A performance of the 1990 student-faculty show Back to the Suture. Pat Kenan, MD '59, in front. The annual student-faculty show is entirely student-run and offers a comedic view of the experiences of a medical student at Duke.
Scullery/dishwashing kitchen area of the newly constructed Duke Hospital. Hospital construction began on September 1, 1927 and was completed on July 1, 1930. Duke Hospital opened for patients on July 21, 1930.
Moseley Award winners at the School of Nursing commencement ceremony for Bachelors of Science in Nursing. Pictured are Annette Baker, Carolyn Beethan, Denise Herrore, dean of the school Ruby Wilson, Carswell Hoots, and Sandra Pettit.
Department of Medicine Staff. (Left to right, row 1) James P. Hendrix, Julian Meade Ruffin, Elijah Eugene Menefee, Jr., Elbert L. Persons, Eugene A. Stead, J. Lamar Callaway, William McNeal Nicholson, Oscar Hansen-Pruss, Edward S. Orgain....
Patients and hospital staff interact in the Duke Hospital outpatient clinic waiting room. Between 1930 to 1940, approximately half a million visits were made to the outpatient clinic (referred to early on as the OPC). By the early 1950s, an average of...
Wilma Minnier (L) talk with two nursing students in the hospital. Minniear joined Duke as an assistant professor in 1964. She became executive director of nursing services in 1970 and remained in this position until her retirement in 1984.
Berry graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1938. He was part of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1939 to 1942 (Department of Pathology 1940-1941).
Medical illustration of veins in the foot. 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 1970s. (Robert L. Blake...
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...
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...
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. William Bridgers (R) describes some of the features of his original "Bridgers Apparatus" (used in conjunction with this table for operating on soldiers with head injuries) to Capt. William F. Hollister and Sgt. Leonard B. Clemmons. Bridgers...
Mary Alverta Poston graduated from Duke University with a master's degree in 1939. She was a member of the original faculty as an instructor in bacteriology and later an associate in microbiology within the Dept. of Microbiology (1930-1961). She died...
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...
Dr. Bolognesi held a number of positions at Duke University from 1971 to March 1999, including James B. Duke Professor of Surgery, professor of microbiology and immunology, vice chair of the Department of Surgery for Research and Development and...
Kitchen area of newly constructed Duke Hospital. Hospital construction began on September 1, 1927 and was completed on July 1, 1930. Duke Hospital opened for patients on July 21, 1930.
Side view of the Bell Building. The Bell Building was originally constructed in 1947 and underwent renovations in 1958, 1960, 1964 and 1979. The building was home to offices of the Departments of Surgery, Pediatrics, Radiology, Obstetrics and...
Technicians in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Kempner, professor of medicine. In the foreground is the Warburg apparatus, in which chemical reactions of surviving kidney cells are studies. In the background is a flame photometer, used for determining...
Physical therapy students, class of 1947, listening to a lecture. Virginia Whitfield, PT, teaching. Row nearest the blackboard, left to right: Winnie Lawson, Jane Dees, Martha Parks, Sally Bassett, Lois Nordwall; Middle row, left to right: Doris...
Hansen-Pruss came to Duke University in 1930 as a member of the original faculty of the Duke University School of Medicine. Hansen-Pruss originated the Allergy Clinic in 1930 and became chief of the Allergy Service. He served as chief of the...
F. Bayard Carter plays catcher during a ballgame at the Duke Hospital staff picnic. Francis Bayard Carter was chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1931 to 1964.
Doctors and a nurse prepare a cast on a patient’s arm in the plaster room of the Orthopaedic Clinic. (Left to right) Dr. Warner Wells (A.B., Duke, 1934 and M.D., Duke, 1938; house staff and associate in Surgery from 1938 to 1945), Dr. Laszlo Ormandy...
Bridgers graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1936. He was part of the Duke Hospital house staff from 1936 to 1940. In the early 1940s, Bridgers served with the 65th General Hospital as neurosurgeon for the unit. He traveled to London...
Portrait of Hospital Administration Alumni Seminar participants. First row (L to R): George P. Harris, James M. Devane, Louis E. Swanson, Hugh Johnson (?), Jim Warden (?), Bill Smith. Second row: Minetree Pyne, ?, Bob Nordham, ?, Ted Clapp, Rush...
Phi Chi was a medical fraternity for students of the Duke University School of Medicine. At least five fraternities have been founded in the School of Medicine: Alpha Kappa Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Nu Sigma Nu, Phi Beta Pi, and Phi Chi. These...