Leaders in American Medicine
Inspired by the late Drs. Beatrice C. and David E. Seegal, who were distinguished members of the faculty at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and made possible by their generous benefaction, in 1970 the society launched a program to record on videotape interviews with leading figures in American medicine.
Interviewed by physicians, who themselves have achieved distinction in their fields, renowned men and women of American medicine reflect on their formative years, the persons and events that influenced them, the circumstances surrounding their major contributions to medical education and medical science, and the ebb and flow that occurred in their disciplines during their careers. They are a unique resource for men and women embarking on medical careers, as well as a permanent record of many of the people who helped to shape medicine in the United States in this century.
The VHS tapes may be borrowed without charge by contacting:
Debbie Lancaster, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 525 Middlefield
Rd., Suite 130, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
E-mail: d.lancaster@alphaomegaalpha.org.
Fax: (650) 329-1618.
The
recordings are now owned by the National Library of Medicine.
To purchase them, contact:
Nancy C. Dosch, Ph.D.
Archivist, Historical Audiovisuals Collection
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
Telephone: 301-402-8818
Fax: 301-402-7034
email: doschn@mail.nlm.nih.gov
Raymond Adams, M.D., Bullard Professor of
Neuropathology Emeritus, Harvard Medical School; interviewed by Arthur
Asbury, M.D.
Mary Ellen Avery, M.D., Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics,
Harvard Medical School; interviewed by Marcia Angell, M.D.
Benjamin M. Baker, M.D., Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine; interviewed by Carol J. Johns,
M.D.
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D., President, The New York Academy
of Medicine, Psaty Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine, Cornell
University Medical College; interviewed by David E. Rogers, M.D.
Paul B. Beeson, M.D., Distinguished Physician, VA, Seattle;
joint interview with Eugene A. Stead, M.D., Professor of Medicine,
Duke University School of Medicine
John A. Benson, Jr., M.D., President Emeritus, American Board
of Internal Medicine, and Dean and Professor of Medicine Emeritus,
Oregon Health Sciences University; interviewed by Daniel D. Federman,
M.D.
F. Tremaine Billings, Jr., Clinical Professor Medicine, Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine; interviewed by Harvie Branscomb
Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Advisor to the President
and Fox Chase Distinguished Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia;
interviewed by Jemes Sherley, M.D., Ph.D.
Stuart Bondurant, M.D., Interim Dean, University of North Carolina
School of Medicine
John Z. Bowers, M.D.*, President, Josiah Mace, Jr. Foundation;
interviewed by Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Eugene Braunwald, M.D., Hersey Professor of the Theory and
Practice of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; interviewed by Lee Goldman,
M.D.
George F. Cahill, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine, emeritus,
Harvard Medical School
Benjamin Castleman, M.D.*, Professor of Pathology, Harvard
Medical School; interviewed by Ronald B. Weinstein, M.D.
Robert A . Chase, M.D., Emile Holman Professor of Surgery and
Professor of Anatomy, Stanford University School of Medicine; interviewed
by Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Purnell W. Choppin, M.D., President, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute; interviewed by Richard M. Krause, M.D.
W. Montague Cobb, M.D.*, Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Howard University College of Medicine; interviewed by LaSalle D. Leffall,
Jr., M.D.
Lowell T. Coggeshall, M.D.*, Frederick H. Rawson Professor
of Medicine Emeritus, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine;
interviewed by John Z. Bowers, M.D.
C. Lockard Conley, M.D., Distinguished Service Professor of
Medicine Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; interviewed
by Benjamin M. Baker, M.D.
Denton A. Cooley, M.D., Surgeon-in-Chief, Texas Heart Institute
George W. Corner, M.D.*, Executive Officer, American Philosophical
Society; interviewed by John Z. Bowers, M.D.
Martin M. Cummings, M.D., Director, National Library of Medicine;
interviewed by Peter D. Olch, M.D.
James E. Darnell, Jr., M.D., Vincent Astor Professor, and Head,
Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Rockefeller University
Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., President and Professor of Surgery,
Baylor College of Medicine; interviewed by Claude H. Organ, Jr., M.D.
Lester R. Dragstedt, M.D., Ph.D.*, Professor of Surgery Emeritus,
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; interviewed by
John Landor, M.D.
Harriet P. Dustan, M.D., Professor of Medicine Emerita, University
of Alabama School of Medicine; interviewed by Edward Frohlich, M.D.
