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in 1956. He completed a general rotating internship at the Charles T. Miller Hospital in St. Paul,
Minnesota, 1956-1957. From 1957-1959, he served in the U.S. Army as a General Medical Officer
at Ft. Hood, Texas, after which he entered private family practice in Webster, South Dakota. In
1964, he moved to Sioux Falls where he maintained a practice until 1996. Dr. Amundson’s service
to Family Medicine is extensive. He was a charter diplomate of the ABFP in 1970, and was the
founding chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of South Dakota School of
Medicine in 1974. Dr. Amundson also served as ABFP director from 1983-1988, including one year
as vice president. Honors he received include being named South Dakota’s Family Doctor of the
Year in 1989, receiving the AAFP’s Thomas W. Johnson Award in 1990, and the AAFP Award of
Merit in 1994. As a member of the South Dakota AFP (SDAFP), he served as executive director,
secretary-treasurer and founding editor of SDAFP News from 1971-1992. He also authored
SDAFP’s history booklet in 1991 and updated it in 2001. Amundson was a founding member of the
South Dakota Foundation of Family Medicine in 1986, and served as secretary-treasurer and
chairman of the board. He was also a founding member o the AAFP Home Study Self Assessment
Program and served as AAFP Video CME Editor.
Dr. Amundson’s collection consists of historical summaries of the South Dakota Academy of Family
Physicians, the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, and the South Dakota Hall of Fame.
All of these publications contain writings by or about Dr. Amundson. There are also materials
relating to various honors given to Dr. Amundson, including the naming of the Loren H. Amundson
Foyer at the USD School of Medicine.
Baeke, John O., M.D.- See: Museum Collection- Traveling Exhibits
Baker, A. Sherwood, M.D. (1916-2009)
1960, 1967-1976, 1982, 1991-1995, 2003, 2008
1 slim document case – See also: Photograph Collection (both individual & under STFM)
A. Sherwood Baker, M.D. was born in 1916 in Mount Morris, Illinois. He earned an A.B. degree in
1939 from Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and his M.D. in 1942 from the University of Illinois
School of Medicine. He did graduate work in physiology and completed a twelve-month rotating
internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago in 1943. Following that, Dr. Baker entered military
service in the Air Force and served as a Ward Officer in hospitals in Jefferson Barracks, Missouri,
and Scott Field, Illinois. From 1946-1963 he was in private general practice in Mt. Morris, and in
1963, accepted an appointment at the University of Missouri in Columbia, in the Department of
Family Practice and Community Health. While there, Dr. Baker helped to establish the medical
preceptorship program, and from 1970-1974, he was Director of the Family Practice Residency at
MU and also served as Chair of the Department of Community Health and Medical Practice from
1972-1975. He retired in 1982 as Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine. Dr.
Baker was a charter member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), a charter
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