Mary E. Klotman Oral History Interview, 2010-2010

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Creator:
Klotman, Mary E.
Abstract:
Mary E. Klotman, MD, is professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. She also served as assistant professor of medicine at Duke before moving to the National Institutes of Health, where she was a member of the Public Health Service and trained and worked in the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology. This collection contains 1 oral history interview conducted on October 21, 2010 by Jessica Roseberry as part of the Women in Duke Medicine Oral History Exhibit. In this interview, Klotman discusses her time as an undergraduate and medical student at Duke, her career path to becoming a physician-scientist, and her chairmanship of the Department of Medicine.
Extent:
1 interview (1 master CD, 1 use CD, and 1 transcript)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
OH.KLOTMANM

Background

Scope and content:

Includes 1 oral history interview with Dr. Mary Klotman conducted on October 21, 2010 by Jessica Roseberry as part of the Women in Duke Medicine Oral History Exhibit.
In this interview, Klotman discusses coming to Duke as an undergraduate in the 1970s; the Duke Department of Medicine from her perspective as a student; the chair of the department when she was a resident; Dr. Joseph Greenfield as subsequent chair of the department; conversation with Dr. Greenfield about her future career path; desire to become a physician-scientist; developing skills to achieve that goal; going to work at the National Institutes of Health; working at Mount Sinai Medical Center; with her husband, putting together the kind of program at Mount Sinai that existed at Duke; becoming an administrator in order to make an impact; her view of the chairmanship since beginning the job of chair of the Department of Medicine seven months prior; communications within such a large department; partnerships that the Department of Medicine has developed; directions the health system is moving in; funding for the department; funding for the partners of the Department of Medicine; being a female department chair; family support; and Dean Nancy Andrews.

Biographical / historical:

Mary E. Klotman, MD, is professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. She earned her undergraduate (zoology) and medical degrees (1980) from Duke, and then completed her internal medicine residency (1980-1983) and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases (1983-1985) in the Department of Medicine at Duke. She also served as assistant professor of medicine at Duke before moving to the National Institutes of Health, where she was a member of the Public Health Service and trained and worked in the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology under the direction of Robert C. Gallo, MD.
In 1994, Klotman joined the faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where she was a tenured professor of medicine and microbiology and associate professor of gene and cell medicine; she held the Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Chair in Infectious Diseases. She also served as chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases for 13 years and as co-director of Mount Sinai's Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, a program designed to translate basic science discoveries into clinical therapeutics for newly emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
An accomplished clinician and scientist, Klotman's research interests are focused on the molecular pathogenesis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV-1) infection. Among many important contributions to this field, Klotman and her team demonstrated that HIV resides in and evolves separately in kidney cells, a critical step in HIV-associated kidney disease. Her research group also determined the role of soluble host factors involved in an innate immune response to HIV in an effort to improve prevention strategies, and, most recently, to develop topical microbicides that could be used to block sexual transmission of HIV. She has mentored a number of pre- and post-doctoral students in laboratory-based research in infectious diseases.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2010.077 (October 2010)
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff: October 2010.

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Organized into the following series: Interview, October 21, 2010.
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