The 96th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine will be held May 11-14, 2023, in Ann Arbor Michigan
There will be a one-day virtual meeting on May 20, 2023, Time: 9am – 6:45pm
Free for anyone who registered for the AAHM in-person meeting.
$10 registration for all others. Click here to Register
Link provided separately.
Final Program
Early registration rates are available through April 27th. If you prefer to register by mail, please print this form and mail it to Johns Hopkins University Press, Journals Publishing Division, P.O. Box 19966, Baltimore, MD 21211-0966
Conference Hotel
The main conference hotel is the Kensington, with accommodations also available at the adjacent Even Hotel. Even Hotel offers 24-hour access to a complete in-house gym with stationary bicycles, free weights, weight machines, yoga mats/balls and of course, the old standby, treadmills. There is free parking at both hotels. AAHM room rate is $149 plus 11%tax. The cut-off for the AAHM room rate is April 12. The Kensington is full as of March 30th but there are rooms at the Even Hotel. Use this link to make reservations. You may also make reservations by calling (734-761-2929) and indicating that you are with the American Association for the History of Medicine. Rooms are also available at the Hampton Inn for the same $149. To make a reservation click here or call 734-665-5000 and ask to make a reservation in the AAHM block
Wolverine Pathways
This year the AAHM is proud to partner with UM’s Wolverine Pathways program. The local arrangements committee has invited Wolverine Pathways students interested in pursuing careers in medicine, history, public health, and museum and archival studies to attend our conference. We are soliciting volunteers from our membership to participate in one-on-one informational interviews with WP students where students can ask questions about your career and learn about how to prepare for their own. We are setting aside time on Saturday morning from 10:30-11 Eastern for in-person meetings, but will also have opportunities for zoom interviews for those students who cannot come to campus for the meetings. If you are interested in meeting with Wolverine Pathways students, please fill out this Wolverine Pathways Interest Form. Please be aware that it asks for a 50-200 word personal and professional bio to assist staff in matching scholars and students.
Wolverine Pathways seeks to confront the barriers that limit college and career aspirations of highly motivated students from under-resourced communities in the Detroit, Ypsilanti, and Grand Rapids areas. Students in grades 7-12 participate in year-round programming that prepares them for college and challenges them to grow socially and emotionally within their community of scholars. Wolverine Pathways fosters relationships, both professional and personal, that encourage student academic resilience and achievement for college and beyond. Scholars who graduate from Wolverine Pathways and are accepted into UM receive a four-year full tuition scholarship. Because of this, we particularly encourage any interested UM attendees to volunteer for these informational interviews. We also especially encourage our members whose careers take place in clinical settings or outside traditional academia to volunteer.
Getting to Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor is accessible via plane, train, bus, and car. Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) is about twenty miles east of Ann Arbor; travel from the airport usually takes under thirty minutes. The Michigan Flyer provides reliable and affordable transportation to and from the airport with multiple trips a day. You can catch a cab (such as Metro Cab) or request Lyft or Uber. Ann Arbor has a centrally located Amtrak station with daily trains to/from Chicago and Detroit. MegaBus and Greyhound also service Ann Arbor. Depending on your proximity to Ann Arbor, this might be a good time to drive to an AAHM meeting as parking at the conference hotel is free. Ann Arbor is right off of I-94.
Graduate Student Meetup
Dining Guide: Choose Your Own in Ann Arbor
CME
AAHM and the University of Michigan Medical School are offering CME. Sign-up for CME through the registration process.
The University of Michigan Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Michigan Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of XX AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™️. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Tours
Tour 1: The University of Michigan Stadium complex. The University of Michigan has the largest-capacity stadium in North America. The “Big House” seats over 110,000 every football Saturday in the fall.
Tour 2: The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) boasts an impressive catalog and beautiful exhibits that bring visitors in year-round. For this year’s AAHM, the curators at UMMA have put together a selection of pieces that speak to medicines, remedies, treatment, and healing to be available for two group viewings in the Paper Room. Attendees will have 45 minutes to view the specially curated collection and then free time to wander the galleries of the museum.
Tour 3: Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry at the University of Michigan
For additional details about the 2023 annual meeting and Ann Arbor see the February issue of the AAHM NewsLetter
The Call for Papers, Posters, and First-Books Authors is closed
The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people. In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land donation to the University of Michigan, offered ceremonially as a gift in the text of the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated. Through these words of acknowledgment, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.