~ GKORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL LIBRARY Nf ,AS:WNGTON,. D. C. SALUTE TO TEACHING THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS 1969-1970 Dr. Maurice Gromet '34 President Dr. Jerome W. Canter '55 President-Elect Dr. Marvin Footer '42 1st Vice President Dr. Thomas Wilson '44 2nd Vice President Dr. Donald H. Glew '48 Secretary Dr. John Mermel '60 Treasurer COUNCIL Dr. Jerome H. Epstein '53 Dr. Jack B. Kleh '44 Dr. George Speck '41 Dr. Carolyn Pincock '34 Contents Dr. Richard I. Kilstein '34 Dr. Angelo M. May '37 SALUTE TO TEACHING Dr. Allan Zellis '41 Portrait of a Professor-x 4 ............ 2 Dr. George Speck '41 Chairman, Editorial Board Freeman, Watts, Goss for School Mrs. Betty McKee Parks for Hospital Alumni Office Secretary Mrs. Marion M. Corddry Annual Meeting in May ............ 8 Editor Mrs. Jeanne S. Saginor Alumni Run Renal Teaching Program ........... 11 Associate Editor Joseph Hiram Roe ........... 12 GW MEDICINE is the official bulletin of The George Washington University Medical Great Teacher and Scholar Alumni Association. It is published quarterly by The George Washington University, Washington, D. C., in spring, summer, fall and winter. Somebody's Listening, Professor ........... 17 Editorial and mailing address: 1331 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 2000S. Second class postage paid at Washington, D. C. GW Pathologist Streamlines His Subject ........... 22 PORTRAIT OF A PROFESSOR x FOUR Four members of the medical faculty got 35 but I have counted as many as 65 to the brush this spring: their portraits were 70. We were still in the midst of a de­ pression. Walter Freeman was a show­ presented to the University. Two artists, man and medical students often brought commissioned by separate groups of their 'dates' (it was cheaper than going friends and associates, painted the profes­ to the movies) . After examining a pa­ sors: Ors. Walter Freeman, James W. Watts tient with a stroke or Parkinson's dis­ with seven of his residents, Charles Mayo ease, he would march up to the black­ board, pick up a piece of chalk in each Goss, and John Parks. hand, draw a coronal section of the The first three oils were done by Roberto brain, using both hands simultaneously, Fantuzzi, an Italian artist immigrating here and sketch in the internal capsule and after 17 years in Venezuela, and specializ­ basal ganglia, dotting in the pathologic ing in group portraits. Members of the lesion. The students were fascinated. Departments of Neurology and Neurolog­ A blackboard was available for Dr. Free­ ical Surgery, along with former residents man's drawing at the presentation but he and friends, sponsored the Freeman and declined. The neurologist told of the for­ Watts paintings, while the Goss portrait mative stages of the department, its evolu­ was a gift from the Department of tion from neuropathology and psychiatry, Anatomy. and of students' pleas for more clinical The Parks portrait is by the Dallas artist teaching. Alexander Clayton and was commissioned In 1935, at the International Neurological I I by the Women's Board of the Hospital. Congress in London, Fulton and Jacobsen reported that monkeys no longer mani­ Dr. Freeman fested frustrating behavior after frontal lobectomy; their performance was some­ Ors. Walter Freeman and James Watts Dr. Freeman, who came from San Fran­ with their portraits. The residents in what inferior, but problems too difficult to the pidure with Dr. Watts are (I to cisco for the presentation, joined the solve did not produce neurotic behavior r): 1st row-E. Mannarino, Dr. Watts, faculty in 1924 and was named to head the J. Fox, V. Suarez; 2nd row-W. Koos, as they had before the lobectomy, Dr. H. Mateos, H. Cokalp, D. Cooney. Department of Neurology when it was Freeman said. established in 1932. Prior to then the Just back from this Congress and im­ subject was taught in the Division of Psy­ pressed by the similarity between the ani­ chiatry. In a lecture given at his birthday mals and his emotionally disturbed pa­ celebration and published in D. C. Annals tients, Moniz introduced prefrontal lobot­ (May 1965) Dr. Watts did a little word omy with the aid of his surgical colleague, painting of his own in describing Professor Dr. Walter Freeman exchanging remi­ Almeida Lima. They reported their results niscences with Ors. Harvey Ammerman Freeman : and W. Montague Cobb. in the spring of 1936. Later that year In 1935, neurology was taught in the Freeman and Watts carried out the first 2nd, 3rd and 4th years. The Saturday prefrontal lobotomies in America. afternoon Outpatient Clinic was held in Hall A of the Medical School. Attend­ "You may be interested to note that this ance was voluntary; no roll was called, no old building was the scene of the first grades given. Attendance averaged 