Richard V. Ebert, M.D.*, Distinguished Professor of Medicine,
University of Arkansas School of Medicine; interviewed by William
W. Stead, M.D.
Robert H. Ebert, M.D.*, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of
Medicine Emeritus, Harvard Medical School; interviewed by Richard
V. Ebert, M.D.
John Eckstein, M.D., Dean Emeritus, University of Iowa College
of Medicine; interviewed by Francois M. Abboud, M.D.
Gertrude B. Elion, D.Sc., Scientist Emeritus, Glaxo Wellcome
Inc.; interviewed by Mary Ellen Avery, M.D.
John F. Enders, Ph.D.*, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard
University, and Chief, Virology Research Division, Boston Children's
Hospital Medical Center; interviewed by Frederick C. Robbins, M.D.
George L. Engel, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of
Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry;
interviewed by Stanford Meyerowitz
Maxwell Finland, M.D.*, George R. Minot Professor of Medicine
Emeritus, Harvard Medical School; interviewed by Edward H. Kass, M.D.
Jacques Genest, M.D., C.C., Director, Clinical Research Institute
of Montreal; interviewed by Vincent D. Dole, M.D.
Robert J. Glaser, M.D., Director for Medical Science, Lucille
P. Markey Charitable Trust, Editor, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha,
Consulting Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine;
interviewed by Robert A. Chase, M.D.
Grace A. Goldsmith, M.D.*, Dean Emerita, School of Public Health
and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University; interviewed by William J.
Darby, M.D.
Richard W. Hanson, Ph.D., Leonard and Jean Skeggs Professor
and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University
George T. Harrell, M.D., Vice-President for Medical Sciences
Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine; interviewed
by C. Max Lang, M.D.
Tinsley R. Harrison, M.D.*, Distinguished Physician, VA, Distinguished
Professor, University of Alabama; interviewed by A. J. Merrill, M.D.
A. McGehee Harvey, M.D., Distinguished Service Professor of
Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; interviewed
by Richard J. Johns, M.D.
Albert Baird Hastings, Sc.D., Ph.D.*, Hamilton Kuhn Professor
Biological Chemistry Emeritus, Harvard Medical School; interviewed
by Peter D. Olch, M.D.
Donald A. Henderson, M.D., Dean, Johns Hopkins University School
of Hygiene and Public Health; interviwed by Edith Schoenrich, M.D.
Emile Holman, M.D.*, Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Stanford
University School of Medicine; interviewed by Peter D. Olch, M.D.
Dorothy M. Horstman, M.D., John R. Paul Professor of Epidemiology,
Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine; interviewed
by Robert W. McCollum, M.D.
John P. Hubbard, M.D.*, President Emeritus, National Board
of Medical Examiners; interviewed by Edithe J. Levit, M.D.
Charles Huggins, M.D.*, Wm. D. Ogden Distinguished Professor
of Surgery Emeritus, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine;
interviewed by Leon O. Jacobson, M.D.
Thomas H. Hunter, M.D.*, Dean and Professor of Medicine Emeritus,
University of Virginia School of Medicine; interviewed by Robert J.
Glaser, M.D.
J.Willis Hurst, M.D., Consultant, Division of Cardiology, Emory
University School of Medicine; interviewed by Mark E. Silverman, M.D.
Franz J. Ingelfinger, M.D.*, Editor, New England Journal of
Medicine; interviewed by Thomas C. Chalmers, M.D.
Carol J. Johns, M.D.*, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns
Hopkins University, and Richard J. Johns, M.D., Distinguished
Service Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University;
joint interview
William N. Kelley, M.D., CEO for the Medical Center & Health
System, Executive Vice President
Dean, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
David M. Kipnis, M.D., Distinguished University Professor of
Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine; interviewed by
William A. Peck, M.D.
Joseph B. Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D., Louis Block Distinguished Professor
of Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; interviewed
by Arthur Rubenstein, M.D.
C. Everett Koop, M.D., Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny Professor
of Surgery, Dartmouth Medical School; interviewed by Robert W. Crichlow,
M.D.
Arthur Kornberg, M.D., Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus,
Stanford University School of Medicine; interviewed by I. Robert Lehman,
Ph.D.
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Alexander D. Langmuir, M.D., M.P.H.*, Formerly Chief Epidemiologist,
Centers for Disease Control; interviewed by Donald A. Henderson, M.D.,
M.P.H.
John K. Lattimer, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department
of Urology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
interviewed by James F. Glenn, M.D.
