Prentiss L. Harrison graduated from the Duke Physician Assistant Program in 1968. He was the first African American physician assistant in the country.
Project MED-AID volunteers answering phone calls. Project MED-AID was the medical center's radio consultative program for isolated doctors in other countries. The radio program met critical needs of physicians in developing countries, and for doctors...
Dr. Walter Kempner, founder of the Rice Diet and Professor of Medicine from 1934 to 1972, is shown eating with two Rice Dieters. Dr. Kempner is seated in the center, with his back to the window. Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He joined...
Dr. Ross helped organize the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Duke University School of Medicine, where he was acting chair of the department from 1930 to 1931 and professor from 1930 to 1952.
Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz is a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center.
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...