Eight teachers from American and Canadian medical schools were at Louisiana State, university's school of medicine today for a two-day orientation course before leaving for Latin America for training in parasitic and other tropical diseases.
These doctors comprise the last group of teachers to receive such fellowships under a grant of $120,000 to LSU from the China Medical Board of
New York, an independent agency originally sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation for the support of the Peiping Union Medical college.
With such aid cut off to Red China, the funds are now diverted to medical education in the Far East and the United States. In Operation 3 Years
The program has been in operation three years, during which "time 69 fellowships have been awarded to teachers from 53 medical schools.
In addition, five medical officers from the US Army and one from the Navy have participated.
Dr. Henry E. Meleny, research professor of medicine at LSU, is in immediate charge of the program.
"There is a need for doctors in the United States to know more about the diseases in the tropics," Dr. Meleny points out.
"Tropical problems are important to United States economy, as it is impossible to have prosperity without health.Dr. Henry E. Meleny, research professor of medicine at LSU, is in immediate charge of the program.
"There is a need for doctors in the United States to know more about the diseases in the tropics," Dr. Meleny points out.
"Tropical problems are important to United States economy, as it is impossible to have prosperity without health. Their Destination | Five of the doctors will go to j I Costa Rica, Panama, El Salva-I dor and Guatemala. The other! three go to Puerto Rico, the Do-| minican Republic and Haiti.
They will visit hosiptals, health departments, research laboratories and field stations and collect specimens for teaching.
The program is made possible, Dr. Meleney explains, by the voluntary co-operation of; medical and public health leaders in the respective countries, the Overseas Missions of the U.S. state department and the Pan American sanitary bureau of the World Health Organization.
I Teachers comprising the final group are:
Dr. Cleeve R. Amies, professor of preventive medicine, University of Alberta, Canada; Dr. Carl E. Duffy, professor of
microbiology, University of Arkansas; Dr. Allen W. Mathies, | research associate in pathology, j University of Vermont; Dr. j Donald V. Moore, assistant pro-; fessor of microbiology, South-! western Medical school of thej University of Texas; Dr. William A. Summers, associate professor of microbiology, University of Indiana; Dr. Frank X. Biondo, instructor in microbiology, New York Medical college; Dr. Philip 0. Nice, assistant professor of microbiology, Dartmouth Medical school, and Dr. John Wyllie, professor of i preventive medicine, Queens university, Canada. Program to Continue
Dean William W. Frye of LSU school of medicine announced j that LSU has received approval! of a grant from the National! Institute of Alerg yand Infectious Diseases to continue this program for five more years on a broadened basis.
On the new basis the program will include teachers and graduate students from non-medical institutions as well as from medical schools throughout the United States.
