Dr. Tauber's lecture has been cancelled due to transportation complications in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. It will be rescheduled at a later date.

Please join us for our next lecture on Wednesday, January 23, at 4:30 p.m. David B. Levine will present on: The Civil War and its Casualties. More details to follow closer to the date.

The Heberden Society and the Division of Medical Ethics jointly present:

Alfred I. Tauber, M.D.

Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Boston University

The Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Association will present Special Achievement Awards to four distinguished alumni on October 20. An exhibit of photographs and documents featuring the award recipients is now on display in the Weill Cornell Medical College main lobby at 1300 York Avenue.

Curtis Hart, M.Div., Lecturer in Public Health, Psychiatry, and Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Religion and Health, will present the first Heberden Society Lecture of the 2012-13 academic year on Thursday, September 27, 2012, at The New York Academy of Medicine.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Famous Patient

Thursday, September 27. 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!

Lawrence Finer, Ph.D.

Director of Domestic Research, the Guttmacher Institute

will present the final Heberden Society Lecture of the 2011-2012 academic year on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

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The Tumultuous History of Women's and Reproductive Health in the U.S.

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Wednesday, May 9. 5:00 p.m. (light refreshments at 4:45)

Peter G. Wilson, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College

Attending Psychiatrist, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

will present the spring 2012 Heberden Society Lecture:

Psychiatry at NYPH-WCMC 1791-2012

Tuesday, March 20, 2012. 5 p.m.

Weill Cornell Medical College

1300 York Avenue

Uris Faculty Room (A-126)

The Heberden Society and the Division of Medical Ethics jointly present:

Charles S. Bryan, M.D., MACP, FRCP,
Heyward Gibbes Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine Emeritus, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Director, Institute of Internal Medicine and Family Medicine, Providence Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina

Medical Professionalism for Generations X,Y and Z: Does William Osler’s “Master-Word in Medicine” (that is ‘Work’) Still Ring True?

Guides to the Medical Center Archives' personal paper collections are now included in the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium discovery portal.

The archives is under the Weill Cornell Medical College Library. This week they had the opening of their 21st Medical Center Complex Art Show. Above is a picture of the Art Show held in 1991.

Neal Flomenbaum, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Emergency Physician-in-Chief, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, will present the first Heberden Society Lecture of the 2011-12 academic year, on Tuesday, October 4, 2011.

Emergency Medicine in Lower Manhattan in the late 1800's: Everything Old is New Again.
Tuesday, October 4. 6:00 p.m. (Light refreshments served at 5:30)
The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue.