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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

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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. facilities and technology. University of Kentucky in human studies, as Holsinger currently is the Wethington En- well as a master’s degree in biblical stud- dowed Chair in the Health Sciences, professor Medical Parents & Students ies from Asbury Theological Seminary. He of Preventive Medicine and Health Services completed a residency in general surgery at Management, and director of Doctoral Stud- SAVE Shands Teaching Hospital, Gainesville, Fla., ies at the University of Kentucky College of and a fellowship in cardiology at the Univer- Public Health. Additionally, Holsinger served THE sity of Florida. the country for 31 years as a member of In 2007 Holsinger was nominated by Presi- the U.S. Army Reserve achieving the rank of DATE dent Bush to be the U.S. Surgeon General. A Major General and retiring in 1993. March 13-14, 2009 Senate confirmation vote was not taken. Holsinger and his wife Barbara, WC’64, Most of Holsinger’s career was spent with have four children—Anna, E’87, PhD’91; For more information, contact the Veteran’s Health Administration, where Ruth, T’91; Sarah; and Rachel. Kevin Hirano at 919-667-2518 or [email protected] or visit medalum.duke.edu. 2 DukeMedAlumniNews In Brief

Brothers Create Orthopedic Symposium to Honor Mother’s New Pioneering Newlyweds Emerge Legacy and Duke Brothers Mike Berend, MD’92, HS’92-’98, and Keith Berend, In the fall issue of DukeMed Alumni News we reported that MD’97, HS’97-‘02, enjoy their careers as joint replacement sur- Virginia Kraus, MD’83, HS’83-’99, PhD’03, and her husband geons, but say their careers couldn’t have been possible without William “Bill” Kraus, MD’83, HS’83-’88, were introduced on their supportive parents and orthopedic surgery training at Duke. first day of medical school in 1979 as the first-ever married couple To show their gratitude to their late mother, Emily, and the Duke admitted to Duke University School of Medicine. Orthopedic Surgery Residency Training Program, the Berend The story also reported that their classmates, Stephanie Wain, brothers have organized the first-ever Emily Seymour Berend Joint MD’83, HS’83-’86, and husband Ruben Kier, MD’83, HS’83-’87, Replacement Symposium. To be held April 17-18, 2009, in the Hu- also were married. The two couples were, in fact, unofficial co-title man Fresh Tissue Laboratory and Conference Room at Duke Clinic, holders of the unique Duke distinction. the symposium will feature Visiting Professor Douglas A. Dennis, Both couples have been de-throned of their co-titles thanks to an MD, president of the Knee Society. e-mail from Joe Leigh Simpson, T’64, MD’68. “A successful practice is based on three fundamentals: excellent Simpson told us—and we confirmed with phone calls and re- patient care, clinical research, and education. It is our commitment cords—that there were two married couples in his class. to education that has spawned the Emily Seymour Berend Joint John Flaherty, MD’67 came here in 1963 and was joined in Replacement Symposium,” says Keith Berend. 1964 by his wife Lois, MD’68. Although not admitted in the same Aimed at educating orthopedic residents, fellows, members of year, they certainly met the criteria of being a married couple in the Piedmont Orthopedic Society, and the surrounding commu- medical school. nity, the symposium’s topics will cover partial knee replacement, Also in 1964, Jonathan Freeman, MD’68 and wife Elsie Free- man, MD’68, were admitted together. The torch, as the saying goes, has been passed, albeit backwards by 15 years.

PRT ends its 30-year run The Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) electric tram between Duke Hos- pital and Duke Clinic was retired on Oct. 15 after 30 years of service. A major hospital expansion is being built along the tram route, and once completed, the hospital, clinic, and the new addition will be connected with climate-controlled indoor walkways. When the PRT gave its first ride in December 1979, newspapers around the world covered the story. According to an Associated Keith (left), and Mike Berend (right) with their late mother, Press report, “[Duke] officials dispensed punch and had an employ- Emily Seymour Berend. ee chorus sing railroad songs.” Part horizontal elevator and part train, the $5.9 million PRT was minimally invasive hip and knee techniques, revision hip and knee futuristic for its time. The driverless shuttle rides on a cushion of air. replacement, and balancing techniques for knee replacement. Specially designed vehicles ride in the concrete guideways, and rails Other event highlights include cadaveric laboratory demonstra- on the guideways feed electricity into the vehicle. Using that power, tions in the skills lab. The brothers plan to host the annual event at a blower pushes air through rubber skirts on the bottom of the ve- Duke every spring. hicle. An additional system uses magnetic induction, pushing against Says Mike Berend: “Keith and I spent a total of 15 years in the an iron and aluminum bar in the guideway, to propel the vehicle Duke orthopedics program. Our parents were a huge encourage- forward. Inside the vehicle, a pair of computers monitors operations ment for us and supported our pursuits of academic orthopedics. and uses data from sophisticated sensors to match speed and posi- Our mom loved Duke basketball and recognized the value of tion against guide markers and its own programming. When the two the Duke education and opportunities it afforded for the future. computers agree, the machine moves forward. It makes the quarter- This symposium is an opportunity for us to give back to the Duke mile trip between Duke Clinic and Duke Hospital in one minute. orthopedic program that equipped us so well in the areas of The PRT’s manufacturer, Otis Elevator Co., got out of the business research, teaching, and clinical excellence and a mom that was so decades ago, and so replacement parts have been fabricated by a proud. It makes sense to give back and leave a legacy.” two-man repair team that has been on the job from day one, Jimmy To learn more about the joint replacement symposium, contact Mathews and Gary Burke. Michael Bolognesi, MD’98, HS’98-’03, by e-mail at michael.bolog- “We’ve repaired, fixed, and fabricated to keep it going,” says [email protected], by phone at 919-668-4732, or by mail at Division Mathews. “We have a higher performance rate—near 99 percent— of Orthopaedic Surgery, DUMC Box 3269, Durham, N.C. 27710. than what was estimated when it was first built.”

DukeMedAlumniNews 3 in brief

Jones Appointed to New Alumni Affairs Position Jenny Jones has been named director of alumni affairs for Duke University School of Medicine. Jones spent the past six years as director of special events and donor relations for Duke Medicine. While she will continue to organize and plan events such as Medical Alumni Weekend and Medical Families Weekend as she did in her previous position, Jones says this newly created position will allow her to focus solely on the School of Medicine and its alumni. “I’m excited to be working one on one with alumni,” she says. Working closely with James Stangle, execu- The new anatomy lab embraces the best of both high tech and traditional learning tools. tive director of development and alumni affairs, Jones will arrange opportunities for New Gross Anatomy Lab Puts alumni to meet with Dean Nancy C. An- drews, MD, PhD, recruit alumni volunteers, Duke Med Ed at the Forefront and find new ways to get them involved with Even as Duke expands the use of simula- ized educational tools have reduced the the Medical Alumni Association through tors to speed learning and protect patient amount of time spent on dissection, the reunions and other events. safety, nothing will ever completely re- physical procedure fosters a spatial and Jones also plans to work with her staff to place traditional hands on dissection using tactile appreciation for the fabric of the increase participation in the alumni program, human cadavers. human body that cannot be achieved especially among young alumni and students. High tech and high touch come together by prosections or computerized learning Jones hopes to begin using blogs and social in the School of Medicine’s brand new aids alone. networking Web sites like Duke Connect and gross anatomy lab and adjoining high- Scott Levin, T’77, MD, HS’82-’91, divi- Facebook to help young alumni and students tech fresh tissue lab and teaching audito- sion chief of plastic, reconstructive, and stay connected with one another. rium, which celebrated its grand opening oral surgery, was instrumental in plan- Jones has more than 10 years of experience in August. From anatomy atlases to 3-D ning the gross anatomy and tissue labs. in alumni affairs, special events, and donor images of the human body, everything is The expanded space was planned to ac- relations. Before coming to Duke in 2002, she at the fingertips of faculty and learners. commodate undergraduate and graduate was the assistant director “When people walk in they just say medical education as well as the growth for alumni affairs at the ‘wow,’ says Monte Brown, MD, Duke plans in the physical therapy, physician UNC-Chapel Hill School University Health System vice president for assistant, and continuing medical educa- of Education. She also administration. “These are valuable assets tion programs. previously worked at the a lot of leading medical schools don’t Now conveniently housed near the other University of Kentucky, have. Combining traditional techniques medical classrooms in a well lighted and where as associate with the most up-to-date technologies ventilated facility in the basement of Duke director for membership, puts Duke in the forefront.” Clinic, the new facilities and equipment marketing, and special According to Edward Buckly, E’72, are a far cry from the aging Bell Build- programs, she worked MD’77, HS’77-’81, anatomical medical ing gross anatomy lab that many alumni with alumni clubs across education today combines the ideals of will remember. The Bell Building is being the country and super- the medical profession—the acquisition moved to make way for an expansion of vised all special events for the university’s of scientific knowledge and skill balanced Duke University Hospital (see article on alumni association. with the development of humanistic page 40). A native of Charlotte, N.C., Jones holds a attitudes and behaviors. While computer- bachelor’s degree in secondary education and history with a minor in music as well as a master’s degree in education administration from Appalachian State University.

4 DukeMedAlumniNews HCC - 51+ yrs. Robert M. “Crusty” Rosemond Lucy Freedy

1954 - 55th Henry J. Carr, Jr.

