Columbia University College Of Physicians & Surgeons Holds Alumni Reunion Weekend May 17th And 18th

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS HOLDS

ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND MAY 17th AND 18th

WHAT:

Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons will celebrate

235 years of medical excellence

and continuing innovation at its 2002 Alumni Reunion Weekend. Activities

include continuing medical

educational sessions, class reunions, luncheons, and awards ceremonies.

HIGHLIGHTS: Friday, May 17th

Clark Conference Center, first floor

Milstein Hospital Building

177 Fort Washington Ave

Panel Discussion: P&S and the Environment, 9:50 a.m.

Moderator: Allan G. Rosenfield M.D., Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public

Health, Mailman School of Public

Health, Columbia University; professor of obstetrics and gynecology, College

of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia

University

The panel will discuss subjects relating to medicine and the environment.

Topics include drug-resistant

tuberculosis; public health issues relating to Sept. 11th; medical responses

to chemical and nerve agent

attacks; environmental aspects of asthma; and the international response

to AIDS.

Keynote Presentation, 11:30 a.m.

Charles S. Houston, M.D.; Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University

of Vermont

Dr. Houston, a veteran mountain climber, will discuss high-altitude physiology

in the context of his

historic climb of K2 and show a vintage movie about his experience.

The Virginia Kneeland Frantz, M.D. ’22 Distinguished Women in Medicine

Award, 12:30 p.m.

Recipient: Lila A. Wallis, M.D.

Saturday, May 18th

P&S Alumni Auditorium

650 West 168th Street

Management of Dislocation After Hip Replacement, 9:30 a.m.

William B. Macaulay, M.D.; director, Center for Hip and Knee Replacement,

Columbia University

Aesthetic Reconstruction of the Craniofacial Skeleton: Application of

Aesthetic Principles for

Superior Results, 9:45 a.m.

Craig R. Dufresne, M.D.; clinical professor of plastic surgery, Georgetown

University, Washington, D.C.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Science Addresses a Popular

Movement, 10 a.m.

Stephen E. Straus, M.D.; director, National Center for Complementary

and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes

of Health; chief, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, NIAID

Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity in the U.S.A., 10:30 a.m.

William M. Lee, M.D.; Meredith Mole Professor of Internal Medicine,

University of Texas Southwestern Medical School,

Dallas

Nasal Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus is a Risk Factor for Serious Community-Acquired

and

Nosocomial Infections, 11 a.m.

John M. Sheagren, M.D.; professor, University of Illinois College of

Medicine; chair, Department of Internal Medicine

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Fifty Years of Self Deception, 11:15 a.m.

Wallace V. Epstein, M.D.; professor emeritus of medicine, University

of California, San Francisco

A Successful, Cost-effective Diabetes Treatment Program in a University

County Hospital, 11:30

a.m.

Joseph C. Shipp, M.D.; professor emeritus of medicine, University of

California, San Francisco; eminent scientist, Sansum

Medical Research Institute, San Francisco

Is Human Breast Cancer Infectious? Noon

James F. Holland, M.D.; distinguished professor of neoplastic diseases,

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

FOR A COMPLETE AGENDA, PLEASE CALL (212) 305-3900.

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