Albert Heyman Papers, 1959-2007

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Summary

Creator:
Heyman, Albert
Abstract:
Contains the personal and professional papers of Albert Heyman (1916-2012), professor of Neurology and chief of the Division of Neurology in the department of Medicine. Types of materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, grant materials, newspaper clippings, research materials related to the CERAD studies, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) research career awards. Major subjects include Duke University School of Medicine, the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease, neurology, Alzheimer's research studies and tests, and bioscience education workshops. Materials range in date from 1959 to 2007.
Extent:
16.5 Linear Feet (11 cartons)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0027

Background

Scope and content:

Contains the professional papers of Albert Heyman, professor of Neurology and chief of the Division of Neurology at Duke University Medical Center (1964 to 1969). Types of materials include reprints; correspondence; medical assessments and batteries for Alzheimer's Disease; invoices; cassettes; meeting minutes; and promotional materials for Brody Fund projects. Major subjects include Alzheimer's Disease, CERAD (the Consortium to Establish A Registry for Alzheimer's Disease), CERAD study sites both internationally and in the United States, the Irwin Brody Fund for the History of Neurosciences, projects sponsored by the Brody Fund for the History of Neurosciences, bioscience seminars, educational efforts for North Carolina teachers, and award materials. Materials range in date from 1959 to 2007.

Biographical / historical:

Albert Heyman, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1916, earned his bachelors (1936) and his medical degree (1940) from the University of Maryland. Following graduation, Heyman spent nine years in Atlanta, Georgia, as a physician where he held a joint appointment at Emory University Medical School as an assistant professor and at the Georgia Department of Health. While at Emory, he established the Genito-Infectious Disease (GID) Clinic at Grady Hospital. In 1953, he became a fellow in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and joined the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in 1954 where he founded the Duke/VA Stroke Center. He served as chief of the Division of Neurology in the Department of Medicine from 1964 to 1969.
Heyman chaired the committee to administer the Irwin A. Brody Fund for the History of Neurosciences. This fund, begun in 1977 to honor Duke neurologist Dr. Irwin A. Brody, sponsored a variety of projects including the Irwin A. Brody scholarship; annual bioscience seminars for North Carolina high school biology teachers, offering three weekends of labs and lectures from Duke research faculty; an AIDS education seminar for North Carolina biology teachers; a student essay competition in the history of medicine; exhibits of medical art; and other projects.
In 1979, Heyman turned his focus to Alzheimer's Disease, and he served as principle investigator of CERAD, the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease. This multicenter project, begun in 1986 through a grant from the National Institute on Aging, was founded to create standardized, validated methods of assessing the disease. The program standardized the way that Alzheimer's Disease was diagnosed throughout the world.
Heyman authored hundreds of articles and abstracts and was a member of editorial boards of professional journals.
Heyman received numerous awards and honors. From 1961-1990 he held an NIH Career Award. In 1991, Dr. Heyman received the Distinguished Teacher Award from Duke University School of Medicine, and in 2004 he received Duke University Medical Center's William G. Anlyan Lifetime Achievement Award.
Heyman was married to Dorothy Keyer Heyman. They had two daughters: Mical and Leslie. Heyman died in 2012.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2007.047 (gift, May 2007), Accession A2007.056 (gift, June 2007), Accession A2007.060 (gift, July 2007), Accession A2007.097 (transferred, November 2007)
Processing information:

Processed by Jessica Roseberry: February 2012; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: February 2012

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: CERAD Materials, 1959-2007; Irwin Brody Fund for the History of Neurosciences, 1972-2003; North Carolina Science Teacher Education Projects, 1983-1994; Research Career Award Materials, 1981-2003; and Dr. Heyman, Personal and Administrative Materials, 1964-2005.
Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Duke University Medical Center Archives.
Rules or conventions:
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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).
Materials in Series 1 must be screened for sensitive or confidential materials before they can be accessed.

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], Albert Heyman Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.