The Board of Trustees of the Wood Library-Museum created the Wood Library-Museum Fellowship in Anesthesiology to provide recipients with financial support for up to three weeks of scholarly and historical research at the Wood Library-Museum pertaining to the specialty of anesthesiology. Applications are invited from anesthesiologists, residents in training in anesthesiology, physicians in other disciplines, historians, graduate students of the history of medicine and other individuals with a developed interest in the history of anesthesia or library and museum research. For further information, contact the Librarian at the Wood Library-Museum.

Fellowship Application Guideline

Recipients of the 2010 Paul M. Wood Fellowship:

Caroline Hunter, B.S., B.A., Medical Student, Medical University of South Carolina.
Research Topic: The Rivalry Didn't End with Morton and Long: Differences in Anesthetic Usage between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War.

George S. Bause, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
Research Topic: The Asphyxial Anesthetic Debate: "Professor" G.Q. Colton vs. S.J. Hayes, D.D.S.

Among the two awardees, Caroline Hunter has been designated the 2010 Rod Calverley Fellow, given in memory of the late Roderick K. Calverley M.D.

The Rod Calverley Fellowship is jointly supported by the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, San Diego, in memory of Dr. Calverley who had been a member of this Department. Dr. Calverley, a strong advocate of studies of anesthesia history, initiated the Paul M. Wood Fellowship.

The Paul M. Wood Fellowship of the History of Anesthesia 1988-2002: A Retrospective View
by Patrick Sim.