FRESNO – Women doctors are in the spotlight in a new traveling exhibition on display at the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research. "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians" tells the extraordinary story of how American women who wanted to practice medicine have struggled over the past two centuries to gain access to medical education and to work in their chosen specialty.
The exhibit, which features UCSF Fresno faculty members Katherine A. Flores, MD, and Adriana Padilla, MD, will be on public display in the Dr. Edward and Ann Hildebrand Medical Library at the UCSF Fresno Center, weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Jan. 30, 2009, excluding holidays.
UCSF Fresno is the only location in California privileged to host this unique exhibit.
UCSF Fresno is offering free programs and other events for the public in connection with the exhibition:
Featured Events:
Friday, December 12, 2008 – BY INVITATION 6:00 – 9:00pm
OPENING OF THE EXHIBIT with Performance by Impersonator of Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to earn an MD degree in America
Saturday, December 13, 2008 – BY INVITATION 2:00 – 3:30pm
DOCTOR’S ACADEMY MATINEE with Performance by Impersonator of Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to earn an MD degree in America
Saturday, January 17, 2009 – BY INVITATION 3:00 – 5:00pm
WOMEN PHYSICIANS TEA—HONORING WOMEN PHYSICIANS
Wednesdays, December 3, 2009 – January 28, 2009
12:00 – 1:00pm
WEDNESDAY SPECIAL LECTURES (CME Credit)
Featuring Women Physicians
SCHOOL TOURS
Contact UCSF Fresno Librarian Amy Andres, (559) 499-6505, to schedule classroom tours. Dates available in December 2008 and January 2009
For more information, please call 559-499-6400, email [email protected] or visit: http://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/womeninmedicine/index.htm and http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/
To schedule interviews about the exhibit, please call (559) 241-7512.
The National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., and the American Library Association, Chicago, Ill., organized the traveling exhibition with support from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health, and the American Medical Women's Association.
Local sponsors include California State University, Fresno; Community Medical Centers; Fresno Madera Medical Society; Fresno Piano; Holiday Inn Downtown Fresno; Maria Pallavicini, dean of the School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced; Sasan Rahmatian; UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program and University Centers of Excellence.
