WINTER 2011

Achieving Balance

Medicine & The Arts synergies and dynamics of teams, better preparing Leading in them to enter the clinics. Our approach to team-based learning has been a Time modeled on experience and success with this strat- of Change egy at the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School. On page 4, you’ll learn Over the past year, we have all been pondering how this partnership is developing, and the excite- monumental changes in health care, which seemed ment behind the commitment both institutions have made to its continued growth and expansion. imminent after national health care reform was DukeMed Alumni News introduced. While it is unclear how reform will In this issue you also will have the chance to read is published three times a year by about talented and dedicated medical students the Duke Medical Alumni Association. eventually take shape, it is increasingly apparent Issues are available online at that health care delivery is at a crossroads, with who devote what free time they have to the arts. medalum.duke.edu. On page 10, you will meet accomplished artists, Your comments, ideas, and letters important implications for medical education. to the editor are welcome. musicians, actors and performers who consider art Rather than wait passively for change to dictate Please contact us at: our momentum, I’m proud to say that Duke Uni- to be an integral part of their lives. They say it helps DukeMed Alumni News them manage the stress of medical education. 512 S. Mangum St., Suite 400 versity School of Medicine Durham, NC 27701-3973 continues to lead. We are The new year is full of challenges, opportunities e-mail: [email protected] transforming our teaching and exciting new programs and initiatives at Duke. Jenny Jones I am looking forward to sharing more news with Director and training to prepare Alumni Affairs for new and emerging you about the future direction of the School of Medicine in the coming months. Editor models of patient care. Marty Fisher

Collaboration and team- Contributing Writers based care involving a Sincerely, Bernadette Gillis, Jim Rogalski spectrum of health care Graphic Designer professionals are clear David Pickel themes of the future. Photography Duke Photography We have become more Gerry Melendez deliberate in educating Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD Jared Lazarus Dean, Duke University School of Medicine Jim Rogalski our medical students to Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs collaborate with their peers. Team-based learning Produced by the Office of Professor, Pediatrics Marketing and Creative Services. —the subject of a feature story beginning on page Copyright Duke University Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology 16—encourages students to apply their knowledge Health System, 2011. MCOC-8247 and skills in groups. Our new Learning Center, which I’m delighted to say is now under construc- tion, will facilitate the team approach. The team-based learning environment has re- ceived high marks in studies, which show students absorb more and score higher than when taught through traditional lectures. It also gives students an opportunity to begin to understand the

Victor J. Dzau, MD Edward G. Buckley, MD Scott Gibson Sally Kornbluth, PhD Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University Banks Anderson, Sr. Professor Executive Vice Dean for Administration, Vice Dean for Research, President and Chief Executive Officer, of Ophthalmology Duke University School of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine Duke University Health System Professor of Pediatrics Vice Dean for Medical Education Augustus Grant, MD, PhD Billy Newton Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD Duke University School of Medicine Professor of Medicine Vice Dean for Finance and Resource Planning, Dean, Duke University School of Medicine Vice Dean for Faculty Enrichment, Duke University School of Medicine Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Michael Cuffe, MD, MBA Duke University School of Medicine Duke University Vice President for Medical Affairs, Duke University Health System Vice Dean for Medical Affairs, Duke University School of Medicine Contents

IN BRIEF FEATURES 2 Reunion Giving Success 10 Students Find Balance 2011 Reunion Volunteers through the Arts

3 New Master of 16 Team-Based Biostatistics Degree Learning Catches On

22 Class Notes 25 Daughter’s Lung Transplant Shows Rawl, MD’71, the Patient Perspective 3 Duke in Depth: Celebrating 50 years of the Peace Corps

4 Duke-Singapore Partnership Expands

27 Wilhemsen, MD’79, Has a Hit with Bone Doctors 10 Barbecue Sauce

5 Shaw is Medical Alumni Association President

6 Nine Join Medical Alumni Council

8 Medical Alumni Weekend 2010 7

 Ground is broken for the 08 House Staff Notes New Learning Center 30 32 Obituaries

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16  Bruce M. Freedman and son Michael summitted Mt. Elbrus

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2010 Reunion Giving

Medical education, scholarships, research, and patient care all received a boost from the 2010 Reunion Gift Program during Medical Alumni Weekend. A total of $945,111 was raised in support of the Medical Annual Fund/Davison Club and programs across Duke Medicine, with an overall participation rate of 32 percent. Half Century Society gifts totaled $371,150. Thanks to all the volunteers and alumni who made this year’s program a success! 2011 Reunion 1960 (50th) 1985 (25th) Class Chair: Edwin T. Preston, Jr. Class Co-Chairs: Nicholas John Leonardy Volunteers Gift Participation: 44% & Robert F. St. Peter Planning is underway for Medical Davison Club & Medical Annual Gift Participation: 39% Alumni Weekend 2011! The Medical Fund Giving: $142,695 Davison Club & Medical Annual Alumni Association has developed a Total Duke Medicine Giving: $149,244 Fund Giving: $72,825 network of class committee chairs who Davison Club Members: 14 Total Duke Medicine Giving: $84,380 will facilitate communication between Davison Club Members: 19 reuniting alumni, the School of Medicine, 1965 (45th) and the Medical Alumni Association. If Class Agent: Jack D. Williams 1990 (20th) you have any questions about your 2011 Gift Participation: 46% Class Chair: Shauna Tilly Farmer class reunion or are interested in becom- Gift Participation: 29% Davison Club & Medical Annual ing a volunteer, please contact your class Davison Club & Medical Annual Fund Giving: $24,060 reunion chair, listed below. Fund Giving: $23,490 Total Duke Medicine Giving: $26,526 Mark your calendar for Reunion 2011, Davison Club Members: 13 Total Duke Medicine Giving: $24,735 October 20-23! Davison Club Members: 8 1970 (40th) 1961 Class Chair: Dale W. Caughey, Jr. 1995 (15th) James J. “J.J.” LaPolla, Sr., Warren, Ohio Class Co-Chairs: Robb Logan Romp Gift Participation: 33% Robert K. Yowell, Durham, N.C. Davison Club & Medical Annual & Ravi N. Samy 1966 Fund Giving: $13,950 Gift Participation: 30% Shelia Moriber Katz, Gladwyne, Pa. Davison Club & Medical Annual Total Duke Medicine Giving: $15,455 Emanuel “Manny” Newmark, Atlantis, Fla. Davison Club Members: 8 Fund Giving: $18,891 Total Duke Medicine Giving: $28,086 1971 1975 (35th) John C. Rawl, Lexington, S.C. Davison Club Members: 6 Class Chair: Raymond J. Toher, Jr. Garrett Saikley, Honolulu, Hawaii Gift Participation: 24% 2000 (10th) 1976 Davison Club & Medical Annual Class Chair: Swati Agarwal J. Bancroft “Banny” Lesesne, Atlanta, Ga. Fund Giving: $62,549 Gift Participation: 26% Katherine S. Upchurch, Concord, Mass. Total Duke Medicine Giving: $87,704 Davison Club & Medical Annual 1981 Davison Club Members: 14 Fund Giving: $13,735 Jonathan Christenbury, Charlotte, N.C. Total Duke Medicine Giving: $16,529 1980 (30th) 1986 Davison Club Members: 9 Class Co-Chairs: Chalmers M. Nunn, Jr. & Osbert “Oz” Blow, Corpus Christi, Texas Douglas Jay Sprung 2005 (5th) 1991 Gift Participation: 40% Class Chair: Saumil M. Chudgar Janice A. Gault, Penn Valley, Pa. Davison Club & Medical Annual Gift Participation: 12% Rowena Dolor Cuffe, Durham, N.C. Fund Giving: $70,880 Davison Club & Medical Annual 1996 Total Duke Medicine Giving: $140,150 Fund Giving: $947 Matthew J. Hepburn, Frederick, Md. Davison Club Members: 17 Total Duke Medicine Giving: $1,152 2001 Davison Club Members: 1 Matthew G. Hartwig, Durham, N.C. Bimal R. Shah, Durham, N.C. 2006 To be determined

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New Master of Biostatistics Scuderi to Speak at Program Accepting Applications Berend Orthopedic Symposium

Demand for biostatisticians—collaborative scientists with Orthopedic Surgeon Giles Scuderi, MD, will be the visiting expertise in the statistical methods used to prove new theories— professor at the Third Annual Emily Berend Adult Reconstruction is growing rapidly. To help meet the demand at Duke and other Symposium. Sponsored by Duke University School of Medicine, academic medical centers, the School of Medicine has developed the event will be held at the Duke University an innovative degree program that focuses on three core compe- Medical Center Human Fresh Tissue Labora- tencies: analysis, biology, and communication. tory on April 15-16, 2011. According to Greg Samsa, PhD, director of graduate studies in Scuderi currently is one of the directors of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, the two-year, the Insall Scott Kelly Institute for Orthopedics 40-credit-hour program will cultivate students who have skills to and Sports Medicine. He also is an attending meet current and future challenges in biomedical research. orthopedic surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital “We wanted this to be different from a traditional master’s and Franklin Medical Center and assistant program,” says Samsa. “We wanted active, practical, hands-on clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at learning. Biostatistics is such a relatively new and rapidly grow- Albert Einstein College of Medicine. ing discipline, and we know employers are looking for people For the third year in a row, the com- with exceptional analytical skills, a strong foundation in human prehensive hip and knee course will offer biology, and the ability to effectively communicate statistical lectures on hot topics in hip and knee principles to multi-disciplinary research teams.” arthroplasty and live video demonstrations Priority is given to applications received by March 1, 2011. on the latest operative techniques. After March 1, applications are considered on a space-available The course, which is presented by Duke’s basis. For more information, please visit biostat.duke.edu. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, is aimed at orthopedic surgeons, surgeons in training, and other medical professionals seeking specialized education in current hip- and knee-replacement techniques, patient management, and patient-outcome optimization. The symposium was first established in 2009 by joint replace- ment surgeons Mike Berend, MD’92, HS’92-’98, and Keith Berend, MD’97, HS’97-’02. The brothers felt motivated to show their gratitude for their Duke training and to honor their late mother, Emily. The adult reconstruction symposium’s registration fee is $200. To learn more, contact Carolina Manson at 919-668-4732 or [email protected] or Michael Bolognesi, MD’98, HS’98-’03, at 919-668-4732 or [email protected]. You may also visit cmetracker.net/DUKE/courses.html.

Duke in Depth: A World Together

The Duke University Alumni Association and Office of News & Communications will present Duke in Depth: A World To- gether on February 24-27. The weekend conference, which includes a celebration increasingly global society and also honor of Social Entrepreneurship. of the 50th Anniversary of the Peace the hundreds of Duke alumni and com- Participants may select a la carte from Corps, will provide an opportunity for munity members who have served in a variety of learning sessions, visual and faculty, alumni, students, and outside the Peace Corps. The event will be held performing arts experiences, and social experts to explore the challenges faced by in collaboration with the ASHOKA events. Discount pricing is available for the Duke community and others in pursu- Changemaker Campus national confer- Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV). ing global development. It will showcase ence being hosted by the Fuqua School Registration and information at Duke’s growing engagement with an of Business Center for the Advancement dukeindepth.com.

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The school’s educational design is based on Duke’s innovative model, with a focus on independent study and research within a context of small group discussions and interactive learning op- portunities. One of the most important goals of the next phase of the partner- ship will be to further align research, education, and patient care interests and outcomes with SingHealth, Singapore’s largest group of health care institutions. Pictured at the Duke-NUS phase II agreement signing ceremony, held November 30 in Singa- pore, are (seated from left to right) signatories Michael Merson, vice chancellor for Duke-NUS “The Duke-NUS educational model affairs and director of the Duke Global Health Institute; Victor Dzau, chancellor for health is very distinctive, and the school has affairs, Duke University; and Tan Eng Chye, provost, National University of Singapore; and also contributed strongly to Singa- (standing from left to right) witnesses Tan Ser Kiat, group CEO, SingHealth; Tony Chew, chair- pore’s Biomedical Sciences initiative man, Duke-NUS Governing Board; Khaw Boon Wan, minister for health; Ng Eng Hen, minister through its cutting-edge research,” for education and second minister for defense; Ranga Krishnan, dean, Duke-NUS; and Tan Chorh Chuan, president, National University of Singapore. said Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, NUS president. “I would say that this partnership has greatly exceeded our Duke–Singapore Partnership Expands already high initial expectations.” Duke University and the National Univer- “This is a very important day Duke-NUS concentrates its efforts on sity of Singapore in November agreed for Duke Medicine and for five signature research programs— to a new five-year plan to expand the cancer and stem cell biology, neurosci- growth and development of the Duke- our partners in Singapore.” ence and behavioral disorders, emerging NUS Graduate Medical School. - Victor J. Dzau infectious diseases, cardiovascular and Since initially established in 2005, the metabolic disorders, and health services partnership has flourished. Duke-NUS and systems research. welcomed its first class of 26 students Duke’s Michael Merson, MD, vice in 2007, and enrollment has more than chancellor for Duke-NUS affairs, says doubled since then, drawing top students that deepening the relationship between and distinguished faculty from around Duke and Singapore will be especially the world. The first class of medical doc- helpful in defining multi-national strate- tors will graduate in May. gies for advancing research and new “This is a very important day for Duke treatments for infectious diseases as well Medicine and for our partners in Singa- as chronic medical conditions. pore,” said Victor J. Dzau, MD, chancellor “This growing partnership will help for health affairs, Duke University, and solidify Singapore’s position as a center CEO of the Duke University Health Sys- of biomedical expertise, and will also tem. “Duke will continue to build offer students and faculty from around relationships with strategic partners the globe a setting where they can test around the world, but we will always drive research and educational innova- see Duke-NUS as the crown jewel of tions, such as new models of care and our international activities.” new models of caregivers.”

