Register of the Ellen Brown Papers, 1935-81

Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Brooke Dykman Dockter

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History --History, California --General Biological and Medical Sciences --Clinical Medicine --General

Register of the Ellen Brown Papers, 1935-81

Collection number: MSS 87-42

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
Date Completed:: June 1990
Encoded by:: Brooke Dykman Dockter

Descriptive Summary

Title: Ellen Brown Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1935-81

Collection number: MSS 87-42

Creator: Brown, Ellen, 1912-

Extent: 8 cartons, 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

Received 8/87.

Access

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Ellen Brown papers, MSS 87-42, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM

Biography

Ellen Brown was born in San Francisco, CA, April 30, 1912, the daughter of Warner Brown, PhD, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, and Jessie Milliken Brown, a high school teacher and botanist. She attended Emerson Elementary School in Berkeley, and University High School in Oakland. In 1934 she received her undergraduate degree, B.A., came from the University of California, Berkeley; her M.D. from the School of Medicine in 1939.

Dr. Brown served her internship at the San Francisco Hospital, 1938-39, and was Asst. then Chief Resident at the University of California Hospital, 1939-43. During this period she was also Asst. physician at the Cowell Memorial Hospital, 1940-42. Her academic appointment at UCSF began with clinical instructor, 1943-44, and from instructor to Assoc. professor, 1946-59, becoming professor of medicine in 1959. She held this post until her retirement in 1977. She was a founding member and senior staff member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute. Dr. Brown was instrumental in the revision of the Medical School curriculum in the 60s and 70s, and for the design and implementation of the very successful Introduction to Clinical Medicine courses, introduced at that time.

In 1944-46 Dr. Brown was a Commonwealth Fund fellow in the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. Some ten years later, in 1958, she was a Guggenheim Fellow at Oxford University. Her research interests included capillary pressure and permeability, blood volume and vascular capacity; cardiac failure; cardiac complications of pregnancy, and peripheral circulation in relation to pain syndromes and vascular diseases. She has written or co-authored a number of papers in these fields.

As an academic physician and research physiologist, Dr. Brown was a member of many professional societies. Among them are the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Federation of Clinical Research, the American Physiological Society (APS), the New York Academy of Science, and the American Heart Association. She was a founding member of the Western Society for Clinical Research and of the Circulation Group of APS.

Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, lectures, syllabi.

Series I. Biographical, Personalia

Carton Ctn. 1

Appointments, promotions, retirement

Miscellaneous biographical material

Biobibliography

Sabbatical leaves: 1958-59, 1968-69, 1975-76

Retirement celebration, Jan. 24, 1979

Career achievement award, 1986

American Men & Women of Science

Who's Who

BNDD and narcotics records for IRS

Insurance, professional liability

Series II. General Correspondence (Prior to 1977)

Carton Ctn. 1

A-C

Physical Description: (3 folders)

AHA Committee on Circulation

Cole, Sam

Crossley, Roger

Comroe, Julius H.

Davenport, Horace

E-F

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Finkielman, Samuel

Goei, Joe Siang

Goodenday, Lucy

Greenfield, A.D.M.

Hutchins, Paul

J-K

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Kagy, Ted C.

Keller, Klaus

Landis, Eugene M.

M-P

Physical Description: (4 folders)

Patel, Dali

Pearl, Norman

Phillipson, Oliver

Plassaras, George

Q-R

Physical Description: (2 folders)

Rapaport, Elliot

Rosinsky, Marilyn

Carton Ctn. 2

Sampson, John J.

Smith, L.H.

Smith, Judith

Stein, Gerald (summer student fellow, 1961)

Stephens, Dorothy Anne

Swanson, Palmer John

Takagi, Kentaro

U-Z

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Wennesland, Reidar

Wexler, Richard

Series III. Consultations

Carton Ctn. 2

1949-55

1956-72

A-G

H-L

M-P

Q-T

W-Z

Series IV. UCSF Medical Education

Carton Ctn. 3

Dean's Committee on Medical Education (DCME)

Physical Description: (3 folders)

Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM)

ICM 1964-66

1966-67

1967-68

1968-69, 1969-70

1970-1973

1973-74

1974-75 Meyer's committee

Med 131, 1974-75, Planning, contents, etc.

Guide for course supervision, Med 132 Sept 1975

Med 131,132, 1977-78

ICM 1978-79, 1979-80

Bayard Collyear's project for ICM

Misc. ICM correspondence, internal

Misc. ICM correspondence, external

Med 131 data base

Annual guide to Med 132: Exhibits

Quarterly guide to Med 132: exhibits

ICM part II, 1966-67

ICM 131 A-B-C, 1975-76

ICM 132A, fall 1975-76

ICM 132 B-C , 1975-76

Physical Description: (2 folders)

