very year the Anesthesia History Association (AHA) sponsors a resident essay contest. This award, which has a $500 honorarium, is presented at the AHA annual dinner meeting held each October during the ASA Annual Meeting. The second-place winner receives $200, and the third-place winner receives $100. Winners are expected to submit their essays to the AHA’s quarterly Bulletin of Anesthesia History and are invited to present their research at the ensuing AHA Annual Spring Meeting.

The AHA Essay Contest Committee, chaired by William D. Hammonds, M.D., of the University of Iowa Department of Anesthesiology, is pleased to announce the 2004 winners:

First Place:
Matthew Mazurek, M.D. “Sir William Macewen, a History of Oral Tracheal Intubation for Anesthesia, and a Missed Opportunity,” University of California-San Francisco.

Second Place:
George A. Mashour, M.D., Ph.D. “Altered States: The Psychedelic Research of Henry Knowles Beecher,” Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Third Place:
George A. Swanson, M.D. “The Religious Objections and Military Opposition to Anesthetics, 1846-1848,” University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Information about the 2005 contest can be found at <www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/resident99.htm>.

Information about past winners and published essays can be found at <www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/ahaessays.htm>.

Information about the AHA’s Annual Spring Meeting can be found at <www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aha2005.htm>.

Information about the Anesthesia History Association can be found at <www.anes.uab.edu/anesthesia_history_ association.htm>.