The American College of Cardiology will open a five-day convention Thursday at the Roosevelt Hotel, and many of its members arrived Sunday to enjoy the Carnival festivities.
The Louisiana Heart Association, headed by its president Dr. Page W. Acree, Baton Rouge, will present a pre-con-vention scientific program Wednesday at the Roosevelt.
Dr. George C. Griffith, Los
Angeles, president of the ACC, ♦ said in New Orleans Sunday several thousand heart specialists and surgeons from all parts of the world will attend the college's 13th annual convention here. A program, also is planned, he said, "for the 1,000 doctors' wives expected here."
He said more than 100 talks and conferences by leading ear-jdiologists and surgeons are ! scheduled for the five-day period.
, WON WIDE INTEREST
"The superb scientific program arranged by Dr. George E. Bur eh, professor and chair-| man of the department of medi-jcine at Tulane Medical School, ihas won wide interest of the ACC membership," Dr. Griffith said. "The meeting will be i attended also by many non-specialist physicians from a wide area."
General chairman of the convention is Dr. Allen M. Goldman, associate professor of medicine at Tulane University and chief of medicine at Touro Infirmary.
A convocation open to the public will be held at 8 p. m. Saturday in the International Room of the Roosevelt Hotel. It will feature an academic procession
comprised of pioneers and authorities in the science of cardiology, directors of famed medical departments, authors of key writings in the field, innovators of breakthrough operations, and special honorees of the evening. ,
TO GIVE SPEECH
I Among them will be Dr. Sam-|uel A. Levine, Boston, professor emeritus of clinical medi-'cine at the Harvard Medical School, who will deliver an address on "The Science and Art of Medicine." Dr. Levine will be presented a gold medal by the ACC.
The college's jeweled key award will be presented Dr. George R. Hermann, Galveston, Tex.
Honorary fellowships will be awarded Dr. Paul Dudley White, Boston. Mass., and Dr. Louis N. Katz, Chicago, 111.
A "Young Invest! g a t o r Award" of $1,000 and a certificate will be tendered to a scientist to be selected at the contention.
FOREIGN VISITORS
The roll call for the academic trocession preceding the convo-:ation includes Dr. Clifford B. Jherry, Los Angles, marshal of ;he convention; Dr. Eliot Cor-lay, Los Angeles, ACC presi-ient-elect for 1964-65; Dr. Louis c«\ Bishop, New York; Dr. Herman K. Hellerstein, Cleveland; Dr. Dwight E. Harken, Boston, incoming president of the ACC; Dr. Acree; Dr. Mariano M. Alimurung, Manila, The Philippines.
Dr. John B. Armstrong, Toronto; Dr. Karl Brauh, Israel; Dr Maurice Campbell, London; Dr Jorge Espino-Vela, Mexico City; Dean William Jgigg, Louisiana
State University Medical School Dr. John F. Goodwin, London Dr. Irwin Milliard, Toronto; Dr Jan Kwoczynski, Warsaw, Po~ land;Dr. John L. Kron, president of the Orleans Parish Medi :al Society; Charles K. Petter Chicago, president American tollege of Chest Physicians. Dr. John J. Sampson, San Francisco, president of the American Heart Association Dr. Charles C. Sprague, Dean of the Tulane Medical School Dr. Intfi Vural, Ankara, Turkey Dr. Lars Werko, Sweden; Dr H. Malcolm Whyte, Sydney Australia; and Dr. Theodor Cummings, of Beverly Hills Calif, who will present th Susan and Theodore Cumming; Humanitarian Awards for Over seas Faculty.
Also in the procession will be1 Dr. Burch, Dr. Goldman, Dr. John S. LaDue, New York, past [president of the ACC; Dr. Philip Reichert, New York, ACC executive director, and Dr. Sam A. Threefoot, New Orleans, assistant marshal of the convention. PHOTO: Heart Specialists, Surgeons Coming for Meet - AMONG DIGNITARIES who will attend the 13th annual convention of the American College of Cardiology which opens Thursday at the Roosevelt Hotel are (from left) Dr. Louis N. Katz, Chicago, III.; Dr. Samuel A. Levine, Brookline, Mass.; Dr. Dwight E. Harken, Boston, Mass., and Dr. Eliot Corday, Los Angeles, Calif. Dr. Katz and Dr. Levine will be presented special awards by the college. Dr. Harken is the incoming president of the ACC, and Dr. Corday is ACC president-elect for 1964-65.
