Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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The e inning of an .Ira The year l960 Ends not only The Duke Medical Center but all of medical education and indeed medical practice in a state of flux. lnto this challenging spotlight steps a man who is well known locally. nationally and internationally. On July the lirst Dr. Barnes Woodhall becomes the second Dean of The Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Woodhall was born in Rockport. Maine in l905. He received the A.B. degree from Williams College in l926 and. in keeping with our local tradition, received the M.D. from The Johns Hopkins in 1930. He remained at The Hopkins for the next seven years as intern. resident and instructor in Surgery and in the year I937 was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at The Duke Hospital. During World War ll, Dr. Woodhall was Chief of Neurosurgery at Walter Reed General Hospital and served as a neurosurgical consultant to the Surgeon General, U. S. Army Medical Corps. For his outstanding work dealing with injuries to major nerve trunks, he was awarded the Legion of Merit in IQ46. Upon returning to Duke he became Professor and chairman of the division of Neurosurgery. His vast interests have extended from local perfusions of chemotherapeutic agents in neoplasm to the use of hypothermia in the surgical correction of large vascular anomalies. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, a member of the Board of Gov- ernors of the American College of Surgeons and in 1944 was President of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons. He is a member of the International Surgical Society, the Harvey Cushing So- ciety and the Society of Neurological Surgeons. His academic career is marked by membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Alpha Omega Alpha and Sigma Xi. His appointment is received by unanimous vote of the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees upon the recommendation of a committee composed of Drs. Handler. Markee. Stead. Busse and Harris. Dr. Woodhall's career has been marked with signal success. He is now asked to walk in the foot- steps of one who has overshadowed most. Judging from past events and present status the future of The Duke Medical Center is bright. We can think of no one more capable of picking up the gauntlet and we look forward to a period of unparalleled growth and development. PAGE 9

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taff In planning the 1960 edition of the AESCULAPIAN the editorial staff thought it would be very interesting to run a feature article on the major medical contributions that have emanated from Duke since its opening in 1930. At first this did not appear to be a very difficult task, but when the attempt was made to accrue a list of the top twenty-five Duke originals, the task was formi- dable. lt seems that no one person will sit down and judge all his colleagues and then say who is the best The path then chosen was a poll taken among the senior class members to List the five senior staff members who have impressed you the most. From the results of that poll the fol- lowing is written. We might add that Dr. Bayard Carter was among the five chosen, but to avoid a repetition of last year's AESCULAPIAN, in which he was featured, we chose another staff member. ln addition we might add that Dr. Barnes Woodhall was among The Five, but he is being fea- tured elsewhere in this issue as the new Dean. George Baylin was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1911. He attended schools there and later matriculated at The Johns Hopkins University, receiving his A.B. degree in 1931. Following a year of Zoology graduate study at the Hopkins, he entered the Duke University Medical School, where he spent one year as an anatomy instructor before graduation in 1937 after qualifying for AOA. He took a surgi- cal internship at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. but after consulting with his advisor and close friend, Doc- tor Swett ofthe Duke Anatomy Department, he decided that radiology was more adapted to his desire for teaching in an academic institution and for close contact with the various medical specialities. To more fully prepare himself for his chosen specialty, he worked for eight months in the Pathology De- partment at Guy's hospital in London. He returned to Duke for radiology residency, completing his training in 1941 and being appointed instructor in Radiology in the same year. In 1947 he became an Associate in Anatomy and by 1950 had attained the position of Professor of Radiology. Doctor Baylin's contributions to medical research have been of a varied nature and reliect his om- niverous interest in all facets of medicine. Working with Doctor Philip Handler. he demonstrated the roentgenographic changes in animals on deficient diets. He was one of the pioneers in the use of iso- topes for studying the function of the pancreas, the liver, and the kidney. He has been a leader in establishing X-ray criteria for mastoid and middle ear disease. He worked closely with Doctor Ruffin in an investigation of the pain mechanisms of peptic ulcer and with Doctor Grimson has helped make original contributions on the effect of vagotomy on gastrointestinal physiology. With the advent of the Duke Medical Center as a leader in the relatively young field of cardiovas- cular surgery. he has clearly and vividly demonstrated the value of the routine P-A chest film as both an index of cardiac status and as a diagnostic aid. ln the sixty-live papers in which he has served as author or co-author, Doctor Baylin has shown an unusual versatility and a multidimensional approach to problems. Indeed, perhaps his greatest value as a teacher is his insistence on considering all aspects of clinical and research problems before render- ing an opinion on the roentgenogram. Walter Kempner was born in Berlin in 1903, was raised there, and attended Schiller College where he received his A.B. degree in 1921. The years 1921 to 1926 were spent in medical school at the Uni- versities of Berlin and Heidelberg, receiving his M.D. degree from the latter, following which he in- terned in medicine at the University Hospital in Heidelberg. During the years 1927 to 1928 and 1933 to 1934 he studied under Dr. Otto Warburg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fur Zellphysiologie in Berlin. The interim years of 1928 to 1933 were spent as Assistant Physician at the Berlin University Hospital. PAGE 10