Medical Briefs

              J.S. Bianca, M.D.
J. S. Bianca, M.D.,
was installed as presi-dent
of the medical
staff of Schumpert
Medical Center at the
annual meeting of the
staff in the auditorium
at Schumpert Dec. 9.
Other officers elected
were Oscar L. Berry
Jr., M.D., president-elect;
John W. Berry,
M.D., vice-president;
and Joseph W. Cush,
D.D.S., secretary.
Members of the ex-ecutive
committee, in
addition to the new of-ficers,
are Gene W.
Slagle, M.D., outgoing
president; Seborn
Wood, M.D., chief, De-partment
of Medicine;
Broox C. Garrett, M.D.,
:hief, Department of
Surgery; Warrent C.
West Jr., M.D., chief,
Department Ob-Gyn;
Lucretia A. Little,
M.D., chief, Depart-ment
of Psychiatry;
William H. Haynie,
M.D. chief, Depart-ment
of Pediatrics; W.
H. Carroll, M.D., chief,
Department of Radio-logy;
David J. Werne,
M.D., chief, Depart-ment
of Pathology; and
Franklin G. Noles,
M.D., chief, Depart-m
e n t of
Anesthesiology.
tion promotes the study
of Gnotobiotics in vari-ous
ways.
Advisory Committee
Appoints Loewensten
Joseph E. Loewens-tein,
M.D., has been ap-pointed
to the En-docrinologic
and
Metabolic Drugs Ad-visory
Committee of
the U.S. Food and Drug
A d m i n i s t r a t i o n .
Loewenstein is pro-fessor
of medicine and
chief of the Section of
Endocrinology at LSU
School of Medicine.
The committee is
made up of 11 members
selected nationally
Medical Briefs
from experts in en-d
o c r i n o l o g y and
metabolism, statistics,
and related areas. Most
of the committee's
work deals with the ap-proval
of new drugs for
marketing in the Unit-edf
States, but it also
advises the Com-missioner
of Food and
Drugs about drugs al-ready
on the market.
Dr. Loewenstein has
been a member of the
faculty at LSU School
of Medicine since 1970.
LSU Gets
Research Grant
A scientist at LSU
Medical Center is con-ducting
research to de-velop
a new vacine
against a common or-ganism
that can cause
complications to pa-tients
who have cystic
fibrosis, severe burns
and cancer.
Financed by a two-year
grant of $91,575
from the American
Cancer Society, Dr.
Harry Gilleland, as-sociate
professor of mi-crobiology
and im-munology
has under-taken
the project en-titled
"Development of
an Outer Membrane
Protein Vaccine for
P s e u d o m m o n a s
aeruginosa."
Berg Elected
To Board
Dr. Rodney D. Berg,
associate professor of
microbiology and im-munology
at LSU Medi-cal
Center School of
Medicine, has been
elected to a four-year
term on the Board of
Directors of the As-s
o c i a t i o n for
Gnotobiotics.
Gnotobiotics is the
study of animals in the
absence of bacteria,
fungi and virus — es-sentialy
a germ-free
animal. The associa-