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M.D. Guze was a pioneer of the medical model of psychiatric illness and in the field of alcoholism research. His early studies of alcohol use and abuse were important in the movement to consider alcoholism a disease rather than a character flaw. Guze joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1951 and later served as vice chancellor for medical affairs and president of the Washington University Medical Center from 1971 to 1989. He also served as head of the Department of Psychiatry from 1971to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1997. The Guze Symposium will feature local and national experts who will discuss topics such as genetic studies of alcoholism, the role of depression and anxiety disorders in alcoholism, treatment for alcohol and other drugs and the consequences of alcohol abuse by adolescents.