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PERSONAL HISTORIES PROJECT
A Shortlist of Potential Oral History Interviews

Potential Interviewee

Work Group Member
Historical Documentation Identified
Contact
Record

Willem J. Kolff, MD, PhD

(b.1912)

J.Watson
  • ISN Video Legacy Project Interview, circa early/ mid- 1990
  • American College of Cardiology Interview, 1974 (NLM copy)
  • Personal Video Interview conducted by John Watson
  • Personal Video Interview conducted by Dr. Y.Nose (in Dr. Kolff's personal collection?)
  • Kolff Papers, Photographs, AudioVisual Materials, University of Utah
  • Kolff Collection, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution
  • Artificial Organs: Proceedings of an International Symposium in honor of the 75th Birthday of Willem J. Kolff (1987)
  • The Willem J. Kolff Festschrift (1984)

October 2002 - completed 2 day interview for 7 1/2 hours of film

Deposited in NMAH Archives

Transcription completed by HofM division, NLM - currently being edited

Clarence Dennis, MD

(b.1909)



M.Beyer
  • Interview done by Dr. Gerald Rainer

May 2003 -- site visit by S.McKellar to assess personal papers

June 2003 -- contact with Dr Rainer about possibility of depositing a copy of his interview in our Pioneer Interview Series at the NMAH Archives

Oct 2003 - site vist by P.Theerman and S.McKellar to box/ship material to NLM

Adrian Kantrowitz, M.D.

(b.1918)

P.Portner
  • Pioneers in Pacing Series, Bakken Museum and Library, circa 1980-88
  • NASPE Oral History Interview
  • Video: Orthotopic homotransplantations of the mammalian heart, Maimonides Hospital of Brooklyn, 1964 (NLM copy)

Harry Shumacker, MD

(b.1908)

R.Bartlett
  • History of Cardiac Surgery Video Interview Series by Wm. Stoney, M.D., 1997 (Vanderbilt University)
  • Historical Writing includes: Dream of the Heart: Life of John Gibbon Jr. (1999)
  • Evolution of Cardiac Surgery (1992)
  • Society for Vascular Surgery: A History (1984).

Micheal E. DeBakey, MD

(b.1908)

J.Watson
  • History of Cardiac Surgery Video Interview Series by Wm. Stoney, M.D., 1997 (Vanderbilt University)
  • Personal Video Interview conducted by John Watson
  • Leaders in American Medicine Oral History Collection, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Interview, c. 1983- Video Interview with Dr. D. Lindeberg, c. 1991
  • Terumo Video "Great Moments in Heart Surgery," c. 1997
  • Pioneers in Cardiovascular Surgery Reflections, 1991
  • Michael E. DeBakey, MD: Surgeon, Educator and Medical Statesman, by Shhelagh Yospur (1998)
  • Hearts, by Thomas Thompson (1971)

George E. Schreiner, MD

(b.1922)

S.McKellar R.Kondratas
  • ISN Video Legacy Project Interview, 1997
  • AFIP Interview, 1991
  • Personal Papers re: early dialysis and ASAIO professional growth
October home visit/ preliminary interview

Paul Teschan, MD

(b. )



R.Bartlett

Belding H. Scribner, MD

(b.1921)



  • ISN Video Legacy Project Interview, circa late 1990s- The Belding H. Scribner Festschrift (1983)

Joseph E. Murray, MD

(b.1919)

R.Bartlett
  • Leaders in American Medicine Oral History Collection, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Interview
  • Surgery of the Soul: Reflections of a Curious Career, by J.Murray (2001)

Wilson Greatbatch

(b.1919)

J.Watson
  • Pioneers in Pacing Series, Bakken Museum and Library, circa 1980-88
  • NASPE Oral History Interview
  • Lemelson Center Oral Recording, Artificial Organs Collections, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution
  • The Making of the Pacemaker, by W. Greatbatch (2000)

Earl Bakken

(b.1924)

J.Watson
  • Bakken schematic drawings, notes at Bakken Library and Museum, Minneapolis, MN
  • Pioneers in Pacing Series, Bakken Museum and Library, circa 1980-88
  • NASPE Oral History Interview
  • Pioneers of the Medical Device Industry in Minnesota Oral History Collection, Minnesota Historical Center Interview, St. Paul, MN

Eldon Frisch

(b. )


J.Kantrowitz October 2001 contact by J.Kantrowitz