hree new department heads were announced Tuesday at Louisiana State university school of medicine by Dr. William W. Frye, vice-president of LSU and dean of the medical school.
They are Dr Irvin_Cahen, professor and head" of the department of orthopedics; Dr. Thomas Hernandez, professor and head of the department of pharmacology; and Dr^JIenry Ct McGill .TrM professor and
ing fellow in orthopedic surgery at LSU school of medicine, becoming an instructor in 1941 and later a clinical professor. He was been acting head of the department since September of 1959. He succeeds the late Dr. Henry Theodore Simon,
Dr. Hernandez served his internship at U.S. Marine hospital here after graduating from LSU medical school in 1947, the year before he was appointed instructor in biochemistry at the local school. The following year he become assistant professor and in 1954 was named associate professor. In his new
post he succeeds Dr. Ernest
Bueding, who has resigned to accept a research position at Johns Hopkins university.
Dr. ftfcGill, a Vanderbilt university school of medicine graduate, Joined-the- LSU medical
head of the department of path-jgehool "faculty, in 1947 as an assistant in the pathology department. He is considered an outstanding authority in the field of heart conditions.
In 1958, he and a team of researchers were sent to British East Africa on a Louisiana Heart Association grant to study the hardening .of arteries in baboons. In 1952, Dr. McGilJ was named diplomate of t h e American Board of Pathology. He succeeds the late Dr. Russell L. Holman.
