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Item Interview with Barbara Leonard(University of Minnesota, 2011-10-20) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Leonard, BarbaraDr. Barbara Leonard begins her interview by discussing her education and her interest in public health nursing. In particular, she describes her early experiences with vaccination and her clinical rotations in college. She then reflects on her work toward a master’s degree in public health at the University of Minnesota, including her coursework, mentors, the creation of the Public Health Nurse Practitioner Program, and the changes to and restructuring of nursing programs in the School of Public Health. She also discusses the following: the impact of the Rajender Consent Decree, relations between the School of Public Health and the School of Nursing; curriculum reform within the School of Nursing; the positioning of nursing programs within the School of Public Health; the favorable economic position of the health sciences in the 1960s and 1970s; and knowledge and skills-based competition among healthcare professionals. The interview then turns toward the following topics: Lee Stauffer as dean of the School of Public Health; transitions in the scope of public health regarding prevention and healthcare delivery; relations among divisions within the School of Public Health; the leadership of Alma Sparrow; her pursuit of a Ph.D. in Healthcare Administration; and her interests in maternal and child health and particularly children with chronic disease.Item Interview with Bright Dornblaser(University of Minnesota, 2011-02-25) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Dornblaser, BrightBright Dornblaser begins by discussing his background, including his education. He discusses why he returned to UMN as a faculty member in 1967; his experience as a graduate student and faculty member in the School of Public Health, including commenting on faculty and deans such as Gaylord Anderson, Lee Stauffer, Edith Leyasmeyer, and Robert Kane. He also discusses the first vice president for health sciences, Lyle French. He describes relations between divisions within the School of Public Health and relations with other colleges within the Health Sciences; funding of the School of Public Health; the Hospital Administration Program; shift in focus in the School of Public Health toward research; the Ph.D. program in hospital administration; the relationship between the Hospital Administration Program and the University Hospitals; public health nursing program; space in the School of Public Health; the position of the School of Public Health within the Health Sciences; the program in health care administration’s time in the Carlson School of Management and its move back to the School of Public Health and into the new division of Health Policy Management; the Alumni Association of the hospital administration program; and recruitment of minority and women students.Item Interview with Edith Leyasmeyer(University of Minnesota, 2011-06-07) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Leyasmeyer, EdithEdith Leyasmeyer begins by describing her background and why she went into public health and health care administration. She describes her experiences as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, as director of education programs at Northlands Regional Medical Center, working with the Minnesota Medical Association and Mayo Clinic, as faculty in the School of Public Health (SPH) at the UMN, and in the SPH’s dean’s office. She discusses the Hospital Administration Program, the Area Health Education Center, the Rural Physician Associate Program, the town/gown relationship with the UMN Medical School, SPH funding and budget, relations between divisions in the SPH, space, shift in philosophy in the SPH from a priority on teaching to one on research, relations between the SPH and other health sciences schools, recruitment of minority students and faculty in the SPH, attitudes toward women at UMN, changes in the SPH and the public health field, and HIV/AIDS. She talks about James Hamilton, Neil Vanselow, and other faculty at the UMN.Item Interview with Henry Buchwald(University of Minnesota, 2012-09-28) Klaffke, Lauren E.; Buchwald, HenryDr. Henry Buchwald begins his interview talking about his early life: fleeing Austria in the midst of the Holocaust, growing up in New York, and his baccalaureate and medical education at Columbia. He discusses how he arrived at an interest in medicine, his time in the Air Force, and his reasons for choosing to pursue a residency at the University of Minnesota. As part of his time at Minnesota, Dr. Buchwald compares the University’s research program with those of other medical schools, relates the profound influence of Owen Wangensteen on the Surgery Department, and discusses his early lab work and his studies of biochemistry, particularly lipids, with Ivan Frantz. In reviewing his changing research interests, Dr. Buchwald cites major diseases afflicting society at various times during his career: the increasing association of cholesterol with heart disease prompted his early interest