Previous Speakers at the Jager Club
1969 | 1970 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983
1984 | 1985 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991
1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006
Circa 1969
"Logan Clendening"
Robert P. Hudson, MD, History of Medicine
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
Circa 1970
"Halstead"
Peter D. Olch, MD, Associate Professor Uniformed Services
University of Health Sciences
F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Bethesda, MD
"Medicine in the Old West"
Mahlon Delp, MD, Professor of Medicine
University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
January 15, 1980
"History of the Coronary Care Unit"
Hughes W. Day, MD Coronary Care
Kansas City, KS
April 3, 1980
"Osler and Bright"
Robert M. Kark, MD, Professor of Medicine
University of Illinois
May 21, 1980
"Cabeza de Vaca"
Jesse Thompson, MD, Professor of Surgery
University of Texas, Dallas
September 10, 1980
"Three Virginia Medical Pioneers"
Charles E. Horton, MD, Chairman and Professor of Plastic Surgery
Eastern Virginia Medical School
March 2, 1981
"The History of Law and Medicine"
James B. Speer, PhD, JD, Assistant Professor of Legal History of Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
April 2, 1981
"Physicians and the Lewis and Clark Expedition"
James F. Hammarsten, MD, Professor of Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine
May 14, 1981
"I Will Not Cut Upon Men Laboring Under the Stone"
Oral E. Bass, II, MD Urologist
Wichita, KS
December 2, 1981
"Scurvy on the American Frontier"
William J. Reals, MD, Dean,
KU School of Medicine-Wichita
March 4, 1982
"Infant and Incubator"
Russell A. Nelson, MD, Pediatrician/Neonatologist
Wichita, KS
May 6, 1982
"The Search for the Surgeons Surgeon-Theodor Billroth"
Karel Absolon, MD, Professor of Surgery
George Washington University
Medical Expert, Heart Division National Institute of Health
February 16, 1983
"Disease and Destiny"
Robert P. Hudson, MD, Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
June 14, 1983
"Graham Crackers, Corn Flakes, & Grape Nuts"
Howard G. Wilcox, MD, Associate Chairman of Staff for Education
Salt Lake VAMC
Salt Lake City, UT
October 20, 1983
"Philosophy of Quackery"
Robert P. Hudson, MD, Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
April 23, 1984
"History of Breast Cancer"
D. De Moulin, MD
Chairman, Department of History and Medicine
Catholic University of Ngmegen, Holland
Member, International Congress of History of Medicine
(Prominent surgeon, then History of Medicine)
March 29, 1985
"Historical Development in Mexico-as Paradigm for Third World"
Juan Lopez Lopez, MD Internationally known surgeon
October 9, 1987
"A Special Evening" A Clinical Pathological Case Presentation
Discussants: Lauren Welch, MD, William Shapiro, MD, William LeVine, MD
June 6, 1988
"Medicine and Art"
Robert P. Hudson, MD, Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
February 22, 1989
"Eponyms in Medicine"
Robert T. Manning, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs
KU School of Medicine-Wichita
March 13, 1989
"Baby Doe: How Did We Get Where We Are?"
William G. Bartholome, MD, Professor, History and Philosophy of Medicine
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
April 21, 1989
"Paresis and Nineteenth Century Composers"
Dean T. Collins, MD, Director of Psychiatry
The Menninger Clinic
Topeka, KS
October 3, 1989
"Dr. Paul Gachet (1828-1909): Eclectic, Artist and Physician to French Impressionists"
Wilfred N. Arnold, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
November 8, 1989
"Osler and Henry Vining Osgood"
Lenoard Weistrop, MD
Columbia International Medicine Associates
SC Milwaukee, WI
February 22, 1990
"The Smallpox Story"
Abbas M. Behbehani, PhD, Professor of Pathology
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS.
