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Alan Gregg (1890 - 1957)

Born in 1890 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Alan Gregg headed East to earn both an undergraduate (1911) and a medical degree (1916) from Harvard University. Following medical school, Gregg volunteered his services on the Western front in World War I, joining up with Great Britain’s Royal Army Medical Corps in 1917 and remaining until his discharge in 1919. After the war Gregg began his career with the RF. In 1919 Gregg joined the International Health Division (IHD) and was immediately assigned to the field staff in Brazil. Gregg remained in Brazil until 1922, when he accepted the position of Associate Director of the RF’s Division of Medical Education.  In 1929 Gregg became the Associate Director of the Medical Sciences Division and one year later was promoted to director. Gregg left this position in 1951 and assumed the office of Vice President of the RF, a title he held until his retirement in 1956.  In his work with the Medical Sciences Division, Gregg took a special interest in helping to build the field of psychiatry. Gregg firmly believed that the teaching of psychiatry and the funding of mental health research should be on par with the attention given any other disease of the body. Gregg supported initiatives that ensured the inclusion of psychiatry in standard medical school curricula and also directed RF funding toward individual researchers in the field. In addition to his work with the RF, Gregg served as an advisor to a number of government departments, including the Office of the Surgeon General of the War Department, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the psychiatric and neuropsychiatric sections of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Gregg also received the French National Order of the Legion of Honour and was named as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in Great Britain. In 1956, he received an award from the Lasker Foundation in 1956 that recognized his service in the fields of public health, medical education and research. Alan Gregg died in Big Sur, California in 1957.

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COLLECTIONS RELATED TO ALAN GREGG

John Z. Bowers papers
COLLECTION 1950-1998

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Rockefeller Foundation records
COLLECTION 1910-2005, 1924-1990

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Alan Gregg papers
COLLECTION 1921-1966

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John C. Bugher papers
COLLECTION 1926-1966

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Harold H. Loucks papers
COLLECTION 1920-1976, bulk 1951-1965, 1951-1965

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General Education Board records
COLLECTION 1902-1969

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gregg_(physician)

Alan Gregg (1890–1957) was an American physician active in the fields of public health, medical education and research.^[1]^[4]^[8]^[9] Gregg worked at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City from 1919 until he retired in 1956, in that time spending 20 years as Director of the Medical Sciences Division and finishing his career as the foundation's vice president.^[2]^[9] During his career, he helped develop the United States' now predominant model for funding medical research.^[9]^[10] Rockefeller grants that he championed helped finance the development of sulfanilamide and penicillin,^[2] some of the first antibiotic drugs. In 1940 he gave a Terry Lecture on the topic of medical research.^[11] Throughout his career, he declined many honorary degrees and awards because he did not want to be in the position of later giving a grant to an award donor.^[2] However, in 1956, after his retirement, he accepted a special Lasker Award that recognized his contributions to medicine.^[1]^[7] He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,^[2] an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and received the French Legion of Honor.^[4] In 1958, after his death, the American Association of Medical Colleges inaugurated a lecture series named in his honor.^[12]
- Alan Gregg, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Profiles in Science
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1. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "The Alan Gregg Papers: Biographical Information". Profiles in Science. U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
2. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "ALAN GREGG DIES; MEDICAL LEADER". The New York Times. June 21, 1957. p. 25. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
3. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c Harvard College Class of 1911 Decennial Report. Four Seas Company. 1921. p. 177. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
4. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c "People: Alan Gregg". The Rockefeller Foundation: A Digital History. The Rockefeller Archive Center.
5. ^ Mead, Frederick Sumner, ed. (1921). Harvard's Military Record in the World War. Harvard Alumni Association. p. 402. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
6. ^ "Biographical Sketches: Alan Gregg, MD". Epidemiology & Community Health. Regents of the University of Minnesota.
7. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b "A WELL-EARNED AWARD". The New York Times. November 3, 1956. p. 22. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
8. ^ "Medicine: Public-Health Statesman". Time. 1956-11-26.
9. ^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c "The Alan Gregg Papers". Profiles in Science. U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
10. ^ Schneider, William H. (2002). "The Men Who Followed Flexner: Richard Pearce, Alan Gregg, and the Rockefeller Foundation Medical Divisions, 1919-1951". Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the Cold War. Indiana University Press. pp. 7–60. ISBN 9780253109606. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
11. ^ "Previous Lectureships". The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship. Yale University. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
12. ^ "Alan Gregg Memorial Lecture". American Association of Medical Colleges. Retrieved 9 August 2019. Named in honor of the late Alan Gregg, American physician, educator, and philanthropist, this lecture was presented for the first time at the 1958 annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Alan Gregg (1890 - 1957)

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