Sanford Bloom, M.D., 84, of Santa Barbara, Calif., died Sept. 18. He had been a member of the Academy since 1957.
Bloom received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1951 and completed an internship at Boston City Hospital from 1951-52 and additional graduate training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago in 1952.
Bloom opened his first practice in Gladewater, Texas, later moving to California to establish a primary care clinic in southeast Los Angeles. He left private practice in 1969 to become medical director of what is now the University of California, Los Angeles, Family Medicine Residency in Santa Monica.
A member of the California AFP Board of Directors from 1970-76, Bloom served as editor of that chapter's publication, California GP. He served on the AAFP Committee on Scientific Program and received the AAFP President's Award in 2001.
