Evening star., 1927-05-08
DOCTORS TO HOLD
! F|VE-DAy SESSIONS
5000 Members of American
Medical Association Ex-
peCted Here May is.

Approximately 5000 physicians are
expected TO attend the eighty seventh
session of the American Medical Asso-
citation, which opens here Monday.
May Is Announcement was made
yesterday that arrangements have
been completed for the convention,
which will bring leaders in the pro.
fession from all parts of the country.
DR.. Wendell c. Phillips of New York,
president of the association, will open
the sessions and preside over the meet
ings until the Inauguration of the new
president, May 10. The meeting will
continue until May 90
Arrangements for the convention are
in the hands of the Medical Society
of the District of Columbia, of which
DIR. Charles Stanley White is president.
A committee, directed by DR.. William
Gerry Morgan, has charge of the plans.
Other members are DR. White, vice
chairman; Or. Joseph S. Wall. vice
chairman. DR.. c. b. Conklin secretary.
and DR.. Frank Gibson, treasurer
Army and Navy Cooperating.
The medical departments of the
Army, Navy and Public Health Service
and civilian medical branches of the
Government are cooperating with the
District society to provide opportuni
ties for the visiting doctors to inspect
Government medical institutions.
What is said to be the worlds largest
scientific and technical exhibit of medi
cal instruments, equipment and models
will be open to inspection of the dele
gates at the Washington Auditorium,
where some of the sessions will be
held.
Exercises honoring doctors who
lost their lives during the World War
will be held May i at the Arlington
Amphtheater. The Army medical de-
partment will erect a model field hos
pital on the Washington Monument
grounds for inspection.
Prominent Men on Committee.
The following physicians are mem
bers of the advisory committee on
the convention: Hubert Work, Secre-
tary of the Interior; Maj Gen. NJ. w.
Ireland: Surgeon General OF he Army;
Rear Admiral E. r. Stitt, Surgeon Gen
eral of the Navy; Hugh S. Cumming,
Surgeon General of the Public Health
Service; Maj. James +. Coupal. per-
sonal physician to President Coolidge;
Charles w. Richards N, c. H. T.
Lowndes. Charles r. Ee."Aolds, James
NJ. Kennedy, Condr. Joel T. Boone,
d. c. Howard, William A. White
William C. Fowler, E. A Balloch,
George NJ Kober. William c. Borden.
Phillip S. Roy, Thomas A. Clayton,
NJ. f. Cuthbert, Noble p. Barnes,
Louis Mackall, Francis R. Hagner
and John D. Thomas.
Physicians who are chairmer CT sub /
committees are: Sections and section
work, j. Russell Verbrycke; finance,
Z. Y. Davidson; scientific exhibits, |
Thomas A. Grower: technical exhibits,
Frank Leech; entertainments, John A.
Foote; halls and meeting places, John
b. Nichols; reception to American
Medical Association president, Thomas
S. Lee: clinics. Arthur c. Christie;
alumni gatherings, etc, James A. Can
non; programs, i. d. v. Stuart; infor-
nation, John NJ. Ladd; registration, j.
Lawn Thompson; badges, Samuel S.
Adams; printing, w. NJ. Barton; hotels,
John Talbot; local transportation,
Archer w. Boswell; clubs, golf, etc, |
Harry II. Kerr; telephone and tele- |
graph, r. Lyman Sexton; woman ply
sicians, Edith Seville Coale, and |
ladies' entertainment, Mrs. Joseph S. |
Wall.
Woman Physicians to Entertain.
Woman physicians Of the District |
are making special plans for the en- |
tertainment of notable women of the |
profession who will be here for the |
convention. They will conduct sight |
seeing trips and the hospitality of |
clubhouses has been extended by the |
Young Women's Christian Association, |
the Women's City Club and the Amer |
lean Association of University Women. |
The local committee on arrange |
ments is. DR.. Edith Seville Coale, DR. |
Louise Tayler-Jones, DR.. A. Frances |
Foye, DIR. Elizabeth A. Kittridge and |
DIR. Gladys Kane
Among the noted women to be pre- |
sent will be: DR.. Gladys Dick, famous |
for her work in the field of preven. |
ton and cure of scarlet fever; DR.. |
Elizabeth Thelberg, professor of physi- |
ology and hygiene and resident ply
sician at Vassar College; DIR. Martha
Tracy, dean of the Women's Medical
College of Philadelphia; DR.. Elizabeth
Bass, a well known physician of New
Orleans; DR.. Eliza Mosher, one of the
pioneers in medicine as a profession
Tor women, and still in active prac-
kics in Brooklyn, N. Y.