Start Over Date 2021 Unit Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Language English

1. (Un)masking identity: art as autoethnography (1:00:52)

Date:
2021-03-31
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
"Give a [wo]man a mask and [s]he will tell you the truth." –Oscar Wilde Since 2010, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's therapeutic arts program has engaged brain-injured and traumatized military veterans in hands-on mask making. Even as they conceal the face, these soldiers' masks vividly reveal secret suffering, declare deeply felt identity and patriotism, signal spiritual wounds and moral strengths, externalize guilt or grief. Making a mask can help its creator to (re)claim identity, and to heal. In this AOA Lecture, physician-educator Mark Stephens and art therapist Melissa Walker discuss the construction of masks as an artful means of recognizing oneself and reflecting on identity, not just for wounded warriors but also for healthcare professionals. Co-presented with Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society, UVA Chapter

2. Anchored in nursing: a life in leadership (1:02:00)

Date:
2021-03-10
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
In this Bice Memorial Lecture, Rebecca Rimel looks back on a life in leadership—in her case, serving 26 years as president and CEO of The Pew Charitable Trusts, an innovative and influential public charity involved in health and human services, the arts, public opinion research, and environmental, public health, and national economic policy. Ms. Rimel's service at Pew was anchored in nursing, built upon an exemplary career in healthcare and on what she learned and practiced as a nurse at UVA—management under pressure, clear communication, purpose and motivation, empathy and caring. Zula Mae Baber Bice Memorial Lecture co-presented with the School of Nursing

3. Elderhood: redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life (1:02:58)

Date:
2021-03-03
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Among the COVID-19 pandemic's lessons is an increased awareness of the hazards of old age. But only a fraction of that risk is biological. At a moment in history when most of us will live into old age, we've created a world that's almost entirely focused on childhood and adulthood. It's time now to define, design, and empower this new, nearly universal elderhood. In this Medical Center Hour, geriatrician and writer Louise Aronson draws on her clinical experience and creative abilities to reimagine and advocate for old age not as a disease but as a vital phase of being human, with implications for social and community life, technology, geroscience, and healthcare. How shall we now approach elderhood? Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture in Health Humanities

4. Oral History Interview with Anastasia Williams (1:16:00)

Date:
2021-04-08
Main contributors:
Williams, Anastasia
Summary:
An oral history interview with Dr. Anastasia Williams, conducted at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on April 8, 2022. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation. Anastasia Longchamps Bayardelle Williams was born in New York and attended Cornell University, graduating with an undergraduate degree in Chemistry in 1991. She moved to Charlottesville with her husband in 1993 so that they could attend medical and law school, respectively, at the University of Virginia. Dr. Williams graduated from the UVA School of Medicine in 1998. After medical school Dr. Williams completed an internship in pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia (1998-1999) and a residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD (1999-2001). She worked as a pediatrician in northern Virginia for 20 years, founding Olde Towne Pediatrics in Manassas and Gainesville, VA, and serving as the Medical Director of Pediatrics for Novant Health UVA Health System. Dr. Williams currently lives and practices in California. Dr. Williams has served on the UVA Medical Alumni Association Board of Directors and the UVA School of Medicine Board of Trustees, as well as on the UVA Parents Committee, which she co-chaired with her husband, Sanford Williams. The Williams have three children, who are all alumni of UVA.

5. Oral History Interview with Dorothy G. Tompkins (1:02:00)

Date:
2021-11-19
Main contributors:
Tompkins, Dorothy G.
Summary:
An oral history interview with Dr. Dorothy G. Tompkins, conducted at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on November 19, 2021. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation. Dorothy Ellen Guild Tompkins was born in 1941 and grew up in Louisa County, VA. She majored in biology at the College of William and Mary (graduating in 1962) before matriculating at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She graduated from medical school in 1966, one of three women in her class. In 1972, Tompkins returned to UVA as a Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology. She went on to be appointed Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in 1973 and Associate Professor of Pediatrics in 1979. Later she worked in the area of addiction treatment, and from 2003-2006 Tompkins served as a pediatrician in the UVA Department of Psychiatric Medicine. A passionate and dedicated teacher, Tompkins received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and was elected to the School of Medicine's Academy of Distinguished Educators during her time at UVA. In recent years, Tompkins has been active in local non-profit work, including master gardener, naturalist, and tree steward programs, and extensive work with women recovering from substance abuse and trauma. She helped found an organization called Georgia's Friends, which operates Georgia's Healing House, a supportive residential home for women in recovery. Tompkins is married to Dr. William Fraser Tompkins III (also a member of the UVA SOM Class of 1966). They live in Central Virginia.

