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 recordings are now owned by the National Library of Medicine. To purchase them, contact:
Rebecca Warlow
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List of Videotapes
Interview of:	University:	Interviewed by:
Raymond Adams, M.D. Bullard Professor of Neuropathology Emeritus	Harvard Medical School	Arthur Asbury, M.D.
Mary Ellen Avery, M.D. Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics	Harvard Medical School	Marcia Angell, M.D.
Benjamin M. Baker, M.D. Professor of Medicine Emeritus	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	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	David E. Rogers, M.D.
Paul B. Beeson, M.D. Distinguished Physician, VA, Seattle;
John A. Benson, Jr., M.D. President Emeritus, American Board of Internal Medicine, and Dean and Professor of Medicine Emeritus	Oregon Health Sciences University	Daniel D. Federman, M.D.
F. Tremaine Billings, Jr. Clinical Professor Medicine	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine	Harvie Branscomb
Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Advisor to the President and Fox Chase Distinguished Scientist	Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia	Jemes Sherley, M.D., Ph.D.
Stuart Bondurant, M.D. Interim Dean	University of North Carolina School of Medicine	Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
John Z. Bowers, M.D. President	Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation	Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Eugene Braunwald, M.D. Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine	Harvard Medical School	Lee Goldman, M.D.
George F. Cahill, Jr., M.D. Professor of Medicine, emeritus	Harvard Medical School	Ronald H. Arky, M.D.
Benjamin Castleman, M.D. Professor of Pathology	Harvard Medical School	Ronald S. Weinstein, M.D.
Robert A . Chase, M.D. Emile Holman Professor of Surgery and Professor of Anatomy	Stanford University School of Medicine	Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Purnell W. Choppin, M.D. President	Howard Hughes Medical Institute	Richard M. Krause, M.D.
W. Montague Cobb, M.D. Distinguished Professor Emeritus	Howard University College of Medicine	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	John Z. Bowers, M.D.
C. Lockard Conley, M.D. Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine Emeritus	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Benjamin M. Baker, M.D.
Denton A. Cooley, M.D. Surgeon-in-Chief	Texas Heart Institute	Ron Stone
George W. Corner, M.D. Executive Officer	American Philosophical Society	John Z. Bowers, M.D.
Martin M. Cummings, M.D. Director	National Library of Medicine	Peter D. Olch, M.D.
James E. Darnell, Jr., M.D. Vincent Astor Professor, and Head, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology	Rockefeller University	Jeff Friedman
Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. President and Professor of Surgery	Baylor College of Medicine	Claude H. Organ, Jr., M.D.
Lester R. Dragstedt, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Surgery Emeritus	University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine	John Landor, M.D.
Harriet P. Dustan, M.D. Professor of Medicine Emerita	University of Alabama School of Medicine	Edward Frohlich, M.D.
Richard V. Ebert, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Medicine	University of Arkansas School of Medicine	William W. Stead, M.D.
Robert H. Ebert, M.D. Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine Emeritus	Harvard Medical School	Richard V. Ebert, M.D.
John Eckstein, M.D. Dean Emeritus	University of Iowa College of Medicine	Francois M. Abboud, M.D.
Gertrude B. Elion, D.Sc. Scientist Emeritus	Glaxo Wellcome Inc.	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	Frederick C. Robbins, M.D.
George L. Engel, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry	Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry	Stanford Meyerowitz
Maxwell Finland, M.D. George R. Minot Professor of Medicine Emeritus	Harvard Medical School	Edward H. Kass, M.D.
Jacques Genest, M.D. C.C., Director	Clinical Research Institute of Montreal	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	Robert A. Chase, M.D.
Grace A. Goldsmith, M.D. Dean Emerita	School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University	William J. Darby, M.D.
Richard W. Hanson, Ph.D. Leonard and Jean Skeggs Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry	Case Western Reserve University	Oliver E. Owen, M.D.