4 | DukeMedAlumniNews | Medical Alumni Council Shaw Named New MAA president Dale R. Shaw, T’69, MD’73, HS’73-’77, FACR, says his career successes, and even a few important personal events, all have their origins at Duke. From finding his passion for radiology to meeting his wife to watching his children find their own success through Duke degrees, he says he owes a great deal to his “...house staff who alma mater. train at Duke are In an effort to give back, the triple Dukie underrepresented has held numerous volunteer positions at Duke since completing radiology training in alumni activities. in 1977. His latest role: serving as Medical I hope to help Alumni Association (MAA) president. change that.” Appointed last fall, Shaw hopes to spend his two-year term focused on a number of issues, including increasing house staff alumni participation and raising funds for the new School of Medicine Learning Center. “There’s such a large number of house staff who trained at Duke,” he says, “but they’re underrepresented in alumni activities. I hope to help change that.” Shaw already serves on the Learning Center Steering Committee, and says he looks forward to expanding his role in rallying alumni support for the much-needed building. Before becoming MAA president, Shaw “Radiology cuts across every medical spe- had been a member of the Medical Alumni cialty; almost every disease process can Council (MAC) for a number of years. He be imaged somehow.” He adds jokingly, also served twice as president of the Davison “Plus we get the biggest toys.” Club, from 1986 to 1987 and, again from Shaw is an active member of American 1997 to 2000. His Duke involvement extends College of Radiology (ACR), having served beyond the School of Medicine. For five years as past president of the organization’s North he was the MAC representative to the Duke Carolina chapter and as a member of its ex- University Alumni Association, and he also ecutive committee for 27 years. As chairman previously served as vice president of the of the chapter’s Continuing Medical Educa- Duke Alumni Association. tion Committee, he has organized popular Shaw is a radiologist with Charlotte annual review courses in breast imaging and Radiology. He says what he loves most about vascular ultrasound imaging. In 2009 the his chosen specialty is that it constantly offers chapter presented him with the Silver Medal Award, which is the chapter’s highest honor. new challenges and touches nearly every area Nancy and Dale Shaw of medicine. His wife Nancy, WC’70, L’73, is a faculty member in the Duke University School of Law. The couple lives in Charlotte, N.C., and they have two children. Elizabeth, T’02, L’05, has worked in entertainment law, and Robert, T’09, is a junior partner and part owner of Shoeboxed.com, an online receipt and document management company.

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Bruce M. Freedman Robert L. Friedman Matthew G. Hartwig J. Wes Jones Gary E. Kay

Hospital from 2005 to 2007 and as presi- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical New Medical dent of the Warren Hospital Risk Retention Care Medicine at Duke. They have one Group from 2004 to 2010. Board certified daughter, Amelia. Alumni Council by the American Board of Orthopedic Sur- gery, Friedman is a member of the Ameri- J. Wes Jones, T’72, MD’76, HS’76-’79, can Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the ’81-’83, FACP, AGAF, is founder and senior Members Arthroscopy Association of North America, partner with Cape Fear Center for Digestive and the Piedmont Orthopedic Society. Diseases, P.A., in Fayetteville, N.C. He also The Medical Alumni Council He received a bachelor of science degree is a staff physician with Cape Fear Valley recently welcomed its newest members: with high honors from the University of Health Systems. From 1987 until 2007, California at Santa Barbara and a medical Jones led annual medical and construction Bruce M. Freedman, T’79, MD’83, FACS, degree from the University of California at mission teams to Bolivia with Curamericas has practiced in Northern Virginia since Los Angeles. He completed an orthopedic Global Inc., and currently serves on the 1989. He currently serves as medical direc- residency at Duke and a fellowship in sports board of directors as a past chair. He is a tor of Plastic Surgery Associates of Northern medicine at the Southern California Center past trustee of Methodist University and Virginia in McLean, Va., and clinical assistant for Sports Medicine, where he trained Brevard College, both in North Carolina. professor of plastic surgery at Georgetown under Douglas Jackson, MD, a leader in the Jones has been recognized for his profes- University. He served as chief of the Plastic field, and cared for numerous collegiate sional and civic involvement by organiza- Surgery Division at Reston Hospital Center and professional athletes. Friedman lives in tions including Curamericas, Cumberland for five years. Freedman lectures nationally Pittstown, N.J., with his wife Kim D. Fried- Community Foundation, Methodist Univer- on the latest developments in cosmetic sur- man, T’94, MD, and their two children, sity, and Brevard College. He was named gery. Honors include being named a diplo- Kaitlyn and Justin. a Fellow of both the American College of mate of the American Board of Plastic Sur- Physicians and the American Gastroentero- gery in 1991 and a Fellow of the American Matthew G. Hartwig, MD’01, HS- logical Association and a Braxton Craven College of Surgeons in 1993. He now serves current, is chief resident in the Division Fellow of the James B. Duke Society in on the School of Medicine Learning Center of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at 2011. He authored Cure Constipation Now, Steering Committee and previously served Duke. From 2007 to 2008, he was chief a Doctor’s Fiber Therapy to Cleanse and as a regional coordinator for the Campaign resident in the Department of Surgery. He Heal (Berkley Books 2009). He earned his for Duke University. Freedman completed a is a member of the International Society of bachelor’s degree in zoology and a medical plastic surgery residency at St. Louis Univer- Heart and Lung Transplantation, the Ameri- degree from Duke. In 1983 he completed sity and an aesthetic surgery fellowship at can College of Chest Physicians, and the a gastroenterology fellowship at Duke. He New York University. He lives in Vienna, Va., American College of Surgeons. His honors and his wife Lucy H. Jones live in Fayette- and has two children: Michael, T’10, and include being a member of the Alpha ville. They have two sons, Hollis, T’03, and Kathryn, a freshman at Duke. Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and Jordan, and a daughter, Rosanne, T’09, serving as a Howard Hughes Medical Insti- who is now a medical student at Duke. Robert L. Friedman, MD, HS’89-’94, tute Medical Student Research Fellow from practices sports medicine at Orthopedic As- 1999 to 2000. While a medical student at Gary E. Kay, MD’83, is an oncologist with sociates of Greater Lehigh Valley in Easton, Duke, he was the recipient of the School of Northwest Oncology & Hematology in Pa. He first joined the practice in 1995. Medicine’s William G. Anlyan, MD, Scholar- Rolling Meadows, Ill. He has been with the His areas of expertise include knee and ship. Hartwig earned a bachelor’s degree in practice since 1988 and is also affiliated shoulder disorders, and he has conducted 1996 from Birmingham-Southern College with Alexian Brothers Medical Center, St. extensive research on cartilage disorders of in Alabama. His wife Laurie D. Snyder, Alexius Medical Center, Good Shepherd the knee. Previous positions include serving MD’00, is an assistant professor in the Hospital, and Northwest Community Hospi- as president of the medical staff at Warren tal, where he serves as medical director of

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E. Philip Lehman Michael C. Mauney Reuven Porges Mark Wade Scroggs the Cancer Genetics Program. His interests Duke University Sanford School of Public Mark Wade Scroggs, MD’84, HS’84-’88, include general oncology and hereditary Policy in 2010. He graduated summa cum ’91-’94, is an ophthalmologist and partner cancer syndromes. He is a member of the laude from Georgetown University with with Carolina Ophthalmology Associates in American Society of Clinical Oncology. a bachelor of science in biology. He is en- Chapel Hill, N.C. He specializes in corneal Before attending Duke University School of gaged to Emily Giles, a nurse at Duke. diseases and transplantation and primarily Medicine, Kay earned a bachelor’s degree They will be married at the Duke Chapel practices comprehensive ophthalmology, from the University of Michigan. He went in March 2011. which includes diagnosis, treatment, and on to complete an internship and residency surgery for glaucoma and diabetic-related at the University of Colorado Health Sci- Michael C. Mauney, T’87, MD’91, is a eye problems. He previously served on ences Center and a fellowship in hematol- cardiothoracic surgeon with CTV Surgery Duke’s faculty. Scroggs is an active member ogy and oncology from the University of Inc. and Missouri Baptist Medical Center of several organizations, including the Chicago. He and his wife, Mary Beth Kay, in St. Louis. Mauney completed a general American Academy of Ophthalmology, the BSN’81, live in Buffalo Grove, Ill., and have surgery internship, general and thoracic North Carolina Society of Eye Physicians three children. Sarah is a graduate of Syra- surgery residency, and thoracic surgery and Surgeons, the North Carolina Medical cuse University; Hannah is a senior at fellowship at the University of Virginia Society, and the American Association of Duke; and Abby is 13. Health Sciences Center. He is married to Ophthalmic Pathologists. He has volun- Cheryl M. Mauney, MD, a musculoskeletal teered with the Lincoln Community Health E. Philip Lehman, MD’10, SPP’10, HS- radiologist in Chesterfield, Mo. They have Center and the Carrboro Community current, is currently an internal medicine one child, Ryan. Health Center. After earning a medical resident at Duke. He also serves as a degree from Duke in 1984, he completed residency council member for the inter- Reuven Porges, T’79, MD’83, HS’90- a medical and surgical ophthalmology nal medicine residency program. As a ’92, is vice president of radiology services residency at Duke Eye Center. Following his medical student at Duke, Lehman served at Sheridan Healthcare Inc. in Sunrise, Fla. residency, Scroggs completed a cornea and as president of the Davison Council from Prior to joining Sheridan Healthcare, he anterior segment fellowship in New Orleans 2009 to 2010 and as an ex officio member was a managing partner of Florida United before returning to North Carolina to begin of the Duke University Board of Trustees’ Radiology from 1995 to 2006 and a senior private practice. He and his wife Robin Medical Center Academic Affairs Commit- partner of Plantation, Westside and Aven- Leigh Mote, T’80, live in Chapel Hill with tee. He was elected to the Alpha Omega tura Radiology Associates. He has been a their two children. Alpha honor society in 2009. He also was a member of the South Florida Radiology student interviewer for School of Medicine community since 1991. He served on the The following members are return- applicants. A member of the American Duke Medicine Board of Visitors from 1996 ing for new three-year terms: Michael P. Medical Association (AMA) from 2006 to to 2000 and the Duke Cancer Patient Sup- Bolognesi, MD’98, HS’98-’03; Samuel I. 2010, Lehman served on the national AMA port Program Advisory Board from 1997 to Brown, MD, HS’79-’85; Oren J. Cohen, Medical Student Section Committee on 1999. Porges earned bachelor of science MD’87; Diana B. McNeill, T’78, MD’82, Legislation and Advocacy. For the Duke and medical degrees and completed a HS’87-’89; G. Radford Moeller, MD’77, local chapter, he helped coordinate events fellowship in neuroradiology at Duke. He HS’77-’82; and Katherine S. Upchurch, on lobbying and North Carolina health care holds licenses in Florida, South Carolina, MD’76. House staff representative Charles politics. He previously worked as a staff North Carolina, New Mexico, and Colorado D. Scales Jr., MD’04, HS-current, is also member with the Health and Trade Sub- and a board certification from the Ameri- returning for a new one-year term. committees of the U.S. House of Represen- can Board of Radiology with a Certification tatives’ Committee on Ways and Means. In of Added Qualification (CAQ) in neuroradi- addition to a medical degree, Lehman also ology. He and his wife Maria M. Rodriquez, earned a master of public policy from the MD, chief medical officer of Sheridan Radiology Services, live in Plantation, Fla.

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01 Mike Krzyzewski, Duke men’s bas- Medical Alumni Weekend ketball coach; Michael M. Frank, MD, former chairman, Department of Pedi- About 500 Duke medical alumni, their families, and friends attended Medical Alumni atrics; Jeff and Greg Foxworthy Weekend in October. Highlights of the weekend included the Learning Center Ground 02 From left, front row: David L. Feld- Breaking Ceremony; the Medical Alumni Association Awards Luncheon; the Davison man, T’80, MD’84, HS’89-’92, past Club Celebration; breakfast with Dean Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD; a medical sym- president, Duke Medical Alumni As- posium hosted by the Class of 1985 featuring new chairs of medicine, radiology, sociation; Walter L. Miller, MD’70, and psychiatry, football, class dinners, campus tours, and more. Distinguished Alumnus; Michael D. Schneider, MD, HS’76-’78, Dis- tinguished Alumnus; Greg and Jeff Foxworthy, Honorary Alumni; Dean Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD; John R. Perfect, MD, HS’77-’80, Distinguished Faculty; Thomas P. Graham, MD’63, HS’67-’69, Distinguished Alumnus; Joseph A. Moylan, MD, Humanitarian; Gordon K. Klintworth, MD, PhD, HS’62-’65, Distinguished Faculty 03 Barbara Lee; J. Fletcher Lee, MD’60, HS’60-’67; Lynn Fort III, MD’60; 01 02 Marian S. Fort, WC’58 04 50th Anniversary, Class of 1960 05 Davison Building tour: Robert Green, T’56, MD’60; Nancy Preston; Edwin Preston, T’57, MD’60, HS’60-’62; Cher- yl Howell; T. Rudolph “Rudy” Howell, MD’58; Colleen Grochowski, assistant dean for curriculum development 06 Welcome reception: D. Parker Moore Jr., MD’52, HS’52-’53; Robert E. Chambers, MD’52, HS’54-’56; Clarke G. Reed, MD’52, HS’52, ’54-’56; 03 04 Gerard Marder, MD’52, HS’54-’56; Noble J. “Nobby” David, T’48, MD’52, HS’56-‘60 07 Members of the class of 2005 08 Medical alumni at the Miami v. Duke football game 09 Bruce M. Freedman, T’79, MD’83; Katie Freedman; Gary E. Kay, MD’83; Hannah E. Kay

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10 Matt Robinson, MSI; Martina King, Council; Dale Shaw, T’69, MD’73, HS’73- MSI; Waleska Pabon-Ramos, MD, MPH; ’77, president, Medical Alumni Association Ramon Ruberte Thiele, MSI; Amy 14 Dean Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD; Chan- 12 Tong, MSI; Kirema Garcia-Reyes, MSI cellor Emeritus William G. Anlyan, MD, 11 Richard A. Sarner, T’79, MD’83, presi- HS’49-’55; Nancy R. Shaw, WC’70, L’73; row, David Arriola, MSI; Ilya Shadrin dent, Davison Club Dale Shaw, T’69, MD’73, HS’73-’77, (partial), MSII; Andrew Ishizuka (partial) 12 Anna Corliss, Dean Nancy C. Andrews, president, Medical Alumni Association MSI; David Rawson (hidden), MSII; MD, PhD; Navid Pourtaheri, G’08, MSIII 15 Major Groove, a medical student a cap- Brandon Jackson Baird, MSII; Kunal 13 David L. Feldman, T’80, MD’84, pella group, wrote original lyrics and Mitra, MSIV; Nelson Diamond, MSI; HS’89-’92; Vice Dean Edward G. performed the big band tune “This Could Sky Vanderburg (partial), MSI; Steven Buckley, E’72, MD’77, HS’77-’81; E. Be the Start of Something Big.” From Orr, MSII Philip Lehman, MD’10, MPP’10, HS- left, first row, Matthew Robinson, Major Groove’ performance video can be current; Chancellor Victor J. Dzau, MD; MSI; Karen Scherr, MSI; Matthew viewed at medalum.duke.edu. Dean Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD; K.D. MacCarthy, MSIII; Jennifer Vogel, 16 Dean Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD, Weeks Jr., MD’74, trustee, The Duke MSII; Jennifer Shaffer, MSIII; Kaitlin presented a gift of appreciation to Vice Endowment; Richard H. Brodhead, PhD, Rawluk, MSIII; Nina Beri, MSIII; Cecilia Dean Edward G. Buckley, E’72, MD’77, president, Duke University; Brian D. Ong, MSII; Stacey Schriber, MSI; Katie HS’77-’81, for his leadership in planning Schwab, MSIII, president, Davison Yang, MSII; Amy Ehman, MSI; back the Learning Center. Learning Center

