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West, Raymond O., M.D. (1922- )
1979-1981
1 slim document case
Raymond Owen West, M.D. was born in 1922 and graduated from the Loma Linda University
School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California in 1951. He taught for many years as professor of
Family Medicine and Epidemiology at Loma Linda University, and is now retired from that position.
Presently he is a free-lance writer and medical columnist.
The Raymond O. West, M.D. Collection contains copies of Family Practice Today, a publication
which was edited by Dr. West while a professor at Loma Linda University. The collection includes
issues Vol. II, No. 11 (November 1979) through Vol. IV, No. 6 (June 1981), inclusive.
Wolff, George T., M.D. (1925 - )
1955, 1974-1993, 2001
1 box – See also: Photograph Collection and Slide Collection
George T. Wolff, M.D. was born in 1925 in Greensboro, North Carolina. He earned his M.D. from
Jefferson Medical College in 1952, and completed a rotating internship at North Carolina Memorial
Hospital in Chapel Hill. Following that, he completed two residencies in general practice – the first
at City Memorial Hospital in Winston-Salem, the second at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in
Greensboro. After his residencies, he entered private practice in Greensboro from 1955-1975. He
became the director of the Family Practice Residency Program at the Moses H. Cone Memorial
Hospital in 1975, and since that time, has alternated private practice with academic duties at Moses
H. Cone as well as Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Wolff
served on the board of the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP), and was vice
president and president of the NCAFP from 1966-1967. He also edited the Tar Heel Practitioner
and edited and compiled two anniversary publications for the North Carolina chapter. On the
national level, his service in the AAFP included tenures as a delegate from North Carolina, a member
of the Board of Directors from 1974-1977, and as AAFP vice President (1977-1978) and treasurer
(1979-1983). Dr. Wolff has received many awards, including the AAFP Award of Merit (1984) and
North Carolina Family Physician of the Year Award (1985). A George T. Wolff Award was
established by the UNC Department of Family Medicine in 1985, and a George T. Wolff, MD
Primary Care Symposium was held annually from 1995-2003.
Dr. Wolff’s collection includes materials related to his AAFP service, such as his 1983 Oral Report
of the Treasurer to the AAFP Congress of Delegates, AAFP stationery dated 1974-1982 (including
“joke” letterhead using board members’ and officers’ middle names), and Histories of the AAFP
Board of Directors. There are some miscellaneous articles and correspondence about Dr. Wolff and
AAFP activities. A copy of the 1978 report of the National Commission on Families and Public
Policies is also included in his collection. Some materials have been separated from the core
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