Evening star., 1938-08-28
DOCTORS COURSE
TO OPEN SEPT. Z
Georgetown u. Plans for
Third Annual Sessions
for Alumni.

Georgetown University Yesterday
announced preliminary arrangements
for its third annual extension course
for medical alumni. opening Septem-
ber IL. in which some of the leading
medical authorities of the country will
participate.
More than so lectures and special
clinics at cooperating hospitals sched-
tlled for the flve-day session will serve
to focus attention on many of the lat
est developments in the fields of medi-
cine and surgery. Sessions will be
held twice daily at the School of Medi-
cine on Reservoir road Actual op-
eratlons and demonstrations of the
latest-approved methods will take
place at clinics at Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital, Children's Hospital,
Providence and Gallinger Municipal
Hospitals.
The Georgetown post-gra duate Ses-
elons ere timed with the third Inter-
national Goiter Conference. which will
take place at the Mayfiower Hotel
September l2-l4. Many out-of- town
At the medical school,
Guest Lecturers.
The Rev. Arthur A. OLeary. S. j..
president of the university. named
several prominent medical scientists
who have accepted invitations to serve
AS guest lecturers on the program.
Among them is Dr. R. A. Vonderlehr,
assistant surgeon general of the United
States Public Health Service. He is
in charge of the national campaign
for the eradication of venereal dis
eases and will discuss the treatment
Of syphilis from a public health
standpoint.
One OF the leading authorities on
mental diseases, DR.. Sigmond NJ.
1ebenson of ST. Elizabeths Hospital.
will be another special lecturer.
Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine will make three contributions
to the program. It's lecturers will be
DR.. Edward H. Richardson, depart
ment OF gynecology; DR.. Dean Lewis,
professor of surgery and DR.. Nlchol-
son J. Eastman, professor of OBJ
ktetrics.
DIR. ROsenthal on Program.
DR.. Sanford NJ. RoSenthal. senior
pharmacologist of the National Insti-
tute of Health in Washington. who
made important revelations at George
towns clinic last year in connection
With certain drugs. will again be on
the program. He will discuss sui
fanllamide. The other guest lecturers
from the National Institute of Health
will be DR.. Frederick J. Brady and DR..
Milton v. Feldee. who will take part
In one of the sessions on medicine.
DR., Frank Lahey of the Lahev
Clinic, Boston, will deal with surgical
considerations of the thyroid at a
general session.
The committee that arranged the
program is headed by DR.. James
Cahlll. jr., professor of surgery. and
DR.. William F.. ODonnell. in behalf
OF the Glass of 1913. from whose num-
bers many Of the lecturers have been
chosen. Heads of the various depart
tnents in the medical school will pre-
side over the sessions. The Rev. David
V. McCauley, S. j.. dean of medicine.
will welcome the alumni at the open
Ing session the morning of September
IL.
Drew Much Attention.
The sessions. which will be under
the supervision of the executive faculty.
OF the school. were started for the
purpose OF providing alumni an op-
portunity to keep in touch with the
latest advances in medicine and sur
gerry. Last year prominent specialists
from other cities were invited to par
tclpate and the extension course at
tracted much attention in medical
circles
The Glass OF 1918 will hold a reunion
at the Shoreham Hotel during the
sessions. A banquet and a golf to,lrna :
ment are among the diversions being
planned.
Assisting DR.. McCauley in directing
the sessions will be the following ex-
ecutive officers Of the school:
DR.. John D. Hird. secretary: DR..
George Tully Vaughan, emeritus pro-
fessor Of surgery; DR.. James A. Cahill.
Jr.. professor of surgery; DR.. Fred O..
Coe, professor of radiooey: DR.. Reg
maid A. Cutting, professor of physi-
oloey; DR.. D. Percy Hickling. pro-
lessor OF psvchiatry and neurology:
DR.. Theodore Koppanyi. professor of
pharmacology and materia medca;
DR.. Leon A. Martel. professor of gyne-
coloey: Dr. Henry S Milone. professor
OF blochemistry; DR.. Mario Mollari,
professor of bacteriology and inn
nunology; DR.. Joseph J. Mundell, pro-
fessor of obstetrics; DR.. Othmar C.
solnitzky, professor of anatomy; DR..
Joseph S. Wall, professor of pediatrics:
DR.. Eugene r. Whitmore, professor of
pathology and parasitology, and DR..
Wallace M. Yater, professor Of
medicine.