PROFESSIONAL NEWS
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ru.vv Books
Dr. Jay M. Arena, pro
fessor of pediatrics, is a
primary contributor to two
new books.
He edited the ninth e-
dition of Davison's Com
p/eat Pediatrician and co
authored Human Poison
ing from Native and Culti
vated Plants with North
Carolina State University's
Dr. James W. Hardin.
Several other Duke fa
culty members contributed
to the Davison text, which
was first published by Dr.
Wilburt C. Davison, Duke's
■first medical dean.
At Meeting
Dr. Will C. Sealy, professor and chief
of thoracic surgery, attended the Society
Df Thoracic Surgeons meeting in Atlanta,
Georgia, January 11-14. He is the current
president of the society.
Co-editors
Dr. Ewald W. BUsse, chairman of the
Department of Psychiatry, and Dr. Eric
Pfeiffer, associate professor of psychiatry,
have co-ed ited a book titled Behavior and
Adaptation in Late Life.
The work, published by Little Brown,
and Co., is written not only for pro-
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fessionals investigating aging but also for
the general reader who is interested in the
problems of growing old.
Several other Duke faculty members
contributed sections to the book.
Appointed
Dr. David L. Young, assistant professor
of medicine in the division of gastro
enterology, has been appointed an inves
tigator of the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute of Miami, Florida.
Dr. Young, whose appointment began
January 1 and will continue until January
of 1972, is researching the synthesis of
complex fats in the liver and their release
into the blood stream.
Gets Grant
Dr. Stanley H. Appel, chief of the
division of neurology, has been awarded
an $18,974 grant from the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society to study the
communication between cells. With this
grant, the society's support of Appel's
research enters its third year with grants
totaling $70,001.
At Meetings
Dr. Lenox D. Baker, professor of
orthopaedic, surgery, attended the execu
tive committee meeting at the American
Orthopaedic Association convention in
Chicago January 17.
Orthopaedic house staff members who
attended the AOA meeting and the annual
meeting of the American Society for
Surgery of the Hand included Drs. John
Dobson, Mark Frankel, Robert Mathews,
James Boatwright, Glen Barden, Hiroshi
Eguro, Peter Fowler, Wayne Venters, and
Stephen Lang.
Makes Visits
Dr. J. David Robertson, chairman of
the Department of Anatomy, went on
site visits to Purdue University December
12 and to Boston January 12-14.
Dr. Robertson also attended the cell
biology study section held in Washington,
D. C., January 15-17.
At Meeting
Dr. Ewald W. Busse, chairman of the
Department of Psychiatry, spoke to a
meeting of Duke alumni in Dallas on
January 16.
Gives Talks
Dr. David C. Sabiston, Jr., chairman of
the Department of Surgery, spoke before
the Brooklyn Surgical Society January 8
on "Pathophysiology, Complications, and
Management of Arteriovenous Fistulae."
On January 9, Dr. Sabiston was visiting
professor at Downstate Medical Center in
New York, which included speaking to
faculty and house staff, as well as partici
pating in patient rounds.
Dr. Sabiston traveled to the University
of California School of Medicine in San
Diego January 15 to serve as visiting
professor, speaking with both faculty and
house staff. He also attended the South
ern California chapter of the American
College of Surgeons meeting in San Diego
to present two papers and participate in a
symposium on thromboembolism. In
addition, he served as a panelist and
moderator of several discussion periods.
In Chicago
Dr. James F. Glenn, chief of the
division of urology, traveled to Chicago
recently to participate in a meeting of
the Vietnam Medical School Project.
Visiting Professor
Dr. Eugene Stead, Florence McAlister
professor of medicine, was guest lecturer
at the Medical School of the University of
Colorado January 14. He participated in
a program on "Granulomatous Disease:
Patient with Disseminated Atypical Myco
bacterial Infection."
Elected
Dr. William P. Wilson, professor of
psychiatry, was elected chairman of the
Section on Neurology and Psychiatry at
the meeting of the Southern Medical
Society in Birmingham, Alabama, re
cently.
Re-appointed
Dr. Thomas D. Kinney, director of
medical education, has been reappointed
to the committee on Transfusion and
Transplantation of the American Medical
Association.
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