September 2024 SHC Noon Lecture to Feature Dr. David J. Wolf

Join us for the first SHC Noon Lecture of the 2024-2025 year featuring Dr. David J. Wolf! The lecture will be held Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at 12pm on Zoom. Dr. Wolf entered medical school in 1969. Fifty-two years later he retired from the clinical practice of hematology and medical oncology. This talk describes the extraordinary changes in medicine that he experienced and observed during his professional career at Weill Cornell University Medical College and on the staff of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The talk is in part an autobiographical account of how medical school and post-graduate training, the hospital, the clinical practice of hematology and medical oncology, and the healthcare system have evolved.

David J. Wolf, M.D. is a retired clinical hematologist who spent his professional career on the Faculty of Weill Medical College at Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He is an antiquarian medical book collector who has been a member of the Grolier Club since 2010. He sits on the Board of Governors and membership committee of the American Osler Society. In 2021 Dr. Wolf established the David J. Wolf, M.D. Medical Archives Endowment which sponsors the David J. Wolf, M.D. Visiting Research Scholar Program at Weill-Cornell Medicine. As a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, he sits on the Section for the History of Medicine Executive Committee.

This event is open to the public. Virtual seating is limited and registration is required by Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at 6 PM to reserve your seat and to receive login information.