UW public health professor Dr. Richard Smith conceived the effort. He enlisted Group Health's Dr. Robert Monroe as an early and enthusiastic collaborator. The program's first African American participant, Richard Turnipseed, was later trained and employed at Group Health.
Group Health Cooperative and UW School of Medicine collaborate on MEDEX to re-train Vietnam-era medics beginning in June 1969.
- By HistoryLink Staff
- Posted 1/25/2006
- HistoryLink.org Essay 7625
Sources: Walt Crowley, To Serve the Greatest Number: A History of Group Health Cooperative of Seattle (Seattle: GHC/University of Washington Press, 1995), 127.
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