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Duke University Medical Center
VOLUME 23, NUMBER 43
OCTOBER 29,1976
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Medical Alumni Weekend
Weekend Med Center Guests Not Strangers
. INGRAM
DR. KIPNIS
What can the Duke Medical Center
do for its alumni?
That's the big theme being
explored here this morning by the
men and \vomen who have returned
for the 12th annual meeting of the
Duke Medical Alumni Association in
the Amphitheater.
The afternoon session will be a
symposium sponsored by the Deryl
Hart Society.
Special awards will be presented
and a new library collection
announced at a banquet tonight. A
symposium Saturday morning at the
Law School will focus on
malpractice.
Today's morning session,
centering on information sources
and services that are available to
alumni, includes presentations on
the Duke Poison Control Center; the
Computer Textbook of Medicine;
new services in biomedical
communications that are being
provided by the Medical Center
Library; computerized
electrocardiography; the new Cancer
Information Service; automated
medical histories; and training
resources in aging.
Deryl Hart Society
Developments in surgery
constitute the afternoon program
sponsored by the Deryl Hart Society,
named for Duke's first chairman of
surgery and president emeritus of
the university. The society is made
up of former surgical residents here.
Turn Back
Time!
The final speaker at the
symposium will be Dr. Malcolm C.
Todd of Long Beach, Cal., immediate
past president of the American
Medical Association (AMA).
Three Duke medical alumni and
two faculty members will be honored
for their distinguished careers
tonight by the medical center and the
Medical Alumni Association.
The presentations will be made at
an awards banquet in the Governors
Inn.
Distinguished Teaching
Receiving Distinguished Teaching
Awards from the alumni association
will be:
* Dr. George ]. Baylin, professor of
radiology and otolaryngology at
Duke. Baylin, 65, earned his
undergraduate degree at Johns
Hopkins and his M.D. at Duke in
1937. He has been teaching at Duke
since 1941.
* Dr. D.-'.vid T. Smith, James B.
Duke Professor Emeritus of
Microbiology. Smith, 78, received an
A.B. degree at Furman and an M.D.
at Johns Hopkins in 1922. One of the
original Duke medical faculty
members, he chaired the Department
of Microbiology from 1952-58.
EKstinguished Alumni
The mfedical center is presenting
Distinguished Alumni Awards to:
* Dr. James M. Ingram, professor
and chairman of the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology at the
University of South Florida in
Tampa. Ingram, 55, attended the
University of Tampa and Duke and
received his M.D. at Duke in 1943.
* Dr. David M. Kipnis, chairman of
the Department of Internal Medicine
at Washington University School of
Medicine in St. Louis. Kipnis, 49,
earned A.B. and M.A. degrees at
Johns Hopkins and an M.D. at the
University of Maryland in 1951. He
did postgraduate training as a
resident in medicine at Duke from
1952-54.
* Dr. John P. McGovern, director of
the McGovern Allergy Clinic in
Houston. McGovern, 55, earned a
B.S. degree at Duke and his M.D. at
Duke in 1945.
Smith Collection
Also to be announced tonight is
establishment of the Susan Gower
Smith Collection in Nutrition in the
medical library.
Mrs. Smith, wife of Dr. David T.
Smith, was an associate in nutrition
on the original Duke staff. Much of
her work concentrated on research in
the use of the B-complex vitamins in
the treatment of pellagra and other
studies on the effects of vitamins and
minerals in nutrition.
The final part of the alumni
weekend program will be a
symposium on "Professional
Malpractice: Liability, Insurance,
Alternatives," beginning at 9 a.m.
Saturday in the Moot Courtroom of
the Law School.
Speakers will be Dr. Todd, the
immediate past president of the
AMA, and Jeffrey Smith, an Atlanta
lawyer and teacher of a seminar in
liability of lawyers and accountants
at Emory University.
A panel of physicians and
attorneys will respond to their
addresses.
DR. BAYLIN
DR. MCGOVERN
DR. SMITH
©HVAS
You'll have an extra hour to sleep Saturday night if you remember to set
your clock back before you go to bed. The nation is changing from
Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time at 2 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 31.
Ghosts and goblins will have an extra hour of darkness for haunting on
Halloween night, and early risers now will find the sun comes up an hour
earlier in the morning.
Employees Can Get Shots
A Swine Flu Immunization
Program will be conducted for all
medical center employees on
Wednesday, Nov. 3 and Friday, Nov.
5 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Board
Room in the hospital. Dr. John P.
Hansen, director of the Employee
Health Service, has announced.
"We hope people who work the
night shift will come early, between 7
and 9 a.m., and day people will come
between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. That
leaves 3 to 5 p.m. for people who
come to work at 3 p.m.," said Jesse
Newsome, head nurse for University
Health Services.
The mass immunization program
Nov. 3 and 5 is for all healthy
employees from age 18 to 59 for
whom the monovalent swine flu
vaccine is recommended. Dr. Hansen
said. This vaccine protects only
against swine flu.
The bivalent vaccine, protecting
against swine flu and the Victoria flu
common in recent years, is
recommended for high-risk
individuals, he said. Employees with
chronic medical conditions such as
heart disease, chronic lung disease or
diabetes requiring insulin, as well as
those over 60 years old, are
considered high-risk.
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ELECTION DAY
"The punishment of wise men who
refuse to take part in the affairs of
government is to live under the
government of unwise men.” — Plato
Your chance to take part in
government is Tuesday, Nov. 2,
presidential election day.
Employees who are registered
voters will be granted up to two
hours of paid absence in order to
vote.
Sample ballots as they will appear
on voting machines in Durham
County are on display in the
Cafeteria and Courtyard Dining
Area.