GW MEDICINE

SPRING 1968

Christiaan Barnard Gives Tompkins Lecture New Library Assured Nobelist du Vigneaud Caps Research Day THE GEORGE WASHING TON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS 1967-1968 DR. JEROME EPSTEIN '53, Pre~ident DR. WILLIAM BRAININ '34, President-Elect DR. JAMES DUSBABEK '34 First Vice President DR. JACK KLEH '44, Second Vice President DR. CHARLES E. SMITH '41, Secretary CONTENTS DR. JEROME W. CANTER '55, Treasurer ALUMNI WEEKEND . . . . . 4 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DR. THOMAS A. WILSON '44 TRUSTEE Ross, Gift history . 5 DR. ALLAN ZELLIS '41 DR. GEORGE SPECK '41 AMA, AAMC Together on support 5 DR. FRED DONN '41 DR. ERNEST GOULD '39 LIBRARY ASSURED DR. RICHARD E. PALMER '44 PHS gives $1,295,595 6 MRs. BETTY McKEE, Secretary to the Association INTERNIST JAMES J. PEFFER GW MEDICINE EDITORIAL BOARD Associate Dean ...... 6 MRS. MARION M. CoRDDRY, Editor MR. ELLWOOD A. SMITH, BEAUMONT DAY SMASH HIT Director, GWU Alumni Relations Nobelist, students shine ... 8 DR. JEROME H. EPSTEIN '53 DR. JOHN PARKS, Dean, GWU School of Medicine CHRISTIAAN BARNARD AT GW DR. CLAYTON B. ETHRIDGE, Delivers Tompkins Memorial Lecture . . . 10 Medical Director, GWU Hospital MR. VICTOR F. LUDEWIG, Administrator, GWU Hospital EDITOR'S NOTE Miss CATHERINE BREEN, Medical Center news has been so voluminous Assistant to the Dean since the last issue of GW Medicine that a new G W MED IC IN E is the official bulletin of The format of the bulletin is required to cover it. George Washington University Medical Alumni Asso­ ciation. It is published quarterly by The George Wash­ Rather than eliminating any, we are capsulating. ington University, Washington, D. C., in spring, sum­ mer, fall and winter. Editorial and mailing address: Most of the information noted here in brief is 1331 H St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20005. Second available in detail from GW news releases and class postage paid at Washington, D. C. will be furnished to avid readers upon request. MEDICAL ALUMNI PROGRAM ROSS TOPS GW GIFTS AMA, AAMC TOGETHER ON MEDICAL SUPPORT Here are the highlights for the 3-day Medical Mr. Walter G. Ross has presented GW with the largest gift in its history from an individual AMA President Milford 0. Rouse and Dean Alumni program; are your reservations in? -$2,000,000-to use in building facilities for John Parks, AAMC President, issued a joint Hurry! the $35,000,000 Medical Center. Mr. Ross, an honorary Trustee of the University, previously statement from the two organizations on ways donated the Ross Floor of Medicine in the Hos­ the critical shortage of physicians must be met pital's Meyer Pavilion. if national expectations for health services are Thursday, May 23 Donald H. Glew, Jr. '48 to be realized. Postgraduate course in Ophthalmology, Hos­ Associate Professor of Surgery, GW Robert J. Levine '58 At a Washington press conference held March pital Main Conference Room: "The Eye and "Military Medicine Today" Assistant Professor of Medicine and 9, Dr. Parks and Dr. Rouse said "Many qualified You." young people are denied the opportunity to study .. Jack P. Segal '48 Pharmacology, Yale University \ Papers will be presented on current concepts Clinical Associate Professor of School of Medicine medicine. . . . It should be our national policy of eye disease as they are related to the practice Medicine, Georgetown University to provide this opportunity to every young per­ "Studies on the Role of Histamine of medicine, surgery and pediatrics. School of Medicine son who is both interested in and qualified for Participants: Drs. Ben S. Fine; Ronald S. Fish­ in Mediating Gastric Secretion" "The Differential Diagnosis of the study of medicine." man; Jerome N. Goldman; John W. McTigue, Primary Myocardial Disease" They endorsed the position that all schools Dept. Chairman; Marshal M. Parks; Herbert A. Steven E. Levy '58 Urweider; Henry Wicker; Lorenz E. Zimmer­ Harvey H. Ammerman '43 should expand their collective enrollments to Chief of Chest Disease, Cedars-Sinai man, all from GW. Also Dr. A. E. Maumenee, Clinical Professor of Neurological permit the development of more American Director, The Wilmer Institute, John Hopkins Surgery, GW Medical Center physicians. . Hospital, Baltimore, Md., and Dr. William S. I "ls It Really A Stroke" "The Pathophysiology of Drs. Rouse and Parks recommended that Gilbert, GW Instructor currently on NIMD Fel­ Experimental Pulmonary government and other sources earmark at least lowship, Will's Eye Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. 