TY  - GEN
N2  - In this interview, pediatrician Richard W. Olmsted discusses his career, including his twelve years as head of the Department of Pediatrics at OHSU. He begins with his early life and education in Connecticut. After enrolling in Harvard Medical School, he found he was unable to tie surgical knots and 襰cared stiff� in obstetrics, so he turned to pediatrics instead. He speaks of his internship and residency at Yale University. His attempt at private practice having failed, he spent seven years at Temple University, before arriving at UOMS as Head of Pediatrics in 1962. He talks of expanding full-time faculty, the residency program, the pediatric outpatient clinic, and the volunteer practitioners' program. Later he joined the American Academy of Pediatrics, studied tropical medicine, and worked in Jamaica. He returned to OHSU in 1988 as a resident in child psychiatry. He served as Emeritus faculty, contributing his talents to the University until his death in 2013.
DO  - 10.6083/M43777FJ
DO  - DOI
AB  - In this interview, pediatrician Richard W. Olmsted discusses his career, including his twelve years as head of the Department of Pediatrics at OHSU. He begins with his early life and education in Connecticut. After enrolling in Harvard Medical School, he found he was unable to tie surgical knots and 襰cared stiff� in obstetrics, so he turned to pediatrics instead. He speaks of his internship and residency at Yale University. His attempt at private practice having failed, he spent seven years at Temple University, before arriving at UOMS as Head of Pediatrics in 1962. He talks of expanding full-time faculty, the residency program, the pediatric outpatient clinic, and the volunteer practitioners' program. Later he joined the American Academy of Pediatrics, studied tropical medicine, and worked in Jamaica. He returned to OHSU in 1988 as a resident in child psychiatry. He served as Emeritus faculty, contributing his talents to the University until his death in 2013.
T1  - Interview with Richard W. Olmsted, M.D.
ED  - Rosenwinkel, Heather G., 1938-
ED  - Olmsted, Richard W., 1920-2013
ED  - Interviewer
ED  - Interviewee
DA  - 1999-05-27
DA  - 1999 May 27
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3241/files/oralhist_72.pdf
PB  - Oregon Health & Science University
LA  - eng
PY  - 1999-05-27
PY  - 1999 May 27
ID  - 3241
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3241/files/oralhist_72.pdf
KW  - Pediatrics
KW  - Tropical Medicine
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Child Psychiatry
TI  - Interview with Richard W. Olmsted, M.D.
Y1  - 1999-05-27
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3241/files/oralhist_72.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3241/files/oralhist_72.pdf
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3241/files/oralhist_72.pdf
ER  -