Korn, David

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Abstract: David Korn came to Stanford in 1968 as professor and chair of the Stanford Medical School’s Pathology Department. In 1984 he was named Dean of the Medical School, and in 1986 Vice President for Medical Affairs, serving in both roles until 1995. He participated in a wide-ranging series of seven interviews conducted for this oral history. The interview topics are both broad and deep, including his early life, undergraduate and medical school education at Harvard, his career before joining the Stanford faculty, his recruitment to Stanford, his recruitment of the Pathology faculty, his selection as dean and the accomplishments and challenges during his deanship: curriculum change, medical student affirmative action, the UCSF-Stanford clinical merger, the financing of academic research, tensions between research and clinical practice, indirect cost rate controversy, patent revenues, rebuilding clinical departments one by one, to name a few. Korn also discusses issues regarding external organizations such as the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), NIH funding, the National Cancer Advisory Board, lobbying in Congress and so on.

Type of resource	mixed material
Date created	November 3, 2011 - November 27, 2013

Author	Korn, David
Contributing author	Brest, Iris
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society

Subject	David Korn
Subject	Stanford Historical Society
Subject	oral histories
Subject	interviews
Subject	accreditation visits
Subject	affirmative Action
Subject	bioethics center
Subject	clinical laboratories
Subject	Department of Health Research and Policy
Subject	Department of Psychiatry
Subject	Dingell hearings
Subject	DNA repair
Subject	ethics in medicine
Subject	faculty oversight
Subject	family and community medicine
Subject	financial conflict of interest policy
Subject	high energy physics
Subject	hospital administration
Subject	Palo Alto Medical Foundation Clinic
Subject	Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital
Subject	primary care
Subject	radiation oncology
Subject	restricted funds
Subject	salary guarantee structure
Subject	scientific misconduct
Subject	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Subject	Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Subject	surgical pathology
Subject	term limits
Subject	transplant program
Subject	UCSF-Stanford hospitals merger
Subject	university autonomy
Subject	Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Subject	women department chairs

Related item	Title Finding Aid
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/kd766pn2317

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Preferred Citation: David Korn (2013). Oral
history. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at:
http://purl.stanford.edu/kd766pn2317

Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022

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