More than 800 American physicians, members of the American Medical Association, are holding a week-long symposium–the first conference of the AMA to be held outside the U.S. The conference, sponsored jointly by the American and Israeli Medical Associations, the medical schools-in Israel and the Weizmann Institute of Rehovot is designed to enable American doctors to study the achievements of the Israelis in many medical fields.
Leaders of the AMA said that because of its compact size, yet with its enormous diversified population, Israel serves as a huge medical laboratory. The focus of discussions will be papers presented by Israeli scientists on the development in the research into cancer and in cardiac therapy. The Weizmann Institute experts lead in the first area and Israeli medical schools in the second. Israelis will present a total of 37 papers to the conference.
Israeli Premier Golda Meir will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree at a special convocation at Yeshiva University in New York on March 8. The presentation will also initiate a series of events celebrating the 30th year of Dr. Samuel Belkin’s presidency of Yeshiva U.
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