Eugene A. Stead Papers, 1920-2000

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Summary

Creator:
Stead, Eugene A.
Abstract:
Contains the professional papers of Eugene Anson Stead (1908-2005), former professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. Types of materials include correspondence, subject files, grant materials, writings, speeches, manuscript materials, certificates, awards, photographs, clippings, and audiotapes. Also includes manuscript materials created by John Laszlo based on interviews with Stead and photographs created and used by Barton F. Haynes as editor of Stead's memoirs. Major subjects include the Duke University School of Medicine, the Department of Medicine, the study and teaching of medicine, medical ethics, medical education, and education of physician assistants. Materials range in date from 1920 to 2000.
Extent:
7.3 Linear Feet (4 cartons, 1 flat box, 1 map folder)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0024

Background

Scope and content:

Contains the professional papers of Eugene Anson Stead, former professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. Types of materials include correspondence, subject files, grant materials, writings, speeches, manuscript materials, certificates, awards, photographs, clippings, and audiotapes. Also includes manuscript materials created by John Laszlo based on interviews with Stead and photographs created and used by Barton F. Haynes as editor of Stead's memoirs. Major subjects include the Duke University School of Medicine, the Department of Medicine, the study and teaching of medicine, medical ethics, medical education, and education of physician assistants. Materials range in date from 1920 to 2000.

Biographical / historical:

Eugene Anson Stead Jr. was born in Georgia in 1908 to Emily Bertha White and Eugene Anson Stead. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Emory University (BS, 1928; MD, 1932) and interned at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston (1934-1937). He was a resident at the Cincinnati General Hospital (1935-1936) and held a faculty position at Harvard University (1938-1941) and Boston City Hospital prior to becoming the youngest person to chair the Department of Medicine at Emory University (1942). He was named dean of the School of Medicine at Emory University in 1946, but he left one year later to become professor of medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine (1947-1967) at Duke University.
Stead was widely known for having established the physician assistant training program at Duke University in 1965. In the 1950s, Duke Hospital faced an increased demand for services and a shortage of all types of nursing and allied health personnel. Stead, then chair of the Department of Medicine, envisioned a physician's assistant as a way to provide clinical support to physicians and to allow them to leave their practices to pursue continuing education opportunities. His experience running Emory's Grady Hospital during World War II had convinced him that residents and medical students could be trained to help doctors in patient care. Stead recruited the first students to begin the program at Duke University. The two-year program supplied physicians with knowledgeable personnel who could help meet the growing demand for their services.
As a local and national leader, Stead held many distinguished posts, including president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, founding member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, chairman of the American Heart Association's Ethics Committee, and honorary fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Stead served as editor of "Medical Times", "Circulation", and the "North Carolina Medical Journal".
Among numerous honors, Stead received the John M. Russell Award of the Markle Foundation, the American College of Physicians Distinguished Teacher Award, the Association of American Medical Colleges' Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education, the Gold Heart Award from the American Heart Association, the Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians, and the Rodman E. and Thomas G. Sheen Award. Stead also received the Medical Alumni Association's Distinguished Teacher Award, which is now known as the Distinguished Faculty Award. Emory and Yale University conferred honorary degrees upon him. In 2003, Stead received the William G. Anlyan, MD Lifetime Achievement Award from Duke Medical Alumni Association. Stead continued to teach and practice at Duke University Medical Center and Durham's Veterans Affairs Medical Center through the mid-1980s.
Stead married Evelyn Emogene Selby and they had three children. Stead died in 2005.

Acquisition information:
Accession A1987.001 (acquired from Paul C. Hendrix, January 1987), Accession A1987.002 (acquired from John Laszlo, February 1987), Accession A1987.003 (acquired from John Laszlo, April 1987), Accession A1987.004 (acquired from John Laszlo, August 1987), Accession A1988.003 (acquired from Eugene A. Stead, January 1988), Accession A1991.008 (acquired from Barton F. Haynes, May 1991), Accession A1991.009 (acquired from Barton F. Haynes, June 1991), Accession A1992.009 (acquired from Barton F. Haynes, March 1992), Accession A1993.006 (acquired from Barton F. Haynes, April 1993), Accession A2002.003 (acquired from Walter E. Campbell, December 2002), Accession A2005.008 (gift by Eugene A. Stead, February 2005), Accession A2008.039 (transferred by Reginald D. Carter, June 2008), Accession A2010.055 (transferred by the Duke University Medical Center Library, September 2010)
Processing information:

Processed by Emily Glenn: July 2003; updated by Dawne Howard Lucas: August 2009, December 2009, March 2010

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Correspondence, 1946-1991; Subject Files, 1946-1991; Associations, 1950-1985; Conferences and Speeches, 1968-1988; Writings, 1930-1999; Interviews, 1987-1993; Personal Materials, 1930-1998; Certificates and Awards, 1920-2000; China Trip, 1973; Photographs, 1937-1971; A2005.008: A Way of Thinking: A Primer on the Art of Being a Doctor Photographs, (bulk 1995), 1929-1995; Patient Correspondence and General Files, 1954-1989; Oversized Items, undated.
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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.
The Patient Correspondence Series and General Files Series must be screened for sensitive or confidential materials before being accessed. For further information consult with the Medical Center Archivist.

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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], Eugene A. Stead Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.