Register of the Milton Irwin Roemer Papers, 1955-1973 (?)
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Register of the Milton Irwin Roemer Papers, 1955-1973 (?)
Collection number: MSS 91-38
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
Contact Information:
- UCSF Library & CKM
- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Encoded by:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Milton Irwin Roemer Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1955-1973 (?)
Collection number: MSS 91-38
Creator: Roemer, Milton Irwin, 1916-
Extent: 1 carton, 1 box
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of Joan Trauner.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Milton Irwin Roemer Papers, MSS 91-38, Archives & Special
Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Biographical Data
Milton Roemer was born in Paterson, NJ, March 24, 1916, son of Jacob and Mary
(Rabinowitz) Roemer. He received his BA from Cornell University (1936), his MD from New
York University (1940), and an MPH from the University of Michigan (1943). He interned at
Barnert Memorial Hospital, in Paterson (1940-1941), was with the New Jersey Health
Department from 1941 and 1942, and from 1943 to 1948 with the U. S. Public Health Service
in Washington, DC.
Dr. Roemer served as a member of the faculty of Yale University Medical School from 1949
to 1951 and with the World Health Organization in Geneva from 1951 to 1952. He spent
1953-1956 with the Saskatchewan Health Department, and from 1957-1961 was on the Cornell
University faculty. In 1962 he accepted an appointment as professor of health
administration at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health,
where he has done much noteworthy work relative to health insurance plans and HMOs.
He is the author of many articles and books; most notable among the latter are
Health Care Systems in World Perspective (1976),
Comparative
National Policies on Health Care
(1977), and
Ambulatory Health Services in
America
(1981).
Scope Note
Includes correspondence, publications, meeting minutes from files on pre-paid health
care.
Carton Carton, Folder 1
California Council for Health Plan Alternatives
Folder 2
Middleman background data
Folder 2b
Middleman plan affiliations
Folder 5
L.A. Trust Funds Zimring list
Folder 7
Health Insurance Plan for Los Angeles (H.I.P. L.A.)
Folder 8
Unidentified health plans
Folder 11
Background material Ellsworth paper
Folder 12
Health Plan lists (Ellsworth 1962)
Folder 13
Health Plan Survey (Sasuly) questionnaire and letter
Folder 17
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Folder 20
Health plan lists (miscellaneous)
Folder 21
(PSA) Physicians and Surgeons Association
Folder 22
Long Beach Physicians health plan
Folder 23
Société Française de Bienfaisance Mutuelle
Folder 25
Health Plan catalogue sasuly
Folder 28
LA County Painting Industry
Folder 29
Upholsterers' International Union
Folder 30
Retail Clerks' Union, Local No. 770
Folder 31
Retail Clerks' Union, Local No. 1442
Folder 34-35
California Physicians' Service (CPS)
Folder 37
Southern Pacific Railroad
Folder 41
Western Association of Health Planning
Folder 42
Western Health Insurance Program
Folder 45
State of California Legislature\
Folder 47
San Diego Health Association
Folder 50
Miscellaneous publications
Folder 51
Starkweather, David. Laws affecting health insurance in California (1968) photocopy.