1959 - 50th melvin D. Small Andrew G. Wallace Alonzo Myers Charles L. Nance, Jr. George A. Engstrom Edward G. Bowen

1964 - 45th James B. Powell Frederick L. Grover Frank T. Hannah

1969 - 40th Dale Nolan Lawrence James L. Bierfeld

1974 - 35th John H. Dorminy III Jared Naphtali Schwartz Robert W. Downs, Jr. Richard I. Kopelman Richard “Rick” Waugaman Michael B. Shipley 2009 Medical Alumni Weekend October 15-18, 2009

1979 - 30th anthony J. Limberakis If your graduation year ends in Robert “Bob” Drucker 4 or 9, 2009 is your reunion year. 1984 - 25th elizabeth G. Livingston Volunteers for each class are encouraging everyone to attend the weekend and participate William “Bill” Mallon Jeffery “Jeff” Baker in the reunion gift program. This year’s reunion classes are well on their way to raising David L. Feldman $425,000 for the Medical Annual Fund/Davison Club. 1989 - 20th Grace Emerson Terrell Lynne A. Skaryak Questions? Contact: 1994 - 15th Joon Yun Chris Woods Kevin Hirano Amy P. Abernethy Assistant Director 1999 - 10th Cameron Dezfulian Medical Alumni Affairs Margaret B. Sudarshan (919) 667-2518 Sunil Sudarshan [email protected] 2003 - 5th Susan Kansagra Charles “Chuck” Scales

Keep In Touch MEDALUM.DUKE.EDU Have you moved or changed jobs? Keep your DukeMed connection strong by keeping your contact information up to date. Former classmates and alumni colleagues can find you in the password protected DukeMed Alumni directory. Patients who want the very best can find you fast—by city or specialty—using “Find a Duke Trained Doctor.” You can even provide a link to your office Web site when you update your information.

DukeMedAlumniNews 5 Norins, Christenbury

Dedicated To Giving Back by Jim Rogalski

Duke Took Chance on Norins “I was uncertain about my future,” he Norins has pledged $5 million from his he question coming from the 12-per- says. “I was a very strange case, and a estate to Duke Medicine. Tson Duke School of Medicine admis- puzzle to my (Hopkins) advisor. He even “I have never made any large philanthropic sions committee seemed surreal. It wasn’t questioned whether I would be accepted at pledge before,” he says. “Now, I feel like a one of the boilerplate questions he was any medical school.” real part of the extended family at Duke. It expecting—the “tell us why you want to be During his Duke interview, Norins briefly gave me a reason to become more knowl- a doctor” variety. pondered the bizarre question he was asked, edgeable of the medical school and become No, this question was from beyond left and quickly saw its veiled hint of approval an ambassador for them.” field, and nothing Leslie C. Norins, MD’62, for his previous initiatives. He laughed. The Norins says if he had not pledged in ad- could have prepared for in advance: 12-member admissions committee laughed, vance and instead left it to his “estate lawyer “If we let you come to Duke, are you going too, and then the real interview began. to convey the bequest after my demise, I to organize the students against us?” Norins “Thank heavens there was a connection would have missed out on the ability to feel was asked. with Duke, and they chose me,” Norins says. a part of the family. I get invited to events “I was flabbergasted,” he says. “I was a lump of wet clay when I arrived, and occasionally chime in with my ideas. I In retrospect, however, the question made and Duke helped to shape me.” don’t think a lot of people understand the a lot of sense. It is because of his immense respect for rewards that come with giving sooner rather At the time, Norins was at best a puz- Duke and the professors who encouraged than later.” zling graduate, and at worse a gamble for him to explore medicine and discover him- any medical school that would have him. self, that Norins has “always had a grateful Sabiston Inspired Christenbury While he showed great promise by doing place in my heart for Duke.” Giving people the ability to chime in is allergy research during pre-med at Johns And why, after a successful career that something Jonathan D. Christenbury, Hopkins University, Norins also had many included nearly a decade as an immunolo- MD’81, HS’81-’85, also admires about Duke, eclectic, non-medical interests that pulled gist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control especially while he was a medical student at him. He was a young activist in the busi- and decades as a highly successful medical here. He says David Sabiston, MD, the for- ness community with a passion for urban newsletter publisher, he was financially able mer chair of the Department of Surgery, was renewal. (He worked after school and to give back. especially respectful to students, listened to weekends for the noted developer James them, and made them feel appreciated. Rouse.) He assisted as the youngest mem- “If you were a student in his service, he ber of major civic and arts groups. He tried really gave the impression that you were to find a role for helicopters in Baltimore’s the most important person, next to the evolving transit system. patient,” Christenbury says. “The first time

6 DukeMedAlumniNews in the operating room with him during Alumni Council and a loyal annual sup- heart surgery he had me stand right next porter of the Duke Medical Annual Fund, to the surgeon. After that experience I which funds scholarships for medical Ways To Give: almost went into cardiac surgery.” students. It also provides critical support Medical Annual Fund Christenbury chose eye surgery in- for research, curriculum enhancements, Your unrestricted gifts help provide medical stead because he developed a passion and the medical library. scholarships, curriculum development, tech- for microsurgery. As medical director of “There is something special about being nology, and medical library enhancements. Christenbury Eye Center in Charlotte, N.C., a Duke graduate,” he says. “People have a Davison Club he now is ranked as one of the world’s high regard for medical care at Duke and Minimum gift of $1,000 ($500 for medical most experienced LASIK surgeons, hav- are confident that you are going to give graduates 10 years out or less) to the Duke ing performed more than 65,000 of the them that kind of care.” Medical Annual Fund within the fiscal year. procedures. He also specializes in cataract, He says that if medical alumni consider Benefits include: • Invitations to social events with Duke refractive, and reconstructive eye surgery. the value of their medical education, “it faculty members, students, and other “I feel like I received one of the best can’t be quantified by how much it has benefactors medical educations in the world, am given them. I encourage alumni to be gen- • Your name on the Recognition Wall on the grateful for that, and understand that erous. There is a long tradition of Duke 2nd floor of the Duke Clinic many medical students require financial medical alumni supporting their school • Free parking passes for Duke Hospital, upon aid,” he says. “I want to support that.” and I am proud to be a part of it.” request Christenbury is a member of the Medical • The award-winning health and medicine resource, DukeMed Magazine. • A Davison Club gold-filled lapel pin, upon request James B. Duke Society Gifts of $100,000 or more given to any area of Duke University or Duke Medicine. Benefits include invitations to special events during Founder’s Weekend in October. Friends giving $1 million or more are invited to a private reception with university President Richard H. Brodhead. Leslie C. Norins Jonathan D. Christenbury Charles D. Scales Horizon Society Cumulative giving of $250,000 to $999,999 Young Alum A Grateful Annual Giver to Duke Medicine. Benefits include your name permanently on the Recognition Wall on the s a current urological surgery resident For his third-year research project, Scales 2nd floor of the Duke Clinic. worked with Muir, MD’93, HS’93-’97, Aat Duke, Charles D. Scales, MD’04, Pinnacle Society HS-current, sees the fruits of his gifts to G’01—the clinical director of hepatology Gifts of $1 million or more to Duke Medi- the Duke Medical Annual Fund up close in the Division of Gastroenterology—to cine. Benefits include: on a daily basis. examine the use of digital rectal exams • Your name permanently on the Recogni- “I get to watch the medical students and fecal occult blood testing at the tion Wall in the main lobby of the Duke as they grow into the leaders of tomor- time of hospital admission to determine Clinic row,” he says. “I can see my support whether asymptomatic patients over 50 • Crystal pinnacle with the base engraved with your name going to work.” were screened for colon cancer. Scales’ • A lunch or dinner (your choice) hosted by Scales is so grateful for the financial aid project was published in the Journal of Duke at a location of your choosing for Clinical Gastroenterology, and recognized he received while a medical student at yourself and 25 guests Duke that he began giving back as soon as the Outstanding Platform Presenta- Chancellor’s Circle as he graduated. He says his annual gifts tion at the Alpha Omega Alpha Research Gifts of $25,000 in a single or cumulative honor his Duke mentors and help give Symposium at Duke. amount to Duke Medicine in the same fiscal The Duke Medical Annual Fund of- current and future medical students the year. Benefits include an invitation to the fers membership into the Davison Club same opportunity he was given to come Chancellor’s Dinner held in March. to Duke. for gifts of $1,000 or more, or $500 or Heritage Society “Doctors (William) Bradford and more for recent medical school graduates Any planned or estate gift made to Duke (classes of 1998-2008). (Andrew) Muir were great mentors to Medicine. Benefits include: “The young alumni giving level is me,” Scales says. “Dr. Bradford took his • Heritage Society pin and certificate first-year pathology lab students under his important and makes it easier to give,” • Invitation to a cocktail reception during wing and taught us how to do produc- Scales says. Founder’s Weekend in October. Scales and his wife Culver, a major gifts tive research and expand our interests. Dr. For more information about giving to Duke officer for Duke Medicine Development, Muir taught me how to do good clinical Medicine, visit dukemedicine.org/giving research and how to think critically about live in Durham. patient care problems.” DukeMedAlumniNews 7 cover STORY

Global Dreams Take Flight at Duke

Eve Puffer in Kenya, Stephen Parker in Uganda, Sarah Lofgren and he residency director at a prestigious U.S. Susan Emmett in Tanzania. medical school looked Stephen Parker, MD, in the eye and told him this about his dream Lofgren, Emmett, Puffer, and Parker. of doing neurosurgery work in east Africa: “I felt I was not going to be discouraged at Alisl dolut lan hent wisl ulla conum quat, “Steve,” he said, “you’re going to have Duke for wanting to try something different,” tto have another dream if you want to work in sustrud dolor sis auguercil il ip endreet, Parker says. “I knew Duke was very progressive.” neurosurgery. It’s basically non-existent in east Indeed. Africa.” In 2006 Duke launched the Global Health That was in 2005 when Parker was shopping Institute (DGHI) with a university-wide com- for a neurosurgery residency. Other institutions mitment to reduce health disparities around the were equally honest with their assessments of world. Opportunities for overseas education, what they suggested was a pie-in-the-sky desire. training, and research bloomed. Even Duke told Parker he most likely would By summer 2007 Parker was in Uganda in a have to wait until after his six-year neurosurgery program launched by Michael Ha- residency to fulfill his industrious and benevolent glund, MD, PhD, associate professor ambition. of neurosurgery, performing life-sav- But Parker came anyway, moved by a gut-level ing spinal cord and brain surgeries. feeling that at Duke anything is possible—even That same year Parker was named fulfilling a dream that seemed implausible, if not one of four physicians in the inaugural impossible. class of the Duke Global Health Resi- dency Program—a joint program of Duke’s By Jim Rogalski Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health (HYC) and the DGHI. It further opened op- portunities for Parker to work in east Africa.

