(Left to right) Richard S. Lyman, Adolf Meyer, and Wilburt Cornell Davison. Lyman was professor of neuropsychiatry from 1940 to 1951. Duke Hospital’s Meyer Ward for psychiatric patients was named for Meyer. Davison was the first dean of the School of...
Lt. Colonel Clarence E. Gardner (later chair of the Dept. of Surgery at Duke) was chief of Surgical Service of the 65th General Hospital. Near the end of the war, Dr. Gardner was promoted to full colonel and became a surgical consultant to the United...
Louis Sullivan, James Carter, and William Kennedy have a conversation during a reception held at the Duke President’s house. Dr. Lou Sullivan was Secretary of Health & Human Services during the H.W. Bush administration. Dr. James Carter was a...
Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health & Human Services during the H.W. Bush administration, seated at table with Dr. David Sabiston in the background. Dr. Sullivan was the keynote speaker for this meeting.
Lincoln Hospital was founded in 1901 through the efforts of Dr. Aaron Moore, Dr. Stanford Warren, and John Merrick. They convinced Washington Duke that a hospital would be a more valuable investment than Duke's idea of building a monument on the...
Lincoln Hospital (Durham, N.C.) was founded in 1901 as the first medical facility for African-Americans. Many Duke Hospital physicians would later provide support for physicians and clinical services for patients of Lincoln Hospital.
Irene Cherhavy, a speech therapist, works with a young patient. Leslie B. Hohman, Duke University psychiatrist and director of the Child Guidance Clinic and the patient's mother are also present. In the audience are members of the clinic staff. This...
Pickrell was a professor of plastic surgery from 1944 to 1981 and chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery from 1944 to 1975. During World War II, Pickrell was a consultant in chemical warfare at Edgewood Arsenal and assisted with the program of...
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...
First Medical Center Librarian, Judith Farrar, with Mary Duke Biddle Trent, and her mother Mildred Perkins Farrar (left to right) in the reading room of the Duke University Hospital Library when it was located in the basement of Duke South.
Judith Farrar, librarian; Mary Duke Biddle Trent, chair of the Library Committee; and Mildred T. Farrar, assistant librarian working in the Duke Hospital Library.
A young Dr. Trent. Manuscript note on verso: “Interviewed by Dr. Thorpe, Dec. 20th, 1933 at Dean’s office, Univ. Penna. Med. School, Phila. Hyman I. Goldstein, M.D. Camden 4, N. J.”
Dr. Joseph Beard and Dorothy Beard worked together to isolate and identify cancer viruses that cause leukemia in chickens. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973.
Dr. Joseph Beard and laboratory equipment. Dr. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. Beard and his wife Dorothy were an internationally prominent cancer team. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was appointed...
Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. Beard, and his wife Dorothy, were an internationally prominent cancer team. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was appointed professor of virology in 1965.
Joseph Beard with students during an experimental operation. Beard joined the Duke University faculty, serving from 1937 to 1973. He became the James B. Duke professor of surgery in 1946 and was appointed professor of virology in 1965. He received the...
Dr. Wadsworth was the first chair of ophthalmology at Duke University, serving from 1965 until 1983. Duke honored him by naming the facility that houses the eye center the Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Building.
Joanne A.P. Wilson graduated from the Duke University School Of Medicine in 1973, becoming the second African-American woman to graduate from Duke's medical school. She joined the Duke faculty in 1986 as Associate Professor and Associate Chief of...
Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...
Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...
James Paisley Hendrix was an associate professor of pharmacology and therapeutics from 1938 to 1972. He became a leading specialist in internal medicine.
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,...
Dr. James H. Semans was a Duke University surgeon and urologist who combined a career as a leading medical scientist and physician with a passion for the arts and charitable causes. He was the husband of Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans.
Dr. James H. Carter Sr. was the first African-American full professor of psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center. He came to Duke in 1970 and served as a tenured professor for more than 20 years.
Dr. James H. Carter Sr. was the first African-American full professor of psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center. He came to Duke in 1970 and served as a tenured professor for more than 20 years.
James B. Wyngaarden was a former professor and administrator of Duke University Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital of Durham, North Carolina.
James B. Wyngaarden was a professor and administrator of Duke University Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital of Durham, North Carolina. He was chair of the Duke Univeristy Dept. of Medicine from 1967 to 1983.
Dr. Keene is the James B. Duke Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, director of the Center for RNA Biology, and director of basic sciences for the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. He was chair of the Department of Immunology from 1994 to...
J. Lamar Callaway graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1932. Callaway, Wiley D. Forbus, Mary A. Poston, Edward Orgain, Douglas Sprunt, William Schulze, and Elbert Persons are assembled in a Duke Hospital meeting room.
