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Portrait of William Hallock Park, MD (1863-1939). Dr. Park taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Adjunct Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene from 1897 to 1898. He taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Adjunct Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene (1898-1899), Associate Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene (1899-1900), and Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene (1900-).

Photograph of Zoltan Ovary, MD (1907-2005), demonstrating one of his key contributions to immunology, the Passive Cutaneous Anaphylaxis (PCA) reaction, in the 1960s. Dr. Ovary became a member of the New York University School of Medicine faculty in 1959. While at NYU, working with Baruj Benacerraf and others, he discovered the “carrier-effect,” i.e., the same carrier protein for the foreign substance must be used in subsequent immunizations to produce the maximum number of antibodies; and the once controversial, but for now fundamental concept that there are different classes of antibodies with different biological properties.

Portrait of Jack Orloff, MD. Dr. Orloff received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1943. From 1974 to 1988, he was the scientific director of the Division of Intramural Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Orloff was a leader in advancing the discipline of physiology. His work included investigations in acidification of the urine, hypokalemic alkalosis, the metabolism and excretion of ammonia and the endocrine control of sodium excretion.

Portrait of Charles Norris, MD (1867-1935), with signature on back. Dr. Norris was the first Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, a role he held from 1918 until his death in 1935.

Head and shoulders photograph of Lido J. Nils, inscribed, "To Lt. Col. Howard Fox, with [finest esteem], Lido J. Nils."

Image of Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Jr., MD (1908-1995), on p. 42 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. In 1941, Dr. Pappenheimer joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology at New York University College of Medicine. He served as assistant professor (1941-1946), associate professor (1946-1949), professor (1949-1958), and chair of the Department of Microbiology (1956-1958).

Signed portrait of Reuben Ottenberg, MD. Dr. Ottenberg was a hematologist known for his breakthrough research on blood transfusions. In 1907, he performed the first the blood transfusion using blood typing and crossmatching at Lenox Hill Hospital. Dr. Ottenberg also discovered that group O blood donors could serve as universal donors.

Portrait of Sir William Osler, MD (1849-1919). Osler was the first physician-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital and one of the Big Four founding professors of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Among his many accomplishments, he established medical residencies as the training standard, taught medical students through bedside instruction on the wards rather than lectures, and founded medical library associations in both Great Britain and North America.

Portrait of Jack Orloff, MD. Dr. Orloff received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1943. From 1974 to 1988, he was the scientific director of the Division of Intramural Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Orloff was a leader in advancing the discipline of physiology. His work included investigations in acidification of the urine, hypokalemic alkalosis, the metabolism and excretion of ammonia and the endocrine control of sodium excretion.

Portrait of Carroll Vincent Newsom (1904-1990). Newsom was President of New York University from 1956 to 1962.