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Last summer he spent seven weeks there on a second neurosur- people are not able to get these important tests.” gery trip, visiting Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. He will return She’s also working on a pharmacokinetics study looking at this summer for a third time. the interactions between HIV and tuberculosis medications His hunch about Duke obviously was spot on, and Parker in children. frames the dichotomy of 2005 and today this way: “I’m truly “I have always been interested in international work and try- living a dream come true.” ing to figure out how that might work in my career,” Lofgren says. “Coming to Moshi was a great match for me. I am seeing Significant Contributions all levels of many clinical trials and learning a lot about Tanza- Across the Duke medical education spectrum, students, resi- nia, HIV, research, and myself.” dents, and fellows are involved in world-class, career-defining Eve Puffer, PhD, the first-ever DGHI postdoctoral fellow says, global health opportunities that they say are unavailable at “A lot of trainees don’t have the opportunity in a postdoctoral other institutions. position to build a research career on global experience.” She This academic year the DGHI, HYC, and the school of medi- cine have placed students, residents, and fellows in Rwanda, Thailand, China, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Cambodia, “You can make a difference in the South Africa, Haiti, India, and Nicaragua in programs that allow them to make significant contributions to health care by world if you really want something directly treating patients or by conducting research and service and are willing to work for it.” that has the potential to impact health care worldwide. Stephen Parker “U.S. medical students have the privilege of training in well-equipped, well-funded facilities,” says Michael Merson, MD, director of the DGHI. “A field experience in an under- resourced area like those offered here at Duke allows students to better understand the realities and challenges of treating and preventing disease in vulnerable and underserved populations.” The full menu of global health opportunities at Duke is at- tractive to some of the nation’s best medical students, resi- dents, and fellows. splits her time between Duke and Muhuru Bay, Kenya, where “That Duke is willing to let students do their third-year she is conducting mental health and HIV/AIDS prevention research abroad shows the confidence they have in us and in the research among adolescent girls and young women. “Duke has curriculum,” says third-year medical student Susan Emmett, given me an opportunity I never would have had at the other who is one of just 65 medical students nationwide to receive a universities that offer clinical psychology postdocs.” prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Train- ing Fellowship for 2008-09. Parker’s Impact This academic year she’s in Moshi, Tanzania, where Duke has Parker had been up all night when he arrived at the Duke a long-term relationship with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical North cafeteria to talk about his recent experiences in east Af- Center. Emmett is studying the intersection of health policy rica. Sporting a russet-colored full beard, blue hospital scrubs, and health science in HIV/AIDS and conducting a second study and a small black backpack slung over his shoulder, he looked looking for inexpensive clinical predictors of when antiretrovi- every bit the part of a clichéd on-the-go surgical resident. He rals have begun to stop working. was barely recognizable from the photograph of him in a Ugan- “You can’t do international policy from afar,” Emmett says. dan hospital where, clean-shaven and white-coated, he poses “You really need to be on the ground doing work that will actu- with a smiling 70-something-year-old Ugandan man. Parker ally have an influence. Duke has a fantastic research operation had operated to remove a huge growth on the man’s head. in Moshi and this is a unique opportunity for me.” When the man first looked in the mirror post-surgery he glee- With support from DGHI, third-year student Sarah Lofgren, fully thanked Parker because he no longer was ugly. also in Moshi, is studying whether dry blood spots can be used Parker had just come off an overnight neurosurgery shift at instead of blood plasma to accurately follow HIV viral loads the Durham VA Medical Center and was headed to UNC later and diagnose HIV infections in infants under 18 months of age. that morning to take classes toward a master’s in public health “If plasma is used for these tests it must be frozen within six degree—something three of the four Duke global health resi- hours of getting the blood,” Lofgren says. “In rural Tanzania dents will earn by this spring. He will spend more time overseas and other parts of the world, this just isn’t possible, so many this summer. His longest stint overseas will be for about six

10 DukeMedAlumniNews months in 2011. “It is a great success story,” Parker says. “His lost vision Parker says he owes much to Haglund for opening the door will not return, but the surgery stopped the progression of to Uganda to him. Haglund began the Ugandan neurosurgery the disease.” program after his church was serendipitously visited by a A 16-year-old Ugandan girl presented with deteriorating Ugandan pastor who pleaded for medical help in neurosurgery mobility and was no longer able to move her legs. Parker and for his country. Within weeks Haglund had assembled a team Haglund removed a large tumor on her spine, but did not of 28 medical personnel and $1.3 million worth of discarded expect her to walk again. Within days, however, she regained but working medical equipment donated by the Duke Univer- some leg movement and within weeks she was walking with sity Health System’s Global Health PLUS program, to go to small crutches. The girl and her mother were tearfully grateful Kampala, Uganda. He tapped Assistant Professor of Neu- that the girl will be able to live a normal life. rosurgery Ali Zomorodi T’96, MD’00, HS’00-’06, and an “You can make a difference in the world if you really want eager Parker as co-organizers, and Parker’s wife Jenny as trip something and are willing to work for it,” Parker says.

Third-year student Sarah Lofgren, left, poses with the medical team she is working with in Moshi, Tanzania; Stephen Parker with a patient after surgery; Eve Puffer shows her passport visa to Kenya. logistics coordinator. Global Health Residency Director Nathan Thielman, MD’90, “As a couple they are an inspiration,” Haglund says. “They HS’90-’93, says that after Parker’s residency, “Steve will be bring a passion for helping others and have wonderful hearts well-positioned to conduct important operational and clinical about touching people who are hurting.” research in the field of global neurosurgery—a field in which I That first summer Parker helped perform 35 surgeries. He have no doubt he will be a leader.” returned last summer with Haglund, Zomorodi, and a Duke Emmett, Lofgren Adjust to Tanzanian Culture team of 50. Duke now has an established program that teaches Goat meat. Ugandan neurosurgeons more sophisticated surgical techniques, Emmett’s words came through with LAN-line clarity over a like pituitary gland surgery through the nose. tenuous Skype internet phone call from the other side of the “With the new equipment and training they are now ca- world. Goat meat is definitely something she never thought she pable of doing this type of surgery,” Parker says. “Before, they would eat. wouldn’t even attempt it because they knew the likelihood of “In fact,” Emmett says light-heartedly, “I don’t always know harming the patient was greater than the likelihood of helping what I’m eating.” That’s not true most of the time. Rice, beans, them. Within a week, that completely changed.” and bananas have become her staples and provide a familiar Eighteen-year-old Shafiq is one Ugandan patient who was connection to the Western world. helped by this advanced type of pituitary gland surgery. He Adjusting to the sometimes exotic cuisine, however, is a cul- had developed gigantism because of a tumor. He was growing tural challenge that is easier to overcome than language barri- abnormally tall and had developed very large hands and feet. ers, Emmett and Lofgren say. Shafiq had already lost vision in one eye and his remaining vi- “None of the patients speak English,” Emmett says, “but luck- sion was compromised. ily English is the primary language of the care providers in the “He obviously wasn’t going to be able to provide for himself hospital.” She and Lofgren are tutored nightly in the language or his family if he went blind,” Parker says. Under his and of Swahili. Haglund’s supervision, two Ugandan neurosurgeons removed Lofgren says the slow pace of life in Tanzania is a welcome the tumor.

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change from the rigors of her second year in medical school but over the summer. can be frustrating. The research project planned by Duke’s first-ever Global “Tanzanian time tends to be slower with people taking breaks Health Postdoctoral Fellow was to assess the level of psycho- more often,” she says. “If something comes up at home, people logical trauma suffered by girls and young women due to sexual just leave.” That can make scheduling meetings and patient exploitation, then develop a plan to help them. visits a nightmare. What she found instead was that transactional sex for fish or Other small nuisances, Lofgren says, include frequent power money is so engrained in the culture that “there was not a lot of outages, slow or inaccessible internet connections, and oc- (psychological) trauma. The dynamics of the situation stunned casional plumbing problems in the large house next to the me,” Puffer says. medical center that she and Emmett share with other short- That’s not to say her work there is done. With HIV infection term Duke staff. affecting 15.3 percent of the population of Muhuru Bay—the But collectively, all challenges are insignificant when mea- highest in all of Kenya—Puffer has retooled her postdoctoral sured against the big-picture benefits of living in a foreign land, research to focus on HIV prevention and increasing women’s both women say. self esteem to help open up more opportunities for them. Like farming. Or starting a small busi- ness. “The men and boys can fish, but it’s a cultural taboo for women to fish,” Puffer says. “If women have the capi- tal they can start a small kiosk to sell cookies, crackers, and soap. Women also can pool their money to plant a larger amount of crops to sell at the market.” In her Trent Building office Puffer is analyzing the interview data she collected over the summer in prepara- tion for a return trip in May through Eve Puffer talking with a classroom of boys. L-R: Ali Zomorodi, MD; Michale Haglund, MD; Stephen August. A large part of her time there Parker, MD; and Senthil Radhakrishnar, PA, are part of the Duke-Uganda Neurosurgery team. will include involving the community in “It’s a very beautiful country,” Lofgren says. “I can see Mt. analysis of the data and helping to determine what can be done Kilimanjaro from the doctors’ compound. The people here are to change the “sex-for-fish” culture. Puffer will begin a pilot very friendly. My Swahili teacher says that Tanzanians say ‘You trial of interventions in December. are my friend until proven otherwise.’” Possible programs include: teaching sex education and safe sex The two friends try to go exploring every Saturday. They practices to parents, children, and fishermen; educating about hiked five hours to see a spectacular waterfall and took a safari the dangers of HIV/AIDS and how to reduce the number of to Arusha National Park that Emmett calls “one of the coolest partners; teaching about dangerous abortions; teaching parents experiences I have ever had in my life. We saw giraffes, zebras, to talk more openly to children about sex; educating women cape buffalos, baboons, and wart hogs—everything except about work opportunities; and helping young women improve elephants and lions.” their self-esteem. As a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training “My goal is to work with parents and churches, religious and Fellow, Emmett will return to Washington, D.C. twice during civic leaders to create a community of support,” Puffer says. her third year to meet with other fellows and report on her re- She was particularly inspired by an 18-year-old Kenyan search progress. She was in D.C., in November and will come woman she befriended. Like most of her peers, the woman had back in May. fallen into a lifestyle of transactional sex at an early age and While she has not yet chosen a medical specialty, Emmet faced a future of little opportunity. But her parents encouraged says her time in Tanzania has convinced her of at least one her in school in hopes of providing a path to something better. thing: “I definitely want international health care to be a part She came through the local school system with decent grades, of my career.” and at a community meeting the young woman emotionally an- nounced she had been accepted to college. Puffer Surprised by Kenya Results “This meant so much to me,” Puffer says, “because for so Sitting at her desk in her simple Trent Building office, Puffer many here there is just complete hopelessness. But if you have says she was not so much surprised as she was stunned by a supportive community and strong self esteem, there is a what she found in the fishing village of Muhuru Bay, Kenya way out.”

