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| News Services Staff The weekend will begin on Thursday, May 9, with the 100th D.W. Harrington Lecture, to be delivered by Helen M. Ranney, professor emerita at the University of California at San Diego and a pioneering researcher in the field of sickle cell anemia. The festivities will continue at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 10, with the dedication and unveiling of a plaque marking the site of the medical school's first home at Washington and Seneca streets in downtown Buffalo. On Saturday, May 11, the UB Medical Alumni Association will host its 59th annual Spring Clinical Day, highlighted by the Stockton Kimball lecture. The medical school will graduate its 150th class on Sunday, May 12. Ranney will deliver the commencement address. In addition, the medical school will be co-sponsoring and hosting the 69th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine May 9-12 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The meeting is being held in Buffalo in honor of the medical school's sesquicentennial. The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society is mounting a special exhibit, "Good For What Ails You! Health and Healing in WNY," which will open on Saturday, May 4, and continue through Nov. 17. Buffalo General Hospital, Sisters Hospital, and the Millard Fillmore Hospital System also will sponsor exhibits. A pictorial history of UB medical school will be available for sale at the special events. D.W. Harrington Lecture Ranney's Harrington lecture, to be presented at 4 p.m. in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on the UB South Campus, is titled "Thalassemia-Lessons from the Youngest Science." Thalassemia is a group of inherited disorders characterized by a defective gene that causes faulty hemoglobin production. It is prevalent in the Mediterranean region, the Middle East and in families originating from these regions. The lecture is free and open to the public. Ranney graduated from Barnard College and received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A member of the UB Department of Medicine from 1970-73, she also has held faculty positions at Columbia University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was named professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Diego in 1973, making her the first women to hold such a position at an American medical school. Ranney won the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Sickle Cell Anemia in 1972. A fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a master in the American College of Physicians, she has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Barnard College and the Mayo H. Soley Award for Excellence in Research from the Western Society for Clinical Investigation. She has published and lectured widely in her field. After leaving the chair at UC-San Diego in 1986, she was named distinguished physician by the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs and professor emerita at the university. She is now medical monitor for Alliance Pharmaceutical Corporation in San Diego. Ranney also will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from the State University of New York during the UB medical school commencement. Plaque Dedication The plaque to be dedicated at 11 a.m. on May 10 at Wash- ington and Seneca streets, site of the former First Baptist Church, is one of three being placed in downtown Buffalo to mark the medical school's early presence in the city. Plaques also will be installed at Main and Virginia streets, where classes were held from 1849-1893, and at 24 High St., the site of the school from 1893-1953. Thomas Headrick, UB provost; John P. Naughton, UB vice president for clinical affairs and dean of the UB medical school; Margaret Paroski, president of the UB Medical Alumni Association, and William Siener, executive director of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, will officiate at the dedication. The plaques are part of the Historical Society's markers program. Spring Clinical Day The theme of the day's presentations in the Buffalo Marriott will be "End of Life/Quality of Death." Sherwin B. Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and author of the best-selling book, "How We Die," will present the Stockton Kimball lecture, titled "Death, the Doctor and Hope," at 1 p.m. Morning presentations, which will begin at 7:30 a.m., will include the following:
The program is open to the public for a $45 registration fee, which includes presentations, lunch and the Nuland lecture. The fee is $10 for UB medical-school interns, residents and fellows. Dues-paying members of the UB Medical Alumni Association and members of the classes of 1925 and 1945 may attend at no charge, but must register. Sesquicentennial Commencement One-hundred-seventy-five physicians and scientists will receive the M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree at the school's sesquicentennial commencement, to be held at 3 p.m. in the Center for the Arts on the North (Amherst) Campus. Helen Ranney will receive an honorary doctorate of science and deliver the commencement address. To symbolize their continuing commitment to the practice of medicine, 30 members of the class of 1946-the 50-year class-will renew the Hippocratic Oath on stage in full academic attire. History of Medicine Conference Speakers will include faculty from European, Canadian, South American, Korean, and U.S. universities, as well as the Smithsonian Institution. About 500 participants from across the nation are expected to attend. James J. Bono, UB associate professor of history, and Richard V. Lee, UB professor of medicine, pediatrics and gynecology/obstetrics, are local co-chairs of the meeting. Lilli Sentz, curator of the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection at UB, coordinated the books and exhibits fair. Registration for the meeting is $100.
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