Newman, Robert G., 1937-2018

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Newman, Robert G., 1937-2018
Other forms of name
Newman, Robert G., 1937-
Newman, Robby, 1937-
Newman, Robert G. (Robert Gabriel), 1937-
Date of birth
1937-10-26
Date of death
2018-08-01
Place of birth
Hague (Netherlands)
Associated country
United States
Place of residence/headquarters
New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity
Drug addiction--Treatment
Methadone maintenance
Public health
Associate group
Beth Israel Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)
Occupation
Hospital administrators
Public health personnel
Physicians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q58758692
Library of congress: n 92803616
Sources of Information
  • 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)
  • Women 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.)
  • Eva E Newman, 2007:page vi (Robby [son of Eva Newman], New York) page 1 (Robert G. Newman) inside back cover (Robert Gabriel Newman, born October 26, 1937, Den Haag, Holland)