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January 25, 1980

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
President
The Rockefeller University

Dear Josh:

This is a brief introduction to the meeting which
will take place in your office on Wednesday, January 30,
at 4 p.m. with you, Dr. Marianne J. Legato of Roosevelt
Hospital and Associate Professor of clinical Medicine at
Columbia University, and Mr. William C. Stubing, Exec-
utive Secretary of the Committee on Medical Education of
the New York Academy of Medicine. I will attend also.

This concerns an all-day conference and evening
dinner on October 10, 1980. The conference is under the
auspices of the New York Academy of Medicine and will
take place there; the dinner will be for 200 guests at
the Cosmopolitan Club in New York City.

The general theme of the conference will revolve
around the current manpower crisis in academic medicine, ~~
i.e., the fact that only about 2 per cent of the physi-
cians currently graduated from the nation's medical

schools elect to go into teaching and research on a full
time basis. This trend has been apparent for the past

five years and not much is being done about it.

Dr. Legato, a graduate of NYU Medical School and a
cardiologist, is chairman of the committee organizing
the meeting. Other members of the committee include
Paul Cranefield; Dr. Theodore Cooper of Cornell; Dr.
Jose M. Ferrer, Jr., Associate Dean of Postgraduate
Education at Columbia P&S; Dr. William F. Mitty,
Surgeon at St. Claire's Hospital; Mr. Stubing; Dr.
Samuel O. Thier, Chairman of Internal Medicine at Yale
and Chief of Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital; and
Dr. Brian F. Hoffman, Chairman of the Columbia University
Department of Pharmacology. I am serving as their
public relations consultant.

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Dr. Lederberg
January 25, 1980
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The dinner speaker on the program is Lew Thomas.

The program speakers during the day will be: Dr.
Hoffman; Dr. James Wyngaarden, Chairman of the Depart-
ment of Medicine at Duke University; Dr. David E.
Rogers, President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation;
Dr. Robert T. Petersdorf, Chairman of the Department of
Medicine at the University of Washington School of
Medicine; Dr. Francis D. Moore, Elliott Carr Cotter
Professor of Surgery at Harvard; Dr. Paul A. Marks,
Vice President for Health Sciences and Director of
Cancer Research at P&S; Dr. Donald Frederickson,
Director of NIH; and Mr. Alfred Stern, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees, Mount Sinai Medical Center.

As you can see, this is a distinguished group.

Cordially,

LA by 2

gene H. Kone