Dr. Ruth L. Kirschstein Oral History 1999

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Oral History of Dr. Ruth Kirschstein, Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health
Conducted in Building 1, the National Institutes of Health

15 April 1999
Interviewers: Dr. Victoria Harden and Dr. Caroline Hannaway
Please Note: These Interviews Have Not been Verified for Accuracy

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Hannaway:                  At the end of the last interview, we were talking about management styles of different directors of the NIH.  Now we want to come back to your NIGMS career in the 1980s and move forward in time.  In 1983 and 1984, you participated as a member of the NIH Liaison Committee in the Institute of Medicine study of the organizational structure of the NIH, which had the title of “Responding to Health Needs and Scientific Opportunity.”  We would like to know a little about the background of this study, about how it was conducted, and what its outcome was.

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