Charles T. Dotter radiography collection

Collection

Identifier: 2008-028

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes 3 glass radiographs; all of the radiographs are broken and extremely fragile. The rest of the collection includes digitized copies of x-rays from Charles Dotter showing images of various parts of the human body. The digitized x-rays include tiff files of each x-ray as well as tiff showing the overlay containing assorted data for each image.

Dates

circa 1920-1970

Creator

Dotter, Charles T. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on access. This collection is open to the public.

Conditions Governing Use

OHSU Historical Collections & Archives (HC&A) is the owner of the original materials and digitized images in our collections, however, the collection may contain materials for which copyright is not held. Patrons are responsible for determining the appropriate use or reuse of materials. Consult with HC&A to determine if we can provide permission for use.

Biographical / Historical

Charles Theodore Dotter (14 June 1920 – 15 February 1985) is commonly known as the "Father of Interventional Radiology." He was a pioneering American radiologist who is credited with developing interventional radiology, angioplasty, and the catheter-delivered stent.

Dotter received a bachelor of arts degree in 1941 from Duke University. He went to medical school at Cornell University; he completed his internship at the United States Naval Hospital in New York State and his residency at New York Hospital. While at Cornell, Dotter met his future wife, Pamela Beattie, a head nurse at New York Hospital. They married in 1944.

In 1950, Dotter was offered a position as a full-time faculty member at Cornell Medical School. And just two years later, he took the position of professor and chairman of the Department of Radiology at the University of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health & Science University [OHSU]). At 32 years of age, he was the youngest person ever to be named chairman of a radiology department in a major American medical school. He served as the department chairman for 33 years, from 1952 until his death in 1985. OHSU is now home to the Dotter Department of Interventional Radiology (formerly the Dotter Interventional Institute), named in his honor.