TY  - GEN
AB  - Dr. John Moorhead is a native Canadian, whose mother was a nurse, which gave him an early interest in medicine. Educated at Queens' University Medical School. While there, he did rotations at the local emergency room, and the physicality, constant action and teamwork appealed to him greatly. Interned at a Vancouver trauma center, then an emergency medicine residency at McGill in Montreal. When he heard OHSU was starting an E.M. program he came here in 1978. Soon our residents got affiliation with local hospitals Portland Adventist and St. Vincent. Next goal was have E.M. recognized as a specialty. He tells of other advances like paramedic training and origin of the Oregon Poison Center. He later studied health policy. He became chief of the department 1991, and concentrated on making a Level 1 Trauma Center. He created the Oregon Trauma Center and new departments in the Hatfield Building and at Doernbecher Hospital.
DA  - 2016-09-08
DA  - 2016 September 8
DO  - 10.6083/M4445KK0
DO  - DOI
ED  - Ma, John
ED  - Moorhead, John C.
ED  - Interviewer
ED  - Interviewee
ID  - 3281
KW  - Emergency Medicine
KW  - Wounds and Injuries
KW  - Trauma Centers
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3281/files/oralhist_112.pdf
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3281/files/oralhist_112.pdf
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3281/files/oralhist_112.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3281/files/oralhist_112.pdf
N2  - Dr. John Moorhead is a native Canadian, whose mother was a nurse, which gave him an early interest in medicine. Educated at Queens' University Medical School. While there, he did rotations at the local emergency room, and the physicality, constant action and teamwork appealed to him greatly. Interned at a Vancouver trauma center, then an emergency medicine residency at McGill in Montreal. When he heard OHSU was starting an E.M. program he came here in 1978. Soon our residents got affiliation with local hospitals Portland Adventist and St. Vincent. Next goal was have E.M. recognized as a specialty. He tells of other advances like paramedic training and origin of the Oregon Poison Center. He later studied health policy. He became chief of the department 1991, and concentrated on making a Level 1 Trauma Center. He created the Oregon Trauma Center and new departments in the Hatfield Building and at Doernbecher Hospital.
PB  - Oregon Health & Science University
PY  - 2016-09-08
PY  - 2016 September 8
T1  - Interview with John C. Moorhead, M.D., M.S.
TI  - Interview with John C. Moorhead, M.D., M.S.
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/3281/files/oralhist_112.pdf
Y1  - 2016-09-08
ER  -