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autobiography, House Calls: Recollections of a Family Physician. He died on May 28, 2011 at the
age of 90.
The Thomas L. Stern, M.D. Collection includes files from the numerous family medicine
organizations, programs, and positions that Dr. Stern served, including within the AAFP,
FHFA/AAFP Foundation, Residency Assistance Program (RAP), Family Practice Working Party,
international family medicine efforts, and the Thomas L. Stern Lectureship. His collection also
contains articles, papers, and speeches given by Dr. Stern; articles about Stern; correspondence;
inscribed books; and materials removed from a scrapbook that Dr. Stern compiled. A significant part
of his collection consists of seventeen boxes of scripts from the Marcus Welby, M.D. television
show, dated 1969-1976.
Tate, Waddy P., Jr., M.D. –See: Museum Collection- Traveling Exhibits
Taylor, Robert B., M.D. (1936- )
1947-1999
3 boxes – See also: Library Collection and Photograph Collection
Originally a native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Taylor attended Bucknell University and Temple University
School of Medicine, earning his M.D. in 1961. He interned at the U.S. Public Health Service
Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, and then served an additional two years with the U.S.P.H.S. From
1964 to 1978 Dr. Taylor was in private family practice in New Paltz, New York. Following this, he
joined the faculty of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest University
School of Medicine in North Carolina. Six years later, in 1984, he became the second chair of
Oregon Health & Science University’s Department of Family Medicine, and served in this capacity
until 1998, when he was named Professor Emeritus, a position he holds currently. During his tenure
as chair, the department increased from fifteen to forty primary faculty, established three clinical
practice centers in Portland, and began a residency program in southern Oregon. Taylor joined the
AAFP in 1965 and is a charter diplomate of the ABFM and a charter fellow of the AAFP. Among
his many awards include two from the AAFP: the Thomas W. Johnson Award for Outstanding
Contributions to Family Practice Education in 1998 and the John G. Walsh Award for Lifetime
Contributions to Family Medicine in 2003, as well as the F. Marian Bishop Leadership Award from
the STFM Foundation in 2007. Taylor has written widely on the specialty, and is the author of many
articles and books on Family Medicine, including Family Medicine: Principles and Practice,
Fundamentals of Family Medicine, and The Manual of Family Practice. His books have been
translated into numerous languages and are considered seminal works in the specialty. He and his
wife Anita currently reside in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Taylor’s collection consists of his curriculum vitae, c.1977; correspondence from 1977 to 1980
relating to the 1 st edition of his book Family Medicine: Principles and Practice and his move from
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