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ANNOUNCEMENTS

The First S.B. Gusberg Seminar on Reproductive Immunology will be held on June 26 and 27, 1980, at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.

The Mount Sinai faculty and a very prominent guest faculty will cover clinical and basic science aspects from the fields of Pregnancy Immunology, Tumor Immunology and Infertility Immunology.

As an organization accredited for continuing education, The Page and William Black Post-Graduate School, of The Mount Sinai School of Medicine (CUNY) certifies that this continuing medical education offering meets the criteria for 13 credit hours in Category I of the Physician’s Recognition Award of the American Medical Association, provided it is used and completed as designed. ACOG Formal Learning Cognates are pending.

Registration fee: US $ 175 (including lunches). For further information write to: The Director, The Page and William Black Post-Graduate School, Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, N.Y. 10029, U.S.A.

Invitation for reports on current clinical and basic investigations in reproductive immu- nology :

Within the framework of this Seminar, we are inviting the presentation of scientific papers in any of the following fields: Pregnancy Immunology, Tumor Immunology, Infertility Immunology. Authors wishing to participate are requested to submit three (3) copies of an abstract not later than March 1, 1980, to: Norbert Gleicher, M.D., Reproduc- tive Immunology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, N.Y. 10029, U.S.A.

Presenting authors of accepted abstracts will be exempt from the registration fee. Proceedings of this seminar will be published in the form of a monograph by The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine. Instructions to authors will be mailed to all authors, together with the notice of acceptance for submitted abstracts. Reports at the meeting will be limited to a lo-minute presentation followed by a B-minute discussion. For further information write to Dr. N. Gleicher or call 212-650-6555.

Thursday, June 26 (a.m.) Registration. Welcome: Dr. S.K. Elster, Dr. S.B. Gusberg and Dr. N. Gleicher. Introduction to Immunology: Dr. Barber. Genetic Control of the Immune System: Dr. Hirschhorn. The Fetus as an Allogmft: Dr. Beer. Pregnancy as an Immune Complex State (Disease): Dr. Theofilopoulos. Immune Complex Diseases and Pregnancy: Dr. Gleicher.

Thursday, June 26 (p.m.) The Maternal Immune System During Pregnancy and its Age-Related Altemtions in Rodents: Dr. Holinka. The Development of the Fetal Immune System: Dr. Siegel. Zmmunoglobulins as Indicator of Fetal Infection: Dr. Cederqvist. Scientific Session: Chairman, Dr. Theofilopoulos.

Friday, June 27 (a.m.) Scientiftc Session: Chairman, Dr. Gleicher. Rh-Disease and Blood Group Incompatibility: Dr. Cherry. Common Denominators of Pregnancy and Malignancy: Dr. Gleicher.

Friday, June 27 (p.m.) Trophoblastic Disease, a Bridge Between Pregnancy and Malignancy: Dr. Deppe. The Radioimmunoassay in Reproductive Medicine: Dr. Beers. The Immune System in Cancer: Dr. Theofilopoulos. The Immune System in Gynecologic Malignancies: Dr. Barber. Zmmunothempy of Gynecologic Malignancies: Dr. Cohen. Zmmunology of Znfertility: Dr. Reyniak. The Bernard Berglas Lecture. The Zmmunology of Toxemia: Dr. A.E. Beer (Professor and Chairman, University of Michigan School of Medicine).

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The 6th International Congress of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology will be held on September 2-6,1980, at the Congress Hall, West Berlin.

The principal theme of the Congress, Women in a Changing Society, is intended to encourage lectures and discussions dealing with socio-physiological characteristics and cultural influences, psychosomatic symptoms and illnesses as well as the psychothera- peutic potential in obstetrics and gynecology.

Scientific Secretariat: Ass. Prof. Dr. M. Stauber, Frauenklinik Charlottenburg der FUB, Pulsstr. 4, D-1000 Berlin (West) 19, G.F.R.

Organizational Secretariat: W. Syborg (COC), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, D-1000 Berlin (West) 21, G.F.R.

The Congress will take place in the Kongresshalle (Congress Hall), John-Foster-Dulles- Allee, Berlin (West). Simultaneous translations are planned for English, French, Spanish and German in Auditorium 1. In Auditorium 2, special lectures will be translated simul- taneously into English, French and German. In the smaller workshop rooms, there will be English-German translations. The Congress is being organized by the German division of the International Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, and sponsored by the Senator for Finance of the City of Berlin as well as by the Federal Ministry of Health in Bonn.

Special Topics: Women in a changing society; The young mother; Women in the post-generative phase; The psychohygienics of aging; Practice in pregnancy-conflict counseling; Effects of gynecological illnesses on partnerships; Adiposity from a psycho- somatic viewpoint; Psychoendocrinology; Fertility and sterility; Sexual disorders; The pre-menstrual syndrome; Psychosomatics and carcinoma; Psychosomatics of pregnancy, birth and confinement; Psychotherapeutic potential in gynecological clinics and practices; etc.

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Gynecological Microsurgery: A Practical Course. Leuven, Belgium, June 30 to July 3, 1980.

For the third time a 4-day international workshop, primarily for gynecologists inter- ested in the surgery of infertility and scientific workers in the field of reproduction, will be held at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

The course will be devoted to teaching microsurgical principles of tissue handling and repair of fallopian tube and ovary. Practical demonstrations of experimental animal work and human surgery will be combined with discussions concerned with instrumentation and technical problems. The main emphasis will be on teaching the manual skills required, and participants will be encouraged to use the microscope under laboratory conditions. In view of the fact that a degree of individual teaching will be required, places on this course are strictly limited and early application is advised.

For information and registration write to Dr. W. Boeckx, Centre for Microsurgery, Academic Hospital St. RafaSl, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.