March 16, 1990
"The Symbolism of Blood in Mythology and Art"
Phillip M. Allen, MD, Pathology and Dermatopathology
Wesley Pathology Consultants, PA
Wichita, KS
April 26, 1990
"The History of Rheumatic Fever"
Peter C. English, MD, PhD, Professor Pediatrics
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC
October 2, 1990
"Bleeding, Purging and Puking in the Southwestern Fur Trade and Along the Santa Fe Trail"
Peter D. Olch, MD, Associate Professor
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine Bethesda, MD
November 14, 1990
"An Evening with Sherlock and Arthur"
John L. Kiser, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
KU School of Medicine-Wichita
February 27, 1991
"Unifying Hypothesis on the Illness of Vincent Van Gogh"
Wilfred N. Arnold, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
April 23, 1991
"Captain James Cook and the Prevention of Scurvy"
Francis E. Cuppage, MD, Professor of Pathology
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
October 5, 1992
"Dominique Jean Larrey: Surgeon to Napoleon's Guard"
Robert J.T. Joy, MD, Professor and Chairman
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Health Care Science School of Medicine
Bethesda, MD
November 18, 1992
"The Bible's Medical Curios: R-Rated and Otherwise"
Rev. Robert R. Meyers, PhD, University Congregational Church
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
January 21, 1993
"The Man From Missouri"
Harry S. Jonas, MD, Liaison Committee on Medical Education
American Medical Association
Chicago, IL
March 4, 1993
"The Rise, Fall and Rise? of the Feminist Movement and Its Effect on American Medicine"
Lillian Gonzalez-Pardo, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS.
October 5, 1993
"How Diseases Are Born and Die"
Robert P. Hudson, MD, Professor and Chairman
Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
December 2, 1993
"The Jager Papers"
Eugene W.J. Pearce, MD, Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Gynecology Services
Truman Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
January 18, 1994
"Mine Eyes Smell Onions' William Shakespeare, M.D. (Honorary)"
Robert T. Manning,MD Chairman, The Jager Club Advisory Board
Clinical Professor of Medicine
KU School of Medicine-Wichita
March 31, 1994
"Jonathon Letterman and Civil War Medicine"
Robert J.T. Joy, MD, Professor and Chairman
Department of Medical History
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Health Care Science School of Medicine
Bethesda, MD
October 4, 1994
"Can Medical History Make Better Physicians?"
Robert P. Hudson, MD, Professor and Chairman
Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
November 10, 1994
"Galen: Medicine for the Ages"
Dale C. Smith, MD, Associate Professor Section of Medical History
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD
January 5, 1995
"A CPC on King James I/VI"
Frederick F. Holmes, MD, Francis E. Cuppage, MD
Professors of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine
Division of General and Geriatric Medicine
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
March 10, 1995
"The Magic Bullet: A History of Antibiosis"
Robert J.T. Joy, MD, Professor and Chairman Section of Medical History
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD
October 3, 1995
"Vision Fulfilled: Science and Art in the American West 1800-1850"
Phillip Thomas, MD, Professor Department of History
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
November 14, 1995
"A History and Demonstration of Medical Quackery Devices"
Leland Keller, PhD, Professor, Retired Department of Biology
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS
January 16, 1996
"Garfield University and the Just Medical School in Wichita"
Ernest Crow, MD, Clinical Professor Department of Internal Medicine
KU School of Medicine-Wichita
February 13, 1996
"Medicine in the Civil War"
David G. Meyers, MD, FACC, Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine
KU Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
March 19, 1996
"An Epidemiologic Analysis of the Ten Plagues of Egypt"
John S. Marr, MD, MPH, Director Bureau of Communicable Disease Control
Metropolitan Regional Office
State of New York Department of Health
New York, NY
October 1, 1996
"Stones in the Bladder, Ringing in the Ears, and the Madness of Kings: A Musical Glimpse at Medicine"
Herbert Swick, MD, Interim Executive Dean
KU Medical School
Kansas City, KS
November 12, 1996
"Treating the Heart: Pills, Procedures and Outcomes"
Robert Martensen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair
History and Philosophy of Medicine
KU Medical School
Kansas City, KS
January 7, 1997
"Sterile Newspapers, Love Affairs, Crossing the Rhine: The History of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Surgery"
John Fox Bershof, MD, Plastic Surgeon
Rose Cleft palate and Craniofacial Center
Denver, CO
February 18, 1997
"Matrimonial Mortality: The Deaths of the Wives of Henry VIII"
Anne Walling, MD, Associate Director, Primary Care
Professor, Family and Community Medicine
KU Medical School - Wichita
November 11, 1997
"There's More to Doyle Than Holmes"
C. Frederick Kittle, MD, Professor Emeritus
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Rush Medical College
Chicago, IL
January 13, 1998
"History of Mennonites and Psychiatry in Kansas"
George Dyck, MD, Director, Geriatric Fellowship Program, Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
KU Medical School - Wichita
October 6, 1998
"Acute Appendicitis: From Fernel (1581) to Laproscopic Appendectomy"
Norton J. Greenberger, MD, Professor and Chair, Internal Medicine
KU Medical School
Kansas City, KS
November 17, 1998
"Sir Harold Gillies - Could the Father of Plastic Surgery Have Become More Famous as a Golfer?"
