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Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture Schedule

Evening meetings begin at 5:30pm with light refreshments. Daytime meetings run from noon to 1:00pm, also with light refreshments.

Please note: The majority of meetings this year are scheduled for Noon.

Date/Location Speaker Subject
19 September 2017,
12:00 pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Travis Alexander,
Mellon Graduate Fellow, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill
AIDS and the Americans with Disabilities Act at Quarter Century
26 September 2017, 11:30 am
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Robert L. Hollingsworth, DHSc, PA-C, Physician Assistant, Southeastern Red Springs Medical Clinic The Physician Assistant: My Life in the Profession

3 October 2017,
12:00 pm
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Noemi Tousignant,
Guest lecturer, Université de Montréal
Globalizing Measles in 1960s West Africa
7 November 2017,
12:00 p.m.
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Craig Miller,
Head, Department of Vascular Services,
Pardee UNC Hospital

A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey

13 February 2018,
12:00 p.m.
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Raul Necochea,
Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine/Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Therapeutic Outcomes Beyond a Cure: Leprosy in 1940s-1960s U.S.

20 March 2018,
12:00 p.m.
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)
Dawne Lucas,
Special Collections Librarian, Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Not “Simply the Old-Fashioned Grip”: The Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

17 April 2018,
12:00 p.m.
UNC Health Sciences Library
5th Floor Conference Room (#527)

Ashley Werlinich,
Teaching Fellow, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill

Melissa Isaacs,
Historical Collections Project Assistant, Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Taylor Johnson,
Historical Collections Project Assistant, Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Bullitt Club Shorts:

Werlinich: Remedies Against the Infection: Freedom of Movement, Printed Invectives, and the Defense of Reputation in 17th century plague outbreaks

Isaacs/Johnson: Using the New York Academy of Medicine Collection of International Medical Theses for research