Charles Johnson came to Duke in 1967 as a fellow in the Division of Endocrinology. He became the one of the first African American faculty members in the Duke School of Medicine in 1970.
Dr. Onyekwere E. Akwari, a Nigerian-American, was the first African-American surgeon at Duke University. A strong advocate for expanding and celebrating diversity at the university, Akwari supported the introduction of Duke’s women’s and minority...
Veterans Administration Hospital staff. (Front) Alexander Wood, William Tucker, William Deiss, Herb Sieker; (back) John Fulton (?), E. Harvey Estes, Jr., Malcolm Tyor, Henry McIntosh, Mark Bogdinoff.
Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the pre–penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke’s Cardiovascular Disease Service....
The Nanaline H. Duke Building houses the Department of Biochemistry, Department of Cell Biology, Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Molecular Biophysics Program, Biological Chemistry Program and the University Program in Genetics. The building was...
Ann Gunn was Duke’s first postgraduate LPN to achieve national certification in operating room technique. A Durham native, she came to Duke in 1964 to receive her LPN training. Gunn then worked on the general surgical unit from 1965-1969. In 1969 she...