Thursday, January 05, 2012

19th National Conference of the Society of Civil War Surgeons

19th National Conference of the Society of Civil War Surgeons

Wyndham Garden Hotel

Columbus, Georgia
March 23rd - 25th, 2012



Tentative Agenda

Thursday, March 22, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Board of Directors meeting

Friday, March 23, 2012

 
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Registration [Vendors: 9:00 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.]
 
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.Welcome
 
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.Trevor T. Steinbach, Ed. D.:  “Pensions, Politics, and Diseases: The Post Civil War Soldier.”
 
10:15 a.m. -11:15 a.m.Guy R. Hasegawa, Pharm. D.: “The Union Artificial Limbs Program.”
 
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.Ira Spar, M.D.: “If thy hand offends thee, cut it off!
  
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.Lunch (provided)
1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.George J. Munkenbeck: “ ‘...supplying the unavoidable deficiencies...’ Evacuating
the wounded from the Peninsula in 1862.”
2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.Jon F. Willen, M.D.: “The Story of Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis and the Great What If of Medical History.”
 
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.Break (provided) 
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.Julie Reese Duvall: "History of the United States Sanitary Commission."
 
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.Yusuf M. Saleeby, M.D.: “Hunter Holmes McQuire: His Service to Medicine During and After the Civil War.”
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Dinner (on your own)
 
  

Saturday, March 24, 2012
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.Trip to the Andersonville Prison Camp and National P.O. W. Museum.
 
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Visit Camp and Museum
 
12:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Return to hotel. Lunch on the way back
 
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Trip to National Civil War Naval Museum
Guided tour of museum
Recreation of John Wilkes Booth's autopsy
Museum speaker on "Naval Medicine"

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Banquet (provided) 
  

Sunday,March 25, 2011
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.Barbara A. D’Onofrio, R.N.: “Pregnancy and Childbirth During the Civil War Era.”
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.Mary Beth Hudson: “Phrenology.”
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Gerald E. Turlo, M.D.: “Smallpox - An Ageless Pestilence.”
12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.Wrap-up and Farewell.

ALL TIMES, SPEAKERS & TOPICS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
You can find the agenda for the conference at
http://civilwarsurgeons.org/agenda.htm

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