Portrait of Walter Levy, MD. Dr. Levy received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1924. He served as the Alumni Association President from 1951 to 1952.
Portrait of Otto Loewi, MD (1873-1961). Dr. Loewi was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for his work on acetylcholine. A refugee of the Second World War, he was invited to join the NYU Department of Pharmacology as Research Professor in 1940.
Portrait of Luther B. MacKenzie, standing. Inscribed, "Faithfully Yours, Luther B. MacKenzie" <p>Dr. E.F. Knauth, New York University, Office of the President.
Portrait of Mary Culhane McLaughlin, MD (1920-2014). Dr. McLaughlin received her MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1946. A leader in public health and preventive medicine, she served as New York City Commissioner of the Department of Health from 1969 to 1972 and became Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine at Long Island Jewish Hospital in 1976. Dr. McLaughlin received the NYU Medical Alumni Achievement Award in 1977. She was the recipient of the Governor W. Averell Harriman Award for Public Service in 1958.