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Judith L. Axelrod, MD is on the staff of the Division of Infectious Diseases of Department of Medicine at St. Luke’s Hospital. She speaks about her early influences, her training, professional relationships, her experience as a woman working in medicine in the 1970s through the 2000s, and how her work meshed with her family life. Dr. Axelrod also discusses the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. During her interview, Dr. Axelrod speaks about Donna Mildvan, MD, Arthur Ashe, John Hutchinson, MD, Solomon A. Berson, MD, Theodore B. VanItallie, MD, Michael H. Grieco, MD., Jeanne Baer, MD, Airlie Cameron, MD, and Sami A. Hashim, MD.

Axelrod, Judith

Peter R. Holt, MD, is the physician responsible for establishing the Department of Gastroenterology at St. Luke’s Hospital, and served as its Chief from 1962-2000. In this interview he briefly mentions his childhood in Berlin, Germany and England during WWII, his decision to further his medical studies in the US, finding his way to St. Luke’s Hospital almost accidently. He discusses his fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, his early research, moving into gastroenterology, and his return to St. Luke’s. He touches on the general culture of St. Luke’s in the 1960s-1970s, for example encouraging nursing staff to join patient rounds, the hospital mergers under Continuum Health Partners, his eventual decision to leave St. Luke’s, and the positions he has held at the American Health Foundation, The Strang Cancer Prevention Center, and his current post at the Rockefeller University. He mentions interactions with the following colleagues: G. Jarvis Coffin, MD; Robert B. Case, MD; Richard N. Pierson, MD; John H. Keating, Sr., MD; Theodore B. VanItallie, MD; Kurt J. Isselbacher, MD; Charles A. Flood MD; Miles J. Schwartz, MD; Richard S. McCray, MD; David Chalfin, MD, PhD; Steven Mezey, MD; Stanley E. Bradley, MD; Norton Rosenzweig, MD; Steven Moss, MD; Albert Attia, MD; and Harry A. Roselle, MD.

Braun, Norma M.T.

Dr. Sami Hashim discusses his education and career development, his research on lipid metabolism and its derivatives, the ketogenic diet, the development of MCT (Medium Chain Triglycerides) which today has in many nutritional and medicinal applications and his collaboration with Dr. Theodore VanItallie which produced cholestyramine, the first cholesterol lowering medication. Dr. Hashim remarks on his family life and children, his hobbies, and his acquaintances with the Royal family in Kuwait and meeting the former President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, Nobel Laureate Linus Pawling, IRA member Bobby Sands, and Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

Braun, Norma M.T.

Mrs. Vivian Clark speaks about her husband, Dr. William Clark, who completed his internship and residency at St. Luke’s Hospital (now Mount Sinai Morningside) and returned there as Chief of Medicine between 1975 and 1979. She discusses his childhood in Dayton, Ohio, and his move into medicine, his work with the National Foundation March of Dimes and The Arthritis Foundation, before returning to clinical practice at St. Luke’s Hospital. In a rather candid interview, Mrs. Clark presents some insider details leading to the merger of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals in 1979, as well as reasons behind former Chief of Medicine Dr. Ted Van Itallie’s leaving St. Luke’s in 1975. She also contributes details of her own life and work in various charity organizations, particularly with the Women’s Auxiliary of St. Luke’s and their volunteers, how she met Bill Clark, what his family was comprised of prior to their marriage, and what their relationship dynamics were like. Significant names mentioned during the interview include: Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Case Western Reserve, the Arthritis Foundation, the National Foundation March of Dimes, John Stage-Davis, Charles Reagan, Chuck Christian, Theodore B. VanItallie, Seichi Shimomura, Miles Schwartz, Larry Huntington, Nick Christy, Gary Gambuti, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Gerard M. Turino, and Stanley Cortell.

Clark, Vivian Vreeland