More than 200 physicians from throughout the United States and Canada will meet in New Orleans next month for a nationally sponsored four-day postgraduate course in the role of the lungs in health and disease.
The course on pulmonary function will take place at the Tulane University School of Medicine Monday through Thursday, December 7-10.
Guest faculty members will include pioneers in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of tile lungs from medical centers in Copenhagen, New York, Boston, Denver, Milwaukee and Cleveland.
They will be joined by 17 faculty members of the Tulane and Louisiana State University Schools of Medicine who will present demonstrations and panel discussions for participants.
The course will be presented by the American Thoracic Society and the Louisiana Thoracic Society and is cosponsored by the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, the Louisiana Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, LSU School of Medicine, Tuberculosis Association of Greater New Orleans, and Tulane.
Guest faculty members will be:
Dr. Giles F. Filley, associate professor of medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Dr. Harry W. Fritts Jr., associate professor of medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Dr. Edward A. Gaensler, associate professor of surgery and director of thoracic services, Boston University Medical Center..
Dr. Ross C, Kory, professor of clinical research, Marquette University School of Medicine, Milwaukee.
Dr. George W. Wright, head, medical research department, St. Luke's Hospital, Cleveland.
Dr. Poul Astrup, professor of clinical chemistry, Copenhagen Hospital.
Chairman of the planning committee for the course is Dr. Hurst B. Hatch Jr., assistant professor of medicine, Tulane.
LSU Medical School faculty members who will serve as faculty for the course are Drs. J. Oscar Blitz, John B. Bobear William A. Cherry, Jack C. Geer, John H. Seabury. Lawrence H. Strug and Clay K. waggenspacK Jr.
Tulane physicians on the course faculty are Drs. Joseph K. Bradford, Howard A. Buechner, Paul T. DeCamp, Albert L. Hyman, Allen D. Meyer, Charles W. Pearce, Dennis M. L. Rosenberg, Hans Weill, Morton M. Ziskind, and Hurst B. Hatch Jr.
Participants will be welcomed at the first session by Dr. Walter G. Unglaub, associate dean and director of the division of postgraduate medicine, Tulane, and Dr. William W. Frye, vice-president of LSU and dean of its medical school.
