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  • William McNeal Nicholson

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • Wilburt Cornell Davison

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Wilburt C. Davison at his desk

    Description:
    Wilburt Cornell Davison (“Dave”), first dean of the School of Medicine, smoking a pipe at his office desk. Davison was the chair of pediatrics (1930-1954) and first dean of Duke University School of Medicine (1927-1960). In 1933, he inaugurated a...
    Date:
    circa 1940

  • Warner Lee Wells

    Description:
    Warner Lee Wells received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University (A.B., 1934; M.D., 1938). He was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and an associate in the Dept. of Surgery (1938-1945).
    Date:
    1941

  • Walter Kempner

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Walter E. Daniel

    Description:
    Walter E. Daniel was on the Duke house staff and an instructor in urology from 1932 to 1934 and 1937 to 1938.
    Date:
    1933

  • Violet Olive Horner Turner

    Description:
    Violet Olive Horner Turner was on the Duke house staff and assistant professor of obstetrics (1941, 1943-1966).
    Date:
    undated

  • Students studying in the Duke University School of Medicine Library

    Description:
    Students, faculty, or interns study in the reading room of the School of Medicine Library (later known as the Medical Center Library). One student is using the card catalog.
    Date:
    1946

  • Speakers at dedication of the School of Medicine

    Description:
    Duke University faculty and guests from other institutions gather at the Davison building, entrance to the School of Medicine on the occasion of the dedication of the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital on April 31, 1931. Speakers...
    Date:
    1931

  • Speaker at tenth anniversary celebration of the School of Medicine

    Description:
    Robert Lee Flowers addresses faculty and house staff during the tenth anniversary celebration of the School of Medicine, held from November 29-30, 1940. Flowers was President of Duke University from 1941 to 1949.
    Date:
    1940

  • School of Medicine students with Dean Davison

    Description:
    Students and Wilburt Cornell Davison, first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, on rounds in Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    undated

  • Roger Denio Baker in Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Roger Denio Baker was a member of the original faculty as associate professor of pathology from 1930 to 1944.
    Date:
    1940

  • Robert Randolph Jones

    Description:
    Robert Randolph Jones was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine and Duke Hospital. He served as house staff and associate professor of surgery from 1930 to 1941. In 1941, he was fatally shot by a psychiatric patient who was...
    Date:
    undated

  • Robert Nowell Creadick

    Description:
    Robert Nowell Creadick was on the Duke house staff and assistant professor of obstetrics from 1939 to 1966.
    Date:
    undated

  • Richard Sherman Lyman

    Description:
    Lyman received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1921). He worked in Leningrad with Ivan P. Pavlov in the Department of Physiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine (1930-1931). His appointments...
    Date:
    undated

  • Raymond S. Crispell

    Description:
    Crispell was a professor of psychiatry with the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1933 to 1946. He served during World War II as a lieutenant commander with the United States Naval Reserve Office.
    Date:
    1940

  • Lyman, Meyer, and Davison

    Description:
    (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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Lt. Colonel Clarence E. Gardner, 65th General Hospital

    Description:
    Lt. Colonel Clarence E. Gardner (later chair of the Dept. of Surgery at Duke) was chief of Surgical Service of the 65th General Hospital. Near the end of the war, Dr. Gardner was promoted to full colonel and became a surgical consultant to the...
    Date:
    undated

  • Lenox D. Baker

    Description:
    Lenox Baker graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1933. He served as professor of orthopaedics and orthopaedic surgery. He was the chief of the Division of Orthopaedics (Department of Surgery) from 1937 to 1967.
    Date:
    circa 1965

  • Keith Sanford Grimson

    Description:
    Keith Sanford Grimson was an associate professor of surgery from 1942 to 1976. He conducted research in the nonsurgical treatment of hypertension.
    Date:
    undated

  • Joseph W. Beard

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • Joseph Beard instructing students or residents in the canine surgery teaching laboratory

    Description:
    Joseph Beard with students during an experimental operation. Beard joined the Duke University faculty, serving from 1937 to 1973. He became the James B. Duke professor of surgery in 1946 and was appointed professor of virology in 1965. He received...
    Date:
    undated

  • John W. Everett

    Description:
    John W. Everett was professor of anatomy from 1932 to 1978.
    Date:
    undated

  • John Hickam measuring blood gases

    Description:
    Hickam, a professor of medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1957, uses a machine to measure blood gases.
    Date:
    circa 1947

  • Jane Elchlepp

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    1978

  • Jane Elchlepp

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Jane Elchlepp

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • James Paisley Hendrix

    Description:
    James Paisley Hendrix was an associate professor of pharmacology and therapeutics from 1938 to 1972. He became a leading specialist in internal medicine.
    Date:
    undated

  • Hans Lowenbach

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • Hans Lowenbach

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    1970

  • Guy L. Odom

    Description:
    Guy Leary Odom was professor (1943-1971) and chair (1960-1971) of the Division of Neurosurgery in the Department of Surgery at Duke University.
    Date:
    undated

  • Guy L. Odom

    Description:
    Guy Leary Odom was professor (1943-1971) and chair (1960-1971) of the Division of Neurosurgery in the Department of Surgery at Duke University.
    Date:
    undated

  • Guy L. Odom

    Description:
    Guy Leary Odom was professor (1943-1971) and chair (1960-1971) of the Division of Neurosurgery in the Department of Surgery at Duke University.
    Date:
    undated

  • Group portrait of neurology faculty

    Description:
    Neurology faculty: (Seated) L-R: T. Peele, J. Pfeiffer, Charles Kunkle, Chief; N. David. (Standing) L-R: L. Klein, Y. Saito, J. Peeler, J. Stiefel.
    Date:
    circa 1961

  • Frederick Bernheim at his retirement dinner

    Description:
    Frederick Bernheim speaking at his retirement dinner. 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 1975.
    Date:
    1975

  • Frederick Bernheim

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • F. Gregory Hall

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Executive Committee of the School of Medicine

    Description:
    Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the...
    Date:
    1947

  • Executive committee of the School of Medicine

    Description:
    Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Wiley Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the...
    Date:
    1947

  • Ewald W. Busse

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Ewald W. Busse

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Ewald W. Busse

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Eugene Anson Stead, Jr.

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Ernst Peschel

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • Edward S. Orgain

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Edward S. Orgain

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Edward Orgain and Oscar Hansen-Pruss

    Description:
    Edward Orgain became an associate professor of medicine in 1934. Oscar Hansen-Pruss became professor of medicine in 1930.
    Date:
    undated

  • Duncan Charteris Hetherington

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    undated

  • Duke University School of Medicine faculty and Duke Hospital staff in the Duke Hospital amphitheater

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    1950

  • Duke Hospital and School of Medicine faculty

    Description:
    Male and female faculty of Duke Hospital and Duke University School of Medicine.
    Date:
    1932