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WASHINGTON OFFICE One Farrag,,~ Sq=:are SouSh Wasblngton, D.C. 20006 Are," Comte 202 783-8155 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 535 NORTH DEARBORN STREET • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60610 • PHONE (312) 527-1500 - TWX 910-221-0300 Hay 22, 1969 The Honorable Earle C. Clements President The Tobacco Institute 1735 K Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Dear Senator Clements: I am returning the list of physicians that were originally associated with the Physicians Committee for Health Care for the Aged Through Social Security- 1962. Under each name you will find each individual's title and his present place of employment. Best wishes. • \Sincerely, ~Hinton, Deputy Director Publi~f~irs Division - Washington HRH:pak Enclosure TI54471527

PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOIl HEALTH CARE FO_R THE AGED THROUGH SOCIAL SECURITY-1962 (Revised~-1969) The following physicians were listed as having been invited to meet with President Kennedy and who will form the nucleus of this new organization: Dr. Robert H. Alway, Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine (1969-Prof, Pediatrics, Stanford) Dr. George Baehr, Chairman of the New York State Public Health Council (1969-Consultant~ Health Ins. Plan ofGreater N.Y. Age 82) Dr. Walter Bauer, Chief of Medical .Service, Massachusetts General Hospital (Deceased) Dr. David Barr, Past ~resident of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater N.Y. (1969-Prof. Emeritus, Cornell School of Mad) Dr. Leona Baumga~tner, Commissioner of the N.Y.C. Dept. of Health (1969-Prof. Social Mad., Harvard Uo School of Public Health) E. Michael Bluestone, Adjunct Asst. Professor of Administrative Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (1969-Prof. Psychiatry, Einstein Mad. School; Dir. Psychiatry, Bronx- Lebanon Hospital Center) Dr. Katherine Boucot, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Wom~n's Medical College, Philadelphia (1969-retlred) Dr. Thomas Brem, Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California (1969-same) Dr. Dewitt T. Burton, Director of Burton Hospital, Detroit (1969-same) Dr. Martin Cherkasky, Director of Monteflore Hospital, N.Y.C. (1969-same) Dr, Robert E. Cooke, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Dept. of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore (1969-same) Dr. Edward P. Crump, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, MeharryMedical College (1969-same) Dr. Michael B. De Bakey, Chief of Dept. of Surgery, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston (1969-Vice President for Medical Affairs and Chairman, Dept. of Surgery, Baylor) TI54471528

Dr. James P. Dixon, Jr., President of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio (1969-same) Dr. Warren Fales Draper, Executive Medical Officer, United Mine Workers Welfare & Retirement Fund, Washington, D. C. (1969-same) Dr. Benedict J. Dully, Professor of PreveRtive Medicine and .Community Health, Seton Hall College of Medicine, Jersey City, N.J. (1969-Prof. Preventive Med., Tufts School of Med., Philadelphia) Dr. Robert Ebert, Professor and Director of Medicine, School of Medicine, Western Reserve University, Cleveland (1969-Dean of Med. and Pres. of Harvard Med. Center, Harvard U.) Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Medical Director, The Rip Van Winkle Clinic, Hudson, New York (1969-Exec. Dir. Community H~alth Assoc., Detroit) Dr. Alfred Gellhorn, Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and S~rgeons, Columbia University (1969-Dean, U. of Penn~. School of Medic,s%e, Philadelphia) Dr. Morton Goodman, Asst. Professor Clinical Medicine, University of Oregon (1969-same) Dr. James H. Graves, Associate Professor Psychiatry, Wayne State University College of Medicine, Detroit (1969-Adj. Prof. of Psychology, U. of Detroit) Dr. Sven M. Gunderson, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth.School of Medicine (1969osame) Dr. Thomas Hunter, Dean, University of Virginia Medical School (1969-Chancellor for Med. Affairs, U. of Virginia) Dr. R. Frank Jones, Medical Director of Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C. (1969-Chlef, Urology, Howard University School of Medicine) Dr. Arthur Kornberg, Professor and Executive Head of the Dept. of Biochemistry, Stanford'Unlversity (1969-same) Dr. Lawrence S. Kubfe, Director of Training at Sheppard-~noch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Maryland (1969-Cllnlcal Prof. of Psychiatry, U. of Maryland) Dr. Phillip R. Lee, Department of Internal Medicine, Palo Alto Clinic (1969-Chancellor, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco) Dr. Irving M. London, Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York (1969-same) -2- TI54471529

Dr. J. Howard Means, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (1969-Consultant, Soc. Medicine, Montlfiore Hospital. Age 84) Dr. Daniel R. Mishell, Chief Gynecologist, Beverly Hills Doctors Hospital (1969-Head, Dept. OB-GYN, Harbor Gen. Hosp.,. Torrance, Callf; Asst. Prof. OB~GYN, UCLA) Dr o Frederick D. Mort, Executive Director of Community Health Associations, D~troit (I969-Prof. Medical Care, U. of Toronto School of~giene, Toronto, Canada). Dr~ George Reader, Professor of Preventive Medicine at Cornell Medical School (1969-Chairman, Dept. of Ambulatory &Soc. Med. Cornell U. Med. School) Dr. Dickinson W. Richards, Lambert Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (1969-Emerltus) Dr° David E. Rogers, Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (~969-Dean & VP for Med. Johns Hopkins School of Nedicine) Dr. David Rutsteln, Professor of Preventive ~diclne, Harvard University Medical School (1969-same) Dr. Ernest Seward, Physician-ln-Chief, Bess Kaiser Hospital Foundation, Portland, Oregon (1969-same) Dr. William A. Sawyer, Lecturer, University of Rochester School of Medicine (196g-retired. Age 85) Dr. Benjamin Spook, Professor of Child Development at Western Reserve University (1969-retlred. Peace activist) Dr. Helen Taussig, Professor of Pediatrics, 3ohns Hopkins Medical School (1969-emeritus) Dr. Ray E. Trussell, Commissioner of Hospitals, New York City (1969-Professor, Mr. Sinai School of Medicine) Dr. Aionzo S. Yerby, Medical Welfare Administrator, New York City Dept. of Welfare, and Executive Director of Medical Care Service, N.Y.C. (1969-Professor and Head of Dept. Health Services Admin. Harvard U. School of Public Health) -3- TI54471530