2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting: Full Schedule

9:00am EDT

AAHN Board Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT

The Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building. From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left before reaching the main staircase. Continue left through the Genesee Building façade toward the Fitness Center. Take either the elevator or the spiral staircase to the 2nd Floor.The Pearl Room is located above the Fitness Center. Freestanding...
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Speakers

Gwyneth Franck

AAHN President, University of Illinois Chicago

Thursday June 4, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Pearl Room

Meeting

11:00am EDT

Registration

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:00am - 7:00pm EDT

Coatroom

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:00am - 7:00pm EDT
Coatroom Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Registration

12:00pm EDT

Annual AAHM Council Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom B

Lunch @ 12pm
Council Meeting: 1pm-4pm

Speakers

Mary Fissell

AAHM President, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom B Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Meeting

2:00pm EDT

Sigerist Circle Business Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Meeting

2:00pm EDT

AAHN Pre-Conference Meeting

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Pearl Room

1.) Emily Barr, Narrative, Film, and Moral Agency: Teaching Ethics Through Nursing and Healthcare History2.) Donna Curry, Teaching Healthcare History through Visual and Experiential Learning3.) Ruth Manchester, Nurses (and Other Medical Personnel) Depicted in WPA MuralsThe Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building. From the guest elevators on the Lobby Level: Turn left...
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Moderators

Danielle Glynn

Oncology Nursing Society

Speakers

Emily Barr

University at Buffalo School of Nursing

Donna Curry

Wright State University

Ruth Manchester

Montgomery College

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Pearl Room

Meeting

2:00pm EDT

Op-Ed & Public Outreach Working Session

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom F

The Education & Outreach Committee will hold space for the sharing of ideas, information, and best practices for reaching public audiences. Bring an idea for or draft of an op-ed for workshopping in this session. Other formats of public outreach also welcomed.

Moderators

Alexander Parry

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Thursday June 4, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Workshop, Workshop

3:00pm EDT

Sigerist Circle Panel: From Communities of Care to Health Equity in Local Communities of Need: Igniting Activist Practices for Change

Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

The Communities of Care project focuses on communities of care in Buffalo to think with study participants about the everyday ways that those impacted by disability, both caregivers and those receiving care, including poor, racialized, and disabled people, navigate and negotiate living, working, and accessing vital healthcare and other needs. The project uses “communities of care” to extend...
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Moderators

Jim Bono

Associate Professor Emeritus, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Speakers

Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.

Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, in the School of Architecture and Planning, Clinical Professor, in the Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, founding director of the U.B. Center for Urban Studies, and associate director of the U.B. Community Health Equity Research Institute at the University at Buffalo., University at Buffalo

Steve Peraza

Community Fellow, Mellon Communities of Care, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Michael Rembis

Professor, Department of History Director, Center for Disability Studies Co-PI Mellon Communities of Care, University at Buffalo

Tabby Violet

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Mellon Communities of Care, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Special Session, AAHM Panel

5:30pm EDT

Opening Reception

Thursday June 4, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm EDT

Regency Ballroom & Foyer

Thursday June 4, 2026 5:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Regency Ballroom & Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

7:00am EDT

AAHM President's New Member Meeting

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT

Niagara Room

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT
Niagara Room

Meeting

7:00am EDT

Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Breakfast Meeting

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT

Jocko's

Jocko’s is located on the hotel’s lobby level.

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT
Jocko's

Meeting

7:00am EDT

Nursing History Review Coffee Meeting

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT

Executive Room

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT
Executive Room Hyatt, Floor 2

Meeting

7:00am EDT

Breakfast

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 8:30am EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 8:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

7:00am EDT

Registration

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 5:00pm EDT

Coatroom

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00am - 5:00pm EDT
Coatroom Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Registration

8:00am EDT

Presidential Address

Friday June 5, 2026 8:00am - 9:15am EDT

Grand Ballroom ABC

Friday June 5, 2026 8:00am - 9:15am EDT
Grand Ballroom ABC Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Special Session

9:15am EDT

Break

Friday June 5, 2026 9:15am - 9:30am EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday June 5, 2026 9:15am - 9:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

9:30am EDT

A1. Grassroots Matters: Beyond the State in East Asian Healthcare

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. Wayne Soon, Grassroots Politics Matter: Towards a New History of Universal Health Care in Taiwan ([email protected])2. Po-Hsun Chen, Needling about the ‘One China’: The Policies to Acupuncture Anaesthesia and Trans-Pacific Scientific Acupuncture Research in Cold War Taiwan ([email protected])3. Eunjeong Ma, Roboticizing healthcare in South Korea: A case of rehabilitation...
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Moderators

Fa-Ti Fan

Binghamton University, SUNY

[email protected]

Speakers

Po-Hsun Chen

Assistant Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Eunjeong Ma

Pohang University of Science and Technology

Wayne Soon

University of Minnesota

A1 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

9:30am EDT

A2. Bodies, Values, Materiality

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT

Grand Ballroom F

1. Pablo Gómez, Embodied Economies of Freedom: Afro-Caribbean Corporeal Finance in the Seventeenth Century ([email protected])2. Adam Warren, Ability's Experts: Healers and the Assessment and Diagnosis of Enslaved Litigants in Colonial Lima and Buenos Aires ([email protected])3. Elizabeth O'Brien, “She answered everything except [where the fetus was]”: Medicine and...
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Moderators

Gabriela Soto LaVeaga

Harvard University

Speakers

Mariana Labarca

University of Santiago

Pablo Gómez

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Adam Warren

University of Washington

Elizabeth O'Brien

UCLA

A2 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

9:30am EDT

A3. Women, Aging, and Chronic Disease

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT

Grand Ballroom G

1. Martha N. Gardner, “Yet to see a decline”: the gendered experience of smoking and lung cancer in American women, 1950s-90s ([email protected])2. Jesse F. Ballenger, “A Completely Unexplained Feature of Alzheimer’s Disease:” Gender, Senility, and Medical Science in Modern Society ([email protected])3. Cara Kiernan Fallon, Freedom from Disease and Disability:...
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Moderators

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

Columbia University

Speakers

Jesse F. Ballenger

Drexel Univesity

Martha N. Gardner

Mass. Coll of Pharm and Health Sciences

Cara Kiernan Fallon

Yale University

A3 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom G Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

