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McLendon-Thomas Award in the History of Medicine Recipients

2022 Award

Mandy Fowler, a student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, is the recipient of the 2022 McLendon-Thomas Award.

Mandy’s project is entitled “The Healing Art: Early Modern Practices of Giving and Receiving Care.”

2019 Award

Jennifer Edwell, a student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, is the recipient of the 2019 McLendon-Thomas Award.

Jennifer’s winning essay is entitled “Hermeneutics of Nature: Natural Theology and Early American Birth Medicine.”

2018 Award

Michael J. CLark, a student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, is the recipient of the 2018 McLendon-Thomas Award.

Michael presented his winning essay “The Fabrica, the Epitome, and Issues of Accessibility in Early Modern Anatomy,” at the Bullitt Club meeting on February 26, 2019.

2016 Award

Angela Ning, a student in the School of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2016 McLendon-Thomas Award.

Angela presented her winning essay, “Christine Jorgensen: Moving Forward through Action, Not Words,”at the Bullitt Club meeting on April 18, 2017.

2015 Award

Scott Nelson, who graduated from UNC with a BA in History in 2015, is the recipient of the 2015 McLendon-Thomas Award.

Scott’s presented his winning essay, “Snatching Bodies, Making Doctors: Stealing black corpses for medical education in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American South,” at the Bullitt Club meeting on April 12, 2016.

2014 Award

John Runge, PhD student in Genetics and Molecular Biology, is the recipient of the 2014 McLendon-Thomas Award.

John presented his winning essay, “Character Trials: Managing Epidemic Disease in the 19th Century American South,” at the Bullitt Club meeting on March 24, 2015.

2012 Award

Sarah Frush and Christopher Jensen, MD students in the UNC School of Medicine, are co-recipients of the fifth annual McLendon-Thomas Award.

Sarah’s winning essay is entitled, “Harmel’s Happenstance: the First Blalock-Taussig Shunt and the Beginnings of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery”

Chris presented his winning essay, “‘And Polio Was a Nightmare’: Polio, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the North Carolina Memorial Hospital” at the Bullitt Club meeting on April 7, 2015.

2010 Award

Chailee Mann-Stadt, MD student in the UNC School of Medicine, was the recipient of the third annual McLendon-Thomas Award.

Chailee presented her winning essay, “Drs. Dewey and Milligan: Early Women in American Medicine,” at the January 13, 2011 meeting of the Bullitt Club.

2009 Award

Chris Dibble, MD/PhD student in the UNC School of Medicine, was the recipient of the second annual McLendon-Thomas Award.

Chris presented his winning essay, “The Dead Ringers: Medicine, Poe, and the Fear of Premature Burial,” at the December 10, 2009, meeting of the Bullitt Club.

2008 Award

Chris Dibble, MD/PhD student in the UNC School of Medicine, was the first recipient of the McLendon-Thomas Award.

Chris presented his winning essay, “Edward Livingston Trudeau: The First American Physician-Scientist and the Fight Against Tuberculosis,” at the November 17, 2008, meeting of the Bullitt Club.