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The School of Medicine held a Ground Breaking Ceremony for the new Learning Center, a six-story, 84,000 square-foot building in the heart of Duke’s medical campus. Designed to accommodate team-based learning and collaborative education among students across the health professions, the new Learning Center features a student life center, high-tech simulation labo- ratories, a café, and a 400-seat multi-purpose event venue. It is the first new building dedicated to medical education at Duke since the School of Medicine’s founding in 1930. 13

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Medicine & The Arts

By day, they study “The best doctors are people anatomy, absorb the latest who are balanced and find enjoy- research on combating acute ment in something other than disease, and learn best practices medicine,” says Brian Schwab, for managing chronic condi- MSIII. “For me, if music keeps me tions. But by night and on week- balanced and happy, then that will ends, they play instruments, be good for my patients. Staying dance, sing, sculpt, and act. active with music will help me They are Duke University School express myself better and share of Medicine students—and they my professional enjoyment with are artists. patients rather than thinking only Although keeping up with about health, drugs, and surgery.” the rigors of medical school is Expressing Themselves their number one priority, these For Schwab, the current Davison students unanimously agree that Council president, and Jennifer they cannot imagine abandoning Vogel, MSII, artistic expression their artistic activity. It does not comes as their fingers fly across matter that they cannot devote the piano or organ keyboards. same level of time and intensity Although neither considered they once did. Most consider music as a career, they both their art an integral part of their carve out time weekly to play for lives—and key to handling the rian chwab, MSIII B S themselves and others. stress of medical education. Schwab, who self-published A study presented at a 2009 Association of American two improvisational albums in high school and college, cut his Medical Colleges regional meeting found that exposure to musical teeth the way many young students do. He picked up art can improve a doctor’s clinical skills. These artistic the clarinet in the 6th grade and played in his school band. A Duke physicians-in-training agree. For them, art and year later, he switched to classical piano, but soon found he medicine go hand-in-hand.

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had a passion for jazz and But she bypassed a musical rock music. In fact, the high career in favor of one in school rock band for which health care. However, she he played keyboard—Ninjas says her years as a performer of the Kremlin—placed did prepare her well for among the top three in a medical school. Battle of the Bands competi- “The four to six hours I tion in his hometown of spent every day practicing Portland, Ore. and playing were great His love of music followed training for the long hours him through his undergradu- of being a medical student,” ate career at Rice University, she says. “I knew I wanted to where he performed both concentrate on the enriching as a solo artist and with aspects of music—the busi- a large church group. He ness of music is very different found it impossible to than simply making music escape the desire to create that you enjoy and love.” melodies, even while on a And, it is exactly those medical Spanish immersion inspirational aspects of trip to Mexico before his music that she hopes will senior year. When the salsa positively impact how she band at his hotel took a practices medicine and break, he took the stage relates to her patients. It is ennifer ogel, MSII and ended up playing with J V incumbent upon physicians the band that night. to communicate health infor- the three B’s of classical music­—Bach, At Duke, Schwab has continued mation effectively, and being well versed Brahms, and Beethoven—she admits playing church music at Mt. Moriah in expressing emotion through music that the organ is an unusual instrument Baptist Church in Durham. He also will be a benefit to patient relations, she for a young person. has integrated into the medical school’s says, especially as she is considering a “As a middle-schooler, I saw my vibrant music scene. As a first-year career in pediatrics. brother play the organ, and I got jealous student, he joined two bands—Sorry because it looked like it was really fun to Finding Discipline Charlie, a Duke-University of North play,” says Vogel, who currently works and Release Carolina at Chapel Hill group, and the part-time as an organist for a Durham The double-helix structure of DNA Duke-only Bill Roth & the Histones. church. “It’s a really cool instrument, does not often come to mind in discus- With plans to become a surgeon, and it opened up opportunities for me sions of art. A steel sculpture now Schwab says staying active in music will to perform competitively, as well as to outside the Bryan Center on campus help him continue to improve his perfor- watch many great musicians play.” proves it can be an excellent model. mance when he is a practicing physician. One such experience set the trajectory Although he usually draws pulp He also plays guitar and recently picked of her college years. As a rising high fiction comic art, Kwadwo “Kojo” up the harmonica. school senior, she attended the presti- Owusu-Akyaw, T’10, MSI, deviated “I enjoy being able to express myself gious Aspen Music Festival and School from his norm to create a more than through music,” he says. “Continuing in Colorado. During those eight weeks, 8-foot-tall structure of DNA in the to play and practice will help me develop she studied with other talented musi- midst of the process of replication. He a higher level of skills.” cians and had free access to concerts built the sculpture in early 2010 during Like Schwab, Vogel is a pianist. But given by international artists. The two the last semester of his senior year at unlike him, she pursued classical music months were inspiring, and they led her Duke University. It was placed at the and eventually, with encouragement to major in music at Stanford University. front of the student center at the request from her music teacher and influence Once there, she earned the trust of the of Vice Provost for the Arts Scott from her older brother, turned her music faculty and received a set of keys Lindroth and Vice President for Student attention to the organ during her early to the campus chapel to practice on the Affairs Larry Moneta. teen-age years. A devout student of organ at her convenience. “The structure of DNA has a very

12 | DukeMedAlumniNews big visual appeal,” Owusu-Akyaw says, might be significantly older than he is, the violin he has played since age 4— adding he only began sculpting a year but Owusu-Akyaw, who admires Miles has prepared him to be a strong leader. ago. “I wanted to produce something Davis but emulates saxophonist Sonny After two years of private lessons, Kan that demonstrated that biology and its Rollins, says he thoroughly enjoys being joined the San Francisco Symphony components can be beautiful.” part of the group. Youth Orchestra and became a concert Owusu-Akyaw used conventional “With jazz music, there’s lots of master by the end of high school. tools to construct the sculpture, but room for improvisation and expressing During his tenure with the orchestra, his long-standing artistic tool is his yourself,” he says. “You can say what the group performed in Mexico, Cuba, saxophone. He picked up the instrument you want to say. Once you know the Russia, Lithuania, and Ireland. One of as a 5th-grade student and took classical basic rules of music, you can open up the concerts they performed was Peter music lessons. As a high school student, a whole new world.” and the Wolf featuring narrators Danny he played in several All-Region Bands, as Having music as a stress-relief outlet Glover and Sharon Stone. well as a classical quartet that competed will make him a better doctor, he says, Working with famous actors was an at the state level. because he often finds an inner peace incredible opportunity, he says, but it also Today, he plays in the Durham-based when he plays. Picking up his saxophone required him to accept a level of responsi- quartet Straight Up Jazz. He joined the at the end of a hard day helps him bility unusual for someone his age. group this past August, and they often process the day’s anxieties and will “The orchestra is a very professional perform at Broad Street Café near East likely enhance his ability to help others. environment, and its pressures require Campus. The other band members For Matthew Kan, MSIII, his art­— more maturity than is often expected

Stephanie Sheikh, MSII

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from a high school student,” says Kan, and professor of practice in Duke MacCarthy participated in several who has a clinical interest in pediatric University’s Department of Music. productions, including Oklahoma!, allergy and immunology. “So, I learned Les Miserables, and The Wiz. Lifting Spirits leadership skills that have proven helpful “The first time I saw a PHAMALY Many physicians and artists would as I’ve gone through the MD/PhD production in high school, I thought it agree there is a clear connection between program, such as how to compromise was amazing because the shows were the medical study of the human body and work well together, as well as how tweaked to accommodate and play off and using the entire body to produce to delegate tasks.” of the disabilities of people in the cast,” artistic expression. Singing, dancing, and Kan’s love of chamber music remained MacCarthy says. “It’s always been very acting often require total body involve- with him after high school. Like Vogel, inspiring to me to see people overcome ment, and several Duke medical students Kan, who also has an affinity for their daily challenges. It takes guts to engage in these activities frequently. Brahms and Bach, spent two months at get on stage just for the love of art.” From the moment Matthew the Aspen Music Festival and School. In MacCarthy says he participates in the MacCarthy, MSIII, tried out for a role addition, he was part of the first season annual Duke Medical Student-Faculty in The Music Man as an 8th-grade of Music@Menlo, an internationally show, but his main artistic activity now student, he has loved musical theater. acclaimed chamber music festival is Duke’s oldest undergraduate a capella His turn as first tenor in the barbershop and institute in San Francisco, and group, Pitchforks. Currently, the all-male quartet showed him the joys of acting he played with Stanford University’s group takes up the largest chunk of his out stories on stage with words and Emerson Quartet. time outside of academics, with roughly song. His participation in such a physi- As a Harvard University undergradu- four hours of practice weekly. cally demanding art form is unique, ate, he played in the Harvard-Radcliffe Being involved with Pitchforks however, because MacCarthy lives orchestra throughout college. His dovetails nicely with his plan to enter with cerebral palsy. musical involvement at Duke, however, pediatrics, he says. Ultimately, he wants Rather than join a theater group as has been less constant—he was unable to employ music therapy, such as singing a University of Denver undergraduate, to play during the demanding second solo for children or in groups, to enhance he became involved in the Physically year. Currently, he plays in the Duke the medical treatment they receive. Handicapped Actors & Musical Artists Medical Orchestra, a group composed MacCarthy also sings with the medical League (PHAMALY), a community of approximately 50 Duke health school a capella group, Major Groove, theater that provides performance care professionals, and takes private which rounds the hospital, singing for opportunities for individuals living lessons from Eric Pritchard, a violinist patients who want to listen. According with disabilities. As a group member,

Matthew MacCarthy, MSIII 14 | DukeMedAlumniNews Kwadwo “Kojo” Owusu-Akyaw, T’10, MSI to MacCarthy, the effects are evident. studied ballet, tap, and jazz as a 4-year- “Music is a special tool in the art of old, and she competed and traveled healing,” he says. “You can physically nationally in middle school. While in see people’s spirits lift. When we sang high school, Sheikh participated in Deck the Halls this past holiday season, national competitions in New York one woman in the hospital for cancer that offered opportunities to study treatment, who had been relatively non- under the current leading dancers from responsive, opened her eyes wide, sat the American Ballet Theatre. She also up, and was the first one to clap when continued her art as a neurosciences, we finished.” behavioral biology, and dance under- Cecelia Ong, MSII, also was part of graduate at Emory University. that serenade. During her first year of After being accepted to study dance medical school, Ong founded Major in New York, Sheikh deferred medical the school orchestra. Groove, which is named for the major school for a year. During that time, she “Piano is a solo focus, but the string and minor grooves in DNA. In the learned more about how the body moves bass provides the foundation for sound. beginning, the group, which is part of naturally and what dancers should do to You really hear the sounds of the the Health Arts Network at Duke, was expand their current abilities. She now foundations of the chords,” she says. composed only of first-year medical continues her training in modern dance “As a soprano singer, I’m very fond of students. Now, 16 to 18 students at Ninth Street Dance in Durham. Each hearing the ranges of melodies these from all four years and the MD/PhD class is a step along the path toward her instruments provide.” program participate. ultimate career goal and the seamless Her vocal training began at age 8 in During the holiday caroling, Ong had fusion of art and medicine. a Vietnamese youth choir under the lead- a similar experience to MacCarthy’s. In “I’ve wanted to be a neurologist for ership of a Vietnamese medical oncolo- between songs, a patient spoke up about a long time to work with patients living gist. It was an enlightening experience, the desire to have a doctor who sings. with Alzheimer’s and dementia,” Sheikh not only because it introduced Ong to “He stopped us and said, ‘I want you says. “I also have an interest in working the intricacies of music, but also because to be my doctor. I want a doctor who can with patients who have movement it highlighted a Vietnamese musical sing to bring my spirits up,’” she says. disorders, because being unable to move culture previously unknown to her. Ong’s music career blossomed when is devastating.” Since then, the voice and how it works she walked up to a piano in a store For Sheikh and her classmates, no has fascinated her. She is not ready to unprompted and started picking out matter the art form, they firmly believe say she will be an otolaryngologist, but notes unassisted­—her parents took it including art in their lives will not she does want to learn more about how as a sign that their daughter needed an only affect them today, but it will also vocal chords are used. instrument. Throughout her youth, she influence them—and their patients—for Perhaps the most physical form of art played for her high school theater group years to come. is dance. Stephanie Sheikh, MSII, first and took up the string bass to be part of

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Janoo Naqvi may be a first-year medical student, “I think you’re really straining to find those P-waves,” but he’s pretty sure he knows a P-wave when he sees it. Huang tells Naqvi. “I see one right there,” he says pointing to a copy of an “I agree,” says Griffin. “The rhythm is between 90 and 100, electrocardiogram (ECG) during a recent Normal Body so I think we could be looking at A-fib. When you have A-fib Course class. “But,” he adds curiously, “there’s not one you can’t see the P-waves because the heart is beating so fast.” behind every QRS.” For 10 minutes they discuss why the answer may or may not Sitting across from Naqvi in the Duke South be A-fib. Amphitheatre—where nearly 100 first-year Duke University Paliga reminds his teammates that they must choose just one School of Medicine students are gathered for class—student answer among the five possibilities, and the allotted time to Kevin Huang questions Naqvi about what he believes he sees. decide is running out. “So do we all agree that the answer is “So you think those little bumps are P-waves?” Huang asks, letter A—A-fib?” pointing to a spot on the ECG. Everyone looks at Naqvi. Deeper “Yes,” says Naqvi. “I don’t know,” Naqvi says, scratching his whiskered face. unDer- Classmate Lauren Ring suggests “I just feel like there are P-waves.” He pauses. “But I’m willing that the blips actually are T-waves, to go with the rest of the group.” standing— not P-waves. Huang and fellow first- The team displays a cardboard letter A to indicate its choice. greater years Thomas Paliga, Kathryn Griffin, Huang turns to Naqvi. “Hey,” he says smiling. “If we’re retention and Marcelo Fernandes agree. wrong it’s totally my fault.” Throughout the amphitheatre, similar teams of six or seven students also ponder questions Team-Based Learning for Med Students about the medical record of a fictitious patient named Mrs. The above classroom exercise is a key component of team- R. They discuss and debate issues surrounding hypertension, based learning, an educational model that stresses active heart rhythm, medication, and much more in an effort to learning in groups and the importance of working with others reach a collective conclusion about what is ailing her. to find solutions and solve problems. It has been a staple at But unlike a traditional large lecture hall in which conver- business schools for decades and recently has gained traction sations among students usually are carried out in hushed, at medical schools as health care delivery moves toward team- almost vesper-like volumes, a cacophony of animated con- based approaches to caring for patients. versations fills the room. Laptop computers glow as students “Team-based learning results in a deeper understanding research information that could help them answer the most and greater retention of the material,” says Colleen confounding questions about Mrs. R’s health, including Grochowski, PhD, associate dean for curricular affairs. whether the ECG contains any visible P-waves, an issue “Collaboration is the future of health care delivery.” that could dramatically affect a team’s diagnosis The Duke University School of Medicine began rolling of Mrs. R’s problems. out team-based learning for first-year students last fall in the School of Medicine Rolls Out Team-Based Learning By Jim Rogalski 16 | DukeMedAlumniNews | FEATURE

School of Medicine Rolls Out Team-Based

First year medical student Anikia Tucker talks with her teammates during a team- based learning Learning exercise. DukeMedAlumniNews | 17 FEATURE |

For a patient case scenario, each team receives a packet with a fictional medical history and collectively decides on the diagnosis. They use a penny to scratch Professor Mitch Heflin, MD, and first year student Cassie Ligh discuss lesson concepts during a break off their answers. between team-based learning activities.

