Corporate Name

Corporate Name: Primary Corporate Name

Columbia University

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237079eb-895d-434a-8402-e0b70ede229b

Oral history of Myron Weisfeldt

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Dr. Myron "Mike" Weisfeldt attended Johns Hopkins as an undergraduate from 1960-1962, completing an accelerated medical school program. He then attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, earning his M.D. in 1965. Weisfeldt went on to work as a physician at the hospital, an Assistant Professor of Medicine and, later, the Director of the Cardiology division at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Weisfeldt was the William Osler Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 2001 to 2014. He was also Physician-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1990, he served as President of the American Heart Association. In this interview, Weisfeldt discusses his time as a student, faculty member, administrator, and physician at Hopkins. This oral history is part of the Hopkins Retrospective oral histories series.

Oral history of P.S.

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"P.S." is a member of the Johns Hopkins University graduating class of 2018. They majored in psychology and minored in women, gender, and sexuality studies. In this interview, P.S. discusses the experience of emigrating to the United States with their family from Iran, where they lived as part of the Armenian Diaspora, and enrolling in community college in Glendale, California. P.S. goes on to discuss the progression of their academic career from Glendale to their time as a student at Johns Hopkins. P.S. also discusses their participation in campus organizations, such as Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU), navigating life as a first-generation student on campus and at home, and their future plans to pursue an MBA and start their own business. This oral history is part of the First-generation Students oral histories series.