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Newman, Robert G., 1937-2018

LC control no.n 92803616
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Personal name headingNewman, Robert G., 1937-2018
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedMount Vernon (Westchester County, N.Y.) Baldwin (N.Y.)
Birth date1937-10-26
Death date2018-08-01
Place of birthHague (Netherlands)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityDrug addiction--Treatment Methadone maintenance
AffiliationBeth Israel Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupationPublic health personnel Hospital administrators
Found inWomen and HIV infection, c1991: t.p. (Robert G. Newman, MD, chairperson AIDS Working Group, APHA)
LC data base 7/1/92 (hdg.: Newman, Robert G.; usage: Robert G. Newman)
NLM files 7/1/92 (hdg.: Newman, Robert G., 1937- ; usage: Robert G. Newman)
Phone call to Amer. Public Health Assn., Margaret Anderson, 7/2/92 (Robert G. Newman, Working Group chair, also author of work on methadone; pres., Beth Israel Med. Center, N.Y.)
New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 9, 2018 (in obituary published Aug. 8: Dr. Robert G. Newman; Robert Gabriel Newman; b. Oct. 26, 1937, The Hague; fled Europe with his family in Aug. 1939 raised mostly in the New York metropolitan area -- in Mt. Vernon, Manhattan, and Baldwin, on Long Island, though he spent time in the early 1950s in Frankfurt, Germany; d. Aug. 1, Manhattan, aged 80; pioneered methadone maintenance as a safe substitute for heroin and struggled to redefine addiction as a chronic medical condition that cannot be cured)
Associated languageeng