Robert Higgins Ebert (Rhodes 1936)
Educator. Physician. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford.
Master: American College of Physicians. Fellow: American Public Health Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association. Member: Massachusetts Medical Society, Association American Physicians (recorder 1962-1966, councillor 1966, president 1972-1973), American Clinical and Climatological Association, American Thoracic Society (chairman committee medical research 1955, president 1961-1962), American Society Clinical Investigation, Harvard Club (New York City), Century Club, Kappa Pi Eta, Alpha Omega Alpha, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Kappa Upsilon (honorary).
1992 to 1996, Director, 1993 to 1996, Chairman board directors Mind-Body Medical Institute.
1992 to 1996 - Trustee Education Development Center.
1990 to 1995 - Council for Division Biological Sciences Pritzker School Medicine.
1988 to 1993 - Chairman visiting committee Health Science Center State University of New York, Brooklyn.
1986 - First wife, Emily died.
1984 to 1994 - Member board directors National Medical Fellowships.
1984 to 1994 - Special Advisory The Commonwealth Fund (1st President and son of founder, Stephen Harkness, Wolf’s Head).
1984 to 1988 - Special consultant Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
1983 to 1986 - Chairman board overseers Dartmouth Medical School.
1983 - Doctor of Science, New York Medical College (Honary).
1980 to 1984 - Member board regents Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
1978 to 1985 - Trustee, Mount Sinai Medical School, Hospital and Medical Center.
1977 - Doctor of Science, Notre Dame University (Honary).
1977 to 1987 - Director Squibb Corporation. (aka Bristol-Myers Squibb)
1977 to 1987 - Trustee, Barnard College.
1975 to 1976 - Vice Chairman President’s Biomedical Research Panel. [Nelson Rockefeller. President Gerald Ford (Freemason)]
1974 - Doctor of Humane Letters, Rush Medical College (Honary).
1970 - Doctor of Laws, University Toronto (Honary).
1970 - Doctor of Laws, University Maryland (Honary).
In 1969, he set up the community health plan, a nonprofit corporation, persuaded Harvard to sponsor it and lend it money, and raised money from philanthropic foundations devoted to medical causes. The corporation, the precursor to the H.M.O.’s of today, set up shop in Kenmore Square, near the medical school, and prepared to greet an expected 10,000 patients. But only 88 came. Nonetheless, the plan rapidly picked up patients. It merged last year with Pilgrim Health Care and has 1.1 million members in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Experts in health care generally recognize the program, now called Harvard-Pilgrim Health Care, as providing some of the best care of any H.M.O. in the country. Manuel M. Ferris, the corporation’s chief executive, said he was largely responsible for the organization’s forming a foundation that would not only devote a percentage of its annual surplus to financing teaching and research programs but also to organizing community projects to reduce violence and teen-age pregnancy and dispense AIDS information. Dr. Ebert remained on the Harvard-Pilgrim board until his death. [4]
1969 to 1974 - Trustee Meharry Medical College.
1968 to 1971 - Member Board Visitors University Pennsylvania School Medicine.
1968 to 1971 - Member advisory committee to director National Institutes of Health.
1968 - Doctor of Science, Northeastern University (Honary).
1967 to 1971, Board Regents, 1970 to 1971, Chairman, of The National Library Medicine.
1967 to 1970 - Member visiting committee on colleges University Chicago.
1966 to 1996, Trustee, 1978 to 1988, Chairman board, Population Council.
1966 to 1977, Member Technical Board, 1972 to 1984, 1988 to 1996, Board Directors, 1978 to 1984, 1988 to 1989, President Milbank Memorial Fund.
1966 to 1976 - Trustee Rockefeller Foundation.[4]
1966 to 1967 - Member National Advisory Commission on Health Manpower (President Lyndon B. Johnson)
1965 to 1977, President Harvard Medical Center, 1968 to 1974, Harvard Community Health Plan, 1968 to 1994, Member Board Directors, 1974 to 1984, Chairman board, 1983 to 1996, Chairman foundation, 1985 to 1996, Chairman board of overseers, Harvard Medical Center.
1965 to 1977 - Dean of Harvard Medical School.[4]
1964 to 1965, Jackson Professor Clinical Medicine Harvard University, 1965 to 1973, Professor Medicine, 1965 to 1977, Dean Medical School and Faculty of Medicine, 1977 to 1996, Emeritus, 1973 to 1977, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine.
1964 to 1965 - Head Harvard department medicine Massachusetts General Hospital.
1964 - Master of Arts, Harvard University (Honary)
1961 to 1964 - Examiner American Board Internal Medicine.
1960’s and 1970’s and he took part in antiwar rallies when they were protesting against the Vietnam War.[4]
1956 to 1964 - Director medicine University Hospitals.
1956 to 1958, Hanna Payne Professor, 1958 to 1964, John H. Hord Professor medicine, Medicine Western Reserve University. He helped overhaul the curriculum of American medical schools. Under the changes, first-year students were required to see sick patients in addition to their theoretical training, and case studies were introduced into what had been more abstract instruction.[4]
1946 to 1955, Assistant, Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, 1955 to 1956, Professor, department medicine University Chicago.
1944 to 1946 - Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve.
WW2 - As a Marine Corps doctor in World War II, he was one of the American medics who went into Nagasaki to treat radiation sickness and related illnesses among the residents after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
1942 to 1944 - Intern, assistant resident medicine Boston City Hospital.
1942 - Doctor of Medicine, University Chicago.
1936 to 1939 - Doctor of Philosophy, Rhodes Scholar, Magdalen College, Oxford University.
1936 - Bachelor of Science, University Chicago.
Note:
Two sons, John and Thomas. daughter, Elizabeth S. Schmidt-Nowara.
Brother, Richard V. Ebert of Roland, Ariz., and five grandchildren.
[2] - Biography - Robert Higgins Ebert (Rhodes 1936)
[3] - Son, Robert Higgins Ebert II, Ph. D, M.D.
[5] - NY Times, 31 Jan 1964, Harvard Names Medical Professor
[6] - NY Times - 9 Apr 1966 - Ebert on Rockefeller Board.
[7] - Harvard Squarel Library - Biographies - Robert Higgins Ebert (Rhodes 1936)
[[8] - Find a Grave - Robert Higgins Ebert (Rhodes 1936)] (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102118208/robert-higgins-ebert)
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