2021 Hunt History of Maryland Medicine Lecture

Please join the History of Maryland Medicine Committee for the Thomas E. Hunt, Jr., M.D. History of Medicine in Maryland Lecture  

"The 1918 Flu Pandemic and Lessons Learned"
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom.

Philip Mackowiak, MD will present a lecture on the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and the lessons learned from it. He will discuss the origin of the pandemic, its peculiar time-line and clinical characteristics, and the critical elements that gave rise to what became a “perfect storm” of misery and death.

Dr. Mackowiak is the Emeritus Professor of Medicine and the Carolyn Frenkil and Selvin Passen History of Medicine Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park.

For more than two decades, Dr. Mackowiak has hosted an acclaimed series of Historical Clinicopathological Conferences in Baltimore, as well as written two books, one titled Post Mortem. Solving History’s Great Medical Mysteries, and the other, Diagnosing Giants. Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World. These works have established Dr. Mackowiak as one of today’s foremost medical historians.

The Hunt History of Maryland Medicine Lecture is named for the late Baltimore orthopedic surgeon Dr. Thomas E. Hunt, Jr., who had been an active member of MedChi and the Baltimore City Medical Society for many years. Dr. Hunt’s interest in the history of medicine in Baltimore and Maryland  led to the establishment of this annual lecture series in his honor.

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For a transcript of the most recent Hunt Lecture, please click here.

You will be taken to a Google document with the transcript and images from the lecture.