Search Constraints

Start Over
Filtering by: Collection Oral History Collection Remove constraint Collection: Oral History Collection Subject History of Medicine. Remove constraint Subject: History of Medicine. Subject Duke University. School of Medicine Remove constraint Subject: Duke University. School of Medicine

Search Results

  • Lois Pounds Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 2007-08-02

  • Sezer Aksel Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Sheila J. Counce-Nicklas Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 2007-06-21

  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Oral History Interview, 2006

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 2006-07-27

  • Doris Howell Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Marianne S. Breslin Oral History Interview, 2007

    Description/Abstract: 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 R. DeLong Oral History Interview, 2010

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 2010-10-21

  • Priya Kishnani Oral History Interview, 2010

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 2010-12-29

  • Wilhelm Delano Meriwether Oral History Interview, 2008

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 2008-03-07