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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 22
JUNE 9, 1972
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Six Academic Promotions Announced
University Provost Frederick N.
Cleaveland has announced six faculty
pronfiotions at the Medical Center. The
academic changes came in the
Departments of Medicine, Community
Health Sciences, Radiology and
Psychiatry.
Two faculty members rose to associate
professors in the Department of
Medicine. They are Dr. Jerome Feldman
and Dr. C. Craig Tisher.
Dr. Feldman, a 1961 graduate of
Northwestern University Medical School,
in Chicago, received his postdoctoral
training at Michael Reese Hospital and
Medical Center in Chicago. He came to
Duke in 1967 as a research fellow in
endocrincology and was named associate
in medicine in 1968 and assistant
professor in 1970.
He is presently director of the Duke
Diabetes Clinic and chief of the endocrine
service at the Durham VA Hospital.
Dr. Tisher received his M.D. degree
and postgraduate training at Washington
University School of Medicine and Barnes
Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. In 1969 he was
appointed assistant professor of medicine
and pathology at Duke. He retains the
latter title.
New assistant professors are Drs.
Marjorie A. Boeck, Gale B. Hill, Gail R.
Marsh, and Byron D. McLees.
Dr. Boeck, formerly an associate in
community health sciences, was
promoted to assistant professor in the
department. She earned a doctorate in
education psychology at the University of
Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1970 and
came to Duke the following year. She is
also assistant to the director of education,
research and development at Duke.
Dr. Hill was promoted from an
Calling All
Un-Conventioneers
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associate in radiology to assistant
professor in the department. She is also a
research associate in microbiology and
immunology. She earned a Ph.D. in
microbiology at Duke in 1966.
Dr. Marsh, named assistant professor
of medical psychology in the Department
of Psychiatry, earned a master's degree in
psychology at Brigham Young University
in 1962 and a doctorate in physiological
psychology at the University of Iowa in
1968. The following year he was
appointed associate in medical
psychology at Duke.
Dr. McLees, promoted in the
Department of Medicine, received a Ph.D.i
in physiological chemistry at Johns
Hopkins University in 1964. He then
came to Duke for his medical degree,
internship and residency. He was named
an associate in medicine at Duke in 1967
and chief medical resident in 1971.
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NEl/y zl/?CW/r£Cr—Larry D. Nelson has joined the Hospital staff as the first
Medical Center Architect. He is working under Louis E. Swanson, director of the
Planning Office. In his new position Mr. Nelson is designing CR3, clinical cancer
research facility, for funding purposes. He will also be involved in the planning of
hospital expansion and all other projects related to the development of the Medical
Center. Mr. Nelson received his B.S. degree in architecture at Idaho State University
and is presently a member of the American Institute of Architects. For the past three
years he has worked at the firm of Vosbeck, Vosbeck, Kendrick,
Redinger-Architecture, Engineering and Planning in Alexandria, Va., in the positions
of office manager and project architect. During this time he was involved in the
planning of Culpeper Medical Center, Petersburg General Hospital and Thomas
Jefferson Junior High and Community Center. The latter project was named one of
the top six designed schools by the American Association of School Administrators.
(photo by Lewis Parrish)