Dr. Neal Flomenbaum, professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, will present the first Heberden Society Lecture of the 2011–2012 academic year on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011.
Emergency Medicine in Lower Manhattan in the Late 1800s: Everything Old Is New Again
Tuesday, October 4
6 p.m. (Light refreshments served at 5:30 p.m.)
The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue
The lecture is co-sponsored by the NYAM'S Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health and is open to the public. The event is free but registration is required.
Dr. Flomenbaum will discuss emergency medicine during the late 19th-century in lower Manhattan and events that occurred at the time that The New York Hospital moved from its original location near City Hall to its second site between West 15th and West 16th Streets. Hospital minutes describing the acute care needs of its old neighborhood, and newspaper accounts of emergency cases treated in its new "House of Relief," demonstrate both how seriously the Hospital's governors went about fulfilling the Hospital's mission and how "everything old is new again."
Dr. Flomenbaum became the first emergency physician-in-chief at The New York Hospital in 1996, and medical director of NYP-EMS, its emergency medical service. Prior to joining Weill Cornell, he held faculty appointments at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYU and SUNY Downstate, and he held senior positions on the emergency services at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bellevue, NYU and Long Island College Hospital. Dr. Flomenbaum is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the New York Academy of Medicine. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Emergency Medicine, and he has co-edited and co-authored eight editions of "Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies," two editions of "Emergency Diagnostic Medicine," and four editions of the "Emergency Reference Guide." He has lectured widely on the topics of medical toxicology, acid-base disturbances and medical ethics.
The Heberden Society, which seeks to promote an interest in the history of medicine, was founded at the medical center in 1975. With funding from the Office of the Dean, the society sponsors a series of lectures during each academic year.