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PROFESSIONAL NEWS 13 people on the move Attend Congress Nineteen members of the Duke Department of Surgery participated in the Fifty-Fourth Annual Clini cal Congress of the Ameri can College of Surgeons Oct. 14-18 in Atlantic City. Dr. William G. Aniyan, dean of the School of Medicine, presented a talk on the new curriculum at Duke. Dr. David C. Sabiston, Jr., chairman of the Department of Surgery, served as moderator of two panel discussions, one on surgical aspects of coronary artery disease and one on coronary and thoracic aneurysm surgery. Other Duke staff members who parti cipated in the program included Dr. D. Bernard Amos, professor and director of immunology; Dr. Marcus L. Dillon, asso ciate professor of surgery and chief of thoracic surgery at the V. A. Hospital; Dr. Sewell H. Dixon, Jr., Dr. James C. A. Fuchs, Dr. William A. Gay, Jr., Dr. Brack G. Hattler, Dr. Samuel A. Wells, and Dr. Walter G. Wolfe, all scholars in academic surgery; Dr. Nicholas C. Georg- iade, professor of plastic, maxillofacial surgery and oral surgery; Dr. James F. Glenn, professor and chief of urology; Dr. Kenneth L. Pickrell, professor and chief of plastic and maxillofacial surgery; Dr. Raymond W. Postlethwait, professor of surgery and chief of staff at the V. A. Hospital; Dr. William W. Shingleton, pro fessor of surgery and chief of general surgery; Dr. H. F. Siegler, assistant pro fessor of surgery; Dr. Donald Silver, asso ciate professor of surgery; Dr. Saul Boyar sky, professor of urology and director of urologic research, and Dr. Paul Ebert, associate professor of surgery. A number of other Duke personnel attended the congress but did not present a paper or talk. Eisdorfer Selected Dr. Carl Eisdorfer, professor of med ical psychology and professor of psychia try, has been named chairman-elect of the Division of Maturity and Old Age of the American Psychological Association. Present projects for Dr. Eisdorfer's division include planning for the forth coming White House Conference on Ag ing and organizing an APA-wide task force to study the current.scientific and professional status of the psychology of aging. Gives Paper Dr. James F. Glenn, chief of urology, participated in a paper entitled "Intersex Problems" at the meeting of the Ameri can College of Surgeons in Atlantic City Oct. 15. Dr. Glenn also attended the annual meeting of the Society of Pelvic Surgeons in Cleveland Oct. 22-25. He discussed "Urinary Diversion by the Gersuny Tech nique" and presented a movie on the sub ject. Present Reports Five doctors in the Department of Orthopaedics presented reports of re search at the recent meeting of the Amer ican Medical Association. Dr. Ralph Coonrad presented a paper concerned with the nonoperative manage ment of intervertebral discs syndromes. Dr. Edmond Dyas, senior assistant resi dent in orthopaedics, was co-author and gave the paper. Dr. Clinton Lincoln, Dr. Frank H. Bassett and Dr. J. Leonard Goldner pre sented an exhibit dealing with compres sion of the posterior tibial nerve at the convention. Dr. Frank H. Bassett and Dr. William Ogden attended the Congress of Neurolo gical Surgeons in Toronto, Canada, to present an exhibit. Dr. Bassett also visit ed research laboratories at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Sabiston at Symposium Dr. David C. Sabiston, Jr., chairman of the Department of Surgery, presented introductory remarks at the Twentieth Annual Medical and Surgical Symposium of the Raleigh Academy of Medicine earlier this month. The conference was entitled "Surgical Management of Vas cular Disease." Dr. Sabiston also was moderator for a panel discussion which concluded the day's activities. Presents Paper Mr. Burton King, audiology, delivered a speech on "Noise, a Noxious Nuisance" to the Carolina chapter of the American Society of Mechanic Engineers in Winston Salem in early October. Mr. King will also participate as the delegate from North Carolina to the American Speech and Hearing Associa tion convention in Denver, Colo., Nov. 12-18. Rundies Appointed Dr. Wayne Rundies, chief of hemato logy, has been appointed a member of the National Medical Advisory Commit tee of the Leukemia Society of America. Dr. Rundies has also accepted a three- year appointment to the- Advisory Com mittee on Personnel for Research of the American Cancer Society, Visits Duke Dr. Henry Pitot, professor and chair man of the Department of Pathology at the University of Wisconsin, visited the Lane Laboratory to talk on "Biochemis try of Neoplastic Disease" to the Clinical Cancer training group. (continued on page fourteen)
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