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  • “So That We Can Work Together” brochure

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    Informational pamphlet for patients about the services and treatments at Highland Hospital. Highland Hospital was an institution that treated psychiatric patients in Asheville, North Carolina.
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  • Researcher measuring a chart

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    Researcher at a teaching laboratory station measuring a rolled chart.
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  • Shirley Osterhout in the Duke Poison Control Center

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    Dr. Osterhout investigates household products in the Duke Poison Control Center. Dr. Shirley K. Osterhout came to Duke University in 1949 as an undergraduate. She obtained her MD from Duke in 1957 and continued in the Department of Pediatrics,...
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  • Morris Building and PRT

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    The Morris Building houses the Duke Oncology Treatment Center. The Morris Building is named for Edwin A. Morris, a donor who supported the creation of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Personnel Rapid Transit (PRT) system was used to...
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  • Duke University Eye Center

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    The Duke Eye Center is also known as the Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Building. Dr. Wadsworth was the first chair of the Dept. of Ophthalmology at Duke, serving from 1965 until 1983.
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  • Nanaline H. Duke Building

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    The Nanaline H. Duke Building houses the Department of Biochemistry, Department of Cell Biology, Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Molecular Biophysics Program, Biological Chemistry Program and the University Program in Genetics. The building...
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  • Research Park Building

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    Research Park Buildings I-IV were constructed around 1966-1970.
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  • Charles B. Hammond

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    Dr. Hammond joined the Duke University School of Medicine faculty in 1968. He served as chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1970 to 1980. In 1980 he became chair...
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  • W. Glenn Young, Jr.

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    Dr. Young was a house staff and faculty member in the Department of Surgery (1948-1950). Dr. Will Camp Sealy, Dr. Ivan Brown, and Dr. Glenn Young were among the first to determine the benefits of patient cooling by using hypothermic...
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  • Robert L. Hill

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    Dr. Hill was the James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry. He served as chair of the Dept. of Biochemistry from 1969 to 1993.
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  • Merel H. Harmel

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    Dr. Harmel was chair of the Dept. of Anesthesiology from 1970 to 1983.
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  • Edward A. Johnson

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    Dr. Johnson was chair of the Dept. of Physiology from 1977 to 1988.
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  • Jack Keene

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    Dr. Keene is the James B. Duke Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, director of the Center for RNA Biology, and director of basic sciences for the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. He was chair of the Department of Immunology from...
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  • James B. Wyngaarden

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    James B. Wyngaarden was a professor and administrator of Duke University Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital of Durham, North Carolina. He was chair of the Duke Univeristy Dept. of Medicine from 1967 to 1983.
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  • Edward W. Holmes

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    Dr. Holmes was a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator; chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Genetics (1983-1991); and the James B. Wyngaarden Professor of Medicine at Duke University.
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  • William Banks Anderson, Jr.

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    Dr. Anderson is a professor of ophthalmology at Duke University. Dr. Anderson received training in surgery (1956-1957) and in ophthalmology (1959-1962) at Duke University.
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  • Blaine Nashold

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    Dr. Nashold is professor emeritus of the Dept. of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery at Duke University Medical Center.
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  • Daniel G. Blazer

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    Dr. Blazer was interim chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (1990-1992).
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  • Irwin Fridovich

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    Dr. Fridovich is the James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry.
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  • Joseph E. Markee

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    Dr. Markee was chair of the Dept. of Anatomy (later Dept. of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy) from 1943 to 1966.
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  • Saul M. Schanberg

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    Dr. Shchanberg was acting chair of the Dept. of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology from 1988 to 1991.
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  • Carl E. Ravin

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    Dr. Ravin served as chair of the Dept. of Radiology from 1985 to 2008.
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  • Michael P. Sheetz

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    Dr. Sheetz was chair of the Dept. of Cell Biology from 1990 to 2000.
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  • Ralph Snyderman

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    Ralph Snyderman, MD, Chancellor for Health Affairs and President and CEO of Duke University Health System.
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  • Edward S. Orgain