Portrait of Hart sitting in a chair, writing something and holding a book or journal. Presentation inscription “To Mary Semans, with sincere appreciation and best wishes– Deryl Hart.”
Julian Deryl Hart came to Duke University in 1929 as a member of the original faculty of Duke Hospital. In 1929, Hart initiated the Private Diagnostic Clinic plan with Frederic Moir Hanes. He served as chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic and later...
Brown graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1939. He was a Markle scholar and member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1940 to 1942 and professor of surgery from 1945 to 1970. During World War II, Brown was captain on the surgical...
Photograph of the inside of a hyperbaric unit. Two staff members (a female and a male) are standing inside the unit. The door of the unit is open. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University Photographer.
Machinery and layout 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 surgical and medical...
Illustration of the original main entrance to Duke Hospital clinics. Bob Blake was coordinator of the Division of Medical Illustration within the Duke University School of Medicine. He produced medical illustrations for Duke from about 1942 through the...
The Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) was an automated system that allowed people to travel between Duke Hospital (Duke North) and Duke Clinics (Duke South). The system was launched in 1979 and discontinued in 2009.
Dr. Victor Murdaugh, in the tie, is demonstrating Duke's new Kolff twin coil artificial kidney machine for a physician from eastern North Carolina back in 1957-58. Invented by Willem Kolff, MD, of the Netherlands, this kidney machine was one of only...
Illustration of a heart in a book. Bob Blake was coordinator of the Division of Medical Illustration within the Duke University School of Medicine. He produced medical illustrations for Duke from about 1940 through the 1970s. (Robert L. Blake papers.)
Portrait of Harvey Williams Cushing in right profile, looking downward. Cushing is credited with developing neurosurgery, and was a pioneer in studying the pituitary and the hypothalamus.
Lowenbach was a professor of neurology from 1940 to 1963 and chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1951 to 1953. He returned to Duke as a visiting professor in the early 1970s.
Herman Max Schiebel was member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and served as professor of surgery during the early 1930s. He became assistant chief of surgical services for the Office of Civilian Defense, Reserve Unit of the United States Public...
Dr. H. Keith H. Brodie came to Duke in 1974 as chair of the Department of Psychiatry, where he was later named the James B. Duke Professor of Psychiatry and Law. He became the chancellor of Duke University in 1982, and then served as president of Duke...
Staff of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, GA, including Dr. Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. Stead was professor of medicine and chair of the Dept. of Medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1967. He was a Lt. Col. with the 65th General Hospital between...
Portrait of Dr. Grace Kerby, who worked at Duke from 1940 until her retirement in 1976. In 1946 she became the first female chief resident in the Department of Medicine, and in 1964 she became the first female full professor in the department....
Altvater graduated from Duke University (A.B., 1930 and M.A., 1932). He earned a certificate in hospital administration in 1933. An original member of the faculty, held the position of the superintendent of Duke Hospital from 1930 to 1946.
Frederick Bernheim in a laboratory during the 1970s. Dr. Bernheim was one of the original members of the faculty of the Duke University Hospital and School of Medicine. He served as professor of pharmacology from 1930 until 1974 or 1975.
Frederick Bernheim was a member of the original faculty as professor of pharmacology from 1930 to 1976. He was also chief of the biochemical pharmacology laboratory.
Formal portrait of Frederick Bernheim from the 1950s. Dr. Bernheim was one of the original members of the faculty of the Duke University Hospital and School of Medicine. He served as professor of pharmacology from 1930 until 1974 or 1975.
Frederick and Molly (Mary) Bernheim. Bernheim was a member of the original faculty of the Duke University School of Medicine and Hospital. He was a professor of pharmacology from 1930 to 1975.
Hanes came to Duke University in 1931 as a member of the original faculty. He served as professor of neurology and as the Florence McAlister Professor of Medicine (1930-1946). He was chair of the Department of Medicine from 1933 to 1946. In 1937, Hanes...
Frank Libman Engel was chair of the Division of Endocrinology from 1960 to 1963, and a member of the faculty from 1947 to 1963. He was known for research in endocrinology and metabolic diseases.
F. Ross Porter, with F. Vernon Altvater, was one of Duke Hospital's first administrative interns when the hospital opened in 1930. In 1932 he was appointed assistant superintendent of Duke Hospital, and in 1933 he was certified in hospital...
Francis Huntington Swett was a member of the original faculty as a professor and chair of the Dept. of Anatomy from 1930 to 1943. He co-wrote Introduction to the Medical Sciences for Medical Record Librarians, with J.H. Neese. He died in 1943.
Frank Gregory Hall was a professor of pharmacology and physiology from 1945 to 1966 (emeritus 1966-1967) and chair of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology from 1949 to 1961. Hall's research interests focused on oxygenation and respiration, and...