2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting

2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting

9:00am EDT

AAHN Board Meeting Pearl RoomGwyneth Franck

12:00pm EDT

Annual AAHM Council Meeting Grand Ballroom BMary Fissell Registration Coatroom

2:00pm EDT

Sigerist Circle Business Meeting Grand Ballroom E AAHN Pre-Conference Meeting Pearl RoomDanielle Glynn • Emily Barr • Donna Curry • Ruth Manchester Op-Ed & Public Outreach Working Session Grand Ballroom FAlexander Parry

3:00pm EDT

Sigerist Circle Panel: From Communities of Care to Health Equity in Local Communities of Need: Igniting Activist Practices for Change Grand Ballroom EJim Bono • Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. • Steve Peraza • Michael Rembis • Tabby Violet

5:30pm EDT

Opening Reception Regency Ballroom & Foyer

7:00am EDT

AAHM President's New Member and New Members Breakfast Meeting Niagara Room Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Breakfast Meeting Jocko's Nursing History Review - Breakfast Meeting Executive Room Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer Registration Coatroom

8:00am EDT

Presidential Address Grand Ballroom ABC

9:15am EDT

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:30am EDT

A1. Grassroots Matters: Beyond the State in East Asian Healthcare Grand Ballroom EFa-Ti Fan • Po-Hsun Chen • Eunjeong Ma • Wayne Soon A2. Bodies, Values, Materiality Grand Ballroom FGabriela Soto LaVeaga • Mariana Labarca • Pablo Gómez • Adam Warren • Elizabeth O'Brien A3. Women, Aging, and Chronic Disease Grand Ballroom GKavita Sivaramakrishnan • Jesse F. Ballenger • Martha N. Gardner • Cara Kiernan Fallon A4. Disability and Reproduction in the United States Regency Ballroom AHilary Marland • Miriam Rich • Emma Wathen A5. Reframing the History of 19th century Medicine Ellicott RoomSuman Seth • Karim Malak • Sohini Chattopadhyay • Arnav Bhattacharya A6. Cross-Cultural Understandings of Madness and the Supernatural Roosevelt RoomAlisha Rankin • Wendy J Turner • Marlis Hinckley A7. Nurses and the Nursing Profession Pearl RoomKim Curry • Emily Barr • Alisa R. Haushalter • Andrej Toth • Jess Dillard-Wright

10:00am EDT

Book Exhibit Regency Ballroom BC

11:00am EDT

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer Student Affairs Coffee Meetup Fountain PlazaJessica Hester • Sarah Bernstein

11:15am EDT

American Association for the History of Nursing Keynote Grand Ballroom ABCMolly Ladd-Taylor

12:30pm EDT

B1. Violence, Children, and the State in the 20th century Grand Ballroom EAndrew Hogan • Deborah Doroshow • Lisa J. Pruitt • Geremy D. Lowe B2. Scalpels, Spectacles and Iron Hands: The Early Modern Medical Marketplace at Work Grand Ballroom FEvan Ragland • Heidi Hausse • Samuel Paek • Tawrin Baker B3. Women, Risk, Public Health, and the Law Grand Ballroom GLeslie Reagan • Elizabeth Sapere • Joanna Federico • Shannon Withycombe B4. Imperial Health, Colonial Bodies Regency Ballroom ANandini Bhattacharya • Kristin Brig-Ortiz • Kalman Rotstein • Ogechukwu Williams B5. Medicine and the Senses in Asia: Regional Stories Ellicott RoomRuth Rogaski • Lan Li • Saghar Bozorgi • Nicole Barnes B6. Environmental Justice and the Historian Roosevelt RoomJeremy Greene • Merlin Chowkwanyun • Matt Klingle • Jason Chernesky • Richard Mizelle • Harriet Washington B7. Nursing in the South Pearl RoomJess Dillard-Wright • Christine Ardalan • Charlotte Swint • Valeria Eadler • Alisa R. Haushalter

