PhD Candidate Brice Bowery Named 2023 De Bakey Fellow

PhD Candidate Brice Bowery Named 2023 De Bakey Fellow

Brice Bowery, PhD candidate (Advisor: David Sicilia) has been named a 2023 Michael E. DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine. Brice's research project topic is Modeling of Historical Biomedical Technology Research Literature.  The fellowship provides support for archival research and digital projects based on the collections of the NLM. Brice will be using most of the funds to support the development of a digital humanities project, which involves computational analysis of mid- and late-twentieth century scientific literature related to medical device development. 

Michael E. DeBakey (1908-2008) was a legendary American surgeon, educator, and medical statesman. During a career spanning 75 years, his work transformed cardiovascular surgery, raised medical education standards, and informed national health care policy. He pioneered dozens of operative procedures such as aneurysm repair, coronary bypass, and endarterectomy, which routinely save thousands of lives each year, and performed some of the first heart transplants.