History of Medicine Days in Calgary
In early March (typically the weekend before the March break), the University of Calgary hosts a 2-day, national History of Medicine Days conference at which medical students and humanities students from across Canada present posters and oral presentations on their research in the history of medicine. Abstracts are submitted in the first week of January.2016
Students at HMD 2016 Conference: Top Row (L->R): Ariel Gershon, Adam Kwinter, North de Pencier, Ranjanna Bhattacharjee, Madeline Arkle, Michael Chen, Hao Li, Mathew Volpini Bottom Row: Nicholas Cormier, Rob Bobotsis, Vanessa DeMelo, Daniel Stojanovic, Asma Ali, Nicole Arseneau
Prizes awarded to Schulich Medicine students:
- Public Health/Women's History 3rd place: Ranjanna Bhattacharjee
- Public Health / Women's History 2nd place: Vanessa DeMelo
- Public Health / Women's History 1st place: Nick Cormier
- Best Use of A/V or Analysis of A/V 3rd place: Daniel Stojanovic
- Best Use of A/V or Analysis of A/V 2nd place: Nicole Arseneau
- Best Use of A/V or Analysis of A/V 1st place: Adam Kwinter
- Best Poster 3rd place: Michael Chen
- Best Overall 3rd place: North de Pencier
2015
Students at HMD 2015 Conference: Vanessa DeMelo, Jessica Bryce, Daniel Stojanovic, Daniel Liu, Maddy Arkle, Cindy Zhu, Rob Bobotsis, Stephanie Mokrycke, Hannah MacKenzie, and Babak Aberumand.
At the 2015 conference, four awards were presented to our Schulich Medicine students:
Rob Bobotsis, Meds 2018 -- 1st place for best history of surgery presentation
Vanessa DeMelo, Meds 2017 -- 2nd place for best presentation overall
Jessica Byrce, Meds 2018 -- 2nd place for best history of medicine presentation
Cindy Ningfu Zhu, Meds 2018 -- 2nd place for best audio/visual presentation
2014
Students at HMD 2014 Conference:Kevin Dueck, Pallavi Sriram, Justine Denomme, Hannah MacKenzie, James Ahlin.
The research presentations of Hannah MacKenzie, Meds 2016 and Kevin Dueck, Meds 2016 delivered at the 2014 conference were later awarded the Rowntree Prize in Medical History and the Harvey Club of London Prize respectively at the 2015 History of Medicine Colloquium at Western.
