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Bloomfield, Daniel Kermit was born on December 14, 1926 in Cleveland. Son of Joseph Bernard and Henrietta (Namen) Bloomfield.
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Keys to the Asylum : A Dean, a Medical School, and Academic Politics
(He wanted to innovate, they wanted him to toe the line ...)
He wanted to innovate, they wanted him to toe the line So why did they give him the KEYS TO THE ASYLUM? Daniel K. Bloomfield, M.D., didnt know he was entering an academic bedlam when he accepted the job as founding dean of a new medical school. Dr. Bloomfield was a cardiologist working in private practice when the University of Illinois College of Medicine offered him a deanship. He was lured by the chance to work in an exciting initiative to establish regional medical schools in Illinois and by the implied promise that his one-year school would eventually become a full four-year medical program. Dr. Bloomfield found instead an administration that wanted him to suffer quietly while it dragged its feet on its promises and turned a deaf ear to his requests for more funding. Suffer quietly? Boy, did they have the wrong man! In Keys to the Asylum: A Dean, a Medical School, and Academic Politics, Dr. Bloomfield recounts his14-year battle to secure the future of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. Spawned by the fiscal largesse and idealism of the late 60s, the school was shaped by the diminished expectations of the recessionary 70s. Determined to turn out doctors who saw patients as people rather than flesh-and-blood machines, the unrelentingly optimistic dean drove the effort to forge an innovative curriculum, fought to turn his one-year school into a full four-year program, and developed a highly acclaimed joint Ph.D.-M.D. program. The resourceful dean accomplished these goals despite chronic underfunding from the unsympathetic and often hostile bureaucrats in Chicago, enmity from his fellow deans, and the constant specter that, at any moment, the administration would shut down the school. He says of his book, It is a story of clashing academic personalities: of leaders strong and weak, of intrigues that take place in the name of academic quality and fiscal responsibility, and of deception both deliberate and accidental. This dramatic story gives readers an inside look into academic politics, the passions these internecine battles ignite, and the toll they take on educators and students alike. Dr. Bloomfield shows how passion and commitment beats bureaucracy and the status quo every time. The story of a deans fight to save the medical school he founded.
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Keys to the Asylum : A Dean, a Medical School, and Academic Politics 1st Edition by Bloomfield, Daniel K. (2000) Paperback
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Daniel Kermit Bloomfield
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Daniel Kermit Bloomfield, American college dean, physician. Recipient citation for contributions to medical education Ohio Heart Association, 1964. President Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation, 1985-1988, Center Illinois Jewish Federation, 1988-1992; board directors Planned Parenthood, 1988-1989. With United States Navy, 1947-1950. Member Alpha Omega Alpha.
Education
Bachelor of Science, United States Naval Academy, 1947. Master of Science, Western Reserve University, 1954. Doctor of Medicine, Western Reserve University, 1954.
Career
Intern, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, 1954-1955; resident, Beth Israel Hospital, 1955-1956; resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1956-1967; research fellow chemistry, Harvard University, 1957-1959; honorary assistant registrar cardiology, National Heart Hospital, London, 1959-1960; senior instructor medicine, Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1960-1964; senior clinical instructor medicine, Western Reserve U., 1964-1970; director cardiovascular research, Community Health Foundation, Cleveland, 1964-1966; associate medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, 1966-1969; professor medicine, University of Illinois School Medicine, Urbana, 1970-1996; dean College Medicine, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1970-1984; professor emeritus, since 1996. Investigator American Heart Association, 1960-1964.
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Keys to the Asylum : A Dean, a Medical School, and Academic Politics
(He wanted to innovate, they wanted him to toe the line ...)
- Keys to the Asylum : A Dean, a Medical School, and Academic Politics 1st Edition by Bloomfield, Daniel K. (2000) Paperback
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Keys to the Asylum : A Dean, a Medical School, and Academic Politics
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President Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation, 1985-1988, Center Illinois Jewish Federation, 1988-1992. Board directors Planned Parenthood, 1988-1989. With United States Navy, 1947-1950.
Member Alpha Omega Alpha.
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Married Frances Aub, June 10, 1955. Children: Louis, Ruth, Anne.
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American