Molecules and Cells Course. The school has gained tremen- “Students also begin to think like doctors by the end of dous insight into the team-based learning process from its their first year,” he says. sister school in Singapore—the Duke-National University of How Does it Work? Singapore Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS)—which has Team-based learning includes four key components: been committed to the teaching method since it admitted its . Individual study first medical students in 2007. . Individual readiness quiz In addition to the Molecules and Cells and Normal Body . team quiz courses taught in the fall at Duke, the Brain and Behavior and . Patient application the Body and Disease courses in the spring also will incorpo- Individual study takes place outside of the classroom. rate team-based learning activities. Instead of sitting in a lecture hall taking notes, students are “I think it’s absolutely essential that medical students learn assigned book chapters and papers to read and recordings of to collaborate with their peers and to resolve conflicts in a lectures to listen to or watch online in preparation for coming constructive manner,” Ring says. “And I always walk away to class. Or, team-based learning exercises are used as review more confident in my understanding of the material.” sessions of overall course material. Naqvi says the future of medicine increasingly “is not going Once in class, all students take the same closed-book indi- to be one doctor working alone to solve a patient’s problems. vidual readiness quiz on their laptop computers so the faculty Team-based learning gives us the opportunity to apply our member teaching the class can gauge students’ understanding skills in a group setting, which is what we’re going to be of the material. A console at the front of the room allows the doing once we’re practicing.” faculty member to see, in real time, which students are strug- Doyle G. Graham, MD’66, PhD’71, a visiting professor at gling, and which questions are giving students the Duke-NUS, and the director of the Body and Disease Course most difficulty. there, says deeper knowledge of course material and concepts After the individual readiness quiz students meet in their is just one of the many benefits of team-based learning. teams and take the same closed-book quiz as a group.

18 | DukeMedAlumniNews Students are allowed to use textbooks, the Internet, and their notes during the patient case scenario.

At this point, none of the students knows if using all assets available to their individual answer was correct. Students “The energy with which them—books, notes, the have to explain and defend their answers to students turn to each Internet—students work out their teammates and be able to communicate a resolution and choose the the degree of certainty with which they know other and do this work single best answer among the the material. is phenomenal to behold. choices provided. The faculty member moves around the room The team process never “It’s inherent in team-based from team to team getting a sense of individual ceases to be fun and learning that there be enough participation within the teams. Team members stimulating.” ambiguity in the answers that must come to consensus on one correct answer there potentially is something - Doyle G. Graham for each question. correct about each answer,” “The payoff is, afterwards when students hold up what Grochowski says. “But there is just one correct answer.” A they believe is the best answer, the faculty can then engage deeper understanding of the material occurs, she says, when all students in conversation about why they chose a particu- students discuss the minutia of each potential answer. lar answer,” Grochowski says. “As a faulty member I could “It’s very energetic and a high volume activity,” say, “Team 1, you chose A. I want you to tell Team 2 why Grochowski says. the answer is not C.’ In doing this, the faculty member gets That’s something Graham especially likes. “The energy to hear the reasoning, thought process, and the application with which students turn to each other and do this work is of the concepts that went into Team 1’s reason why they phenomenal to behold. The team process never ceases to be didn’t choose C.” fun and stimulating.” The final component of team-based learning—and the one Jennifer Carbrey, PhD, assistant research professor in students say they enjoy most and is most beneficial—is the Duke’s Department of Cell Biology, says the patient cases, patient application scenario they must solve as a team. The “allow students to apply the concepts they’re learning in class faculty member distributes to each team the same case, and to actual clinical cases. It’s an opportunity to stop working as

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Team 14 pores over their patient’s medical history.

“The data con- sistently show that students an individual and start working together in a team-based demonstrate its effectiveness. Benchmarks for like they will next year in the clinics.” measuring success include students’ attitudes Students bring their own experiences and learning method toward it and performance on local, national, strengths to their teams, which they say score better than and licensing exams. enriches the learning experience for everyone. those in a typical “We’ll be monitoring our students’ “The clinical-oriented problems allow lecture-based performance on the exams they take in their me to talk through the concepts we learn in method.” first-year basic science curriculum and com- class and correct any misunderstandings I - Colleen Grochowski paring them to last year,” Grochowski says. might have,” Ring says. “I anticipate the scores will be better this And when faculty members pose questions to the entire year. The data consistently show that students in a team-based class and a team says something that’s not quite right, learning method score better than those in a typical lecture- “another team will correct them,” Carbrey says. “It doesn’t based method. Many times, it’s significantly better.” come from me, it comes from the other students. They’re The teaching method requires a great deal of faculty plan- learning very early to rely on and to teach one another.” ning up-front, Grochowski and Graham say, including writing good questions and answer choices and creating quality patient Challenges to overcome scenarios that map the assigned material to the process. Progress does not come without challenges. One is selling “We also emphasize that the development of strong team-based learning to faculty members who remain skeptical facilitation skills on the part of the faculty is hard work,” and favor traditional teacher-led lectures. Graham says, “but absolutely necessary to effective team- “Our students do very well already,” Grochowski says, based learning.” “so to ask faculty to do something completely different can Student surveys show strong support for the initiative at be a challenge.” Duke, Grochowski says. “They like how prepared they are Her best tool for promoting team-based learning is to for exams, and are confident that by the end of a team-based

20 | DukeMedAlumniNews Students hold up letters to indicate their team’s answers.

learning activity they will know the material.” Making the Grade Paliga says team-based learning integrates concepts in The bulk of Duke medical students’ grades are based on medicine that go well beyond what students are learning in individual exam scores, but a portion of their final grades books, “and that helps to keep us motivated.” are based on the success of their teams and their individual Adds Huang: “it’s nice that we get to see our classmates all participation in them. in one room talking about things. There is a community that Students say they have no problem with having a portion I think a lot of people miss out on in medical school.” of their final grade being determined by the success of others. A current short-term challenge is not having classroom space “I’m perfectly comfortable with it,” Paliga says. “It’s designed specifically for team-based activities. The Duke South going to be a recurring trend in life. Our performance in our careers is always going to depend on the people we surround Amphitheatre is not ideal because each row of desks in the ourselves with.” half-circle layout is on a different tier. That means students So what happens if a team gets an answer wrong because of must stand to interact with their teammates behind them. a particularly persuasive team member? The new School of Medicine Learning Center, which is “If the group ends up being wrong, it’s not like, ‘See, I currently under construction, will house an amphitheatre that told you I was right,’” says Naqvi. “That’s never happened contains two rows of desks per tier, allowing teammates in the in our team. And I’ve never seen a snarky face that says, “I forward row to spin around in their chairs and work with their told you so.’” teammates on the same level. And that’s a good thing, because this time, Naqvi was wrong “We’re so excited that we had the opportunity to design about the P-waves, and the correct answer was indeed A-fib. a room that will accommodate educational innovation,” Grochowski says. The idea for the two-rowed tiers came from Duke-NUS, which quickly realized a standard lecture hall is not ideal for team-based learning.

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1940s 2003, is no longer eligible WC’53, have six children—four Albert M. Bromberg, MD’57, 1960s to fly planes due to macular of whom graduated from Duke: HS’57-’61, DC-Century, retired Henry H. Nicholson Jr., T’44, degeneration. He was involved Melinda, T’76, G’79; Nancy, since 2001, is treasurer of the MD’47, served as a member in aviation from age 58 to 83. T’78; Catherine, T’79; and board at his condominium and chairman of the board for He lives in Columbus, Ohio. He Kara, T’89. The Deytons live in community, Heritage Hills, in Charlotte Douglas International has four children: Marsha is Greenville, N.C. Somers, N.Y. He enjoys making Airport from 1992-2009. Earlier self-employed in the garment stone sculptures and won a David C. Mitchell, T’52, in his career he spent 28 years business, Michael is a urologist second-place ribbon for one MD’55, says retirement was a as a command flight surgeon of in Columbus, Sandra, works in of his creations. He has a gradual process fully realized the North Carolina Air National real estate, and Janice works son, Warren; two daughters, in 2006. He now is living on a Guard. His wife Freda is former in advertising. Alison and Valerie; and seven horse farm in Lexington, Ky., CEO of Charlotte’s Discovery grandchildren. Warren is chief breeding and racing Thor- Place and served as chair of the 1950s of urology at Mt. Kisco Medical  William C. Cooper, Jr., oughbreds. His first wife Edith American Association of Mu- Group and was previously Leonard H. Schuyler, MD’50, (Peppy) died in 2006 and he is MD’60, DC, retired in August seums from 2000-2002. They elected Father of the Year by the retired June 2010 as clinical re-married to Helga Duffy. His 2009 after practicing general have five sons, one daughter, American Diabetes Association. professor of medicine at the son Tim is a musician and music pediatrics for 43 years in and 14 grandchildren. Their Past honorees include Gen. Weill Cornell Medical College director for the popular artist eastern North Carolina. He and son John Christie Nicholson, Douglas MacArthur, Larry King, in New York City. In November Shakira. His daughter Peyton his wife Janet have three MD’89, and his wife Pamela and Tim Russert. 2009 Schuyler received the works in advertising photogra- children—Audrey, T’83, Nicholson, MD’89, both prac- Weill Cornell Medical Center phy. His son David passed away Hunter G. Strader Jr., MD’58, William, and Elizabeth—and tice medicine in Statesville, N.C. Alumni Council Lifetime Dedica- recently from chronic obstruc- retired, lost Helen, his wife of live in Rocky Mount. tion Award to honor his more William P. Wilson, T’43, tive pulmonary disease. 54 years, in August 2010. He Peter M. Duvoisin, MD’60, MD’47, HS’49-’54, of Durham, than 50 years of service. He and lives in Lexington, N.C. Harold Simon, MD’55, and his wife Jane, N’57, recently published an article on his wife May have two children: retired since 2009, is active in Floyd L. Wergeland Jr., recently completed sailing the miracles and an article on Chris- Hope Schuyler Hacker, MD, is philanthropy and civic affairs. MD’58, DC, received the Inter- 6,000 mile long Great Loop, tian psychotherapy. He also was the chief of physical medicine He serves on the Health Care national Eye Foundation’s 2010 which took them up the East listed in Who’s Who in Science and rehabilitation at the U.S. Committee for the Palm Beach Promotion of Peace and Vision Coast through the Great Lakes and Engineering. He and his Veterans Healthcare System in Civic Association. He continues Award for an Ophthalmologist and south on various rivers. wife Elizabeth celebrated their central Texas, and Lawrence is a to teach medical residents and at the American Academy of They live in Chattanooga, Tenn. 60th wedding anniversary in Colonel in the U.S. Army Active enjoys traveling, playing golf, Ophthalmology’s annual meet- August 2010. They have five Reserves. The Schuylers recently and swimming. He and his wife ing in Chicago, Ill. Over the children, 17 grandchildren, and moved to Hackensack, N.J. Jane live in New England in summer he took his 17-year- two great-grandchildren. Col. William B. Jones, MD’54, the summer and Florida in the old step- grandson, Gus, to William Lies III, T’46, MD’48, was appointed a Brigadier winter. They have two sons and a Duke University baseball HS’48-’55, has written an General in the South Carolina four grandchildren. camp, where Gus was offered autobiography, Perfect Pre- National Guard by Governor a spot on the baseball team at Thomas A. Stokes Jr., MD’55, cious, which is titled after the Mark Sanford in November Columbia University. of Durham, N.C, is enjoying nickname his mother gave him 2008. He is currently the medi- retirement by playing golf, tak- Alonzo H. Myers Jr., T’55, as a child. He was the first cal director of CWI Insurance ing bluegrass mandolin lessons, MD’59, DC, serves as a council- board-certified pediatrician to Company. He and his wife and taking a yearly waterfowl or for Virginia for the Southern  Elaine Eyster Dye, WC’56, practice in Dothan, Ala., where Ann have a grandson, Batten hunting trip to Canada. He has Medical Association. He and his he currently resides. The clinic Farnan, who expects to finish MD’60, DC, lost her husband three grown children and seven wife Dorothea live in Roanoke, he established in 1967 now has law school in 2011. Robert, T’50, in March 2010. grandchildren. His wife Peggie Va. They have four children and She lives in Hershey, Pa., and 12 pediatricians, four CRNs, a Robert G. Deyton, T’51, passed away in June 2009. eight grandchildren. enjoys traveling, cooking, and satellite office, and a psychiatric MD’55, DC-Century, is retired golfing. Her son Robert Jr. lives office. Lies’ third wife Sally but remains active on the board Thomas Byron Thames, in Menlo Park, Calif., with his died of cancer in May 2010. of directors of the American MD’55, completed eight years partner Alyona and his three Altogether he has nine children, College of Obstetricians and Gy- of service on the AARP Board children. He is a fund manager seven grandchildren, and four necologists District IV and the of Directors in July 2010. He and for a private investment great-grandchildren. Southern Atlantic Association his wife Judith live in Orlando, Fla., and have five children, company. Dye’s son Charles— Robert L. Hallet, MD’49, of Obstetricians and Gynecolo- eight grandchildren, and three an associate professor of HS’49-’50, DC, retired since gists. He and his wife Yvonne, great-grandchildren. medicine in gastroenterology

