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Hamlin Named
Acting Dean

James T. Hamlin III has been named
acting dean of the University's School of
Medicine where he has been assistant
dean since 1969.

University president Edgar F. Shannon
Jr. announced the appointment Friday.

Dr. Hamlin will fill the vacancy
created by Kenneth R. Crispell's
promotion to the post of vice president for
health sciences, effective last Monday.

A native of Danville, Dr. Hamlin is a
graduate of Virginia Military Institute and
received his M.D. degree from the University.
He interned and was later assistant in medicine
at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and
then was a research fellow at Harvard Medical
School.

He joined the University medical faculty in
1966 as associate professor of medicine after
teaching at New York Medical College and the
Medical College of Georgia. He also had been
guest investigator at the Rockefeller Institute.

At the University, he also directs the
Medical Center's 10-bed clinical research unit
where intense investigations into the cause and
effects of human disease problems can be
carried out under precisely controlled
conditions.