"I am aware that there are so many meetings these days that it is almost impossible to attend them all...but there is a lack of a common meeting ground where university cardiologists can discuss problems with which they are most concerned--clinical research and clinical cardiology.

 

I have therefore been giving some thought during the past ten years as to whether or not it would be a good idea to develop an association of university cardiologists for academic people who are directly connected with universities." 

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George E. Burch, MD. Excerpt from a letter from George E. Burch, MD, Tulane University to Carleton B. Chapman, MD, Southwestern Medical School, 1960.

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