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Browsing by Subject "Medical technology"

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    Interview with A. Marilyn Sime
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-04-15) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Sime, A. Marilyn
    A. Marilyn Sime begins by discussing her background, including her education. She discusses her experiences as a baccalaureate student at the University of Minnesota; working as a nurse at the University Hospital in the late 1950s; working as a nurse in Minot, ND, in the 1950s; her experiences as an instructor at the University of Minnesota; teaching in the baccalaureate program; and her doctoral research. She compares her responsibilities at the different places she worked, particularly Minot and the University Hospital. She describes nursing curriculum changes in the 1960s; technologies she interacted with in the critical care unit; how physicians treated nurses; the efforts of the School of Nursing to secure funding for building Unit F; the concern in the 1960s over the shortage of health care workers; challenge exams for RNs in the 1970s; the Boston University School of Nursing; the rural nursing program at the University of Minnesota; and the Block Nurse Program at the University of Minnesota. She discusses team nursing; faculty organization issues and discontent with Edna Fritz’s leadership; the effects of the School of Nursing being part of the College of Medical Sciences in the 1960s and the changes with the reorganization of the health sciences in the School of Nursing becoming more autonomous in 1970; and relations between the health science units and their faculty after the reorganization. She talks about the practical nursing program; changes in the graduate nursing curriculum and the development of doctoral program; funding; issues of gender; the women’s health movement; the development of the nurse midwifery program; the public health nursing program; the relationship between the University Hospital and the School of Nursing; the Minnesota Nursing Association, the American Nursing Association, and the National League of Nursing; and nurse practitioners. She remembers Katherine Densford, Edna Fritz, Isabel Harris, Irene Ramey, and Lyle French.
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    Interview with Alfred Michael
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-04-25) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Michael, Alfred F.
    Dr. Alfred Michael begins his interview with a reflection on his childhood and education in Philadelphia and his interests in medicine and pediatrics. He describes his decision to move to the University of Minnesota in order to work with Dr. Robert A. Good. He then discusses all of the following in relation to his research: working with Robert Vernier; changes in technology and methodology related to testing the kidney; his graduate work in biochemistry; specialization in medical research; work on transplantation and dialysis with John Najarian and Carl Kjellstrand; kidney research at the University; the expansion of and coverage for dialysis; and his time in Copenhagen. Dr. Michael then describes Dr. John Anderson’s tenure as department chair and his own tenure as dean, during which he made efforts to create a major children’s hospital facility in combination with the University. He also reflects on the larger context of changes in healthcare structures in the period, particularly the emergence of HMOs and Minnesota’s role in the development of HMOs, and town/gown relations in the Twin Cities. Dr. Michael then discusses Robert Howard and David Brown’s tenures as dean of the Medical School and issues with private practice and finances at the University. Turning to administrative matters, Dr. Michael describes his work with Win Wallin; William Brody’s tenure as provost of the AHC; and the growth of the administrative power of the AHC. He then elaborates on the creation of University of Minnesota Clinical Associates and University of Minnesota Physicians; the sale of University Hospital to Fairview; divisions of responsibility and administration within the AHC; relations between different schools in the AHC; and the investigation of John Najarian in connection with Antilymphocyte Globulin (ALG). He concludes with reflections on the balance of research, teaching, and clinical work; his moves into administrative positions; his work on various boards; his work with the Legislature; and the Medical School’s standing.
