Warner Lee Wells received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University (A.B., 1934; M.D., 1938). He was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and an associate in the Dept. of Surgery (1938-1945).
Dr. Onyekwere E. Akwari, a Nigerian-American, was the first African-American surgeon at Duke University. A strong advocate for expanding and celebrating diversity at the university, Akwari supported the introduction of Duke’s women’s and minority...
From 1944 to 1946 William Warner Shingleton was on the Duke Hospital house staff and an associate in surgery. He was also the first director of the Cancer Center at Duke.
Dr. Clarence Gardner sews up a patient in the Duke Hospital emergency room. He is assisted by Miss Antoinette Makeley, R.N. The group of young men observing the procedure is likely comprised of medical students or interns. Dr. Clarence Ellsworth...
Dorothy Beard in a laboratory. A research associate in the Department of Surgery, she worked alongside her husband, Joseph Beard, as part of the internationally prominent Beard cancer research team to help develop the first usable vaccine for equine...
Physician with a patient at the Duke Hospital Blood Bank. From 1933 to 1940 each division of Duke Hospital maintained its own blood bank, usually on individual wards, making Duke one of the first hospitals in the country to have blood banks. During...