Doctors Convene For AMA Parley

A battery of prominent Harvard doctors, including Presidential consultant Paul Dudley White '08 and Nobel Prize winner Thomas H. Weller, will present important papers at the annual clinical convention of the American Medical Association, which starts this morning in Boston.

Some 4000 physicians from all over the country are in town for the meeting, which will last through Friday at the Mechanics' Building on Huntington Avenue. Each of the building's three halls will house a steady succession of panel discussions and lectures throughout the conference. At the same time a television room will feature closed-circuit video demonstrations of operations taking place in local hospitals.

The A.M.A. convention is officially not open to the public, but doctors last night reported that interested outsiders like pre-medical students, if they know someone inside or stay around long enough, can probably get into some of the events.

Dr. White, a former faculty member of the Medical School, will be one of the convention's featured attractions on Friday when he delivers a paper on "The Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases." Dr. Weller, who is Strong Professor at the School of Public Health and shared in the Nobel Prize last year for his work on the polio virus, will present the results of his study on "Enteric Viruses" at the conference. More than a score of other doctors from the Schools of Medicine and Public Health will deliver papers at the convention on topics ranging from "The Cause and Prevention of Congenital Anomalies" to "A Physician's Report of the Atoms for Peace Conference.