12 DukeMedAlumniNews FEATURE story Medical Student Research: The True Cost of Dirty Hands

esearch has proven that frequent hand antibiotic treatment. The primary mode of Rwashing is a simple way to help keep transmission is through human hands, par- patients healthy while in the hospital. But ticularly health care workers’ hands. Accord- it’s not always quite so simple considering ing to the Centers for Disease Control and on average hand washing only occurs 55.1 Prevention, patients infected with MRSA are percent of the time in hospitals and other more likely to have longer, more expensive health care settings. hospital stays and may be more likely to die When fourth-year medical student Keith from the infection. Cummings learned this fact during patient By washing their hands more often Cum- safety seminars at the end of his second year mings says health care workers could help of medical school, he knew there had to be reduce these costs. a better way to help hospitals encourage Using data from published articles on good hygiene among workers. MRSA prevalence, transmission rates, and “We learned that compliance with hand washing compliance rates, Cummings hand washing was so poor,” Cummings created a mathematical model that simu- says. “(Hospitals) put a lot of programs lated an episode where a health care worker in place for compliance, but they don’t saw two patients consecutively without seem to work.” washing his hands between encounters. He So Cummings set out to try to motivate ran the model one million times to calculate hospital administra- tors in a language “This is the kind of thing that they could easily I would like to do for understand: dollars hospitals—help them and cents. In a study conducted during his implement projects that third year of medical will not just save money school, Cummings but also save lives.” found that health Keith Cummings care workers cost their hospitals $1.98 every time they do not wash their hands. the cost per episode and used data from This translates into $1.77 million in total Duke Hospital to determine the number of from N.C. State University. In addition to a expenses per year for a 200-bed hospital. expected encounters per year. medical degree, he is currently earning a “I thought if I could put in place a number Along with Kaye and Anderson, Cummings master’s of business administration in Duke’s that reflected the cost, that might make it presented the research in Washington, D.C., Fuqua School of Business. He says he hopes easier for health care workers to see what in October during a joint meeting of the his degrees will lead to a career in health their actions were costing,” says Cummings, Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial care finance. Eventually he would like to who served as lead author on the study. Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) and become a health care consultant and offer Cummings and fellow Duke researchers, the Infectious Diseases Society of America tangible solutions for problems like hand Keith Kaye, MD, MPH, and Deverick Ander- (IDSA). washing non-compliance. son, MD’01, HS’01-’06, also discovered that Cummings says he hopes the study will “This is the kind of thing I would like to by increasing the rates of hand washing by motivate hospital administrators to devote do for hospitals—help them implement 1 percent, hospitals could save $39,650 a more resources to hand hygiene programs. projects that will not just save money but year. A 5 percent increase would be worth “A week of education and putting up flyers also save lives.” $200,000. is transient. It doesn’t last long. I hope hospi- The costs Cummings calculated are from tals will say, ‘We can spend more money on treating methicillin-resistant staphylococ- these programs.’” cus aureus (MRSA), a type of bacteria that A native of Greensboro, N.C., Cummings causes staph infections that are resistant to earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry

DukeMedAlumniNews 13 The Other 65th General Hospital

North Carolina’s World War I 65th Base Hospital Fought on Two Fronts— War and the Deadly Spanish Flu A tent hospital in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Much has been written about the Duke- ne of North Carolina’s most Rise of an Unseen Enemy affiliated 65th General Hospital during World prominent physicians of the The unit was ordered to active duty on War II, but during a recent talk presented to Oearly 20th century was Colonel March 19, 1918 and remained in training Duke’s Josiah Charles Trent Society and UNC’s John Wesley Long, MD, of Greensboro. at Fort McPherson, Ga., until August 9, James B. Bullitt Society, Ivan W. Brown Jr., He built the city’s first hospital, which still when they were moved to Camp Upton in MD’40, HS’40-’42, ’45-’54, former James bears his name. Prior to World War I, he New York for overseas shipment. Twenty B. Duke Professor of was the highest ranking reserve officer in days later, they steamed out of New York aboard the SS Kroonland in a convoy of Surgery, shed light on North Carolina, and when the war broke 13 ships. The nurses followed aboard the North Carolina’s World out he headed the North Carolina draft. SS Baltic in another convoy a few days War I 65th General While serving in this capacity he obtained later. After 14 uncomfortable days at sea, Hospital. The WWI permission from the U.S. Army to form an they arrived at Brest, France, the principal hospital was headed Army hospital made up of North Carolina French disembarkation port for American by Major Frederic M. physicians and nurses. The new unit was Hanes, MD, who later troops. Here they were quartered at Camp designated the Army Base Hospital 65 with became Duke’s second Pontanezen, one of many American receiving Col. Long as commanding officer. chair of the Department camps. Four miles southeast of Brest, at One of Long’s first recruits was Major of Medicine. From Brown’s account, it’s hard Kerhoun, the U.S. military was building a Frederic M. Hanes, MD, a native of to tell which was a more formidable enemy 4,000-bed medical center. Winston-Salem, who later became the for the WW I 65th—the fierce fighting or the Unbeknownst to the 65th Base Hospital, second chair of Duke’s Department of deadly Spanish Flu. Brest, where they had first landed, was in the Medicine. Hanes was educated at UNC- deadly grip of the second and lethal wave Chapel Hill and Harvard and received a Following are excerpts from Brown’s talk. An of the Spanish flu, the most deadly plague medical degree from Johns Hopkins. He article, Flak Time, and photos of the World mankind has ever known. had been professor of therapeutics at the War II 65th General Hospital, written by Bob Earlier that spring, an epidemic of influenza Medical College of Virginia prior to taking Wells for Duke Perspectives Magazine in 1998, had broken out among closely housed command of the 65th Base Hospital’s is available online at medalum.duke.edu. soldiers in Camp Funston, Kans., and Fort medical service. Devens, Mass., and had rapidly spread to Twenty-three of the original officers a number of other Army camps, American were recruited from North Carolina, cities, and abroad. But this first worldwide including James B. Bullitt, MD, professor wave of the disease had been relatively of pathology at UNC-Chapel Hill, who was mild with few deaths. Although it was appointed head of the laboratory service. highly infectious, it was mostly thought of as an uncomfortable Three Day Fever. It got its name, the Spanish flu, because Spain, which remained neutral during WWI, did not impose wartime censorship. After Spain’s King Alfonso XIII developed the flu, the name stuck. By June 1918 the mild first wave of the disease had largely subsided, although cases continued to occur throughout the summer. In the early fall of 1918 the disease took on Ivan Brown Frederic Hanes John Wesley Long James Bullitt a rapid and dramatic increase in severity. The virus had mutated into a highly virulent and Photos reprinted with publisher’s permission from The Great Influenza, by John M. Barry, Penguin infectious form. Explosive, rapidly spreading Group, 2004, and The Influenza Pandemic of 1918, by Virginia Aronson, Chelsea House, 2000.

