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