Prentiss L. Harrison graduated from the Duke Physician Assistant Program in 1968. He was the first African American physician assistant in the country.
Duke University Medical Center Department of Medicine 1969-70
1. Wagner; 2. Anderson; 3. [unidentified]; 4. [unidentified]; 5. [unidentified]; 6. Ruffin; 7. Brewer; 8. Lazlo; 9. Wyngaarden; 10. Neelon; 11. McIntosh; 12. Calloway; 13. Saltzman; 14....
The Department of Anatomy was established in 1930 as part of the original School of Medicine. The name of the department changed to the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy in 1988. Department of Anatomy chairs are as follows:
Francis H....
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...
Duke University Medical Center Department of Medicine 1987-88 1. M. Cameron; 2. S. Culp; 3. G. Li; 4. I. Taylor; 5. K. Abson; 6. B. Wolff; 7. K. Howell; 8. D. Dulas; 9. S. Georas; 10. D. Hill; 11. J. Fetters; 12. M. Linzer; 13. 14. P. Brown; 15. S....
Duke University Medical Center Department of Medicine 1988-89 1. J. Jollis; 2. A. Blau; 3. D. Metzler; 4. M. DiMaio; 5. I. Weintraub; 6. D. Yohay; 7. P. Gerbel; 8. J. Greenfield; 9. W. Yarger; 10. J. Daubert; 11. J. Crapo; 12. S. Pinnell; 13. L....
Duke University Medical Center Department of Medicine 1989-1990 1. B Reller; 2. H. Goldberg; 3. P.K. Marcom; 4. I. Weintraub; 5. D. Yohay; 6. L. Callaway; 7. S. Pinnell; 8. M. Lambert; 9. W. Yarger; 10. J.C. Greenfield; 11. E. Oddone; 12. S. Carpenter;...
Duke University Medical Center Department of Medicine 1990-1991 1. Folz; 2. Pfundstein; 3. Sachs; 4. Kanj; 5. Cross; 6. Gelber; 7. Bernstein; 8. Greenfield; 9. Yarger; 10. Lichtenstein; 11. Burton; 12. Narins; 13. T. Green; 14. S. Green; 15. Shenassa;...
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, education...
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 surgeon;...
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 to...
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 structure...
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...
Duke University Department of Medicine 1993-1994 1. R. Chen; 2. K. Marr; 3. J. Miller; 4. C. Udomsakdi; 5. E. Duh; 6. M. Thel; 7. J. Greenfield; 8. W. Yarger; 9. S. Kantrow; 10. S. Al Khatib; 11. B. Alexander; 12. H. Shaw; 13. I. Mbaga; 14. N....
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 chose a...
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 decided...
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 Resident at...
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...
Duke University Department of Medicine 1994-1995 1. P. Bohjanen; 2. R. Deucher; 3. S. Gittleson; 4. F. Jeffries; 5. K. Lyke; 6. E. Gutman; 7. M. Balssanno; 8. L. Murphy; 9. D. Ciaccia; 10. J. Greenfield; 11. K. Bodily; 12. W. Yarger; 13. S. Wang; 14....
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 of...
Duke University Department of Medicine 1995-1996 1. H. Carag; 2. L. Yballe; 3. C. Carpenter; 4. N. Hardy; 5. J. Tseng; 6. T. Shah; 7. R. Dolor; 8. M. Cuffe; 9. B. Haynes; 10. W. Yarger; 11. J. Hochrein; 12. M. Eloubeid; 13. S. Lunin; 14. S. Adler; 15....
Department of Medicine House Staff and Faculty Photo 1998-1999 1. A. Abernethy; 2. W. Yarger; 3. B. Haynes; 4. C. Cabell; 5. C. Colon-Emeric; 6. G. Jones; 7. N. Peterson; 8. J. Poku; 9. S. Rao; 10. C. Russo; 11. C. Jordan; 12. G. Gerschutz; 13. E....
Department of Medicine House Staff and Faculty Photo 1999-2000 1. L. Lein; 2. D. Daniel; 3. S. Gurley; 4. E. Hope; 5. J. Ard; 6. D. Nikcevich; 7. B. Haynes; 8. B. Yarger; 9. J. Peterson; 10. C. Petti; 11. S. Lin; 12. J. Gagliardi; 13. T. Fortin; 14. M....
Department of Medicine House Staff and Faculty Photo 2000-2001 1. N. Romano; 2. J. Green; 3. E. Christopher; 4. A. Kaplan; 5. S. Crowley; 6. B. Haynes; 7. W. Yarger; 8. T. Owens; 9. L. Greenblatt; 10. K. Johnson; 11. S. Gurley; 12. M. Wadleigh; 13. K....
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 Duke...
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...
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 event;...
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 chair...
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 at...
Dr. Samuel Katz discusses his preference of the term chair versus chairman of the Department of Pediatrics in order to be inclusive of female department chairs; the nature of the Department of Pediatrics when he first arrived as chair in 1968; former...
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...
This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Wolfgang Joklik on May 16, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry. Dr. Joklik discusses his education in Australia and England, his career at Duke in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology as well as...
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 she was...
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 only...
Dr. Marianne S. Breslin discusses her background; her father's occupation as a horse breeder in Germany; Germany's political climate affecting her family; Nazi influence in her town; anti-Nazi sentiment after the war; extreme changes in family due to...
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 job;...
Dr. William G. Anlyan speaks about Dr. Susan Dees; Dr. Jane Elchlepp; Dr. Elchlepp as a talented facilities planner in the Duke Department of Pathology; hiring Dr. Elchlepp to work as a facilities planner for his office when he was chancellor; this...
Dr. Joanne A. P. Wilson discusses the importance of recognizing history; her own background; parochial school; being an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; medical school at Duke; house staff training at the Peter Bent...