Rosemary A. Stevens to present Heberden Society Lecture February 26, 5pm

Inventing the Veterans Administration, Who, How and Why? 1921-1924

Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (Light refreshments at 4:45)

Uris Faculty Room (A-126)

Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue

Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, MPH (Yale) is DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar in Social Medicine and Public Policy at Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry. She is also the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor Emeritus in Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Stevens has chaired or been a member of national policy committees on subjects as diverse as national blood policy, for-profit health care, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, alternative medicine, graduate medical education payments, and Medicare as social contract. She has served as a public member on the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Pediatrics, and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, and is currently a public member of the American Board of Medical Specialties. She has won national awards in the history of medicine, history of public health, and health services research. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Stevens has published six books and numerous articles on topics such as the history of medical practice in England, the history of specialization in American medicine, the early implementation of Medicaid, physician migration policy and its implications, and the history of American hospitals. Her current research focuses on the formal organization of specialization in American medicine today, and the public roles and self-regulatory structures of the medical profession.