“This Perfect Building” TRENT SEMANS CENTER for HEALTH EDUCATION IS DEDICATED Message from the Dean

SPRING 2013 “This Perfect Building” TRENT SEMANS CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION IS DEDICATED Message from the Dean Each spring I deliver my annual State of the School first permanent chair of the Department of Ortho- DukeMed Alumni News address. In my remarks in March, I discussed the paedic Surgery. In addition to Dr. Alman’s arrival and is published two times a year by the Duke Medical Alumni Association. highlights of the past year and the challenges before our search for a Department of Neurology chair, we Issues are available online at us. Along with other research-intensive medical have begun processes to identify new chairs for the medalumni.duke.edu. Your comments, ideas, and letters schools across the country, we are in an era of Departments of Surgery, Radiology, and Pediatrics. to the editor are welcome. tremendous change. It seemed fitting that I gave Strong leadership is particularly important as we Please contact us at: my talk in the new Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans DukeMed Alumni News navigate the uncertainties of the next few years. 512 S. Mangum St., Suite 400 Center for Health Education – a spectacular building Academic medicine must adapt to a very different Durham, N.C. 27701-3973 e-mail: [email protected] that makes a strong statement about our aspirations environment as health care reform plays out, and for the future. as sequestration further limits federal funding for Editor In my address I announced biomedical research. I feel extremely fortunate to be Marty Fisher that the Board of Trustees working through these challenges with an outstand- Assistant Editor recently approved the ing group of department chairs, vice deans, and Jim Rogalski creation of a new Depart- other institutional leaders. Contributing Writers ment of Neurology. The As always, there is a lot going on in the School of Bernadette Gillis, Dave Hart, Angela Spivey current Division of Neurol- Medicine. In this issue, you will read about the open- ogy, within the Depart- Art Director ing of the Trent Semans Center; an alumni council David Pickel ment of Medicine, will visit to the Duke-National University of Singapore Photography become independent in Graduate Medical School; our commemoration of Duke Photography July. Interim Division Chief Jared Lazarus the fiftieth anniversary of admission of African- Jason Ayer, Paul Kieu, Joel Morgenlander, MD, American students to Duke; and exciting initiatives Eric Parsons, Bob Self will serve as interim chair in genetics research and global health. You will learn until I appoint a perma- about the accomplishments and contributions of Produced by nent chair. Neurology is Duke Medicine Development the 2013 distinguished Medical Alumni Association and Alumni Affairs. the third new department Award recipients. I hope that these articles will help Copyright Duke University, 2013 established over the past you feel connected, and will inspire you to visit at DMDAA 1346 four years, joining Derma- reunion time. tology and Orthopaedic With warm wishes, Surgery. Elevating these units to department status puts our organizational structure in better alignment with other medical schools and affirms the national reputation each has earned. I announced in January that Benjamin Alman, MD, Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD chair of Orthopaedics at the University of Toronto Dean, Duke University School of Medicine and a senior scientist in their Developmental and Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs Stem Cell Biology Program, will join us in July as the Professor, Pediatrics Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Victor J. Dzau, MD Edward G. Buckley, MD Scott Gibson, MBA Sally Kornbluth, PhD Judy Seidenstein Chancellor for Health Affairs, Vice Dean for Education Executive Vice Dean for Vice Dean for Basic Science, Chief Diversity Officer Duke University Duke University School of Medicine Administration, Duke University School of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke University School of Medicine Duke University Health System Theodore N. Pappas, MD Mark Stacy, MD Billy Newton Vice Dean for Medical Affairs, Ann Brown, MD, MHS Vice Dean for Clinical Research, Vice Dean for Finance and Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD Duke University School of Medicine Vice Dean for Faculty Development, Duke University School of Medicine Resource Planning Dean, Duke University School Duke University School of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine of Medicine Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Duke University Contents IN BRIEF FEATURES 02 AAMC Lauds Duke-NUS 16 Zebra Fish Help Diagnose Team-Based Learning Rare Pediatric Diseases Alumni Council 26 Classnotes Members Visit Singapore 03 All Female Cast of 27 Good Times in the Hospital, by McCully, MD’66 Surgery Chief Residents Duke Joins Rwandan 29 Proof of Heaven, by Health Effort Alexander, MD’80, HS’81, ‘87 