The Morris Building houses the Duke Oncology Treatment Center. The Morris Building is named for Edwin A. Morris, a donor who supported the creation of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Personnel Rapid Transit (PRT) system was used to transport...
In the late 1920s, J. Deryl Hart invented a variable pressure bed (or air mattress) to ease patient’s bed sores. Hart patented many of his inventions, which also included a pneumatic bed, an operating room supply table, and a surgical basin with a...
Dr. Keene is the James B. Duke Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, director of the Center for RNA Biology, and director of basic sciences for the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. He was chair of the Department of Immunology from 1994 to...
James B. Wyngaarden was a former professor and administrator of Duke University Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital of Durham, North Carolina.
Front view of the Bell Building. The Bell Building was originally constructed in 1947 and underwent renovations in 1958, 1960, 1964 and 1979. The building was home to offices of the Departments of Surgery, Pediatrics, Radiology, Obstetrics and...
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...
Roscoe Graham organizes potato chips. He began July 25, 1920, as a trainee butcher at Duke Medical Center. He went on to work as a stockroom attendant, food service worker I and food service aide senior before his promotion to food service supervisor...
Lincoln Hospital (Durham, N.C.) was founded in 1930 as the first medical facility for African-Americans. Many Duke Hospital physicians would later provide support for physicians and clinical services for patients of Lincoln Hospital.
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.
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.
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....
School of nursing student exiting Baker House. Baker House, located on Trent Drive, was constructed in 1931 and renovated in 1968. The building is contiguous with Duke Clinic. It housed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology administration,...
Dr. Joseph Beard and Dorothy Beard worked together to isolate and identify cancer viruses that cause leukemia in chickens. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973.
Illustration of the original main entrance to Duke Hospital clinics. 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...
Dr. William Anlyan, with view of campus in background. Anlyan came to Duke University in 1949, where he completed residency training in general and thoracic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine between 1949 and 1955. In 1955 he passed the...
Completed ultraviolet lights system hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became widely accepted...
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....
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 from...
An x-ray technician of Duke Hospital guides an x-ray camera over a patient's body. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
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...
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...
Students and faculty of Duke University School of Medicine at the annual student faculty show, where the students put on a musical play lampooning the school and the faculty. The location for that event each year at the time was the Stallion Club, a...
Frank Libman Engel was chair of the Division of Endocrinology from 1960 to 1963, and a member of the faculty from 1947 to 1963. He was known for research in endocrinology and metabolic diseases.
Baker House, located on Trent Drive, was constructed in 1931 and renovated in 1968. The building is contiguous with Duke Clinic. It housed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology administration, clinics, diagnostic, treatment and support services...
Sketch showing transformers and special radiation tube installation for operating room ultraviolet lights system installation. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
Dr. Clarence Gardner sews up a patient in the Duke Hospital emergency room. He is assisted by Miss Antoinette Makeley, R.N. The group of young men observing the procedure is likely comprised of medical students or interns. Dr. Clarence Ellsworth...
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...
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 Winston-Salem,...
Medical illustration of the aorta, thoracic duct. 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....
Nurses or physicians tend to patients of the 65th General Hospital. The 65th General Hospital served as an affiliated unit of the Duke University School of Medicine during World War II. Authorized on October 17, 1940, the Hospital was headed by Dr. E....
Arnold began his career at Duke in 1936 as a member of the Duke Hospital house staff. He was a professor of otology and associate professor of otolaryngology and ophthalmology from 1936 to 1941 and 1946 to 1960.
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.
Dr. Clarence Ellsworth Gardner, Jr., was a member of the original faculty, beginning as professor of surgery in 1930. He later served as chair of the Dept. of Surgery from 1960 to 1964.
From 1944 to 1946 William Warner Shingleton was on the Duke Hospital house staff and an associate in surgery. He was also the first director of the Cancer Center at Duke.
Dr. Smith was James B. Duke Professor of Microbiology; chair of the Department of Microbiology (1930-1958); associate professor of Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine (1950-1966) at Duke University.
Portrait of Dr. James Urbaniak, who joined the faculty in 1969 as an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, became Professor in 1977, and Chief of the Division in 1985, a position he held until 2002.
Operating room with ultraviolet light, x-ray screen, instrument table, and patient bed prepared for surgery. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique...
Duke Hospital staff of the Social Service Division. The Division of Social Services was founded on September 1, 1937 with the support of Ms. Doris Duke. During World War II, the Social Service Division worked with the American Red Cross to assist...
(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...
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...
Portrait of Dr. John Falletta. Falletta came to Duke in 1976 to serve as the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology. He stepped down from this role in 1994 to become Chair of the IRB, a position he held until his retirement in early 2015.