Box DC 008

Scope and Content From the Collection: This interview with Dr. Bruce Tempest (1935- ) of Gallup, New Mexico, focuses on his thirty years' service in the United States Indian Health Service, almost all that time spent on the Navajo Indian reservation. After three-year tenure at Tuba City, Arizona, Dr. Tempest moved to the Indian Hospital at Gallup, New Mexico, and practiced there until his retirement in 1996. An infectious disease specialist, Dr. Tempest was the key figure in the identification of Hantavirus and the fight against the...