Papers of Henry T. Bahnson, 1943-2002.

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Papers of Henry T. Bahnson, 1943-2002.

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The collection is organized alphabetically by subject, in keeping with Bahnson's original organizational scheme. The majority of the collection is made up of correspondence between Bahnson and his professional colleagues, including, but not limited to, Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, Dr. Mark Ravitch, and Dr. Alfred Blalock. The largest single component of the collection is made up of materials relating to Dr. Thomas Starzl. This series includes correspondence between Bahnson and Starzl, correspondence between Bahnson and colleagues about Starzl, and correspondence between Starzl and Dr. Alfred Blalock. In addition to correspondence, the collection contains materials outlining Bahnson's professional and personal achievements. These include papers relating to the first annual conference about FK-506 (an immunosuppressive drug used to treat transplant patients), a conference which Dr. Bahnson was personally involved in organizing; and records of his involvement with various professional organizations. The collection contains Bahnson's original research for a paper titled "Roles of the Kidneys in the Resistance of Rats to Hemmorhage," as well as copies of speeches and addresses he gave throughout his professional career. Besides the materials relating to his scientific accomplishments, the collection contains extensive information on Bahnson's musical achievements, such as two harmonicas he designed and patented after conducting studies of the physical reactions of the body while playing the harmonica. Bahnson worked with physicians and professors from Korea and the USSR, and he worked especially closely with physicians from Vietnam, many of whom he met during his work with medical residents in Saigon in the 1970s. The collection contains correspondence relating to sponsorship, employment opportunities, and funding for these associates. Finally, the collection includes an extensive array of medical slides assembled by Bahnson over the years, and a series of hand-drawn medical illustrations used in several journal articles, and five VHS tapes which were used as animal lab testing instructional videos. The medical slides include a detailed index, which has been organized by subject headings. A complete alphabetic list of subject headings is included with the numbered index in Box 7, Folder 1. The majority of the medical illustrations were drawn by Leon Schlossberg, a charter member of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI), and the recipient of the AMI's lifetime achievement award in 1990.

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University of Pittsburgh

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