2:00pm EDT

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

2:15pm EDT

C1. Gender and Health in the 1960s Grand Ballroom EDeborah Doroshow • Andrew Hogan • Kelly O'Donnell • Andrew J. Pothier C2. The New Modern Medicine: 'Epidemiological', 'Multifactorial' ,'Risky', 'Evidence-Based', 'Personalized', or 'Postmodern?' Grand Ballroom FSloane Wesloh • Christopher Phillips • Jonathan Fuller • Emily Harrison • Robert Aronowitz C3. Between Marginalization and Medicalization Grand Ballroom GCara Kiernan Fallon • Ben Maldonado • Maud Jansen C4. Institutions of Maternity Care Regency Ballroom AMegann Licskai • Corey Schultz • Hilary Marland • Janet Greenlees C5. Medicine and the Senses in Asia: Cross-Cultural Stories Ellicott RoomPablo Gómez • Genie Yoo • Yan Liu • Claire Cooper • Ling Ma C6. COVID-Studies: The History of Medicine Meets Disaster Roosevelt RoomScott Knowles • Jacob Steere-Williams • george aumoithe • Jacqueline Wernimont • Jih-Fei Cheng • Monica H. Green • Gregg Gonsalves C7. Teaching Nursing History Pearl RoomMary Gibson • Sally Ellis Fletcher • Amber P. Williams • Cassie Burks • Darlla Thompson, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC

3:45pm EDT

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

4:00pm EDT

D1. Flash Talks Grand Ballroom ENancy Tomes • Justin Barr • Ken Sullivan • Adia Cullors • Yemok Jeon D2. Mentorship Workshop: Insights From Faculty, Staff, and Postdocs for Students Grand Ballroom FJessica Hester D3. Collaborative Histories of Institutionalization: Archives, Activism, and Access Grand Ballroom GChelsea Chamberlain • Caitlin Angelone • Ashten Vassar-Cain • Jess Petrazzuoli-Gallagher D4. Negotiating Norms: Biomedicine in the 20th century Regency Ballroom AMindy Schwartz • Caroline Wechsler • Sofia Grant • Adrien Gau • Melody Slavnik-Xu D5. Doing Health History Across the Contemporary University Ellicott RoomRichard Keller • Kavita Sivaramakrishnan • Beth Linker • Jeremy Greene • Dominique Tobbell • Merlin Chowkwanyun D6. Meeting the Moment: History of Medicine and Activism Roosevelt RoomSamuel Roberts • Regina Kunzel • Janet Golden • Jim Downs D7. Nurse Training and Education Pearl RoomDonna Curry • Sarah Saffa • Karen Anne Wolf • Kim Curry

6:00pm EDT

AAHM Garrison Lecture delivered by Monica Green Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Sciences (JSMBS)Monica H. Green

7:00pm EDT

Garrison Reception Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Sciences (JSMBS)

7:00am EDT

Clinician Historian Breakfast Meeting Niagara RoomAndrew Lea Women and Gender Diverse Historians of Medicine Meeting Jocko's Registration Coatroom

8:00am EDT

Poster Session Set Up Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30am EDT

AAHM Awards Breakfast Grand Ballroom ABC

9:00am EDT

Book Exhibit Regency Ballroom BC

10:15am EDT

E1. Nursing, Labor, and Collective Action Grand Ballroom EDominique Tobbell • Reynaldo Capucao • Hafeeza Anchrum • Bradford Pelletier E2. Madness, Medicine, and Materiality Across the Atlantic World Grand Ballroom FJennifer Kosmin • Olivia Weisser • Francesca Gibson • Evan Ragland E3. What Can A Pharmacist Do? A History of 20th c. Pharmaceutical Professionalization in Japan and China Grand Ballroom GLucas Richert • JJ Strange • Yaming You • Minji Kim E4. Comparative Histories of Gender, Health, and Risk Regency Ballroom AJohanna Schoen • Andrea Tone • Victoria Pihl Sørensen • Hayley C. Roy E5. Sexual Knowledge, Medical Power: Reframing the History of Sexology Ellicott RoomRachel Louise Moran • Donna Drucker • Ezra Gerard • Kirsten Leng • Sophia DeLeonibus • Sohini Mukhopadhyay E6. Doctoring the Birth of Our Country Roosevelt RoomJustin Barr • Erica Charters • Judy Chelnick • Jeremy Cannon • Per-olaf Hasselgren • David Jones • Scott Podolsky

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. Hyatt Patio

12:00pm EDT

Poster Session Grand Ballroom FoyerSydney Halpern • Isabella Ward • Devon Valera • Luis Fernando Merlo Chaves • Elyse Piotrowski • Malika Rakhmonova • Claire Clark • Olivia Weiss • Brady Lonergan • Melanie Lorenz • Jerry Lu • Tanisha Lanka • Anjali Dhanekula • Katelyn Friedline • Kayleigh Larsen • Brian Unwin • Bethany Johnson • Diane Jarrett • Jacob Jasper • Alaina Anderson • Samantha Singh • Elle Stearns • Katelyn Gau • Tanisha Narine • Heather Stecklein

