E. K. Gunderson Papers
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
A. Education
PhD thesis - Autonomic Balance in Schizophrenia; Final examination for PhD, announcement 1953 June
Diplomas - Undergraduate and graduate degrees, UCLA 1948-1953
B. Professional Experience
World War II service - U.S. Army honorable discharge papers, and article about the Gunderson family war effort 1943-1946
Professional Psychologist Certification 1959
Hospital evaluations, memos and notes. Gunderson was member of Evaluation Task Force 1975-1980
Appointment as Chief Scientist 1986
Application as Consultant 1996
C. Professional Standing
U.S. Naval Board of Civil Services Examiners materials 1962
Paul Nelson and E.K. Gunderson, article in the Evening Tribune 1962 August 21
Certificates - American Psychological Association Fellowship; San Diego County Psychological Association 1971
Supergrade positions in the Navy R&D Community 1978
Appointment to Senior Executive Service, correspondence 1979
National Research Council Correspondence 1988
U.S. Navy Civilian Service Awards 1970, 1989
U. S. Navy Civilian Service Awards, oversized 1970-1977
Albert Leary Gihon Award 1995
Naval Health Research Center: Thirty-Year Review 1999
Curriculum Vitae ca. 1999
UCSD appointment correspondence 2004
WRITINGS
D.1. Numbered Reports and Publications
Selected Bibliography of Naval Health Research Center Reports 1962-1985
Bibliography of Fleet Studies, Fleet Medical Branch, E. K. Gunderson and colleagues ca. 1969-1980
Reports: DI-cs, cx, dn, fj, ft, hss 1972-2005
Attrition by condition for Navy, sample collected at recruit training commands ca. 1960-1995
Man in isolation and/or enclosed space 1969
New approaches to alcoholism in the US Navy ca. 1976
Organization, Environment, and Work Performance: A Social Systems Approach 1976
Physical Environments, Habitability, Perceptions, and Health 1976
Epidemiological models of value for clinical service and management of Navy health care systems: Examples from inpatient and outpatient data 1980
Nonpsychotic disorders 1980-1988
Epidemiologic and Longitudinal Research in the 1980s and in US Navy ca. 1980-1989
Women's Health in the U.S. Navy: Complications of Pregnancy and Childbirth 1985-1994
NASA In-House Working Group on Psychiatric Selection Procedures for Astronaut Candidates 1988
Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP), report and correspondence 1988-1989
Health Surveillance in the US Navy: Sleep Apnea 1990-1995
Cardiac Disease and Physical Readiness Testing: Critical Review from an All-Cause Mortality Perspective 1993-1994
Report on Attrition, codes and tables 1994-1995
Mental Illness in the US Navy and Marine Corps 1995-1996
Epidemiology of the Psychoses in the US Navy 1998
Burden of Disease in the US Navy 1999
Predictors of Behavior and Performance in Extreme Environments: The Antarctic Space Analogue Program 2000
Behavior and Performance on Long-Duration Space Flight: Evidence from Analogue Environments 2000
The Epidemiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in the US Navy 2002
The Epidemiology of Personality Disorders in the US Navy 2003
Hospitalization Rates in the US Navy ca. 2003
Testicular cancer research and reports 2004
A Reluctant Soldier undated
D.2. Scientific Contributions
Presentation at Annual Meeting of American Psychological Association 1958
US Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) Briefing (Commodore Summit) ca. 1960
Symposium on Experimental Neuro- and Psychology in Occupational Health, Includes report # 66-23 1966
Personal History Questionnaires (PHQ) and evaluation forms 1967-1968
1st Habitability Conference 1970
Symposium on Life, Stress, and Illness 1972
NATO Conference Utilization of Human Resources 1973
4th West Coast Preventative Medicine Seminar 1977
8th Annual Meeting of Association of Military Surgeons of US - San Diego 1979
22nd and 24th Navy Occupational Health Workshops 1980-1982
BuMed Conference - Organizational Effectiveness Program 1980
