Exhibits
Current Exhibits | Permanent Exhibits | Web Exhibits
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HSL's exhibit cases are available for use by any faculty, staff or student at UB for displays that support teaching or research at UB. Displays must be for non-commerical purposes only. The exhibit cases can be reserved for extended lengths of time at no charge.To apply, please print out, read, sign and return the Guidelines for the Use of Display Cases and the Application for Use of display Cases, or contact Pamela M. Rose at 829-3900 x129.
Current Exhibits
Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons
Lobby area, first floor, HSL (on loan from the National Library of Medicine)
May 1-July 28, 2008Opening Doors celebrates the contributions of African American academic surgeons to medicine and medical education. It tells the stories of four pioneering African American surgeons and educators who exemplify excellence in their fields and believe in continuing the journey of excellence through the education and mentoring of younger physicians and surgeons.
Through contemporary and historical images, the exhibition takes the visitor on a journey through the lives and achievements of these academic surgeons, and provides a glimpse into the stories of those that came before them and those that continue the tradition today.
The four pioneers are Alexa I. Canady, the first African American woman pediatric neurosurgeon; LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., cancer surgeon, and the first African American President of the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society; Claude H. Organ, Jr., general surgeon, and the first African American to chair a department of surgery at a predominantly white medical school; and Rosalyn P. Scott, the first African American woman cardiothoracic surgeon.
The exhibition also features other academic surgeons from around the country that follow in the tradition of sharing their knowledge and passing the torch to younger surgeons. These include Levi Watkins, Jr. of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who performed the first implantation of a automatic defibrillator in a human in 1980; Carla M. Pugh of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who holds a patent for a method of simulation used to design the pelvic exam simulator, a teaching tool for medical students; and Claudia L. Thomas, the first African American woman orthopaedic surgeon.
Opening Doors is not intended to be an encyclopedic look at African American academic surgeons, but is intended to provide only a glimpse into the contributions that African American academic surgeons have made to medicine and medical education. We hope that through this exhibition we can bring these stories to light and inspire others to pursue careers in academic surgery.
This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture.
Curated by Margaret A. Hutto and Jill L. NewmarkAn online web version of the exhibition is also available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aframsurgeons
Pioneering Photography
Reference Desk area, first floor, HSL
April 1-December 31, 2008An overview of the earliest forms of photography and the contributions of several American physicians who had a significant impact on American photography and its uses in medicine. Curated by Jacquie Keleher
The Rockefeller Foundation: Philanthropy and the Rise of Modern Healthcare
Exhibit cases, Reference Area, first floor, HSLTraces the support provided by the wealth of John D. Rockefeller for research into areas such as yellow fever and the development of penicillin, and other endeavors such as saving Jewish scientists from Nazi extermination. The exhibit panels showcase the following themes:
Overview
Rockefeller Foundation Timeline 1912-1950
Yellow Fever/Vaccines and the Rockefeller Foundation
Displaced Scientists from Nazi-Occupied Europe
Howard Walter Florey, Penicillin and the Rockefeller Foundation
Gerald Jonas, author and journalist, lecture poster and book
Permanent Exhibits
Web Exhibits
"gSoba Rig-pa" Tibetan Medicine: A Healing Science
"From
Birth to Death at the Pan-American Exposition"
part of "Illuminations:
Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901"
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