Newberne, Robert Edward Lee

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1906; XLVI: 1849 - 1881: Section on Tropical Medicine. The following letter was received May 5, 1906: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Health, Manila, March 30, 1906. Dr. George II. Simmons, General Secretary, American Medical Association: Sir: --By direction of the Committee on Public Policy and Legislation of the Philippine Islands Medical Association, I have the honor to recommend through you that the American Medical Association establish at its next annual meeting, a permanent section on Tropical Medicine. This movement will be gratifying not only to the Philippine Islands, but to Porto Rico, Hawaii and Panama as well. Very respectfully, R. E. L. Newberne, Ex-officio. Sec, Committee on Public Policy and Legislation. Philippine Islands Medical Association.
J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1907; XLIX: 1536 - 1537: Dr. Robert E. L. Newberne has succeeded Dr. Richard P. Strong as president of the Medical Examining Board of Manila.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1911; LVI: 1119: The eighth annual meeting of the Philippine Islands Medical Association was held in the amphitheatre of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Manila. February 22 to 24, under the presidency of Dr. Benito Valdez y Salvadore, Manila. The election of officers was as follows : president, Dr. Robert E. L. Newberne, Manila; ....
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1924; 82: 1870: Medical News. New Mexico. Conference on Medical Problems of Indians. -- Representatives of the Department of the Interior, physicians of McKinley County and all physicians in the employ of the Indian Service on the local Indian reservation met at Gallup, April 21, to confer on health problems which concern the Indian. Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior; Commissioner Burke, Bureau of Indian Affairs ; Dr. John McMullen, trachoma specialist, U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. Robert E. Lee, Newberne, chief medical supervisor of the Indians ; Herbert G. Hagerman, commissioner of the Navajo Indians ; Dr. Rudolph D. Moffet, New York City, head of Presbyterian mission work ; Dr. George S. Lukett, state director of public health ; Dr. James W. Bazell, Navajo County health officer, and others from distant places were present.
J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1926; 86: 968: Robert Edward Lee Newberne, Washington, D. C. ; Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, 1893 ; chief medical supervisor, U. S. Indian Service since 1918; past president of the Philippine Islands Board of Medical Examiners and the Philippine Islands Medical Association; also a dentist; member of the Idaho State Medical Association; formerly lecturer on nervous and mental diseases, legal medicine and medical jurisprudence, University of the Philippines College of Medicine and Surgery, and chief, Free Dispensary Division, Philippine General Hospital ; aged 53 ; died, February 15, at Phoenix, Ariz., of cerebral hemorrhage.

Southwestern Medicine, Mar 1926; 10(3), 127: The death of Dr. Robert E. Lee Newberne, one time Chief Medical Supervisor of the Indian Service, occurred recently at the Indian School Sanitarium, at Phoenix, Ariz. Doctor Newberne came to Phoenix several months ago, for recuperation from chest complications resulting from pneumonia. The direct cause of death was diabetes with which he had suffered for several years. When he failed to recuperate after several months in Phoenix, he entered the Sanitarium, shortly thereafter going into coma from which he did not rally. Doctor Newberne was born in 1872, being fifty-four years old. He was a graduate of Georgetown University, class of 1893, and had been connected with the Indian Service during all of his medical career.
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