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  • School of Medicine students with Dean Davison

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    Students and Wilburt Cornell Davison, first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, on rounds in Duke Hospital.
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  • H. Max Schiebel

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    Herman Max Schiebel was member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and served as professor of surgery during the early 1930s. He became assistant chief of surgical services for the Office of Civilian Defense, Reserve Unit of the United States...
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  • Eugene Anson Stead, Jr.

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    Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. was professor of medicine and chair of the Dept. of Medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1967. He was a Lt. Col. with the 65th General Hospital between wars and helped start the Cardiovascular Teaching and Training...
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  • Julian Meade Ruffin

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    Julian Meade Ruffin, professor of medicine from 1930 to 1970, was a member of the original faculty. He assisted with the program of wartime graduate medical meetings and served the Office of Civilian Defense of the United States Public Health...
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  • Francis Huntington Swett

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    Francis Huntington Swett was a member of the original faculty as a professor and chair of the Dept. of Anatomy from 1930 to 1943. He co-wrote Introduction to the Medical Sciences for Medical Record Librarians, with J.H. Neese. He died in 1943.
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  • Will Camp Sealy

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    Will Camp Sealy was chief of the general surgery section in the 65th General Hospital. In 1949 he worked with other Duke faculty to start the Cardiovascular Teaching and Training Program.
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  • Haywood Maurice Taylor

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    Haywood Maurice Taylor, a member of the original faculty, was professor of toxicology from 1929 to 1960. He died September 21, 1960.
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  • Lyman, Meyer, and Davison

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    (Left to right) Richard S. Lyman, Adolf Meyer, and Wilburt Cornell Davison. Lyman was professor of neuropsychiatry from 1940 to 1951. Duke Hospital’s Meyer Ward for psychiatric patients was named for Meyer. Davison was the first dean of the School...
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  • Frederick Bernheim

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    Frederick Bernheim was a member of the original faculty as professor of pharmacology from 1930 to 1976. He was also chief of the biochemical pharmacology laboratory.
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  • Susan Dees

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    Susan Dees was professor of pediatrics from 1939 to 1978, and chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology from 1948 to 1974. She established the pediatric allergy training program in the early 1940s.
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  • Kenneth LeRoy Pickrell.

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    Pickrell was a professor of plastic surgery from 1944 to 1981 and chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery from 1944 to 1975. During World War II, Pickrell was a consultant in chemical warfare at Edgewood Arsenal and assisted with the program of...
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  • Violet Olive Horner Turner

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    Violet Olive Horner Turner was on the Duke house staff and assistant professor of obstetrics (1941, 1943-1966).
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  • Ivan W. Brown, Jr.

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    Brown graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1939. He was a Markle scholar and member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1940 to 1942 and professor of surgery from 1945 to 1970. During World War II, Brown was captain on the...
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  • Bessie Baker

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    In 1929, Baker was recruited by Wilburt C. Davison (first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine) to become the first dean of the Duke University School of Nursing. Baker officially joined Duke University in 1930 as professor and dean; the...
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  • J. Lamar Callaway and hospital physicians meeting

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    J. Lamar Callaway graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1932. Callaway, Wiley D. Forbus, Mary A. Poston, Edward Orgain, Douglas Sprunt, William Schulze, and Elbert Persons are assembled in a Duke Hospital meeting room.
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  • Frederic Moir Hanes

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    Hanes came to Duke University in 1931 as a member of the original faculty. He served as professor of neurology and as the Florence McAlister Professor of Medicine (1930-1946). He was chair of the Department of Medicine from 1933 to 1946. In 1937,...
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  • F. Gregory Hall

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    Frank Gregory Hall was a professor of pharmacology and physiology from 1945 to 1966 (emeritus 1966-1967) and chair of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology from 1949 to 1961. Hall's research interests focused on oxygenation and...
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  • Edwin C. Hamblen

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    Hamblen came to Duke University in 1931 as a member of the original faculty. He organized Duke's Division of Endocrinology in 1936 as a division of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. During his career at Duke, Hamblen was an associate...
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  • Oscar Hansen-Pruss

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    Hansen-Pruss came to Duke University in 1930 as a member of the original faculty of the Duke University School of Medicine. Hansen-Pruss originated the Allergy Clinic in 1930 and became chief of the Allergy Service. He served as chief of the...
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  • Philip Handler

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    Philip Handler was a professor (1939-1984) and chair (1949-1969) of the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University. Handler was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1981. He served as president of the National Academy of Sciences...
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  • Duncan Charteris Hetherington