04 Students Start AMWA Chapter 31 Tic Tac Mo Game App 07 by Mask, MD’88 Newman to Lead Medical Trent Semans Center for Health Education Opens Alumni Association layers_25.indd 1 2/28/13 3:30 PM 05 Event Commemorates 32 Drayer, MD’98 Writes African American History for Hit TV Show 06 Discovery Science 33 House Staff Notes Investment a Success Duke Medicine Launches 34 Obituaries Philanthropic Campaign 14 2013 Medical Alumni20 Medical Alumni Weekend 2013 Association Awards Samuel L. Katz (Pediatrics), The Commit- lished about the program in 1972 and is Sex Ed at Duke— tee on Sex Education...enthusiastically now available online: a Tradition accepted the challenge and dedicated Shangold, M. and Beach, R. K. (1972), Sex Educa- themselves to writing curricula, training tion at Duke: The Development, Implementation, Many great memories came back when I and Expansion of a Medical School Program. themselves, and then teaching in the Bulletin of the American College of Nurse-Mid- read “Med Students Teach Sex Ed to High schools and soon in an expanding scope wives, 17: 4 –10. DOI : 10.1111/j.1542-2011.1972. Schoolers” (Spring 2012 issue) about the of settings as excitement about their pro- tb00077.x successful HEY-Durham program founded gram grew. The members became more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ in 1999. Thirty years earlier in 1969, a multidisciplinary as new students joined doi /10.1111/j.1542-2011.1972.tb00077.x /abstract previous generation of Duke med stu- the Committee. Congratulations to all those involved with dents developed and taught a very similar HEY-Durham. One gift of teaching is that I was co-chair of the original committee program of sex education in the Dur- you learn far more than you teach. May and am still amazed at what these Duke ham junior high schools for years, at the their memories be great ones too. students accomplished, mostly on their request of the public school administra- own time. Several would later become Dr. Robin Beach tion due to an “unprecedented number national leaders in the field of adolescent Roberta K. Beach, MD, MPH of pregnancies in young teens.” With the Professor Emerita, Pediatrics and medicine, a new specialty forming during strong support of the legendary depart- Adolescent Medicine those years. A journal article was pub- University of Colorado School of Medicine ment chairs Roy T. Parker (OB-GYN) and 170 Dahlia Street, Denver Co. 80220 303-399-9981 // [email protected] DukeMedAlumniNews | 1 IN BRIEF AAMC Lauds Duke-NUS for Team-Based Learning The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has recognized The Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) for its success with team-based learning. In a case study titled “Readiness for Reform,” the AAMC calls Duke-NUS “a pioneer in medical education” for being one of the first schools of medicine to successfully apply team-based learning throughout the basic science curriculum. All courses taken by first-year medical students at Duke-NUS are taught in the collaborative, coop- erative learning method similar to that used by American business schools. Students review supplemental material prior to attending class. In class they take an individual readiness assessment to gauge their knowledge of the material, followed by the same test taken in teams. In-class activities focus on assuring understanding, applying principles, Lucy Freedy, Dale Shaw, Nancy Shaw, tour guide; from right, Nick Leonardy, Terri Leonardy Alumni Council Members Visit Singapore Several members of the Duke Medical Alumni Council visited Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) last year to observe classes, meet administrators, and encourage the school to form an alumni association. “Not only would an alumni organization help to keep Duke-NUS alumni connected to each other and their school, but it would help to spread the Duke brand “The students even more in Asia,” said Dale Shaw, T’69, MD’73, at Duke-NUS HS’73-’77. and solving problems within student teams facilitated by faculty. Stu- are very proud dents are required to demonstrate self-directed learning. Also making the trip were of the Duke council members Nicholas The AAMC reports that in less time, Duke-NUS students achieved Leonardy, T’81, MD’85, comparable scores to U.S. medical students on standardized tests of name on their and Lucy Freedy, MD’56. basic science knowledge. Duke-NUS students performed significantly diplomas.” Shaw said that alumni higher than the U.S. students at the end of their second (clinical) year. - Dale Shaw organizations are unique Duke University School of Medicine is also involved with TeamLead to America, but several uni- type activities. A portion of the first-year basic science instruction uses versities in England recently aspects of team-based learning. have organized them. “We are still experimenting with the mix and style of the process,” Duke-NUS opened in 2007 and has graduated six classes said Edward G. Buckley, E’72, MD’77, HS’77-’81, vice dean for to date.

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