By on September 12, 2011 - 9:38am
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.
The lecture will be co-sponsored by NYAM'S Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health and is open to the public.
Please register for this event at http://www.nyam.org/events/2011/emergency-medicine-in-lower.html
Dr. Flomenbaum will talk about emergency medicine in late nineteenth-century lower Manhattan and events that occurred at the time that The New York Hospital moved from its original location near City Hall, to its second site between W. 15th and W.16th Streets. Hospital minutes describing the acute care needs of its old neighborhood, and newspaper accounts of emergency cases treated in its new "House of Relief", demonstrate both how seriously the Hospital's Governors went about fulfilling the Hospital's mission and how "everything old is new again".
Neal Flomenbaum, M.D., became the first Emergency Physician-in-Chief at New York Hospital in 1996, and medical of Director of NYP-EMS, its emergency medical service. Prior to coming to New York-Weill Cornell Medical Center, he held faculty appointments at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYU and SUNY Downstate, and senior positions on the Emergency Services at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bellevue, NYU and Long Island College Hospital. Dr. Flomenbaum is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the New York Academy of Medicine. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Emergency Medicine, and has co-edited and co-authored eight editions of Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, two editions of Emergency Diagnostic Testing, and four editions of the Emergency Reference Guide. He has lectured widely on the topics of medical toxicology, acid-base disturbances and medical ethics.
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.
Please register for this event at http://www.nyam.org/events/2011/emergency-medicine-in-lower.html. The event is free but registration is required.
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