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WELDING NOW, EATING LATER—R\g\r\t below where these welding sparks are
flying soon will be an expansion of the Hospital Cafeteria. This is the construction
project that's underway in what is called the courtyard in the center of the hospital.
The basement level of the addition will house Inhalation Therapy. Also on that level
will be freezers and meat, dairy and produce coolers for the Department of Dietetics,
and a new air-handling system for the kitchen. On the first floor level, an addition to
the cafeteria will contain seating for nearly 250 people, raising the cafeteria's seating
capacity to nearly 700. An entrance and exit to the new cafeteria space will be located
on the hallway opposite the present cafeteria, (photo by Lewis Parrish)
Drs. Brumley, Crenshaw To Direct
New Division of Perinatal Medicine
Dr. Gerald J. Musante,
i^associate professor of
psychiatry, is attending Dr.
Joseph Wolpe's Summer
Institute in Behavior Therapy
at Temple University Medical
School in Philadelphia, Pa.
during the month of June.
Dr. Musante is a new
member of the executive
committee and chairman of
the committee on health
insurance of the North
Carolina Psychological
Association.
Host
Dr. Frank W. Clippinger, professor of
orthopaedic surgery, was host to the Little
Orthopaedic Club, a travel society which held
its annual meeting at Duke May 8-9. The Duke
orthopaedic senior and house staffs presented
the program for the meeting.
Present Paper
Dr. James A. Merchant, fellow in the
division of environmental medicine, presented
two papers on "Cotton Dust Exposure and
Cigarette Smoking" and "Dose Response
Studies Among Cotton Textile Workers" at the
Skytop Conference on Industrial Disease, held
May 16-19 at Skytop, Pa.
Dr. Kaye H. Kilburn, director of the division
of environmental medicine, presented a paper
on "Biological Effects of Cigarette Smoking in
the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Disease" at the
same conference.
Attend Workshop
lORNsfrom Duke attended a workshop in
Psychiatric Nursing at the UNC School of
Continuing Education in Chapel Hill May
25-26. They are Linda Moore, Ann Brown,
Barbara Fagge, Jay Stull, Clara Ray, Jerry
Vereen, Bonnie Manners, Brad Lewis, Janie
Canty and Lillian McDaniel.
The Departments of
Obstetrics-Gynecology, Pediatrics and
Anesthesiology have joined forces at the
Medical Center to create a new division of
perinatal medicine.
The division, the first of its kind in the
Southeast, will be primarily concerned
with problem deliveries. As the.
interdepartmental approach suggests, it
will view the mother and child together as
a single patient problem.
Directors of the new division are Dr.
George W. Brumley, chief of newborn
services, and Dr. M. Carlyle Crenshaw, Jr.,
E. C. Hamblen Professor of Reproductive
Biology and Family Planning.
In September Dr. David Cole will join
the division as an obstetrical
anesthesiologist. The first faculty member
at Duke with this specialty. Dr. Cole will
be responsible for anesthetic care of the
mother during delivery and for
resuscitation of the newborn.
Dr. Crenshaw said that the purpose of
the interdisciplinary approach to the
mother-infant patient complex was to
improve perinatal and maternal
morbidity.
"We lose a lot of babies in North
Carolina, partly because of prenatal and
neonatal care. Through this amalgamation
of departmental interests, we hope to
make available at Duke Hospital the best
possible care for sick fetuses and sick
mothers."
Since Duke is a large referral center,
high-risk obstetric patients account for 15
per cent of the Hospital's deliveries.
These patients are seen by Dr. Crenshaw
and the Ob-Gyn staff in a weekly clinic at
Duke. Following the clinic, a High Risk
Obstetrics Conference is held. Here, Dr.
Brumley and Duke's pediatric fellows are
brought in for consultation and
discussion.
"The division will not bring about any
abrupt changes in patient care," Dr.
Brumley said, "but rather gives an official
framework to policies that are already
operational."
"Dr. Crenshaw and I felt that as our
interests overlapped more and more, it
would be better to consolidate for
obvious benefits —not only more
supportive care for patients, but for
training and research purposes as well."
One of the goals of the division, he
said, was a training program for house
staff members who want to specialize in
perinatology.
INTERCOM is published weekly for
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Medical Center Public Relations Office, Joe
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MRS. CHERYL JARVIS
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MRS. DALE MOSES
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