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Volume 10, Number 6 Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1988

United Way surpasses its goal by 14 percent

The red paint spilled over the top of the United Way thermometers on the Medical College of Georgia campus, as MCG surpassed its campaign goal of $106,730 by 14 percent.

A total of $122,520 was raised from gifts given on the MCG campus, a 23 percent increase over last year's total, according to Patricia K. Kindl­ ing, associate hospital director for operations and United Way chair­ woman at MCG.

About 57 percent of the MCG workforce contributed to the cam­ paign up from last year's 51 per­ cent and the average gift was up 10 percent from $32.48 per person to $35.81 per person.

Also, the participation rate in almost every school and division in­ creased this year, and all but one

school exceeded its campaign goal, Ms. Kindling said.

Dr. Krancis J. Tedesco, MCG presi­ dent, said he thought the MCG cam­ paign went very well.

"The United Way is a community- wide effort, supporting projects that enhance our community," he said. "It's people helping people, and that reinforces and enhances what makes our community a healthy and strong place to live and play."

The United Way of the Central Savannah River Area supports 26 agencies, ranging from the Augusta chapter of the American Red Cross to the YWCA.

Ms. Kindling also said she was pleased with the campaign's out­ come.

"I would like to express my real ap­ preciation to all employees of the Medical College for their support," she said. "They really made this cam­ paign a success. We had over 250 volunteers this year, and we really would like to thank all of them for the work they've done."

A recognition program for United Way campaign volunteers was held Nov. 16 at the MCG Student Center. Also, campaign organizers plan to visit each department that reached its goal to express their thanks to employees.

Divisions that had 100 percent par­ ticipation or that reached 100 percent of their goal will be listed in an honor roll, scheduled to be printed in the next edition of "Beeper."

Hare-raising HalloweenStacy Wade, a patient at MCG's Children's Medical Center, wears rabbit ears made from a surgical mask during Halloween activities at the hospital.

Research displayed

Elizabeth Browne discusses display during Graduate Research Day

Christine DerisoMedical College of Georgia School

of Graduate Studies students emerg­ ed from their laboratories Nov. 11 to jihare the fruits of their labor with the public.

The students' research was featured at the sixth annual Graduate Research Day, which this year con­ tinued the 160th anniversary celebra­ tion of MCG.

The event includes students' poster presentations of their research to MCG faculty, staff and administra­ tion and to invited undergraduate students and their advisers from Georgia and South Carolina colleges and universities. About 60 undergraduate students and advisers from five schools attended.

The posters were displayed in the morning, and visiting students toured the school's departments in the after­

noon. A seminar for the visiting ad­ visers also was held in the afternoon.

"The undergraduates come to get an appreciation for the graduate pro­ grams we have here at MCG," said Dr. Jerry J. Buccafusco, chairman of the Graduate Student Research Day Committee. "We follow through with the students who attend and keep up with them in school. Hopefully, they'll think of us when they're ready for graduate school."

One such visitor Jimmy J. Kowler Jr., a senior biology and chemistry major at Voorhees College in Denmark, S.C. said the event achieves its objectives.

"I plan to go to either graduate or medical school and I'm very in­ terested in MCG," he said. "This helps us get to know the professors on a one-to-one basis and to get used to the college atmosphere and the city."

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Swap & SellPersonal classified ads are available at a spe­ cial Paid In Advance Rate. To qualify, you must me the form on this page and mail us your ad prior to deadline with your payment enclosed. Paid ads may also be taken by phone by calling 724-2122. Sorry, we cannot accept complimen­ tary MCG ads by phone. As an accommodation, we win charge ads to you, but we ask that you toward payment to help us save the cost of tiling you.

100-199 SERVICES Babysitters/Child Care................... 100Domestic Services...................... 110financial Services...................... 120Home Improvement..................... 130Land & lot Clearing .................... 140Lessons & Learning..................... 160Secretarial Services..................... 170Miscellaneous Services.................. 190

200-299 NOTICES Business Opportunities .................. 200Lost & Found ......................... 210Miscellaneous Notices...................290

300499 WANT ADS Help Wanted...................... 300Work Wanted .........................310Wanted to Buy ........................ 320Wanted to Trade....................... 330Wanted to Rent........................ 340Miscellaneous Wanted................... 390

400499 ITEMS FOR SALE Antiques .............................400Appliances............................405Arts & Crafts..........................410Baby Items........................... 420Cameras.............................425Computers............................ 425Farm Equipment.......................427Furniture.............................430Good Things to Eat..................... 435Home Furnishings........... ; .......... 440Musical hems.........................445Pets & Animals........................ 450Sports Goods/Firearms..................455Stereos/Radios ....................... 460TVs, VCRs, Video...................... 465Yard _ Garage Sales ................... 470Miscellaneous for Sate ..................490

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NewsbriefsBeeper deadline

The deadline for the next'Beeper" is Nov. 28 at 5 p.m. Please inform the Personnel Division of any address changes to ensure delivery of "Beeper" to your home.

Holidays plannedThe Medical College of Georgia

Personnel Division has announced the scheduled days off for upcoming holidays. They are: Thanksgiving, Nov 24-25 Christmas, Dec. 23 and 26, inclusive of the weekend; and New Year s Day. Jan. 2.

