Background
Schloesser, Patricia Turk was born on April 10, 1924 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Alonzo Benjamin and Ruth (Powe) Turk.
Schloesser, Patricia Turk was born on April 10, 1924 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Alonzo Benjamin and Ruth (Powe) Turk.
Student, Oklahoma State University, 1944. Bachelor of Science, Oklahoma State University, 1965. Bachelor, University Wisconsin, 1945.
Doctor of Medicine, University Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, 1949.
Internship, University Hospital, Oklahoma City, 1949-1950; pediatrics residency, Crippled Children's Hospital, Oklahoma City, 1950-1952; pediatric consultant, Kansas Board Health, Topeka, 1952-1958; director division maternal and child health, Kansas Board Health, Topeka, 1958-1971; chief of party maternal and child health, United States Agency for International Development and University of California Berkeley, Kampala, Uganda, 1971-1973; medical officer, Mental Retardation Superior vena cava syndrome Western Australia, Perth, 1973; director bureau maternal and child health, Kansas Department Health & Environment, Topeka, 1974-1983; medical director maternal and child health programs, Kansas Department Health & Environment, Topeka, 1984-1987; director division health, Kansas Department Health & Environment, Topeka, 1987-1988; deputy director federal and state relations, Kansas Department Health & Environment, Topeka, 1988-1989; private practice as maternal and child health consultant, Topeka, since 1989. Research associate coping project Menninger Foundation, Topeka, 1955-1962. Clinical associate professor department pediatrics medical school U. Kansas, Kansas City, 1977-1994.
Member advisory committee Kansas Action Children, Topeka, 1980-1996. Member national advisory committee National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care, since 1996. Fellow American Academy Pediatrics (member committees child care 1969-1974, emeritus fellow).
Member American Public Health Association (chair Master of Surgery section 1985-1986, consultant child care 1987-1994, member action board 1991-1996, Martha May Eliot award 1992), Kansas Medical Society (member maternal health committee), Association Maternal & Child Health Programs (board directors 1981-1987, member various committees, honorary member since 1997), Shawnee County Medical Society (Outstanding Member 1999).
Married Harvey Leopold Schloesser, December 31, 1945. Children: Lysa Lynn, Nina Ruth, Peter Ernst, Anne Carol, David Turk.