Interviews 950-960

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#952 MAGNONI, Corinne ( - )

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#953 HOHLSTEIN, Rita R. (1943 - )
Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Madison Waisman Center University Center for Excellence in Development Disabilities and UW-Madison School of Education.
At UW: 1970-2006

Abstract: Rita Hohlstein received her B.S. degree in occupational therapy from the University of Wisconsin – Madison . She also received an M.S. in Kinesiology from the UW-Madison. In 1970 she started her career with the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a clinical assistant professor in the new University Affiliated Facility (now the Waisman Center ). At that time UW-Madison had been granted one of ten Centers that resulted from the Kennedy Administration Commission on Mental Retardation to prepare professionals to work in an interdisciplinary manner to serve children with developmental disabilities and their families. She held a joint appointment with the campus Occupational Therapy Program. Her primary responsibility with the Waisman Center was to provide interdisciplinary training for clinicians, educators and administrators. In 2006 Rita Hohlstein received the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association Academic Staff Award for Excellence in Leadership. This interview was conducted for inclusion in the UW-Madison Oral History Program.

Abstract: Barbara Klein was born and raised in Brooklyn , New York , where she earned a B.S. degree from Brooklyn College . She received her M.D. degree in 1969 from New York University School of Medicine. In 1971 she received an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina . She completed a residency in Ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in 1980 and joined the faculty after that. Her research fields include epidemiology; age-related eye diseases and other sensory disorders; retinopathy and other complications of diabetes; genetic epidemiology of age related eye diseases; and the association of executive function and risk of falls. In 1987 UW-Madison received funding from the National Eye Institute which is part of the National Institutes of Health to conduct what has come to be known as the Beaver Dam ( Wisconsin ) Eye Study. Barbara Klein continues to lead that study with her husband, Ronald Klein, also a member of the UW – Madison faculty. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Oral History Program.

#956 KLEIN, Ronald (1943 - )
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Department; affiliate appointments in the Institute on Aging and the Population Health Graduate Program.
At UW: 1976-present

Interviewed: 2008 (1 session)	Length: 1 hour, 30 mins.	In Processing
Interviewer: Sandy Pfahler

Abstract: Ronald Klein is originally from New York City where he received his B.S. degree from Brooklyn College in 1965. In 1969 he received an M.D. degree from New York University School of Medicine. He has a master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina , School of Public Health , Department of Epidemiology. He started at UW – Madison in 1976 as a postdoctoral trainee in the Department of Ophthalmology and joined the faculty in 1978. One of Dr. Klein’s main areas of research is diabetic retinopathy. In 1979 with his wife and colleague, Dr. Barbara E.K. Klein, he launched the Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy, a population-based study of an 11-county area in southern Wisconsin . In 1987 the National Eye Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, began funding the Klein’s Beaver Dam ( Wisconsin ) Study to research the prevalence of the eye diseases cataracts, glaucoma and macular degeneration. Twenty years later this study continues to be funded and has expanded to include the Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study and the Beaver Dam Offspring Study. This interview was conducted for inclusion in the UW-Madison Oral History Program.

Abstract: Dr. Judith Leavitt received her undergraduate degree from Antioch College and her Master’s and PhD degrees in history from the University of Chicago . She became a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1975, earned tenure in 1981 and became Chair of the History of Medicine Department that same year, a position she held for 12 years. During that time she was named Venue-Bascom Professor of Women’s Studies. Dr. Leavitt has written several books based on her areas of research including The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform; Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950; and Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health. A new book about men and childbirth will be out shortly. Her book on Typhoid Mary led to her collaboration on the PBS production of The Most Dangerous Woman in America . This interview was conducted for inclusion in the UW-Madison Oral History Program.

Abstract: Victoria Junco Meyer was employed by the University of Wisconsin – Madison Spanish and Portuguese Department for over 25 years as Lecturer and Instructor with tenure. She also taught agricultural economics to faculty and graduate students who were affiliated with the Land Tenure Center . In 1984-85 Ms. Meyer directed the Junior Year Abroad Program in Spain . She retired from the university in 1986 at age 71. Victoria Junco Meyer was born in Mexico in 1914 and received all of her higher education at the National Autonomous University of Mexico including completing all work toward a doctorate degree in philosophy except for finalizing her dissertation. Her dissertation advisor and mentor was Jose Gaos, a Spanish-born philosopher who obtained political asylum in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War. In 1944 she came to the United States to teach at Vassar College where she stayed for five years. At Vassar one of her students, who also became a lifetime friend, was Jacqueline Bouvier (who later married John F. Kennedy). Ms. Meyer moved to Madison in 1949 and began her career at the UW-Madison in the early 1960s. This interview was conducted for inclusion in the UW-Madison Oral History Program.

#959 KIMBROUGH, Robert ( - )

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