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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 4
JANUARY 29, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Dr, Mere/ H. Harmel
Chairman of Anesthesiology Named
The chairman of the
Department of
Anesthesiology at the
University of Chicago's
Pritzker School of
Medicine has been named
chairman of anesthesi.-
ology at Duke.
Dr. Merel H. Harmel,
one of the country's most
noted specialists in the field, will join the
Duke anesthesiology faculty this July,
according to an announcement from the
University provost. Dr. John Blackburn.
He succeeds Dr. Sara J. Dent, who has
been acting chairman and who will
continue on the staff as professor of
anesthesiology.
Before his appointment as chairman at
APPLE FOR THE TEACHERS-Dr.
Shirley K. Osterhout, associate in
pediatrics, and Dr. William D. Bradford,
associate professor of pathology, discuss a
new plaque honoring winners of the
Davison Society's Golden Apple Award
for excellence in teaching. The medical
student government organization erected
the plaque in the medical student lounge
recently. Dr. Bradford won the Golden
Apple for basic science faculty in 1969.
(photo by Lewis Parrish)
Chicago, Dr. Harmel spent 16 years as
professor and chairman of the
Department of Anesthesiology at the
Downstate Medical Center of the State
University of New York.
The new chairman, a native of
Cleveland, Ohio, is a 1938 graduate of
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
He received his M. D. degree from the
School of Medicine there in 1943 and
served both internship and residency at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
. Dr. Harmel then held a National
Research Council fellowship in anesthesia
with Dr. Seymour Kety in the laboratory
of pharmacology at the University of
Pennsylvania.
He spent a year as assistant attending
anesthesiologist at the University of
Pennsylvania Hospital before being
named attending anesthesiologist and
director of anesthesia at Albany Hospital
in New York.
He left that post in 1952 to take the
charimanship at Downstate Medical
Center.
Dr. Harmel has held visiting
professorships at Yale University in New
Haven, Conn., the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine in New York City, the
Southwestern Medical School in Dallas,
Tokyo Medical and Dental University,
and the University of Vienna.
In 1961-62, he was awarded a
Commonwealth Fund fellowship for
study in the laboratory of biochemistry
at the University of Oxford in England.
Dr. Harmel's major research interests
include cerebral circulation and
metabolism and long-term ventilatory
care.
He is a governor of the American
College of Anesthesiology and has held
office^ in numerous professional societies.
Dr. Harmel is the author of nearly 50
scientific articles.
Director’s Hour Sets Programs
February 4—Dr. Roman Vishniac,
Department of Biology, City College of
New York
February 11—Ox. Richard Burack,
clinical associate in medicine and
affiliate in pharmacology, Harvard Medical
School
February 18—Dr. Morris A. Lipton,
chairman of the Department of
Psychiatry, University of North Carolina
School of Medicine
February 25 —Dr. Stewart Wolf,
director of the Marine Biomedical
Institute, Galveston, Tex.
March 4-William W. Van Alstyne,
professor of law, Duke University
March 11—Dr. Edgar T. Beddingfield
president. Medical Society of the State of
North Carolina
March 18—Dr. Oswei Temkin,
professor emeritus of the history of
medicine, Johns Hopkins University
April S—Dr. Walter L. Henry,
professor and chairman of the
Department of Medicine, Howard
University
April 15-Dr. Morton D. Bogdonoff,
professor and chairman of the
Department of Medicine, University of
Illinois
April 22 — Dr. Humberto
F er n a n de z- Mo r a n, professor of
biophysics, the Research Institutes,
University of Chicago
April 29 —Dr. Eliot L. Friedson,
professor of sociology. New York
University
May 6—Dr. Ida B. Scudder, head of
the Department of Radiology, Veflore
Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
May 13—Dr. William W. Mushin, head
of the Department of Anesthetics, Welch
National School of Medicine, Cardiff,
Wales