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Department of Psychiatry
University of Missouri-Columbia
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St. Louis, Missouri

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Sletten.

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I am replying in a formal manner to your letter of inquiry
regarding Jan Volarka, M. D. It is not clear for what position he is
being considered, but he is an excellent candidate for the position
of Director of the Institute.
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~College in the £311 of 1968.

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New York

neurolOgist, and electroencephalographer, with extensive research
and
experience. Within a short time, he established‘collaborative When
independent research projects in the areas of his competence.
I left the College, it use a pleasure to recommend him to assume
responsibility for the EEG programs of the Depehtment.

In addition to mastering the English and Spanish languages that are necessery for his work in New York City, he has become
fully‘sccredited in psychiatry by the American Boards and has become

licensed to practice in

New

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Dr. volevha is a keen researcher, well read and well
trained, capable of independent and collaborative research. He is
an excellent statistician, in addition to his training es s physi—
cian. He is well liked by his co~workers, is able to establish good
relations with patients, and an excellent teacher.
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we have published together. and in this relationship I
him critical, independent, and e perceptive student of
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have
the literature. I know his family, and while it is difficult fer
me to conceive that his wife would be willing to share the rigors
of St.Louis, she is an outstanding student and athlete, being a
world champion in tennis and skiing. He is personable, Joviel,

herd-working, sensitive, and enthusisstic.

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the Institute and I commend him to you for that posiof
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training and experience would serve to carry out the type
clinicel—electrophysiologic investigations_for which the Institute
has become known under the aegis of Turen Itil, George Ulett, and
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