Kenneth S. McCarty Papers, 1973-1984

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Summary

Creator:
McCarty, Kenneth Scott
Abstract:
Kenneth S. McCarty Jr. (1948-2010) was a graduate of Duke University (1966) and Duke University School of Medicine (1969). After becoming board certified in internal medicine and pathology, McCarty joined the faculty of Duke University School of Medicine. This collection contains reprints of articles concerning McCarty's medical research into the hormonal aspects and treatment of breast disease while at Duke. Materials range in date from 1973 to 1984.
Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet (1 manuscript box)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0091

Background

Scope and content:

Contains reprints of articles concerning Kenneth S. McCarty Jr.'s research into the hormonal aspects and treatment of breast disease. Materials date from 1973 to 1984.

Biographical / historical:

Kenneth S. McCarty Jr. was born in New York, New York, to Marketa Regan McCarty and Kenneth S. McCarty Sr., on February 11, 1948. His family later moved to Durham, North Carolina, where he graduated from high school in 1963 at the age of fifteen.
He attended Duke University as an undergraduate. After graduating in 1966, he continued his studies at Duke as a student at the Duke University School of Medicine. McCarty completed medical school in 1969 and became board certified in both internal medicine and pathology. He went on to join the faculty at the School of Medicine, where he researched the hormonal aspects and treatment of breast disease with his father, a professor of biochemistry at Duke.
While at Duke, McCarty met and married otolaryngologist Berrylin Ferguson. The couple and their children moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1993, after McCarty was offered a tenured position at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). In 2004, he sued UPMC and the related Magee-Womens Hospital for falsifying hundreds of thousands of Pap smear reports and practicing poor quality control. His case and related suits prompted a state health department investigation. As a result of the investigation, Magee-Womens Hospital was cited for allowing unauthorized staff to sign Pap smear reports and for not maintaining quality assessment records.
McCarty lost his position in the UPMC physician's group following his lawsuit, but he continued to treat patients for free and to serve as the chief editorial adviser for Pitt Med magazine.
Kenneth S. McCarty Jr. died on October 15, 2010 in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2003.057 (June 2003)
Processing information:

Processed by Dawne Howard: June 2003

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Reprints, 1973-1984.
Rules or conventions:
DACS

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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], Kenneth S. McCarty Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.