in lipid uptake and spurred his work on the Program on Surgical Control of Hyperlipidemias (POSCH); the need for treatments for diabetes prompted his research into Infusaid, the first implantable infusion pump, a collaborative effort that led to the development of several other devices and eventually the establishment of a bioengineering program at the University; and finally, the ongoing obesity epidemic spurred Dr. Buchwald’s current research into the jejunoileal bypass for the treatment of obesity. In his reflections on obesity research, Dr. Buchwald discusses the high level of stigmatism associated with the disease and the difficulty of funding research into its treatment.Item Interview with John Kralewski(University of Minnesota, 2011-02-14) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Kralewski, JohnJohn 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.Item Interview with John Westerman(University of Minnesota, 2012-04-20) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Westerman, JohnWesterman begins by discussing his childhood and youth in Minneapolis. He describes his time in the US Air Force and in Tachikawa, Japan. He discusses his time as a student in the Masters in Hospital Administration program and his interactions with James Hamilton and James Stephan. He describes Ray Amberg and other University Hospital administrators. He discusses being CEO of Strong Memorial Hospital and working at the University of Minnesota Hospitals. He describes the physical reorganization of the Health Sciences and the reputation of the PhD programs in other parts of the country. He discusses collaborations between the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota. He describes the Hospital’s referral system. Westerman discusses the atmosphere of the Hospital and its relationship with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He discusses nursing at the Hospital and the influence of Marie Manthey and Florence Julian. He also discusses the role of Pharmacy and having pharmacy students in the Hospital. Westerman discusses abortions at the University Hospital. He also describes the increasingly competitive hospital marketplace in the 1970s. Finally, he discusses the Consortium of University Hospitals.Item Interview with Robert L. Kane(University of Minnesota, 2013-12-11) Klaffke, Lauren E.; Kane, Robert L.Dr. Robert Kane begins his interview with a description of his early life and education. He reflects on his medical training, his time with the Indian Health Service, and his efforts to establish a Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Utah. Dr. Kane then discusses his move to RAND in Santa Monica, CA, his work on what would become Value-Based Purchasing, his work on the needs for geriatric manpower, his work establishing the Division of Geriatrics at UCLA, and various lines of research that connected to his work at RAND and UCLA. The conversation turns toward Dr. Kane’s time at the University of Minnesota. He describes the following topics: his goals in becoming dean of the School of Public Health; his reorganization of the School, including moving and eliminating departments and divisions; funding for the School; his work with the Legislature; shifts in public health research; methods of evaluation he tried to establish in the School; division loyalty within the School; and his reasons for stepping down as dean. Reflecting on the larger contexts of the AHC and the University, Dr. Kane discusses all of the following: financial problems in the AHC; the sale of University Hospital to Fairview; Neal Vanselow and Cherie Perlmutter’s leadership in the AHC; and problems with collaboration in the AHC. He describes efforts to admit minority students; the regional importance of the School; deans of the School after he stepped down; Ken Keller’s Commitment to Focus plan; William Brody and Frank Cerra’s tenures as vice president of the AHC; and the joining of the positions of medical school dean and vice president for the AHC. He concludes with the need for more healthcare delivery research at the University and John Finnegan’s tenure as dean of the School.Item Interview with Robert Veninga(University of Minnesota, 2011-02-03) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Veninga, RobertRobert Veninga begins with describing his background, including his education. He discusses some of his experiences as a faculty member in the School of Public Health (SPH), as assistant dean, and as associate dean. He describes his research in speech communication, the SPH in the 1960s, the relationship between the SPH and the Minnesota Health Department, the SPH’s collaboration with community agencies, the Summer Institute, the relationship between divisions in the SPH, relations between the SPH and other health sciences divisions and their deans, major challenges for the SPH in the 1970s, funding, the shift from an emphasis on teaching to one on research in the 1970s, Public Health Nursing, the effort in the 1970s to establish a school of allied health, the Center for Long Term Care Administrative Education, the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, the Center