Medical Event to Begin Friday

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MEDICAL EVENT
TO BEGIN FRIDAY
Annual Meeting Will Be
Held in Shreveport
The annual meeting of the
Louisiana Tuberculosis and Re-spiratory
Disease Association,
the Louisiana Thoracic Society
(a medical section of the asso-ciation),
and the Louisiana
Chapter of the American Col-lege
of Chest Physicians will be
held Friday and Saturday at
the Captain S h r e v ' e Hotel in
Shreveport.
The general public health seg-ments
of the LTRDA meeting
will begin with the showing of
two films on air pollution at 10
a. m. Friday. The keynote ses-sion
will start at 1:30 p. m.
Among speakers from New
Orleans on a panel Friday are
Dr. B. Shannon Gallaher, board
member, Tuberculosis Associa-tion
of Greater New Orleans,
and Mrs. Joyce Dennery, board
member, LTRDA. Dr. Sydney
Jacobs, president of the Nation-al
Tuberculosis Association,
New Orleans, will speak on
"The Involvement of Physicians
is Essential for the Eradication
of Tuberculosis."
Beginning at 9 a. m. Saturday
a Symposium of Reports on
Current Louisiana Tuberculosis
Hospitals will be presented. Re-
SPEAKERS at a meeting of the Louisiana Tuberculosis and
Respiratory Disease Association, Louisiana Thoracic So-ciety
and Louisiana Chapter, American College of Chest
Physicians, Friday and Saturday at the Captain Shreve
Hotel in Shreveport will include (from left) Dr. Alton Law-ton,
Shreveport surgeon; Dr. George R. Meneely, professor,
Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport School
of Medicine, and Dr. James S. Shelby, head, Cardiovascular
Service, Confederate Memorial Medical "Center, Shreveport.
trol Commission, New Orleans.
Meeting simultaneously with
the LTRDA will be the Louisi-ana
Thoracic Society and the
ports will be given on inpatient
facilities for TB patients by
eight physicians, including Dr.
John B. Bobear, Tuberculosis
Service, New Orleans Charity
Hospital; Dr. Morton M. Brown,
chief, Tuberculosis Service, Vet-erans
Administration Hospital,
New Orleans, and Dr. William
A. Cherry, medical officer in
charge, U. S. Public Health
Service Hospital, New Orleans.
The final session of the an:
nual meeting will feature na-tional
and state speakers on ajr
pollution control. The Saturday
noon luncheon session will have
two principal speakers, includ-ing
John E. Trygg, technical
secretary, Louisiana Air Con-
Louisiana Chapter of the Ameri-can
College of Chest of Physi-cians.
The opening medical ses-sion
will begin at 1:30 p. m.
Friday.
. One of four speakers at a di-agnostic
case, conference Friday
will be Dr. Lawrence Strug of
New Orleans. "Clinical Applica-tions
of Fluorodensimetry" will
be discussed at a Saturday
scientific session starting at 9
a. m. by Dr. Ronald B. George,
staff physician and chief, In-halation
Therapy Section, VA
Hospital, New Orleans.