Henry Ford Medical Journal

Volume 19 | Number 1 Article 6

3-1971 HFH In The ewN s

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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal by an authorized editor of Henry Ford Health System Scholarly Commons. HFH IN THE NEWS Published for alumni and friends of Henry Ford Hospital, , Editor: R. C. Mellinger, M.D. Spring, 1971 U-M, HFH Course is May 19-20 "Therapy of Infectious Diseases" is the title of the postgraduate course to be cosponsored by the University of Michigan School of Medicine and Henry Ford Hospital on May 19 and 20 at HFH. Co-chairmen of the course are E. L. Quinn, M.D., chief of the Infectious Diseases division at HFH, and Robert Fekety, M.D., professor of medicine and chairman of the division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan. Subjects to be covered include respiratory infections, gram-negative infec­ tions, antibacterial therapy, bacterial infections in hospital patients, anti­ microbial therapy, and the treatment and prevention of viral diseases. Henry Ford Hospital staff participating in the course are: Drs. E. L. Quinn, Frank C^ox, Jr., Evelyn Fisher, Donald Romig, C. Paul Hodgkinson, Melvin Block, Osborne Coates, Robert High, Paul Kvale and Hernan Alvarez. The course is open to all staff, residents, interns, alumni and all interested physicians and surgeons of Detroit and Michigan.

Resident Seminar Seminar Planned Features Diabetes on "Death and Dying" Resident Education Seminar III is A unique seminar on the subject of planned for Saturday, May 8, at HFH and "Death and the Inexorably Dying" will be will feature the presentation of scientific held at Henry Ford Hospital on April 27 at papers by interns and residents from HFH the 8 a.m. Medical Grand Rounds in Buerki and other area . Auditorium and again on May 1 at the 7:30 The emphasis this year will be on dia­ a.m. General Surgery meeting. betes, specifically the sick juvenile dia­ betic. With the increasing incidence of Seminar moderator will be Stuart King­ diabetes in the U.S. in all age levels, the ma, M.D. of the Department of General topics of the guest speakers are of current Surgery. Panel participants will be Robert clinical interest. O'Bryan, M.D., of the Division of Oncology; Hans von Brauchitsch, M.D., of the Depart­ Richard C. Lillehei, M.D., professor of ment of Psychiatry; Mr. Ron Koenig of the surgery at the University of Minnesota Center for the School of Medicine, will speak on "Pan­ Study of Death, Dying and Lethal Behavior; creatic Transplantation," and Roger H. and Fr. Robert Wollard, Episcopal chaplain Unger, M.D., professor of medicine at the at Henry Ford Hospital. University of Texas Medical School will speak on "Glucagon Physiology." The purpose of the seminar is to discuss Awards will be presented for the best a subject which receives little formal at­ medical and surgical papers. The Roy D. tention, but which touches everyone in the McClure Surgical Award will be presented medical field on a daily basis. for the best surgical paper and the newly- estpblished William Lyon Lowrie Award of Mpdical Science will go to the best medi­ cal paper. Both awards include a $200 hon­ Reception at AMA orarium. All former staff and alumni are invited to Program chairmen are Edward L. Hum- the annual reception planned in connec­ nert. M.D.. resident in surgery, and Celso tion with the AMA convention at Atlantic E. Gomez-Sanchez. M.D.. medical resident City June 