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PROFESSIONAL NEWS Heart Seminar people on the move "Ischemic Heart Disease ;A Therapeutic Challenge" is the title of a three-day program April 9-11 at the medical center. The event is sponsored by the American College of Cardiology and Duke University School of Medi cine. Program director is Henry D. McIntosh, M. D., chief of the cardiovascular division and professor of medicine. The program is designed to cover in depth the entire spectrum of ischemic heart disease including epidemiology and risk factors and their modification; sudden death and the current status of programs designed to reduce the inci dence; the natural history, pathology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and recent advances in therapy. Co-director for the session is Joseph C. Greenfield, M. D., associate professor of medicine. Nearly 30 Duke faculty members and several guest faculty will present sections of the program. At Conference Sam A. Agnello, director of the division of audiovisual education, will speak on "Closed Circuit Television- Science Teaching and Video Tape Re- j^nteucom i^^wGduke uriivcRSity m6icA cantftR INTERCOM is published monthly for Duke University Medical Center faculty, staff, em ployes, students and friends by the Medical Center Public Relations Office, Joe Sigler, director. INTERCOM is printed by the hospital print ing department. Mrs. Sue Childs PR assistant and Intercom editor Mrs. Betty Linthicum Public Relations Secretary Editorial Committee: Sam A. Agnello, direc tor of the division of audiovisual education; James L. Bennett, Jr., administrative assistant to the associate provost for medical affairs; Mrs. Brainerd Currie, publicity chairman of the Duke Hospital Women's Auxiliary; George H. Mack, assistant director; James Smeltzer, assistant director of medical center personnel, and Miss Julia Taylor, R. N., head nurse on Strudwick ward. cording" at a symposium on hospital communication, transportation and dis tribution systems in Ottawa, Canada, May 1-2. Appointed C. William Smith, Jr., director of medical center data processing and ad ministrative director of the Department of Community Health Sciences, has re cently been appointed to the Inter national Board of Directors for the Data Processing Management Association, the largest professional organization in the world representing the data processing industry. Attends Course Mrs. Diane Lee of occupational the rapy, attended a four-day upper extre mity prosthetic training course at North western University in Chicago Feb 21- 24. Guest Lecturer Dr. Joseph A. C. Wadsworth, chair man of the Department of Ophthal mology, was guest lecturer at the Uni versity of Florida at Gainesville March 14-15. He gave three lectures and presented a seminar on "Vitreous and Its Relation to Retinal Detachment." Visits Duke Dr. F. Wayne Lee of Charlotte was a guest of the division of orthopaedics at Duke and at the VA March 5. Delivers Address Dr. Roy T. Parker, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology, delivered the presidential address at the annual meeting of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics in New Orleans in late February. Dr. Parker's topic was "The_ Univer sity and Residency Education." He is the outgoing president of the group. Give Talks Wayne C. Williams and Richard L. McKee, both of the division of audio visual education, will present talks at the Southeastern Chapter of Biological Photographic Association meeting in Charlottesville, Va., April 12-13. Mr. Williams will speak on "Audio and Video Tape Recording in Motion Pic ture Planning" while Mr. McKee will discuss "An Approach to Photographing a Concept." Receives Award Mrs. Maurine D. LaBarre, assistant professor of psychiatric social work in the division of child psychiatry at the medical center, has been awarded the Isabelle K. Carter Award by the North Carolina Association of Social Workers in Mental Health. Mrs. LaBarre, also associate director of the Cooperative School for Pregnant School Girls in Durham, received the honor at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Mental Health Asso ciation in Raleigh March 13. At Council Judy Cantey of physical therapy attend^ the Council of Physical The rapy School Directors and Southern Regional Educational Board in Atlanta. Named Chairman Dr. Raymond Massengill, assistant professor of medical speech pathology, was appointed chairman of the State Vocational Rehabilitation Speech Patho logy Committee at a March 14 meeting at Duke. Attends Meeting Dr. J. Leonard Goldner, chief of the division of orthopaedics, participated in a regional meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Pittsburgh March 8-9. At Meeting Sam A. Agnello, director of the division of audiovisual education, will participate in the eleventh annual meet ing of the Council on Medical Television on April 24-26 in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Agnello is secretary of the CMT, an international organization devoted to health sciences television. Elected Charles Watson, manager of the med ical center computer center, was elected to the Board of Directors of the local Central Carolina Chapter of the Data Processing Management Association. (continued on page eight) $
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