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The Board of Trustees of the Wood Library-Museum created
the Wood Library-Museum Fellowship in Anesthesiology
to provide recipients with financial support for up
to three weeks of scholarly and historical research
at the Wood Library-Museum pertaining to the specialty
of anesthesiology. Applications are invited from anesthesiologists,
residents in training in anesthesiology, physicians
in other disciplines, historians, graduate students
of the history of medicine and other individuals with
a developed interest in the history of anesthesia or
library and museum research. For further information,
contact the Librarian at the Wood Library-Museum.
Fellowship Application
Guideline
Recipients of the 2009 Paul M. Wood Fellowship:
Jessica K. Bland, M.D., Chief Resident,
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Vermont,
Fletcher Allen Health Care.
Research Topic: Anesthesia as Practiced by Rural
American Physicians from 1850 to 1920.
Matthew L. Edwards, A.B. Candidate in
Sociology, Princeton University.
Research Topic: World War II Anesthesia: Science,
Professionalism, and the Evolving Concept of Pain.
Wesley T. Frazier, M.D., Emeritus
Professor of Anesthesiology, Emory University School
of Medicine.
Research Topic: The Development of Educational Programs
for Anesthesiologists' Assistants (1969-2009).
Xinhua Heng, M.D., Professor and Chairman,
Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital
of Kunming Medical College, Kunming City, Yunnan Province,
P.R. China.
Research Topic: From Frontier to Metropolis through
the Lens of World Anesthesia: The Development of Anesthesia
in Yunnan, China.
Among the four awardees, Dr. Jessica K. Bland
has been designated the 2009 Rod Calverley Fellow,
given in memory of the late Roderick K. Calverley M.D.
The Rod Calverley Fellowship is jointly supported by
the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of
California, San Diego, in memory of Dr. Calverley who
had been a member of this Department. Dr. Calverley,
a strong advocate of studies of anesthesia history,
initiated the Paul M. Wood Fellowship.
The Paul
M. Wood Fellowship of the History of Anesthesia 1988-2002:
A Retrospective View
by Patrick Sim. |