Defining and Treating Heart Disease: A History

Dr. Arnold Meshkov, a Philadelphia-area cardiologist who has published a book on the history of the science and technology around myocardial infarction (heart attack) was the featured speaker in February.

His University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine Grand Rounds talk is entitled "Catheterization of the Heart: From Self-Experimentation to Angioplasty." It will take place from 12-1pm on Tuesday, February 22, on Teams. Please reach out to the Department of Medicine if you would like to attend.

His C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society talk entitled "The Cholesterol Odyssey: Russian Rabbits to mRNA technology" took place from 6-7:15pm the same evening, Tuesday, February 22. You can watch the recorded lecture here.

To learn more about his book, Chasing the Widowmaker: The History of the Heart Attack Epidemic (2021), click the title.

Do you need disability accommodations to participate? Please email us at least 1 week in advance so that we can do our best to arrange for an ASL interpreter, screen captions, visual description, a transcript, etc.

Professor Jaipreet Virdi has had to postpone her lectures and book discussion on deafness cures in the history of medicine that were scheduled for February 2022. We look forward to welcoming her, perhaps in person, in February 2023. You can register to attend those events when the new times are announced closer to the date.