The McLendon-Thomas Award in the History of Medicine

The Bullitt History of Medicine Club is pleased to announce a new essay competition open to all UNC-Chapel Hill students in the health sciences.

Purpose
To encourage interest and recognize scholarship in the history of medicine, the McLendon-Thomas Award in the History of Medicine, with a prize of $500, will be given annually for the best unpublished essay on an historical topic in the health sciences.

Eligibility
Any current medical, dental, pharmacy, nursing, public health, or allied health student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may submit an essay.

Format
The essay may address any aspect of the history of the health sciences and should be 3000-5000 words in length.

Judging
Faculty advisors of the Bullitt History of Medicine of Club will assemble a team of three faculty members from various departments to judge the scholarship and quality of the submissions. The winner will be encouraged to present the essay at a program of the Bullitt Club.

Submissions
Entries must be submitted on or before April 1, 2008. Entries should be sent electronically via email attachment to Dr. Elizabeth Dreesen (email below).

Questions concerning the award can also be directed to Dr. Dreesen:

Elizabeth Dreesen, M.D.
4009 Burnett-Womack
CB# 7228
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Tel: 919-966-4389
Email: Elizabeth_Dreesen@med.unc.edu

DR. WILLIAM W. MCLENDON served from 1973-1995 at UNC as Director of the Hospital Clinical Laboratories and as Professor and Vice-Chair of Pathology. Since his retirement in 1995 he has been Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. An MD graduate of UNC in 1956, he and Bob Whitlock (MD '57) were the student co-founders in 1954 of the Bullitt History of Medicine Club. Dr. McLendon is the co-author, along with the late Drs. William Blythe and Floyd Denny, of the recently published Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health Movement.

DR. COLIN G. THOMAS, JR. joined the faculty of the UNC School of Medicine in 1952, and is currently Byah Thomason-Sanford Doxey Professor of Surgery. From 1966-1984 he served as Chair of the Department of Surgery, and from 1984-1989 as Chief of the Division of General Surgery. Dr. Thomas was one of the early faculty members of the Bullitt History of Medicine Club, and is the co-author, along with Mary Jane Kagarise, of the 1997 history, Legends and Legacies: A Look Inside: Four Decades of Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1952-1993.