Daniel (Dan) G. Blazer Papers, 1984-2004

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Summary

Creator:
Blazer, Dan G., II (Dan German), 1944-
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 correspondence, notes, reference records, committee notes, budgets, article reprints, and electronic files belonging Blazer. Materials range in date from 1984 to 2004.
Extent:
4.5 Linear Feet (3 cartons)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0049

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains correspondence, notes, reference records, committee notes, budgets, article reprints, and electronic files documenting Dan G. Blazer's professional career. Materials range in date from 1984 to 2004.

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:
Undocumented source, Accession A2004.049 (transferred, June 2004), Accession A2004.051 (transferred, July 2004), Accession A2014.038 (gift, November 2014)
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: March 2010

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Subject Files, 1984-2004; Accession A2004.051: Reprints, undated; Accession A2004.049: Electronic Files, undated. Material within this collection has been organized by accession reflecting the fact that the collection has been acquired in increments over time. Researchers should note that material within each accession overlaps with/or relates to material found in other accessions. In order to locate all relevant material within this collection, researchers will need to consult each accession described in the Series Scope and Contents section. Researchers should also note that similar material can be arranged differently in each accession, depending on how the material was organized when it was received by the DUMCA.
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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This collection may contain materials 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.

Contains Medical Center Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the Medical Center Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist. (Issued by the Office of the Chancellor, December 1, 1975).

Collection must be screened for sensitive or confidential materials before being accessed. For further information consult with the Medical Center Archivist.

Terms of access:

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:

[Identification of item], Daniel (Dan) G. Blazer Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.