Browsing by Subject "Department of Family Practice and Community Health"

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    Interview with Eli Coleman
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-07-09) Vitulli, Eli; Coleman, Eli
    Dr. Eli Coleman begins his interview by describing his early life, his education, and his move to the University of Minnesota and the Program in Human Sexuality (PHS). He reflects on his first years in the program, its transition into Family Medicine, Dr. Ed Ciracy’s impact on the PHS, and the Sexuality Attitude Reassessment seminar. He also discusses the following: the role of churches and seminaries in the PHS; the PHS curriculum and teaching; Don Hoag and Sharon Satterfield as directors of PHS; PHS contributions to HIV-AIDS behavioral research; funding issues; politics surrounding the PHS; John Kelly’s work as director; and Dr. William Jacott’s leadership of the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Coleman the reviews his own time as head of the PHS, including the economic problems the Program faced. He describes the development of and changes to the sex offender treatment program, disability work in the PHS, and the Program’s work on transgender issues and his work on the Gender Committee. He concludes with the relationship between the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the PHS.
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    Interview with John P. Delaney
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-03-27) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Delaney, John P.
    Dr. John Delaney begins by describing his education at Notre Dame and the University of Minnesota. He discusses his perception Harold S. Diehl as Dean of the Medical School, C. Walton Lillehei’s surgical innovations, and Dr. Owen Wangensteen’s tenure as chief of surgery during Delaney’s time in the medical school. He also describes University Hospital administrator Ray Amberg and his assistant Gertrude Gilman. He discusses the changing fee system in hospitals in the mid 1960s. Delaney describes the cardiac program at the University of Minnesota in the 1950s and 1960s. He discusses his early research interest in bleeding from the stomach and his clinical specialization in gastrointestinal surgery. He describes changes in the Department of Surgery when John Najarian took over for Owen Wangensteen as chief. He recounts his experiences with Robert Howard as dean of the medical colleges, particularly his role in the faculty practice plan. He also discusses surgical nurses and the increasing emphasis on patient satisfaction with hospital care to receive full reimbursement for services. Delaney discusses the reorganization of the health sciences at the University of Minnesota, town/gown issues with Twin Cities practitioners, and competing medical school plans in Saint Paul and at Saint Thomas. He also discusses his later focus on surgical oncology and working with B.J. Kennedy and Seymour Levitt. Finally, he describes the ALG scandal.
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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 Mary Briggs
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-07-16) Vitulli, Eli; Briggs, Mary
    Mary Briggs discusses how she got involved with the Program in Human Sexuality (PHS); the development and creation of PHS; the Glide Foundation and the National Sex Forum; the American Lutheran Church; the Sexual Attitude Reassessment seminars; PHS’s work on disability; the relationship between PHS and local church organizations; staff dynamics; Sexual Health Services; moving PHS into the Department of Family Practice and Community Health; her own education and research; the sex offender treatment program; and why she left PHS. She also discusses community responses to PHS; the decision to house PHS in the medical school dean’s office; the PHS executive committee; the relationship between church groups and medical groups in PHS; the Committee on Religion and Ethics; the family SARS in Mabel, MN; the Medical School curriculum in human sexuality; and transsexuality. She talks about Richard Chilgren, Theodore Cole, Thomas Mauer, James Siefkes, Dan Weiss, Donald Houge, and others who were involved with PHS in the 1970s.
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    Interview with Paul Quie
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-03-21) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Quie, Paul
    Paul Quie begins by discussing his background, including his childhood, why he went into medicine, his education, and being drafted into the Navy. He discusses his experiences as a student at Yale Medical School, as an intern at the Minneapolis General Hospital, as a pediatrician in the Navy, and doing research at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in the early 1960s. He describes medical developments in the 1950s; the environment in the UMN Medical School in the 1950s; the American Legion professorship; his research; collaboration between Pediatrics, Medicine, and Surgery in the 1960s; the UMN Pediatrics Department; the College of Medical Sciences deans; the faculty practice issue and Robert Howard; leadership at the UMN health sciences; the strict full-time model in Pediatrics in the 1960s; the relationship between the UMN and private practitioners in Minneapolis and St. Paul; the effort to establish a second medical school in the Twin Cities; and the establishment of the Department of Family Practice at UMN. He also discusses medical specialization in the US; the establishment of the Children’s Hospital; the medical school curriculum revisions in the 1960s; the reorganization of the health sciences in the 1960s; the Korea Project; the Program in Human Sexuality; the pediatric infectious diseases program at Red Lake at the Indian Reservation; the transsexuality program in the late 1960s and early 1970s; the appointment of Konald Prem as chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Genecology in 1976; retrenchments in the early 1980s; the NIH; the early history of HIV/AIDS; the Center for Bioethics; and the Rural Physician Associate Program. He talks about Lewis Thomas; Irvine McQuarrie; John Anderson; Harold Diehl; Robert Howard; Neal Gault; Lyle French; John Westerman; Richard Chilgren; his brother, Al Quie; and Jack Verby.
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    Interview with Robert McCollister
    (University of Minnesota, 2009-12-09) Tobbell, Dominique A.; McCollister, Robert
    Robert McCollister begins by discussing his background, including his education and medical training. He discusses getting into administration, how he became involved with the curriculum, working in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, and his work as assistant dean of student affairs. He offers many reflections on the development of the Medical School curriculum. He describes the work to improve the governance in the Medical School in the mid-1960s, revising the curriculum in the 1960s, the expansion of Medical School class size in the 1960s, recruitment of minority students, and Robert Howard’s departure as dean of the College of Medical Sciences and the appointment of Lyle French as the first Vice President of the Health Sciences. He discusses the Educational Policy Committee, the large number of women in leadership positions in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, the reorganization of the health sciences in 1970, department “fiefdoms”, Curriculum 2010, the Comprehensive Clinic, the Department of Family and Community Health, specialization in medicine, Phase C of the medical school curriculum, the teaching of behavioral science within the curriculum, transfer students from the Dakotas, the Program in Human Sexuality, and the student attempt to get a medical ethics course included in the curriculum. He talks about Ray Amberg, C.J. Watson, Richard Ebert, Frederic Kottke, Robert Howard, Benjamin Fuller, Frank Cerra, and Lyle French.
