Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRSC, Professor and Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, will present the Heberden Society Lecture onTuesday, December 10, 2013, at 5:00 p.m.

Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World

Tuesday, December 10, 2013. 5:00 p.m. (light refreshments at 4:45)

Uris Faculty Room (A-126)

Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue

The Archives will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday, Thursday, November 28th and Friday the 29th. We'll reopen on Monday, December 2, 2013.

Here are images of Hospital Nutrition Department staff preparing Thanksgiving pies, to be served at the Hospital in November 1965, and baking cakes in 1968.

We wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

We are getting close to our goal of getting our images into our two new image databases. This week images of group faculty and residents dated after 1990 were added to the Institutional Database.

This week images from Louise Zabriskie collection were uploaded. In addition, images from the Samaritan yearbook were added. Above is a student nurse from the Zabriskie collection.

MEDICAL CENTER ARCHIVES UNVEILS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

The Medical Center Archives has launched a new Digital Collections page on its website.

New Image Databases

This week images from various personal papers collections were uploaded.

Steven G. Friedman, MD, FACS, MBA, Professor of Clinical Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Chief, Division of Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, will present the first Heberden Society Lecture of the 2013-14 academic year on Thursday, September 26, 2013, at The New York Academy of Medicine.

Elizabeth Blackwell: First U.S. Woman Physician

Thursday, September 26. 6:00 p.m. (Light refreshments served at 5:30)

Are you interested in the history of medicine? Then you'll want to attend the Heberden Society lectures!

This week images given to the archives by private donors were uploaded.

This week images given to the archives by unknown donors were uploaded. The images include buildings, people, and events associated with the medical center.