DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFA ES
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ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE, AND MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION \—

 

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September 10, 1979 AREA CODE 30! TEL: 656-4000

Dr. Joshua Lederberg 4 (

President, Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue
New York, New York 10021

Dear Josh:

I greatly appreciate your willingness to write in support of my
appointment to the faculty at Harvard. I am enclosing a CV for your
convenience.

You already know a great deal about my activities here in Washington.
These years have been very exciting. It has been gratifying to have
continuity with the work that I initiated at Stanford in early adolescence,
coping and peer counseling. I have also been fortunate in having the
chance to expand my interests in endocrine-behavior interactions through
efforts in juvenile diabetes. Needless to say, I was very gratified by the
success of the recent National Conference on Behavioral and Psychosocial
Issues in Diabetes that I organized and chaired. There is already a long
list of requests for the monograph we are editing based on this conference.
I will probably continue collaborations in the diabetes areas at Harvard.

I also expect to spend part of my time at Harvard on health policy
relating to children and youth. The experience that I had as Director
of Studies for the President's Commission on Mental Health, and then
subsequently, with its Implementation Task Force was a great learning
experience both in terms of issues and processes. »

Leon Eisenberg may be writing to you shortly in his official capacity.
Thank you again for your kind consideration.

Sincerely yours,

Beatrix A. Hamburg, M.D.
Research Psychiatrist
Laboratory of Developmental Psychology
National Institute of Mental Health
Bldg. 15K

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