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PROFESSIONAL NEWS DR. CARLYLE CRENSHAW has joined the faculty as assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecolopry and head of the mother-child physiology segment of the Department of Ob stetrics and Gynecology research program. He is one of ten obstetricians who will share .$450,000 in grants over the next three years from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. Dr. Crenshaw received his iLD. degree at Duke and comj)leted his intern ship and re.sidency here. Before coming to Duke July 1, Dr. Crenshaw was on a two-year leave of absence while studying mother and child physi ology at Yale. • At the recent meeting of the Carlyle Crenshaw American Physical Therapy Association Confer ence in Los Angeles, three members of the physical therapy staff attended: HELEN KAISER, director; ELEANOR FLANAGAN, as.sistant professor; and MRS. GRACE HORTON, clinical suj)er- visor. Two exhibits were presented, one describing the physical therapy at Duke and the other the use of the temporarj^ lower extremity i>rosthesis. The latter was produced by Drs. Goldner, Clippinger, and McCollum and Mr. B. Titus and Mrs. Horton. Following the APTA Conference, HELEN KAISP]R participated in the meeting of the Council of Physical Therapy School Directors, also in Los Angeles, and was elected treasurer of the council. • DR. ATHOS OTTOLENGHI, an associate profesosr of pharma cology, attended the third international conference on radiation research in Cortina, Italy, and while in Europe visited the depart ments of hematology at the universities of Pavia and Parma, the Cutolo Research Institute in Naples, and the Laboratory of organic chemistry at the University of Utrecht, Holland. • EUGENE M. RENKIN, profe.ssor of pharmacology and head of the division, and DR. PETER J. BENTLEY, a recently appointed as.sociate professor of pharmacology, have been awarded grants totaling $128,000 by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Renkin will be .studying the transport of radioactive materials by blood circulation through the capillaries. Dr. Bentley’s project will involve taking a close look at am phibia, the class of vertebrates that comprises frogs and salamaiulers, and their role in the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life. Both projects are expected to take two years. • DR. Eugene M. Renkin BAYARD CARTER, professor of ob.stetrics and gynecology and chairman emeritus of the department, was elected i)resident of the Anu'rican Gynecological Society for 19(i6. • DR. J. SOMMER, a.s.sociate professor of pathology, is in Heidelberg, Germany for six months at the Max-Planck-Institut-Fiir Physiologic doing research with Dr. Wilhelm Hesselbach, director of the Institute. Dr. Som mer will be returning to Duke the end of November. • DR. J. GRAHAM SMITH, professor of dermatology, will be working for the next three years on a special .study of what it is in the body that causes blisters to form. Work ing on a new, U.S. Public Health Service grant of $125,832, Dr. Smith will be stiulying closely the cell structures which may be related to blister formation. ALso for the next three years Dr. Smith will be acting as as.sociate editor of the Jour nal of Jnvcstigative Dermatology, a position to which he was recently appointed. • DR. JAMES F. GLENN, profes.sor and chief of the Division of Urologic Surgery, has been appointed to serve for one year on the National Academy of Sciences Research Council committee on the genito-urinary system. • DR. JOHN BUETT- NER-JANUSCH, associate professor in Anatomy and Zoology, has returned from Europe, where he spent the sunnner working in museums, libraries, and laboratories collecting research data that will be used in a book on lemurs, the first volume of a treatise. At the end of July he presented a paper at the International Pri- INTERCOM - 2 matological Society Meetings in Frankfurt, Germany. • Starting in the fall, DR. CHARLES TANFORD, professor of physical bio chemistry, will serve for a term as the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Visiting Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. The Sloan Visiting Profes sorship or Lectureship provides each year for one or two teaching visits to Harvard by distinguished chemists. • At the N.C. Hospital Association’s annual meeting CHARLES H. FRENZEL, ad ministrative director, was elected to serve as a delegate to the House of Delegates of the A.H.A. • Researchers in Duke’s new eye clinic have been enabled by a grant from the U.S. Public Charles Tanford Health Service to learn more about the puzzling disease—human macular disease—which is generally associated with aging. The grant covers the first of a three-year project. DR. JOSEPH A. C. WADSWORTH, chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology has been named principal investigator. Medical records at Duke show that in the 12 years between lf)52 and 1964, macular disease was found in 1,123 patients. • DR. CHARLES HAYES, assistant pro fessor of medicine in the Renal Division, has been appointed to the national Kidney Disease Project Review Committee, which consists of a group of consultants who will advise the U.S. Department of H.E.W. on kidney disease projects. • SAM A. AGNELLO, coordinator of the Central Tele vision F'acility, was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the ('oiuicil on Medical Television, a post he has held since 1965, at the annual meeting of the council held in San Francisco. • DR. SUYDAM Charles Hayes OSTERHOUT, associate professor of microbiology and assistant professor of medicine, has been appointed assistant dean of admissions. • At the annual meeting of the Aerospace Medical Assoeiaiton in Las Vegas, Nevada, DR. FRANK G. HALL, former chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, was elected a fellow in aero space medicine for his work in that field during and after World War II. Emeritus professor since his retirement last August, Dr. Hall is par ticipating in two scientific expeditions this sum mer. He has joined other researchers in a Na tional Science Foundation study of the effects on man of the physical environment of the below-sea- level Mojave Desert and plans to carry out a simi lar study on 14,000-feet ilt. Barcroft with sci- Frank G. Hall entists from the universities of Indiana and Nevada. ® Appoint ments recently made to the faculty at the medical center include: PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY—Dr. Peter J. Bentley as a.ssociate professor, formerly research associate in zoology at Duke; Dr. Ralph Brauer as professor and as director of the Wrights- ville Marine Biomedical Lab, formerly research associate in the School of Veterinary ^ledicine at the University of California; Dr. D. A. T. Dick as visiting professor for one year, presently a member of the Department of Human Anatomy at the Unversity of Oxford; ANATOMY—Dr. Jack II. Prost as assistant professor, formerly at the University of C’alifornia, Los Angeles; PATHOLOGY—Dr. Philip C. Pratt as associate i)rofessor, formerly with Ohio State Medical College; Dr. William D. Bradford as a.ssistant profe.ssor, formerly research fellow in pathology at Duke; PSYCHIATRY/ DIVISION OF CHILD PSYCHIATRY—Leah Rose Williams as in structor in p.sychiatric social work, formerly a psychiatric social worker at South Eastern Louisiana State Hospital, ilandiville, La.; Mrs. Eric Pfeiffer as instructor in psychiatric social work, formerly acting chief of social work division of child psychiatry at University of Kentucky Jledical Center, Lexington, Ky.; SURGERY—Dr. Paul A. Ebert as associate profe.ssor, formerly at Johns Hopkins Hos pital, Baltimore, Md.; BIOCHP^MISTRY—Dr. Robert Habig as in structor in Biochemistry and assi.stant director of the Clinical Chem istry Laboratory, formerly at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.; MICROBIOLOGY—Dr. Robert Wheat as a.ssociate profe.ssor, for merly with the Department of Biochemistry at Duke. Graham
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