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Founded in 1980, the Medical History Society of New Jersey (MHSNJ) for many years held semiannual dinner meetings at the Nassau Club, in Princeton, NJ.  The Covid-19 pandemic interrupted this format, causing cancellation of the Spring 2020 meeting, and led to the establishment of periodic virtual programs, conducted monthly or bimonthly, using Zoom technology. 

In 2023, the Spring Princeton meetings were resumed, in hybrid format, and periodic virtual meetings were continued, at approximately bimonthly intervals. 

From 1980 until 2014, MHSNJ published a Newsletter that was circulated at the time of the semiannual meetings.  In 2022, the Newsletter was resumed as an online publication, appearing weekly.   

MHSNJ, in 2001, was the first state-level medical history society to establish a website.  In 2008, the website began to publish Original Articles written by Society members, and in 2017, Book Reviews written by Society members started to appear. 

MHSNJ sponsors two endowed lectureships every year, to which prominent medical historians are invited.  The Saffron Lecture series, named for Morris H. Saffron, MD, PhD, dermatologist and medical historian, was established in 1980. The Kent Memorial Lecture series, named for physician, teacher and humanist Donald F. Kent, MD, PhD, began in 2013.