Singers neededVolunteers are needed to sing

Christmas carols to patients at MCG during the holiday season. The group will meet Thursdays, with the excep­ tion of Nov. 24, 7:30-8:30 p.m. in rooms 3-4 of the student center. (Use the side entrance by the bookstore.) Peoolp with musical instrument talent also are needed. For informa­ tion, contact Marilyn Sleister at exl. 4831

Ornaments neededHandmade Christmas tree or­

naments and crafts are needed to decorate a Christmas tree and to benefii the MCG Children's Medical Center

The bazaar will be held Dec. 9 following the holiday tree lighting, scheduled at 9:30 a.m. that day in the Sydenstricker lobby of the hospital. The ornaments and other crafts will ' emain on sale in the lobby until 5

p.m.Ornaments and crafts can be

donated until Dec. 5 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in Volunteer Services, hospital second floor, or the Volunteer Center, 1010 Chaffee Ave. People interested in volunteering for the bazaar should contact Lorraine Poss at ext. 3301.

The day will conclude with a luminary lighting at 6 p.m. outside MCG Hospital and Clinics

Plant saleMembers of the MCG Sertoma Club

are selling poinsettias, plants with 6-8 blooms and 18 inches high, for $6.50. Delivery is scheduled for the first week of December. To order, contact any Sertoma member or call presi­ dent Maureen Blue, ext. 2308 or 2989.

Smoking attitude studyThe Ad Hoc Task Force for a

Smoke-PYee Environment is in the process of compiling the data and revieing comments from the recent smoking attitude survey conducted on campus. About 40 percent of the

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Medical College of Georgia, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1988 — Page 11

Rob Thames

Thames wins fitness race

Rob Thames, assistant hospital director, breaks a smile as he breaks the tape in the Oct. 1 Medical College of Georgia Fitness 5-K Walk/Run. Mr. Thames won the overall male ti­ tle in that race, and went on to com­ pete in the Nov. 12 U.S. Traithlon Series National Championships in Hilton Head, S.C. He finished ninth in the state in the 25-28 age group, and 124th in the nation.

Mr. Thames, who became in­ terested in traithlon competition five years ago, said the event was "ex­ citing, interesting and humbling." The competitors swam a mile in 65-degree water, hiked about 25 miles in extreme winds and finished the race with a 6.2-mile run.

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Dr. Carr is selected to post

Dr. Albert A. Carr

Dr. Albert A. Carr, chief of the Sec­ tion of Hypertension at the Medical College of Georgia, has been elected to the governing body of the American College of Clinical Phar­ macology.

Dr. Carr was installed as a regent for a five-year term in ceremonies at the 17th annual meeting of the college held Oct. 31-Nov. 3 in Orlando, Fla.

As a regent, he also was placed on the American Board of Clinical Phar­ macology for a five-year term.

The American College of Clinical Pharmacology is a professional group dedicated to assuring the use of the most effective possible phar-

maceuticals and drugs with the least adverse reactions possible. The col­ lege works to promote cooperation among the graduate and postgraduate training programs, postgraduate clinical phar­ macological researchers, medical universities, pharmaceutical com­ panies and the food and Drug Ad­ ministration.

Also at the annual meeting, Dr. Carr and third-year medical student Mitchell G. Davis presented two abstracts involving clinical research at MCG to the college as well as to the American Association of Phar­ maceutical Scientists.

The abstracts were titled "Placebo and Automated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring" and "Left Ven­ tricular Ejection in Hypertensives and the Effect of Isradipine."

On Nov. 5, Dr. Carr presented new research information on heart disease in hypertensive patients to the Council on Silent Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction. His presen­ tation was titled "Coronary Artery Disease, Left Ventricular Hyper­ trophy and Hypertension: Exploring the Relationships."

Other MCG physicians involved in the research presented by Dr. Carr include Dr. L. Michael Prisant, assis­

tant professor of medicine; Dr. Fen- wick T. Nichols III. assistant pro­ fessor of neurology; Dr. Robert J. Adams, assistant professor of neurology: Dr. Jan L. Houghton, assistant professor of medicine; Dr Thomas V'on Dohlen. assistant pro­ fessor of medicine; and Dr. Martin J Frank, professor of medicine and chief of MCG Section of Cardiology.

Dr. Carr joined the MCG faculty in 1967 as an associate professor. He was promoted to full professor and named chief of the Section of Hypertension in 1972. He also is director of MCG's En­ docrine Diagnostic Laboratory.

Dr. Bowden named group presidentDr. Talmadge A. Bowden Jr., pro­

fessor and chief of the Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia, has been elected president of the Society of American Gastrointestinal En-

doscopic SurgeonsSAGES is a professional society for

surgeons who do gastrointestinal en- doscopy, a procedure for the diagnosis and treatment of problems in the gastrointestinal tract such as

malignancies, bleeding, infections and inflammation

SAGES has 926 members from across the United States. Dr. Bowden is a founding member of SAGES and is an editor for that organization.

Graduate research displayedconl'd from p. I

Valerie Williams, a biology major at State College in Orangeburg, S.C., agreed. • 1 want to get a Ph.D. and an M.D., and this gives me a chance to check out MCG," she said

A banquet was held at Augusta's Holiday Inn West that evening during which the MCG students' research displays were awarded. A group of graduate studies faculty members were the judges. The winners, their departments and their research titles, are

Excellence in Research Award win­ ners:

Darrell W. Brann, Department of Physiology and Endocrinology, "GABAa Receptors Mediate 3a-Hydroxy-5a-Pregnan-20-One In­ duced Gonadotropin Secretion." Ad­ viser, Dr. Virendra B. Mahesh.

Barbara A. Conway, Department of Medical Illustration, "Effects of DHT on the Growth and Development of Specific Size Follicles." Adviser, Dr.

