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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, June 18, 1965
Heart Institute Makes Grant Of $455.892 to Med Center
A five-year grant totaling $455,892 has been awarded KUMC by the National Heart Institute of the United States Public Health Service. The award is multi-disciplinary—involving seven departments in basic and clinical sciences.
The funds will be used to expand, improve and coordinate existing programs in cardiovascular research training. For the period of one year, beginning July 1, the grant totals $78.004. Succeeding years fund amounts to $94,472 each.
Trainees in the new program, both physicians and candidates for Ph.D. degrees, will have a wide choice of basic science training areas to supplement clinical training. Twenty-four faculty members will cooperate
Dr. Ray T. Parmley has been named chairman and professor of anesthesiology at the KU Medical Center, effective July 1. This activity has previously been a section of the department of surgery.
Anesthesiology Head Named
Dr. Parmley has been in practice in Wichita since 1948. He has been on the faculty of the medical school since 1954. Concurrently, he has served as a consultant in his specialty at the McConnell Air Force Base in that city. Since 1960, he has directed inhalation therapy training at St. Francis.
The 45-year-old physician is a native Texan and received his pre-med and medical education at Tulane University.
He was awarded his specialty certification in 1950. He has served as president of the Southern Society of Anesthesiologists and as a board member of the American Society.
Dr. Evan L. Frederickson, who has been chief of the section of anesthesia, has resigned to accept an appointment at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga.
in the program from the following departments: medicine, pediatrics, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, biochemistry and surgery.
Most of the grant money will be used to pay stipends to trainees for a period of two years and to add laboratory equipment and supplies. Fellowships will be offered to six trainees the first year, with nine anticipated in each of the following years. Some funds will be allocated for summer research fellowships to medical students to encourage them into research and teaching careers. No additional faculty is planned.
Russell C. Mills, Ph.D., associate dean in charge of graduate and research programs at the Medical Center, has been named director of the multidisciplinary grant. Marvin Dunn, M.D., head of the cardiovascular section, will be assistant program director and chairman of a faculty committee which will administer the training grant.
Institute on Hearing Held in Kansas City
A six-week summer institute for teachers of the hearing impaired is being conducted at the KU Medical Center, June 14 through July 23.
Faculty members are from KU, in addition to a panel of eight guest lecturers in the field of deaf education.
Thirty teachers from 21 states were selected from 125 applications. The session is being given in conjunction with the U.S. Office of Education and is one of two in the nation for teachers in the area of deaf education. The other is at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.
Rift in Young GOP
TOPEKA — (UPI) — The Kansas National Young Republican committeewoman charged yesterday that elements within the state's Young Republican ranks are working to defeat State Sen. Tom Van Sickle in his bid for national president. The Young Republicans are meeting in Miami Beach, Fla.
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