John Elmer Weeks

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Portrait of John Elmer Weeks, MD (1853-1949). Dr. Weeks taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York University as a Lecturer and later Clinical Professor of Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology. He served as the head of the Department of Ophthalmology from 1901 to 1921.

John Hinchman Stokes

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Portrait of John Hinchman Stokes, MD (1885-1961). The photograph is inscribed, “To my friend Howard Fox, with high esteem, John H. Stokes.”

A major figure in the fields of dermatology and syphilology, Dr. Stokes directed the United States Public Health Services’ Institute for the Study of Venereal Diseases (1937-1953), chaired the Committee on Research in Syphilis (1928), served as a consultant to the Surgeon General of the Army and the Secretary of War during World War II, and served as the American representative to the League of Nations as an expert in syphilis (1928-1955).

William Emory Studdiford

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Portrait of William Emory Studdiford, MD (1867-1925). Dr. Studdiford received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1891. He taught as an Adjunct Professor of Gynecology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1914 to 1919 and held the position of Chief of Clinic in the Department of Gynecology. Studdiford was the father of Dr. William E. Studdiford, Jr., Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York University College of Medicine and director of Bellevue Hospital’s obstetrical and gynecological service for 19 years.

Edward Robert Maloney

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Portrait of Edward Robert Maloney, MD (1875-1942), in WWI officer’s uniform. The photograph is inscribed “with warmest regards to my chief in Dermatology,” referring to Dr. Howard Fox. Dr. Maloney taught as an associate professor of dermatology at the New York University College of Medicine and later served as professor emeritus.

Henry Granger Piffard

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Signed portrait of Henry Granger Piffard, MD, taken in February 1905. Dr. Piffard taught at University Medical College as a Lecturer of Urinary Analysis (1873-1875) and Professor of Dermatology (1875-1898). He then became Professor of Dermatology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Dermatology from 1898 to 1899, and Emeritus Professor in 1899.