Physicians

Portrait of Mary Culhane McLaughlin, MD (1920-2014). Dr. McLaughlin received her MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1946. A leader in public health and preventive medicine, she served as New York City Commissioner of the Department of Health from 1969 to 1972 and became Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine at Long Island Jewish Hospital in 1976. Dr. McLaughlin received the NYU Medical Alumni Achievement Award in 1977. She was the recipient of the Governor W. Averell Harriman Award for Public Service in 1958.

Portrait of Louis Lipton, MD. Dr. Lipton received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1916.

Photograph of Dr. H. Sherwood Lawrence seated in classroom. Dr. Lawrence, Class of 1943, pioneered work in delineating the functions of the lymphocyte in cell-mediated immunologic processes.

Portrait of John Joseph Moorhead, MD (1874-1957), in military uniform. Dr. Moorhead received his MD from University Medical College in 1897.

Portrait of Hans Horst Meyer, MD (1853-1939), inscribed to Dr. Emanuel Libman in November 1929. Dr. Meyer was a German pharmacologist, most famous for his discovery of the Meyer-Overton hypothesis of anesthetics.

Signed portrait of Ernest Lewis McEwen, MD (1867-1930). Inscribed “To Dr. Howard Fox, with all good wishes, Ernest L. McEwen, 3/25. ‘30.” Dr. McEwen spent his career at Rush Medical College in Chicago, IL, where he served on the dermatology faculty.

Portrait of Graham Lusk, MD (1866-1932). Dr. Lusk became Professor of Physiology at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1898.

Portrait of Joseph Lister, MD (1827-1912), printed with his signature in the “Gallery of Outstanding Physicians and Naturalists” for Munchener Medicinishcen Wochenschrift (Munich Medical Weekly). Dr. Lister was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery.

Portrait of Anthony Joseph Lanza, MD (1884-1964). Dr. Lanza organized and directed the Institute of Industrial Medicine at NYU Medical Center beginning in 1947. A leader in industrial medicine and one of the discovers of silicosis, he was awarded the New York University Presidential Citation in 1960.

Photograph of Dr. Moth (first name not available). Inscribed, "To his dear friend and colleague, Dr. Howard Fox, Dr. Moth, August 1930."