Ewald W. Busse Papers, 1945-2003

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Summary

Creator:
Busse, Ewald W.
Abstract:
Documents the professional career of Ewald W. Busse (1917-2004), the former chair of Duke's Department of Psychiatry and founding director the Duke University Center for Aging and Human Development. The materials include Busse's "History of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke"; Busse's reprints; a history of the Duke Medical Center Building Fund; awards and honors; reports and evaluations regarding the J. B. Gibbons Scholarship; minutes, newsletters, correspondence, and publications from the International Association of Gerontology; information about Highland Hospital (Asheville, North Carolina); materials regarding the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development; and the Medical School Advisory Committee's (MedSAC) minutes materials. Materials range in date from 1945 to 2003.
Extent:
52.5 Linear Feet (34 cartons, 1 manuscript box, 2 flat boxes)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0009

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes Ewald W. Busse's "History of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke"; Busse's reprints; a history of the Duke Medical Center Building Fund; awards and honors; reports and evaluations regarding the J. B. Gibbons Scholarship; minutes, newsletters, correspondence, and publications from the International Association of Gerontology; information about Highland Hospital (Asheville, North Carolina); materials regarding the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development; the Medical Historian Training Program; and the Medical School Advisory Committee (MedSAC) minutes materials. Materials range in date from 1945 to 2003.

Biographical / historical:

Ewald W. Busse was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1917. He received his AB degree from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, an MD from Washington University in St. Louis (1942), and an honorary Sc.D. degree from Westminster College (1960). During WWII, he served in the army, where he learned electroencephalographic skills. After his time in the army, Busse trained in psychiatry at the University of Colorado. He later joined the faculty. Early on in his research career, Busse discovered a unique spike on EEG in the temporal lobe that was associated with aging. He devoted the rest of his career to the examination of longitudinal study of normal aging and its psychopathological variants.
Busse, an early leader in the field of geriatric psychiatry, joined the faculty at Duke Medical Center in 1953 and chaired the Department of Psychiatry until 1974. While at Duke, Busse founded the Duke Center on Aging and Human Development and served as its founding director (1954-1970). He wanted to study the physiological, psychological, and social aspect of aging. Previous studies focused on elderly people living in institutions. Busse, however, recruited healthy volunteers older than 60 to participate in a long-term program to see how they aged in familiar settings. His program, the Duke Longitudinal Study, begun in 1957, eventually involved 800 older adults who submitted to rigorous medical and psychological examinations over 25 years. His findings increased the understanding of the physical, mental, social, and economic aspects of aging. He was named the J. P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry (1965). He also served as Dean of Medical and Allied Health Education (1974-1982) at Duke. In the 1960s, under Busse, the first training program in geriatric psychiatry in the United States was established.
Busse received many awards and honor throughout his career. His research and professional awards include the Edward B. Allen Award (1967), the Strecker Award (1967), the Kleemeier Award (1968), the Menninger Award (1971), the Modern Medicine Award (1972), the Freeman Award (1978) the Thewlis Award (1979), the Brookdale Award (1982), and the Sandoz Award (1983). He is among those listed "Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology", and he was part of the President's Biomedical Research Panel (1957-1977).
Busse served as chair of the Advisory Committee on Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Veterans Administration, as well as president of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Geriatrics Society, the Gerontological Society of America, the American Association of Departments of Psychiatry, the Southern Pacific Association, and the Southeastern Medical Dental Society. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and the director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Busse authored or coauthored over 200 scientific articles and edited several books including "Behavior and Adaptation in Late Life", "Mental Illness in Later Life", and "The Handbook of Geriatric Psychiatry." He was also the senior editor of the "American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry" for three editions.
Busse was married to Ortrude S. Busse, and they had three daughters and one son: Ortrude, Barbara, Emily, and Ewald Richard. Busse died in 2004.

Acquisition information:
Accession A1974.0075 (transferred, 1974), Accession A2004.014 (transferred, April 2004), Accession A2004.015 (transferred, April 2004), Accession A2004.018 (transferred, April 2004), Accession A2004.020 (transferred, April 2004), Accession A2012.073 (transferred, November 2012), Accession A2016.032 (gift by Barbara Busse, July 2016), Accession A2017.027 (gift by Barbara Busse, July 2017)
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: March 2010; updated by Lucy Waldrop: July 2016, July 2017

Arrangement:
J.B. Gibbons Scholarship, 1976-1990; International Association of Gerontology, 1960-2001; Highland Hospital, 1953-1994; Construction and Miscellaneous, 1953-1994; Aging, 1951-1994; Medical School Advisory Committee (MedSAC), 1963-1982; Reprints, 1945-1995; Medical Historian Program, 1968-1975; Miscellaneous Files, 1976-1978; Accession A2004.020, 1953-1979; Accession A2004.015, 1987-2003; Oversized Materials, undated, Accession A2016.032, undated; Accession A2017.027, 1975-1993. 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.
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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).
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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.

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[Identification of item], Ewald W. Busse Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.