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SFGH.2016.001
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Contributing Institution:
Barnett-Briggs Medical Library, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center
Title: Grossman (Moses) Papers
Identifier/Call Number: SFGH.2016.001
Physical Description:
.417 Linear Feet
(1 Hollinger box)
Date (inclusive): 1984-2001
Language of Material:
English
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1 box containing accounts written by Dr. Grossman about SFGH, Dr. Langley Porter and the pediatrics department at SFGH. Also
included is a thesis about SF epidemics and information about SFGH's 2001 rebuild.
Dr. Moses Grossman (1921-2018) was born in Kiev and grew up in China. In 1941 he immigrated to California where he attended
school at UC Berkeley. He went to UCSF for medical school where he completed his internship in pediatrics. Dr. Grossman served
with the U.S. Army for two years before entering his residency at NYU Bellevue Hospital in New York. He moved to San Francisco
where he spent the rest of his career as a faculty member at UCSF and held multiple leadership positions at SFGH. These included
Professor and Chief of Pediatrics for 30 years at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), Vice-Chair and Chief of Pediatric
Infectious Diseases for UCSF Department of Pediatrics, and Associate Dean for the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Grossman was
an advocate for the well-being of children in the Bay Area and California. He was the founder of the San Francisco Child Abuse
Council and the first Chair of The California AIDS Leadership Committee on Pediatric and Perinatal AIDS. He was also the co-founder
of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. For his service to the community and UCSF, he received the UCSF Medal in
2001.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the previous hit UCSF next hit Library Archives and Special Collections All requests for
permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives and Special Collections.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of previous hit UCSF next hit Archives and Special Collections 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], Moses Grossman Papers, SFGH 2016-001, Archives and Special Collections, University of California,
San Francisco.
Moses Grossman Oral History, in SFGH 2016-003 (Box 1, Folder 6)