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Title: Charlotte Baer
Contributor: UCSF Archives and Special Collections
Date Created and/or Issued: undated
Publication Information: Digital resource published by the Regents of the University of California
Contributing Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, University Archives
Collection: UCSF History Collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Charlotte Baer was a UCSF clinical faculty member who died in 1973. Baer moved to California after fleeing from Nazi Germany in 1938. Her practice in internal medicine was characterized by a devotion to patients as well as by a tenacity and vigor in the pursuit of obscure diagnostic problems. Her many professional accomplishments included helping to set up the peer review process used by the California Medical Association and Blue Shield. Dr. Baer, who had once been the intercollegiate breaststroke champion of Europe but was not allowed to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics because she was Jewish, also organized a synchronized swimming group in San Francisco. After her death, Dr. Baer's family asked that money be donated to UCSF in lieu of flowers. The university and School of Medicine decided the best way to memorialize her was to establish an award to recognize clinical faculty contributions to the School of Medicine.
Type: image
Format: Photographic Print
Identifier: Baer
Subject: portrait
Source: Photograph Collection, Portraits, Baer

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