Linda Hawes Clever

Clever was born in Seattle, Washington and was an only child. Her father, who worked for the JC Penney company, was promoted often, which resulted in her moving frequently and growing up in different states across the United States, though she spent most of her teenage years in New York.{{Cite interview |last=Clever |first=Linda Hawes |title=Dr. Linda Hawes Clever, MD, MACP : An Oral History |url=https://purl.stanford.edu/pk825np4153 |publisher=Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program |date=2020 |language=en |interviewer-last1=Waldron |interviewer-first1=Manjula |interviewer-last2=Marine-Street |interviewer-first2=Natalie}} Her mother, Evelyn Hawes {{Nee|Johnson}}, was a writer.{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Jim |date=1965-03-07 |title=Colville region local of Evelyn Hawes' book |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review-colville-region-loc/163799259/ |access-date=2025-01-24 |work=The Spokesman-Review |pages=52}}

She graduated from Stanford University in 1962,{{Cite news |date=1972-06-12 |title=Alumni elect four Stanford trustees |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-peninsula-times-tribune-alumni-elect/163797839/ |access-date=2025-01-24 |work=The Peninsula Times Tribune |pages=7}} where she received undergraduate degrees in speech pathology and audiology. She began attending Standford's medical school in her junior year,{{Cite news |date=1961-06-19 |title=Amherst student cited at Stanford |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier-express-amherst-student/163798125/ |access-date=2025-01-24 |work=Buffalo Courier Express |pages=11}} and received her M.D. in 1965. While at Stanford, Hawes was elected president of the Stanford University Medical School Student Body, becoming the first woman to hold the position. She began post-doctoral training in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Community Medicine, and Occupational Health at Stanford and the University of California, San Francisco.{{Cite web |title=Linda Hawes Clever, MD, MACP |url=https://www.amwa-doc.org/faces/linda-hawes-clever-md-macp/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=American Medical Women's Association |language=en-US}}

Following her training, Clever became the medical director of the Outpatient Clinic at St. Mary's Hospital. There, she established new programs, such as those for patient education research and training for nurse practitioners. She was later recruited by the California Pacific Medical Center and served as founding chair for the first Department of Occupational Health. She started the San Francisco Clinic Chiefs group and worked with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation to educate communities to reduce fear and discrimination surrounding the disease.

Clever became president of the Western Association of Physicians and served as editor-in-chief for the Western Journal of Medicine.{{Cite web |title=Linda Hawes Clever « Leaders of Tomorrow |url=https://en.leaders.ngo/speakers/linda-hawes-clever |access-date=2024-05-16 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite journal |last=Clever |first=Linda Hawes |date=1996 |title=The Western Journal of Medicine—The Future Is Up to You |journal=Western Journal of Medicine |volume=164 |issue=6 |pages=529–530 |issn=0093-0415 |pmc=1303638 |pmid=18751043}} She started as editor-in-chief in 1991,{{Cite journal |author=Watts |first=Malcolm Stuart McNeal |date=1990 |others=Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine |title=Editorials: Medicine in extraordinary times |url=https://archive.org/details/westernjournalof1524cali/page/710/mode/2up?q=%22linda+hawes+clever%22 |journal=Western Journal of Medicine |publisher=San Francisco, California Medical Association |volume=152 |issue=6 |pages=711}} and held the position until 1999.{{Cite journal |last=Clever |first=Linda Hawes |date=1999 |title=On Being Editor |journal=Western Journal of Medicine |volume=170 |issue=1 |pages=9–10 |issn=0093-0415 |pmc=1305428 |pmid=18751128}}

She became the first woman governor of the American College of Physicians, and subsequently was a regent and officer.

In 1998, Clever founded RENEW, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing and maintaining health for healthcare professionals and resilience, purpose, and happiness while balancing professional and personal life in other people.{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://renewnow.org/ |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=RENEW |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Clever |first=Linda Hawes |date=2005 |title=RENEW 2055: 60 years old and counting |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |volume=98 |issue=5 |pages=221–223 |doi=10.1258/jrsm.98.5.221 |issn=0141-0768 |pmc=1129045 |pmid=15863771}}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Clever |first1=L. H. |last2=LeGuyader |first2=Y. |date=1995-05-01 |title=Infectious Risks for Health Care Workers |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.pu.16.050195.001041 |journal=Annual Review of Public Health |language=en |volume=16 |issue= |pages=141–164 |doi=10.1146/annurev.pu.16.050195.001041 |pmid=7639868 |issn=0163-7525}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Clever |first=Linda Hawes |date=2002-03-05 |title=Who Is Sicker: Patients—or Residents? Residents' Distress and the Care of Patients |url=http://annals.org/article.aspx?doi=10.7326/0003-4819-136-5-200203050-00012 |journal=Annals of Internal Medicine |language=en |volume=136 |issue=5 |pages=391–393 |doi=10.7326/0003-4819-136-5-200203050-00012 |pmid=11874312 |issn=0003-4819}}
• {{cite book |last=Clever |first=Linda Hawes |title=The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life |date=2010 |publisher=Start Publishing LLC |isbn=978-1-57344-380-7 |publication-place=New York}}

Clever was the 1961 recipient of the Dinklespiel Award for "outstanding service to undergraduate education".{{Cite news |date=1961-07-06 |title=Ex-Colville Girl Gets Top Award |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review-ex-colville-girl-ge/159257545/ |access-date=2025-01-24 |work=The Spokesman-Review |pages=4}} She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1981.{{Cite web |title=Linda H Clever |url=https://nam.edu/member/?member_id=QXJRF%2FJV4Cq3bF6%2Bwe0gfw%3D%3D |website=National Academy of Medicine}} In 1999, Clever won the Alfred Stengel Memorial Award from the American College of Physicians,{{Cite web |title=Awards |url=https://www.acponline.org/sites/default/files/documents/about_acp/awards_masterships/awards.pdf |website=American College of Physicians}}{{Cite web |last=Richter |first=Ruthann |date=February 11, 2013 |title=Physician honored for work serving medical center alumni |url=http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/02/physician-honored-for-work-serving-medical-center-alumni.html |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=News Center |language=en-US}} In 2010, Clever was awarded the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal by the American Medical Women’s Association.

She married her husband, James A. Clever, after her third year at Stanford. In 1971 Clever described an advantage of being married is that she "avoided the unnecessary business that an unmarried medical woman might get".{{Cite news |last=Hosmer |first=Barbara |date=1971-11-10 |title=Audience hears many fields of medicine wide open to women |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-independent-journal-audience-hears/163799123/ |access-date=2025-01-24 |work=Daily Independent Journal |pages=15}}

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