IBEA Working Group 1982
Colloquium - Computers, Medicine and Epidemiology 1983
Transport Research and Innovation Monitoring and Information System (TRIMIS) and the Navy workshops 1983
69th Annual American Occupational Health Conference, includes report # 84-15 1984
Conference in San Diego 1984
3rd Annual Conference on System in Health Care, includes report # 84-52 1984
Federal Health Services Conference 1985
Laboratory Review of the Naval Biodynamic Laboratory (NBDL) 1986
Trip Report for Regional Training Conference of the Defense Medical Systems Support Center 1986
Briefing of Admiral Sears on accidents 1986
National Academy of Science Conference on Epidemiology in Military and Veteran Populations 1987
NRC Medical Follow-Up Conference Itinerary 1987
Colloquium: Human Factors Research in Antarctica 1988
Conference on Stress and Degradation of Military Performance 1989
Committee on Space Biology and Medicine, Space Studies Board, National Research Council National Academy of Sciences 1991
NASA launch announcement and signed photograph to Gunderson from astronaut J. M. Linenger 1992
Feasibility Study for NASA workshop 1995
RESEARCH
Major Projects
E.1. HIV/AIDS Research
AIDS briefing for the Surgeon General 1986
AIDS RDDB Working Group 1988
AIDS research, memorandum 1987-1989
AIDS research, memorandum 1987-1989
E.2. Missing Data
Hospitalization rates aboard nuclear and non-nuclear aircraft carriers ca. 1990-1999
Hospital admission data from Navy medical files, memos ca. 1995-2001
Missing data, ships ca. 1999-2001
Missing data problem chronology, memos 2000-2006
E.3. Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) History
Antarctic photographs, and Health Survey, NHRC 1957-1964
Memos, news clippings and interviews 1960-2002
Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) history, Neuropsychiatric Research Unit reports 1960-1966
Five-year research plan, NHRC ca. 1960-1993
Proposed role of NHRC 1974-1977
Human Performance Program Review 1979
Biomedical Research: A ten-year plan 1980
Program objectives and anticipated end products 1980
The Establishment of an Occupational Health and Epidemiology Department with NHRC, San Diego ca. 1980-1992
NHRC/NEHC, minutes of joint meeting 1985
35th Anniversary of NHRC, memo 1994
A History of Psychological and Medical Research at the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), E. K. Gunderson and Paul D. Nelson 2001-2004
Career Histories of Navy Personnel Diagnoses with Personality Disorders, NHRC study 2002
Leadership and Research Productivity in a Military Setting, by E. K. Gunderson 2003
Electronic Data Systems
F.1. CHAMPS (Career History Archival Medical and Personnel System)
Champs: Navy Occupations (codes from database) ca. 1995
Epidemiological guide to Champs 1996-2003
General model for presentations of epidemiological results 1996-2003
Champs brief report
Champs: Charter for next generation database information 2000-2001
A Brief History of Champs 2000
Champs for Homeland Security 2002
Champs: Data Resource for Cancer, Chronic Disease and other Epidemiological Research, Report No. 02-06 2000-2002
Champs: Notes (burns, surgery); documentation review
F.2. Electronic - Data Systems: EPISYS (Epidemiological Interactive System)
EPISYS correspondence, Dr. Garland 1995
EPISYS (Epidemiological Interactive System), Technical Document (User's Guide) 97-1A and notes 1996
F.3. Electronic - Data System: Naval Occupational Health Information Management Systems (NOHIMS)
NOHIMS Health Information 1980-1990
NOHIMS Health Information 1981-1984
F.4. Electronic - Data Systems: Other
Development of Medical Data Systems for Risk Assessment ca. 1980
The Interim Navy Medical Mental Health Information System (NAMHIS) ca. 1980
Department of the Navy SECNAV Instruction - Inpatient data system 1985
SNAP Automated Medical System (SAMS) review undated
Navy Medical Information Systems 1981-1987
DMED (Defense Medical Epidemiologic Databases) 1999-2002