Department of Pediatrics Records, 1930-2014

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Summary

Creator:
Duke University. Medical Center. Department of Pediatrics.
Abstract:
Duke School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics was founded in 1927 by Wilburt C. Davison, MD, the first dean of the medical school. He also served as the first Department of Pediatrics chair (1927 to 1954). Other chairs include Jerome Harris, MD; Samuel L. Katz, MD; Michael M. Frank, MD; Joseph St. Geme, MD; and Ann M. Reed, MD. The collection documents the Department of Pediatrics with information about the department, Duke Children's Hospital, and affiliated clinics. Types of materials include departmental administrative files, financial information, planning and development materials, Duke Children's Hospital blueprints, meeting and committee materials, research files, printed materials, correspondence, reports and manuals, a small amount of audiovisual materials, grant and award information, and a list of Pediatrics House Staff. Materials date from 1930 to 2014.
Extent:
126.75 Linear Feet (82 cartons, 1 half manuscript box, 14 blueprints)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
AR.0089

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes departmental administrative files, financial information, planning and development materials, Duke Children's Hospital blueprints, meeting and committee materials, research files, printed materials, correspondence, reports and manuals, a small amount of audiovisual materials, grants, awards, and a list of Pediatrics House Staff. Major topics include the Department of Pediatrics, Duke Children's Hospital, Private Diagnostic Clinic, Durham County Community Clinic for Children and Youth, and Child Guidance Clinic. Materials date from 1930 to 2014.

Biographical / historical:

Wilburt C. Davison, MD, first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, founded the Department of Pediatrics in 1927 and served as the first Department of Pediatrics chair form 1927 to 1954. Davison, a generalist, strongly believed in nurturing a small department of versatile pediatricians, sending them into the community to practice, and using them to teach the medical students. In the early days, residents and pediatricians from the practicing community staffed the clinics.
When Davison stepped down, Jerome Harris, MD, one of Davidson's recruits, became chair of the department from 1954 to 1968. At the time subspecialties were developing, Harris trained himself in pediatric cardiology and introduced subspecialties to the department. Harris was followed by Samuel L. Katz, MD, who served as chair from 1968 to 1990 before stepping down to pursue clinical research in infectious diseases. As chairperson, Katz was instrumental in planning Pediatrics' move to the fifth floor of Duke Hospital, as well as presiding over a major expansion of the department's staff and leading Duke Pediatrics into the global arena with divisional subspecialties. Michael M. Frank, MD was chair from 1990 to 2004. While chairperson, Frank strengthened and expanded the departments clinical and research programs and developed house officer training opportunities. Following Frank, Joseph St. Geme, MD served as chair from 2005 to 2013. Ann M. Reed, MD became chair of the department in 2014.
The department is composed of eighteen divisions, the Child Abuse and Neglect Service, and the Healthy Lifestyles program. The departmental divisions are: Allergy and Immunology; Blood and Marrow Transplantation; Cardiology; Critical Care Medicine; Endocrinology; Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; Global Health; Hematology-Oncology; Hospital and Emergency Medicine; Infectious Diseases; Medical Genetics; Neonatology; Nephrology; Neurology; Primary Care Pediatrics; Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine; Quantitative Sciences; and Rheumatology.
The department places an emphasis on their training programs and offers residency training in pediatrics and medicine-pediatrics, as well we training in almost all pediatric subspecialties. The department's residents assume positions in both primary care and academic medicine. The faculty, fellows, and residents are involved in a wide array of clinical, translational, and basic research programs with faculty memberships in the Society for Pediatric Research, American Pediatric Society, American Board of Pediatrics, Institute of Medicine, and other national and international organizations.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2008.045 (transferred by Diane Crayton, August 2008), Accession A2008.069 (transferred by Maxine Cookston, May 2008), Accession A2011.025 (transferred by Duke University Department of Pediatrics, May 2013), Accession A2011.035 (transferred by Duke University Department of Pediatrics, May2013), Accession A2011.048 (transferred by Duke University Department of Pediatrics, June 2011), Accession A2012.047 (transferred by Maxine Cookston, June 2012), Accession A2012.053 (transferred by Maxine Cookston, August 2012), Accession A2016.045 (transferred by Diane Crayton, September 2016), Accession A2020.022 (transferred by Theresa Harris, March 2020)
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff: date unknown; updated by Lucy Waldrop: September 2016, March 2020

Arrangement:
This collection is organized into the following series: Accession A2018.045, 1977-2006; Blueprints, undated; Accession A2011.025, 1979-2008; Accession A2011.035, 1973-2006; Accession A2011.048, 1980-2001; Accession A2012.047, 1987-2001; Accession A2012.053, 1982-2014; Accession A2016.045, 1997; Accession A2020.022, 1930-1954. Material within this collection has been organized by accession reflecting the fact that the collection has been acquired in increments over time. Researchers should note that material within each accession overlaps with/or relates to material found in other accessions. In order to locate all relevant material within this collection, researchers will need to consult each accession described in the Series Scope and Contents section. Researchers should also note that similar material can be arranged differently in each accession, depending on how the material was organized when it was received by the DUMCA.
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This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals or IRB approval may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Duke University assumes no responsibility.
Contains Medical Center 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 Medical Center Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the Medical Center 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], Department of Pediatrics Records, Duke University Medical Center Archives.