Medical colleges -- Alumni and alumnae

Head and shoulders photograph of Dr. Bernard N. Fields, Class of 1962. Dr. Fields was the recipient of the 1982 Alumni Achievement Award.

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).

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.

Photograph of Amedeo Aristedes de Poto, MD. Dr. de Poto received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1921.

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).

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.

Signed 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 C. Franklin, MD (1928-1982). Dr. Franklin received his MD from the New York University School of Medicine in 1950. Dr. Franklin taught at the New York University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine (1958-1963), an Associate Professor of Medicine (1963-1968), and Professor of Medicine (1968-1982). He is known for his original contributions in the field of human immunology and new insights into the mechanism of rheumatoid arthritis.

Portrait of May Edward Chinn, MD (1896-1980), print made from an image in the 1926 Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. Chinn received her MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1926. She was the first Black woman graduate of University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Dr. Chinn went on to have an important role as a cancer researcher, working for the Strang Clinic at the New York Infirmary from 1944 to 1974. She was later awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees from both Columbia University and New York University (1980).

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.