Thomas M. Mills.Ken E McCarson, Department of

Pharmacology and Toxicology, "Naloxone Blocks the Increase of Substance P in the Dorsal Horn Dur­ ing a Nociceptive Stimulus." Adviser, Dr Barry D. Goldstein

Russell B. Myers. Department of Physiology and Endocrinology, "Estradioi Inhibition of Leydig Cell Development in the Rat." Adviser, Dr. Thomas 0 Abney

Joseph C. Wood, Department of Physiology and Endocrinology, "Studies on the Actions of An- tineoplaston A10 in the Rat NB2 Lym- phoma Cell Line." Adviser, Dr. Thomas G. Muldoon.

Honorable mention winners:Anthony F. Conway, Department of

Medical Illustration, "An Illustrated Sectional Atlas of Human Anatomy Applied to Magnetic Resonance Im­ aging." Dr. William Stenstrom.

Jaime F. Recasens, Department of Ophthalmology and Physiology and

Endocrinology, "The Effects of Age, Endotoxin and Arachidonate Metabolism on Superoxide Dismutase Activity in the Kabbit Eye." Adviser, Dr Keith Green

Sigma Xi Award winner'Susan H. Tuten, Department of

Adult Nursing, "Efficacy of Sodium Chloride Versus Dilute Heparin for Peripheral Intermittent Intravenous Device Maintenance." Adviser, Dr Sarah Gueldner.

Dr. Bowden is a graduate of the MCG School of Medicine and com­ pleted his surgical training at MCG. He joined the MCG faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1976 and to full professor in 1982.

He was named chief of the Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery and the Surgical Endoscopy Unit in 1976.

Dr. Bowden is the recently elected president of the Georgia Surgical Society, a specialty society for surgeons in Georgia which has ap­ proximately 390 members.

He is a fellow of the American Col­ lege of Surgeons, the Southern Surgical Association and the Southeastern Surgical Congress.

A story in the last issue of "Beeper." announcing Dr. Bowden's selection as president of the Georgia Surgical Society incorrectly stated that he was 1989 president-elect of SAGES. Dr Taimadge Bowden Ir,

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Text of State of the University address(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following

is the text of the state of the university address delivered Nov. 17 by Dr. Francis J. Tedesco, MCG president.)

To serve as the sixth president of this health sciences university is a pleasure and distinct honor for me. I deeply appreciate the honor bestow­ ed, and I understand the inherent responsibilities of this office.

I pledge that I will serve with humility, integrity, and with the singular purpose to make the Medical College of Georgia the definitive health sciences university of the South.

As I review the state of the universi­ ty, I am pleased to report that the university is strong and ready to meet the challenges and opportunities that face a modern health sciences univer­ sity.

I see a medical college with new horizons to reach and new frontiers to conquer. I see a university that is becoming revitalized, and one that is ready to take charge of its future as an academic health sciences universi­ ty.

Upon assuming the position of president, I became more acutely aware that we are largely unknown outside of the local community.

When known, it is because of our education and training of health pro­ fessionals, a job that is generally recognized as well done. But less known and less appreciated have been our research and clinical ac­ tivities.

We have a far better history than we have a reputation. In my first 100 days, I have given presentations locally and in Albany, Atlanta, Savan­ nah, Macon, Columbus, and Vidalia. I am scheduled for La Grange, Brunswick, Waycross, Rome, and Gainesville. 1 share with alumni, community and business leaders, and legislators what MCG is and the im­ pact of MCG on their communities.

Few, if any of them, know that MCG's budget is approximately $246 million, of which about $100 million of 40.7 percent comes from state support while the remainder comes from stu­ dent fees, patient care fees and from grants, contracts and endowments.

Few know that the Medical College of Georgia is one of four university level institutions among the 34 units of the University System of Georgia. Few know that we care for patients from 155 of Georgia's 159 counties.

Few know that 65 percent of our graduates have chosen to live and practice in these same counties. This includes 65 percent of our allied health graduates, 84 percent of our dental graduates, 58 percent of our physician graduates, and 74 percent of our nursing graduates.

Few know that 27 percent of the physician graduates practice in rural Georgia.

Few know that 75 percent of those in rural practice are in primary care, thereby improving health care as well as supporting the economic growth of Georgia.

A common misconception is that the Medical College of Georgia's Hospital and Clinics are totally fund­ ed through state appropriations, when in reality $31 million or only 24

percent of the hospital's budget comes from the state. We make our budget the old-fashioned way-we earn it, through patient fees, from training and research grants and from other funding agencies.

Few know that MCG does not receive money from the state to pro­ vide for indigent care. Yet we provide 43.4 million dollars in uncompensated care to needy Georgians. This clinical contribution is made to assist com­ munity hospitals throughout the state and to strengthen our educational mission.

We have and we will continue to make every effort to accommodate our citizens with medical problems or presenting conditions that are consis­ tent with our competence and within our teaching, clinical and research agenda.

I also have had the pleasure of working with the presidents of the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech and Georgia State in developing and presenting to the chancellor and the Board of Regents a coherent state­ ment on the needs of the research university. Highlighted were the need:

To attract and retain the best qualified faculty;

To recruit and graduate the best students that Georgia can produce; and

To provide the physical and in­ tellectual environment for scholar­ ship, research and clinical care.

I also had the opportunity to pro­ vide the Board of Regents with a snapshot view of what we hope our campus will look like in the year 2020.

This overhead slide demonstrates our ambulatory and specialized care facilities, a Children's Medical Center, a Research Facility, and finally, our need for expansion onto the Sears property.

As I have stated in the past, the Board of Regents, the chancellor and the General Assembly have endorsed the building of the ambulatory and specialized care facilities. The General Assembly included language in last year's legislative action to enhance endorsement of $37 million in bonds during the 1989 legislative ses­ sion.

Of course, these bonds will be repaid by revenue generated by MCG's Hospital and Clinics rather than by the taxpayers. This heralds a new day in institutional creativity and accountability.

