Year: 2013
Type: editorial
Abstract: Robert Kane was born in New York City, where spent the early part of his life. His family then moved to Toronto, Canada, where he attended high school and started college. He returned to New York City to attend Columbia University and completed his undergraduate work in 1961. In 1965, Kane earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, specializing in preventive medicine. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Kentucky at Lexington and fulfilled his military service with the Indian Health Service on the Navaho Reservation in New Mexico and at the U.S. Public Health Service in Denver, CO. He began his academic career at the University of Utah, serving as a professor in the Department of Family and Community medicine from 1970 to 1977. From 1977 to 1985, he was a senior research at The RAND Corporation and held a joint appointment at the University of California, Los Angeles in the School of Public Health and the Department of Medicine. He was recruited to serve as dean of the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health in 1985. He stepped down as dean in 1990 but remained a professor in the School. Over the course of his career, his major research has involved geriatric health and long term care, the relationship between acute and chronic care, health outcomes, and managed care. He holds the Minnesota Chair in Long-Term Aging and has served as director of Clinical Outcomes Research since 1993 and director of the Center on Aging since 1994.
Authors: Lauren E. Klaffke, Robert L Kane
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2277870895