AAHM 2025

AAHM 2025

4:00pm EDT

LAMPHHS Steering Committee Meeting Berkeley

8:00am EDT

AAHM Conference Art Guide: Medically-Themed Works of Art in Local Museum Collections Self-directed

12:30pm EDT

AAHM Council Meeting Hampton

1:00pm EDT

AAHM Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer

2:00pm EDT

Sigerist Circle Business Meeting Gardner

3:00pm EDT

Sigerist Circle Panel: "Health Activists Meet the Moment: Sharing Knowledge, Taking Action" GardnerJason Chernesky • Jason Glenn

5:00pm EDT

Special Plenary Session: Engaging in the Debates about the Uses of Race in Medicine Commonwealth BallroomDavid Jones • Evelynn Hammonds • Aaron Panofsky • Jenny Reardon • Michael Yudell

6:30pm EDT

Opening Reception Republic

8:00pm EDT

Remembering John Parascandola Gardner Graduate Student Meeting and Greet The Corner Tavern

7:00am EDT

Bulletin of the History of Medicine Editorial Board Meeting Back Bay B Nursing History Reivew Meeting Clarendon President's New Member and First-Time Attendees Breakfast Berkeley Themed Breakfasts Republic BallroomEric T. Jones • Alexander Parry • Mindy Schwartz • Ahmed Ragab • Wayne Soon • Jerry Kantor AAHM Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00am EDT

AAHM Conference Art Guide: Medically-Themed Works of Art in Local Museum Collections Self-directed

8:30am EDT

Welcome and Plenary Session Grand BallroomOsaremen Okolo • Jason Chernesky • Keith Wailoo • Evelynn Hammonds • Susan Reverby

10:00am EDT

Book Exhibit Independence Ballroom Refreshment Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:30am EDT

A1. Human Remains in and for Historical Research. What Can We Do?  FairfaxJoAnn Zeise • Hugo Rueda-Ramirez • Joanna Radin • Deborah Dubald • Tricia Close-Koenig A2. Contraception, Pregnancy Loss, and Maternity Care in Twentieth Century America Back Bay DPatricia Kruk • Lauren MacIvor Thompson • Kristen Leng • Janet Greenlees A3. Roundtable Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians Back Bay BKylie Smith • Richard McKay • Jonathan Sadowsky • Shannon Withycombe • Melissa Grafe • Barron Lerner A4. Roundtable Absent and Present: Children’s Perspectives in the History of Medicine GardnerJason Chernesky • Sandra Eder • Jessica Martucci A5. Roundtable Above and Beyond the Archives: Documenting the Black AIDS Epidemic Back Bay CEvelynn Hammonds • Marlon Bailey • Jennifer Brier • Angelique Harris • Polina Ilieva A6. Medical Provider’s Impact on Patient Care Back Bay AChristopher Willoughby • Chang Xu • Yinghua Luo 罗英华 • Robin Rohrer • Leslie-William Robinson

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Break--Try the "Grab and Go" Grand Ballroom Foyer

1:00pm EDT

B1. Medicine, Technology, and Representations in Global East Asia  GardnerWayne Soon • Ryan Moran • Shu Wan • Sonja Kim B2. Ethics and Patient Data Initiative: Discussing Draft Guidelines Back Bay D B3. Pregnancy and Abortion in Twentieth Century America Back Bay BSimone M. Caron • Cara Delay • Diane B Paul • Rima Apple B4. HIV/AIDS Technology and Politics FairfaxJudy Houck • Qurat Khan • Lukas Engelmann • Aishah Scott B5. Vaccination Campaigns in Global Perspective Back Bay CTheodore Brown • Andrea Rusnock • Kalman Rotstein • Dora Vargha B6. Disease, Race, and Ethnicity in the Americas Back Bay ADana Landress • David Carey • John Gutierrez • Emily Martin • Angel Rodriguez

