The CHAIRMAN. I order printed in the record the biographical data on Dr. Roger L. Egeberg, and also this list of publications. There are magazine articles dealing with medicine and therapy. The first one speaks of human illnesses and ailments and then, in broader scope it goes into the matter of organization and health for the people. They range in all different phases from the individual patient up to providing medical care to all people. I order printed also at this point the law dealing with your office and the creation of the duties that are enumerated in the law. (The material referred to follows:) BIOGRAPHY OF DR. ROGER O. EGEBERG, TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Dr. Roger E. Egeberg was born in Chicago, Illinois, November 13, 1903. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1925 and M.D. from Northwestern University in 1929. Dr. Egeberg is married to the former Margaret McEchron Chahoon, and they have four children: Dagny (Mrs. Wm. Hancock), Sarah (Mrs. Robert Beauchamp), Roger Olaf, and Karen (Mrs. Richard Warner). Dr. Egeberg served his internship with Wesley Hospital, Chicago, and his residency with University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He practiced medicine (specializing in internal medicine) in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1932-42; Chief of Medical Service, VA Hospital, Los Angeles, California, 1946-56; Medical Director, Los Angeles County Hospital, 1956-58; Los Angeles County Department Charities, 1958-64; Staff member, Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los Angeles, Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, Downey, California; Professor of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 1948-64, Coll. Medical Evangelists, 1956-64; Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1956–69; Dean of the School of Medicine, from 1964 to present time. Dr. Egeberg is a member of the National Advisory Cancer Council; Special Medical Advisory Group to the VA; California Board of Public Health. He served as Chairman of the Governor's Committee for the Study of Medical Care and Health in California, 1959-60; Chairman of the California Com. on Regional Medical Programs. Dr. Egeberg served (Maj. to Col.) in the Medical Corps, AUS, 1942-46. He was decorated with the Bronze Star, Legion of Merit (U.S.); St. Olaf's Medal (Norway). He was personal physician and aide-de-camp to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 1944-45. He is a Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine; Fellow—A.C.P.; member of the American Medical Association; California-Los Angeles County Medical Associations, American Clinical and Climatological Association, California Society of Internal Medicine, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi. He resides at 6918 Oporto Drive, Los Angeles, California. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Goldman, L., Egeberg, R., Ware, E. R., Fishkin, B. G.: "Clinical Experience with Nitrogen Mustard Therapy." Archives of International Medicine, Volume 82, pp. 125-129. Egeberg, R.: "Treatment of Chest Emergencies Medical Aspects." Published in Annals of Western Medicine and Surgery, Volume V, No. 2, February, 1951. Newcomer, Victor D., Wright, Edwin T., Sternberg, Thomas H., Graham, James H., Wier, Robert H., Egeberg, R. O., Lack, A., Leiby, G.: "Evaluation of Nystatin in Treatment of Coccioidomycosis in Man." Presented at the National Symposium on Therapy of Fungus Diseases, p. 260, published by Little, Brown & Co., 1955. Wier, Robert H., Egeberg, Roger O., Lack, Arthur R., Leivy, George M.: “A Clinical Trial of Prodigiosin in Disseminated Coccioidomycosis.” Published in American Journal of Medical Sciences, Volume 224, pp. 70-76, July, 1952. Egeberg, Roger O.: "Coccioidomycosis-Its Clinical and Climatalogical Aspects with Remarks on Treatment." Published in American Journal of Medical Sciences, Volume 227, No. 3, March, 1954. Egeberg, Roger O., Ely, Ann Frank: "Coccidioides Immitis in the Soil of the Southern San Joaquin Valley." Published in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, Volume 231, No. 2, February, 1956. Egeberg, Roger O., Painter, John M.: "Oral Pollen Therapy-A Comparative Study." Published in the Annals of Allergy, pp. 415-419, September-October, 1947. Egeberg, Roger O.: "Coccidioidomycosis in World War II." History of Medicine in World War II, Historical Unit, U.S. Army. Egeberg, Roger O., Elconin, Ann F., Chahoon, Margaret C.: "Studies on C. Immitis in the Soil of the Southern San Joaquin Valley." Sixth International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Volume IV, September, 1958. Egeberg, Margaret E., Elconin, Ann F., Egeberg, Roger O. : "An Antifungal Agent" Science, October 18, 1961, Volume 134, No. 3477, pp. 472-473. Egeberg, Roger O.: "Health Care for California." Chairman, Governor's Committee for the Study of Medical Aid and Health in California, December, 1960. Egeberg, Roger O., Elconin, Ann F. and Dunn, Olive, J.: "An Organized Hospital Based Home Care Program." Published in the American Journal of Public Health, Volume 64, pp. 1106-1117, July, 1964. Egeberg, Roger O.: "Factors Influencing the Distribution of C. Immitis in the Soil." Recent Progress in Microbiology, VIII, pp. 652–655, University of Toronto Press, 1962. Egeberg, Roger O., and Biddle, Marjorie: "Coccidioidomycosis, Current ConceptChest Diseases." January, 1963, Volume II, No. 3, Tuberculosis and Health Association of Los Angeles County. Elconin, Ann F., Egeberg, Roger O., Egeberg, Margaret C.: "Coccidioides Immitis-Soil Salinity A Significant Factor in Ecology." Published in Journal of Bacteriology, March, 1964, Volume 87, No. 3, pp. 500-503. Egeberg, Roger O., Elconin, Ann F., Egeberg, Margaret