Provost Announces Faculty Changes ^
Four promotions, eight
appointments and three changes of
status in the Duke Medical Center
faculty were announced recently by
new University Provost John 0.
Blackburn.
All 15 changes will become
effective before the beginning of
the first semester in September.
Two men were promoted to the
rank of associate professor while
two others moved into assistant
professorships.
Dr. Ramon V. Canent, chief of
clinical pediatric cardiology, was
named associate professor of
pediatrics.
Dr. Canent, a native of the
Philippines, received his pre-medical
and medical education at the
University of Santo Thomas in
Manila and served his pediatric
residency at Children's Hospital in
Buffalo, New York.
He is currently director of the
Duke pediatric cardiac
catheterization laboratory.
Promoted to associate professor
of medicine in the division of
dermatology was Dr. John P.
Tindall.
An assistant professor since
1967, Dr. Tindall earned both his
undergraduate and medical degrees
at Duke. He went to General
Hospital in Washington, D.C., for
his internship and returned to Duke
for a residency in dermatology. He
was an associate in the division in
1966 and 1967.
Dr. Marcelino Amaya, an
associate in psychiatry and
coordinator of the Children's
Psychiatric Institute at Murdoch
Center, was promoted to assistant
professor.
A native of Mexico, Dr. Amaya
received his education in that
country and spent three years as a
neurology and psychiatry resident
at the University of Texas. He then
went to the Child Study Center in
Philadelphia for a two-year
fellowship in child psychiatry. He
has been director at Murdoch since
1963.
Promoted from associate in
medicine to assistant professor was
Dr. Samuel M. McMahon, presently
director of the Respiratory Care
Unit on Cabell ward.
Dr. McMahon earned his B.A.
and M.D. degrees at Ohio State
University in 1958 and 1962,
respectively, and also received a
master's degree in pathology at the
same institution.
He served medical residencies at
Ohio State and at the University of
Kentucky and was a National
Institutes of Health fellow in
pulmonary diseases in 1966 and
1967 before coming to Duke.
The eight appointments include
two in physiology, one in nursing,
one jointly in anatomy and
psychology, and four in the
Department of Surgery.
Dr. Ralph Gary Kirk, who has
been a research associate at Duke
for the past two years, and Dr.
James M. Schooler, Jr., a Durham
native who has been a research
fellow at Harvard Medical School,
were both named assistant
professors of physiology at Duke..
Dr. Kirk, a native of Enick,
Oklahoma, received his B.A. degree
in mathematics and physics in 1959
from the College of Wooster in
Ohio and his Ph.D. in molecular
biology and biophysics from Yale
University in 1966. He was
formerly a research molecular
biophysicist with the American
Cyanamid Company.
Dr. Schooler earned his A.B.
degree from Wittenburg College in
Springfield, Ohio, and his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Wisconsin in 1959 and 1964,
respectively. From 1964 to 1966 he
served as a research fellow with the
U.S. Public Health Service.
Named assistant professor in the
Duke School of Nursing was Mrs.
Betty Glenn Harris, a native of
Alabama who now resides in
Raleigh.
She received both her bachelor's
and master's degrees in nursing at
the University of Alabama and did
graduate work at the University of
California in San Francisco. She
was previously an instructor and
assistant professor at the University
of Mississippi.
Dr. William C. Hall, who has
been in postdoctoral training at
Duke since 1967, was given a
position as assistant professor of
anatomy and assistant professor of
psychology.
He received both his B.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in psychology at
Duke, in 1962, and 1967,
respectively, and then began work
with a National Institute of Mental
Health project on neurological
sciences at Duke. Dr. Hall is a
native of Peoria, Illinois.
The four appointments in the
Department of Surgery all went to
surgeons at the Oteen, North
Carolina, Veterans Administration
Hospital, an institution affiliated
with Duke's surgical residency
program.
Three men, Drs. Charles H. Dart,
Jr., Robert W. Love, Jr., and
Douglas H. Stone, were appointed
assistant clinical professors of
surgery, and the fourth. Dr.
Howard A. Wright, was named
assistant clinical professor of
orthopaedic surgery.
Dr. Dart, a native of Woodbury,
New Jersey, is a graduate of
Southeast Missouri State College
and the Washington University
School of Medicine in St. Louis. He
is presently assistant chief of the
cardiovascular surgical section at
the Oteen VA.
Dr. Love, assistant chief of the
surgical service at Oteen since 1963,
is a graduate of Drury College and
the St. Louis University School of
Medicine. He did his postgraduate
training at Kansas City General
Hospital in Missouri.
Dr. Stone had been in private
practice in Baltimore, Maryland, for
more than 20 years before joining
the Oteen surgical staff in 1968. He
is a graduate of Johns Hopkins
University and the Harvard Medical
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