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to bring to public record the facts and the truth about the activities 

 of the Council for Tobacco Research. 



By way of personal introduction, I am a native of Kentucky. I 

 had my undergraduate education at the University of Rochester. I 

 received my medical degree from Duke University. I have post- 

 graduate training in general surgery at Harvard in the Peter Bent 

 Brigham Hospital. I subsequently had neurologic training at Duke 

 University after completing a tour as a flight surgeon during the 

 Korean War. 



I served on the faculty at Yale University, Bowman Gray Univer- 

 sity, and for 18 years I was chairman of the Urology Department 

 at Duke University Medical Center. I then served as dean of the 

 medical school at Emory University in Atlanta and then as presi- 

 dent of Mount Sinai Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital and 

 Mount Sinai Medical School in New York. 



For the past 7 years, I have been associated with the Council for 

 Tobacco Research, also serving simultaneously on the faculty of the 

 University of Kentucky, first in the capacity of director of the Lu- 

 cille P. Markey Cancer Center at that institution, and currently as 

 chief of staff of the University Hospital and dean for Clinical Af- 

 fairs. 



My curriculum vitae and bibliography are available to you and 

 I will be happy to answer any questions about that, but I thought 

 I would not belabor that. 



I am, of course, certified by the American Board of Urology. I am 

 a member of some 35 professional organizations. I am currently 

 president of the International Society of Urology, and I have served 

 as president of the Southeastern Section of Urology, the American 

 Association of Genitourinary Surgeons, president of the Clinical So- 

 ciety of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, president of the Society for Pedi- 

 atric Urology, president of the Society of Pelvic Surgeons, and other 

 associations. 



I have authored one of the best selling textbooks in urology and 

 I have some 270 publications in my bibliography, which is before 

 you. 



I joined the Council for Tobacco Research in 1987 at their invita- 

 tion first as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board then as 

 their assistant scientific director, subsequently as scientific direc- 

 tor, and I am currently chairman, president, and CEO of the orga- 

 nization. 



There has been recently a great deal of negative press about the 

 Council for Tobacco Research. We have been accused of being a 

 public relations ploy for the tobacco industry. We have not re- 

 sponded to many of these inaccuracies in the press because we 

 didn't want to appear as a public relations arm. 



It has been said that we have concealed research from the public 

 and provided misinformation about tobacco use and disease. Quite 

 the contrary. 



Indeed, I reject both of those implications. As this hearing pro- 

 gresses, I hope to demonstrate to you that the activities of the CTR 

 have been open and aboveboard at every turn. 



The Scientific Advisory Board does not consider whether research 

 results will be favorable or unfavorable to the tobacco industry. We 

 are scientists and we seek scientific truth. 



