Daniel (Dan) G. Blazer Oral History Interviews, 1995, 2005

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Creator:
Blazer, Dan G., II (Dan German), 1944-, Blazer, Dan G., II (Dan German), 1944-, and Duke University. Medical Center. Archives.
Abstract:
Dr. Daniel (Dan) G. Blazer, MD, J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a former Dean of Medical Education at the Duke University School of Medicine, is a psychiatrist who came to Duke in 1976. This collection contains 2 oral history interviews conducted on March 31, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford and January 28, 2005 by Jessica Roseberry. In the March 31, 1995 interview, which is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project, Blazer discusses his career, thoughts on medical education, and his specific views on the teaching of surgery at Duke. In the January 28, 2005 interview, Blazer discusses his experiences in the Duke University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry.
Extent:
2 Interviews (2 transcripts, 3 audiocassette tapes)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
OH.BLAZERD

Background

Scope and content:

Includes 2 oral history interviews with Dr. Daniel (Dan) G. Blazer conducted on March 31, 1995 by Dr. James Gifford and January 28, 2005 by Jessica Roseberry. The 1995 interview is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project.
In the March 31, 1995 interview, Blazer discusses his career, thoughts on medical education, and his specific views on the teaching of surgery at Duke.
In the January 28, 2005 interview, Blazer discusses his experiences in the Duke University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Daniel (Dan) German Blazer, MD, PhD, was born in 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University (1965), his MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine (1969), his MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1979), and his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1980).

Blazer joined Duke University Medical Center as a Professor of Psychiatry in 1976. From 1992 to 1999, he was the Dean of Medical Education at Duke and in 1990 became the J.P. Gibbons Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Blazer has authored 25 books, over 150 published abstracts, over 260 peer-reviewed articles, and over 110 book chapters. Writing topics include: depression; epidemiology; and consultation liaison psychiatry, especially with the elderly. He has been principal investigator on many projects funded federally, by the state, or by private foundations. These projects have primarily focused on the prevalence of physical and mental illnesses in the elderly.
Blazer has received numerous awards and honors including the Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, listings in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, and The Best Doctors in America. He has received the Alex Haley National Award (1992) and the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry Senior Investigator Award (1994). He was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and received the Milo Leavitt Award from the American Geriatrics Society for Life Contributors to education in geriatric medicine (1997). Blazer is a past-president of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry and past chair of the membership committee of the Institute of Medicine and previously served as editor of "Duke Medicine Health News" and the co-editor of "Aging and Mental Health."

Blazer is married to Sherrill Anne Walls Blazer. They had two children: Dan and Natasha.

Acquisition information:
No documented accession number (transferred by James Gifford, March 1995), Accession A2005.068 (transferred by Jessica Roseberry, January 2005)
Processing information:

Processed by Jessica Roseberry: January 2009; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: January 2009; updated by Lucy Waldrop February 2023

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Interview, March 31, 1995; Interview, January 28, 2005.
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For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Duke University Medical Center Library's online catalog.
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[Identification of item], Daniel (Dan) G. Blazer Oral History Interviews, Duke University Medical Center Archives.