See: The Arizona medical school study / Joseph F. Volker, director [AHSL W 19 V917A 1962]
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
1962. The Arizona Medical School Study (known familiarly as the Volker Report after the head of the consultant team, Joseph F. Volker, DDS, PhD, then Director of Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Alabama Medical Center) and its conclusions were endorsed by the Board of Regents. In brief, the study concluded that Arizona would be well served by the establishment of a medical school and that resources were adequate to support a four-year school. The study further recommended building the school on the academic campus with the greatest level of graduate education development and that a teaching hospital of 300 or more beds be owned and operated by the school.
Source: Kettel, Louis J., Medical Schools of the West: University of Arizona, College of Medicine. Western Journal of Medicine, 139:3, Sep 1983, pages 395-399.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1021544/pdf/westjmed00193-01...
Joseph Francis Volker was born in New Jersey in 1913 and later studied at the Universities of Indiana and Rochester, earning a D.D.S. from Indiana in 1936 and a Ph.D. degree from Rochester in 1941. He then served as assistant professor of dentistry at Rochester until his 1947 appointment as dean of the Tufts dental school. In 1948, Dr. Volker was named first dean of the new dental school at the University of Alabama's Medical Center in Birmingham. In 1955 he was also named director of Research and Graduate Studies for the Medical Center, and in 1962 became the Vice President for Health Affairs. In 1969, Dr. Volker became the first president of the autonomous University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB), he served until his 1976 appointment as first chancellor of the three-campus University of Alabama System. After his retirement as chancellor in 1982, Volker returned to UAB as a distinguished professor. He died in Birmingham on May 3, 1989.
Source: http://www.uab.edu/archives/collections/manu-coll/56-mc001
Joseph F. Volker (1913-1989) was a dentist, noted scientist, educator, and college administrator in his adopted home of Alabama. His research showed that applications of fluoride could be used to prevent tooth decay. He later was the first dean of the dental school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Joseph Francis Hennessey Aloysius Volker was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on March 9, 1913...
Source: http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2057
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
1962. The Arizona Medical School Study (known familiarly as the Volker Report after the head of the consultant team, Joseph F. Volker, DDS, PhD, then Director of Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Alabama Medical Center) and its conclusions were endorsed by the Board of Regents. In brief, the study concluded that Arizona would be well served by the establishment of a medical school and that resources were adequate to support a four-year school. The study further recommended building the school on the academic campus with the greatest level of graduate education development and that a teaching hospital of 300 or more beds be owned and operated by the school.
Source: Kettel, Louis J., Medical Schools of the West: University of Arizona, College of Medicine. Western Journal of Medicine, 139:3, Sep 1983, pages 395-399.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1021544/pdf/westjmed00193-01...
Joseph Francis Volker was born in New Jersey in 1913 and later studied at the Universities of Indiana and Rochester, earning a D.D.S. from Indiana in 1936 and a Ph.D. degree from Rochester in 1941. He then served as assistant professor of dentistry at Rochester until his 1947 appointment as dean of the Tufts dental school. In 1948, Dr. Volker was named first dean of the new dental school at the University of Alabama's Medical Center in Birmingham. In 1955 he was also named director of Research and Graduate Studies for the Medical Center, and in 1962 became the Vice President for Health Affairs. In 1969, Dr. Volker became the first president of the autonomous University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB), he served until his 1976 appointment as first chancellor of the three-campus University of Alabama System. After his retirement as chancellor in 1982, Volker returned to UAB as a distinguished professor. He died in Birmingham on May 3, 1989.
Source: http://www.uab.edu/archives/collections/manu-coll/56-mc001
Joseph F. Volker (1913-1989) was a dentist, noted scientist, educator, and college administrator in his adopted home of Alabama. His research showed that applications of fluoride could be used to prevent tooth decay. He later was the first dean of the dental school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Joseph Francis Hennessey Aloysius Volker was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on March 9, 1913...
Source: http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2057
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 9, page(s) 211-214
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