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Global Dreams Take Flight at Duke DukeMed AlumniNews WINTER 2009 GLOBAL DREAMS TAKE FLIGHT AT DUKE “In light of the current downturn in the economy, Duke Medicine’s charitable gift annuity program may be an effective way to continue your philanthropic support and provide increased life- time income for yourself. Your annuity is backed by all of the assets of Duke. If you would like information about this form of giving, please contact me.” Duke Medicine Charitable Gift Annunities • A smart plan for your financial future • An investment in tomorrow’s leaders and scholars in medicine Joseph W. Tynan, JD SAMPLE DUKE ANNUITY RATES With your gift of cash or stocks, Duke will establish a charitable gift annuity in your SINGLE PERSON name and pay you a lifetime annuity. Upon your passing, the remaining funds can provide philanthropic support for Duke Medicine. Age Rate 65 5.3% For more information about how you can make a difference with a Duke Medicine 70 5.7% charitable gift annuity, please contact 75 6.3% Joseph W. Tynan, JD 80 7.1% Director of Gift and Endowment Planning Duke Medicine Development and Alumni Affairs MARRIED COUPLE 512 S. Mangum Street, Suite 400 Age Rate Durham, NC 27701-3973 [email protected], or 919-667-2506 65/65 4.9% 70/70 5.2% Visit us on the Web at dukemedicine.org/giving. 75/75 5.6% 80/80 6.1% From the Dean In October, many of you returned to Duke University for the annual Medical Alumni Weekend. This was my first opportunity to spend the reunion weekend DukeMed Alumni News with you, and I thoroughly enjoyed the activities. It was very encouraging to hear is published three times a year by the Duke Medical Alumni Association. about the highlights of your time here at Duke, learn about where your careers Issues are available online at have taken you, and get your reactions to our plans for a new Learning Center medalum.duke.edu. Your comments, ideas, and letters for the School of Medicine. to the editor are welcome. My sincere thanks to all of you who made reunion gifts and pledged support Please contact us at: to the Davison Club. Your generosity continues to be important to supporting the many activities of the DukeMed Alumni News 512 S. Mangum St., Suite 400 school. Indeed, your support is as crucial as ever to our continued success and excellence. Durham, NC 27701-3973 It should come as no surprise to you to learn that our school, and medical schools across the country, e-mail: [email protected] are feeling the effects of the financial and economic downturn. But, due to many years of conservative James Stangle Executive Director financial management, our situation is not as severe or urgent as those faced by many medical schools. In Development and Alumni Affairs fact, as I’ve told the faculty, we are probably in as good a position as almost any school in the country to Jenny Jones adapt to today’s financial pressures. Still, we have initiated key changes so that we can achieve cost savings Director Alumni Affairs and thoughtfully manage our obligations —we are committed to weathering this storm and coming out even stronger and more nimble. Editor Marty Fisherisher Our educational programs continue to evolve and grow, as you’ll learn from articles elsewhere in Contributing Writers this magazine. Bernadette Gillis, Jim Rogalski Duke is ramping up its global outlook and outreach, and the School of Medicine is teaming up with Graphic Designer the Duke Global Health Institute to give medical students more opportunities in underserved countries. David Pickel Our unique curriculum, which already allows medical students to take their entire third-year for scholarly Photography activities, now includes the opportunity to spend that year overseas through the Third-Year Global Health Duke University Photography, David Pickel Study Program. Residents can now participate in international experiences as well, through the multi-departmental Produced by the Office of Marketing and Creative Services. Duke Global Health Residency. The institute also offers two postdoctoral fellowships in global health and Copyright Duke University a new master’s degree program that seeks to educate future leaders in fields that address global health Health System, 2009. MCOC-6308 challenges. The Master of Science in Global Health degree, approved last fall by the Board of Trustees, will draw upon the expertise of faculty in all of Duke’s graduate and professional schools. Our global health initiatives are new, but I was recently reminded of Duke’s tradition of serving the country and the international community. The 65th General Hospital War Memorial between the Morris Clinic building and the School of Nursing near Duke South got its annual buffing in the fall. The life-sized This magazine is printed on Utopia Two (text and cover stock). bronze figures commemorate the work of an Army Medical Corps unit staffed by Duke alumni in England Environmental savings realized during World War II. The 65th distinguished itself as a center both for specialized treatment and the by using this paper are immediate care of combat casualties. summarized below: Now that I’m well settled on campus, I’m planning to travel more, to visit our medical alumni in communities Trees Saved: 6 Power Saved: 3.9 million BTU’s across the country during 2009. See page 2 for dates and locations, and I hope to see you soon. Kilowatt Hours Saved: 2257.71 I’m also eager to once again welcome the families of current Duke medical students during Medical Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Families Weekend in March. The pride and joy that those families wear on their faces when they visit the 4968.8 lb. campus is one of the most valuable assets we have here at the School of Medicine. It is, in the parlance of Waste Water Reduction: 2078 gal. a popular ad campaign: Priceless. Solid Waste Reduction: 344 lb. Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD Dean, Duke University School of Medicine Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs Professor, Pediatrics Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Victor J. Dzau, MD Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD Scott Gibson Billy Newton Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University Dean, Duke University School of Medicine Executive Vice Dean, Administration, Vice Dean for Finance and Resource President and Chief Executive Officer, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Duke Duke University School of Medicine Planning, Duke University Health System University Duke University School of Medicine Augustus Grant, MD, PhD R. Sanders Williams, MD Edward Buckley, MD Vice Dean, Faculty Enrichment, Eugene Oddone, MD, MHSc Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Vice Dean, Medical Education, Duke University School of Medicine Vice Dean, Clinical Research, Senior Advisor for International Affairs, Duke University School of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine Duke University Sally Kornbluth, PhD Michael Cuffe, MD Vice Dean, Basic Sciences, and Vice Dean for Medical Affairs, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Duke University School of Medicine Planning, Duke University School of Medicine Vice President for Medical Affairs, Duke University Health System DukeMedAlumniNews 1 IN BRIEF Newsweek Honors Dean Nancy Andrews Closer to You: Duke University School of Medicine probably pretty naïve.” A Dialogue with Dean Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD, is She also relates the struggle early in her one of 10 women honored by News- training of being a woman in the male- Dean Nancy Andrews week as “moguls in medicine, media, dominated world of medicine and research. In 2009 Nancy C. Andrews, modeling and more.” “I remember MD, PhD, will make her first In the magazine’s annual “Wom- being on rounds outreach visits with alumni as en & Leadership” issue released with an all-male dean of the School of Medicine. in October, Andrews is featured team and hearing Following are the scheduled dates along with television producer the residents and and locations. Invitations will be and model Tyra Banks; U.S. Olym- doctors talk about mailed to area alumni. pic Swimmer Dana Torres; Helene women patients Gayle, the CEO of CARE, and and nurses and Thursday, January 29 San Francisco others. The honorees share their women faculty in Thursday, February 19 Houston advice for the next generation of ways that shocked successful, empowered females. me,” she writes. Tuesday, March 17 Atlanta Andrews wrote about the challenges As for her goal as dean, she says, it’s facing women in science and how she pretty simple: “To convince our students Thursday, April 23 Chicago deliberately waited to have children until and faculty that they can go out and do Sunday, May 17 Nashville after her formal training. whatever they want to do.” “I was lucky because (children) hap- To read the Newsweek issue on “Women pened basically when I wanted it to,” she & Leadership,” visit newsweek.com/id/161969 writes, but admits, “In retrospect, I was Holsinger Appointed to 27th Annual Duke U.S. President’s Fitness Council James W. Holsinger Jr., MD’64, PhD’68, he served for 26 years Medical has been appointed by President George W. in various positions, Bush as a member of the President’s Council including chief of staff Families on Physical Fitness and Sports for the remain- or director of several der of a two-year term expiring May 5, 2010. VA medical centers. Weekend Holsinger earned medical and doctorate in He was director of anatomy and physiology degrees from the the Veterans Affairs Hear from Duke School of Duke University School of Medicine. He also Medical Center in Lexington for one year. Medicine leaders and take part in holds a master’s degree in hospital financial He also served as undersecretary for health interactive activities highlighting management from the University of South for the Department of Veterans Affairs in the latest in medical education Carolina and a bachelor’s degree from the Washington, D.C.
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