
Chairman of Medicine (had been dean at Emory)
Active years
1947 - 1967
Degrees
BS and MD Emory (cardiology)A pioneer of venous catheterization, Stead was the founder of nation's first physician assistant program at Duke in 1964. He also founded the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Diseases, a pioneering effort to use computers to study vast collections of medical data and forerunner of Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).