9:30am EDT

A4. Disability and Reproduction in the United States

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT

Regency Ballroom A

1. Miriam Rich, Women’s Reproductive Anxieties and Imaginaries of Disability in the Progressive Era ([email protected])2. Emma Wathen, “Stop Being a Polio Patient, Be a Mother”: Polio Mothers and Parenting Narratives in the Postwar United States ([email protected])This panel brings together work from historians who study disability and reproduction in the United States in the...
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Moderators

Hilary Marland

University of Warwick

Speakers

Miriam Rich

University of Texas

Emma Wathen

PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison

(she/her) I am a PhD candidate pursuing a joint degree in History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study disability and reproduction in the twentieth-century United States, drawing from the fields of disability studies, U.S... Read More →

A4 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Regency Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

9:30am EDT

A5. Reframing the History of 19th century Medicine

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT

Ellicott Room

The 19th century in the history of medicine has been viewed as an era of epistemic changes brought about by the advent of the germ theory and the rise of laboratory medicine. While building upon these existing frameworks, this panel makes a historiographical intervention in our understanding of 19th-century medicine by adopting a polycentric approach, expanding the canvas of actors and...
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Moderators

Suman Seth

Cornell University

Speakers

Karim Malak

Wagner College

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Assistant Professor, Union College

Arnav Bhattacharya

University of Pennsylvania

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Ellicott Room Hyatt, Floor 2

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

9:30am EDT

A6. Cross-Cultural Understandings of Madness and the Supernatural

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT

Roosevelt Room

1. Wendy Turner, Unhealthy Minds: Premodern Understanding of Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities ([email protected])2. Stephanie Boyle, Spiritual Medicine: The role of space and place in healing in the Egyptian Delta in the 19th Century ([email protected])3. Marlis Hinckley, Natural and supernatural healthcare in New Spain ([email protected])Chair email:...
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Moderators

Alisha Rankin

Professor of History, Tufts University

Speakers

Wendy J Turner

Professor of History, Augusta University

I work on disability history through the lens of law. This includes mental health, intellectual disabilities, medicine, the brain, injury, and impairment.

Marlis Hinckley

University of Notre Dame

A6 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Roosevelt Room

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

9:30am EDT

A7. Nurses and the Nursing Profession

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT

Pearl Room

1. Alisa Haushalter, Marie Gill, and Kelly Fulkerson Dikuua The Role of Nursing Theory ThinkTanks in Advancing Nursing Knowledgeand Theory: A historical qualitative study utilizing the Margaret NewmanArchive, 1978-19882. Andrej Toth, Building a Modern Nurse: State Policy,Philanthropy, and theProfessionalization of Nursing inInterwar Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)3. Elizabeth...
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Moderators

Kim Curry

University of Florida

Speakers

Emily Barr

University at Buffalo School of Nursing

Alisa R. Haushalter

Director, Shelby County Health Department

Andrej Toth

Prague University of Economics and Business

Jess Dillard-Wright

University of Massachusetts Amherst

A7 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Pearl Room

Concurrent Session, AAHN Panel

10:00am EDT

Book Exhibit

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 5:00pm EDT

Regency Ballroom BC

Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 5:00pm EDT
Regency Ballroom BC Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Exhibit

11:00am EDT

Break

Friday June 5, 2026 11:00am - 11:15am EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday June 5, 2026 11:00am - 11:15am EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

11:15am EDT

American Association for the History of Nursing Keynote

Friday June 5, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm EDT

Grand Ballroom ABC

Molly Ladd-Taylor will deliver the American Association for the History of Nursing Keynote Address titled "Nurses, Mothers & Others: Baby-Saving and its Legacy in American History"

Speakers

Molly Ladd-Taylor

2026 AAHN Keynote Speaker, York University

Friday June 5, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm EDT
Grand Ballroom ABC Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Special Session

12:30pm EDT

B1. Violence, Children, and the State in the 20th century

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. Deborah B Doroshow, From Classroom to Cop Car: Florida’s Baker Act and the Criminalization of Children’s Behavior ([email protected])2. Lisa J. Pruitt, Celebrity Surgeon and “Healer of Children”: Dr. Adolf Lorenz in Buffalo and the Power of Publicity, 1923-1924 ([email protected])3. Geremy D. Lowe, These Are Their Risk Factors: Epidemiology and the...
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Moderators

Beth Linker

University of Pennsylvania

Speakers

Deborah Doroshow

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Lisa J. Pruitt

Middle Tennessee State University

Geremy D. Lowe

University of California, San Francisco

B1 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

12:30pm EDT

B2. Scalpels, Spectacles and Iron Hands: The Early Modern Medical Marketplace at Work

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom F

1. Heidi Hausse, Wear and Tear: An Inside Look at a “Used” Sixteenth-Century Prosthetic Hand ([email protected])2. Samuel Paek, Amputations, Expertise, and the Rise of New Genres of Medical Writing in Sixteenth-Century England ([email protected])3. Tawrin Baker, The Medicalization of Spectacles in the Seventeenth Century: Assisting and Curing via Mathematical Arts and...
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Moderators

Evan Ragland

University of Notre Dame

Speakers

Heidi Hausse

Auburn University

Samuel Paek

University of Notre Dame

Tawrin Baker

Independent Scholar

B2 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

12:30pm EDT

B3. Women, Risk, Public Health, and the Law

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom G

1. Elizabeth Sapere, “We Are All Unfit Mothers”: Baby M and the Surrogacy Wars in the 1980s ([email protected])2. Joanna Federico, External Causes? Conceptualizations of Violence in American Public Health Before the Dickey Amendment (1887 – 1993) ([email protected])3. Shannon Withycombe, Preserving Her Life: Medical Exceptions in Nineteenth-Century Abortion...
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Moderators

Leslie Reagan

Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

[email protected]

Speakers

Elizabeth Sapere

University of Rochester

Joanna Federico

Rutgers University

Shannon Withycombe

University of New Mexico

B3 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom G Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

12:30pm EDT

B4. Imperial Health, Colonial Bodies

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

Regency Ballroom A

1. Kristin Brig-Ortiz, Springs and Cemeteries: Urban Public Health, Water Management, and Burial Ground Surveillance in Colonial South Africa, 1880-1910 ([email protected])2. Kalman Rotstein, The Fear of Premature Burial and the Campaign for Death Certification in Fin-de-Siècle Britain ([email protected])3. Ogechukwu Williams, Bodies, Blame, and Birth:...
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Moderators

Nandini Bhattacharya

Professor of South Asian History and History of Medicine, University of Houston

Historian. Colonial South Asia, pharmaceuticals, alcohol and narcotics, labour and plantations

