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| Donald Caton, M.D. addresses
attendees at the Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture
last October. Photograph
by Chad Evans Wyatt |
The 2004 Wood Library-Museum (WLM) Laureate of the
History of Anesthesia was elected on Tuesday, October
14, 2003. Donald Caton, M.D., of Gainesville, Florida,
was named the 2004 Laureate just prior to the Lewis
H. Wright Memorial Lecture at the ASA Annual Meeting
in San Francisco, California. Investiture will occur
at the 2004 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The purpose of the Laureate of the History of Anesthesia
program, which was established in 1994, is to increase
recognition of the richness and importance of the
specialty’s history by recognizing the work
of scholars who have made singular contributions to
the field. The honor is awarded every four years by
the WLM Laureate Committee to an individual who has
a demonstrable record of contributing outstanding,
original materials related to the history of our specialty
as reflected by articles published in peer-reviewed
journals and/or in monographs. The first Laureate,
Gwenifer Wilson, M.D., of Sydney, Australia, was honored
in 1996. The second co-laureates were Norman A. Bergman,
M.D, (1926-1999) and Thomas B. Boulton, M.D., of Berkshire,
England in 2000.
Dr. Caton has published extensively in anesthesiology
history. He won the Anesthesia History Association’s
David M. Little Award and the British Medical Association
Commended Award in 2000 for his book What a Blessing
She Had Chloroform, which was nominated for a
number of other awards. Eleven of his 67 peer-reviewed
articles focused on history, including his first article
in Anesthesiology on the history of obstetrical
anesthesia.
Dr. Caton is well known in anesthesiology history
not only through his numerous publications but also
as a teacher and speaker. As the 1997 Lewis H. Wright
Memorial Lecturer, he spoke on “Feminists and
the Early Development of Obstetric Anesthesia.”
Dr. Caton has given more than 62 lectures on the history
of anesthesiology and has mentored 39 medical students
in the study of the history of medicine.
The Laureate was elected by an international panel
of judges who are known historians and active contributors
to the history of medicine.
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Doris
K. Cope, M.D., is Professor of Anesthesiology,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC),
and Clinical Director of UPMC St. Margaret Pain
Medicine Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
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