Guide to the Jerome Tobis papers MS.F.037
Finding aid prepared by Audra Eagle Yun and Chris S. Ervin, 2012.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
(cc) 2012
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine 92623-9557
spcoll@uci.edu
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
box 1, folder 1
Photos of Tobis, others
1975-2007
box 1, folder 2
Biographical, personal, in memoriam
2010-2012
box 1, folder 3
UCI Physical Medication and Rehabilitation Residency Booklet, signed by artist Leslie Danielle Wayne
1973
box 1, folder 4
Ethics of Reproductive Medicine Conference
1996
box 1, folder 5
Student's Attitudes and Usage of Health Treatments, Tobis advisee
1998
box 1, folder 6
"Preventing Falls in the Community," pressed flower scrapbook for Tobis by students
1989 April
box 1, folder 7
UCI Geriatric Medicine Program
1995-1998
box 1, folder 8
Geriatric Medicine
1995-1998
box 1, folder 9
Dr. Tobis' talks
1980-2000
box 1, folder 10
Ethics and Education, Monroe
2005-2006
box 1, folder 11
Cardiac Rehabilitation 1970 edition, book
1970
box 2, folder 1
Task Force on Education and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
2001
box 2, folder 2
Jerome S. Tobis Conference on Aging
1989
box 2, folder 3
The Merger, book promo
undated
box 2, folder 4-7
College of Medicine Executive Committee
2006-2010
box 3, folder 1
Southern California Center for the Study of Complementary Healthcare
1999
box 3, folder 2
Center for the Study of Complementary Healthcare
1996
box 3, folder 3
Susan Samueli Center for Interactive Medicine
2005-2008
box 3, folder 4-7
Samueli Center board meetings, events
2001-2005
box 3, folder 8
Susan Samueli Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
1997-1998
box 3, folder 10
Archstone Grant Proposals
1998-2000
box 3, folder 11
Complementary Health, correspondence
1996
box 3, folder 12
Complementary Health
1996
box 3, folder 13
Complementary Medicine
1997-1998
box 3, folder 14-15
UCI Center for Complementary Healthcare
1996-1997
box 3, folder 16
Center for Study of Ethics
2002-2006
box 3, folder 17
Conference on Study of Complementary Healthcare
1996
box 3, folder 18, 20, 21
UCI Emeriti Association
2000-2009
box 3, folder 19
History of UCI Emeriti Association and related materials
2005
box 3, folder 22
La Rehabilitacion en Cardiologia, 1975 edition
1975
