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Hospitals divisions get nursing directors Directors of nursing services have been appointed for what will be known as the north division and the south division of Duke University Hospital when the new hospital opens next year. They are Mary Ann Peter, who will direct nursing in the north division, and Evelyn Booker Wicker, who will be responsible for the hospital's south division. Both are registered nurses who also have master's degrees. The executive director of nursing services, Wilma Minniear, said that the appointments, effective July 1, "are in preparation for the geographic division of the hospital within the next year. "We believe we can bring about a more effective operation and more adequately facilitate patient care by providing a chief nursing administrator in each division," she added. Four units The north division will include the 39- bed Eye Center, which opened in 1973, and the new 616-bed Duke Hospital Six promoted Six medical center physicians have been promoted to assistant professor of medicine, according to an announcement made by Dr. Frederic N. Cleaveland, university provost. They are Drs. Judith C. Andersen, Thomas M. Bashore, David S. Caldwell, John R. Rice, James K. Roche and Ali Soroush. Andersen earned an A.B. degree at Wellesley (Mass.) College in 1965 and an M.D. at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1969. After completing a fellowship in cardiology at Duke in 1974, she spent two years as a senior staff fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and then joined the Duke faculty as an associate in medicine. Miami University of Ohio awarded Bashore an A.B. degree in 1968, and he received his M.D. at Ohio State University in 1972. He served his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of North Carolina before being named a fellow in cardiology at Duke in 1975. Caldwell is a 1963 graduate of Wake Forest University and a 1967 graduate of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine there. He spent a year as an intern at Emory University and Grady Memorial hospitals in Atlanta. After a residency at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., he joined the Duke staff in 1974 as a clinical fellow in rheumatic and genetic diseases. A 1964 Duke graduate. Rice spent four years at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He returned to Duke in 1968 Intercom is published weekly by the Office of Public Relations, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3354, Durham, N.C. 27710. Joe Sigler Director John Becton Editor Primary contributors: William Erwin, Comprehensive Cancer Center medfcal writer; Ina Fried, staff writer; Parker Herring, public relations assistant; Edith Roberts, staff writer; David Williamson, medical writer. Circulation: Ann Kittrell. PETER WICKER North, which will admit its first patients about a year from now. In addition to ophthalmology patients at the Eye Center, Duke North will contain inpatient services for medicine, surgery and pediatrics. The emergency department also will be located there. The south division will include the present hospital, 333 beds of which will be retained for inpatients in obstetrics- gynecology, psychiatry and inpatient rehabilitation. Duke South will house to complete his p>ostgraduate training and was named associate in medicine in 1976. Roche earned an A.B. degree at Dartmouth College in 1965 and his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1969. After two years of training at Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh, he served as United States Public Health Service Officer and then resumed his residency at Duke in 1973. Roche received a Ph.D. in ambulatory services. It also will include a 20-bed inaptient unit in the Edwin A. Morris Clinical Cancer Research Building. Inpatient areas in the four units — Duke North, Duke South, the Eye Center and the Morris Building — will be known collectively as Duke University Hospital and will have 1,008 beds, an increase of about 100 beds over the present capacity. QAPN project director For the past four years, Peter has been project director of Duke's Quality Assurance Program in Nursing, a program in which nurses set goals for quality of patient care and then determine if the goals are being attained. Prior to that she was professional administrative assistant to the director of nursing services for four years and also worked here as a rehabilitation nurse clinician, focusing primarily on the acute and rehabilitative needs of spinal cord- injured patients. Peter earned bachelor's and master's microbiology-immunology in 1977. A native of Najafabad, Iran, Soroush completed his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Isfahan, Iran, in 1956. After 10 years in private practice, he came to the United States to serve an internship at Mercy Hospital in Chicago and a residency in cardiology at The Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Duke named him associate in medicine in 1975. degrees in nursing (1962 and 1965) at Duke and has done graduate work in biostatistics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She has worked as a general surgery staff nurse here and