Kaiser, Garfield, and Permanente.

The Garfield Memorial Fund: Helping KP Clinicians and Researchers Come Through the Front Door With Their Ideas.

Table 1. Garfield Memorial Fund Board of Directors Jed Weissberg, MD; GMF Board Chair, Associate Executive Director, Quality and Performance Improvement, The Permanente Federation Edward Thomas, RN, MBA; GMF Director, The Permanente Federation Bob Crane; Senior Vice President, Health Policy Institute, KFHP/H Phil Madvig, MD; Associate Executive Director, TPMG Joanne Schottinger, MD; Assistant t...

Sidney garfield-a personal recollection.

The Most Influential Scientists in the Development of the Medical Informatics (2): Morris F. Collen

MORRIS F. COLLEN (1913-2014) Morris F. Collen (1913) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota (1, 2). He attended the University of Minnesota, where he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1935. In 1938 he earned his MD “with distinction” from the School of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine at USC/ Los Angeles County General Hospital (3). Dr. Morris Collen has ha...

Honoring a giant of 20th century health care.

fter almost ten years of being regaled by Kaiser Permanente (KP) historian Steve Gilford’s wonderful stories about Sidney Garfield, MD’s four-year sojourn in the Mojave Desert (1933-38), where the young surgeon literally laid the foundation of what would become KP, I was well primed for the long-delayed pilgrimage. Finally, last November, I at last had a legitimate excuse to fly down to Anaheim...

Review of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Oral History Project website, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/kaiser/index2.html.

313 to all aspects of asylum life, including treatment. This resulted in a skewed portrayal of the history of the hospital. I firmly believe that the sensationalism of this documentary detracted from its overall educational value and that a more balanced account remains to be presented. The Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Oral History Project website showcases an important set of primary sources...