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      Patricia Bloom discusses her early years in Minnesota, the roots of her interest in international community medicine; her medical education and meeting her husband, Harrison Bloom, in medical school; their joint interest in pursuing a social medicine program during residency; how she was introduced to geriatrics at Montefiore and then later was persuaded to move to St. Luke’s Hospital and help found their geriatrics program, and continue to develop her medical career. Dr. Bloom spends time discussing the challenges of raising children while working full time, international medical students in the U.S., and the challenges of medicine in Africa, particularly among the older population. She mentions a number of colleagues including David Hammerman, Gerard M. Turino, Michael Grieco, Greg Steinberg and Joel Barrish.

      Bloom, Patricia

      Mrs. Vivian Clark speaks about her husband, Dr. William Clark, who completed his internship and residency at St. Luke’s Hospital (now Mount Sinai Morningside) and returned there as Chief of Medicine between 1975 and 1979. She discusses his childhood in Dayton, Ohio, and his move into medicine, his work with the National Foundation March of Dimes and The Arthritis Foundation, before returning to clinical practice at St. Luke’s Hospital. In a rather candid interview, Mrs. Clark presents some insider details leading to the merger of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals in 1979, as well as reasons behind former Chief of Medicine Dr. Ted Van Itallie’s leaving St. Luke’s in 1975. She also contributes details of her own life and work in various charity organizations, particularly with the Women’s Auxiliary of St. Luke’s and their volunteers, how she met Bill Clark, what his family was comprised of prior to their marriage, and what their relationship dynamics were like. Significant names mentioned during the interview include: Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Case Western Reserve, the Arthritis Foundation, the National Foundation March of Dimes, John Stage-Davis, Charles Reagan, Chuck Christian, Theodore B. VanItallie, Seichi Shimomura, Miles Schwartz, Larry Huntington, Nick Christy, Gary Gambuti, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Gerard M. Turino, and Stanley Cortell.

      Clark, Vivian Vreeland

      In this interview, Dr. Todd touches on his medical school experiences, including time at the NIH as a medical student; how he eventually gravitated to vascular surgery from cardiac surgery; describes what St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center was like, even 21 years after the merger of the two hospitals, and mentions the Vietnam War draft, family life, and changes in surgery between the 1960s to current day, including changes in procedures and equipment. Significant names mentioned include: Drs. Richard Marx, Walter Wichern, Sigurd Ackerman, David Tilson, Andrew Morrow, Kathy McNicholas, Grace Kim, Ann Rogers, Jim McGinty; The Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Roosevelt Hospital, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center.

      Todd, George

      In this interview Dr. Allendorf talks about how he became interested in pediatrics, and shares stories about his experiences working at St. Luke’s Hospital (Mount Sinai Morningside), and some of the significant people that influenced him and worked with him. Some of those names include: Leif Holgersen, Richard Stark, Lucy Swift, Sidney Bender, Miles Schwartz, Lou Cooper, Leo Wilking, John Driscoll, and Marilyn Menegus. Significant topics include residents’ skits lampooning the attending staff, Roosevelt Hospital library, Babies Hospital.

      Allendorf, Dennis

      In this interview, Dr. Thayaparan relates information about her childhood family and schooling in Sri Lanka, the stories of Dr. Tom Dooley, a medical volunteer in Africa, that were the inspiration for her to be a doctor, her reasons for immigrating to the U.S. and the development of her career here, and what led her focus on pathology. She also mentions information about her own family and dealing with childcare issues while working at the Hospital, and some of her post-retirement activities.

      Thayaparan, Rose
      US AA155.INT187 · File · October 17, 2017
      Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

      During this interview with Dr. Shahrivar, he touches on his childhood, his love of basketball and being on the State team, his medical training in Iran, and moving to the U.S. to continue in rotating internship between pediatric, medicine, and surgery. He describes how his interests in obstetrics quickly moved to neonatology when he was drawn to premature babies that didn’t do well. He relates his experiences working in neonatology and the development of the field, including the establishment of board examinations, setting up a fellowship program at St. Luke’s, community response to focusing the NICU program at the former Roosevelt Hospital. He touches on being a consultant Department of Health of the State and the City of New York, and becoming involved with alcohol addiction, fetal alcohol syndrome and drug addiction. Significant names or topics mentioned include: Drs. Lucy Swift, Stuart Shelton Stevenson, Judy Frank, Tom Moore, Stanley James, Dick Berman, Waldo E. Nelson, Doris Wethers, and Bob Neuwirth; field day activities, St. Luke’s Alumni Association.

      Braun, Norma M.T.

