Contains the administrative records of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, formerly named the Department of Community and Family Medicine (1979-2019). Prior to 1979, the department was the Department of Community Health Science. This collection contains correspondence, reports, budgets, minutes, writings, planning materials, news releases, clippings, rosters, course and curriculum materials, residency and internship materials, evaluations, surveys, committee materials, field reports, award information, artwork, photographic materials, AV materials, and digital files. Photographs include Mead Johnson Award winners, 1981-1988; Duke-Watts Family Medicine Faculty and Residents, 1973-1993; Duke Family Medicine Program group photographs, 1983-1995; staff photographs (both identified and unidentified); staff parties and events; and Duke Endowment-King's Fund College, 1971-1981. Images also include departmental faculty members including E. Harvey Estes, Jr.; Samuel W. Warburton; and Kathryn M. Andolsek. Major topics include the Family Medicine Residency Program, the Division of Family Medicine, Student Health, the Regional Medical Program, the King's Fund, the Duke Endowment, Sea Level Hospital, the Andean Rural Health Project, the Fallout Preparedness Committee, and Medical Education for National Defense. Materials date from 1959 to 2021.
Dr. E. Harvey Estes Jr., MD, was a Durham Veterans Administration Hospital physician and administrator, and chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. This collection contains 4 oral history interviews conducted at separate times. Interviews were conducted in 1990, as part of an oral history project conducted by the Physician Assistant (PA) History Education Division within the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of Duke's PA program; November 30, 1994 by Natalie Holt; April 28, 2004 by Jessica Roseberry; and June 25, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry. In the 1990 interview, Estes discusses his career, his experiences as a faculty member affiliated with the Duke University PA Program, and the development of PA programs in the United States. In the 1994 interview, Estes discusses the development of the PA profession. In the 2004 interview, Estes discusses the history of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke. He also discusses the department's relationship with Watts Hospital, Durham Regional Hospital (now Duke Regional Hospital), and the Duke University PA Program. In the 2007 interview, Estes discusses his experiences with female physicians, employees, and volunteers at Duke University Medical Center, primarily focusing on the Department of Medicine and the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Major subjects include Dr. Grace Kerby, Bess Cebe, Dr. Eva Salber, Dr. Evelyn Schmidt, Connie Service, Becky Heron, Dr. Kathryn Andolsek, Susan Yaggy, Dr. Dorothy Naumann, Dr. Joyce Nichols, and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. Other subjects include South African protestors of Apartheid at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; culture differences in having mostly women in divisions of the department; maternity policies; funding as an issue in the Department of Community and Family Medicine; the Duke Diet and Fitness Center; and the Nearly New Shoppe.
Contains the papers of E. Harvey Estes, chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University from 1966 to 1985. Types of materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, surveys, agendas, articles, newsletters, curriculum vitae, newspaper clippings, photographs, by-laws, brochures membership lists, an oral history transcript, a CD, and digital files. Major subjects include community health and Triangle Universities Computational Center. Materials range in date from 1966 to 2009.
Dr. Ralph Snyderman, MD, is Chancellor Emeritus of Duke University, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Duke Center for Research on Personalized Health Care. This collection contains 8 oral history interviews. The interviews conducted on December 14, 1990; March 23, 1993; April 22, 1994; and April 28, 1995 were done by Dr. James Gifford. The April 28, 1995 interview is included in the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. The interviews conducted on March 6, 2003; December 16, 2003; January 16, 2004; and February 23, 2004 were done by Walter E. Campbell for the book "Foundations for Excellence: 75 Years of Duke Medicine". The interview contacted on July 22, 2019 by Dr. Justin Barr is part of the Dr. David Sabiston Oral History Project. In the interviews, Snyderman discusses his life leading up to the time he spent at the National Institutes of Health, his time at Genentech, accepting the chancellor position at Duke, Duke Medical Center's 75th anniversary, his tenure as chancellor, his background, and his memories of Sabiston.