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1982-01 BUSM News & Notes: January 1982 no. 50

https://hdl.handle.net/2144/21800 Boston University Boston University School of Medicine

Issue #50 January 1982

GERHARD BLEICKEN, BWC COUNCIL Gerhard D. Bleicken, chairman of the CHAIRMAN, DIES AT AGE 68 Medical Center's Trustee Council since 1962, died Dec. 4 at the age of 68.

Bleicken, the retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, also was vice chairman of the University's Board of Trustees at the time of his death. He had been a corporator of University Ho^ital for several years.

Medical Center Director Richard H. Egdahl, M.D., praised Bleicken's "open door" approach to his role as chairman of the BUMC Trustee Council.

"He was never too busy to offer his counsel," Egdahl said. "He always took time to understand and discuss issues facihg the Medical Center, whether it was electing trustees or confronting challenges presented by our related institutions.

"He always gave wise counsel with the kind of effectiveness that a civic leader of his stature had to possess," Egdahl said. "As chairman for so many years, he lent important continuity in the evolution of the Medical Center."

Born in Newton, Mass., Bleicken received his undergraduate degree from the University's College of Liberal Arts and was awarded the J.D. degree cum laude from the University's School of Law. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and was a graduate of the Naval Air Training School in &ionset, R.I., and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

He received a number of government, industry and civic awards, including the U.S. Department of Defense's Distinguished Service Citation for his contributions to the National Civil Defense Program.

Bleicken is survived by his wife, Ann M. (Mudge), five sons and nine grandchildren.

BUMC DIRECTOR RICHARD EGDAHL Medical Center Director Richard H. Egdahl, ELECTED TO INSTITUTE'S COUNCIL M.D., was elected to a three-year term on the governing council of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, effective Jan. 1.

Egdahl has been a member of the Institute since 1979. Established in 1970, the organization is conposed of more than 400 members from the biomedical

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sciences and health professions, as well as those from related fields of the behavioral, physical and social sciences; administration; law; and engineering. Institute members conduct studies and formulate recommendations, most of which relate to public policy, on issues affecting the health of the public, health care, education for the health professions and sciences, and research. As a member of the Institute's governing council, Egdahl will help guide the organi• zation's activities.

Leah Lowenstein, M.D., D.Phil., an associate dean at the School, last year became the fifth BUSM faculty member to be elected to the Institute. Other BUSM members of this prestigious organization include Joel Alpert, M.D., chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, and Judith Swazey, Ph.D., a profes• sor of socio-medical sciences and canmunity medicine. Sol Levine, Ph.D., also a professor of socio-medical sciences and community medicine, last year completed his five-year membership term.

LOUIS WQLESON LOAN FUND The Louis E. Wo If son Student Loan Fund ESTABLISHED AT BUSM recently was established at the School to help meet the need of financing medical u education, according to Charles Terrell, assistant dean for student affairs and director of financial aid at BUSM.

Wolfson, a retired physician now living in Miami, Fla., awarded each of the three Boston medical schools $50,000 for student loan funds. In December 1981, 20 BUSM students received support through the annual fund, which was available for first-year students who showed academic merit and financial need, Terrell said.

C. RCBERT VALERI RECEIVES Capt. C. Robert Valeri, MC, USN, an adjunct GROVE-RASMUS SEN MEMDRIAL AWARD research professor of medicine and director of the Naval Blood Research Laboratory at BUSM, received the 1981 American Association of Blood Banks' Morten Grove-Rasmussen Memorial Award at a ceremony recently held in Chicago.

The award was presented to Valeri for his "many contributions which have clarified our understanding of the cryopreservation of red blood corpuscles and thrombocytes," according to the Association. The NBRL is internationally known for its research on the preservation of blood and blood products. Researchers there have developed methods of preserving and rejuvenating blood cells that are expected to revolutionize the nation's blood-banking system. Valeri has been director of the NBRL since 1963.

The Grove-Rasmussen Memorial Award was established in 1975 to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of blood banking, including research, education, and development of techniques.

BUMC PARKING LOT RATES Parking rates for Lots A, C, D and T, which TO INCREASE FEB. 1 have remained stable for 10 years, will in• crease as of Feb. 1, according to Herbert D. Klein, plant superintendent of BUSM and the Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry. With the increase, parking rates at the Medical Center are still the lowest of all Boston teaching centers.

