|
May 23, 2006, Atlanta, GA--- USRF Research Coordinator, Shamim
Baker, today received the first annual Retrospectoscope
Award of the American Urological Association at the annual meeting
of the organization. Dr. Rainer Engel, chairman of the History Forum,
made the award for her presentation, “Untreated Syphilis
in the Negro Male: A Closure Comes to the Tuskegee Study.”
Dr. Engel called her talk at the 2005 Forum “a stunning presentation.”
The work was recently published in Urology, and is available
online here.
The award was made possible by a grant from American
Cystoscope Makers, Inc. (ACMI) and consisted of an antique cystoscope,
an all-expenses-paid trip to the meeting, and a $1000.00 honorarium.
The Retrospectoscope award, first given at the 2006 meeting, is to be
given annually to the paper judged to be the best at the AUA History Forum
the prior year.
Although much has been written about the infamous Tuskegee Study, Ms.
Baker’s presentation and publication are unique in her use of multimedia
as part of the depiction.
Video clips from the CNN archive are featured in the work, including one
in which President Clinton apologizes on behalf of the nation to study
descendents and survivors at a White House ceremony in 1997. The Tuskegee
study (1932-1972) is said to be the longest observational study in medical
history, with seropositive African-American men left untreated for decades,
even after the advent of penicillin. Congressional hearings that followed
gave rise to the current laws protecting human subjects in medical research.
Co-authors of the work were Otis Brawley, M.D., of Emory University and
USRF Director Leonard Marks, M.D. of UCLA. The research was underwritten
by a grant from GlaxoSmithKline.
|
