The annual Lilianna Sauter Lecture, established in 2000, addresses a topic in medical ethics. Lilianna Sauter, MD, was a long-time Fellow of the Academy, where she was active in the Section on Dermatology. Dr. Sauter received her medical degree from the University of Zurich, and shortly thereafter began her internship at Knickerbocker Hospital, New York, followed by a residency at St. Luke’s Hospital, New York. She was a visiting Fellow in Dermatology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Sauter was a dedicated physician and Associate Professor at Mount Sinai Medical School.
In addition to her professional activities, Dr. Sauter had a keen interest in history, and served as an officer of the Friends of the Rare Book Room at the Academy. She also served as liaison consultant to the Academy’s 1993 program “Paracelsus: Renaissance Physician.”
Contact Information
The New York Academy of Medicine Library
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Email: history@nyam.org
Telephone: 212-822-7313
Previous Lecturers
2013-2014
David Herzberg, PhD
University at Buffalo
The Other Drug War: Prescription Drug Abuse and Race in 20th-Century America
2012-2013
David Rosner, PhD, Columbia University and Gerald Markowitz, PhD, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center
Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
2011-2012
Susan M. Reverby, PhD
Wellesley College
Escaping Melodramas: Historical Thinking and the Public Health Service Studies in Tuskegee and Guatamala
2010-2011
Vinh-Kim Nguyen, MD, MSc, PhD
University of Montreal; Commentary by Jeffrey O'Malley, Director of the HIV/AIDS Group in the United Nations Development Programme
Global Health: Historical Perspectives II: The Republic of Therapy: AIDS in West Africa
This lecture was sponsored in part by the New York Council on the Humanities
2009-2010
M. Susan Lindee, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Gut Feelings and Technical Precision: Thinking about Cystic Fibrosis
2008-2009
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Changing Perspectives on Health Aging, Part IV: The Estrogen Elixir: Women, Hormone Replacement, and the Predicament of Aging
2007-2008
Susan L. Smith, PhD
University of Alberta
Medicine in Wartime, Part IV: Place, Health and War: World War II Mustard Gas Experiments in Transnational Perspective
2006-2007
Harriet Washington
Independent Scholar
American Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans
2005-2006
Amy Fairchild and Ron Bayer
Columbia University
The Searching Eyes of Government: Public Health Surveillance in Twentieth-Century America
2004-2005
Susan Wolf
University of Minnesota Law School
Governing Reproductive Medicine and Reprogenetics: A Daunting Challenge
2003-2004
Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Electroconvulsive Therapy and the Concept of Progress in Medical History
2002-2003
Paul Lombardo, PhD, JD
University of Virginia
Better for all the World: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell
2001-2002
Robert Proctor, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Was there such a thing as "good Nazi science"? German struggles against cancer, 1933-45
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