Our History
Sam Regenstrief was a captain of industry with a brilliant mind when it came to increasing manufacturing productivity while lowering costs. After a hospital visit for a physical, and experiencing firsthand the inefficiency and inequity too often plaguing health care, Sam sought to find a way to apply technological and engineering advances to medicine.
The Regenstrief Foundation and the Regenstrief Institute were established by Sam and his wife Myrtie on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus in 1969. They believed the modern advances in technology and processes in industry which made Sam successful could be applied to health care systems and research.
our History