UNITED STATES 



81 



Membership: By invitation; total membership 

 294. 

 Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Sponsorship of ex- 

 change fellowships between the United States 

 and the British Commonwealth. 



Publications: Manual of Orthopaedic Sur- 

 gery; Annual Report; co-sponsorship of Jour- 

 nal of Bone and Joint Surgery with American 

 Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, 8 issues 

 yearly. Editor : Thornton Brown. 



245. American Orthopsychiatric Association. 



1790 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. Presi- 

 dent: William S. Langford, Babies Hospital, 

 Broadway and 167th Street, New York 32, 

 N. Y. Term expires April 1961. Executive 

 Secretary: Marion F. Langer. Term in- 

 definite. 



History: Organized 1924. 



Purpose: To unite and provide a common 

 meeting ground for those engaged in the study 

 and treatment of problems of human behavior ; 

 to foster research and spread information con- 

 cerning scientific work in the field of human 

 behavior, including all forms of abnormal 

 behavior. 



Membership: Members and Fellows: Psy- 

 chiatrists with three years of approved basic 

 training in psychiatry plus at least two years' 

 clinical experience. Psychologists with the Ph.D. 

 degree or its equivalent plus three years' clinical 

 experience, or the master's degree plus one 

 additional year of graduate work and five years' 

 clinical experience. Psychiatric Social Workers 

 who are graduates of accredited schools of social 

 work with a master's degree if the date of 

 graduation is subsequent to the date on which 

 the school first granted the degree ; graduates 

 who majored in psychiatric social work at a 

 school approved for such training at the time 

 they attended, with three years' clinical experi- 

 ence following training ; other graduates shall 

 have had four years' clinical experience follow- 

 ing training, one of which shall have been under 

 the supervision of a qualified psychiatric social 

 worker. Total membership 1,806. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: American Journal of Ortho- 

 psychiatry, quarterly, current volume: 30, $10. 

 Editor : George E. Gardner, 295 Longwood 

 Avenue, Boston 8, Mass. 



246. American Osteopathic Association. 212 



East Ohio Street, Chicago 11, 111. President: 

 Roy J. Harvey. Term expires July 1961. 

 Executive Director: True B. Eveleth. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Organized April 1897, as the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Osteo- 

 pathy; name changed to present name 1901. 

 Incorporated in Illinois in 1923. Divisional 

 societies in United States. Canada, and foreign 

 countries. Comimittees : Bureau of Research ; 

 Bureau of Professional Education; Advisory 

 Board for Osteopathic Specialists ; Committee 

 on Accreditation of Postgraduate Training. 



Purpose: To promote the public health, to 

 encourage scientific research, and to maintain 

 and improve high standards of medical educa- 

 tion in osteopathic colleges. 



Membership: Regular members, graduates of 

 an approved college of osteopathy, 10,516; hon- 

 orary, 25 years membership and 75 years of age ; 

 associate, executive employees of osteopathic 

 organizations and institutions, 45. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Basic research in 

 laboratories, clinics, and hospitals connected 

 with colleges of osteopathy ; scholarships for 

 undergraduate professional education ; fellow- 

 ships for graduate study. Distinguished Service 

 Certificates issued for outstanding professional 

 accomplishments. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume : 59, $10. free to members. Forum of 

 Osteopathy, monthly, current volume : 34, free 

 to members. Health, monthly, current volume : 

 5, $1.25. Editor: Raymond P. Keesecker. 



Library: 3,500 volumes on osteopathy and 

 medicine. 



247. American Osteopathic College of An- 

 esthesiologists. P.O. Box 155, Kirksville, Mo. 

 President: John S. Stratton, 315-B South 

 Mission Drive, San Gabriel, Calif. Term 

 expires October 1960. Secretary-Treasurer : 

 Crawford M. Esterline. Term expires Octo- 

 ber 1960. 



History: Founded as American Osteopathic 

 Society of Anesthesiologists, Detroit, Mich., 

 1949 ; incorporated 1952 as American Osteo- 

 pathic College of Anesthesiologists. 



Purpose: To advance the standards of prac- 

 tice and service in the specialty of anesthesi- 

 ology ; to aid in providing opportunities for study 

 and training in the art and science of anesthesi- 

 ology ; to promote the osteopathic concept of 

 disease as related to anesthesiology ; to main- 

 tain and promote the highest moral and ethical 

 standards in the practice of anesthesiology ; to 

 establish standards for membership ; to recognize 

 outstanding accomplishment in the field of 

 anesthesiology or outstanding service to this 

 organization on the part of any member by con- 

 ferring upon him the degree "Fellow in the 

 American Osteopathic College of Anesthesi- 

 ologists." 



