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Comrades in Science? US-USSR Exchanges in Health and Medicine

Dr. Ronald Evens and Dr. V.L. Willman with five Soviet heart disease researchers and their interpreters.

Item

Title
Dr. Ronald Evens and Dr. V.L. Willman with five Soviet heart disease researchers and their interpreters.
Date
1974
Description
Five Soviet heart disease researchers visited the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology on November 4, 1974. The scientists were guests of Saint Louis University Medical Center as part of a U.S.-U.S.S.R. cooperative project on evaluating and treating ischemic heart disease. Pictured in this image from an issue of Focal Spot (Winter 1974) are, from left: Alex Rudzianko, interpreter; Dr. Joseph K. Rabkin; Dr. Zoya Z. Dorofeyeva; Dr. Ludmilla S. Matveyeva; Dr. Willman, chair of the Department of Surgery at Saint Louis University School of Medicine; Dr. Evens, director of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology; Dr. Igor K. Shkhvatsabaya, director of the Myasnikov Institute of Cardiology; Dr. Tamara Y. Sidelnikova; and Tamara Holmes, interpreter.
Identifier
RG033-S01-ss01-i011
Rights Holder
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Source
“Russian Scientists,” Focal Spot 4, no. 11 (Winter 1974): 18, https://beckerarchives.wustl.edu/RG033-S01-ss01-i011#.