American College of Surgeons Archives Historic Films Now Available Online

Thank you to Dolores Barber, Assistant Archivist, American College of Surgeons for the following submission:

A selection of historic films is now available for viewing on the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Archives web pages, including the following:

• The College’s first “talkie,” 1929. ACS Founder and Director General Franklin H. Martin, MD, FACS, introduces the officers, Board of Regents, and past presidents. This film was recently transferred from the original 35mm nitrate negative to preservation quality film stock. The Nitrate Film Vault at the Library of Congress holds the original negative.

[Image Caption: American College of Surgeons Officers, Board of Regents and Past Presidents in Session at the Clinical Congress, Chicago, 1929. Courtesy American College of Surgeons Archives.]

 
• Surgical operation films from the Gamble Collection. Hugh Agnew Gamble, MD, FACS, recorded many of his surgical operations in the 1940s on 16mm silent color film. Dr. Gamble's grandson, Hugh A. Gamble II, MD, FACS, donated the collection to the College. The film features Refrigeration Anesthesia in the Treatment of Arteriosclerotic and Diabetic Gangrene in the Poor-Risk Patient; and Gangrene Bowel Resection.

• White Battalions, 1942. This ACS film describes modern hospital care to the layperson.

• Fractures: an Introduction. This film was produced by the Committee on Fractures and other Traumas (now the Committee on Trauma), 1948.

• To Serve All, 1963 and 1970. Past presidents and others explain the College’s history and accomplishments.

You can view these films on the ACS website. [http://www.facs.org/archives/films.html]

Approximately 100 of the films and videos in the Archives have been transferred to a digital format. The Archives also is planning a new online system that will provide visitors with access to full descriptions of all cataloged materials, including links to more films, videos, sound recordings, images, and texts. Many Archives resources are already available online.[http://www.facs.org/archives/onlineresources.html]

2013 CAMA Symposium, October 31st

The Chicago Area Medical Archivists are pleased to announce this year's program for CAMA's Annual Medical History Symposium. This year's symposium will be hosted by the American College of Surgeons, Thursday, October 31. Be sure to note the 9:30 a.m. start time for presentations for this very full program. The day ends with a Halloween-friendly finish. 

2013 Chicago Area Medical Archivists Symposium
Oct 31, 2013
American College of Surgeons
633 N. St. Clair Street
28th Floor Board of Regents Room

**Please RSVP to Kevin O’Brien (kevinm@uic.edu)**

Schedule
8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. coffee /networking hour
9:30 a.m.-12:30 pm. presentations
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 4:30 p.m. - Presentations

Program
"Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: An Overview of the First Century"
Kelly Reiss, Feet First Exhibition and Archives Coordinator, Rosalind Franklin University Medicine and Science

"In Harm's Way: Nurses' Exposure to Radiation in the Early Twentieth Century"
Brigid Lusk, PhD, UIC Nursing History Resource Center

"Patient Safety: Physicians and Librarians - Partners in Change"
Holly Burt, MLIS, AHIP

"Lloyd M. Nyhus, MD, FACS : Surgeon, Mentor Visionary"
Donald Wood, MD, FACS, UIC Department of Surgery

"Two sisters: The Drs. Riddle Against the World"
Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin

"The Little Old Lady in Black: The Hospital Haunting of Edith Patterson"
Susan Sacharski, Archivist, Northwestern Memorial Hospital

News: HIPAA Rules Further Clarified for Medical Archivists

Archivists with medical information in their collections should become familiar with the new rules regarding the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which will go into effect this March.

Historic records from hospitals or the personal papers of health professionals may contain information regarding patients' health. Many medical archives are not currently repositories for patient records, which are under the purview of departments like Health Information Management which must adhere to strict privacy guidelines. But legacy collections have often been part of an institution's collections for decades, sometimes a century or more. Leather-bound patient ledgers from 150 years ago can be a boon to any researcher interested in the history of medicine for a certain era or location. 

Thankfully, the new HIPAA rules from the Department of Health & Human Services provide a bit more guidance for archivists and historians who are not interested in current medical records, but those of deceased individuals.

These modifications are now available online. Archivists, historians, and researchers interested in historic medical records should pay particularly close attention to Section 164.502(f)--Period of Protection for Decedent Information under Protected Health Information About Decedents. Privacy rules will now cover health records up to fifty years after an individual's death. Please see the link below to learn more about this rule and possible exceptions and how they might affect your collection or research.