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    Interview with Robert Mulhausen
    (University of Minnesota, 2009-07-13) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Mulhausen, Robert
    Mulhausen provides a brief overview of his education and early career. He discusses the UMN Medical School’s decision to increase class size in the 1960s, the Health Sciences curriculum changes, and the reorganization into the Academic Health Center in 1970. He discusses his role as the representative of the dean’s office regarding facilities management, his role in space planning, and issues of space in the health sciences at UMN. He briefly describes the relationship of Twin Cities affiliated hospitals and the University Hospital and Medical School. He describes his move to St. Paul Ramsey Hospital as the chief of medicine, the establishment of a group practice plan at St. Paul Ramsey, his return to the VA hospital as associate chief of staff for ambulatory care, and some of the changes at the VA when he was there, including new outpatient clinics and reforming billing practices. He describes his research on acid-base balance and blood gas and the importance of obtaining blood gas machines for clinical use. He discusses the failed attempts to combine the University Hospital with the VA or affiliated hospitals in the 1970s and 1980s. He reflects on tensions between family practitioners and internists; house officers and changes in technology and computerization; relations between UMN health sciences schools and within the dean’s office; Elmer Learn and the Committee for the Study of Physical Facilities for the Health Sciences; his experience with the human volunteer policy; recruiting minority students, particularly American Indians; the relationship between clinical and basic science departments at UMN; and generally on the UMN Medical School, internal medicine, and primary care and geriatrics.
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    Interview with Robert Ulstrom
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-02-18) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Ulstrom, Robert
    Robert Ulstrom begins the interview by describing his background, including his education, his service in the US Army, and why he became a pediatrician. He reflects on his mentor Irvine McQuarrie, and his colleagues John Anderson, Robert Howard, and Lyle French. He discusses his experiences in University of Minnesota Medical School, his move to UCLA, his return to the University of Minnesota in the mid-1950s, and his work as associate dean in the College of Medical Sciences. Other topics discussed include, his research, the private practice issue, relations with affiliated hospitals and their faculty after the expansion of the Medical School class size in the 1960s, the curriculum revision in the 1960s, the attempt to establish a medical school in St. Paul, the establishment of the Department of Family Practice, tensions between private practice physicians and Medical School physicians, the effort to establish a Minneapolis children’s hospital in the 1960s, tensions between Minneapolis and St. Paul physicians, the reorganization of the health sciences into the Academic Health Center in 1970, the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo School of Medicine.
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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.
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    Interview with Vincent Hunt
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-02-09) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Hunt, Vincent
    Vincent Hunt begins by discussing his background, including his education and why he became a physician. He discusses his experiences working as a physician in a rural area (Red Lake Falls, MN); as a medical student in the late 1950s; as an intern at Bethesda Hospital; and as a resident at the UMN. He discusses curriculum changes in the late 1950s, the University of Minnesota’s Comprehensive Clinic, comprehensive clinic programs at other universities, lobbying the state Legislature, the Department of Family Practice, Minnesota Academy of General Practice and Herb Huffington, the Rural Physician Associate program and the Rural Medical Care program, relations between the Schools in the health sciences, the heath sciences reorganization in 1970, and relations between the Medical School and the Mayo Clinic. He talks about the UMN Medical School faculty, Owen Wagensteen, Richard Magraw, Ben Fuller, Robert Howard, and Edward Ciriacy. He discusses medical ethics, his decision to enter general practice, nurses in Red Lake Falls, the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid, family practice as a specialty, rural medicine, tensions between academic physicians and private practitioners, the attempt to establish a second medical school in the Twin Cities in the 1960s, the relationship between family practice and internal medicine, general practice, and the comprehensive health insurance plan.
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    Interview with William E. Jacott
    (University of Minnesota, 2013-06-18) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Jacott, William E.
    Dr. William Jacott begins part one of his interview by describing his educational experiences at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMTC), his interest in medicine, and his early career. Dr. Jacott then reflects on his time in private practice; the establishment of the Medical School at the UMD; his growing role at the UMD Medical School; the Family Practice Program at UMTC; orienting student education and training toward family practice; relations between the UMD Medical School and other schools and hospitals; and his work with the State Legislature. Reflecting on his time as assistant vice president for the health sciences at UMTC, Dr. Jacott discusses the following: community outreach; his work as administrator in charge of Use of Animals in Research; setting up affiliation agreements for the professional schools in the health sciences; the role of nurse practitioners in family practice; his work with the various vice presidents of the Academic Health Center; and the threatened closure of the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Dental School. Jacott begins part two of his interview by describing his experience with the Antilymphocyte Globulin litigation, the creation of the University Health System, the sale of University Hospital to Fairview, and the closure of the University Family Practice Program. He then discusses Ed Ciriacy’s chairmanship of the Department of Family Practice and Community Health and his own chairmanship of the Department. The conversation then turns toward a discussion of Dr. Jacott’s national leadership roles. He discusses his work for the American Medical Association as chairman of the Council on Medical Education and a member of the Board and his time on the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, the Federation of State Medical Boards, and the Joint Commission Board of Commissioners. Dr. Jacott concludes the interview with his views on combining the position of Medical School dean and vice president of the AHC.