Let me now talk about our campus activities which have more im­ mediate impact on the MCG family. For the present and the future, MCG will be much more outcome-oriented. We will be measured not by how busy we are or by how hard we have tried, but by what we have accomplished. We are a university.

As a university, we must excel in all of our missions of teaching, scholar­ ship, research and clinical care.

Although as an institution we must excel in all areas, individual faculty members may not be able to excel in all with the same level of accomplish­ ment.A given requisite of being a member of the faculty is full par­ ticipation in the area of teaching and scholarship.

In addition to that, faculty members who are clinicians should excel in patient care and publishing on their clinical activities so that others will benefit from their exper­ tise.

Additionally, this group of academic clinicians must become more responsive, more accessible and should expand their clinical ac­ tivities as we support clinical pro­ grams like GeorgiaCare.

Our faculty, who are investigators either in the clinical or basic science area, must not only publish but should also be actively competing for and receiving extramural funding to enhance and support their research effort.

It is in this area that the Medical College of Georgia faces its greatest challenge. In research, although we have made progress in the past few years, our productivity has not kept pace with our expectations or exter­ nal comparisons. This is the area in which our regional and national reputation will rise or fall.

Over the past several years, the library, a basic tool for students and scholars, has received increased sup­ port for journal collections, for reference support and for electronic access to enhance our educational and research effort.

Over the past two years, over $450,000 of quality improvement funds has been invested in microcomputers for faculty. By the end of this year, more than 30 percent of the faculty will have microcomputers from this source alone. Well over 50 percent of the faculty now have direct access to microcomputers.

This year, the Medical College of Georgia received $500,000 in special initiative funding to help strengthen its research program.

Four hundred thousand was allocated for project research in the focus areas of aging, cancer, car­ diovascular disease, childhood diseases, and AIDS. Most of these projects were interdisciplinary and several were cooperative with the University of Georgia.

One hundred thousand was allocated to improve faculty access to the library collection, to reference data bases, to research computing and to health communication. These generic funds were aimed at improv­ ing the ability of the faculty to com­ pete for extramural grant support and to shorten the time line from results to publication.

These are all investments in our future. A future in which I have great confidence.

It is in this research area that our institution must expand. I have asked the chancellor and the Board of Regents to also make an investment in this investigative endeavor.

In this area, we will need to expand our faculty, expand our support per­ sonnel and expand our facilities. The ability to compete for extramural funds and to perform high quality research will be the yardstick by which our schools will be judged and will thrive.

Although few individual faculty members are endowed or equipped to function equally well in all three do­

mains of teaching, research and clinical service, each discipline, each department and each academic unit must be strategically structured to be able to be productive in all three ac­ tivities.

This means that not only deans, but departmental chairs and chiefs of ser­ vices play a key role in academic management. 1* is at this operational level that duties in teaching, research and clinical care are assigned and performance is evaluated. It is here that career development and institu­ tional prosperity are intimately link­ ed. Leaders are measured by their own exemplary productivity as well as by the total productivity, growth and maturity of the unit they lead.

In the future, new resources, as well as current resources, will be pro­ vided to schools, departments and in­ dividual faculty based on their ac­ complishments. For our clinicians, a greater commitment to patient care and scholarship is necessary. For our investigators, a greater commitment to obtaining extramural funds as well as scholarship is necessary. Unspoken is the fact that high quality teaching remains the common denominator for our existence.

I have put high expectations on the faculty, so also have I put high expec­ tations on myself and the ad­ ministrative staff.

Just as our new building program demonstrates a creative financial ap­ proach in the university system, I have also met with our federal legislators in both the House and the Senate to develop opportunities for the Medical College to gain some financial support for our future facili­ ty needs.

We also have begun to lay out the groundwork necessary to institute a major fund-raising campaign which will take place in 18 months. Two ma­ jor components of this campaign will be to increase the number of endowed chairs and to expand student scholar­ ships.

This administration shall place no limits on the pursuit of excellence nor erect any barriers to the performance of academic assignments and respon­ sibilities. This administration is com­ mitted to altering, aligning and enhancing the campus infrastruc­ tures and technical systems to sup­ port higher levels of faculty and staff

productivity.From this moment on, if the

Medical College of Georgia is to reach its full potential, we should stop mak­ ing explanations for why we are not at a different academic level, stop dreaming if only the state had given us this, or if we had more space, more time, more money, we would be the best academic health center in the South. We need not, we simply cannot wait for greater state support or in­ ducements.

For the future, we intend not only to take advantage of every opportunity, but to create opportunity. This calls for a winning attitude. We need to give our chancellor, our Board of Regents, our state legislators and our federal legislators evidence, on a growing scale, of our success measured by external standards, in teaching, in patient care, and especially in research. Upon that foundation, we can build the definitive health sciences university.

Without doubt, the Medical College of Georgia has enormous potential. The time is now to tap that potential.

To any who may have become com­ placent or too comfortable with the status quo, even in the face of the enormous changes in health care delivery and reimbursement, even as there is a lessening interest in medically related fields among our young, even as higher expectations are being placed, or to any who may be dwelling on the past even as a new century is about to dawn, I say:

Although we cannot direct the winds of change, we can and will ad­ just our sails. We will not lower our sights or compromise our goals. We intend to meet the challenges in education and health care with quali­ ty performance in all that we under­ take.

The trust has been given to us and so has the task. Everything we try will not succeed. But we shall not fail to try, nor shall we wait for others to show us the way.

Before the year 2020, with your strong commitment and full par­ ticipation, I would hope to see the Medical College of Georgia ranked among the top 25 academic health centers in the nation.

Thank you for your support and your commitment.