      Dr. Ennio Gallozzi, an anesthesiologist who was born, raised, and trained in Rome, Italy, discusses his life, and how he came to study in the US and continue training at St. Luke’s as a resident in anesthesiology, eventually spending 44 years at the hospital. He mentions life growing up under Mussolini, and the devastation WWII wrought on Rome, and includes stories about colleagues and family life.

      Gallozzi, Ennio
      US AA155.INT185 · File · August 29, 2017
      Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

      In an interview with cardiologist Edward Dwyer, MD, he describes his attraction to medicine as a youngster after listening to a weekly science program on the radio; his decision to attend Columbia University on a baseball scholarship, and staying at Colombia for medical school (College of Physicians and Surgeons class of ’57); changes in science and medical practice between the 1950s and 1960s, and the merger between Roosevelt and St. Luke’s Hospitals in 1979, as well as other details of his medical career and life.

      Dwyer, Edward M., 1936-

      Dr. Lawrence Scharer, a pulmonary specialist, discuss his life and career with Dr. Norma Braun. He describes his upbringing in the Bronx, his education at Columbia University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons and his career at Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West). He also touches on his family life, and his time as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in Seoul, S. Korea.

      Scharer, Lawrence L.

      In this oral history interview, native New Yorker George Dermksian touches on his childhood background, college and medical training and continued training under Dr. John Keating at St. Luke’s Hospital. That was a time of significant changes in the hospital training program and the healthcare insurance industry and he has some interesting observations about both. He also provides some interesting background details on everyday life at the hospital, and about how he came to choose cardiology as a specialty.

      Dermksian, George

      Nancy Mary Panella, served as the medical librarian at St. Luke’s Hospital Center from 1970 to 2010, when she moved into the position of Archivist for the historical collections (2010-2016). In this interview she discusses her background and fields of study leading to a Doctorate in Library Services, her coming to work at St Luke's Hospital and her feelings about the Hospital. She relays several stories about interacting with staff, and mentions the development of the library, and particularly the historical collections, and being honored with being the first non-MD to be welcomed in to the Alumni Society of St. Luke's Hospital, and having the periodical room named in her honor.

      Braun, Norma M.T.

      At the time of this interview, Dr. Xavier Pi-Sunyer was a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and Co-Director of the Nutritional Obesity Research Center. Dr. Pi-Sunyer discusses his formative years in Spain, France, Mexico, and finally the US. He highlights his internship/residency at the former St. Luke’s Hospital; introduction to endocrinology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, England, continued training in public health at Harvard University and his return to St. Luke’s, via Nigeria and Boston, where he became acquainted with Dr. Theodore Van Itallie. Dr. Van Itallie drew him back to New York to help establish the Endocrine Division and research laboratories for nutrition and metabolic research where the team carried out various grant-funded research projects. The most significant the discovery out of which is the hormone leptin. Dr. Pi-Sunyer also provides information on his own family, hobbies and interests, and comments on the mergers of St. Luke’s with Roosevelt Hospital and later the Continuum Health Partners.

      Pi-Sunyer, F. Xavier

      In this interview, Dr. Hassan Khouli discusses his childhood in Syria, and immigration to the U.S. circa 1998 to continue to study medicine and develop his skills through several fellowships, which eventually brought him to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s. He discusses the various stages of study and the development of his interest in critical care and simulation medicine, as well as working at St. Luke’s, and more personal topics such as his family and hobbies.

      Khouli, Hassan

      Dr. Kanick relates stories of her life from childhood in the South to educational and training choices at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons to her work at St. Luke's Hospital Center, mentioning her involvement, as the first woman president of the hospital's Medical Board, in the merger of St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals in 1979.

      Kanick, Virginia

      Interview is with Lawrence Attia, MD, Hassan Khouli, MD, Ira Meisels, MD, and Norma M.T. Braun, MD who share reminisces about the late James Jones, MD, a Mount Sinai West (formerly Roosevelt Hospital) a beloved physician and administrator who died suddenly in December 2016.

      Attia, A. Lawrence

      This interview is with Jane Lattes, wife of the late surgeon, Dr. Conrad Lattes, who relates stories about Conrad’s birth in Torino, Italy, and how he came to the U.S. with his father, Raffaele Lattes, who became head of surgical pathology for many years at Columbia, in either 1940 or 1941. She adds some additional information on Raffaele, and how his family were physicians going many years back. She then continues to tell the story of how she and Conrad met at Swarthmore College, how he choose a medical specialty and his early days at a physician and how his career progressed at St. Luke’s. She adds some facts about their children and her current life and husband.

      Lattes, Jane