6. Oral History Interview with Edward T. Wood (34:31)

Date:
2021-09-23
Main contributors:
Wood, Edward T.
Summary:
An oral history interview with Dr. Edward T. Wood, conducted by Dr. David S. Wilkes via Zoom on September 23, 2021. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation. Edward Thomas Wood was born in Lexington, VA, in 1932. He attended Armstrong High School in Richmond, VA, and was a pre-medical student at Dartmouth University, where he earned an A.B. in 1953. Wood and his classmate Edward Bertram Nash became the first two Black students to attend and graduate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Matriculating in 1953, they graduated in the Class of 1957. After medical school, Wood completed several internships and residencies in New York. After choosing ophthalmology as a specialty, he opened his own practice in New York and spent the remainder of his career there. He is now retired and living in Florida. David S. Wilkes graduated from Villanova University (B.S.) and earned an M.D. from Temple University. He served as Dean of the UVA School of Medicine from 2015-2021. Dr. Wilkes remains a member of the research faculty at the UVA School of Medicine.

7. Oral History Interview with Linda R. Thompson (1:10:00)

Date:
2021-11-15
Main contributors:
Thompson, Linda R.
Summary:
An oral history interview with Dr. Linda R. Thompson, conducted via Zoom by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on November 15, 2021. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation. Linda Ruth Thompson was born in 1941 in Bristol, Tennessee. She attended King College (now King University) in Bristol, TN, and graduated Magna cum Laude in 1962. Thompson attended the University of Virginia School of Medicine and graduated from medical school in 1966; she was one of three women who graduated in the Class of 1966. After graduation, Thompson completed a rotating internship at the State University of Iowa Hospital in 1967, and then returned to UVA for a residency in psychiatry (1967-1971). She served as the Chief Resident during her final year of residency and also as an Instructor in Psychiatry (1970-1971). Following her residency, she worked as a staff psychiatrist at the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute in Fairfax, VA, before going into private practice in the Washington, DC, area. Dr. Thompson pursued psychoanalytic training at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and graduated from the psychoanalysis program in 1983. In 1984, she moved to the Tri-Cities area of northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia, where she has maintained a general psychiatric practice since 1984. Thompson also worked as a consultant until 2014, primarily with regional mental health centers, and she attended psychiatric patients at local community hospitals. In 2016, Thompson published a book about her experiences with breast cancer, which she was diagnosed with and treated for in 2007 and 2008. She continues to practice medicine part-time in Bristol, TN, and writes about issues in modern healthcare. In addition to her book Surviving Breast Cancer, Thompson is the author of two additional books: Return to Asylums: A Prescription for the American Mental Health System, published in 2016, and Old School Medicine: Lower Tech Care to Improve the High Tech Future of Healthcare, published in 2018. This is a shortened version of the oral history interview conducted with Dr. Thompson in November 2021. The full length interview remains restricted until 2047.

8. Staying human in medicine: the danger of isolation and the power of good connection (1:01:32)

Date:
2021-03-24
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Physician-writer Samuel Shem's iconic black humor-laced novel, The House of God (1978), written while he was a resident, was an exposé of medicine's often-heartless training culture at the time. The book became unofficial required reading for generations of persons going into medicine. His most recent novel, Man's 4th Best Hospital (2020), appeared when clinician morale was low, burnout rampant, and physician suicide on the rise; if anything, the COVID pandemic has exacerbated these conditions. In this Hook Lecture, Shem discusses how his books arose out of perceived injustice to take the measure of medicine's culture, and how he has used fiction both to resist injustice and to call upon doctors, nurses, and others to reclaim their once-humane calling. Edward W. Hook Memorial Lecture in Medicine and the Arts Medicine Grand Rounds Co-presented with the Department of Medicine and with generous support from the School of Medicine's Anderson Lectures

9. The Doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women and women to medicine (59:11)

Date:
2021-02-10
Main contributors:
Nimura, Janice P., University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
The world recoiled at the idea of a woman doctor, yet Elizabeth Blackwell persisted, and in 1849 became the first woman in the U.S. to receive an MD. Her achievement made her an icon. Her younger sister Emily followed her, eternally eclipsed despite being the more brilliant physician of the pair. Together, they founded the first hospital staffed entirely by women, in New York City. While the Doctors Blackwell were visionary and tenacious—they prevailed against a resistant male medical establishment—they weren't always aligned with women's movements, or even with each other. In this Medical Center Hour, biographer Janice Nimura celebrates the Blackwells as pioneers, change agents, and, for women in medicine today, compelling yet somewhat equivocal role models. Co-presented with Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

10. The topography of wellness: how health and disease have shaped the American landscape (1:03:52)

Date:
2021-03-17
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
When it comes to matters of health, environment, and urban history, lessons of the past are often forgotten by Americans. However, in many ways, fears from American epidemics in the last 150 years have all become acute again with the COVID-19 pandemic. Working at the intersection of public health and urban/environmental history, architect Sara Jensen Carr investigates how shifts in the American urban landscape were driven by health concerns, and how these have led to this inflection point between living in the pandemic and a post-pandemic future. She's joined by urban and environmental planner Tim Beatley in this Medical Center Hour that addresses the "topography of wellness" in our urban public spaces even as we anticipate COVID-driven design changes. History of the Health Sciences Lecture Co-presented with Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library; Center for Design + Health, School of Architecture; and University of Virginia Press