Ivan W. Brown Papers, 1949-1996

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Summary

Creator:
Brown, Ivan W.
Abstract:
Ivan W. Brown (1915-2009) graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1940 and is a former James B. Duke Professor of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. This collection consists of correspondence between Ivan W. Brown and Elmer L. DeGowin regarding Duke University Medical Center's Central Supply and Blood Bank, a retirement speech given by Clarence Ellsworth Gardner, and reprints of three of Ivan W. Brown's articles. One of these articles details the adventures of Wilburt C. Davison, Wilder G. Penfield, and Emile F. Holman. Materials range in date from 1949 to 1996.
Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet (1 manuscript box)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0059

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of information about Duke University Medical Center's Central Supply and Blood Bank, a retirement speech given by Clarence Ellsworth Gardner, and reprints of three of Ivan W. Brown's articles. The materials regarding the Central Supply and Blood Bank include correspondence between Brown and Elmer L. DeGowin, a member of the Department of Internal Medicine at University Hospitals at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. This correspondence, dated June to August 1949, includes photographs of the Duke's Central Supply and Blood Bank, as well as a print of the general floor plan of Central Supply. Materials range in date from 1949 to 1996.

Biographical / historical:

Ivan Willard Brown was born in 1915 in Newfane, New York, to Ivan and Agnes (nee) Brown. He received his MD from Duke University's School of Medicine in 1940. During World War II, Brown was the youngest member and served as a captain on the surgical service of the 65th General Hospital, an Army Reserve Unit comprised of Duke Physicians. Brown's accomplishments include developing a blood heat exchanger used during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery, as well as designing and building Duke's hyperbaric chamber complex. After leaving Duke, Brown became Chief of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Watson Clinic in Lakeland, Florida. After his retirement in 1985, Dr. Brown wrote articles on medical history.
Brown married Madeline Davis in 1938 and they had three children. Brown died in 2009.

Acquisition information:
Accessioned by Archives staff: Accession A2002.001 (acquired from Suzanne Porter, October 2002), Accession A2004.017 (gift by Ivan W. Brown, April 2004), Accession A2007.102 (gift by Ivan W. Brown, December 2007), Accession A2008.076 (gift by Ivan W. Brown, November 2008), Accession A2010.043 (gift by Ivan W. Brown, July 2010).
Processing information:

Processed by Dawne Howard Lucas: January 2008; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: January 2008.

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Records, 1949-1996.
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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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], Ivan W. Brown Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.