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RESEARCH NOTES ~ ~'N sectys, for health ~ecently named Upjohn exec VP, and Charles Edwards, Scripps Medical InstitutL~-presi- dent. Ot~i-ers include former Pharmaceutical Mt'rs. Assn. president Joseph Stelter; James Cavanaugh, Allergan senior VP for science and planning; Alain Enthoven, Stanford public and private management prof; former AMA Legislative Council chairman William Felch, and American Pharmaceutical Assn. board chairman Mary Runge. Chairman of the Reagan group is William Walsh, president and medical director of the People-to-People Foundation (Project Hope). Edwards is also a former Becton-Dickinson senior VP for medical affairs and research; Enthoven is a former p~,esident of Litton Medical Products, and Cooper will assume his Up john post Oct. 1 after completing his tenure as Cornell medical dean. Cavanaugh is a former deputy asst. secty, for health and served the Ford Administration as White House deputy chief of staff. Cooper is a former director of the Natl. Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Edwards served as FDA commissioner. Other members of the Reagan health team are Rita Campbell, Hoover Institution senior fellow; Isaac Ehrlich, SUNY (Buffalo) economics prof; Clark Havighurst, Duke law prof; Helen Jameson, asst. administrator, Rochester (Minn.) Methodist Hospital; Cotton Lindsay, Emory economics prof; Wade Mountz, president, Norton-Children's Hospitals, Louisville, Ky.; Lee Shelton, health services, Health 1st, Atlanta, and Robert Shira, Tufts senior VP. - 0 REFUGEE HEALTH PROFESSION.~LS EDUCATION PROGRAM PROPOSED by Bureau of Health Profes- sions internatl, program head Donald Buckner at an Aug. 12 session of the Natl. Advisory Council on Health Professions Education (see related stork', p. 16). Buckner suggested that the council ask the Ad- ministration to allocate funds to prepare Caribbean and Southeast Asian professionals to enter practice in the U.S., predicting that 14,000 Cuban, Haitian, and Asian emmigrants will enter the U.S. each month through 1982. The council took no action on Buckner's proposal. Such educational programs were conducted in 1976-1977 for Vietnamese physicians and dentists. U.Hawaii public health dean Jerrold Michael said he is "bothered by the assumption that the U.S. has an obligation to help [refugee] orthopedic surgeons go from being auto repairmen to making $150,000 a year in their profession." Michael made the remark after Buckner had told of a Southeast Asian orthopedic surgeon who had been discovered fixing cars because language barriers and other factors had prevented him from obtaining a license to practice here. Michael argued that helping refugees enter practice in the U.S. adversely affects American health professionals' opportunities. He said the govt. should determine needs before launching programs to help refugees enter practice, adding that he feels nurses are the most urgently needed. The Public Health Services' Office of Refugee Affairs head Merlin Brubaker said nurses were not included in the 1976-77 programs but, "We'd like to change that" if new pro- ject~ were launched. Because of the lack of requirements and m~:;hod, to identify refugees by profession, many opportunites to use refugee health ptofe-~sioJzat, tt, :rear tkeir fello'~ refugees have been missed, Brubaker noted, lk~ckner recalled that in the early TI54262359

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