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This is a list of presidents of the American Osler Society . [1]
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This is a list of presidents of the American Osler Society . [1]
| Name | Term | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| William B. Bean | 1970-1971 | Born in the Philippines, Bean then graduated in medicine from the University of Virginia. His father, Robert Bennett Bean, was a resident under Sir William Osler. [2] | |
| George T. Harrell | 1971-1972 | Founding dean of University of Florida College of Medicine in 1954 and Pennsylvania State University’s College of Medicine in 1964. [3] [4] | |
| Thomas M. Durant | 1972-1973 | Chair of Medicine of the Temple University School of Medicine from 1956 to 1966. [5] | |
| John P. McGovern (1921 - 2007) | 1973-1974 | McGovern was an allergist, real-estate investor and philanthropist. [6] | |
| Edward C. Rosenow, Jr. (1909-2002) | 1974-1975 | [7] | |
| A. McGehee Harvey (30 July 1911-8 May 1998) | 1975-1976 | [8] | |
| Raymond D. Pruitt | 1976-1977 | ||
| Martin M. Cummings | 1977-1978 | ||
| Earl F. Nation (1910-2008) | 1978-1979 | [9] | |
| Irving A. Beck | 1979-1980 | ||
| Peter D. Olch | 1980-1981 | ||
| Name | Term | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| William C. Gibson | 1981-1982 | ||
| R. Palmer Howard | 1982-1983 | ||
| Jeremiah A. Barondess | 1983-1984 | ||
| K. Garth Huston | 1984-1985 | ||
| William B. Spaulding [10] | 1985-1986 | ||
| Charles G. Roland [11] | 1986-1987 | ||
| Robert P. Hudson | 1987-1988 | ||
| W. Bruce Fye | 1988-1989 | American cardiologist and medical historian. [12] |  |
| Richard L. Golden | 1989-1990 | ||
| Name | Term | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack D. Key | 1990-1991 | ||
| Paul D. Kligfield | 1991-1992 | ||
| Alvin E. Rodin | 1992-1993 | ||
| Robert E. Rakel | 1993-1994 | ||
| Kenneth M. Ludmerer | 1994-1995 |  | |
| Charles F. Wooley | 1995-1996 | ||
| Billy F. Andrews | 1996-1997 | ||
| Eugene H. Conner | 1997-1998 | ||
| Richard J. Kahn | 1998-1999 | ||
| Dee J. Canale | 1999-2000 | ||
| Name | Term | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark E. Silverman (1939-2008) | 2000-2001 | Silverman was an American cardiologist and medical historian who founded the cardiology programme at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. [13] | |
| John C. Carson | 2001-2002 | ||
| Lawrence D. Longo | 2002-2003 | ||
| Marvin J. Stone | 2003-2004 | [14] |  |
| Chester Ray Burns | 2004-2005 | First American-born physician to receive a doctorate in the history of medicine from the Johns Hopkins University. [15] | |
| Claus A. Pierach | 2005-2006 | ||
| Jock Murray | 2006-2007 | Murray is a professor of medicine (neurology) and professor of medical humanities. [16] |  |
| Francis A. Neelon | 2007-2008 |  | |
| Joseph W. Lella (1936-2020) | 2008-2009 | [17] | |
| John Noble | 2009-2010 | ||
| Name | Term | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles S. Bryan | 2010-2011 | Bryan was editor of The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association and the first chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. [18] |  |
| Michael Bliss | 2011-2012 | ||
| Sandra W. Moss | 2012-2013 | ||
| Pamela J. Miller | 2013-2014 | ||
| Herbert M. Swick | 2014-2015 |  | |
| Paul S. Mueller | 2015-2016 | ||
| Joseph B. VanderVeer Jr. | 2016-2017 | [19] | |
| Laurel E. Drevlow | 2017-2018 |  | |
| Clyde Partin, Jr. | 2018-2019 |  | |
| J. Mario Molina | 2019-2020 | [20] |  |
| Name | Term | Comments | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| H. Michael Jones | 2020-2021 | ||
| Robert G. Mennel | 2021-2022 | [21] [22] | |
| Christopher J. Boes | 2022-2023 | [23] |  |
| Rolando Del Maestro | [24] |  | |
| C. Joan Richardson | [25] | ||
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians. He has frequently been described as the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the "greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope". In addition to being a physician he was a bibliophile, historian, author, and renowned practical joker. He was passionate about medical libraries and medical history, having founded the History of Medicine Society, at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He was also instrumental in founding the Medical Library Association of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Association of Medical Librarians along with three other people, including Margaret Charlton, the medical librarian of his alma mater, McGill University. He left his own large history of medicine library to McGill, where it became the Osler Library.
