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  • Kathleen Clem Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description:
    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

  • Rebecca H. Buckley Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description:
    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

  • Nancy Allen Oral History Interview, 2006

    Description:
    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

  • Marianne S. Breslin Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description:
    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

  • Elizabeth Bullitt Oral History Interview, 2005

    Description:
    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

  • Sezer Aksel Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description:
    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

  • Rebecca Clayton Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description:
    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

  • Lois Pounds Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description:
    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

  • Samuel L. Katz Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description:
    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

  • Doris Howell Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description:
    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