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ntcRcom duke univeu5ity mcdicM ccntcR. VOLUME S3, NUMBER IS APRIL 2,1976 DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA liiifiii*! Medical Board of Visitors Holds Annual Meeting Here NO SMOKING — Signs like this one througlKxit the medical center remind staff, patients, visitors and guests to put out their cigarettes. Beginning Monday, smolcing will be allowed only in clearly marked "Smoking Permitted" areas. Medical center personnel will be prohibited from smoking in patient rooms or in the presence of patients. "We're hoDlns that all medical center personnel will remind each other of tne smoking ban," said Richard H. Peck, administrative director of the hospital, in announcing the new policy. 'To be effective, the policy has to be adopted by all employees as the appropriate way to do business." (Photo by David Williamson) Milk Bank at Duke Helps Babies The Medical Center Board of Visitors is meeting here today in its annual session which will extend until tomorrow noon. The 19-member advisory body, whose membership represents health professional, educational and business leadership across the country, opened today’s session with a progress report on 1975 recommendations. This morning’s general session was to include a report on nursing education by Dr. Ruby Wilson, dean of the School of Nursing, and a report on the President’s Biomedical Research Panel by one of that White House advisory group’s members. Dr. Ewald W. Busse. Busse, who is director of medical and allied health education, also was AAUP President Speaks Monday The Duke chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) cordially invites all interested faculty, staff and students to a conversation with the national president of the AAUP at 8 p.m., on Monday, April 5, in Room 226 of Perkins Library. Professor William Van Alstyne of the Duke Law School will discuss problems facing the academic community as viewed from his vantage point as leader of the 75,000-member organization. Dr. Sheila Counce, associate professor of anatomy who serves as vice president of the Duke AAUP chapter, said the organization is instrumental throughout the United States in protecting the interests of academic employees on such topics as tenure, wage levels and contracts. According to Dr. Counce, there are approximately 200 Duke faculty members who belong to the AAUP. (This story by Margaret Kirk appeared , recently in the Durham Morning Herald.) By Margaret Kirk Herald Correspondent Jennifer and Emily, Tina and I'imothy are proof that good things come in small packages. The two sets of twins were born prematurely almost three weeks ago, and are Hghting for stabilized conditions and good health so they can leave the Intensive Care Nursery at Duke Medical Center. But the babies need even more care and attention than most newborns. Their premature arrival left them with digestive and bowel problems not uncommon for “premies." This limits their bodies' abilities to properly ward off infections and digest foods. I'he perfect food for the twins, one easily digestible and a good supplement of antibodies, happens to be mother's milk. The Piedmont Mother's Milk Bank, an organization which originated in the Triangle area last August, is helping to support the babies' ivreds for humaif milk. The milk bank was established to create a reserve supply of human milk for those whose need for a mother's milk cannot be met bv their own mothers. But the Milk Bank, composed entirely of volunteer nursing and interested mothers, is far from establishing the muchly needed 'reserve' supply of milk; the bank is struggling to keep an equal supply and demand ratio. “When we have a group of patients like the twins," explained Dr. Lillian Blackmon, assistant professor in Pediatrics at Duke and an organizer of the milk bank, “the supply of course Ijecomes depleted." “We have had enough milk for the last two months," she continued, “but if we could develop the program into a much larger one. we wouldn't have (Continued on page 4) to lead discussion of a self-study report under way in that division. The afternoon agenda is to include a progress report on Duke Hospital North by Dr. Jane Elchlepp, assistant vice president for health affairs in charge of planning; a report on the Comprehensive Cancer Center by its director. Dr. William Shingleton; and a discussion of financial management by John Shytle, assistant vice president for health affairs in charge of administration. The day’s formal program will end with a tour of the Seeley G. Mudd Building. Saturday morning’s meeting will be an executive session. The board is chaired by Dr. Kenneth R. Crispell, vice president for health sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Five members also are trustees of the university. They are: * Dr. John H. Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. * Dr. William H. Muller Jr., chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University'of Virginia MedicaJ Center. * Raymond D. Nasher of the Raymond D. Nasher Co., Dallas. * Dr. William R. Pitts of Charlotte. * Edwin C. Whitehead, chairman of Technicon Corp. of Tarrytown, N.Y. Other members of the Board of Visitors are: * Karl D. Bays, chairman of American Hospital Supply Corp. of Evanston, 111. * Edward H. Benenson of Benenson Funding Corp., New York. * Dr. Earl W. Brian, president of Xonics of Van Nuys, Calif. * Dr. Shirley Chater, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of California School of Nursing, San Francisco. * Dr. John A. D. Cooper, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington. * Dr. Harry Eagle of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. * James R. Felts Jr., executive director of the Hospital and Child Care sections of the Duke Endowment in Charlotte. * Dr. Loretta Ford, dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Rochester. * Dr. C. Henry Kempe (rf the National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect in Denver. * Dr. Alexander Leaf, chairman of the Department of Medicine at Harvard. * Dr. George Palade, head of the Section of Cell Biology at Yale. * Mrs. Anne R. Somers, associate professor of community medicine at Rutgers. * Richard J. Stull, president of the American College of Hospital Administrators in Chicago.
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