C.: "Effect of Salinity and Temperature on Coccidioides Immitis and Three Antagonistic Soil Saprophytes." Published in Journal of Bacteriology, August, 1964, Volume 88, No. 2, pp. 473-476. Egeberg, Roger O.: "Coccioidomycosis," Current Pediatric Therapy (Gellis and Kagan), pp. 593–595, Publishers-W. B. Saunders, 1963 and 1966. Egeberg, Roger O.: "Dangerous Drugs: A Threat To Health." Proceedings of the School and College Health Education, Short-Term Training Course X407, UCLA, August, 1963, pp. 141-146. Egeberg, Roger O. and (by invitation) Elconin, Ann and Egeberg, Margaret C.: "C. Immitis-Vicissitudes of Its Environment." Presented at the American Clinical and Climatalogical Association, October 25, 1965, Williamsburg, Virginia. It appears in the transactions, American Clinical and Climatalogical Association, Volume 77, 1965. Egeberg, Roger O., Elconin, Ann F., Egeberg, Margaret C.: "Relationship of Coccidioides Immitis to Its Environment." Presented at the Second Symposium on Coccioidomycosis, Phoenix, Arizona, December 9, 1965. Egeberg, Roger O.: "The Medical School and the Community." Published in the Journal of Medical Education, Volume 41, No. 6, June, 1966. Egeberg, Roger O.: "The Effect of the Changing Environment of Health Care on Educational Programs." Published in the Journal of Medical Education, Volume 42, No. 10, October, 1967. Egeberg, R. O.: "Regional Medical Programs." Published in California Medicine, Volume 108, pp. 46-48, January, 1968. Egeberg, R. O.: "Malice Between Medical Education and Medical Service in Medical Schools." Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 204, No. 9, May 27, 1968. Egeberg, R. O.: "Discussion of Group Practice in the Education of Medical Students." Published in the Journal of the New York Academy of Medicine, Second Series, Volume 44, No. 11, pp. 1413-1415, November, 1968. Public Law 89-115 89th Congress, H. R. 2984 An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act provisions for construction of health research facilities by extending the expiration date thereof and providing increased support for the program, to authorize additional Assistant Secretaries in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Aot may Health Research be cited as the "Health Research Facilities Amendments of 1965". HEALTH RESEARCH FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION GRANTS Facilities Amendments of 1965. SEC. 2. (a) Section 704 of the Public Health Service Act (herein- 70 Stat. 718; after referred to as the "Act") is amended by inserting after 75 Stat. 827. "$50,000,000," the following: "and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 42 USC 292c. 1967, and the two succeeding fiscal years, an aggregate of not to exceed $280,000,000,". (b) Subsection (a) of section 705 of the Act is amended by striking 76 Stat. 1074. out "June 30, 1965" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1968". CONTRACT AUTHORITY 42 USC 292d. SEC. 3. Section 301 of the Act is amended by striking out "and" at 58 Stat. 692; the end of subsection (g), by redesignating subsection (h) as sub- 70 Stat. 490. section (i), and by inserting immediately before such subsection the 42 USC 241. following new subsection: "(h) Enter into contracts during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and each of the two succeeding fiscal years, including contracts for research in accordance with and subject to the provisions of law applicable to contracts entered into by the military departments under title 10, United States Code, sections 2353 and 2354, except that deter- 70A Stat. 134. mination, approval, and certification required thereby shall be by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; and". ADDITIONAL ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 79 STAT. 448. 79 STAT. 449. SEC. 4. (a) There shall be in the Department of Health, Education, Appointment by and Welfare, in addition to the Assistant Secretaries now provided President. for by law, three additional Assistant Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The provisions of section 2 of the Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1953 (67 Stat. 631) shall 5 USC 133z be applicable to such additional Assistant Secretaries to the same 15 note, 623 ̊ extent as they are applicable to the Assistant Secretaries authorized note. by that section. (b) The office of Special Assistant to the Secretary (Health and Office abolished. Medical Affairs), created by section 3 of the Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1953 (67 Stat. 631), is hereby abolished. 78 Stat. 428. Pub. Law 89-115 79 STAT, 449. 5 USC 2211. Repeal. (c) Paragraph (17) of section 303 (d) of the Federal Executive Salary Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 418) is amended by striking out “(2)" before the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof "(5)"; and paragraph (95) of section 303 (e) of such Act is repealed. (d) The President may authorize the person who immediately prior to the date of enactment of this Act occupies the office of Special Assistant to the Secretary (Health and Medical Affairs) to act as one of the additional Assistant Secretaries authorized by subsection (a) of this section, until that office is filled by appointment in the manner provided by such section. While so acting, such person shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter provided by law for Assistant Secretaries of executive departments. Approved August 9, 1965. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 247 (Comm. on Interstate & Foreign Commerce) and SENATE REPORT No. 367 (Comm. on Labor & Public Welfare). May 10: Considered and passed House. June 28: Considered and passed Senate, amended. REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 1 OF 1953 Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, March 12, 1963, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE SECTION 1. Creation of Department; Secretary.