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74th Annual NMA Convention, August 10-14, 1969

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NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL DEAN

The first dean of the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School is Dr. Mitchell W. Spellman. He was born December 1, 1919, in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in 1940 from Dillard University, New Orleans, and his Medical Degree from Howard University College of Medicine.

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Dr. Spellman studied for his doctorate at the University of Minnesota from 1951 to 1954 and was awarded a Ph.D. in Surgery in 1955. He has served as Professor of Surgery at the College of Medicine, Howard University since 1964 and as Chief Medical Officer of the Howard University Surgery Division, D.C. General Hospital, since 1961.

He has held a number of academic and medical positions at Howard University, including that of director of the Experimental Surgery Laboratory from 1954 to 1961.

He was a Fellow in Surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School from 1951 to 1954, and served as a Senior Resident in Surgery at the University of Minnesota Hospital from 1953-1964 under Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen and Dr. C. Walton Lillehei.

Dr. and Mrs. Spellman are the parents of eight children.


Drew Postgraduate School

The Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School will be located at the Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital in the Southeast area of Los Angeles, and will provide educational and research facilities for interns and resident physicians. It will act in affiliation with the Medical Schools of the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. The faculty of the Postgraduate Medical School will hold appointments either within the UCLA or the USC Schools of Medicine.

The Medical School Board of Directors is composed of the Dean of the UCLA Medical School (Dr. Sherman M. Mellinkoff) and his appointee; the Dean of the USC School of Medicine (Dr. Roger O. Egeberg) and his appointee; and two appointees of the Charles R. Drew Medical Scoiety of Los Angeles, a component society of the National Medical Association. Ex-officio members are the Dean of the Postgraduate Medical School and a representative of the Los Angeles County Department of Hospitals.

Construction on the Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital is scheduled for completion in the fall of 1970. The five-story structure is being built on a 30-acre site at a cost of $23,540,000.

The fully computerized, acute hospital will open with a bed capacity of 400, which will later be increased to 760, and will serve a population of 356,000 persons in an area considered to be the most critically under-hospitaled in the state.

A member of the NMA Board of Trustees and executive vice president of the NMA Foundation, Dr. Spellman will assume the responsibilities of the office of Dean in January, 1969.