New-York tribune., 1919-07-12
Foremost Doctors and Sur.
geons Here Organize to
Win for City Place So
Long Held by Vienna
$4,000, O,OOOFoundation
Better Education Facilities
and Research Work Are
Among Aims Announced

The foremost physicians and sur.
geons of New York have banded To.
gether to make this city the logical
successor to Vienna as the worlds
greatest medical centre. They have
formed an organization called the New
York Association for the Advancement
of Medical Education and Medical
Science. Their constitution was
drafted at meeting in the Academy
of Medicine, and they are now COR
porate body
A campaign to raise S5OOo0Ooo is
already under way. II is d nation
wide movement directed towards The
creation of great medical school here.
which will take care of the students
who have hitherto sought out the uni.
versities of Europe when they wanted
supplementary courses or specializa.
ton. 1t aims at the centralizatio,,
and extension of all medical activities
in the Western World
In its general outlines the new as-
sociation resembles the Fellowship Of
Medicine created in London when
Vienna and Berlin were wiped off thu
map as medical centres. DR.. Wendell
G. Phillips has fathered the schema,
which has been in embryonic shans
for some time, and which was stimu-
lated by the recent visit to this citv
of prominent medical men from all
over the world.
Purposes Fourfold
The purposes of the New York asso-
q tiO,, ora fonrfo1J. -
and amplify the methods Of undergrad.
uate and graduate teaching; (2). to
perfect plans for utilizing the vast elm
ical material in the city for teaching
purposes and to make use of teaching
talent now unemployed; (3(. to bring
about work affiliation Of the medical
schools, hospitals, laboratories and
public health facilities of the city, to
the end that the best interests of med
ical education may be conserved, and.
(4, to initiate the establishment of a
medical education Foundation in New
York whereby funds may be secured to
meet the financial requirements of all
forms of medical education and inves-
tigation.
The membership Of the association
tails IN two categories: %. A gen.
eral membership of all phyisicans Of
sciences of medicine and investigators
of problems relating 20 medicine, and.
(2), corporate membership consist
ing OF medical teachers, medical men
with hospital appointments or affilia-
tons, teachers of ancillary sciences and
medical investigators. The number Of
corporate members will be limited to
$50.
The general business management
Will be under the direction of fifteen
trustees elected by a majority vote Of
the corporate members. The Mayor,
the Commissioner of Charities. the
Health Commissioner and the president
of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals are
exofficio members of the association
during their respective terms Of Office.
President, DR.. Wendell c. Phillips,
prominent ear specialist; first vice
president, DR.. George d. Stewart, sur
geon at Bellevue Hospital; second
vice-p president, DR.. Glentworth Butler.
chief medical consultant of the Long
Island Hospital Medical College; secre-
tary, DR.. Haven Emerson, former
Health Commissioner; treasurer, DR..
Arthur F. Chace, Of the Post-Graduate
Medical School. The trustees so far ap-
pointed are: DR.. Charles H. Peck. DR..
William F. Campbell, DR.. John f. Hart
well, Dr. Emanuel Libman. DR.. Freder-
ick Tilney, DR.. Otto V. Kaufman. DR..
Adrian Lambert, DR.. Samuel A. Brown,
DR.. Alexander Miller and Dr. George
W. Kosmak.
Committees on organization and
medical survey have already been ap-
pointed and meeting will be held at
once at the Academy Of Medicine to
decide on further steps.