George Wunderlich, M.A.
Executive Director, National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Frederick, Maryland

George Wunderlich is currently the Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine where formerly held the position of Director of Education. George came to the Museum in 2000 after moving from Missouri where he was Founder and Director of the Historical Education Center of St. Louis. In 1995 Mr. Wunderlich was awarded the Daughters of the American Revolution National Medal of Honor for his work in public history.

Since then he has developed historically-based medical leadership training programs for the National Park Service, Joint Medical Executive Skills Institute Capstone Symposium, The United States Army Medical Department (AMEDD), the Interagency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and various other civilian and governmental organizations. He is a nationally known speaker on various Civil War topics and can be regularly seen on the History Channel, PBS, National Geographic, and the British Broadcasting Corporation.

George Wunderlich will speak on the topic of "Civil War Medicine in the 21st Century" and share how Civil War medicine is alive and well today. To view the museum's website go to: http:www.civilwarmed.org/

Stanley Finger, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, Psychology Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Dr. Stanley Finger is a distinguished historian of neuroscience and medicine, who has widely published on a comprehensive range of topics in both areas. His major works have been on the relationship between brain and behavior  (The Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations into Brain Function (19940; Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and their Discoveries (2000); Brain, Mind, and Medicine: Essays in 18th Century Neurosciences (2007).) He has also explored Benjamin Franklin's forays into medicine in Doctor Franklin's Medicine (2006). His numerous edited books cover Cranial Trepanation’ (holes made in the skulls of living people), The Shocking History of Electric Fishes (2011), Animal Spirit Doctrine 2012), and the extensive volume on the History of Neurology to accompany the revised Handbook of Clinical Neurology (2010).  He has given presentations worldwide, and also written articles on such clinical topics as: therapeutic electricity, phantom limbs, recovery from brain damage, disabilities in literature, recognition of attention deficit disorder, Tourette's and other neurological syndromes, as well as on individual neuroscientists (including Helmholtz and Schaefer).

Dr. Finger is not only immensely prolific, but was also instrumental in founding the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (http://www. ishn.org), as well as the Journal of the History of Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical Perspectives, of which he remains as senior editor.  (See: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0964704X.asp/)

It is no exaggeration to say that the history of neuroscience is synonymous with Dr. Finger. His major contributions to the field have been reognized with the highly prestigious “Ottorino Rossi Award” in 2007 at the commemorative meeting of the Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine (1906), Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramon y Cajal for their work on the structure of the nervous system. (The Ottorino Rossi Award was named after one of Golgi’s most illustrious pupils. )

Dr. Finger is also an excellent teacher and mentor, and regarded with great affection by his colleagues.