AAHD 57th Annual Meeting

"Pathways to Knowledge"

May 1-3, 2008
Boston, MA

Accommodations

Harvard Club of Boston
Rooms Available from April 30th through May 4th
Click here for more information.

Thursday, May 1st

Harvard School of Dental Medicine

"Boston: The Hub of the Dental Universe"
Charles B. Millstein, DMD, MPH, ALM

"Reminiscences & Reflections"
Dr. Esther Wilkins, Tufts University & Forsyth Institute
Dr. Henry Epstein, Harvard University
Dr. Sheldon Peck, Boston University

The Transformation of the American Assocaition of Oral Surgeons into the American Association of Oral and Plastic Surgeons
Dr. Martin H. Deranian
Dental Historian

Friday, May 2nd

Simmons School of Library and Information Science

Building a Reference Library for Dental History
David A. Chernin, DMD, MLS
Editor, Journal of the History of Dentistry

Discovering Primary Sources
Donna Webber
Simmons College Archivist, Adjunct Faculty, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Cataloguing Digital Images
Martha Mahard, MA, MLS, DA
Faculty, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science

The AAHDwiki
Zoe Piel
Executive Assistant, American Academy of the History of Dentistry

Information on the Go: Trends in Mobile Tools and Applications
Megan Fox
Associate Director for Technology & Special Projects, Simmons College Library

Utilizing Genealogical Resources in Historical Research
David Curtis Dearborn
Genealogist and Librarian, New England Historic and Genealogical Society

The 2008 Dr. Frank & Phyllis Orland Lecture

Cybermedicine for the Patient
Warner V. Slack, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-President, Center for Clinical Computing; Co-Director of the Division of Clinical Computing, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Saturday, May 3rd

Countway Library/Boston Medical Library

Dental History in the Making
Myron Allukian Jr., DDS, MPH
Past President, American Public Health Association; Past Director, Community Dental Programs for the City of Boston

The Importance of Archives for the History (and Practice) of Medicine and Science
Scott Podolsky, MD, PhD
Director, Center for the History of Medicine; Faculty, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

The Rise and Fall of Cardiac Revascularization: Decision Making in Modern Medicine
David S. Jones, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator, Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine; Associate Progessor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The People's Medicine: The First Family Medicine Residency in Massachusetts
Ellen S. More, PhD
Head, Office of Medical History and Archives, Lamar Soutter Library; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Banquet - Saturday Night

St. Botolph Club, 199 Commonwealth Avenue


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Photo by Rob Colonna