Doris Howell Oral History Interview, November 12, 2007

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Summary

Creator:
Howell, Doris
Abstract:
Dr. Doris Howell is a former member of Duke's Department of Pediatrics and the first woman to receive the Distinguished Duke Medical Alumni Award. This collection contains 1 oral history interview conducted on November 12, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry. In this interview, Howell discusses her experiences as a female pediatrician at Duke, in San Diego, and in Pennsylvania.
Extent:
1 interview ( 2 master audiocassette tapes, 1 master CD, 1 use CD, and 1 transcript)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
OH.HOWELLD

Background

Scope and content:

Includes 1 oral history interview with Dr. Doris Howell conducted on November 12, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry.
In this interview, Howell discusses her experiences as a female pediatrician at Duke, in San Diego, and in Pennsylvania.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Doris Howell received a BA from Park College in Parkville, Missouri, in 1944, and an MD from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1949. She interned at Children's Memorial Hospital in Montreal, and came to Duke University in 1951 as a senior assistant resident in pediatrics. In 1952, she became a research fellow in hematology at Harvard University. She returned to Duke in 1955 and served as a pediatric hematologist working with pediatric cancer patients until 1963, when she left to become chair of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1974, she became the chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
Howell is recognized as a pioneer in the hospice movement since 1968. In 1970, she became the first female to receive the Distinguished Duke Medical Alumni Award. She served on the Hospice Board of Directors since its inception and was instrumental in founding San Diego Hospice, of which she was named Director Emerita in 1989.
Since her retirement, Howell established the Doris A. Howell Foundation for Research in Women's Health, which gives research grants to scholars in the area of women's health care and research. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Salvation Army Woman of Distinction Award, the Humanism Award from the Health Care Foundation of New Jersey, and awards for leadership and service from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2007.137 (November 2007)
Processing information:

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

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Interview, November 12, 2007.
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[Identification of item], Doris Howell Oral History Interview, Duke University Medical Center Archives.