Speakers

Kristin Brig-Ortiz

Washington University

Kalman Rotstein

Binghamton University

Ogechukwu Williams

Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY

B4 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Regency Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

12:30pm EDT

B5. Medicine and the Senses in Asia: Regional Stories

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

Ellicott Room

While historians of medicine are keenly aware of the importance of sensorial knowledge and practice in healing, most studies have focused on Western societies and the five conventional senses. By discussing medicine and the senses in Asia, this first roundtable, together with a related one submitted separately, aims to reconceptualize what constitutes the senses by exploring a wide range of...
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Moderators

Ruth Rogaski

Vanderbilt University

Speakers

Lan Li

Johns Hopkins University

Saghar Bozorgi

Princeton University

Nicole Barnes

Duke University

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Ellicott Room Hyatt, Floor 2

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

12:30pm EDT

B6. Environmental Justice and the Historian

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

Roosevelt Room

This roundtable explores the intersection between environmental justice and histories of health and medicine. The environmental justice movement emerged from protest cultures of the late 1980s, culminating in the 1991 First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in Washington DC, and codified within the EPA in 1994. While “environmental justice” as an actors’ term is...
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Moderators

Jeremy Greene

Johns Hopkins University

Speakers

Merlin Chowkwanyun

Columbia University

Matt Klingle

Bowdoin College

Jason Chernesky

CLIR Postdocoral Fellow, Food and Drug Administration History Office

Richard Mizelle

University of Houston

Harriet Washington

Columbia University

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Roosevelt Room

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

12:30pm EDT

B7. Nursing in the South

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

Pearl Room

1. Christine Ardalan, Nurses Among the Florida Seminole sand Miccosukee, 1934-19712. Charlotte Swint, Bringing Nursing and Medical Care toWest Alabama: A Retrospective Reviewof West Alabama Health3. Valeria Eadler and Alisa R. Haushalter, Services from the 1970s to 2000s A Century of Public Health Nursing:Archival and Material-Culture Evidence from a Southern StateThe Pearl Room is on...
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Moderators

Jess Dillard-Wright

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Speakers

Christine Ardalan

Independent Scholar

Charlotte Swint

Associate Professor, Frontier Nursing University

Valeria Eadler

Middle Tennessee State University

Alisa R. Haushalter

Director, Shelby County Health Department

Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Pearl Room

Concurrent Session, AAHN Panel

2:00pm EDT

Break

Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 2:15pm EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 2:15pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

2:15pm EDT

C1. Gender and Health in the 1960s

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. Andrew Hogan, “Allied Health” in the 1960s: Women’s Professions, Men’s Ambitions ([email protected])2. Kelly O'Donnell, The Valley of the Dolls and the Cultural History of Medicine: Sex, Drugs, and Health Politics in the 1960s ([email protected])3. Andrew Pothier, Therapeutic Community Behind Bars: Experiments in Correctional and Community...
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Moderators

Deborah Doroshow

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Speakers

Andrew Hogan

Creighton University

Kelly O'Donnell

Towson University

Andrew J. Pothier

University at Buffalo, SUNY

C1 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

2:15pm EDT

C2. The New Modern Medicine: 'Epidemiological', 'Multifactorial' ,'Risky', 'Evidence-Based', 'Personalized', or 'Postmodern?'

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Grand Ballroom F

Popular medical history often discusses the rise of ‘modern medicine’ in the 19th or 20th century. Critical medical history problematizes the idea. In his forthcoming academic book The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine (OUP, 2025), Jonathan Fuller revives the idea of modern medicine as a legitimate historical and philosophical problem. This...
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Moderators

Sloane Wesloh

PhD candidate, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Speakers

Christopher Phillips

Carnegie Mellon University

Jonathan Fuller

University of Pittsburgh

Emily Harrison

Wellesley College

Robert Aronowitz

University of Pennsylvania

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

2:15pm EDT

C3. Between Marginalization and Medicalization

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Grand Ballroom G

1. Ben Maldonado, Labor, Sex, and the Construction of “Normal Aging” at the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1950-1980 ([email protected])
2. Maud Jansen, “The Age Factor” in Hip Fracture Care: How Precarity Shaped Therapeutic Change ([email protected])

Chair email: [email protected]

Moderators

Cara Kiernan Fallon

Yale University

Speakers

Ben Maldonado

Harvard University

Maud Jansen

Harvard University

C3 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Grand Ballroom G Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

2:15pm EDT

C4. Institutions of Maternity Care

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Regency Ballroom A

1. Hilary Marland, ‘Enlarging her capacity as a mother’: Mother and Baby Units and Maternal Mental Illness in Postwar Britain ([email protected])2. Corey Schultz, Debating Juice: The Controversial History of Fruit Juice in WIC food packages ([email protected])3. Janet Greenlees, ‘The subject of heated controversy’: maternity care and the...
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Moderators

Megann Licskai

Yale University

Speakers

Corey Schultz

Graduate Student, University of Rochester

Hilary Marland

University of Warwick

Janet Greenlees

Associate Professor of Health History, Glasgow Caledonian University

C4 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Regency Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

2:15pm EDT

C5. Medicine and the Senses in Asia: Cross-Cultural Stories

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Ellicott Room

This roundtable highlights the cross-cultural exchange of sensorial knowledge and practice between different healing cultures within Asia and between Asia and the West. Each participant’s case study reveals a dynamic process of translocal interplay in forming emergent understandings about the senses in relation to the body, conditioned by commercial interests, religious aspirations, and colonial...
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Moderators

Pablo Gómez

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Speakers

Genie Yoo

University at Buffalo, SUNY

Yan Liu

University at Buffalo, SUNY

Claire Cooper

Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University

I am a historian of material and intellectual exchange in Japan from roughly 1600 to 1900, with a particular focus on the trading and consumption of medicine and medicinal substances.

