The History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series is held in the
Historical Collections and Archives Room (AB-225) and lasts for one hour.
The Lecture Series is free and open to the public.
See the below boxes for upcoming lectures and past lectures.
If you have any questions regarding the Lecture Series or suggestions for future lectures,
please contact Renee Sharrock at rsharrock@augusta.edu or 706-721-3444.
Upcoming Lectures to be announced soon!
If you are interested in presenting a lecture or if there is a topic you would like to attend - please contact Renée Sharrock at rsharrock@augusta.edu or 706-721-3444.
November 14, 2019
Speaker: Soma Mukhopadhyay, PhD
Topic: Laughing Gas, Not a Laughing Matter: A History of Anesthesia
June 13, 2019
Panel Discussion: Dr. Allison Foley, Dr. Mary Lou Davis, Dr. Melissa Powell-Williams; Moderator: Dr. Beth NeSmith
Topic: Confronting Violence: Improving Women's Lives
May 23, 2019
Speaker: Dr. Shaheen Islam
Topic: History of Bronchoscopy
March 28, 2019
Speaker: Dr. Brandy Gunsolus
Topic: History of Laboratory Medicine: From Ancient Times to Modern Technoloby
October 18, 2018
Speaker: Dr. Biagio Vericella and Dr. Lester Pretlow
Topic: 50th Anniversary of the College of Allied Health Sciences
June 21, 2018
Speaker: Dr. Lucy Marion
Topic: 75th Anniversary of the College of Nursing
October 26, 2017
Speaker: Dr. Courtney Babb
Topic: A Brief History: 13,000 Years of Dentistry in One Hour
April 27, 2017
Speaker: Dr. Sergio E. Bustos-Valdés
Topic: History of the Dental College of Georgia
October 20, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Robert Nesbit
Topic: Dr. Virgil Sydenstricker: His Medical Contributions during World War II
September 29, 2016
Speaker: Major General Perry Smith (RET)
Topic: Dr. Hervey Cleckley: The Medical College of Georgia's Renaissance Man
May 3, 2016
Speaker: Wendy Turner, PhD
Topic: A Fine Line between Magic and Science: Medieval and Renaissance Pseudo-Scientific Thinking and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter
February 4, 2016
Speaker: Tom Robertson
Topic: Resisting Sherman
October 15, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Russell Moores
Topic: The Chronicle of George and Procuring Specimens for the Teaching of Anatomy
April 23, 2015
Speaker: Bill Andrews, MA, CMI, FAMI
Topic: The Famous Hunter: The Life of John Hunter
March 19, 2015
Speaker: Joseph P. Bailey, Jr., M.D.
Topic: Virgil P. Sydenstricker, M.D.
January 22, 2015
Speakers: Cargill Alleyne, M.D. and Robyn Hatley, M.D.
Topic: African American Academic Surgeons
November 5, 2014
Speaker: Lisa Stephens, BSN, MN, DNP
Topic: Nursing Anesthesia
May 22, 2014
Speaker: A. Bleakley Chandler, M.D.
Topic: Dr. Edgar Pund and Colleagues: Nature and Detection of Early Cervical Cancer
April 24, 2014
Speaker: Bill Andrews, MA, CMI, FAMI
Topic: The Gravid Uterus
January 23, 2014
Speaker: Paul G. McDonough, M.D.
Topic: The Life and Times of Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D.
November 19, 2013
Speaker: Lee Ann Caldwell, Ph.D.
Topic: American Medicine in the Era of George Washington
July 31, 2013(Encore presentation on September 26, 2013)
Speaker: Renee Sharrock
Topic: Treasures within the Historical Collections and Archives
April 26, 2013
Speaker: Russell Moores, M.D.
Topic: The Chronicle of George and Procuring Specimens for the Teaching of Anatomy
January 24, 2013
Speaker: Wendy Turner, PhD
Topic: Medieval Mental Health Questions: Are They Different from Current Mental Health Questions?
October 25, 2012
Speaker: Robert Nesbit, MD
Topic: The God Committee: The Beginnings of Chronic Hemodialysis
Civil War Medicine Symposium – June 6, 2012
Speaker: Alfred Jay Bollet, MD
Former Chair of the MCG Department of Medicine and author of the book, Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs
Speaker: Shauna Devine, PhD
Topic: Producing Knowledge: Civil War Bodies and the Development of the Medical Sciences in 19th Century America
Speaker: Dillon J. Carroll
Topic: The Living Soul’s, the Bodies’ Tragedies: A Comparative Analysis of Amputation and PTSD in the Civil War