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outbreaks started in Brest and in Boston and other eastern American cities, then spread throughout the world with amazing speed and an alarming death rate. Few places were spared this lethal second wave of the Spanish flu, even remote tribes of Eskimos in Alaska were victims. Wave of Death My earliest childhood memories originated during that epidemic. I remember being frightened by my father yelling out during his feverish delirium. Fortunately, my grandmother did not get the flu, and the other five of us survived in our upstate New York farmhouse because of her care. Another neighboring farmhouse was not so fortunate. All members of that family were found dead in their beds. Our nearest town ran out of

“At night it was a fantastic picture to go into a ward filled with desperately ill men, dimly lighted by two candles burning on tin pie plates on the floor, one at each entrance.” Irene Brewster caskets and they wrapped bodies in sheets and stacked them in the Baptist church until they could be buried. In cities like Philadelphia, where at its peak this second wave of the flu was causing 4,500 deaths a week, they had to resort to mass graves as a public health measure. Cities like Boston erected large tent hospitals to care for the living. Public fear of the disease was great, as its cause was not known. In 1918 little was known about viruses and most people thought erroneously that the flu was caused by Pfeiffer’s bacillus (Haemophilus influenzae). Every measure was taken to prevent its spread, mostly to no avail. Wearing a mask became Above: A U.S. Marine receives first aid before almost obligatory. In most places you were being sent to a hospital at the rear of trench- not allowed on street cars or in stores without es in Toulon Sector, France, Below: Digging one. Children wore camphor bags around mass graves for flu victims in Philadelphia their necks in hopes this would protect them. Since Brest, France, was one of the starting points of the second wave of the epidemic, all the available beds there were quickly filled. But ships carrying American troops continued to arrive, with half of the soldiers onboard desperately ill. Within four days of their arrival, members of the 65th Base Hospital were ordered to the partially constructed Kerhoun

DukeMedAlumniNews 15 patient would be placed on a bed using a pandemic was appalling. The actual number blanket as a mattress, and the next patient is unknown, but is estimated between would be placed on the mattress on the 30,000,000 and 50,000,000. In WWI, floor. America lost 53,000 soldiers in combat, but “We had great difficulty feeding patients, more than 40,000 others died of the flu. In as there were so few dishes and utensils. the U.S., between 600,000 and 700,000 However, with a little ingenuity, using a citizens died, equivalent to 2 percent of the tongue depressor as a spoon, nurses could American population. get the patients fed. The rains continued Despite the pandemic’s massive scope, today, and the nurses, doctors, and stretcher 90 years later, it is largely forgotten. But there bearers had to jump ditches and wade in is new information that could help protect the Children wore camphor bag necklaces in hopes deep mud. There were many hardships world from another epidemic like the Spanish flu. of warding off the Spanish flu. and inconveniences the patients had to bear, but in spite of these, their morale Clues from the Grave remained good.” It was not until 1930 that Richard Shope of With the great overflow of patients, the Rockefeller Institute proved that influenza everyone had to work long hours, often was caused by a virus. By then, scientists at more than one job. Col. Long had to knew that similar viruses caused influenza take over command of the whole medical in swine, resided in certain birds, could be center. Major Hanes, after promotion to transferred to other animals like the ferret, Lieutenant Colonel, took over as the 65th and could be grown in fertile hen’s eggs. commanding officer as well as chief of According to J.T. Taubenberger in the the medical service. Capt. Bullitt, now a Scientific American, Jan. 5, 2005, in 1949, Major, with little equipment for a labora- a traveling Swedish medical student, John tory, cared for three wards of patients and Hultin, met Lutheran missionaries in Alaska Inside the Kerhoun hospital. also served as detachment commander of who told him about the 1918 pandemic that Hospital to help get beds open for patients. all the enlisted personnel. Because of the caused 72 deaths, nearly wiping out a tiny The conditions they found were almost high death rates, it was necessary to open settlement of Inuit Eskimos. Haunted by the unbelievable. A constant cold rain fell, which a cemetery behind the hospital. story, Hultin entered the University of Iowa turned the hospital area into a quagmire of As other medical units arrived at the port, to begin doctoral studies in microbiology. He slippery, ankle deep mud. they were immediately sent to Kerhoun began to wonder if the deadly virus could be Hospital Center to help. Gradually con- retrieved for study from the Eskimo bod- Hospital in the Mud struction began to catch up, equipment ies, which may have been preserved by the Sixthy-fifth nurse Irene Brewster described and supplies arrived, and the center began Alaskan permafrost. He gained permission the conditions in her diary: to look like a real hospital—but not before from tribal elders, excavated the graves, and “The weather was cold and raw, and it they had opened all 4,000 beds. Major obtained lung tissue specimens. Unfortu- rained and rained. The hospital wards, built Bullitt got his equipment and was able nately, attempts to grow live virus from the as wooden barracks, were 50 feet long to establish a laboratory, but much to his specimens was unsuccessful. Hultin was so and 40 feet wide, accommodating 35-40 dislike he was also retained as detachment disappointed he abandoned microbiology patients. None of the windows had been commander of the enlisted personnel. and became a pathologist. fitted with glass, so they were covered with Decades later, in 1997, a group of three sci- oiled paper or burlap. There were no lights, The Cost of War entists led by molecular pathologist Jeffery K. water, or sewage system, no walks or roads and Disease Taubenberger at the Armed Forces Institute had been built. Ditches had been dug for The influx of flu patients continued of Pathology published their finding of pre- water and sewer lines, but no pipes were yet well after the Armistice was signed on served Spanish flu virus from wax-embedded available. Heating the wards was impossible, November 11, 1918. In January 1919 the blocks of lung tissue taken from autopsy as there were no stoves. The only light to be flu epidemic began to abate, but now specimens at the Armed Forces Institute of had was from candles and a few lanterns. At the Kerhoun Hospital Center became Pathology Museum. night it was a fantastic picture to go into a the receiving and processing center for Hultin, now 71 and retired, read the ward filled with desperately ill men, dimly thousands of wounded and ill American report and his hope of finding the entire lighted by two candles burning on tin pie soldiers en route to the United States. 1918 virus was rekindled. That summer, he plates on the floor, one at each entrance. These kept the 65th personnel busy returned to Alaska and got permission to “The equipment for a base hospital had not until late in the spring of 1919. The flu open more graves. This time he found the arrived. We did have some medical depart- epidemic ended abruptly, and on June body of a young female whose lungs were ment beds and plenty of blankets of good 19th the 65th Base returned to the well preserved. He was able to cultivate the quality that could be used as mattresses. We United States for discharge. They left whole virus, and now its entire genome has received patients right from the transports behind in Kerhoun Hospital cemetery been published. However, the mystery of and within days we had 2,000 patients. One the graves of 670 flu victims. where the deadly virus originated has yet to The worldwide cost in lives of the be solved.

16 DukeMedAlumniNews Feldman Is New MAA President

uring his days at Duke, David L. Feld- Dman, T’80, MD’84, HS’89-’92, says he was afforded opportunities he’s pretty sure he wouldn’t have gotten anywhere else. One such opportunity came about dur- ing his third year of medical school when he was able to create an elective in health services research. He spent two months in 1983 working alongside plastic surgeons at a burn center at Soroka Medical Center at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. “It was such a unique opportunity,” he says. “I had the freedom to explore.” Today a plastic surgeon and hospital admin- istrator, Feldman knows the influence such unique experiences can have on students and their future careers. He hopes his new role as Duke Medical Alumni Association presi- dent will give him the chance to help further enhance experiences for current and future medical students, as well as alumni. “I like the ability T’79, MD’83, have plans to lead a session on Feldman, who first joined the Medical to be a physician alternative career choices during next fall’s Alumni Council in 1997, plans to encourage Medical Alumni Weekend. more alumni to get involved with the as- executive and being Outside of the Medical Alumni Asso- sociation, particularly through local groups in able to understand ciation, Feldman’s other Duke activities cities across the country. He also hopes to get both the patient include conducting interviews for under- more alumni to participate in reunions and graduate and medical school admissions other events held on Duke’s campus. care side and the and serving as a mentor to students in the Feldman says getting involved with the administrative side.” New York area through the Sandra Tuthill alumni association is as beneficial to students Scholarship Program. David L. Feldman as it is to alumni. Events sponsored by the An avid swimmer, Feldman likes to spend association, such as the student-alumni net- his free time working out in a local masters the Department of Surgery at Maimonides working event Entrée, which is held each fall, program and competing in ocean swims in Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. He spends allows “students to see what their predeces- the summer. much of his time running the operating sors have done. It can be inspirational.” Feldman and his wife Debra live in Scotch rooms and overseeing the OR budget for Heavily involved in a number of activities Plains, N.J. They have three children: Saman- the 700-bed hospital. He practices plastic as a student, including serving as a student tha, a junior at Oberlin College; Zachary, a surgery one day a week. representative to the Medical Alumni Council, freshman at New York University; and Jes- He says he finds the variety offered in Feldman remembers being inspired by many sica, a high school junior. his job to be very rewarding and wants to alumni, faculty members, and residents. share that with students. “I like the ability Among his mentors, he lists David Sabiston, to be a physician executive and being able Jr., MD, legendary surgery chairman; Ken- to understand both the patient care side neth McCarty, MD, pathology professor; and and the administrative side.” Douglas Packer, MD, HS’85, who was one of Many students may not be fully aware the residents Feldman admired. of administrative career options, and Currently Feldman is vice president of Feldman hopes he and other alumni in perioperative services and vice chairman of similar fields can serve as mentors. He and Davison Club President Richard A. Sarner,

