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Medicine for outstanding contributions to the growth and development of Family Medicine
education throughout the world and the 2001 AAFP Humanitarian Award honoring his extraordinary
and enduring humanitarian efforts both within and beyond the borders of the United States.
The Daniel J. Ostergaard, M.D. Collection consists of correspondence, files, meeting programs, and
publications primarily pertaining to his service as AAFP Vice President for Education and Scientific
Activities from 1983 to 1994, and as a member of WONCA during this same period.
Phelps, Malcolm E., M.D. (1905-1991)
1974
1 slim document case – See also: Audio-Visual Collection and Photograph Collection
Malcolm E. Phelps, M.D., a native of El Reno, Oklahoma, was born in 1905. He earned his
undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1926, and his M.D. from the State
University of Iowa in 1929. He then interned at the University of Oklahoma Hospital in Oklahoma
city for one year and spent another year as a resident in surgery at the hospital. One of the founding
members of the AAGP (now AAFP), Dr. Phelps served as a director of the AAGP (1952-1955), vice
president (1955-1956), president (1957-1958) and treasurer (1963-1965). Dr. Phelps was also
president of the Oklahoma Academy of General Practice (1947-1949); 1 st president of the AAGP
Foundation (now the AAFP Foundation; 1959-1963); treasurer of the American Board of Family
Practice (now ABFM) from 1972 to 1974; and vice president of the American Medical Association
(AMA) in 1967.
The Malcolm E. Phelps, M.D. Collection consists of an original copy of Dr. Phelps’ 1974 curriculum
vitae; and correspondence (7 pieces) to and from Dr. Phelps relating to his retirement and
appointment as a volunteer clinical professor in the Department of Family Practice and Community
Health at the University of Oklahoma in 1974.
Phillips, Theodore J., M.D. (1934- )
1969-1995
1 slim document case – See also: Audio-Visual Collection and Photograph Collection
Born in 1934 in Detroit, Theodore J. Phillips, M.D. received his undergraduate degree from
Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania in 1955 and his M.D. from Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine in 1959. After serving with the U.S. Public Health Service in Alaska,
he went into private general practice and practiced in rural areas of Colorado and Alaska before
coming to New York State in 1969. There, he went into the Family Medicine Program at the
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Highland Hospital as assistant professor of
Medicine and coordinator of the Family Medicine Residency Program. In 1970, he came to the
University of Washington, and there helped build the university’s first Department of Family
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