PROFESSIONAL NEWS
DR. IVAN BROWN, Professor of Surgery, has
been promoted to James B. Duke Professor, effec
tive July 1. This professorship is the highest
academic rank at Duke and there are only twenty-
nine university faculty members now holding
the title. Dr. Brown has been a member of the
surgical faculty at Duke since 1945. He estab
lished the Duke hyperbaric unit in 1962. He also
was a pioneer in this country in the use of hypo
thermia (freezing) techniques in surgery and
originated the concept of cooling the blood of a
patient by pximping it through a heat exchanger,
thereby lowering the patient’s body temperature. He is a member
of the research study committee of the AHA’s Council on Cardio
vascular Surgery and was a member of the late President John F.
Kennedy’s Advisory Committee on Emergency Medical Planning
He also is associate editor of Transfusion, a medical journal; an
executive committee member of the medical division of the National
Academy of Science-National Research Council; and chairman of
the Council’s committee on hyperbaric medicine.
DR. JAMES F. GLENN, Professor of Urology, participated in a
bladder study group sponsored by N. I. H. and held in Miami,
Florida, February 20-22. Also present from Duke was Dr. William
H. Atwill, an assistant resident in urology. Participants were
investigators from the thirteen medical centers participating in the
Adjuvant Bladder Cancer Study.
DR. EDWIN P. ALYEA, Professor of Urology and a member of
tlie Society of Genitourinary Surgeons, attended the Society’s
annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, February 17-19.
DR. PATRICK D. KENAN, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngol
ogy, was invited during February to speak at the University of
Oklahoma by that university’s Department of Otolaryngology.
DR. JAMES R. HARP, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at
Duke until March 1, is now with the Lake Worth General Hospital
in Lake Worth, Florida, and is living in AVest Palm Beach.
RAY E. BROWN, Professor of Hospital Administration, spoke
before several groups during February. At a meeting of the Com
mittee on Medical Education, sponsored by the Carnegie Founda
tion and held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Mr. Brown spoke on
“Some Obsurities in the Need for Physicians.” At the Jackson,
Mississippi, seminar meeting of the Mississippi Chapter of the
A. C. II. A., he spoke on the “Nature of Administration.”
He also spoke during the Institute for Volunteers, which was
sponsored by the American Hospital Association and held in Dur
ham. CPIARLES C. BOONE, Assistant Administrative Director,
served as a discussion leader during the institute.
DR. D. C. TOSTESON, Professor of Physiology
and Chairman of the Department of Physiology
and Pharmacology, has been made chairman of
the Research and Fellowship Grants Committee
of the National Kidney Disease Foundation.
Dr. Tosteson participated in the Oak Ridge
Biology Division Seminar sponsored by the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennes
see. During the seminar, he spoke on “Cyto-
DifFerentiation and Membrane Transport Pro
cesses in High Potassium and Low Potassium
Sheep Red Blood Cells.”
DR. SETH G. HOBART, JR., who received his M.D. from Duke
in 1959, has been recently appointed as a clinical instructor in the
Division of Otolaryngology. Dr. Hobart is in private otolaryngology
practice in Durham.
DR. ALBERT HEYMAN, Professor of Neurology and Chief of the
Division of Neurology, has been awarded a $55,000 grant for cere
brovascular research from the U. S. Public Health Service.
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PROFmOllSIIIP i
mO-MATIIEHIATICS
Duke Univer.sity Medical
Center has established its first
full professorship in bio-mathe
matics with the appointment of
a nationally known mathemati
cian and computer expert.
He is Dr. Max Woodbury, an
adviser to the World Health
Organization, a consultant to
the National Bureau of Stan
dards, and a former member of
the President’s Advisory Com
mittee on Weather Control and
the National Science Founda
tion’s panel on weather modi
fication.
Dr. Woodbury comes to Duke
from New York University,
where he has been professor of
experimental neurology and
head of the school’s communica
tion science section since 1962.
Before that he was mathematics
professor in NYU’s School of
Engineering and Science.
Mathematics and science have
long been closely related, but
only since the advent of com
puters has mathematics begun
DR. WALTER B. CHERNY, Associate Professor of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, participated in a postgraduate course given dur
ing February for practicing physicians in nine North Carolina
counties. The course was sponsored by the Wayne County Medical
Society, the U. N. C. at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the
U. N. C. Extension Division at Goldsboro. Dr. Cherny lectured on
the death of babies during pregnancy and at birth.
DR. JOHN LASZLO has been promoted from assistant professor
of medicine to associate professor of medicine in the Division of
Hematology.
DR. GEORGE P. TRYFIATES, Instructor in Pharmacology, has
recently joined the staff of the Lane Laboratory in the Division of
Hematology. Dr. Tryfiates, a native of Greece, was working with
P. Lorillard and Company in Greensboro prior to coming to Duke.
Dr. Tryfiates will be concerned with biochemical investigations of
leukemic white blood cells.
DR. J. W. MOORE, Professor of Physiology, was an invited
speaker at the University of Oregon School of iledicine Seminar
during February. His two talks were entitled “Action of Tetro-
dotoxin on Nerves” and “Review of Recent Challenges to the
Sodium Hypothesis in Nerves.”
Dr. Moore also spoke during the February meeting of the Bio
physical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. His topic was “Block
age of Sodium Conductance Increase in Lobster Giant Axon by
Tetrodotoxin.” Also present at the Society’s meeting were Dr. T.
Narahashi, Assistant Professor of Physiology, and Dr. Nels An
derson, Research Associate in Physiology. DR. NARAHASHI
spoke on the “Effect of Tetrodotoxin and Procaine on the Elec
trical Excitability of Internally Perfused Squid Axons.”
DR. DANIEL F. MURPHY, has joined the staff of the Duke De
partment of Psychiatry and the V. A. Hospital as staff clinical
psychologist and associate in medical psychology. Prior to coming
to Durham, Dr. Murphy was senior clinical psychologist at Roch
ester State Hospital, Rochester, N. Y.
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to play a role ni medicnie, espe
cially in the field of medical re
search.
The appointment makes Duke
one of the few universities in
the country with a professor
ship in bio-mathematics. Others
include the University of Chi
cago, University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill and North
Carolina State University at
Raleigh.
Dr. Woodbury
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