Okun Lectures 2007

Thursday, January 11, 2007- Dr. Karen Thomas: “The Origins of Health Disparities and Health Services Research in the Federal Campaign to Uplift Southern Health”

Thursday, February 8, 2007- Dr. William Friedman: “A Bullet to the Head: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”

Thursday, March 8, 2007- Combined MSRIG and HoM viewing of an NIH recorded lecture of Dr. Barry Marshall’s research on H. pylori

Thursday, April 12, 2007-Dr. Sharon DiFino: (this lecture will be together with the Jewish Medical Ethics group) – “Dr. Aletta Henriette Jacobs (1854-1929): A Ground Breaker in Women’s Health and Rights”

Thursday, May 10, 2007- Dr. Craig Kitchens: “An historical approach to unraveling DIC”

Thursday, August 30, 2007- Richard J Johnson, M.D. (Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplant): “The Beginnings of Dialysis”

Thursday, September 13th, 2007- Lawrence D. Klima, MD: “The History of Tuberculosis”

Thursday, October 11th, 2007- Dr. Antoinette Emch-Deriaz: “How to improve medical care: an eighteenth century approach”.

Thursday, November 8th, 2007- Mr. Arthur Allen:”History of Vaccinations”

Thursday, December 13th, 2007- Dr. Michael Okun: “Paul Blocq and the History of Hysterical Gait Disorders”