Jerome Tobis papers, 1970-2012, bulk 1996-2010

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Summary

Creators:
Tobis, Jerome S.
Abstract:
This collection comprises professional papers of Jerome Tobis, former professor and founding chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of California, Irvine. The papers include meeting agendas, minutes, notes, correspondence, clippings, grant proposals, and other materials related to Tobis' work with the fields of geriatric medicine, complementary medicine and integrative medicine, medical ethics, as well as the UC Irvine Emeriti Association, primarily between 1996-2010.
Extent:
1.8 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language:
Collection materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

Jerome Tobis papers. MS-F037. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection comprises professional papers of Jerome Tobis, former professor and founding chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of California, Irvine. His career at UC Irvine included founding the Department of Geriatric Medicine, chairing the Medical Ethics Committee, and contributing to a number of significant studies on physical therapy and cardiac rehabilitation. The papers include meeting agendas, minutes, notes, correspondence, clippings, grant proposals, and other materials related to Tobis' work with the fields of geriatric medicine, complementary medicine and integrative medicine, medical ethics, as well as the UC Irvine Emeriti Association, primarily between 1996-2010. The collection also includes a small group of photographs of Tobis and colleagues and some biographical information.

Biographical / historical:

Jerome Tobis was professor and founding chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of California, Irvine. His career at UC Irvine included founding the Department of Geriatric Medicine, chairing the Medical Ethics Committee, and contributing to a number of significant studies on physical therapy and cardiac rehabilitation.

Born July 23, 1915, in Syracuse, N.Y., Tobis earned a bachelor's degree from City College of New York in 1936 and graduated from Chicago Medical School in 1943. As a captain in the Army during World War II, he served as a doctor. Tobis was named chairman of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at New York Medical College in 1948. In 1961, he became chairman of a similar department at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, and in 1963 joined the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.

In 1970, Tobis joined the UCI medical school faculty as a professor and founding chairman of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation. He also was the medical school's founding director of geriatric medicine, a position he held from 1980 to 1986, and chaired the ethics committee at UCI Medical Center from 1986 to 2000.

Tobis was co-author of the 1970 book "Cardiac Rehabilitation," the first on the subject. He also served as the principal investigator for the first scientific research to show the effectiveness of spinal manipulation in improving lower back pain. The research was published in 1981 in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Tobis also worked on studies of traumatic brain injury and the causes of falls by the elderly, among other topics.

Acquisition information:
Transferred by UCI Librarian Linda Murphy.
Processing information:

Processed by Audra Eagle Yun and Chris S. Ervin, 2012.

Arrangement:

This collection is not arranged.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the University Archivist.

Preferred citation:

Jerome Tobis papers. MS-F037. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Location of this collection:
Special Collections and Archives
The UCI Libraries, P.O. Box 19557
Irvine, CA 92623-9557, US
Contact:
(949) 824-3947
spcoll@uci.libanswers.com
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