Dr. Samuel Katz discusses his preference of the term chair versus chairman of the Department of Pediatrics in order to be inclusive of female department chairs; the nature of the Department of Pediatrics when he first arrived as chair in 1968; former...
Jane S. Richardson discusses her background; her interest in astronomy; her interest in philosophy; working in the same lab where her husband, David Richardson, was getting his PhD; in 1969, the laboratory solving the structure of the Staphylococcal...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Robert H. Jones on April 26, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Dr. Robert H. Jones discusses his background, education, and his decision to...
Dr. Doris Howell discusses her early background; medical school at McGill University; positive treatment in medical school; her initial desire to go into the field of psychiatry; her choice to go into pediatrics; the characterization of pediatric work;...
Dr. Catherine Wilfert discusses family support; her decision to become a physician; her medical degree from Harvard; the atmosphere for women at Harvard; the differences between the Harvard and Duke campuses; scientific collaborations on Duke campus;...
Dr. Sheila J. Counce-Nicklas discusses her background; her love of science and of learning; her interest in how things work; her Fulbright scholarship to Edinburgh; her professor suggesting she get a PhD instead of diploma at Edinburgh; studying...
Dr. Marianne S. Breslin discusses her background; her father's occupation as a horse breeder in Germany; Germany's political climate affecting her family; Nazi influence in her town; anti-Nazi sentiment after the war; extreme changes in family due to...
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans speaks about her memories of what health care was like when she was a young woman; health care for her mother; the former chair of Medicine, Dr. Frederick Hanes; the Hanes family; her interest in, but not necessarily...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Daniel Blazer on January 28, 2005 by Jessica Roseberry. During the interview, Blazer discusses his initial interest in psychiatry; coming to Duke; the eclectic nature of the Duke Department of...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Edward Halperin on October 10, 2006 by Jessica Roseberry. Dr. Halperin discusses his family history, early life, medical education, the development of the field of radiation oncology, his career at...