NOMINATION 1043 HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION MERLIN K. DuVAL, JR., OF ARIZONA, TO BE AN ASSISTANT JUNE 10, 1971 Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare 63-574 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1971 UNITED STATES OF AME COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia ADLAI E. STEVENSON III, Illinois JACOB K. JAVITS, New York ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland STEWART E. MCCLURE, Staff Director (II) NOMINATION THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1971 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 2 p.m., pursuant to notice, in room 4232, New Senate Office Building, Hon. Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Williams, Randolph, Pell, and Kennedy. Staff members present: Stewart E. McClure, staff director; Robert E. Nagle, general counsel; Roy H. Millenson, minority staff director; and Eugene Mittelman, minority counsel. The CHAIRMAN. Our meeting will come to order. The Committee on Labor and Public Welfare is meeting this afternoon to hear from nominees whose names have been submitted to the Senate by the President. We will first hear from Dr. Merlin K. DuVal, who has been nominated by the President to be Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for health and scientific affairs. Dr. DuVal is a native of New Jersey, and presently resides in Arizona where he has been Dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine since 1964. He comes to us with a most impressive background. I will order that a copy of Dr. DuVal's biography, the public law that created his position, and other pertinent material dealing with his office be printed in the record at this point. (The information referred to follows:) Personal: CURRICULUM VITAE OF MERLIN K. DUVAL, M.D. Born: October 12, 1922, Montclair, New Jersey. Married: Carol Nickerson, June 21, 1944. Children: David-February 1947; Barbara-February 1949; Frederick-May 1954. Education and Training: 1940: College High School, Upper Montclair, New Jersey. 1943 A.B. Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. 1944: 2-Yr. Certificate Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire. 1946: M.D. Cornell University Medical College, New York City. 1947-1948: Ward Surgeon, U.S. Naval Hospital, St. Albans, New York. 1948-1949: Professional Assistant to Senior Medical Officer, U.S. Naval Amphibian Base, Virginia. 1949-1950: Rotating Intern, Roosevelt Hospital, New York. ppointments and Offices 1954: U.S. Board Certification-Surgery. 1954-1955: Instructor in Surgery, State University of New York School (1) of Medicine at Brooklyn, N.Y.; Assistant Attending Surgeon, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955-1956: Assistant Professor of Surgery, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Associate Attending Surgeon, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Attending Surgeon, V.A. Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Consultant in Surgery, U.S. Naval Hospital, St. Albans, N.Y. 1956-1961: Markle Scholar in Medical Science. 1957-1961: Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1957-1964: Attending Surgeon, V.A. Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1959-1962: Appointed Member, Governor's Commission on Higher Edu cation. 1960-1964: Vice-chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1960-1962: Director of Medical Center Development, University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1961-1964: Professor of Surgery, University of Oklahoma School of Medi cine. 1961-1964: President, Association of the University of Oklahoma Medical Faculty. 1961-1962: Vice-president, Oklahoma Surgical Association. 1961-1964: Board of Directors, Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce. 1962-1963: President-elect, Oklahoma Surgical Association. 1962-1964: Assistant Director, University of Oklahoma Medical Center. 1963-1964: Secretary-Treasurer, Oklahoma City Surgical Society. 1963-1964: President, Oklahoma Surgical Association. 1964: Dean, University of Arizona College of Medicine. 1965: Board of Governors, American College of Surgeons; Board of Directors, Southwest Research Foundation; Tucson Community Council, (1) Committee on Federal Health Legislation, (2) Community Survey Committee, (3) Subcommittee on Mental Health Services and Facilities. 1966: Consultant, Bureau of Health Manpower, U.S. Public Health Service; Project Director, National Library of Medicine Study; American Surgical Association Committee on Surgical Education; Chairman, Governor's Steering Committee to Regional Medical Program; Tucson Community Council, (1) Comprehensive Health Planning Committee, (2) Committee on Impact of Medicare. 1967: Air Pollution Advisory Committee, Pima County; Arizona Medical Association, (1) Benevolent and Loan Fund Committee, (2) Vocational Rehabilitation Committee, (3) Subcommittee on Comprehensive Health Planning; American College of Surgeons Committee on Undergraduate Education; Pima County Medical Society Federal Service Committee; Chairman, Arizona Anatomical Board; Director, Arizona Regional Medical Programs; Associate Editor, Arizona Medicine; Editorial Board, Journal of Medical Education; Executive Council, Association American Medical Colleges; Committee on Undergraduate Medical Education of the American Medical Association Council on Medical Education; Council on Medical Education, Maricopa County; Commission on Education for the Health Professions of the National Association State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. 1968: National Advisory Council on Education for Health Professions, of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare; Arizona Health Planning Authority; Association of American Medical Colleges, (1) Ways and Means Committee, (2) Chairman, Western Region; Chairman, Commission on Education for the Health Professions, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant College; Board of Directors, Arizona Kidney Foundation; Governmental Services Committee, Pima County Medical Society; Board of Directors, National Foundation for Asthmatic Children at Tucson; AMA-AAMC Liaison Committee on Medical Education. 1969: National Health Show, Inc., Scientific Advisory Council ArMA, Ad Hoc Committee, re Hospital Corporations; Assn. of American Medical Colleges, Council of Deans, Chairman Elect, Arizona. 1970: U of Arizona, Advisory Committee on the Health Related Professions; Health Occupations Advisory Committee, Pima College; Vice-Chairman, UCC Campaign, Chief, Educational Division UCC Campaign; Priorities Committee TCC-UCC; Tucson Community Council, Guidelines Commit; Pima County Medical Society, Governmental Services Committee. 70-73: ArMA Benevolent and Loan Fund Committee; National Alliance sinessmen, Inc., Advisor; Southwestern Surgical Congress Publicaand Research Committee. 1970-71: American Medical Association, Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Education, 1970-71; American Surgical Association, Committee on Governmental Relationships; Tucson Community Council, 1971 Guidelines Committee; Member; Chairman, Task Force, AMA-AAMC Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Memberships: 1947: Diplomate National Board of Medical Examiners. 1954: Diplomate American Board of Surgery; Bergen County Medical Society; American Medical Association. 1955: Medical Society of the State of New York; Kings County Medical Society. 1956: Brooklyn Surgical. 1958: Fellow American College of Surgeons; New York Academy of Science; Sigma Xi Scientific Society; Oklahoma County Medical Society. 1959: Society of University Surgeons; American Federation for Clinical Research; Southwestern Surgical Society. 1960: Surgical Biology Club; Oklahoma City Surgical; Oklahoma Surgical Association; American Gastroenterological Association; International Surgical Society. 1961: American Surgical Association. 1962: Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. 1963: Alpha Omega Alpha (Honorary); National Association on Standard Medical Vocabulary. 1964: Pima County Medical Society; Arizona Medical Association; Pan American Medical Association, Inc.; Association of American Medical Colleges; Medical Society of the United States and Mexico; Tucson Surgical Society. 1966: American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1967: Arizona Surgical Association; Clarence Dennis Society. 1970: Tucson Community Council; National Alliance of Businessmen ; National Foundation for Asthmatic Children, Board of Directors. |