Background
Straus, Robert was born on January 9, 1923 in New Haven. Son of Samuel Hirsh and Alma (Fleischner) Straus.
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Twenty cents was deducted from the monthly wage of each merchant seaman to build or rent hospitals and pay for the medical care.
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Hardback book, black cover,Title A Medical School is Born,Author, Robert Strauss. A History of the Conception,Gestation and Infancy of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine By One Who Assisted in the Delivery.,publ. McClanahan Publishing House,cpyrt. 1996,first edition.ISBN# 0913383481.221 pages. Size 9 by 6 by 3/4 inches.
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Straus, Robert was born on January 9, 1923 in New Haven. Son of Samuel Hirsh and Alma (Fleischner) Straus.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1943. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1945. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1947.
Assistant professor Yale University, 1948—1951, research associate applied physiology, 1951—1953. Acting director Connecticut Child Study and Treatment Home, New Haven, 1952—1953. Associate professor preventive medicine State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, 1953—1956.
Professor medical sociology University Kentucky, Lexington, 1956—1959, professor department behavioral science College Medicine, also chairman department, 1959—1987. Director for science development Medical Research Institute San Francisco, 1991—1993. Visiting fellow Yale University, 1968—1969.
Visiting professor University California, Berkeley, 1978, 86. Secretary Committee Medical Sociology, 1955—1957. Chairman Cooperative Committee Study Alcoholism, 1961—1963, National Advisory Committee on Alcoholism, 1966—1969.
Member National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1984—1987. Trustee Medical Research Institute San Francisco, 1988—1993. Member California Pacific Medical Center Research Council, 1993.
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President Bluegrass R.R. Museum, 1980. Member of Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences, Academy Behavioral Medicine Research, American Public Health Association (lifetime achievement award section on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs 1993), Association Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education (president 1974), American Sociological Association (chairman medical sociology section 1967-1968, Leo G. Reeder award Distinguished Contribution to Medical Sociology 1998), Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Ruth Elisabeth Dawson, September 8, 1945. Children: Robert James, Carol Martin, Margaret Dawson, John William.