30- lobotomy in this country," Dr. Freeman 3 2 At the portrait presentation in the med­ ical school library, Dr. Fox noted that after his article appeared last summer, Dr. Watts' patient load diminished, since some people thought he had retired. "I want to stress that he continues in active practice; I really meant to praise him, not to bury him," he laughed. "They were exciting times," Dr. Watts said. "Walter and I wrote 50 papers and two books together. He always did more "We wanted a portrait that included L., Artist Roberto Fantuzzi with principals and residents In all phases of training ••• guests at reception, Medical School Library. than his share but he never got tired and passing the torch," says Dr. Watts. thought Saturday afternoon and Sunday said, and as further proof of GW's pace­ morning were ideal times!" setting days continued, "It was also the Dr. Watts explained his choice of a scene of the first insulin shock therapy, of group portrait as one that demonstrated the first Metrazol therapy, and the first something a single portrait could not do. electroshock therapy in the city. So re­ The idea began to develop around his member, when this old building is torn chief interest for the last 15 years-the down, some of the first activity along the training of neurosurgical residents. lines of physical treatment for mental dis­ Since it would probably be in the med­ orders was carried out right here. And Dr. ical school, it should emphasize teaching. Watts is the one man above all others It should include men who are carrying who made possible these great advances on the teaching tradition and involved with in medical treatment." education and training of resident sur­ geons. It should attempt to show the Dr. Watts scope of our influence as I believe that Neurosurgeon Watts, undoubtedly one our reputation as a Medical Center de­ of the most beloved members of the fac­ pends as much upon the residents we ulty, is the focus of a teaching tableau in graduate as upon our medical students. his group portrait. "I suppose I'd like to "Manual Velasco Suarez built the Na­ be remembered as someone who worked tional Neurological Institute in Mexico with people," he says. Professional rivalry City and is now its director. Humberto with Georgetown was unknown in neuro­ Mateos is Chief of Neurosurgery at the logical surgery as Watts of GW and Hugh National Medical Center in Mexico City. Fulcher of GU brought their personal com­ Wolfgang Koos is Chief of Pediatric Neuro­ radeship and crossfertilization of knowl­ surgery on the University Service of Pro­ edge to D. C. General Hospital. "Indeed," fessor H. Kraus in Vienna. Hamit Gokalp wrote Watts' disciple John L. Fox in GW is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force and Medicine, "this unique period of joint Chief of Neurosurgery at the Turkish Mili­ medical education stands as a landmark tary Academy in Ankara with a training against which even nations might take program for Army, Navy and Air Force Ors. freeman and Goss at the portrait presentation. note." Officers in his specialty. 4 I 5 -J Emanuele Mannarino graduated from to the warmth and greatness of his per­ Dr. Parks the University of Rome, took a second sonality." M.D. degree at Duke University and is Dr. Telford recounted Dr. Goss' formi­ Mrs. Alvin E. Parrish, President of the now Chief of Neurosurgery in the Veterans dable background as classical scholar, anat­ Women's Board of the University Hospital, Administration Central Office. He is con­ omist, editor and educator. His transla­ presented the Clayton portrait of Dean cerned with establishing affiliations be­ tions from the original Greek have helped Parks at a ceremony in the hospital's new tween VA hospitals and university training to reestablish Galen as a competent anat­ executive suite. Mrs. Jed Pearson, Jr., an programs. omist; his half-century of teaching has artist and Board member, spoke about the John Fox, a GW graduate, is Chief of been enjoyed by students at his alma mater artist, a Chevy Chase native now living in Neurosurgery at the VA Hospital in Wash­ Yale as well as Columbia, Alabama and Dallas, Tex., a portraitist who has studied ington and a member of our full time staff. Louisiana State Universities. Dr. Goss has and exhibited his work here and abroad. Donald Cooney is now Chief Resident in edited four Gray's Anatomy editions and is The Board commissioned him to execute Neurosurgery at GW. Dr. Watts told him presently working on his fifth (the 29th). the Parks painting in which the Dean wears he was chosen because "he was in the "Since joining our staff, Dr. Goss has the academic regalia of the (British) Royal right place at the right time and is tlie endeared himself to students and staff College of Obstetricians and Gynaecolo­ symbol of all residents in our training alike.