Med Center Growth
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Developments in Medicine
In October, 1969, Duke entered into
an educational agreement with Doctors
Hospital in Washington, D. C. The
agreement will permit Duke students,
faculty, and staff to see a metropolitan
hospital at work and will in turn provide
opportunities for physicians at Doctors
Hospital to take advantage of Duke's
educational and research activities.
Founded in 1939, the 323-bed hospital
is located three blocks from the White
House. Plans call for department-by-
department links between Duke and Doc
tors.
Duke medical faculty took their share
of honors and awards in 1969. Dr.
Philip Handler, James B. Duke professor
and chairman of the Department of
Biochemistry-Genetics, was elected predi
dent of the National Academy of Sciences
for a six-year term. Replacing him as
chairman of the department was Dr.
Robert L. Hill of Duke.
Dr. Jacob J. Blum, professor of phy
siology, and Dr. Rubin Bressler, professor
of medicine and pharmacology, were
named 1969 Guggenheim fellows. Dr.
Nicholas M. Kredich, assistant professor
of medicine, was named a Markle Scholar
during the year.
Also in 1969, Dr. Barnes Woodhall,
chancellor pro tern of the University,
was named James B. Duke Professor of
Neurosurgery.
The first chairman of the Department
of Obstetrics-Gynecology was honored
with the endowment of the F. Bayard
Carter Chair of Obstetrics-Gynecology.
Dr. Carter was chairman at Duke until
1964.
The Veterans Administration Hospital
in Durham paid tribute to Dr. Wilburt C.
Davison, Duke's first dean of medicine,
when it named the road in front of the
hospital Davison Circle. The ceremony
was held December 11.
Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr., Florence
McAlister professor of medicine and for
mer chairman of the department, was
the recipient of the first Distinguished
Teacher Award from the American Col
lege of Physicians at the organization's
50th annual meeting in April, 1969. Dr.
Stead was recognized for "the enobling
qualities of a great teacher who has
achieved leadership in the field of medical
education."
Dr. Carl Eisdorfer, professor of psy
chiatry and medical psychology, was a-
warded the 1969 Kleemeier Award from
the Gerontological Society of the United
States. In 1968, Dr. Ewald W. Busse of
the same department won the award.
In addition to faculty honors, other
remarkable events in the medical field at
Duke during 1969 included graduation of
Duke's 38th medical class. The 76 men
and women of the class received their
diplomas June 2. At ceremonies June 1,
53 students were graduated from the
Duke School of Nursing. In addition,
several hundred other students in more
than a dozen paramedical fields earned
their certificates in 1969.
Also in the medical field, Duke added
its first recreation therapist and its first
pediatric social worker. Both have be
come integral members of the staff of the
Department of Pediatrics.
Hospital Auxiliary
It was during 1969 that the Duke
Hospital Auxiliary gave nearly $50,000
in gifts to some 20 hospital departments
and other sub-divisions. Gifts for Duke
were purchased with money the auxilians
made at their two snack bars and the Pink
Smock Gift Shop over a several-year
period.
In addition to gifts of equipment for
the hospital, the auxiliary members gave
nearly 23,000 hours of their time to
hospital work.
Attention Faculty
The Student American Medical Associ
ation's Committee on Medical Education
Is engaged in accumulating and redis
tributing information on medical edu
cation as it is today throughout the
country. Representatives from campuses
everywhere are submitting this infor
mation to SAMA, and free monthly
descriptions of these reports will be
published and mailed to all interested
parties.
If you are interested in receiving
these monthly briefs in order to keep
pace with the innovations which are
occurring in medical education, send
your name and hospital box number to
Jim Frey, Box 2751.
DUKE AUXILIARY PRESIDENT—
Mrs. George Maddox, right, takes the
gavel as the new president of the Duke
Hospital Auxiliary from Mrs. Harold Sil-
berman, outgoing president, (photo by
Dave Hooks)
Duke Auxilians
Install Officers
Mrs. George Maddox was installed as
president of the Duke Hospital Auxiliary
at the organization's winter business meet
ing held at the Graduate Center January
14.
She succeeds Mrs. Harold Silberman,
who completed three years as president
of the group.
Other officers installed at the meeting
included Mrs. Roland Wilkins, first vice-
president; Mrs. Samuel Wiley, second
vice-president; Mrs. William Hudson, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Brainerd Cur
rie, recording secretary; Mrs. Robert Col-
ver, treasurer; Mrs. Henry Emerson, hist
orian; and Mrs. Cary Cole, Mrs. Stanley
Porter, and Mrs. Harold Silberman, nomi
nating committee.
Auxiliary membership rose by some
40 women during 1969, according to the
group's annual report presented to the
members at the meeting. Total number
of volunteer hours donated to the hos
pital during the year by auxilians and
junior volunteers was nearly 23,000, more
than 4,000 above the 1968 figure.
Three of the volunteers served more
than 500 hours during the year, while
four more donated at least 300 hours.
A total of 19 women served between 100
and 200 hours and 42 others gave at least
100 hours of volunteer work.
The auxiliary will hold its luncheon-
meeting in April.