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earning an M.S. degree from New York State University in Buffalo. In 1980, she graduated from the
Medical College of Pennsylvania with her M.D., and in 1983 completed her residency at the
Wilmington Medical Center (now the Christiana Care Health System) in Wilmington, Delaware.
That same year, she opened a family practice in Wilmington and joined the staff of the St. Francis
Hospital in that same city. In 1990 she became an officer of the hospital’s medical staff and served as
its president from 1994 to 1996. In 1997, she was named vice president for Medical Management,
and in 1999 was named as President of St. Francis. An active member of the AAFP since 1983, she
also served as a delegate from the Delaware AFP to the AAFP Congress of Delegates from 1998 to
1999.
The M. Eileen Schmitt, M.D. Collection consists of compiled newspaper, newsletter and magazine
articles, as well as correspondence relating to her medical career and awards.
Shackelford, R. H., M.D. (1925- )
1978-1987
1 box – See also: Photograph Collection
R. H. (Robert H.) Shackelford, M.D., a native of Kinston, North Carolina, graduated with a B.S.
degree from Wake Forest in 1945, and an M.D. from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake
Forest in 1947. After completing his internship at St. Louis City Hospital in 1949, Dr. Shackelford
served as a battalion surgeon in the U.S. Army in Korea during the Korean War. Following this, he
returned to North Carolina, where he established a general practice in the town of Mount Olive. He
also became active in a variety of local, state and national medical organizations. From 1964 to 1965,
he served as the president of the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians. On the national
level, he served as vice speaker (1976-1979) and speaker (1979-1982) of the AAFP Congress of
Delegates, as well as chairman of the AAFP’s Reference Committee on Education (1973); Rules
Committee (1975); and Committee on Members’ AAFP Insurance and Financial Services (1978-
1979); and as an AAFP delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates
(1986-1987).
The R.H. Shackelford, M.D. Collection consists of Dr. Shackelford’s reports on the Annual Meetings
of the AMA House of Delegates (1986-1987); and correspondence and memoranda relating to his
service with the AAFP from 1978 to 1986.
Shapiro, Maynard I., M.D. (1914-1999)
1969-1972
4 boxes – See also: Audio-Visual Collection and Photograph Collection
Maynard I. Shapiro, M.D., of Chicago, Illinois, was born in 1914 in Chicago. He earned both his
B.S. (1937) and his M.D. (1940) from the University of Illinois. He completed an internship and
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