Faculty, medical

Formal full-length portrait of Homer Smith (1895-1962) as a young child, approximately seven years old.

Dr. Homer Smith (1895-1962) was a renal physiologist and Professor of Physiology at NYU from 1928 to 1961.

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 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 Dr. William Emery Studdiford, former Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, seated at his desk.

Portrait of Douglas Symmers, MD (1879-1952), with the inscription “To Chubby and Clarence-Douglas Symmers.” Dr. Symmers served as Professor of Gross Pathology at New York University College of Medicine from 1934 to 1945. He also served as the Director of Laboratories at Bellevue Hospital.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Faneuil Dunkin Weisse, MD (1842-1915). Weisse received his MD from University Medical College in 1864. He taught at University Medical College from 1861 to 1890 as Professor of Dermatology (1867-1875), Professor of Practical and Surgical Anatomy (1876-1889), and Professor of Surgical Pathology (1874-1876). He later taught at the New York College of Dentistry.

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.

Head-and-shoulders view of Dr. Alexander Wiener.

Carte de visite portrait of William Henry Welch, MD (1850-1934), as a young man. Dr. Welch taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Pathology from 1878 to 1884.