A static visual representation

Emanuel Libman

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Portrait of Emanuel Libman, MD. The inscription reads: "To Bullowa, with my appreciation and best wishes. Emanuel Libman, October 15th, 1932. Dr. Libman was a cardiologist who practiced and taught at a number of institutions in New York and Europe, including Mt. Sinai Hospital and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He and Benjamin Sacks isolated Libman-Sacks endocarditis in 1924.

NYU Medical Archives holds a collection of photographs sent to Libman by friends and colleagues.

Joseph Lister

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Photographic reproduction of a painting of Joseph Lister, MD (1827-1912). The painting, from 1895, is by John Henry Lorimer. Dr. Lister was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery.

Walter Levy

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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.

Currier McEwen

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Portrait of Osceola Currier McEwen, MD (1902-2003), better known as Currier McEwen. Dr. McEwen received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1926. He taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Instructor in Medicine from 1932 to 1933, and at the NYU College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine from 1933 to 1939. Dr. McEwen made major breakthroughs in the treatment of arthritis and rheumatism, clinical, pathologic, immunologic studies of rheumatic fever, systemic lupus erythematosus and various types of arthritis.

Leopold Lichtwitz

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Portrait of Leopold Lichtwitz, MD (1876-1943). In 1919, Dr. Litchwitz became the head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Hamburg’s Altona Municipal Hospital. He eventually became director of the hospital. In 1931, he became director of Berlin’s Rudolf Virchow Hospital. He was removed from his post by the Nazi regime in 1933. After emigrating to the United States, Dr. Lichtwitz became director of the Department of Internal Medicine at Montefiore Hospital.