Sickle cell disease is a serious, inherited disorder in which the body makes crescent-shaped red blood cells. The cells are stiff and sticky and can block blood flow to organs.
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Todd Savitt, Ph.D. |
When: Noon, March 26. Lunch will be provided for the first 75 attendees starting at 11:30 a.m.
Where: Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater
Who: Todd Savitt, Ph.D., professor in the department of bioethics and interdisciplinary studies at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, will discuss the history of sickle cell anemia. His lecture is titled, “Race, Medicine, Authorship and the ‘Discovery’ of Sickle Cell Disease, 1910-11.”
Dr. Savitt is an historian of medicine, primarily African-American medical history and medical history of the American South and West. He has written or edited six books, most recently: “Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America.”
What: The Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., History of Medicine Lectureship aims to bring national experts to the UNMC campus to discuss the history of various scientific findings and to support special collections at the McGoogan Library, including works on the history of medicine.
The lectureship is supported through an endowed fund created in 2009 by the late Dr. Davis, professor emeritus of internal medicine at UNMC, and his wife, Jean. Dr. Davis supported this lectureship out of his long-standing interest in the history of medicine.