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    Hetherington was a member of the original faculty of Duke University School of Medicine. He served as a professor of anatomy from 1930 to 1963.
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  • William Alexander Perlzweig

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    Perlzweig was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine. He served as professor of biochemistry from 1929 to 1949. His research interests were primarily in the biochemistry of nutrition. Together with Frederic Moir Hanes, Wiley D....
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  • Roy T. Parker

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    Parker was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1946 to 1947. After completing his residency, Parker went into private practice. He returned to Duke University in 1953 as a professor and later became chair of the Department of...
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  • William McNeal Nicholson

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    Nicholson, a graduate of Duke University (A.B., 1927) became chief of the metabolism clinic (1940-1955) and dean of continuing medical education (1949-1968). His research interests were in metabolic diseases, particularly the treatment of diabetes.
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  • Talmage Lee Peele

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    Peele graduated from Duke University (A.B., 1929 and M.D., 1934). He served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1936 and as professor of anatomy from 1939 to 1981.
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  • Pathology staff in army uniforms

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    Group photograph of pathology staff in military uniform on front steps of building. Individuals pictured may have been members of the 65th General Hospital. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
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  • Edwin P. Alyea

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    Edwin P. Alyea was first chief of Duke Hospital's Division of Urology within the Department of Surgery. He was appointed Profesor of Urology in 1929. Alyea received an bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1919 and an M.D. degree from...
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  • Edward S. Orgain

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    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...
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  • Edward S. Orgain

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    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...
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  • Edward S. Orgain

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    Edward S. Orgain reading EKG tape, pictured with nurse and patient. 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...
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  • Jane Elchlepp

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    Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...
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  • Jane Elchlepp

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    Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...
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  • Hans Lowenbach

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    Lowenbach was a professor of neurology from 1940 to 1963 and chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1951 to 1953. He returned to Duke as a visiting professor in the early 1970s.
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  • Ewald W. Busse

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    Ewald W. Busse in the 1970s. 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...
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  • John Essary Dees

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    John Essary Dees was appointed associate professor of urology in the Divison of Urology, Department of Surgery in 1939.
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  • Margaret Isabel Pinkerton

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    Margaret Isabel Pinkerton was dean of the School of Nursing from 1939 to 1946.
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  • Barnes Woodhall examining x-ray

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    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...
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  • Russell Dicks

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    Portrait of Russell Dicks, a professor of pastoral care, the director of clinical pastoral training, and chaplain at Duke University Hospital from 1948-1958.
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  • Ewald W. Busse

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    Ewald W. Busse in the 1970s. 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...
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  • Ewald W. Busse

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    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...
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  • Frederick Bernheim

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    Formal portrait of Frederick Bernheim from the 1950s. Dr. Bernheim was one of the original members of the faculty of the Duke University Hospital and School of Medicine. He served as professor of pharmacology from 1930 until 1974 or 1975.
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  • Dr. James H. Semans and mentor

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    James H. Semans, professor of urology in the Dept. of Surgery, served on the Duke faculty for 28 years. In the 1960s Semans, along with his wife Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, helped to establish the North Carolina School of the Arts in...
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  • Dr. Joseph and Dorothy Beard examining slides

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    Dr. Joseph and Dorothy Beard seated at micrscope, examining slides. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was appointed professor of virology in 1965. Dorothy...
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  • Dr. Brenda Armstrong

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    Portrait of Dr. Brenda Armstrong, who is a professor of pediatrics, associate dean of medical education, and director of admissions at the School of Medicine. She first came to Duke Medicine as a resident in 1975.
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  • Dr. Catherine Wilfert

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    Portrait of Dr. Catherine Wilfert. Wilfert came to Duke University School of Medicine in 1969, where she achieved rank of division chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics (1976-1994) and professor in the Department...
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  • Dr. Anthony R. Means

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    Portrait of Dr. Anthony R. Means, Chair of the Department of Pharmacology from 1991-1997.
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  • Dr. J. Lloyd Michener

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    Portrait of Dr. J. Lloyd Michener, who became Chair of the Department of Community & Family Medicine in 1994.
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  • Dr. Samuel "Woody" Warburton

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    Dr. Samuel "Woody" Warburton, Division Chief of Community & Family Medicine from 1980-1985, 2006-2010, and in 2012.
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  • Dr. Leonoard Prosnitz

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    Portrait of Dr. Leonoard Prosnitz, Chair of the Department of Radiation/Oncology from 1991-1996.
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  • Mary Alverta Poston

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    Mary Alverta Poston graduated from Duke University with a master's degree in 1939. She was a member of the original faculty as an instructor in bacteriology and later an associate in microbiology within the Dept. of Microbiology (1930-1961). She...
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