Denton Arthur Cooley was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and a clinical professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
William Henry Welch was an American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, and medical-school administrator. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was the first dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was also the founder of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first school of public health in the country. Welch was more known for his cogent summations of current scientific work, than his own scientific research. The Johns Hopkins medical school library is also named after Welch. In his lifetime, he was called the "Dean of American Medicine" and received various awards and honors throughout his lifetime and posthumously.
David Schoumacher was a former newspaper and television journalist. He was also a television anchor in Washington D.C. from the 1970s until he retired. He started out as a newspaper journalist, until moving into broadcasting: radio and television. He covered presidential campaigns, including the 1968 Eugene McCarthy campaign, the Vietnam War, the Watergate trials, and interviewing astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, and the civil rights movement.
William Clifford Roberts was an American physician specializing in cardiac pathology.
Charles Gordon Roland was a Canadian medical historian. Roland's publications and public lectures consisted of history and bibliography, medical communications, and medicine, particularly Canadian medical history in the 19th century, the influence of William Osler, and on military medicine. Many of his research materials related to Osler are held at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University. His research interests focused on medical aspects of World War II, culminating in two books on the Warsaw Ghetto and on Canadian prisoners of war of the Japanese in the Far East.
The Osler Club of London, founded in 1928, is a medical society with the purpose of encouraging the study of history of medicine, particularly amongst medical students, and to keep "green the memory of Sir William Osler". Membership in the club is open to medical professionals, medical students, persons associated with the history of medicine and in allied sciences.
Alan Menter is an English-born dermatologist, and former flyhalf rugby union player for the Springboks.
David Bates is an American physician, biomedical informatician, and professor, known for his work regarding the use of health information technology (HIT) to improve the safety and quality of healthcare, in particular by using clinical decision support. Bates has done work in the area of medication safety. He began by describing the epidemiology of harm caused by medications, first in hospitalized patients and then in other settings such as the home and nursing homes.
The History of Medicine Society (HoMS), at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), London, was founded by Sir William Osler in 1912, and later became one of the four founder medical societies of the British Society for the History of Medicine.
Donald Wayne Seldin was an American nephrologist. He worked at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and served as chair of the department of medicine for 36 years.
John Satterfield Fordtran is an emeritus professor of gastroenterology and past president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Wallace Bruce Fye is an American retired cardiologist, medical historian, writer, bibliophile and philanthropist. He is emeritus professor of medicine and the history of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and was the founding director of the institution's W. Bruce Fye Center for the History of Medicine.
The American Osler Society is an organisation dedicated to the history of medicine and focuses on the "life, teachings, and ethical example of Sir William Osler". It works in co-operation with the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University and consists of a group of physicians, medical historians, and other related professions united by "the common purpose of keeping alive the memory of Sir William Osler".
Charles Stone Bryan is an American retired infectious disease physician, researcher, author and Heyward Gibbes distinguished professor emeritus of internal medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine (UofSC). His contributions to medicine have included working on a formula for administering the maximum possible dose of penicillin to people with kidney failure which would treat the infection and avoid penicillin toxicity, and treating and writing on HIV/AIDS. He is also a noted medical historian and an authority on the life of William Osler.
Bill Stone, was a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was head of the kidney department at the Nashville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, part of the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, for over 45 years. There, in the 1970s, he began the first dialysis treatments that could be performed both in a healthcare setting and at home. During this time he helped work out how to administer safe doses of penicillin to people with kidney failure, who otherwise might develop toxic levels of penicillin in their blood.
Maria Virginia Pascual is a Spanish-American pediatric rheumatologist.
John Morris was an American physician.
Henry Barton Jacobs was a physician and educator from Maryland. He taught at Johns Hopkins University and served as a trustee of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Peabody Institute later in life. He married Mary Frick Garrett, art collector and widow of a Baltimore and Ohio president.
Christopher J. Boes is an American neurologist and historian of medicine. He holds the titles of professor of neurology, professor of history of medicine, director of the W. Bruce Fye Center for the History of Medicine, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and since 2022 is the Mayo Clinic Designated Institutional Official (DIO). His research focuses on the management of headache, including migraine and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias. His work in the field of history of medicine includes research on Sir William Gowers, Sir William Osler, Bayard Taylor Horton, Mary Broadfoot Walker, Betty Clements and Harry Lee Parker.
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