Flagle, Charles D.
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Name (Latin)
Flagle, Charles D.
Other forms of name
Flagle, Ch. D
Date of birth
1919-04-26
Date of death
2016-09-04
Field of activity
Engineering
Medical care--Research
Medical education
Occupation
Engineers
Medical scientists
Medical teaching personnel
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Baltimore sun WWW site, viewed Sept 12, 2016(in obituary dated Sept. 9, 2016: Charles D. Flagle, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health professor emeritus, died Sunday [Sept. 4, 2016] in Towson; the former Ruxton resident was 97; "Dr. Flagle was among the founders of the field of health services research," said Karen Kruse Thomas, historian of the Bloomberg School; "he pioneered applying mathematical and managerial approaches to streamline large-scale health systems, including computerization and progressive patient care"; born in Scottdale, Pa.; in 1940, he became a design and development engineer for the Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Philadelphia; worked on jet engine controls for the Army after earning a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Johns Hopkins University; later earned a master's degree and a doctorate in engineering, also from Johns Hopkins; in 1950, he began working as a research associate at the Institute for Cooperative Research, a unit that worked at Johns Hopkins in conjunction with the Army; joined the School of Engineering faculty in 1954 and completed his doctorate of engineering in 1955; named a professor in 1962; the Bloomberg School of Public Health recruited Dr. Flagle in 1963 to set up a research section in its Department of Public Health Administration; served as a special assistant to the U.S. surgeon general for applied health technology from 1967 to 1968; worked to implement electronic medical records systems; during his career, Dr. Flagle's work advanced the application of research in areas such as disease screening, diagnosis and therapy, as well as hospital resources allocation; before his retirement, he was a visiting scholar at the National Library of Medicine, where he created a classification system for health services research)
- LC data base, 11/15/84(hdg.: Flagle, Charles D.) Sept. 12, 2016 (usage: Ch. D. Flagle, Charles D. Flagle)
- Internat. Conf. on System Science in Health Care (3rd : 1984 : Munich, Germany). Third ... 1984:t.p. (Ch. D. Flagle) t.p. verso (Charles D. Flagle, The Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md.)
- LC data base, 11/15/84(hdg.: Flagle, Charles D.)