Ralph Crawshaw

Background

Crawshaw, Ralph was born on July 3, 1921 in New York City.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Middlebury (Vermont) College, 1943; Doctor of Medicine New York University, 1947.

Career

Intern, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, 1947-1948; resident, Menninger School Psychiatry, Topeka, 1948-1950; resident, Oregon Eastern State Hospital, Salem, 1950-1951; practice medicine specializing in psychiatry, Washington, 1954; staff psychiatrist, C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, Topeka, 1954-1957; assistant chief, VA Mental Hygiene Clinic, Topeka, 1957-1960; staff psychiatrist, Community Child Guidance Clinic, Portland, Oregon, 1960-1963; founder, clinic director, Tualatin Valley Guidance Clinic, Beaverton, Oregon, 1961-1967; private practice medicine, specializing in psychiatry, Portland, since 1960; member of staff, Holladay Park Hospital, since 1961. Lecturer department child psychiatry Medical School U. Oregon, 1961-1963, clinical professor department psychiatry, 1976. Lecturer School Social Work, Portland State University,1964-1967.

Founder Banjamin Rush Foundation, 1968, president, since 1968. Founder Friends of Medicine, 1969, Court of Man, 1970, Club of Kos, 1974, Oregon Health Decisions, 1983, American Health Decisions, 1989, Health Volunteer Overseas, 1984. Sonian Machanic visiting professor South African College Medicine, 1993.

Achievements

• Ralph Crawshaw has been listed as a noteworthy psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Consultant Bureau Hearings and Appeals, Department of Health, 1964-1990. Consultant Albina Child Development Center, Portland, 1965-1975, Department of Health Region 8 Health Planning, 1979. Member Institute Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1978, Oregon Health Coordinating Council, 1979.

Member Governor's Advisory Committee on Mental Health, 1966-1972. Ad hoc committee National Leadership Conference on American Health Policy, 1976, Governor's Advisory Committee on Medical Care to Indigent, since 1976. Trustee Millicent Foundation, 1964-1967, Multnomah Foundation for Medical Care, 1977.

President Bull Run Heritage Foundation, 1996. Visiting scholar Center for Study Democratic Institutions, 1969, Jack Murdock Charitable Trust, 1977, United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics exchange scholar, 1973. Founder Bull Run Heritage Foundation, 1996.

Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. To lieutenant, Medical Corps United States Navy, 1951-1954. Fellow American Psychiatric Association.

Member American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Medical Association, Oregon Medical Association (trustee since 1972), Multnomah County Medical Society (president 1975), Royal Society Medicine, Institute of Medicine of National Academy of Sciences, North Pacific Society Neurology and Psychiatry, Society for Psychological Study Social Issues, Western European Association Aviation Psychology, American Medical Writers Association, Portland Psychiatrists in Private Practice (president 1971), Russian Academy Natural Sciences (foreign member), Alpha Omega.