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    Interview with Ellis Benson
    (University of Minnesota, 2009-12-01) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Benson, Ellis
    Ellis Benson starts with his background, including growing up in China (his parents were missionaries), why he went into medicine and academic medicine, and his educational history. He discusses his residency in pathology at the UMN, his internal medicine residency at the VA Hospital, joining the Department of Laboratory Medicine, his work while he was in charge of the blood bank, his work as director of Clinical Laboratories, and his work as head of Pathology. He offers reflections on cardiac surgeons Richard Varco and Walter Lillehei and how they dealt with the Lab and the Blood Bank, as well as working with the Department of Surgery and surgeons more generally. He discusses the appointment of Robert Howard as dean of the College of Medical Sciences in 1959 and Howard’s deanship, the Vice President of the Health Sciences search and the appointment of Lyle French. He also discusses Franz Halberg, and David Brown. He discusses his work on protein chemistry and going to the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, the UMN’s Clinical Laboratory providing community services to anyone in Minnesota, the Medical Technology program, why technologists tended to be women, and specialization in medicine. He describes the founding of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, the creation of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the UMN in 1959, space issues in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the merger of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and the relationships between the clinical and basic science departments within the Medical School. He discusses the attempt to establish a second medical school in St. Paul, relations between the Medical School and other UMN health science schools in the 1960s and 1970s, faculty attitudes toward the 4 reorganization in 1970, the impact of the introduction of Medicaid and Medicare, the attempt to create a School of Allied Health Sciences in the late 1960s and early 1970s, relations between the Medical School and the Mayo Clinic, and relations with the University Hospitals.
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    Interview with Frank Cerra
    (University of Minnesota, 2014-07-31) Cerra, Frank B.; Tobbell, Dominique
    Dr. Frank Cerra begins part one of his interview by describing his undergraduate education at SUNY Binghamton, his medical education at Northwestern University Medical School, and his residency at SUNY Buffalo. He then describes his recruitment to the University of Minnesota, his early goals, and his growing administrative roles. He describes the leadership implications of investigations into Antilymphocyte Globulin (ALG) on the Medical School and the merging of University Hospital with Fairview Health Services. He then discusses the following topics: his interest in surgery; the culture of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Surgery; his work with the pharmaceutical industry and the College of Pharmacy; his work developing a critical care program at the University; and his relationships with the hospital directors, hospital nursing, and the School of Nursing. In part of two his interview, Dr. Cerra intersperses reflections on finances and relations among different levels of administration in the University, the AHC, and University Hospital. He also discusses the following topics: his relationship with Neal Gault; strategic and long-range planning; the goals of the AHC; the formation of University of Minnesota Physicians; the establishment of the Biomedical Ethics Center (later the Center for Bioethics) and the Masonic Cancer Center; the investigations into ALG and Dr. John Najarian; the establishment of the Center for Drug Design; William Brody as Provost of the AHC and issues surrounding faculty tenure; and the establishment of the Institute for Health Informatics. In part three of his interview, Dr. Cerra expands on the decision to merge University Hospital with Fairview Health Services, particularly focusing on logistics, culture, and reception. He also discusses failed attempts to create a unified children’s hospital in the Twin Cities. He then reflects on the following topics: the major challenges and achievements of his tenure as senior vice president; the merging of the positions of Senior Vice President of Health Sciences and Dean of the Medical School; the creation of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Biomedical Discovery District; and the medical device industry in Minnesota. He concludes by describing the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic partnership in research.
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    Interview with Grace Ederer
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-07-30) Hagens, Emily; Ederer, Grace M.
    Grace Ederer begins her interview with a description of her upbringing, her education, and her decision to enter the field of medical technology. She then recalls the early stages of her career and her work at the University of Minnesota from 1952 to 1982. Ederer describes the role of women in medical technology, the building of the new medical sciences building, and Dr. Gerald T. Evans’ efforts to reorganize the clinical laboratories and medical technology to integrate them into the Medical School. Ederer also discusses her decision to adopt a dog that had been used in experiments conducted C. Walton Lillehei on hypothermia in open-heart surgery. She goes on to describe her changing positions at the University, her teaching, her research, and her pursuit of a master’s in public health. She also talks about her interactions with Dr. Evans, Dr. Ellis Benson, and Dr. Lillehei. She then discusses the Medical Technology Program, her work with Barbara Tucker on laboratory safety and ethics, her work with Ruth Hovde and Verna Rausch, the changing curriculum, dealing with the high volume of lab work, working with graduate students, her experiences with Robert Howard, and efforts to establish a school of Allied Health Sciences.
