Uniformed members of the Department of Psychiatry staff. The department was founded in 1940 following the gift of the Highland Hospital by Dr. Robert S. Carroll. The department was also supported largely by annual grants from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Ewald W. Busse in the 1970s. Ewald W. Busse was a early leader in the field of geriatric psychiatry and a founder of the Center for Aging and Human Development, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Dean Emeritus of Medical and Allied...
Josiah Charles Trent received his undergraduate degree from Duke in 1934. From 1939 to 1948 he was on the house staff and assistant professor of surgery in charge of thoracic surgery. He died in 1948. The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation and...
Arnold began his career at Duke in 1936 as a member of the Duke Hospital house staff. He was a professor of otology and associate professor of otolaryngology and ophthalmology from 1936 to 1941 and 1946 to 1960.
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...
Parker was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1946 to 1947. After completing his residency, Parker went into private practice. He returned to Duke University in 1953 as a professor and later became chair of the Department of Obstetrics...
James H. Semans, professor of urology in the Dept. of Surgery, served on the Duke faculty for 28 years. In the 1960s Semans, along with his wife Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, helped to establish the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem,...