A conference on preventive medicine featuring New Orleans medical men and public affairs representatives, will be staged tomorrow and Friday at Louisiana jtate university medical school
The conference, titled "Countdown on Positive Health,"
s being sponsored by the Tuber-* culosis Association of Greater' New Orleans and TAGNO's nurses' committee, in co-operation with LSU.
It is being presented for graduate and student nurses, doctors, medical students, hospital staff personnel and public health personnel.
Tomorrow's sessions will bej opened at 9 a. m. by Dr. Sam A. Threefoot, research director, director of" medical studies and senior associate at Tourc infir-! mary.
He will present a paper on "the Importance of Research in a Changing, World."
A symposium on specialized areas of research will follow this keynote address. Topics will include aspects of research in tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer, alcoholism, mental health and allergy.
The subjects, respectively, will be discussed by Drs. Maurice Campagna, Edward Hyman, Joseph V. Schlosser, William R. So-rum, MaryuT^^^Miller and Vincent J. Derbes.
Katherine Evans, director of public information for TAGNO and co-ordinator for TAGNO's in-terorganization committee of nurses, will preside at the opening session.
A symposium on "the Utilization of Research and Diagnostic Techniques" will be presented tomorrow afternoon, dealing with work in obstetrics, pediatric chest disease, psychiatry? epidemiology and the controversial sub-
Talks on these subjects will be given by Drs. Adolf A. Flores Jr., Abe Mickal, William W. Waring, Gene L. Usdin, Jack Smith and Victor Halperin.
Friday's program will deal with practical community application of positive health measures.
Speakers will be drawn from the Louisiana health department, Orleans parish welfare department, New Orleans civil defense office, Touro infirmary, LSU medical school, Tagno, the public school system, and news media.
