Thomas E. Frothingham Papers, 1974-2007

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Summary

Creator:
Frothingham, Thomas E.
Abstract:
Contains the professional papers of Thomas E. Frothingham (1926-2011), chief of the General Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics in the Duke University Medical Center (1973-1988). Types of materials include contracts, reports, meeting notes, budgets, grant proposals and memoranda pertaining to Duke's Department of Pediatrics, the Duke Child Protection Team and the Center for Child and Family Health-North Carolina, Area K, and the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program. Major subjects include community and rural health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation General Pediatrics Academic Development Program, and Duke University Medical Center. Materials date from 1974 to 2007.
Extent:
4.5 Linear Feet (3 cartons)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
MC.0064

Background

Scope and content:

Includes contracts, reports, meeting notes, budgets, grant proposals and memoranda pertaining to Duke's Department of Pediatrics, the Duke Child Protection Team and the Center for Child and Family Health-North Carolina, Area K, and the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program. Major subjects include community and rural health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation General Pediatrics Academic Development Program, and Duke University Medical Center. Materials date from 1974 to 2007.

Biographical / historical:

Thomas Eliot Frothingham was born June 21, 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1951, interned at Bellevue Hospital in New York City from 1951 to 1952, and was a Medical Officer in the U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1955. From 1957 to 1973, Frothingham held various positions in Boston and New York, at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisana, and at the Corvallis Clinic in Corvallis, Oregon.
In 1973, Frothingham became a professor of pediatrics community and family medicine at Duke University. He founded and served as chief of the Division of General Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics and as director of the pediatric clinics from 1974 to 1987. During that time, he was involved in the Area K pediatrics community health program in rural parts North Carolina. The program allowed practitioners to travel to rural areas to assess and treat children. He also served as Duke's Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) coordinator. In 1996, Frothingham helped to found the Center for Child and Family Health, a treatment center for North Carolina's abused and neglected children that is a collaboration amongst Duke University, North Carolina Central University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Frothingham authored and co-authored more than 40 publications pertaining to pediatrics and infectious diseases.
Frothingham married Phyllis Steiner, Barbara Mathis, and Kelly Frothingham. He had four children with Phyllis Steiner. Frothingham died on December 27, 2011.

Acquisition information:
No documented accession number (acquired, circa 1976), no documented accession number (acquired, 1988), A2008.050 (transferred by Thomas E. Frothingham, August 2008), A2009.007 (gifted by Thomas E. Frothingham, February 2009)
Processing information:

Processed by Archives staff and Emily Glenn: March 2004; encoded by Emily Glenn: March 2004; updated by Dawne Howard Lucas: August 2008

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Area K Contracts, 1974-1995; Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Grant, 1978-1989; Pediatric Graduate Training Program (Bureau of Health/ Manpower), 1978-1984; Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program, 1974-1979; and Duke Child Protection Team/Center for Child and Family Health-North Carolina, 1989-2007.
Physical location:
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This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals or IRB approval may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Duke University assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Thomas E. Frothingham Papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.