Background
Domke, Herbert Reuben was born on April 6, 1919 in Hillsboro, Kansas, United States. Son of Henry and Lydia (Steltzer) Domke.
conservationist state official
Domke, Herbert Reuben was born on April 6, 1919 in Hillsboro, Kansas, United States. Son of Henry and Lydia (Steltzer) Domke.
Student, Wright Junior College, Chicago, 1937. Bachelor of Science, University Chicago, 1939. Doctor of Medicine, University Chicago, 1942.
Master of Public Health, Harvard, 1948. Doctor of Public Health, Doctor of Public Hygiene, Harvard, 1959. Honorary Doctor of Science, Central Methodist College, Fayette, Missouri, 1975.
Intern Billings Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1942-1943, Chicago Memorial Hospital, 1943-1944. Chief medical officer Chicago Health Department, 1944-1947. Health commissioner St. Louis County Health Department, 1949-1958.
Director Pittsburgh-Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Health Department, 1959-1966, Health and Hospitals, St. Louis, 1966-1970, Missouri Division Health, Jefferson City, 1971-1980, director section medical care, 1980-1984. Instructor University Chicago, 1944-1946. Assistant professor Washington University, St. Louis, 1949-1958, professor public health, professor medicine, 1966.
Adjunct associate professor University Pittsburgh, 1959-1966. Clinical professor preventive medicine St. Louis University, 1966. Member Pennsylvania Governor's Commission Health Services for Appalachia, Missouri Governor's Council Comprehensive Health Planning.
Medical advisory committee Missouri Division Welfare, Bi-State Development Agency (Missouri-Illinois) Regional Medical Program. Member commission to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics urban health planning, 1966. Co-founder Conference Urban Health Providers.
President United States Conference City Health Officers, 1968-1970.
Board directors Blue Cross Western Pennsylvania, St. Louis Tuberculosis Health Society, Pittsburgh Tuberculosis League, Pittsburgh United Mental Health Services, St. Louis Hospital Planning Commission. Trustee Cancer Research Center, Columbia, Missouri. Co-founder with Joan M. Domke Prairie Garden Trust.
Medical director United States Public Health Service, 1966-1982. Member Missouri State Medical Association, Missouri Public Health Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science (member commission air conservation).
Married Joan Marie Sullivan, June 14, 1946. Children– Catherine (Mistress James Teague), Jane Alice, Elizabeth Marie (Mistress Ronald Worthington), Henry Francis.