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

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I I ii' 17. , ,?i,, :Mail .Q 3 .Xa X X, nr- ,,.,1f Above: Premedicating the patient Lefl: Anesthesia for cardiac surgery Below Lefz: In the recovery room Below: Dr. Karis intubates an infant.

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1...--.- .-1 Merel H, Harmel. Chairman 'r . 1, ANESTHESIOLOGY In I970. Anesthesiology was established as a separate department in the Duke University Medical Center, with responsibility for education and teaching in anesthesia at the undergraduate medical level, and the development of a program of research. The residency in anesthesia was re- established and the training and education of Nurse Anesthetists was strengthened. During the subsequent six and a half years, the faculty has expanded significantly and the department has engaged in an active role in teaching within the Medical Center. The bulk of its courses are lim- ited to the two elective years. but there is active participation in teaching in Pharmacology and in Surgery. Within the department there have been established the following divisions: Obstetric anesthesiology and Perinatology. cardio-vascular thoracic anesthesia. neurosurgical anesthesia. ophthalmic anesthesia, and instrumentation and measurement. ln addition. the department has devoted considerable energy in the area of hyper- baria and, under the leadership of Dr. Peter B. Bennett, there has been a significant expansion of the department's activities in the area of the :J w t I ll 1 I in li li mechanisms of narcosis and in diving medic in particular. There has been considerable effort given to 1 development of patient monitoring. with t objective of providing safer anesthetic practi research involving the physiology of the neu muscular Junction. environmental factors rel ing to anesthesia, and the problems involv respiratory exchange when complicated by l Members of the department are active ' i u a water. The Veterans Hospital which. in the p had been a major teaching source for anesthe has now been reactivated under the leadership Dr. Stanley W. Weitzner. and with the advent the new hospital the active participation of me bers of the department and its resident staff the intensive care of patients is looked forwa IO. Below: lst row: E. Camporesi. D. Davis. M. H: mel. l. Talton, C. Lanning. J. Karis. 2nd row: Parmentier. B. Shrivastav. J. Miller, K. Hall. Huang. 3rd row: P. Bromage. P. Bennett. L. F raeus. F. Dakermandji. 4th row: L. Burton. Klein. H. Wakakuri. 5th row: E. Bloch. S. Wei ner. B. Urban. W. Murray. i ' -.--p tiii, l .133 I t i , . ni. l ,gp-.-1

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BIOCHEMISTRY is f. , luis- .4- , Robert L. Hill, Chairman Biochemistry has become the language of much of Biology and Medicine. We increasingly seek an understanding of human disease in bio- chemical terms, and use the developments in bio- chemistry for designing new diagnostic methods and more rational approaches to therapy. The faculty of the Biochemistry Department has the responsibility of introducing first year medical students to the chemistry of the human body. Much time is spent leaming the principles of the subject. including the chemistry of the constitu- ents in living things and their metabolic transfor- mations. Special attention is given to correlating biochemistry with human disease. and confer- ences are held weekly in which a particular dis- ease or disorder is discussed in biochemical tenns. The Biochemistry Department also has the responsibility of teaching Medical Genetics, including a review of the principles of molecular genetics. Here too, the course attempts to corre- late genetics and human disease. The many course offerings in Biochemistry and Genetics. as well as the opportunities for full-time research. are available to all students in their elective basic science year. The faculty. students and postdoc- toral fellows in the Department are involved in a number of areas of biochemical research. By actively contributing to the ever growing body of biochemical knowledge. the Department keeps abreast of new knowledge in the discipline, and its members provide a teaching and learning resource for all students and faculty in the Uni- versity. 26