by Lauren Dougherty | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog
H. Margret Zassenhaus was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1916. She moved to Baltimore in 1952. She is best known for her work against the Nazis prior to and during World War II. Her first act of defiance was as a schoolgirl when she refused to salute Hitler as...
by Lauren Dougherty | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog
Just when we thought it was safe to have in-person meetings again, the Delta variant raised its ugly head and put a stop to all of that. So, the 434th House of Delegates meeting has moved from being in-person to a Zoom meeting. As part of the House meeting, the...
by Lauren Dougherty | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog
Former Faculty President and medical luminary, Sir William Osler, MD, was born on this day, 172 years ago in rural Bond Head, Ontario, Canada. In 1916, at a lecture on his birthday in Oxford, England, given to that year’s contingent of Rhodes Scholars, Sir...
by Lauren Dougherty | Apr 8, 2021 | Blog, Events, History of Maryland Medicine
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 timeline and clinical characteristics, and the critical elements that gave rise to what became a...
by Lauren Dougherty | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog
A menu from a dinner at the Maryland Club for Dr. William Osler is was offered at Bonhams Auctions and went for $7,500.00. It is from the collection of the medical library of James Tait Goodrich, who died of the novel Corona Virus earlier this year. Dr. Goodrich was a...