2:30pm EDT

Coffee Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

2:45pm EDT

C1. The History of Art for the History of Medicine  FairfaxLan A. Li • Mary Hunter • Christine Slobogin • Fiona Johnstone C2. Roundtable: Make America Healthy Again: Audience Discussion of the Role of Historians in Public Health Today Back Bay DElena Conis • Lara Freidenfelds • Jacqueline Wolf • Merlin Chowkwanyun • Lauren MacIvor Thompson • Richard Mizelle C3. Acupuncture Beyond Medicine: Global Perspectives from the Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Back Bay BEmily Baum • Po-Hsun Chen • Ling-yi Tsai • Ling-yi Tsai C4. Roundtable Everything Everywhere All at Once: Historical Legacies of Eugenics Back Bay AKathryn Irving • Sarah Rose • Catherine Mas • Michael Rembis C5. Roundtable New Directions in the History of Public Health in the Nineteenth Century: Reflections on the Work of Christopher Hamlin Back Bay CJacob Steere-Williams • David Barnes • Nicholas Bonneau • Ian Burney • Graham Mooney • Sarah Naramore C6. Imperialism, Western Medical Standards, and the Interests of Medical Go-Betweens in Asia from the Cold War to the Present GardnerEram Alam • Adrien Gau • Shinyi Hsieh • Andre Rosario

4:15pm EDT

Refreshment Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

4:45pm EDT

D1. Reparative Historical Inquiry (RHI)—Refining A Theoretical Approach and Methodology FairfaxAimee Medeiros • Jason Glenn • Norlissa Cooper • Carmaletta Williams D2. Humanitarian Archives: Absences and Opportunities Back Bay DFlora Chatt • Chimwemwe Phiri • Bertrand Taithe D3. Mentorship Pods: Insights on Publishing, Funding, and Careers, From Faculty for Students Back Bay C D4. Humanities Labs and the History of Medicine/Healthcare Back Bay BAyah Nuriddin • Kylie Smith • Megann Licskai • Anthony Hatch • Natalie Lira • Marco Ramos D5. Women and Gender-Diverse Historians of Health and Medicine Coffee Back Bay ALara Freidenfelds D6. What Is To Be Done?—Building a Movement and Crafting Alternatives GardnerAhmed Ragab

5:45pm EDT

6:00pm EDT

The Fielding H. Garrison Lecture Grand BallroomIlana Lowy

7:00pm EDT

Garrison Reception and Centennial Celebration Constitution Ballroom

7:00am EDT

Clinician Historians Meeting Back Bay C AAHM Registration Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00am EDT

AAHM Conference Art Guide: Medically-Themed Works of Art in Local Museum Collections Self-directed

8:30am EDT

AAHM Awards Breakfast Grand Ballroom

9:00am EDT

Book Exhibit Independence Ballroom

10:00am EDT

10:15am EDT

E1. Women’s Health in Global Perspective Back Bay BVincenza Mazzeo • Prinisha Badassy • Sarah Duff • Brooke LeFevre E2. The (Sometimes) Uneasy Relationship between History of Medicine and Disability Studies: Audience Discussion. Co-sponsored by Disability History Association (DHA) and AAHM Back Bay DSarah Handley-Cousin • Elaine LaFay • Sarah Rose • Beth Linker • Michael Rembis • Hannah Zaves-Greene E3. Roundtable: Resuscitating the History of Nursing: A Roundtable on New Methods, Clinical Audiences, and Institutional Challenges GardnerDominique Tobbell • Marissa Nichols • Ren Capucao • Andre Rosario E4. Ethics and Patient Data Initiative: Drafting Guidelines Fairfax E5. Roundtable Geographies of Medicine in the Early Modern World: An Exploration in Pedagogy Back Bay CAlisha Rankin • Pablo Gomez • Marta Hanson • Lauren Kassell • Harun Kucuk • Elaine Leong • Chris Parsons E6. Gendered Approaches to Fertility, Contraception and Abortion in the Medieval and Early Modern West  Back Bay AScottie Buehler • Nichola Harris • Anne Leone

11:30am EDT

Coffee Break and "Grab and Go" Lunch Grand Ballroom Foyer

11:45am EDT

Poster Presentations Grand Ballroom FoyerKimberly Monroe • Rena Patricia Seeger • Nora O'Neill • Alexandria Soto • Jesse F. Ballenger • Yating Li • Sohini Mukhopadhyay • Knowledge Moyo • Sophie Qi • Zoe Bekelova • Cadence Brown • Semaj Campbell-Blakes • Isabella Cantor • Ashley Cooper • Alice Fan • Alex Hsu-Chun Liu • Geremy Lowe • Marcus Milani • Kyle Patel • Peper Rivers • Evan Roberts • Yash Wadwekar • Sloane Wesloh • Daniela Krahe • Jonathan Kuo • Melanie S Lorenz • Hannah Carlson • Erika Leane Acosta • Cameron Bernstein • Emi Glass • Sara Hollar • Julie Lemmon

