Institutes in Care of Premature and Other High-Risk Infants.—September 1974 marks the 26th year of the Institutes for Physicians and Nurses in the Care of Premature and Other High-Risk Infants, sponsored by the New York State Department of Health and the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and conducted at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center five times during the academic year bimonthly, with a stipend provided to help cover expenses during attendance, which is generally two weeks for physicians and four weeks for nurses. Further information is obtainable by writing Box 143, Institutes in the Care of Premature and Other High-Risk Infants, New York Hospital, 525 E 68 St, New York, NY 10021.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Lectureship.—The Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University School of Medicine, presents the 11th annual JFK lecturer, Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, professor and chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard University Medical School,