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. 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...
This oral history interview was conducted with Stacey R. McCorison on October 12, 2021 by Josephine McRobbie part of the Department of Medicine's Oral History Project. During the interview, McCorison discusses her early life in the Northeast,...
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. Halperin discusses Duke Medicine's beginnings as a coeducational institution; Duke as influenced by the Abraham Flexner Report on medicine; Flexner as supportive of women's medical education; Duke's initial faculty as being from the coeducational...
Dr. Fridovich speaks about his arrival in Duke University's Department of Biochemistry in 1952; Dr. Bernheim's reputation at the time for having discovered the amine oxidase; Dr. Bernheim's reputation for good teaching; Dr. Bernheim's reputation for...
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...
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...
This oral history interview was conducted with William London on September 13, 2006 by Jessica Roseberry. In this interview, London discusses the integration of the Watts and Lincoln hospitals, the development of facilities at Durham Regional Hospital,...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Hilliard Seigler on July 18, 1994 by Dr. James Gifford. Dr. Seigler discusses the Melanoma Immunology Laboratory.