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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.

Theodore B. VanItallie, MD spent the bulk of his medical career as Chief of Medicine at St. Luke’s Hospital Center (1957 to 1975). Dr. VanItallie discusses his early life and influences, his medical interests and mentors; his time as Chief of Medicine and his work towards bringing St. Luke’s up to full university hospital status and a research center affiliated with Columbia University, and how these plans were thwarted, in his opinion, by Hospital administration; his opinions on the merger of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt hospitals and the more recent merger of SL-R with Mount Sinai Medical Center; and conflicts between senior and junior Attendings. During his interview Dr. VanItallie mentions John H. Keating, Sr., MD, Sami A. Hashim, MD, Henry B. Guthrie, W. Henry Sebrell, Jr., MD, F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, MD, Gerard M. Turino, MD, Solomon A. Berson, MD, Rosalyn Yalow, PhD, Nancy Kemeny, MD. Includes extended footage of informal conversation in VanItallie's home and Drs. Braun, VanItallie, and Hashim in the garden.