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VOLUME 17, NUMBER 17
NOVEMBER 6, 1970
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Provost Announces
41 Faculty Named at Med Center
Three full professors, three associate
professors, and 35 assistant professors
have been named to the Medical Center
faculty.
They were announced by Duke
Provost John 0. Blackburn.
The full professorship appointments
came in the School of Nursing, the
Department of Physiology-Pharmacology,
and the Department of Radiology.
Dr. Ruby L. Wilson has been
appointed professor of nursing. She
recently returned to the United States
after a stay in Thailand where she helped
to organize a new teaching hospital at the
University of Mahidol in Bangkok.
She earned her nursing diploma from
Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh,
Pa., in 1951 and her B.S. degree from the
University of Pittsburgh in 1954.
She later completed work for her
master's degree at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland and her doctorate
in education at Duke.
In the Department of
Physiology-Pharmacology, Dr. Leon Lack
was promoted from associate professor to
professor.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Dr. Lack
earned his B.A. degree from Brooklyn
College, his M.D. from Michigan State
and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from
Columbia University.
He came to Duke for the first time as a
postdoctoral fellow in 1953. After
teaching at the Johns Hopkins Medical
School in Baltimore for several years, he
returned to Duke in 1964 and was named
associate professor in 1966.
Dr. Fearghus O'Foghludha was named
professor of radiology in the radiation
physics division.
Dr. O'Foghludha earned his B.Sc., M
Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the National
University of Ireland. He taught at
University College in Dublin before
moving to a post as professor and
chairman of the radiation physics division
at the Medical College of Virginia in
Richmond.
Associate professors were named in
the departments of biochemistry —
genetics, community health sciences, and
physiology-pharmacology.
In biochemistry. Dr. Robert E.
Webster was appointed associate
professor from a post as an assistant
professor in the Department of Genetics
at the Rockefeller University in New
York City.
He has a B.A. degree in biology from
Amherst College in Massachusetts and a
Ph.D. in microbiology from Duke.
Dr. Robert A. Gregg, an associate
professor of physical medicine at Duke
since 1961, has been named associate
professor of community health sciences
in rehabilitation.
Dr. Gregg attended the Citadel in
Charleston, S.C., and Yale University
before completing his M.D. at the Medical
College of South Carolina in 1948. He
was formerly medical director of the
Central Carolina Rehabilitation Hospital
in Greensboro.
Dr. J. O. Weith of the Department of
Biophysics at the University of
Copenhagen in Denmark has been named
visiting associate professor of physiology
for this academic year.
Dr. Weith completed pre-clinical
medical work at the University of
Copenhagen and received his M.D. degree
from the University of Arhus in
Denmark. He has done research work in
the field of cell physiology.
The 35 assistant professorships came
in the School of Nursing, the departments
of anatomy, biochemistry-genetics,
community health sciences, medicine,
microbiology-immunology,
obstetrics-gynecology, ophthalmology,
pathology, pediatrics, physical therapy,,
physi ol ogy - pharmacology, psychiatry,
radiology, and surgery, and the divisions
(continued on page two)
PUMPKIN TIME ON PEDIATRICS — These Duke goblins got together to carve
pumpkins in the pediatric playroom shortly before that magic October 31 Halloween
evening. The pumpkins were donated to Duke by a Chapel Hill radio station, (staff
photo)