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    Interview with Gregory W. Hart
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-02-09) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Hart, Gregory W.
    Gregory Hart begins his interview with a brief overview of his early life and education, with a particular emphasis on his time in the MHA program and his residency at University Hospitals and Clinics. He discusses the competition around the patient care dollar and the renewed emphasis on patients in the 1960s and 1970s as well as the creation of the Hospital’s Board of Governors at the University. He then reflects on the emergence of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), his work on InterStudy, the organization that developed the HMO concept, and changes the University experienced as a result of HMOs. He then discusses the following: technological change in the Hospital; cost controls; prospective payment and diagnosis-related groups (DRGs); regional health planning; University Hospital’s relationship with area hospitals; town/gown relations; long range planning for Academic Health Center (AHC) renewal; labor issues and nursing shortages; comparative work for hospitals and gender equity; the organization of the University of Minnesota Clinical Associates; the emergence of HIV/AIDS; the leadership styles of General Directors of the Hospital and work with the legislature; Lyle French as the Senior Vice President for the AHC; the impact of the ALG scandal; the creation of the University of Minnesota Health System; the Hospital’s mission; and the Hospital’s sale to Fairview. He concludes by reflecting on the collaborative environment at the University and the relationships between the different schools within the AHC and the Hospital.
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    Interview with Henry Buchwald
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-09-28) Klaffke, Lauren E.; Buchwald, Henry
    Dr. 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.
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    Interview with Ida Martinson
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-07-07) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Martinson, Ida
    Ida Martinson begins by discussing her background, including her education and why she became a nurse. She discusses working at St. Luke’s Hospital as a diploma student, working with Christian Family Service Center, studying tuberculosis nursing in Japan as part of the University of Minnesota Student Project for Amity among Nations, going to the University of Illinois for her Ph.D., working in the University of Minnesota School of Nursing as faculty, and going to the University of California, San Francisco. She describes relations between nurses and physicians; the medical technologies she interacted with at St. Luke’s Hospital; and having a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Physiology and in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. Other topics discussed include relations between diploma and baccalaureate nurses; interactions between the School of Nursing and other health sciences schools at the University of Minnesota; interactions with insurance companies; her research in Asia; the building of Unit F; regional planning and nursing workforce in the 1970s; and the Midwest Nursing Research Group. Martinson describes her research, including her doctoral research, doing research in Taiwan, and the Home Care for the Dying Child Project. She discusses doing clinical work when she was a baccalaureate student; School of Nursing curriculum revisions; concern over the shortage of health care workers in the 1960s; the federal Nurse Scientist Program; the School of Nursing’s efforts to develop a nursing doctoral program during the 1970s and early 1980s; the reorganization of the health sciences in 1970; public health nursing; sabbaticals; working with the Human Subjects Research Committee; her work in China; nurse practitioners; the Nurse Midwifery Program; the Program for Human Sexuality and attending a Sexual Attitude Reassessment; efforts by the health sciences faculty to establish a health sciences bargaining unit; the development of the 4 Block Nurse Program; and a nursing exchange program with China. She talks about the faculty at the University of Minnesota while she was a student, Katherine Densford, and other School of Nursing deans.
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    Interview with John S. Najarian
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-09-27) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Najarian, John S.