DukeMedAlumniNews 17 Medical Alumni Council Welcomes New Members

The Medical Alumni Council welcomes the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. and her husband Timothy, T’75, MD’79, a following new members for 2008-2011. He subsequently completed cardiology vascular surgeon, live in Santa Ana, Calif., fellowships at both Parkland and the and have three children. Stephen, T’06, Jonathan D. Christenbury, MD’81, HS’81- University of Washington Medical Center is a second-year medical student at Duke; ’85, is the founder and medical director in Seattle. During his service in the U.S. Thomas lives in Berkeley; and Christina is a of Christenbury Air Force from 1991-97, he was chief of sophomore in high school. Eye Center in cardiology for two medical centers: Scott Charlotte, N.C. Air Force Base Medical Center in Illinois and Sigmund I. Tannenbaum, T’72, MD’76, Having performed Malcolm Grow Medical Center at Andrews HS’76-’82, is a urologist with Alliance more than 65,000 Air Force Base in Maryland. He joined Urology Specialists procedures, he the pharmaceutical division at Procter in Greensboro, is ranked among & Gamble in 1999. In 2002 Dunnmon N.C. He also is a the world’s most returned to Duke to earn an MBA from clinical instructor experienced LASIK the Fuqua School of Business. He and his in the Department surgeons. His wife Kara L. Haas, T’80, MD, MPH, FACS, of Surgery at Wake specialties include have two children—Jared, a sophomore Forest University All-Laser iLASIK, in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, and School of Medicine Restor/Rezoom Multifocal Intraocular Evan, a high school junior. The family lives in in Winston-Salem lens procedures, Visian ICL procedures, Cincinnati, Ohio. and a fellow of the custom cataract surgery, glaucoma American College treatment, ophthalmic plastics, and general Mary P. Harward, MD’80, is a staff of Surgeons. After earning undergraduate ophthalmology. He is a fellow of the physician in the Department of Medicine and medical degrees from Duke, American College of Surgeons and a member at St. Joseph Tannenbaum remained at Duke to complete of the American Medical Association, Hospital in a pathology internship. He went on to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and Orange, Calif. She University of California, San Francisco, for North Carolina Medical Society. Christenbury currently holds a surgical residency, and back to Duke earned a medical degree at Duke and appointments on for a urology residency. During the Duke completed an internship in internal medicine several hospital residency he was also a teaching scholar at Baylor College of Medicine and a residency committees and Cannon Fellow in Duke’s Division in ophthalmology at Duke University Eye at St. Joseph, of Urology. He and his wife Ellen live in Center. He then went on to complete a including serving Greensboro with their son Evan. surgical fellowship in ophthalmic plastic and as co-chair of the orbital surgery at the Jules Stein Eye Institute Ethics Oversight The following three members are at the University of California, Los Angeles. Committee and chair of the Institutional returning for a second, three-year term: He lives in Charlotte and has two children: Review Board. Her clinical interests Kathryn M. Andolsek, MD, MPH, HS’76- Joseph, T’08, and Liz, a sophomore at Duke. include geriatrics and ethics. Before 79; Robert G. Deyton, Jr., T’51, MD’55; joining St. Joseph, Harward held academic and Steven F. Roark, T’74, MD’78. Preston M. Dunnmon, T’80, MD’84, appointments at the University of Florida, For a complete list of current members, B’02, FACP, FACC, is section head of both Baylor University, and Northwestern visit medalum.duke.edu/council.htm. late phase clinical University. After earning a medical degree development at Duke, the Asheville, N.C., native went and new drug on to complete an internship in behavioral development for medicine and psychiatry at the University Procter & Gamble. of Virginia Health Sciences Center in After receiving both Charlottesville, Va. She completed a undergraduate residency in general internal medicine at and medical the University of California at San Diego, degrees from spending one year as chief medical resident. Duke, Dunnmon She then returned to the University of completed an Virginia Health Sciences Center for a internship and residency in medicine at fellowship in general internal medicine. She

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1940s member at the University of Anna M. Mikesell, MD’53, practice. He lives in Danville, four children—Barbara, G’91; Utah School of Medicine, has and her husband Richard, Ky. He has four sons; the John, David; and R.M.—and Adolphus W. Dunn, Jr., published a memoir titled, L’65, have traveled a great oldest, a colonel in the army, live in Columbus. MD’45, DC, and his fiancée “From Top of the Stairs: One deal, occasionally taking recently returned from Iraq. He Mary spent the last few Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., Doctor’s Story.” It chronicles photographs of archeological also has four stepsons. Christmas and New Year’s Eve MD’58, DC, has been elected his time growing up in and astronomical interest for holidays cruising the Drake a member of the National rural Mississippi during the the Griffith Observatory in Los Passage around Cape Horn. Academy of Sciences, Institute depression, his time at Duke Angeles. She writes the most They also took a Tierra del Fu- of Medicine, and Associa- University School of Medicine, interesting photos were of the ego train trip from Ushuaia and tion of American Physicians. his move west to Utah, and sunrise on the winter solstice visited the Falkland Islands. He currently is director of his military service. The book in the temple at Karnak, Egypt, Dunn lives in Saint Helena epidemiology and genetics at can be ordered by e-mailing in 1977. “It was the first time it Island, S.C. the National Cancer Institute in him at chc789@comcast. had ever been photographed.” Bethesda, Md. Herman F. Froeb, MD’47, is net. Castle and his wife Linda The couple lives in Sherman working on an autobiography have six adult children, 12 Oaks, Calif. M. Wayne Heine, MD’58, called It Took More Than a grandchildren, and four great- and his wife Millie celebrated Jerome E. Adamson, MD’54, Village to Raise Me. He and grandchildren. They live in Salt  George B. Skipworth, T’48, their 50th wedding anniversary HS’54-’60, DC, is retired and his wife Helen live in La Jolla, Lake City. MD’54, DC, of Columbus, Ga., in 2008. They live Tucson, enjoying traveling. Last Octo- Calif., and have five children completed his 32nd medical Ariz. Their son Phillip, chief of ber he went to Machu Picchu and eight grandchildren. mission trip to Belize, Gua- Duke’s Division of Maternal- with his youngest daughter. temala, and Brazil with Tejas Fetal Medicine, received a Earl N. Solon, MD’49, says He and his wife Josephine Missions, Inc., in March 2008. teaching award from the he has “finally become” a life have three children, William, At 81 years old, he still sees Department of Obstetrics and fellow with the American Psy- MD’90; Mary; and Josephine, a limited number of former Gynecology in 2008. chiatric Association. He says and live in Chapel Hill. patients in private practice. his career has been rewarding T. Rudolph Howell, MD’58, Colonel William B. Jones, His daughter Heather lives in because he was privileged to DC, currently serves as chair- MD’54, retired since 2000, Bellevue, Wash., and his son practice at the clinical frontier man of the finance board for works part time as medical William lives in Columbus. of psychopharmacology. He the Southern Medical Associa- director of CWI Insurance Co. and his wife Margy have been James B. Creighton, Jr., tion. He and his wife Cheryl  Irwin H. McNeely, T’49, He also reviews records for married for 54 years. They MD’57, HS’57-’61, DC, works live in Chester, Va., and have MD’53, of Franklin, Va., sub- insurance companies and legal have two grown children and half time at the Tampa Eye four sons. Mark, a graduate mitted this photo of himself firms. He and his wife Ann three grandchildren and live in Clinic in Florida and has no of Virginia Commonwealth with a couple of Duke buddies have four grandchildren and Wilmette, Ill. plans to retire. He and his University, works in com- getting together last spring to recently took two of them to wife Cathy live on a farm 30 puter software. John works in watch the ACC men’s basket- New York to see one of the last miles outside of Tampa, in research and development for 1950s ball tournament on television. games held in Yankee Stadium. Lithia. He encourages any of Philip Morris. Scott, MD’86, In photo are McNeely, left; He and Ann also recently his 1957 classmates visiting HS’86-’87, ’92-’95, practices Blitz Berlin, MD’53, HS’53- returned from Elderhostel in the Tampa area to give him a medicine in Vero Beach, Fla. ’55, of Hebert, N.C., sitting; Canada and have plans to call at 813- 737-4000. Brian, who holds a law degree and William D. Bradford, MD, visit Turkey soon. They live in from Mercer University, is an HS’65-’66, DC, of Durham. Greenville, S.C. Lucy Rawlings Freedy, attorney with the Department The mini-reunion took place at James W. Ramey, MD’54, MD’57, DC, celebrated her of Defense. Berlin’s home. writes that he is “still surviv- 80th birthday in November ing” after two coronary bypass and is still working half time Floyd L. Wergeland, Jr., surgeries, an aortic valve as a locum tenens radiolo- MD’58, DC, was reelected to replacement, and a pacemaker. gist at Ohio State University serve on the council for the For the past 43 years he has Medical Center. She is a former Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthal-  Charles H. Castle, MD’51, been a county coroner and member of the Duke Medical mology Society. He lives in HS’51-’52, who retired in 1998 does occasional locum tenens Alumni Council. She and her Bonita, Calif. as a cardiologist and faculty work for his peers in family husband Robert, T’53, have

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For Marder, Two Ships, Many Emotions

captain and crew to create a nautical chart detailing all of the 758’s voyages and military missions. They were inspired to know the ship’s history and eager to share it with their passengers. Marder worked on the map for several months, recounting most of the information from memory and researching documents to fill in the gaps. When he and his wife Joan returned for the ceremony to present the chart, the ship was adorned in colorful banners and its name temporarily reverted back to LCI(L) 758. “I was treated like a king,” Marder says, “which is a real ego trip for an old guy like me.” He is 84. The ship took a tour around the Statue of Liberty with just 15 crew and guests aboard. Gerard Marder poses with the current captain and two crewmen of his former U.S. Navy ship, In New York Harbor near the statue, Marder which is now a tourist boat in New York Harbor. and the widow of his ship’s engineering offi- his is a tale of two ships. October 1944 his ship was under heavy fire cer and cabin mate tossed a memorial wreath T One is the Circle Line X, a popular New off the coast of Leyte in the Philippines. into the water to honor the former crew and York City tourist boat for the past 50-plus “Usually the Japanese planes went for years that continues to ferry 500 sight-seeing the larger ships, but there was one head- passengers at a time around Manhattan and ing straight for us,” Marder recalls. “I could the Statue of Liberty. Snacks, soft drinks, and see the engine cowling and the wings in a smiles abound aboard the vessel. straight-on profile coming right at us.” The other is the small U.S. Navy ship USS One of Marder’s five gunners hit his LCI(L) 758, whose mark and shot down the plane, which job during World crashed into the water a mere 100 feet War II was to deliver from the ship. troops to enemy “It was pure terror,” Marder says. beaches during inva- “My knees were shaking. We were sions. It made five so vulnerable.” battle landings in In recent years when he has traveled to the Philippines under New York City he makes it a point to see Marder points to a spot on the nautical chart heavy fire, individu- his former ship, now known as the Circle he created to document the voyages and ally shot down sev- Line X—the only former WWII U.S. Navy military missions of the former USS LCI(L) 758, eral Japanese planes, ship in service in the 10-vessel Circle Line Gerard Marder as a which he commanded during World War II. was nearly taken out Tourism fleet. U.S. naval officer by a kamikaze pilot, “You can barely recognize it except for the in 1944. the soldiers they had delivered into battle. and won three mili- pilot house and engine room,” Marder says, It was a fitting spot. The 758’s first-ever tary decoration battle stars in the process. pausing before reflecting: “We had a happy military mission in 1944 was to deliver under Gerard Marder, MD’52, HS’54-’56, ship. We served our country and had an fire to the beaches of Ormoc, Leyte, Phil- knows both ships well. They are, in fact, the adventure.” Over the years fewer and fewer lipines, 200 soldiers of the New York “Statue same ship, but with entirely different lives. shipmates have visited the vessel as age of Liberty” 77th Infantry Division. As an executive officer and then com- takes a steady toll on WWII veterans. “It was very meaningful,” Marder says softly. manding officer of the LCI(L) 758, Marder This past October, Marder was back on The Marders split their time between led a crew of 30 men into battle during deck for a special ceremony honoring the Asheville, N.C., and Miami, Fla. WWII. On one particularly memorable day in military history of his former command. ­—Jim Rogalski He had been asked by the ship’s current

