The Tulane and Louisiana
State University medical schools
and Charity Hospital ought to cooperate more on research and service, says the Tulane school's former dean.
Dr. Maxwell E. Lapham, now! Tulane provost, called for the cooperation yesterday at the dedication ceremony of Tulane's $7,140,000 Medical School addi-j tion.
He shared the platform with (Other Tulane officials, Dr. Lu-Ither L. Terry, United States surgeon general, and U.S. Rep. Hale Boggs.
THE THREE MEDICAL facilities, although grouped together physically, have not, Lapham said, "attained the status of an academically oriented complex for training research and service."-
Lapham praised Tulane's new facilities for making possible consolidation of the university's medical departments "for the first time in 50 years." "Now that the school is finally unified in this locality," he said, "there should be greater opportunity for intramural coordination of the Medical School program."
TERRY, A 1935 graduate of th eT u 1 a n e Medical School, praise dTulane for its "long and illustrious history of important contributions to American medicine."
He said American physicians taught by school such as Tulane today conduct "operations that were considered impossible 10 and 15 years ago."
He called for increased efficiency in the use of medical manpower and development of "better patterns for community service."
TULANE CONFERRED the
honorary doctor of science degree upon Dr. Terry.
The dedication ceremony was the high point of a day-long observance which included reports on international medicine at Tulane, research at the Tu-lane-administered Delta Regional Primate Research Center, and recent, advances in bio-medicine, surgery, general medicine and: psychiatry.