Alexander Leaf, M.D., Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine
and Clinical Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School; interviewed by
Arnold S. Relman, M.D.
Russel V. Lee, M.D.*, Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus,
Stanford University School of Medicine; interviewed by James Day
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D., Professor of Surgery and Chairman,
Department of Surgery, Howard University School of Medicine; interviewed
by Clive O. Callender, M.D.
Wiliam P. Longmire, Jr., M.D., Professor of Surgery, UCLA School
of Medicine; joint interview with Francis D. Moore, M.D., Elliott
Carr Cutler Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Oliver H. Lowry, Ph.D., M.D.*, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology
Emeritus, Washington University School of Medicine; interviewed by
Janet Passonneau, Ph.D.
H.W. Magoun, Ph.D.*, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Brain Research
Institute; self interview
Daniel J. McCarty, M.D., Will and Cava Ross Professor of Medicine,
Director, Arthritis Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin
Maclyn McCarty, M.D., The Rockefeller University interviewed
by Richard Krause, M.D.
Walsh McDermott, M.D.*, Livingston Farrand Professor of Public
Health, Cornell University Medical College; interviewed by David E.
Rogers, M.D.
Victor A. McKusick, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Medical
Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; interviewed
by Davidl L. Rimoin, M.D., Ph.D.
Gordon Meiklejohn, M.D.*, Professor of Medicine, University
of Colorado School of Medicine; interviewed by Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Sherman M. Mellinkoff, M.D., Dean, UCLA School of Medicine;
interviewed by William P. Longmire, M.D.
Karl F. Meyer, M.D.*, Director Emeritus, The George W. Hooper
Foundation, University of California, San Diego; interviewed by Edward
B. Shaw, M.D.
Francis D. Moore, M.D., Elliott Carr Cutler Professor of Surgery,
Harvard Medical School
Joseph E. Murray, M.D., Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Harvard
Medical School; interviewed by Francis D. Moore, M.D.
David G. Nathan, M.D., President, Dana Farbar Cancer Institute;
interviewed by Samuel E. Lux, M.D.
Daniel Nathans, M.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine; interviewed by Daniel DiMaio, M.D.
Waldo E. Nelson, M.D.*, Professor and Chariman Emeritus, Pediatrics,
Temple University School of Medicine; interviewed by Angelo M. DiGeorge,
M.D.
Irving H. Page, M.D.*, Director Emeritus, Research Division,
Cleveland Clinic; interviewed by Edward D. Frohlich, M.D.
William H. Parson, M.D., Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department
of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine; interviewed
by Thomas H. Hunter, M.D.
Robert G. Petersdorf, M.D. interviewed by David S. Greer, M.D.
James A. Pittman, Jr., M.D., Distinguished Professor and Dean
Emeritus, Universuty of Alabama School of Medicine; interviewed by
Suzanne Oparil, M.D.
Hans Popper, M.D.*, Gustave L. Levy Distinguished Service Professor
of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; interviewed by Thomas
C. Chalmers, M.D.
Helen M. Ranney, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of
California, San Diego School of Medicine; interviewed by Samuel I.
Rappaport, M.D.
Arnold S. Relman, M.D., Professor of Medicine and of Social
Medicine, Harvard Medical School; interviewed by Alexander Leaf, M.D.
Jonathan E. Rhoads, M.D., Professor of Surgery, University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; interviewed by Jonathan E. Rhoads,
Jr., M.D.
Leo G. Rigler, M.D.*, Professor of Radiology, Director of Resident
Training, UCLA School of Medicine; interviewed by Harry Z. Mellins,
M.D.
David E. Rogers, M.D.*, Walsh McDermott University Professor
of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College; interviewed by William
Schaffner, M.D.
Richard S. Ross, M.D., Vice-President for Medical Affairs and
Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; interviewed by
Richard J. Johns, M.D.
David C. Sabiston, Jr., M.D., James B. Duke Professor of Surgery
and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine;
interviewed by Paul A. Ebert, M.D.
Stuart A. Schneck, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Neuropathology,
University of Colorado; interviewed by Steven P. Ringel, M.D.
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., President, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Henry G. Schwartz, M.D., Professor of Neurological Surgery,
Washington University School of Medicine; interviewed by Sidney Goldring,
M.D.
David E. Seegal, M.D.*, Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Columbus
University College of Physicians and Surgeons; interview with comments
of four of Dr. Seegal's students, and material taped shortly before
his death
Donald W. Seldin, M.D., Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University
of Texas Southwestern Medical School; interviewed by Daniel Foster,
M.D.