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/01/25/2013-01073/modifications-to-the-hipaa-privacy-security-enforcement-and-breach-notification-rules-under-the#h-203

 

Event: CAMA Medical Symposium 2012

This Friday, October 26, the Chicago Area Medical Archivists are hosting their tenth CAMA Medical Symposium. Please join us for this wonderful program.

Please RSVP to RNSMS@northwestern.edu or 312.503.1913 

Lurie Children's Hospital 
225 East Chicago Avenue
16th  Floor Conference Room
9 a.m. Coffee Hour
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. – Presentations
12 – 1:15 p.m. – Lunch on your own
1:30 – 4:30 p.m. - Presentations 

PROGRAM 

History of the University of Chicago Hospitals
Mindy Schwartz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Dr. Lucy A. Gaynor, Advocate for Children—Nanking China, 1892-1912
Anatomy, Pathology and Infection Risks of Foot Binding
Mary Groll, MD, Instructor of Pediatrics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 
Amy Whalen, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

History of the American College of Surgeons
David Nahrwold, MD, Professor Emeritus of Surgery 
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Dr. Davis’ Hollywood Connection
Diane Friedman, RN, MSN, Instructor
Marian University School of Nursing, Indianapolis Indiana

History of Children’s Hospital
Stanford Shulman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

   

News: Heather Stecklein to bid farewell to Chicago in July

Important CAMA News: The Chicago Area Medical Archivists will be losing one of its long-standing members very soon.

Heather leads a tour of local medical archives during the Society of American Archivists conference, 2007

Heather Stecklein, MLS, MA, has served as archivist at Rush University Medical Center since 2005, but will be leaving Chicago in July. 

I would like to announce to CAMA that she has accepted a position as University Archivist at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Also, she will serve as a Director of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Area Research Center, managing the historic records of three local counties.

Heather's last day at the Rush Archives will be Friday, July 6, and she will be moving to Menomonie with her family soon after. 

Heather with the illustrious Studs Terkel, 2007

Heather has been actively involved in the Chicago Area Medical Archivists since she began her work at Rush. She served as CAMA Web Moderator from 2006 to 2007 and CAMA President from 2007 to 2009. Heather has been part of the Chicago Area Archivists Steering Committee for the past six years.

We all wish her well in her new position and new home. 

Sharing the history of Rush as part of tours of Rush's new Tower building, 2011

As for the Rush Archives, it will always soldier on. As assistant archivist at Rush, I am particularly grateful to Heather for all of the work she has done over the years. The many projects we have accomplished during our five years together would not have been possible without our sharing the Rush core values of Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. It takes a special camaraderie to not only survive, but thrive in a basement every day with one other person for so many years. We may not have had windows, but we had vision.

Nathalie Wheaton and Heather Stecklein: A force to be reckoned with...

- Good luck, Heather! -

Exhibit Opening: Rosalind Franklin University, May 10

Submitted by CAMA member, Kelly Reiss, Feet First Exhibition and Archives Coordinator at Rosalind Franklin University:

Rosalind Franklin University invites you to a reception celebrating the opening of a new exhibit: 

Views from the Past and Present: The Buildings of Rosalind Franklin University

This is an exciting time for Rosalind Franklin University as it celebrates its centennial. 

Learn more about the school and its long legacy here:

http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/centennial.aspx

Please join the RFUMS community for a reception to open this exhibit of images and artifacts from 100 years of the University’s learning environment.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Feet First Exhibition Hall
3333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL 60064

The exhibit will run through August 3, 2012.

For more information call 847.578.8417 or email kelly.reiss@rosalindfranklin.edu

Book Release Event: The Historic Medical Campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago

-Submitted by CAMA member, Kevin O'Brien:

You are invited to an event celebrating the release of The Historic Medical Campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Eileen Tanner.

 

Thursday, April 26, 2012

4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

UIC Library of the Health Sciences 

Special Collections Department (Room 320)

1750 W. Polk St.

312-996-8977

Author Eileen Tanner will describe the process of research that went into designing this new history and self-guided walking tour of the UIC medical campus and the surrounding neighborhood.

