HAS Scientific Meeting 2025: The 2025 HAS Scientific Meeting will be held on Wednesday 25th June (all day) and Thursday 26th June (morning) at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Dr Peter Featherstone (peterjfeatherstone@yahoo.co.uk) is organising the meeting. The National Museum of the Royal Navy is accessed via Victory Gate, HM Naval base, Portsea, Portsmouth, PO1 3LJ, and the venue is approximately 300metres from Victory Gate.The conference will follow the usual format of presentations all day on the Wednesday and on the Thursday morning. The AGM will be held on the Wednesday afternoon. The call for abstracts is currently open, and if you would like to present at the conference, the information can be found here . here .
The President’s Reception and the Conference Dinner will be held on Wednesday evening at the Royal Maritime Hotel, 75-80 Queen Street, Portsea, Portsmouth, PO1 3HS (located approximately 300metres from Victory Gate).Registration is free to resident doctors and medical students whether presenting a paper or not. Presentations from resident doctors are particularly welcome. As an encouragement to submit an abstract, all resident doctors who are shortlisted to present a paper will a receive a free place at the Conference dinner, and be reimbursed the cost of the accommodation that they book (to a maximum of £150). The standard registration fee includes a buffet lunch on the Wednesday and coffee / tea breaks. Unlike previous years, there will be no block booking for lunch at the end of the meeting on the Thursday, but there are several restaurants within Portsmouth HistoricDockyard/ located nearby. Accommodation: There are several hotels within walking distance of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Attendees will need to book their own accommodation. The Royal Maritime Hotel (in which the Conference Dinner will be held) have offered a 10% discount on their rooms if booked directly with the hotel (please telephone reception on 02392 982182 and mention History of Anaesthesia Society). £10 per person for a single attraction day ticket (valid for one day only, permits entry to one attraction only. These tickets usually retail at £36 for adults and £35 for seniors)£20 per person for an all-attraction day ticket (valid for one day only, permits entry to all dockyard attractions). These tickets must be ordered in advance (using the conference registration form) specifying the date, ticket type and quantity required. Tickets are non-transferrable and nonrefundable.
The David Zuck Memorial Prize is awarded annually for the best monograph, article, book chapter or book published in English in the preceding year. The nominated item/items must conform to the following:
Mayo Clinic Department of Anesthesiology Centennial meeting - joint with Anesthesia History Association: Thursday 24th - Sunday 27th April 2025 A brochure containing the full details of the AHA meeting can be found here . The call for abstracts is now open, and further details can be found here .
David Zuck Prize Winner 2024 Congratulations to M. Wulf M. Strätling for winning the 2024 David Zuck Prize for his paper entitled 'The Clinical introduction of the Roth-Drager Anesthesia Apparatus to the United States (c. 1903-1907) and Early Interactions with James Tayloe Gwathmey (1862-1944) and Richard von Foregger (1872-1960).'
Thomas Boulton Anaesthesia History Prize Winner 2024 Congratulations to Luke Solomi on winning the 2024 Tom Boulton Prize for his paper 'The story of anaesthesia in ancient Greek mythology: More than a senseless odyssey' . Luke presented his paper at the 2024 HAS Annual conference in Market Harborough.
International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia: September 2025 The next ISHA will be held in Paris in September 2025.ISHA website (under construction at time of posting)
