A ranking faculty member of the Nanjing (Nanking) Medical College will be the first member of the People’s Republic of China’s scientific establishment to visit Israel. Prof. Chu Si-Ming, head of the department of physiology, has accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the scientific advisory board of the eighth World Symposium on Cardiac Pacing which will be held in Israel next year.
Chu was invited by Prof. Henry Neufeld of the Heart Institute at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. The advisory board will also include cardiologists from the Soviet Union and Poland. The symposium, expected to be attended by 4,000 scientists, will be one of the largest gatherings ever held in Israel.
In his letter to Neufeld, Chu wrote: “I cannot tell you how much your letter delighted me. It is very kind of you to invite me to join you as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Eighth World Symposium on Cardiac Pacing. I am delighted to accept your kind invitation.” The letter was written on the official stationery of the Hangsi Biomedical Engineering Society of the Nanjing Medical College.
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