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Professional news
A volume presenting reports of the latest
psychoanalytic research on personality
development, to be published by the National
Institute of Mental Health, will include a
chapter by Dr. Ewald W. Biwse, associate
university provost and dean of medical and
allied health education.
Busse also has written an article on "Body,
Mind and Environmental Factors," which is
scheduled for publication in Postgraduate
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EKGs
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Currently 50,000 EKGs are done each
year at Duke, all of them taken by Duke
technicians.
"We plan to take an additional 50,000
each year in the future from outside
subscribers," Greenfield said.
Eventually EKGs will be stored using
computer tapes or discs, an improvement
over the current system of handfiling all
EKG records.
"The present filing system uses up a lot
of space and takes a lot of time," Clark
said.
When Duke Hospital North opens, the
computer will work as an important link
between Duke South and North.
"The computer will allow us to tie the
two heart stations together," Greenfield
said. "So all of the EKGs will be read in
one place and the results returned via
telephone lines connecting all areas of the
complex."
Medicine. •
The dean and Dr. Dan G. Blazer, assistant
professor of psychiatry, are co-editors of a
publicaton entitled "Handbook of Geriatric
Psychiatry" to be published by Van Nostrund
Reinhold Co. of New York.
Dr. M. Bruce Shields, assistant professor of
ophthalmology, delivered a paper on "Essential
Iris Atrophy" at the International Glaucoma
Congress in Miami last month. He contributed
a number of chapters to a book entitled
"Cataracts in Glaucoma, 1977."
Dr. David F. Paulson, associate professor of
urologic surgery, will gO to New York for three
days this month to make a film on prostatic
cancer. The film will be made with Dr. Willet F.
Whitmore of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center.
Paulson also will attend the National
Prostatic Cancer Project Histology Meeting in
Washington, Feb. 8, and the Society of
University Surgeons meeting in Louisville,
Ky., Feb. 9-11.
He participated in a number of meetings
dealing with his specialty during January.
He served on the program for a Seminar in
Adult and Pediatric Urology, held in Miami,
Jan. 19-21, and for a Uro-oncology Conference
in Vermont, Jan. 22-26.
Paulson served on task forces of the
American Joint Committee for Cancer Staging
and End Results Reporting and the National
Bladder Cancer Project. The former met in San
Francisco, Jan. 7-8, and the latter in Sarasota,
Fla., Jan. 29-31.
The urologist was in Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. Il
ls for an American Board of Urology
Examination Committee meeting.
Dr. Nelson L. Levy, associate professor of
immunology, traveled to Stockholm, Oslo,
Brussels and London during January to discuss
recent multiple sclerosis research and to learn
new isotachophoretic procedures.
Dr. William G. Anlyan, vice president for
health affairs, has been named to a one-year
term on the board of directors of the Durham
Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Peter B. Ben
nett, professor of
anesthesiology and
director of the F.G.
Hall Laboratory
(hyperbaric dumber)
was a featured
speaker at a meet
ing of the Associa
tion of Diving Con
tractors last week.
He will serve on
the faculty for an
"Advanced Course on the Medicine and
Physiology of Scuba Diving," April 16-23, on
Grand Cayman, West Indies, and will present a
paper on "Protection against Inert Gas
DR. BENNETT
-Narcosis and Potentiation of HPNS by
Lithium" at a meeting of the Undersea Medical
Society in May.
Bennett is the author of an article published
in a recent issue of Anesthesiology, and is one
of the writers of articles prepared for the
December and March issues of Undersea
Biomedical Research.
Whaf s blacky white
and yellow?
The 1978 Durham telephone
directories will be distributed next week
on the following schedule:
Monday, and Tuesday, Feb. 6-7, 10
a.m.-3 p.m., behind emergency (red zone,
basement) for hospital and adjacent
buildings and Eye Center.
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m..
Sands Building, main entrance, for Sands,
Nanaline H. Duke, Jones, ALIF, Vivarium
and Research Park I, II, III and IV; noon-3
p.m., Hanes House lobby, for Hanes
House and Annex, School of Nursing,
Trent Drive Hall, Pickens, Civitan and
Community Guidance Clinic.
Friday, Feb. 10, noon-3 p.m., 306D Bell
Building, for Bell, Mudd, Physical Plant
and Heating Plant.
A make-up day will be held Tuesday,
Feb. 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., in the Alumni
Lounge, Union West.
