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Charles Donald O'Malley Prize
The Charles Donald O’Malley Prize was awarded each year for the best essay written on a medical-historical subject by a currently enrolled medical student at UCLA. Click here for the new Guidelines
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Topic:"The Captain of all these Men of Death" : Tuberculosis at the Olive View Sanitarium.
Date:1996 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Gregory S. Morales. Class of 1997
 © Copyright: Gregory S. Morales. 1997
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Topic:A Historical Perspective on Sex in Education (1873)
Date:1992 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Elizabeth Vickers-Saarel, M.D.. Class of 1992
 © Copyright: Elizabeth Vickers-Saarel, M.D. 1992
 

Topic:A Return to the Cuckoo's Nest: Reflections on the Stigma of Mental Illness More Than Twenty-Five Years Later.
Date:2001 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
 © Copyright: Benjamin A. Furst. 2001
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Topic:Biological Soldiers: Doctors of Medicine Under Nazi ideology.
Date:1998 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:David K. Doostan. Class of 1998
 © Copyright: David K. Doostan. 1998
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Topic:Childbirth in the American West
Date:1997 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Andrea L. Darby-Stewart. Class of 1997
 © Copyright: Andrea L. Darby-Stewart. 1997
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Topic:Encephalitis Lethargica: Remembering its Mysteries, Examining its Lessons.
Date:1993 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Sarah R. Cheyette. Class of 1993
 © Copyright: Sarah R. Cheyette. 1993
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Topic:Further Reflections on Physician-authors and the Art of Medicine: John Keats, Anton Chekhov, and Richard Seltzer
Date:1989 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Martin T. Donohoe. Class of 1990
 © Copyright: Martin T. Donohoe. 1990
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Topic:Governmental Intervention During Epidemics: Yellow Fever in New Orleans.
Date:1988 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Robin Schoenthaler. Class of 1987
 © Copyright: Robin Schoenthaler. 1988
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Topic:James B. Herrick: the Inventive and Old-fashioned Physician.
Date:1991 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Parham Tabibian. Class of 1993
 © Copyright: Parham Tabibian. 1993
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Topic:Medical Services in Western Kenya Since 1900: Missionaries, Colonials, and Africans.
Date:1992 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Thomas Sullivan. Class of 1993
 © Copyright: Thomas Sullivan. 1992
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Topic:Medicine and Ethics in Jewish Tradition: A History and Development
Date:1994 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Jeffrey S. Eaton. Class of 1995
 © Copyright: Jeffrey S. Eaton. 1995
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Topic:Medico-legal Response to the Use of X-rays as Court Evidence.
Date:1995 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Kuo H. Chao. Class of 1995
 © Copyright: Kuo H. Chao. 1995
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Topic:Opium and Children in Victorian England: the Medical Response to Domestic Administration.
Date:1989 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Natalie Joy Smith. Class of 1989
Note:Natalie J. Smith, M.D., M.P.H., died of cancer on August 22, 2003 at the age of 41. Dr. Smith served as the Deputy Director of the National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She also served eight years as the chief of the Immunization Branch, California Department of Health Services.
 © Copyright: Natalie Joy Smith. 1989
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Topic:Pamphlet Propaganda of the Anti-Vaccination Movement in Victorian England.
Date:1990 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:André Ettinger. Class of 1990
 © Copyright: André Ettinger. 1990
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Topic:Perspectives of Physician-authors of the Past Century on the Practice of Medicine.
Date:1988 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Martin T. Donohoe. Class of 1990
 © Copyright: Martin T. Donohoe. 1990
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Topic:Phineas Gage: the History of Frontal Lobe Syndrome.
Date:1990 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Thomas Emerick. Class of 1991
 © Copyright: Thomas Emerick. 1991
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Topic:Prudence Ann Belden Saur, M.D. : Reflections on the Life and Works of a Woman Physician from the Nineteenth Century.
Date:1993 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Jeannine Rodems. Class of 1993
 © Copyright: Jeannine Rodems. 1993
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Topic:Reading the Body: Wounded Bodies as Medical and Literary Texts in the Work of Stephen Crane.
Date:1994 - Honorable Mention.
Name:David L. Smith. Class of 1994
 © Copyright: David L. Smith. 1994
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Topic:Sir John Pringle: the Neglected Eighteenth-Century Environmentalist
Date:1996 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Marc Chodos. Class of 1999
 © Copyright: Marc Chodos. 1996
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Topic:The Balancing Act: An Analysis of Dual-Career Conflicts Experienced by the First Women Physicians to Graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania .
Date:1995 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Katrina Posta, M.D.. Class of 1995
 © Copyright: Katrina Posta. 1995
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Topic:The Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Shell Shock During World War I.
Date:1991 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Christopher J. Gresens. Class of 1991
 © Copyright: Christopher J. Gresens. 1992
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Topic:The Female Body: the Perspectives of Artists and Physicians at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
Date:1995 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Catherine Park. Class of 1995
 © Copyright: Catherine Park. 1995
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Topic:The Flexner Report of 1910 and the Well-being of Black Americans: Historical Underpinnings of a Contemporary Health Crisis
Date:1994 - Charles O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:La Mar Hasbrouck. Class of 1994
 © Copyright: La Mar Hasbrouck. 1994
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Topic:The History of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Psychiatry: Its Place in the 'Mainstream.'
Date:1988 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:James E. Rosenberg. Class of 1988
 © Copyright: James E. Rosenberg. 1988
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Topic:The History of the Entrance of American Women into the Medical Profession.
Date:1991 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Nita P. Patel. Class of 1991
 © Copyright: Nita P. Patel. 1991
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Topic:The Physician in Sherlock Holmes: the Anatomy of a Legend.
Date:1992 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Mark Paul Goodman.
 © Copyright: Mark Paul Goodman. 1992
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