James B. Wyngaarden Oral History Interviews, 1982-2007, undated

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Creator:
Wyngaarden, James B.
Abstract:
Dr. James Barnes Wyngaarden, MD, is a former professor and administrator of Duke University School of Medicine and Duke University Hospital. This collection includes 3 oral history interviews conducted at separate times. Interviews were conducted on April 9, 1982 by Dr James Gifford, March 21, 2005 by Jessica Roseberry, and October 17, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry as part of the Women in Duke Medicine Oral History Exhibit. In the 1982 interview, Wyngaarden discusses his background, education, professional career, research, his time at Duke and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and research training programs. In the 2005 interview, Wyngaarden discusses his work at both the NIH and Duke, as well as his commitment to the concept of the physician scientist and his continued work in scientific fields since leaving the NIH. In the 2007 interview, which is part of the Women in Duke Medicine Oral History Exhibit, Wyngaarden discusses Dr. Grace Kerby and his understanding of her experiences in the Department of Medicine.
Extent:
3 interviews (4 audiocassette tapes, 2 CDs, 3 transcripts)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
OH.WYNGAARDENJ

Background

Scope and content:

Includes 3 oral history interviews with Dr. James B. Wyngaarden conducted on April 9, 1982 by Dr James Gifford, March 21, 2005 by Jessica Roseberry, and October 17, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry as part of the Women in Duke Medicine Oral History Exhibit.
In the April 9, 1982 interview, Wyngaarden discusses his background, education, professional career, research, his time at Duke and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and research training programs.
In the March 21, 2005 interview, Wyngaarden discusses his work at both the NIH and Duke, as well as his commitment to the concept of the physician scientist and his continued work in scientific fields since leaving the NIH.
In the October 17, 2007 interview, which is part of the Women in Duke Medicine Oral History Exhibit, Wyngaarden discusses Dr. Grace Kerby and his understanding of her experiences in the Department of Medicine.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. James Barnes Wyngaarden, MD, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 19 1924. He attended Calvin College and then Western Michigan College from 1943 to 1944. He received his medical degree in 1948 from University of Michigan Medical School, graduating first in his class. His completed his clinical training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and postdoctoral work at the Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York. Upon completion of his training, he became a research associate at the National Institutes of Health (1953-1956). Wyngaarden joined the Department of Medicine at Duke University in 1956, where he also became an associate professor of biochemistry, and, in 1959, Wyngaarden assumed the leadership of Duke's medical research training program. For From 1963 to 1964, while on sabbatical from Duke, he was a guest scientist at the Insitut de Biologie Physico-chimique in Paris, afterwards becoming the chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. In 1967, Wyngaarden returned to Duke where he served as chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University until 1983. During that time, he was also Duke's Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs.
In 1982, Wyngaarden became the 12th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a position which he held until 1989. During his service as president, the NIH increased AIDS research funding and successfully fought to keep its control of the human genome project.
Wyngaarden was a member of the president's Science Advisory Committee; the National Academy of Sciences; the American Board of Internal Medicine; the National Academy of Sciences; the American Academy of Arts of Sciences; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Institutes of Medicine; and was a counselor of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolic, and Digestive Diseases, and President of the Association of American Physicians. He has served on the editorial boards of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and has coauthored the 3 textbooks: The Metabolic Basis of Inherited Disease, Cecil's Textbook of Medicine, and Gout and Hyperuricemia, as well as some 250 biochemical research, medical education, and science policy papers. He received honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, Medical College of Ohio, University of Illinois at Chicago, George Washington University, and Tel Aviv University. From 1990 to 1994 he was named the foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences.
Wyngaarden married to Ethel Vredevoogd in 1946. Together they had 5 children and were married for 31 years. Wyngaarden was an accomplished tennis player and also enjoyed skiing, sailing, and traveling. He died at the age of 94 on June 14, 2019 following a long illness in Durham, North Carolina.

Acquisition information:
Accession A1982.001 (transferred by James Gifford, April 1982), Accession A2005.070 (transferred by Jessica Roseberry, March 2005), Accession A2007.141 (transferred by Jessica Roseberry, October 2007)
Processing information:

Processed by Jessica Rosebery: May 2003; encoded by Emily Glenn: June 2004

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Interview, April 9, 1982; Interview, March 21, 2005; and Interview, October 17, 2007.
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