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.
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.
