Gary Friedman Musc

About Gary Friedman

Born in 1934 and raised in University Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, I received my higher education at Antioch College, The University of Chicago, and Harvard University.

My main career has been as a physician-epidemiologist. I worked in the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research for 30 years including 7 years as its Director.

Since retiring from Kaiser Permanente in 1999, my current position is Consulting Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine. I wrote a textbook, Primer of Epidemiology, and have authored or coauthored over 300 other scientific publications. Five editions of Primer of Epidemiology have been published since 1974, the latest in 2004. The book has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Chinese. I was President, American Epidemiological Society, 1999-2000, received an Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Cancer Institute in 1989 and a Distinguished Service Award from the University of Chicago MedicalAlumni Association, June 3, 2000.

For more information, consult Marquis Who's Who in America, where I have been included since 1995. The Gary Friedman Symposium, published in the Permanente Journal in the Fall 1998 issue, and readable at the Journal's website gives more information about my epidemiologic career.

My musical education started with piano at age 5. I also played trumpet in junior high and high school and studied organ and music theory during teen age. Playing and improvising on the piano only occasionally during adulthood, I returned to music seriously at age 54, studying oboe and English horn with Janet Popesco Archibald. I currently play these instruments in the San Francisco Civic Symphony, College of Marin Symphony, the Bohemian Club Band and a woodwind quintet.

I have served on the Board of Directors of Chamber Musicians of Northern California. Starting at age 64,I studied composition for four years with Alexis Alrich in the Adult Extension Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. My musical works and their availability are described in this web site.