1 : 00 p.m. Golf, Lakewood Country Club, Thrombo-embolism" $660 million for construction of medical school Rockville, Md. Friday, May 24 facilities-twice last year's expenditures. 6: 30 p.m. Receptions for Class Reunions, 8: 30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast, Hospital Thomas L. Leaman '48 They also discussed curricular revisions and beginning with '18, Shoreham Hotel Acting Chairman, Family and reassessment of the duration of internship and 9: 30 a.m. Scientific Assembly. Five papers: Community Medicine, The Milton S. residency training. Both long range and immedi­ Thomas F. Meaney '53 8:00 p.m. Formal Dinner-Dance, Shoreham ate steps must be taken to cope with the current Chairman, Division of Radiology, Hershey Medical Center shortage of physicians. Immediately: increased Cleveland Clinic Saturday, May 25 "An Experiment in Teaching enrollment, curricular innovations, and more "Problems in the Clinical and Family Medicine" Angiographic Diseases of Renal 9:00 a.m. Scientific Assembly. schools emphasizing preparation of doctors for Masses" clinical practice. Long range: construction of Benjamin H. Sullivan, Jr. '38 Claire Hammel duPont '58 Department of Gastroenterology, new facilities, operational cost supports and in­ Bernard H. Ostrow '48 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Cleveland Clinic centive for improvement and innovation. Assistant Clinical Professor of University of Montreal Medicine, GW "Medical Esophagoscopy and "Both Associations are prepared to lend any "Pheochromocytoma'' Gastrosco py" "The Control of Hemoglobin assistance they can to such efforts," the statement Synthesis by Oxygen" concluded. 4 5 PHS FUNDS NEW LIBRARY COMMUNITY/TRAUMA NEW ASSOCIATE DEAN FORUM HELD The Public Health Service has announced a Internist James J. Feffer has been selected for $1,295,595 grant toward construction of the The Department of Surgery and the Ameri­ the new post of Associate Dean for Clinical Af­ Paul Himmelfarb Library, one made to six of can Academy of General Practice presented fairs, effective July 1. He has been Clinical the country's leading medical schools. a spring forum on "The Community and its Professor and Chairman of the Section of Pul­ Core of the Medical Center, the $2,000,000 Trauma Problems." The 2-day meeting attracted monary Disease and in private practice for more structure will adjoin the Basic Sciences Building. than 25 years. Featured are: a large audio-visual section, micro­ 300 participants to hear experts in traumatology form readers and printers, private study rooms, and those most affected by the ravages of He will assume medical responsibility for the group facilities for 4 to 6 students, and open trauma: the family doctor, the community and Hospital and University Clinic, both enjoying stacks. The carpeted building will be wired for its hospital, experts in surgical specialties, tte extensive growth. President of the American computer usage, accommodate more than 80,000 legal profession and insurance underwriters Society of Internal Medicine, Dr. Feffer has traveled and lectured widely on the implemen­ volumes and 1,500 periodicals, and occupy The Hon. Melvin R. Laird (R-Wisc.) spoke Dr. James J. Feffer tation of Medicare, Medicaid, comprehensive 30,000 square feet of usable space. on "Congress and Medicine: The Medical Emer­ Dr. Seymour Alpert, head of the Library health planning and regional medical programs. gency." Surgery Chairman Brian Blades and Keystone Building Committee, visited many institutions and under­ Traumatology Chief Don S. Wenger designed took extensive research to incorporate innova­ the forum, supported by USPH Bureau of Health tions into plans for the Library. The planning UNIVERSITY CLINIC group included Rupert Woodward, GWU Direc­ and NIH Institute of General Medical Services. tor of Libraries; Medical School Librarian Isa­ The 13-story Keystone Building at 22d and bella Young, and Drs. T. Crandall Alford, Frank Penna. Ave., is being renovated to become the D. Allan, Alexander Breslow, Halla Brown, HOSPITAL University Clinic, consolidating ambulatory care I Mary Louise Robbins and Georg~ V. Vahouny. and integrating the entire Medical Center teach­ New Emergency, Pulmonary Units ing program. A new Emergency Care Department will be The $1.5 renovation will encompass the group