Scope and Contents Richard R. (Dick) Barr is interviewed by Fred R. Hanold M.D. about Mastercare, a managed care plan formed by Presbyterian and St. Joseph Hospitals in 1972 and discontinued in Dec. 1981. Mr. Barr became Administrator of Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque in 1969 and in 1978 was named Executive Vice President and Chief of Operations for Presbyterian Hospital Center and Southwest Community Health Services. He was elevated to President in 1981 and served in that post until his retirement in...

Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Robert E. Anderson (1931-2009) focuses largely on the creation and early years of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Dr. Anderson summarizes his own personal and professional background; analyzes the reasons for his decision to join the brand new school in 1964 (and suggests those of many of his colleagues); sketches the prominent individuals involved in the early history of the institution; provides information about the first decade or so of the...

Scope and Contents This interview surveys the life and career of Dr. Robert Friedenberg (1909-1990) of Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of New Mexico's pioneer board-certified internists, Dr. Friedenberg practiced in Albuquerque from 1945 until his retirement in 1978. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Friedenberg's personal and professional backgrounds; his service in the U.S. Army and the Veterans Administration, including the VA Hospital in Albuquerque; the development and importance of the...

Scope and Contents This interview surveys the early life and career of Dr. Robert H. Gervais (1929-2021), a psychiatrist practicing in Roswell, New Mexico. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Gervais's personal and professional backgrounds; his service in and views on UNM-SOM's early efforts in the field of psychiatry in the late 1960s, including testimony regarding the early years of the Mental Health Center; Dr. Gervais's reflections on the efforts to establish modern psychiatric services...

Scope and Contents This interview surveys the life and career of Dr. Samuel R. Barol (1929- ), of Albuquerque, New Mexico. A specialist in internal medicine, Dr. Barol came to Albuquerque in 1975 to join the Lovelace Clinic. Among the subjects discussed in this interview are Dr. Barol's personal and professional background; his choice between specialty and family practice medicine; his perspectives on the Lovelace Clinic at the time of his arrival in 1975; the prominent individuals involved in Lovelace; its...

Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Thomas L. Chiffelle (1918-2008) focuses on his nearly forty years' association with Albuquerque's Lovelace Clinic. In addition to his own personal and professional background, Dr. Chiffelle comments on Albuquerque medicine and the place of the Lovelace Clinic within it. Among the subjects discussed are the doctors William Randolph Lovelace I, William Randolph Lovelace II, and the other major figures of the Lovelace institution; the friction between the Clinic and the...

Scope and Contents The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center collection, HHC 335, dates circa 1949 - 2010s. This artificial collection consists of programs, reports, photographs, publications, and other items received by the library from various donors. The collection is minimally processed. It helps document the history and activities of the UNM Health Sciences Center and supplements the Health Sciences Center's institutional archives and digital repository...

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The UNM College of Pharmacy records date 1945-2003. Types of records include correspondence, newsletters, clippings, photographs, meeting minutes, and reports. These records help document the development and activities of the UNM College of Pharmacy as well as New Mexican pharmacists and their professional associations.

Scope and Contents This interview with Dr. Victor E. Berchtold (1901-2007) of Santa Fe, New Mexico, provides a broad overview of his half century in medicine, from his student days at Creighton University through forty years of practice in Santa Fe. The interview provides information about the following subjects: the Santa Fe medical community of the 1930s and 1940s; the importance of the tuberculosis industry in New Mexico; the development of Dr. Berchtold's specialty focus on urology; and St. Vincent's...