-more- Medical Center employees parking in Lots A, D, and T will be charged, via payroll deductions, $33.33 per month, and employees who park in Lot C and pur• chase coupon books of 20 will be charged $13, or 65 cents per day. People who park in Lot C without using coupons will be charged $2 per day, and visitors parking in Lot A will be charged $5 per day. Employees with coupons remaining from $11 books may continue to use them after Feb. 1.

Employees who park in Lots A, D and T must fill out new parking applica• tions and payroll-deduction authorizations before receiving new parking decals. Forms are available in the Parking Office, T-410, between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.

PRIMARY CARE TRAINING BOOSTED The Primary Care Training Program in General BY RECENT FEDERAL GRANT Internal Medicine recently was awarded $279,410 by the Federal Bureau of Health Professions for the first year of a three-year grant to support the program.

The training program, which was initiated in 1974, is one of the largest primary care residency training programs in the United States, according to John Noble, M.D., a professor of medicine and chief of the section of General Internal Medicine at . The program also is one of the major training programs at BCH, he said.

^proximately 30 residents are currently staff members in the program. Their trainirg includes working at BCH and in neighlsorhood health centers located in Dorchester, the South End, East Boston and South Boston.

PHILIP CARLING NAMED Philip C. Carling, M.D., an assistant profes- TO CARNEY HOSPITAL POST sor of medicine at the School, was recently named director of the Department of Medicine at Carney Hospital, a BUSM affiliate.

Carling has been a member of the Carney Ho^ital staff since 1975. He has been acting director of the Department of Medicine since November 1980 and has served as director of the hospital's infectious disease section, director of the microbiology laboratory, and hospital epidemiologist. Carling, who was a clinical and research fellow in infectious disease at BUMC from 1972 to 1975, is a consultant at several area hospitals.

FREDDY HOMBURGER TO CHAIR A three-day "International Conference on INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Safety Evaluation and Regulation of Chemicals" will be held Feb. 24 to 26 at Howard Johnson's 57 Park Plaza Hotel in Boston.

Chaired by Freddy Homburger, M.D., a BUSM research professor of pathology and president of the Bio-Research Institute, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., the conference will summarize the state of the art of safety evaluation by defining the regulations for chemicals and drugs, exploring how such regulations affect the use and availability of important chemicals and drugs, and by suggesting improvements in regulations.

Distir^uished representatives from Tokyo, Ottawa, Milan and London will join their Merican peers from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food

-more- and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health for the conference. Discussion topics will include the "Use of Human Cells and Tissues in Safety Evaluations," "Interaction of Safety Evaluation and Government Regulations," "Use and Misuse of Risk Assessment," and "New i^proaches to the Detection of Rare Toxic Reactions."

Sponsors of this unique program are the BUSM Departments of Pathology, Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the Mallory Institute of Pathology, Bio-Research Institute, Inc., and the American College of Toxicology. Conference proceedings will be published by S. Karger Publishers of New York and Basel, Switzerland.

Continuing medical education credit is offered for participants. Pre- registration is essential and will be accepted until Feb. 18. To register, or for further information, contact Homburger at 9 Commercial Ave., Cambridge, MA 02141. The phone number is 864-8735.

FOUR CME COURSES SCHEDULED Several BUSM faculty members are scheduled to FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH participate in four Continuing Medical Educa• tion courses set for February and early March.

David Acker, M.D., an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, is course director of the Third Annual Winter Synposium on Clinical Obstetrics to be held Feb. 7 to 12 in Mt. Snow, Vt. The program will aim to present both the physiological explanation and the details of current management plans for corranon obstetrical problems.

"Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Conditions of the and Testis" is the topic of a course being presented by BUSM and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Feb. 8 to 12 at The Village at Smugglers' Notch in Jeffersonville, Vt. Robert Krane, M.D., chairman of the BUSM Department of Urology, and Ralph deVere White, F.R.C.S., an assistant professor of urology at Columbia, are course directors.

"Emergency Treatment of Orthopedic and Sports Injuries" is the subject of a CME course to be held Feb. 22 to 25 at Snow Lake Lodge in Mt. Snow, Vt. George Whitelaw, M.D., an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery, is course director. Six additional BUSM faculty members will participate in the program.

