1967 Press Photo Dr. Ronald B. George, Tri-State Thoracic Case Conference

Three of the 30 Louisiana physicians attending the 1967 Eleventh Annual Tri-State Thoracic Case Conference earlier this week in Biloxi are shown above, conferring with two of the Guest Discussants. A total of seventy-five physicians from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama attended the chest conference. Above are: Dr. John S. Harter, Professor of Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville, Kentucky, one of the Guest Discussants; Dr. B Shannon Gallaher of New Orleans; Dr. James T. Perret, Baton Rouge; Dr. Ronald B. George, New Orleans; and Dr. Lowell Hurwitz, New Orleans Charity Hospital Radiologist, one of the Guest Discussants. Sponsored by the Louisiana Thoracic Society, the Louisiana Tuberculosis & Respiratory Disease Association and their Mississippi and Alabama counterparts, the conference provided chest specialists with information regarding latest diagnostic and treatment techniques in chest medicine.

Photo is dated 1967.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.