George T. Harrell, M.D., Part 1 Vice-President for Medical Sciences Emeritus	Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine	C. Max Lang, M.D.
Tinsley R. Harrison, M.D. Distinguished Physician, VA, Distinguished Professor	University of Alabama	A. J. Merrill, M.D.
A. McGehee Harvey, M.D. Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Richard J. Johns, M.D.
Albert Baird Hastings, Sc.D., Ph.D. Hamilton Kuhn Professor Biological Chemistry Emeritus	Harvard Medical School	Peter D. Olch, M.D.
Donald A. Henderson, M.D. Dean	Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health	Edith Schoenrich, M.D.
Emile Holman, M.D. Professor of Surgery Emeritus	Stanford University School of Medicine	Peter D. Olch, M.D.
Dorothy M. Horstman, M.D. John R. Paul Professor of Epidemiology, Professor of Pediatrics	Yale University School of Medicine	Robert W. McCollum, M.D.
John P. Hubbard, M.D. President Emeritus	National Board of Medical Examiners	Edithe J. Levit, M.D.
Charles Huggins, M.D. Wm. D. Ogden Distinguished Professor of Surgery Emeritus	University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine	Leon O. Jacobson, M.D.
Thomas H. Hunter, M.D. Dean and Professor of Medicine Emeritus	University of Virginia School of Medicine	Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
J. Willis Hurst, M.D. Consultant, Division of Cardiology	Emory University School of Medicine	Mark E. Silverman, M.D.
Franz J. Ingelfinger, M.D. Editor	New England Journal of Medicine	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	Edward W. Holmes, M.D.
David M. Kipnis, M.D. Distinguished University Professor of Medicine	Washington University School of Medicine	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	Arthur Rubenstein, M.D.
C. Everett Koop, M.D. Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny Professor of Surgery	Dartmouth Medical School	Robert W. Crichlow, M.D.
Arthur Kornberg, M.D. Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus	Stanford University School of Medicine	I. Robert Lehman, Ph.D.
Alexander D. Langmuir, M.D., M.P.H. Formerly Chief Epidemiologist	Centers for Disease Control	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	James F. Glenn, M.D.
Alexander Leaf, M.D. Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology	Harvard Medical School	Arnold S. Relman, M.D.
Russel V. Lee, M.D. Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus	Stanford University School of Medicine	James Day
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D. Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Department of Surgery	Howard University School of Medicine	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	Janet Passonneau, Ph.D.
H.W. Magoun, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus	UCLA Brain Research Institute	self interview
Making of a Clinician: Teaching the Medical Student to Teach David E. Seegal, M.D. Professor of Medicine Emeritus	Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Daniel J. McCarty, M.D. Will and Cava Ross Professor of Medicine, Director, Arthritis Institute	Medical College of Wisconsin	Lawrence M. Ryan, M.D.
Maclyn McCarty, M.D.	The Rockefeller University	Richard Krause, M.D.
Walsh McDermott, M.D. Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health	Cornell University Medical College	David E. Rogers, M.D.
Victor A. McKusick, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Medical Genetics	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	David L. Rimoin, M.D., Ph.D.
Gordon Meiklejohn, M.D. Professor of Medicine	University of Colorado School of Medicine	Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
Sherman M. Mellinkoff, M.D. Dean	UCLA School of Medicine	William P. Longmire, M.D.
Karl F. Meyer, M.D. Director Emeritus, The George W. Hooper Foundation	University of California, San Diego	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	Francis D. Moore, M.D.
David G. Nathan, M.D. President	Dana Farbar Cancer Institute	Samuel E. Lux, M.D.
Daniel Nathans, M.D. Professor	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Daniel DiMaio, M.D.
Waldo E. Nelson, M.D. Professor and Chariman Emeritus, Pediatrics	Temple University School of Medicine	Angelo M. DiGeorge, M.D.
Irving H. Page, M.D. Director Emeritus, Research Division	Cleveland Clinic	Edward D. Frohlich, M.D.
