Medical School
Since our last report on research funds forthe School, the New Hampshire Heart Association has provided an additional $5,000,making a total of $10,000 for unrestrictedcardio-vascular research during the year.
The Clinical Faculty continues to be represented at meetings in various sections ofthe country. Radford C. Tanzer, AssistantProfessor of Plastic Surgery, presented "TheCarpal Tunnel Syndrome" to the AmericanSociety of Surgery of the Hand in New York.
In regional meetings, William L. McLaughlin, Assistant Professor of Urology, addressed the Rip Van Winkle Clinic in Hudson, N.Y., on "Endocrinology in the practiceof Urology"; while Jackson W. Wright, Assistant Professor of Medicine, went to theski resort of Stowe, Vt., to present "Observations on Cross-Country Running" to theNortheast Medical Society. Walter C. LobitzJr, Professor of Dermatology, read a paperto the medical staff of the Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough on "Modern Concepts in the Treatment of Acne."
Thomas P. Anderson, Instructor in Physical Medicine, was invited to deliver the Lawrence Barnes Hayward Lecture at the University of Vermont Medical School, and chose as his topic, "Management of Musculoskeletal Disabilities in the Aged."
The School was represented at the New England Roentgen Ray Society meeting in Boston by Professor Leslie K. Sycamore, while Assistant Professor Hanford L. Auten attended the Ophthalmological Society meetings there.
On the local scene, R.J. Podolsky, Ph.D., of the Biophysics Division of the Naval Medical Research Institute, presented "Electrolyte Transfer in Water and Membranes"; and Glenn F. Kiplinger of the University of Michigan School of Medicine, conducted a Pharmacology Seminar on "The Pharmacology of Some N-substituted Alkanolamines."
The American Association of Medical Colleges has announced the appointment of S. Marsh Tenney, our Director of Medical Sciences, as a member of its national committee to study "The Goals of Medical Education."
Incidental intelligence acquired via the mail bag: M. K. Duvall Jr. M'44 now holds the title of Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. Cyril E. Shea Jr. M'48 and Louis C. Clarke Jr. M'50 have opened offices in Springfield, Mass., the former for the practice of orthopedic surgery, and the latter limiting his work to obstetrics and gynecology. Loring W. Wood M'49 and Alice, D.M.S. staff '49, recently contributed a snapshot of their one-year old, Karen, a promising 1976 Carnivel Queen candidate. An announcement from Richard A. Mayo M'49 tells us of the opening of his office in the Massachusetts General Hospital for the practice of orthopedic surgery, while J. Lawrence Werther M'49 is confining his efforts in New York to internal medicine and gastroenterology. Bennett M. Stein M'53 expects to be released by the Navy soon and go to England in April to study, following which he will return to Columbia for training in neurosurgery. He reports seeing Thomas A. Clark M'54, who was receiving his military indoctrination at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital. John M. Wortley M'54 also has gone military for two years, now serving with the Army in California. Walter Shim M'54 is doing his first year in a surgical residency at New York Hospital. Carlos E. Harrison M'54 is a battalion surgeon with the Marines at Camp Pendleton, but hopes to return to more internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic eventually.
