Dr. Wyngaarden discusses his background; education; war experience; research; internship at Massachusetts General Hospital; work with Walter Bauer on arthritis patients; steroids; potential draft for Korean War; Jim Shannon; National Institutes of...
Frederick and Mary ("Molly") Bernheim speak about their backgrounds, respectively; how they met; their work, respectively, when they were getting their doctorates; time spent together in Germany in 1929; Frederick Bernheim's work at Johns Hopkins;...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Albert Heyman on December 18, 1985 by Dr. James Gifford. Albert Heyman discusses his research of Alzheimer's disease, beginning in the late-1970s, and the subsequent development of the Alzheimer's...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Robert H. Jones on July 14, 1994 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Dr. Robert H. Jones discusses his career, his research interests, working with...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Ralph Randal (Randy) Bollinger on July 21, 1994 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Bollinger discusses his background, particularly as it pertains...
This oral history interviews was conducted with Dr. Walter G. Wolfe on July 14, 1994 by Dr. James F. Gifford. During the interview, Wolfe discusses his career, work of the Pulmonary Physiology Laboratory of which Wolfe was the director, the...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Peter K. Smith on July 22, 1994 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Smith discusses his personal background; how he came to Duke; his research...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Ross M. Ungerleider on July 22, 1994 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. During the interview, Ungerleider discusses his personal background,...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. John Palmer Grant on July 12, 1994 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. During the interview, Grant discusses his background; how he became a...
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.
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Merel H. Harmel on April 24, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. During the interview, Harmel discusses his personal background and how he...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Daniel (Dan) G. Blazer on March 31, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. During the interview, Blazer discusses his background and when he...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. J. Leonard Goldner on March 15, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. During the interview, Goldner discusses his professional background; how...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Ralph Snyderman on April 28, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. During the interview, Snyderman discusses the Department of Surgery at Duke...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Ralph Randal (Randy) Bollinger on November 28, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Bollinger discusses the years he spend as a Surgery...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. L. Scott Levin on December 14, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford. Dr. L. Scott Levin reflects on his education; career; mentors; the history of the Department of Surgery and Division of Plastic Surgery at...
This oral history interview was conducted with Gordon Hammes on April 3, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. During the interview, Hammes discusses his background, education, and how he chose...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Peter K. Smith on January 3, 1996 by Dr. James Gifford. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Smith discusses how he came to be Chief of Thoracic Surgery; how the Division...
This oral history interview was conducted with Kim Q. Đâu on October 19, 2022 by Josephine McRobbie as part of the Duke Midwifery Service and Durham Maternal Health Oral History Project, which was funded by The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial...
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...
Dr. Hammond discusses the history of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University including faculty, divisions, facilities, research, fellowships and resident education, relocations, his goals as chair of department, National...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Alfred Gras on September 23, 2005 by Jessica Roseberry. Gras discusses his renaissance of interest in his own receipt of penicillin as medical student; notes from his father's journal about the...
Nevidjon discusses her background; desire to become a nurse; career choices for women in the seventies; choosing to be a nurse instead of a doctor; diploma programs versus college-based programs; deciding on Duke School of Nursing; curriculum at...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Daniel Blazer on January 28, 2005 by Jessica Roseberry. During the interview, Blazer discusses his initial interest in psychiatry; coming to Duke; the eclectic nature of the Duke Department of...
Dr. Elizabeth Bullitt discusses her background; her fascination with the brain and neurosurgery; residency at University of Colorado; internal problems in program at University of Colorado; coming to Duke under Dr. Robert Wilkins; military feel of...
Dr. Wyngaarden speaks about being recruited for the directorship of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); looking back at his chairmanship of the Department of Medicine; important aspects of the department under his chairmanship; Dr. Eugene...
Nancy Allen discusses her family background; medical education; women in science during time of her education; coming to Duke; her husband being accepted into Duke's PhD program; Dr. Ralph Snyderman as chief of Immunology; Dr. James Wyngaarden as...
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...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Edward Halperin on October 10, 2006 by Jessica Roseberry. Dr. Halperin discusses his family history, early life, medical education, the development of the field of radiation oncology, his career...
In the interview, Tyor discusses her experiences as a dietetics intern at Duke, including her memories of Dr. Angus McBryde, Dr. Wilburt Davison, Dr. Deryl Hart, Dr. Kempner, and German prisoners of war working at Duke. She also discusses her...
"Tea with Trailblazers" was held on February 27, 2006 in the History of Medicine room at the Duke University Medical Center Library. It featured Clydie Pugh-Myers and Joyce Nichols as the primary speakers. This event was planned and moderated by...
Dr. Catherine Wilfert discusses family support; her decision to become a physician; her medical degree from Harvard; the atmosphere for women at Harvard; the differences between the Harvard and Duke campuses; scientific collaborations on Duke...
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...
Dr. Jean Spaulding discusses her family background; growing up in Michigan; the diverse community in Michigan; coming to the South; negative and prejudiced treatment in the South as an African-American; the lack of recognition of the Vietnam War...
Ms. Nichols speaks about growing up in rural North Carolina; her family structure; her aunt as a matriarch; her marriage and move to Durham; her husband's desertion of new family; her financial situation; public housing; Operation Breakthrough;...
In the interview, Pugh-Myers discusses her experiences as a member of the first class of practical nurses at Duke Hospital and her subsequent career working as a practical nurse in both public and private sectors.
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...
Dr. Rebecca H. Buckley discusses receiving her bachelor's degree at Duke; the difference between the men's college and the women's college at Duke; her growing interest in becoming a doctor; others' resistance to her going into medicine because...
Dr. Pearce speaks about the beginnings of his interest in medicine; Air Force leadership coercing him to choose obstetrics and gynecology; medical school at Duke; residency at Duke; his rotation with Dr. Easley; Dr. Easley starting a physician...
Dr. McCarty speaks about how she came to know Dr. Grace Kerby; Dr. Kerby as her mentor and colleague; Dr. Kerby as a stalwart of Duke's Department of Medicine; others' impressions of Dr. Kerby gathered from Dr. McCarty's own oral research about...
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...
This oral history was conducted with Dr. Robert M. Califf on June 11, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry. In the June 11, 2007 interview, Califf, then the vice chancellor for clinical research and the director of Duke Translational Medicine Institute,...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Robert H. Jones on April 26, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry. It is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. Dr. Robert H. Jones discusses his background, education, and his decision to...
In this interview, Dr. Estes speaks about knowing Dr. Grace Kerby when he was on the faculty in the Department of Medicine; Dr. Kerby's driven nature; Dr. Kerby organizing the house staff schedules in the Department of Medicine; Dr. Kerby as the...
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...
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...
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...
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...