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Applause daniel roth11/12/2022 ![]() I remember vividly because she was in a high risk pregnancy, she was in her forties, and had a very difficult pregnancy with lots of horrible headaches, and that was a harbinger of things to come. He was a community citizen and was a good role model for me as a kid. He was on the board of directors of the bank. He was a member of the city council for seven years. He sold tractors and trucks, International Harvester and Farmall tractors and trucks, and also for a while sold Packard automobiles. My father was one of the minor pillars of our small community. I always find it interesting to find out something about your family, where you were born and your early years.ĭH: I was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which was about forty miles from my hometown Wabash, Indiana. Henderson, as I just mentioned, we're going to do a total life-career trajectory in your interview today, more focusing on your science background and your career. We are in his office at the Clinical Center.ĭr. This is Sheree Scarborough for the NIH Clinical Center, Oral History Project and today is February 18, 2020. Henderson comments on the special place that is the NIH and the fact that the Clinical Center is a hospital like no other: It is a “hospital dedicated to science.” He speaks about the changes that were accomplished during his time as Deputy Director, including establishing a Pediatrics Unit, Internal Medicine Consult Unit, and a Pain and Palliative Care Service. He speaks about helping to establish, along with his staff, safety protocols at the Clinical Center and also consulting with the CDC on national guidelines. Henderson recounts his experiences with the AIDS epidemic early on in his career at NIH and the difficulties and successes of being a hospital epidemiologist during the crisis. He shares the story of interviewing at NIH’s Clinical Center-thinking he had bombed the interview when actually he was practically hired on the spot. Henderson recounts important lessons he learned at Harbor-UCLA identifying and diagnosing illnesses and learning the practice of medicine, as well as remembering mentors that helped him chart his career path. He remembers his undergraduate years at the small liberal arts college, Hanover College, and the culturally stimulating and intellectually demanding time he spent at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. Henderson begins the interview with memories of growing up in the small community of Wabash, Indiana, and mentions some early experiences that led him to be interested in medicine. Henderson has won many awards, including numerous NIH Director’s Awards, the Feinstein Award from the American College of Physicians for career contributions to clinical epidemiology, and the Service to America Award.ĭr. He has consulted with numerous organizations, served on national steering committees, and is a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America, the American College of Physicians, and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, as well as a founder and 2020 president of SHEA. Henderson’s membership in medical organizations has focused on those in infectious diseases and hospital epidemiology. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed journal articles as well as dozens of book chapters, served on numerous editorial boards, including Annals of Internal Medicine, and has been an invited speaker internationally. Henderson serves as Senior Consultant to the Chief Executive Officer for the Clinical Center. Since retiring from his position as Deputy Director for Clinical Care in January 2020, Dr. Henderson held concurrently (and beyond) at the Clinical Center: Coordinator of AIDS Activities (1985-88) Associate Director for Clinical Quality, Patient Safety, and Hospital Epidemiology (1988-2020) and Deputy Director for Clinical Care (1994-2020). In 1979, he was hired by the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center as the Center’s first Hospital Epidemiologist, a position he held until 2014. From 1978-79 he was Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. Henderson completed his internship (1973-74), residency in internal medicine (1974-76), and a fellowship in infectious diseases (1976-78) at Los Angeles County, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1973. from Hanover College in 1969, and his M.D. Henderson was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1947, and grew up in Wabash, Indiana. Download the PDF: Henderson_David_oral_history_2020 (517 kB)Ĭonducted on February 18-19, 2018, by Sheree Scarboroughĭr. ![]()
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