as a public health nurse for Durham County. A native of Bound Brook, N.J., she is married to Dr. Robert H. Qess) Peter, co director of Duke's Cardiovascular Laboratory. They have three children, Jon, 15, Alex, 11, and Jennifer, 8. Ambulatory nursing supervisor Wicker graduated from the Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing in Durham in 1963 and earned a bachelor's degree in nursing at North Carolina Central University in 1972. The following year she received a master's degree in public health, with a nursing major, at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill. Since 1974 Wicker has been supervisor of Duke's Ambulatory Nursing Service. During the previous academic year she was a visiting lecturer in community health at North Carolina Central. Wicker began nursing at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro in 1963. Subsequently she worked in intensive care at N.C. Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, as a staff nurse at the Durham VA Hospital and as a head nurse at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. She first joined the Duke staff in 1969 as a staff nurse on both general and special surgical units. Wicker was born in Fuqua-Varina. She and her husband, Floyd W. Wicker, have two children, Ingrid, 11, and Floyd Jr., 7. in Department of Medicine Banjos in tune, barbecue cooking Remember the wonderful time you had at the 1976 N.C. Bicentennial Folklife Festival listening to old timers frailing the banjo, dancing with Greek and bluegrass bands, tasting a freshly opened oyster and hickory smoked, pit-cooked barbecue prepared before your very eyes, and trying your hand at quilting a coverlet? Once again you will have the opportunity to enjoy these and many other facets of North Carolina's rich folk heritage at this year's North Carolina Folklife Festival to be held at Durham's West Point on the Eno, July 1-4. However, without the support of the community and the help of many volunteers the festival would never happen. Pre-festival poster distributers, tent crews to set up and take down the tents, ticket and program book sellers, hospitality crews for both the participants and the festival goers, p*trking lot attendants, and lifeguards are just a few of the people needed to make the festival a success. To volunteer, call 682-0156 or 188- 8577. Tickets for the festival will cost 50 cents a day for children under 12 and for senior citizens and $1 a day for other adults. Professional news Three members of the medical faculty participated in an international symposium on the "Cerebral Manifestations of Episodic Cardiac Dysrhythmias," June 19-20 in Miami. Dr. Ewald W. Busse, dean of medical and allied health education, was symposium chairman. Dr. James J. Morris Jr., associate professor of cardiology, presented a paper on newer developments in cardiac pacing, and Dr. Albert Heyman, professor of neurology, offered comments related to research concerned with stroke and cerebral vascular disease. Approximately 25 biomedical scientists participated in the meeting, including representatives from Sweden, The Netherlands, England, Scotland, Uruguay and Israel. Dr. Nelson Levy, associate professor of immunology, was an invited speaker at a World Health Organization/Menarini Foundation meeting on "Immunopathology of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System." The meeting was held in Milan, Italy, June 13-17. On July 1, Dr. Calvin R. Peters, assistant professor of plastic surgery, will become program director in the Department pf Plastic Surgery at the Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic. "Controversy in Psychiatry" is the title of a new book by Dr. H. Keith H. Brodie, professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, and Dr. John Paul Brady. The book is being published by W.B. Saunders and Co. Brodie chaired a research session on affective disease at the recent annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Atlanta. Warren P. Bird, director of the Medical Center Library, taught a one-day continuing education course on "Health Sciences Library Buildings" during the 78th annual meeting of the Medical Library Association, June 10-15, in Chicago. Other medical library staff members who attended the meeting were Susan Feingios, Kathryn Kruse, Kitty Porter and Eula Wheeler. Dr. James L. Nash, associate professor of psychiatry, was an invited guest at the annual meeting of the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, June 16-18 in Virginia Beach. Nash represented the N.C. Psychoanalytic Society, of which he is immediate past president. Earlier in the spring, Nash attended a workshop on "Medical Management of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse" sponsored by the Veterans Administration in Birmingham, Ala. A two-day workshop on "Laboratory Diagnosis of Mycotic Infections" was presented in Denver recently by Ardell M. Proctor, educational coordinator in microbiology, Darlene FIdrek, University of Illinois Medical Center, and Billi Juni, University of Minnesota Medical Center. The workshop was part of a June 8-16 meeting of the American Society for Medical Technology.
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