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Dr. Kenneth W. Lennox

Dr. Lennox appointed

Dr. Kenneth W. Lennox, professor of urology at the Medical College of Georgia and chief of urology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, has been elected president of the Georgia Urological Association.

The state organization for urologists has approximately 125 members.

Dr. I/ennox was selected president­ elect in September 1987 and was in­ stalled as president at the September 1988 meeting.

The urologist earned his medical degree from New York Medical Col­ lege and completed his urology train­ ing at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. He was chief of the urology service at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center from 1977 to 1982 when he joined the MCG faculty.

Dr. Porubsky electedDr. Edward S. Porubsky, professor

and chief of the Section of Otolaryngology at the Medical Col­ lege of Georgia, has been elected president of the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology for 1988-89.

The Georgia Society of Otolaryngology has approximately 125 members who specialize in pro­ blems of the ear, nose and throat.

Dr. Porubsky has been a member of the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology since 1977.

Dr. Porubsky is a graduate of Ohio State University College of Medicine. He did his internship at Cleveland Clinic Hospital, a year of postgraduate training in general surgery at St. Luke's Hospital and his residency in Otolaryngology at Washington University Medical Center.

He came to MCG as an assistant

clinical professor of surgery in 1973. He was made associate professor and chief of the Section of Otolaryngology in 1974 and was promoted to full pro­ fessor in 1977.

He received the Distinguished Faculty Award for Patient Care at MCG in 1987.

Dr. Porubsky is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.

He is a member of many other pro­ fessional societies including the Southern Medical Association, the Medical Association of Georgia, the Richmond County Medical Society, the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery and the Georgia Surgical Society. Dr. Edward S. Porubsky

Dr. Hardin appointed

Dr. Jefferson F. Hardin

Dr. Jefferson F. Hardin has been named a fellow of the American Col­ lege of Dentists.

Dr. Hardin is an associate professor in the Department of Periodontics at the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry. He served in the U.S. Navy as a dental officer for 24 years, and pioneered the use of helicopter- delivered dental and emergency clinics which were used to aid front­ line Marines in Vietnam.

Dr. Hardin earned his doctor of den­ tal surgery degree from the Universi­ ty of Tennessee College of Dentistry, and a master's of science degree in periodontics from the Ohio State University Graduate School. He com­ pleted a general residency program at the Naval Graduate Dental School at the National Naval Medical Center in Rethesda, Md., and a naval

residency in periodontics at the Naval Regional Dental Center in San Fran­ cisco.

Dr. Hardin is chairman of the School of Dentistry's Alumni and Public Affairs Committee. From 1978 to 1984, he served MCG as director of Children and Youth Dental Projects. He is editor-in-chief of "dark's Clinical Dentistry," and served for seven years as editor of the preven­ tive dentistry section of "Clinical Dentistry."

He is a fellow in the International College of Dentists and is a member of the national dental honor society, Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the American Academy of Periodon- tology, the Georgia and American dental associations and the Augusta Dental Society.

Dr. Bertrand joins MCG facultyDr. Styles Leslie Bertrand,

pediatric orthopedist, has joined the Medical College of Georgia Section of Orthopedics.

He has joined Dr. Elwyn A. Saunders Jr., professor of surgery at MCG, and Dr. Thomas E. Bailey Jr., an orthopedic surgeon who is a part- time faculty member, in the care of children with orthopedic problems.

Dr. Bertrand is a graduate of Texas Tech University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in or­ thopedics at MCG and joined the faculty in 1985.

In October 1987, Dr. Bertrand went to Brown University in Providence, R.I., for a one-year fellowship in pediatric orthopedic surgery.

He rejoined the MCG faculty in Oc­ tober 1988.

Dr. Bertrand will be working with Drs. Saunders and Bailey and other subspecialists to develop clinics which suit the specialized needs of children.

Clinics such as a neuromuscularDr. Styles Leslie Bertrand disease clinic will be designed to br­

ing together doctors and allied health personnel needed to provide total care for multi-specialty problems in children.

Pediatric orthopedics is a natural area for subspecialization within the field of orthopedics, Dr. Bertrand said.

"Children are not little adults. The have a whole set of unique medical problems," he said.

"Children really are unique in their ability to respond to treatment. The options open to treatment of children are very different than those for adults with similar problems," he said.

As au example, a child with a broken femur typically must wear a cast for six to eight weeks, Dr. Ber­ trand said. An adult with this injury typically takes a year to recover and may require traction for six weeks and a cast for six months or an opera­ tion.

Also, there are orthopedic problems in children that are rare or nonexis­ tent in adults, such as certain types of

bone cancers and cysts."Their bones are subject to a much

higher infection risk than adults because their bones are growing and the blood supply is different," Dr. Bertrand said. Also, small children do not have fully developed immune systems so a shower of bacteria from a source such as tonsillitis can lead to bone infection.

The care of children always has been incorporated into general or­ thopedic training, Dr. Bertrand said. In fact, "orthopedics" means straight child.

But as the field of medicine becomes more complex with the technological and informational boom, there is simply too much infor­ mation for any one doctor to know, he said.

Specialities like orthopedics are subdividing into areas such as trauma, sports medicine and pediatrics to accommodate the rapid­ ly expanding knowledge base and treatment options, Dr. Bertrand said.

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New monitor equipment installedToni Baker

A central monitoring system that keeps constant tabs on up to nine mothers in labor and displays infor­ mation about mother and child throughout the labor and delivery area has been installed at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital.

"You can be anywhere on the floor and have an overview of what's going on with the patients," said Dr. Lawrence D. Devoe, chief of the MCG Section of Maternal/Fetal Medicine.

