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Medical Briefs
Parenthood Course
A free preparation for parenthood
course, offered by the Northwest Louisi-ana
Red Cross Chapter, begins today, 7-9
p.m., at Schumpert Medical Center. Ad-ditional
sessions will be held Feb. 7,9,14,
16 and 21 at the Red Cross headquarters,
4201 Linwood Ave.
The class is designed for expectant
parents and will include lessons in fetal
development, exercises and breathing
techniques, labor and delivery, formula
preparation, breast care, bathing and in-fant
care through the first year. Instruc-tor
will be Beverly Shatteen, a regis-tered
nurse.
For more information and to register,
call Dorothy Lea, nursing and health ser-vices
coordinator, at 424-1432.
Advisory Board
Mimi Hussey, wife of Mayor John
Hussey, has been elected chairperson of
the first Mothers Against Drugs (MAD)
advisory Board. Also on the board are
Rep. Buddy Roemer (honorary mem-ber),
The Travelers Insurance Group,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Hogan, Mr. and
Mrs. William Owens, Mr. and Mrs. Jon
McKinnie, Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson,
Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Shehee, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Young, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
W. Parnell Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Richard W.
Odom, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Bevins
II, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sklar, Dr. and
Mrs. Jerome S. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Lof tus, Jospeh D. Kent and the Rev.
and Mrs. Fred Patten.
The Magale, Frost and Gannett foun-dations
were instrumental in helping
Mothers Against Drugs, a pilot program
in Shreveport, launch its drug abuse
educational programs for the communi-ty
during the past 18 months.
Authors, Editors
Raghunath P. Misra, M.D., Ph.D., and
I. Daniel Sanusi, M.D., both pathologists
at LSUMC School of Medicine in
Shreveport, are authors of a reference
book on skin biopsy published in January
by Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, 111.
Title of the book is "An Atlas of Skin
Biopsy — Diagnosis by Light and Im-muno
Microscopy of Vesico-Bullous,
Connective Disorders and Vasculitis of
the Skin." Dr. Misra is associate
professor of pathology and chief of im-muno/
renal pathology; Dr. Sanusi is as-sociate
professor of pathology and chief
of dermatopathology. Both are consult-ants
to the Veterans Administration
Medical Center in Shreveport.
Two faculty members of the medical
school's department of psychiatry joint-ly
edited the text, "The Neurobiology of
Opiate Reward Mechanisms," just pub-lished
by Elsevier Biomedical Press,
Amsterdam. James E. Smith, Ph.D., as-sociate
professor of psychiatry, edited
the book with John D. Lane, Ph.D., who
at the time was also an associate
professor of psychiatry, but who recent-ly
accepted a position in another state.
Drs. Smith and Lane also are authors of
two chapters of the book, which is con-sidered
"at the forefront of brain behav-ior
research in opiates."
Board of Governors
Dr. Fred J. Stucker, professor and
chairman of the department of
otolaryngology-head and neck surgery
at LSUMC School of Medicine in
Shreveport, has been appointed to the
board of governors of the American
Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and
Neck Surgery, Inc. He will serve until
Dec. 31, 1985.
Dr. Stucker recently presented lec-tures
to two professional organizations,
the Dallas-Fort Worth Society of
Otolaryngologists-Head and Neck Sur-geons
and the a meeting of the Southern
Section of Facial Plastic and Re-constructive
Surgeons in Chapel Hill,
N.C.