Medical School
At the fall meeting, the Trustees added two new members to the Faculty, Lucile Smith, Ph.D., as Associate Professor of Biochemistry, and Dick Cardozo M'48 as Assistant Professor of Surgery and Instructor in Physiology. Dr. Smith holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Tulane and a Ph.D. from Rochester. She has held teaching appointments in chemistry and biochemistry at Tulane, as well as an assistant professorship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her fellowships include: a Donner Foundation Fellowship, a Research Fellowship in Medical Physics at Pennsylvania, and a Visiting Research Fellowship at Cambridge University, England.
Dick Cardozo received his A.B. at Dartmouth in 1942, and after two years in Dartmouth Medical School completed his M.D. at Cornell. His postgraduate training includes: an internship at Peter Bent Brigham and residencies at the Peter Bent Brigham, at St. Mary's in London, at the Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and the University of Minnesota Hospitals. He has held a Harvey Cushing Fellowship at Harvard and a G. Gorham Peters Traveling Fellowship.
At the same meeting, the Trustees promoted Ferdinand Kreuzer, M.D., from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physiology.
One of the highlights of the past month was the Mayo Memorial Lecture presented by Henry R. Viets '12, M.D., to an overflow crowd in Wilder Hall. Dr. Viets chose as his subject "Medical History, Humanism, and the Student of Medicine."
Prof. Robert Gosselin of the Pharmacology Department recently presented a paper on the Action of Serotonin on Gill Cilia at the fall meetings of the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, held at the University of Michigan School of Medicine at Ann Arbor.
Dr. Manuel Morales, Professor of Biochemistry, participated in the Symposium on Molecular Biology sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Rockefeller Institute in New York.
Robert G. Fisher, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, John H. Copenhaver Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Zoology, and Irmeli I. Naukkarinen, B.S., Research Technician, presented a seminar on their work on "The Adrenal Cortical Hormone Output in Cerebral Injury and Neoplasm" on the 31st. Earlier in the month Dr. Fisher gave a paper on "The Role of Adrenal in Brain Tumor and Neoplasm" at the meeting of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago.
Dr. Sven Gundersen addressed the American Clinical and Climatological Association on "Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction" at its Cooperstown, N. Y., meeting. Dr. Paul Sullivan presented "Involvement of Eyes in Periarteritis Nodosa" to the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Chicago. Dr. Radford C. Tanzer invaded the same city with a paper entitled "Total Reconstruction of the Ear" at a meeting of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Society. Dr. William L. McLaughlin gave "The Role of Light Anesthesia in Poor Risk Patients" to the New England Section of the American Urological Association at Portsmouth, N. H., and then went to the Rip Van Winkle Clinic in Hudson, N. Y., to present "The Handling of Urinary Tract Infections in General Practice."
VISITING LECTURERS: Doctor David Rioch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research opened the series of the month with a seminar on "Research in Psychiatry: Problems of the Investigation of Behavior." On the 13th, Samuel Mallov, Ph.D., of the Department of Pharmacology, Upstate Medical Center at Syracuse, talked on "Alcoholism and the Liver." One week later, Dr. Frederic G. Worden M'40, now Associate Research Psychiatrist at the University of California Medical School, detailed "Electrophysiologic Experiments in Brain Function and Be- havior." "Studies on the Nature of Hemolytic Complement" was the subject of Elmer L. Becker, M.D., of the Division of Immunology at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research on October 23.
Roy Ward M'oo, after a lapse of 58 years, revisited the dissection room and recounted some of his experiences in it more than one-half century ago. Glenn Behringer M'43 writes that he and five others of his class, Berger Carlson, Harry Kramer, Hugh Lena, Bill Regan, and Bill Weirman, were initiated as Fellows of the American College of Surgeons in the fall session at Chicago. Harry Bishop, also M'43, now doing pediatric surgery in Philadelphia, witnessed the proceedings. We heard that Jim Dickson M'45 was in town recently showing the sights to his new bride. Another recent visitor to the Hanover plain was Fletch McDowell M'45. Van Chambers M'47 has recently joined the Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Clinic as pediatric allergist. The roster of that organization includes on its list of internists Jack Scholer M'48. Ed Kelly M'50 has also joined the California delegation and is now doing orthopedic surgery in San Francisco. Pete Teal M'57, with minor help from Ann of course, has a brand new prospective physician known as Mai.
