Hear that screeching?  Spring is here and the medical center peregrine falcons are in their mating season.

President Ronald Reagan. New York City Mayor Ed Koch. Actress Elizabeth Taylor. The Heimlich maneuver is credited with saving the lives of these and many others since its invention by Dr. Henry Heimlich in 1974. Although he is best known for the anti-choking maneuver that became synonymous with his name, Dr. Heimlich created many medical procedures and devices throughout the course of his career.

THE HEBERDEN SOCIETY LECTURE: PROMOTING INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

The New York Academy of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health and The Heberden Society, Weill Cornell Medicine, present
VICTORIA JOHNSON, PhD
Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College, City University of New York 

Losing Hamilton, Saving New York: Dr. David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic