"

Aimee Medeiros, PhD Associate Professor, History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

Past Events


Date & Time
Event
Presenter

Thursday,
June 6, at noon PT

Leo Gordon, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Thursday,
May 16, at noon PT

Claire Bubb, PhD, Assistant Professor, NYU

Thursday,
May 2, at noon PT

Thomas Schnalke, MD, Director, Berlin Museum of Medical History of the Charité

Thursday,
March 21, at noon PT

Lara Keuck, PhD, Bielefeld University

Thursday,
March 14, at noon PT

Theresa Macphail, PhD, Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology

Thursday,
February 29, at noon PT

Dana Landress, Assistant Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Thursday,
February 8, at noon PT

Monique Kornell, PhD, Visiting Associate Professor, Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai

Thursday,
February 1, at noon PT

Alfred Freeborn, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Date & Time
Event
Presenter

Thursday,
December 14, at noon PT

Tamara Venit-Shelton, PhD, Professor of History, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College

Thursday,
November 30, at noon PT

"Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Diagram"

Jack Harnell, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, University of East Anglia, UK

Thursday,
November 16, at noon PT

"The Caesarean Operation and its Theological Sources" 
Hybrid (In Person PEC Rm. 5)

Elizabeth O’Brien, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Thursday,
November 2, at noon PT

Elias Aboujaoude, MD, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Program on Internet, Health and Society

Thursday,
October 26, at noon PT

Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, MA, William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Tuesday,
October 3, at noon PT

Robert Montgomery, MD, H. Leon Pachter Professor of Surgery, Chair, Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Friday,
September 22, at noon PT

Rena Selya, PhD, MLIS, Archivist, Historical Conservancy Department, Research Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai

Thursday,
September 21, at noon PT

Adam Biggs, Assistant Professor of Racial Justice in Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Thursday,
September 7, at noon PT

Marta E. Hanson, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Retired Associate Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday,
June 8, at noon PT

Anne Harrington, PhD, Franklin L. Ford Professor of History of Science, Harvard University

Thursday,
June 1, at noon PT

Panel Chair: Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cedars-Sinai 

Thursday,
May 18, at noon PT

Ericka Johnson, Professor of Gender and Society, Linköping University, Sweden

Thursday,
May 11, at noon PT

Carla Nappi, PhD, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in History, Co-Director, Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh

Thursday,
April 27, at noon PT

Lisa Haushofer, MD, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich

Thursday,
April 20, at noon PT

"Eugenics, Sterilization, Memory, and Reparations in California"

Alexandra Minna Stern, PhD, Professor and Dean of Humanities, UCLA

Thursday,
March 16, 2023 at noon PT

Archiving Covid-19 Symposium

Panel Chair: Rena Selya, PhD, MLIS, Archivist and Assistant Professor, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Thursday,
March 2, 2023 at noon PT

"(Re)producing Reproduction: Obstetrical Training Models, Images, and Methods, 1880–1900"

Jessica M. Dandona, PhD, Professor of Art History and Liberal Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Thursday,
February 16, 2023 at noon PT

"Greco-Roman Anatomy in 3D: an Interactive Atlas"

Orly Lewis, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Classics

Thursday,
February 2, 2023 at noon PT

"Making Sense of Diabetes’ Racial Past."

Arleen M. Tuchman, PhD, Nelson O. Tyrone Jr. Professor of History at Vanderbilt University

Thursday,
January 19, 2023 at noon PT

"The Influence of [Another] Louis on American Medicine"

David N. Louis, MD, Chief of Enterprise Pathology, Mass General Brigham, Chair Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Pathologist-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital, Benjamin Castleman Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Thursday,
January 12, 2023 at noon PT

"Humanity as Symbiont: René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome"

Nicolas Rasmussen, PhD, Professor Emeritus, School of Humanities & Languages, University of NSW

Thursday,
January 5, 2023 at noon PT

"The Emergence of Scientific Disease Description: the early 19th century Guy's Hospital Triumvirate"

Frank Strauss, MD, Emeritus Staff, Clinical Chief, and Executive Committee, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Date & Time
Presenter
Event

Thursday,
December 8, 2022

"Best Practices in the Medical Humanities"

Susanna Garfinkle, MD, MSc, Director, Mount Sinai Academy for Medicine and the Humanities

Thursday,
November 10, 2022

"Ab Ovo: A Tour of Ancient Greek and Roman Obstetrics and Gynecology"

Melissa Wong, MD, Gynecologist, Cedars-Sinai

Thursday,
October 27, 2022

"The History of Xenotransplantation"