Ling Ma

State University of New York, Geneseo

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Ellicott Room Hyatt, Floor 2

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

2:15pm EDT

C6. COVID-Studies: The History of Medicine Meets Disaster

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Roosevelt Room

While many people, politicians, and policymakers seek to “move on” from COVID-19, scientists and survivors are still coming to know, and struggling to understand, its features and impacts. Origin stories double as foreign policy battles; denialism gives way to agnotology. But the social worlds that made the COVID-19 pandemic into the most resounding disaster of our times are well known to us;...
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Moderators

Scott Knowles

Northeastern University

Speakers

Jacob Steere-Williams

Professor, Department of History, College of Charleston

george aumoithe

Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Jacqueline Wernimont

Dartmouth College

Jih-Fei Cheng

Associate Professor, Scripps College

Monica H. Green

2026 AAHM Garrison Lecturer, Independent Scholar

Gregg Gonsalves

Research Scholar in Law, Lecturer in Law, & Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale University

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Roosevelt Room

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

2:15pm EDT

C7. Teaching Nursing History

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT

Pearl Room

1. Darlla Thompson, From Camp to Clinic: Teaching Nursing History Through the Legacy of Pauline Bray Fletcher and Simulation-Based Learning2. Sally Ellis Fletcher, Integrating History into a Time Limited Guest Lecture3. Amber P. Williams, Understanding our roots: engaging students in the history of nursing4. Cassondra Burks, Using AI in Course Development...
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Moderators

Mary Gibson

Associate Professor Emerita, University of Virginia

Speakers

Sally Ellis Fletcher

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies

Amber P. Williams

ATI

Cassie Burks

University of Tennessee at Martin

Darlla Thompson, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC

Assistant Professor, Troy University

The Nursing Museum of Alabama website serves as an educational and community‑focused digital hub dedicated to preserving and promoting the history, contributions, and impact of nursing in Alabama. The site highlights nursing heritage, educational resources, public outreach initiatives... Read More →

Friday June 5, 2026 2:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Pearl Room

Concurrent Session, AAHN Panel

3:45pm EDT

Break

Friday June 5, 2026 3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Friday June 5, 2026 3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

4:00pm EDT

D1. Flash Talks

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. Justin Barr, Look into My Heart: Cardioscopes, Technology, and Heart Surgery in the 20th Century ([email protected])2. Ken Sullivan, Tracing the Disability Discourse: Women Healers and Premodern European Disability History from the 4th to 17th Century ([email protected])3. Adia Cullors, "Black Powder, Bio-Revolt, and the Black Atlantic": Gunpowder and Medical...
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Moderators

Nancy Tomes

Professor of History, Stony Brook University

Speakers

Justin Barr

Ochsner Clinic

Ken Sullivan

Louisiana State University

Adia Cullors

New York University

Yemok Jeon

PhD Student, Johns Hopkins University

D1 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, Flash Talks

4:00pm EDT

D2. Mentorship Workshop: Insights From Faculty, Staff, and Postdocs for Students

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Grand Ballroom F

The AAHM Student Affairs Committee is happy to be reprising our mentorship workshop for the third year. In this workshop, students and more established professionals in academia, libraries, archives, and museums will break into small groups to chat about the job search, funding, publishing, and more. We will have prompts on hand, but please bring questions of your own. This is a great opportunity...
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Speakers

Jessica Hester

Johns Hopkins University

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, Workshop

4:00pm EDT

D3. Collaborative Histories of Institutionalization: Archives, Activism, and Access

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Grand Ballroom G

This proposed roundtable presents several new, innovative projects in the public history of institutionalization. Participants come from across disciplines including History, Media Studies, Library and Information Science, American Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. We will highlight the importance and complexity of collaboration–with disabled activists and community members,...
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Moderators

Chelsea Chamberlain

Wilkes University

Speakers

Caitlin Angelone

Elwyn

Ashten Vassar-Cain

Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance

Jess Petrazzuoli-Gallagher

Co-Vice President, Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Grand Ballroom G Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

4:00pm EDT

D4. Negotiating Norms: Biomedicine in the 20th century

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Regency Ballroom A

1. Caroline Wechsler, Standardizing syndromes: Clinical scoring systems in genetic connective tissue disorders ([email protected])2. Sofia Grant, Blocked Impulses: Myasthenia Gravis, the Prostigmin Test, and the Making of a Clinical Diagnosis in Midcentury America ([email protected])3. Adrien Gau, Of Monolids and Medicine: On the racialization of...
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Moderators

Mindy Schwartz

University of Chicago Medicine

Speakers

Caroline Wechsler

Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania

Sofia Grant

Johns Hopkins University

Adrien Gau

University of Pennsylvania

Melody Slavnik-Xu

Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University

D4 Abstracts pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Regency Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

4:00pm EDT

D5. Doing Health History Across the Contemporary University

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Ellicott Room

Health historians are facing important challenges in the current higher education climate. While our courses add significant value to undergraduate, graduate, and professional education, their very premises are under assault from attacks on classroom speech and curricular content. An unprecedented termination of federal support for science and humanities research and education has created a...
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Moderators

Richard Keller

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Contemporary history of Europe and global medicine and public health; disease ecology; social determinants of vulnerability; health implications of disaster

Speakers

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

Columbia University

Beth Linker

University of Pennsylvania

Jeremy Greene

Johns Hopkins University

Dominique Tobbell

University of Virginia

Merlin Chowkwanyun

Columbia University

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Ellicott Room Hyatt, Floor 2

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

4:00pm EDT

D6. Meeting the Moment: History of Medicine and Activism

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Roosevelt Room

In this innovative workshop specially designed by the Program Committee, three leading historians of health and medicine discuss the multi-faceted ways that scholars can respond to contemporary political dialogue and debate. Topics for this workshop include local political activism, op-ed writing to national and international audiences, and engaging scholarly voices to "meet the moment" of the...
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Moderators

Samuel Roberts

Associate Professor of History & Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University

No longer on MuskX. Find me at @skroberts.bsky.social.

Speakers

Regina Kunzel

Yale University

Janet Golden

Rutgers University

Jim Downs

Gettysburg College

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Roosevelt Room

Concurrent Session, Workshop

4:00pm EDT

D7. Nurse Training and Education

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT

Pearl Room

1. Sarah Saffa, The Kiowa School of Practical Nursing:Its Role Within and Beyond the US Indian Service2. Karen Anne Wolf, The Nurse Practitioner (NP) Experiment: MGH – CharlestownBunker Hill Pediatric NP Program3. Kim Curry, The Historical Foundations of Advanced Nursing EducationThe Pearl Room is on the 2nd Floor of the Genesee Building. From the guest...
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Moderators

Donna Curry

Wright State University

Speakers

Sarah Saffa

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

Karen Anne Wolf

Independent Scholar

Kim Curry

University of Florida

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 5:15pm EDT
Pearl Room

Concurrent Session, AAHN Panel

6:00pm EDT

AAHM Garrison Lecture delivered by Monica Green

Friday June 5, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Sciences (JSMBS)

Dr. Monica H. Green will deliver the 2026 AAHM Garrison Lecture entitled "Straining the History of Infectious Diseases: Europe’s Two Black Deaths."The Garrison lecture will be held at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Science (JSMBS) in room 2120A. JSMBS is located at 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203.JSMBS is a 20-minute walk from the Hyatt. Exit the north side...
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Speakers

Monica H. Green

2026 AAHM Garrison Lecturer, Independent Scholar

2026 Garrison Lecture Abstract Monica Green pdf

Friday June 5, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Sciences (JSMBS)

Special Session

7:00pm EDT

Garrison Reception

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Sciences (JSMBS)

Friday June 5, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Sciences (JSMBS)

Networking

7:00am EDT

Clinician Historian Meeting

Saturday June 6, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT

Niagara Room

Saturday June 6, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT
Niagara Room

Meeting

7:00am EDT

Women and Gender Diverse Historians of Medicine Meeting

Saturday June 6, 2026 7:00am - 8:30am EDT

Jocko's

Jocko’s is located on the hotel’s lobby level.

