Cone Hospital review [May, 1967]

              MOSES   CONE    HOSPITAL
REVIEW
Vol. II No. 3
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
May, 1967
Two Chiefs of Teaching Services Appointed
The appointment of two University
of North Carolina faculty members
to head new teaching programs at
Moses Cone Hospital effective July 1,
1967 has been jointly announced by
Mr. Harold L. Bettis, Director of
Moses Cone Hospital and Dr. Isaac
M. Taylor, Dean of the University of
North Carolina School of Medicine.
Dr. William B. Herring will be
Chief of the Medical Teaching Service and Chief of the Teaching Programs of the Hospital. He will also
serve as Director of Medical Education for Moses Cone Hospital. Dr.
Martha Sharpless will be Chief of the
Pediatric Teaching Service.
The University of North Carolina
Teaching Programs of Moses Cone
Hospital are the product of an affiliation established in December 1966
between the University and the Hospital. The primary purpose of the
affiliation is to provide clinical training suitable for young physicians
whose professional goal is to provide
primary medical care. Beginning in
September 1967, medical students in
their fourth year will be accepted for
a part of their training in Medicine
and Pediatrics. Applications are now
being accepted for internships to begin
in July, 1968. The internship is approved by the Council on Medical
Education of the AMA. In succeeding
years,, a three-year residency program
in family medical care will gradually
be established. With the development
of these programs, Moses Cone Hospital and the University of North
Carolina Medical School are sharing
in the effort of a small but growing
number of institutions over the country to deal with the physician shortage
specifically in the area of greatest
need, that of primary physicians.
Dr. Sharpless, a native of Golds-
boro, N. C, is a graduate of Duke
University and the University of North
Carolina School of Medicine. Following internship and one year of residency  in  pediatrics   at  North   Carolina
Dr. Sharpless
Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, she
completed a three-year residency in
pediatrics at Columbia - Presbyterian
Medical - Center - Babies Hospital in
New York City. During the third
year she was Chief Resident and Instructor in Pediatrics. Upon completion of her residency in 1964, Dr.
Sharpless was appointed a United
States Public Health Service trainee in
pediatric infectious diseases and a
Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia. Since October,
1965, she has been engaged part-time
in private practice of pediatrics in
Greensboro and has also worked in
the Guilford County Health Department and the UNC-G Infirmary.
Dr. Sharpless is a diplomate of the
American Board of Pediatrics and a
Fellow of the American Academy of
Pediatrics. She will hold the rank of
Assistant Professor in the Department
of Pediatrics of the UNC Medical
School. Her husband, Dr. Edward
Sharpless, recently completed his
residency in pathology at Moses Cone
Hospital. He is now in private practice
of pathology at Alamance County and
Alamance General Hospitals in Bur-
Dr.  Herring
lington. They have four children.
Dr. Herring is a native of North
Carolina and a graduate of Wake
Forest College and Bowman Gray
Medical School. After three years as a
medical officer in the U. S. Navy he
entered residency training in internal
medicine at the University of Virginia
Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia,
completing the three-year program in
1959. He then entered the private
practice of internal medicine in Albemarle, N. C, for two years. In 1961
Dr. Herring was appointed Research
Fellow in Hematology in the Department of Medicine of the University of
North Carolina Medical School. Since
1963 he has been a member of the
faculty now holding the rank of Assistant Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Herring is a diplomate of the
American Board of Internal Medicine
and a member of the American College of Physicians and several other
professional organizations. He has co-
authored several scientific publications
in the field of hematology. He's married to the former Elizabeth Hanks of
Louisville, Kentucky. They have two
children.