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For the first time since 1938 the National Academy of Sciences held its autumn meeting in the Southeast. Held in Durham, the meeting attracted several hundred scientists and other interested persons. Tour symposia were scheduled on the following topics: Population Control, Low Temperature Phenomena, Future Directions in Polymer Chemistry, and Three-Dimensional Structure of Macromolecules of Biological Origin. Three of the distinguished speakers at the symposium on population con trol are shown above: (from left) Dr. M. C. Chang of the Worcester Founda tion for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts; Dr. Ansley J. Coale of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University; and Dr. Cristopher Tietze of the National Committee on Maternal Health in New York City. In addition, 57 contributed papers on various scientific subjects. They dealt with research in the fields of genetics, radiation, biochemistry, physics, chemistry, botany and mycology (the study of fungi). The academy, with its National Research Council, acts as adviser to the Federal Government on scientific and technological matters. Incorporated by an act of Congress in 1863, the academy now has about 700 members. Up to 42 new members are elected each year in recognition of distinguished contributions to scientific and technological research. In World War I, at the request of President Woodrow Wilson, the academy established and still maintains the National Research Council. ing patient care and teaching requirements in the clinics. Before coming to Duke, Mr. Siebel was in sales and real es tate investment counseling with Kutz Realty in Chapel Hill. He was also a community services consultant for Orange County for a period of time, and during 1963 was a special student at the University of North Carolina in the School of Business -Admin istration. After having served twenty- one and a half years in the army, Mr. Siebel retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1962. Two years ear lier he had completed his B.S. degree in military study at the European division of the Uni versity of Maryland in Heidel berg, Germany. Although born and raised in the West, in Colorado, Mr. Sie bel has lived off and on in North Carolina while in the service, and has been stationed several times at Fort Bragg. The Siebels live in Chapel Hill and have two daughters. PROFESSIONAL NEWS DR. BLAINE S. NASHOLD, associate professor of neurosurgery, reported in October to the International Congress of Eleetro- Enccphalography and Neurology in Budapest, Before coming to Duke, she was a counselor for Dr. Blaine Nashold the Family Service Society of San Diego, California. Also new on the stalf are: DR. DAVID R. ROWLANDS, formerly an assis tant professor with The Rockefeller University, who has been ap pointed associate professor of pathology; DR. DAVID L. YOUNG, formerly a U.S. Public Health Service research fellow at Yale University, who was named an assistant professor of medicine; and DR. JACK HALE PROST, an assistant professor of anat omy, who comes to Duke from the University of California. • DR. J. GRAHAM SMITH, profes sor of dermatology, has accepted an appointment by the National Academy of Sciences Research Council to join a group of experts in reviewing the claims for eifectiveness of drugs marketed Dr. Graham Smith in the United States between 1938 and 1962. Dr. Smith will be a member of a panel studying drugs used in derma tology. • Three U.S. Public Health Service grants totaling $97,274 have been received by Duke researchers DR. WALTER OBRIST, professor of medical psyehologj', DR. GORDON IQjINTWORTH, assistant professor of pathology, and DR. IRW'IN BRODY, assis tant professor of neurology. All of the grants are for the first year of three-year projects. Dr. Obrist will study a new technique to determine the amount of blood flowing through the brain. Dr. Klintworth’s study is in brainstem hemorrhages, one of the prin cipal causes of death in brain tumors, abscesses in the brain, and in some strokes. Dr. Brody’s work involves study of the mecha nism by which the muscles relax in an effort to determine the basic cause of certain diseases in which muscle does not relax normally. • At the 39th Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, held in New York in October, thirty-two members of the Duke Medical Center faculty and house staff presented papers. • DR. ARTHUR CHRISTAKOS, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecologj' and director of the In fertility Clinic, spoke at the third International Congress of Human Genetics in Chicago on “An Interesting Autosomal Abnormality in a Patient with Gonadal Dysgenesis.” • MR. CHARLES H. FRENZEL, administrative director of the medi cal center, was elected to the executive committee of the Council on Teaching Hospitals of the As sociation of American Medical Colleges at its an nual meeting in San Francisco in Octpber. He Mr. Charles Frenzel was also appointed chairman of the Government Relations Committee of the council at the same meeting. • DR. JOHN W. EVERETT, professor of anatomy, has been elected an alternate member of the Central Council of the International Brain Research Organization, representing the neuro endocrinology panel. • Some thirty members of the medical center staff were program partici pants in the 60th annual meeting of the South ern Medical Association, held in Washington in November. All presented papers at the scien tific sessions. DR. J. LEONARD GOLDNER, professor of orthopedic surgery, presided as chairman of the association’s executive council meeting. DR. LENOX D. BAKER, chief of the Division of Orthopedic Surgery, participated as Mr. Ray Brown (Continued on page 4) Clinic Gets New Business Manager The Medical Out-Patient Clin ics have a new business manager. He is Mr. Paul Siebel. Mr. Siebel is responsible for the business-oriented services of the medical clinics and works closely with technical and pro fessional personnel in coordinat- INTERCOM - 2
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