DR. GEORGE J. BAYLIN
Baylin named to eminent teaching chair
Dr. George J. Baylin, professor of
radiology and otolaryngology, has been
appointed RJ. Reynolds Industries
Professor of Medical Education.
President Terry Sanford announced
the appointment following approval by
the Board of Trustees.
Baylin, 66, will be the second physician
to occupy the Reynolds chair. He
succeeds the late Dr. Thomas D. Kinney
who died June 12 after holding the
position since its creation in 1967.
In a letter to Baylin, Sanford wrote:
"You have given your professional life
for many years to the service of Duke
University and its medical center. Your
many former students, current students
and faculty colleagues, have recognized in
a variety of ways your past contributions
to the excellence of teaching not just in
radiology but in medicine.
“It gives us great pleasure to be able to
recognize in a very special way your
distinguished achievements."
A 1931 graduate of Johns Hopkins
University, Baylin began teaching
Duke University
Medical Center
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OCT. 28,1977
DURHAM, N.C.
anatomy to medical students three years
before his own graduation from Duke's
School of Medicine in 1937. After serving
an internship and residency in radiology
here, he joined the faculty as an
instructor in radiology.
Since then, he has been involved in
numerous research projects including
extensive studies of gastro-intestinal
tract function, the effect of x-rays on
various infections and the use of
radioactive isotof>es to investigate heart
abnormalities in children. Most recently,
he has been writing a series of atlases on
diseases of the larynx, the mastoid and
the sinuses.
Early in his career, Baylin decided to
forgo extensive involvement in national
medical organizations and
administrative offices so that he might
concentrate on patient care, teaching and
research.
Among the many honors he has
received from students for his dedication
and unique abilities as a teacher have
been the 1965 Golden Apple Award as
the outstanding professor in the school of
medicine and the 1976 Medical Alumni
Distinguished Teaching Award.
One graduating class of physicians
went so far as to p>etition the late Dean
Wilburt C. Davison that Baylin never be
permitted to accept an appointment
away from Duke.
Duke hosts bi-national medical symposium
A five-day U.S.-Poland Symposium on
Medical Education sponsored by the
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW) and the Polish Ministry
of Health and Social Welfare will be held
here starting Tuesday.
The meeting constitutes a reciprocal
visit by the Polish educators. Last year a
bi-national medical symposium was held
in Warsaw, and Duke's vice president for
health affairs. Dr. William G. Anlyan,
attended as a consultant to the
administrator of the Health Resources
Administration.
"It is a great honor," Anlyan said, "for
HEW to choose Duke as the host site for
this second international meeting."
Speakers from both countries
Duke will share meeting sites for two
days with the University of North
Carolina School of Medicine, where
sessions will be held in Chapel Hill on
Wednesday, and with the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine in Winston-Salem,
where the group will visit an Area Health
Education Center (AHEC) and see an
American football game Saturday. On
Friday the delegation will visit another
AHEC in Tarboro.
Speakers will include representatives
from both countries' governments and
from the faculties of medical schools
throughout Poland and the United
States.
The wide-ranging meeting will cover
such subjects as the financing of health
care, undergraduate education and
research in primary care training. It also
will include comparisons of health care
systems in both countries.
The Polish delegation will leave North
Carolina over the next weekend for
Washington where they will attend the
national meeting of the Association of
American Medical Colleges the following
week.
Opening session
During the opening session Tuesday
in the Medical Center Board Room,
welcoming remarks will be delivered by
Anlyan, by Dr. Christopher C. Fordham
III, vice chancellor for health affairs and
dean of medicine at UNC, and by Dr.
Harold Margulies, deputy administrator
of HEW's Health Resources
Administration.
Response on behalf of the government
of Poland will be made by Dr. A.
Wojtczak, head of the Polish delegation
and director of the Department of
Medical Education and Science in the
Ministry of Hejilth and Sociid Welfare.
3^600 feet beneath the sea
A new hyperbaric chamber capable of simulating conditions
3,600 feet Iwneath the sea has b^n set in place with a crane in
the F.G. Hall Laboratory for Environmental Research.
When installation is completed early next year, scientists
here will be able to conduct experiments with human divers at
depths unmatched in any other chamber in the United States.
The high-strength steel unit, weighing 23,000 pounds and
resembling an early space vehicle, consists of an eight-foot
sphere set atop a seven and a half foot long cylinder. Its walls
£ire more than an inch thick.
The Dennis Equipment Co. of Durham used a 90-foot boom
to lower the chamber through a hole cut in the roof of the Hall
Laboratory.
First dive to 1,500 feet
Dr. Peter B. Bennett, professor of anesthesiok>gy and director
of the laboratory, said the facility probably would be used for a
1,500-foot dive next spring to test the effects of such depths on
the breathing and working efficiency of divers.
"It has b^n suggest^ that short periods of work with
frequent breaks can iiM3«ase efficiency during deep water
work," he said. "We want to find out if that's true."
Bennett said scientists also will try to determine how certain
combinations of helium, oxygen and nitrogen for breathing
under pressure affect thinking ability.
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The rest of Tuesday's program is:
9:30-10 a.m. — "Oi^anization of Health
Services in the U.S." by Dr. E. Harvey Estes,
chairman of Duke's Department of
Community and Family Medicine.
10-10:30 — "Planning for Health Care
Delivery Services in the U.S." by Anthony
Mott, executive director of the Finger Lakes
Health Services Agency in Rochester, Minn.
10:30-10:45 - Break
10:45-11:15 — "Financing of Health Care in
the U.S." by Dr. Ernest Saward, associate dean
for extramural affairs at the University of
Rochester (N.Y.) School of Medicine and
Dentistry.
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. — Panel discussion
and questions.
12:15-1:30 p.m. — Luncheon
1:30-5 — "The Role of Medical Schools in
Regional Health Services" by Dr. Wojtczak;
"Outline of Organization of Health Services in
Poland" by Dr. J. Orzeszyna; "Medical
Schools and Regional Health Services in
Krakow, Lublin and Gdansk" by Drs. A.
Halama, associate professor at Krakow
Medical School, J. Hanzlik, associate professor
and director of the Institute of Internal
Medicine at Lublin Medical School, and S.
Angielski, professor and deputy rector of the
Gdansk Medical School; "Supervision and
Delivery of Health Services by Medical
Schools" by Drs. S. Lukasik, professor and
director of the Clinic of Internal Medicine at
the Wroclaw Medical School, and J. Szczerban,
associate professor and deputy director of the
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UFT OFF - The Den
nis Equipment Co. of
Durham used a 90-foot
crane two weeks ago to
lower the medical cen
ter's new hyperbaric
chamber, weighing
23,000 lb., through a
hole cut in the roof of
the F.G. Hall
Laboratory for En
vironmental Research.
(Photos by Jim Wallace)