The system monitors the baby's heart rate, the best established measure of fetal health during labor, and the mother's contraction pat­ terns.

"(The fetal heart rate) is im­ mediate and it has a long, well- established track record of recognizable patterns that indicate changes in the baby's condition," Dr. Devoe said.

"You want to establish that the pa­ tient's labor pattern is normal and that if you are using any medications to alter the labor pattern, they are having the desired affect.

"You relate the uterine activity pat­ tern to changes that go on in the fetal heart rate. The contractions are the environmental stress that the baby has to accommodate to every two to three minutes.

"You have to have a good recording of uterine activity to be able to ex­ plain changes in the heart rate. It gives you a sense of tempo of events," Dr. Devoe said.

Information on each patient is displayed at a central monitoring bank located at the nursing station as well as in each of the four labor rooms, in the delivery area and in the labor and delivery staff lounge.

"It's an acute care unit and we can't be everywhere all the time," Dr. Devoe said. "You don't always know, in advance, when something is going to take place that may require immediate attention."

The obstetrical management system, designed and installed by Hewlett Packard Co., makes optimal use of physicians and nurses by allow­ ing them to constantly monitor each patient without being at bedside.

About 100 of these systems have been installed worldwide, according to Bud Hooks, field engineer for Hewlett Packard.

The new system has an alarm that sounds when there is an abnormal fetal heart rate. The physician can set what parameters are normal for that particular mother and child.

"The old-fashioned way (of monitoring) is having whoever is monitoring the patient in the room call for help," Dr. Devoe said. "But sometimes a particular pattern shows up (and) the person who is monitoring the patient may not be aware of the significance of that pattern.

"It may be something that is unusual," Dr. Devoe said. The new approach to monitoring does not replace, but enhances standard monitoring of patients, he said.

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Dr. Devoe gestures to new labor and delivery monitoring equipment, with monitors located even in staff lounge

"What it does is give you expanded coverage where you have all beds visible to you at all times," Dr. Devoe said.

"The information is vital. But you are physically limited to one location at any given time. Having the ability to take that information and display it anywhere means that location is no longer a limitation," Dr. Devoe said.

This system has great use, par­ ticularly in a hospital such as MCG Hospital which handles so many com­ plicated pregnancies and births.

"We deal with so many high-risk patients," Dr. Devoe said. "The need to monitor our patients is nearly universal.

"Even though our delivery census has been fairly stable over the past four or five years, the level of intensi­ ty of care has gone up progressively. We are getting sicker patients. We are getting patients with a higher level of care complexity that just re­ quires more hands on, bedside in­ volvement," Dr. Devoe said.

"You are looking at it functionally as a way of expanding the capability of a facility that is operating within limitations of space and personnel," he said.

Also, in what Dr. Devoe calls the "ultimate consult," the new system may allow hospitals with monitors and a transmission unit to send labor tracings to MCG Hospital.

The new system has the potential to add software which would enable per­

manent storage of more than one year's worth of labor recordings on a single optical disk.

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Sculpture takes shape in alumna's garage

Toni Baker

A large-as-life tribute to the 160th anniversary celebration of the Medical College of Georgia is taking shape in the studio of an MCG alum­ na.

"I love working on this piece," said Kathy Girdler Engler, a graduate of the MCG School of Nursing, who was commissioned by MCG School of Medicine 160th Celebration Commit­ tee to design and sculpt a statue to greet visitors to the Old Medical Col­ lege.

The project was approved unanimously by the MCG School of Medicine 160th Celebration Commit­ tee in June.

"The School of Medicine faculty has been given the opportunity to fund this project as part of the Old Medical College renovation," said Dr. Lois T. Ellison, chairman of the committee. "I am so excited about this. It can be a focal point for the Old Medical Col­ lege."

Mrs. Engler has been working night and day on the Greek-style statue that

will wear the MCG cap, hood and regalia and stand on a four-foot granite pedestal outside the old building on Telfair Street in downtown Augusta.

The statue began with a 20-inch model. Next, Mrs. Engler fashioned a seven- and-a-half-foot skeleton of solid iron rod. The rod armature began to take more traditional human form with the addition of Styrofoam and plaster.

"It starts to flesh him out and it keeps him light," Mrs. Engler said.

Over the Styrofoam and plaster base, she put a clay-like substance called plasticene, which can be sculpted with the fine details that give life to the statue.

The alumna, who also trained at the John Herron School of Art of Indiana University, used three human models and her imagination to develop the lifelike form that has taken shape in her studio.

The male figure was completely formed before Mrs. Engler ever add­ ed the clothing.

"I wanted to actually clothe the figure, so people could feel the body

Kathy Engler works on sculpture for Old Medical College in her garage studiocoming through the drapery," she said.

The statue wears an abstract ver­ sion of the graduation gown with a hood and cap that are essentially true to form. The handsome head and figure of the statue are styled after classical Greek sculpture.

The process began in September and Mrs. Engler hopes to have a final model ready for the foundry by the end of December or at the latest by mid-January.

At this point, Mrs. Engler has much detail work to complete on the statue's hands and head.

"When I get going on a piece like this, I'm out in the studio before my husband even goes out to the hospital, and he goes out early," Mrs. Engler said, referring to husband Dr. Harold S. "Chubby" Engler, who also is an alumnus of MCG.

Bronzart Foundry in Sarasota, Fla., will cast the lifelike statue in bronze. The foundry has asked to be allowed four months to work, so the finished product should be ready by spring.

The original plan for the statue was that it would stand next to MCG forefather Milton Antony's grave and

gesture toward the entrance to the Old Medical College.

However, conversations with the landscape architect for the building led to the decision to move the statue just to the left of the entrance to the Old Medical College, and to place it on a granite pedestal.

