The C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society, one of the nation’s largest regional history of medicine associations, is a University of Pittsburgh based group of practicing physicians, medical students, and other interested parties in the Western Pennsylvania region who share an appreciation and enjoyment of the broad scope of the history of medicine. The Society sponsors five major lecture/dinner meetings annually, as well as an annual award for the best history of medicine research paper by a University of Pittsburgh medical student. Members of the Society comprise the teaching faculty for the history of medicine courses taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Duquesne University. Speakers for the Society’s lectures are drawn from the national history of medicine scholarly community, as well as from the local Pittsburgh area. Lectures cover a wide range of topics within the history of medicine including biographies of noted medical pioneers, the evolution of particular medical specialties, and the relationship between medicine and art, literature and ethics. The meetings and dinners provide medical students with the opportunity to meet and converse with senior clinical faculty outside of the formal classroom setting.
For information about joining the Society contact the Society’s Secretary/Treasurer, Dr. Jonathon Erlen, Curator, History of Medicine, Falk Library of the Health Sciences (412) 648-8927 or erlen@pitt.edu.