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University of Utah School of Medicine where she served as Chairman of the Department of Family
and Preventive Medicine for ten years. She earned her seventh degree in 1998 when Park College
(MO) bestowed her with an honorary Ph.D. Despite her decline in health, F. Marian Bishop
remained actively involved in the University of Utah as a professor until her death from cancer in
2003. In addition to many other publications, Bishop authored the STFM 25 th anniversary
publication in 1992. Her awards and honors from the AAFP were many, and included the Thomas
W. Johnson award for outstanding contribution to family practice education (AAFP, 1981), the John
G. Walsh award (AAFP, 2002), and she was named an honorary member of the AAFP in 1994.
Bishop’s legacy as the “mother of academic family medicine” is reflected in her accomplishments.
Several awards have been branded with her name as a result; the F. Marian Bishop Leadership
Award (STFM), the Bishop Fellowship Program (STFM), and the F. Marian Bishop Educator of the
Year Award (ATPM).
The F. Marian Bishop, Ph.D., M.S.P.H. Collection consists of materials that pertain mainly to
STFM, particularly Dr. Bishop’s personal connection with the organization. In addition to files that
document the history of STFM, including her authorship of the history book in 1992, there are
several scrapbooks and photo albums. Notably, this includes Dr. Bishop’s special presidential
scrapbook. Each year, STFM staff members compile this and give it to the outgoing president. Dr.
Bishop also kept photo albums of STFM trips overseas, including to Greece and Brazil, and of many
STFM activities. Her collection also includes many framed awards and plaques given to Bishop, and
artifacts that reflect STFM’s logo. This collection also includes audiocassettes and transcripts of her
oral history interviews for STFM’s Voices in Family Medicine project from 1991-92, and a
videotaped interview conducted by Dr. Daniel Ostergaard with Bishop in 2001.
Black, Ross R. II, M.D. (1948- )
1998-2001
1 slim document case—See also: Audio-Visual Collection and Photograph Collection
Ross R. Black, II, M.D., of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned
his B.A. from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio and went to medical school at The Ohio
State University, earning his M.D. in 1973. He completed his family practice residency at Akron
City Hospital in 1976. While a resident, he attended the Ad Hoc Meeting of Family Practice
Residents in 1974, which spawned the establishment of the National Conference of Family Practice
Residents. He served as a resident delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates from 1974-1976.
Following his residency, Dr. Black served in the US Navy as Lieutenant Commander from 1976-
1978, where he was based at a teaching hospital in Pensacola, Florida. He returned to the AAFP in
1978 to become Assistant Director of the Division of Education. While there, he served as a
consultant for the Residency Assistance Program (RAP), and taught at the University of Kansas
Department of Family Medicine as an assistant clinical professor. In 1981, Dr. Black left the AAFP
to become the Associate Director of the Family Practice Residency at Akron City Hospital and
Clinical Professor at the Department of Family Medicine, Northeast Ohio Universities College of
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