Faculty, medical

Portrait of Warren Coleman, MD (1869-1948). Dr. Coleman received his MD from University Medical College in 1892. He began his career at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, working as Assistant in the Physiological Laboratory (1890-1891), an Instructor in the Pathological Laboratory (1894-1895), an Instructor in Bacteriology (1894-1895), and an Instructor in Gross Pathology, Materia Medica, and Therapeutics (1895-1898). From 1918 to 1932, Dr. Coleman held the role of Assistant Professor of Medicine before his promotion to Professor of Clinical Medicine from 1932 to 1933. He held the role of Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine from 1933 to 1948. According to Dr. Clarence de la Chapelle, Dr. Coleman's special field of interest was the role of diet in the treatment of typhoid fever.

Portrait of Frank Wang Co Tui, MD. Dr. Co Tui taught at University and Bellevue Hospital as an Instructor in Pharmacology (1928-1931), Assistant Professor of Pharmacology (1931-1932), Clinical Professor of Surgery (1932-1934), and Associate Professor of Experimental Surgery (1934-1949).

Portrait of Clarence E. de la Chapelle, MD (1898-1987). Dr. De la Chapelle received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1922. He joined the faculty of the medical school in 1925, where he remained for the duration of his career as a leading cardiologist. Dr. De la Chapelle held various leadership roles at the medical school, including serving as Assistant Dean and Associate Dean from 1943-1948, and as Associate Dean of the Post-Graduate Medical School from 1948-1963. On February 18, 1971, the Bellevue Hospital Medical library was named for, and dedicated, to Dr. Clarence E. de la Chapelle. In 1983, he endowed the NYU Medical Library Archives in memory of his late wife of 51 years, the former Lillian Buckmann.

Portrait of John Marquis Converse, MD. Dr. Converse taught at the New York University College of Medicine as an Assistant in Surgery (1939-1947), an Instructor in Surgery (1947-1948), Assistant Professor of Clinical Plastic Surgery (1948-1952), Associate Professor of Clinical Plastic Surgery (1952-1957), and Lawrence D. Bell Professor of Plastic Surgery (1957-1981). He also served as the head of the Institute for Reconstructive & Plastic Surgery.

Portrait of Howard Fox, MD (1873-1954), inscribed “To Mr. Edgar S. Tilton, With Best Wishes of Howard Fox, M.D.” 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.

Portrait of John Addison Fordyce, MD (1858-1925). Dr. Fordyce taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as an Assistant to the Department of Venereal Diseases (1889-1890) and Assistant to Department of Genito-Urinary Diseases (1890-1893) before becoming Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology (1893-1913).

Image of Morris B. Bender, MD, from p. 56 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Bender taught in the New York University College of Medicine’s Department of Neurology as an Assistant in Neurology (1938-1940), Instructor in Neurology (1940-1942), Assistant Professor (1942-1945), Associate Professor (1946-1951), and Professor (1951-1966).

Portrait of Hermann Michael Biggs, MD (1859-1923). Dr. Biggs received his MD from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1883, after which he interned at Bellevue Hospital from 1883 to 1884. His career at Bellevue Hospital Medical College (later University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College) spanned from 1884 to 1923. Dr. Biggs taught across a variety of medical disciplines, including Pathological Anatomy, Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, and Principles and Practice of Medicine. He received world-wide recognition for his contributions to public health, concentrating on the application of the science of bacteriology to the prevention and control of infectious diseases. One of his many achievements was the establishment of the New York City Board of Health Laboratory.

Portrait of Robert Boggs, MD (1893-1967). Dr. Boggs taught at the New York University College of Medicine from 1945 to 1955. He also served as Assistant Dean of the College of Medicine and Dean of the Post-Graduate Medical School.

Image of Lauretta Bender, MD (1897-1987), from p. 56 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Bender was an Instructor in Psychiatry at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1931 to 1936, She then taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (1936-1941), Associate Professor of Psychiatry (1941-1951), and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (1951-1958).