20-24. Time and place will be The HFH House Staff Association Educa­ posted on the bulletin boards and in the tion Committee is sponsoring the event daily publications, Sussn Adelman. M.D., is current president orarium. of the Association. Staff Appointments: Dr. Visuvasam N. Samuel joined the staff in the Neurology division of the Depart­ ment of Neurology and Neurological Sur­ gery last January 1 as an associate phy­ sician. He is a 1952 graduate of the Medical School of Andhra University in India and received a master of science degree from the University of Michigan in 1961. He served his internship in India at the Gov­ ernment General Hospital, was a resident at the University of North Carolina Hos­ pital in Chapel Hill for one year and a resi­ Luther E. Preuss, left, of the Physics and dent in neurology at HFH from 1959 to Biophysics Department of E.B.F.L pre­ 1961. Dr. Samuel served as a consultant in sented an award to Prof. Erwin Mailer for neurology at Lafayette Clinic in Detroit and scientific excellence at the National Sym­ as an instructor in neurology at Wayne posium of the American Vacuum Society in State University School of Medicine from Washington, D.C. in January. Mr. Preuss is 1967 to 1969. He just recently completed a past-president of the American Vacuum year at the Mayo Graduate School of Medi­ Society and president-elect of the Inter­ cine as a fellow in electroencephalography. national Union of Vacuum Science Socie­ ties. He is presently chairman of the Scien­ Also joining the professional staff on tific Awards Com,mittee of the American January 1 was Helen H. Winkler, M.D. She society. is a 1953 graduate of the Wayne State Uni­ versity School of Medicine and interned at Wayne County General Hospital. She came to Henry Ford Hospital in 1965 for three Nursing Department years of residency in medicine. In 1968 she Reorganization Planned entered private practice and was associ­ Plans are now being developed for a ated with the Blain Clinic in Detroit for major reorganization of the Department of 18 months before returning to HFH. Dr. Nursing, proposed by Stanley R. Nelson, Winkler is married and has one child. Executive Director. HFH's 1,100-bed hos­ pital will be broken down into several smaller hospitals of no more than 250 beds each. Award-winning Exhibits These hospitals will be established along Authored by Dr. Louis Z. Shifrin, an ex­ clinical lines, with each one supervised by hibit titled "Early Recognition of Scoliosis" a doctor, a director of nursing, and an ad­ was awarded the Bronze Award in recogni- ministrator, according to preliminary plans. ticn of outstanding teaching value at the Each hospital will be autonomous, al­ American Academy of Pediatrics in San though many policies and systems will be Francisco last September. The exhibit won similar. The directors of nursing will have the Certificate of Merit at the 1970 AMA full administrative responsibility for the convention in Chicago. operation of their units. For his exhibit on "Trichophyton Rubrum The primary objective of each hospital Granuloma," George R. Mikhail, M.D., re­ will be to develop a professional atmo­ ceived the silver award at the 29th annual sphere and an efficient, well-managed en­ meeting of the American Academy of Der­ vironment so that HFH's excellent medical matology in Chicago last Dec. 5-10. The care will be matched by excellent nursing exhibit was commended for its high edu­ care, Mr. Nelson has stated. cational value.

