Amos Christie

SHC’s patient-centered healthcare and its role in the expansion of Nurse Practitioners

Health Fairs, Community Clinics & Councils, Impact of SHC, Personal/Professional Growth, Philosophies/Evolving Concepts, Stories / By

Carolyn Burr discusses the Student Health Coalition’s (SHC) approach to healthcare, emphasizing their value of patient/community involvement and accountability. She describes Dr. Amos Christie’s direct influence on her own nursing career, as well as on the profession moving forward–namely as it regards the policy arena related to Nurse Practitioners (NPs). The SHC approach later became …

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Irwin Venick on what prompted development of the Center for Health Services

Origin Stories, Philosophies/Evolving Concepts, Power and Politics in Health Care, Stories / By

Irwin Venick characterizes the formation of the Center for Health Services (CHS) as an “institutional overlay imposed upon from on high” rather than an impulse among Coalition participants. He explains that most of the university-driven energy to formalize and take advantage of the SHC work in some way came from luminaries at the Medical School, …

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Amos Christie Papers, Eskind Library, Vanderbilt University

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Personal papers of Amos Christie, pediatrician, child health advocate, beloved Vanderbilt professor, and humanitarian. Dr. Christie is best known for his research in histoplasmosis, known as the “Vanderbilt disease,” but he was also instrumental in integrating Vanderbilt’s pediatrics ward in the late 1940s. Materials include: correspondence; biographical material; manuscripts and speeches; reprints; and personal and …

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