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  • Julian Meade Ruffin

    Description/Abstract: Julian Meade Ruffin, professor of medicine from 1930 to 1970, was a member of the original faculty. He assisted with the program of wartime graduate medical meetings and served the Office of Civilian Defense of the United States Public Health...
    Date: undated

  • William McNeal Nicholson

    Description/Abstract: Nicholson, a graduate of Duke University (A.B., 1927) became chief of the metabolism clinic (1940-1955) and dean of continuing medical education (1949-1968). His research interests were in metabolic diseases, particularly the treatment of diabetes.
    Date: undated

  • Walter Kempner

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: undated

  • Dr. Catherine Wilfert

    Description/Abstract: Portrait of Dr. Catherine Wilfert. Wilfert came to Duke University School of Medicine in 1969, where she achieved rank of division chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics (1976-1994) and professor in the Department...
    Date: undated

  • R. Wayne Rundles, first from the right, studying in the original School of Medicine Library

    Description/Abstract: R. Wayne Rundles graduated from Duke University (M.D., 1940). He was an associate professor of medicine at Duke University from 1945 until the mid-1980s and served as director of the hematology and chemotherapy service at the Duke University...
    Date: circa 1940-1949

  • Philip Handler

    Description/Abstract: Philip Handler was a professor (1939-1984) and chair (1949-1969) of the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University. Handler was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1981. He served as president of the National Academy of Sciences...
    Date: undated

  • George J. Baylin

    Description/Abstract: Dr. George J. Baylin examining x-rays. Baylin was a Professor of Radiology at Duke.
    Date: undated

  • Dept. of Pathology staff

    Description/Abstract: Group photograph of Dept. of Pathology staff. Wiley D. Forbus was chair of the department from 1930 to 1960.
    Date: circa 1947-1948

  • Dennis Bernard Amos

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Dennis Bernard Amos was professor of immunology and experimental surgery at Duke University from 1962 to 1993.
    Date: circa 1965

  • John Hickam measuring blood gases

    Description/Abstract: Hickam, a professor of medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1957, uses a machine to measure blood gases.
    Date: circa 1947