School Of Medicine

Dr. Thomas Bourne Turner, dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died yesterday afternoon at his Bolton Hill home, where he had lived for nearly 60 years. He was 100. "He just took a nap and fell asleep," said his daughter Pattie Turner Walker of Ipswich, Mass. The medical school's dean from 1957 to 1968, he also studied infectious diseases, including polio. During World War II, he played a leading role in the Army's program to eradicate syphilis. During his stewardship, the size of the medical school's physical plant doubled, the annual operating budget increased 500 percent, the faculty nearly doubled, and biophysics, laboratory animal medicine and biomedical engineering departments were added.

IS THERE A biological basis for homosexuality? With gay marriage now supported by Massachusetts' highest court and homosexuality likely to be a hot issue in the presidential campaign, the question of whether sexual orientation is an innate or acquired trait is increasingly urgent. Since at least 1991, some scientific research has suggested that there is a biological basis to homosexuality - meaning sexual orientation is at least partly natural destiny, not a choice. But that point is open to debate, and our understanding is still fuzzy.

You've been in psychotherapy for awhile, and you're feeling better. Much better. Is it time to quit? The answer is based, in large part, on the type of treatment. "When to end therapy depends on context and diagnosis," says Dr. Gary Kennedy, director of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Certain types of treatment, such as cognitive behavior therapy, are designed to relieve disorders such as mild depression or anxiety in a short period, and the end is almost predetermined.

Dr. Worth Bagley Daniels Jr., a retired prominent internist and Baltimore philanthropist, died of congestive heart failure July 9 at his Roland Park home. He was 84. Dr. Daniels, the son of physician parents who both graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1924, was born in New York City and raised in Washington. He was the grandson of Josephus Daniels, publisher of the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer, who was secretary of the Navy during World War I. A 1942 graduate of St. Albans School in Washington, Dr. Daniels attended Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when I joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine, I was full of well-founded optimism.Medicine.

Dr. Charles Edwin Iliff Sr., an internationally renowned ophthalmologist who pioneered innovative operative procedures at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital, died Tuesday at Hilton Head (S.C.) Medical Center of heart failure.Dr. Iliff, 86, was professor emeritus of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a former resident of Arnold."His death is the passing of an era," said Dr. Robert Bond Welch of Annapolis, an ophthalmologist and friend for 53 years.

Services for Dr. G. Bowers Mansdorfer, a retired pediatrician who cared for four generations of Baltimore families, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the First English Lutheran Church, Charles and 39th streets.Dr. Mansdorfer, who lived and had an office on North Charles Street, died of heart failure Friday at his daughter's home in Timonium. He was 86.Born in Baltimore, he graduated from Gettysburg College in 1926 and was a 1930 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Surgeon joins staff at Md. Vascular Center Vascular surgeon Dr. Vasana Cheanvechai of Baltimore was joined the Maryland Vascular Center at North Arundel Hospital. A graduate of Princeton University, Cheanvechai received her medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. She completed a fellowships in vascular surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and Northwestern. Cheanvechai is an assistant professor of vascular surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is board certified in general surgery.

Dr. Christopher T. Morrow of Annapolis has been appointed chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Francis Scott Key Medical Center.Previously, he had served as the acting chairman of thedepartment.Originally from Virginia, he graduated from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania in 1974, and from the University of Virginia School ofMedicine in 1979.Before joining the medical center in 1984, Morrow completed a residency in emergency medicine at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine.

A memorial service for Dr. Richard H. Shepard, a noted Johns Hopkins physician and researcher, will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Wood Basic Science Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.Dr. Shepard was distinguished in the study of lungs and in biomedical computing. He is credited with introducing computers into the School of Medicine's curriculum in 1961.Dr. Shepard died in his home in Boulder, Colo., on Jan. 30. He was 69.