Medical Briefs

              LA., NOVEMBER 2, 1982 B
Medical Briefs
Parenting Series
"Tools for Parenting," a community
series for parents of children 0-3 years
of age, begins today, 7 p.m., at Willis-
Knighton Medical Center's Health
System Center, and will be held each
Tuesday in November. Registration
will be conducted prior to today's
session, at 6:30 p.m.
The series is co-sponsored by Willis-
Knighton Medical Center and the Coal-tion
for Parent Education, with each
session exploring a different aspect of
parenting. The fee is $10 per couple or
$7.50 per person and includes parking,
refreshments and take-home informa-tion.
For further information, call the
hospital's Community Relations De-partment,
631-8200 or 227-4687.
Annual Banquet
The Shreveport Club of the Deaf Inc.
will hold its annual Banquet Saturday, 7
p.m., at the Holiday Inn Holidome.
Dr. Nanci Scheetz, director of
Northwest Louisiana Deaf Action
Center, will be guest speaker, with
James E. Henderson Jr. serving as,
master of ceremonies. Interpreters will
be Anne Bounds, Anita Harkness and
Donna Rambin.
A highlight of the evening will be the
presentation of the Outstanding
Member of the Year (for a SDC
member) and Outstanding Service
Award (for a hearing person). Also, a
reunion will be held for former students
from the Caddo Parish Program for the
Hearing Impaired. Parents and
teachers are also encouraged to attend
the banquet.
For reservations, call 635-8920 (TTY
or Voice).
Elected to Office
Dr. Helmut M. Redetzki of
Shreveport has been elected to serve a
two-year term as president of the
American Academy of Clinical Tox-icology
(AACT). He was elected at the
group's recent meeting in Snowmass,
Colo., and will begin his term in 1984.
Dr. Redetzki is professor and head of
the department of pharmacology and
therapeutics at LSUMC School of
Medicine in Shreveport and has de-dicated
a good deal of his activities to
the development of academic, educa-tional
and professional aspects of
clinical toxicology.
Stress Seminar
A Stress Management and Wellness
Workshop will be held at LSUS on Nov.
12, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., sponsored by the
LSUS department of conferences and
institutes. Consultant for the course will
be Dr. Ronald G. Nathan, director of
medical psychology, co-director of the
Biofeedback Clinic and assistant pro-fessor
in the department of psychiatry
and family medicine at LSU Medical
Center in Shreveport.
Course fee is $35 and enrollment is
limited. Pre-registration is necessary
through the office of Dr. John Powell,
director of the sponsoring department.
New Members
Two department of surgery faculty
members at LSUMC School of Medicine
in Shreveport have been elected to
membership in separate national pro-fessional
organizations.
John C. McDonald, M.D., professor
and chairman, was elected to the
Halsted Society, a group of surgical
scientists; Edwin Deitch, M.D., assistant
professor and director of the burn'unit,
was elected to the American Associa-tion
for the Surgery of Trauma.
Attends Symposium
Kenneth E. McMartin, Ph.D., assis-tant
professor in the department of
pharmacology and therapeutics, section
of toxicology, LSUMC School of
Medicine in Shreveport, was among 200
scientists from 24 countries attending
the recent Seventh International Sym-posium
on Pteridines and Folic Acid
Derivatives held at the University of St.
Andrews, Scotland.
Dr. McMartin presented a paper en-titled,
"Alterations in folate
metabolism of the rat induced by acute
ethanol administration." Scientists at
the meeting discussed the current find-ings
on the chemical, biological and
clinical aspects of research with folic
acid derivatives.