History of the Health Sciences Section Activities

HHS Sessions at the 2008 MLA Annual Meeting, Chicago IL

HHS Business Meeting at the 2008 MLA Annual Meeting, Chicago IL

Photos from Section Activities at MLA 2008

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Opening Doors: The African American Connection in Medical Librarianship History of the Health Sciences Section African American Medical Librarians Alliance SIG Opening Doors: The African American Connection in Medical Librarianship Sunday, May 18, 2008, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Presenter	Paper Title Abstracts
Michael S. Fitts University of Alabama, Lister Hill Library Birmingham, AL	Moderator
Lisa M Boyd Consumer Health Librarian National Network Office, National Library of Medicine, NIH Bethesda, MD	Quest for Equality: Opening Librarianship to Librarians of Color.
Cynthia L. Henderson Deputy Director Multi-Media Center, Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta, GA	Those Who Made a Difference: A Qualitative Study of Firsts
Richard Nollan Assistant Professor University of Tennessee Memphis, Memphis, TN	The First Blood Bank in the South: The John Gaston Hospital Blood Bank in 1938
Jill Newmark & Margaret Hutto National Library of Medicine Bethesda MD	Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Surgeons

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Speaker

Paper Title
Abstracts

Patricia E. Gallagher, AHIP

Acting Head of Public Services
New York Academy of Medicine Library
New York, NY

Moderator

Kevin O'Brien

Acting Assistant Special Collections Librarian
UIC Library of the Health Sciences
Chicago, IL

A Philosopher’s medical utopias: Ernst Bloch and the history of medicine

Judy Chelnick

Asssociate Curator
Division of Science, Medicine and Society, Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC

Artificial Hearts, Endoscopes and Other Cool Stuff

Diane Fagen

Librarian
American Veterinary Medical Association
Schaumburg, IL

Veterinary Medicine's Contributions to Human Health

Kathel Dunn

Associate Director
National Network of Libraries of Medicine Middle Atlantic Region New York University Medical Center
New York, NY

Claudius Mayer and Frank (Brad) Rogers: the End of the Index-Catalogue and the Origins of the Modern Index Medicus, a Personal History