Frances K. Widmann Oral History Interview, November 28, 2007

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Summary

Creator:
Widmann, Frances K., 1935-2013.
Abstract:
Frances K. Widmann (1935-2013) was a former director of the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital blood bank and faculty member in Duke's Department of Pathology. This collection contains 1 oral history interview conducted on November 28, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry as part of the Women in Duke Medicine Oral History Exhibit. In this interview, Widmann discusses her experiences as a woman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University Medical Center, and the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital.
Extent:
1 interview (1 master CD, 1 use CD, and 1 transcript)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
OH.WIDMANNF

Background

Scope and content:

Includes 1 oral history interview with Dr. Frances K. Widmann conducted on November 28, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry as part of the Women in Duke Medicine Oral History Exhibit.
In this interview, Widmann discusses experiences as a woman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University Medical Center, and the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital.
The transcription of this interview was made possible by a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Frances K. Widmann was born in 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts. She received a BA from Swarthmore College in 1956 and an MD from Western Reserve University in 1960. After her internship at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and her residency at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, she remained at UNC-Chapel Hill as a faculty member.
In 1971, she came to Duke to direct the blood bank at the Durham Veteran's Administration Hospital and to teach in Duke's Department of Pathology. She was also assistant chief of the laboratory service at the Durham Veterans Administration Hospital from 1972 until 1998.
Widmann's major contributions include editing the "Technical Manual of the American Association of Blood Banks" (1985) and the "Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services" (1991 and 1993), which outline the standards of the field of blood banking. Widmann won several awards, including the John Elliott Award of the American Association of Blood Banks (1984) and the Distinguished Service award from the American Association of Blood Banks (1993). She also served on numerous committees for the American Association of Blood Banks.
Widmann died on October 20, 2013 in Durham, North Carolina.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2007.140 (November 2007)
Processing information:

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

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Interview, November 28, 2007.
Physical location:
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[Identification of item], Frances K. Widmann Oral History Interview, Duke University Medical Center Archives.