PROFESSIONAL NEWS
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Ray E. Brown, former
director of the Graduate
Program in Hospital Ad
ministration at Duke, has
?been appointed executive
vice president of North
western University Medical
Center in Chicago effective
January 1.
He is a past president of
both the American College
of Hospital Administrators
and the American Hospital
Association.
Lectures
Dr. Galen W. Quinn, professor of
orthodontics, presented lectures on "Oc
clusion Guidance and Treatment Proce
dures" at a meeting of the Tennessee
State Dental Association meeting Septem
ber 18-19.
On Council
Dr. William W. Shingleton, professor
and chief of general surgery, has been
appointed to a four-year term on the
National Advisory Cancer Council of the
National Institutes of Health.
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Editorial Committee: Sam A. Agnello, director
of the division of audiovisual education; James
L. Bennett, administrative assistant to the vice-
president for healthy affairs; Mrs. Brainerd Cur
rie, publicity chairman of the Duke Hospital
Auxiliary; Cecil McClees, assistant director of
personnel at the medical center, and Miss
Julia Taylor, R. N., acting supervisor, Nott,
Strudwick and Holmes wards.
In England
Dr. John C. Evans, professor of ra
diology, attended a symposium on the
use of cyclotrons in medicine in London.
He also attended the International Con
ference on the use of cyclotron in chemis
try, metallurgy and biology in Oxford.
During his 10-day stay in September,
he visited the Hammersmith Hospital ia
London and the Royal Marsden Hospital
and Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge.
Attend Meeting
Mr. Sam Agnello and Mr. Wayne Wil
liams of the Division of Audiovisual
Education, attended the Association of
Medical Illustrators meeting held in Wash
ington, D. C., September 14-17. Mr.
Agnello chaired an afternoon session de
voted to illustration and design in tele
vision programming.
At Seminar
Mrs. Jane Bennett, Miss Ann Coleman,
and Miss Rande Waring attended a re
covery room seminar, sponsored by nur
sing service and anesthesia, October 31 in
Orlando, Fla.
Instructor, Examiner
Dr. Joseph A. C. Wadsworth, professor
and chairman of the Department of Oph
thalmology, will be an instructor in a
course on retinal detachment at the
American Academy of Ophthalmology
and Otolaryngology.
Dr. Wadsworth will also serve as an
examiner for the oral examinations of the
American Board of Ophthalmology next
month.
Attends Workshop
Mary E. McColm, director of out
patient department nursing, attended the
workshop of the American Public Health
Association in Asheville September 15-19.
At Meetings
Patricia Barber, unit dietitian, attended
a N. C. Dietetic Association Workshop
at N. C. State University in Raleigh July
10-11. She also attended the Fifth Inter
national Congress of Dietetics and the
52nd annual meeting of the American
Dietetic Association in Washington, D. C.,
September 10-11.
Exhibit Cited
An exhibit displayed by Dr. William
K. Zung, assistant professor of psychiatry,
at the American Academy of General
Practice meeting was cited for excellence.
Dr. Zung's exhibit was titled "The Phar
macology of Disordered Sleep: A Labora
tory Approach."
Attends Meeting
Dr. John P. Tindall, assistant professor
of dermatology, will attend the Southern
Medical Association meeting in Atlanta
November 10-13.
At Session
Miss Judith Cantey attended the North
Carolina Public Health Association meet
ing in Asheville September 17-19. She
is secretary of the physical therapy sec
tion.
Gets Grant
Dr. John F. Griffith, assistant pro
fessor of pediatrics and neurology, has
been awarded a $27,247 grant by the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society to
support his study of slow viruses and how
they work.
The grant is effective for 18 months.
Displays Paintings
Nadine Vartanian, wife of Dr. Vartan
Vartanian in the Department of Anesthe
siology, will display her watercolor paint
ings at the Morehead Gallery in the
Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill
during the month of November.
The show, the fifth for the artist,
includes paintings of the campus and of
North Carolina.
CORRECTION
Georgia Jones, pictured in the Septem
ber issue of Intercom, was incorrectly
identified as an L. P. N. She is actually
an R. N. and is head of the nursing
department of Durham Technical Insti
tute. Intercom regrets the error.