Saturday June 6, 2026 7:00am - 8:30am EDT
Jocko's

Meeting

7:00am EDT

Registration

Saturday June 6, 2026 7:00am - 4:30pm EDT

Coatroom

Saturday June 6, 2026 7:00am - 4:30pm EDT
Coatroom Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Registration

8:00am EDT

Poster Session Set Up

Saturday June 6, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Saturday June 6, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Exhibit

8:30am EDT

AAHM Awards Breakfast

Saturday June 6, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT

Grand Ballroom ABC

Saturday June 6, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom ABC Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Special Session

9:00am EDT

Book Exhibit

Saturday June 6, 2026 9:00am - 3:30pm EDT

Regency Ballroom BC

Saturday June 6, 2026 9:00am - 3:30pm EDT
Regency Ballroom BC Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Exhibit

10:15am EDT

E1. Nursing, Labor, and Collective Action

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. Reynaldo Capucao, Matters of Discipline: Unrest at the Philippine General Hospital, 1910–1916 ([email protected])2. Hafeeza Anchrum, Exploited, Still: Black Women’s Care Labor from Domestic Service to the Professional Workforce ([email protected])3. Bradford Pelletier, Striking for the Patients: Medical Civil Rights & Labor Equity at the South Carolina...
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Moderators

Dominique Tobbell

University of Virginia

Speakers

Reynaldo Capucao

Mellon Race, Place, and Equity Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia-Main Campus

Hafeeza Anchrum

University of Pennsylvania

Bradford Pelletier

The University of Virginia School of Nursing

E1 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM + AAHN Panel

10:15am EDT

E2. Madness, Medicine, and Materiality Across the Atlantic World

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT

Grand Ballroom F

1. Olivia Weisser, The Dreaded Pox and Household Medicine in Early Modern England ([email protected])2. Francesca Gibson, Hysterical Conceptions: Madness, Reproduction, and Race in the Early Modern British Atlantic World ([email protected])3. Evan Ragland, Disease, Pathological Anatomy, and the Question of Causes in Early Modern Europe ([email protected])Chair...
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Moderators

Jennifer Kosmin

Auburn University

Speakers

Olivia Weisser

University of Massachusetts-Boston

Francesca Gibson

PhD Student, University of California, Santa Cruz

Evan Ragland

University of Notre Dame

E2 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

10:15am EDT

E3. What Can A Pharmacist Do? A History of 20th c. Pharmaceutical Professionalization in Japan and China

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT

Grand Ballroom G

1. JJ Strange, Growing Medicine: Huang Minlong and the rise and fall of botanical pharmaceutical research in twentieth-century China ([email protected])2. Yaming You, Reinventing Bencao: The Manchurian Medical College and Traditional Chinese Medicinal Drugs in Japan’s Informal empire, 1910s-1940s ([email protected])3. Minji Kim, Unattributable Harm...
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Moderators

Lucas Richert

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Speakers

JJ Strange

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Yaming You

Duke University

Minji Kim

Sogang University

E3 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Grand Ballroom G Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

10:15am EDT

E4. Comparative Histories of Gender, Health, and Risk

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT

Regency Ballroom A

1. Hayley C. Roy, Imperial Obstetrics: Training Secular Nurses for Germany's Overseas Colonies, 1884 – 1904 ([email protected])2. Victoria Pihl Sørensen, Intrauterine Devices, Eugenics, and Reproductive Injustice in Denmark and Kalaallit Nunaat ([email protected])3. Andrea Tone, Dangerous Beauty or Acceptable Risk? The American Medical Association, Cosmetics,...
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Moderators

Johanna Schoen

Rutgers University

Speakers

Andrea Tone

Professor, McGill University

Victoria Pihl Sørensen

University of Colorado, Boulder

Hayley C. Roy

Emory University

E4 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Regency Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM + AAHN Panel

10:15am EDT

E5. Sexual Knowledge, Medical Power: Reframing the History of Sexology

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT

Ellicott Room

Sexology, beginning with Heinrich Kaan’s Psychopathia Sexualis in 1844, has presented itself as a rigorous and objective science while simultaneously addressing medical and health concerns, often seeking to apply findings for clinical and therapeutic ends. Tensions over whether sexology has been descriptive or therapeutic, neutral or activist, and normalizing or pathologizing partly reflect...
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Moderators

Rachel Louise Moran

Texas A&M University

Speakers

Donna Drucker

Columbia University

Ezra Gerard

Independent Scholar

Kirsten Leng

Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sophia DeLeonibus

Yale University

Sohini Mukhopadhyay

PhD candidate, University of Illinois At Chicago

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Ellicott Room Hyatt, Floor 2

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

10:15am EDT

E6. Doctoring the Birth of Our Country

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT

Roosevelt Room

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the US declared independence, fighting to win an imperfect freedom from Great Britain’s tyranny. The fight extended beyond military engagements, with Americans struggling against disease and trauma. As on the battlefield, they met both success and failure. Landmark events like George Washington’s mandatory inoculation order and John Jones’...
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Moderators

Justin Barr

Ochsner Clinic

Speakers

Erica Charters

University of Oxford

Judy Chelnick

Smithsonian Institution

Jeremy Cannon

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Per-olaf Hasselgren

Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center

David Jones

Harvard University

Scott Podolsky

AAHM Treasurer, Harvard Medical School

Saturday June 6, 2026 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Roosevelt Room

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

11:45am EDT

Break - “Mad Sauces” food truck will be at the Hyatt patio, on Main St. next to the Starbucks, for those hoping for a taste of authentic, made-in-Buffalo Buffalo wings. To order online, visit https://streetfoodfinder.com/Madsauces.

