
Kerry Falvey
Kerry Falvey is the author of Medicine at Yale: The First 200 Years, which Yale School of Medicine published in 2010 to commemorate its Bicentennial.Articles

Spring 2011
The medical school’s first full-time dean
Until the middle of the 20th century, the School of Medicine’s department chairs were expected to serve as deans,...

Winter 2010
The colonies’ first medical degree
In 1723 Yale granted the first medical degree issued in the American colonies to Daniel Turner (1667–1741), a London...

Spring 2010
The physician's apprentice
In March 1811, at the age of 22, Elijah Woodward Carpenter of Brattleboro, Vt., signed his name to an indenture, a...

Autumn 2010
The New Haven Dispensary
In the America of the mid-1800s, dispensaries—originally established in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston—existed to...
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