Duke Hospital staff member with an x-ray screen in an examination room. Courses in roentgenology and radiology were taught at Duke Hospital as early as 1930 by staff in the hospital's radiology department. The radiology department held weekly...
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.
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.
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.
Wilma Minnier (L) talk with two nursing students in the hospital. Minniear joined Duke as an assistant professor in 1964. She became executive director of nursing services in 1970 and remained in this position until her retirement in 1984.
Portrait of Wilma Minniear, who joined Duke as an Assistant Professor in 1964. She became Executive Director of Nursing Services in 1970 and remained in this position until her retirement in 1984.
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.
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.
Dr. Anderson is a professor of ophthalmology at Duke University. Dr. Anderson received training in surgery (1956-1957) and in ophthalmology (1959-1962) at Duke University.
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....
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...
Perlzweig was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine. He served as professor of biochemistry from 1929 to 1949. His research interests were primarily in the biochemistry of nutrition. Together with Frederic Moir Hanes, Wiley D....
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.
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 charge...
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.
Hull (seated) observes a Duke Hospital nurse as she breathes through a tube connected to a machine monitoring air flow. Hull used air flow measurements to study oxygen supply and the effects of anesthesia. Hull (Ph.D., Duke, 1946) was an instructor in...
Watts Hospital was originally founded in 1895 with the philanthropic mission of free health care to all citizens. It was expanded and rebuilt, reopening in 1909. The hospital was so highly regarded that in 1922 James B. Duke, Governor Cameron Morrison...
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...
Dr. Young was a house staff and faculty member in the Department of Surgery (1948-1950). Dr. Will Camp Sealy, Dr. Ivan Brown, and Dr. Glenn Young were among the first to determine the benefits of patient cooling by using hypothermic cardiopulmonary...
Veterans Administration Hospital staff. (Front) Alexander Wood, William Tucker, William Deiss, Herb Sieker; (back) John Fulton (?), E. Harvey Estes, Jr., Malcolm Tyor, Henry McIntosh, Mark Bogdinoff.
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...
Three unidientified men at a microscope. The two men in ties have been identified as students, while the third man has been identified as their instructor.
Kinney graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1936. He served as chair of the Department of Pathology from 1960 to 1975 and associate provost of the School of Medicine from 1973 to 1974. His administrative activities included...
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...
Thelma Ingles came to Duke university in 1944 supported by a United States Public Health Service grant to study the role of the nurse in the clinic. She returned to Duke in 1949 as professor and chair of the Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing at...
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...
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.
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.
Susan Dees was professor of pediatrics from 1939 to 1978, and chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology from 1948 to 1974. She established the pediatric allergy training program in the early 1940s.
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Seeley G. Mudd Building is located at the heart of the Medical Center campus. The building was constructed between 1973 and 1975. It opened in November 1975 and was dedicated May 8, 1976. The Medical Center Library occupies much of the building.
Dr. Katz is former professor and chair of the Dept. of Pediatrics (1969-1999) and a researcher in vaccine policy development and pediatric HIV/AIDS care.
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 Russell Dicks, a professor of pastoral care, the director of clinical pastoral training, and chaplain at Duke University Hospital from 1948-1958.
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...
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...
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...
Robert James Reeves was a member of the original faculty. He served as professor of radiology from 1930 to 1968 and as first chair of the Dept. of Radiology from 1930 to 1965. He was in the reserve unit of the United States Public Health Service and...
Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz is a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center.
Chambers graduated from Duke University (B.S. 1944) and the School of Medicine (M.D. 1945). He was a member of the Duke Hospital house staff and a fellow in the Department of Pathology from 1944 to 1945.
Dr. Ross helped organize the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Duke University School of Medicine, where he was acting chair of the department from 1930 to 1931 and professor from 1930 to 1952.
(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...
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...
Portrait of Reginald Carter, who joined the Duke Physician Assistant Program in 1972 as a teacher. From 1984 to 1999 he served as Program Director and Division Chief for PA Education within the Department of Community and Family Medicine. In 2001 he...
Raymond Woodrow Postlethwait graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1937. He was on house staff at Duke from 1937 to 1939. He became the chief of surgery at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Durham, N.C.
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.
Rachel Z. Booth, RN, MS, PhD, served as assistant vice president for health affairs and dean and professor of the School of Nursing (1984-1987) at Duke University.