CAMA members may remember Eileen from her presentation at CAMA's 2010 Medical History Symposium, which was hosted by Northwestern Memorial Hospital that year.

Learn more about this new, informative resource in this article in UIC Library News:

Historic Medical Campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago: Eileen Tanner’s Snapshot of UIC

News: Percival Bailey Brain Specimens Collection Now Online

-Submitted by CAMA member, Kevin O'Brien:

 

The Special Collections Department of the University of Illinois Chicago Library of the Health Sciences has made available a collection of digital images of neuropathology brain specimens created by Dr. Percival Bailey (1892-1973).  

From UIC's collection, brain specimen featuring pontine glioma.

Bailey, a pathologist and neurosurgeon, had strong connections to several Chicago-area academic institutions, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois. Among his many career achievements was a collaboration with Harvey Cushing in the 1920s at the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital in Boston that resulted in the important book, A Classification of the Tumors of the Glioma Group.

Bailey created this collection of plastic-embedded brain specimens in his laboratory at the University of Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute, where he was a faculty member from 1939 to 1951.

Many of the specimens included in the digital collection may be view in an exhibit at the Library of the Health Sciences which will run into the spring of 2012.

View digital images of over two hundred brain specimens online through CARLI Digital Collections:

http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_uic_neuro.php?CISOROOT=/uic_neuro

For more information about this digital collection or the exhibit, please contact Kevin O’Brien at the UIC Library of the Health Sciences Special Collections Department:

UIC Library of the Health Sciences

1750 W. Polk St.

Chicago, Illinois

312-996-8977

kevinm@uic.edu

http://library.uic.edu/home/collections/manuscripts-and-rare-books

 

Rush University Medical Center celebrates 175th anniversary

Event: 175th Birthday Party, Rush University Medical Center

The Rush Archives invites you to a special birthday event celebrating 175 years of Rush. Join us for lunch and dessert and learn about Rush’s fascinating history.

Rush Medical College's first building, 1844

Rush University Medical Center’s oldest component, Rush Medical College, was chartered March 2, 1837 … two days before the city of Chicago received its charter. That makes us older than Chicago!

Join us for Rush’s 175th Birthday Party

Armour Academic Center, Room 994 
600 S Paulina St, Chicago, IL

Friday, March 2, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Featuring remarks by Thomas A. Deutsch, MD, Dean of Rush Medical College and Provost, Rush University, and a special performance by members of the Rush Choir. Pizza and cake will be served.

Contact the Rush Archives to RSVP:

www.lib.rush.edu/archives

Rush_Archives@rush.edu   or   (312) 942-7214

Image Credit: Rush Medical College's first building, 1844. Facilities Photographs Collection, P522. Rush University Medical Center Archives.

News: Hektoen Institute announces Michael Reese Archive

Michael Reese Hospital lives on in new Michael Reese Archive

CAMA members and researchers interested in historic Michael Reese Hospital should be pleased with the news that the hospital, which closed in 2009, is gone, but not forgotten. Chicago's Hektoen Institute of Medicine has collaborated with the Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation to collect, preserve, and provide digital access to information related to the history of the hospital, which opened in 1881.

Please visit this page for more information on the Michael Reese Archive:

http://www.hektoeninternational.org/Articles_Michael_Reese.html

The Michael Reese Archive needs your help. To further develop this collection, the Hektoen Institute is looking for more documents related to the hospital. If you have a potential donation, please contact associate editor of Hektoen International, Lila Haile, with questions: lila.haile@hektoen.org

The Chicago Area Medical Archivists are grateful to the Hektoen Institute and the Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation for preserving the legacy of such an important part of Chicago's rich medical history and the history of Jews in Chicago. We thank you, and future researchers thank you!

Lecture and Reception Celebrating History of University of Chicago's Hospitals

Lecture and Reception: History of the University of Chicago's Hospitals

An earlier CAMA blog post covered the opening of a new exhibit at the University of Chicago's John Crerar Library.  

http://chicagoareamedicalarchivists.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-exhibit-at-university-of-chicagos.html 

Now, you are welcome to attend a lecture and reception celebrating the exhibit.  

Past, Present, Future: The Evolution of Medicine at the University of Chicago's Hospitals  

The exhibit's curator, Mindy Schwartz, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, will speak on the history of the hospitals.

