Heart Symposium Gets Underway at Convention Center Friday

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5-13-71
J. WOODFIN WILSON Jr., M.D.
President' Louisiana Heart Assn.
Two-Day Meet—
EDGAR HULL, M.D.
Dean, Medical School
W. SEXTON LEWIS, M.D.
President Arkansas Heart Assn.
JANE BLAKE, R.N.
Chairman Nursing Committee
Heart Symposium Gets Underway
At Convention Center Friday
The two-day scientific ses-sion
to be conducted here at
the Convention Center Friday
and Saturday — May 14 and
15 —will be "all heart".
Under the auspices of the
Arkansas Heart Association,
the Louisiana Heart Associa-tion,
LSU Medical School in
Shreveport, the A m e r i c a n
Heart Association and the
association's Council on Clin-ical
Cardiology, the sympo-sium
Will feature topics and
events addressed to physi-cians,
nurses and laymen.
"BLOOD FLOW in Coro-nary
arid Pulmonary Arter-ies"
will be the theme of the
sessions for physicians and
nurses and the program will
be acceptable for 9 1/2 pres-cribed
hours by the American
Academy of General Practice.
All interested persons are
invited "to attend the sympo-sium
on "Risk Factor Screen-ing
in Corpnary Artery Dis-ease"
which is aimed at lay
leaders ^n , business, educa-tion,
labor and industry and
which will take place at the
Convention Center from 1:30
to 4 p.m. on Friday, May 14,
Joseph itern, Ph.D. professor,
of pharmacy, Northeast Loui-siana
University, Monroe,
chairman of board of direc-tors,
Louisiana Heart Associa-tion
will preside. The sympo-sium
will cover the problem,
the search for an answer, the
solution- and a panel discus-sion.
THE SESSION for science
teachers is s c h e d u 1 e d for
Saturday, May 15, from 9 a.m.
until noon, at the Convention
Center Annex.
Roland Abegg, Ph.D. Head
of the Zoology Department,
Louisiana T e c h University,
Ruston, will preside at this
session 'which will cover heart
disease, heart research, The
Heart Association and what it
can do for the science teach-er,
and a panel discussion.
Nurses will attend the physi-cians'
session, but will have a
special nurses' program on
Saturday morning at 11:30
when the topic will be "Nurs-ing
Care of Patients witfi
Surgical T r e a t m e n t o f Is-chemic
Heart Disease."
AN EVENT OF Saturday
will be the D u t c h Treat
luncheon at the Convention
Center at 12 o'clock. Guest
speaker will be Helen Corbitt,
consultant for Neiman-Marcus
specialty stores, whose sub-ject
will be "Eat for Your
Heart's Sake".
On the agenda for the ladies
attending the symposium will
be a tour of the city and art
museums and luncheon at a
local country club on Saturday
between the hours of 9:30 a.m.
and 3 p.m.
The President's dinner will
be held Friday night at the
Petroleum Club and members
of the board of, directors for
1971-72 will be elected at a
meeting Saturday afternoon.
AMONG THE speakers will
be Dr. Gilbert C a m p b e l l ,
professor and chairman of the
Department of Surgery at the
University of Arkansas Medi-cal
Center in Little Rock,
Ark.; Dr. James Alexander,
professor of medicine at Bay-lor
University School of Medi-cine,
Houston, Tex., and Dr.
John Phillips, professor of
medicine at Tulane University
School of Medicine in New
Orleans.
Other speakers will be Jane
Blake, assistant director of
special s e r v i c e s at Touro
Infirmary, New Orleans; Dr.
James Doherty, professor of
medicine and pharmacology
at the University of Arkansas
Medical Center; Dr. Noble
Fowler, director of cardiology
at the University of Cincin-nati,
Ohio; Dr. Edgar Hull,
dean of LSU School of Medi-cine
in Shreveport; Df. Rob-bert
La'Fargue, clinical- in-structor
in the Peoartment of
Medicine, LSU .School of Medi-cine
in Shreveport; Dr. W.
Sexton Lewis, president" of the
Arkansas Heart Assn.; Dr.
Floyd Loop, Department of
Thoracic-Cardiovascular Sur-gery,
Cleveland Clinic, Cleve-land,
Ohio, Dr. Albert Hyman,
Director of Surgical Cardio-pulmonary
Lab, Tulane School
of Medicine, New Orleans.
DR. BENJAMIN Lincoln,
associate medical professor,
Department of Surgery, Uni-versity
of Arkansas Medical
Center; Dr. Charles Pearce,
c a r d i a c surgeon, New Or-leans;
Dr. Henry I. Russek,
cardiology, S t a t e n Island',
N.Y.; Dr. David Sabiston,
professor and chairman of the
Department of Surgery, Duke
University, Durham, N.C.;,
Dr. Arthur Sashara, assistant
professor of medicine, Har-vard
Medical School, Boston,
Mass.; Dr. James W. Wilson
Jr., president of the Louisiana
Heart Assn., and Dr. David
W. Wall, chairman of the
physician education commit-tee
of the Louisiana Heart
Assn. and Dr. Joe Holoubek,
associate clinical professor of
m e d i c i n e , Louisiana State
University Medical S c h o o l -
Shreveport.
Benjamin Lincoln, M.D.
Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. •
Robert R. LaFargue,
M.D., F.A.C.C.
Gilbert S. Campbell, M.D.
JameT Doherty III, M.D. John Phillips, M.D. James Alexander, M.D.
Arthur Sasahara, M.D. Floyd D. Loop, M.D. Albert Hyman, M.D.
LIFELINE — Open heart surgery is largely made possible by the heart-lung
machine-which takes over these vital functions during the operation and
gives the patient a lifeline during this critical time. (Skipworth Photo)