Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He joined Duke in 1934 as a member of the Department of Medicine. Kempner was interested in the effect of diet on various diseases including hypertension and diabetes. Observing that those diseases were...
Technicians in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Kempner, professor of medicine. In the foreground is the Warburg apparatus, in which chemical reactions of surviving kidney cells are studies. In the background is a flame photometer, used for determining...
Hospital staff using machines and tools in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication of...
(Left to right) Richard Sherman Lyman, Wilburt Cornell Davidson, Robert Lee Flowers, Adolph Meyer, Robert Sproul Carroll, and Frederic Moir Hanes. Lyman was chair of the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Duke from 1940 to 1951. Davidson was Dean of the...
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...
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 Service...
Joanne A.P. Wilson graduated from the Duke University School Of Medicine in 1973, becoming the second African-American woman to graduate from Duke's medical school. She joined the Duke faculty in 1986 as Associate Professor and Associate Chief of...
James Paisley Hendrix was an associate professor of pharmacology and therapeutics from 1938 to 1972. He became a leading specialist in internal medicine.
Machinery and layout in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication of surgical and medical...
Portrait of Dr. Grace Kerby, who worked at Duke from 1940 until her retirement in 1976. In 1946 she became the first female chief resident in the Department of Medicine, and in 1964 she became the first female full professor in the department....
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, Hanes...
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 Program...
Ernst Peschel was assistant professor of medicine from 1947 to 1972. He wrote extensively on the health implications of colleague Walter Kempner's Rice Diet program.
Menefee, a student member of Alpha Omega Alpha, graduated from the School of Medicine in 1936. He was a professor of medicine in the pulmonary allergy division (1936-1938, 1940-1971). During World War II, Menefee was a member of the medical advisory...
Dr. Holmes was a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator; chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Genetics (1983-1991); and the James B. Wyngaarden Professor of Medicine at Duke University.
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....
Portrait of Dr. Joseph Greenfield. Throughout his career, Dr. Greenfield held various positions at the Duke University Medical Center, including chief of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center's Cardiology Section (1963-1983), chief of Duke University...
Dr. Barton Haynes in laboratory, seated at microcope. Haynes is a Frederic M. Hanes professor of medicine, immunology, and global health. He is also the director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology. He...
Augustus Grant is a cardiologist who joined the faculty at the Duke University School of Medicine in 1977. He currently serves as a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Faculty Enrichment.