NEW HOME FOR FAMILY MEDICINE - A patient walks up the mam entrance of the nw family
medicine center, located on Crutchfield Street, adjacent to Durham County General Hc^p.tal.
The new 23,000-square-foot building houses the administrative and clinical portion of the Duke-
Watts Family Medicine Program. The formal dedication for the $1,4 million building will be in the
Purchasing officer looks north
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fall. (Below) Two patients find they have a scenic view while waiting for their doctor. The
courtyard in the center of the picture is also in the center of the building, bound^ by two patient
waiting areas, a conference room and a work area, There are two patient m^u es m the center
each containing waiting areas for patients assigned to family medicine center health teams A, B, U
or D.
David W. Garvin has been named to a
new position as associate director of
material support for medical center
purchasing.
Formerly direc
tor of materials
management at
the Arlington
(Va.) Hospital,
Garvin will co
ordinate the
purchase of sup
plies including
patient care,
pharmacy, veter
inary, scientific ,
research and biomedical electronic areas.
During the coming year he will work
with the planning office and coordinate
operations of the material support
department in purchasing supplies and
equipment for Duke Hospital North.
A native of Chapel Hill, Garvin has a
bachelor's degree from Davidson College
and a graduate degree from George
Washington University. He had extensive
experience in health care administration
and materials management with the U.S.
Army before going to Arlington Hospital.
He and his wife have two sons.
GARVIN
NCME program
The current Network for
Continuing Medical Education
program, "Blood Components and
their Application," is being shown
today and Wednesday, July 5, at 1 p.m.
I It can be viewed in Room M406 at
I Duke and Rooms D3008, C6002 and
I C7002 and Building 16 at the VA
1 Hospital.
Nine new faculty members join medical center
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Nine new faculty members have been
appointed at the medical center,
according to Dr.. Frederic N. Cleveland,
university provost.
The new faculty members include Dr.
Jonathan R. T. Davidson, associate
professor of psychiatry, and eight
assistant professors in the departments
indicated:
Drs. Rosalind Coleman, piediatrics;
Philip J. Dubois, radiology; Arnold S.
Grandis, obstetrics and gynecology;
Linda K. Magness, radiology; David S.
Pisetsky, medicine; Charles K. Prokop,
medical psychology; J. Connell Shearin
Jr., plastic and maxillofacial surgery; and
Ronald J. Taska, psychiatry.
A native of West Kirby, England,
Davidson earned his medical degree at
University College Hospital Medical
School in London in 1967 and completed
his residency training in psychiatry at the
Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland. In
1972, he joined the University of North
Carolina faculty and was named staff
psychiatrist at John Umstead Hospital in
Butner in 1974.
Coleman earned a B.A. degree at
Radcliffe College in 1964 and an M.D. at
Case Western Reserve School of
Medicine in 1969. She finished her
residency in pediatrics at Duke in 1973
and has since served as clinical fellow in
pediatric metabolism here and research
associate in biochemistry.
Born in Brisbane, Australia, Dubois
received his medical degree from the
University of Queensland in 1969. After
residency training in radiology at Princess
Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and Royal
Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, he
joined the staff at Presbyterian-
University Hospital in Pittsburgh in 1976.
Grandis earned his B.S. degree at
Washington and Lee University in 1968
and both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Duke
in 1974. For the past four years, he has
been serving his residency in obstetrics
and gynecology here.
The University of Louisville awarded
undergraduate and medical degrees to
Magness in 1970 and 1974. She is to
complete residency training in diagnostic
radiology at Duke June 30.
Pisetsky was graduated from Harvard
College in 1967. After earning Ph.D. and
M.D. degrees at Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, he served his internship and
residency in internal medicine at Yale-
New Haven Hospital. In 1975, he joined
the Immunology Branch of the National
Cancer Institute as a clinical associate.
A research associate in medical
psychology at Duke's Highland Hospital
in Asheville since 1976, Prokop is a 1971
graduate of Rice University. He received
his M.A. in clinical psychology at the
University of Tulsa in 1973 and a Ph.D.,
also in clinical psychology, at Texas
Technological University in 1977.
Shearin completed his undergraduate
education at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964 and his
medical degree at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1968. Currently chief
resident in plastic surgery at Duke, he
served his general surgical residency at
the Medical College of Virginia,
Northwestern University and Bowman
Gray School of Medicine.
The University of Texas awarded a
B.A. degree to Taska in 1968. At Baylor
College of Medicine he received M.S. and
M.D. degrees in 1973. In 1974, he began
psychiatry training at Duke, and he is
currently chief resident in that specialty
at the VA Hospital.
Researcher seeks to ace disease
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ideal for infection. Lung damage from
infection is the primary cause of death for
patients with cystic fibrosis most
whom survive only through their teenage
years.
In her research. Rose is working with
Dr. William S. Lynn, professor of
medicine. Dr.. Bernard Kaufman,
associate professor of biochemistry, and
Dr. Alexander Spock, professor of
pediatrics and director of CHike s Cystic
Fibrosis Center.
Rose graduated from Emmanuel
College in Boston and received her Ph.D.
degree in chemistry from Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland. She was
awarded the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) Post-Doctoral Fellowship during
1974-76 and recently was involved in a
NIH contract on the composition of
respiratory mucus.
Announcement of Rose's ATP-CFF
award was made by tennis pro Stan
Smith, chairman of the ATFs CF
Committee, and Dr. James A. Peters, CF
Foundation medical director.
In making this announcement. Smith
reaffirmed the ATFs commitment to
cystic fibrosis.
"In the last year, the Association of
Tennis Professionals has been
responsible for approximately $65,000 in
contributions toward the support of the
CF Foundation's programs of research,
care and education. The ATP has specific
plans to increase that sum in 1978," he
said.
The ATP raises funds for cystic fibrosis
research, clinical care and education,
through various activities such as at its
annual JAKS awards banquet which
recognizes oittstanding contributions to
tennis.