Endowments; Medical education; Medicine--Research; United States; Pearce, Richard Mills, 1874-1930
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 80
Note
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In 1900 Pearce joined Simon Flexner’s Department of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania. Friendship with Flexner, who was only nine years his senior, lasted to the end of Pearce’s life. In 1903 Flexner became founding director of the Rockefell er Institute for Medical Research in New York City, and Pearce accepted the directorship of the Bender Hygienic Laboratory in Albany, New York, and the conjoint professorship of pathology and bacteriology at Albany Medical College... During his years in Albany, Pearce pursued several productive lines of research on basic mechanisms of injury, with support from the Rockefeller Institute... In 1907 Pearce was one of the founders of the International Association of Medical Museums. Intended to promote museums for the teaching of pathology, it played a central role in the growth of academic pathology. In 1955 it evolved into the International Academy of Pathology, becoming the principal international pathology organization... In 1908 he resigned from Bender and Albany Medical College to accept the chair of pathology at the New York University—Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City. Pearce remained at Bellevue for less than two years and in 1911 became the founding professor of research medicine at the University of Pennsylvania... In 1913 Pearce and S. J. Meltzer of the Rockefeller Institute conceived the American Society for Experimental Pathology, which was the fourth constituent of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and which was to become central in the growth of experimental pathology. Elected the founding president, Pearce shaped the society by promoting the idea of laboratory experimentation as an integral part of medical education and pathology and by positioning the society as the voice of academic pathology. During World War I Pearce served as chairman (with the rank of major, U.S. Army) of the Division of Medicine and Related Sciences of the Council of National Defense... Late in 1919 he became general director of the Division of Medical Education of the Rockefeller Foundation and traveled to medical schools throughout the world. His purpose was to give advice, through his knowledge of global medical education, for making local improvements. Often the improvements (if accepted by the locals) were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Most common were grants for local use or for special training in the United States..." [SOURCE: Hubbard, Jeffrey D. "Pearce, Richard Mills, Jr., (03 March 1874–16 February 1930)." American National Biography, 1999, https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1200710. Accessed 30 Oct. 2018.]