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at Penn State Hershey Medical golf” in the North Carolina the American Red Cross. He Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston Center—and his wife Angie mountains and traveling in and his wife Emma have five in June 2009. He previously live in Hershey with their Europe. They have five children children: Benton Jr., Robert, served as chief of the Division three children. and 12 grandchildren. Elizabeth Carson, William, and of Cardiothoracic Surgery for 30 Thomas Bart. years and as chairman of the W. Taylor Johnson, T’58, Department of Surgery for 19 MD’61, has a grandson, Brett Tolbert S. Wilkinson, MD’62, years. He now is a distinguished Taylor Kirchner, who now is HS’62-’64, has expanded his university professor at MUSC a freshman in the Duke Bio- tattoo removal program into 10 and continues to teach and medical Engineering Program. states and five countries. The practice. In their free time he Johnson and his wife Bettie live program has a new website and his wife Mary Jane enjoy in Wilmington, N.C. (wilkinsontattooremoval. golf, fly fishing, and their family com). Wilkinson will soon  Frederic H. Gerber, MD’65, Robert K. Yowell, MD’61, farm. Their son Fred Crawford begin a study with Duke and has worked part time in breast HS’64-’69, DC-Century, served III, T’92, MD, is a cardiologist the University of Chicago. His cancer imaging since retiring as the 2008-2010 assistant in Boulder, Colo., and their daughter Priscilla, who works from full-time practice in 2000.  J. Fletcher Lee, MD’60, district governor for Rotary daughter Mary Beth Ausman with the police department in Part-time work has given him HS’60-’67, DC, is enjoying District 7710. He also was a has an educational consulting New Orleans, recently had her and Zenta, his wife of 52 years, retirement by reading, member of the executive com- firm in Charlotte, N.C. first child. He has a grand- the freedom to travel to traveling, building model ships mittee of the Annual Southern daughter who was successfully Antarctica, Europe, and the Herbert E. Segal, MD’67, of and airplanes, and, more Obstetric and Gynecology treated for a brain aneurysm Middle East. Their son David, Raleigh, N.C., left his half-time recently, duck decoy carving Seminar in Asheville, N.C. His at Duke. His son Scott spends who earned a master’s degree position at Jewish Family and painting. He and his wife wife Barbara, BSN’62, is retired much of his time in Japan in public programs planning Services and is now considering Barbie live in San Antonio, but continues to work. They conducting research. and management from the starting a nonprofit organiza- Texas. They have 14 grandchil- have three children and six University of Oregon, is now tion that focuses on frail, needy, dren between them. grandchildren. Their son Robert engaged in projects to improve and isolated seniors. His son II, T’88, is CEO of Gemini Sports the lives of the homeless in Dan, T’98, recently became the in Phoenix, Ariz. Their daughter Eugene, Ore. Their son Mike is international counsel for RTI In- Sally Barbour, T’90, works a psychologist who performs ternational. Dan, his wife Lenor, in oncology at Duke. Charles, diagnostic evaluations and and their son Jack relocated to T’92, MD’00, HS’00-’06, prac- prescribes interventions for Raleigh from Manhattan. tices urology at Baptist Hospital young children of drug and Harold B. Kernodle Jr., MD’69, in Pensacola, Fla. alcohol-abusing mothers in DC, is planning to complete C. Thomas Caskey, MD’62, central California. They have another transatlantic sail from HS’63-’65, DC, has been elected one grandchild. the Mediterranean in 2011. a Fellow in the Division of Life  A. Everette James, MD’63, D. Patrick Currie, MD’66, He previously completed the Sciences of the Royal Society of and his wife Nancy Farmer  William Weston III, MD’60, HS’66-’68, ’70-’73, retired journey in 2006. He continues Canada Academy of Science. He recently attended a reunion of HS’60-’61, ’62-’63, DC, retired from his private urology practice to practice orthopedics at the lives in Houston, Texas. the 1965-’66 Vietnam unit of in 2004 and now focuses much in Winston-Salem, N.C., in Kernodle Clinic in Burlington, the U.S. Army’s 93rd Evacuation of his time on supporting a Alden W. Dudley Jr., T’58, 2007. He now divides his time N.C. His wife Lucy, BSN’69, is Hospital. It was the fourth Christian school in Augusta, MD’62, HS’62-’63, ’65-’67, between Naples, Fla., and at the head school nurse for Ala- reunion of the unit since the Ga., that provides quality retired, continues to teach the Elk River Club in Banner Elk, mance-Burlington schools. They 1960s and was held in Crystal education to children of pathology at the Via College N.C. He and his wife Nan have have two children. Carey K. Lake, Mich. James and Farmer lower-income families. He of Osteopathic Medicine in two daughters, Marion and live in Chapel Hill. Anders, MD, HS’02-’08, is an served five years on the Ex Blacksburg, Va. He also grades Margie and one stepson. They assistant professor of medical Libris Society Executive Commit- patient interviews conducted have four grandchildren and oncology with a focus on breast tee of the University of South by medical students. He lives three step-grandchildren. cancer at the UNC Lineberger Carolina-Columbia and in Roanoke. Fred A. Crawford Jr., MD’67, Comprehensive Cancer Center. participates in a Tuesday Benton S. Satterfield, MD’62, HS’67-’68, ’71-’76, DC- Katherine K. Bannon is a senior morning men’s prayer group. of Raleigh, N.C., is a life mem- Century, of Mount Pleasant, account manager at IT Staffing His wife Elise writes children’s ber of both the Wake County S.C., stepped down from his in Boston, Mass. novels. The couple lives in Medical Society and the board administrative positions at the Augusta and enjoys “twilight of the Triangle Chapter of Medical University of South

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1970s nursing, dentistry, optometry, moving Elwood’s 94-year-old at Wright State University in Sleep Medicine at East Carolina and health and rehabilitation father from Pennsylvania to live Dayton, Ohio. While there, he University School of Medicine, James C. Ballenger, MD’70, sciences. He also will be respon- with them in their Bremerton, revised the “Population Health, where he is now co-director of HS’70-’71, a forensic psychia- sible for ensuring that all clinical Wash., home. Prevention, and Outcome the “Introduction to Medicine” trist in Charleston, S.C., says, activities are coordinated with Analysis” course for first-year course and is initiating a team- John M. Peterson, PhD’68, “to my continued amazement I the university’s key partners, medical students to include a based learning program. MD’72, of Rock Island, Ill., continue to be able to chase my including Clarion Health, the new way of approaching clini- developed an interest in wound Thom A. Mayer, MD’77, 8-year-old son around and be Wishard Health System, and the cal prevention by redefining care, and after taking a number DC-Century, of Fairfax, Va., his basketball coach and scout Roudebush Veteran’s Affairs factors that affect the onset of diving and hyperbaric is the medical director of the leader.” Ballenger also has two Medical Center. He and his wife of, progression, and recovery medicine courses sponsored by National Football League (NFL) older sons who practice law in Stephanie and daughter Aimee of and from disease. His wife Duke’s Divers Alert Network Players Association. He is re- Washington, D.C. He says he live in Indianapolis. Patty, PhD’75, works at the and the Undersea and Hyper- sponsible for all medical issues had his 15 minutes of fame on UNC bookstore in Chapel Hill. Robert J. Margolis, MD’71, baric Medical Society (UHMS), relating to active or retired television as the lead expert Their daughter Jean is a special HS’70-’72, DC, is the im- he has become qualified to players and was responsible in the 2005 trial of Christo- education teacher in Portland, mediate past chair of the work part time in the wound for revising the treatment and pher Pittman, who at age 12 Ore. Son Jeff, who experienced National Committee for Quality care clinic at Trinity Medical return-to-play guidelines for murdered his grandparents with anoxia brain damage at birth, Assurance (NCQA) and a past Center in Illinois. He says he NFL players. He and his wife a shotgun. The trial brought to works as a busboy and par- chair of the California Hospital finds the work to be a challeng- Maureen have three sons: light concerns over prescribing ticipates in the National and Medical Center, the American ing and enjoyable addition to Josh, L’10, is an attorney with anti-depressants to children. International Special Olympics. Medical Group Association, his career. His son Mark was Boies Schiller; Kevin, T’09, is Pittman was convicted in 2005 Their son David is back in and the California Association married on July 4 in Massachu- a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Marine at the age of 16. college and helps his dad as- of Physician Groups. He and his setts. Mark and his wife earned Corps, Infantry Division, cur- semble course materials. W. Richard Schmits Jr., wife Lisa have three children. their PhDs in computational rently serving in Afghanistan; MD’70, of Mount Olive, N.C., Michelle is an attorney. She and biology at the University of Mary Ann Forciea, MD’75, is and Greg is a student at Mc- serves as secretary of the her husband Mack have two California, San Francisco, and director of the Geriatric Educa- Daniel College, where he is on South Goldsboro Gideons children, Jacob, 8, and Amanda, are currently working as science tion Center at the University of the lacrosse team. The Mayers Camp. He has four children: 4. David, MD’01, is a physician and technology fellows in Pennsylvania Health System and have one grandchild. Ted, Gretchen, Lisa, and Tim, in Chapel Hill, N.C. He and his Washington, D.C. has an office and home care David Ginsburg, MD’78, of and seven grandchildren. wife Aimee have a daughter, Li- academic practice. She and her Robert S. McConaughy, Ann Arbor, Mich., has been lah, 1. James is a businessman. husband Steven Douglas, MD, William T. Smith, MD’70, of MD’73, HS’73-’74, retired recognized with the 2010 He and his wife Nicole have a have two daughters. Hope is a Wooster, Ohio, retired in May from Boy Scout leadership of award for Distinguished daughter, Jessie, 1. second-year veterinary medicine 2009 after spending 36 years Troop 33B in Seattle, Wash., Research in the Biomedical student at Penn, and Annie is a in family practice. Now his time Elwood W. Hopkins III, MD’72, after 15 years. His son Joe is Sciences from the American junior at Harvard University. is spent learning to fly-fish, HS’72-’73, completed a course a freshman at Boston College Association of Medical Col- reading, gardening, bicycling, in contemporary medical and runs cross country and A. Reif Kessler II, MD’75, leges. Ginsburg is the James V. and hiking. He and his wife acupuncture and has now track. His son Will is moving practices in a small, five-person, Neel Distinguished University Rebecca have three children performed approximately to Arizona to study at Pima general surgery group based at Professor and the Warner- and five grandchildren. 1,000 acupuncture treatments. Community College. the Lewis Gale Hospital in Roa- Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor noke, Va. He and his wife Susan D. Craig Brater, T’67, MD’71, He plans to take the board Charles O. Beauchamp III, in the departments of internal exam for the American Board have been married for 25 years. medicine, pediatrics and hu- HS’70-’71, DC, the dean of the PhD’73, MD’75, of Chapel Hill, of Acupuncture in March. He They have two children: Andrew man genetics at the University Indiana University School of is currently a hospitalist with recently returned from a six- is an engineering student at the of Michigan Medical School in Medicine, has been appointed Central Regional Hospital in month deployment to Kuwait. University of Cincinnati, and Eric Ann Arbor. He is certified in to the newly created position of Butner, N.C. He retired from Outside of work, he enjoys is a high school senior. four specialties: hematology, president for university clinical the Durham Veterans Affairs riding his motorcycles every oncology, internal medicine, affairs. In this role, Brater will Medical Center in 2007 after a Robert A. Shaw, T’72, MD’76, day. He and his wife Judy, who and clinical genetics. He has chair the University Clinical Af- total of 30 years of VA general DC, of Greenville, N.C., recently recently completed a triathlon, devoted his career to finding fairs Cabinet, which consists of medicine service. He spent the returned to academic medicine celebrated the arrival of their better ways to treat inherited the deans or heads of the uni- following year working with the in 2010 in the Department of fifth grandchild in 2010. The bleeding and clotting diseases. versity’s main clinical units, in- Public Health Training Program Pulmonary, Critical Care, and cluding the schools of medicine, couple is also in the process of

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Daughter’s Transplant Shows Rawl, MD’71 the Other Side of Medicine On a routine day John C. Rawl, MD’71, “All of this is routine families spend as much time as possible can treat or perform surgery on 20 to 40 for the caregivers, with patients while in the hospital, partly patients. But April 10, 2009, was anything because they are the ones who can often but routine for the Columbia, S.C., urolo- but it has affected help the physician communicate with the gist. That was the day he found himself my way of looking patient and vice versa. outside the OR, rather than in, waiting for at disease.” “You have to pay attention to the fam- hours as Duke surgeons took his daughter’s ily,” he says. life in their hands. – John C. Rawl Regardless of the distance, Rawl says Born with cystic fibrosis, Rawl’s adult daughter, Susannah Cole, had lived a fairly normal life, becoming a successful lawyer and even having a child through a surrogate. But by the fall of 2008 her health started to decline. She began to experience resistant pneumonia, was less mobile, and required more oxygen. On top of all this she also had more difficulty controlling her diabetes. Rawl says at this point his daughter had only two options: a lung transplant or death. Physicians in Charleston, S.C., referred her back to Duke, and the whole family pulled together to give her the support she needed. Fortunately, Susannah spent only seven days on the transplant list before a donor was found, and the surgery was a suc- cess. Just three days after the transplant, Susannah was able to clock herself walking up to three miles around the hospital floor without additional oxygen. Rawl says all his years of medical training John C. Rawl and his daughter, Susannah Cole and practice didn’t quite prepare him to As a partner with Columbia Urological experience medicine from the other side. in the end he was happy his daughter was Associates, Rawl is accustomed to referring It gave him a new perspective, both as a referred to Duke pulmonologists and grate- patients to other physicians and medical father and as a surgeon. ful for the expert care she received. centers, including Duke. However, because “It was a very painful experience to Today Susannah is doing well and back of his experience with Susannah’s illness, watch your child deteriorate,” he says. in Columbia, focused on caring for her son he’s now more likely to take into consider- Susannah’s surgery forced Rawl to have and her own health. ation distance and the toll it might have on conversations many parents aren’t prepared Rawl and his wife Lynn live in Lexington, patients and their families. Rallying around to have with their children, particularly S.C. In addition to Susannah’s son, they Susannah in Durham was imperative for her about a living will. have three other grandsons with daughter recovery, but the distance was a challenge. “All of this is routine for the caregivers,” Amy, who is a cardiologist in Columbia and “I now realize the impact it has on a Rawl says, “but it has affected my way of practices with Stanley Juk, Jr., MD’71, family, being disrupted and uprooted to looking at disease.” HS’73-’75. another town,” he says. When referring – Bernadette Gillis patients “if it’s something I can accomplish locally, I’ll try a lot harder.” He’s also more insistent on having