The sculptor also plans to have the 20-inch model of the statue cast so that alumni and friends of the Medical College of Georgia can pur­ chase the smaller versions of the tribute for their homes or offices. She also will have sketchings and replicas of the head available.

SculptingLeft, Mrs. Engler uses mirror to see all sides of the sculpture. Below, a close- up view of the sculpture's head. Right, Mrs. Engler first prepared a small model of the life-size sculpture.

Page 6 — Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1988, Medical College of Georgia

Dr. Fischer selected chairmanDr. Asma Q. Fischer, child

neurologist at the Medical College of Georgia, has been selected chairman of the International Affairs Commit­ tee of the Child Neurology Society.

The international committee is designed to enhance communication between child neurologists in the United States and those who work in related areas in other countries.

The committee's bottom line is to improve care given to children in other countries by assisting physi­ cians from those countries in their training, Dr. Fischer said.

The Child Neurology Society is comprised of pediatric neurologists, pediatric neurosurgeons, pediatric neuropathologists and others who specialize in the neurological systems of children.

The International Affairs Commit­ tee of the society grew out of repeated requests by practitioners in other countries for guidance in pediatric neurology.

To meet those requests, the com­ mittee is working on an international directory of child neurologists.

Also, it plans to invite a distinguish-

Board members are appointed

The Medical College of Georgia Research Institute, Inc., has named three new at-large members to its board of directors.

The members are Dr. John Paul Jones, director of research for the health care division of Procter and Gamble Co. in Cincinnati; Dr. Whitney O'Keeffe, president of the Trust Company Bank of Augusta ; and Dr. Julius Scott, president of Paine College in Augusta.

Other new board members, elected at the Oct. 18 meeting of the institute's board of directors meeting, are Dr. Maximillian Stachura, department of medicine, and Dr. Lin­ da Ellis, appointed by the School of Nursing Alumni Association to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Marion Broome.

Reappointed or re-elected to the board were Drs. Ata Abdel-Latif, Virendra B. Mahesh, Raymond Bard, Thomas R. Dirksen and Betty Wray.

Dr. Asma Q. Fischered foreign pediatric neurologist and a promising young physician to the an­ nual meeting of the Child Neurology Society.

Physicians invited as guests of the

society will be from regions of the world that typically cannot afford to send representatives.

Those representatives would spread information learned at the meeting throughout their country, Dr. Fischer said. Also, there are plans for members of the society to travel to other countries to teach.

Dr. Fischer is a graduate of Dow Medical College of the University of Karachi in Pakistan. She did her pediatric training at Civil Hospital Karachi and at Waterbury Regional Hospital, an affiliate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

She continued her training in pediatrics at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center of Downstate Univer­ sity of New York in Brooklyn before completing a fellowship in pediatric neurology at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston Salem, N.C. She completed postgraduate training in neurosonology at Bowman Gray and has received postgraduate certifica­ tion in neurosonology from the American Society of Neuroimaging.

She joined the MCG Department of Neurology in 1983.

Food driveDeborah Simone organizes cans contributed to a Thanksgiving food drive con­ ducted by the MCG Graduate Student Association, WZNY, Sunny-105 Radio, and Food Lion stores. The food will be given to needy families in the Central Savannah River Area.

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Research will target abnormality in genes

Christine Deriso

What happens when genes, the car­ riers of hereditary material, go awry?

The results, even if the slightest variation occurs, can be quite devastating, according to Dr. Paul G. McDonough, chief of reproductive en­ docrinology in the Medical College of Georgia Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and acting director of the MCG Human Genetics In­ stitute.

One variation in particular — one which affects human sex determina­ tion — will be the subject of an MCG Research Report, a monthly series sponsored by the MCG School of Graduate Studies. Dr. McDonough will discuss "Molecular Biology of Sex Determination in Man" Nov. 22 at 4 p.m. in room 108 of the Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library.

Females normally are born with 46 chromosomes including two sex chromosomes, or XX. That second X sets them apart from males, who are born with 46 chromosomes, including XY sex chromosomes.

But one in 3,500 females are missing one of their X chromosomes. This syndrome is called gonadal dysgenesis and denotes the absence of ovarian development.

"And among these women, some have a certain number of cells that are identical to males — XY cells," Dr. McDonough said. "It's a random genetic error."

And a costly one. Women with these random Y cells are infertile. Their ovaries don't work and they have very few eggs. Other characteristics include short stature and lack of menstruation; they don't develop sex­ ually at puberty. And the risk of cancer looms large in their future.

"It seems that when they have Y DNA, they're very much at risk of developing ovarian tumors," Dr. McDonough said. The risk is about 20 to 30 percent higher than that of the general female population.

In the early 1980s, Dr. McDonough and colleagues Drs. Sandra Tho, Jay Tischfield and Ali Behzadian began researching techniques to detect this random Y chromosome.

"We wanted to be able to detect the Y cell line even if it existed in only one in a million cells," Dr. McDonough said. Such a diagnosis would prompt these women to have their ovaries surgically removed, thus eliminating their high risk of ovarian cancer.

The researchers developed a Y DNA probe that does just that and more. The probe detects DNA se­ quences in the middle of the Y chromosome. And these target se­ quences can be amplified millions of

Doctor joins facultyStephen Robert Ikeda, M.D., Ph.D.,

has joined the Medical College of Georgia Department of Phar­ macology and Toxicology as assistant professor.

Dr. Ikeda's primary interest is in the electrical activity of nerve cells which is essential to nerve function.