12:45pm EDT

1:00pm EDT

F1. Reclaiming Black Health and Reimagining Black Futures in the Civil Rights Era and its Wake  FairfaxSamuel Kelton Roberts • Udodiri R. Okwandu • Kelsey Henry • Angelica Clayton • Alexandra Fair F2. Public Health in Global Perspective Back Bay DRaul Necochea • Pamela Maddock • Gabriela Soto Laveaga • Nathan Chaplin • John Eicher F3. Roundtable HIPAA, Privacy and Accessing Historical Medical Records Back Bay CAlexandra Lord • Jamie Bronstein • Jonathan Crispin • Sarah Handley-Cousin • Susan Lawrence • Elizabeth Stauber • Ryan Thibodeau F4. Roundtable Carceral Sickness: Towards Inclusive Research with New York State Correctional Facility Records Back Bay BRichard McKay • Kevin Kareem Brooks • Leon Davis • Reginald Qualls F5. Disability in America GardnerBarron Lerner • Emma Wathen • Heather Dron • Beth Linker • Deirdre Cooper Owens F6. Nineteenth-Century U.S. Medical Education: The Urban Poor, the Janitors, and the Students  Back Bay ADominic Hall • Jessica Leigh Hester • Christopher Willoughby • Courtney E. Thompson

2:30pm EDT

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AAHM Annual Business Meeting Back Bay D

3:30pm EDT

3:45pm EDT

G1. Health Activism, Healthcare as Activism  FairfaxSarah Whitney Tracy • Justin Barr • Benjamin Folger • Andrew Hogan • Sydney Goggins G2. Roundtable Revisiting the American Physician Dr. Robert L. Dickinson: Exploring his Contributions, Critically Examining his Legacy GardnerSarah Rodriguez • Wendy Kline • Rose Holz • Beans Velocci G3. Changing Medical Practices Back Bay BPeter Kernahan • Cole Giller • Yang Li • Lukas Meier • Joseph Jay Sosa G4. Roundtable Act Two: Black Life Through Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and Afrophobia Back Bay DAlexandre White • Dr. OmiSoore Dryden • Vincenza Mazzeo • Elizabeth Adetiba • Pyar Seth G5. Transgender Health, Healthcare, and Community Back Bay CElizabeth Reis • Tegan Flowers • Cam Cannon • Almarina Grant Sanz G6. Deinstitutionalization and its Discontents: An Historical Reappraisal  Back Bay AStephen Casper • Elizabeth Nelson • Susan Reverby • Martin Summers

5:30pm EDT

Johns Hopkins Networking Reception Berkeley

7:00am EDT

AAHM Post Mortem Clarendon Themed Breakfasts Commonwealth Ballroom

7:30am EDT

AAHM Registration Commonwealth Ballroom Foyer

8:00am EDT

AAHM Conference Art Guide: Medically-Themed Works of Art in Local Museum Collections Self-directed

8:30am EDT

H1. The Meanings of “Success” and “Failure” in the History of Humanitarian Medicine  FairfaxLisa Haushofer • Maria Cullen • Bertrand Taithe • Chimwemwe Phiri H2. Leaky Body Politics: Public Health and Pelvic Health BerkeleyRachel Louise Moran • Madeleine Ware • Georgia Haire • Antje Van Kerckhove H3. Challenges in Public Health HamptonJacob Moses • Karen Flint • Abena Dove Osseo-Asare • Robin Scheffler • Gabrielle Corona H4. Medical Technology: Innovations, Research, and Politics GardnerMichelle LaBonte • Samin Rashidbeigi • Heidi L Hausse • Sophie Grapentin • Kirsten Moore-Sheeley

10:00am EDT

Refreshment Break Commonealth Ballroom Foyer

10:30am EDT

I1. Epidemiological Knowledge and Historical Thought from the Middle Ages to Modernity FairfaxKristen Ann Ehrenberger • William McGrath • James Downs • Ori Ben-Shalom I2. Reproductive Health in Global Perspective BerkeleyEvan Roberts • Elizabeth Foster • Jennifer Kosmin • Arnav Bhattacharya • Minji Lee I3. Philanthropy and the State in the Early Twentieth Century HamptonKavita Sivaramakrishnan • Devon Golaszewski • John Carranza • Valentina Parisi I4. Contested/Contesting Heredity  GardnerJennifer Gunn • Caroline Wechsler • Leigh Alon • Kathryn Irving • Emer Lucey