Kane president-elect of national P
family medicine society
A Duke faculty member has been
named president-elect of the Society of
Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM).
Dr. William J.
(Terry) Kane,
associate profes
sor of community
and family medi
cine and director
of the Duke-
Watts Family
Medicine Pro
gram, was elected
to the post during
the organization's
11th annual spring conference in San
Diego.
DR. KANE
Aesculapian staff
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According to Greek legend,
Aesculapius' association with the snake
began with a specific incident.
Aesculapius was the son of Apollo, god
of the sun. Both were physicians.
Legend recounts that Aesculapius was
attending a patient, who had been
stricken by lightning, when a serpent
entered the room.
Aesculapius killed the snake, but a
second one entered the room, put herbs
into the mouth of the dead serpent and
revived it. The physician used the same
herb to restore his patient.
A native of Pennsylvania, Kane is a
1965 graduate of the University of
Scranton and earned his M.D. in 1969
from the Temple University School of
Medicine in Philadelphia.
He completed internship and residency
requirements at the University of
Rochester and Highland Hospital,
Rochester, N.Y.
Kane was appointed to the Duke
faculty as an assistant professor in 1974.
He currently serves as medical director of
Sea Level Hospital, a division of the
medical center, and as chairman of the
Department of Family Practice at
Durham County General Hospital.
As president-elect of the STFM, Kane
will serve as liaison to the American
Academy of Family Physicians'
Committee on Legislation and
Governmental Affairs and to the new
academic section of the College of Family
Physicians of Canada.
Kane will become president of the
1,300 member STFM next year.
ON TOUR — From the left, Arthur Streeter, administrator for the family medicine center, and
Dr. William Friedman, clinical director for the center, show Dr. William G. Aniyan, vice president
for health affairs, around the new family medicine center.
Wyngaarden assumes top medical group post
Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, chairman of
the Department of Medicine, has been
installed as president of the Association
of American Physicians, the nation's
oldest and most exclusive society of
physicians in academic medicine.
Wyngaarden, who is Frederic M. Hanes
Professor of Medicine, assumed the post
at the group's annual meeting in San
Francisco.
The associa
tion, founded in
1885 and limited
to about 500
active members,
is dedicated to
improving clinical
research, medical
education and
medical practice
in the United
States and Cana
da. Its yearly meeting, held in conjunction
with two other societies, includes
presentations of the latest advances in
research.
Wyngaarden has served as its
president-elect |for the past year and a
member of its governing council since
1974.
DR. WYNGAARDEN
The Duke physician, whose scientific
efforts have helped to explain purine
metabolism and metabolic defects of
gout, said the society will take a more
active role in public affairs in the future
and provide medical counsel to the federal
government when it is needed.
Wyngaarden has published more than
150 research papers and is also co-editor
of several books including "Metabolic
Basis of Inherited, Diseases," which has
become a standard reference throughout
the world, and the widely-used "Cecil's
Textbook of Medicine."
Earlier this year, the Southern Society
for Clinical Investigation honored him
with its annual Founder's Medal, calling
the physician "a leader in the
advancement of medical research,
teaching and academic principles" (see
Intercom, 3/3/78).
Professional news
ITS ALWAYS THIS WAY — Dr. l:wald W. Busse points out to Ort Busse, his wife, the doubling
back of the tail of the snake on the traditional Aesculapian staff. The Busses presented this staff to
the medical school earlier this year for use in the Hippocratic Oath Ceremony. (Photo hi/ lohn Becton)
Dr. Arthur C. Christakos, professor of
obstetrics and gynecology, was in Toledo,
Ohio, May 24-25 to Serve as a visiting
professor at the Medical College of Ohio and to
deliver the annual Martin Diethelm Lecture
for the Toledo Ob-Gyn Society.
Dr. Hillel S. Keren, assistant professor of
microbiology and immunology, presented
abstracts at two conferences this month.
The first was the Seventh International
Congress of the Reticuloendothelial Society,
held June 18-23 in Jerusalem. The second was
the 12th International Leukocyte Culture
Conference, which took place this week in
Beersheba, Israel.
"Behavior modification in the treatment of
hypertension," by Dr. Harold A. Ziesat Jr.,
assistant professor of medical psychology,
appeared in a recent issue of the International
Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. Ziesat also
has written an article entitled "Are family
patterns related to the development of chronic
back pain?" scheduled for publication in
Perceptual and Motor Skills later this year.
Ziesat is the coauthor of "The pain
perception test: An investigation of concurrent
validity" which appeared recently in the
Journal of Clinical Psychology, and of
"Behavioral self-control in treating
procrastination of studying," in a recent
edition of Psychological Reports. '
Three Duke residents get national family practice awards
(From a report by Martha Ahsher, reporter for
family medicine.)
Three residents in family medicine
have received national awards.
Drs. Kathy Andolsek and John
Hartman, second-year residents in the
Duke-Watts Family Medicine Program,
are winners of 1978 Mead Johnson
Awards for Graduate Training in Family
Practice. Third-year resident Dr. Albert
A. Meyer is a recipient of a
Warner/Chilcott Teacher Development
Award.
The Mead Johnson Awards are $1,200
scholarships given to selected young
physicians for use in their third year of
graduate medical education in family
practice.
Candidates must demonstrate
scholastic and leadership abilities. They
must be recommended by the director of
their current training program, the dean
of the medical school from which they
graduated and a member of the American
Academy of Family Physicians, the
professional organization charged with
administration of the awards.
This year, 18 award winners were
selected from among 113 candidates
representing 85 family practice
programs.
Andolsek is from Bethesda, Md. She
earned her baccalaureate degree from
Northwestern University and received
her M.D. degree there in 1976.
Hartman, a native of Florida, is a 1970
graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and received his M.D. from the
University of Miami in 1976.
Meyer was one of nine winners of the
$1,400 teacher development awards. TTie
winners were selected from among 86
applicants from across the country.
The purpose of the annual award is to
aid fhird-year family practice residents in
entering family practice and teaching the
hatjta
and
specialty on a part-time basis.
Meyer is a 1970
graduate of Man-
ttan College
earned his
M.D. degree from
Downstate Medi
cal Center in New
York in 1975.
Upon comple
tion of residency
requirements here
this summer.
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DR. MEYER
DR. ANDOLSEK DR. HARTMAN
Meyer will return to New York where he
will join the medical staff of Kings
County Hospital in Brooklyn.
Meyer said the award would be
especially helpful at this time since he and
his wife Debby becamc the parents of a
son, born May 4.