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Past meetings

 

Date

Speaker

Topic

Venue

2011 Oct 27 Mr David Buob History of the Glenside Hospital Royal Society Rooms
  Sept 22 Dr Audrey Kent The Leeds Public Dispensary, 1824-1887 Royal Society Rooms
  Aug 25 Dr Ral Antic History of TB in Australia Royal Society Rooms
  July 28 Mr. Robert Laidlaw Dr. William Home Popham GP, Gawler, 1850 Royal Society Rooms
  June 23 Dr. John McIntyre
50 Years of Change in Dentistry Royal Society Rooms
  May 26 Dr. John Rice
The History and Development of the Bionic Ear Royal Society Rooms
  Apr 28 Dr Donald Beard Three Members of a Family in World War I Royal Society Rooms
  Apr 28 Prof Donald Simpson The Achievements of Leonard Lindon Royal Society Rooms
  Mar 24 Dr Tony Slavotinek RP Jepson: Foundation Professor of Surgery Royal Society Rooms
  Mar 24 Dr Michael Patkin The SAMHS website and Virtual Gallery Royal Society Rooms
  Feb 24 Dr Robert Cooter Ceduna Health Services Royal Society Rooms
2010 Nov 18 Prof. Donald Simpson The Pineal Gland - Confusion and Error Royal Society Rooms
  Oct 28 Dr. Sven Kuusk Visit to SA Military Museum Keswick Military Museum
  Sept 23 Dr. Chris Verco First Stationary Military Hospital on Lemnos Royal Society Rooms
  July 22 Dr. Tony Slavotinek and Dr. Michael Patkin SAMHS Website and Virtual Museum The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  June 17 Prof. Maciej Henneberg Ancient Medicine Findings from the Pompeii Archeological Site Royal Society Rooms
  May 20 Fiona Khor History of Chemotherapy and Development of Oncology Drugs The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  Apr 22 Dr. Joan Durdin
History of  Nursing in SA The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  Mar 18 Prof. Suzanne Miller, Director, SA Museum.
Creating Collections The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  Feb 18 Dr Colin Moore, ophthalmologist Cataract surgery in my professional lifetime  
2009 Sep 17 Dr Robert Cooter, retired General Practitioner.

 

“Dr. Phoebe Chapple –Her Life Story”.

This remarkable woman served in front-line trenches providing medical services in World War One, was awarded the Military Medal, and returned to a full medical life in Adelaide.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  Sep 17 General meeting of the Society - report    
  May 27 History Week, presented by the History Societies of hospitals in Adelaide and a number of individual members of the SAMHA (in conjunction with Society of History of Ideas, Technology and Science) Staff dining room Glenside Campus
  Apr 30 Prof Wayne Sampson Head of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Adelaide, Curator of the PR Begg Museum

History of Dentistry in South Australia – early days

 
 

Feb 26

Prof Bob Goldney

Professor and Head of Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide

Glenside Hospital: an historical perspective including its role in the treatment of Depression

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

 

2008

August 28

Robert George (President of ISRRT)

"The Role of the Braggs in develop-
ment of x-rays in South Australia and
the Royal Institution"

Hayward Room Public Schools Club (Bragg House) 207 East Terrace, Adelaide (city)

 

July 21

(1) Ms Linda Wurfel

"The Dust Museum in Amsterdam'

Board Room of the Womens and Childrens Hospital

 

ditto

(2) Dr. Michael Patkin

 

"Wellcome" - The Real and Virtual Museum'

ditto

  June 10 Alvis Jaunzems >"Light & Electron Microscopy, History & Advances"

 

Histopathology Dept. Adelaide Childrens' Hospital

 

 

May 21

History Week Exhibition

 

(in conjunction with Society of History of Ideas, Technology and Science)

 

 

March 27

Dr Robert Cooter

"Air Doctors of South Australia ( Bush Church Aid Port Augusta and BCA Ceduna Society) RFDS'

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

 

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Donald Beard FRACS

"Remeniscences of Sir Henry Newland"

 


2007

Dec 7

 

Dr Toby Coates

"Renal Dialysis and Transplants early days and present"

Calvary Hospital

 

 

Aug 14

Dr Thomas Stevenson

"History of Orthopaedic Surgery in South Australia"

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

 

 

July 19

Dr Peter Last

"Repatriation Hospitals"

Repatriation Hospital - Daws Road, Daw Park

 

May 23

History Week Display

"Then & now in Medicine"

Glenside Campus

 

Feb 27

Dr Richard Brock

"The Life & achievements of Howard Florey"

The Florey Clinic, 3 Pulsford Road, Prospect

 

Jan 22

Dr Brian Fotheringham

Heraldry of the Coat of Arms of the Adelaide Childrens' Hospital"

Mr Graham Truman (host) at Samual Way Building, Women & Childrens' Hospital


2006

Nov 21

Dr Robert Cooter

"Amoebic Meningitis in Port Augusta & Environs"

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia - 149, Greenhill Road, Unley

July 17

Mr Paul McLarkin

"Design & Manufacture of glass eyes"

Calvary Hospital


2005 Sep Dr. W.R. Fuller A History of General Anaesthesia - the first 100 Years  

 

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