Three are Named to Faculty at LSU Medical School Here

              Sunday, July 13, 1969 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES
THREE NEW MEMBERS of the Loui-siana
State University Medical School
in Shreveport are (left to right) Dr.
Mark S. Wicks, Dr. Richard Don Brown
and Dr. Kermit A. Gaar Jr. Announce-ment
of their appointment was made by
Dr. Edgar Hull, dean of the school.
Three Are Named to Faculty
At LSU Medical School Here
Three new faculty members of
the Louisiana State University
Medical School in Shreveport
lave been named by Dr. Edgar
Hull, dean of the school.
They are Dr. Richard Don
Brown, who is assistant profes-sor
in the Department of Phar-macology
and Therapeutics, and
an associate member of the
graduate faculty at the LSU
Medical Center; Dr. Kermit A.
Gaar Jr., assistant professor in
he Department of Physiology
and Biophysics, and Dr. Mark S.
Wicks, instructor in the Depart-ment
of Anatomy.
Dr. Brown is a former instruc-tor
in the Department of Phar-macology
at LSU School of
Medicine in New Orleans.
He was educated at Louisiana
College where he received the
B.S. degree in chemistry, -and
LSU Medical Center, where he
was awarded the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in pharmacology.
His special area of research Is
functions of the central nervous
system and he has done work on
"the process of hearing and the
influence of drugs on this
sensory function."
Four of his research papers
have been published in interna-tional
scientific journals and he
has presented reports of his
findings at several scientific
meetings.
Dr. Brown and his wife, Fronie
are natives of Louisiana, and
they have one son, seven-month-old
Richard D. Brown Jr.
Dr. Brown is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Brown of Pollock,
while Mrs. Brown's parents are
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Taylor off
Lecompte.
Dr. Brown is a Mason and a
deacon in the Southern Baptist
Church.
A native of Chicago. Dr. Wicksl
was educated at Spring' Hill
College, Mobile, Ala., where he
received the B..S. degree and the
University of Mississippi Medical
Center, Jackson, were he re-ceived
the M.S. and Ph.D
degrees.
He comes to LSU from the
Loyola University Stritch School
of Medicine, Chicago, where he
was an instructor of anatomy.
His special research interests
are in the area of heart and
blood vessel damage following
the use of certain dietary fats.
He is a member of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the
American Association of Anatom-ists
and Sigma Xi.
A former member of the
faculty at the University of
Mississippi School of Medicine,
Dr. Gaar is a 1951 graduate of
Bossier High School. He .was
awarded the B.A. degree in
biology and the B.S. degree in
pharmacy from the University of
Mississippi; the M.S. in pharma-cology
from the University of
Arkansas Medical Center, and
the Ph.D. from the University of
Mississippi Medical Center.
Dr. Gaar is married to the
former Shirley Jean Taylor of
Winnfield and they have three
daughters.
Dr. Gaar is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Kermit A. Gaar Sr. of
Shreveport.