Wednesday, January 25th, 4:00-5:30 p.m. 

For more information and to RSVP, please contact 773-702-7569 or follow the link below: 

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/exhibits/ 

The exhibit is free and open to the public through March, so don't miss it! Please see below for details on the exhibit. 

New Exhibit at the University of Chicago's John Crerar Library

Exhibit: History of the University of Chicago's Hospitals

Credit: University of Chicago's Photofiles

Thanks to Jennifer Hart, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics Librarian, Eckhart Library/Crerar Library, for sharing the following exhibit news with CAMA.

A new exhibit recently opened at the University of Chicago's John Crerar Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public, so don't miss it! Please see below for details.

Past, Present, Future: The Evolution of Medicine at the University of Chicago's Hospitals

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/exhibits/

October 25, 2011-March 30, 2012

Curated by Mindy Schwartz, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago  

Description: A hospital and medical school at the University of Chicago were envisioned by the university founders.  That plan, initiated with a joint medical program with Rush Medical College, was followed by the development of the world-class University of Chicago Medical Center on campus.  This exhibit looks at the history and evolution of the medical school program, the hospital facilities and their technology, and medical partnerships with other Chicago area hospitals.

Location: The John Crerar Library , Atrium, 5730 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago

Public Hours: Monday – Saturday: 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

Image Caption: Chicago Lying-In Hospital, 50th Anniversary Baby 1, [1945]. From the Archival Photographic Files (Photofiles) collection of the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center. [Image apf2-01538]

Interested in learning more about the history of the University of Chicago or Rush Medical College?  

Please contact the following repositories:

University of Chicago Library, the John Crerar Library and Special Collections Research Center

Rush University Medical Center Archives

Medical History Symposium Program Finalized

CAMA Medical History Symposium, 2011

The program for this year's Medical History Symposium has been finalized. Please see below for the day's schedule.

Admission is free, but registration is required.  To register, please e-mail Felicia Reilly, by October 21, 2011, at f.reilly@asahq.org.  For information, please call 847-825-5586, Ext. 121.

For complete program information, view or download the full program online:

http://issuu.com/chicagoareamedicalarchivists/docs/cama_flyer_revised_sept_23_2011

We hope to see you there!

CHICAGO AREA MEDICAL ARCHIVISTS (CAMA)
NINTH MEDICAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

Friday, October 28, 2011
9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
American Society of Anesthesiologists
520 N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL
(847)825-5586
http://www.WoodLibraryMuseum.org

The Chicago Area Medical Archivists (CAMA) will host the Ninth Medical History Symposium at the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, located in the headquarters of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in Park Ridge, IL.  As part of Archives Week in Chicago, please join CAMA for a day of presentations, discussion, and networking.

SCHEDULE                  Registration begins at 9:00 A.M.  The program will begin at 9:30 A.M.

9:00 to 9:30                   Coffee and registration.

9:30 to 10:15                 Welcome and Introduction
                                    Tour of the newly-remodeled Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology by Honorary
                                    Curator Dr. George S. Bause.

PRESENTATIONS:

10:15 to 11:15               Dr. George S. Bause:  Making Anesthesia History: From Chicagoland to the World
(and Vice Versa).

11:15 to 11:30               Break

11:30 to 12:30               Katharine White:  Pioneer Physicians:  The Ransom Family’s Impact on the
Practice of Medicine in Rockford, Illinois.

12:30 to 1:45                 Lunch Break and Book Sales.

1:45 to 2:45                   Dr. Ted Winslow:  Parallels between Chicago History and Hospitals and Health in Chicago.

2:45 to 3:45                   Sue Sacharski:  Lights, Camera, Scalpel:  “Operation Television” in Chicago, 1948.

3:45 to 4:00                   Book Sales.

 

Update: Medical History Symposium, 2011

Event : Update, Medical History Symposium, 2011

Have you marked your calendar yet?

The next Chicago Area Medical Archivists Medical History Symposium will be held Friday, October 28, 2011, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. It will be graciously hosted by the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology. Thank you to CAMA member and secretary, Felicia Reilly, for coordinating the event!

The program is almost finalized and will be posted soon. 


Admission is free, but registration is required. 


