Samuel L. Katz Papers and Records, 1963-2011
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Summary
- Creator:
- Katz, Samuel L., 1927-
- Abstract:
- Samuel Katz, MD, born in 1927 and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, is a pediatrician and virologist with a career devoted to infectious disease research with a focus on vaccine research and development. Katz joined Duke University School of Medicine faculty as chair of pediatrics in 1968 and lead the department until 1990. While at Duke, his research focused on vaccine policy development and pediatric HIV/AIDS care. Prior to joining the Duke University School of Medicine, Katz was instrumental in the development of the measles vaccine. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, conference materials, audiovisual materials, and other records documenting Katz's career. Major subjects include pediatrics, vaccines, and the Duke University Department of Pediatrics. Materials range in date from 1969 to 2011.
- Extent:
- 38.5 Linear Feet (25 cartons, 2 manuscript boxes)
- Language:
- English
- Collection ID:
- MC.0068
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection is unprocessed and arranged by accession. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, conference materials, audiovisual materials documenting Duke's celebration of Katz career, as well as other materials documenting Katz's professional life. The materials date from 1969 to 2011.
- Biographical / historical:
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Samuel L. Katz, born in 1927 and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, is a pediatrician and virologist with a career devoted to infectious disease research with a focus on vaccine research and development. Katz joined the Duke University School of Medicine faculty as chair of pediatrics in 1968 and led the department until 1990.
Katz began his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in 1944. In 1945, he joined the Navy and was sent to San Diego to attend hospital training school. Afterwards, he returned to Dartmouth and completed the undergraduate premed requirements, graduating in 1948. He then attended Dartmouth Medical School, which, at the time, was a two-year preclinical program and received a BMS in 1950. Katz completed his MD at Harvard Medical School in 1952. He had internships at Beth Israel Hospital followed by a residency in pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital. Katz also completed a research fellowship in virology and infectious diseases at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Katz's early medical experiences with polio, brought him into contact with John Enders, a noted virologist awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1954 for his work on culturing the poliovirus. While a staff member at Boston Children's Hospital, Katz worked with Enders' for twelve years to develop the attenuated measles virus vaccine. The work was published in 1962, and the vaccine was licensed in 1963. By 1968 the incidence of measles in the United States had dropped to less than 10 percent. Throughout his career, Katz traveled to Central America, South America, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan nations to advocate for the use of the measles and other vaccines to protect all infants and children.
In addition to his work on measles, Katz was involved in studies of many other pathogens and infectious diseases, including vaccinia, polio, rubella, influenza, pertussis, HIV, and Haemophilus influenzae b conjugates, including clinical studies of HIV-infected infants and children and clinical evaluation of viral vaccines. Katz has chaired the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics (the Redbook Committee), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control, the Vaccine Priorities Study of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and several World Health Organization (WHO) and CVI vaccine and HIV panels. He is a member of many scientific advisory committees and boards, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the IOM, and the WHO. He was Chairman of the Public Policy Council of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and co-chaired IDSA's Vaccine Initiative.
Katz has received numerous awards including Distinguished Teacher Award, Duke Medical School Alumni (1987); Presidential Medal, Dartmouth College (1991); Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Georgetown University (1996) and Dartmouth College (1998); Sabin Gold Medal (2003), and the Maimonides Award (2007). - Acquisition information:
- Accession A2005.013 (transferred by Samuel Katz, March 2005), Accession A2008.037 (gift by Rebecca Clendenin, June 2008), Accession A2011.030 (gift, April 2011), Accession A2016.046 (transferred by Diane Crayton, September 2016)
- Processing information:
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Processed by Archives staff: March 2005; encoded by Emily Glenn: March 2005; updated by Dawne Howard Lucas: May 2011; updated by Lucy Waldrop: September 2016
- Arrangement:
- Organized into the following accessions: Records 1968-1972; Accession A2005.013: Correspondence and Subject Files, 1969-2005; Accession A2011.030: Correspondence and Subject Files, 1963-2011; Accession A2016.046: A Celebration in Honor of Dr. Samuel L. Katz, 1988. 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.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Duke University Medical Center Library's online catalog.
Subjects
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- Personal Name(s):
- Katz, Samuel L., 1927-
- Corporate Name(s):
- Duke University. Medical Center
Duke University. School of Medicine - Topical Term(s):
- Vaccines.
Pediatrics.
Education, Medical.
Faculty.
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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). - Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Samuel L. Katz Papers and Records, Duke University Medical Center Archives.