located at the Washington Circle entrance, offer­ practice of 65 full time physicians' offices, secre­ ing a sheltered ambulance entry and expanded tarial areas, patient examining rooms, special facilities for sorting, treating and holding the ill treatment and procedures rooms, teaching, con­ ference and administrative areas. or injured. Under the direction of Traumatology Chief Don S. Wenger the unit will be equipped Outpatient clinics and offices presently housed and staffed to handle all types of trauma. New Emergency Entrance in the north wing of the Hospital will occupy the greater part of the lower 8 floors about July 1. The sheltered entry with a strong design of Completion is scheduled for October 1. vertical louvers will be an extension of the second floor, becoming the new Pulmonary Services slated for Keystone occupancy are: radiology, pathology, internal medicine, rheuma­ Function Laboratory. It will have the latest in tology, endocrinology, hematology, gastroenter­ design and equipment for pulmonary function ology, renal, allergy, cardiology, obstetrics, gyne­ tests, diagnoses and therapy. cology, pediatrics (newborn), surgery, orthoped­ Relocation of ambulatory services to the Key­ ics, otolaryngology, urology, ophthalmology, psy­ stone makes this expansion possible. chiatry and dermatology. 6 7 STUDENTS Extramurals Research Winners with Eight medical students on foreign clerkships Professors Treadwell have strange footnotes to their global medicine: and du Vigneaud: (from left) Barefoot, Miiier, the plight of the pound sterling, cannibals, the D'Amato, Heinze Middle East crisis, the current Panamanian struggle, and ancient Mayan civilization. They are studying in England, Colombia, Is­ rael, Panama, Honduras, Ceylon and Liberia. Another 15 have extramural clerkships in Min­ nesota, California, New York, Arizona and Flor­ ida. The 23 clerkships are double the number Dean Parks, Beaumont President Lohaus, Dr. held last year. Two are studying overseas under du Vigneaud, President a former visiting professor, the popular British Elliott, Beaumont Adviser Stevens and obstetrician Geoffrey Chamberlain, a Research Prof. Treadwell Fellow here last year who won the 1967 prize of The American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Foundation. Dr. du Vigneaud congratulates winner Miller who later Robert W. Murray is spending his junior elec­ Nobelist du Vigneaud took 3rd prize in national competition at Galveston tive aboard the hospital ship HOPE, off Ceylon, this year. Other tropical medicine students are STUDENTS, NOBELIST SHINE alomyelitis." Third, sophomore Sherwood W. mercenaria, after Exposure to Insecticides"; Edmond C. Watters, at Phebe Hospital, Mon­ Barefoot, Jr., for "The Distribution of Arylami­ sophomore Joseph D. Welch, "The Accumula­ rovia, Liberia, and James W. Smith, on a Smith­ AT RESARCH DAY dase Activity in Ox Brain." Fourth, junior Paul tion of Anthranilic Acid by Two Strains of Kline & French Fellowship in Honduras. Smith D'Amato for "Studies on Carnitine Regulation of Pseudomonads"; sophomore Robert J. Gerety, Excellence and variety characterized the com­ Myocardial Lipid Metabolism." "The Investigation of a Histochemical Localiza­ (Continued on page 12) petition on William Beaumont Student Research Student competitors were: freshman Madonna tion of Histidine in the Skin and Its Possible Day, February 22. Highlight of the day was an A. Ellis, "Isolation of White, Aerobic Mutants Immunological Implications"; senior Gerald S. address by Nobel laureate Vincent du Vigneaud, from Staphylococcus aureus"; sophomore John Goldberg, "Congential Muscular Torticollis." Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry at Cornell Uni­ R. Emmett, "The Effect of Dimethyl Sulfoxide Read by title were papers by: Howard B. versity, and former GWU Professor and Chair­ on Selected Properties of a Frog's Sciatic Nerve"; Dickler, Peter C. Freis, Jr., Milton J. Menchey, man of the Department of Biochemistry. He senior Kenneth A. Fisher, "A Wearable Artificial Douglas Robins, John J. Rowsey, John D. spoke on "Some Aspects of Studies on the Hor­ Kidney"; junior Edward G. Koch, "Regulation Wojcik, and Ira C. Wong. Jim Smith mones of the Posterior Pituitary Gland." Dr. of Fatty Acid Synthesis and Esterification by Beaumont membership was awarded 21 stu­ du Vigneaud was an honorary degree recipient Carnitine in Myocardial Tissue"; junior Robert dents and President Allan