Remembering Conrad Lattes, MD by Jane Lattes, interviewed by Norma M.T. Braun, MD

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US AA155.INT174

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Remembering Conrad Lattes, MD by Jane Lattes, interviewed by Norma M.T. Braun, MD

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  • 7/11/2017 (Creation)

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1 DVD (0:18:47)

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Jane Lattes is Director of Volunteer Services at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City. She was married to Conrad Lattes, who was a surgeon and Director of the Renal Transplantation Service at St. Luke’s Hospital Center.

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(1937-)

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Dr. Norma Braun (neé Wang Mai Tsen) was born in Shanghai, China during the third Japanese invasion, before the World War II. Prior to the war her family was well off and very well educated. Both her grandfather and father spent time in American universities. Norma, however did not attend school until age 10, because of the war. In 1949, she, her mother and siblings relocated to Philadelphia. Norma, who desired to be a doctor from a young age, started medical school at Temple University but transferred to Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (Class of 1963) after being offered a scholarship. She completed her internship and residency at Bellevue Hospital and began working at St. Luke’s Hospital in 1982, as a cardio-pulmonary fellow under A. Loomis Bell, MD, who ran the cardiopulmonary laboratory. Eventually she narrowed her specialty to pulmonary medicine, and continues to work in that area at St. Luke’s, now Mount Sinai Morningside.

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This interview is with Jane Lattes, wife of the late surgeon, Dr. Conrad Lattes, who relates stories about Conrad’s birth in Torino, Italy, and how he came to the U.S. with his father, Raffaele Lattes, who became head of surgical pathology for many years at Columbia, in either 1940 or 1941. She adds some additional information on Raffaele, and how his family were physicians going many years back. She then continues to tell the story of how she and Conrad met at Swarthmore College, how he choose a medical specialty and his early days at a physician and how his career progressed at St. Luke’s. She adds some facts about their children and her current life and husband.

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This material is available for research use. Contact the Archives (MSArchives@mssm.edu) for further information.

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Transcript is available, click on the icon.

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Copyright is held by Mount Sinai. Please contact the Archives (MSArchives@mssm.edu) for more information.

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      DVD was a DVD-R containing MP4 file; copied to Azure 11/13/2017. Video sent to MediaScribe for transcription 11/20/2017.

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