New Orleans will mark "Heart Research Day'* tomorrow with a conference for outstanding science students in the city's high schools and a special program for local physicians.
The high school conference is. being cosponsored by the Louisiana Heart Association, and the medical schools of Tulane and Louisiana State universi-
ties.
Medical research as a profession will be discussed with 75 top science students from pufblic, private and parochial high schools at the session, which starts at 1 p. m. at LSU medical school. Consider Five Aspects
Five aspects of research will be presented by members of the LSU and Tulane medical faculties. The students participating have been chosen by their school principals.
Principal address at the conference will be made by Dr. Edgar Hull, professor of medicine and associate dean at LSU medical school. He will talk on i "Medical Research as a Career."
Other speakers will be Drs. Jack C. Geer, Floyd R.Skel-ton, and Henry C. McGill Jr., aV of LSU, and Drs. Keith Reemtsma and Robert J. Schramel of Tulane.
The students will be taken on a tour of LSU and Tulane laboratories after the talks. I Local physicians have been in-: I vited to hear a report on heart research by Tulane surgeons at 9 a. m. tomorrow at the Veterans Administration hospital. Team to Report
The surgeons' team, headed
by Dr. Robert J. Schramel, will
report on efforts to prolong the
iuse of the heart-lung machine
I during surgery, and on develop-
ing collateral circulation in obstructed blood vessels.
Five talks to civic gi:#ups on heart disease were slated this week as Heart Month opened in New Orleans.
Pr; Rosalind Novick was scheduled to discuss congenital heart disease before the Pelican Civic Improvement Association at 8 tonight at the Idle-wild Country Club, Metairie. Dr. Novick is assistant profes-, sor of pediatrics at LSU medi^ cal school.
Three talks are slated tomorrow. Club to Hear Rosen
Dr. Irving L. Rosen, who is in charge of Touro infirmary's cardiac clinic, will speak on research and coronary disease at the luncheon meeting of the New Orleans Lions Club at 12:15 p. m. at the Roosevelt hotel.
The.' Gentilly Rotary Club, meeting at 12:15 p. m. at New Orleans airport, will hear Dr. Joseph E. Schenthal discuss the work of the heart association. He is director of clinics at Tulane medical school.
Dr. Paul T. DeCamp of Ochs-ner clinic will discuss recent developments in heart and blood vessel surgery at a meeting of the Metairie Terrace Civic ■ and Improvement Association at 8:30 p. m. in the Knights of Columbus building, 3900 block of Johnson st., Metairie.
At noon Wednesday, Dr. Alton Ochsner Jr., also of the Ochs-
ner clinic, will discuss the prevention of strokes at a luncheon meeting of the Young Men's Business Club at the Roosevelt hotel.
