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  • Catherine M. Wilfert Oral History Interview, 2006

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Catherine Wilfert discusses family support; her decision to become a physician; her medical degree from Harvard; the atmosphere for women at Harvard; the differences between the Harvard and Duke campuses; scientific collaborations on Duke...
    Date: 2006-08-25

  • Doris Howell Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Doris Howell discusses her early background; medical school at McGill University; positive treatment in medical school; her initial desire to go into the field of psychiatry; her choice to go into pediatrics; the characterization of pediatric...
    Date: 2007-11-12

  • Elizabeth Bullitt Oral History Interview, 2005

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Elizabeth Bullitt discusses her background; her fascination with the brain and neurosurgery; residency at University of Colorado; internal problems in program at University of Colorado; coming to Duke under Dr. Robert Wilkins; military feel of...
    Date: 2005-10-18

  • Elizabeth R. DeLong Oral History Interview, 2010

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Elizabeth DeLong discusses similarities and differences between working at a clinical research organization (Quintiles) and an academic research organization (Duke Medical Center); some collaborative projects between the Department of...
    Date: 2010-10-21

  • Frances K. Widmann Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Frances K. Widmann discusses her background; her parents as physicians; marrying a physician; her mother as a female physician; her own interest in pathology; her work synthesizing the work of others in the "Technical Manual of the American...
    Date: 2007-11-28

  • H. Keith H. Brodie Oral History Interview, 2004

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Brodie discusses psychiatry; Duke University Department of Psychiatry chair, his relocation to the South; Dr. Ewald W. Busse; family; Highland Hospital; Durham County Regional Hospital; Veterans Affairs Hospital (Durham, N.C.); John Umstead...
    Date: 2004

  • Hilda P. Willett Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Hilda P. Willett discusses her background; her siblings; her parents' emphasis on education; the lack of funding for higher education; scholarship; Georgia State College for Women; Dr. James Stokes's encouragement for further education; other...
    Date: 2007-05-21

  • Jane S. Richardson Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Jane S. Richardson discusses her background; her interest in astronomy; her interest in philosophy; working in the same lab where her husband, David Richardson, was getting his PhD; in 1969, the laboratory solving the structure of the...
    Date: 2007-11-09

  • Jean Spaulding Oral History Interview, 2006

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Jean Spaulding discusses her family background; growing up in Michigan; the diverse community in Michigan; coming to the South; negative and prejudiced treatment in the South as an African-American; the lack of recognition of the Vietnam War...
    Date: 2006-10-03

  • Joanne A. P. Wilson Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Joanne A. P. Wilson discusses the importance of recognizing history; her own background; parochial school; being an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; medical school at Duke; house staff training at the Peter...
    Date: 2007-05-24

  • Kathleen Clem Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Kathleen Clem discusses her desire to become an emergency physician; her background as a nurse; her family background; Loma Linda University; starting one of the first international emergency medical fellowships in the country (at Loma Linda);...
    Date: 2007-06-26

  • Lois Pounds Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Lois Pounds discusses her interest in nursing; the career possibilities for those interested in nursing in 1955; her graduate coursework in nursing; working; her extended visit to her sister in Syria; her Master's of Letters; the return to her...
    Date: 2007-07-03

  • Marianne S. Breslin Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Marianne S. Breslin discusses her background; her father's occupation as a horse breeder in Germany; Germany's political climate affecting her family; Nazi influence in her town; anti-Nazi sentiment after the war; extreme changes in family due...
    Date: 2007-06-28

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Oral History Interview, 2006

    Description/Abstract: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans speaks about her memories of what health care was like when she was a young woman; health care for her mother; the former chair of Medicine, Dr. Frederick Hanes; the Hanes family; her interest in, but not necessarily...
    Date: 2006-07-27

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans discusses Dr. Susan Dees; her friendship with Dr. Dees; Dr. Dees introducing Semans to her] second husband, Dr. Jim Semans; little time for socializing in the medical center; Dr. Dees's success as both a physician and...
    Date: 2007-08-02

  • Mary E. Klotman Oral History Interview, 2010

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Mary E. Klotman discusses coming to Duke as an undergraduate in the 1970s; the Duke Department of Medicine from her perspective as a student; the chair of the department when she was a resident; Dr. Joseph Greenfield as subsequent chair of the...
    Date: 2010-10-21

  • Nancy Allen Oral History Interview, 2006

    Description/Abstract: Nancy Allen discusses her family background; medical education; women in science during time of her education; coming to Duke; her husband being accepted into Duke's PhD program; Dr. Ralph Snyderman as chief of Immunology; Dr. James Wyngaarden as...
    Date: 2006-11-06

  • Nancy Catherine Andrews Oral History Interview, 2010

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Nancy Andrews discusses how dual degree (MD-PhD) is prevalent in deanship positions across the country; translational medicine; Duke's strength in translational medicine; her own research; the difference between what she experienced as a...
    Date: 2010-11-30

  • Nancy Catherine Andrews Oral History Interviews, 2019

    Description/Abstract: In the January 8, 2109 interview, Andrews discusses her family background; early interest in science; undergraduate education at Yale; pursuing MD PhD at Harvard and MIT; fellowship research on red blood cells; influence of David Nathan, chair of...
    Date: 2019-01-08

  • Priya Kishnani Oral History Interview, 2010

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Priya Kishnani discusses her family's background, particularly her mother's background as a physician in India; coming to the United States; medical genetics; Duke's strength in medical genetics; comparisons between medicine in the US and in...
    Date: 2010-12-29

  • Rebecca Clayton Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Rebecca Clayton discusses beginning work as the secretary for Dr. Grace Kerby, in 1960; being pregnant and delivering her first child; there being no maternity leave policy; her care for Dr. Kerby after Kerby's retirement; Dr. Kerby's attention to...
    Date: 2007-03-15

  • Rebecca H. Buckley Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Rebecca H. Buckley discusses receiving her bachelor's degree at Duke; the difference between the men's college and the women's college at Duke; her growing interest in becoming a doctor; others' resistance to her going into medicine because...
    Date: 2007-02-19

  • Samuel L. Katz Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Samuel Katz discusses his preference of the term chair versus chairman of the Department of Pediatrics in order to be inclusive of female department chairs; the nature of the Department of Pediatrics when he first arrived as chair in 1968;...
    Date: 2007-05-10

  • Sezer Aksel Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Sezer Aksel discusses her background in Turkey; her desire to become a physician even against her family's desires; coming to Duke Medical School; the difficulty understanding Southern accents; the friendly atmosphere at Duke; completing...
    Date: 2007-09-13

  • Sheila J. Counce-Nicklas Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Sheila J. Counce-Nicklas discusses her background; her love of science and of learning; her interest in how things work; her Fulbright scholarship to Edinburgh; her professor suggesting she get a PhD instead of diploma at Edinburgh; studying...
    Date: 2007-06-21

  • Wilhelm Delano Meriwether Oral History Interview, 2008

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Wilhelm Delano Meriwether speaks about his educational background; coming to Duke University School of Medicine due to the influence of his father; other schools that were integrating their medical schools at the same time; integrating the...
    Date: 2008-03-07