In addition to his duties at Henry Mayo, Leiter was also a clinical instructor at the UCLA School of Medicine and Northridge Hospital Family Practice Residency Program. He was a man of few words, but if he spoke, we all listened… he just stood out as an obvious leader without really carrying a big stick, so to speak. “He was a perfect gentleman to work with. “He was a pioneer in that sense and the company that ultimately bought that hospital did it to have both the medical staff that he had organized, as well as employees and volunteers that were active in that first hospital all move to Henry Mayo when it opened in 1975,” said Roger Seaver, president and CEO of Henry Mayo. It made more sense to treat patients locally, especially as the population began to grow. At the time, Leiter would have to frequently send patients to the San Fernando Valley – a dangerous, and often life-threatening trek, if the patient needed urgent care. Greg said his father then went about recruiting other doctors to come to the area and to the new hospital. So my dad at a very young age, you know, he would have been in his early 30s, was the only doctor in Santa Clarita.” “The story goes that, I heard very consistently my whole life, was that when he came out of medical school and went out there and opened his practice, there was one or two older doctors that within a few years. “My mom, being from sort of farm country in western Arkansas, said, ‘Why don’t we go out to a growing area, more rural where, you know, where they really respect the doctors and you can kind of start your own thing.’ So that’s what brought him out there,” said Greg. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron Bender.
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