Previous Medical History Conferences
Summary of Programs
First Annual Conference on Medical History of the American West, September 15, 2000
“Earliest Medical Practices of Native Americans,” – Great Room, MSU Foundation
Second Annual Conference on Medical History of the American West, October 24, 2001
“The Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” – Hager Auditorium
Third Annual Conference on Medical History of the American West, October 29, 2002
“Epidemic Diseases in the Early American West,” – Hager Auditorium
Fourth Annual Conference on Medical History of the American West, October 23, 2003
“Frontier Military Medicine and the Settlement of the West: the Battlefield and Beyond,” – Hager Auditorium
Fifth Annual Conference on Medical History of the American West, October 26, 2004
“Women in Health Care in Frontier Montana,” – Hager Auditorium
Sixth Annual Conference on Medical History of the American West, Conference moved to the Spring and it was held April 25, 2006,
“Ticks & Prions: The History of Animal- & Human-Related Diseases in the Rockies,”
– Hager Auditorium
Seventh Annual Conference on Medical History of the American West, April 24, 2007
“Mining and Medicine: Drills, Dynamite, Dust & Disease,” – Hager Auditorium
Medical History of the West Eighth Annual Conference, April 25, 2008
“Shaping Medical Practice in the New State of Montana: Acupuncture, Apothecaries & Abortion,” – Bozeman Public Library
Ninth Annual Medical History Conference of the West, April 16, 2009
“Summits and Sorrow,” – Stadium Club Corporate Room
Tenth Annual Medical History Conference of the West, April 16, 2010
“The Challenges of Public Health Nursing In Montana and the West,” – Stadium Club Corporate Room
Eleventh Annual Medical History Conference of the West, April 18, 2011
“Festschrift in Honor of Volney W. Steele, M.D.” – MSU Foundation Great Room
Twelfth Annual Medical History Conference of the West, April 2, 2012
“Hippocrates to Helena: the History of Medical Education and Its Importance for Montana’s Future,” – MSU Strand Union Building
Thirteenth Annual Medical History Conference of the West, April 5, 2013
“Military medicine: Historical & Ethical Issues in the Care of the Wounded,” – MSU Strand Union Building
Fourteenth Annual Medical History Conference of the West, March 24, 2014
“Challenge and Response: Emerging Diseases and Emerging Medicine,” – MSU Strand Union Building