Joyce Nichols was the first female to graduate from Duke University's Physician Assistant Program, and the first African-American female to graduate from any physician assistant program.
Joyce N. Jiggetts, RN, BSN, CMHRP, is a nurse in the reproductive care sector who is actively involved in reproductive health equity for underserved populations. In 1995, Jiggetts joined the Durham County Health Department, where she became a vocal advocate for maternal health. Around 2017, she joined the Duke University Health System as part of what would later become the Baby-Love/CMHRP (Care Management for High-Risk Pregnancies) program. Jiggetts also serves as a founding member of the Black Maternal Health Equity Initiative, a program that pairs pregnant mothers with high-risk pregnancies with medical students, who can provide support and help explain complex medical conditions. This collection contains 1 oral history interview conducted on February 23, 2024 by Danielle Okotcha as part of the Bass Connections Agents of Change Oral History Project. In the interview, Jiggetts discusses the Care Management for High-Risk Pregnancies (CMHRP) program, her experiences as a LPN, and racial relations in healthcare. The themes of this interview include community and women's health, racial discrimination, and healthcare.
Julia Glenn Hester (1936-2016) received her BSN from Duke University in 1959, her master's from UNC-Chapel Hill, and her PhD from Duke University in 1979. Hester worked as a public health nurse for the Charlotte, North Carolina Health Department. At the time of her retirement, she was a school psychologist with the Winston Salem-Forsyth County Schools. Contains Hester's Duke University School of Nursing diploma and a blue-gray wool nursing cape. Materials date to 1959.
Contains professional papers of Julian Meade Ruffin, gastroenterologist at Duke University Hospital and chief of the Division of Gastroenterology (1930-1965).
Julieta (Julia) Giner, a nurse, was born in Bonn, Germany, to a German mother and a Spanish father. Her family immigrated to the United States when she was an infant. Being from an immigrant family, Giner understood that life can be challenging, and this understanding motivated her to work against the unfair stigma against HIV/AIDS patients. When one of her good friends became gravely ill because of AIDS in 1989, Giner knew she wanted to be involved in the development of treatment for HIV/AIDS. Giner started working at Duke Hospital in 1993, initially as a floor nurse in the general medicine. At the time, some of the patients in her ward had opportunistic infections due to AIDS, but wanting to be more closely involved in HIV/AIDS work, she spoke to Dr. John A. Bartlett, the physician running the public care clinic for HIV/AIDS patients. In 1996, Bartlett invited her to apply to become a clinical research nurse in that adult infectious disease clinic, where she worked until 2009. From 2005 to 2009, she worked with Bartlett in Moshi, Tanzania, at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre. When she returned to Durham, North Carolina, she worked in a general pediatric infectious disease clinic, where she was still able to see HIV/AIDS patients until she retired in 2020. This collection contains 1 oral history interview conducted on February 5, 2024 by Anthony Zhao as part of the Bass Connections Agents of Change Oral History Project. In the interview, Giner discusses her early friendships within the LGBTQ community; taking care of a good friend with AIDS; her work taking care of HIV/AIDS patients at Duke Hospital; her extensive involvement with the community advisory board; her successes and failures with health education about HIV in Durham, North Carolina; and the unique bond within the clinic staff. The themes of this interview include LGBTQ issues, societal stigmatization, community activism, health education, and advocacy.
Contains the professional papers of Justine Strand de Oliveira, former Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Types of materials include an academic stole, certificates, correspondence, newsletters, programs, notes, clippings, a calendar, agendas, business cards, faxes, legal statutes, membership lists, photographs, reports, meeting minutes, a questionnaire/survey, a grant proposal, an application to Duke's Physician Assistant (PA) program, the Duke Student and Faculty Handbook, a VHS tape, Strand's Physician Assistant License, Dr. E. Harvey Estes interview transcript, and digital files representing her 2011 professorship dossier and documenting the "Pop Up Think Tank" organized by Strand while working in the United Kingdom. Major subjects include professional development, state regulations for PAs, and advocacy for PAs contributions to the medical field. Materials range in date from 1973 to 2020.