Browsing by Subject "Center for Health Services Research"

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    Interview with John Kralewski
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-02-14) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Kralewski, John
    John Kralewski begins by describing his background, including his education, his service in the Air Force, his early career, and why he went into the health sciences. He discusses his experiences as student in pharmacy and then in hospital administration at the UMN. He discusses the Program in Hospital Administration at UMN; hospital administration as a field in the 1960s and 1970s; the School of Public Health; funding; his research; efforts to introduce mandatory generic prescribing in the 1960s; pharmacy as a profession; nursing; the divisions within the School of Public Health in the 1960s; leadership in the health sciences at the UMN; University Hospitals; other hospitals in the Twin Cities; and the University of Minnesota’s decision to sell University Hospitals to Fairview. He talks about Gaylord Anderson, James Hamilton, Cherie Perlmutter, Stephen Joseph, Lyle French, Frank Cerra, and others in leadership and administrative position in the Health Sciences. In his second interview, John Kralewski discusses his experiences as assistant vice president for Health Sciences. He talks about the Center for Health Services Research; health services research at Minnesota and around the country; working with the Minnesota state legislature; rural health care; the Health Information Foundation (at the University of Chicago); moving the Center for Health Services Research out of the vice president’s office and into the School of Public Health; the Hospital Administration program; graduate programs in Public Health; relations between the Academic Health Center administration and the state legislature; the relationship between the health sciences units, and health sciences education and funding. He discusses Lyle French, Neal Vanselow, and Robert Kane.
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    Interview with Lee Stauffer
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-12-08) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Stauffer, Lee
    Lee Stauffer begins by discussing his background, including his education and employment history. He describes his experiences working for Gaylord Anderson, becoming dean of the UMN School of Public Health, working as a sanitarian, inspecting student housing for the UMN, as assistant to the public health engineer, as a student in the School of Public Health, and as dean of the School of Public Health. He discusses Gaylord Anderson, Lyle French, Richard Bond, Ancel Keys, Robert Howard, Alma Sparrow, Henry Blackburn, Richard Chilgren, Edith Leyasmeyer, and Neal Vanselow. He describes the School of Public Health in the 1950s and 1960s; the Environmental Health summer institute courses and the ground water development training program; the relationship between divisions in the School of Public Health; the position of the School of Public Health within the College of Medical Sciences; space; funding; concern about a shortage of health care workers in the 1950s and 1960s and federal support to increase enrollment in the School of Public Health; the controversy about the salary difference between himself and the dean of the School of Nursing, Isabel Harris; the nursing Ph.D. program; the public health nursing program; the Rural Health Care Committee; the state legislature; the Department of Family Practice and Community Health; continuing medical education; the Medical School’s relationship with private practitioners; the health sciences reorganization in 1970; the effort to establish a School of Allied Health; the environmental activism movement and activism on campus during the 1960s and 1970s; the Pilot City Health Project; the Program in Human Sexuality; the Center for Health Services Research; the focus on health care delivery in the 1970s; budget retrenchment in the late 1970s/early 1980s; the public health administration program; and recruiting minority students.
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    Interview with Vernon Weckwerth
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-12-14) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Weckwerth, Vernon
    Vernon Weckwerth begins his interview by discussing his upbringing during the Great Depression near the Red River Valley of Minnesota, his early education, and the rather circuitous route he took to the University of Minnesota. He discusses his graduate education, his return to Minnesota, and his professorship in health care administration in the School of Public Health. Weckwerth highlights some of his work in hospital administration within the context of the University’s land-grant mission and the creation of the Independent Study Program (ISP) to serve rural populations. As he relates his creation of ISP, Weckwerth elaborates on his educational philosophy and town/gown issues. Though his degrees were not in public health, Weckwerth took all of the public health courses offered by the University. He relates his interest in public health in terms of his rural upbringing and how he entered the field professionally. He then discusses the leadership of Gaylord Anderson, Lee Stauffer, and Edith Leyasmeyer in the School of Public Health. He also covers the following: his interpretation of dean appointments, his philosophy of public health as a field, the relationship of the School of Public Health to other departments, biostatistics, his role in the national heart study, the creation of the family practice program, the reorganization of the AHC, his experiences with the state legislature and community and professional organizations, his role in creating a doctoral program in nursing, the spread and closing of ISP, and his time on the faculty senate.