Mr. Specter. And what is your profession, sir?
Dr. Shires. Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School.
Mr. Specter. And you are a medical doctor by profession, I assume?
Dr. Shires. Yes; M.D.
Mr. Specter. Would you outline briefly your educational background?
Dr. Shires. Undergraduate education at the University of Texas in Austin, Tex.; graduate medical education at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School in Dallas; internship, Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in Boston, Mass.; surgical residency—Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Tex.; two tours of active duty in the United States Navy, first as research investigator at the Naval Medical Research Institute, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.; second as Associate Surgeon, United States Naval Hospital Ship Haven—do you want staff positions?
Mr. Specter. Please, give me those, as well.
Dr. Shires. Subsequently, Clinical Instructor in Surgery, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, progressing through Assistant Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, Professor of Surgery, and Chairman of the Department of Surgery.
Mr. Specter. What was your year of graduation from college, Dr. Shires?
Dr. Shires. This was premedical, and at that time the war was on, so it was a premedical 3 years—it was 1944.