Former President and CEO of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Dr. Ron Ablow, talks about his educational choices and training; experiences working as one of the earliest MD/MBAs and the benefits of that degree; his positions at Yale New Haven Hospital and Beth Israel Medical Center and Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco. Of note are the topics of prejudices against women, Jews and Blacks in medical schools, working with community boards, and his post-retirement work as a radiologist with a charitable children’s hospital in Cambodia, and his opinions on the Hospital’s name changes. Particular names that are mentioned include: Gary Gambuti; Lawrence Huntington; Farrokh Shahrivar, MD; Friends Without a Border; The C.V. Starr Hand Surgery Center; Ken Dallas, MD; and the topic of dynamic chest X-rays.
Ablow, Ron
US AA155.INT209
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5/10/2018
Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection