FALL 2011

Research that Makes a Difference in the World

Third-year medical students pursue innovations in clinical care, basic science, and global health. Message from the Dean

“Knowledge in the service of society” is the signa- had fascinated him since college. All exciting stories, ture theme of the Duke University strategic plan, and even more impressive when you consider that “Making a Difference,” developed five years ago. a random pick of three other third year students This theme, of course, is developed in many differ- would yield three more examples of how our future ent ways across Duke. Duke Doctors combine creativity and brilliance to In this issue, you will read how three of our medi- move medicine forward. DukeMed Alumni News is published two times a year by cal students have used their research year to realize We also celebrate the achievements of several the Duke Medical Alumni Association. knowledge in the service of society. A wonderful very distinguished alumni, who will be honored this Issues are available online at medalum.duke.edu. aspect of our curriculum is that each student’s third fall with Medical Alumni Association Awards. They, Your comments, ideas, and letters year is unique—an opportunity to pursue knowl- too, demonstrate the diversity of accomplishment to the editor are welcome. edge in an area that has particular, personal impor- that makes me so proud of our school. I hope you Please contact us at: DukeMed Alumni News tance to him or her. Fueled will join us in October to re-connect with old friends 512 S. Mangum St., Suite 400 by our students’ passion to and see our magnificent new Learning Center rising Durham, NC 27701-3973 e-mail: [email protected] improve human health, the up in the middle of campus. Jenny Jones third-year experience truly Director can make a difference. Alumni Affairs You will read about a Editor Marty Fisher student who melded the Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD Contributing Writers business savvy that he ac- Dean, Duke University School of Medicine Bernadette Gillis, Catherine Clabby, quired in the Fuqua Health Jim Rogalski Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs Sector Management Graphic Designer Professor, Pediatrics David Pickel program with a strong Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology desire to improve health Photography Duke Photography care in his native country, Jared Lazarus and ended up founding a David Pickel Jim Rogalski company that will develop cell phone applications for health workers in rural Produced by the Office of Marketing and Creative Services. areas. Another student has had a part in develop- Copyright Duke University ing a new technology that may make it easier to Health System, 2011. MCOC-8955 distinguish breast cancers from benign lesions— something she may rely upon someday in her future career as a surgeon. A third student used his third year to delve deeply into biochemical questions that

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 02 Students recognized 23 Class Notes at AOA Day 25 Wohl goes to N.C. 02 Duke Hospital prisons to prevent moves up to #9 and treat HIV/AIDS

03 Best teachers win 26 House Staff Notes Golden Apples 28 Obituaries 04 Medical Alumni Weekend plans

U.S.News & WORLD REPORT 06  Clements and Co. build  Third-year research seeks to a clinic in Honduras improve global health strategies, breast cancer detection, and HOSPITALS molecular cancer therapy 29

MEDICAL 22 ALUMNI  Medical Alumni Association honors ASSOCIATION Wilson, Cohen, Eyster, Shore, Safrit, Bowen, HONOREES7 and Snyderman 11

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AOA Day Highlights the Best in Third-Year Research

After devoting nearly a year to scholarly research, third-year students got to display the fruits of their labor at this year’s Medi- cal Student Research Day in August. Four students’ poster and platform presentations earned top honors during the event, also called AOA Day. Benja- min Macadangdang, E’07, MSIII, earned Best Science Research Poster Presenta- Edward Ruane Jr., Benjamin Macadangdang, Chikoti Mibenge, James Friedman, tion; Chris Manz, T’05, MSIV, Best Clinical and Chris Manz were recognized at AOA Day. Research Platform Presentation; James Fried- man, T’08, MSIII, Best Clinical Research Poster cost of medical school is not trivial. (The scholar- Presentation; and Chikoti Mibenge, MSIV, Best ship) will really help me pursue my goals.” Basic Science Research Platform Presentation. Ruane hopes to become a pediatric plastic “I’ve had a phe- A special award, the Palumbo Family Medical and craniofacial surgeon. He spent his third year nomenal experience Scholarship, was presented to Edward Ruane Jr., of medical school researching a particular type MSIV. The scholarship is awarded each year to a of bladder cancer with Gerard Blobe, PhD’94, here at Duke, but third-year medical student who is elected to Alpha MD’95, associate professor of medicine and the cost of medical Omega Alpha (AOA) and is certified as having associate professor in pharmacology and cancer school is not trivial. financial need. A selection committee chooses the biology at Duke. The title of Ruane’s research is recipient on AOA Day. Selection is based on merit, “Loss of the type III TGF-receptor in transitional (The scholarship) which includes an evaluation of the student’s per- cell carcinoma: Role in collective cell migration.” will really help me formance during the research day presentations. AOA Day also featured speaker Michael pursue my goals.” The scholarship will cover Ruane’s tuition for his Haglund, MD, PhD, Duke professor of surgery, Edward Ruane Jr. fourth year at Duke. A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., neurobiology, and global health. Haglund Ruane says receiving the scholarship was “over- shared with students his efforts to improve whelming and a tremendous honor. I’ve had a neurosurgical care in Uganda through the Duke phenomenal experience here at Duke, but the Global Health PLUS program and the Uganda East African Training Program.

geriatrics and pulmonology 5  +2 Duke Ranked 9 by U.S.News

orthopedics same as last year 6 Duke University Hospital has moved up one point in the 2011-2012 cardiology and heart surgery  +2 U.S.News & World Report ranking of America’s Best Hospitals. We 7 are now ranked 9th nationally, and designated as an elite Honor Roll ophthalmology same as last year 7 hospital by scoring at least six specialties as top performers. The spe- neurology and neurosurgery 8  +3 cialties ranked included: geriatrics and pulmonology (5), orthopedics (6), cardiology and heart surgery (7), ophthalmology (7), neurology kidney disorders  +3 9 and neurosurgery (8), kidney disorders (9), cancer (11), rheuma- cancer 11  +1 tology (12), gastroenterology (13), psychiatry (16), diabetes and endocrinology (26), and ear, nose, and throat (27). Duke has ranked rheumatology same as last year 12 in the top 10 for 22 consecutive years.

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White Coat Ceremony Includes New Orientation for Families

More than 400 students, faculty, and families attended the White Coat Ceremony in the Bryan Student Center in August. This year, prior to the ceremony, students and faculty mixed things up a bit by presenting a special Medical Families Orientation, in which families learned more about the medical school experience, support services, and financial planning at Duke. Later, students broke up into groups according to advisory deans and presented their own medical oaths that they wrote prior to the ceremony. At right, one group cheers each other on while presenting an oath based on the letters in HIPPOCRATIC, where T From left, first-year students Shakira Sanchez-Collins, Qinyun “Quinn” Wang, and stands for “Teamwork.” Xiaowen “Wendy” Wang

Best Teachers Receive Golden Apple Awards Three outstanding teachers have been chosen by Duke medical students to receive the Golden Apple Award for 2011.

BASIC SCIENCE TEACHING AWARD support hospital. He holds an MD Matthew Velkey, PhD, is an assistant from Case Western Reserve Universi- professor of the practice of medical ty School of Medicine and completed education in the Department of Cell a general surgery residency in the Biology and the Department of Physi- combined military-civilian program at cal Therapy. He lectures on medical Wright State University and Wright- embryology and graduate-level devel- Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, opmental biology. Velkey has been at Ohio, and a fellowship in vascular sur- Duke for one year, having come from gery at Baylor College of Medicine. the University of Michigan Medical HOUSE STAFF AWARD School (UMMS). He holds a PhD in cell and developmental biology from John “Jack” Haney, MPH, MD’04, UMMS and a master’s of science in HS’04-current, is completing a fellow- anatomy from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He ship in cardiothoracic surgery at Duke also received a BA in English and a BS in biology, both summa and anticipates finishing in 2014. He cum laude, from Millsaps College. He has won several awards for is a three-time recipient of the Golden teaching, including the Kaiser Permanente Award for Excellence in Apple award and a three-time recipi- Pre-clinical Teaching and the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize, ent of the Department of Surgery’s both from the University of Michigan Medical School. Golden Appleseed Award. He says he loves teaching and surgery, and tries to convey his enthusiasm to the medical CLINICAL FACULTY AWARD students he teaches. He received an Mitchell Cox, MD, is an assistant professor in the Division of Vas- undergraduate degree summa cum laude in biology and econom- cular Surgery at Duke. He maintains a busy clinical practice while ics from Williams College and an MPH from Boston University in teaching and training Duke medical students and Duke hospital 2000. He is a 2004 graduate of Duke University School of Medi- residents. He came to Duke from Walter Reed Army Medical cine and completed a general surgery residency at Duke in 2011. Center, having spent 13 years in the U.S. Air Force. He completed two deployments in central Iraq, where he worked in a combat

DukeMedAlumniNews | 3 When alumni return to Duke University For a complete schedule School of Medicine for Medical and more information about Medical Alumni Weekend Alumni Weekend, October 20-23, 2011, please visit medalum. 2011, they’ll find a medical campus duke.edu. being transformed. The Duke Cancer Center building is nearing completion, and THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 construction is under way on the Duke 6:30 pm Medicine Pavilion, scheduled to open in late Davison Club Celebration 2013. Soon, work will begin on a large Oval The Pavilions at the Angus Barn An invitation-only event for current Courtyard connecting all of the inpatient and members of the Davison Club and outpatient medical buildings and the School of guests Nursing. Rising at the heart of the new campus Hosted by Rick Sarner, T’79, MD’83, Davison Club President, is the School of Medicine Learning Center, the and Dean Nancy first new home for medical education since C. Andrews, MD, PhD the Davison Building opened in 1930. Alumni FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 will have the opportunity to see the new construction firsthand during Saturday tours. 8:00 am – 9:00 am Medicine Grand Rounds: The Eugene A. Stead Jr., Class dinners will take place Saturday night MD Lecture at a variety of locations. Special activities are Room 2002 Duke Hospital John R. Feussner, MD, MPH, planned for Half Century Society members HS’73-’78, Chairman, Department and the 50th Reunion Class of 1961. of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina Continental breakfast at 7:30 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Football Game – The School of Medicine Wake Forest vs. Duke Learning Center: Wallace Wade Stadium A Virtual Tour 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Washington Duke Inn, Ambassador Ballroom Afternoon Tours Duke University Lemur Center 6:30 pm Walking Tour of Duke Medical Medical Alumni Association Campus Transformation Dinner and Awards Bus Tour of Duke University and Ceremony Medical Center Campuses Washington Duke Inn, Presidents I & II 5:00 pm See article on page 11. Half Century Society Induction Ceremony SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 Washington Duke Inn, Ambassador Duke Ballroom 10:00 am – 11:30 am For the Class of 1961 and the Breakfast with Dean Nancy Half Century Society C. Andrews, MD, PhD Hosted by Dean Nancy C. Washington Duke Inn, Andrews, MD, PhD and Ambassador Allen Robert Green, T’56, MD’60, By invitation only chair, Half Century Society Time TBA Class Dinners Barbecue and Microbrew Tailgate Party Under the tent at Blue Devil Alley (Krzyzewski-ville)

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH

RESEARCHCOMMON TOOLS WHILE STILL FOR COMMON PROBLEMS Lanre Jimoh dreams of becoming a IN MEDICAL doctor who makes a difference in his homeland of Nigeria—but not by treat- SCHOOL ing one patient at a time. Instead, Jimoh wants to help construct a better health Duke University School of Medicine’s curricu- system for the entire country. lum is unlike any other. The son of a nationally prominent businessman, Jimoh picked medicine After studying core basic sciences in their as a career in grade school, after he first year and pursuing core clinical clerkships watched physicians help his mother in their second, students devote the third year recover from typhoid fever. In 2002, of medical school to research. By the time they he traveled to the United States with a graduate, most students have published their plan: Do extremely well as an under- findings in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. graduate at the University of West Georgia and gain entry to a top-ranked For the many graduates who pursue basic or American medical school. clinical research, it’s a jump start on a career At Duke, Jimoh signed up for the in academic medicine. For others, it’s a way of MD-MBA degree program sponsored incorporating science into medical practice or jointly by the School of Medicine and learning to ask the questions that can lead to the Fuqua School of Business. After two creative solutions in health and medicine. In years of medical school, he spent a year any case, it’s a chance for students to make a in business school, followed by another difference while learning. year of dual enrollment in medicine and business. During a health technology Each year, during Medical Student Research class, the idea struck him for a scholarly Day, Duke medical students present the results research project. Jimoh took an extra of their third-year research projects. Most year to complete the 10-month research detail their findings with poster presentations, project in Nigeria. but some are selected to give brief talks. Below On visits home, he had observed rapid growth in cell phone use. By are descriptions of the efforts of three students 2009, not just wealthy people carried who presented their projects to fellow doctors them. Maids and drivers—even street in training, faculty, and others in August. hawkers—did too. Jimoh concluded

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6 | DukeMedAlumniNews “THERE’S PROMISE IN USING COMMON TOOLS TO SOLVE COMMON PROBLEMS.” that the technology could help improve LANRE JIMOH medical care in Nigeria, particularly in its extensive rural regions, where access to physicians and medical facili- ties can be extremely limited. “There’s promise in using common tools to solve common problems,” Jimoh says. He talked with Kevin Schulman, MD, a physician and professor of medicine and business administration at Duke. Schulman pushed Jimoh to develop a relevant research question regarding his idea. After conferring with Nigeria’s minis- ter of state for health, Muhammad Ali Pate, MBA’06, who is a Fuqua alumus, Jimoh began a collaboration with his country’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency, which Pate was heading at the time. Together, they set out to quantify health workers’ attitudes about mobile technology, whose use the agency had plans to expand. They randomly surveyed 200 midwives and community health extension workers, equivalents to U.S. nursing assistants. Both are vital primary care providers in the country’s rural states. Among other things, the survey found that older workers were more enthusi- astic than younger workers about the technology’s potential to help them on the job, which was a surprise. Midwives most wanted decision-making assistance tools to help guide patient treatment. The extension workers most wanted data repositories they could visit to learn about a range of health problems. Neither ranked collecting data for external reporting to the government as a top need, even though that was a leading government goal. Such insights, Jimoh hopes, could help Nigeria and other developing countries roll out electronic tools among health workers more effectively. Jimoh’s father, Bayo, runs Odua Investment Ltd., which has stakes in multiple core business sectors in Nigeria,

DukeMedAlumniNews | 7 FEATURE | “IT’S A GREAT EXPERIENCE TO BE ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF A NEW IMAGING MODALITY.” including telecommunications, power generation, and real estate. The younger EMILY MCCRACKEN Jimoh sees business as a key player in expanding the health infrastructure in Nigeria. He has founded a technology company, Cistematix Ltd., which is developing phone applications that run on cell phones for health workers. A demo is loaded onto a phone he carries in Duke Hospital. Jimoh’s research shows the impor- tance of learning more about a work- force before attempting to put electronic devices into its hands, Schulman says. On top of that, he says, Jimoh is developing needed technology to get that job done. All that work took great passion, Schulman says, adding: “He brings it to everything he does.”

PREVENTING UNNECESSARY BREAST BIOPSIES

The granddaughter and daughter of Duke-trained physicians, Emily McCracken entered medical school with certain expectations about what a career as a doctor promises. “You can spend the rest of your life learning. You never stop,” the Durham native says. “Your field changes and you can contribute to the changes, with research.” During her third year, McCracken pursued such research with Martin Tornai, PhD, an associate professor of radiology and biomedical engineering who directs the Multi-Modality Imaging Laboratory. Tornai’s team has developed a hybrid breast-imaging instrument that, one day, might prevent unnecessary breast biopsies among women suspected of having cancer. Four out of five of those invasive procedures are negative for cancer. The screening may also be able to monitor women who are getting or have finished getting cancer treatments. The new instrument combines single photon emission computed tomog- raphy (SPECT) with x-ray computed

8 | DukeMedAlumniNews tomography (CT) to detect malignancy. they planned to recruit were already for the chance to contribute to a field Similar technology already is used for undergoing SPECT screening at Duke while learning. imaging irregularities in parathyroid for signs of parathyroid disease. It “An advantage of coming to Duke and heart tissue. But the experimental just so happened that those patients is that you get to start that in medical device in Tornai’s lab is the only system had breaks of an hour and a half school,” she says. like it in the world, so far, that com- between two imaging sessions in the bines moving SPECT and CT cameras nuclear medicine department at Duke A RECEPTOR THAT for breast imaging. University Hospital. COULD SLOW CANCER The SPECT component records After winning the IRB’s blessing, signals from radioactive tracers in dye they needed to get patients to a spe- There are multiple ways to try to crack that patients are injected with before cially fitted table in Tornai’s ground- the mysteries of disease. With cancer, screenings; the CT scans pinpoint floor laboratory located off Research molecular studies beckon, because where those tracers are visible. The Drive. McCracken did that by recruit- malfunction on the cellular level causes signals are strongest in tissue that is ing clinic patients. Once the women so much trouble. more metabolically active, a sign that agreed, McCracken escorted them to Working with Gerard Blobe, PhD’94, quick-dividing cancer cells are present. Tornai’s lab during visits to thyroid MD’95, an associate professor of When McCracken met Tornai, he oncology clinic. While there, she had medicine-oncology, Edward Ruane was ready to try to answer a fundamen- them change into hospital gowns, lay Jr. spent his third year of medical tal question about his new instrument. on a table and let the biophysicist’s school helping advance understanding He wanted measurements of the signals machine scan their breasts. of one molecular glitch related to generated in women with healthy breast “Emily is very thorough, considers the some bladder cancers. The insights tissue, a baseline required to calibrate big picture but is also in tune with the could one day help develop a targeted the device for clinical use. details of the project,” Tornai says. “She treatment. The challenge appealed to the orga- helped us develop an efficient protocol.” Growing up in Pittsburgh, Ruane nized and detail-oriented McCracken, Results from McCracken’s efforts knew early on that he wanted to be a who during her clinical rotations con- so far show the average uptake of the doctor. He has fond memories of shad- cluded that she wants to be a surgeon. radionuclide in women with no known owing physicians at Children’s Hospital (She starts a surgery sub-internship breast cancer has been low and close to there, where his mother is a nurse. But at Washington University in St. Louis the levels Tornai’s team had predicted. as a biochemistry major at Notre Dame in December.) Also appealing was the McCracken, meanwhile, is grateful in Indiana, Ruane also found himself chance to see a bit of the future in intrigued by basic science, radiology, a field she expects she’ll particularly cancer biology. always collaborate with. “It is so complex and interest- “It’s a great experience to be on ing,” Ruane says. “I got pretty the ground floor of a new imaging comfortable with basic science.” modality,” says McCracken, whose So comfortable, in fact, that late grandfather, Joseph, T’34, Ruane took a couple of years MD’38, was a general practitioner in off after graduating from Notre Durham and whose father, J. Stuart, Dame to work at the Johns MD’76, HS’78-’81, still practices Hopkins School of Public ophthalmology in town today. Health. There, he learned a lot First, McCracken developed a in a laboratory studying ties proposal for Duke’s Institutional between serological markers Review Board (IRB) asking for in HIV and progression of the permission to screen patients. She virus. He also confirmed that and Tornai used a tidy argument he really wanted to work with seeking IRB approval. Their subjects patients too, prompting him to wouldn’t expose women to exces- apply to Duke, where he knew sive radiation, since the women that, even in medical school, he

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could do both. His experience in Baltimore likely helped him land the Howard Hughes “I GOT PRETTY Medical Institute student research fellowship he brought to Blobe’s lab. COMFORTABLE Among other things, Blobe’s team studies a molecular cell receptor, the type III TGF- WITH BASIC receptor, which is implicated in the sort of cell movement that makes cancer metastasis SCIENCE.” possible. Loss of that receptor is correlated with progression of multiple cancers, EDWARD RUANE JR. including those of the breast, lung, ovary, pancreas, and prostate. Ruane conducted his studies with bladder cancer cells and tissue samples, sometimes heading into the Levine Science Research Building at 3 a.m. to catch a glimpse of cells under the microscope at just the right time in an experiment. He wounded the cells by scraping the bottom of the Petri dish to see if the receptor disrupted their ability to migrate and heal the wound, a motion that models cancer invasion and metastasis. It did. On top of that, he helped pinpoint the molecular pathway where the receptor seems to play a vital role in suppressing this collective cell migration. All this could put new molecular treat- ments in sight for medicine, which has seen profound progress with targeted cancer therapies such as tamoxifen and Herceptin. “These studies could identify a new thera- peutic target or biomarker for the treatment of bladder cancer,” Blobe says. Ironically, Ruane found a new career direction just before embarking on this research. During clinical rotations in his second year of medical school, he discovered a passion for surgery, specifically cranial and facial reconstructive surgery in children, the specialty that tackles repairing cleft palates and other abnormalities. But as luck would have it, some of the molecular biology he was exposed to in Blobe’s lab is also relevant to wound healing and scarring after surgery. “Serendipitously,” Ruane says, he now has a new research interest.

10 | DukeMedAlumniNews Medical Alumni Association 2011 HONOREES

Joanne A.P. Wilson Harvey Jay Cohen M. Elaine Eyster James H. Shore Henry F. Safrit Edward G. Bowen Ralph Snyderman

DukeMedAlumniNews | 11 Joanne A.P. Wilson, Gastroenterologist MD’73, FACP, AGAF Blazed a Trail for Women and Minorities

Having a colon cancer screening may now be and he picked out a little cactus for us and the norm for people 50 and older, but that brought it to the office.” wasn’t the case 30 years ago when Joanne Wilson also takes her work outside the A.P. Wilson began her career. Still, that didn’t clinic, serving as a champion for educating stop the gastroenterologist from stressing the importance of early detection and prevention to her patients. DISTINGUISHED “I have been giving educational talks for a FACULTY number of years—almost the entire 30 years,” Wilson says. the local African-American community about In the past, cost was a major barrier to the importance of colon cancer screenings. screening for most patients. And although She often speaks to lay audiences at the Teer colonoscopies are more accessible today House in Durham and at local churches. She because they are covered by Medicare, Wilson also reaches out to family practitioners who says she and fellow colleagues still have a lot have patients who could benefit from colon of work to do in their field—from helping cancer education. patients get over their reluctance to undergo In 2008 the American Gastroenterological the procedure to developing new technolo- Association (AGA) named Wilson one of its gies that make screening easier. Outstanding AGA Women in Science. Because And she’s up for the challenge, as she’s the awards typically go to researchers, Wilson shown throughout her career as a clinician, says she felt especially proud to be honored patient educator, and national leader within for her work as a clinician. her field. Wilson says her decades-long pas- Wilson’s dedication to her work also led to sion has been rooted in one major factor: her becoming a leader in professional societ- her love of working with people. ies. In 1998 she was elected secretary of the 2011 “We have cutting-edge technology,” AGA, the first woman and the first African- Wilson says. “We have incredible science. We American to hold the office. take things quickly from bench to bedside. Aside from her history-making role with the But you have to do that in a manner that the AGA, Wilson had the distinction of being the patients benefit in every realm. Not only just first or among the first in other professional from a physical standpoint but an emotional endeavors as well. In 1995 she became the sec- Education: University of North Carolina at standpoint. I think that’s really crucial.” ond woman in Duke’s Department of Medicine Chapel Hill; Duke University School of Medicine Wilson’s personal connection with her pa- to attain the rank of professor, and she was the Training: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, tients hasn’t gone unnoticed, especially by the second African-American woman to graduate Boston, Mass.; Harvard Medical School; patients themselves. And it’s their feedback from the School of Medicine. The Duke Stu- Georgetown University Hospital, that Wilson sees as a true measure of success. dent National Medical Association recognized Washington, D.C.; Veterans Affairs Hospital, Wilson for her efforts and her place in Duke’s She recalls once treating a young widowed Washington, D.C. history with a Trailblazer award in 2007. Current Title: Professor of Medicine, Division mother who suffered from a chronic illness. of Gastroenterology, Duke University After working with the woman’s insurance Wilson is married to Kenneth H. Wilson, company to get much-needed medication, MD, who serves as a professor of medicine in Wilson and her colleagues still had to take Duke’s Division of Infectious Diseases. They drastic measures and perform surgery. “We live in Chapel Hill and have three children, wanted to avoid surgery,” Wilson says. “But Nora M.W. Dennis, MD’10; Court P. all along the way she was just really happy to Wilson, T’04; and Sarah M. Wilson, who cur- know that the staff and I were there to sup- rently is a graduate student studying clinical port her to make sure everything was going psychology at Duke; and one grandson, Esai. well. Even her little son was very happy that – Bernadette Gillis we had been able to make his mother better,

12 | DukeMedAlumniNews Pioneer and Advocate Harvey Jay Cohen, for Elder-focused Medicine MD, HS’65-‘67, ’69-‘71

A diagnosis of cancer poses special problems A native of Brooklyn, New York, Cohen was for the elderly, but thanks in part to the work one of the last Duke medical residents to train of Harvey Cohen, many older people with under legendary Chair of Medicine Eugene A. cancer are living longer with higher quality Stead Jr., MD. of life. Cohen, who helped establish Duke’s Divi- DISTINGUISHED sion of Geriatrics in the 1970s and currently ALUMNUS directs the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in “My residency was the cornerstone of my geriatric oncology. A beloved and respected career,” he says. “Dr. Stead set a high bar and mentor, he also established Duke’s fellow- he expected his trainees to jump over it. It ship program in geriatric medicine and has gave me a solid clinical background and was launched the careers of many physicians who the underpinning for everything I’ve done.” have become leaders in academic geriatrics After his Duke residency Cohen spent two and geriatric oncology. years as an immunology researcher with the During more than 40 years on the Duke fac- National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic ulty, he has served as interim chair and chair Diseases before returning to Duke for a fel- of the Department of Medicine, founding lowship in hematology-oncology. chief of the Division of Geriatrics, and direc- Cohen has served as president of both the tor of the Durham Veterans Affairs Geriatric American Geriatrics Society and the Geronto- MEDICAL Research, Education, and Clinical Center. He logical Society of America and he chaired the also directs Duke’s Claude D. Pepper Older Board of Scientific Counselors of the National ALUMNI American Independence Center, a National Institute on Aging. From 2004 to 2006 he Institutes of Health-funded all-university was president of the International Society ASSOCIATION program focused on improving the functional of Geriatric Oncology. In addition to many independence of older adults. prestigious awards for geriatric research and HONOREES In 2009 Cohen was honored with the Paul education, he says he is most proud of the Calabresi Award from the Society of Interna- Clinically-Based Research Mentoring Award he tional Oncology and Geriatrics, and last year, received from Duke in 2009. he received the B.J. Kennedy Award from the “I’m really very proud of my role as a American Society of Clinical Oncology for his mentor to young faculty and fellows. It has Education: Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y.; role in establishing the discipline of geriatric been one of the most rewarding and enjoy- Downstate Medical College of the State University of New York oncology. He says that the more he worked able times of my career,” he says. “Medical Training: Duke University Medical Center with older cancer patients, the more he grew residents today are not all that different from to enjoy both the patients and the complex, the way we were in the ‘60s. They are still Current Titles: Walter Kempner Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of multidisciplinary care they required. dedicated and bright.” Medicine; Director, Center for the Study of “Older people have great stories to tell. I Cohen is married to Sandra Cohen and Aging and Human Development enjoy getting to know them as individuals. It’s lives in Durham. They have a son and daugh- actually a very challenging population because ter and four grandchildren. they may have multiple chronic illnesses in – Marty Fisher addition to cancer,” he says. With the coming surge of Baby Boomers Cohen says training all physicians in geriatrics will become increas- ingly important. “Given the demographic shift in this country, specialty training in geriatrics needs to be spread among all the medical disciplines,” he says.

DukeMedAlumniNews | 13 COVER STORY | M. Elaine Eyster, Found Keys to the WC’56, MD’60 HIV/AIDS Puzzle

In July 1982, Elaine Eyster was summoned period between the time of infection and the to an emergency meeting in Washing- onset of AIDS. This was of great importance ton, D.C. by The U.S. Centers for Disease for counseling patients before highly effective Control and U.S. Department of Health and anti-HIV drug combinations became available Human Services. The CDC had just learned an alarming fact: DISTINGUISHED three hemophilia patients had developed mys- ALUMNA terious infections similar to those being seen in gay men in California and New York, and feared the possibility that blood transfusions in the mid-1990s. She also discovered that were posing a risk to the public. most HIV/hemophilia patients co-infected with hepatitis C virus had a more rapid pro- “That meeting changed my life forever,” gression to end-stage liver disease. she says, because it launched her into the in- ternational spotlight of the HIV/AIDS epidemic “My late husband always says I never threw in its infancy, when medical experts were anything away,” Eyster quipped. “At the time, struggling to understand the mysterious new it just seemed like a good thing to do.” disease, and public panic was growing. Eyster arrived at Penn State College of As chief of the Division of Hematology Medicine as an attending physician in 1970, at the Pennsylvania State University College when the college was just a year old. Within of Medicine in Hershey, Pa., and director of three short years she became the college’s the Central Pennsylvania Hemophilia Center, first female division chief when she was ap- Eyster became a national expert on infectious pointed to lead the Division of Hematology. complication of hemophilia. Her pioneering biomedical research on She worked closely with James Goedert, hemophilia, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS, was MD, from the National Cancer Institute, instrumental in helping to establish Penn 2011 studying hundreds of serial samples of blood State College of Medicine as a nationally plasma from her hemophilia patients. Eyster respected institution. had frozen and systematically catalogued “She is a prototypical example of a ‘triple them beginning in the mid- to late 1970s threat,’” says Leslie J. Parent, MD’87, HS’87- while researching nonA-nonB hepatitis (now ’91, the chief of infectious diseases there. known as hepatitis C). “She is an exceptional clinician, educator, Education: Duke University, Duke and scientist.” University School of Medicine That prescient act proved invaluable to the Training: The New York Hospital, study of HIV/AIDS. During the height of fear over HIV infec- Cornell Medical Center “When we assayed these samples we tion in the early 1980s, when some physicians Current titles: Distinguished Professor of discovered that HIV infections actually were hesitant or outright refused to treat Medicine and Pathology, Chief, Division started in persons with hemophilia as early HIV-infected patients, Eyster maintained her of Hematology, Pennsylvania State close, personal contact with her patients. Her University College of Medicine; Director, as 1978 and the curve rose steeply between genuine compassion for her patients is near Central Pennsylvania Hemophilia Center, 1982 and ’84 when the first virally inacti- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center vated clotting factors became available,” she legend at the college. says. “We also found that older hemophilia She currently is Distinguished Professor of patients infected with HIV went on to prog- Medicine and Pathology. ress to AIDS much more rapidly than those She and her late husband, Robert E. Dye, infected at a younger age.” T’50, MD, have two sons and six grandchil- Her research played a central role in eluci- dren. She lives in Hershey, Pa. dating the transmission of HIV infections and – Jim Rogalski the progression of the disease. It was key to identifying and quantifying the long latency

14 | DukeMedAlumniNews Led $5B Relocation James “Jim” H. of the Colorado Health Shore, T’62, MD’65 Sciences Center

Jim Shore is a revered emeritus leader of the the faculty and made us all part of the plan- University of Colorado and Health Sciences ning process.” Center outside of Denver, and a nationally Shore has been a leader in American renowned psychiatrist. But he also knows a psychiatry and academic medicine. He is past- thing or two about acting. “In coming here,” he says of his 1985 DISTINGUISHED appointment as professor and chair of the ALUMNUS Department of Psychiatry, “I became known as the ‘permanent acting.’ I was acting chan- cellor, acting executive vice-chancellor, and president of the American College of Psychia- acting University Hospital president.” trists and held positions with the American All of it was on-the-job training for his Psychiatric Association, the American Board eventual move into the chancellorship for a of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the Ameri- 10-year period beginning in 1999. can Association of Chairmen of Departments of Psychiatry. During that time, Shore led the merging of the university and health system and the He is the only psychiatrist to date to chair $5 billion relocation and expansion of both the interdisciplinary council of the American entities to a former U.S. Army base 12 miles Council of Graduate Medical Education. outside Denver. Since his first visit as a child to Cherokee, The pristine, modern new campus in- N.C., Shore has been fascinated with Na- cludes 30 research, classroom, and office tive American culture. While professor and MEDICAL buildings, and three new hospitals—The chairman of the Department of Psychiatry in University of Colorado Hospital, The Chil- the school of medicine at the Oregon Health ALUMNI dren’s Hospital, and the Veterans Affairs Sciences University, he helped to establish ASSOCIATION hospital that is scheduled for completion the first mental health and addiction treat- in 2013. It houses the schools of medicine, ment programs for multiple tribes of Native nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, and public Americans. In Colorado, he co-founded the HONOREES health. The University of Colorado Graduate Nighthorse Campbell Native American Health School also is housed there. Center, the first national health center focused on the health of Native Americans. “All of us are very proud of our accomplish- “Having the opportunity to work with tribal ment in finishing this campus in such a short Education: Duke University, Duke governments to help them establish their first period of time,” he says. “As far as we know, University School of Medicine mental health and addiction programs was an no other health sciences center in the world Training: University of Utah; Hospital has been built from scratch in just 10 years.” exciting challenge, as well as living in and see- for Neurological Diseases, London; ing most parts of this great American West.” University of Washington, Seattle The transformation required a chancellor with impeccable leadership qualities to bring Shore and his wife Chris have a son and Current titles: Chancellor Emeritus, daughter and four grandchildren. They spend University of Colorado and Health faculty and staff into the planning process, Sciences Center; Professor, Department most of their time at their small cattle ranch in and to seek financial support from the state, of Psychiatry, University of Colorado federal government, and private donors. southern Wyoming, where they raise horses School of Medicine and long-horned cattle. Shore was the perfect choice, according – Jim Rogalski to Frederick Grover, T’60, MD’64, HS’64- ’66, the chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Colorado and Health Sciences Center. “He is honest and his integrity is above reproach,” Grover says. “He was completely trusted by everyone. He valued input from DukeMedAlumniNews | 15 Henry F. Safrit, A Chance at College T’59, MD’63 –and Life–for Disadvantaged Teens

Some of the teens come from the rough- mentor to help shepherd them through the est neighborhoods of San Francisco, where challenges of college, and students also drug deals take place on the street corner maintain a relationship with their scholar- and sometimes from inside their own ship sponsors. homes. Others are from immigrant families who arrived in the U.S. with just a duffle HUMANITARIAN bag and the clothes on their backs. To many of them, a college education seems AWARD as unlikely as walking to the moon. Henry Safrit, a retired endocrinologist, An innovative aspect of The Meri- has accomplished something radical in the tus Fund is that scholarships are paid City by the Bay. He has plucked hundreds of for mainly with $500 annual gifts from these kids from their desperate backgrounds groups of six people, making philanthropy and helped to put them on the road to real affordable to many. success—not just survival—with his innova- “I’ve been a Meritus sponsor for 10 tive college scholarship program. years,” says Katherine B. Young, E’84, The Meritus Fund, which he founded in MD’90. “It’s very affordable and reassuring 1996, provides promising, at-risk San Fran- that every dollar of my donations go directly cisco public school students with $3,000 to the students. It’s so grass-roots that many per year for a four-year college education. people in the community get involved.” To qualify, students must have between To date, the Meritus Fund has awarded a 3.0 and 3.7 grade point average while more than $5 million in scholarships. in high school. The vast majority of stu- With the fund running so successfully, dents are minorities—Asian, Latino, and Safrit now has turned his attention to strug- African-American. gling African-American high school boys. 2011 “We’re not interested in funding the very In 2008 he started The Achievers Program, top students,” Safrit says, “because they which reaches out to students beginning in will have other opportunities for scholar- the ninth grade. It provides them with men- ships. We focus on the financially needy toring and tutoring, weekly lunch meetings, students, most of whom are the first to go guest speakers—most of whom are African to college in their family.” -American—and field trips to places like Yo- Education: Duke University, Duke semite National Park, museums, and other University School of Medicine One such student is Melanie Turner, 26, interesting and educational sites. Students Training: Georgetown University Medical who says her biological father was not pres- Center ent in her life, and her stepfather was con- in the Achievers Program must maintain a 2.4 to 3.0 grade point average. Current titles: Retired from California stantly in and out of jail for selling drugs. Pacific Medical Center, where he was “In my mind college was a luxury and “Some of them have never been in a chief of the Division of Endocrinology, skyscraper or even crossed the Bay Bridge,” and retired clinical professor of medi- not an option for me,” she says. “If I Safrit says. “I enjoy seeing them get excited, cine and attending physician at the wasn’t given this opportunity by the Meri- University of California, San Francisco tus Fund I wouldn’t have even known I and I especially enjoy seeing them staying could be a great student and contributor in school.” to my community.” He and his wife Karen have four sons Turner earned a bachelor’s degree at San between them and five grandchildren. Francisco State University and now is a lead – Jim Rogalski pre-school teacher at Lakeside Presbyterian Center for Children in San Francisco. Scholarship recipients are assigned a

16 | DukeMedAlumniNews Love for Duke Edward G. Bowen, and Medicine T’57, MD’59, HS’59

Ed Bowen had a favorite phrase he often low classmates to make significant gifts liked to quote: “Water your roots.” A man to the scholarship fund and other areas of of his word, he did just that, especially when the School of Medicine, because he knew it came to Duke. After graduating from the exactly where the funds were going, Mary School of Medicine at just 22, Bowen never lost his love for his alma mater and spent the DISTINGUISHED next five decades supporting and nurturing the “root” of his medical career. SERVICE Bowen passed away on July 20, 2010. The consummate fundraiser, he was one of Duke’s Martin says. “It was not going to be wasted. biggest cheerleaders, having served on nu- It was going to a place that would give merous committees and boards for both the people opportunity. (Crusty) told Ed to university and the school of medicine. never be afraid to go for the big ask.” His wife Mary Martin Bowen, G’59, says Bowen’s dedication went beyond the it became clear to her even before they were School of Medicine. He entered Duke with married that medicine and Duke ranked high the undergraduate class of 1957 but was on his list of priorities. allowed to begin medical school studies after only two years, becoming one of only two “I asked him once, ‘If you could be students in his medical school class to finish anywhere in the world, where would you in three years. Though he didn’t graduate like to be right now?’ thinking he would say with the class of 1957, Bowen still remained on a honeymoon with me,” Mary Martin devoted to the class, serving as chairman of MEDICAL says. “But I learned really fast. He said, ‘I its 50th reunion. He also served as a member would like to be in the operating room at of the Duke University Board of Trustees. In ALUMNI Duke Hospital doing a hard case.’ He never 1990 the university honored Bowen with its neglected the family, but we all understood ASSOCIATION Charles A. Dukes Award for his longstanding that medicine, doctoring, came first.” service to Duke. Bowen’s volunteer work for Duke included HONOREES Bowen went on to spend his medical serving as president of the Davison Club, career practicing obstetrics and gynecol- member of the Medical Alumni Council, ogy at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, president of the Medical Alumni Associa- Georgia, where he served as chairman of tion, class agent, and member of the Duke the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecol- Education: Duke University Medicine Board of Visitors. ogy, president of the medical staff, chief of Training: Duke University Hospital; One of Bowen’s proudest accomplish- staff, and chairman of the Board of Trust- J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center, ments was helping to establish the Class of ees. He also served as a clinical professor at University of Florida, Gainesville; Grady 1959 Medical School Scholarship, giving stu- Emory University. Memorial Hospital, Emory University dents, many of whom were the first in their Titles: Bowen retired from Northside Being posthumously named a distin- families to attend college, the opportunity to Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where he guished service awardee by the Medical was chairman of the Department of become Duke doctors, which Mary Martin Alumni Association seems like a fitting Obstetrics and Gynecology, president says Bowen described as “the epitome of way to cap Bowen’s long-term devotion of the medical staff, chief of staff, and life’s goal.” to Duke, Mary Martin says. “He felt that a chairman of the Board of Trustees. Bowen played a key role in helping Duke doctor could and still can hold his own his class raise a cumulative total of $6.3 anywhere in the world. I wish he were here million, more than any other School of to receive (this honor).” Medicine class. The Bowens have three children—Martha, Coached by longtime friend Robert Richard, and James—and seven grandchildren. “Crusty” Rosemond, T’49, MD’53, HS’53, – Bernadette Gillis Bowen wasn’t shy about asking his fel-

DukeMedAlumniNews | 17 Positioned Duke for Success in a New Era of Medicine

s the architect of one of the country’s leading inte- immunology researcher with the National Institutes of Health, he grated academic health systems, the creator of the joined Duke’s faculty in 1972 as an assistant professor of medicine. world’s largest academic clinical research institute, a By 1984, he was the Frederic M. Hanes Professor of Medicine, chief founder of the field of prospective health care, and of the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, and director A a leader in the science of inflammation, Ralph Sny- of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Laboratory of Immune derman’s contributions to Duke, academic medi- Function. In 1987 he left Duke again to lead medical research and development as a senior vice president at Genentech, Inc., in San Francisco. When he returned in 1989 it was as dean of the School of Medicine, chan- cellor for health affairs, and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine. Snyderman led the medical center to develop its first five-year strategic plan. One of the most important changes to come out of the strategic planning process was a new emphasis on benefit to society. Duke under Snyderman determined to become a new kind of academic institution, one committed not only to research, education, and patient care, but also to develop inno- vative and improved models of health care delivery.

THE DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Early on, Duke had established a legacy of evidence-based medicine, with Eugene Stead’s creation of the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease, the world’s first and largest databank Ralph Snyderman, MD, HS’65-’67 to track patient outcomes following cardiovascular procedures. While at cine, and human health have been both profound and far reaching. Genentech, Snyderman had worked closely with Duke cardiologist A first generation American whose parents were Ukrainian im- Rob Califf, T’73, MD’78, HS’78, ’80-‘83, to win FDA approval migrants, Snyderman first came to Duke in 1964 to apply for an to commercialize Activase, the clot-busting drug known as t-PA. internship with then-chair of medicine Eugene A. Stead Jr., MD. Califf had built a clinical research organization within the Division After the interview he walked out of the Davison Building onto the of Cardiology at Duke and ran the landmark GUSTO studies, which Duke Quad and was struck by “a deep emotional feeling that Duke proved t-PA could save 2,000 heart attack victims annually in the was the place for me to come for my medical training. I have never U.S. Recognizing the future need for such large-scale clinical trials, lost that sense of awe for this institution,” he says. Snyderman, with Califf and others at Duke, led the creation of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), a separate entity with its Snyderman graduated magna cum laude from the State Univer- own officers and board of directors. sity of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical School and came to Duke for his internship and residency. After a four-year stint as an With broad representation across the departmental “silos,” the DCRI organizational structure was revolutionary in academic medicine. Initially greeted with skepticism by peer institutions and the National Institutes of Health, which valued investigator-led

18 | DukeMedAlumniNews biomedical research over less prestigious clinical research, the DCRI lems associated with obesity, were soaring. Cancer, heart disease, today has grown into the world’s largest academic clinical research and an aging population spelled disaster for America’s health and organization, with more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. economic well being. It provided the infrastructure needed to allow Duke faculty to be As chair of the American Association of Medical Colleges, among the most successful competitors for large government and Snyderman began advocating for what he called “prospective industry-funded clinical research grants and fulfilled the new mis- health care,” an approach that focuses on disease prevention, sion of benefiting society through evidence-based clinical practice. personalized health planning to maintain optimum health, and early intervention. Today, the concept of personalized medicine THE DUKE UNIVERSITY is part of a national model for improving the nation’s health and HEALTH SYSTEM controlling costs. When Snyderman arrived at Duke on the eve of the 1990s, the educational and research missions at Duke and other academic At Duke Snyderman led the establishment of Duke Integra- medical centers were funded largely through clinical revenues tive Medicine, the first integrative medicine program to be fully from departments. Powerful departments like medicine and integrated into an academic health system. He was instrumental in surgery generated large revenues, while smaller departments, securing a $12 million philanthropic commitment for a state-of-the- like pediatrics, often art new building dedicated to integrative medicine. struggled. This situation Snyderman’s contributions to integrative and personalized WILLIAM G. ANLYAN, was exacerbated by medicine have been recognized with the first Bravewell Award for MD LIFETIME changes in government Leadership in Integrative Medicine, the 2007 Leadership in Person- ACHIEVEMENT AWARD reimbursement and the alized Medicine Award from onset of managed care. the Personalized Medicine As primary care physicians were given a “gatekeeper” role to Coalition, the 2008 Industrial control referrals to specialists, Snyderman and his senior leadership Research Institute’s Medal team at Duke realized the institution’s vulnerability. At the time, for Innovations, the Frost & Duke had less than 50 primary care physicians and relied heavily on Sullivan 2008 North American a highly specialized faculty. They conducted an in-depth analysis of Lifetime Achievement Award MEDICAL the emerging changes in health care, Duke’s clinical operations, re- for innovative approaches to ALUMNI ferral patterns and demographics and began to develop a strategy. health care, and the Clini- cal Research Forum’s Award To increase the number of primary care physicians referring to ASSOCIATION for Leadership in Academic Duke, the Duke University Affiliated Physicians (DUAP) was estab- Health Centers. HONOREES lished and began purchasing primary care physician practices. Duke also formed strategic relationships with area hospitals, including Snyderman’s contributions Durham Regional Hospital, and hospitals across North Carolina and to medical science also were several neighboring states. PrimaHealth, an independent practice as- significant. While a member Education: Washington College, sociation, was also formed to allow more than 400 physicians across of the Duke medical faculty, Chestertown, Md.; State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate North Carolina to collectively bargain with insurance companies. he was an investigator of Medical School the Howard Hughes Medical The new network quickly became large and extremely com- Training: Duke University Hospital Institute, published hundreds plex, and yet it had no central governance structure. Snyderman of scientific papers, and won Current Title: James B. Duke presented a radical plan to the Duke University Board of Trustees: Professor of Medicine, Duke numerous awards for his formation of the Duke University Health System (DUHS), an inde- University School of Medicine; research on the basic mecha- pendent, not-for-profit corporation wholly owned by Duke Univer- Chancellor, emeritus, nisms of inflammation. Duke University sity. Officially established in March 1998, DUHS was immediately recognized as one of the nation’s first and most successful fully Snyderman’s broad influ- integrated academic health systems. ence on American medicine is illustrated by the influential leader- ship posts he held, including president of both the Association In 15 years as Chancellor for Health Affairs, Snyderman increased of American Physicians and the Association of American Medical medical center revenues from $400 million to $2.2 billion. The Colleges. He also served two consecutive terms as a member of increased revenues funded growth in medical education and bio- the governing counsel of the Institute of Medicine of the National medical research at Duke, as well as innovative community-based Academy of Sciences. programs for uninsured and under-insured people. Across the region, people gained access to the full range of world class medi- It is difficult to imagine Duke University Medical Center with- cal care from Duke—from prevention and wellness to specialty care out the influence of Ralph Snyderman. He became Chancellor for and hospice services. Health Affairs during an extremely challenging time, when many top academic health systems faltered. The innovative and entre- PROSPECTIVE HEALTH CARE preneurial changes he led positioned Duke for growth and success In the early 2000s, Snyderman came to the realization that the in a new era of American medicine. His conception of proactive, American system of health care was failing patients and costing personalized health care is now the basis for a new national model too much money. At that time, the U.S. was spending $1.5 trillion a of health care. year on health care, while rates of chronic diseases, including prob- – Marty Fisher

DukeMedAlumniNews | 19 ‘Duke Led Me When I needed to be Led’

When William W. Pryor, MD’47, “Duke gave me the tools and knowledge HS’47-’55, entered medical school to take advantage of the opportunities at Duke in the mid-1940s at the age of that were presented to me, and to think 18, he thought he was a pretty smart kid. for myself and make educated decisions,” High school in Oxford, N.C. was a breeze. says the retired cardiologist and former Planned Gift Benefits So were his two years of undergraduate vice president of Greenville Memorial Davison Club, Nursing School studies at Wake Forest University, where Hospital in Greenville, S.C. “Duke gave With your gift of cash or stocks, Duke he excelled in chemistry and did well in me a chance, and Duke has always been a will establish a charitable gift annuity in his other pre-med classes. school that my wife and I loved.” your name and pay you a lifetime annuity. Medical school was an eye-opener, and His wife Julia Smoot Pryor, N’47, a Upon your passing, the remaining funds after just two months in Durham the Duke University School of Nursing can provide philanthropic support to an schoolwork was so tough, he says, “I graduate, passed away in 2007. Pryor area of your choice at Duke Medicine. was failing chemistry and the head of the has made two donations to Duke in her For more information about how you can chemistry department said I shouldn’t memory. The first was an $80,000 gift make a difference with a Duke Medicine stay in school.” annuity to the Davison Club to support charitable gift annuity, please contact: Perhaps the professor was genuine in his medical education. The most recent is a assessment, or perhaps his words were a $20,000 gift annuity to benefit the nurs- ploy to motivate Pryor. Something defi- ing school. Joseph W. Tynan, JD nitely clicked, though, and Pryor put his Julia entered the school of nursing when Director of Gift and studies into overdrive and passed chem- she was just 16. She practiced nursing Endowment Planning istry on his way to eventual selection in for several years until the couple started Duke Medicine Development the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor having children. They had four—James, and Alumni Affairs society. He also became a senior resident Anne, Katherine, and William Jr., 512 S. Mangum St., Suite 400 and was Duke’s first cardiothoracic fel- MD’81, an anesthesiologist. Durham, NC 27701-3973 low. Pryor was pushed to be his best, he “Over the years Julia and I came to ap- Or email [email protected], says, by a teaching faculty to which he is preciate more and more what Duke does, or call 919-385-3114. indebted. and the friends we had there,” Pryor says. “Duke led me when I needed to be led.”

20 | DukeMedAlumniNews | CLASS NOTES

1940s 1950s Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr., MD’58, Richard L. Reece, T’56, MD’60, DC, will be inducted into the has written a total of 11 books; Horace M. Baker Jr., MD’44, Dean McCandless, MD’50, DC, American Academy of Arts and the most recent are Obama, HS’44-’46, ’48-’51, received of LaQuinta, Calif., has been in- Sciences in October 2011. He Doctors, and Health Reform a 60-year pin at St. Alban’s terviewed and featured recently also is an elected member of the (2009) and The Health Reform Masonic Lodge in June in in several publications regarding National Academy of Sciences, Maze: A Blueprint for Physician Lumberton, N.C. He and his his WWII combat experiences, Waycross, Ga. the Institute of Medicine, and Practices (2011). Maze ad- wife Dorothy celebrated their including The Desert Sun’s (Palm the Association of American dresses fundamental issues 64th wedding anniversary on Springs, Calif.) special series on Physicians. For more than 40 facing the new health care June 28. They live in Southern D-Day. McCandless completed  Edward B. Brown, MD’56, years Fraumeni has been at the law, its unforeseen conse- Pines and have three children, a total of four combat jumps married Tina Sue O’Quinn in National Cancer Institute in quences, whether the law will four grandchildren, and three during the war. He and his wife February. His first wife Ann died Bethesda, Md., where he cur- be repealed or survive, how great-grandchildren. Polly will both soon celebrate in 2009 of pancreatic cancer. rently directs the epidemiology doctors are reacting, and what their 92nd birthdays. Polly has Brown has seven children and and genetics division. lies ahead for physicians. Reece Adolphus William Dunn dementia now and lives sepa- O’Quinn has five. They live in also writes for a blog called Jr., MD’45, DC, reports that rately in a nearby care facility. Waycross, Ga. Alonzo H. Myers Jr., T’55, “Medinnovation” (medinnova- until recently he had enjoyed The couple has three children, MD’59, DC, serves as councilor tionblog.blogspot.com) and has worldwide travel, but now can five grandchildren, and seven to the Southern Medical Society. a website (Doctorreece.com). no longer travel due to his age great-grandchildren. He and his wife of 53 years, He lives in Old Saybrook, Conn., and infirmities. He retired from Dorothea, have four children with his wife Loretta. They have orthopedic surgery at Ochsner Evelyn D. Schmidt, WC’47, and eight grandchildren. They two sons. Spencer is a nation- Clinic and Hospital and as a MD’51, will leave her role as live in Roanoke, Va. ally known poet and will be clinical professor of orthopedics CEO of Lincoln Community ordained as an Episcopal priest at Tulane University School Health Center this fall after 40 1960s in Madrid, Spain, in October. of Medicine in 1988. He and years of service. She first moved Spencer is in Madrid as a result Waycross, Ga. William C. Cooper Jr., MD’60, his fiancée Mary Lou have a to Durham to become CEO in of an Amy Lowell one-year po- DC, retired in August 2009 after pleasant life together in Fripp 1971 after working for the New etry fellowship. Their other son, practicing general pediatrics in Island, S.C. York City Health Department. Carter, works at Brooks Brothers  Charles A. Wilkinson, Eastern North Carolina for 43 in Manhattan. Robert L. Hallet, MD’49, Harold Simon, MD’55, a retired MD’56, HS’56-’58, has done years. He and his wife Janet live HS’49-’50, DC, of Columbus, radiologist, currently devotes volunteer construction work in Rocky Mount, N.C. Ohio, enjoys playing golf, noting most of his time to community with Habitat for Humanity every “I hope that I will live long work, including serving as direc- Wednesday since 2001. He’s F. Sanford Massie Sr., T’57, enough so I can say that I can tor of organizations and chair- been retired from surgery since MD’60, HS’60-’61, DC, contin- shoot my age.” He used to be ing committees. He is president 1995. He and his wife Ann have ues to practice with Richmond an IFR-rated pilot and flew of his golf club. In addition to been married 56 years. They Allergy and Asthma Specialists about two times a month but golf, he also enjoys swimming have three children and seven in Richmond, Va. His four-man can no longer fly because of and traveling. He and his wife grandchildren and live in practice recently added a Waycross, Ga. macular degeneration in his left Jane live in Chestnut Hill, Mass., Wilmington, N.C. physician assistant. He has two eye. He once flew to Raleigh- and have two children and four children and three grandchildren R. Rodney Howell, MD’57,  John W. Brown MD’61, Durham to attend a DukeMed grandchildren. and lives in Midlothian, Va. HS’57-’60, DC, was reelected to HS’61, ’65-’66, DC-Lifetime, class reunion. Hallet served as a one-year term as chairman of Lawrence H. Parrott, MD’60, of was awarded the Order of the a professor of OB/GYN at Ohio the Muscular Dystrophy Associa- Camden, S.C., has finished 16 Palmetto by the State of South State University and practiced tion’s (MDA) board of directors years of teaching pathology at Carolina’s Office of the until he was 67 and then at the association’s annual the University of South Carolina. Governor in June. The award continued office and hospital meeting in July. He has served He is now in his 10th year of recognizes his work to create gynecology until age 79. He on the MDA’s board since 1994. publishing patient-oriented pa- free clinics in South Carolina and his wife, Sondra “Sunnie” Howell currently is a profes- thology vignettes for residents and his service to disaster Hallet, WC’48, have six sor of pediatrics and chairman in pathology. He and his wife victims abroad. Brown took a children between them. One emeritus at the University of Joy, BSN’60, have three children volunteer mission trip to son practices urology in Colum- Miami’s Leonard M. Miller and six grandchildren. Joy is the Cabaret Baptist Children’s Home bus, and three daughters have School of Medicine. parish nurse at Bethesda Pres- in Haiti in February 2010. He MBA degrees. byterian Church in Camden. currently is a general and

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Building a Clinic for the People of Las Mercedes, Honduras

Getting to the village of Las Mercedes is a rough ride, 5,000 feet up steep dirt roads in the mountains of Honduras. The people living here are lucky if they get three years of public education before going to work in the fields at age 10-14. They survive on less than $1 a day and live a long day’s walk over treacherous roads from hospital or medical care. One aspect of that hard life changed in April, when Dennis Clements and a group of Duke medical and nursing students and faculty joined representatives from Heifer International and residents of Las Mercedes and 12 surrounding villages to celebrate the official opening of the first health clinic ever to serve the Intibuca region of Hon- duras. Beginning in June, the clinic will be staffed fulltime by the Honduran Ministry of Health. Land for the clinic was donated by Ruhino Dominguez, the president of Las Mercedes, and Clements secured donations from Rotary International and the Congregation of Duke Chapel. The building was constructed by the Duke People line up to be seen in the new clinic building. Chapter of Engineers without Borders,

thoracic surgeon at Newberry tion and the Civil War and the clinic. He and his wife Patricia to 74. He currently is a clinical County Memorial Hospital in medicine used during those have three living children, Kay, professor emeritus in the ––– Newberry, S.C. His wife periods. He and his wife Sandy Elizabeth, and Darrell. Their University of Washington Susandale retired from the live in Waco, Texas, and have daughter Jinks died from breast Department of Neurosurgery. He school district in Columbia, S.C., three children. Two live in Dal- cancer in 2009. They have 10 retired from patient care in in June. Their daughter Jan las and one, a urologist, lives in grandchildren. 2007. He also serves on the Williamson is head the of the Washington State. Board of Governors for the English department at King Seattle Surgical Society. His wife William High School in King C. James Dellinger, T’58, Mara retired from her William, Va. John Brown Jr. is a MD’61, continues to practice profession as a registered nurse supervisor at a steel company in about one day a week as a and flight attendant. The couple West Columbia, S.C. Norabeth fill-in physician at a family  E. Darrell Jervey, MD’61, of travels extensively. Most Brown is a charge nurse at health center in Loris, S.C. He Greenville, S.C., received the recently they visited Europe, Newberry County Memorial was recertified by the Board 2010 Outstanding Humanitarian Santa Fe, San Francisco, New Hospital. Anna Ruth Brown is a of Family Medicine 18 months Service Award from the Ameri- York City, Whistler Mountain, senior at Newberry College. ago, and before that he was can Academy of Ophthalmology, Waycross, Ga. Sun Valley, and Puerto Rico. recertified in geriatrics. He and and in 2009 he received a They have four children and Robert F. Corwin, MD’61, a his wife Bertha recently bought humanitarian award from the four grandchildren. The oldest retired urologist, often lectures  David T. Pitkethly, MD’61, a house in Asheville, N.C., to South Carolina Society of grandchild will enter the at Baylor University’s Institute DC, was a member of the 2010 be closer to their children and Ophthalmology. Since the 1970s University of Idaho in the fall. of Learning in Retirement on grandchildren. he has completed more than 35 National Masters Cross Country the history of firearms used mission trips to Haiti, where he team champions. He earned Thomas E. Powell III, MD’61, during the American Revolu- has established a total eye care second place for individuals 70 DC-Century, of Burlington, N.C.,

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and it is the only building with running “We’ve brought 150 water and solar power for hundreds of students here over the miles around. last 10 years, and it has Clements, who is chief of Duke Chil- dren’s Primary Care and professor of pedi- been transformative for atrics and global health, has been bringing some of them.” groups of 15 medical and nursing students Ruhino Dominguez and Dennis Clements Dennis Clements, to Las Mercedes since 2000, when he was MD, PhD, HS’73-’76, ’86-’88 asked by the Duke University School of There was no shortage of hands-on patient care experience for the medical and nursing Nursing to develop a global health educa- of the American medical system builds students who joined Clements, Penny Coo- tion course as part of a small grant. students’ confidence, diagnostic skills, and per, MSN’02, RN, FNP-BC, CCRN, assistant He could appreciate the value of a understanding of other cultures. He adds professor in the School of Nursing, Dawn global health experience. In 1972, as a that the situation also lends itself to helping Driesner, PT, DPT’06, an adjunct faculty self-described “Peacenik” and Vietnam all the students appreciate the strengths that member from the Doctor of Physical Therapy War protester, he jumped at the chance other disciplines bring to the medical team. program, and Rey Aponte, an instructor in the to take a year off from the University of School of Nursing, in April. “The nurses learn what medical students Rochester School of Medicine and Den- go through. The medical students see the As many as 130 patients arrived each tistry to do a National Institutes of Health skills of a nurse, who could have gone to morning, some by truck, and others had fellowship in Uganda. medical school, but chose a different ap- walked for hours over difficult terrain to “It totally transformed who I was,” says proach,” says Clements. “We’ve brought gratefully stand in line. They suffered from Clements. “I left as an incompetent medi- 150 students here over the last 10 years, headaches caused by dehydration, chronic cal student, and when I came back I knew and it has been transformative for some of coughs from living in houses with wood that I could take care of people. Kids get so them. I hope they all leave more sensitive to cook stoves, parasites due to lack of sanita- enmeshed in medical school and getting how to help a patient as a person.” tion, and mother and baby problems due all the answers right. There’s real value in – Marty Fisher to the lack of pre- and perinatal care. giving them hands on experience with pa- tients in a safe, non-critical environment.” Clements says the experience outside

is chairman of Carolina Biologi- John H. Trant III, MD’61, DC, and past president of the Bayard at Baptist Medical Center in cal Supply Company. In 1969 of Virginia Beach, Va., built a Carter OB/GYN Society and an Pensacola, Fla. he was one of the founders of family cabin on a ranch in New active member of the South David C. Hitch, MD’66, retired Biomedical Laboratories, which Mexico, which is an inholding in Central OB/GYN Society. His wife from pediatric surgery in 2008 is now Laboratory Corporation the national forest that barely Barbara, BSN’62, continues to but continues to work in a of American. Still headquartered survived the Wallow Fire this help out at the Private research laboratory in molecular in Burlington, the company year. He is gradually reducing Diagnostic Clinic at Duke. They biology. He and his wife Melanie was also founded by Powell’s the time he spends hunting and enjoy visiting the N.C. beaches live in Kettering, Ohio. Their brothers, Jim, MD’64, and John, fishing and is devoting more Waycross, Ga. and mountains and spending children work for Lockheed L’63, and Ernie and Lyn Knesel. time on projects for kids. He en- time with their grandchildren. Martin and Deloitte and Touche He and his wife Betty have three joys traveling to see his children Their son Robert B. II, T’88, is as computer specialists and an children. Tom is treasurer of and grandchildren. His wife Jo,  Robert K. Yowell, MD’61, president/CEO of Gemini Sports account tech. Carolina Biological and presi- G’62, lost her parents recently, HS’64-’69, DC-Century, received Group in Phoenix, Ariz., and dent of Warren Land Company, which led to their taking many the 2011 Nicholas B. Fagan recently secured naming rights a tree-growing company in trips to Tucson, Ariz., over the Award for outstanding “service for TD Ameritrade Stadium/Park 1970s above self” to the Durham Warren County. Frances serves past four years. Their daughter in Omaha, Neb. Their daughter Robert J. Margolis, MD’71, Rotary Club for the past 40 as vice chair and secretary of Julie Coates lives in Terrace Park, Sally Y. Barbour, T’90, PharmD, HS’70-’72, DC, continues to years. He is a past president and Carolina Biological. Caroline is Ohio, with her husband Todd is a clinical pharmacist with the serve as managing partner and past assistant district governor assistant treasurer and a mem- and three children. Son John IV Duke Cancer Care Research CEO of HealthCare Partners in of District 7710. He is a member ber of the board of directors of and his wife Lee live with their Program. Their younger son, Torrance, Calif. Under his leader- of the executive committee for Carolina Biological. two-year-old twins in Grosse Charles, T’92, MD’00, ship the medical group has the Southern OB/GYN Seminar. Pointe, Mich. HS’00-’06, is a senior urologist become highly respected and Yowell is also an active member

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innovative. He is active on the doctors’ list for 2011. His $150 million gift from the in numerous organizations, while ensuring quality and boards of several health care or- wife Jon, WC’72, teaches Government of Abu Dhabi that including serving on the board patient safety. He previously ganizations. He and his wife Lisa violin. They have four children. created the Sheikh Zayed of directors for Ford’s Theater. served as chief medical and have three children, Michelle, Robert, G’01, is an attorney; Institute for Pediatric Surgical scientific officer for Quintiles. Loretta Sutphin Stenzel, David, and James; and five Steven, T’01, is a physician; Innovation. He is also a consulting profes- MD’86, HS’86-’89, has been grandchildren, Jacob, Amanda, Caroline is a PhD student sor of medicine at Duke. named to the American Board Lilah, Jessie, and Quinn. at Princeton University; and 1980s of Family Medicine. She is Alexander M. Eaton, T’82, Nancy is an undergraduate at John F. Modlin, T’67, MD’71, Marcia A. Angle, MD’81, an invited content expert for MD’87, DC, of Retina Health Wake Forest University. HS’71, recently served as chair HS’81-’84, and her hus- standard-setting study for Center in Ft. Myers, Fla., has of the Food and Drug Admin- Susan L. Kelley, MD’78, band Mark Trustin followed the certification examination. been reappointed to Duke istration Vaccines and Related DC, has been appointed to Leadership in Energy and Stenzel is a physician and site Eye Center as a consulting Biological Products Advisory ArQule’s board of directors. Environmental Design (LEED) director of the Vista Com- associate in the Department of Committee. He currently serves ArQule, located in Woburn, criteria to rebuild their home in munity Clinic in Del Mar, Calif. Ophthalmology, a role he has as professor of pediatrics and Mass., is a biotechnology Durham. Angle volunteers with She and her husband Timothy served in since 1999. medicine, chair of the Depart- company engaged in research organizations that deal with T. Stenzel, MD/PhD’92, HS’92- Lisa G. Rider, T’83, MD’87, ment of Pediatrics, and senior and development of next- public health and environmen- ’97, ’03, have two children— was named Physician associate dean for academic generation, small-molecule tal issues. Trustin is an attorney Elyn, a junior at Duke, and Kira. Researcher of the Year by affairs at Dartmouth Medical cancer therapeutics. Kelley specializing in juveniles and The family lives in Vista, Calif. the Physician’s Professional School. He lives in Grantham, is currently an independent school law. Their son Evin is Advisory Committee of the U.S. N.H., with his wife Sharyn, a consultant to pharmaceutical a law student at Georgetown Public Health Service. Dr. Rider, former advertising executive and biotechnology companies University, and their son Glen who is currently deputy chief of who works with child advocacy in the field of oncology drug is a business student at Ashe- the Environmental Autoimmu- centers in New Hampshire development and strategy. ville Community College. and Michigan. They maintain nity Group of the National In- a second home in northern Steve W. Schwartz, T’77, stitute of Environmental Health Michigan. Their son Andrew is MD’81, of Denver, Colo., has Sciences in Bethesda, Md., was a field technician with the U.S. been awarded a patent for an honored for her substantial Geological Survey and their anti-viral throat spray that has Waycross, Ga. basic and clinical research on daughter Chelsea is a senior been shown to be effective in juvenile myositis. at Carleton College in North- the laboratory against H1N1,  field, Minn. H3H2, and H5H1. Plans are Douglas Bremner, MD’87, in place to take the product recently released a book, The Louis F. Fries III, MD’75, has to market. The product will Goose That Laid the Golden been named vice president complement vaccines and is Egg. The book can be found at of clinical and medical affairs expected to reduce transmis- amazon.com, and more at Novavax, a clinical-stage  Kurt D. Newman, MD’78, sion of the flu virus from information is available at biopharmaceutical company has been named president and human to human. dougbremner.com. in Rockville, Md. He previ- CEO of Children’s National Tina Alster, BSN’81, MD’86, Oren J. Cohen, MD’87, has ously was director of global Medical Center in Washington, Waycross, Ga. will be launching a new skin been named senior vice clinical development at GSK D.C., where he has served for care line called “Skin Is In” in president and global head of Biologicals. more than 25 years. He is the the fall. The specially designed the phase I clinical research di-  Kenneth Mask, MD’88, first physician to serve as CEO Robert A. Shaw, T’72, MD’76, kits for men, women, teens, vision for Quintiles. The phase has written a new novel, A of Children’s National. Prior to DC-Century, received the and children will be featured I division includes facilities in New Orleans Detective this role he was senior vice Pulmonary Teaching Award in numerous beauty magazines Overland Park, Kan.; London; Mystery, which follows private president of the Joseph E. for 2011 from East Carolina throughout the fall and winter. and Hyderabad, India. In his detective Luke Jacobs as he Robert Jr., Center for Surgical University’s Brody School of Alster has also received the new position, Cohen will investigates murders in Care since 2003. During his Medicine, where he currently Mentor of the Year Award from work to provide sponsors with post-Katrina New Orleans. The time at Children’s National, he serves as a clinical associ- the Women’s Dermatologic an integrated early clinical book is available on led a period of tremendous ate professor in the Division Society and was subsequently development platform that barnesandnoble.com. Mask is growth and innovation, in of Pulmonary, Critical Care, elected as the society’s reduces overall study costs, currently owner and president both facilities and strategic and Sleep Medicine. He also vice president. She lives in simplifies trial management, of First Medical Imaging, in partnerships. In 2009 was named to the N.C. best Washington, D.C., and is active and accelerates development, New Orleans. Children’s National received a

24 | DukeMedAlumniNews 1990s children, Josh, 8, and Jake, 4. her husband Eugene Ceppa, 2010s UNC-Chapel Hill to become a Josh enjoys playing baseball, MD, HS’03-’10. Both practice nurse practitioner. Philip is a Tracy W. Gaudet, T’84, MD’91, and Jake loves music. medicine at Indiana Univer- resident in internal medicine has been selected as one of sity Health. and has joined the Manage- the Top 25 Women in Health 2000s ment and Leadership Pathway Care for 2011 by Modern Justin Klein, T’99, MD’06, and for Residents, a program that Heathcare magazine for her his wife Monica welcomed gives Duke residents admin- leadership in serving veterans. their first child, Grant, on istrative and leadership She is currently director of August 30, 2011. Klein served opportunities while the Department of Veterans Waycross, Ga. on the Duke University Board completing training. Affairs’ (VA) newly established of Trustees from 2007-2008. Waycross, Ga. Office of Patient-Centered Care This fall he will be serving on Genevieve R. Embree, MD’11, and Cultural Transformation.  Vikas J. Patel, T’96, the President and Provost’s married Stephen R. Embree, Gaudet served as executive MD’00, HS’01-’04, and his Innovation and Entrepreneur-  E. Philip Lehman, MD’10, E’02, on May 30, 2010. They director of integrative medicine wife Neha welcomed twin ship Task Force at Duke, which MPP’10, HS-current, married reside in Durham. at Duke until taking her new girls, Anya and Mila, on March will be focused on accelerat- Emily Giles on March 5 in Duke position at the VA in January. 3. The family lives in Cary, N.C. ing Duke’s efforts to foster Chapel. They met on the 7100 entrepreneurship across the ward during Philip’s second- John G. Pazin, MD’96, HS’96- Duykhanh P. Ceppa, MD’01, University. The family lives in year rotations. Emily works as ’99, lives in Wexford, Pa., HS’01-’08, recently relocated McLean, Va. a nurse in cardiology and is with his wife Carol and their to Indianapolis, Ind., with pursuing an MSN degree from

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professor of infectious diseases. He spearheads research that has Stemming the Spread implications for both inmates and society at large. of HIV among a Recently Wohl and his colleagues at UNC received a $7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study effective ways Forgotten Population to prevent and treat HIV among people within the criminal justice system. They will test the seek-test-treat model, which is becom- When David Wohl, sees a patient, he usually asks first about any ing more widely used with HIV-positive inmates in prisons in North scars or tattoos. “There’s almost always a story when there’s a tat- Carolina and Texas, where the number of incarcerated individuals too or scar,” he explains. make up 15 percent of all imprisoned people in the country. One patient’s story of a large scar on his back left a lasting In the study, one group of HIV-positive prisoners will receive effect on Wohl. “I said, ‘What is that? Were you in a fight or car the standard of care when released, including a 30-day supply of accident?’ And he said, ‘No my dad broke a bottle of whiskey over medications in North Carolina and a 10- day supply in Texas. A second group will be exposed to the seek-test-treat model. They will receive multiple interventions prior to and after release. The interventions will include motivational interview ses- sions with counselors—in person before release and by cell phones provided by the researchers after release. A coordinator will also help each prisoner find a medical home within five days of release. Most inmates stop taking their HIV medications once they get out of prison. “When people get out of prison their viral load skyrockets,” says Wohl. “The stress of getting back out into the com- munity is difficult. HIV is low on their list of priorities. But the higher your viral load level, the more likely the chance of transmitting HIV.” The fact that few care about the peo- ple he works with doesn’t deter Wohl. He recognizes that many of the prisoners David Wohl he encounters have committed terrible, “When people get inexcusable crimes. However, over the years he’s come my back when I was eight years old.’ out of prison their to believe that a lot of the criminal activity is rooted in It takes your breath away,” Wohl says. viral load skyrock- trauma and abuse, as was the case with the inmate with “He didn’t have a tear in his eye. To the scar on his back. him that was his life.” ets. The stress of “I see him and I see the men around him, and I say ‘What Surrounded by windows covered getting back out a waste,’” he says. “These are people who could have done with bars and patients who are into the community great things but now are warehoused here. I’ll never forget spending years, sometimes life, locked him. And there are so many like him.” up, Wohl’s time in clinic and conduct- is difficult.” Wohl is married to Alison Hilton, MPH, who is currently ing research is a bit different than David Wohl, MD, HS’91-’94 working on a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven- most physicians. He is co-director of tion project to increase cancer screening among African- HIV Services for the North Carolina American women in rural North Carolina. They live in Carrboro, Department of Corrections and site leader of the AIDS Clinical N.C., with their children Nia, 12, and Zac, 7. Trials Unit at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he also serves as an associate – Bernadette Gillis

