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Contains correspondence, agendas, reports, proposals, outlines, newspaper clippings, budget materials, notes, programs, reprints, committee materials, and photographic materials pertaining to the career of Sam A. Agnello. Materials date from 1961 to 1976.

This oral history interview was conducted with Dr. Deanna Adkins on February 12, 2024 by Caroline Overton as part of the Bass Connections Agents of Change Oral History Project.

Duration: 01:24:58 (stereo)

Duration: 01:24:51 (mono)

During the interview, Adkins discusses her childhood and family, her educational background, her interest in preventative healthcare, why she chose to become a doctor, her pathway into endocrinology, how she became involved in gender-affirming care, the 2015 founding of the Duke Child and Adolescent Gender Care Clinic, her interdisciplinary approach to gender-affirming care, her legal advocacy work, the effect of North Carolina House Bill 808, support from Duke, and her advocacy to ensure the Duke Hospital system is welcoming to LGBTQ+ patients. The themes of this interview include medical care for LGBTQ+, trans rights, and the relationship between medicine and advocacy.

Digital files include interview metadata and transcript (DOCX), interview with stereo (WAV), interview with mono (MP3), consent form (PDF), an image (JPG), and TXT files.

Contains Michener's travel records while traveling as the Chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Includes itineraries, tickets, notes, correspondence, programs and presentations of various conferences Michener attended, printed materials, handwritten notes, invoices, and receipts. Materials date from 2013 to 2016.