PROFESSIONAL NEWS
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Behavioral Scientists at the group's
annual meeting in Tallahassee,
Florida.
At Convention
Mr. G.S.T. Cavanagh, Mr. Warren
Bird, Mrs. Constance Taturh, and
Miss Mary Ann Brown represented
the Medical Center Library at the
recent annual convention of the
Medical Library Association held in
New Orleans.
At Symposium
Dr. Matt Cartmill, assistant
professor of anatomy, will present a
paper on "Arboreal Adaptations
and the Primate Cranial Trends" at
the 48th Burg Wartenstein
Symposium sponsored by the
Wenner-GrenI Foundation in Austria
in late July.
At Work Session
Dr. J. David Robertson,
chairman of the department of
anatomy, gave presentations on
electron microscopy, experimental
a 11 e r a t i o n s — E f f 0 c t s of
Environment, and chaired the
session on dynamics June 7-9 at the
Neurosciences Research Program
Work Session on "Myelin."
Delegate
Mary Stevenson Britt, associate
in pathology and teaching
supervisor of the Duke School of
Medical Technology, attended the
American Society of Medical
Technologists meeting in Detroit
June 13-20. She was named
president-elect of the N.C. Society
of Medical Technologists in May
and served as a state delegate to the
ASMT convention.
At Meetings
Mr. Jeff H. Steinert, assistant
vice president for business and
finance at the Medical Center,
served as chairman of a special
committee on implementation of
the Statement on Financial
Requirements for the American
Hospital Association in Chicago
June 25.
Mr. Steinert attended a meeting
of an ad hoc advisory group on
municipal hospitals in Washington,
D.C., June 26 in his role as
consultant for the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare to
.the National Center for Health
Services Research and
Development.
At Seminar
Jane Howell, Norma Neal and
Jean Hallenborg attended the North
Carolina State seminar for
Emergency Room Nurses in Raleigh
May 25-26.
On Panel
Dr. Catherine M. Wilfert,
assistant professor of pediatrics,
was a participant in a panel
discussion on fever at the American
Medical Association meeting June
20 in Chicago.
President-Elect
Mr. Burton B. King, director of
the audiology section of the
Department of Surgery, was
recently named president-elect of
the North Carolina Speech and
Hearing Association. He will be
program chairman for the 1971
meeting next April in Wilmington.
Mr. King was also recently
appointed to the North Carolina
Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters
Board by Governor Robert C.
Scott.
Manual
Dr. Daniel T. Peak, associate in
psychiatry and director of the Duke
Information and Counseling Service
for Older Persons, has announced
preparation of a manual on
guidelines for such centers.
Gives Presentation
Dr. Howard K. Thompson, Jr.,
associate professor of medicine and
community health sciences,
presented a paper titled 'The
Acquisition and Reporting of
Medical History Data" at the 10th
Medical Symposium sponsored by
the International Business Machines
Corporation in Poughkeepsie, New
York, June 29-July 1.
Gives Paper
Dr. Anthony R. Dowell,
assistant professor of medicine,
gave a paper titled "Effect of Acute
NO2 Exposure on Lung
Ultrastructure, Compliance, and the
Surfactant System" at the Air
Pollution and Lung Biochemistry
conference in Richland,
Washington, June 2-5.
Dr. Dowell presented a lecture
on "Management of Patients with
Ventilatory Failure" at the
American College of Physicians
course in internal medicine at the
University of Iowa June 9-13.
At Meetings
C. Edward McCauley, associate
director of the hospital, and
Richard Peck and Kenneth Holt,
both assistant directors, attended
the North Carolina Hospital
Association meeting in Wrightsville
Beach June 9-11.
Mr. McCauley was appointed to
the program committee for the
1971 meeting scheduled for next
June in Asheville.
Mr. McCauley and Mr. Holt also
attended a meeting of the
administrative officers of the
Appalachian Council of Teaching
Hospitals in Boiling Springs,
Pennsylvania. Duke will host the
group's annual session next year.
At Course
Carolyn L. Vaughan, director of
occupational therapy, attended the
Upper Extremity Prosthetics course
given by the Northwestern
University School of Medicine for
physicians, surgeons, and therapists
May 11-14 in Chicago.
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