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3 Doctors Promoted 10 New Appointments Announced
Three faculty members have been
promoted to associate professor.
University Provost Dr. Frederick N.
Cleaveland announced recently.
They are Dr. G. Douglas Blenkarn, in
the Department of Anesthesiology, Dr.
George W. Brumley Jr. in the Department
of Pediatrics and Dr. Rebecca H. Buckley
also in Pediatrics.
Dr. G. Douglas Blenkarn received his
M.D. in 1958 from the University of
Toronto. He served his internship and
residency at Toronto General Hospital
and came to Duke in 1971 as assistant
professor of physiology and
pharmacology and assistant professor of
anesthesiology.
Dr. George W. Brumley of Lake City,
Fla., received his M.D. from Duke
University School of Medicine in 1960.
He joined the Duke faculty in 1966 as
research associate in pediatrics.
Dr. Brumley served his clerkship in
London at the Hospital for Nervous
Diseases and Blindness and his residency
at the Children's Hospital Medical Center
in Boston, Mass.
Dr. Rebecca H. Buckley, a 1954
graduate of Duke University, received her
M.D. from the University of North
Carolina School of Medicine. She served
her internship and residency at Duke and
became an instructor in pediatrics in
1961.
It takes almost one full eight-hour
workday to maintain the medical records
for just one hospital bed for one month.
INTERCOM is published weekly for
Duke University Medical Center employes,
faculty, staff, students, and friends by the
Medical Center Public Relations Office. Joe
H. Sigler, director, and Vance B. Whitfield,
assistant director.
Editor
DAVID WILLIAMSON
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MRS. DALE MOSES
Public Relations Advisory Committee;
Sam A. Agnello, director of the division of
audiovisual education; James L. Bennett,
Jr., executive assistant to the vice president
for health affairs; C. C. Cobb, employe
relations assistant in the Medical Center
Personnel Office; Kenneth M. Holt, assistant
director of the Hospital; and Julia Taylor,
RN, head nurse on Strudwick Ward.
Ten new assistant professors have been
appointed the Medical Center.
Announcement of the faculty
appointments came from University
Provost Frederic N. Cleaveland.
Dr. Charles Blake has been
appointed assistant professor of anatomy.
He received an A.B. in biology from
Brown University, a M.S. in physiology
from the University of Houston, and a
Ph.D. in anatomy from U.C.L.A.
Dr. Ronald Yan-li Chuang has been
named assistant professor of experimental
medicine and assistant professor of
pharmacology. He was awarded a B.S.
degree from the National Taiwan
University in Taipei, Taiwan, and a M.S.
and Ph.D. from the University of
California at Davis.
Dr. John A. Jarrell Jr. was named
assistant professor of anesthesiology. He
received his A.B. in philosophy and his
M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore.
Also named to an assistant
professorship in anesthesiology was Dr.
Terrence J. Gilbert. A native of Australia,
Dr. Gilbert received his M.B. and B.S.
degrees from the University of Sydney.
Dr. Richard S. Kramer has been
appointed assistant professor of
neurosurgery. He received a B.A. degree
and a M.D. degree from Duke and is
presently a candidate for a Ph.D. in
physiology.
Named assistant professor in the
Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine
was Dr. Redford B. Williams. Dr. Williams
earned an A.B. from Harvard and a M.D.
at Yale.
Dr. Dolph 0. Adams has been named
assistant professor of anatomy. Dr.
Adams was awarded his A.B. degree from
Duke, a M.S. and M.D. from the Medical
College of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in
pathology, from the University of North
Carolina.
Dr. Robert M. Bell has been appointed
assistant professor of biochemistry. He
holds a B.S. degree from the University of
Nebraska and Ph.D. in biochemistry from
the University of California at Berkeley.
Named assistant professor of
orthodontics in the Department of
Surgery was Dr. Kenneth R. Diehl. Dr.
Diehl received an A.B. from Cornell
University and a D.M.D. from Harvard.
Dr. Joseph Lawrence Wagner has been
named assistant professor of
microbiology and immunology and
director of the Division of Laboratory
Animal Resources. He attended Ohio
State University as an uncjergraduate and
was awarded a D.V.M. degree from the
College of Veterinary Medicine of Ohio
State.
EMPLOYE RELATIONS MEETING—Herb Aikens, new director of employe
relations, met recently with Hospital Director Dr. Stuart Sessoms to discuss the
employe relations program. Mr. Aikens comes to Duke from the National Urban League
where he was the director of government relations in Washington. Prior to his service
in the National Urban League, he was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and spent
several years working in the areas of personnel, employe and race relations, and equal
opportunity. Mr. Aikens received a B.S. degree in business administration and a M.A.
in personnel administration from George Washington University, (photo by Bill
Boyarsky)
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