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New Program, New Department, and a ‘New Physician’ A program to help meet the need for well-trained physicians devoted to family and commu nity health is being launched by the medical center. A key step in the program is changing the Department of Preventive Medicine to the De partment of Community Health Sciences. “Our aim,” said Dean W. G. Anlyan, “ is to create a new phy sician—one who will bridge the gap between the exciting ad vances being made at the re search level of medical sciences and their application at the fam ily and community level.” Dr. E. Harvey Estes has been appointed chairman of the new department. Dr. Estes came to Duke as an assistant resident in medicine in 1953 and became a professor in 1961. From 1958 until 1963, he was chief of med ical service at the Veterans’ Ad ministration Hospital in Dur ham. Dr. Estes, who also is secrc- tary-treasurer of the Durham- Orange County Medical Society, played a major role in setting up the North Carolina Kegional Medical Program, now in the planning stages as j)art of the President’s war on lieart dis ease, cancer, stroke and related diseases. (See article on page 4.) E. Harvey Estes The goal of the new depart ment, which will have several divisions, is to teach physicians who will provide service in the fast-growing science of com munity health. “The department’s philoso phy is that the health of the individual should be treated in the context of the family and the community and in the inter ests of the future health of the human race,” Dean Anlyan said. Changing the title of the De partment of Preventive Medi cine was prompted by a trend which in recent years has seen preventive medicine place a new emphasis upon man and his en vironment in relation to health and disease. Preventive medi cine and public health extend back to the dawn of history, but since about 1940 concern for man’s health has been character ized by a closer look at the in dividual and his environment and by new methods of pre serving health and preventing disease. Because the health of the in dividual is a multi-disciplinary effort, the community health sci ences department will include joint appointments from other major clinical departments in addition to appointments from major university disciplines such as sociology and law. Named to head the various divisions were Dr. William J. A. Deilaria, family health; Dr. E. Croft Long, international health; and Dr. Siegfried Hey- den of Zurich, Switzerland, who joined the department as epi demiologist in October. The new biostatistics division will func tion under the supervision of both the Department of Bio mathematics and the Depart ment of Community Health Sci ences. Student health, with Dr. Richard Portwood as its new chief, also comes under the supervision of the new depart ment. “We will be concerned about community health abroad as well as here, ” Dr. Anylan said, point ing out that Duke already has several international projects underway. One of these is tied in with Duke University Medical Center’s affiliation with the Uni versity of San Carlos Medical School in Guatemala. ‘ ‘ Developing countries are still faced with problems of combating diseases which have yielded to modern health meth ods. Our new program is being shaped also with a view to help ing these nations,” said Dr. Anlyan. PROFESSIONAL NEWS MRS. IDA PARRISH and GENET HUTCHESON, physical ther apy staff members, have been elected to executive positions in the physical therapy section of the N. C. Public Health Assn. Mrs. Par rish is chairman of the section, and Miss Hutcheson is secretary. • DR. MAX WOODBURY, professor of bio-mathematics, has been ap])ointed an associate in the University Seminar on ilathematical Methods in the Social Sciences at Columbia Uni versity. Before joining the Duke staif in Janu ary, Dr. Woodbury was professor of experi mental neurology and head of the communica tion science section at New York University. Dr. Woodbury has also accepted an invitation by New York’s Mayor John Lindsay to join a newly formed Management Science Advisorj' Council to help the city solve some of its administrative problems. Serving with Dr. Woodburv on the Max Woodbury council are outstanding computer experts, teach ers of business administration and scientists from all over the country. • DR. JOSEPH E. MARKEE, James B. Duke Professor of Anatomy and former chairman of the Department of Anatomy, is presently on a year’s sabbatical leave to conduct a survey of audio visual practices in the teaching of medicine. Dr. Markee’s survey will take him to medical schools all over the United States and Western Europe. • The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has approved a five-year, $1 million grant to Duke Medical Center for a research-t raining program on be havioral processes and their effects on aging from the cradle to the grave. The grant is one of the largest ever given by the Institute. DR. CARL EISDORFER, director of training and research coordinator of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development in the Department of Psj’chiatry, will ser\-e as director of the new program in behavior and behavioral physiology in human development. • The School of Nursing has been awarded a federal grant of $23,442 M’hich will finance research and consulta tion for: (1) the reorganization of the current curriculum by changing the distribution of se mester hours to a more equitable one between the CarlEisdorfer liberal arts and professional courses; (2) the in troduction of broad-based professional courses; and (3) the selec tion of undergraduates to begin graduate study in their senior years. • Duke Unviersity Medical Center is one of six medical centers in the United States selected to conduct a pilot cooperative study of the results of surgery in congenital and acquired heart disease. The work will be done under the direction of DR. DAVID C. SABISTON, JR., professor of surgerj- and chairman of the department, with a two-year $150,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Co-investi gators in the Duke project are Dr. Richard G. Lester, profes.sor of radiology and chairman of the department; Dr. Henry D. McIntosh, profes sor of medicine; and Dr. Madison S. Spach, an associate professor of pediatrics. • DR. JAMIES F. GLENN, chief of the Division of Urologic Surgery, has been appointed to the National Acad emy of Sciences Research Council committee on David C. Sabiston genito-urinary system. The appointment is for one year. • DR. JOHN P. TINDALL has joined the staff in Dermatology as an associate. Dr. Tindall spent the past two years in the Air Force stationed in England, where he served as derma tology consultant. Surgeon General, USAFE. • A regional diag nostic and treatment laboratory for victims of a cancer peculiar to pregnant women—trophoblastic neoplasms—is to be established at Duke. The new center will be financed by a federal grant of $35,738. The grant, made to DR. ROY T. PARKER, professor (Continued on page 3) INTERCOM-2
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