Saturday June 6, 2026 11:45am - 11:45am EDT

Hyatt Patio

Saturday June 6, 2026 11:45am - 11:45am EDT
Hyatt Patio

Networking

12:00pm EDT

Poster Session

Saturday June 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Speakers

Sydney Halpern

Professor Emerita, University of Illinois Chicago

Isabella Ward

University of Minnesota

Devon Valera

National Institutes of Health

Luis Fernando Merlo Chaves

Universidad de Las Américas

Elyse Piotrowski

Researcher, University of Minnesota

Malika Rakhmonova

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Claire Clark

University of Kentucky

Olivia Weiss

Case Western Reserve University

Brady Lonergan

Assistant Professor, UConn Health

I am a psychiatrist at the University of Connecticut Health Center and serve as the medical director of the consultation-liaison psychiatry service and as the director of the School of Medicine’s psychiatry clerkship. Outside of my interest in the history of medicine, I have an... Read More →

Melanie Lorenz

Marquette University

Jerry Lu

Cornell University

Tanisha Lanka

Cornell University

Anjali Dhanekula

Yale University

Katelyn Friedline

University of Pennsylvania

Kayleigh Larsen

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brian Unwin

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Bethany Johnson

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Diane Jarrett

Associate Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

I'm interested in the history of medicine in early movies (1920s-1940s) and early television (1950s-1960s).

Jacob Jasper

Resident Physician, Tufts Medical Center

Alaina Anderson

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Samantha Singh

Yale University

Elle Stearns

Yale University

Katelyn Gau

Northwestern University

Tanisha Narine

History of Science, Medicine & Public Health Graduate & MPH Candidate in Health Policy, Yale University

My name is Tanisha Narine, and I graduated from Yale College with BAs in Political Science and the History of Science, Medicine & Public Health. I am also an incoming second year student at the Yale School of Public Health pursuing a Master's in Public Health in Health Policy.

I am passionate about exploring reproductive rights and health equity through the lenses of history, politics and the law... Read More →

Heather Stecklein

Head, Mayo Clinic Archives, Mayo Clinic

Saturday June 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Exhibit

1:00pm EDT

F1. Health in Civil Rights Movements

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. Caine Jordan, The Berry Plan: Policing, Public Health, and Civil Rights in 1950s Chicago ([email protected])2. Emily Webster, Health and Housing in the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1972 ([email protected])3. Pratik Chakrabarti, The Hospital in the Ward: A Documentary of Healing and Resistance ([email protected])Chair...
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Moderators

Adam Biggs

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Speakers

Caine Jordan

University of Chicago

Emily Webster

Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Health and Medicine, University of Durham

Pratik Chakrabarti

NEH-Cullen Chair in History and Medicine, University of Houston

G1 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

1:00pm EDT

F2. Medical Networks: Patients, Publics, and Markets from the Cold War to Neoliberalism

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Grand Ballroom F

1. Eram Alam, In Search of Care: Scenes from the US/Mexico Border ([email protected])2. Claire Edington, "A War Inside a War: Fighting Drug Addiction During the Decolonization of Vietnam" ([email protected])3. Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, From Russia, with Love: The Promise of Indo-Soviet Medical Cooperation and Assistance in Postcolonial...
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Moderators

Michitake Aso

SUNY Albany

Speakers

Eram Alam

Harvard University

Claire Edington

University of California, San Diego

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

Columbia University

F2 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

1:00pm EDT

F3. Race and Reproduction and the Politics of Care in the Twentieth Century

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Grand Ballroom G

1. Rose Holz, Reproductive Freedom and Racial Reckoning: A Lost History of Planned Parenthood’s Mid-Twentieth Century ([email protected])2. Molly Yeo ([email protected]) and Dominique Tobbell ([email protected]), Polio during Segregation: Black Nurses' and Communities'Contributions to Polio Prevention, Care, and Vaccination, 1940-19603. Mosunmola Ogunmolaji, Royalty in the Ward: Princess...
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Moderators

Miriam Rich

University of Texas Medical Branch

Speakers

Rose Holz

Professor of Practice, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Molly Yeo

University of Virginia

Dominique Tobbell

University of Virginia

Mosunmola Ogunmolaji

University of Florida

F3 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom G Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM + AAHN Panel

1:00pm EDT

F4. Transgressed Boundaries, Interconnected Histories: Gender, Medicine, and Sociotechnical Systems of Healthcare in Global East Asia

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Regency Ballroom A

1. Tianyuan Huang, Who Treated Women Better? The Material Culture of Disregard, the Transnational Hierarchy of Tradition, and Medical Pluralism in Tokugawa Japan ([email protected])2. Soyoung Suh, Uncertainty as A Norm: Depo-Provera, Breast Cancer, and the Gendered Medical Culture in South Korea, 1960s-1970s ([email protected])3. Jingya...
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Moderators

He Bian

Princeton University

Speakers

Tianyuan Huang

Tohoku University

Soyoung Suh

Associate Professor, Dartmouth College

Jingya Guo

Cornell University

F4 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Regency Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

1:00pm EDT

F5. Historian-Clinician Engagement

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Ellicott Room

While their perspectives may differ, both clinicians and medical historians share a common interest in the history of health care. The premise, therefore, of this roundtable is that historians and clinicians have much to offer each other in both theory and practice. This is particularly true at a time when medical history is occupying an ever more precarious place in the medical school curriculum....
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Moderators

Walton O. Schalick, III

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Speakers

Justin Barr

Ochsner Clinic

Peter Kernahan

University of Minnesota

Shelley McKellar

Western University

David Korostyshevsky

Faculty, Colorado State University

I am an interdisciplinary historian studying addiction, gender, and the family at the nexus of medicine and law. My research interests also include life insurance medicine and the formation of enduring disparities in modern healthcare systems. I am an Instructor in the Department... Read More →

Julie Lemmon

Johns Hopkins University

Mindy Schwartz

University of Chicago Medicine

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Ellicott Room Hyatt, Floor 2

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

1:00pm EDT

F6. Recontextualize? Return? Navigating the Afterlives of Human Remains in Medical Collections

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Roosevelt Room

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century anatomists and physicians at American medical schools and medical societies amassed collections of human remains, harvesting tissues from their living patients or exhuming graveyards, buying from dealers, or trading remains with interlocutors near and far. Anatomy collections—which often harbored examples of ‘healthy’ bodies—and pathology...
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Moderators

