About
Established in 1948, the Medical Library Associates have supported the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library’s world-class services to faculty, staff and students of the Yale medical center, today and for generations to come.
Some examples of projects and resources funded by the Associates include:
- An online exhibit of the history of the Yale School of Medicine
- The digitization of the expansive Fry Print and Drawings Collection
- New exhibition cases for the central rotunda
Contact
John Gallagher, Director, Medical Library
203-785-5352
john.gallagher@yale.edu
Dr. Catherine Chiles, Chair of the Board of Trustees
catherine.chiles@yale.edu
Become a Member
Your contribution will provide unrestricted support to the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library.
Online
*Specify that your gift is intended for the Medical Library Associates in the “Comments”
By Check
Please make your check out to Yale University and note that it is for the benefit of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Medical Library Associates.
Please send checks to:
Library Administration Office
Attn: Chris Woodford
Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Membership Benefits
All membership levels are granted access to the Medical Library building and in-house use of print and electronic resources. Plus a guaranteed spot at our annual lecture.
Students, recent graduates, and residents are eligible for free membership.
Contribution Level
LIFETIME – $1,500+
Lifetime members may borrow up to 25 medical library items at a time; borrowing privileges never expire
SUSTAINING – $300 – $1,499 (annual)
Sustaining members may borrow up to 25 medical library items at a time; borrowing privileges expire annually
CONTRIBUTING – $150 – $299 (annual)
Contributing members may borrow up to 10 medical library items at a time; borrowing privileges expire annually
MEMBER – $50 – $149 (annual)
Annual Lectures
Each year, the Associates host a lecture in April. Past speakers have included Nobel Laureates, writers, professors and Surgeons General who have lectured on a wide variety of topics relating to medicine.
View the full list of past lectures
| Year | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Megan Ranney, MD, MPH Dean of Yale School of Public Health and C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Professor of Emergency Medicine | “Gun violence as a public health problem: What we know, and where we are going” |
| 2024 | Linda Mayes, MD Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology in the Yale Child Study Center; Chair, Child Study Center | “Homecomings: Anchoring Ourselves in Place” |
| 2023 | Gregg Gonsalves, PhD Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Associate (Adjunct) Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Affiliated Faculty, Program in Addiction Medicine; Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health | “We Will Be Citizens: AIDS Activism and Global Health Justice” |
| 2022 | Serap Aksoy, PhD Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at Yale School of Public Health; Affiliated Faculty at Yale Institute for Global Health | “Advancing Global Public Health: Building Bridges Across Disciplines and Advocating for Evidence-Based Health Policies” (CC available) |
| 2021 | Nita Ahuja, MD, MBA, FACS Chair of the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine, Chief of Surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital | “Epigenetic Health: Rethinking Aging and Cancer” |
| 2020 | Cancelled due to COVID-19 | |
| 2019 | Akiko Iwasaki, PhD Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | “Learning Immunology From Viruses” |
| 2018 | Laura Niklason, MD, PhD Nicholas Greene Professor of Anesthesiology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Yale School of Medicine | “How Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine is Changing Human Disease” |
| 2017 | Sten Vermund, MD, PhD Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health; Dean of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine | “HIV/AIDS from A(labama) to Z(ambia): Research and response since 1981” |
| 2016 | Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | “Immune System in Health and Disease” |
| 2015 | Unni Karunakara, MD Senior Fellow, Jackson Insitute for Global Affairs; Past International President of Médecins Sans Frontières | “Humanitarian Duties and Action” |
| 2014 | James E. Rothman, MD, PhD Nobel Laureate; Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Science and Chemistry; Chairman and professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Chemistry, Yale University | “Bubbles in Living Cells” |
| 2013 | John Gaddis, PhD Pulitzer Prize Winner; Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, Yale University | “Writing George Kennan’s Biography” |
| 2012 | Gaddis Smith, PhD Larnde Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University | “The Medical School’s Close Call: A Crisis in the Middle of the 20th Century” |
| 2011 | Jonathan Spence, PhD Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University | “The Great Might-Have-Been: A Chinese Visitor to Robert Boyle” |
| 2010 | David W. Blight, PhD Professor of American History, Yale University | “Slaves No More: Two Recently Discovered Slave Narratives & the Story of Emancipation” |
| 2009 | Michael J. Donoghue, PhD Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University | “Charles Darwin, the Tree of Life, and the Future of Biodiversity” |
| 2008 | James H. Billington, PhD Librarian/Director, Library of Congress | “Freedom as a Strategy: The Importance of an Ideal” |
| 2007 | Robert A. Weinberg, PhD Professor of Biology, MIT; Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | “Origin of Human Malignancies” |
