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Five hospital administration positions filled Four promotions and an apjxjintment on the administrative staff of the hospital have been announced by Administrative Director Richard H. Peck. Promoted to associate administrative director were Michael J. Schwartz and Kenneth E. Wheeler. David P. Hunter has been appointed associate administrative director. James A. Good and William O. Qohn) Robinette have been promoted to assistant administrative directors. Peck said that Schwartz will have administrative responsibility for Duke Hospital North when it opens next year and that until then he will be developing operational plans for the new hospital's opening. Schwartz will continue to be the hospital's administrative link with the Department of Radiology. A 1963 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, Schwartz earned a master's degree in hospital administration at Duke in 1971, when he was named unit administrator for pediatrics and obstetrics-gynecology. Since 1973 he has been an assistant administrative director. The 616-bed Duke North will contain about 60 per cent of the inpatient facilities when it and the present hospital begin operating as one hospital with two divisions in the spring of 1979. Operational planning responsibilities SCHWARTZ WHEELER previously were held - by S. Douglas Smith, who resigned to become regional director for Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, Tenn. Wheeler, an assistant administrative director since coming to Duke in late 1973, will continue to have administrative responsibilities for hospital laboratories. In addition. Peck said Wheeler will be responsible for developing a new Management Studies Office to provide staff data support for management audits, accreditation reviews, management engineering studies and program development. Wheeler earned a B.S. degree at Cornell in 1964 and a master's in business administration at the University of Chicago in 1966. Immediately prior to his appointment at Duke, he was assistant executive vice president of the McGaw Medical Center at Northwestern University in Chicago. Hunter, a former director of planning for the Durham County, Hospital Corporation, was associate director of the Duke Family Practice Residency prior to his current appointment. As an associate administrative di rector, Hunter will be the hospital's repre sentative in the medical center- wide planning program for use of • space in the present hospital that will be vacated upon activation of Duke Hospital North. Peck said Hunter also will be the hospital's administrative liaison with the departments of anesthesiology and respiratory therapy and Duke's facility in Carteret County, Sea Level Hospital. A graduate of Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., with a degree in economics and business administration. Hunter earned a master's in public health, with emphasis on medical and hospital ■ HUNTER administration, at the University of Pittsburgh. Good and Robinette were assistant administrators prior to their promotions to assistant director. Good, who will have primary administrative responsibility for psychiatry, obstetrics-gynecology and physical therapy, came to Duke as a unit administrator in the Medical Outpatient Clinics in 1973 and was promoted to assistant administrator last year. He received a B. A. degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1965. While serving eight years in the Army, Good earned a master's in health administration at Baylor University in 1970. Robinette came to Duke in 1974 as an operations analyst for medical center administration. In August 1976 he was appointed assistant administrator for the general and special medical units. A graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1970, Robinette received a master's in hospital administration at the Medical College of Virginia in 1972. Before coming to Duke, he was management analyst at McGuire VA Hosital in Richmond. Professional news Dr. Jeffrey J. Collins, assistant professor of surgery and microbiology and immunology, will present a poster session at a Symposium on Persistent Viruses, March 12-17 in Keystone, Col. Collins is one of the authors of four papers currently in press. Two deal with "Immunological Control of the Ascites Form of Murine Adenocarcinoma 755." The others are entitled “Immunotherapy of Murine Leukemia" and "Normal Chicken Cells (chf-) Express a Surface Antigen which Cross-Reacts with Determinants of the Major Envelope Glycoprotein (gp85) of Avian Myeloblastosis Virus." Collins also was one of the writers of "The Specificity and Distribution of the Determinants of the Major Glycoprotein (gp7l) of Murine Oncornaviruses as Detected by an In Vitro Cytotoxicity Assay" which appeared in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute 59:99-106, 1977. Others who contributed to one or more of the above papers include Dr. Dani P. Bolognesi, professor of general and thoracic surgery; Dr. Samuel A. Wells Jr., professor of general and thoracic surgery and assistant professor of microbiology; and Dr. Richard S. Metzgar, professor of immunology; and R. C. Montelaro, research associate, A. J. Langlois, clinical assistant professor, and L. D. Bolio, all of the Division of General and Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Pauline Gratz, professor of human ecology in the School of Nursing, presented a paper entitled "Structuring Attitudinal Changes toward Ethical and Moral Issues in Human Genetics through PSI" at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The group met in Washington Feb. 12-17. Gratz, who has been listed in Who's Who in America 1978-79, will present a paper and workshop on "Integrated Science in Health Sciences" at the International Meeting on Integrated Science March 28-April 7 in Nijmegan, Netherlands. She also will attend a meeting of the National Science Teachers Association in Washington April 7-11 where she will present a paper on "Use of the Physiotape in Place of Animal Laboratories in Courses in Physiology" (see Intercom, 12/16/77), (Continued on page 4) GOOD ROBINETTE Landmark town meeting called "A Town Meeting," a lecture- commentary series on value issues in landmark preservation, will be offered by the Office of Continuing Education beginning Tuesday. The first topic in the series of four will be "Why Preserve Landmarks? A Philosophical Exploration." The program will be held in Room 210, Bivins Building, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Subsequent topics scheduled are "Who Foots the Bill? Economic Issues in Landmark Preservation," March 21; "Landmarks and City Center Revitalization: Aesthetic and Pohtical Aspects," March 28; and "Values in Conflict: Social and Cultural Aspects of Landmark Designation and Preserva tion," April 4. There is no fee for participation in ■the series, but registration is requested. Registration can be completed by calling 684-6259 or sending a note to 107 Bivins Building, East Campus. On tour today Twenty-three eighth graders from the career exploration service class of Shepard Junior High School are touring the medical center today The students are accompanied by their teacher, Leola Alston. TOUR GUIDE—Carole Miner Oeft), a Trinity College sophomore, is helping conduct tours of the medical center this semester. Here she and a group of high school health careers students get a firsthand demonstration of the therapeutic qualities of warm paraffin in the Department of Physical Therapy. The weekly tours are scheduled by the Office of Public Relations. A native of Roslyn Heights, N.Y., Miner is majoring in economics and psychology. Last summer she worked as a student law assistant in the Queens County (N.Y.).district attorney's office and was active in the mayoral campaign there. In addition to her volunteer work with the medical center tour program, she is a volunteer at John Umstead Hospital in Butner. (Pholo by Parker Htrring)
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