Michael Marks Davis [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by Theodore Wiprud, May 26, 1960.

Committee on the Cost of Medical Care

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Wiprud, Theodore, 1891-1978

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Theodore Wiprud, the first full-time director of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, was born of Norwegian parents in 1891. He grew up in Frederic, Wis., and was a successful banker there by the early 1920s. During the Depression, local doctors would ask Wiprud for advice about unpaid bills. As a result, Wiprud became the business manager of a medical clinic in Milwaukee County, Wis. Wiprud spent nine years as executive secretary of the Medical Society of Milwaukee County. He moved ...

Davis, Michael Marks, 1879-1971

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Michael Davis was one of the major figures in health care policy in the United States. He served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Committee for the Nation's Health (CNH), incorporated in 1946 and abolished in 1956. Davis received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1906. In Boston and then in New York, Davis led movements to extend dispensary services to people of moderate means. He later served as director of medical services for the Julius Rosenwald Fund and chaired the foundation-funded Com...