University of Texas Medical Branch X Visit Galveston X Galveston Unscripted | Video Tour: 1890 Ashbel Smith Building AKA "Old Red"

Old Red walkthrough with Dr. Paula Summerly VIDEO: https://youtu.be/CBJ42nW1Bs0

The 1920 Bubonic Plague outbreak of Galveston with Dr. Paula Summerly | An infected needle mishap, rat proofing the island, and trailblazing women in the medical field : https://www.galvestonunscripted.com/paula-summerly-bubonic-plague

Galveston Unscripted Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgv9bESX7tTtsLlwHe0H3og

Dr. Paula Summerly is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Her primary appointment is manager of the Old Red Medical Museum, McGovern Academy, Office of the President (UTMB). Prior to holding these positions, she completed scholarships and fellowships at the Institute for Health Humanities (UTMB) the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University and the Dittrick Medical History Center, Case Western Reserve University. She curated a permanent medical exhibition for the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Scotland (2005) and has served as a curatorial consultant both nationally and internationally including Visual Pathology, Galveston Arts Center (2018), the Wellcome Collection’s Forensics: Anatomy of Crime (2015), Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life (2011), exhibited at the Wellcome Building, London, UK. Dr. Summerly is working as part of a team to establish a new medical museum in Old Red (the 1890 Ashbel Smith Building) at the heart of the UTMB Galveston campus.

More on Dr. Summerly
https://www.utmb.edu/pathology/faculty/paula-summerly-msc-phd

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