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Harvard Medical School

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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Brigham and Women’s Hospital records

Collection Identifier: BWH c1
Overview:

The Brigham and Women’s Hospital records are the product of the hospital’s administrative, fundraising, publication, and public relations activities, the bulk of which cover the years 1980 through 2000. The collection is open-ended and new records are added as they are acquired.

Carl W. Walter papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c150
Overview:

Records in the Carl W. Walter Papers were created by Walter during the course of his career as a medical researcher, founder of Fenwal Laboratories, and member of the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, faculty. The collection includes: correspondence, photographs, film reels, speeches, meeting minutes, notebooks, and research files.

Carol C. Nadelson papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c394
Overview: The Carol C. (Cooperman) Nadelson papers are the product of Nadelson's activities as a psychiatrist and medical educator who held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Simmons College, and hospital appointments at Beth Israel Hospital, Cambridge Hospital, and Children’s Hospital Boston. The collection reflects Nadelson’s work with women’s health issues, particularly women’s mental health, between the 1970s and the 2000s. Topics include the...

Cecil Kent Drinker papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c165
Overview:

The Cecil Kent Drinker Papers, 1898-1958, contains Drinker's personal records, World War II research records, professional activities records, and administrative records from his tenures as a faculty member and Dean of Harvard School of Public Health.

David Dickinson Potter papers

Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: H MS c542
Overview: The David Dickinson Potter papers, 1859-2014 (inclusive), 1958-2014 (bulk) consist of papers, as well as some electronic media, film, slides, photographs, and photographic negatives, produced as a result of Potter’s professional activities as a neurobiologist and teacher in the Harvard Medical School Department of Neurobiology, and from his work as a mentor and advocate for underrepresented students at Harvard Medical School. The collection also includes records from Potter’s work...

E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c320
Overview: E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte (1937-) is an anatomic pathologist, neuropathologist, Harvard Medical School professor (1991-), and researcher for organizations such as the Alzheimer Disease Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Her papers (1956-2006) are the product of her teaching activities and research and clinical interests in brain tumors, pituitary tumors, neurodegenerative disorders, and immunohistochemistry, and include lectures and writings, professional correspondence...

George Cheever Shattuck papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c551
Overview:

The George Cheever Shattuck papers consist of records collected and created by Shattuck in the course of his lifetime. Shattuck was a physician specializing in tropical medicine and published a textbook on the subject in 1951. He accompanied and led expeditions in Africa, Central America, and South America, and was a member of Richard P. Strong’s 1915-1916 medical relief mission to Serbia.

Papers of Alice Hamilton, 1909-1987 (inclusive), 1909-1965 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: A-22: Vt-34
Overview:

Correspondence, articles, speeches, notes, clippings, and awards of physician Alice Hamilton.

Harvard Medical School faculty (A-C) portraits

Collection Identifier: RG M-CL02a, Series number 00137, 00138
Overview:

This finding aid describes photographs, prints and other images portraying faculty and staff members of Harvard Medical School.

Harvard Medical School faculty and staff (D-W) portraits

Collection Identifier: RG M-CL02b, Series number 00137, 00138
Overview:

This finding aid describes photographs, prints and other images portraying faculty members of Harvard Medical School.

Henry Pickering Bowditch papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c5
Overview:

H. P. (Henry Pickering) Bowditch (1840-1911) established the first physiological laboratory at Harvard Medical School and taught at the school for 35 years. The collection consists mainly of correspondence but also includes family research records, personal papers including military records, lectures, writings, and manuscript materials.

Howard H. Hiatt papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c314
Overview: Records in the Howard H. Hiatt papers were created by Hiatt during the course of his career as Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Physician-in-Chief at Beth Israel Hospital from 1941 to 2001. The collection also includes records of Hiatt’s activities as a physician, researcher, educator, medical school administrator, and contributing member of national and international professional health care boards and foundations. His early...

James Payton Leake student notes

Collection — Box 01Identifier: H MS c588
Scope and Contents: Consists of records created by James Payton Leake during his tenure as a student at Harvard Medical School, including: 13 volumes of notes taken on blank paper representing lectures given by Harvard Medical School faculty between 1903 and 1907 with date and lecturer noted by Leake; 1 print volume for "Course of Materia Medica" in the Department of Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School with extensive annotation by Leake; 2 volumes of "Outlines of Medical Diagnosis. Prepared for the Use of...

Lloyd E. Hawes papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c207
Overview:

Lloyd E. Hawes (1912-1988), A.B., 1933, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; M.D., 1937, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, was Professor and Chair of the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Radiology Department (1975-1980) and a developer of the radiology department for the Harvard Medical School-planned Harvard Community Health Plan (now Harvard Pilgrim Health Care). Papers reflect Hawes’s work as a teacher, administrator, and historian of radiology.

Mary Ellen Avery papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c201
Overview: The Mary Ellen Avery papers, 1929-2002, consist of personal and professional correspondence, teaching materials, professional activities records, grant records, articles and drafts, lectures and speeches, diaries, photographs, and other records from Avery's life and career as a pediatrician in: Boston, Massachusetts; Montreal, Quebec; and Baltimore, Maryland and as a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Boston, where she was the first woman to chair a major department. She was...

Mary Ellen Wohl papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c154
Overview:

The Mary Ellen Wohl papers, 1962-2005 (inclusive), are the product of Wohl’s research and professional activities during her career at Harvard Medical School as Professor of Pediatrics, and Boston Children’s Hospital as Chief of the Division of Respiratory Diseases and Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Program.

Mary Lee Ingbar papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c211
Overview:

The Mary Lee Ingbar papers, 1946-2008, document Ingbar's career as a health economist and professor at Harvard Medical School, University of California San Francisco, Dartmouth College, and University of Massachusetts Medical Center.

Notes of lectures delivered at Massachusetts Medical College, 1836-1837

Item Identifier: H MS b117
Scope and Contents:

Consists of one volume of manuscript notes taken by a student attending lectures and clinics of the Massachusetts Medical College (now Harvard Medical School) between 1836 and 1837. Individual entries are dated and include the name of the faculty lecturer.

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital records

Collection Identifier: BWH c3
Overview:

The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital records are the product of the hospital’s administrative, fundraising, publication, and public relations activities, as well as construction projects and training programs. The bulk of the records date from 1911 through 1980.

Richard P. Strong papers

Collection Identifier: GA 82
Overview:

The Richard P. Strong papers consist of records reflecting the scientific work and career of Richard Pearson Strong. Strong was an expert in tropical medicine and worked in the United States, the Philippines, South America, and Africa.

William A. Haseltine papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c359
Overview:

The William A. Haseltine papers (1962-2008) are the product of Haseltine’s activities as a researcher, business executive, educator, lecturer, consultant, and contributing member of national and international organizations. Haseltine's main areas of research include cancer, HIV and AIDS, and genomics.