Lawrence E. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., Director Emeritus, National
Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; interviewed
by Frank C. Arnett, Jr., M.D. and William J. Koopman, M.D.
Lloyd H. Smith, Jr., M.D., Associate Dean, University of California,
San Francisco; interviewed by Marvin H. Sleisenger, M.D.
Eugene A. Stead, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Duke University
School of Medicine
David Talmage, M.D., Distinguished Professor (Microbiology
and Immunology), University of Colorado
Helen B. Taussig, M.D.*, Professor of Pediatrics Emerita, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine; interviewed by Helen Sinclair
Pittman, M.D.
Howard C. Taylor, Jr., M.D.*, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Emeritus, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
interviewed by Alan C. Barnes, M.D.
Owsei Temkin, M.D., William H. Welsh Professor of the History
of Medicine Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
interviewed by Lloyd G. Stevenson, M.D., Ph.D.
Edward Donnall Thomas, M.D., Professor Surgery Emeritus, University
of Washington School of Medicine; interviewed by Robert W. Day, M.D.,
Ph.D.
George W. Thorn, M.D., Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice
of Physic Emeritus, Harvard Medical School; interviewed by John P.
Merrill, M.D.
Phillip A. Tumulty, M.D.*, Director Emeritus, Division of Internal
Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; interviewed
by Norman D. Anderson, M.D.
Thomas B. Turner, M.D., Dean Emeritus, Professor Emeritus,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; interviewed by Samuel
P. Asper, M.D.
Matthew Walker, M.D.*, Professor of Surgery, Provost for External
Affairs, Meharry Medical College; interviewed by L.J. Bernard, M.D.
Patrick C. Walsh, M.D., Urologist-in-Chief, James Buchanan
Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Owen H. Wangensteen, M.D.*, Regents' Professor of Surgery,
University of Minnesota Medical School; interviewed by K. Alvin Merendino,
M.D.
James V. Warren, M.D.*, Professor and Chairman, Department
of Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine; interviewed
by Alrnold M. Weissler, M.D.
Shields Warren, M.D.*, Professor of Pathology Emeritus, Harvard
Medical School; interviewed by John Z. Bowers, M.D.
Cecil J. Watson, M.D., Ph.D.*, Regents' Professor of Medicine,
University of Minnesota Medical School; interviewed by Robert B. Howard,
M.D., Ph.D.
Joseph T. Wearn, M.D.*, Dean Emeritus, Professor of Medicine
Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; interviewed
by Thomas Hale Ham, M.D.
Louis Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine Emeritus,
Tufts University School of Medicine; interviewed by Bernard N. Fields,
M.D.
Soma Weiss, M.D.*, posthumously Hersey Professor of the Theory
and Practice of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; interview with Drs.
Paul B. Beeson, Richard V. Ebert, Jack D. Myers and Eugene A. Stead
by Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Samuel A. Wells, Jr., M.D., Bixby Professor of Surgery and
Chairman, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine;
interviewed by Thomas B. Ferguson, Sr., M.D.
Abraham White, Ph.D., Sc.D.,L.H.D., Consulting Professor of
Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine; interviewed
by Philip Handel, Ph.D. Sc.D.,L.L.D.
Dwight L. Wilbur, M.D.*, Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus,
Stanford University School of Medicine; interviewed by Hugh R. Butt,
M.D.
Robert H. Williams, M.D.*, Professor of Medicine, Director,
Diabetes Center, University of Washington School of Medicine; interviewed
by William D. Odell, M.D., Ph.D.
Maxwell M. Wintrobe, M.D., Ph.D.*, Distinguished Professor
of Internal Medicine, University of Utah College of Medicine; interviewed
by Alexander M. Schmidt, M.D.
Steward G. Wolfe, M.D., Director, Totts Gap Medical Research
Laboratories, Inc.,
Professor of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine,
Regent's Professor of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center
Francis C. Wood, M.D.*, Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; interviewed by Edward J. Stemmler,
M.D.
W. D Barry Wood, Jr., M.D.*, Boury Professor and Director,
Department of Microbiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
interviewed by Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
James B. Wyngaarden, M.D., Foreign Secretary, The National
Academy of Sciences; interviewed by William N. Kelley, M.D.
Frederick C. Zuspan, M.D., Professor and Chairman Emeritus,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ohio State University College
of Medicine; interviewed by Edward J. Quilligan, M.D.
Making of a Clinician, (2 tapes)