for Health Services Research, the Program in Human Sexuality, retrenchments in the 1980s, space, the Hospital and Health Care Administration program’s move to the Carlson School of Management, and recruitment of minority students and faculty. He talks about Gaylord Anderson, Lee Stauffer, Lyle French, Bright Dornblaser, Edith Leyasmeyer, and Robert Kane.Item Interview with Ruth Stryker-Gordon(University of Minnesota, 2010-12-03) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Stryker-Gordon, RuthRuth Stryker-Gordon begins by discussing her background and why she went into nursing. She describes her experiences as a nursing student at the UMN, as a tuberculosis field nurse with the Minnesota State Health Department and doing TB screening in rural Minnesota. She also discusses her experiences as a school nurse, as a pediatric nurse, as assistant director of nursing at St. Barnabas and introducing ward clerks; working at the Sister Kenny Institute; getting her MA in education; and serving on the Board of Licensure for Nursing Home Administrators. She discusses Katherine Densford; Sister Elizabeth Kenny; her husband, Kenneth Gordon; Lee Stauffer; Edith Leyasmeyer; Robert Kane; Owen Wangensteen; Richard Varco; nurses that worked on Indian Reservations (Bureau of Indian Affairs nurses); male nurses; women of color nurses; women faculty in the School of Public Health; recruiting minority students; and faculty of color. She describes iron lungs; living in Powell Hall as a nursing student; the introduction of penicillin; relations between nurses and physicians; interactions between the Sister Kenny Institute and the UMN Medical School; the Shyamala Rajender Decree and pay discrepancies between male and female faculty; and relations between divisions of the School of Public Health. She discusses changes in nursing in the 1960s; faculty in the School of Public Health at the UMN; developing curriculum in nursing home administration; the Kellogg Centers for long-term care administrative education; the School of Public Health division of Hospital and Health Care Administration, its Independent Study Program, and its Masters in Hospital Administration program; the Public Health Nursing program; nursing homes; and funding and space issues in the School of Public Health.Item Interview with Sandra Edwardson(University of Minnesota, 2012-05-30) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Edwardson, SandraSandra Edwardson begins by describing her upbringing and education in Minnesota, followed by her pursuit of a graduate degree in nursing, and her reasons for entering the nursing field, particularly maternal and child nursing. She then discusses nursing shortages, working as a nurse for the Indian Health Service in Mississippi during the Civil Rights era, and contrasts the treatment of Native Americans in Mississippi and Minnesota. Edwardson goes on to describe moving back to Minnesota where she taught at Saint Olaf College for a number of years and then decided to pursue her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in Hospital and Healthcare Administration. As part of her recollections surrounding her experience as a Ph.D. student, she describes the environment for women, her work with Dr. Vernon Weckworth as her advisor, and her dissertation research on Homecare for the Dying Child. She then covers the following topics: becoming an instructor in the Independent Study Program, becoming an assistant professor in the School of Nursing, the creation of a doctoral program in nursing at the University and doctoral education in nursing at large, teaching in the Nursing Administration program, working with the Institutional Review Board, and obtaining both research and building funding. She discusses the deanships of Inez Hinzvark and Ellen Fahy, her experience as assistant dean under Fahy, conflicting attitudes regarding nursing philosophies within the School of Nursing, regional planning for nursing, retrenchment and planning strategies at the University, the creation of the Master of Nursing degree at the University of Minnesota, the creation of the National Institute for Nursing Research, the transfer of the public health nursing program from the School of Public Health to the School of Nursing, her transition to interim dean and later to dean, the Rajender Consent Decree, and then her move from associate to full professor. She goes on to describe the tenures of some of the vice presidents of the Academic Health Center and particularly Frank Cerra’s creation of the Dean’s Council, collaboration within the health sciences, community research projects, the recruitment of minority students, the creation of a nurse practitioner program in the School of Nursing, the relationship between the School of Nursing and the University hospitals, the development of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, and her relationship with the Regents, the University president, and the State Legislature.Item Interview with Vernon Weckwerth(University of Minnesota, 2010-12-14) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Weckwerth, VernonVernon 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.