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NEWS & UPDATES

- SAHMS 2026 Virtual Conference registration is now available. Click here to register.
- Click here to view the SAHMS 2026 Virtual Conference Schedule.
- The SAHMS Virtual Student Conference will be held on September 26, 2005. The conference program and viewing info is posted on the Conference page.
- Please join us in remembering long-time SAHMS member, Jonathon Erlen. Read his In Memoriam Tribute here.
- Call for manuscript submissions! The Journal of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (JSAHMS) features original scholarship on the history of medicine and science. Volume 5, Issue 1 has recently been published! Click here to view it online.
- Submit your course syllabus for the SAHMS in the Classroom database with our new submission form.

ABOUT SAHMS

The organizers of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science held the first conference in 1999.

SAHMS continues Prof. L. Margaret Barnett's (University of Southern Mississippi) original mission to promote awareness at colleges and universities in the South of the importance and usefulness of the history of medicine and science.

This conference is aimed at providing a means for exchange and sharing of research, ideas, and interest related to the history of medicine, science, and technology.

For further information about SAHMS, email the organization at sahmsconference@gmail.com.

NESBIT AWARD

The Robert Nesbit Graduate Student Paper Award is named in honor of long-time SAHMS member, Dr. Bob Nesbit, who has been a stalwart member of SAHMS nearly from its beginning. We recognize his many contributions to the organization and his consistent and steadfast leadership. The award named for him recognizes graduate student papers that engage with the scholarship of the history of medicine, science, and technology—or related fields—and that present a compelling contribution to the field. It is open to all graduate students who present at the annual conference, and we invite our winners to publish in the SAHMS journal.

The winner for 2025 is:

Nick Elwing (University of Alabama), ““Lord have mercy on me! I have given the wrong medication”: Alabama’s Legal and Institutional March Towards Professionalization, 1823-1891”

SAHMS 2026 Conference

The 2026 SAHMS Conference will be online, hosted by the Arkansas College of Health Education in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on April 9-10, 2026. The Call for Papers is now closed. Visit our Conference page to view the schedule, register, and to keep informed of other updates.

Membership

We strongly encourage all presenters to be a member of SAHMS. The membership fees are what help us support student travel grants and our journal publication.
You can join at our Membership page.

The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.