New therapy worked on Ricky's brother
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expectancy for the condition was
previously two years.
Space suit doesn't solve problem
After the experience with David at
Texas Children's Hospital, doctors know
they can keep alive the few dozen SCID
children who are born each year in this
country. But according to Buckley, space
suit technology doesn't solve the
problem.
"No one knows when the perfect
treatment will come along," she said. "It
may be 50 or 100 years from now.
Although the child in Houston seems to
have progressed normally, many people
have questioned keeping him in complete
isolation so long."
David's care, incidentally, costs about
$200,000 a year and he requires constant
medical attention. No one knows how he
will react to his potentially permanent
confinement as he gets older.
"Our own philosophy has been that we
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February 3-10, 1978
The Medical Center Calendar lists lectures, symposia and other medical center activities. Notices should be sent to Box 3354 no later than one week prior to
publication. If last minute scheduling makes it impossible to send a written notice in time, please call 684-4148.
Friday, February 3
12:30 p.m.
1 p.m.
Biochemistry Seminar. Dr. Robert L. Hill, chairman, "Mammalian Lectins and Glycosyl Transferases: The Specificity of
Oliogosaccharide-Protein Interactions," Rm 147, Nanaline H. Duke Bldg. Coffee at 12:15 in the lobby.
Network for Continuing Medical Education (NCME). Program on "Newer Thoughts about Older Patients. View in Rm
M405 at Duke and Rms D3O08, C6002 and C7002 and Bldg 16 at the VA Hospital.
Monday, February 6
12 noon
8 p.m.
Pathology Research Conference. Dr. Byron Croker, assistant professor, "Cytoxic Cells in NBD Mice, Rm M204.
Theologian-in-residence. John Pawlikowski, associate professor and chairperson of
Doctrinal Studies, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, "The Moral Implications of the Holocaust, Div School Student
Lounge.
prefer to find a form of therapy as quickly
as possible for the patients we diagnose
with this illness," she said.
No severe reaction
Buckley explained that fetal liver cells
are used in treating SCID at Duke
because animal studies have shown they
are almost as effective as bone marrow in
manufacturing the two types of white
blood cells the children lack, but don't
cause a severe "graft versus host"
reaction, even though they are never
matched.
"This reaction, the opposite of the
body's effort to reject foreign tissue like
heart transplants, occurs when the cells
find themselves in an alien envirougjent.
With unmatched bone marrow, it is
generally fatal.
Ricky's first three fetal liver
transplants have failed to generate the
immunity he requires to leave his
isolation unit. A fourth transpl^t is
currently being evaluated.
Physicians optimistic
"Because this baby has the same genetic
defect that Jamie had, we're optimistic
that we will eventually be able to correct
his immune response also," Buckley said.
"It may take a long time, but we are going
to keep trying to find cells that will adapt
to him."
Meanwhile, Perlman reports that Ricky
is healthy and almost always in good
spirits. Talk of test tubes and microscopes
would probably make him yawn.
He spends many of his waking ho
accumulating admirers among the ma
patients and Duke staff who come
wave at him through the plexiglass shield.
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Tuesday, February 7
3:30 p.m.
8 p.m.
Pharmacology Seminar. Dr. Gene C. Palmer, associate professor of pharmacology. University of South Alabama, Mobile,
"Adenylate Cyclase in Brain Capillaries," Rm 498, Nanaline H. Duke Bldg. Coffee at 3:15^
Theologian-in-residence. John Pawlikowski, "Religious Faith after the Holocaust, Gross Chem Lab aud.
10 a m Campus Club Lecture Series. Dr. Jean F. O'Barr, director of continuing education, and I>^ William M.
professor of anthropobgy, "Africa: Past, Present and Future," Rm 201, East Duke Bldg. Admission by
1 p.m. NCME. Programs on "Why I Don't Use Coronary Angiograph and Bypass Surgery' and Unnary Infections in the Adult
Woman (parts 1 and 2)." See Fri., Feb. 3, for viewing areas. , . . , i c
8 p.m. TheologUn-in-residence. John Pawlikowski, "Christological ImplicaHons of the Jewish-Chnstian Dialogue, Div School
Student Lounge.
Damon, "A Personal Account: Helping Jews Escape from Nazi Germany," and Barbara Benevie, 'Tradition of
Anti-Semitism as a Prelude to the Holocaust," East Campus Center.
“Florence Nightingale would have hit him
with a bedpan a long time ago."