We are pleased to report the following awards announced at the annual meeting of the AAHM in Rochester, New York, April 10-13, 2008

The Osler Award for the best essay in the history of medicine written by a medical student.

The winner was:
Ronald W. Alfa (Stanford University School of Medicine),
“Redefining Inert: The Birth of the Placebo in American Medicine”

Honorable mention awards:
David P. Johnson (Duke University School of Medicine),
“Dr. George W. Harley: A new perspective of a 20th century medical missionary’s influence on 21st century global health”

Honorable mention awards:
Amanda V. Thornton (Dartmouth Medical School),
“Coerced Care: Thomas Thistlewood’s account of medical practice on sugar plantation slaves in colonial Jamaica, 1751-1786.”

The Shryock Medal winner for the best essay on medical history by a graduate student:
Stephen E. Mawdsley (University of Alberta),
"Polio and Prejudice: Charles Hudson Bynum and the Racial Politics of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1944-1954."

The William H. Welch Medal for the best book in the history of medicine in the last five years:
Frank M. Snowden for The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (Yale 2006)

The Garrison Lecturer who will deliver the keynote speech at the annual meeting in 2009 in Cleveland Ohio will be Katharine Park.

The Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Career Development Award was:
Dr. Mical Raz from the program for history of medicine at Tel Aviv University for her project
“Rereading Lobotomy: Crossing Boundaries in the History of Psychosurgery in the United States, 1935 – 1955.”

The Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Dora B. Weiner.

J. Worth Estes Prize for a published essay of outstanding merit in the history of pharmacology was given to
Jonathan Simon for his essay
“Emil Behring’s Medical Culture: From Disinfection to Serotherapy,” Medical History, 51, 2007, 201-218.