Joanna Chikwe, MD, Irina and George Schaeffer Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Surgery in honor of Alfredo Trento, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday,
October 13, 2022

"Reproductive Medicine and Gendered Education: The Case of Precolonial Mali"

Devon Golaszewski, PhD, Fellow, Program in the History of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai

Thursday,
September 29, 2022

“Medicine as an Art: Perspectives from the Ancient World”

Mark Schiefsky, PhD, C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics and Director of the Center for Hellenistic Studies, Harvard University

Thursday,
September 15, 2022

Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette”

Keith Wailoo, PhD, Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Thursday,
September 1, 2022

“From a Hospital in Every Community to an Emergency Department in Every Region”

Nic Jon Ramos, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Africana Studies, and the Center for Science, Technology and Society, Drexel University

Thursday,
June 9, 2022

Paul Sampson, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, University of Scranton

“Disease and Discipline: Airborne Disease and the Origins of Prison Reform”

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Franklin Strauss, MD, Nephrologist, Cedars-Sinai

“The modernization of medical education in the 20th century: the role of philanthropy”

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Angela N.H. Creager, Thomas M. Siebel Professor, History of Science Chair, Department of History, Princeton University

“The Making (and Unmaking) of Environmental Carcinogens”

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Daniel J. Wallace, MD, FACP, MACR, Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai

“The Double Life of Hans Reiter and Discovery of Reactive Arthritis”

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Peiting C. Li, Medical Humanities Fellow in Residence, Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine

“Debating Tuberculosis in 1920s Shanghai: Medical Literacy and Scientific Efficacy”

Thursday, March 31, 2022

David S. Jones, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University

“When Every Operation Is an Experiment: The Ethics of Innovation in Cardiac Surgery”

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Eugene Flamm, Professor of Neurosurgery and Chairman Emeritus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center

“Neurosurgery Before Neurosurgery”

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner, BCC, Denior Rabbi & Director, Spiritual Care Department, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

“The Jewish Hospital in America: Past, Present and (Possible) Future”

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Eram Alam, Assistant Professor of History of Science, Harvard University

“The Care of Foreigners”

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Jacob Steere-Williams, Associate Professor of History, College of Charleston

“Like Swallowing Red Hot Coals': Carbolic Acid and the Regulation of the First Household Disinfectant in Victorian Britain”

Wednesday, February 3, 2022

Robin Scheffler, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

“The Promise and Pitfalls of Biomedicine”

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Lara Freidenfelds, Historian of Medicine

“Your Baby on Day 33": Pregnancy Development Timelines from Nineteenth-Century Maternity Guides to Twenty-First Century Apps”

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Richard McKay, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Director of Studies for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

“Queer Men and Venereal Disease at East London’s Whitechapel Clinic, c.1932-1982”

Date & Time
Event
Presenter

Thursday, December 9, 2021

History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Speaker Series: “What's the Therapeutic Value of Anatomy in Medicine? The Greek and Roman Case”

Luis Alejandro Salas, PhD, Assistant Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis

Thursday, November 11, 2021

History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Speaker Series: “Racial, Ethnic and Gender Bias in 19th Century U.S. Medicine”

Franklin Strauss, MD, nephrologist at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, October 28, 2021

History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Speaker Series: “A 'New Order of Obstetrics'? Childbirth Cultures in Divided Germany”

Jennifer Rodgers, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of History at Caltech

Thursday, October 14, 2021

History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Speaker Series: “Ownership, Knowledge and Genetic Information”

Myles Jackson, PhD, professor of Historical Studies at Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study

Wednesdays, Oct.13-Nov.17, 2021

Six-week course: “Epidemics, Medicine and Society”

Gideon Manning, PhD, associate director of the History of Medicine Program at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, September 30, 2021

History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Speaker Series: “Understanding Addiction: From Past to Present”

Itai Danovitch, MD, MBA, Chair and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, September 23, 2021

History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Speaker Series: “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Life of an 18th Century Hospital Physician”

Elizabeth Mellyn, PhD, Associate Professor of History at University of New Hampshire

Thursday, September 2, 2021

History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Speaker Series: “Delivering the Enlightenment: Childbirth Technologies in 18th Century France”

Margaret Carlyle, PhD, Assistant Professor of History at University of British Columbia

Thursdays, Sept.2-Oct. 7, 2021

Six-week course: “Incurables to COVID-19: The Evolution of Cedars-Sinai as a Modern Hospital”

Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD, Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine Program at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, July 8, 2021

History of Medicine Speaker Series: “Hildegard's Daughters: Women of Science, Women of the Cedars-Sinai Mural”

Stephen Geller, MD, pathologist and chairman emeritus of the Department of Pathology at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, June 24, 2021

