ohs_2011-013.xml Guide to the Donald G. Kassebaum papers 1963-2011 Kassebaum (Donald G.) papers Karen Peterson Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives 2011
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Donald G. Kassebaum papers Kassebaum, Donald G. , 1931- 2011-013 0.5 linear feet document box 1963-2011 Dr. Kassebaum was a trained cardiologist whose thirty-year career (1956-1986) went from Intern to Director of OHSU Hospital and Vice President of Hospital Affairs. A wide variety of material illustrates his varied career.

Dr. Kassebaum (d. October 12, 2012) was trained at UOMS Hospital and Clinics, and the VA Hospital, Portland. He was a clinical fellow in the Division of Cardiology UOMS and a Senior Vice President of the Division of Medical School Standards and Assessment, Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington D.C., the AAMC, Liasison Committee on Medical Education. He was also the Senior Associate Editor of Academic Medicine. After serving as the Director of Health Policy Study, School of Medcine, Oregon Health Sciences Univerity, vice president for Hospital Affairs and Director of the OHSU Hopsital, Chief of Medical Services at the University of Oregon Medical School Hospital.

Kassebaum's CV lists publications dating from 1960-2000, ranging in topic from cardiology to medical and nursing education. He was licensed to practice medicine in the states of Oklahoma (1986) and Oregon (1957). His list of memberships in professional societies and organizations and appointments to community, state and national service organizations is long and impressive. He recieved honors in teaching and many grant awards as a principal investigator from the Oregon Heart Association, the National Heart Institute and the National Heart and Lung Association. He received his professional training from the University of Oregon Medical School Hospitals and Clinics as an intern (1956-57), served his residency with the VA hospital, Portland (1957-58), completed a residency, UOMS (1959-60); he was a Clinical Fellow, UOMS (1959-1960), and Senior Research Fellow, UOMS (1960-62). He served as UOMS professor of medicine and associate and assistant professor of medicine in the UOMS Department of Cardiology and was the Director of the Cardiac Electrodiagnostic Laboratories at UOMS, and was Chief of Medical Services at the UOMS University Hospitals, also he was Vice President of Hospital Affairs and the Director of the Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital and finally served as the Director of Health Policy Study at OHSU. He resigned his post to take a position with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (1986). Until 1999 he served as Vice President of the Division of Medical School Standards and Assessment for the Association of American Medical Colleges, was secretary for the AAMC, and was responsible for the AAMC's protfolio on international health and medical education. He also participated professionally as the senior associate Editor for the Journal of Academic Medicine.

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The collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Donald G. Kassebaum, M.D. and includes reprints, correspondence, publications, reports, photographs, certificates, diplomas, licenses, curriculum vitae, biographical materials, and reports regarding his tenure at the University of Oregon Health and Sciences University and at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center.

Donald G. Kassbaum papers, Collection Number 2011-013, Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives

 Laster, Leonard Jones, Richard T. Labby, Daniel H., 1914-2015 Multnomah County Hospital Oregon Health & Science University University of Oregon Health Sciences Center University of Oregon. Medical School Oregon Hospital Administration Cardiology Colleges and Universities Medicine and Health news bulletins Physicians Correspondence, Publications, & Reports Reprints 1961-1978 1 1 Correspondence - regarding resignation 1985-1986 1 2 Correspondence, Lewis W. Bluemle , UOHSC president 1977 January 5 and June 20 1 3 Correspondence, Richard T. Jones, interim president 1978 September 6 1 3 Correspondence, Leonard Laster, president UOHSC 1979 February 8 1 3 Correspondence, William E. Davis, Chancellor, Oregon State System of Higher Education undated 1 3 Oregonian clipping: "Tragic Hospital Farce" 1970 1 4 Oregonian clipping: "Victims of Cutbacks" 1970 Januay 7 1 4 Oregonian article - OHSU reorganization 1976 March 24 1 4 Oregonian serial articles - progress of UOHSC 1979 December 23-29 1 4 OHSU "NEWS" 1977-1978 1 4 Status reports on University Hospital 1976 and 1979 1 5 Curriculum Vitae 1956-2011 1 6 Accrual January 2012 Photographs undated 1. Dr. Donald Kassebaum (left) and 4th year medical student Mark Fisher examining patient in Multnomah Hospital medical intensive care unit, 1975. At the time, Dr. Kassebaum was professor of medicine and chief of medical services. Recording instruments in backgraound used for intravascular and ECG monitoring during physiologic studies. Fischer later practiced medicine/pulmonary diseases, Port Angeles, Washington. 2. (From left)Dr. William Drips (intern), Dr. Donald Kassebaum (medical resident), Dr. Daniel Labby, (professor of medicine) assessing patient on rounds in the Medical School Hospital, 1958. 3. Portland VA Hospital Department of Medicine staff and residents, 1959. Dr. Leonard Ritzmann (chief of medicine) in front row center with bow tie. Dr. J. David Bristow is at the left end of the third row, next to Dr. Donald Kassebaum with glasses. This was the inaugural year for the joint medical School-VAH medical residency made up largely of residents returning from miltary service and those of us awaiting draft call - which actually never came, and we enjoyed the full year before returning to complete our residencies at the Medical School. 4. photoof Dr. Donald Kassebaum during his tenure at (then) Oregon health Sciences Center as Vice-President and Director of Hospitals and Clinics (1975-1985). 1 7 Bristow, J. David Drips, William Labby, Daniel H., 1914-2015 Ritzmann, Leonard Diplomas, Licenses and Certificates 1967-1975 1 8 Medical forms undated Medical records forms for recording patient information in the Medicine Clerkship of the University of Oregon Medical School, 1955. Dr. Howard P. Lewis, the Chairman of Medicine, expected to see the chest charts elaborately detailed to show the breath sounds, and heart shape and size adduced from the physical examination that most other medical centers deferred to x-rays. 1 9 Documents-Deanship/University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center undated 1 10 Reprints undated 1 11 Monograph undated 1

"The Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen" by Zachary Cope, 10th edition, 1951. Presented to each rotating intern completing service in 1957. Inside page signed by the medical school dean (Dr. David W.E. Baird) and clinical directors (Drs. Charles N. Holnan and Jarvis Gould) and each head of service.