Andreas Vesalius

Philip Diller, MD, PhD

Philip Diller, MD, PhD, grew up in a small town in northwest Ohio where his father was a family physician and his mother an art teacher. He attended the College of Wooster (BA) and the University of Chicago (MD, PhD in Pathology). He completed his residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati and has been on faculty at the UC College of Medicine since 1991. He served as Chair of the Department of Family and Community before assuming his current role as Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs. He practiced community family medicine for 23 years and now practices hospital Palliative Care medicine. He is an award-winning teacher who received the Exemplary Teacher of the Year in 2006 from the American Academy of Family Physicians and is the recent recipient of a Silver Apple teaching award from the UC College of Medicine Medical Sciences undergraduate program for his Becoming a Master Physician course. An avid medical historian he serves as Chair of the UC Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions.

Dániel Margócsy, PhD

Dániel Margócsy, PhD, is reader in the history of science, technology and medicine at the University of Cambridge. He has published “Commercial Visions: Science, Trade and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and, with Mark Somos and Stephen Joffe, MD, “The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions” (Brill, 2018). His articles have appeared in Annals of Science, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Nature, Social Studies of Science, The Lancet and Word&Image. His current work includes a special issue titled “From Hansa to Lufthansa: Transportation Technologies and the Mobility of Knowledge,” which is co-edited with Mary Brazelton for History of Science, and a planned monograph on the practices of ship repair at Dutch and English colonial ports in the early modern period. He is fascinated by worms.

Dániel Margócsy, PhD

Dániel Margócsy, PhD, is reader in the history of science, technology and medicine at the University of Cambridge. He has published “Commercial Visions: Science, Trade and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and, with Mark Somos and Stephen Joffe, MD, “The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions” (Brill, 2018). His articles have appeared in Annals of Science, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Nature, Social Studies of Science, The Lancet and Word&Image. His current work includes a special issue titled “From Hansa to Lufthansa: Transportation Technologies and the Mobility of Knowledge,” which is co-edited with Mary Brazelton for History of Science, and a planned monograph on the practices of ship repair at Dutch and English colonial ports in the early modern period. He is fascinated by worms.

Vivian Nutton, PhD

Vivian Nutton, PhD, is a medical historian, specializing in the history of the classical tradition in medicine, from antiquity to the present. He is perhaps best known as a historian of the life, works and influence of Galen of Pergamum (129 - ca. 216), but his research interests extend into broader areas of the history of medicine, and of the classical tradition in Europe and the Islamic world. Much of his recent work has also focused on the history of anatomy in the 16^th century. In 1977, he joined the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, where he became Professor of the History of Medicine in 1993. Following his retirement in 2009, Dr. Nutton has continued to research and publish actively. His recent work has centered on Andreas Vesalius and includes studies of two major sets of unpublished annotations prepared by Vesalius for revised versions of his most important works.

Gerard Vogrincic, MD

Gerard Vogrincic, MD, graduated from medical school at the University of Alberta in 1987 and worked as a general practitioner in Edmonton, Alberta. He later completed a residency in general pathology at the University of British Columbia in 1998 and then practiced pathology in Vancouver until his retirement in 2020. An important interest for him for the last 20 years has been collecting rare medical books.

Dániel Margócsy, PhD

Dániel Margócsy, PhD, is reader in the history of science, technology and medicine at the University of Cambridge. He has published “Commercial Visions: Science, Trade and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and, with Mark Somos and Stephen Joffe, MD, “The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions” (Brill, 2018). His articles have appeared in Annals of Science, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Nature, Social Studies of Science, The Lancet and Word&Image. His current work includes a special issue titled “From Hansa to Lufthansa: Transportation Technologies and the Mobility of Knowledge,” which is co-edited with Mary Brazelton for History of Science, and a planned monograph on the practices of ship repair at Dutch and English colonial ports in the early modern period. He is fascinated by worms.

Gabrielle Fox

Gabrielle Fox is a bookbinder based in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the 1980s she taught throughout England and worked from her studio in Sussex before returning to Ohio in 1990. She travels to care for collections and teach, and her work is represented in many public, private and academic libraries. Increasingly, her focus is the care and treatment of older books and the creation of unique designed and bound modern volumes. Fox has had three books published: “The Essential Guide to Making Handmade Books” (North Light Books, 2000), “Larkspur Press: Forty Years of Making Letterpress Books in a Rural Kentucky Community” (Gaspereau Press, 2016) and “The Flowing Spine: A Bookbinding Project Book” (Fox Park Press, 2018) and produced 10 titles in limited editions in miniature. She and Stephen Joffe, MD, co-authored the initial report of a study and comparison of contemporary bindings of both the 1543 and 1555 editions of “De Humani Corporis Fabrica,” in the Guild of Book Workers Journal.

Myles Pensak, MD

Myles Pensak, MD, served as the H.B. Broidy Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of

Cincinnati College of Medicine from 2004 until 2021. Currently a Professor Emeritus in the departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Neurosurgery, he is a recognized international authority of diseases of the ear and skull base, with a particular interest in acoustic neuroma, petroclival meningioma, tumors of the jugular foramen and malignancies of the temporal bone. A board-certified neurotologist and otolaryngologist, he is an active member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Otologic and Neurotologic Societies and the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society. He is the recipient of both the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Honor Award and the Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Pensak was a 2019 Daniel Drake Medal recipient, the highest honor awarded by the UC College of Medicine.

Charles Prestigiacomo, MD

Bruce Giffin, PhD

Bruce Giffin, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He also serves as Associate Dean of Medical Education, Vice Chair of the Department of Medical Education and Director of the college’s Body Donation Program. He joined the College of Medicine in 1990 as a Biology Fellow and is creator and director of the college’s Brain, Mind and Behavior Course for medical students and is Course Director for Gross Anatomy. He has received numerous Gold and Silver Apple Awards for teaching excellence. In 2012, Dr. Giffin received the Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the Alpha Omega Alpha medical fraternity and the American Association of Medical Colleges.

Cynthia Klestinec, PhD

Cynthia Klestinec, PhD, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Miami University, completed her doctorate in comparative literature at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the history of science, the history of medicine and early modern Italy with new work on the history of professions, death and dying, and the role of physicians in end of life care. Her publications include the book “Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection” (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011); “Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi” (Springer International Publishing, 2017) with Gideon Manning; and “Art, Faith and Medicine in Tintoretto’s Venice” (Marsilio Editori, 2018) with Gabriele Matino. The latter accompanied her co-curated exhibition at the Scuola grande di San Marco, Venice, September 2018 to January 2019.