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Portrait of Sam Bernard Wortis, MD (1904-1969), holding a book and gesturing playfully. Dr. Wortis joined the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine in 1931 as director of the Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry. He served as chair of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry from 1942 to 1969 and held the role of dean of the New York University School of Medicine from 1960 to 1963.

Portrait of Arthur Zitrin, MD (1918-2019), seated at his desk. Dr. Zitrin received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1945. His long and accomplished career at New York University School of Medicine began when he was appointed to the medical faculty in 1949. In 1967, Dr. Zitrin became a full professor of psychiatry in 1976. From 1955 to 1968, he was Director of Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital Center, and from 1962 to 1964, he served as Director of Psychiatry of the New York City Department of Hospitals.

Portrait of William E. Smith, MD (1914-2004), looking up from a microscope. While serving as an associate professor of industrial medicine at New York University College of Medicine, Dr. Smith led research on the presence of carcinogens in refining petroleum.

Photograph of Marion Baldur Sulzberger, MD (1895-1984), seated, with a patient and three medical students. The image was published in the 1952-53 Bulletin of the Post-Graduate Medical School.

Dr. Sulzberger became director of the New York Skin and Cancer Unit in 1947. From 1949 to 1960, he served as Professor of Dermatology and chairman of the Department of Dermatology at New York University Medical School. Dr. Sulzberger was named professor emeritus in 1960.

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 Homer William Smith, MD (1895-1962). Dr. Smith was Professor of Physiology and Director of the Physiological Laboratories at New York University School of Medicine from 1928 to 1961. His scholarship on renal physiology transformed the field, and in 1951 he published The Kidney: Structure and Function in Health and Disease.

Portrait of Marion Baldur Sulzberger, MD (1895-1984), from p. 60 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Sulzberger became director of the New York Skin and Cancer Unit in 1947. From 1949 to 1960, he served as Professor of Dermatology and chairman of the Department of Dermatology at New York University Medical School. Dr. Sulzberger was named professor emeritus in 1960.

Portrait of William Emery Studdiford, Jr., MD (1897–1964) seated at his desk. Dr. Studdiford received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Center in 1922. He was appointed professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York University College of Medicine in 1933. Dr. Studdiford was also the director of Bellevue Hospital’s obstetrical and gynecological service for 19 years.

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.