Melvyn Lieberman Papers, 1965-1998

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Creator:
Lieberman, Melvyn
Abstract:
Melvyn Lieberman (1938-1997) was a professor in the Departments of Physiology, Cell Biology, and Biomedical Engineering at Duke University Medical Center (DUMC). He also directed the Graduate Studies programs for the Department of Cell Biology and the Department of Physiology and served as a special assistant to the executive vice president at DUMC and the senior vice president research administrator at DUMC. Major subjects include the DUMC Summer Educational Enrichment Program, the Duke Scientific Research Initiative, the Duke University Affiliated Physicians program, the American Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Levine Science Research Center. Contains educational materials, construction records, conference and committee materials, correspondence, reprints, meeting and workshop materials, research files, weekly and annual reports, articles and publications, financial records, and subject files for professional colleagues and participating institutions that contributed to Lieberman's medical research and educational career. Materials range in date from 1965 to 1998.
Extent:
43.1 Linear Feet (25 cartons and 7 map folders)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0072

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Contains educational plans and materials, construction records, brochures, schedules, conference and committee materials, correspondence, questionnaires, patents, notes, minutes, policies, surveys, reprints, meeting and workshop materials, research files, weekly and annual reports, articles and publications, financial records, and subject files for professional colleagues and participating institutions that contributed to Lieberman's medical research and educational career. Major subjects include the Duke University Medical Center Summer Educational Enrichment Program; the Duke Scientific Research Initiative; the Duke University Affiliated Physicians program; the American Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and the Levine Science Research Center. Materials range in date from 1965 to 1998.

Biographical / historical:

Melvyn Lieberman was born on February 14, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BA in Zoology from Cornell University (1959) and his PhD in Physiology from State University of New York (1965). He held postdoctoral fellowships in the departments of embryology at Carnegie Institute Washington, Baltimore (1964-1965) and the Instituto de Biofisica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1965-1967), before becoming a postdoctoral fellow in the division of biomedical engineering at Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) in 1967. In 1968, he was made an assistant professor of physiology at Duke University, where he remained until his death in 1997.
While at DUMC, Lieberman served as an assistant professor (1968-1973), an associate professor (1973-1978), and a full professor of physiology (1978-1988). In 1988, he was made a full professor in the department of cell biology as well. He then became an associate professor of medicine in 1989 and a full professor of biomedical engineering in 1993. He also directed the Graduate Studies programs for the Department of Physiology (1977-1988) and the Department of Cell Biology (1988-1990). He then became a special assistant to the executive vice president at DUMC (1990-1995) and to the senior vice president research administrator at DUMC (1995 to 1996). He was made a member of the DUMC integrated toxicology program in 1989, the DUMC Heart Center in 1988, and the DUMC Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1992.
Lieberman was heavily involved in research into the field of developmental cardiac electrophysiology. He edited four books in cardiac cell physiology and development, authored and co-authored over 200 publications, and was an editor and member of advisory boards for several scientific journals. He also served on numerous research and review committees, including the research review committee of the New York Heart Association (1980-1985), the cardiovascular research study committee of the American Heart Association (1987-1990), the research review subcommittee of the North Carolina Heart Association (1972-1976), and the research committee of the North Carolina Heart Association (1993-1997).
Lieberman acted as a coordinator for several international science conferences, such as the United States-Japan Cooperative Science Program Conference, Tokyo, Japan (1974, 1988), the United States-Brazil Cooperative Science Program Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1980), and the Gordon Conference on Muscle, New Hampshire (1979). He was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of University Professors, American Heart Association, American Physiological Society, American Society Cell Biology, Biophysics Society, Cardiac Muscle Society, International Society Heart Research, New York Academy of Sciences, North Carolina Heart Association, Physiological Society, Society of General Physiologists, Physiological Society of the United Kingdom, and Sigma Xi.
Lieberman and his wife Shelli had two sons, Eric and Marc Lieberman. He died on October 14, 1997.

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Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Summer Educational Enrichment Program - Student Records, 1970-1976; Scientific Research Initiative, 1987-1994; Center for International Studies, 1990-1996; Duke University Affiliated Physicians (DUAP), 1988-1994; Benefits, 1988-1991; American Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Research, 1991-1994; Reprints, 1965-1995; Additions, 1984-1998; Levine Science Research Center, 1968-1994.
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HC 16

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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.

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[Identification of item], Melvyn Lieberman Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.