APPLES FOR THE TEACHERS—This year’s Golden Apple Award winners, (1-r) Dr. Samuel Katz, Henderson and Allan Crimm. Henderson received her M.D. last weekend. Crimm is a rising
Dr. Peter Burger and Dr. Ralph Corey, receive their awards and congratulations from Joan fourth-year medical student and president of the Davison Society, IPhotos by john Beclor.l
Med students give apples to three teachers
By John Becton
Students in the School of Medicine
have selected this year's "Golden Apple
Award" winners.
They are Dr. Samuel L. Katz, professor
and chairman of pediatrics; Dr. Peter C.
Burger, assistant professor of pathology;
and Dr. Ralph Corey, chief resident in
internal medicine.
The three were selected to receive
Golden Apples in the clinical sciences,
basic sciences and house staff categories,
respectively.
The awards were announced and
presented at the annual Medical Student-
Faculty Show April 22.
Katz
' Katz came to Duke in 1968 as professor
a*nd chairman of the Department of
Pediatrics. He was on the faculty of the
Harvard Medical School prior to his
appointment here.
Katz graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1949, and earned his M.D. at
Harvard in 1952.
He was named Wilburt C. Davison
professor of pediatrics at Duke in 1972.
During the past year, Katz has served as
president of the Association of Medical
School Pediatric Chairmen, an
organization which includes chairmen
from 130 universities in the United States
and Canada.
Burger
Burger completed a rotating internship
at Los Angeles County General Hospital,
1966-67, and came to Duke as a resident
in pathology in 1969 following two years'
active duty in the U.S. Air Force.
He served as a fellow in
neuropathology prior to appointment to
the Duke faculty in 1973.
Burger was awarded a bachelor's
degree from Oberlin College in 1962 and
an M.D. from Northwestern University
Medical School in 1966.
Corey
Corey is a 1969 graduate of Duke and
received his M.D. from Baylor College of
Medicine in 1973.
He returned to Duke for internship and
residency in medicine in 1974.
Corey is a member of Alpha Omega
Alpha, medical honorary society, and .has
been a chief resident in his department
during the past year.
Additional nominations
Other nominees in the clinical sciences
category were Dr. Harvey J. Cohen,
associate professor of medicine; Dr.
Important studies examine fetal development
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A Duke scientist has received a
$344,500 grant from the National
Institutes of Health (N.I.H.) to continue
his studies of a hormone believed to be
important in regulating the growth of
infants before birth.
The four-year grant renewal was
awarded to Dr. Stuart Handwerger,
associate professor of pediatrics.
Handwerger and his colleagues, Drs.
Lee Tyrey and M. Carlyle Crenshaw, will
be investigating the effects of placental
lactogen, a hormone produced by the
placenta, on fetal growth and
metabolism. They also will try to
determine factors that control the
synthesis and secretion of placental
lactogen. •
Crenshaw and Tyrey are professor and
associate professor, respectively, of
obstetrics and gynecology.
'These studies are important because
there are disease conditions that result in
rowth failure in the uterus," Handwerger
said. "If we could understand better the
mechanisms of development in the fetus
during normal pregnancy, this could have
significant implications for understand
ing what goes wrong in certain abnormal
pregnancies."
Low levels of the hormone in humans
during preganancy have been linked to
brain damage or death in unborn children
and growth problems in infants who
survive birth, he said.
The scientist said experiments
involving actual pregnancies will be
conducted on sheep because the animals,
like humans, have been shown to produce
placental lactogen. Blood samples
containing the hormone can be taken
safely from a sheep fetus by means of a
catheter during the latter half of the
mother's gestation period.
The researchers also will culture
human placental tissue after birth, he
said. Various hormones and other
compounds will be added to the cultures
to determine if the rateat which placental
lactogen is produced can be increased.
Handwerger, who is also an assistant
professor of physiology, has held an
N.I.H. Research Career Development
Award for the past three years. The
National Foundation March of Dimes has
provided additional grant support for his
research over the last five years.
Edward W. Holmes, associate professor
of medicine; Dr. Rayford Scott Jones,
professor of surgery; and Dr. Stephen C.
Osofsky, assistant professor of
pediatrics.
Those nominated from the basic
sciences included Dr. Wolfgang K. Joklik,
professor and chairman of microbiology
and immunology; Dr. Philip A. McHale,
assistant medical research professor of
physiology; Dr. Saul M. Schanberg,
professor of pharmacology; and Dr.
Timothy L. Strickler, assistant professor
of anatomy.
House staff nominees, in addition to
Corey, were Dr. Paul Klotman, medicine;
Dr. Lewis Rubin, medicine; and Dr. Paul
Zarutskie, obstetrics and gynecology.
Selection process
In selecting recipients of the Golden
Apple Awards, all medical students are
given the opportunity to suggest five
teachers from each category.
Those named the most in each group
become the nominees, and each student
may then vote for her or his first choice in
each of the three categories.
This is the 15th year for the awards.
Winners receive individual plaques from
the Davison Society, Duke's medical
student government organization, and
have their names inscribed on a
permanent plaque in the School of
Medicine.
Get your ticket to the stars
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Tickets for the Children's Classic,
celebrity golf invitational, to be held
May 27-28, may be purchased in the
Department of Pediatrics Office, 228
Baker House (brown zone, second
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floor), from Edith Rosenblatt in the
Pediatrics Unit Administration Office
on Howland Ward (yellow zone, first
floor) or in the Wachovia Bank (purple
zone, first floor).
Adult tickets cost $3 for one day or
$5 for both days. Children's tickets,
good either day, cost $1.
Stars such as David Hartman, Jack
Albertson, Perry Como, Chet Atkins,
Mickey Rooney and Whitey Ford will
join this year's celebrity field, the
largest in the history of the event.
Proceeds from the tournament goto
help Duke heal children.
NIH GRANT RENEWED—Dr. Stuart Handwerger, shown herewith Dr. Joyce Wise, has received
a $344,500 grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health to continue his studies of a
hormone believed to be important in regulating the growth of infants before birth. IPholo hy John
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