$160,000 Grant for Genetics

A four-year $160,000 research grant has netic disorders as hyperparathyroidism, been awarded to Henry Ford Hospital by medullary carcinoma of the thyroid, recur­ the National Institutes of Health for ge­ rent polyserositis and hemoglobinopathies. netic studies in the Michigan-Indiana-Ohio The project will also involve continued area. Dr. Charles E. Jackson is the prin­ work among the Amish people of northern cipal investigator on the project. Coinvesti- Indiana and Michigan. Dr. Jackson, who gators are Dr. Boy Frame and Dr. Lester joined the HFH staff last year, has had Weiss. Studies will be done within popu­ published many papers on the subject of lations in the tri-state area with such ge­ genetic disorders in the Midwest. Several HFH staff members have been named committee chairmen by the Mich­ igan State Medical Society. Dr. Brock E. Brush is chairman of the Education Liaison committee; Dr. Alexander P. Kelly is chair­ man of the section of Plastic Surgery, and Dr. Conrad R. Lam is head of the Thoracic Surgery section. HFH alumnus Dr. Leonard L. DiLella was named chairman of the section on Allergy and Applied Immunol­ ogy.

Dr. Harold M. Frost, chairman of the De­ partment of Orthopedic Surgery, was a vis­ iting lecturer for an anthropology course on Craniofacial Growth and Development in February at the University of Chicago Hos­ pitals and Clinics. He spoke on "Laws of Bone Structure and the Functional Re­ sponse." Dr. Frost also lectured on "Biomechan­ ical Responses of Cartilage and Bone Growth" to faculty and students at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in January. He discussed cell biology there in early April. Daniel Button, executive director, the Arthritis Foundation headquarters, New Dr. Oscar A. Carretero and Dr. John W. York, inspects an arthritic arm brace in the Rebuck presented scientific papers at the arthritis clinic. Rheumatology Division meeting of the Federation of American So­ chief John W. Sigler, M.D., (right) volun­ cieties for Experimental Biology March 19 teers as Howard Duncan, M.D. (at left) at McCormick Place in Chicago. Dr. Re- and G. D. Langejans, M.D., look on. The buck's presentation was titled "Test Leu­ visit here also Included a morning confer­ kocytic Responses as a Monitor for Organ ence at the Michigan Arthritis Foundation's Transolants in Man". From the Hyperten­ Lathrup Village headquarters and tour of sion Research Lab, Dr. Carretero presented arthritis facilities at the University of a paper titled "Effect of Antibodies against Michigan Medical Center In Ann Arbor. Angiotensin II on the Blood Pressure of Rats with Severe Experimental Hyperten­ sion." Conrad R. Lam, M.D., consultant in the Department of Surgery, was the featured guest speaker at a medical seminar at the To help the American Board of Internal Saint Elizabeth Community Health Center Medicine evaluate its examination system, in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 14. The topic some two dozen medical residents at HFH of his speech was "Some Thoracic, Surgi­ participated in a special written examina­ cal and Diagnostic Problems." The pro­ tion last Jan. 12 and 13, along with similar gram was part of a joint surgery residency tests being held in selected teaching hos- program of the VA Hospital there and the Ditals around the country. Dr. E. J. Van Health Center. Until his retirement to con­ Slyck was chief proctor and Dr. J. P. Olson, sultant status last year. Dr. Lam was chief assistant. of the Division of Thoracic Surgery.

Dr. John W. Rebuck served as medical Daniel D. Hurst, 79, an HFH psychiatrist consultant to Gorgas General Hospital in until his retirement in 1956 after 31 years Canal Zone while on a February vacation of service, died March 25 in his home in in Panama. He conducted wori

Dr. Fallis Retires Laurence S. Fallis, M.D., retired March Univ. (Scotland); and St. Bartholomew's 13 from the consultant staff. Department Hospital (London, Eng.) He is a fellow of of Surgery, after 46 years' service to Henry the American College of Surgeons and the Ford Hospital. He was HFH's second Royal College of Surgeons, and a member surgeon-in-chief, succeeding the late Roy of the American Surgical Association, tne D. McClure, M.D., who had appointed him Central Surgical Association, the Society a resident in 1925. During his distinguished for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and career he also served as surgeon for the the International Society of Surgery. Ford Motor Company expedition to its Dr. Fallis' current plans include spend­ Amazon River rubber plantation. ing a month at his Pompano Beach, Florida, Born in Canada and educated there and home, followed by six weeks in Europe. He in Great Britain, he is a graduate of plans to spend the summer at his cottage Queens Univ. (Kingston, Ont.); Edinburgh in Canada.

William Lyon Lowrie, M.D., Dies Unexpectedly William Lyon Lowrie was born October, In his medical career the care of dia­ 1895, and died at home on January 30, 1971. betes mellitus was of the greatest im­ Dr. Lowrie took his preparatory work at portance. His insistance on conservative Princeton University, graduating in 1917. treatment of diabetic foot complications He then went to the University of Pennsyl­ saved extremities for many patients. An vania where he received the M.D. degree award-winning exhibit on this problem was in 1921. He spent one year at Mercy Hos­ presented to the American Medical Asso­ pital in Pittsburgh, Pa., before coming to ciation. Henry Ford Hospital in 1922. After his resi­ Dr. Lowrie was a life member of the dency training at this hospital. Dr. Lowrie American College of Physicians, a member joined the Division of Metabolic Diseases. of the American Medical Association, Mich­ He succeeded Dr. Daniel Foster as physi- igan State Medical Society, Wayne County cian-in-charge of that division in 1946, and Medical Society, American Diabetes Asso­ was appointed to the consultant staff in ciation, and Michigan Diabetes Associa­ 1963. tion. A long time member of the Board of As senior consultant he continued to Directors of the Michigan Diabetes Associ­ care for the full complement of his pa­ ation, he was president from 1962-1963. tients. Even on the day of his death he was Dr. Lowrie is survived by his wife Kath­ getting ready to come to the hospital to leen, his son David, and two grandchildren. keep liis morning appointments. Dr. Lowrie He is missed by all of us at the hospital. was never too busy to listen to people, to help them with almost any problem. —W. Earl Redfern, M.D.