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...
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 student...
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...
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 India;...
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 Biostatistics...
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 wards at...
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; former...
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...
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 to...
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 Staphylococcal...
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);...
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 premedical...
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...
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 job;...
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 she was...
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...
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 work;...
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...
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 in...
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 Bent...
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 chair...
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 campus;...
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...
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 in...
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 Duke...
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...
Department of Medicine House Staff and Faculty Photo 2000-2001 1. N. Romano; 2. J. Green; 3. E. Christopher; 4. A. Kaplan; 5. S. Crowley; 6. B. Haynes; 7. W. Yarger; 8. T. Owens; 9. L. Greenblatt; 10. K. Johnson; 11. S. Gurley; 12. M. Wadleigh; 13. K....
Department of Medicine House Staff and Faculty Photo 1999-2000 1. L. Lein; 2. D. Daniel; 3. S. Gurley; 4. E. Hope; 5. J. Ard; 6. D. Nikcevich; 7. B. Haynes; 8. B. Yarger; 9. J. Peterson; 10. C. Petti; 11. S. Lin; 12. J. Gagliardi; 13. T. Fortin; 14. M....
Department of Medicine House Staff and Faculty Photo 1998-1999 1. A. Abernethy; 2. W. Yarger; 3. B. Haynes; 4. C. Cabell; 5. C. Colon-Emeric; 6. G. Jones; 7. N. Peterson; 8. J. Poku; 9. S. Rao; 10. C. Russo; 11. C. Jordan; 12. G. Gerschutz; 13. E....
Duke University Department of Medicine 1995-1996 1. H. Carag; 2. L. Yballe; 3. C. Carpenter; 4. N. Hardy; 5. J. Tseng; 6. T. Shah; 7. R. Dolor; 8. M. Cuffe; 9. B. Haynes; 10. W. Yarger; 11. J. Hochrein; 12. M. Eloubeid; 13. S. Lunin; 14. S. Adler; 15....
Duke University Department of Medicine 1994-1995 1. P. Bohjanen; 2. R. Deucher; 3. S. Gittleson; 4. F. Jeffries; 5. K. Lyke; 6. E. Gutman; 7. M. Balssanno; 8. L. Murphy; 9. D. Ciaccia; 10. J. Greenfield; 11. K. Bodily; 12. W. Yarger; 13. S. Wang; 14....
Duke University Department of Medicine 1993-1994 1. R. Chen; 2. K. Marr; 3. J. Miller; 4. C. Udomsakdi; 5. E. Duh; 6. M. Thel; 7. J. Greenfield; 8. W. Yarger; 9. S. Kantrow; 10. S. Al Khatib; 11. B. Alexander; 12. H. Shaw; 13. I. Mbaga; 14. N....
Dr. Robert Lefkowitz. Lefkowitz was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in 1973, and promoted to Professor of Medicine in 1977. In 1982 he became the James B. Duke Professor of Medicine. He was awarded the...
Duke University Medical Center Department of Medicine 1990-1991 1. Folz; 2. Pfundstein; 3. Sachs; 4. Kanj; 5. Cross; 6. Gelber; 7. Bernstein; 8. Greenfield; 9. Yarger; 10. Lichtenstein; 11. Burton; 12. Narins; 13. T. Green; 14. S. Green; 15. Shenassa;...