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.