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James T. Williams, MD’58, is Southern Pines where he was of parish nurse at their church. enjoying retirement by spend- medical director for 16 years. They live in Camden, S.C. ing six months in Spruce Head, James P. Pilliod, MD’60, is a Maine, and six months in New 1960s member of the New Hampshire Orleans, La. He and his wife William C. Cooper, Jr., Public Health Association Ann Roach have two children MD’60, is in his 42nd year of Board and member of the ex- and four grandchildren. practicing general pediatrics ecutive committee for the New Henry B. Freye, MD’59, in eastern North Carolina. He Hampshire Medical Society. HS’60-’63, and his wife Vir- is a physician with Prime Care He lives in Belmont, N.H., and ginia recently celebrated their Medical Center in Roanoke has seven children and seven 50th wedding anniversary in Rapids. He and his wife grandchildren. Bermuda with their three chil- Janet celebrated their 50th Stanley I. Worton, MD’60, dren and respective spouses anniversary in June. They have  Paul W. Jones, MD’63, DC, serves on the board of Robert K. Yowell, MD’61, and four grandchildren. Their three children—Audrey, T’83; and his wife Jan, a nurse, are directors for the Health Foun- HS’64-’69, DC-Century, retired children are Christopher, T’81, William; and Elizabeth—and training 20 “barefoot doctors,” dation of South Florida. He since 2007, was appointed MD’85, Kirsten, and Kurt. The live in Rocky Mount. or village health workers, also serves as chairman of the assistant district governor for Freyes live in Mystic, Conn. from northern Myanmar as a foundation’s finance commit- Rotary District 7710 Area 7 in part of the Frontier Labour- H. Courtenay Harrison, tee. He and his wife Joan live 2008. His term ends in 2010. ers of Christ, a mission that is MD’59, HS’59-’60, ‘63-’66, in Miami, Fla. His wife Barbara, BSN’62, currently celebrating its 30th was named Physician of the DC-Century, is retired but still John W. Brown, MD’61, anniversary. The training takes Year by Virginia Beach General works part time. They live in HS’61, ’65-’66, DC-Lifetime, place in Chiangmai, Thailand. Hospital in 2005. He retired Durham. Their son Rob, T’88, is now a full-time hospital After the workers’ graduation in 2006. He and his wife is president of Gemini Sports employee at Newberry in February 2009, Paul, Jan, Barbara live in Virginia Beach in Phoenix, Ariz. Daughter County Memorial Hospital in and several other doctors, and have four children and 12 Sally, T’90, PharmD, is a  Robert Green, T’56, Newberry, S.C. He and his wife nurses, and dentists will have grandchildren. clinical oncology pharmacist MD’60, DC-Century, an Susandale live in Irmo, S.C., trained a total of 71 workers at Duke. Their son Charles, Donald K. Wallace, MD’59, orthopedic surgeon in West and have three daughters. who are able to teach disease T’92, MD’00, HS’00-’06, is in HS’59-’63, retired in January Palm Beach, Fla., reports that Norabeth is a junior in the prevention, diagnose and private practice in Stuart, Fla. after more than 42 years with his eighth grandchild, Max, School of Nursing at Clemson treat major illnesses, and the Pinehurst Medical Clinic in was born on July 24, 2008, in University; Anna is a freshman Gail R. Williams, MD’62, will extract and restore teeth in Southern Pines, N.C., the medi- Chapel Hill. He and wife Eliza- in the veterinary technology present “One Flew Over the their own villages. Paul and cal practice he helped establish beth have three sons: Robert program at Piedmont Technical Lockdown Unit” during the Jan celebrated their 50th in 1965. In June he established “Bobby,” T’88, MD’93, DC, College; and Jan is chair of National Commission on Cor- wedding anniversary on June the Donald K. Wallace, MD, (pictured) an oncologist in the English department at rectional Health Care’s national 14, 2008, at the Sunriver Endowment for Adult Nurse West Palm Beach; David, T’89, King William High School in meeting in Chicago in October. Resort in central Oregon with Practitioners, administered an attorney in Atlanta; and Richmond, Va. He and his wife Hannah live in their four children and their through the Foundation of First Geoffrey, T’95, an attorney in Montgomery, Ala. respective spouses and 13 Latham Flanagan, Jr., MD’61, Health. It funds scholarships Chapel Hill. grandchildren. The couple has been retired from bariatric C. Franklin Church, MD’63, for nurses in the First Health lives in Eugene, Ore. surgery since 2005, and he and HS’64-’66, DC-Century, is community who want to pur- Lawrence H. Parrott, MD’60, his wife Jane are now traveling now chief medical officer for sue a two-year post-master’s is entering his 14th year as as much as possible. They IndUShealth, which facilitates degree in geriatrics. Recipients a teacher in the University recently completed a seven-day sending appropriate patients must agree to practice for at of South Carolina School of backpacking trip in the Grand to India for medical procedures least two years in the Southern Medicine after retiring in Canyon. Other places they’ve at a fraction of the cost of the Pines area. Upon retirement, 1995. He also is playing a lot visited include the Amazon, same care in the U.S. Visit Wallace was honored by the of golf and riding his 27-year- Machu Picchu, Argentina, Ire- indushealth.com. He and his Pinehurst Medical Clinic, and old horse. His wife Joy, N’60, land, and Portugal. They also wife Linda have 13 grandchil- by Penick Village, a continuing retired nearly 20 years ago as enjoy scuba diving and skiing. dren and live in Raleigh. care retirement community in an industrial nurse and imme- They live in Eugene, Ore. diately accepted the position

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Peter O. Kohler, MD’63, 36 years in private practice med- J. Robert Beshear MD’67, HS’63-’64, DC, retired in 2006 icine, mainly dermatology. He HS’67-’69, received the Ray but recently returned to work and his wife Phyllis have moved E. Helfer, MD, Award from the to establish a satellite medical to Knoxville, Tenn. to help raise National Alliance of Children’s campus in Fayetteville, Ark., for their two grandchildren. Trust Funds and the American the University of Arkansas for Academy of Pediatrics in Balti- James L. Nash, MD’66, HS’66- Medical Sciences in Little Rock.. more, Md., on March 14, 2008. ’70, retired at the end of 2006 He and his wife Judy, N’61, are The award recognizes advocacy from his position as associ- living near two of their children in the prevention of child abuse ate professor of psychiatry at Brooke and Adam in Fayette- and neglect. Beshear is a pedia-  Vanderbilt University School A. Everette James Jr., ville. They have two more trician in Montgomery, Ala.  Edward L. Lewis, Jr., of Medicine. His wife Karen, MD’63, DC, donated a signifi- children, Todd and Steve. MD’63, HS’64-’67, is in a cant amount of art ware pottery WC’64, G’68 retired in 2007 wheelchair following an ac- to an auction to benefit the Angus M. McBryde, Jr., MD’63, after 32 years in the teaching cident in which he fell from the North Carolina Pottery Center HS’67-’71, served as the 2007- profession. They moved to Rio roof of his barn, broke his back in Seagrove. The auction—held 2008 president of the Clinical Vista, Calif., last year. Their at T10, and lost the use of his in September in Hillsborough— Orthopaedic Society, one of first grandchild was born in legs. He has much praise for the raised $34,000 for the center. the oldest orthopedic societies November 2007. Shepherd Center, a catastrophic In two hours all 191 pots in the in America. He and his wife care hospital in Atlanta, Ga., auction had been sold, including Kay recently helped complete which secured his back with a a J.A. Craven Randolph County funding for a Shaad-McBryde steel rod and taught him to use crock that sold for $800, and a Neonatal Endowed Chair in the his arms to compensate for the classic late nineteenth century Department of Pediatrics. The lost leg use. He and his wife Thomas Boggs canning jar from couple lives in Birmingham, Beth live in Greensboro, Ga. Alamance County that sold for Ala., and has eight children and $650. James and his wife Dr. 19 grandchildren. Mark L. Entman, MD’63, HS’64- Nancy Farmer live in Chapel Hill. ’68, DC, says he is determined Edwin B. Cooper, MD’66, to cut back on his work activities Kenneth L. Jones, MD’63, re- HS’74-’75, was featured on the soon. He has completed his 33rd tired in July from the Department National Geographic Channel year as scientific director of The of Pediatrics at the University of in 2008 for his research on DeBakey Heart and Vascular California, San Diego (UCSD), electrical stimulation for coma Center in Houston, Texas. He patients. In 2007 he lectured after 36 years on the faculty. He  Charles J. Niemeyer, recently renewed his NIH grants on the topic at the University now enjoys emeritus status and MD’66, HS’68-’72, a partner for another term. He and his of Cambridge. He and his wife continues to teach, see patients, with Carolina Orthopedic and wife Carol, N’66, DC, lost their Mary, WC’64, celebrated their and do some clinical research. Sports Medicine Center in Gas- older daughter Karen last year 40th wedding anniversary in While serving as chair of the tonia, N.C., has worked since to breast cancer. Their younger August 2008. Their middle son, Department of Pediatrics from 1992 with orthopedic surgeons daughter Susan lives in Houston. Bryan, MD, practices neurology/ 2001-’06, Jones said he had the in Vladimir, Russia, train- The Entmans have three grand- neurosurgery in Greenville, N.C. special opportunity to work with ing them in orthopedic knee children and live in Houston. Their oldest son, Branan, T’88, Edward W. Holmes, MD, HS’70- surgery. He has provided or- raises money for cancer research ’71, ’73-’74, a former dean and thopedic journals, medications, with the Lance Armstrong vice chancellor for academic and arthroscopic equipment to Foundation. Their youngest son, affairs at Duke University School enable the surgeons to begin Patrick, T’98, PhD, received a of Medicine, who at the time performing knee arthroscopy. PhD in English from UNC-Chapel was the UCSD vice chancellor for Niemeyer has hosted Russian Hill in 2007 and now works in health sciences and dean of the surgeons at his Gastonia home Washington, D.C. school of medicine. Jones and his several times as well. He and his wife Catherine live in San Diego. Charles B. Herron, MD’66, wife Carolyn have two grown HS’66-’67, retired in June after children and five grandchildren.