Nine BUSM faculty members are scheduled to take part in "Current Clinical Pediatrics" to be held March 1 to 5 at The Village at Smugglers' Notch. Discussion topics will include "Neuropediatric Elnergencies," "Preventing Adult Disease" and "Day Care and Nursery School: New Problons for the '80s."

For further information on these courses, or to register, contact the Department of Continuing Medical Education at x5602 (247-5602).

JOHfJ BCWERS IS SUBJECT A film on John Z. Bowers, M.D., president OF NEXT 'LEADERS' PROGRAM emeritus of the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, will be featured at the next Benjamin Water- house Medical History Society's "Leaders in American Medicine" program, to be held Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4:30 p.m. at the Countway Library of Harvard

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Medical School. Bowers, who for many years was president of Alpha Omega Alpha, has written extensively on medical education in China and Japan.

Program discussants will be Bowers and Robert J. Glaser, M.D., president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and a consulting professor of medicine at Stanford university School of Medicine.

WM. KANNEL ADDRESSES APHA; William Kannel, M.D., M.P.H., chairman of the SPH FACULTY PRESENT PAPERS Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemi• ology and a lecturer in public health at the School of Public Health, presented the annual Wade Hampton Frost Lecture at the American Public Health Association annual meeting, recently held in Los Angeles. The lecture was entitled "Current Status of Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors."

Several SPH faculty members, students and alumni attended the meeting, where nine papers prepared by SPH faculty, as well as four that were written by SPH students and graduates, were presented.

(OTGRESSMAN EARLY DISCUSSES U.S. Rep. Joseph D. Early (D-Mass) was TRAINING IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS scheduled to lead an informal discusssion on "Health Professions Training—Strategies in the Face of Federal Cutbacks" on Jan. 22 in room L-102.

Early is one of the state's three representatives who are members of the House ^propriations Committee. He is the foremost proponent for health man• power training in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to Dean Sandson, and is one of two state representatives who are serving on the Labor/Health and Human Services Subcommittee.

NEW ^iAPS BROCHURE AVAILABLE University Ho^ital has just published a new FROM UH MATERIALS MANAGEMENT MAPS brochure that provides information on traveling to the Medical Center, as well as a new BUMC map. The brochure was prepared by the Office of Informational Serv• ices in consultation with many potential tiAPS users.

The MAPS brochure was designed to promote access to BWC so that students, faculty, staff and visitors are better able to reach the Medical Center. For example, it can be included in information packets for student applicants, new faculty members, continuing education course registrants and visitors to the Medical Center. It also may be sent to registrants for conferences or other special events.

Please note that the brochure does not include a directory of services. Therefore, departments will need to indicate, either on the map itself or on an enclosure, where specific activities are located.

The Hospital's Department of Materials Management will inventory the sup• ply of the MAPS brochure. To order an initial supply of MAPS in a reasonable amount, without charge, you may request an order form from Albert Sherman, UH

-more- director of Materials mnagement, E-7, x5790 (247-5790). Additional supplies of the brochure also may be ordered from Sherman.

BRIEFLY NOrED Dean Sandson and Boston University President John R. Silber, Ph.D., were among five University representatives who appeared on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" show Jan. 18 to 22. The five-part series focused on the Reagan administra• tion's first year....Laurence Corwin, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology, presented a talk on "Vitamin E and Immunology" at a recent meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. Corwin also participated in a panel discussion of the same topic on NBC-TV's "Health Field" show....Sanford Chodosh, M.D., an associate professor of medicine, is a co-author of an article entitled "Regulations Governing Research on Human Subjects: Academic Freedom and the Institutional Review Board," which appeared in the December issue of Academe....Marian Glasgow, M.S.W., an assistant professor of socio-medical sciences and community medicine and director of the School's Human Sexuality Teaching Program, is the author of an article entitled "Human Sexuality Education for Clinical Social Workers," which appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of Contemporary Social Work.

NEWS & NOTES is a regular monthly publication of the Office of Informational Services. If you have news of interest to the School of Medicine community, call editor Susan Rabin, x5606 (247-5606), or write to her at the Office of Informational Services, P-600 (720 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02118). Marge Dwyer is managing editor.

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