Browsing by Subject "Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene"
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Item Interview with Henry Blackburn(University of Minnesota, 2010-11-11) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Blackburn, HenryHenry Blackburn begins by describing his background, including his education, his experiences in the Navy, and his decision to pursue a career in medicine. He discusses coming to the University of Minnesota and his experiences as a Fellow in the Department of Medicine in the 1950s. He discusses the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene (LPH), including collaboration between Cardiology and the LPH; the School of Public Health (SPH) and the distance between the SPH and the LPH; the retirement of Ancel Keys and the status of the LPH; space issues for the LPH; the teaching responsibilities of the LPH faculty; the growth of the LPH in the 1970s; the merger of the LPH and the Division of Epidemiology; and his research projects in the 1960s, including the Seven Countries Study. He describes attitudes toward public health and epidemiology in the mid-twentieth century; relationships between divisions in the SPH; the status of public health in the College of Medical Sciences; and relations between the University of Minnesota Medical School and the local medical community. He discusses federal funding, particularly the funding epidemiology studies; tensions between medicine and public health; concern in the 1960s over a shortage in health manpower; the Medical School curriculum revisions in the 1960s and early 1970s; the nurse practitioner program and public health nursing; the reorganization of the health sciences in 1970; the Division of Epidemiology; the recruitment of minority students; women faculty; changes in public health during his career; and the growing emphasis on personalized medicine. He talks about Albert Sullivan, CJ Watson, Ancel Keys, Maurice Visscher, Gaylord Anderson, Robert Howard, Lyle French, Lee Stauffer, Robert Kane, and Edith Leyasmeyer.Item Interview with Lee Stauffer(University of Minnesota, 2010-12-08) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Stauffer, LeeLee 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.Item Interview with Russell V. Luepker(University of Minnesota, 2013-09-11) Klaffke, Lauren E.; Luepker, Russell V.Dr. Russell Luepker begins his interview by reflecting on his early life and education. He then describes his medical education and the travel and training programs in which he participated at the University of Rochester, specifically his time in Nigeria and Sweden. He also discusses his time in the U.S. Public Health Service in Baltimore, MD, his internship in San Diego, CA, and his recruitment to the University of Minnesota. Dr. Luepker reviews his experience applying for and executing the Minnesota Heart Health Program grant; the culture at the University in comparison to other institutions where he’d studied and worked; and Ancel Keys work in the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and the merging of the Laboratory with the Division of Epidemiology. He then gives his perspective on retrenchments as a result of his time as chairman of the University Senate Finance and Planning Committee and the impact of the Rajender Consent Decree. Dr. Luepker also describes the following: his research programs; interventional and observational epidemiology in the School; public health as an activist profession; collaborations with the Medical School; the influence of the Academic Health Center on collaboration; his views on leadership in the AHC; the tenures of the deans of the School of Public Health; and his work with the regents. He concludes his interview by discussing the combining of the roles of Medical School dean and vice president of the AHC and collaboration within the AHC.