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The Carnegie Foundation funds the first Department of Medical Genetics at Wake Forest University.

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Dr. William Allan, the founder the Department of Medical Genetics and a devout eugenicist, argues that it is necessary to reduce the supply of “defectives” by “eugenic measures systematically applied by organized medicine.” While at Wake Forest, he also acts as a consultant to the county to support a “systematic effort to eliminate certain genetically unfit strains from the local population" (Schambra, 2011).