Nationally and internationally recognized authorities in the field of chest diseases will participate in a medical seminar on my-cobacterial and mycotic diseases with special reference to childhood Jan. 10 and 11 at Louisiana State university medical school here. ■ . ■■■: .
Dr. Morton. H. Ziskind of the •iHilane university medical school is seminar chairman. The program was planned jointly by the-Orleans Parish Medical Society and the; two university medical schools.
Dr. Ziskind said the seminar covers a field of special concern to the medical profession and was set up, to shed light on a "rather chaUenging fieM of research and work."
First day speakers will include Dr. Douglas C. Heiner, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas medical school; Dr. John S. Chapman, professor of medicine, Texas university medical college; Dr. John H. Seabury, professor of mecicine at LSU; and Dri Felix H. Hughes, chief ^bl the thoracic Surgery department at Memphis Veterans'
hospital.
Others include Dr. Ralph V. Platou, professor of pediatrics at Tulane; Dr. J. D. Martin, Louisiana department of welfare's medical director, and Dr. Keith Reemtsma, assistant professor of surgery at Tulane.
Second day speakers will in-
clude Dr. Horace E. Crow, assistant superintendent of Batter; State hospital, Rome, Ga.; Dr Maurice S. Tarshis, director tuberculosis research at the Alex ancfria, La. Veterans' hospital and Dr. Ernest H. Runyon, re search bacteriologist at Veterans hospital; Salt Lake City. PHOTO: Four Speakers on Medical Seminar Program - AMONG THE SPECIALISTS in the field of chest disease who will participate in a medical seminar here Jan. 10 and 11 are (from left) Dr. Maurice S. tarshis, Alexandria; Dr. Horace E. Crow, Rome, Ga.; Dr. Douglas C. Heiner, University of Arkansas, and Dr. Felix H. Hughes, Memphis, Tenn.