He is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He also earned a doctorate degree in phar­ macology from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Dr. Ikeda then completed five years of postgraduate training in elec- trophysiology, first as a medical staff fellow and then as a senior staff fellow in the Laboratory of Physiologic and Pharmacologic Studies of the Na­ tional Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National In­ stitutes of Health.

As a researcher at MCG, Dr. Ikeda will explore neurons of the sym­ pathetic ganglia, a part of the nervous ; ystem that controls various

itonomic functions such as heart sate, blood pressure and dilatation of the pupil.

One component he will explore isthe calcium channels which regulatethe amount of calcium entering a cell.•' dcium entering a cell triggers vital

tion such as release ofurotransmitters which leads to con­

traction of blood vessels and in­ creases in blood pressure.

Dr. Ikeda wants to better unders­ tand how that system works, with an eye toward understanding its role in high blood pressure.

Calcium is found in abundance on the outside of a cell. It enters the cell through a tightly-regulated gateway. A dysfunction in the gateway may result in high blood pressure and other diseases.

Dr. Ikeda will use an animal model to explore what changes occur in the calcium channels with hypertension or high blood pressure. He also will explore how the flow of calcium into the cell is regulated, focusing on the gate and how it opens in this finely tuned system.

times by a technique called polymerase chain reaction.

"Even if one cell in a million is an XY, we can amplify that in a chain reaction," he said."We can detect the Y cell no matter how diluted it may be."

The researchers have further refin­ ed the technique to identify malform­ ed Y chromosomes.

"Some of the Y chromosomes are not normal Ys," Dr. McDonough said."Some pieces are missing. We've had to contend with that as a technical problem."

The probe is now sophisticated enough to detect even these pieces of the chromosome. The samples sent to the researchers from throughout the United States and Europe attest to its effectiveness.

The research team plans to extend its studies to explore the molecular basis for the relationship between childhood ovarian cancer and the presence or integration of Y DNA into genes.

The team's research is the result of a joint venture of the MCG depart­ ments of anatomy and obstetrics and gynecology. The program, initiated by Drs. Donald Sherline and Dale Bockman, is designed to encourage interaction and collaborative research between basic and clinical investigators at MCG. Dr. Behzadian directs the joint laboratory.

Dr. Stephen Robert Ikeda

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OR Nurse DayEdna Travis and R. Amy Brown, operating room nurses, take time out for a surprise breakfast party Nov. 12, which was OR Nurse Day. The party was spon­ sored by the operating room nursing administrators and the anesthesiology department.

Dr. Truemper joins facultyDr. Edward Joseph Truemper,

pediatric intensivist, has joined the Medical College of Georgia faculty.

Dr. Truemper joins the faculty as an assistant professor in the Depart­ ment of Pediatrics. He joins Drs. Curt Steinhart and Anthony Pearson- Shaver in the MCG Section of Pediatric Critical Care.

The physicians provide care to seriously ill and injured children in MCG's 10-bed pediatric intensive care unit and in University Hospital's PICU.

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Grant proposal deadlinesDec. 1

Pfizer/American Geriatrics Society, postdoctoral fellowships.

Dec. 15Public Health Service (NIH, ADAMHA, CDC, etc.), small business

innovation research program grants.

OpenMCGRI, scholar away program; American Paralysis Association,

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Applications and information are available from the Office of Grants and Contracts, AA-130, ext. 2592.

A time to rememberState Sen. Frank A. Albert speaks to group of ad­ ministrators, veterans and others during Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home's Veterans Day program. The com­

memoration is held on the llth day of the llth month at the llth hour.

Blood pressure study underwayChristine Deriso

A Medical College of Georgia pediatric psychologist has obtained a $338,000 National Institutes of Health grant to study factors in childhood which may lead to hypertension.

The five-year study begins in December, at which time Dr. Frank Treiber, the study's principal in­ vestigator, will distribute question­ naires to about 24,000 first- through eighth-graders in Richmond County public schools. The forms, which the children's parents will be asked to fill out, will provide information about family histories of hypertension and heart attack.

Based on the forms returned, Dr. Treiber expects about 1,500 children will be identified as at high risk of developing hypertension because of a strong family history of the disease.

"The stronger the family history, the more the child is at risk of developing essential hypertension (hypertension with an unknown cause) later in life," he said. "But just because you're in that group doesn't mean you're going to develop hypertension "

About 15 to 20 percent of U.S. adults are estimated to have hypertension, but the prevalence and mortality

rates are higher among blacks.Dr. Treiber will go to the schools

and conduct blood pressure screen­ ings of the children identified as high- risk. He then will select two groups for his study participants: half whose blood pressure measured slightly high for their age and half whose blood pressure measured slightly low. Those whose blood pressure is among the highest five percent for their age group will be referred to a physician for further screening and discounted as study participants. He hopes to have about 150 participants in each group, half white and half black.

Those participants will be tested yearly for five years for height, weight, body fat, diet, physical activi­ ty, fitness levels and styles of coping with stress.

"We want to find precursors to essential hypertension in addition to family history," Dr. Treiber said. "Some studies have found that those who are quite sedentary, overweight, or exhibit excessive blood pressure reactivity to stress are more likely to develop essential hypertension."

The children will do such things as play challenging video games and run on a treadmill in a laboratory. Their physiological responses will then be measured to determine the effects of

such stressors."None of these things will cause

their blood pressure or heart rates to rise to dangerous levels," Dr. Treiber said. "These are similar stressors to the ones we're exposed to daily."

Previous studies have shown blacks to be more reactive to stress than whites, and Dr. Treiber hopes the stress tests will provide more data about such generalizations. "The in­ formation can be used to develop prevention programs," he said."Fin- dings will form a basis for future studies which will help children lead healthier lives and decrease their chances of developing essential hypertension."

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