1:00pm EDT

F1. Health in Civil Rights Movements Grand Ballroom EAdam Biggs • Caine Jordan • Emily Webster • Pratik Chakrabarti F2. Medical Networks: Patients, Publics, and Markets from the Cold War to Neoliberalism Grand Ballroom FMichitake Aso • Eram Alam • Claire Edington • Kavita Sivaramakrishnan F3. Race and Reproduction and the Politics of Care in the Twentieth Century Grand Ballroom GMiriam Rich • Rose Holz • Molly Yeo • Dominique Tobbell • Mosunmola Ogunmolaji F4. Transgressed Boundaries, Interconnected Histories: Gender, Medicine, and Sociotechnical Systems of Healthcare in Global East Asia Regency Ballroom AHe Bian • Tianyuan Huang • Soyoung Suh • Jingya Guo F5. Historian-Clinician Engagement Ellicott RoomWalton O. Schalick, III • Justin Barr • Peter Kernahan • Shelley McKellar • David Korostyshevsky • Julie Lemmon • Mindy Schwartz F6. Recontextualize? Return? Navigating the Afterlives of Human Remains in Medical Collections Roosevelt RoomCourtney Thompson • Anjali Dhanekula • Lisa Geiger • Jessica Hester • Sara Hollar • Megann Licskai

2:45pm EDT

AAHM Business Meeting Grand Ballroom A

3:30pm EDT

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

3:45pm EDT

G1. How Medicine Decides What Counts as Evidence Grand Ballroom EJeffrey Baker • Barron Lerner • Stephen Casper • Johanna Schoen G2. Carceral Sickness in the State of New York Grand Ballroom FRichard McKay • Kevin Kareem Brooks • Leon ”Struggle” Davis • Reginald Qualls G3. Cross Cultural Borders of Care Grand Ballroom GReynaldo Capucao • Rohini Dasgupta • Yao Tang • Xiaoyun Zhao G4. Examining the Past, Building the Future: The Barbara Bates Center for the History of Nursing at 40 Regency Ballroom AMargo Brooks Carthon • Mary Gibson • Andre Rosario • Jessica Martucci • Hafeeza Anchrum G5. Thinking with Southeast Asia Ellicott RoomClaire Edington • Michitake Aso • Anh Le • Thuy Linh Nguyen G6. Historians' Role in Researching and Writing Amicus Briefs Roosevelt RoomRebecca Kluchin • Lara Freidenfelds • Susan Lawrence • Nancy Tomes • Joseph Gabriel • Leslie Reagan

5:30pm EDT

Bates Reception Genesee Public House

6:00pm EDT

Student Happy Hour Fattey Beer Co.Jessica Hester • Sarah Bernstein

7:00am EDT

Post Mortem Regency Ballroom BC Breakfast Grand Ballroom ABC Registration Coatroom

8:30am EDT

H1. Therapeutic Jurisprudence Grand Ballroom EMichael Rembis • David Korostyshevsky • Peper Rivers • Elizabeth Nelson • Jarrod Wall H2. After the Single Use: Toxicity and Risk in Medical Technologies Grand Ballroom FJoseph Gabriel • Eloïse Richard • Amanda Mahoney • Sloane Wesloh H3. Disease, Disability, and Dissection Grand Ballroom GWendy J Turner • Walton O. Schalick, III • Brian Long H4. Why the History of Medicine Needs Trans and Intersex Studies Regency Ballroom ACam Cannon • Adrien Gau • Elizabeth Reis • Andrea J. Pitts • Matthew Marciello

10:00am EDT

Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:30am EDT

I1. Rethinking Epidemic Moments Grand Ballroom EEmily Webster • Stephen Pemberton • Ashley Brown • Knowledge G. Moyo I2. Expertise Across Medical Boundaries Grand Ballroom FJonathan Sadowsky • Lucas Richert • Libby O'Neil • Matthew Soleiman I3. Who's Afraid of ChatGPT? Grand Ballroom GStephen Casper • Alexander Parry • Andrew Lea • Jiemin Tina Wei • Zeynel Gül I4. Histories and Ethics of Medical Photography Regency Ballroom ASusan Lederer • Brynne McBryde • Christine Slobogin • Kathleen Pierce

1:00pm EDT

Niagara Falls Excursion (Optional add-on via Registration)

2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting

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