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Denise as office administrator. 99.7 percent effective against William L. Gottesman, MD’83, They have also begun a new both the H1N1 and H5N7 HS’83-’86, DC, who retired venture, adding the Rice Diet of viruses. It will work against from medicine in 1997 and Central Florida as part of their both seasonal and pandemic now manages his own sun- gastroenterology practice. Their influenza. The first production dial company called Precision abstract on the effect of the runs of small volume started Sundials LLC, in Burlington, Rice Diet on gastroesophageal in 2010, and commercial quanti- Vt., won the 2010 Sawyer reflux disease (GERD) was ac- ties will be available in 2011. Sundialling Prize for Excellence cepted by the American College Rosanne P. Kappa, MD’82, of in Sundial Making. He hosted of Gastroenterology. Further Kingsport, Tenn., and her hus- the 2010 North American information is available at Sundial Society conference in band Jeff Kappa, T’78, MD’81, ricedietcf.com and thegas- Burlington. Gottesman and celebrated 30 years of marriage his sundials were featured in a trogroup.com. He and Denise over the summer. They have past issue of DukeMed Alumni have been married for 32 years four children: Stephen is attend- and live in Maitland, Fla. Their News. To read the story go to  Jared N. Schwartz, MD’74, taking a two-month journey ing Vanderbilt University in a daughter Katherine lives in New medalum.duke.edu and click Ph.D’75, HS’73-’77, DC-Centu- around Italy—climbing, doing combined MD-MBA program; York City, where she works as on “Alumni Profiles.” ry, has been named the 2010 ski patrol at Copper Mountain David is a third-year medical a DJ, and their son Greg is a Pathologist of the Year by the Resort, and golfing. student at Emory University; Ja- Virginia Byers Kraus, MD’83, second-year medical student College of American Patholo- son is a senior at Yale majoring HS’83-‘’89, PhD’93, a Duke at Duke. gists (CAP). It is the organiza- in biomedical engineering and professor in the Department of tion’s highest honor. Schwartz Giles F. Whalen, MD’80, is is applying to medical school; Medicine-Rheumatology and received the award in vice chair of the Department and Lauren is a freshman at the Immunology, is president-elect recognition of his strong of Surgery and chief of the University of Miami majoring in of the Osteoarthritis Researc- leadership of CAP during his Division of Surgical Oncology flute performance. Society International. She is term as president from and Endocrine Surgery at the 2007-’09, and his service as a University of Massachusetts. member and chair of numerous He and his wife Lynn and their committees and councils. He is four children recently moved chief medical officer for Aperio, into a new home on a lake in Sutton, Mass. a provider of digital pathology  Chalmers M. Nunn Jr., solutions, in Vista, Calif. He also T’76, MD’80, HS’80-’85, has Randall W. Moreadith, MD’81, is a consulting professor in the been named president of the HS’87, ’90, has been appointed Department of Pathology at American College of Physician chief executive officer of Serina Stanford University. He and his Executives. He is chief medical Therapeutics in Huntsville, Ala. wife Diane have two children, officer of Centra Health in He will lead the company’s Rachael and Sarah, and live in Lynchburg, Va., and recently business and financial strategy Charlotte, N.C. assumed the role of president and oversee drug development, of Centra Medical Group, which including clinical and regulatory 1980s employs 160 physicians. He and strategies. Moreadith previ- Alan Steven Klein, MD’80, of his wife Katy, BSN’78, live in ously was chief development Denver, Colo., is now a volun- Lynchburg and have three chil- officer at Nektar Therapeutics;  Bruce M. Freedman, T’79, working on finding ways to teer pediatrician at a local free dren: Chelsea, a University of executive vice president and MD’83, DC, and his son better diagnose and ameliorate clinic in one of Denver’s poorer Virginia graduate, was recently chief medical officer of Cardium Michael, T’10, recently osteoarthritis in its many forms. sections, after having spent 30 married and relocated to Burl- Therapeutics; chief medical of- summitted Mt. Elbrus in the Her husband Bill Kraus, MD’83, years practicing academic pedi- ington, Vt., Meg is a graduate ficer of Renovis; and co-founder, Caucasus Mountains in HS’83-‘’88, is director of clinical atric critical care in Gainesville, of the University of Georgia and president, and chief operating southern Russia. At 18,510 feet research and a professor in the Fla., and pediatric anesthe- works for Spanx in Atlanta, and officer of ThromboGenics. it is the highest point in Europe. Department of Medicine-Cardi- Bruce is a plastic surgeon in ology at Duke. They have two siology in Denver. Outside of John attends Liberty University Steve W. Schwartz, T’77, medicine he enjoys adventure in Lynchburg. McLeon, Va., and Michael is children—Julie, T’09, and Erik, MD’81, of Denver, Colo., has re- bicycling—including working for the U.S. Naval who is a freshman at Harvard. Douglas J. Sprung, MD’80, cently released Flunada, a nose Warfare Center in Washington, HS’80-’83, DC, has returned and throat spray for influenza. D.C. as a chemist. to solo practice with his wife The spray has proven 99 to

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‘Bone Doctors’ Find Cure for the Common…Barbecue An orthopedic surgeon walks into a grocery store carrying a flask of red liquid… It may sound like the start of a tacky joke, but that’s exactly how Bruce Wilhelmsen, MD’79, spends most weekends. In his free time, the Greenville, N.C., orthopedic surgeon peddles a tasty red potion to grocery and specialty stores. The concoction won’t cure rickets or treat snakebites, but it does have mock-medicinal properties according to its motto: “A Cure for the Common Barbecue.” Wilhelmsen and long-time orthopedic surgeon friend David Heilbronner, MD, of Charlottesville, Va., call themselves The Bone Doctors. They have combined their love of cooking and barbecuing to create Bone Doctors’ Barbecue Sauces—a trio of sauces, each with a unique medley of spices they say enhances the flavor of meat rather than masking it. “It’s a wonderful hobby,” Wilhelmsen says. “This barbecue stuff is just fun. I try to add a new store each week.” Heilbronner says he’s been cooking for as long as he can re- member. It’s his main source of relaxation when he’s away from Bruce Wilhelmsen and some of his original sauces his surgery practice. Heilbronner pitches the sauces to potential customers in Virginia, while Wilhelmsen focuses on North closeout sales, and printed labels on inkjet printers. They sold Carolina east of Raleigh. them at fundraisers and gave them as gifts. “We pack it in our pick-up truck and minivan and basically make Then, last year, they decided to go bigger. cold calls,” Wilhelmsen says. “When I tell them I’m an orthopedic “It’s one thing to have a fundraiser, but going commercial was surgeon and have a product called Bone Doctors’ Barbecue Sauce, a big deal and carries a lot of regulation,” Wilhelmsen says. So it certainly catches their attention.” the Bone Doctors hired a firm in Lewisburg, N.C., to manufacture The duo and their families became fast friends in 1983 when the and bottle the sauces for them. Last November they had their first two docs were residents at the University of Virginia. They shared run of 1,300 bottles for each flavor. They recently completed their a love of cooking—Wilhelm- third run. sen’s particular interest is “We pack it up in our In keeping with the medical theme, the bottles are reminiscent of traditional smoked barbecue. pick-up truck and gold-rush-era miracle potion bottles that resemble flasks. The label The two surgeons constantly on the Original Recipe bottle carries a photograph of William Ham- swapped recipes and tried out minivan and basically mond, the surgeon general of the U.S. Army during the Civil War. new dishes with their families. make cold calls...” Bone Doctors Barbecue Sauces recently expanded into Maryland After residency when they – Bruce Wilhelmsen when a patient of Wilhelmsen asked to sell the sauces at his fam- eventually opened their own ily’s convenience store there. orthopedic surgery practices in They harbor no aspirations of getting rich off of their barbecue different states, they remained close recipe-sharing friends. sauces, but are keen to just enjoy the adventure. The notion to start a commercial barbecue sauce venture first “We still love medicine,” Wilhelmsen says. “We just saw this as germinated about five years ago when Heilbronner hosted a fund- a challenge and are having a lot of fun with it.” raiser for his daughter’s high school soccer team. During weekends one summer he sold barbecue sandwiches at the local soccer park Wilhelmsen is a surgeon at Orthopedics East and Sports Medi- and raised $3,000 for the team’s trip to Italy. cine Center in Greenville. He and his wife Lisa Brenner have two Selling barbecue sauce, however, seemed much more doable. children—Anna, who works in restaurant marketing and advertis- Over the next year-and-a-half they worked on several sauce reci- ing in Los Angeles; and Jon, who graduated from UNC-Wilmington pes, tweaking ingredients and sending samples back and forth un- in December. til they had something special. They initially produced their sauces Bone Doctors Barbecue Sauce can be purchased at in their home kitchens, packaged them in bottles they bought at bonedoctorsbbq.com – Jim Rogalski

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Antronette K. Yancey MD’83, of helicopter skiing one-million Brandon M. Peters, MD’89, HS’82-’84, was appointed to vertical feet for the second time HS’89-’92, and his wife Cindy the Board of Directors of the in British Columbia. His wife Liz Ballinger celebrated the birth of Partnership for a Healthier has opened a photography and their twin sons, David and Scott, America, which supports First website design business and in July 2010. Peters is a physi- Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s designed a website for Mustoe’s cian with Northeastern Family Move” anti-obesity campaign. practice. They have three Medicine in Elizabeth City, N.C., Yancey’s second book, Instant daughters, ages 11, 13, and 15. where the family lives. Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 James F. Wiley II, T’81, MD’85, Minutes at a Time, was recently 1990s DC, is the in-house physician published by the University of Pamela K. Woodard, T’86,  Virginia Neil Gibbons Jack, 16, is an accomplished editor for adult and pediatric California Press. She lives in Los MD’90, HS’95, professor Barber, MD’85, of Crozet, Va., tennis player and musician; and emergency medicine at UpTo- Angeles, Calif. of radiology at Washington took a detour from her standard Audrey, 14, also plays tennis Date, a clinical decision support University School of Medicine in Preston M. Dunnmon, T’80, gynecology practice when she and sings. resource for doctors. He also St. Louis, Mo., will lead one of MD’84, MBA’02, and his wife traveled to the remote Spiti Val- practices emergency medicine Roslyn B. Mannon, MD’85, four projects in an $18 million Kara Haas Dunnmon, T’80, ley in the Indian Himalayas for at Connecticut Children’s HS’85-’90, DC, and her research Program of Excellence learned recently that their son a medical mission in June. She Medical Center in Hartford. husband Peter Mannon, MD, in Nanotechnology awarded by Jared Dunnmon, E’11, was and her colleagues, made up of He and his wife, Catherine HS’83-’89, have relocated to the National Heart, Lung, and awarded a prestigious Rhodes 27 first-year medical students, Clinton Wiley, T’80, MD’84, Birmingham, Ala., after spend- Blood Institute. Her project, Scholarship. The Rhodes schol- five doctors, and one dentist, live in Glastonbury, Conn. Their ing eight years at the National “Nanomaterials for Imaging arships, which are more than a treated 1,400 patients in nine youngest daughter, Elizabeth, is Institutes of Health. Now at and Treatment of Cardiovas- century old, cover all expenses clinic days. Barber spends her now a freshman at Duke. the University of Alabama cular Diseases,” will develop for two or three years of study free time hiking, playing music Stuart G. Marcus, MD’87, was at Birmingham (UAB), Roz nanoparticles to help physicians at Oxford University in England. and tennis, and doing yard recently appointed senior vice was promoted to professor of detect early atherosclerosis. Past winners include former work. Her oldest son, Walt, is nephrology and also has an president and chief medical President Bill Clinton, singer/ a junior at Guilford College, Marc R. Garfinkel, T’88, appointment at the Veterans officer at St. Vincent’s Medical songwriter/actor Kris Kristof- where he plays rugby. Her other MD’92, HS’96-’97, has joined Affairs Hospital. Her practice Center in Bridgeport, Conn. He ferson, and Bill Bradley, a Hall son, Pete, a high school junior, the faculty at Southern Il- is now transplant-focused, and and his wife Hilary have two of Fame basketball player and a is the varsity kicker for his foot- linois University (SIU) School UAB has one of the largest children, Sydnee, 15, and Zach- former U.S. senator. Preston is ball team, sings in a jazz group, of Medicine as associate volume kidney transplant pro- ary, 13, who celebrated his Bar a medical officer with the U.S. and enjoys beatboxing. professor of general surgery. grams in the U.S. As director of Mitzvah in December. Food and Drug Administration He has special training and Sophia M. Chung, T’81, research she maintains a port- Sarah A. Myers, MD’89, in Silver Spring, Md., and a experience in liver, kidney, MD’85, DC, began serving as folio of NIH-sponsored clinical HS’89-’93, was recently member of the Duke Medical and pancreas transplantation director of the American Board and translational studies as well promoted to vice chair of faculty Alumni Council. Both Preston and dialysis access surgery. of Ophthalmology in January as industry-sponsored trials. development for the Depart- and Kara are members of the Prior to joining SIU he was 2011. She recently completed The Mannons’ are often on the ment of Dermatology at Duke. Duke University School on faculty at the University her 20th year as a full-time road attending their daughters’ She and her husband, Barry of Medicine Learning Center of Chicago as director of the faculty member at Saint Louis lacrosse tournaments in places Steering Committee. They live Myers, MD’89, PhD’91, B’05, Islet Transplant Program. University School of Medicine in Alexandria, Va. like Tampa, Atlanta, and Spar- recently moved into a new in Missouri. Her practice is tanburg. Their oldest daughter, home in Durham. They enjoy Raj S. Pruthi, MD’92, has limited to neuro-ophthalmology. Ellie, is 16 and driving. sailing in the Caribbean and at been promoted to chief of the She has received a number of Division of Urologic Surgery Thomas A. Mustoe, MD’85, Lake Gaston in North Carolina teaching awards from both within the Department of practices cardiology in “John with their two children, ages the departments of ophthal- Surgery at UNC-Chapel Hill. Steinbeck country” in Salinas 16 and 13. mology and neurology and a In addition to his new role as and Monterey, Calif. He is Distinguished Teaching Award chief, Pruthi is an associate looking forward to playing golf from the School of Medicine. professor of surgery and direc- during retirement, but is too Her husband John B. Holds, tor of urologic oncology. He busy now with work, family, MD, practices oculoplastic and also serves as disease group and aviation, having earned a orbital surgery. He is one of leader for the Genitourinary private pilot’s license in July. He three such subspecialists in St. Oncology Program at the UNC continues to enjoy skiing and is Louis. They have two children: Lineberger Comprehensive progressing toward a milestone

