
The Museum
The museum featured MedChi becoming a more diversified membership by changing its by-laws in 1885 and highlighting panels showing the diversity of our Presidents over the past few decades. This exhibit will also display other updates in the days ahead.





Coronavirus Resource Center
The Center for a Healthy Maryland, The Maryland State Medical Society Foundation was established in 1976 as a 501(c)(3) corporation to support the advances of practice of medicine, enhance the quality of medical care, promote the health of the citizens of Maryland, explore the history of medicine in Maryland and preserve MedChi’s archives.
The Center for a Healthy Maryland is housed at the MedChi’s Baltimore Office.
The Center’s mission is to: advance the practice of medicine, enhance the quality of medical care, promote the health of the citizens of the State of Maryland, explore the history of medicine in Maryland, and preserve MedChi’s archives.





“Since 1799, MedChi has worked to create an atmosphere both effective and genial, so that members whom come to the building feel that interesting and important things are going on under its roof.” A quote from Marcia Noyes’ eulogy in 1946 by Albert Chatard, M.D.
The Center for a Healthy Maryland’s public health programs are dedicated to improving the health status of the citizens of Maryland through education, advocacy and linkage to resources.





“It is a physician’s ethical responsibility to take cognizance of a colleague’s inability to practice medicine by reason of physical or mental illness, including alcoholism or drug dependence…Accountability to the public through assurance of competent care to patients by physicians and other health professionals is a paramount responsibility of organized medicine.” -AMA, 1973
With the advent of digitization, our library is no longer used by members, but it’s still mostly intact. Much of our archive collection remains available for research either here on-site, or at the nearby Maryland Historical Society. Our MedChi Archives blog explores topics as diverse as things that we find in the stacks, to the architectural details on our buildings. Additionally, there are lists of the portraits in our collection, along with details of each sitter; all of our Presidents through the decades; speakers at the Hunt History of Medicine lectures over the years, and a history of our building which was home to School #49.


The Center for a Healthy Maryland, The Maryland State Medical Society Foundation was established in 1976 as a 501(c)(3) corporation to support the advances of practice of medicine, enhance the quality of medical care, promote the health of the citizens of Maryland, explore the history of medicine in Maryland and preserve MedChi’s archives.
The Center for a Healthy Maryland is housed at the MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society’s Baltimore Office.
About UsPrograms
The Center’s programs include supporting the study of medicine and the diffusion of medical knowledge through the continuing medical education of physicians; providing programs to maintain the wellness of practicing physicians serving the public; preserving and learning from the past history of medical care in Maryland; educating the public about medical issues, and promoting public health programs.
Public Health
The Center for a Healthy Maryland’s public health programs are dedicated to improving the health status of the citizens of Maryland through education, advocacy and linkage to resources. Learn about some of our partnerships, programs, and resources for providers.Physician Health
The Maryland Physician Health Program, established in 1978 and is administered by the Center for a Healthy Maryland, The Maryland State Medical Society Foundation. The Maryland State Medical Society established a committee of physicians who volunteered their time and services to assist colleagues in need.

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History of Maryland Medicine


The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and Lessons Learned
Philip Mackowiak, MD will present a lecture on the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and the lessons learned from it. He will discuss the origin of the pandemic, its peculiar…


Under Construction
As we have been going through the 55 boxes of books and ephemera that we received a few weeks ago, we are discovering all sorts of goodies! Among those goodies are…


Semi-Annual Meeting,
Ocean City, 1908 We have not sorted through even a dozen of boxes from the Maryland Center for History & Culture, and have found treasures galore. About half of…
An Upcoming Acquisition
I thought you might like to know of some exciting news! We are about to take possession of book collections from three of our most notable members. Several decades…
A Mystery is Unraveling
Sometime in October of 2018, we recieved an email from a professor at Duke University who stated that her great-grandfather had worked at MedChi for decades! Once we noted…


Dental School Details
A dear friend, Jerome Gray, is a talented watercolorist, and he recently shared a picture he’d done of one of the buildings where the Baltimore School of Dentistry was located. …


Important Baseball Signature Found…
… amazingly at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Medical Alumni Association archives! We are so delighted for our friends/colleagues over there who found this rare signature, AND…


Dr. Brush and the Bricks
As I was searching for something in some of our old medical journals last week, I came across an article about our building written on the occasion of the…


International Archives Week!
June 6th. – 10th. Honestly, who knew! Regardless, Happy International Archives Week! The theme for this year is #ArchivesAreYou. This week commemorates the founding of the International Council on Archives…


In Memory: Dr. George Salim Malouf, Sr.
Dr. George Malouf, Sr. was born in Lebanon and received his Doctorate in Medicine from the French Faculty of Medicine in Beirut. After completing his residency training at Boston…