Today - Volume 02, Number 04

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Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Adventist Health System / Loma Linda row
February 22, 1989 Volume 2, Number 4
French scientist Etienne- Emile Baulieu ( right) chats with Elmar
Sakala, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the
School of Medicine and chief of obstetrics, LLUMC ( left), and
Gerald Winslow, PhD, professor of ethics, School of Religion.
French discoverer of RU486
presents ethics colloquium at LLU
Approximately 20 LLU facul
ty and others recently met with
French scientist Etienne- Emile
Baulieu, originator of the drug,
RU486, which has many medical
_ uses. Its mu& t controversial use is
abortion, which it causes by
preventing implantation in the
uterus or by causing the im
planted embryo to be expelled.
Before coming to Loma Linda,
Dr. Baulieu attended meetings at
the University of California, San
Diego, where the RU486 drug is
under investigation. It has not yet
been approved by the PDA as a
prescription drug. It has,
however, been approved by the
French government for use by
gynecologists in France.
Brian Bull, MD, chairman of
the Ethics Center board, and pro
fessor and chairman of the
department of pathology, LLU
School of Medicine, arranged for
the Loma Linda meeting. In at
tendance were participants in the
Clinical Intensive in Biomedical
Ethics program sponsored by the
LLU Ethics Center, as well as
faculty from the Schools of
Medicine and Religion.
In France, the drug is used to
abort pregnancies up to seven
weeks of gestation, although it is
an effective abortive drug at any
time during pregnancy. More
than 10,000 French Wv_> iucn iiov^
been treated with the RU486,
reports Dr. Baulieu, who made
the discovery while working on
the topic of progesterone recep
tors. Dr. Baulieu is a member of
the Institute de France, Science
Academy, the most prestigious
scientific organization in France.
Dr. Baulieu coined the phrase
" contragestion" to describe the
unique action of the drug which
effects a chemical, rather than a
mechanical, or surgical, abortion.
Dr. Baulieu believes RU486
may be the best way to evacuate
the uterus if fetal demise has
taken place. The drug acts by
stimulating uterine contractions
and by making the uterine lining
inhospitable to an embryo.
Elmer Sakala, MD, assistant
professor of obstetrics and
gynecology, School of Medicine,
and chief of obstetrics, LLUMC,
was one of the LLU physicians
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SAMPLING WHAT'S INSIDE
Proton accelerator achieves full energy tests ........ 3
Polish oncologist visits LLUMC ................. 3
Math / Science Expo ' 89 ...................... 5
John T. Hamilton Endowed Scholarship Fund ...... 6
Dr. Kuzma receives APHA award ............... 7
World Museum of Natural History .............. 8
National Children's Dental Health Month ......... 9
Code Red taping ........................... 10
Student Access Microcomputing Center opens ..... 10
Alumni conventions ......................... 11
Faculty notes .............................. 12
Trustees vote not to consolidate
La Sierra and Loma Linda campuses
The Loma Linda University
Board of Trustees, meeting in an
all day session on Monday,
February 13, voted to discontinue
plans to unify the La Sierra cam
pus on the Loma Linda campus.
By a 23 to 1 count, the
Trustees voted to " terminate con-
The Loma Linda University and Loma Linda University Medical
Center Board of Trustees held a banquet on Monday, February
13, honoring retiring trustees chairman Wallace O. Coe. Pastor
Coe, a native of New York, has served as chairman of the
University and Medical Center Boards for the past four years.
Pastor Coe began church service in 1946 in the Georgia-
Cumberland Conference of Seventh- day Adventists. In suc
ceeding years, he served as president of several conferences and
unions including the Alabama- Mississippi and Florida con-ferences;
and the Northern, Central, and Columbia Union con
ferences. During his years of service to the Seventh- day Adven
tist church, Pastor Coe has served on 19 hospital boards, four
college boards, and two university boards. Pastor Coe and his
wife, Hazel, have two children and six grandchildren.
sideration of consolidation as a
viable option for Loma Linda
University."
In a separate 22 to 6 vote, the
Trustees voted to " establish a
group representing the General
Conference of Seventh- day
Adventists, the Seventh- day
Adventist Board of Higher
Education, the faculties of the af
fected schools, the University ad
ministration, and the Pacific
Union Conference to consider
the possibility of operating a
viable ' single university' on two
campuses and also the option of
fered by the Pacific Union Con
ference for a separate corporation
for ownership, operation, and
control of the La Sierra campus."
This vote concludes two years
of planning and discussion on
unifying the two campuses at
Loma Linda. Proposed in 1986
and approved by the Trustees,
the unification plan would have
consolidated La Sierra campus
programs at Loma Linda by the
mid- 1990s.
After reviewing " all relative in
formation," the University Trus
tees " determined that it does not
now have available sufficient
financial and land use informa
tion" to make unification a viable
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Dr. Andreasen named new Religion dean
The Loma Linda University
Board of Trustees named Niels-
Erik A. Andreasen, PhD, as the
new dean of the School of
Religion effective September 1,
1989.
Dr. Andreasen replaces Ken
neth Vine, PhD, dean of the
School of Religion, who is
retiring.
A native of Denmark, Dr. An
dreasen lived in Denmark until
age 19, studied in England for
three years and immigrated to the
United States in 1963.
Dr. Andreasen received his
bachelor of arts degree in religion
and history from Newbold Col
lege in England in 1963; his
master degree in Biblical studies
from Andrews University, Ber-rien
Springs, Michigan, in 1965;
a bachelor of divinity degree from
Andrews University in 1966; and
and a doctor of philosophy degree
in religious studies from Vander-bilt
University, Nashville, Ten
nessee, in 1971.
He began his teaching career in
Dr. and " Mrs. Niels- Erik A. Andreasen
1970 at Pacific Union College,
Angwin, as an assistant, and
later, or associate professor of
religion.
In 1977, Dr. Andreasen join
ed Loma Linda University's
religion staff as professor of Old
Testament and associate dean of
the School of Religion.
Dr. Andreasen has served as a
visiting lecturer at several
overseas institutions including
Central American Union Col
lege, Costa Rica; Hong Kong
Adventist College, Hong Kong;
Antillian College, Puerto Rico;
Newbold College, England; Him-merlandsgaarden,
Denmark; Sem-inaire
Adventiste du Saleve,
France; Theologische Seminar
Marienhoehe, Germany; and
Longbum College, New Zealand.
In addition to having authored
three books The Old Testament
Sabbath, Rest and Redemption, and
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