    Dr. John Najarian begins part one of his interview with a reflection on where he was born and raised and how he became interested in medicine. He then discusses his time in the U.S. Air Force, his interest in transplantation, the research he conducted under the mentorship of Frank Dixon and Joe Feldman, his decision to return to surgical work, his time at UCSF, and his move to the University of Minnesota. Dr. Najarian then reviews his time at the University of Minnesota, covering all of the following topics: his efforts to increase the number of surgical patients and work with surgeons in the community; relations with administrators at University Hospital; the continued training of academic surgeons; relations between different departments within the Medical School; cultural differences across the United States; the organ transplantation program at the University; ethical issues in transplantation; Robert Good’s work on bone marrow transplantation; transsexual surgery at the University; the faculty practice plan and income in the Medical School; the impact of Medicare and Medicaid; the health manpower shortage and problems with manpower distribution; and efforts to recruit minority and female surgeons. Dr. Najarian begins part two of his interview by reviewing collaborations with different schools and departments across the University and the differences between the University of Minnesota and the University of California-San Francisco. He comments on his experiences as the College of Medical Sciences reorganized as the Academic Health Center and relations with the state legislature. Dr. Najarian then discusses the following topics: changes to the hospital’s Board of Governors; space and staffing issues; the expansion of the hospital in the late 1970s and 1980s; and the sale of University Hospital to Fairview. Dr. Najarian spends a considerable portion of the interview reflecting on the development of Minnesota antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) and the legal problems he faced with the FDA and the University surrounding its sale. In the remainder of the interview, Dr. Najarian discusses the following topics: the leadership of Lyle French and Neal Vanselow; the impact of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984; transplants conducted in pediatric patients and Jamie Fisk’s successful liver transplant at eleven months old; and changes in surgical technologies. He concludes his interview with reflections on the legacy of Dr. Owen Wangensteen and other figures important to the history of the AHC.
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    Interview with Karen Karni
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-09-11) Hagens, Emily; Karni, Karen
    Dr. Karen Karni begins her interview with an overview of her educational history and how she came to be director of the medical technology program at the University of Minnesota. She then, in more detail, discusses the following: her interest in medical technology; her time as an undergraduate student at the University; generalist and specialty work in medical technology; her work in Bar Harbor, Maine and Virginia, Minnesota; and her time at State University of New York at Buffalo. In reviewing her time at the University of Minnesota in the medical technology program, Dr. Karni covers the following topics: working with Verna Rausch; changes in the curriculum; her doctoral research and certification exams for laboratory personnel; the hierarchy within which laboratory personnel work; the culture of the Medical School and the Rajender Consent Decree; Ellis Benson’s tenure as chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; Dave Brown’s tenure as chair; Leo Furcht as chair; her work with the Minnesota Society for Medical Technology; relationships among the divisions within the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; her appointment and tenure as director of the medical technology program; her work through Project Hope and the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences; the changing demography of students within the medical technology program; and the tenures of several vice presidents of the Academic Health Center. She goes on to consider changes in medical technology more broadly, evolving requirements for tenure, simulation in medical technology education, and automation in the field. She concludes with thoughts on how the University’s medical technology program fits in the history of laboratory science.
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    Interview with Mariah Snyder
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-06-13) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Snyder, Mariah
    Snyder begins by briefly describing her early life, education, and entrance into nursing. She describes her years as a staff nurse in surgery and orthopedics at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN. Within this topic, she discusses new technology in the hospital, doctor/nurse relationships, nurse training, and international nurse exchanges. She then describes her return to graduate school, for her masters at the University of Pennsylvania. She explores her reasons for going out of state, compares nursing programs, and discusses her training. Snyder describes her teaching positions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and then her eventual arrival at the University of Minnesota where she taught and pursued a PhD in education. Framed within her time in the Nursing School at Minnesota, she explores: the Nursing School at Powell Hall, the changing culture of nursing, grants, regional coordination of nursing, the relationship between diploma and baccalaureate programs, the building of Unit F, the push for a doctoral program in nursing the differences between the DNP and the DNS, the Ph.D. program’s reception within the school of nursing, full membership appointments, Nursing School leadership, and long range planning in the nursing school. She describes her research and then discusses the relationship of the Nursing School with other segments of the University. She goes on to discuss different nursing organizations, minority recruitment, and the Nursing School’s relationship with the state legislature. Finally, she discusses her role in athletics at the University, and it’s relationship to women and status in nursing.
