The Medical Center Archives is pleased to announce that we received a third grant from METRO New York Library Council to digitize more publications from our collection. We have just completed the New York Hospital-Westchester Division (Bloomingdale Asylum) annual reports from 1943-1964. Early annual reports for the Bloomingdale Asylum were included in the New York Hospital Annual Reports that have already been digitalized.

Reunion Weekend for Weill Cornell Medical College is taking place October 10 and 11. Alumni from across the country will be visiting the Medical Center for Reunion 2014: The Evolution of Medical Education.

Nancy J. Tomes, PhD, Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook, will present the first Heberden Society Lecture of the 2014-15 academic year onThursday, October 2, 2014, at The New York Academy of Medicine.

What Ever Became of Good Old Doc? A Portfolio of Physicians Past

Thursday, October 2. 6:00 PM (Light refreshments at 5:30)

The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue

The photograph above shows a nursing student receiving clinical training from a nurse at New York Hospital (now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital) in 1967.

We've finished two more rounds of digitization, completing our second Digital Conversion MicroGrant from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). Now available are the Society of the Lying-In Hospital Annual Reports, 1951-1965; the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences Announcements, 1989-1996, 1999-2000, 2002-2003, 2005-2007; the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center Annual Reports, 1990-1997; and the Cornell University Medical College Announcements, 1985-1993.

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

Paul A. Lombardo, PhD, JD

Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law

'The Craze for Legal Proceedings': Schloendorff v. New York Hospital, 1914

Thursday, April 10, 2014 5:00 p.m. (light refreshments at 4:45pm)

Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue

Uris Faculty Room (A-126)

We've completed another round of digitization, this time focusing on two historic hospitals that played key roles in providing maternal health services in New York City.

Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, MPH DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, WCMC Institute for the History of Psychiatry, will present the Heberden society lecture onWednesday, February 26, 2014, at 5:00 pm.

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