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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81.4 (2007) 842-847

News and Events

American Association for the History of Medicine

Council and Committees, 2007–2008

Officers
John Parascandola (President), W. Bruce Fye (Vice President), Todd Savitt (Secretary-Treasurer), Jacalyn Duffin (Immediate Past President)
Council. "The council shall consist of officers of the Association, the immediate past President, and twelve Regular Members elected for three-year terms at an annual meeting by plurality of Regular Members voting. The President shall act as Chairman of the Council. Six shall constitute a quorum of the Council." Twelve Regular Members are divided into three groups of four, one group elected by Regular Members each year. Total number of members is 16.
Council (2005–2008): Emily Abel, Paul Berman, Monica Green, David Rosner
Council (2006–2009): James Edmonson, H. Hughes Evans, Bert Hansen, Joan Lynaugh
Council (2007–2010): Warwick Anderson, Jennifer Gunn,William Rothstein, Susan Smith
NOTE: When the term of a committee member extends beyond 2007–2008, the year in which the appointment terminates is shown in parentheses after the member's name.
Committee on Annual Meetings
Elizabeth Watkins (Chair) (2008), Tom Horrocks (2008), Gerald Grob (2009), Judith Leavitt (2009), Micaela Sullivan-Fowler (2010), Peter Twohig (2010)
Clinician-Historians
Paul Berman (Chair) [End Page 842]
Delegate to American Council of Learned Societies
Margaret Humphreys (term ends 31 December 2010)
Delegate to International Society for the History of Medicine
Cynthia Pitcock (national delegate), Toby Gelfand (alternate)
Education and Outreach Committee
Gary Belkin (Chair) (2008), Edward Brown (2008), Lisa Boult (2009), Marianne Fedunkiw (2009), Gwen Kay (2010), Jonathon Erlen (2010)
Estes Prize Committee
Leo Slater (Chair), Jan McTavish, Wendy Kline
Finance Committee
Margaret Marsh (Chair) (2010), Russell Maulitz (2008), James Bono (2009)
Garrison Lecture Committee
Elizabeth Fee (Chair), Randall Packard, Robert Martensen, Mariola Espinosa, Leslie Reagan
Lifetime Achievement Award Committee
Susan Lawrence (Chair), Arleen Tuchman, Charlotte Borst, John Eyler, Stephen Novak
Local Arrangements Committee
Rochester, N.Y., 2008: Ted Brown and Stephanie Brown Clark (Co-Chairs)
Cleveland, 2009: James Edmonson (Chair)
Newsletter
Jodi Koste and Joan Klein, Editors (2009)
Nominating Committee
Caroline Hannaway (Chair), Susan Lederer, James Mohr
Osler Medal Committee
William Summers (Chair), Mindy Schwartz, Jeff Brosco, Chris Feudtner, David Cantor
Pressman–Burroughs Wellcome Award Committee
Susan Jones (Chair) (2008), Conevery Bolton Valenc=ius (2010), Keith Wailoo (2012) [End Page 843]
Program Committee
Alan Kraut (Chair), Howard Markel, Ann LaBerge, Ted Brown, Michael North, Florence Eliza Glaze, Lisa Smith
Publications Committee
John Harley Warner (Chair) (2010), Gregory Higby (2011), Janet Golden (2012)
Shryock Medal Committee
Laura Ettinger (Chair), Stephen Greenberg, Beth Linker, Michelle McClellan, John Swann
Webmaster
Paul Berman
Welch Medal Committee
Barron Lerner (Chair), Jonathan Sadowsky, Susan Smith, Tom Broman, Rosemary Stevens
Women Historians
Heather Munro Prescott (Chair)
Ad Hoc Committee on Travel Grants
James Edmonson (Chair), Julia Rodriguez, Alexandra Stern
Ad Hoc Committee on Student Affairs
Kristin Ehrenberger (Chair), Walton Schalick
Ad Hoc Committee on Survey of Medical Schools
Jennifer Gunn (Chair), Jeremy Greene, Laura Hirshbein, Geoffrey Hudson
Ad Hoc Committee on Impact of HIPAA
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...

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