Personal Name: Charles R. Key, M.D., PhD.
Personal Dates: 1934-
Interviewed by: Jake Spidle, Ph.D.
Recorded Date: 1994
Call Number: FL 916
Oral History Title: Interview with Charles R. Key, M.D.,
Ph.D.
Physical Description: 2 sound cassettes (105 mins.)
Biographical Note:
Dr. Charles R. Key was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1934.
After spending a summer building houses in Texas with a relative
who was just beginning medical school, Dr. Key changed his
pre-enrollment major from engineering to pre-med. He entered
college at Oklahoma A & M, where he met his wife-to-be the first
day of his freshman year. He graduated with a B.S. in 1956 and
was married a year or two after. Dr. Key received his M.D. in
1959, an M.S. in Pathology in 1962, and a Ph.D. in Medical
Science (Pathology) in 1966, all from the University of
Oklahoma. He completed his residency in Pathology at the
University of Oklahoma Medical Center in 1964. He served as an
experimental pathologist for the U.S. Public Health Services
Division of Air Pollution in Cincinnati from 1964-1966 and a
pathologist for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in
Hiroshima, Japan, from 1966-1969. In 1969, Dr. Key came to the
still-young University of New Mexico School of Medicine as
faculty in the Department of Pathology and Medical Director of
the New Mexico Tumor Registry, titles he still currently holds.
Content:
This interview with Dr. Charles R. Key (1934- ), a pathologist and
epidemiologist of Albuquerque, New Mexico, focuses primarily on
Dr. Key’s first 25 years at the University of New Mexico School
of Medicine. Arriving for service in the still young Department
of Pathology in 1969, Dr. Key has played a major role in many of
the department's and school's programs. In this interview, the
major subject covered is Dr. Key's work with the New Mexico
Tumor Registry and its history, but among the other subjects
discussed are his personal and professional background; the
special linkage between the U.S./Japan Atomic Bomb Casualty
Commission and the UNM-SOM Department of Pathology; and others.
Location: Bernalillo County
Occupation: Physician, Medical-Pathology
Link to Library Catalog:
http://hestia.unm.edu/search/a?SEARCH=key+charles
Full text transcript:
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