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Collection LilA : Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection

Description

Key

103933

Reference Code Element

LilA

Dates

1940s-1984, inclusive

Extent

75 cubic feet (87 boxes)

Creator

Personal name, Lilienfeld, Abraham M.

Administrative/Biographical History

Abraham M. Lilienfeld
13 Nov 1920-6 Aug 1984
Abraham M. Lilienfeld was born in New York City. He received his A.B. in 1941 from the Johns Hopkins University, his M.D. in 1944 from the University of Maryland, and his M.P.H. in 1949 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. After an internship and residency at West Baltimore General Hospital from 1944 to 1946, Lilienfeld served in the U.S. Army for a year. From 1947-1948, he worked in the Field Studies Section, Tuberculosis Control Division of the US Public Health Service. From 1948 to 1950, he was a Epidemiologist in Training and then Associate Public Health Physician with the New York State Department of Health. In 1950, he joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health as a lecturer while serving as a District Health Officer in the Southern Health District for the Baltimore City Health Department. He earned the rank of assistant professor of epidemiology in 1952. In 1954, he left Johns Hopkins to serve as associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine. Lilienfeld returned to the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1958 as professor and director of the division of chronic diseases within the department of public health administration. In 1961, he became chairman of the new department of chronic diseases. In 1970, the department of chronic diseases merged with the department of epidemiology, with Lilienfeld as the new chair. He resigned the chairmanship in 1975 but continued to serve the school and was active as a teacher and scientist until his death in 1984. From 1980-1984, He directed the MPH Program. He served as acting chairman of the department of mental hygiene from 1981-1982 and acting chairman of the department of behavioral sciences from 1983-1984. Lilienfeld was recognized internationally as an expert in cancer research and as a pioneer in developing epidemiological methods for the study of chronic diseases. The library at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health is named in his honor.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1950-1954

1958-1984

Scope and Content

The Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection spans his entire career. Series include professional correspondence, epidemiology studies, grant proposals, awards, administrative records, and journal articles. The bulk of the later correspondence concerns Lilienfeld's research. Materials from epidemiology studies include proposals, survey forms, notes, correspondence, and reports. Manuscripts of Lilienfeld's writings include Foundations of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, and Reviews of Cancer Epidemiology. Materials concerning the AIDS Institute of New York, the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health courses, and the M.P.H. program advising committee are also included.
Accessions from 2010 and 2011 have been inventoried but not yet fully described in the scope and content.

Language

English

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

2010

Processing Information

The 1985 accession from the Abraham Lilienfeld Collection was processed by Chesney Medical Archives staff. Starting in 2010, Phoebe Evans Letocha oversaw the creation of a collection finding aid. Chesney Medical Archives student employees Isaac Finkelstein and Steven Pope completed the data entry for the 1985 accession. Pope also inventoried the 2010 accession. Malachy Duffy and Dubray Kinney inventoried the boxes of 1950s-1970 correspondence.

Accession

2014-022

2011-003

2010-016

1985-001

Custodial History

In addition to the 1985, 2010 and 2011 accessions, 13 boxes of Lilienfeld correspondence from the 1950s-1970 were transferred to the Medical Archives by Elizabeth Fee sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s without a formal accession record.

Composed Of

Found 74 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
127K1-2- Correspondence, A-R	432212027	1964	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K1-2- Correspondence, S-W	232394	1964	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K5-6- Correspondence, Ma-T	432212023	1956-1963	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K7-8- Correspondnce, A-N	432212021	1971-1974	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K7-8- Correspondnce, O-Z	232423	1971-1974	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K11-12- Correspondence, A-D	432212026	1956-1963	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K11-12- Correspondence, E-M	232393	1956-1963	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K13-14- Correspondence, A-D	432212024	1964-1968	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K13-14- Correspondence, E-M	232395	1964-1968	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K15-16- Correspondnce and Committee Files A-L	432212022	1968	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
127K15-16- Correspondnce and Committee Files L-P	232266	1968	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-01- History of Epidemiology materials	174627		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-02- History of Epidemiology materials	174628		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-03- Framington Heart Study, Course Notes, reprints by A. Lilienfeld	174629		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-04- Lecture and Course Material, photos, correspondence	174630		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-05- Lecture Slides	174631		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-06- Lecture Slides	174632		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-07- Reprints, Course Pack, dissertation, miscellaneous publications and gray literature	174633		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-08- History of Public Health lectures, course material, Epidemiology and Cancer courses	174634		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-09- Study binders	174635		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-10- reprints by A. Lilienfeld	174636		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-11- Subject Files, some reprints by David Lilienfeld	174637		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-12- binders, Thesis by student	174638		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-13- Thesis/dissertations by students	174639	1970s	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-14- binders	174640		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-15- 1940s material	174641	1940s	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-16- Subject Files	174642		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-17- Subject Files	174643		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-18- Collected Reprints for Bibliographic Citations	174644		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-19- Foundations book files, course material, reprints	174645		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-20- lecture material and subject files, reprints	174646	1950s-1970s	Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-21- course material, subject files, Minnesota Summer course	174647		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-22- binders, Epidemiology course	174648		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-23- Lectures, Subject Files	174649		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-24- reprints by others	174650		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-25- Manuals and dissertations	174651		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-26- lectures, subject files, reprints, grants, course materials	174652		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-27- Box 27	174653		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-28- Course Materials, Subject Files, Grant and Fellowship Applications	187930		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-29- Cancer Epidemiology Course Materials, Subject Files, Lecture Materials, Correspondence	187932		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-30- Binders	187941		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-31- Student thesis, Epidemology books, Large studies on cancer	187942		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-32- History of Cancer reprints, notecards	187943		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-33- Subject Files, Correspondence, Course Materials	187944		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-34- Breast cancer studeies, slides and negatives, Cancer and arsenic book, stroke application, international health books	187946		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-35- Pathology department, national health survey, Meehl papers, Heath Clark Lectures, adventists health study	189119		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-36- Digestive diseases, stroke material, survival-cancer, breast cancer notes	189129		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-37- Digestive diseases, cancer course material	189131		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-38- Cancer studies, Agent orange, and drug abuse	189134		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection
2010-016-39- Kepone study, epidemiology of cancer, state department study	189135		Box	CollectionLilA- Abraham M. Lilienfeld Collection

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