Courtney Thompson

Mississippi State University

Speakers

Anjali Dhanekula

Yale University

Lisa Geiger

Mütter Museum

Jessica Hester

Johns Hopkins University

Sara Hollar

Yale University

Megann Licskai

Yale University

Saturday June 6, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Roosevelt Room

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

2:45pm EDT

AAHM Business Meeting

Saturday June 6, 2026 2:45pm - 3:30pm EDT

Grand Ballroom A

Saturday June 6, 2026 2:45pm - 3:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Meeting

3:30pm EDT

Break

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:30pm - 3:45pm EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

3:45pm EDT

G1. How Medicine Decides What Counts as Evidence

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. Barron Lerner, Bad Attitudes: Thomas Holmes and the Connection of Emotion to Disease ([email protected])2. Stephen Casper, Why We Can No Longer Diagnose What We Discovered: A Genealogy of Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome ([email protected])3. Johanna Schoen, Pain and the Premature Infant ([email protected])Chair...
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Moderators

Jeffrey Baker

Duke University School of Medicine

Speakers

Barron Lerner

New York University Langone Medical Center

Stephen Casper

Clarkson University

Johanna Schoen

Professor of History, Rutgers University

F1 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

3:45pm EDT

G2. Carceral Sickness in the State of New York

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT

Grand Ballroom F

Scholars like Harriet Washington, Heather Ann Thompson, and Susan Reverby have illuminated the history of substandard healthcare provision in American prisons during the twentieth century. They have identified the many harms endured and resisted by generations of prisoners, their families, and broader communities, harms arising from factors like enduring racism, medical experimentation,...
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Moderators

Richard McKay

University of Cambridge

Speakers

Kevin Kareem Brooks

Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison

Leon ”Struggle” Davis

Consultant, Researcher, Hudson Link for Highter Education in Prison

Leon Davis is a community-based researcher, public health student at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and educator whose work examines incarceration through the lens of the history of medicine and carceral health. He is a lead researcher with the Carceral Sickness... Read More →

Reginald Qualls

Independent Scholar, Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

3:45pm EDT

G3. Cross Cultural Borders of Care

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT

Grand Ballroom G

1. Rohini Dasgupta,The Other Pains: Cervical Cancer, Colonial Medicine, and Reproductive Subjectivity in 20th-Century India ([email protected])2. Xiaoyun Zhao, Nursing Book Publishing and the Development of Modern Chinese Nursing during the Republic of China (1912–1949) ([email protected])3. Yao Tang, Crossing Borders of Care: The Professionalization of Women in Nursing and...
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Moderators

Reynaldo Capucao

Mellon Race, Place, and Equity Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia-Main Campus

Speakers

Rohini Dasgupta

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Yao Tang

University of Virginia

Xiaoyun Zhao

University of Pittsburgh

G3 Abstracts pdf

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT
Grand Ballroom G Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM + AAHN Panel

3:45pm EDT

G4. Examining the Past, Building the Future: The Barbara Bates Center for the History of Nursing at 40

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT

Regency Ballroom A

In 1986, the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at Penn Nursing received official recognition as a center by the University of Pennsylvania. Its inaugural leadership included visionary nursing leaders like Joan S. Lynaugh, Ellen D. Baer, and Lillian S. Brunner, and the historian of medicine Charles Rosenberg. From its earliest days, the Center articulated a multi-faceted,...
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Moderators

Margo Brooks Carthon

The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing

Speakers

Mary Gibson

Associate Professor Emerita, University of Virginia

Andre Rosario

Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University

Jessica Martucci

The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing

Hafeeza Anchrum

University of Pennsylvania

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT
Regency Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHN Roundtable

3:45pm EDT

G5. Thinking with Southeast Asia

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT

Ellicott Room

This roundtable brings together a group of scholars to discuss the possibilities for future directions in the history of medicine from the vantage of Southeast Asia. As a place of tremendous cultural and ecological diversity, shaped by the collision of different colonizing and decolonizing projects, Southeast Asia focuses our attention on those cross-cultural circulations of knowledge and...
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Moderators

Claire Edington

University of California, San Diego

Speakers

Michitake Aso

University at Albany, SUNY

Anh Le

Muhlenberg College

Thuy Linh Nguyen

Mount Saint Mary College

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT
Ellicott Room Hyatt, Floor 2

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

3:45pm EDT

G6. Historians' Role in Researching and Writing Amicus Briefs

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT

Roosevelt Room

This workshop will bring together AAHM members who have recently written amicus briefs for the U.S. Supreme Court and appeals courts, among them Chiles v. Salazar (2025), Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), and GenBioPro v. Raynes et. al. (2025). Topics covered will be: the reasons for sharing our historical knowledge in this way, especially at this point in time; the...
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Moderators

Rebecca Kluchin

California State University-Sacremento

Speakers

Lara Freidenfelds

Independent Scholar

Susan Lawrence

Professor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Currently at work with Sue Lederer on the history of American cadavers, unclaimed bodies and the rise of body donation, tentatively titled American Cadavers: 1780-1980. Sue and I published an article in Medical Humanities (2023), "Medical specimens and the erasure of racial v... Read More →

Nancy Tomes

Professor of History, Stony Brook University

Joseph Gabriel

Florida State University

Leslie Reagan

Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

[email protected]

Saturday June 6, 2026 3:45pm - 5:15pm EDT
Roosevelt Room

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

5:30pm EDT

Bates Reception

Saturday June 6, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm EDT

Genesee Public House

Join the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing for a celebratory toast marking 40 years of leadership, scholarship, mentorship, and archival stewardship in the history of nursing. Attendees that paid to participate in the 2026 annual meeting are invited to stop by at any point during the reception to connect with colleagues, celebrate the Center’s legacy, and honor its...
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Saturday June 6, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm EDT
Genesee Public House Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

7:00am EDT

Post Mortem

Sunday June 7, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT

Regency Ballroom BC

Sunday June 7, 2026 7:00am - 8:00am EDT
Regency Ballroom BC Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Meeting

7:00am EDT

Breakfast

Sunday June 7, 2026 7:00am - 8:15am EDT

Grand Ballroom ABC

Sunday June 7, 2026 7:00am - 8:15am EDT
Grand Ballroom ABC Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

7:00am EDT

Registration

Sunday June 7, 2026 7:00am - 12:00pm EDT

Coatroom

Sunday June 7, 2026 7:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Coatroom Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Registration