| 2006 | Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD President, Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Science | “Preparing for Avian Influenza: Lessions from the Swine Flu Affair” |
| 2005 | Douglas Melton, PhD Thomas Dudly Cabot Professor in the Natural Sciences, Harvard University | “The Future of Pancreatic Stem Cells and Diabetes” |
| 2004 | Peter C. Agre, MD Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | “The Road to Stockholm and Back: Comments on the Journey” |
| 2003 | Dean Kamen Award winning inventor of many medical advances including Insulin infusion pumps, home renal dialysis units, the Ibot wheelchair, and the Segway Human Transporter; Founder of FIRST foundation | |
| 2002 | J. Craig Ventner, PhD Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board, The Institute for Genomic Research | “Sequencing the Human Genome” |
| 2001 | Joshua Lederberg, PhD Nobel Laureate; Emeritus President, Rockefeller University | “Evolution of Infectious Disease” |
| 2000 | Dr. Richard Horton Editor-in-chief, The Lancet | “The Journalization of Science: Treachery versus Trust” |
| 1999 | David Satcher, MD, PhD United States Surgeon General; United States Assistant Secretary for Health | |
| 1998 | John H. Lienhard, MD Anderson Professor, University of Houston; Author and voice of National Public Radio | “The Engines of Our Ingenuity” |
| 1997 | Daniel S. Goldin Administrator of NASA | “NASA and Medicine” |
| 1996 | Jerome P. Kassirer, MD, MACP Editor, New England Journal of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Tufts University; Member, Institute of Medicine | “Tomorrow’s Journals: In Ink or in Bytes?” |
| 1995 | Jaroslav Pelikan, PhD Sterling Professor of History, Yale University | “Amnesia, An Oppupational Disease of Professionals – and Its Antidote” |
| 1994 | Arvin Brown Artistic Director, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven | “Theatre as Literature” |
| 1993 | Dr. Holly Atkinson Director of Lifetime Medical Television | “The Visualization of Medical Knowledge: A Personal and Professional Odyssey from Text to Television” |
| 1992 | Donald Lamm President, W.W. Norton Publishing Company | “Capsules, Caplets, and Tablets: How Americans Read Today” |
| 1991 | Dr. John Brademas President, New York University, Former Congressman | “Higher Education in the ’90s: Prospects and Problems” |
| 1990 | Donald Kagan, PhD Dean of Yale College | “Liberal Education” |
| 1989 | Justice Harry A. Blackmun Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | “Medicine and the Constitution” |
| 1988 | Anatole Broyard Author, Former editor of the New York Times Revew of Books | “The Pathology of Reading” |
| 1987 | William F. Buckley Jr. Author, Journalist, TV Commentator | “The Genesis of a Hero” |
| 1986 | Peter Gay, PhD Sterling Professor of History, Yale University | “On Writing a Biography of Freud or Psychoanalyzing the Psychoanalyst” |
| 1985 | Dean Leon Rosenberg, MD Former dean of Yale School of Medicine, Yale University | “The Reflections of a Green Dean” |
| 1984 | Dr. Jeremiah Barondess President of New York Academy of Medicine | “Cushing and Osler: the Evolution of a Friendship” |
| 1983 | John Irving Author | “From Fact to Fiction: the Anatomy of a Story” |
| 1982 | Dr. Lawrence K. Altman Science Editor, New York Times | “Medicine and the Press, an Historical Overview” |
| 1981 | Herman Liebert Librarian Emeritus, Beinecke Library, Yale University | “Investing in Manuscripts and Rare Books” |
| 1980 | Dr. William Butterfield Trustee of the Associates | “Medical Caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson” |
| 1979 | Dr. Norman Rich, MD, FACS, DMCC, MC Founding chair of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Department of Surgery | “History of Vascular Surgery” |
| 1978 | Bern Dibner Curator, Burndy Library | “Book collecting and its culmination in the Burndy Library” |
| 1972 | Dr. Martin M. Cummings Director of the National Library of Medicine | “Problems of Scientific Publications” |
| 1971 | Dr. Whitfield J. Bell Librarian of the American Philosophical Society | “The Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital” |
| 1970 | Dr. Saul Jarcho Editor-in-chief, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine | “Some Experiences with Books and Libraries” |
| 1969 | Dr. George Rosen, PhD Professor of medical history and public health, Yale University | |
| 1958 | Dr. Frank B. Rogers Director of the National Library of Medicine | “Books and Medicine” |
| 1949 | First Meeting of the Associates and Trustees; Unveiling of Harvey Cushing Bronze Bust |
Board of Trustees
A Board of Trustees governs the affairs of the Associates. The board consists of 16 trustees in 4 classes who are current Associates members, as well as a number of honorary trustees.
Officers and Ex-Officio
Dr. Catherine Chiles, MD
Chair
Nancy J. Brown, MD
Dean, Yale School of Medicine
John Gallagher, MLS
Director, Medical Library
Melissa Grafe, PhD
Librarian for Medical History
Barbara Rockenbach, MS, MA
University Librarian
Sharon McManus
Director of Medical Library Development
John H. Warner, PhD
Professor and Chairman, History of Medicine
Azita Emami, PhD, MSN, BSN, RNT, RN, FAAN
Dean, Yale School of Nursing
Susan Baserga, MD, PhD
Ex-Officio
Chairman, Library Committee
Trustees
Vanita Ahuja, MD, MPH, MBA
Serap Aksoy, PhD
Sana F. Ali, MD
Nancy R. Angoff, MD, MPH, MEd
Dowin Boatright MD, MBA, MHS
Catherine Chiles, MD
Yemisi Damisah, MD
Rebekah Heckmann, MPH, MPA
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Dirk C. Johnson, MD, FACS
Claudia Kirsch, FACR, MD
Richard Marottoli, MD, MPH
Hani Mowafi
Ronnie Rosenthal, MD
Michael Virata, MD, FIDSA, FACP
Aron Wahrman, MD
Xiao Xu, PhD, MA
Honorary Trustees
Toby Appel, PhD
Jeremiah Barondess, MD
Harvey W. Cushing II
Martin Gordon, MD
R. Kenny Marone, MLS
Nancy Roderer, MLS
Dennis Spencer, MD
G. Stewart Young