Robert E. Shank papers, 1946-1980. 1946-1980.

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Robert E. Shank papers, 1946-1980. 1946-1980.

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The collection includes correspondence, reports, documents, architectural plans, manuscripts, speeches, and conference proceedings. The files document Shank's interests in nutrition, diet, rehabilitation, and hospital administration. Also notable among them are information on his direction of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and its programs. Shank played a leading role in the construction of two Medical Center buildings, the Irene Walter Johnson Institute of Rehabilitation and the David P. Wohl, Jr. Memorial Clinics and in the development of the services housed there. Shank's papers also contain files on his work with the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army and government-sponsored nutrition programs in Latin America.

74 linear ft.

Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library

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Shank, Robert E., 1914-2000.

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Physician, 1914-2000. Shank received his medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in 1939. In 1948 Shank joined the faculty of his alma mater as the Danforth Professor of Medicine and head of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Under his leadership, the scope of the department broadened to include work in nutrition studies, rehabilitation, health maintenance organizations, biostatistics, applied physiology, and lipid research. Shank contributed to man...

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