Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. Beard, and his wife Dorothy, were an internationally prominent cancer team. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was appointed professor of virology in 1965.
Davison was pediatrician, chair of pediatrics (1930-1954), and first dean of Duke University School of Medicine (1927-1960). In 1926, Duke University president William Preston Few recruited Davison away from Johns Hopkins University. Davison's charge...
Ewald W. Busse in the 1980s. Ewald W. Busse was a early leader in the field of geriatric psychiatry and a founder of the Center for Aging and Human Development, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry, and Dean Emeritus of Medical and Allied...
James Paisley Hendrix was an associate professor of pharmacology and therapeutics from 1938 to 1972. He became a leading specialist in internal medicine.
Division of Neurosurgery physicians. Row 1 (l-r): Edward Ganz, Barnes Woodhall, Robert H. Wilkins, W. Jerry Oakes; Row 2 (l-r): Blaine Nashold, Guy L. Odom, Richard S. Kramer, Wesley A. Cook. The Division of Neurosurgery was established in 1937 as part...
Duke faculty and hospital staff in the amphitheater. (Left to right, Row 1) Watt Eagle, Mary Poston, Julian Ruffin, Nell Paschall, Lillie Pladman, Mary Stokes. (Row 2) Durena Wetmore, Carrie Sykes, Annie H. Campbell, Lillian Trevathan, Susan Whitfield,...
Barnes Woodhall examining x-ray, nurses in background. Woodhall was the chief of Duke University Medical Center's Division of Neurosurgery from 1937 to 1960. He became the second dean of the School of Medicine, serving from 1960 to 1964. Woodhall...