the " OL. Li NOV 19 _ The 3 Puluonery Disease Service and the " Divieion of Postgraduate Medical Edu- cation, both of USC School of Medicine, will join forees with the TB and Rea- piratory Disease Association of L, A. | County, October 18 to sponsor the one~ day. Symposium being planned by Wilbur Y. Hallett, M.D., Director of the AREA V Project: for Physician Education in Barly Chronic. Respiratory Disease. The conference will bring“together special- ties in the clinicaland basic science aspects of respiratorysdisease, pulmon- ary physiology, infectious diseases, : allergy and immunology, pathology, etc., ‘to diacuss.early pathogenesis, detection, natural. history, and therapy. The dia- cussions: are expected té“lead to the - development of the best possible criteria and methods for the early detection, evaluation and managenient of patients eho participate in the, AREA V. Project, well as- provide a basis for ‘the teach- ing program which is a part of the’ proj- ect. . r A Task Force has: been appointed by the AREA V STROKE COMMITTEE to develop a role «© description and course outline for -a-Stroke Liaison Nurse. Included in the assignment is a description of the duties and; respon- sibilities. of the liaison nurse and, guide- lines for utilization of this nurse ina community: hospitel setting. Four community . hospitals will, be selected to participate in a pilot program involving the training and implementation of: a stroke liaison nurse in their health care service. Mem bers of the Stroke Liaison Nursa Task ~ Porce are: “Mre.: Colleen Madaris, RN, MS, (City: of Hope Medical Center) Misa Mary Metzger, RN (LACO-USC Medical Center) Miss Mary Pratt, RN (Rancho. Los: Amigos -- Hospital) Miss Jan David, RN-(Rancho. Los Amigos Hospital) Mre.xJosephine: Preisner, RN (St. Joseph Hospital): Miss Angela. Chiesa, RN (Comminity:Hospital of: San “ briel) Mrs, :-MarilyniFriedman,. RN: (California State:College, L.A.) Mra. Karen Schultz, RN (Visiting Nurse Aaso- efation) Mra. Kay D. Fuller, RN and Miss: Dorothy E. Anderson, RN, MPH (AREA V STAFF). WELCOME ABOARD! Clyde E. Madden, MSSW, has. joined AREA V as Assistant Coordinator - Social - + elorks, Mr. Madden waa formerly with thei |. slfare Planning Council, L. 4. Region, as Associate Director of the Mental Health Commisaion and in other capacities con- cerned with social services and community organization. A graduate of UCLA and of Yale Divinity School, Mr. Madden holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and a Master's Degree in Social Work. - minute news September 10, 1969 CRMP Nurses and the Allied Health Plan- ning Committee met at UCLA on August 27 ‘and zeroed in on their target of allied health representation in CCRMP. They developed the recommendations that were presented by Paul D. Ward to the Staff Consultants on September 4 and discussed functions, goals and membership of the proposed Allied Health Committee. A task force was also appointed to follow . through on the nursing aspecta involved ‘dn productions by the CCRMP Medical Tele- vision Project, Attending. from AREA V were: DOROTHY £. ANDERSON, RN, MPH (Community Programs), GLADYS ANCRUM, Dr. P.H. (CCU Program) and DEBORAH PHILIPP, ACSW for BERNICE C, HARPER, (Chairman, AREA .V SOCIAL WORK COMMITTEE). Hightdghts of the CCRMP Staff Consultant's meeting which took place Sept. 4 in Los Angeles: There was 4 presentation about the work of Community Health Service of HSMHA (Health Services and Mental Health Administration) by two members of that program--Donald MacDonald, MD, Associate Regional Health Director and Robert Bull, Associate Regional Program Director. An appeal was made for inéreased inter-agency cooperation, particularly with the Model City programs. tere The CCRMP Data Acquisition Committee and CCORMP Evaluation Comiltteé ‘are to be com- bined under the new title of Data And Eval- uation Committee. WILLIAM A. MARKEY, (Depiity’ Codrdinator AREA V) was appointed the new Chairman. the tentative dates of Oct. 13 and 14 for’ the next DRMP Site Visit were confirmed with the Hiltén Inn, San Francisco as the loca~ tion. ‘ The establishment of an Allied Health Sub- committee was discussed and approved. The committee will be composed of one repre- séntative froiieach of the eight Areas and Watts-Willowbrook, with the addition of “four or five members to assure representa~ tion of the various allied health profes- sions; WILLIAM A, MARKEY attended the ‘meeting ‘for AREA V. Eduardo Moreno has “beeti"named Conference Chairman for the East Los Angeles Com- munity Health