George R. Parkerson Records, 1964-1995

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Summary

Creator:
Parkerson, George R.
Abstract:
Contains the professional papers and administrative records of George R. Parkerson Jr., former chair of the Duke University Department of Community and Family Medicine (1985-1994.) Types of materials include correspondence, subject files, departmental histories, budget and planning materials, grant materials, and professional organization materials. Major subjects include Duke University Department of Community and Family Medicine, family practice, medical education, and Duke University Medical Center faculty. Materials range in date from 1964 to 1995.
Extent:
15 Linear Feet (10 cartons)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
AR.0052

Background

Scope and content:

Contains the professional papers and administrative records of George R. Parkerson Jr., former chair of the Duke University Department of Community and Family Medicine (1985-1994). Types of materials include correspondence, subject files, departmental histories, budget and planning materials, reports, meeting minutes, grant materials, agendas, and professional organization materials. Major subjects include Duke University Department of Community and Family Medicine, family practice, medical education, and Duke University Medical Center faculty. Materials range in date from 1964 to 1995.

Biographical / historical:

George R. Parkerson Jr. was born in 1927 in Norfolk, Virginia, to George Robert Parkerson and Nettie Sue Tuck Parkerson. Parkerson enrolled at Duke in 1946 to the dual program that allowed him to complete three years of undergraduate education before going to the medical school, with the condition that he had to complete a thesis and research project. He received his BS and MD degrees from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1953.
Parkerson completed a general practice residency at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. In 1955, Parkerson opened up a private family practice in Winder, Georgia. Parkerson kept the practice in Winder for eighteen years before moving to help set up a family medicine residency program in Macon, Georgia.
In 1974, Parkerson returned to Duke to teach in the Department of Community Health Sciences, later renamed the Department of Community and Family Medicine. With help from a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Parkerson received a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977.
Parkerson served as the department chair for the Department of Community and Family Medicine from 1985 to 1994. During this time, he helped move the clinical practice from Durham Regional Hospital to Duke's Campus. In 1991, the family medicine residency program merged with the Pickens Health Center to become the Duke Family Medicine Center. Parkerson stepped down as chair in 1994. He served on the Duke Institutional Review Board for Clinical Investigations (IRB) from 1995 to 2015.
In 2015, Parkerson returned to the Department of Community and Family Medicine to study population health. Along with Dr. Howard Eisenson, Parkerson helped develop the Duke Population Health Profile (Duke-PH), which is a self-report measure of population health based on social and illness determinants.
In 1949, Parkerson married Mary Smith McCowen (1927-2006) and they had four children.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2004.029 (transferred by George R. Parkerson, May 2004)
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff: March 2005; encoded by Emily Glenn: March 2005

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Administrative Files, 1974-1995; Organizations and Committees, 1980-1994; Proposals and Grants, 1975-1993; Subject Files, 1964-1994.
Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Duke University Medical Center Library's online catalog.

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Personal Name(s):
Parkerson, George R.
Corporate Name(s):
Duke University. Medical Center
Duke University. School of Medicine
Topical Term(s):
Education, Medical.
Family Practice.
Faculty.

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Contains University Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the University Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the University Archivist. (Issued by the Office of the Chancellor, December 1, 1975).

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], George R. Parkerson Records, Duke University Medical Center Archives.