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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 36
SEPTEMBER 26,1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROUNA
Four Administrative Promotions Announced
WINFREE
LAVnELD
Four administrative promotions
have been announced at the hospital.
Robert G. Winfree, former
assistant administrative director of
the hospital, has been named acting
assistant vice president for health
affairs.
James G. Carter, former
administrator of Highland Hospital,
Duke’s 134-bed psychiatric facility in
Asheville, has been appointed
assistant administrative director here.
Michael Layfield, former business
manager of the Division of Nuclear
Medicine, is the hospital’s new
assistant administrator for patient
services.
And William G. Slebos, who was a
wage and salary analyst here before
his promotion, has been named to
succeed Layfield as business manager
of nuclear medicine, a branch of the
Department of Radiology.
Winfree, who assumed his previous
position in April of 1972 and has
served on the hospital’s
administrative staff since 1971, will
take over the duties of assistant vice
president Dr. Jane Elchlepp while
Dr. Elchlepp is on a six-month
sabbatical leave.
As acting assistant vice president,
the 1971 University of Iowa master’s
degree recipient in hospital and
health administration will have
responsibility for medical center
space management and planning
activities related to Duke’s ongoing
hospital modernization and
expansion program. In addition, he
will continue his work on the
computer patient information
system, legal affairs, hospital
accreditation, utilization review and
medical audit.
Born in Buenos Aries, Argentina,
to U.S. Foreign Service parents,
Winfree earned his B.A. degree in
economics from Gettysburg College
in Pennsylvania in 1965 and spent
four years in the U.S. Air Force
Medical Service Corps in numerous
hospital administration positions.
Carter will serve as administrator
for the eight hospital wards which
make up the medical and medical
specialty units, the Pharmacy
Department, Physical Therapy, the
Blood Bank, patient equipment and
the Department of Anesthesiology.
He had been administrator at
Highland Hospital since 1970,
transferring there from a job at Duke
as unit administrator for the
Department of Obstetrics-
Gynecology and related services.
Prior to his appointment here in
1969, he was director of King’s
Business College in Raleigh.
Carter is a 1950 graduate of Morris
Harvey College in Charleston, W.Va.
He completed Duke’s Health
Administrators Management
Improvement Program (HAMIP) in
1971 and he is currently working
toward a master of public health
degree at the University of North
Carolina.
Layfield will have responsibility for
the hospital’s General Surgical Unit,
departmental laboratories and the
Discharge Unit. He is a 1971
graduate in management of
Columbus (Ga.) College and a 1975
graduate of HAMIP.
Before being named business
manager of Nuclear Medicine in
1973, he was an internal auditor at
Duke. Layfield is currendy president
of the Raleigh-Durham chapter of
the Institute of Internal Auditors.
Slebos worked as employment
representative and wage and salary
analyst with the Personnel
Department of the medical center
before joining nuclear medicine.
Prior to that, he sf>ent four years,
from I97I to 1974, as a teacher in
Nashville, N.C. and several years as
branch manager of the Wachovia
Bank and Trust Co. in Durham and
as a personnel analyst at Duke.
CARTER
SLEBOS
Moylan Tapped as Trauma Director
Duke Hospital, which treats nearly
40,000 emergency cases a year, has
brought in a specialist in trauma
(injury) who will direct an expanded,
comprehensive emergency treatment
program.
He is Dr. Joseph A. Moylan Jr.,
who was director of the Emergency
Medical Service Program at the
University of Wisconsin Center for
Health Sciences before his
appointment here this month.
Moylan also was co-director of the
Center for Trauma and Life Support
DR. JOSEPH A. MOYLAN, JR.
there and was chief of the University
of Wisconsin Burn Unit.
His appointment was announced
by Dr. David C. Sabiston, chairman of
the Department of Surgery.
“Over the past several years,”
Sabiston said, “the field of surgical
trauma has evolved as a definite
entity. Specialists in trauma have
begun to appear, and Dr. Moylan is a
nationally recognized leader in that
field.”
Moylan will be surgeon-in-charge
of the Emergency Department and
director of the new Surgical Trauma
Program in the Department of
Dr. Thomas D. Kinney was
honored at a Chicago banquet
Wednesday night by the American
Society of Clinical Pathologists and
the College of American Pathologists.
He received the ASCP-CAP
Distinguished Service Award for
outstanding contributions to
American pathology.
Kinney is R. J. Reynolds Professor
of Patholog)-, chairman-emeritus of
the Department of Pathology and
former director of medical and allied
health education. '
Surgery. He is an associate professor
of surgery.
Sabiston said that Moylan will head
a Trauma Unit which will be
established within the hospital and
will contain special equipment for the
treatment and monitoring of injured
patients on a moment-to-moment
basis, similar to Duke’s cardiac care
and acute care units.
Moylan, a 37-year-old native of
Hartford, Conn., describes trauma as
“an act of physical violence
producing an injury to the body. It’s
the fourth major cause of death in the
United States and the leading cause
He was cited as a man “who has
attained national recognition as an
experimental pathologist, medical
educator and medical editor.” He has
been editor-in-chief since 1967 of the
American Journal of Pathology and he
was the first editor of Laboratory
Investigation.
A news release from the joint
organizations notfd that:
“Under his di*'ection from
1960-75, the DuK? pathology
department attained .m international
reputation for the (luality of its
of death between the ages of 4 and
40.”
Because of the age group affected,
Moylan said, “trauma afflicts the most
productive part of our population.”
Treatment of trauma is not just
something that takes place in an
emergency room, the new director
said.
“It’s obvious,” he stressed, “that the
care of people in trauma must begin
prior to their coming to the hospital
— at the scene of the accident or
injury and while en route.”
Over the next several months
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research, its teaching and its
graduates, many of whom are now
making reputations for themselves in
medical schools and hospital
laboratories throughout the country.
“Under his administration (as
director of medical and allied health
education, from 1969-74), the Duke
medical school’s new and innovative
curriculum became firmly established
and a new Division of Allied Health
Education was created ”
The ASCP-CAP noted that Kinney
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Kinney Honored By Pathology Group
Receives Distinguished Service Award