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his practice to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Dr. Brown also served as editor of the South Dakota AFP
Newsletter in 1998.
Materials in this collection reflect the management of Dr. Brown’s private practice in Spearfish from
1974-1994, and his move to a practice in Sioux Falls in 1994. Items in the collection include
newsletters written for patients, an article about a new clinic location, invitations to new practice
locations, and editor’s notes from the SDAFP newsletter. Also included are numerous
congratulatory letters and cards received by Dr. Brown when he was named South Dakota Family
Physician of the Year, as well as letters of recommendation for that award. A small collection of
scanned photographs was transferred to the Photograph Collection under Dr. Brown’s name.
Budoff, Penny Wise, M.D. (1939-2008)
1979-1985, 1992-2000
1 slim document case – See also: Library Collection
Penny Wise Budoff, M.D. was born in 1939 in Albany, New York. She attended the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and earned her B.A. from Syracuse University in 1959. After receiving her
M.D. from the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in 1963, she completed an
internship the same year at St. Luke’s Hospital in Utica, New York. She then entered the private
practice of medicine in 1964 and maintained a practice for 33 years in various locations on Long
Island. An ABFP diplomate since 1973, she held various academic appointments with SUNY-Stony
Brook and Cornell University from 1974-1998. In 1977, she published a groundbreaking study titled
“Dysmenorrhea, New Treatment,” in the American Journal of Ob/Gyn. This was the first clinical
study to prove that menstrual cramps were physiological, rather than psychological in origin. She
continued to conduct studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s (some of which were published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA] and the New England Journal of Medicine
[NEJM]) on various aspects of menstrual pain and other issues related to women’s health. Dr.
Budoff eventually published several books on these topics that eventually became best sellers. In
1985, she opened the Penny Wise Budoff, M.D. Women’s Medical Center on Long Island, described
as an “innovative women’s comprehensive care center that offers integrated multispecialty care of
patients.” She died in 2008 after moving to Delray Beach, Florida following her retirement from
medicine in 1997.
The Penny Wise Budoff, M.D. Collection contains articles about Dr. Budoff and her health center,
brochures about her vitamin and skin care line called Bonne Forme®, and copies of her scientific
research studies on hormone replacement therapy, dysmenorrhea, and premenstrual syndrome.
Burdette, James A., M.D. (1925-2011)
1958, 1963-1965, 1968-1969, 1981
1 slim document case – See also: Photograph Collection
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