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Professional New Appointments Announced News Appointments Dr. William P. Wilson, professor of psychiatry, is the 1972-73 secretary-treasurer of the 16-stage Southern Psychiatric Association, and Dr. Robert L. Green Jr., associate professor of psychiatry, is chairman of the organization's Future Sites Committee. Dr. Joseph B. Parker, professor of psychiatry, is the imnfiediate past president of the association. Elected Dr. Joseph A. C. Wadsworth, chairman of ophthalmology, is the new chairman of the American Board of Ophthalmology, which is the examining body for all physicians seeking certification in that specialty. A member of the 12-man board for the past eight years, he was vice chairman last year. Wadsworth also has been elected chairman of the Eye Section of the Southern Medical Association. Directs Course Dr. Kenneth S. McCarty, professor of biochemistry, was director of a three-week course in organ culture at the W. Alton JoneS Cell Science Center at Lake Placid, N.Y. He was later at the Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., during August as visiting investigator in the Virus Leukemia Laboratory where he conducted experiments on hormone induction of RNA transcription in mammary tumors. Appointed Thomas Meagher, staff physical therapist, has been appointed to the Durham Mayor's Committee on Ertiployment of th'e Handicapped. INTERCOM is published weekly for Duke University Medical Center employes, faculty, staff, students, and friends by the Medical Center Public Relations Office, Joe Sigler, director. Co-Editors DAVID WILLIAMSON MRS. DALE MOSES Public Relations Advisory Committee: Sam A. Agnello, director of the division of audiovisual education; James L. Bennett, Jr., executive assistant to the vice president for health affairs; C. C. Cobb, employe relations assistant in the Medical Center Personnel Office; Kenneth M. Holt, assistant director of the Hospital; and Julia Taylor, RN, head nurse on Strudwick Ward. One visiting associate professor and four assistant professors have been appointed to the staff at the medical center. Dr. Ruttger Averdunk of Repelen, Rheinland, has been appointed visiting associate professor of physiology. He is a member of the faculty at the University of Berlin. He received his doctor's degree in 1963 from the University of Heidelberg in Germany and has held several positions at institutes in both Canada and Germany. Dr. William Porter Cleaveland has been appointed assistant professor of community health sciences. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to his arrival at Duke, he completed his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wisconsin and assisted in planning a new first-year undergradute statistics course there. Dr. Laura Elizabeth Thurston Gutman of West Point, N.Y., is a newly, appointed assistant professor of pediatrics. She received her B.A. degree from Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., and M.D. from Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Prior to her arrival at Duke in 1971 as a fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, she was assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Daniel Howison Riddick has been named assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and assistant professor of physiology. He received his A.B., M.D., and Ph.D. degrees from Duke and served his residency in obstetrics and gynecology there. He was sent by Duke, as an assistant surgeon, to receive advanced training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Dr. Susan S. Schifman was named assistant professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry. She received her B.A. from Syracuse University and earned her Ph.D. from Duke in 1970. She came to Duke in 1965 and, while completing her Ph.D. degree, she worked with Dr. Robert Erickson, associate professor of psychology, on a study of the psychophysiology of taste. VISITORS FROM E/V6L-4/VD-Meeting here with Dr. Stuart M. Sessoms (right), director of the hospital, are Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McLachlin of London. McLachlin is secretary of Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trusts in London, which is comparable to some of the prominent philanthropic foundations in this country. The McLachlins spent three days at the medical center and at the Duke Endowment in Charlotte discussing the entire sweep of health care delivery.
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