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    Interview with Mitzi Duxbury
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-11-04) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Duxbury, Mitzi
    Mitzi Duxbury begins by describing her background, including her education and why she went into nursing. She discusses her experiences as a nursing diploma student; working at Cook County Hospital as a diploma student; and working as a nurse at Fort Riley Hospital in Kansas and at the Washington, D.C. General Hospital. She also describes her experiences as a baccalaureate student at the University of Wisconsin, working at the March of Dimes; and as assistant dean for graduate students at the University of Minnesota. She describes her graduate work; relations between nurses and doctors in the different hospitals in which she worked; the techniques and technologies she worked with as a nurse; developing contracts with North Dakota University for the UMN School of Nursing; the building of Unit F; lobbying for the School of Nursing budget at the state Legislature; and working with the World Health Organization. She discusses midwifery as a nursing specialty; nursing autonomy; the efforts to establish a Ph.D. program in nursing at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing; faculty research and funding; and the Committee for Long Range Planning for the School of Nursing. She also discusses how gender affected her career, and the health care systems of different countries. She talks about Irene Ramey, Ellen Fahey, Lyle French, and other School of Nursing faculty.
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    Interview with Philip Portoghese
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-06-14) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Portoghese, Philip
    Dr. Portoghese begins part one of his interview with a review of his education at Columbia University and then the University of Maryland. He briefly discusses his military service in the Korean War, his Master’s work at Columbia, and then his move to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for doctoral work on cancer research. He then relates his recruitment to the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Minnesota in 1961 and his changing research interests in analgesic receptors. Dr. Portoghese then discusses his childhood interest in chemistry, relating several personal anecdotes, and how this led to his interest in pharmacy. He shares his recollections of the College of Pharmacy when he first arrived at the University in 1961, Lawrence Weaver’s tenure as dean, changes in the field of medicinal chemistry, and changes in the structure of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry over the course of his career at the University. In part two of his interview, Dr. Portoghese offers his impressions of the creation of the Academic Health Center and the College of Pharmacy’s move to Weaver-Densford Hall. He discusses relations between the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Pharmacology Department, changes in concepts of intellectual property at the University, Dr. Robert Vince’s development of Ziagen, his own research on analgesic receptors, his continuous funding by the NIH, corporate interest in biochemical mechanisms, his development of different compounds as research tools, and industry support for drug research. He then discusses his time as chair of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, administrative support for the Department, and his time as editor of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. He ends his interview with the major technological innovations that have revolutionized the way research in medicinal chemistry is performed.
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    Interview with Ralph DeLong
    (University of Minnesota, 2013-06-10) Klaffke, Lauren E.; DeLong, Ralph
    Ralph DeLong begins his interview by describing his choices regarding his education and early career. He discusses his time in the University of Minnesota’s Dental School, his decisions regarding dental research and practice; his master’s research; the building of the artificial mouth; the development of AnSur software; and the creation of the virtual dental patient; and the development of ART 5. The interview then turns toward teaching and administration within the school, particularly touching on the teaching of evidence-based dentistry; student-friendly teaching; retrenchment within the Dental School and the University more broadly; and lobbying the Legislature. He then describes the following: relations among departments within the Dental School; relations among different schools and colleges within the AHC; the tenures of Richard Oliver and Richard Elzay as deans; the threatened closure of the Dental School; his time on the Institutional Effectiveness Committee; efforts within the School to admit more minority students; the impact of the Rajender Consent Decree; Michael Till’s tenure as dean; and his time with professional organizations. He concludes his interview with his thoughts on the future of dentistry and leadership in the AHC.
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    Interview with Randall D. Seifert
    (University of Minnesota, 2013-08-05) Klaffke, Lauren E.; Seifert, Randall D.
