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Disease and Disaster

in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America

Washington DC, April 13-14, 2002

 

List of Speakers and tentative titles in order of presentation.

 

Dr. Suzanne Austin Alchon, "The great killers in Precolumbian America" 

http://www.udel.edu/History/hist/gradfac/salchon.html 

Associate Professor of History 

University of Delaware

salchon@udel.edu 

 

Dr. Robert McCaa "Why Virgin Soil Epidemics Played a Minor Role in the 16th-Century Demographic Collapse of Mexico"

http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/ 

Professor of History

University of Minnesota

rmccaa@umn.edu 

 

Dr. Rodolfo Acuña-Soto, MD "Large Epidemics of Hemorrhagic Fever in Mexico, 1545-1815"

http://www.mugu.com/pipermail/upstream-list/2001-January/001131.html 

Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina,

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

yvonne@ibt.unam.mx 

 

Dr. David Stahle "Tree Ring Analysis, Hydroclimatology, and the Study of Ancient Disease"

http://www.uark.edu/admin/rsspinfo/regents/DAVIDSTA.html 

http://www.uark.edu/misc/dendro/ 

Professor of Geography, Director of Tree Ring Laboratory

University of Arkansas

dstahle@comp.uark.edu 

 

Dr. James B. Kiracofe "Andean Epidemic of 1524-5: Bartonellosis or Smallpox?"

http://www.interamericaninstitute.org/personal_information.htm 

Director, Inter-American Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural History

drkiracofe@mindspring.com 

 

Dr. Richard Andre "El Niño Weather Patterns and the Sand fly Vector of Bartonellosis"

http://www.usuhs.mil/pmb/TPH/andre.html 

Professor, Uniformed Services University

Division of Tropical Public Health

Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics

randre@usuhs.mil 

 

Dr. Dicey Taylor "Syphilis among the Taino, Mythology and Art"

http://www.precolumbian.org/talk1201.html 

http://www.elmuseo.org/exhib.html 

Consulting Curator at the Museo del Barrio

dtandmk@aol.com 

 

Dr. Bruce M. Rothschild, MD "Paleopathology and Disease in Ancient North America"

http://www.picturesofrecord.com/physan.htm 

Director, Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine

Research Associate, Carnegie Museum

Research Associate, University of Kansas Museum of Natural History

Fernando Luna Calderon Department of Physical Anthropology,

Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo, D.R.

Alfredo Coppa Department of Animal and Human Biology Section,

Anthropology Department, University of Rome, La Sapienza

bmr@neoucom.edu 

 

John Marr, MD, MPH "Learning From the Past: The Search for Preventive Breakthroughs in Modern Epidemiology:"

http://www.interamericaninstitute.org/fellows.htm

http://www.isr.umd.edu/~miw/coco/index.htm

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Medicine,

New York Medical College Graduate School of Health Sciences

jsmarr@javanet.com

 

Dr. Jack Woodall Moderator, Round table

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no3_supp/woodall.htm

Depto. de Bioquimica Medica, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitaria, Rio de Janeiro

woodall@compuland.com.br

 

You may block copy these and use them to mail to all of us.

drkiracofe@mindspring.com , mccaa_robert@hotmail.com , yvonne@ibt.unam.mx , dstahle@comp.uark.edu , jsmarr@javanet.com , randre@usuhs.mil  bmr@neoucom.edu  salchon@udel.edu , dtandmk@aol.com , woodall@compuland.com.br