At the center, a line of men and women can be seen in front of a large piece of medical equipment. A nurse is using the piece of equipment on a male patient, while another nurse stands behind her.
Members of the Department of Anatomy at Duke University School of Medicine. (Left to right, row 1) Henry Hollingshead, instructor; Frank Swett, professor and chair; Rober D. Baker, instructor. (Row 2) Edna Elias, secretary; Talmadge Peele, student...
Division of Neurosurgery physicians. Row 1 (l-r): Edward Ganz, Barnes Woodhall, Robert H. Wilkins, W. Jerry Oakes; Row 2 (l-r): Blaine Nashold, Guy L. Odom, Richard S. Kramer, Wesley A. Cook. The Division of Neurosurgery was established in 1937 as part...
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....
Julian Meade Ruffin, professor of medicine from 1930 to 1970, was a member of the original faculty. He assisted with the program of wartime graduate medical meetings and served the Office of Civilian Defense of the United States Public Health Service...
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,...
Edwin P. Alyea was first chief of Duke Hospital's Division of Urology within the Department of Surgery. He was appointed Profesor of Urology in 1929. Alyea received an bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1919 and an M.D. degree from Johns...