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Dr. Chalmers presents on the data associated with showing the efficacy of portacaval shunt surgery and other treatments, using these to discuss the value of randomized, controlled clinical trials, as well as the concept of obtaining informed consent.

Labelled Master; Albert S. Lyons, MD does a round-table interview with James F. Glenn, MD, Thomas C. Chalmers, MD and Hans Popper, MD, PhD, all of whom served as President of The Mount Sinai Medical Center at one time.

This interview covers the years leading up to Dr. Chalmers accepting a position of President of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Dean of the School of Medicine, but includes a bit of the story behind that. He begins by discussing his upbringing in Forest Hills, NY, schooling from Kew Forest School, Phillips Exeter Academy, then three years at Yale leading to medical school at Columbia's P&S. He goes into details about his family background, how he worked his way through school, failed his Army physical because of serum bilirubin issues, (later he was diagnosed with Gilbert’s syndrome) and thus took military service at Goldwater Memorial Hospital, conducting research. He continues to describe his work at various hospitals up to the time he came to Mount Sinai, the story of which will continue on another interview. (see AA107.INT032)

Dr. Chalmers discusses the uniqueness of Mount Sinai; strength of Community Medicine and Humanities component at Mount Sinai; changes in student body; Gustave L. Levy; Alfred Stern; Trustee attitudes; fiscal conditions over his term as Dean/President; role of the President, Dean, and director of Hospital, including David Pomrinse and Same Davis; Hans Popper; importance of research in daily practice; successes/failure; ; establishment of Dept. of Geriatrics and Biomathematics; the future for Mount Sinai.

Tape 1: Opening remarks by Dr. Nathan Kase, introductions by Dr. Paul Berk, lectures by Dr. James Darnell and Prof. Dietrich Keppler. Tape 2: Lectures by Dr. Blumberg and Dr. Mario Ricetto, concluding remarks by Dr. Thomas Chalmers. Tape 2, Side 1 cuts in during lecture.