W. Lohaus received at GW's Mid Winter Convocation that morning. W. Murray, "Studies on the Clinical and Physio­ the Calvin A. Klopp Award for service to the In the student presentations; first prize, sopho­ logical Aspects of Mutarotase"; senior Arthur Society. Newly elected officers for 1968 are: more Paul D. Miller, for "The Effect of Hy­ J. Sober, "Rabbit Serum Monoamine Oxidase II. President, Warren R. Berrie; Vice President, perbaric Oxygenation on Cardiogenesis in the Determinants of Substrate Specificity"; sopho­ Edward G. Koch; Secretary, Kathryn L. Guyton; Albino Rat." Second, sophomore R. G. Heinze more Melvin P. Weinstein, "Changes in Metal Treasurer, Sherwood W. Barefoot, Jr. for "Antibody in Experimental Allergic Enceph- Composition of the Quahaug Clam, Mercenaria, 9 8 Christiaan Barnard Lectures at GW

Professor Christiaan N. Barnard detailed the J Of the variation in technique, the professor blood studies there was not much of value found, procedures of his first human heart transplant said, "Instead of making the incision in the back except that the sedimentation rate showed a and modifications in technique of his second one ] of the right atrium from the orifice of the in­ marked rise at the period of rejection. for a spellbound audience of medical students, ferior vena cava to the orifice of the superior The Tompkins Lecturer outlined three major faculty and hospital personnel in Lisner Audi­ vena cava, we tied off the superior vena cava areas in diagnosing rejection: systemic evidence torium April 19. Delivering the Tompkins stump and made the incision more laterally, thus (rise in temperature, anorexia, malaise or gen­ Memorial Lecture in Surgery at the invitation avoiding the area of the sinal auricular node." eralized signs) ; any enlargement in size of the of Surgery Chief Brian Blades, Prof. Barnard As a result, the heart of the second patient transplanted organ; and any derangement in began his lecture with an anecdote, illustrated started spontaneously, without electrical shock, function of this organ (studied in his patients it with 36 slides and closed it with a philosophical and immediately began the sinus rhythm that it through exercise tolerance tests). They also con­ poem on confidence as a state of mind. has maintained since transplant. ducted thorough enzyme studies, leading them The South African surgeon described the type Believing that a change in size might indicate to suspect that abnormality in LDH and HBD of patient selected for transplant: one suffering signs of rejection of the heart, as in kidney trans­ can be caused by immunosuppression and is not from terminal stages of irreversible heart dis­ plants, Professor Barnard said that in their next of much value in diagnosis of rejection; there ease in which adequate and continued medical transplant they will mark the borders of the was no particular rise in these enzymes during therapy had no use or value, and one in which heart with silver clips, readily seen by x-ray. the period of rejection. The temperature rise there were no surgical means by which he could They plan a series of five operations, three more was described as the most important lesson of be treated or cured except by assisting or replac­ to come, with the third in about six weeks, he general evidence in diagnosis. But the EKG ing the function of his heart. said. voltage was important in that there was a steady Of first patient Louis Washkansky, he said, The distinguished visitor said his second pa­ drop in EKG voltage which reached its lowest "It was proved by selective coronary angiography tient had a relatively uncomplicated course as ebb at the period of rejection. EKG voltage, after that he had a completely blocked right coronary far as the vital signs of temperature, pulse rate, the rejection was treated, increased and has re­ artery, a completely blocked anterior descending I respiratory rate and venous pressure are con­ mained about what it was immediately after the branch of the left coronary artery and a partially cerned. As circulation improved, temperature operation. occluded circumflex branch of the left coronary 1 rose from subnormal to normal, rising with an After showing his beaming patient surrounded artery." He described the excision, perfusion, episode of rejection, returning to normal as by admirers after leaving Groote Schurr Hos­ connection, anastomosis and rewarming of the that episode was counteracted. Pulse remained