July 25, 2023 | Natalie Nabaty

Midday at the Museum

The Differential: University of Arizona College of Medicine — Phoenix Student Publication

I find it entertaining to analyze people's choices for Zoom backgrounds. I would have almost thought that Dr. Kravetz's was another fabricated, digital office space had it not been for the fact that I knew this was the same man who curated our Medical History Museum on campus. Dr. Kravetz sits in an opulent leather chair, with an office befitting a history professor from the East Coast…

May 2023

2023 AZJHS Annual Meeting

Arizona Jewish Historical Society

Honoring Dr. Robert Kravetz for his valuable contributions to AZJHS, the Jewish Community, and the greater Phoenix Community.

Dr. Robert Kravetz is a retired gastroenterologist who has been on the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Medicine for the past ten years as a clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and a clinical professor in the department of Bioethics and Humanism. He also teaches an elective in the History of medicine…

March 31, 2022 | Elyse Horvath

Dr. Robert Kravetz shares his vast collection of medical antiques

Arizona Jewish News

Dr. Carl Sagan famously stated, “You have to know the past to understand the present.” Any student of history will agree with this philosophy and Dr. Robert Kravetz is no exception. Kravetz has punctuated his life’s work in medicine with a strong embrace of medical history…

December 31, 2021

Tools of Healing

Frontdoors Media

Dr. Robert Kravetz is a healer, historian and educator. A retired gastroenterologist, he is on the faculty at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in downtown Phoenix. Over the years, Kravetz has amassed a vast personal collection of medical antiques and artifacts. Here, he shares a few of his favorites…

September 21, 2021

Dr. Robert Kravetz Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

The University of Arizona Health Sciences

Robert E. Kravetz, MD, FACP, MACG, University of Arizona College of Medicine — Phoenix associate clinical professor in internal medicine and bioethics and medical humanism, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Maricopa County Medical Society for his distinguished career in medicine…

May 8, 2021 | Mala Blomquist

Dr. Robert Kravetz: A Healer and a Historian

Arizona Jewish Life

Housed in the hallway right outside the library at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in downtown Phoenix is a unique collection. The Robert Kravetz, MD Medical Museum consists of 15 cases of medical antiques that are just a part of Dr. Robert Kravetz’s enormous collection that began when he purchased a small toothpaste jar for 25 cents decades ago…

February 2016

Medical museum offers quirky, scary artifacts

North Central News

From Civil War amputation tools and antiquated European enema kits to a jar that once held hundreds of bloodthirsty leeches used for medicinal purposes, Abrazo Central Campus’s Medical Museum gives visitors a shot of gratitude for advances in health care. The museum is one of the few in the country that houses the history of medicine in such a meaningful way…

December 7, 2015 | Mike Sackley

Retired doctor’s collection becomes a Phoenix medical museum

KTAR News

One Phoenix hospital is letting you explore medical history while waiting in the lobby. The free museum is located at Abrazo Central Campus near 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road. Hundreds of items in the museum come from the personal collection of Robert Kravetz, a retired gastroenterologist. He has been collecting medical antiques for over 40 years…

January 2, 2014

Bob Kravetz, MD, loves his antique medical tool collection

Arizona Jewish Life

Ever wonder how medical tools began and how they evolved? If so, you may want to visit Dr. Bob Kravetz’s museum collection of antique medical pieces in the lobby of the Phoenix Baptist Hospital. When you first walk in and see the two wall-sized cases that the items call home, you may think you’re in the wrong place – but don’t stop! Walk over and take a look at the dates and histories that Kravetz has included for your perusal…

April 21, 2011 | Maria Hernandez

Oral History with Robert Kravetz

Arizona Memory Project

Dr. Robert Kravetz was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. He is a specialist in Gastroenterology (digestive diseases). Dr. Kravetz first came to Phoenix in 1961 as part of Public Health to work at the Phoenix Indian Hospital for two years. He talks about the unique health concerns of Native Americans and some of cultural differences he witnessed…

September 29, 2010 | Niki D’Andrea

The Medical Museum at Phoenix Baptist Hospital

Phoenix New Times

Housed in the hallway right outside the library at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in downtown Phoenix is a unique collection. The Robert Kravetz, MD Medical Museum consists of 15 cases of medical antiques that are just a part of Dr. Robert Kravetz’s enormous collection that began when he purchased a small toothpaste jar for 25 cents decades ago…

March 31, 2000 | Leisah Namm

Preserving medical history: Physician seeks antidote to forgetting the past

Arizona Jewish News

Today, many newcomers choose Arizona for good jobs, pleasant winters and a relaxed lifestyle. A century ago, they flocked to the Southwest to get well. “The first large influx of people came to Arizona between 1880-1910 for health reasons,” says Dr. Robert Kravetz, medical consultant and historian…