History of Medicine Speaker Series: TBD

Hannah Murphy, PhD, UKRI Future Leaders fellow and lecturer in Early Modern History at King’s College London

Thursday, June 10, 2021

History of Medicine Speaker Series: “Racial Inequities in American Medicine: Historical Perspective and Present-Day Legacies”

Carolyn Roberts, PhD, Assistant Professor of History of Science & Medicine and African American Studies at Yale University

Thursday, May 27, 2021

History of Medicine Speaker Series: “From Qi-guo 瘈狗 to Qi-bing 瘈病 (From “Mad Dogs” to Rabies): Pastorians and Public Health in Republican China (1911-1945)”

Chien-Ling Liu Zeleny, PhD, historian of medicine at UCLA

Wednesdays, May 26-June 30, 2021

Six-week course: “Medical (Mal)Practices Under the Nazi Regime”

Sari J. Siegel, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the History of Medicine Program at Cedars-Sinai

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

John M. Barry; conversation moderated by Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD, Director of Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation and Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, May 13, 2021

History of Medicine Speaker Series: “Clinical-Anatomical Medicine Before the Paris Hospital Medicine”

Evan Ragland, PhD, assistant professor of History at University of Notre Dame

Thursday, April 29, 2021

History of Medicine Speaker Series: “Is Medicine Dysgenic?”

Nathaniel Comfort, PhD, professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, April 15, 2021

History of Medicine Lunch Meeting: “The Cesarean Section Rate: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence”

Jacqueline Wolf, PhD, professor of the History of Medicine at Ohio State University

Thursday, April 1, 2021

History of Medicine Lunch Meeting: “Race, Remedies, and (Drug) Resistance: Defining Tuberculosis between East Africa and the World”

Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the History of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Steven E. Aschheim, PhD, professor emeritus of History at The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History

Thursday, March 4, 2021

History of Medicine Lunch Meeting: “Revisiting Human and Animal Experimentation”

Anita Guerrini, PhD, homing professor in the Humanities and History emerita at Oregon State University

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Thursday, January 21, 2021

“Censoring Medicine in the Age of Galileo”

Hannah Marcus, PhD, assistant professor of the History of Science at Harvard University

Thursday, January 7, 2021

“Books, Bones and Bodies: Anatomy in Nazi Germany and its Legacies for Medicine Today”

Sabine Hildebrandt, MD, associate professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School

Date & Time
Event
Presenter

Thursday, December 17, 2020

“Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome”

Soraya de Chadarevian, PhD, professor of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at UCLA

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Thursday April 2, 2020

“Discovery of a Renal Origin of Hypertension by Harry Goldblatt, 1934”

Leon Fine, MD, professor of biomedical sciences and medicine at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Franklin Strauss, MD, nephrologist at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Stephen Geller, MD, pathologist and chairman emeritus of the Department of Pathology at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Russell Johnson, MLS, curator of History and Special Collections for the Sciences at UCLA Biomedical Library; Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, MS, MA, curator and librarian of the History of Health Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Franklin Strauss, MD, nephrologist at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, August 27, 2020

“Challenge Trials for COVID-19: Some Ethical Reflections”

Stuart Finder, PhD, director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday, August 13, 2020

“Every Breath You Take: Reverse Engineering a Museum Piece for Use in COVID”

Mervyn Singer, MD, professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London

Thursday July 30, 2020

Erin Travers, PhD, graduate intern in philanthropy, Getty Research Institute

Thursday July 23, 2020

“Intimate Relations: The Development of Arterial Repair, 1880–1960”

Justin Barr, MD, PhD, general surgery resident at Duke Medical Center and author of the book Of Life and Limb: Surgical Repair of the Arteries in War and Peace, 1880–1960

Thursday June 25, 2020

Thursday June 18, 2020

Thursday June 11, 2020

Thursday June 4, 2020

Thursday May 28, 2020

John Harold, MD, attending physician at the Smidt Heart Institute, former chief of staff at Cedars-Sinai, and past president of the American College of Cardiology

Thursday May 21, 2020

“A Most Unfortunate Event in the History of Cedars Nephrology: The Saga of Richard Lippman”

Leon Fine, MD, professor of biomedical sciences and medicine, Cedars-Sinai

Thursday May 14, 2020

Thursday May 7, 2020

Thursday April 30, 2020

Thursday April 23, 2020

“House Call at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue”

Leo Gordon, MD, general surgeon and professor of surgery at Cedars-Sinai

Thursday April 16, 2020

“Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Nazi Camps”

Sari Siegel, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Program in the History of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai

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