Lewis B. Lefkowitz Jr. Biographical File
Abstract
Includes photographs, negatives, letters, newspaper articles.
Dates
- Creation: 1930-2021
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Biographical / Historical
Dr. Lewis Benjamin Lefkowitz, Jr. was a native of Dallas. He earned an undergraduate degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, in 1951, and an MD from the University of Texas Southwestern in 1956. He was an intern in Internal Medicine at Duke, then returned to Dallas for a residency at Parkland Hospital and at the Dallas Veterans’ Hospital.
He came to Vanderbilt in 1965. For decades he taught the required medical school course in Preventive Medicine, and later also taught an elective dedicated to teaching medical and nursing students about public health and how to reach underserved communities. He was also active in his support for nurse practitioners and was a mentor to many in that field in its early days.
Source: https://news.vumc.org/2021/09/30/noted-clinician-educator-lefkowitz-mourned/
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Language of Materials
English
Topical
- Title
- Lewis B. Lefkowitz Jr. Biographical File
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2024-04-02
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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