New Members for the School of Medicine: A Leading Woman Doctor Two members of the staff of the School of Medicine connected with the Shantung Christian University, Dr. H. W. S. Wright,.™.s. (conn), F.R.C.S. (ENG), and Mrs. Wright M.B., B.S, (LAND), arrived in Shanghai on the str. Kitano Maru on Wednesday, accompanying Dr. Harold Balme, the newly appointed President of the University, who has just returned from furlough.
In addition to considerable work during the war, Dr. Wright has held several surgical posts in London since qualification, whilst Mrs. Wright has filled appointments of great importance at Westminster Hospital, the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, Hampstead Hospital, ote., ete., and has had large experience in Welfare Centres and gynecological practice. She had the distinction of being the only woman surgeon on the staff of the Bethnal Green (East London) Military Hospital during the war, and is the first woman doctor to receive an appointment in the Tsinan School of Medicine. She will be in charge of the Dejirtment of Gyne-oology in the School of Medicine, whilst her husband will be a valuable addition to the surgical staff, and will have special charge of the Urological Department.
Another new member of the Medical School staff who has recently been appointed by the British Joint. Board of the University is Dr. Titterton Maitland. whose career at St. Bartholomew's Hospital has been a_ particularly brilliant one. In addition to passing the London r.sc_with honours and graduating in Medicine and Surgery at the samp University. Dr. Maitland has recently gained the gold medal at the London School of Tropical Medicine, where he now holds a special appointment. He expects to arrive in China within a few months in order to organize the Department of Preventive Medicine in_ the School of Medicine, Tsinan. He will be the eighteenth whole-time member of the teaching staff, eleven of that number being British.
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