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10 Woodhall Former Duke Fellow Visits (continued from page one). DR. ANLYAN School of Nursing. The new presidential special assistant joined the Duke faculty in 1937 and organized the neurological service of the medical center. He is a past president of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons and was treasurer of the Second International Congress of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Woodhall also serves as a consultant to a variety of government and civic councils and commissions. Dr. Woodhall received an A. B. degree from Williams College, Maine, in 1926. After he earned an M. D. degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1930, he served as resident and instructor in general and neurological surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center from 1931 to 1937. Dr. Aniyan, professor of srugery, came to Duke in 1949 as an intern after comple ting his M. D. degree at Yale University. He became professor of surgery in 1961, and was associate dean of the School of Medicine from 1963 until his appointment as dean in 1964. Dr. Aniyan recently was named chair man of the Council of Deans of the Asso ciation of American Medical Colleges. In June, he was appointed to the Board of regents of the National Library of Medi cine by President Lyndon Johnson. More recently, he has been appointed to chair a sub-panel on graduate medical educa tion of the National Academy of Sci ence's Board on Medicine. The medical center welcomed a visitor from the Orient in early December. Sister Gilmary, who as Dr. Eileen Simmons was a fellow in pediatric allergy at Duke in 1950 and 1951, spent part of her leave from duties as director of a hospital in Pusan, Korea, renewing old acquaintances and catching up on the latest medical developments at Duke hos pital. A member of the Maryknoll order of missionary sisters, she left the United States in 1954 to establish emergency outpatient hospital facilities for thou sands of refugees around Pusan after the Korean War. Noting the tremendous need for med ical care at that time. Sister Gilmary com mented, "Some days we would have 1,500 people standing in line waiting for treat ment." Many of these patients were suffering from tuberculosis. As the need for more comprehensive patient care grew. Sister Gilmary orga nized construction of a hospital ifor Pu san. With building materials supplied through a U. S. Army program and funds for construction donated by the Mary knoll sisters, the hospital became a real ity in 1963. The facility has 125 patient tieds and serves more than 600 out patients each day. Several contributions from the Doris Duke Foundation, including one which financed a tuberculosis education and prevention program, have aided the mis sionary work at Pusan. In addition, Duke faculty and staff have sent copies of American medical journals outlining new techniques and drugs for medical students and house staff at the Pusan hospital. Public Relations Office Box 3354 Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina 27706 SISTER GILMARY Under Sister Gilmary's direction, the hospital's educational programs now irv elude training of residents, interns, regis tered nurses, laboratory and radiologic technicians, nutritionists and pharmacists as well as providing clinical facilities for medical students from Pusan University. Following her trip to Duke, Sister Gilmary attended the International Ped iatrics Congress in Mexico City before returning to Korea.
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