pital, the cardiac surgeon described the condi­ heart that was flabby, blue, without any sign of pretty constant, he said. But there was a change tions that had set the stage for the medical feats: life at removal. First rewarming showed evi­ in heart rate coinciding with increased demand a dying patient willing to face an uncertain out­ dence of ventricular fibrillation; when it was activity. On the esophageal lead it was shown for cardiac output during the period of rejec­ come; a bereaved husband and father willing to warmed to around 36°C, a single electrical shock that these waves were actually sinus waves still tion. Respiratory rate changed quite a lot in donate his daughter's organs; a young colored was applied and it immediately started to beat coming from the patient's own heart and the the beginning: with measured exercise, the rate widow who gave her husband's heart to a white with a coordinated ventricular contraction. transplanted heart was in atrial fibrillation. rose, falling when the patient was at rest. Dur­ man; the team of doctors, nurses and technicians, An interesting situation was revealed on the The patient died 18 days after surgery, from ing the period of rejection, the rate rose and has strong as a chain without a weak link; those in patient's EKG, Prof. Barnard said, as certain a massive pulmonary infection, but the trans­ gradually settled down. Venous pressure started laboratory who had studied the difficulties in waves came through, probably from atrial ac­ planted heart continued to maintain an adequate up high, then settled down, fluctuated, and has technique and were willing to test their experience tivity, while other waves showed a different atrial cardiac output until two hours before death. remained normal from about the 31st day. In in the operating room. 10 11 STUDENTS GUEST LECTURERS PHI CHI DOCTORS WAR ON (Continued from page 9) Pediatrics Professor Louis K. Diamond, of INSECT ALLERGIES is working in the 200-bed Hospital de Occidente, Harvard Medical School, gave the Smith-Reed­ Medicine Professor Halla Brown, chief of the Santa Rosa de Copan, only a day's jeep trip from Russell Lecture, "The Current Status of Erythro­ the seat of the ancient Mayas. Allergy Section, is making progress in her war blastosis Treatment and the Prevention of Rh against allergies caused by cockroaches and Jack Levenbrown's stay at Rothschild Hospi­ Sensitization." other flying insects known scientifically as tal, Haifa, will be limited to the 2 month elective Nu Sigma Nu's Annual Stuart Graves Lecture Hymenoptera. period due to Middle East tensions. Jose M. was given by Dr. George Crile, Jr., Head of the Last year the GW School of Medicine was Fabrega, himself a Panamanian, is back at the Department of General Surgery of the Cleveland awarded a $237,816 grant by John A. Hart­ Gorgas Hospital on an obstetrics clerkship. Clinic. He discussed "The Management of a ford Foundation of New York for a three-year Richard Notes, on tropical medicine in Tibu, Single Nodule in the Thyroid." Left, below. William B. Glew '53, Dr. Calabrisi and Dr. Judd study of human allergic reactions to insect stings, on the Colombia-Venezuela border, sees arrow bites and other contacts. wounds, leprosy, TB, malaria and other parasitic Working on the project with Dr. Brown is diseases, and Motilone Indians, "who were can­ Dr. Harry S. Bernton of Howard University nibals and have been only partly tamed." College of Medicine (standing). The doctors King's College Hospital, London, claims John have already determined that cockroach aller­ R. Reeves and Neil J. Weiner. Reeves' mentor gies are a major cause of asthma, and the in obstetrics is Dr. Geoffrey Chamberlain; he greater exposure to this vermin, the greater the and Weiner are also on a medical clerkship. liability to allergy. Back in the U.S.A., four students are taking r Next on Dr. Brown's agenda is the battle the Mayo Clinic neurology elective: Gerald S. against other suspected allergy-creating flying Goldberg, Michael Hitchcock, Robert C. Pace .... Dr. Judd and Prof. insects. and Swen R. Swensen. Paul Adkins Robert T. Levine is taking two electives in Sophomore Gabriel F. Sciallis receives Phi Chi award New York, dermatology at Kings County Hos­ in anatomy pital Center and psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hos­ PHI DELTA EPSILON pital. The AOA Lecture, March 21, was delivered Mount Zion Medical Center, San Francisco, by Dr. Melvin