Here are some photos from the 1970's and 1980's from the Ultrasound Laboratory at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine and from various meetings.  If you can identify any of the people not already named in the captions (or if you find errors) please e-mail me at:
sounddoc@aol.com

Much credit for the pioneering efforts in ultrasound at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine must go to Dr. James Toole, Chairman of the Department of Neurology and a worldwide leader in stroke research.  William M. McKinney, one of the true "pioneers" in ultrasound was a faculty member in the neurology department and was given a lot of support in his early ultrasound ventures by Dr. Toole.  Dr. McKinney went on to become a president of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) and served as "host" for the annual AIUM convention in 1975 in Winston-Salem, N.C.  Dr. Toole is seen in the pictures below in both formal and informal modes.

Dr. McKinney had a knack for getting all sorts of people from the medical center involved in ultrasound in the early days.  In addition to physicians from cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, nephrology, neurology and radiology he also involved teachers from the basic medical sciences, particularly from the anatomy department.  Shown below are Dr. Walter Bo (left image) and his right-hand-man Dr. Charles E. McCreight (right image).  Dr. Bo put together some of the earliest anatomic teaching material oriented toward ultrasound imaging and provided cross-sectional anatomic specimens for use in both live and audio-visual based teaching sessions.  Along with Dr. McKinney he published articles on the role of the vasa vasorum in carotid atherogenesis.

Selected references:

· Bo WJ, WM McKinney and RL Bowden (1989) The origin and distribution of vasa vasorum at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery with atherosclerosis. Stroke, 20 1484- 1487.

· Bo WJ, M Mercuri, R Tucker and MG Bond (1992) The human carotid atherosclerotic plaque stimulates angiogenesis on the chick chorioallantoic membrane. Atherosclerosis, 94:71- 78.

Patricia Bealefield (San Diego AIUM meeting, c. 1978?).
Pat was one of my first two sonographers at Texas Tech in 1977
and went to work for ADR about a year later.  The other of my
first sonographers was Jim Rhea, now (2000) with GE Ultrasound.
Both Pat and Jim came out of the Sonic School program at
Bowman Gray about 1976-77.

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J. Kerr Spencer (being scanned at the Sonic School at the Bowman
Gray School of Medicine about 1975) who is now (2000) with
Terason.  Can anyone identify the person scanning
(possibly with the first name Linda)?

"The picture with all the AIUM officials in drag! This was at the Seattle AIUM/ASUTS annual meeting in 1974. The reason for the dress up was the evening in which Bill McKinney was installed as President of AIUM and we did a skit called "This is Your Life Bill McKinney" a take off on the TV show of the time. We had contact with Bill's wife and got details of his childhood
also the co-operation of his lab who were the southern accents that told the story over loud speakers. Ralph Barnes was "Bill McKinney when he was a baby, hence the get up, Dennis White Bill's mother etc. There is much more to this story that is too long to tell and I do not want to go into over the email.....!! Bill survived although he was very concerned about what might have been drug up from his past."

The following e-mail was received on 10/27/2000 from Don Baker regarding the above pictures:

Hi Eric

Its been a long time since we last saw each other.  Joan showed me your history page recently and then your e-mail arrived on the 24th inquiring if I could identify the ATL unit that I was showing.

I think the presentation may have been my first visit to Bowman Gray which my guess would put about 1975-76.  The unit is the Doppler part of the first ATL duplex scanner. The Doppler was a model 400B. I happened to find in my papers a brochure for that first Duplex which I will scan and send you a photo of the unit.

We started the technology transfer to form ATL in 1974 and that led to the Model 400 Pulse Doppler which was shown at  the AIUM meeting in the fall of 1974.  The Duplex Scanner transfer began in 1975-76. The 400B Doppler unit development preceded what later became the ATL Mark V Duplex Scanner.

I recall meeting you at Bowman Gray on that trip.

I have a pretty clear recollection of the whole Doppler History from the U of W program starting on 1958-9 if you wish more information.  I was also involved in the recruitment of Jack Reid to Seattle after he graduated from Herman Swans program at Penn, and he then  joined our program in about 1974-75.

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Regards   Don Baker

Dr. Denis N. White - the second and third pictures were probably made at the AIUM Spring Meeting at Snowmass, Colorado about 1974 or 1975.  Can anyone identify the two people with Dr. White in the third picture?  (Possibly Dr. Wes Nyborg in the hat and a Mrs. Metzler in the red down jacket).

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