American Association for the History of Medicine
Council and Committees, 2007–2008
John Parascandola (President), W. Bruce Fye (Vice President), Todd Savitt (Secretary-Treasurer), Jacalyn Duffin (Immediate Past President)
Elizabeth Watkins (Chair) (2008), Tom Horrocks (2008), Gerald Grob (2009), Judith Leavitt (2009), Micaela Sullivan-Fowler (2010), Peter Twohig (2010)
Paul Berman (Chair) [End Page 842]
Margaret Humphreys (term ends 31 December 2010)
Cynthia Pitcock (national delegate), Toby Gelfand (alternate)
Gary Belkin (Chair) (2008), Edward Brown (2008), Lisa Boult (2009), Marianne Fedunkiw (2009), Gwen Kay (2010), Jonathon Erlen (2010)
Leo Slater (Chair), Jan McTavish, Wendy Kline
Margaret Marsh (Chair) (2010), Russell Maulitz (2008), James Bono (2009)
Elizabeth Fee (Chair), Randall Packard, Robert Martensen, Mariola Espinosa, Leslie Reagan
Susan Lawrence (Chair), Arleen Tuchman, Charlotte Borst, John Eyler, Stephen Novak
Rochester, N.Y., 2008: Ted Brown and Stephanie Brown Clark (Co-Chairs)
Cleveland, 2009: James Edmonson (Chair)
Jodi Koste and Joan Klein, Editors (2009)
Caroline Hannaway (Chair), Susan Lederer, James Mohr
William Summers (Chair), Mindy Schwartz, Jeff Brosco, Chris Feudtner, David Cantor
Susan Jones (Chair) (2008), Conevery Bolton Valenc=ius (2010), Keith Wailoo (2012) [End Page 843]
Alan Kraut (Chair), Howard Markel, Ann LaBerge, Ted Brown, Michael North, Florence Eliza Glaze, Lisa Smith
John Harley Warner (Chair) (2010), Gregory Higby (2011), Janet Golden (2012)
Laura Ettinger (Chair), Stephen Greenberg, Beth Linker, Michelle McClellan, John Swann
Paul Berman
Barron Lerner (Chair), Jonathan Sadowsky, Susan Smith, Tom Broman, Rosemary Stevens
Heather Munro Prescott (Chair)
James Edmonson (Chair), Julia Rodriguez, Alexandra Stern
Kristin Ehrenberger (Chair), Walton Schalick
Jennifer Gunn (Chair), Jeremy Greene, Laura Hirshbein, Geoffrey Hudson
Stephen Novak (Chair), Susan Lawrence, Beatrix Hoffman, Nancy McCall, Guenter Risse, Janet Tighe
In Memoriam
John Ballard Blake, 1922–2006
John Ballard Blake, Ph.D., the first Chief of NLM's History of Medicine Division, died on 24 September 2006 at the age of 83.
John Blake was born on 29 October 1922, in New Haven, Connecticut, where his father was Dean of Yale Medical School. In his academic career at Phillips Andover Academy and Yale University he showed academic brilliance and an early interest in American medical history. [End Page 844]
Blake spent his early career as historian at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and curator in the Division of Medical Sciences at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. In 1961 he became the Chief of the History of Medicine Division, when the rare book collection was still in Cleveland, where it had been moved during the Second World War. The collection, separated for the first time from the general collections, returned to Washington, to be housed in its own section of the...