Roger Denio Baker Papers, 1912-1993
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Summary
- Creator:
- Baker, Roger Denio
- Abstract:
- Contains the professional and personal papers of Roger Denio Baker (1902-1994), an original faculty member at the Duke University School of Medicine and professor of pathology. Types of materials include journals, diaries, day planners, manuscripts, drafts, reprints, correspondence, photographs, notes, bound volumes, lab notebooks, brochures, clippings, certificates, correspondence, newsletters, sketches, and programs pertaining to Baker's education, teaching, and research. Materials date from 1912 to 1993.
- Extent:
- 18 Linear Feet (12 cartons)
- Language:
- English
- Collection ID:
- MC.0005
Background
- Scope and content:
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Contains journals, diaries, day planners, manuscripts, drafts, reprints, correspondence, photographs, notes, bound volumes, lab notebooks, brochures, clippings, certificates, correspondence, newsletters, sketches, and programs pertaining to Baker's education, teaching, and research. Materials date from 1912 to 1993.
- Biographical / historical:
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Roger Denio Baker was born on April 10, 1902 in East Lansing, Michigan, to Ray and Jessie (Beal) Baker. Roger Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1924 and his MD from Harvard University in 1928. Baker joined the Duke faculty in 1930 after completing his residency at Johns Hopkins University.
Baker served on the medical faculty at Duke as a professor of pathology from 1930 to 1944. In 1944, he left Duke to organize the Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama School of Medicine (now part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham). After serving as the first chairman of that department, Baker returned to Duke in 1952, where he remained a professor of pathology until 1961. Baker was also the chief of laboratory services at the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital. He served on the faculty at Louisiana State University from 1961 to 1970, then on the faculty at Rutgers University from 1970 to 1973. Baker was a 1967-1968 NIH Special Research Fellow at the University of Antioquia Medical School in Medelin, Colombia; a visiting scientist at the armed forces Institute of Pathology from 1974 to 1975; and a professorial lecturer at the George Washington University Medical School from 1976 to 1977.
Baker published approximately 100 papers in scientific journals, and also authored the 1961 textbook "Essential Pathology" and the 1967 textbook "Postmortem Examination." He was the editor and principal author of "The Pathologic Anatomy of Mycoses" (1971), and contributed chapters to other pathology textbooks. In 1949, Baker was the founder and first president of the Alabama Heart Association and was also the president of the Alabama Cancer Society. He was the president of the pathology and physiology section of the American Medical Association from 1956 to 1957, the president of the American Board of Pathology from 1960 to 1961, and the president of the Medical Mycology Society of New York from 1973 to 1974. He was also a board member of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology from 1967 to 1977 and a founding fellow of the College of American Pathologists.
Baker married Eleanor Ussher in 1929. He died on December 25, 1994. - Acquisition information:
- Source unknown
- Processing information:
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Processed by Dawne Howard Lucas: March 2010; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: March 2010; updated by Dawne Howard Lucas: April 2011
- Arrangement:
- Organized into the following series: Journals, 1926-1993; Publications, 1932-1980, undated; Lab Notebooks, 1925-1926, undated; Day Planners, 1929-1988; Diaries, 1924-1990; Conferences and Meetings Attended, 1977-1980; Photographs, 1912-1972, undated; Other Materials, 1971-1980.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Duke University Medical Center Library's online catalog.
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- Corporate Name(s):
- Duke University. Medical Center
Duke University. School of Medicine
Duke University. Department of Pathology - Topical Term(s):
- Education, Medical.
Faculty.
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This collection may contain material with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals or IRB approval may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Duke University assumes no responsibility.
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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Preferred citation:
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Identification of item], Roger Denio Baker Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.