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 president,...
Weekly clinical-pathological conferences offered both students and staff a chance to study in detail pathological findings gained from autopsies and to determine the degree of accuracy of diagnosis made on these patients. Originally published in the...
Physical Therapy students (class of 1947) in old gym. Left to right: Mary Clyde Singleton, PT, (instructor), Isabell Berry, Sally Bassett, unknown patient, Doris Miller (obscured by railing), Martha Parks, Rachel Nunley, Pat Barrett, Winnie Lawson,...
Nu Sigma Nu, Beta Beta chapter was a fraternity for students of the Duke University School of Medicine. It was founded in 1931. At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu,...
1980 School of Medicine faculty. Row 1 (L-R): David Durack, Herbert Sieker, James Clapp, James Wyngaarden, Harvey Cohen, J. Lamar Caloway, Andrew Huang, Len Lastinger, Yihong Kong. Row 2 (L-R): Wednell Rosse, Allen Roses, Edwin Cox, Sheldon Pinnell,...
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 of...
Wilburt Cornell Davison, Joseph Beard, and Dorothy Beard standing together. Dr. Davison was the first dean of the School of Medicine at Duke University. Joseph and Dorothy Beard were researchers in the fields of virology and immunology.
Wolfgang (Bill) Joklik was James B. Duke Professor of Microbiology at Duke University, cancer researcher, and co-founder of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. Joklik was chair of the Dept. of Microbiology from 1968 to 1994.
Phi Chi was a medical fraternity for students of the Duke University School of Medicine. At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Pi, and Phi Chi. These...
Dr. Hammond joined the Duke University School of Medicine faculty in 1968. He served as chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1970 to 1980. In 1980 he became chair of the...
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...
School of Medicine students at the annual senior class picnic, held in June. (Left to right) Robert Biddle (house staff 1940-1942), Archie Eagles (house staff and fellow, 1946-1947), Ernest B. Dunlap, Jr. (house staff, 1939).
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...
Members of Nu Sigma Nu students who were part of the School of Medicine's class of 1934 (the first graduating four-year class). At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu,...
Dr. Robert Lefkowitz. Lefkowitz was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in 1973, and promoted to Professor of Medicine in 1977. In 1982 he became the James B. Duke Professor of Medicine. He was awarded the...
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.
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.
Carl Rogers was part of the original staff of Duke Hospital. He was known as the much beloved and admired "right hand" man of School of Medicine dean Wilburt C. Davison, who called him his "assistant dean."
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 include...
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 respiration, and...
Phi Chi was a medical fraternity for students of the Duke University School of Medicine. At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Pi, and Phi Chi. These...
Alpha Kappa Kappa was a medical fraternity for junior and senior men of the Duke University School of Medicine. At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Pi, and...
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.
Original columbarium in Davison building, unveiled in 1955, and renovated in 1973. This image shows plaques for Dr. Francis Swett, Dr. Frederic Hanes, Dr. William Perlzweig, and Bessie Baker.
Dan Blazer is former Dean of Medical Education, Duke University School of Medicine; J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; and scientist at Duke's Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health.
Members of the physical therapy class of 1950 in the basement of Duke Hospital (Physical Therapy department). An unknown physical therapist is in the original treatment pool with a polio patient.
School of Medicine and Duke Hospital staff at a dinner party. Dean of the School of Medicine Wilburt Cornell Davison is seated at the near end of the table, facing the camera. Callaway married Catharine Dater Van Blarcom, an instructor of nursing at...
Aerial view of Duke Hospital with the first addition of the Private Diagnostic Clinics completed. Also shows much of undeveloped surrounding area of the city of Durham.
Dr. Smith was the James B. Duke Professor of Microbiology; chair of the Department of Microbiology (1930-1958); and associate professor of Medicine in the division of preventive medicine (1950-1966) at Duke University.
(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...
Staff of the Medical Art and Illustration Division of the School of Medicine. The division was started in 1933 by Deryl Hart, Elizabeth Brodel, and C.W. Richardson. (Left to right) Elon H. Clark, Willard Sheppard, Susan Wilks, Tom Jones, and Orville A....
Medical illustration of the brain. Bob Blake was coordinator of the Division of Medical Illustration within the Duke University School of Medicine. He produced medical illustrations for Duke from about 1942 through the 1970s. (Robert L. Blake papers.)
Charles Johnson came to Duke in 1967 as a fellow in the Division of Endocrinology. He became the one of the first African American faculty members in the Duke School of Medicine in 1970.
Thirteen members of the first graduating class of the School of Medicine (class of 1932). This class was made up of third-year transfer students. Members of the first graduating class (not all pictured here) included Carlton N. Adams, Lacy Allen...
Drs. Ewald Busse, chair of the Department of Psychiatry (1953-1974); Thomas DeArman Kinney, chair of the Department of Pathology (1960-1975); William G. Anlyan, chancellor emeritus of Duke University Medical Center (1964-1969); Barnes Woodhall, dean of...
Nu Sigma Nu, Beta Beta chapter was a medical fraternity for students of the Duke University School of Medicine. At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Pi, and...