Charles E. Hortton, Sr, MD, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Professor and Chair, Plastic Surgery Virginia Graduate School of Medicine
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Norfolk, VA
February 2, 1999
"Caring for the Captive King: Physicians to Incapacitated National Leaders"
T.J. Murray, OC, MD, Professor of Medical Humanities
Director, Dalhouse MS Unit
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
March 9, 1999
"The Body Electric: Electricity in Psychiatry from Ancient Times to Present"
Carol Warren, PhD, Professor and Chair, Sociology
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
October 5, 1999
"Thor Jager: Springboard to Formative Years of KU Medicine"
Stanley Freisen, MD, Professor Emeritus
KU Medical School
Kansas City, KS
November 4, 1999
"Eye Disease of Christopher Columbus"
Linda Lawrence, MD, Private Practice
Salina and Lindsborg, KS
February 9, 2000
"Nietzsche, Hitler and Syphilis"
Robert P. Hudson, MD, Professor Emeritus, Volunteer faculty
History of Medicine Department
KU Medical School
Kansas City, KS
March 23, 2000
"William Stuart Halsted: A Surgical Legacy"
David Street, MD, Clinical Professor, RET.
Department of Surgery
KU Medical School - Wichita
October 2, 2001
Joint meeting w/Medical Society of Sedgwick County
"Being an Early Kansas Doctor"
Richard C. Shaw, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, RET.
KU School of Medicine - Wichita
December 6, 2001
Special guest of Family and Community Medicine
"Rembrandt and Anatomy"
Ruth Hart, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
State University of New York (SUNY)
Syracuse, NY
January 24, 2002
Joint meeting with Surgical Society
"Thyroid Surgery: How it Evolved"
Clark T. Sawin, MD, VAMC Medical Inspector
Washington, DC
March 7, 2002
Joint meeting with Alumni Board
"Aspirin Wars"
David Street, MD, Clinical Professor, RET.
KU School of Medicine - Wichita
October 1, 2002
Joint Meeting with MSSC
“Tarnished Scalpels, A Review: Bullets, Ballistics and other Civil War Medical Maladies”
H.W. Collier, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
KU School of Medicine – Wichita
October 7, 2003
“History of Medical Education in Wichita”
Joseph C Meek, M.D.
Professor
Internal Medicine
KU School of Medicine-Wchita
Wichita, Kansas
January 22, 2004
“Crucifixion: Anatomy and Physiology”
David Street, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Surgery, RET.
KU School of Medicine-Wichita
Wichita, Kansas
February 19, 2004
“Dilemma of Final Illness: Richard Cabot & the Physician’s Changing Experience of Death”
Christopher Crenner, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Depts of History and Philosophy of Medicine And Medicine
KU Medical Center-Kansas City
Kansas City, Kansas
March 11, 2004
“Untimely Deaths of King Edward VI (1537-1553) and William Duke of Gloucester (1689-1700)”
Grace E.F. Holmes, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Emerita
AND
Frederick F. Holmes, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
KU Medical Center – Kansas City
Kansas City, Kansas
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
“Writings of Sir William Osler”
presented by Christopher Crenner, M.D., PhD.,
History and Philosophy of Medicine, KU Medical Center-Kansas City, Kansas
Thursday, November 17, 2005
“ Benjamin Franklin & Scientific Testing by Blind Studies”
presented by Stephan A. Schwartz, author, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Thursday, February 16, 2006
“ Dogged Persistence: Poliomyelitis, Harrington & Spinal Instrumentation”
presented by Marc Asher, M.D., Professor, Orthopedic Surgery, KU Medical Center-Kansas City, Kansas
Thursday, March 9, 2006
“ Dr John Brinkley: His Goat Gland Transplants, Radio Stations, Politics & Dueling with the Kansas Medical Society”
presented by Jon O’Neal, M.D., MPH, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 (joint meeting of Medical Society of Sedg County & Jager Club)
“Pandemic Influenza in the 20th Century with Implications for the 21st” presented by George Dehner, PhD., Professor, History Department, Wichita State University.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
“Racial Nervousness: An Overlooked Piece of 20th Century Medical Thought” presented by Christopher Crenner, MD, PhD, Assoc Professor & Chair, History and Philosophy of Medicine, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas.
Thursday, January 18, 2007 (joint meeting of Kansas Surgical Society & Jager Club)
“A Century of Cardiology: from EKGs to Mechanical Hearts” presented by Charles Porter, M.D., Dept of Cardiology, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
“The Implications of Evolutionary Biology in Medicine” presented by Niall Shanks, PhD, Professor, History Department, Wichita State University.