J. Glimcher, Professor of Ortho­ has medical clerks Kenneth R. Jungblut and Jay pedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School and R. Grossman. Marc R. Sanders' medical clerk­ Chief of Orthopedic Service, Massachusetts Gen­ ship in general practice in Hemet, California. eral Hospital. He discussed, "A Basic Architec­ Also on medicine is Anthony J. Tortolani at tural Principle in the Organization of Bone and Memorial Hospital, N. Y. Other Calcified Tissues." Right, above. Peter N. Giovan is studying orthopedic sur­ Hematologist William Damashek, Professor of gery at Los Angeles County Hospital; Barry Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, gave the Dr. Damashek, with students K. Forman, C. Schneiderman, E. A. Kriegsfeld, neurology at Barrows Institute, Phi Delta Epsilon Aaron Brown Lecture, "Leu­ Wagshall, before lecture. After, Phoenix, Ariz.; Lewis Rubin, otolaryngology, kemia," on March 28. Ron Orleans moves up with ques­ University of Miama School of Medicine, and Dr. Walter H. Judd, physician, missionary and tions Stephen B. Young, surgery, Mount Sinai Hos­ former Congressman, gave the Phi Chi Lecture, pital, N. Y. "The Physician's Place in Public Affairs." 12 13 MATCHING INTERNSHIPS FACULTY Results from the 1968 Matching Intern Pro­ gram were announced March 11, with 74% getting their first or second choice. Eighteen will intern in university or affiliated hospitals, six in VA or Public Health hospitals, and four at military installations. Sixty-five will remain in the East, while 28 will be heading for the Far Dr.Smith West. Six will intern at GW, including John L. Antus, Donald P. Bernstein, Paul L. DeWitt, Barbara A. Meyers, Bruce A. Miller, and Gary E. Russolillo.

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Golden Apples Med students capped their annual Follies pro­ gram with presentation of Golden Apple Awards to two instructors, for outstanding teaching in the clinical and basic sciences. This year's awards went to Pathology Professor John Chan­ dler Smith, who joined the faculty only last year, and to Dermatology Professor Robert S. Higdon. Promotions Dermatology Charles S. Thurston, from Clinical Instructor to Assistant Clinical Professor Medicine James H. Pert, from Assistant Clinical Pro­ fessor to Associate Clinical Professor 14 15 Paul Schlein, from Clinical Instructor to As­ DEPARTMENT PROFILE Biochemistry Professor Arthur S. Brecher: Medicine Professor Alvin E. Parrish: "Liver sistant Clinical Professor "Proteolytic Activity in Brain." Glycogen Metabolism in Azotemia." Pediatrics Microbiology Microbiology Professor Yang-Ming Chu: Dept. of Medicine, GWU Hospital: "Vector­ Chairman Felix P. Heald is fielding a vigorous "Study of Immune Responses to Mycobacterial cardiographic Analysis of Premature Ventricular Rudolph Hugh, from Associate Professor to 75-member team staffed with new bench depth. Antigens." Beats in Coronary Artery Disease." Professor Priority goes to restructuring the student program Ophthalmology Professor Ben S. Fine: "Cho­ World Health Organization Neurology and Neurological Surgery with emphasis on change. Formula: demand rioretinal Scarring." George J. Hayes, from Associate Clinical Pro­ best efforts but don't force students to cope be­ Surgery Professor Donald H. Glew, Jr.: Microbiology Professor L. F. Affronti: "Anal­ fessor to Clinical Professor fore they are prepared. "Renin and Renal Function in Denervation and ysis and Fractionation of Mycobacterial Proteins Arthur P. Hustead, from Clinical Instructor Recent staff appointments include: Assoc. Hypoxia." for Skin Testing." to Assistant Clinical Professor Prof. Andrew M. Margileth, who came from the Microbiology Professor and Associate Dean Ludwig G. Kempe, from Assistant Clinical Pro­ Naval Medical Center in September to head the of the Medical Center Angus M. Griffin: "Gen­ fessor to Associate Clinical Professor student program; John C. Houck, Assoc. Prof. eral Research Support." Mark N. Ozer, from Instructor to Assistant ( biochem), who translates the basic sciences into Surgery Professor Calvin T. Klopp: "Clinical ALUMNI Professor clinically-oriented basic research; Assoc. Prof. Cancer Training Medical." Gordon Avery, who heads the newborn program Pharmacology Professor H. George Mandel: '33 PETER W. ROSS has been re-elected president of Ophthalmology the medical staff at St. Mary's Hospital, Passaic, and clinical research facility at Children's Hos­ "Fundamental Approaches to Drug Toxicity." Ronald S. Fishman, from Instructor to Assist­ N. J. pital; Assist. Prof. Andrew Rigg, co-Chief of Microbiology Professor Melvin Reich: "Isola­ ant Professor Children's adolescent medicine section; and on tion and Characterization of Mycobacterial Anti­ '34 WILLIAM F. FELLER presented a paper entitled Pathology July 1 for GW Hospital: Dr. Cheston Berlin of gens." "The Possible Viral Etiology of Human Breast Can­ Boston Children's Hospital and trained in molec­ Biochemistry Professor Carleton R. Tread­ cer,'' at the International Meeting of the Mammary William James J affurs, from Assistant Clinical Tumor Virus Conference, in Amsterdam, Holland. Professor to Associate Clinical Professor ular biology at NIH, to head the clinical pedi­ well: "Regulation of Blood Cholesterol Ester atrics section; and Dr. Willard Blankenship, who Levels." Pediatrics trained at Vanderbilt, worked in respiratory '36 LEON GERBER has been named an associate Physiology Professor Elizabeth W. Stephen­ chairman of trustee solicitations for the State of Wellington Hung, from Assistant Professor to physiology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden son: "Ion Transport in Vertebrate Smooth Israel Bond sales this year. Associate Professor for 2 years and comes from the University of Muscle." Pharmacology Alabama, to head the neonatology section. Biochemistry Professor George V. Vahouny: '39 ERNEST A. GOULD, who is associated with the Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D. C., has Werner R. Jondorf, from Assistant Research GRANTS "Myocardial Lipid Metabolism and Regulation." been re-elected treasurer of the American Thyroid Professor to Associate Research Professor Medicine Professor Frederick W. Wolff: "Ef­ Association. Hartford Foundation fects of Treatment in Hypertensive Disease." Physiology Microbiology Professor George L. Wright, Jr.: '41 MARK LEPPER, vice president of Chicago's Pres­ Marie M. Cassidy, from Assistant Professor "A Study of Normal and Diseased Sera and U.S. Army Medical R&D Command byterian-St. Luke's Hospital, testified at the Senate to Associate Professor Plasma by new Electrophoretic Immunochemical Small Business Committee hearings on the prescrip· Ophthalmology Professor Ben S. Fine: "Bio­ tion drug industry. Surgery Methods." Medicine Professor Thomas McP. Brown: "A physical and Biological Studies of the Structure James E. McClenathan, from Assistant Pro­ '46 NORMAN GOLDSTEIN, consultant in neurology, Systematic Evaluation of Arthritis and Connec­ and Function of Ocular Tissues." Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., has been promoted fessor to Associate Professor tive Tissue Diseases." Continuation of grant in from associate professor to full professor in the Mayo Judson G. Randolph, from Associate Profes­ Graduate School of Medicine of the University of "Rehabilitation Research and Training Center." Washington Heart Association sor (Pediatrics) to Professor (Pediatrics) Minnesota at Rochester. Robert D. Shapiro, from Clinical Instructor PHS Biochemistry Professor Arthur S. Brecher: (Oral Surgery) to Assistant Clinical Professor Biochemistry Professor J. Martyn Bailey: "The Regulation of Proteolytic Activity in the '48 DONALD H. GLEW was recently appointed con­ sultant to the Surgeon General. He has resigned the (Oral Surgery) "Lipid Metabolism in Cultured Cells." Heart." editorship of Military Medicine. 16 17 '50 BERTRAM L. PEAR, Radiology Professor at the INTERMOUNTAINEERS PRESS CONFERENCE University of Colorado Medical Center, was recently elected a Fellow of the American College of Radiol­ The Intermountain Medical Alumni Associa­ After the Tompkins Lecture in Surgery, Prof. ogy. Dr. Pear is also president of the Rocky Mountain Barnard said at a press conference that the Radiologic Society • tion held its annual meeting and election of offi­ cers on February 22, with 51 alumni, guests and world's only living heart transplant, Dr. Philip '51 MAXINE A. SCHURTER was guest editor of the wives attending. Jack S. Johnson '60, was Blaiberg, "has improved beyond our expecta­ November 1967 Journal of the American Medical elected president and Neil W. Goodsell '58, sec­ tions. We doctors feel very happy about him." Women's Association In this issue, that featured a retary. Anatomy Prof. Frank Allan, a Salt Lake Here the South African surgeon and GW Sur­ symposium on intersex, Dr. Schurter co-authored a gery Chief Brian