Edwin P. Alyea was first chief of Duke Hospital's Division of Urology within the Department of Surgery. He was appointed Profesor of Urology in 1929. Alyea received an bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1919 and an M.D. degree from...
Portrait of Dr. James Urbaniak, who joined the faculty in 1969 as an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, became Professor in 1977, and Chief of the Division in 1985, a position he held until 2002.
Group photograph of pathology staff in military uniform on front steps of building. Individuals pictured may have been members of the 65th General Hospital. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
J. Lamar Callaway graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1932. Callaway, Wiley D. Forbus, Mary A. Poston, Edward Orgain, Douglas Sprunt, William Schulze, and Elbert Persons are assembled in a Duke Hospital meeting room.
Frank Libman Engel was chair of the Division of Endocrinology from 1960 to 1963, and a member of the faculty from 1947 to 1963. He was known for research in endocrinology and metabolic diseases.
Brown graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1939. He was a Markle scholar and member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1940 to 1942 and professor of surgery from 1945 to 1970. During World War II, Brown was captain on the...
Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He joined Duke in 1934 as a member of the Department of Medicine. Kempner was interested in the effect of diet on various diseases including hypertension and diabetes. Observing that those diseases were...
Portrait of Dr. Frances Widmann, who came to Duke in 1971 to direct the blood bank at the Durham Veteran's Administration Hospital and to teach in the Duke Department of Pathology. She was also assistant chief of the laboratory service at the...
Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...