ICM 131,132, inventory 1976-77

Manpower

Correspondence re recruiting

Faculty assignments

Faculty scheduling: program problems, 1973-74

Faculty scheduling, 1974-75

Faculty scheduling, 1975-76

Carton Ctn. 4

FRS, 1973

FRS 1975-76

FRS 1977-78

FRS 1978-79

FRS 1985

Rendezvous and parking

Schedules, 1975

Schedules, 1974

Schedules, 1973

Schedules, 1972

Schedules, 1971

Schedules, 1970

Schedules, 1969

Schedules, 1968

Schedules, 1967

XM 1971-72

ICM 131 1967-68 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 131 1968-69 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 131 1969-70 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 131 1970-71 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 131 1971-72 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 131 1972-73 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 131 1974-75 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 131 1976-77 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 132 1973-74 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 132 1974-75 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 132 1975-76 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 132 1976-77 course, faculty evaluations

ICM 132 1977-78 course, faculty evaluations

Course evaluations: other courses

Correspondence: auditors

ICM 1974-75 fall-winter: tests, grades

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

ICM 1974-75 spring: tests, grades

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

Carton Ctn. 5

ICM 1973-74, Tests, grades

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

Class of 1976: grades

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

Elimelech, J.

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

Sophomores, 1973-74: grades

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

ICM summer, 1973

ICM fall, winter 1973

Freshmen 1973-73

Robert Scott, summer 1972

MED 132, 1972-73

Photographs, class of 1975

ICM student grades, etc. 1972-74

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

ICM student grades, etc. 1972-74

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

Med 131 1971-72 grades, etc.

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

Med 132 1971-72 grades, etc.

Access Information

[RESTRICTED]

Photographs, class of 1972

Series V. School of Medicine Faculty Committees

Carton Ctn. 5

Committee on Advanced Standing

Committee on Admissions, 1978-79

Committee on Admissions, 1979-80

Committee on Admissions, 1980-81

Curriculum Inventory 1977

Curriculum Inventory 1979

Curriculum, S/M 1976-77

Subcommittees on Curriculum, 1976-77

Subcommittees on Curriculum, 1975-76

Subcommittees on Curriculum, 1974-75

Final report to Subcomm. on Curriculum, 1969

Instructional improvements grant

Carton Ctn. 6

Liaison Comm. Medical Education, 1978-79

Joint Medical Program: report, general correspondence, 1979-80

Basic Clinical Course Operations Subcomm. (BCCO) 1974/75-1976/77

BCCOS 1974/75

BCCOS 1973/74

BCCOS 1971-72

BCCOS 1970/71

BCCOS 1977

Med I schedules

Med II schedules

Educational Media Resources Advisory Subcomm., 1980-81

Schedule and space, 1979-82

Classroom planning project, 1980-

Mary Morrow Fund prize

Tillie Leake Fund

Series VI. Lectures, etc.

Carton Ctn. 6

Syllabus, lectures

Circulation as a whole

Failure of the circulation

Heart failure and chest pain

Capacity function etc.

Disturbances of arterial pressure & BP exercise

Perfusion & drainage disturbances of limbs

Disorders of venous system

Edema

Teaching slides [glass]

Series VII. Reviews, Manuscripts

Carton Ctn. 6

Manuscripts, books and theses reviewed

Theses reviewed

Longhurst thesis

Manuscripts submitted for publication

Altman, Philip L.

American Lecture agreements

Paul Ashton: Bataan Diary

Series VIII. Research

Carton Ctn. 6

Swanson's experiments

David Ciraulo's project

Lawrence Jacobson's project

Summary of Pearl's work

Material on nephrotics (Pearl's work)

Scott May's project

Roger Farrell's project

Right heart catheterization - adult nephrosis

Equipment inventory

Mercury gauge - preliminary studies

Peripheral vascular lab procedures, compilation (excluding blood volume)

Plethysmography procedures

Carton Ctn. 7

Research grant 221901-0272 approval

Radioisotope applications

Consent to procedures, signed 1963-68

Consent to procedures, signed 1970-71

Consent to procedures, signed 221901 0272, 1972

Consent to procedures, signed 221901A-0872, 1972

Consents for radiochromium

Prospective subject application (completed forms)

Student health service approvals

Series IX. Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI)

Carton Ctn. 7

CVRI inactive

Lectures CVRI seminars

Sample vasodilation test

Vascular Clinic/Laboratory

Blood flow, etc.

Jobst

Vascular tests for patients: 1969

Vascular tests for patients: 1968

Vascular tests for patients: 1967

Vascular tests for patients: 1966

Vascular tests for patients: 1965

Vascular tests for patients: 1964

Vascular tests for patients: 1963

Vascular tests for patients: 1962

Vascular tests for patients: 1961

Peripheral vascular lab

Monograph: regulation of blood volume

Paper: vascular volume

Log of experiments, 1962-67

Blood volume method, prediction

Paper: foot up-tilt

Finkielman's experiments: summary

Melman - Morelli project

Orthostatic hypotension & hypoaldosteronism

Papers: unpublished ("for lack of time and energy")

Notes (on 3x5 cards): Patients, diagnosis cross file

Box Box 1

University High School diploma, copy of transcript

Charts for blood pressure apparatus

Stamps for patient history/diagnostic charts (4)

Recording syphgmomanometer {housed in Artifact Collection}