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Endorsed by the
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Commission
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 | To commemorate the 200th anniversary of
President Abraham Lincoln’s Birth
The National Museum of Health and Medicine Presents
A Symposium on President Lincoln’s Health
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Saturday, April 18, 2009, 1:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | |
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| 1:00 p.m. | Welcome | Adrianne Noe, Ph.D. |
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| 1:05 p.m. | Lincoln and His Sons: Familial Synostotic
Frontal Plagiocephaly | Ronald S. Fishman, M.D.
Adriana Da Silveira, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D. |
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| 2:00 p.m. | Molecular Genetics with an Historical Twist: Spectrin Mutation Causes Spinocerebellar
Ataxia Type 5 in President Lincoln’s Pedigree | Laura P. W. Ranum, Ph.D. |
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| 3:15 p.m. | The Neurologic Death of Abraham Lincoln | Todd J. Janus, Ph.D., M.D. |
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| 4:00 p.m. | Could Lincoln Have Been Saved | Thomas M. Scalea, M.D. |
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| 5:00 p.m. | Concluding Remarks | Adrianne Noe, Ph.D. |
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| 5:15 p.m. | Reception | |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Keynote Address by Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, former chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court:
"Lincoln’s Battles in the White House: Tales of Melancholia, Syphilis, and Leadership" | |
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Sunday, April 19, 2009, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | |
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| 1:00 p.m. | Welcome | |
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| 1:03 p.m. | The Lincoln Exhibit at the National Museum of Health and Medicine | Adrianne Noe, Ph.D. |
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| 1:45 p.m. | The Neurologic Death and Possible Rescue of Abraham Lincoln | Todd J. Janus, Ph.D., M.D. |
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| 3:00 p.m. | Abraham Lincoln, Psychotherapist to the Nation: Lincoln’s Depression and Its Transformative Effects on Empathy and Therapeutic Communication Through Metaphors | Kenneth Leetz, M.D. |
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| 4:00 p.m. | Lincoln’s Gettysburg Illness | Armond S. Goldman, M.D. |
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| 5:00 p.m. | Concluding Remarks | Adrianne Noe, Ph.D. |
**Speakers and topics subject to change.
For more information and reservations, call 202/782-2673 or email nmhminfo@afip.osd.mil
 Among the most popular anatomical specimens and historical artifacts on display are those related to President Abraham Lincoln. These include the bullet that ended his life, the probe used to locate the bullet, a blood-stained shirt cuff from the museum surgeon who attended the autopsy, and bone fragments and hair from Lincoln's skull. The collection also includes a pencil drawing of the deathbed scene made by the museum's medical illustrator immediately after the removal of Lincoln's body from the house in which he died. Also on display are copies by sculptor Avarel Fairbanks of Abraham Lincoln's life mask and hands made by Leonard Volk in 1860. |
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