E. Harvey Estes Papers, 1966-2009

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Summary

Creator:
Estes, Edward Harvey
Abstract:
Contains the papers of E. Harvey Estes, chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University from 1966 to 1985. Types of materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, surveys, agendas, articles, newsletters, curriculum vitae, newspaper clippings, photographs, by-laws, brochures membership lists, an oral history transcript, a CD, and digital files. Major subjects include community health and Triangle Universities Computational Center. Materials range in date from 1966 to 2009.
Extent:
7.5 Linear Feet (5 cartons) and 2 T-shirts and 14.1 MB
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0037

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Scope and content:

Contains correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, surveys, agendas, articles, newsletters, curriculum vitae, newspaper clippings, photographs, by-laws, brochures membership lists, an oral history transcript, a CD, and digital files. Materials range in date from 1966 to 2007.

Biographical / historical:

Edward Harvey Estes was born in Gay, Georgia, in 1925 and graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (BA, MD). He began his medical internship at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and completed it at Duke University Hospital. Prior to joining Duke's staff in 1953, Estes served in the United States Navy from 1950 to 1952. He became chief of the cardiology service at Durham Veterans Affairs Hospital from 1953 to 1954 and chief of the medical service at the Durham Veterans Affairs Hospital from 1956 to 1962. In 1966, Estes served as the chair of Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. In 1967, Estes assumed responsibility for the physician assistant (PA) program. The program recruited and trained community health workers from impoverished communities and helped established rural satellite clinics in these communities staffed primarily by PAs.
In the 1970s, Estes turned his attention to the growth and development of family medicine residency programs and the promotion of preventive medicine. He served in both state and national leadership positions. As a leader of the North Carolina Medical Society and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, he built a coalition of health professionals dedicated to training and placing family physicians, Pas, and nurse practitioners into medically underserved communities. Nationally, he chaired the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs; served as president of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine; chaired the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences' Steering Committee for A Manpower Policy for Primary Health Care; and served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine. Dr. Estes authored or co-authored over 100 scientific articles.
He retired from Duke in 1990 to become the founding director of the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation's Community Practitioner Program, a program designed to increase the number of health care providers in the North Carolina's underserved areas. He remained involved with the program until 2000.
Estes married Jean Anderson Estes, and they had five children.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2006.070.x (gift by Edward Harvey Estes, March 2008), Accession A2009.009 (March 2009), Accession A2012.009 (gift by Edward Harvey Estes, February 2012)
Processing information:

Processed by Octavious Spruill: October 2004; encoded by Octavious Spruill: October 2004; updated by Kahlee Leingaing under the supervision of Lucy Waldrop: January 2018

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Community Health Sciences, 1966-1973; Committees, 1968-1984; N.C. Medical Peer Review Foundation, 1972-1980; Miscellaneous Records, 1985-1986; Unprocessed Accessions, 1990-2007; T-shirts, circa 1985, Digital Files, 1985, 2009. 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).
Materials in boxes 1, 4, and 5 are restricted and can only be accessed with the permission of 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], E. Harvey Estes Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.