Blades, who conducted the paper with GW Surgery Professor Gordon S. Letter­ City native, was faculty guest speaker, discus­ TOP man, on "Klinefelter's Syndrome," while CECIL B. sing "Andre Vasalius, Physician, Scientist and press conference, face questioners from 11 broad­ JACOBSON, '64, co-authored a paper on "Cytogenetic Teacher." AWARD casting organizations and more than 20 publica­ Techniques in Sexual Anomalies." Dr. Schurter re­ tions and wire services. cently attended the 5th Dalinde Medical Seminar, on cosmetic surgery, in Mexico City, which was also attended by HERBERT J. FORREST, '43, and BAHMAN TEIMOURIAN, '58. Senior Arthur J. Sober was awarded the 1967- 68 Phi Delta Epsilon Fraternity Service Award .'!) '53 HUBERT F. COFFEY of Albuquerque is vice presi­ at the Fraternity's annual convention in New dent of the Aztec Manufacturing Co., which designs, NECROLOGY Orleans in April. Anesthesiology Professor Sey­ manufactures and distributes "Championship Rodeo Talbot, John Allan '05 Equipment." A rodeo enthusiast as well as orthopedic Middleburg, Virginia mour Alpert, who serves as National Executive surgeon, Dr. Coffey's avocation is making chutes that Secretary of Phi D E, presented the award. are safer for both cowboys and animals. Geier, Frederick A. J. '25 Washington, D. C. In notifying the GW honor student of his se­ Johnson, Don R. '25 lection, the Service Award Committee concluded '59 ALBERT B. IBEN was both guest speaker and hon­ Washington, D. C. ored guest at a kickoff luncheon for National Heart "that you best represented our ideal of the kind Month, sponsored by the Santa Clara County (Calif.) Epstein, Joseph George '33 of person the young Fraternity member should Heart Association. Sharing the honors was a four­ Hartsdale, N. Y. year-old boy for whom Dr. lben had repaired a con­ Larson, Rudolph V. '35 be." genital heart defect. Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Roosevelt, Utah Sober is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of GWU. Valley Medical Center, Dr. lben played a leading role Tway, Lawrence E. '49 In medical school he was a Steinman Scholar in in the heart transplant of Mike Kasperak at Stanford Los Angeles, California his sophomore year, won the Phi D E Scholar­ Medical Center, as chief of the surgical team that Vann, Clarence H. '53 ship Prize in 1967, and holds a Collins Founda­ removed the donor heart. Dr. lben is also Assistant Milburn, Kentucky Professor of Surgery at Stanford Medical School and Der Stepanian, Oshin '56 tion Scholarship. He served as Class President Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Palo Alto Veterans Hos­ Washington, D. C. in 1966 and as Student Council Representative pital. Saunders, John L. '66 to the University the next two years. He is a Boulder, Colorado member of Sigma Xi, AOA, Smith-Reed-Russell, '60 JACK S. JOHNSON published a paper on "Serum hepatitis and illicit drug use" in the February 1968 Dr. Roger M. Choisser, Professor Emeritus of Kane-King, and the St. George Society. Rocky Mountain Medical Journal. Pathology, died in December in Washington. In 1967 he took a career elective in clinical After a distinguished military career, he joined the medical faculty where he was a beloved cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. '63 MICHAEL COLELLA is serving as Ophthalmology professor. The University gave him its Award of Art plans to specialize in internal medicine after Resident at Sibley Hospital, in Washington, on rota­ Merit in 1952 and he retired in 1954 after 25 tion from Georgetown University Hospital. internship at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston. years of outstanding teaching. Dr. Choisser's A cousin of one and nephew of two GW son, daughter, and son-in-law are members of '66 STEPHEN H. MANDY is engaged to be married to the Class of 1947: Robert V. Choisser, Marion alumni: Jerome L. Pollack '49, Nat Wilson '30, Miss Marlene Elaine Freedman, of Baltimore. Dr. Choisser Mills and Stephen R. Mills, Jr. An­ and Ned Lewis '29, Art is the son of Mr. and Mandy will begin residency at the Johns Hopkins other son-in-law is Robert .R. Montgomery '45. Mrs. William Sober of Washington, D. C. Hospital in July. 18 GW MEDICINE Second class postage The George Washington University paid at Washington, D. C. Office of Medical Public Relations 1331 H St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20005

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