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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
Head, Images, films, and archives
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
T: (301) 594-0975
F: (301) 402-7034
E: rebecca.warlow@mail.nih.gov
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| 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; |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
