OVERVIEW

New Drugs, Old Problems: The Sulfonamide Revolution and Children’s Health Care Delivery in the United States, 1933-1949 is organized by NIH Center for Information Technology (CIT). This Online CME Course will be held on Oct 15, 2020.

Course Description:
Utilizing pediatric patient records housed at the National Library of Medicine, Dr. Cynthia Connolly examines the transformation wrought by the sulfonamides in medical and nursing practice at Baltimore’s Sydenham Hospital. Issued articles, oral histories, and physician memoirs show only part of the story of one of the twentieth century’s most pivotal scientific breakthroughs. Through patient records, which rarely survive intact, it is likely to appreciate the methods in which the novel therapeutics demanded more intense bedside care, improvised laboratory facilities, and new levels of cooperation. It also explains how and why the care of infants and children with infectious diseases made demands on physicians and nurses that changed from those facing clinicians treating adult patients. Finally, the clinical practices, policy debates, and legal infrastructure that arose in in the context of the sulfonamides provided a template for pediatric drug development going forward that exists in the current day.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.