Physicians

Signed portrait of Reuben Ottenberg, MD. Dr. Ottenberg was a hematologist known for his breakthrough research on blood transfusions. In 1907, he performed the first the blood transfusion using blood typing and crossmatching at Lenox Hill Hospital. Dr. Ottenberg also discovered that group O blood donors could serve as universal donors.

Portrait of Sir William Osler, MD (1849-1919). Osler was the first physician-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital and one of the Big Four founding professors of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Among his many accomplishments, he established medical residencies as the training standard, taught medical students through bedside instruction on the wards rather than lectures, and founded medical library associations in both Great Britain and North America.

Portrait of Jack Orloff, MD. Dr. Orloff received his MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1943. From 1974 to 1988, he was the scientific director of the Division of Intramural Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Orloff was a leader in advancing the discipline of physiology. His work included investigations in acidification of the urine, hypokalemic alkalosis, the metabolism and excretion of ammonia and the endocrine control of sodium excretion.

Portrait of Otto Loewi, MD (1873-1961). Dr. Loewi was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 for his work on acetylcholine. A refugee of the Second World War, he was invited to join the NYU Department of Pharmacology as Research Professor in 1940.

Signed portrait of Edward Graham-Little, MD (1867-1950). Inscribed “To my friend, Howard Fox, of New York, with best wishes from E. Graham-Little." Graham-Little was an eminent dermatologist in Britain. He served as Member of Parliament for London University from 1924 to 1950.

Signed portrait of V. Lenar, dated 1916.

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Portrait of Emanuel Libman, MD. The inscription reads: "To Bullowa, with my appreciation and best wishes. Emanuel Libman, October 15th, 1932. Dr. Libman was a cardiologist who practiced and taught at a number of institutions in New York and Europe, including Mt. Sinai Hospital and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He and Benjamin Sacks isolated Libman-Sacks endocarditis in 1924.

NYU Medical Archives holds a collection of photographs sent to Libman by friends and colleagues.

Signed portrait of Arthur J. Markley, MD, in military uniform. The inscription reads, “A. J. Markley, Denver, Colo.” Dr. Markley was Professor of Dermatology and Head of Dermatology and Syphilis at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Photographic reproduction of a painting of Joseph Lister, MD (1827-1912). The painting, from 1895, is by John Henry Lorimer. Dr. Lister was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery.

Portrait of Walter Levy, MD. Dr. Levy received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1924. He served as the Alumni Association President from 1951 to 1952.