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Conference: "The Architecture of Healing" (UCLA,16-17 November 2007)


  • Date:   Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:33:55 -0700
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  • From:   Russell A. Johnson   < rjohnson AT library.ucla.edu >
  • Subject:   Conference: "The Architecture of Healing" (UCLA,16-17 November 2007)
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF HEALING

An International Conference at the David Geffen 
School of Medicine at UCLA, celebrating the opening of 
the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Friday - Saturday, November 16 - 17, 2007

Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, UCLA
635 Charles E. Young Drive South

website:
http://aohucla.wordpress.com

printable PDF version of Program and Map:
http://aohucla.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/aoh-program.pdf

printable PDF version of Registration Form:
http://aohucla.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/aoh-regform.pdf


Registration ($30; free for students who will be enrolled in degree-
granting institutions for the Fall 2007 quarter/semester) includes 
the conference, coffee breaks, library reception, boxed lunches 
on Friday and Saturday, and tour of the Ronald Reagan UCLA 
Medical Center.  Tours will be available only to registered 
attendees wearing official conference name badges.  

Advance registration is required.

Since this is a low registration fee, no refunds will be granted if an 
individual cancels his or her attendance. In the event the 
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is unavailable for guided 
tours, no refunds will be granted. The David Geffen School of 
Medicine at UCLA reserves the right to cancel the entire program, 
in which case a full refund will be granted.



Friday morning, November 16

Welcome
Gene D. Block, Ph.D.
Chancellor, UCLA

THE ORIGINS OF THE HOSPITAL

EARLY CHRISTIAN HOSPITALS:  CARING AND CURING
Peregrine Horden, Ph.D.
Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway College, 
University of London, UK
 
BIMARISTAN, THE ISLAMIC HOSPITAL:  INNOVATION AND TRADITION
Peter E. Pormann, Ph.D.
Wellcome Trust Lecturer, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 
University of  Warwick, UK   

Commentary, Discussion and Audience Questions.
Claudia Rapp, Ph.D.
Professor of History, UCLA

Lunch


Friday afternoon, November 16

Welcome
Gerald S. Levey, M.D.
Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

THE COMMITMENT TO CARE v. THE COMMITMENT TO KNOWLEDGE  

PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF CLINICAL RESEARCH
Ted Kaptchuk, O.M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University

HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS SHAPED CLINICAL RESEARCH AT THE BEDSIDE
Joel Howell, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of History, Internal Medicine, and Health Services 
Management and Policy, and 
Director of the Program in Society and Medicine, University of Michigan
 
THE PATIENT IN CLINICAL RESEARCH: 
REVISITING THE BARNEY CLARK CASE
Barron Lerner, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Sociomedical Sciences, 
Columbia University

Commentary, Discussion and Audience Questions.
Marcia L. Meldrum, Ph.D.
Researcher, Departments of History, Pediatrics and Neurobiology, UCLA

RECEPTION
Rare Book Room, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library


Saturday morning, November 17

Welcome
Gary E. Strong, M.L.S.
University Librarian, UCLA

FROM HOSPICE TO HEALTH CENTER  

AN  ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE:
FROM HOSPICE TO HEALTH CENTER
Axel Karenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, 
University of Cologne

CONVERGENCE OF ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
THE RONALD REAGAN UCLA MEDICAL CENTER 
James B. Atkinson, M.D.
Chief, Pediatric Surgery, UCLA
   
Commentary, Discussion and Audience Questions.
Katharine E.S. Donahue, M.L.S.
Head, History & Special Collections, Louise M. Darling 
Biomedical Library, UCLA

Lunch   

GUIDED TOURS OF THE NEW RONALD REAGAN UCLA MEDICAL CENTER
Tours will be conducted following lunch.  Groups will depart from the Neuroscience
Research Building at regular (5 or 10 minute) intervals and proceed on foot less than 
two blocks to the new Medical Center.  Tours require approximately one hour of walking.


Program Chairs:  Dora B. Weiner, Marcia L. Meldrum and Katharine E.S. Donahue.

The primary sponsor for this conference is the Department of Neurobiology, 
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, with special thanks to Professor 
Marie-Françoise Chesselet, Chair.  Further special thanks to the Southern 
California Colloquium in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology 
and Professor Margaret Jacob.

Additional support is gratefully acknowledged from these units at UCLA: 
History and Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library; David Geffen 
School of Medicine; School of Nursing; School of Public Health; Department of 
History; and Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences.  

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