8:30am EDT

H1. Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. David Korostyshevsky, Locked in a Mad House: Guardianship, Asylums, and the Medical Incarceration of Habitual Drunkards in the Gilded Age ([email protected])2. Peper Rivers, “‘Artificial Motivation’: The American Experiment with Civil Commitment for People Who Use Drugs (1961-1971)” ([email protected])3. Elizabeth Nelson ([email protected]) and Jarrod Wall...
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Moderators

Michael Rembis

Professor, Department of History Director, Center for Disability Studies Co-PI Mellon Communities of Care, University at Buffalo

Speakers

David Korostyshevsky

Faculty, Colorado State University

Peper Rivers

Indiana University

Elizabeth Nelson

Indiana University

Jarrod Wall

Tulane University

H1 Abstracts pdf

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

8:30am EDT

H2. After the Single Use: Toxicity and Risk in Medical Technologies

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT

Grand Ballroom F

1. Eloïse Richard, Toxic Asepsis: Chemical Sterilization and the Rise of Disposable Medical Devices in the 20th Century ([email protected])2. Amanda Mahoney, “A non-expendable disposable,”: Nurses, Central Supply, and the Problem of Tubing in U.S. Hospitals, 1915-1965 ([email protected])3. Sloane Wesloh, Personal health devices, chronic disease, and the...
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Moderators

Joseph Gabriel

Florida State University

Speakers

Eloïse Richard

University of Geneva

Amanda Mahoney

Case Western Reserve University

Sloane Wesloh

PhD candidate, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

H2 Abstracts pdf

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

8:30am EDT

H3. Disease, Disability, and Dissection

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT

Grand Ballroom G

1. Walton Schalick, The Twin Paradox: A Study of Health, Disease, and Disability in theTwelfth-century De gemellis ([email protected])
2. Brian Long, Learned Medicine among the Saints: Quantifying Medical Miracles in the Long Twelfth Century ([email protected])

Chair email: [email protected]

Moderators

Wendy J Turner

Professor of History, Augusta University

I work on disability history through the lens of law. This includes mental health, intellectual disabilities, medicine, the brain, injury, and impairment.

Speakers

Walton O. Schalick, III

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Brian Long

Independent Scholar

H3 Abstracts pdf

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Grand Ballroom G Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

8:30am EDT

H4. Why the History of Medicine Needs Trans and Intersex Studies

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT

Regency Ballroom A

This roundtable brings together scholars working at the intersection of trans studies, intersex studies, and the history of medicine. The roundtable argues that the history of medicine stands to benefit from a greater engagement with some of the central questions of trans and intersex studies, namely: the historical and social contingency of concepts like sex, gender, and identity; the role of...
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Moderators

Cam Cannon

Assistant Professor, American Studies, George Washington University

Speakers

Adrien Gau

University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Reis

Macauley Honors College, City University of New York

Andrea J. Pitts

University at Buffalo

Matthew Marciello

PhD Candidate, American Studies, George Washington University

My dissertation project titled “Intersex Trouble: The Intersex Society of North America, John Money, and Intersectional Problems in the History of Intersex Activism and Sexology” is a cultural, intellectual, and institutional history of the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA... Read More →

Sunday June 7, 2026 8:30am - 10:00am EDT
Regency Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

10:00am EDT

Break

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom Foyer Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Networking

10:30am EDT

I1. Rethinking Epidemic Moments

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

1. Stephen Pemberton, A Case of Medical Tragedy and ‘Doctor Guilt’ ([email protected])2. Ashley Brown, Situating Kahnawà:ke in the 1885 Montreal Smallpox Epidemic ([email protected])3. Knowledge G. Moyo, Blood, HIV/AIDS, and the Hematological Diagnosis of a Diseased Nation, c 1985- 2000 ([email protected])Chair...
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Moderators

Emily Webster

Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Health and Medicine, University of Durham

Speakers

Stephen Pemberton

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Ashley Brown

McGill University

Knowledge G. Moyo

PhD Candidate, University of Texas At Austin

I1 Abstracts pdf

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

10:30am EDT

I2. Expertise Across Medical Boundaries

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom F

1. Lucas Richert, "The Physician Is Boss?”: Scope Creep, Status Strain, and the Pharmacist–Physician Divide in American Healthcare ([email protected])2. Libby O'Neil, Wired Up: Biofeedback Research between Medicine and Counterculture in the 1970s ([email protected])3. Matthew Soleiman, “Ten Steps from Patient to Person”: Self-Help Activism and the Emergence of...
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Moderators

Jonathan Sadowsky

Case Western Reserve University

Speakers

Lucas Richert

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Libby O'Neil

Mississippi State University

Matthew Soleiman

University of California, San Diego

I2 Abstracts pdf

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom F Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

10:30am EDT

I3. Who's Afraid of ChatGPT?

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom G

The accelerating integration of artificial intelligence into clinical medicine, education, and other contexts raises concerns about the risks of this technology and who should be held responsible when AI causes preventable harm. Efforts to automate labor and decision-making have a complex history, connecting tests, forms, timers, meters, machines, and algorithms. This roundtable will discuss how...
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Moderators

Stephen Casper

Clarkson University

Speakers

Alexander Parry

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Andrew Lea

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Jiemin Tina Wei

Florida International University

Zeynel Gül

University of Illinois Chicago

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom G Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Roundtable

10:30am EDT

I4. Histories and Ethics of Medical Photography

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT

Regency Ballroom A

1. Brynne McBryde, Photographic Manipulation and the Shaping of the Medical Record ([email protected])
2. Christine Slobogin, Feminized Anonymity: Gender and Privacy in Patient Photographs ([email protected])
3. Kathleen Pierce, Photographing the Animal Research Subject ([email protected])

Chair email: [email protected]

Moderators

Susan Lederer

Professor, University of Wisconsin

Speakers

Brynne McBryde

University of Maryland

Christine Slobogin

University of Rochester

Kathleen Pierce

Smith College

I4 Abstracts pdf

Sunday June 7, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Regency Ballroom A Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Concurrent Session, AAHM Panel

1:00pm EDT

Niagara Falls Excursion (Optional add-on via Registration)

Sunday June 7, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

While you’re in nearby Buffalo, take the opportunity to visit Niagara Falls! A chartered bus will depart from the conference hotel (Hyatt) at 1:00 pm on Sunday, June 7, for a self-guided, two-hour visit to the Falls. The bus will return to the Hyatt between 4:00 and 5:00 pm. Travel time is approximately 25 minutes each way. Cost: $50 per person How to join: Select the Niagara Falls...
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Sunday June 7, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting

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