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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.
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Prize winners in chronological order:
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Date:1988 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:James E. Rosenberg. Class of 1988
Topic:The History of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Psychiatry: Its Place in the 'Mainstream.'
 © Copyright: James E. Rosenberg. 1988
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Date:1988 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Martin T. Donohoe. Class of 1990
Topic:Perspectives of Physician-authors of the Past Century on the Practice of Medicine.
 © Copyright: Martin T. Donohoe. 1990
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Date:1988 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Robin Schoenthaler. Class of 1987
Topic:Governmental Intervention During Epidemics: Yellow Fever in New Orleans.
 © Copyright: Robin Schoenthaler. 1988
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Date:1989 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Martin T. Donohoe. Class of 1990
Topic:Further Reflections on Physician-authors and the Art of Medicine: John Keats, Anton Chekhov, and Richard Seltzer
 © Copyright: Martin T. Donohoe. 1990
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Date:1989 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Natalie Joy Smith. Class of 1989
Topic:Opium and Children in Victorian England: the Medical Response to Domestic Administration.
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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Date:1990 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:André Ettinger. Class of 1990
Topic:Pamphlet Propaganda of the Anti-Vaccination Movement in Victorian England.
 © Copyright: André Ettinger. 1990
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Date:1990 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Thomas Emerick. Class of 1991
Topic:Phineas Gage: the History of Frontal Lobe Syndrome.
 © Copyright: Thomas Emerick. 1991
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Date:1991 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Christopher J. Gresens. Class of 1991
Topic:The Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Shell Shock During World War I.
 © Copyright: Christopher J. Gresens. 1992
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Date:1991 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Nita P. Patel. Class of 1991
Topic:The History of the Entrance of American Women into the Medical Profession.
 © Copyright: Nita P. Patel. 1991
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Date:1991 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Parham Tabibian. Class of 1993
Topic:James B. Herrick: the Inventive and Old-fashioned Physician.
 © Copyright: Parham Tabibian. 1993
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Date:1992 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Thomas Sullivan. Class of 1993
Topic:Medical Services in Western Kenya Since 1900: Missionaries, Colonials, and Africans.
 © Copyright: Thomas Sullivan. 1992
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Date:1992 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Elizabeth Vickers-Saarel, M.D.. Class of 1992
Topic:A Historical Perspective on Sex in Education (1873)
 © Copyright: Elizabeth Vickers-Saarel, M.D. 1992
 

Date:1992 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Mark Paul Goodman.
Topic:The Physician in Sherlock Holmes: the Anatomy of a Legend.
 © Copyright: Mark Paul Goodman. 1992
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Date:1993 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Jeannine Rodems. Class of 1993
Topic:Prudence Ann Belden Saur, M.D. : Reflections on the Life and Works of a Woman Physician from the Nineteenth Century.
 © Copyright: Jeannine Rodems. 1993
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Date:1993 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Sarah R. Cheyette. Class of 1993
Topic:Encephalitis Lethargica: Remembering its Mysteries, Examining its Lessons.
 © Copyright: Sarah R. Cheyette. 1993
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Date:1994 - Charles O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:La Mar Hasbrouck. Class of 1994
Topic:The Flexner Report of 1910 and the Well-being of Black Americans: Historical Underpinnings of a Contemporary Health Crisis
 © Copyright: La Mar Hasbrouck. 1994
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Date:1994 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Jeffrey S. Eaton. Class of 1995
Topic:Medicine and Ethics in Jewish Tradition: A History and Development
 © Copyright: Jeffrey S. Eaton. 1995
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Date:1994 - Honorable Mention.
Name:David L. Smith. Class of 1994
Topic:Reading the Body: Wounded Bodies as Medical and Literary Texts in the Work of Stephen Crane.
 © Copyright: David L. Smith. 1994
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Date:1995 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Katrina Posta, M.D.. Class of 1995
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 .
 © Copyright: Katrina Posta. 1995
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Date:1995 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Kuo H. Chao. Class of 1995
Topic:Medico-legal Response to the Use of X-rays as Court Evidence.
 © Copyright: Kuo H. Chao. 1995
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Date:1995 - Honorable Mention.
Name:Catherine Park. Class of 1995
Topic:The Female Body: the Perspectives of Artists and Physicians at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
 © Copyright: Catherine Park. 1995
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Date:1996 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Gregory S. Morales. Class of 1997
Topic:"The Captain of all these Men of Death" : Tuberculosis at the Olive View Sanitarium.
 © Copyright: Gregory S. Morales. 1997
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Date:1996 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Marc Chodos. Class of 1999
Topic:Sir John Pringle: the Neglected Eighteenth-Century Environmentalist
 © Copyright: Marc Chodos. 1996
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Date:1997 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:Andrea L. Darby-Stewart. Class of 1997
Topic:Childbirth in the American West
 © Copyright: Andrea L. Darby-Stewart. 1997
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Date:1998 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Name:David K. Doostan. Class of 1998
Topic:Biological Soldiers: Doctors of Medicine Under Nazi ideology.
 © Copyright: David K. Doostan. 1998
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Date:2001 - Charles D. O'Malley Prize Winner.
Topic:A Return to the Cuckoo's Nest: Reflections on the Stigma of Mental Illness More Than Twenty-Five Years Later.
 © Copyright: Benjamin A. Furst. 2001
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