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Course Description and Target Audience
Participants will discuss key personalities and trends in the evolution of modern medicine.  They will be introduced to alternative views of medicine in the non-western world and be exposed to key individual contributors to medical knowledge including the context of their discoveries during their time in history, and their modern legacy.

The target audience for this activity is Physicians from all specialties, medical students and residents and others who are interested in the topic.

Agenda                                                   
Monday, February 15
4:00 pm   
What is medical history           
Edward Halperin, MD, MA
   
4:30 pm   
Ancient Egyptian and Greek Medicine   
Edward Halperin, MD, MA   

5:00 pm   
The Death of Alexander the Great     Edward Halperin, MD, MA   

5:30 pm   
Ancient Roman Medicine   
Edward Halperin, MD, MA 

Monday, February 22
4:00 pm   
Medicine in the Medieval Middle East   
Edward Halperin, MD, MA   

4:30 pm   
Epidemiology and the Conquest of the Americas           
Edward Halperin, MD, MA

5:00 pm   
William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood       
Roberto Bolli, MD
   
5:30 pm   
The Black Death           
Bake Beattie, PhD

Monday, March 1
4:00 pm   
Women as Patients       
Jane Thibault, PhD
   
4:30 pm   
Hysterectomy: Past, Present, and Future           
James Shwayder, MD, JD
   
5:00 pm   
US Civil War Medicine   
Richard Haddy, MD

5:30 pm   
Anesthesia and the Origins of Modern Surgery       
Hiram Polk, MD

Monday, March 8
4:00 pm   
Western Psychiatry           
Edward Halperin, MD, MA

4:30 pm   
Insanity as a Legal Defense           
Thomas Mackey,PhD
   
5:00 pm   
The History of Insulin           
Charles Kodner, MD
   
5:30 pm   
The Blalock-Tausig Operation           
Laman Gray, MD


Course Directors
Edward Halperin, MD, MA
Dean of the School of Medicine
Ford Foundation Professor of Medical Education
Professor of Radiation Oncology, Pediatrics, and History
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Stuart Urbach, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Faculty
Blake Beattie, PhD
Associate Professor
A&S History
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Roberto Bolli, MD
Endowed Chair Professor
Medicine/Department Admin
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Laman Gray, MD
Endowed Chair
Surgery
Thoracic Cardiology
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Richard Haddy, MD
Professor
Family & Geriatric Medicine
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Alan Josephson, MD
Vice Chair for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Services
CEO Bingham Child Guidance Center
University of Louisville

Charles Kodner, MD
Director, Introduction to Clinical Medicine
Program Director, Primary Care Review
Associate Professor
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Thomas Mackey, PhD
Professor
A&S History
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Hiram Polk, MD
Professor of Surgery
University of Louisville

James Shwayder, MD, JD
Associate Professor, University of Louisville School of Medicine
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health
Director, Division of Gynecology
Director, Fellowship in Endoscopic Surgery
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Jane Thibault, PhD
Clinical Professor
Clinical Gerontologist
University of Louisville
The speaker has no relevant or financial relationships to disclose.

Continuing Education Credit
Physician Credit - The University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences Education office designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Registration
Free to all Participants

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Learning Objectives
1) Review of the key personalities and trends in the evolution of modern medicine.
2) Describe alternative views of medicine in the non-western world.
3) Identify key individual contributors to medical knowledge, the context of their discoveries during their time in history, and their modern legacy.
4) Discuss what history can teach about the future of medicine.  
    

Special Services
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Accreditation
The University of Louisville School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.