Donald Hackel Papers, 1967-1988

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Summary

Creator:
Hackel, Donald B.
Abstract:
This series contains the professional papers of Donald Hackel (1921-1994). Materials relate to conferences about medical school curriculum, departmental administrative meetings, and pathology department programs. Types of materials include meeting minutes, correspondence, memorandum, newsletters, articles, notes, survey responses, agendas, and reports. Materials range in date from 1967 to 1988.
Extent:
2 Linear Feet (2 manuscript boxes)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0089

Background

Scope and content:

This series contains the professional papers of Donald Hackel. Materials relate to conferences about medical school curriculum, departmental administrative meetings, and pathology department programs. Types of materials include meeting minutes, correspondence, memorandum, newsletters, articles, notes, survey responses, agendas, and reports. Materials range in date from 1967 to 1988.

Biographical / historical:

On July 7, 1921, Donald Benjamin Hackel was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Sonya M. Yesner and Paul Louis Hackel. He received his MD from Harvard in 1946 and interned at Beth Israel Hospital before entering the Army Medical Corps. While in the Army, Hackel was assigned to the Army Chemical Center in Maryland where he conducted research in pathophysiology. After leaving the Army, Hackel trained in pathology at Cleveland City Hospital of Western Reserve School of Medicine as an assistant resident (1949-1950), resident (1950), and chief resident (1951). In 1951, he became an instructor at the Western Reserve University School of Medicine and, in 1957, an assistant professor of pathology. While at Cleveland City Hospital, Hackel began working with Chief of Pathology Thomas D. Kinney. Hackel began researching the reactions of myocardium to injury and, in 1961, he was awarded the Parke Davis Research Award in experimental pathology by the American Society for Experimental Pathology for his research.
In 1961, Hackel became a professor of pathology at Duke University after being recruited by Thomas Kinney, who became the Chairman of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center in 1960. While at Duke, Hackel held a Career Research Award from the U.S. Public Health Service for 28 years to research the cause of cardiac failure in hemorrhagic shock. Hackel found that the combination of decreased blood volume and excess circulating catecholamines contributed to cardiac malfunction and caused zonal lesions in the contractile apparatus.
From 1977 to 1982, Hackel served as editor-in-chief of the "American Journal of Pathology." While at Duke, Hackel was awarded the Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching three times before being awarded the Lifetime Golden Apple Award in 1988. He became an emeritus professor in 1989.
Other awards and honors Hackel received include the Detur Award from Harvard College (1942), Phi Beta Kappa (1942), and the Annual Achievement Award of the American Society of Cardiovascular Pathology (1988). In 1989, the Duke Medical Alumni Association presented him with the Distinguished Teacher Award. In 1990, an endowed fellowship, the Donald B. Hackel Fellowship in Cardiovascular Pathology, was established at Duke.
In 1947, Hackel married Irene Goos and they had three children: Connie Hackel Katz, Andrea Hackel Harris, and Richard Elliot Hackel. Donald Hackel died in 1994.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2003.008 (transferred by Donald Hackel, May 2003)
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff: date unknown

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Records, 1967-1988.

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Personal Name(s):
Hackel, Donald B.
Corporate Name(s):
Duke University. Medical Center.
Duke University. School of Medicine
Duke University. Department of Pathology.
Duke University -- Faculty.
Topical Term(s):
Pathology.
Education, Medical.

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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).
Box 2 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], Donald Hackel Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.