To reserve your seat, or for more information, please contact Felicia Reilly by email...
f.reilly@asahq.org
or phone...

847-825-5586, ext. 121

The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology is located in Park Ridge, IL, about fifteen miles northwest of downtown Chicago. For more information on their institution, please visit their wonderful website:

http://www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/

Check out past CAMA Symposium programs on our ISSUU page!
http://issuu.com/chicagoareamedicalarchivists/docs/cama_symposia_flyers__2003-2008__2010

Since October 2002, CAMA has sponsored a medical history symposium hosted by member institutions. Past symposia have featured presentations by archivists, librarians, physicians and nurses, institutional exhibits, roundtable discussions and facility tours. The presentation topics are usually centered on local medical or nursing history.

Announcing CAMA's Ninth Medical History Symposium, October 28, 2011!

Event : Medical History Symposium, 2011

Mark your calendars!

The next Chicago Area Medical Archivists Medical History Symposium will be held Friday, October 28, 2011. It will be graciously hosted by the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology. Thank you to CAMA member and secretary, Felicia Reilly, for coordinating the event!

The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology is located in Park Ridge, IL, about fifteen miles northwest of downtown Chicago. For more information on their institution, please visit their wonderful website:

http://www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/

Since October 2002, CAMA has sponsored a medical history symposium hosted by member institutions. Past symposia have featured presentations by archivists, librarians, physicians and nurses, institutional exhibits, roundtable discussions and facility tours. The presentation topics are usually centered on local medical or nursing history.

The presentation slots are filling up quickly, and we plan to have a full-day's worth of speakers. If you have a speaker or topic in mind for the symposium, please contact CAMA!

chicagomedicalarchivists@gmail.com

Keep an eye on the CAMA Blog for upcoming news on this event as details unfold!

Now Online: Prominent Physicians, Surgeons, and Medical Institutions of Cook County, c.1900

Research Tips

Finally online! A great resource for CAMA members and anyone interested in the history of medicine in the Chicago area.

"Surgical Operation, Dr. Marie J. Mergler's Clinic, Woman's Hospital," page 259

Prominent Physicians, Surgeons, and Medical Institutions of Cook County in the Closing Year of the Nineteenth Century was digitized recently by the Rush University Medical Center Archives. The Rush Archives received a Book Digitization Initiative Grant from the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) last September. This two-volume collection of biographical sketches, descriptions of hospitals and medical schools, and beautiful photographs was the perfect candidate for digitization. 

"Cook County Hospital," page 431

The book also features wonderful images of surgical clinics, patient wards, and laboratories.

You can read and search the book online, download it as a PDF or full text, and even download it to your Kindle, iPhone, or other portable device.

Find it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/prominentphysici00unse

For more digitized documents from this project, please visit the Internet Archive's home page for the Rush Archives:

http://www.archive.org/details/rushuniversity

Questions about this project? Contact the Rush Archivists at Rush_Archives@rush.edu.

Rush History Book now Available in Free Digital Version

Research Tips

From CAMA Member Heather Stecklein, Archivist, Rush University Medical Center:

Many of the researchers who contact the Rush Archives ask us for a general history of the institution. Good Medicine: The First 150 Years of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, 1987, is a solid history of Rush that includes historical photos and information from a variety of resources in the Rush Archives. Unfortunately, the book is now out of print, and it is difficult to obtain enough copies to meet demand.

The Rush Archives is pleased to announce that Good Medicine is now available on the Internet Archive website for downloading or online viewing. Researchers can perform key-word searches of the text on the website or download the entire book in a variety of e-reader formats.

Last September, the Rush Archives received a Book Digitization Initiative Grant from the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). We created a collection of digital books from commonly requested works in our collections. In addition to Good Medicine, the Rush Archives page on the Internet Archive includes The Pulse Rush Medical College yearbooks from 1894 and 1895, two early alumni directories, and a variety of publications written by early Rush Medical College faculty.

Good Medicine, page 155

To view these fascinating historical works online, visit the Rush Archives page of the Internet Archive here:

http://www.archive.org/details/rushuniversity

View Good Medicine directly here:

http://www.archive.org/details/goodmedicinefirs00bowm

If you have questions about Rush history or this book digitization project, please contact the Rush Archives at Rush_Archives@rush.edu.