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1950s develop a concept for a hospital Sociological Society. The award Press. Is This Normal? is a guide- the SCMA annual meeting. She school for Duke. After present- recognizes a person who has book that answers this will also serve as chair of the ing the idea to a committee made an outstanding contribu- generation’s most common Committee to Plan State Meet- headed by James H. Semans tion to the enhancement of health questions, from ings and preside over all meet- and Mary D.B.T. Semans, Dees rural life and rural people. For superficial concerns to everyday ings of the SCMA House of Del- and Judith received the funding more than 20 years Jordan has aches and pains to more serious egates. She and her husband, they needed. The school has worked on the Johnston County medical problems. Whyte Forest Evans, MD, HS’94-’97, now grown into a program that Osteoarthritis Project. She provides practical answers for currently reside in Columbia each year serves about 420 currently serves as director of the most common age-related and have three children, Finley, school-aged children in grades the Thurston Arthritis Research health issues, such as how much Vaughn, and Harper. Pre-K through 12. Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. weight gain is normal as we age?; is it normal to need a pair 1970s 1990s of reading glasses just to  Jack C. Westman, MD, decipher a restaurant menu?; HS’52-’53, has coauthored The John G. Kelton, MD, HS’73-’75, Karl J. Kreder Jr., MD, HS’89- what are the signs of Complete Idiot’s Guide to Child ’76-’77, has been reappointed ’90, MBA, FACS, has been Alzheimer’s versus normal and Adolescent Psychology dean and vice president of the named head of the University memory loss?, and much more. (Alpha Books), a research-based Faculty of Health Sciences at of Iowa Department of Urology. The book is available on book providing insights for McMaster University in On- Karl also serves as a professor Amazon.com. parents, students, teachers, tario, Canada, for the next five and previously served as interim social workers, and other years. He has held the position head of urology. He is principal Vivian Lee, PhD, MD, HS’92- professionals. Westman is a since 2001. investigator of a five-year, $5 ’93, ’96-’97, has been chosen million research grant from the to lead the University of Utah’s professor emeritus of psychiatry Spero G. Karas, MD, HS’93- William J. Blackley, MD, National Institutes of Health to health sciences division. She at the University of Wisconsin ’99, has been named head HS’76-’79, of Elkin, N.C., was study the causes of interstitial now serves as senior vice School of Medicine and Public team physician for the NFL’s profiled in his local newspaper, cystitis, a painful bladder condi- president for health sciences, Health and served as director Atlanta Falcons. He will serve as The Tribune, in August. The tion. He joined the UI faculty medical school dean, and of the child psychiatry division the team’s orthopedic surgeon article highlighted Blackley’s in 1992. CEO of University of Utah at the University of Wisconsin and will be assigned to oversee struggles to become a doctor Health Care. Previously she Hospitals in Madison. the orthopedic and medical despite dyslexia and the time was chief scientific officer and care of the Falcons’ athletes he spent fighting in the Vietnam vice dean at New York Univer- 1960s and coaches. Named Atlanta War. Now retired, he is a volun- sity’s Langone Medical Center. magazine’s Most Trusted Sports J. Loren Rosenberg, MD, HS’59- teer with the Elkin Valley Trails Lee has four daughters and is Medicine Specialist for the last ’61, writes that he is grateful for Association, the N.C. Poetry married to NYU law professor four years, Karas is an associate the generosity he and his wife Society, and the Rotary Club. Benedict Kingsbury. professor orthopedics at Emory Judith received early in their ca- His wife of 39 years, Sandie, is Jennifer R. Root, MD, HS’94- University and directs the Emory reers from the late Susan Dees, a dyslexia specialist. They have Orthopedic Sports Medicine MD, one of the first female one son, Seth, one daughter, ’97, an anesthesiologist in Fellowship Program. faculty physicians at Duke; and Molly, and three grandchildren. Columbia, S.C., was recently

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. installed as the 2011-2012  John J. Whyte, MD, When Dees learned that Judith, 1980s speaker of the house for the who held a master’s degree in HS’93-’96, the chief medical South Carolina Medical As- Joanne M. Jordan, MD, MPH, special education from Colum- expert for the Discovery sociation (SCMA). As speaker HS’81-’86, has received the bia University, was not given the Channel, has written a new of the house, Root will be 2011 Distinguished Service to opportunity to teach in Durham, book titled, Is This Normal? responsible for overseeing the Rural Life Award from the Rural Dees asked Judith if she would which was published by Rodale planning and organization of

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Full obituaries can be found on the Medical Alumni Association website at medalum.duke.edu. Please click on the magazine cover, then click on obituaries.

Margaret Virginia Burns, MD’38, of Shirley J. Markee, WC’53, MD’58, of Donald E. Saunders Jr., MD’55, HS’55- Asheville, N.C., died June 30, 2011. She Vancouver, Wash., died June 25, 2011. She ’56, ’57-’58, of Columbia, S.C., died July 2, was 98. Dr. Burns was the second woman was 77. Dr. Markee was a faculty member 2011, after an extended illness. He was 80. to earn a medical degree at Duke. During at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Dr. Saunders was a distinguished professor her career she practiced medicine in in New York after completing an anes- of medicine emeritus at the University of Delaware, Georgia, and North Carolina. thesiology residency there. She also held South Carolina School of Medicine and During the early 1950s she became a psy- academic positions at Stanford University director emeritus of the University of chiatrist. Later she had a private psychiatric Medical Center and Cedars Sinai Medical South Carolina Center for Bioethics and practice in Asheville, where she continued Center in Los Angeles, Calif. Medical Humanities. Early in his career he to see patients until well into her ‘80s. was a leader in the campaign to establish Enrique Montero, MD, HS’44-’47, of a second state medical school at the Ricardo A. Cordon, MD, HS’70, died Griffin, Ga., died July 3, 2011. He was University of South Carolina in Columbia, August 14, 2011, at Berkshire Medical 93. A native of Ecuador, Dr. Montero and almost as soon as the medical school Center in Pittsfield, Mass., after a battle practiced anesthesiology in Griffin from was founded, he became a part of it. His with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was 1953-1967 and practiced pulmonology numerous achievements included being 69. Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, exclusively thereafter. A Fellow Emeritus of named a Fellow of the American College Dr. Cordon was the first pulmonologist the American College of Chest Physicians of Physicians and the American College and board-certified intensivist to practice and the American Thoracic Society, he of Cardiology. at Berkshire Medical Center. developed and managed a laboratory for respiratory function at rest and on exercise. Philip S. Woodbury, T’49, MD’53, of Martin M. Cummings, MD’44, GHON’85, He retired in 1986. Eufaula, Ala., died August 19, 2011. He died September 1, 2011, in Sarasota, Fla. had lived with Parkinson’s disease for He was 90. Dr. Cummings was a scientist, Suydam ‘Syd’ Osterhout, MD’49, HS’53- more than 18 years before succumbing medical educator, scientific administra- ’56, PhD, of Durham, died September 14, to its effects. He was 83. Dr. Woodbury tor, and former director of the National 2011, from complications of pancreatic served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Library of Medicine (NLM). During his two cancer. He was 85. Dr. Osterhout was from 1953-1957. He began his medical decades of leadership of the NLM, the associate dean of admissions for Duke practice in rural Wilcox County, Ga., library emerged as a leader in the com- University School of Medicine for 21 before moving to Eufaula in 1963. He puter age and was transformed into one years. He received numerous honors spent more than 50 years offering care of the most advanced scientific libraries during his career, including a National to the Eufaula community. He also served in the world. Institutes of Health Career Development the community through numerous civic Award and the first Thomas Kinney organizations, including the Kiwanis Club Lucius G. Gage Jr., T’46, MD’48, of Award for excellence in teaching at the and Habitat for Humanity. Waxhaw, N.C., died September 4, 2011. School of Medicine. He retired from He was 86. Dr. Gage practiced medicine Duke as professor emeritus in 1991. with his father at the Nalle Clinic in Charlotte, where he served as director of the allergy and arthritis department. Outside of medicine, Dr. Gage had a passion for nature preservation and was an accomplished equestrian.

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His 47 years at Duke is reason don’t get to see often, and also Your gift of $1000 ($500 for young enough to make William D. a lot of medical students and the alumni classes of 2001-2011, or Bradford, MD, HS’65-’66 feel a full recent graduates.” $1,500 for family membership) part of the Duke family. But it’s Bradford is one of the longest qualifies you for membership in the his long-time membership in The annual givers to the Davison Club— Davison Club. Make your gift online Davison Club, he says, that truly the school of medicine’s leadership at medalum.duke.edu or mail to instills in him a sense of belonging annual giving club that provides to a special community. crucial financial support for “I’m a piece of the local action medical student scholarships, Duke Medical Annual Fund here and I love that,” says the education enhancements, and 512 S. Mangum Street, Suite 400 spry and revered professor of the medical center library. Durham, North Carolina 27701-3973 pathology, who holds a secondary He is a four-time winner of appointment in the Department the medical school’s Golden of Pediatrics, “but the Davison Apple Teaching Award and the Club Celebration is special. You Distinguished Teaching Award. get to see friends and faculty you

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Steel! We Have Steel!— Learning Center Construction is Progressing on Schedule

The entering class of 2012 will be the first to experience medical school in the new Learn- ing Center, which will open for classes in early 2013. Reuniting alumni will receive an update on construction progress during Medical Alumni Weekend, October 20-23.

Manisha Bhattacharya, MS III, Brian Jiang, MS I, Tony Nelson, MS III, Matt Mac- Carthy, MS IV, Karen Scherr, MS II, and Katie Yang, MS III jump with joy.