III. Harvard Medical School Records, 1970-1998, 1970-1998

The records in Series III are the product of RJK's career as a teacher and clinician in anesthesia and as an administrator at HMS and its affiliated institutions. This series contains recommendations and correspondence recording RJK’s appointment as HID Professor of Research and Teaching in Anesthesia and Chief of Anesthesia. RJK’s term as Chair of the HMS Anesthesia Department is described in correspondence, reports, and financial statements. Limited correspondence with HMS and Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) deans and administrators within the HMS community is found under the names of individual correspondents. Also includes Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) meeting minutes, long range planning reports, and symposia programs detailing the development of biomedical engineering programs, physician/scientist preceptorships, and recruitment of applicants. Series III also contains meeting minutes and NIH grant proposals relevant to the Harvard Anesthesia Center including coordination with MIT, development of an anesthesia simulator laboratory, and molecular pharmacology studies.