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SFGH.2015.006
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Contributing Institution:
Barnett-Briggs Medical Library, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center
Title: Elliot Rapaport Papers
Identifier/Call Number: SFGH.2015.006
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
5 cartons, 1 oversize folder
Date (inclusive): 1944-2006 (bulk 1970-1990)
Abstract: This collection contains the professional papers of Dr. Elliot Rapaport. It includes photographs, correspondence, certificates
and awards, teaching materials, manuscripts, published articles, and teaching slides.
Language of Material:
English
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This collection contains the professional papers of Dr. Elliot Rapaport. The majority of the materials date from the 1970s
through the 1980s. It includes many awards and certificates presented to Dr. Rapaport over the course of his career, original
manuscripts, published articles, and correspondence. It includes two bound books with handwritten research notes and three
wooden boxes and one binder full of research and teaching slides. The photographs include group photos from awards ceremonies,
dinners and conferences, portraits and individual snapshots, and group photos of Dr. Rapaport's medical school class of 1946.
The collection also contains an artifact, a chair presented to Dr. Rapaport with his name on the back.
The collection is organized into six series: awards and certificates, manuscripts and published articles, research materials,
teaching materials and slides, photographs, and miscellaneous. The collection also includes one artifact: the chair given
to Dr. Rapaport by UCSF.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the ZSFG Library and Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from material
must be submitted in writing to the ZSFG Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the ZSFG Library and
Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the researcher.
[Identification of Item], Elliot Rapaport Papers, SFGH 2015-006. Archives and Special Collections, University of California,
San Francisco.
Processed by Griffin Burgess in 2015.
Elliot Rapaport was born in Los Angeles on November 22, 1924. As a child, he was a talented violinist and made his debut at
Los Angeles Philharmonic at the age of twelve. In 1943, he married Vivian Wrobel Rapaport, and later they had three children.
Dr. Rapaport received his MD from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in 1946, then completed his internship, residency,
a research fellowship, and a USFHS postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF. He completed a second research fellowship at Peter Bend
Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women's Hospital) in Boston from 1953 to 1955. Dr. Rapaport made significant contributions
to the study of cardiology in his career as a clinical investigator. He studied methods of measuring blood flow through the
heart and worked on the development of a protein that is now used worldwide to diagnose heart attack.
In 1958, Dr. Rapaport turned down an offer to work at UCSF's Mt. Zion hospital in favor of developing a cardiology division
at San Francisco General Hospital. He was the Chief of Cardiology at SFGH for 32 years, from 1960 to 1992. He was the Associate
Dean at the UCSF School of Medicine from 1985 to 1998, and appointed Emeritus Professor at UCSF in 2001. Dr. Rapaport also
served as the editor-in-chief of Cardiology from 1978 to 1983 and as the president of the American Heart Association in 1974.
Dr. Rapaport continued to be involved in the cardiology department at SFGH until a few weeks before his death on September
5, 2010.
Dr. Rapaport received many prestigious awards and honors during his career, including:
The James B. Herrick Award of the Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association, 1988
The American Heart Association Special Citation for Distinguished Service to Research, 1973
The American Heart Association Gold Heart Award, 1977
The Distinguished Achievement Award, Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association, 2003
The Distinguished Fellow Award of the American College of Cardiology, 2009