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Cancer Center. He and his wife fans. The family lives in Ponte 2000s interesting mix of patients and Kathy live in Chapel Hill. Verde Beach, Fla. gets the opportunity to speak Erica Peterson, MD’00, Spanish and Portuguese each Jeffery S. Johns, MD’95, is en- Sylvia I. Becker-Dreps, MD’97, HS’00-’04, and her husband day. Southboro Medical Group tering his fourth year as one of recently received a National Bart recently moved to Lincoln, is part of Atrius Health, and Za- four national item writers for Institutes of Health Fogarty Neb., from Palo Alto, Calif., to ref has been a proponent of the the board certification exam Career Development Award be closer to family. They have a group’s wide-scale implementa- for spinal cord injury medicine, to study the effectiveness of 20-month old son, Colton, and tion of a fully electronic medical which is a subspecialty within the rotavirus in Nicaragua. were expecting a second son in record. He is now chair of the the American Board of Physical She currently is an assistant November or December. Erica Atrius Pedi Design Committee Medicine and Rehabilitation. professor in the Department of primarily stays home with the on record use. He and his wife His wife Gigi recently accepted Family Medicine at UNC-Cha- children but also enjoys doing Alisa have been married since a position at their church as pel Hill. She and her husband  Lauren S. Livingston, occasional fill-in work in primary 1999. A licensed independent director of contemporary music Chris live in Durham with their MD’06, and her partner Karen care as an internal medicine and clinical social worker, Alisa and leads the contemporary children, Sophia, 8; Thomas, “Keri Beth” Livingston, T’02, pediatrics physician. stays at home to care for the praise band with her guitar 6; and Eva Brook, 2. welcomed the birth of their couple’s daughters, Maya, 4, and vocals each Sunday morn- second child, Jude, recently. In Courtney D. Thornburg, and Rachel, born March 2010. ing. The couple’s twins, Sydney photo at top, from left, are Lau- T’94, MD’98, of Durham, was The family lives in Framingham, and Avery, are in the third ren and Keri Beth; at bottom, promoted to associate profes- just outside of Boston. grade, and daughter Virginia is from left, are Ezra and Jude. sor of pediatrics at Duke in in kindergarten. Deverick J. Anderson, MD’01, Lauren is a family physician with January 2010. Community Family Practice in Anjali S. Advani, MD’96, HS’01-’06, was one of 16 medi- Eva D. Littman, T’94, MD’98, cal experts chosen by the Quan- Asheville, N.C., and Keri Beth is HS’96-’02, of Cleveland, Ohio, HS’98-’02, started her own in tiaMD community to receive its a stay-at-home mom and part- has been promoted to associate vitro fertilization center in Las esteemed Community Choice time photographer. professor at the Cleveland Clinic Vegas named Red Rock Fertil- Award for innovation and Lerner College of Medicine. She ity Center. Her husband Jason excellence in sharing knowl- was recently engaged and will  Ashutosh A. Pradhan, Burke, MD, HS’97-’01, is chief edge. QuantiaMD is an online be getting married in May. MD’00, HS’06, DC, and his of the Department of Anesthe- wife Sala welcomed their first physician-to-physician learning Allyson T. Tevrizian, T’92, sia at the Las Vegas Veterans child, Nina, in 2010. Pradhan collaborative where physicians MD’96, works as an allergist in Affairs Medical Center. They is a physician at St. Vincent’s engage, share, and learn from private practice in Pleasanton, have two daughters and live in Medical Center in Jacksonville, experts and each other. More Calif. Her husband Steven G. Las Vegas. Fla., where the family lives. than 1,000 peers rated Ander- Verbinski, MD’96, is a hos- Anthony S. Rhorer, MD’99, son’s presentation on infectious pitalist at St. Rose Hospital in Brett Wu, MD’00, DC, HS’99-’04, served as an inter- diseases and infection control Hayward, Calif. The couple lives completed a five-year residency national visiting professor in with five stars. Anderson is an in Livermore, Calif., with their and is now a faculty member at Beijing, China, in July 2010. He assistant professor of medicine- two children, Sebastian, 6, and New York Medical College. He also serves as a liaison for the infectious diseases at Duke. He Anastazja, 4. spends his free time learning Arizona State Trauma Advisory lives in Chapel Hill with his wife medical Spanish and total im- Michael B. Wallace, MD’92, Board and was named a 2010 Ann and their son Henry. mersion (TI) swimming. He also recently became chair of the Top Doctor by Phoenix Maga- enjoys time with his wife Claire Harriett P. Burns, MD’04, and Department of Gastroenterol- zine. He lives in Scottsdale. and their two children, Bryant her husband Walter welcomed ogy and Hepatology at the and Caitlyn. The family lives in their second child, William Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Scarsdale, N.Y. Franklin, on July 16, 2010. in Jacksonville, Fla. The college Franklin joins his sister Sara has an active research program Jeffrey I. Zaref, MD’00, Ross, 3. The family lives in focused on optical imaging of MPH, practices pediatrics at Chapel Hill. early gastrointestinal neoplasia. Southboro Medical Group, a He and his wife Claudia have multispecialty group practice three children aged 9, 12, and in the MetroWest region of 15, who are big Duke basketball Boston, Mass. He sees an

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1940s 1994. William has four children E. M. Singleton, MD, HS’71, Assessment Committee and on and Mary has three. They live retired since 2005, currently the board of directors. He lives Roy M. Whitman, HS’47-’48, in Greenville. volunteers with the Arkansas in Birmingham. recently had his medical license County Doctor’s Museum and Joseph C. Parker Jr., MD, David F. Boerner, MD, HS’76- restored after being ill for two lectures on history and medi- HS’68-’69, was awarded a ’79, B’00, is vice president years following a double knee cine. He previously practiced 2010 Golden Apple by the of medical affairs at Wilson replacement. He is a professor ophthalmology in Fayetteville, pathology residents at the Medical Center in Wilson, N.C. emeritus of psychiatry at the Ark., from 1971-2005. University of Louisville School of University of Cincinnati in Ohio. He commutes to Wilson from Medicine, where he is director Richard M. Thaller, MD, HS’71- He has five children. his home in Raleigh, N.C., and of the pathology residency ’72, currently serves as clinical is working on establishing affili-  Howard N. Short, MD, program. He has also served as professor of pediatrics at Baylor ations with various health care 1960s HS’80-’83, has been made an a mentor for the Swope Summer College of Medicine in addition systems. He and his wife Jean Martin J. Kreshon Sr., MD, Honorary Marine by General Scholars Program at the Virginia to being a member of a group have a “busy and fulfilling” HS’57-’60, DC, and his family James T. Conway, 34th Com- Military Institute. He practices practice. He and his wife Karen family life, with three married founded a charity golf tourna- mandant of the United States neuropathology with his son live in Houston, Texas. children and two grandchildren. ment in 2005 in honor of his Marine Corps. Short is the John Parker, MD, at the Univer- wife Yolanda, who died from Robert S. Adelaar, MD, HS’71- president and medical director sity of Louisville and has two 1980s metastatic malignant mela- ’76, serves as chairman of the of Advanced Sight Center in granddaughters, Taylor Parker, Gregory D. Cascino, MD, noma. Over the past five years Department of Orthopedics at Washington, Mo. He is a found- 9, and Riley Cooper, 4. HS’79-’82, has been named the family has raised $252,000 the Medical College of Virginia ing member and current presi- the recipient of the Whitney for melanoma awareness at Virginia Commonwealth Uni- dent of the Missouri Friends of 1970s MacMillan, Jr., Professorship and research at the Carolina versity in Richmond. Injured Marines, which supports Terry D. King, MD, HS’66-’70, in Neuroscience at the Mayo Healthcare Foundation. The Robert L. Phillips, MD, the national Injured Marine has been honored by Louisiana Clinic College of Medicine in Semper Fi Fund (IMSFF). The tournament is held every June HS’76-’77, of Vestavia, Ala., is State University with the estab- Rochester, Minn. Cascino is IMSFF is a non-profit organi- in Charlotte. chairman of the board for the lishment of the Terry Dean King the chair of the Division of zation set up to provide immedi- Sushil S. Lacy, MD, HS’63-’65, Alabama Eye Bank. His oldest Lectureship in Pediatric Cardiol- Epilepsy in the Department of ate financial support for the has been named the 2010-2011 son David is a second-year MBA ogy. In 1972 King invented the Neurology at the Mayo Clinic. families of Marines and Navy president-elect of the American student at Duke’s Fuqua School cardiac umbrella, a device used He lives in Rochester. Corpsmen injured in Iraq and of Business. His son Michael Urological Association. He lives to close holes in the heart. He Andrea R. Gravatt, MD, Afghanistan. Since its forming in Lincoln, Neb. is an investment banker. His currently is director of pediatric in 2005, the Missouri Friends daughter Jennifer teaches HS’79-’82, recently was Joel R. Temple, MD, HS’60-’67, cardiology at St. Francis Medical of Injured Marines has raised second grade in the Mississippi promoted to clinical associate of Dover, Del., spends his time Center in West Monroe, La. He nearly $1 million for IMSFF. Just Delta with Teach for America. professor of pediatric medicine and his wife Nancy have five focused on family, church, and at the University of Wash- seven others have been named children and 14 grandchildren Jorge L. Lockhart, MD, HS’73- medical practice. He and his ington School of Medicine. Honorary Marines in the past and live in West Monroe. ’78, was promoted to chairman wife of 52 years, Mary, have She currently is employed by four years. Other awardees of the Department of Urology at eight children and 18 grand- Stephen G. Romeo, MD, Multicare Health Systems and include actors Chuck Norris and the University of South Florida children. Their 19th grandchild HS’67-’70, retired since 2000, is an attending physician at Jim Nabors. recently died shortly after birth. College of Medicine in Septem- continues to enjoy traveling, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital James W. McManaway III, ber 2009. He lives in Tampa Fla. R. William McConnell, MD, photography, fly fishing, golf, Department of Emergency MD, HS’89, purchased and HS’65-’69, and his wife Mary and cross training. He recently C. Bruce Alexander, MD, Medicine. She lives in Seattle. remodeled commercial office Raab-McConnell, MD, donated moved into an over-65 com- HS’75-’79, professor and vice space in Hershey, Pa., in spring and raised money to build munity in Tolland, Conn. His chair of the Department of 2010 and moved his practice the American Cancer Society middle daughter and son-in-law Pathology at the University of to the new location in June. McConnel-Raab Hope Lodge in recently moved to South Florida. Alabama in Birmingham, is the He has been named one of the Greenville, N.C. The lodge— His youngest son continues to president-elect of the Ameri- Best Doctors in America every which looks like a Southern lead his age group in ski moun- can Society of Clinical Patholo- year since 2001. He and his mansion—provides no-cost taineering with two years on gists. He has been an active wife Cynthia, A’78, have two housing for cancer patients the U.S. team. His oldest daugh- member of the organization children. Ann graduated with being treated in the Greenville ter works in Boston, Mass. since 1982 and has served in honors from American Univer- area. McConnell’s first wife, numerous roles, including chair sity in 2009 and now works for Kathryn, died of cancer in of the Commission on

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Deloitte & Touche in San Jose, Calif. Alyssa attends Roanoke College in Salem, Va. Paul Walter Misch, MD, HS’89, has been appointed senior vice president of ambulatory and primary care at Beaumont Hos- pitals in Sterling Heights, Mich. He lives in Rochester, Mich. 1990s Michael P. Flanagan, MD, HS’87-’90, a physician with Penn State Medical Group, currently is helping to create a branch campus of the Penn State Hershey College of Medi- cine in State College, Pa. It will involve expanding the family medicine program to three sites, doubling the number of family medicine faculty, and Snow covers the newly painted bridge in the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum at Sarah P. Duke Gardens establishing a new residency in family medicine. His wife Cindy Tran formerly was the global University of Illinois at Chicago. University of Miami School the Greenville Hospital System is a research nurse coordina- medical director for Eli Lily and Azmera is 7, and Adesa is 5. of Medicine. He lives in Coral and run their own sports medi- Company’s Joint Antidepressant Gables, Fla. cine fellowship. His wife Meica tor at Penn State. They have Marcel R. M. Van Den Brink, Group, where he was involved is a neonatologist. They live in two children—Coral, 17, and MD, HS’91-’93, is head of J. Michael DiMaio, MD, HS’97- in the life-cycle management Simpsonville, S.C., with their Drew, 14—and live in Port the Division of Hematological ’98, DC, is the founder of of fluoxetine (Prozac). He also four children: Isabella, 7; Jack, Matilda, Pa. Oncology at Memorial Sloan- the biotech startup company, oversaw the clinical develop- 5; Samuel, 3; and Katelyn, 1. J. Brantley Thrasher Sr., MD, Kettering Cancer Center in Spectral MD in Dallas, Texas. ment effort that resulted in the HS’91-’92, of Leawood, Kan., New York. He also was the first in North Edmund S. Kopetz, MD, successful regulatory approval is a member of the Residency Texas to use the da Vinci HS’01-’04, earned a PhD in can- of duloxetine (Cymbalta). He Orlando E. Silva, MD, HS’91- Review Committee for Urology, robot for thoracic surgery. His cer biology from the University most recently served as chief ’94, received the Outstanding a trustee for the American wife Ruth continues to raise of Texas MD Anderson Cancer medical officer and vice presi- Hispanic Award at The Ameri- Board of Urology, and secre- money for Duke Medicine. Center in December 2009. He dent of clinical development cano’s First Annual Hispanic Fo- tary of the Society of Urologic Their daughter Melissa and her currently is an assistant profes- at Cortex Pharmaceuticals in rum, held Dec. 2 in Washington, Oncology. He is also the South husband live in Roanoke, Va., sor at MD Anderson. Irvine, Calif. D.C. The forum gave the oppor- with their son Max, 2. Central Section representative tunity for American Hispanics to Robbie D. Buechler, MD, Imhotep Kevin-Anthony for the American Urological play an important role in shap- HS’01-’05, has completed a Carter, T’84, MD, HS’92-’93, 2000s Association Board of Directors. ing the conservative dialogue fellowship in epilepsy and sleep recently decided to leave private His son is a sophomore at in the western hemisphere. It Douglas J. Wyland, MD, medicine at the Mayo Clinic practice and return to public the University of Kansas, and was hosted by Newt Gingrich, HS’95-’01, presented papers and is now chief of neurology service. He now works with his daughter is a high school the former Speaker of the U.S. at American Orthopaedic at a community hospital in incarcerated inmates at Dixon junior who competes in a House of Representatives. Silva Society for Sports Medi- Spartanburg, S.C. where he Correctional Facility in Illinois, cheerleading league. is an oncologist at Braman cine, American Academy of lives with his wife Jennifer—a which he says he finds more Pierre V. Tran, MD, HS’88-’92, Family Breast Cancer Institute at Orthopaedic Surgeons, and clinical psychologist—and their professionally and person- has been appointed chief medi- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Southern Orthopaedic As- two children—Savannah, 6, ally fulfilling. He and his wife cal officer at Euthymics Biosci- Center in Miami and associate sociation meetings in 2010. and Luke, 5. Katrina have four children. Ann- ence, Inc. based in Cambridge, professor of medicine at the Jay He is a partner with Steadman Gelle, 23, is attending medical Mass. Euthymics is a clinical- Weiss Center for Social Medi- Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas school at Indiana University. stage company developing next cine and Health Equity at the in Greenville, S.C. He and his Ajamu, 20, attends the generation antidepressants. colleagues frequently work

