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Regiment. From 1952-1954, Carmichael earned a number of awards: Korean Service Medal,
National Defense Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and one
overseas service bar. After the war, Carmichael moved to Miami, Florida, first obtaining experience
at Kendall Hospital, which served as a medical facility for the impoverished people of southern Dade
County. After the hospital closed, Carmichael ventured into solo practice in Coconut Grove, a
suburb of Miami. He remained in this stead for ten years, including managing the practice while
completing a one year internship at Harvard. It was during his time in Boston that Carmichael
developed a plan for Family Medicine as an academic specialty and led him to author an article,
“Teaching Family Medicine,” which appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA) in 1965. Shortly thereafter, Carmichael received a much needed grant of $37,500 from the
Women’s Cancer Association at the University of Miami which he used to enter the medical school
as a faculty member (the first to specialize in teaching family medicine) and chaired the department
until his retirement in 1997. Two years later in 1967, Carmichael helped found the Society of
Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) to further the advancement of Family Practice as an academic
discipline and was its first president. For his many accomplishments, he is considered by many to be
the “father of family medicine.”
The Lynn P. Carmichael, M.D. Collection includes of articles by or about Carmichael, the University
of Miami Department of Family Medicine, or family medicine in general. These materials are
arranged chronologically. There are also materials from a notebook Carmichael labeled “Evolution
of Department of Family Medicine,” as well as items from a scrapbook from the mid-1960s that
pertained to Miami’s program and the establishment of STFM. Other materials in this collection are
a folder containing Carmichael’s handwritten notes on Studies in Family Medicine, a conference
held in Miami in 1980 and a folder about STFM’s 25 th Anniversary in 1992.
Carr, Walter A., M.D. (1877-1975)
1877-1975
1 box—See also: Museum Collection and Photograph Collection
Walter Austin Carr was born in 1877 in Decatur County, Iowa. At an early age, he moved with his
family to Kansas, and after attending Washburn College in Topeka and the Topeka Business College,
he eventually entered Northwestern University in Chicago, where he received his M.D. degree in
1905. After briefly practicing in Chapman, Kansas and as a physician at the National Old Soldiers
Home in Leavenworth, Dr. Carr established his practice in Junction City, Kansas in 1906. There, for
some 50 years, Dr. Carr practiced medicine and was a leading member of the community, helping to
establish Junction City’s first hospital, and serving in various roles throughout the years as health
officer, City Commissioner, and as President of the Chamber of Commerce. During World War I,
Dr. Carr also served overseas as a surgeon with the 89 th Infantry Division. He died in Junction City
in 1975 at the age of 98.
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