Oral History Collection

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Last Updated: 2025-01-08

The oral history program of the Duke University Medical Center Archives exists to capture the medical center's history in the words of the people who have witnessed or participated in that history. The interviews consist of relevant memories from persons in many different work environments within the medical center as well as selected interviews with those outside the medical center who have stories significant to its past or its present. The interviews are conducted with the considerations set forth in the guidelines of the Oral History Association. Interviews are recorded and then transcribed as closely as possible to the words of the speakers, and each interviewee is given a chance to review the transcript. Both the recordings and the transcripts are housed in the Duke University Medical Center Archives.

Although its oral history program was not officially established until 2003, the Duke University Medical Center Archives has a number of rich oral histories dating from the 1960s to the present, some of which are available for research. If you are interested in an interview that is in process, please contact the oral history program coordinator. The archives oral history program is attempting to open as many of these past interviews as possible, and unrestricted interviews conducted from 2003 will become available for research after they have been carefully processed for accuracy and quality.

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	Title	Date Created
	Sezer Aksel Oral History Interview, 2007 Sezer Aksel discusses her background in Turkey; her desire to become a physician even against her family's desires; coming to Duke Medical School;...	["2007-09-13"]
	Rebecca Clayton Oral History Interview, 2007 Rebecca Clayton discusses beginning work as the secretary for Dr. Grace Kerby, in 1960; being pregnant and delivering her first child; there being...	["2007-03-15"]
	Lois Pounds Oral History Interview, 2007 Dr. Lois Pounds discusses her interest in nursing; the career possibilities for those interested in nursing in 1955; her graduate coursework in...	["2007-07-03"]
	Samuel L. Katz Oral History Interview, 2007 Dr. Samuel Katz discusses his preference of the term chair versus chairman of the Department of Pediatrics in order to be inclusive of female...	["2007-05-10"]
	Doris Howell Oral History Interview, 2007 Dr. Doris Howell discusses her early background; medical school at McGill University; positive treatment in medical school; her initial desire to...	["2007-11-12"]
	Sheila J. Counce-Nicklas Oral History Interview, 2007 Dr. Sheila J. Counce-Nicklas discusses her background; her love of science and of learning; her interest in how things work; her Fulbright...	["2007-06-21"]
	Elizabeth R. DeLong Oral History Interview, 2010 Dr. Elizabeth DeLong discusses similarities and differences between working at a clinical research organization (Quintiles) and an academic...	["2010-10-21"]
	Mary E. Klotman Oral History Interview, 2010 Dr. Mary E. Klotman discusses coming to Duke as an undergraduate in the 1970s; the Duke Department of Medicine from her perspective as a student;...	["2010-10-21"]
	Priya Kishnani Oral History Interview, 2010 Dr. Priya Kishnani discusses her family's background, particularly her mother's background as a physician in India; coming to the United States;...	["2010-12-29"]
	Nancy Catherine Andrews Oral History Interview, 2010 Dr. Nancy Andrews discusses how dual degree (MD-PhD) is prevalent in deanship positions across the country; translational medicine; Duke's strength...	["2010-11-30"]

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