Dr. Bolognesi held a number of positions at Duke University from 1971 to March 1999, including James B. Duke Professor of Surgery, professor of microbiology and immunology, vice chair of the Department of Surgery for Research and Development and...
James B. Wyngaarden was a former professor and administrator of Duke University Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital of Durham, North Carolina.
Dr. Osterhout investigates household products in the Duke Poison Control Center. Dr. Shirley K. Osterhout came to Duke University in 1949 as an undergraduate. She obtained her MD from Duke in 1957 and continued in the Department of Pediatrics, working...
A steam engine train brings building materials to the site of Duke University, the School of Medicine, and Duke Hospital. Hospital construction began on September 1, 1927 and was completed on July 1, 1930. Duke Hospital opened for patients on July 21,...
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...
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.
Four African American LPN (licensed practical nursing) students and a Duke University Hospital staff member or nursing instructor gathered around a table. The students are enrolled in a cooperative program between Durham city schools, State Vocational...
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....
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...
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,...
Julian Deryl Hart came to Duke University in 1929 as a member of the original faculty of Duke Hospital. In 1929, Hart initiated the Private Diagnostic Clinic plan with Frederic Moir Hanes. He served as chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic and later...
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...
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. 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 examinations of the American board of thoracic Surgery....
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.
Samel E. Upchurch was a member of the Duke Hospital house staff and an associate in surgery from 1933 to 1945. He was also a member of the 65th General Hospital as assistant chief of surgical service and group consultant in plastic surgery.
Portrait of Eleanor Easley. In 1934, Easley became the first women to graduate from Duke's four-year medical school program and the first female resident at the hospital. She was a member of the Duke University house staff and an associate in...
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.
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 Obstetrics...
James B. Wyngaarden was a professor and administrator of Duke University Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital of Durham, North Carolina. He was chair of the Duke Univeristy Dept. of Medicine from 1967 to 1983.
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.