By on April 21, 2015 - 9:42am
W. Bruce Fye, MD, MA, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, will present the next Heberden society lecture on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, at 5:00 pm.
The Origins and Evolution of the Mayo Clinic from 1864 to 1939: A Minnesota Family Practice Becomes an International "Medical Mecca"
Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 5:00 p.m. (Light refreshments at 4:45)
Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue
Uris Faculty Room (A-126)
W. Bruce Fye describes the origins and international impact of the Mayo Clinic through 1939, the year that William J. (Will) and Charles H. (Charlie) Mayo died. Multispecialty group practice was invented at Mayo at the beginning of the twentieth century. A visiting Canadian surgeon wrote in 1906, "Specialization and cooperation, with the best that can be had in each department, is here the motto. Cannot these principles be tried elsewhere?" Mayo Clinic's major (and underappreciated) role in the development of rigorous postgraduate (specialty) training is addressed. Unlike traditional academic medical centers that emphasize research, Mayo's main mission has always been patient care. This patient-centered activity has been undertaken in an environment enriched by extensive programs devoted to specialty training and clinical research. The clinic's long-standing culture of collaboration is cited as one of the key ingredients of its success.
W. Bruce Fye received his BA and MD degrees from Johns Hopkins, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed a medical residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center before returning to Johns Hopkins for his cardiology fellowship. During his tenure as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Hopkins, he received a Master of Arts degree from the Institute of the History of Medicine. From 1981 to 1999, he chaired the Cardiology Department at Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin. He joined the Mayo Clinic in 2000.
Dr. Fye has authored more than 100 historical papers and three books. The Development of American Physiology: Scientific Medicine in the 19th Century was published in 1987. His 1996 book, American Cardiology: The History of a Specialty and Its College, won the prestigious Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. His latest book is Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization (Oxford University Press, 2015). Fye is a past president of the American College of Cardiology, the American Association for the History of Medicine, and the American Osler Society. In addition to being a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, he was the founding director of the institution's Center for the History of Medicine. Fye is now an emeritus professor of medicine and the history of medicine at Mayo Clinic, having retired in 2014.
The Heberden Society, which seeks to promote an interest in the history of medicine, was founded at the medical center in 1975. With funding from the Office of the Dean, the society sponsors a series of lectures during each academic year.
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