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    Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the pre–penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke’s Cardiovascular Disease...
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  • Edward S. Orgain

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    Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the pre–penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke’s Cardiovascular Disease...
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  • Edward S. Orgain

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    Edward S. Orgain reading EKG tape, pictured with nurse and patient. Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the...
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  • Jane Elchlepp

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    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...
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  • Jane Elchlepp

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    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...
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  • Illustration of the Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit

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    The Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) was an automated system that allowed people to travel between Duke Hospital (Duke North) and Duke Clinics (Duke South). The system was launched in 1979 and discontinued in 2009.
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  • Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit

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    The Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) was an automated system that allowed people to travel between Duke Hospital (Duke North) and Duke Clinics (Duke South). The system was launched in 1979 and discontinued in 2009.
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  • Dr. Frank Lanni in laboratory

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    Dr. Frank Lanni in laboratory mixing an "inhibitor" with cells to see to what extent the inhibitor prevents the virus from clinging to cells. Lanni was a Research Associate in the Department of Surgery who worked with Dr. Joseph Beard in the 1940s.
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  • Duke North Exterior, with Life Flight

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    Duke Life Flight helicopter with Duke North Hospital in background. In 1985, Duke Life Flight became the first hospital-based helicopter service in North Carolina.
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  • Duke University Hospital with snow

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    Duke University Hospital with snow.
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  • David C. Sabiston, Jr. in a laboratory

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    Dr. David C. Sabiston, Jr., James B. Duke Professor of Surgery, was a surgeon and chair of the Dept. of Surgery at Duke University from 1964 to 1994.
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  • David C. Sabiston, Jr.

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    Dr. David C. Sabiston, Jr. was a surgeon and chair of the Department of Surgery at Duke University from 1964 to 1994.
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  • Robert J. Lefkowitz in a laboratory

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    Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz is a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center.
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  • David C. Sabiston, Jr.

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    David C. Sabiston, Jr., James B. Duke Professor of Surgery, surgeon, and chair of the Dept. of Surgery at Duke University from 1964 to 1994.
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  • David C. Sabiston, Jr.

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    David C. Sabiston, Jr., James B. Duke Professor of Surgery, surgeon, and chair of the Dept. of Surgery at Duke University from 1964 to 1994.
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  • William Anlyan

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    Dr. William Anlyan, with view of campus in background. Anlyan came to Duke University in 1949, where he completed residency training in general and thoracic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine between 1949 and 1955. In 1955 he passed the...
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  • William Anlyan

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    Dr. Anlyan came to Duke University in 1949, where he completed residency training in general and thoracic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine between 1949 and 1955. In 1955 he passed the examinations of the American board of thoracic...
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  • Illustration of the Duke South Clinics

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    Illustration of the Duke South Clinics entrance by Robert Blake.
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  • Illustration of the Davison Building

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    Illustration of the Davison Building by Robert Blake.
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  • Vicki Y. Saito

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    Portrait of Vicki Y. Saito, Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Communication at Duke Medicine during the 1990s.
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  • View of a Control Panel Showing the Hyperbaric Chamber

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    Photograph of a part of a hyperbaric chamber and its control panel. One staff member is seated at the panel, and another is working at the hyperbaric chamber. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University Photographer.
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  • Interior View of a Hyperbaric Unit

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    Photograph of the inside of a hyperbaric unit. Two staff members (a female and a male) are standing inside the unit. The door of the unit is open. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University Photographer.
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  • A Staff Member Emerging From a Hyperbaric Unit

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    Photograph of a staff member coming out of a hyperbaric unit. He is wearing surgical attire and a mask. Another man is standing behind him. Several cans lined with plastic are also shown.
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  • Men in Front of a Hyperbaric Unit

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    Photograph showing two men sitting in front of a hyperbaric unit. One man is wearing a headset, and the other man appears to be a staff member. Some instruments are shown in front of the men.
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  • Inside view of the Duke Hospital surgical instrument shop

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    Machinery and layout in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication of surgical and...
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  • Staff in Duke Hospital's surgical instrument shop

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    Hospital staff using machines and tools in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication...
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