James B. Wyngaarden Papers, 1958-2003
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Summary
- Creator:
- Wyngaarden, James B.
- Abstract:
- Contains the professional papers of James B. Wyngaarden, former professor and administrator of Duke University School of Medicine and Duke University Hospital. Types of materials include correspondence, subject files, reports, minutes, and committee materials. Major subjects include Duke University Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, and hospital administration. Materials range in date from 1958 to 1993.
- Language:
- English
- Collection ID:
- MC.0041
Background
- Scope and content:
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Contains the correspondence, subject files, speeches, travel records, and reprints of James B. Wyngaarden, former professor and administrator of the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C. Materials range in date from 1958 to 1993.
- Biographical / historical:
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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 A005.032 (gift, June 2005), Accession A006.054 (gift, July 2006), Accession A2022.026 (gift by Jim Wyngaarden, May 2022), Accession A2023.041 (Marialana L. Weitzel, August 2023)
- Processing information:
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Processed by Archives staff and Emily Glenn, November 2003 Encoded by Emily Glenn, March 2004 Revised by Cate Putirskis and Dawne Howard Lucas, August 2007
- Arrangement:
- The ordering system of the records in Boxes 1-4 was changed substantially from their original order during initial processing. Subsequent processing retained the imposed ordering scheme for consistency. Arrangement may vary among related collections.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Subjects
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- Personal Name(s):
- Wyngaarden, James B.
- Corporate Name(s):
- Duke University. Medical Center.
Duke University. School of Medicine
Duke University -- Faculty. - Topical Term(s):
- Education, Medical.
Hospital Administration.
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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 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)
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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:
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[Identification of item], James B. Wyngaarden Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.