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Ritchie H. Belser MD’46, HS’46-’48, ’51- Andrew Deiss Jr., MD’56, formerly of Nuclear Studies, where he helped design ’58, died December 17, 2010, in Charleston, Lexington, Ky., died December 25, 2010, and build one of the first versions of a S.C. He was 90. Dr. Belser served in the at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a Cobalt radiation therapy unit. He also served Army Medical Corps for two years. He short illness. He was 80. An oncologist and as chief of radiology at Halifax Hospital in went on practice orthopedic surgery in hematologist, he was at one time a colonel Daytona Beach for many years and devel- Charleston for 31 years. During that time in the U.S. Army Reserve. oped the community’s first cancer treatment he served on the staff of Roper Hospital, center, the Herbert D. Kerman Regional St. Francis Hospital, and Baker Hospital and Dan J. Feriozi, T’44, MD’48, died of Oncology Center at Halifax Hospital. as a clinical faculty member at the Medical cancer on August 21, 2010, at his home University of South Carolina. In 1984 in McLean, Va. He was 90. Dr. Feriozi Dwight T. Kernodle, MD’47, of Elon, N.C., he was named South Carolina’s Clinical served as a medical doctor in the U.S. died December 2, 2010. He was 86. During Professor Emeritus of Orthopedic Surgery. Navy during the Korean War. He practiced WWII Dr. Kernodle served as a medical in Arlington, Va., for more than 25 years. technician in the U.S. Army. He practiced at Dale J. Benos, PhD’76, HS’78, of He also served as chief of the pathology the Kernodle Clinic, specializing in internal Birmingham, Ala., died suddenly of natural staff at the National Health Laboratories medicine until retiring after 35 years. causes on October 7, 2010. He was 60. and for many years gave physical exams Dr. Benos was a noted scientist and to pilots as a medical examiner for the Harold C. Lane, T’48, MD’53, of chairman of the University of Alabama Federal Aviation Administration. Rutherfordton, N.C., died December 27, at Birmingham (UAB) Department of 2010. He was 88. Dr. Lane served in WWII Physiology and Biophysics. He joined UAB Joe B. Hall, MD, HS’48-’50, ’55-’56, of and became the Navy’s youngest chief in 1985 and was named chair of physiol- Prairie Grove, Ark., died August 4, 2010. pharmacist mate. He was the first practic- ogy and biophysics in 1996. His other He was 84. The first internist in the ing pediatrician in Rutherford County, numerous positions included serving as Fayetteville, Ark., area, Dr. Hall played an where he served for more than 30 years. senior scientist with UAB’s Gregory Fleming important role in helping Washington He also was a licensed pilot and avid sailor. James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center. From Regional Medical Center add departments 2006-2007 he served as president of the such as nuclear medicine, physical therapy, Eugene J. Linberg, T’44, MD’48, HS’52- American Physiological Society. medical records, and home health. In 1994 ’56, of Naples, Fla., died August 24, he helped establish the Arkansas Country 2010. He was 86. Dr. Linberg served as Wilmer C. Betts, MD’48, HS’48-’52, of Doctor Museum, where he volunteered in a surgeon overseas during the Korean Raleigh died November 7, 2010. He was several roles. He conducted 80 oral history War. His career also included serving as 85. Dr. Betts served both in the U.S. Navy interviews of country doctors, patients, and assistant dean and professor of surgery at and the U.S. Army. He began practicing nurses for the museum’s video library. the University of Maryland in Baltimore. psychiatry in 1955, becoming the second In 1970 he helped start the University psychiatrist to enter into private practice Robert O. Harris III, MD, HS’74-’75, of of South Florida’s thoracic surgery in Raleigh. He served as president of the Mobile, Ala., died October 11, 2010. He residency training program at Tampa medical staff of the Wake County Mental was 87. Prior to completing a fellowship at General Hospital, and in 1971 he joined Health Clinic and was on the medical staff Duke, Dr. Harris served as a flight surgeon the medical staff at Naples Community of Charter Northridge Hospital. He was well in the U.S. Army Air Corps and practiced Hospital, where he spent 20 years. known for treating patients with addictions pediatrics in Mobile for many years. Early and obsessive compulsive disorder. in his career he helped organize as series Walter C. Lusk II, MD, HS’54-’58, of Los of 90 polio vaccine clinics. He later became Angeles, Calif., died October 3, 2010. He Charles M. Buckner Jr., MD, HS’61-’63, a board certified allergist-immunologist. was 84. Dr. Lusk served in the U.S. Navy of Lakeland, Fla., died of cancer on as a lieutenant. In 1958 he went into December 27, 2010, at his home. He was Alfred H. Kent, T’49, MD’53, of Auburn, private practice with his brother John in 78. Dr. Buckner served in the U.S. Air Force Ala., died August 11, 2010. He was 85. Dr. Greensboro, N.C. He also was an instructor as a captain at Langley Air Force Base in Kent served in the U.S. Army in France and in medicine at Duke and established the Virginia. He began medical practice in Germany during WWII. He also served in Medical Education Program at Moses H. Lakeland in 1963. Vietnam from 1968-1969. He retired from Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro. the Army in 1973 after having served for He joined the Kaiser Permanente Medical Herbert L. Corse, MD’49, of Atlantic 20 years. He then relocated to Auburn, Group and later was an assistant professor Beach, Fla., died December 18, 2010. He Ala., and practiced general and thoracic at the University of California, Los Angeles, was 88. Dr. Corse served in the Korean surgery at the Surgical Clinic in Opelika, and the University of Southern California. War and earned the rank of Captain. He Ala., until retiring in 1987. practiced medicine in the Riverside area Kenneth S. McCarty Jr., T’68, MD’72, of Jacksonville, Fla., for many years and Herbert D. Kerman, T’38, MD’42, HS’42- PhD’73, DC-Century, of Pittsburgh, Pa., later worked for the Department of Health ’43, ’46-’49, DC-Lifetime, of Daytona died October 15, 2010 after a 15-month in Jacksonville before retiring to Atlantic Beach, Fla., died on December 23, 2010, at battle with a rare, aggressive cancer. He Beach in 1989. his home after a short illness. He was 93. was 62. Dr. McCarty practiced at Duke in Dr. Kerman’s career included conducting both internal medicine/endocrinology and research at the Oak Ridge Institute of pathology. While there he researched the

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hormonal aspects and treatment of breast Andrea Marie Scalise-Gordy, MD, HS’92, He was 81. Dr. Stryker had a private disease. Later he served as a professor of of Winston-Salem, N.C., died November medical practice in St. Louis, Mo., until pathology at the University of Pittsburgh 3, 2010, after a long battle with breast retiring in 1990 to Sarasota, where he Medical Center. cancer. She was 54. She served in the U.S. remained active and served as a consultant Navy as a lieutenant commander and an at the Catholic Center. Zachariah B. Newton III, MD, HS’63-’68, of ophthalmologist. She also served during Barney F. Timmons, MD, HS’49-’53, of Flowery Branch, Ga., died August 28, 2010. Operation Desert Storm. After leaving the Charlotte, N.C, died August 28, 2010. He was 73. Dr. Newton served as president Navy, she practiced in Newport News, Va., of staff and chairman of the obstetrics and He was 89. After his Duke residency, Albany N.Y., and New Jersey before settling Dr. Timmons was an instructor in the gynecology department at Georgia Baptist in Winston-Salem, where she practiced at Hospital, member of the Northside Hospital Department of Ophthalmology at Duke in the Center for Sight. 1963. He went on to practice in Hartsville, Executive Committee, founding partner of S.C., specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, Peachtree Women’s Clinic, and member Raymond E. Schipke, MD, HS’49-’51, of nose, and throat. He also served as chief of and president of the Carter Society of West Hartford, Conn., died November 26, staff at Byerly Hospital in Hartsville and as Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2010. He was 88. Dr. Schipke served in the president of the United Way of Hartsville. U.S. Navy in World War II. He was in private He was active with the Red Cross, Kiwanis Aldrich H. Northup, MD’49, of Pensacola, practice for 38 years in West Hartford and Club, and his church. Fla., died on November 28, 2010. He was treated patients at Hartford, St. Francis, 84. Dr. Northup was a flight surgeon Mount Sinai, and John Dempsey hospitals. Richard H. Velaj MD’84, died at Stamford in the U.S. Navy and served on the USS His pro bono work included treating Hospital in Connecticut on October Roosevelt. He later maintained a private children with leukemia and hemophilia at 14, 2010. He was 52. Dr. Velaj served general practice in Pensacola and served Newington Children’s Hospital. He served as president of Greenwich Radiological as the Escambia County medical examiner. as an assistant professor of clinical medi- Group, a senior member of the Greenwich He went on to become a physician on the cine at the University of Connecticut School Hospital Peer Review Committee, and a staff at the Navy’s family practice clinic of Medicine for more than two decades. member of the Board of the Greenwich until his retirement. Medical Building for many years. A clinical William H. Sellers T’37, MD’41, of radiologist, he also had a special interest Mila Oh, MD, HS’00-’02, died May 26, Anniston, Ala., died August 24, 2010. He in neuroradiology. 2010, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, of was 96. Dr. Sellers served as a surgeon A. W. Vogel, MD, HS’49, of Glenolden, Pa., complications from breast cancer. She was in the U.S. Navy during WWII, including died December 4, 2010, of heart failure. He 40. Dr. Oh practiced ophthalmology at service in the South Pacific on Kanton was 89. Dr. Vogel spent two years in the McGill University in Montreal. Diagnosed Island between Hawaii and Fiji. He went on U.S. Army Medical Corps. An ophthalmolo- with breast cancer in 2007, she continued to to practice medicine for 48 years. care for patients in clinic just a week before gist, he first opened his practice in 1970 she died. She also continued to contribute to Barry Shmovonian, PhD, a former Duke and retired in 1990. He was well known Chowhound, an epicurean website, where University School of Medicine faculty for practicing from his Glenolden residence for 20 years. In 1974 he spent a year in she had developed many fans. member, died October 12, 2010, at Pakistan, where he performed cataract Wissahickon Hospice in Philadelphia, Pa., surgery as part of a British volunteer Lloyd H. Robertson Jr., MD’60, HS’60-’65, of complications from a fall. He was 83. mission. He also spent another year treat- of Salisbury, N.C., died November 11, Dr. Shmavonian taught at Duke for 10 ing indigenous Indians in Alaska. 2010, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s years before joining the faculty at Temple disease. He was 76. Early in his career, University in Philadelphia in 1968. As a Dr. Robertson practiced at the Salisbury professor of medical psychology at Temple, Disque D. Deane, former Duke Urological Clinic. He later served as he conducted groundbreaking research in University Trustee, died November 8, president of the medical staff at Rowan biofeedback. After retiring in 1992 he saw 2010, in Boston, Mass. He was 89. Mr. Regional Medical Center in 1987 and patients in private practice for many years. Dean, who attended Duke University, retired in 1991. established the Deane Laboratories T. Lacy Stallings Jr., T’50, MD’54, of in Neurobiology at Duke. The Deane Walter M. Roufail, MD, HS’62-’66, of Oriental, N.C., died August 9, 2010. He was Laboratories are dedicated to biochem- Winston-Salem, N.C., died August 19, 83. Dr. Stallings’s medical career included ical and cellular research in the quest 2010, after a long illness. He was 75. serving as president of the medical staff Born in Cairo, Egypt, Dr. Roufail worked at Wake Medical Center and chief of for new treatments for Alzheimer’s, in private practice in Winston-Salem until surgery at Wake Medical Center and Rex Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and other 1996. He then joined the faculty at Wake Hospital. He was a founding partner of diseases, including epilepsy. A senior Forest University School of Medicine, where Wake Surgical Consultants of Raleigh. partner of Lazard Freres & Co., Mr. he taught for 10 years. Upon his retire- After retirement, he served on the Board Deane and a colleague restructured ment he was named professor emeritus of Directors for Hospice of Pamlico County and financed Starret City, a 5,881-unit of internal medicine-gastroenterology. He from 1988-2009. model community in Brooklyn, N.Y., also served as director of senior services which is the largest and most success- of Winston-Salem and as a trustee of Blue William I. Stryker, MD, HS’58-’59, of ful affordable housing community in Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina. Sarasota, Fla., died September 23, 2010. the U.S.

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Learning Center Construction Starts

The bulldozers arrived on February 2nd and began excavating the site for the new School of Medicine Learning Center.

The $53 million, six-floor, 84,000 square-foot building will house teaching clinical labs, a ground floor auditorium, and flexible, state-of-the-art classrooms with moveable walls and chairs to ac- commodate team-based learning activities. An entire floor will be A tree-lined promenade will open to a plaza in front of the new dedicated to simulation laboratories that can transform from mock building and will serve as an important thoroughfare from the clinical exam rooms to surgery suites to emergency rooms. A stu- medical research campus on Research Drive to the Duke School dent life center will offer students from across the medical campus of Nursing and Duke Clinic building on Trent Drive. places to gather, dine, study, and converse.

It is located at the heart of the medical campus, in close proximity Completion is targed for late 2012. For more information, to the medical library as well as the new Duke Medicine Pavilion please visit medalum.duke.edu. and Duke Cancer Center, both now under construction.