Faculty, medical

Photograph of an illustrated portrait of Gunning Samuel Bedford, MD (1806-1870). Dr. Bedford taught at University Medical College as Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women from 1841 to 1864.

Carte de visite portrait of Frederic Shepard Dennis, MD (1850-1934). Dr. Dennis received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1874. He taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Adjunct Professor of Surgery (1881-1883) and Professor of Surgery (1883-1898). Dr. Dennis introduced Lister's antiseptic methods in operative surgery in the United States. His friendship with Andrew Carnegie is said to have influenced the gift of the Carnegie Laboratory to the College of Medicine. Built in 1884, this was the first laboratory in the country established for teaching and investigation in bacteriology and pathology. Dr. Dennis was made one of its directors.

Portrait of Austin Flint, III, MD (1868-1955). Dr. Flint received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1889. He taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Assistant to the Chair of Physiology (1889-1892), Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics (1893-1895), Professor of Obstetrics (1895-1897), and Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwifery (1897-1898). Dr. Flint then taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology (1898-1924), Professor of Obstetrics (1924-1933), and Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics (1933-1955).

Photograph of L. Royal Christensen, MD, seated at desk, from p. 43 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Christensen taught at the New York University College of Medicine from 1941 to 1967 as a Fellow in Medicine (1941-1943), Instructor in Bacteriology (1943-1946), Assistant Professor of Microbiology (1946-1955), Associate Professor of Microbiology (1955-1959), and Associate Professor of Pathology (1959-1967). In 1953, he was named the director of the Berg Institute for Experimental Physiology, Surgery and Pathology. In 1962, he was appointed the Patent Officer for the NYU Medical Center.

Photograph of a painted portrait of Rowland Godfrey Freeman, Sr., MD, (1859-1945) dressed in regalia. Dr. Freeman taught in the Pediatrics department of University Hospital and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1898 to 1930 and was then Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics from 1930 to 1945. From 1898 to 1911, he served as Chief of the Pediatric Clinic.

Portrait of Howard Fox, MD (1873-1954). Dr. Fox taught at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1925 to 1938 as Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology, after which he held the position of Professor Emeritus from 1948 to 1954.

Photograph of Henry Dwight Chapin, MD (1857-1942). An important figure in the field of pediatric medicine, Dr. Chapin served as Assistant to the Chair of Diseases of Children at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1882 to 1888.

Portrait of Samuel Albertus Brown, MD (1874-1952). Dr. Brown received his MD from University Medical College in 1894. He taught at University Medical College as an Instructor in Physical Diagnosis from 1897 to 1903, and then at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1903 to 1932, serving as the Dean of the Medical School from 1915-1932 and Professor of Therapeutics from 1918-1932. He held the position of Professor Emeritus from 1932 to 1952.

Portrait of Edward Kellog Dunham, MD (1860-1922). Dr. Dunham taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Instructor in the Carnegie Laboratories from 1888 to 1893 and Professor of Bacteriology, General Pathology and Hygiene from 1892 to 1898. He then held the role of Professor of Pathology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1898 to 1907. From 1908 to 1922, Dr. Dunham was Emeritus Professor of Pathology.

Photograph of John Francis Daly, MD (1912-1998), from p. 60 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Daly taught in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the New York University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor (1945-1947), Associate Professor (1947-1949), Professor (1949-1980), Adjunct Professor (1980-1986), and Professor Emeritus (1986-1998). He also served as Chairman of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology from 1947 to 1980.