—There is hereby established an executive department, which shall be known as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this reorganization plan referred to as the Department). There shall be at the head of the Department a Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this reorganization plan referred to as the Secretary), who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for the heads of executive departments. The Department shall be administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary. SEC. 2. Under Secretary and Assistant Secretaries.-There shall be in the Department an Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and two Assistant Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare, each of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such functions as the Secretary may prescribe, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter provided by law for under secretaries and assistant secretaries, respectively, of executive departments. The Under 32-107-69-2 Secretary (or, during the absence or disability of the Under Secretary or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Under Secretary, an Assistant Secretary determined according to such order as the Secretary shall prescribe) shall act as Secretary during the absence or disability of the Secretary or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Secretary. SEC. 3. Special Assistant.-There shall be in the Department a Special Assistant to the Secretary (Health and Medical Affairs) who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate from among persons who are recognized leaders in the medical field with wide non-governmental experience, shall review the health and medical programs of the Department and advise the Secretary with respect to the improvement of such programs and with respect to necessary legislation in the health and medical fields, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter provided by law for assistant secretaries of executive departments. SEC. 4. Commissioner of Social Security.-There shall be in the Department a Commissioner of Social Security who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such functions concerning social security and public welfare as the Secretary may prescribe, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter fixed by law for Grade GS-18 of the general schedule established by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. SEC. 5. Transfers to the Department.-All functions of the Federal Security Administrator are hereby transferred to the Secretary. All agencies of the Federal Security Agency, together with their respective functions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made available), and all other functions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made available) of the Federal Security Agency are hereby transferred to the Department. SEC. 6. Performance of Functions of the Secretary.-The Secretary may from time to time make such provisions as the Secretary deems appropriate authorizing the performance of any of the functions of the Secretary by any other officer, or by any agency or employee, of the Department. SEC. 7. Administrative Services.—In the interest of economy and efficiency the Secretary may from time to time establish central administrative services in the fields of procurement, budgeting, accounting, personnel, library, legal, and other services and activities common to the several agencies of the Department; and the Secretary may effect such transfers within the Department of the personnel employed, the property and records used or held, and the funds available for use in connection with such administrative service activities as the Secretary may deem necessary for the conduct of any services so established: Provided, That no professional or substantive function vested by law in any officer shall be removed from the jurisdiction of such officer under this section. SEC. 8. Abolitions.-The Federal Security Agency (exclusive of the agencies thereof transferred by section 5 of this reorganization plan), the offices of Federal Security Administrator and Assistant Federal Security Administrator created by Reorganization Plan No. I (53 Stat. 1423), the two offices of assistant heads of the Federal Security Agency created by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1946 (60 Stat. 1095), and the office of Commissioner for Social Security created by section 701 of the Social Security Act, as amended (64 Stat. 558), are hereby abolished. The Secretary shall make such provisions as may be necessary in order to wind up any outstanding affairs of the Agency and offices abolished by this section which are not otherwise provided for in this reorganization plan. SEC. 9. Interim Provisions.-The President may authorize the persons who immediately prior to the time this reorganization plan takes effect occupy the offices of Federal Security Administrator, Assistant Federal Security Administrator, assistant heads of the Federal Security Agency, and Commissioner for Social Security to act as Secretary, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare and as Commissioner of Social Security, respectively, until those offices are filled by appointment in the manner provided by sections 1, 2, and 4 of this reorganization plan, but not for a period of more than 60 days. While so acting, such persons shall receive compensation at the rates provided by this reorganization plan for the offices the functions of which they perform. |