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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 35
SEPTEMBER 20,1974
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
TEN YEARS AGO THIS M0W7H—In 1964 the main entrance to the hospital
looked more like a gravel pit than a place where people come for health care
services. Although it took quite a while to complete, the construction was well
worth it, providing the facilities which now house the main lobby, the emergency
room, administrative offices. Carter Suite and rrx)st of the Department of
Radiology. This photograph was taken from the hospital's rooftop near where the
flagpoles are now situated. Baker House is just above the center of the photo.
Researchers Talk Cancer
A Duke University Medical Center
researcher will describe today how he
and his colleagues have tamed a type
of ovarian cancer that, up until now,
has killed almost all its sufferers.
Making the report will be Dr. William
T. Creasman. Duke's director of
gynecologic oncology (the study of
women's tumors). He is one of eight
speakers scheduled to address a
three-day symposium on cancer of the
ovaries that began at the medical
center Thursday.
More than 100 specialists from
across the U.S. and from Canada are
attending the fourth Walter L. Thomas
Symposium which is being held in the
Amphitheater.
This afternoon Dr. Creasman will
explain how a Duke team has
successfully treated germ cell cancer
of the ovaries—and prevented it from
recurring-—by using a combination of
surgery, drugs and radiation. The
team's effort has been under way for
six years.
Dr. J. Donald Woodruff, a professor
at Johns Hopkins Hospital and an
international authority on ovarian
problems, will deliver the symposium's
keynote address this morning at 10:45
a.m. on 'The Significance of
Histopathology in the Prognosis of
Ovarian Cancer. "
Dr. Herbert J. Buchsbaum, director
of the Oncology Service at the
University of Iowa, will detail how
radioisotopes inserted into the body
have increased the survival rate of
women afflicted with early ovarian
cancer at 1:50 p.m.
Dr. J. Taylor Wharton, an associate
professor at the M.D. Anderson
Hospital and Tumor Institute in
Houston, will report on some
encouraging results in using drugs to
combat advanced cancer of the ovaries
at 2:40 p.m.
Gallemore Will Help Legislators
Draft National Health Care Bills
Dr. Johnnie L. Gallemore Jr.. a
medical center physician-lawyer, will
spend the next 12 months helping
Washington legislators draft health
bills—including a compromise national
health insurance plan.
Holder of both law and M.D. degrees,
Gallemore is one of six medical
educators selected recently for the
one-year assignment. A board set up
by the National Academy of Sciences
and the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation made the selections.
The assistant professor begins his.
leave of absence October 1. He will be
replaced as associate director of
medical and allied health education by
Dr. William D. Bradford, an associate
professor of pathology.
Bradford is no stranger to the post,
having filled it in an acting capacity in
1970-71. Known for his congenial
manner, he won the Student American
Medical Association Golden Apple
Award in 1969 for excellence in
teaching basic sciences.
He is a spare-time basketball player
and coach, and has found time to
publish 50 research papers.
Reflecting on his new job. Bradford
said that “the most important thing is
making myself available to students."
He will continue his teaching and
research while assuming a more active
role in advising students and writing
letters of recommendation.
Gallemore "will be a hard act to
follow." he noted.
After the new Congress is elected in
November. Gallemore will join the
staffs of one senator and one
representative concerned with health
matters. Before then, he will get
acquainted with the people trying to
hammer out a compromise health
insurance bill for the nation.
Passage of such a bill was once
thought to be certain this year. But
bickering in the House Ways and
Means Committee over how to finance
it has delayed any action.
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DR. JOHNNIE L. GALLEMORE
DR. WILLIAM D. BRADFORD
Dedication Ceremony Monday
Clinic To Be Named in Alyea’s Honor
DR.EDWINP.ALYEA
The medical center's urologic clinic
will have a new name after Monday.
It will be known as the Edwin P.
Alyea Urologic Clinic-named for the
man who came here at the age of 31,
even before the medical center's doors
were opened to the public, to establish
the Division of Urology and to head it
for the next 34 years.
A dedication ceremony will t>egin at
4:30 p.m. Monday in the Amphitheater.
A tea reception for Dr. and Mrs. Alyea
will precede the ceremony at 4 o'clock
in the Hospital Cafeteria.
At the dedication, Dr. David C.
Sabiston. chairman of the Department
of Surgery, will deliver the welcome,
followed by Dr. John E. Dees,
professor of urology, who will speak on
behalf of the staff and Dr. Alyea's
colleagues.
Speaking for former residents will be
Dr. Louis C. Roberts, a Durham
urologist.
Dr. William G. Aniyan, vice president
for health affairs, will make the formal
dedication, with a response following
by Dr. Alyea.
Dr. Alyea drove an ambulance in
World War 1 until he became old
enough to get into the fighting as a
lieutenant in Army heavy artillery. He
had graduated from Princeton, and
after the war enrolled at the Johns
Hopkins Medical School, where he