Workshop, slated for Oct.’ 25 at East Los Angeles College. Mr. Moreno is Project Director of "Ahora" a new series of TV programs on KCET (Chan- nel 28) focusing on events in the East Los Angeles community, and was Community Relations Director for the TV series "Cancion de la Raza'' presented in 1968. Calendar 7 . eee STAFF MERTINGS: 2 % a 4 SUBJECT to SUDDEN cuattoils-cpres'se CHECK WITH OFFICE’ FOR LATEST INFORMATION ALL MEETINGS ARE IN CONFERENCE ROOM UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED San Francisco - SPECIAL MEETINGS - October 18 October 25 - November 5 ty : ae atte CONGRATULATIONS TO WATTS-WILLOWBROOK DIS~- TRICT RMP on their new, handsome brochure, (one of which you will find attached to this issue of V-Minute News) and on these other announcements of progress in their Area: CHAIRMAN OF DREW SCHOOL DEPAenn OF _cé MUNITY MEDICINE NAMED The appointment of M, Alfred Haynes, M.D., as Chairman of the Dept. of Community Med- icine was announced Aug. 20 by Mitchell W. Spellman, M.D., Dean of the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School. Dr. Haynes is the first chairman to be recruited to head a department “of the Drew Schoél, which is being developed to function within the Martin Luther King, Jr. General Hospital, ~ under construction if ‘the Watts-Willowbrodk section of Los Angeles. Dr. Haynes' nomina- tion was approved by the Exécutive Committee of the Drew School Board of Directors, a body reflecting | the Drew affiliation with the USC and uchA’ Schools of Medicine, plus rep- resentatives of- the Drew Medical Society (Los Angeles Chapter of National Medical Agen.) and the community. With this ap- pointment Dr, Haynes will also be appointed to the’ faculty at UCLA. Dr. Haynes comes to the Drew School after a notable career in national and international health’ work and consistent academic perform- ance. Born in British Guiana, he is a grad- uate of Columbia University (U.S.), State University of New. York-Downstate Medical Cen- ter (M.D.), and Harvard University School of Public Health (M.?.H.). Dr. Haynes served several years as medical officer (USPHS) with the Indian Health Service, Cheyenne Agency, South Dakota. .His academic career began at the University of Vermont School, of Medicine, where he was Assistant, Professor. in preven- tive medicine, epidemiology and community | medicine. Since 1964, Dr. Haynes has held: an appointment at Johna Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health; his most recent rank has, been Associate Professor jointly in the de- partments of international health and public health, administration. . Symposium on Early Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease RMP - East Los Angeles First Session Community Health a RMP - East Los Angeles Workghop - Second Session NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION MOVES HEADQUARTERS TO WAITS The Board of Directors of the National -Medj-. cal Asan. Foundation has voted unanimousl, to move its national office from Washington, ° BD. C., to the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School, located in the Watts-Willow- brook section of Los Angeles. M.., Alfred Haynes, MeDe, who has been Project, Director. for, the,NMA Foundation, will become “NMAF Executive Director. The “ational, Medical Assn. Foundation was created, to.,demonstrate that the private yb. sector, especially the black phy- sician,,,can,assume a meaningful responsi- bility for, structuring health care for all _ Americans,— with particular attention to the disadvantaged din.urban centers, In its first 18 months,,the Foundation has fos- tered four projects, in Washington, D. C., inner city, and. hasbeen approached to develop and. evaluate endeavors. in other American cities. ;A group-practice unit, , housed in a,new extended care facility, will provide comprehensive health care to the surrounding neighborhood. With Weir Foundation support, a project to develop health careers among.minority persons has already recruited a number of young people who will receive training to the medical, dental and paramedical professions. | The NMA Foundation will share resources with the Drew School and UCLA for health planning, utilitarian research, evaluation of urban health care systems, as well as the organ- ization and delivery of such services which are the prime interests ofthe Foun- dation... Directors of NMA Foundation proj- ects, around the nation, will be recruited on the basis of qualifications appropriate to earn joint academic appointments in the two..institutions. , ,