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PROFESSIONAL NEWS people on the move Elected Dr. Guy L. Odom, professor and chief of the division of neurosurgery, has been named president-elect of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons at the group's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., April 19-22. New president of the organization is Dr. Collin S. MacCarty, chairman of the Department of Neurologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Named Fellows Two Duke Medical Center physicians have been named to fellowship status in the American College of Cardiology. They are Dr. Edward S. Orgain, professor and chief of the cardiovascular disease service, and Dr. Robert E. Whalen, associate professor in the division. Lecturer Dr. Siegfried Heyden, associate professor of community health sciences, presented a guest lecture to the Austrian Society of Internal Medicine at the University of Vienna April 16. isntGccom univcRsity m«)icAl cnt«R INTERCOM is published bi-monthly for Duke University Medical Center employes, faculty, staff, students, and friends by the Medical Center Public Relations Office, Joe H. Sigler, director, and Vance B. Whitfield, assistant director. MRS.SUE CHILDS PR Assistant and Intercom Editor MISS BARBARA RAY Public Relations Secretary Editorial Committee: Sam A. Agnello, director of the division of audiovisual education; James L. Bennett, Jr., administrative assistant to the vice-president for health affairs; Willard McKiver, assistant in the Medical Center Personnel Office; Mrs. H. Shelton Smith, publicity chairman for the Duke Hospital Auxiliary; and S. Douglas Smith, assistant director of the hospital. Dr. Heyden was recently elected council delegate of the Council on Cardiovascular Epidemiology to the American Heart Association for 1970-71. At Meetings Dr. Galen W. Quinn, professor of orthodontics, served as leader of a discussion on "Anteroposterior Discrepancies of the Face and Jaws" at the American Association of Orthodontists annual meeting April 5-9 in Boston. Dr. Quinn also participated in the American Cleft Palate Association meeting in Portland,Oregon, April 15-18. He spoke on treatment of temporomandibular joint disturbances at the meeting of the North Carolina Dental Association in Pinehurst May 10-13. Delivers Papers Dr. Joseph A.C. Wadsworth, professor and chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology presented two papers at the meeting of the Louisiana-Mississippi Ophthalmological Society in April. Dr. Wadsworth spoke on the effects of thyroid disease on the eye and on tumors of the eye socket. At Meetings Dr. J. Leonard Goldner, professor and chief of the division of orthopaedic surgery, delivered a paper on surgical treatment of club feet in Australia April 15. Later in April, he visited a number of cities in Japan and was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. H6 also attended a joint meeting of the Scandanavian and Dutch hand societies May 3 after visiting in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. At Conference Dr. Myrtle Irene Brown of the School of Nursing participated in the Sixth Nursing Research Conference last month in San Diego, California. Dr. Brown presented a critique of a paper on "Nurse-Patient Interchange in the Arrestment of Psychosocial Atrophy of Aged, Institutionalized Patients." Receives Award Dr. Saul Boyarsky, professor of urology and director of urological research, received the William P. Burpeau Award of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine's Urology Section. Dr. Boyarsky was recognized for his work in neuro-urology. He delivered the Burpeau Memorial Lecture April 15. Gives Reports Bert R. Titus of the division of prosthetics and orthotics gave a report on two orthotic research evaluation programs going on at Duke to the Committee of Prosthetic-Orthotic Research of the National Academy of Sciences meeting at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey, California March 9-12. He talked on the Duke evaluation of the VAPC electric elbow and the AlPR pneumatic system. At Workshop Miss Karen Bell, staff R.N. on Campbell, attended a five day workshop on "Revitalization of Maternity Nursing Care" in Denver, Colorado in April. Plans Workshop Ruth Lowe, medical dietitian, was responsible for a workshop on diet therapy at the South Carolina seminar for dietitians March 26. At Course Miss Emy Villanueva, assistant professor of physical therapy, attended a course on "Sensory Stimulation Techniques in the Treatment of Central Nervous System Disturbances" at the Les Passes Rehabilitation Center, University of Tennessee, April 6-10. Gives Paper Miss Rebecca Owins, R.N., director of operating room services, presented a discussion of "Increasing Production Through Personal Supervision" at the American Hospital Association's Institute on Central Service Management April 1 in New Orleans. (continued on page fourteen)
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