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PROFESSIONAL NEWS PR Office Reorganized The Medical Center Public Relations Office has undergone a reorganization consisting of a merging of functions aimed at a fuller public relations pro gram for Duke Hospital and the en tire medical complex. For several years Duke's Office of In formation Services has assigned a medical writer to prepare news and feature ma terial at the Medical Center. At the same time, the Medical Center maintained its own, and separate, public relations of fice. A considerable amount of overlap and duplication existed in the two jobs, and they have now been merged. Joe Sigler, who formerly was Duke's medical writer, was named director of medical public rel ations, and will supervise the public rela tions program at the medical center with coordination between the Medical Center administration and the Office of Informa tion Services. The office also has a new public rela tions assistant, Mrs. Sue Childs, who was an award-winning student journalist at West Virginia University in her home town of Morgantown. She is the wife of Robert Childs, a first-year medical stu dent. Mrs. Childs will serve as editor of In tercom. The third member of the PR staff is Mrs. Betty Linthicum, public relations secretary. [Htaucom idukc uniKCRsity mc6ic&( csntsn INTERCOM is published monthly for Duke University Medical Center faculty, staff, employes, students and friends by the Medical Center Public Relations Of fice, Joe Sigler, director. Mrs. Sue Childs PR assistant and Intercom editor Mrs. Betty Linthicum Public Relations Secretary Editorial Committee: George Mack, adminis trative associate; Sam Agnello, director of the division of audiovisual education^ Mrs. Audrey Silberman, president of the Duke Hospital \No- men’s Auxiliary; and Douglas Smith, assistant to the dean of the School of Medicine. Team Honored The American Associa tion of Avian Pathologists has extended an honor ary membership to Dr. Jo seph W. and Mrs. Doro thy Beard of Duke Univ ersity for their contribu tions to medical science and avian pathology. The Beards have used species of birds as biological systems for studying the leukemias of man. Their basic research in avian tumor viruses has received world wide recognition. Wyngaarden Featured Dr. James B. Wyngaarden of the Duke University Medical School was featured on the July 29 cover of the magazine Modern Medicine. This past year Dr. Wyngaarden has served as chairman of the department of medicine and Hanes professor of medicine. In the magazine story. Dr. Wyngaarden is commended on an "outstanding" re cord since receiving his M.D. degree in 1948. He is the co-editor of "The Met abolic Basis of Inherited Disease," a 1,434-page volume. Attend Meeting Helen Kaiser, associate professor of physical therapy, along with Betsy Den ny, Jean Bair and Ellie Flannagan, all of the physical therapy department, at tended the annual meeting of the Amer ican Physical Therapy Association in Chi cago this summer. Miss Kaiser presented the Mary McMillan Commemorative Lec ture. Rundles Speaker Dr. Wayne Rundles, professor of medi cine and chief of hematology, delivered a lecture on "Treatment of Chronic Leu kemias" at the Fifth Annual Samuel Goodman Symposium in St. John's Hos pital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in early Sept ember. Rundles was also a faculty visitor at the Mayo Clinic September 23 and 24 to present a staff lecture on "Treatment of Myeloproliferative Diseases." people on the move Attend Seminar Miss Rebecca E. Owins, R.N., operat ing room supervisor, and Mrs. Betty M. Tyman, R.N., assistant supervisor, attend ed a seminar in Chicago in late August on ethylene oxide sterilization. Elected Dr. Tulio Arends, of Caracas, Vene zuela, a former house staff physician and fellow, was elected secretary-general of the International Society of Hemato logy at a meeting in New York September 2-6. Manlin Selected Dr. Joseph Manlin has been named the recipient of an award as Advanced Cli nical Fellow of the American Cancer Society for the year 1968-69. New Chairman Dr. Charles Mengel, formerly of Duke, has been named chairman of the Depart ment of Medicine at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. Departmental Reporting Staff Contributes News and Views To 'Keeping in Touch' Column Intercom reporters contributing to this issue were: Sheila Blackley, allergy and chest; Inez Wilson, audiovisual educa tion; Nina Waite, business office; June Perry, clinical research unit; Linda Ford, community health science; Susan Hill, data processing; Nancy Pelkonen, emer gency room; Peggy Lloyd. ENT and aud- iology; Patsey Sutphin, hematology; Ju dith S. Auman, immunology; Jean Hargis and Elizabeth Dennis, microbiology; Eli zabeth Renkin, occupational therapy; Lo uise Powell, operating room; Anne M. Weaver, outpatient department; Susan Kroe and Mrs. Gene Winders, pathology; Mamie Silsbee, personnel; Neva Green- wald, physical therapy; Gwen Evans, plas tic surgery; Marge Stubblefield, psychia try; Virginia Royster, unit administration; Virginia Jordon, urology; and Jonelle Gordon, veterinary medicine. $
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