GUEST AT DUKE—Dr. Julio de Leon, dean of the faculty of medical sciences
at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala, speaks with Dr. William G. Aniyan,
associate provost for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, right, and
Dr. E. Croft Long, associate dean for undergraduate medical education, left. Dr. de
Leon was, guest of honor at the luncheon following the 1969 Hippocratic Oath Cere
mony June 1. (photo by Tom Knight)
Med Awards
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Two Symposia
Held at Hospital
Cancer
Nearly 30 faculty and staff doctors
from Duke and several other medical
institutions presented a symposium on
"Problems and Progress in Cancer Con
trol" April 30-May 1-2 at the medical
center.
Sponsored by the School of Medicine
and the N. C. Regional Medical Program,
the program was aimed at practicing
internists, radiotherapists, surgeons and
oncologists.
Sessions were held on enviornmenta'
health and carcinogenesis, early detec
tion of cancer, history and results of
treatment of common neoplasms, bio
chemical aspects, and chemotherapy.
Neurology
Physicians and researchers from med
ical institutions throughout the country
and abroad participated in a symposium
on "Molecular Aspects of Neural Trans
mission" May 15 and 16 at the medical
center.
It was the fifth annual symposium
sponsored by the Duke Research Train
ing Program in Sciences Related to the
Nervous System. Members of the Duke
medical faculty chaired each of the
three sessions each day.
P. D. C. ON THE MOVE—Surgical P.
D. C. employes help move a large adding
machine into the clinic's new offices on
the first floor, (staff photo)
Seven men were selected to join three
other seniors as members of Alpha Omega
Alpha, medical honorary. The three
students named to the honorary in their
junior year were Dwight Phelps Cruik-
shank, IV, Richard David Gentzler and
David Lee Valle.
The other new members include Rich
ard Hoyt Dixon, Charles Stephen Foster,
Bruce Carl Horten, Roy Conrad Haber-
kern, III, Stephen Andrew Koff, William
G. Moorefield, Jr., and David Michael
Waggoner.
C. V. Mosby Book Awards, given to
Public Relations Office
Box 3354
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
27706
the top five students during their senior
year, went to Charles Bruce Malone, III,
Dr. Cruikshank, Dr. Haberkern, Richard
Bruce Karsh and Don Jobe Jackson.
Commencement speaker and winner of
the Roche Award for the senior with the
highest grade average over four years was
Dr. Valle. He, along with Mary Hagan
Morriss, also won the Lange Medical
Publications Award.
The Thomas Jefferson Award, given
periodically for outstanding achievement
in extra-curricular activities, was given to
Dr. Hoover.