NLM Announces 2022 Michael E. DeBakey Fellows in the History of Medicine
December fifteen, 2021
Next its April 26, 2021 call for applications to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the Historical past of Medicine, NLM is delighted to announce its 2022 DeBakey Fellows:
Ogechukwu Williams, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Historical past and Department of Professional medical Humanities
Creighton University
Research Project – Dying to Bring Life: A Social Historical past of Maternal Fatalities in Nigeria
S.J. Zanolini, LAc
PhD candidate, Johns Hopkins Professional medical College, Historical past of Medicine
Research Project – Each day Medicine: Prescribed Meal plans in Early Fashionable China
In addition to enterprise their investigation assignments, NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellows will be anticipated to:
- Check with with NLM staff members to boost on the Library’s current obtaining aids and linked means by boosting the Library’s information of its selection and ability to deliver informed obtain to it
- Fulfill the terms of the NIH General public Obtain Plan for NIH-supported work, and acknowledge the NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the Historical past of Medicine in any ensuing publications
- Reply to NLM Business of Communications & General public Liaison and Historical past of Medicine Division requests for interviews
- Creator at minimum one particular guest report for NLM’s Circulating Now blog site, based mostly on their investigation.
The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the Historical past of Medicine is produced probable through a gift from The DeBakey Professional medical Basis.
Michael E. DeBakey (1908-2008) was a famous American surgeon, educator, and professional medical statesman. Throughout a career spanning seventy five several years, his work reworked cardiovascular surgical treatment, lifted professional medical education and learning expectations, and informed countrywide health care plan. He pioneered dozens of operative processes this sort of as aneurysm repair service, coronary bypass, and endarterectomy, which routinely save 1000’s of lives each individual calendar year, and done some of the very first heart transplants. His innovations integrated the roller pump (a important ingredient of heart-lung equipment) as properly as artificial hearts and ventricular guide pumps. He was a driving drive in building Houston’s Baylor College Faculty of Medicine into a premier professional medical middle, where by he trained a number of generations of best surgeons from all about the environment. Michael DeBakey was instrumental in bringing NLM to the NIH campus and served for quite a few several years on NLM’s Board of Regents.
For far more info about elements obtainable for historical investigation at NLM, as properly as the NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the Historical past of Medicine, visit https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd, or call the NLM via NLM Client Aid.
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