Galen S. Wagner Papers, 1964-2008

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Summary

Creator:
Wagner, Galen S.
Abstract:
Contains the professional papers of Galen S. Wagner (1939-2016), a Duke cardiologist instrumental in developing the Duke Cardiovascular Databank. Types of material include correspondence, reports, applications, CVs, schedules, photographs, slides, video cassette tapes, administrative records, Duke University Cooperative Cardiovascular Care Society (DUCCS) materials, printed materials, patient files, surveys, brochures, directories, and records pertaining to Wagner's time training staff at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital in Concord, North Carolina. Materials date from 1964 to 2008.
Extent:
12.75 (7 cartons, 1 half manuscript box, 3 card boxes, 1 audiocassette box) and 1 MB
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0118

Background

Scope and content:

Contains correspondence, reports, applications, CVs, schedules, photographs, slides, video cassette tapes, administrative records, Duke University Cooperative Cardiovascular Care Society (DUCCS) materials, printed materials, patient files, surveys, brochures, directories, and records pertaining to Wagner's time training staff at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital in Concord, North Carolina. Materials date from 1964 to 2008.

Biographical / historical:

Galen Strohm Wagner was born on December 25, 1939, to Ruth Culp Wagner and Eugene Wagner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. He received both his BA (1961) and MD (1965) from Duke. Wagner was a resident in internal medicine (1965-1967) and a Cardiology Fellow (1967-1970). He went on to become an Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Duke.
Wagner spent his entire career at Duke, becoming the director of the Duke Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) while still a fellow in 1968. He remained director until 1981. At the CCU, he was instrumental in developing the Duke Cardiovascular Databank, a precursor to the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Wagner was also a member of the Myocardial Infarction Research Unit. While working for both of these units, he helped usher in the computer era guided by his mentor Dr. Eugene Stead, who believed computers and aggregated data could provide clinicians with tremendous insights into how to care for patients with coronary disease based on aggregated information.
While at Duke, Wagner held other positions. He was the director of the Duke Cardiology Fellowship Program (1977-1982); Assistant Dean of Medical Education (1977-1982); founder and co-director of the Duke University Cooperative Cardiovascular Society (DUCCS), a consortium of current and former Duke Cardiology Fellows (1986-1997); director of DUCCS (1997-1998, 2003-2008); and worked with Dr. Stanley Sarnoff to establish, in 1979, the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Fellowship to support medical students pursuing full time research. Wagner's research interests were in electrocardiology and acute coronary care.
Wagner participated in numerous committees and boards; traveled extensively; authored 701 published manuscripts and 8 books; worked as the editor-in-chief on "The Journal of Electrocardioglogy" (2005-2016); served on the editorial boards of "Circulation" and "The American Journal of Cardiology"; and was instrumental in establishing the International Research Interdisciplinary School, which offers research programs across the world. Wagner mentored 36 PhD students in 8 countries, as well as hundreds of medical students, residents, and Cardiology Fellows over his 48 year career. He participated in the Area Health Education Attending Physicians program and spent decades traveling to Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to teach and train staff members at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital, which was renamed NorthEast Medical Center (1997) and then became Carolinas HealthCare System NorthEast (2007).
Wagner received an honorary PhD from Lund University in Sweden honoring the research and mentoring he did with students there and was inducted into the Connellsville High School Hall of Fame Class of 2010 because of his redevelopment efforts in his hometown of Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Outside of work, Wagner, authored over 46 poems and wrote a book about Stead. He was also heavily involved in a book about Dr. Frank Porter Graham, the former president of the University of North Carolina.
Wagner was married to Marilyn Wagner and had three children. He died on July 13, 2016.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2007.082 (gift, September 2007), Accession A2009.019 (gift, April 2009), Accession A2016.041 (gift by David Sielaty, August 2016)
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff: circa 2007-2009; updated by Lucy Waldrop: August 2016; reprocessed by Caroline Waller under the supervision of Lucy Waldrop: March 2018

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Cabarrus Memorial Hospital/NorthEast Medical Center, 1973-2002; Duke Spinal Injury Service, 1978-1998; Individuals, 1967-2008; Memberships and Affiliations, 1965-2001; Patient Files, 1978-1996; Printed Materials, 1964-2006; Slides, 1974-1997, undated; Video Cassette Tapes, 2000-2002, Digital Files, 1988-1994.
Rules or conventions:
DACS

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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).
The Duke Spinal Injury Service Series and Patient Files Series contain sensitive and confidential materials. These series are closed and can only be accessed with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist.
Materials in box 12 are restricted per HIPAA and FERPA.

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], Galen S. Wagner Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.