E. Harvey Estes Jr. Oral History Interviews, circa 1990-2007
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Summary
- Creator:
- Estes, Edward Harvey
- Abstract:
- Dr. E. Harvey Estes Jr., MD, was a Durham Veterans Administration Hospital physician and administrator, and chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. This collection contains 4 oral history interviews conducted at separate times. Interviews were conducted in 1990, as part of an oral history project conducted by the Physician Assistant (PA) History Education Division within the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of Duke's PA program; November 30, 1994 by Natalie Holt; April 28, 2004 by Jessica Roseberry; and June 25, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry. In the 1990 interview, Estes discusses his career, his experiences as a faculty member affiliated with the Duke University PA Program, and the development of PA programs in the United States. In the 1994 interview, Estes discusses the development of the PA profession. In the 2004 interview, Estes discusses the history of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke. He also discusses the department's relationship with Watts Hospital, Durham Regional Hospital (now Duke Regional Hospital), and the Duke University PA Program. In the 2007 interview, Estes discusses his experiences with female physicians, employees, and volunteers at Duke University Medical Center, primarily focusing on the Department of Medicine and the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Major subjects include Dr. Grace Kerby, Bess Cebe, Dr. Eva Salber, Dr. Evelyn Schmidt, Connie Service, Becky Heron, Dr. Kathryn Andolsek, Susan Yaggy, Dr. Dorothy Naumann, Dr. Joyce Nichols, and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. Other subjects include South African protestors of Apartheid at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; culture differences in having mostly women in divisions of the department; maternity policies; funding as an issue in the Department of Community and Family Medicine; the Duke Diet and Fitness Center; and the Nearly New Shoppe.
- Extent:
- 4 interviews (8 audiocassette tapes, 4 CDs, 3 transcripts)
- Language:
- English
- Collection ID:
- OH.ESTESH
Background
- Scope and content:
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Includes 4 oral history interviews with Dr. E. Harvey Estes conducted in 1990 as part of an oral history project conducted by the Physician Assistant (PA) History Education Division within the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of Duke's PA program, November 30, 1994 by Natalie Holt, April 28, 2004 by Jessica Roseberry, and June 25, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry.
In the 1990 interview, Estes discusses his career, his experiences as a faculty member affiliated with the Duke University PA Program, and the development of PA programs in the United States.
In the 1994 interview, Estes discusses the development of the physician assistant profession.
In the 2004 interview, Estes discusses the history of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke. He also discusses the department's relationship with Watts Hospital, Durham Regional Hospital (now Duke Regional Hospital), and the Duke University Physician Assistant Program.
In the 2007 interview, Estes discusses his experiences with female physicians, employees, and volunteers at Duke University Medical Center, primarily focusing on the Department of Medicine and the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Major subjects include Dr. Grace Kerby, Bess Cebe, Dr. Eva Salber, Dr. Evelyn Schmidt, Connie Service, Becky Heron, Dr. Kathryn Andolsek, Susan Yaggy, Dr. Dorothy Naumann, Dr. Joyce Nichols, and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. Other subjects include South African protestors of Apartheid at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; culture differences in having mostly women in divisions of the department; maternity policies; funding as an issue in the Department of Community and Family Medicine; the Duke Diet and Fitness Center; and the Nearly New Shoppe. - Biographical / historical:
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Dr. Edward Harvey Estes Jr., MD was born May 1, 1925 in Gay, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (1944, BA; 1947, MD). He began his medical internship at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and completed it at Duke University Hospital. Prior to joining Duke's staff in 1953, Estes served in the United States Navy from 1950 to 1952. He became chief of the cardiology service at Durham Veterans Affairs Hospital from 1953 to 1954 and chief of the medical service at the Durham Veterans Affairs Hospital from 1956 to 1962. In 1966, Estes served as the chair of Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. In 1967, Estes assumed responsibility for the physician assistant (PA) program. The program recruited and trained community health workers from impoverished communities and helped established rural satellite clinics in these communities staffed primarily by PAs.
In the 1970s, Estes turned his attention to the growth and development of family medicine residency programs and the promotion of preventive medicine. He served in both state and national leadership positions. As a leader of the North Carolina Medical Society and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, he built a coalition of health professionals dedicated to training and placing family physicians, PAs, and nurse practitioners into medically underserved communities. Nationally, he chaired the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs; served as president of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine; chaired the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences' Steering Committee for A Manpower Policy for Primary Health Care; and served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine. Estes authored or co-authored over 100 scientific articles.
Estes retired from Duke in 1990 to become the founding director of the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation's Community Practitioner Program, a program designed to increase the number of health care providers in the North Carolina's underserved areas. He remained involved with the program until 2000.
Estes married Jean Anderson Estes, and they had five children. - Acquisition information:
- Accession A1990.007 (gift by Reginald D. Carter, 1990), Accession A2012.020 (gift by Natalie Holt, March 2012), Accession A2004.111 (transferred by Jessica Roseberry, April; 2004), Accession A2007.132 (transferred by Jessica Roseberry, June 2007)
- Processing information:
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Processed by Archives staff: date unknown; Processed by Jessica Roseberry: April 2004; Encoded by Emily Glenn: August 2004
- Arrangement:
- Organized into the following series: Interview, circa 1990; Interview, November 30, 1994; Interview, April 28, 2004; Interview, June 25, 2007.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
- Rules or conventions:
- DACS
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- Personal Name(s):
- Estes, E. Harvey (Edward Harvey), 1925-
- Corporate Name(s):
- Duke University. Medical Center
Duke University. Department of Community and Family Medicine - Topical Term(s):
- Education, Medical.
Physician Assistants.
Community Medicine.
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No release form for the 1990 and November 30, 1994 interviews. For further information consult with the Medical Center Archivist.
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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], E. Harvey Estes Jr. Oral History Interviews, Duke University Medical Center Archives.