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Clifford H. Keene was both president and C.E.O. of Kaiser, a leading figure in the nation's largest healthcare system. A sometime adherent to Buddhist principles, Keene comments on a number of harrowing times in his life as both a soldier and HMO head.
Residency, University of Michigan; army surgeon WWII, Massachusetts, Pacific theater; surgeon, KF Hosp., Oakland; medical director, Kaiser-Frazer Corp., MI; president, CEO, KF Health Plan/Hospitals; vice president, Kaiser Industries Corp. and the Kaiser Foundation; Kaiser Permanente Committee; KPMCPs in Hawaii, Cleveland, Denver; KPMCP Central Office; relationship with fee-for-service medicine, federal and state governments; personalities associated with KPMCP.