Rebecca H. Buckley Oral History Interview, February 19, 2007

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Creator:
Buckley, Rebecca H. and Duke University. Medical Center. Archives.
Abstract:
Dr. Rebecca H Buckley was named the J. Buren Sidbury Professor of Pediatrics in 1979, making her the first female at Duke Medical School to be given a distinguished professorship. Her accomplishments include extensive work with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). This collection contains 1 oral history interview conducted on February 19, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry. In this interview, Buckley discusses her experiences as a woman within the Division of Pediatric Allergy in the Department of Pediatrics, and SCID.
Extent:
1 interview (2 master CDs, 2 use CDs, and 1 transcript)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
OH.BUCKLEYR

Background

Scope and content:

Includes 1 oral history interview with Dr. Rebecca Buckley conducted on February 19, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry.
In this interview, Buckley discusses her experiences as a woman within the Division of Pediatric Allergy in the Department of Pediatrics, and severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Rebecca H. Buckley was born in Hamlet, North Carolina, in 1933. She graduated with an AB from Duke University in 1954 and an MD from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 1958. She then continued her training and became a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center. Buckley studied pediatric allergy with Dr. Susan Dees in the Division of Pediatric Allergy at Duke, and she was the chief of the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology from 1974 to 2003. Buckley studies and maintains a remarkable success rate with a surgical technique for babies with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), or "bubble boy disease," which enables significant numbers of SCID babies to develop normal immune systems through the removal of T-cells from donor bone marrow.
Buckley was named the J. Buren Sidbury Professor of Pediatrics in 1979, making her the first female at Duke Medical School to be given a distinguished professorship. Buckley has written extensively, served on numerous committees, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, and has been given many awards, including the William G. Anlyan Lifetime Achievement Award from the Duke Medical Alumni Association in 2006.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2007.107 (February 2007)
Processing information:

Processed by Jessica Roseberry: June 2008; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: August 2008

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Interview, February 19, 2007.
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[Identification of item], Rebecca H. Buckley Oral History Interview, Duke University Medical Center Archives.