Portraits

Head-and-shoulders view of Dr. Smith, a Professor of Industrial Medicine, looking up from a microscope.

Portrait of George Barclay Wallace, MD (1874-1948). Dr. Wallace served as Professor of Pharmacology and head of the Department of Pharmacology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York University.

Portrait of George Barclay Wallace, MD (1874-1948). Dr. Wallace served as Professor of Pharmacology and head of the Department of Pharmacology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York University.

Portrait of Dr. William Emery Studdiford, former Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, seated at his desk.

Portrait of Douglas Symmers, MD (1879-1952), with the inscription “To Chubby and Clarence-Douglas Symmers.” Dr. Symmers served as Professor of Gross Pathology at New York University College of Medicine from 1934 to 1945. He also served as the Director of Laboratories at Bellevue Hospital.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Faneuil Dunkin Weisse, MD (1842-1915). Weisse received his MD from University Medical College in 1864. He taught at University Medical College from 1861 to 1890 as Professor of Dermatology (1867-1875), Professor of Practical and Surgical Anatomy (1876-1889), and Professor of Surgical Pathology (1874-1876). He later taught at the New York College of Dentistry.

Portrait of Gerald Weissmann, MD (1930-2019). Weissmann received his MD from New York University in 1954. Weissmann became Professor of Medicine at New York University in 1970, and from 1973 to 1999 he served as director of the NYU Division of Rheumatology. He later served as Professor Emeritus of Medicine.

Portrait of Leon Sokoloff, MD (1919-2019). Dr. Sokoloff received his MD from New York University in 1944. He served as Chief of the Section on Rheumatic Diseases at the Laboratory of Experimental Pathology of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease. He also as Professor of Pathology and Professor Emeritus at SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine.

Portrait of Richard Lightburn Sutton, MD (1878-1952). The photograph is inscribed, “For Dr. Howard Fox, with the good wishes of Richard Sutton, 6/20/25.” Dr. Sutton was an important American dermatologist, known among other things for his identification of Sutton’s disease (canker sores).

Head-and-shoulders view of Dr. Alexander Wiener.