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Duke Symposium Honors Dr. Leslie B. Hohman Dozens of former students, colleagues and friends of. Dr. Leslie B. Hohman gathered at the medical center Dec. 2 and 3 for a special symposium honoring the professor emeritus of psychiatry. Dr. Hohman continues as a consultant to the department of psychiatry. Nearly two dozen physicians who have worked with or trained under Dr. Hoh man prepared scientific papers for the symposium, which was titled "Varieties of Affect." At the conclusion of the meeting. Dr. Hohman addressed the as sembly. A 1917 medical graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Hohman return ed there as a member of the faculty following service in World War I. He later spent a year as a research fellow at the Neurological Institute, University of Vienna. He again served with the military during World War II, and immediately after that joined the Duke faculty as a professor of psychiatry, a position he held until his retirement in I960. Miss Carolyn Vaughan New Director For OT Staff Miss Carolyn Vaughan has been named director of occupational therapy at the medical center. She assumed the position Dec. I. Miss Vaughan, a member fo the Amer ican Occupational Therapy Association, received a bachelor of science degree in OT from Colorado State University in I960. The purpose of occupational therapy is to aid physically disabled patients relearn skills necessary to everyday life. In addition to a central treatment facility on the ground floor of the hospital, OT has smaller units on several hospital wards. Occupational therapy at Duke has recently enlarged departmental activities, working closely with a wider variety of disability areas. Miss Vaughan has been acting direc tor of occupational therapy for several months prior to her new appointment. DR. HOHMAN DR, RUFFIN Dr. Ruffin Presented SMA Medal Dr. Julian M. Ruffin, professor of medicine, has been named recipient of the Seale Harris Medal of the Southern Medical Association. Dr. Ruffin was cited for his outstanding work in the field of nutrition. The medal, presented at the last gen eral session of the SMA meeting in New Orleans recently, has been awarded only five times in its 20-year history. Nominations for the medal are made to the Committee on Special Awards of to SMA to recognize important research accomplishments in the fields of met abolism, endocrinology or nutrition, or research which contributes to a better understanding of the chemical changes occurring in disease. Dr. Ruffin, a member of the original Duke medical faculty, was chief of gastro enterology from 1930 to 1966 and was director of the medical outpatient depart ment until 1965. He received his bachelor's, master's and M. D. degrees from the University of Virginia. Before coming to Duke, Dr. Ruffin was a house officer at Bellevue Hospital in New York and an instructor at George Washington University. He has written more than 175 articles in the field of gastroenterology. Dr. Ruffin has just returned from Guatemala where he was guest lecturer at the Nine teenth Congress of Medicine.
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