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Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Processing History
Historical Background
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Collection Arrangement
Bibliography
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Jerome Tobis papers
Creator:
Tobis, Jerome S.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.F.037
Physical Description:
1.8 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1970-2012
Date (bulk): 1996-2010
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.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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.
Acquisition Information
Transferred by UCI Librarian Linda Murphy.
Processing History
Processed by Audra Eagle Yun and Chris S. Ervin, 2012.
Historical Background
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.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
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.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is not arranged.
Bibliography
Los Angeles Times, Obituary, February 11, 2012, "Dr. Jerome Tobis dies at 96; UCI professor, physician and researcher."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Public health -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources
Geriatrics.
Alternative medicine.
Medicine, Physical -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- California -- Irvine.
Conference on Aging
Scrapbooks
Heart -- Diseases -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.
Grant proposals -- 20th century.
Medical ethics.
Portrait photographs -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century
Integrative medicine.
Booklets -- California -- Orange County -- 20th century.
Tobis, Jerome S. -- Archives
University of California, Irvine -- Faculty -- Archives
University of California, Irvine. College of Medicine -- Archives
University of California, Irvine. Center for Emeriti and Retirees -- Archives