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41st Annual Nursing & Health Care History Conference



Registration Now Open!

Registration is now open for the 41st Annual Nursing & Healthcare Conference on September 19th - 21st in Milwaukee, WI. Early Bird registration ends on August 25, 2024. 

We are pleased to offer you two convenient payment options. Please click the buttons below to choose your preferred method:

Please note: A 3% fee applies to credit card payments. To avoid this fee, you can send a check to:

AAHN
PO Box 7
Mullica Hill, NJ 08062

Preliminary Conference Schedule

We're excitec about this year's conference schedule and can't wait to see you there! Please use the link below to explore our conference schedule. Please note that it's subject to changes.

Preliminary Conference Schedule

Eleanor Hermann Keynote Speaker

 

Cynthia Connolly, PhD, RN

Professor of Nursing
Rosemarie B. Greco Endowed Term Chair in Advocacy
University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing

Title: “Nurses and Drug Therapy: A Complicated and Untold Twentieth Century History”

Synopsis: Medication (Drug) therapy is considered central to the expertise of registered nurses.  Learning about medications and how to administer them via different routes is a core task of undergraduate nursing education. Staff nurses in hospital settings spend a great deal of their time preparing, administering, and assessing the effects of medications.  But very little of the historical research into the history of drug therapy in the United States even mentions nurses. There is little in the nursing historical literature as well. This talk aims to address this gap by examining the role of nurses in drug development, testing, and administration across the twentieth century.

Bio: Historian and pediatric nurse practitioner Cynthia Connolly PhD RN is the Rosemarie B. Greco Term Endowed Professor in Advocacy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. At Penn, she is also Co-Faculty Director at the Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice, and Research. She received her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania, MSN from the University of Rochester, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and a legislative fellowship in the office of Paul Wellstone in the US Senate. Connolly’s research analyzes the historical forces that have shaped children’s health care delivery and family policy in the United States. Her body of work also traces changing pediatric medical and nursing practice in the United States since the Civil War with an emphasis on shifting norms for clinical practice, including evolving diagnostic categories, clinical assessment and treatment. Her 2018 book, Children and Drug Safety: Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth Century America, published by Rutgers University Press received the American Public Health Association’s Viseltear Award. It was funded through a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research grant and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An earlier book, Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970 received the Lavinia Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing. She has presented the implications of her historical analyses to such stakeholders as the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control, and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as well as at many international, national, and regional academic venues.

Pre-Conference

HIT RECORD: A Pre-Conference Session on Oral-History Interviewing
Thursday, September 19th
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Co-Presenters: Karen Flynn (University of Illinois-Chicago), Ashley Graham-Perel (Columbia), and Andre Rosario (Rutgers)

Are you a budding, novice, or experienced historian interested in using oral history as a method and source but not sure where to begin? Or are you currently engaged in historical research, striving to uncover individual viewpoints and perspectives, but finding that the
traditional archives fall short? This Pre-Conference is tailor-made for you!

Join us for a hands-on, interactive session where we'll delve into oral history, the oldest form of historical inquiry. We'll cover critical topics such as leveraging oral history to complement archival research, ethical considerations in interviewing, and
techniques for analyzing interviews.

Don't miss out! Be sure to add the Pre-Conference to your AAHN Conference registration to secure your spot!

UW Milwaukee Center for Nursing HIstory Open House

Thursday, September 19
3:00 pm  – 6:00 pm Open House 

The UW-Milwaukee Center for Nursing History, housed in UWM’s Cunningham Hall, has 3 Galleries that display rare artifacts, uniforms, equipment, mementos, posters and photos related to advances in the art and science of nursing. Director Laurie Glass, PhD, RN, FAAN, will open the galleries and facilitate behind the scenes tours of the additional 2 storerooms.

UWM is 3 miles from hotel--take Uber, Lyft, or taxi. 

New at the 2024 AAHN conference: CV Review

At this year’s annual meeting, the AAHN is launching a new opportunity for doctoral students and early career scholars: a CV Review Session. Participants will meet one-on-one with a senior scholar who will review and provide feedback on their CV.

Silent Auction

AAHN will once again feature our Silent Auction. The proceeds will be equally distributed between research awards and the general fund. Deadline for auction items by September 1, 2024. 

Besides our ever-popular nursing items, below are a few other ideas:

  • Gift certificates for retail stores, chain restaurants, and airline flights
  • Themed baskets
  • Autographed items
  • Electronics (Apple Watch, iPad, Go-Pro Camera)
  • Works of Art
  • Jewelry
  • Vacation home rentals and time shares

All auction items should be mailed to the address below.

Dr. Laurie Glass
UWM School of Nursing
Cunningham Hall  Rm 717
1921 E  Hartford  Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211

Please include the following with each item:

  • A brief description
  • Your name
  • Email address or phone number in case the committee has any questions
  • For books kindly note the author, title, publisher, and date

Sponsor and Exhibitor Information

Click Here for Sponsor and Exhibitor Info

Guidelines for Poster Presenters

Click here for guidelines for poster presenters

Milwaukee Marriott Downtown


Book your hotel room using the link below.

https://book.passkey.com/event/50659379/owner/11389342/home

Reservation deadline is August 26, 2024.

Hotel parking is available. 

Airport

Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport is 9 miles from hotel. It's easy to fly into with lots of flights. 

Local Museum Suggestions

Milwaukee Art Museum 0.6 miles.
Spectacular building sited over Lake Michigan.

Milwaukee Public Museum 0.9 miles.
The museum’s historical collection has an emphasis on local/Midwest and Milwaukee history and culture.

Grohmann Museum 0.4 miles.
Part of the Milwaukee School of Engineering, this art museum is dedicated to the evolution of human work.

Milwaukee County War Memorial Center 0.7 miles.
This war memorial sits on Lake Michigan and is intended to serve the living as well as honor the dead.

Jewish Museum Milwaukee 1.1 miles.
Founded to preserve and present the history of Jewish people in Wisconsin and to celebrate Jewish culture.

Nearby Dining Options

East Town Bites - On Site at the Marriott
Milwaukee Public Market - 5 minute walk from Marriott
Onesto - Italian
Smoke Shack - Smoked meat
Merriment Social - Seasonally driven small plates

Other restaurants nearby

Information about Milwaukee

https://www.visitmilwaukee.org/