William H. Parson, M.D. Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department of Medicine	University of Virginia School of Medicine	Thomas H. Hunter, M.D.
Robert G. Petersdorf, M.D.		David S. Greer, M.D.
James A. Pittman, Jr., M.D. Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus	University of Alabama School of Medicine	Suzanne Oparil, M.D.
Hans Popper, M.D. Gustave L. Levy Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Thomas C. Chalmers, M.D.
Helen M. Ranney, M.D. Professor of Medicine	University of California, San Diego School of Medicine	Samuel I. Rappaport, M.D.
Arnold S. Relman, M.D. Professor of Medicine and of Social Medicine	Harvard Medical School	Alexander Leaf, M.D.
Jonathan E. Rhoads, M.D. Professor of Surgery	University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Jonathan E. Rhoads, Jr., M.D.
Leo G. Rigler, M.D. Professor of Radiology, Director of Resident Training	UCLA School of Medicine	Harry Z. Mellins, M.D.
David E. Rogers, M.D. Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine	Cornell University Medical College	William Schaffner, M.D.
Richard S. Ross, M.D. Vice-President for Medical Affairs and Dean	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	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	Paul A. Ebert, M.D.
Stuart A. Schneck, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Neuropathology	University of Colorado	Steven P. Ringel, M.D.
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D. President	The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	Stephen J. McPhee, M.D.
Henry G. Schwartz, M.D. Professor of Neurological Surgery	Washington University School of Medicine	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	Daniel Foster, M.D.
Lawrence E. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D. Director Emeritus	National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases	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	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	Henry N. Claman, MD
Helen B. Taussig, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics Emerita	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Helen Sinclair Pittman, M.D.
Howard C. Taylor, Jr., M.D. Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Emeritus	Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons	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	Lloyd G. Stevenson, M.D., Ph.D.
Edward Donnall Thomas, M.D. Professor Surgery Emeritus	University of Washington School of Medicine	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	John P. Merrill, M.D.
Phillip A. Tumulty, M.D. Director Emeritus, Division of Internal Medicine	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Norman D. Anderson, M.D.
Thomas B. Turner, M.D. Dean Emeritus, Professor Emeritus	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Samuel P. Asper, M.D.
Matthew Walker, M.D. Professor of Surgery, Provost for External Affairs	Meharry Medical College	L.J. Bernard, M.D.
Patrick C. Walsh, M.D. Urologist-in-Chief, James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute	Johns Hopkins University	Jacek Mostwin, M.D., D. Phil.
Owen H. Wangensteen, M.D. Regents' Professor of Surgery	University of Minnesota Medical School	K. Alvin Merendino, M.D.
James V. Warren, M.D. Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine	Ohio State University College of Medicine	Arnold M. Weissler, M.D.
Shields Warren, M.D. Professor of Pathology Emeritus	Harvard Medical School	John Z. Bowers, M.D.
Cecil J. Watson, M.D., Ph.D. Regents' Professor of Medicine	University of Minnesota Medical School	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	Thomas Hale Ham, M.D.
Louis Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Emeritus	Tufts University School of Medicine	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	Thomas B. Ferguson, Sr., M.D.
Abraham White, Ph.D., Sc.D.,L.H.D. Consulting Professor of Biochemistry	Stanford University School of Medicine	Philip Handel, Ph.D. Sc.D.,L.L.D.
Dwight L. Wilbur, M.D. Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus	Stanford University School of Medicine	Hugh R. Butt, M.D.
Robert H. Williams, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Director, Diabetes Center	University of Washington School of Medicine	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	Alexander M. Schmidt, M.D.
Stewart G. Wolfe, Jr., 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		F. Tremaine Billings, Jr., M.D.
Francis C. Wood, M.D. Professor of Medicine Emeritus	University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	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	Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
James B. Wyngaarden, M.D. Foreign Secretary	The National Academy of Sciences	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	Edward J. Quilligan, M.D.

Updated on January 9, 2018.

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