    Dr. Randall Seifert begins his interview by describing his early life and education, including his pursuit of a Pharm.D. and a postdoc in pharmacokinetics at the University of Minnesota. He then discusses his work in North Dakota. He reflects on changing trends in pharmacy hospital practice, ways to build sustainable clinical practices, and problems pharmacists face in smaller communities. He then describes the various positions he held in Southern California, particularly his work for California Clinical Trials and Health Net. He then describes his return to the University of Minnesota in 2005, including his work on the implementation of medication therapy management benefits for the City of Duluth and it adoption by U-Plan at the University of Minnesota. He then discusses the following topics: relationships between the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses of the College of Pharmacy; current trends in pharmacy education; efforts to recruit Native American students; his work with Marilyn Speedie and her leadership as dean; Frank Cerra’s leadership as vice president of the Academic Health Center; relations between medical and pharmacy students at UMN Duluth; collaborations between schools and colleges in the health sciences; and his work with the State Legislature. He concludes with his ideas for interprofessional communication in education.
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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 Ruth Stryker-Gordon
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-12-03) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Stryker-Gordon, Ruth
    Ruth 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.
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    Interview with Ruth Weise
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-07-28) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Weise, Ruth
    Ruth Weise starts with describing her background, including her education and why she went into nursing. She discusses her experiences as a student at the University of Minnesota, working as a staff nurse, teaching operating room nursing, why she left the University of Minnesota, and her work at St. Barnabus Hospital. She describes working with iron lungs, surgeons’ treatment of nurses, working in the operating room and with different technologies, and the Area Health Education Centers program. She discusses the relationship between diploma and degree nurses at the University of Minnesota; curriculum changes in the 1940s and 1950s; changes in the School of Nursing between the 1950s and 1970s; the move in nursing to working with communities; the relationship of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing to other nursing programs in the region; the closing of nursing diploma schools, changes in the School of Nursing after the reorganization of the health sciences in 1970; the perceived shortage of health care professionals in the 1950s through 1970s; public health nursing; and the move to have nursing faculty with Ph.D.s and what it was like to not have a Ph.D. in this context. She remembers Katherine Densford, Isabel Harris, Edna Fritz, Irene Ramey, and Ellen Fahey.
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    Interview with Seymour H. Levitt
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-04-04) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Levitt, Seymour H.
    Levitt begins by describing his childhood and his decision to study medicine. He describes his time in the military. He discusses the choice to do two residencies (radiology and internal medicine) in San Francisco. He describes the changes that have occurred in therapeutic radiology over the course of his career. He discusses his tenure at other universities and the decision to come to the University of Minnesota to build the therapeutic radiology department. He describes using linear accelerators in place of cobalt machines at the University of Minnesota. He discusses the influence of foreign physicians on American radiation therapy and the conflicts among physicians treating people with cancers. He also discusses the culture of the medical school. He describes his involvement with the Bone Marrow Transplant Program and the Masonic Cancer Center. He discusses the implications of the ALG litigation on the Medical School and the University of Minnesota. He also discusses the sale of the University Hospital to Fairview Health Systems. He concludes with the impact of changing imaging technologies on his field.
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    Interview with Theresa "Tess" Sullivan
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-10-07) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Sullivan, Theresa
    Theresa Sullivan begins by describing her education and her decision to become a nurse. She discusses her experiences as a student at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing during 1940s, her clinical experience, and working as a nurse at the University Hospital in the 1940s. She discusses World War II; changes in nursing and medical practice since the 1940s; nurses’ relationships with interns; how physicians and surgeons treated nurses; diploma nurses; the atmosphere around the Medical School in the 1950s; the Medical School faculty’s relationship with their students; the position and power of the Medical School within the health sciences and the University more broadly; attitudes of local medical community toward the Medical School; and the relationship between the Medical School and the state legislature. She talks about her husband, Dr. Albert Sullivan; Earl Bakken and the development of the pacemaker; Walton C. and Katherine Lillehei; John Najarian; and Katherine Densford.