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Flashes of Genius: Shock Invents Useful Gadgets

ohn P. Shock, MD’66 admits he’s no JRichard Kearns, the inventor portrayed by actor Greg Kinnear in the Hollywood filmFlash of Genius. For starters, Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wipers in 1969. Today they are as ubiquitous as soda cans and cell phones. Shock has invented such things as the Sock Lock, Soda Stop, and Help-U-Hang-It, which few people have ever heard about. Kearns’ sued the U.S.’s “big three” automak- ers over patent infringement and eventually won $30 million. Shock hasn’t sued anyone because no one has stolen his ideas. He has not become rich from his gadgets. And as far as Hollywood goes, Shock’s only association is that he saw Flash of Genius at his local theater. “That guy nearly went nuts and almost lost John P. Shock poses with a number of innovative consumer products that he has his family,” Shock says of Kearns. invented and marketed. Not so for Shock, the chair of the Ophthal- mology Department, director of the Jones Eye The Help You Hang It hooks onto an thing and try to improve it” was instilled in Institute, and executive vice chancellor at the automobile clothes hook and holds up to 10 him while at Duke. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. clothes hangers. “I had a lot of role models who were always For him, inventing useful household gadgets The Box Loc wraps around box tops, like looking for better ways to do things,” he is a relaxing distraction from the rigors of cereal, to keep food fresh says. “They push you and encourage you to modern medicine. The Kitchen Ruler Oven Rack Push Puller is look for new ways to make diagnoses and “It’s a little embarrassing,” Shock says, a long name for a simple device that allows treat problems.” users to push hot dishes into or pull them Schock’s first-ever invention came a couple “It’s a little embarrassing, out of the oven, and measures the size of of years after Duke when he was an eye baking pans. resident at Walter Reed Medical Center in because it seems frivolous. The kitchen ruler thingy has been his most Washington, D.C. He designed a smaller, less But it’s important in life to popular item, selling “a couple hundred expensive ultrasonic cataract surgery device have something other than thousand.” But that hardly has made him than what was available. rich. In fact, all proceeds from his inventions “Over time the machines improved and work to motivate you. For have gone to help fund a youth soccer pro- larger companies became involved and my me it’s like being an artist.” gram in Little Rock run by his son, Brad. machine eventually became obsolete,” he “None of these have been big sellers,” says. “But it was used by several posterior John P. Shock he laughs. In fact, none currently are even segment surgeons for many years.” available because he’s taken them out of Aspects of Shock’s cataract innovation “because it seems frivolous. But it’s important production. But he still holds the patents remain today in the newer devices such as in life to have something other than work to on some. the bent needle and the generation of the motivate you. For me it’s like being an artist.” There is one new item, however, that ultrasound waves using piezo electric crystals. Here are descriptions of some of Shock’s Shock currently is selling: a board game that His advice for would be inventors who have creations, which he had manufactured, and combines Dominoes and playing cards called a “real” day job? “Do it for fun and relax- marketed himself: Two for T (www.twofortgame.com). ation and do not expect big financial awards. The Sock Lock, keeps socks together while “We’re selling quite a few of them It is very exciting to create something that has washing and drying. through the website,” he says. never existed.” The Soda Stop prevents canned carbonated Innovative Instinct Inspired by Duke Shock and his wife Nancy live in Litte Rock, Ark. beverages from fizzing-out once opened. Shock says his ability to “look at some- They have two grown children, Jeff and Brad. —Jim Rogalski

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‘Imperfect’ Poetry: McMahon Finds New Meaning through Writing

digital/and no one is watching.” Postcard from North Dakota “Grapefruit” caught the attention of radio

host Garrison Keillor, who featured the poem Pearl light washes ceiling and floor. Dawn hush in 2006 on his program, The Writer’s Alma- then tentative birdsong. Last night’s lightning nac. McMahon jokingly admits he doesn’t stuttered like bad neon as the gods rolled strikes receive “a ton of fan mail” in response to his and spares in the dark northeast of here. work, but the recognition from Keillor holds special meaning. “It meant a lot to me. He’s a This prairie wind’s invisible on postcards — very thoughtful guy.” but swirls the knee-high grass of June, plows Other recognitions for McMahon’s writ- furrows in the lake and shoves them shoreward, ing include the 1999 Carlin Aden Award flounces the skirts of the firs, turns from the Washington Poets Association and being named a 2005 finalist for the Ruth cottonwood leaves into fluttering semaphores. Stone Prize in Poetry. In 2004 Duke Univer- Notice, on this postcard, how the poplars all lean east? sity School of Medicine invited him back to McMahon in the Havasu campus to lead a workshop during a poetry Creek during a hike of the Take that deep slow breath. Listen as the prairie and medicine conference. Grand Canyon. The Grand breathes. Then blows your hat off. McMahon published his first book, a chap- Canyon has served as inspira- —The Seattle Review (1999) book called First Fire, in 1996. He regularly tion for several of his poems. submits poems to the Journal of the American © Rosanne Olson 2008 Read more of McMahon’s poetry at medalum.duke.edu. Medical Association, and his poetry has also appeared in other medical journals and literary publications, including the Seattle Review, the any doctors will admit to being perfec- Most of the poems in the book explore Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, tionists, and for a while Ted McMahon, the effect perfectionism had on McMahon M Manzanita Quarterly, and Rosebud Magazine. MD’72, was no exception. But he says it took growing up and then later as a physician. In While some may think poetry and medicine addition to helping him deal with perfection a few things outside of his profession, namely are two very different fields of study, McMahon on a personal level, he says poetry has made art and poetry, to make him view perfectionism says they are very much aligned. “Writing is him more patient and understanding in his and medicine in a different way. about paying attention to details,” he says. “It’s profession as well. During a trip to a museum in Paris, France, the same with medicine.” “Sometimes patients don’t do things as you several years ago he came across an art exhibit McMahon has practiced at Ballard Pediatric th th think they should be done,” he says. “Poetry by late 19 and early 20 century sculptor Clinic in Seattle for the past 22 years and today has made me more curious about each pa- Auguste Rodin. McMahon says the realism of only sees patients three days a week, which tient’s back story. It has made me a lot more Rodin’s art was inspiring. gives him more time to devote to writing. tolerant and compassionate of people.” “He wasn’t following the ideas of that time,” He recently applied for a grant from the Na- One of his favorite poems, “Grapefruit,” McMahon says of Rodin. “He was taking things tional Endowment for the Arts, which he hopes offers a snapshot of his grandfather through that were common, ordinary and turning them will give him the chance to spend three months the eyes of a then six-year-old McMahon. He into works of art. traveling and writing in the Grand Canyon and describes how early one morning he quietly “I started thinking about perfection and the Ireland, two special places that have already watched his grandfather as he cut grapefruit overwhelming drive to have everything perfect served as inspiration for some of his poems. He for breakfast: and how difficult that is. I now try to appreciate has traveled to the Grand Canyon six times, and “He was tall. His hairless shins stuck out/be- things as they are.” in 2001 he took a nine-day trip to Ireland. low his bathrobe, down to leather slippers./ A Seattle pediatrician who happens to love McMahon’s wife Rosanne Olson is a profes- The house was quiet, sun just up, ticking of/ writing just as much as medicine, McMahon sional photographer, and like McMahon her the grandfather clock tall in the corner.” took that spark of inspiration from the Rodin work can also be found on bookshelves. She At the end of the poem McMahon con- exhibit and put pen to paper. The result: seven recently published This is Who I Am: Our Beauty trasts that image with one of himself, older years’ worth of poems that he later published in in All Shapes and Sizes, a collection of photo- and the same age as his grandfather, but 2003 in his second book of poetry called, The graphs and essays on women and body image. with no grandchildren of his own: Uses of Imperfection. —Bernadette Gillis “I don’t use cherries anymore./The clock is

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she played goalie. In August spends half the year—from lives in Weston, Mass. policy consulting firm in Wash- she accompanied a group of spring to fall—in Pine Knoll ington, D.C. Harold B. Kernodle, Jr., Duke pre-med students on a Shores, N.C, and winters in In- Robert B. Waterbor, MD’70, MD’69, reports that his daugh- clinical mission to Honduras. dianapolis, Ind., where he still PhD’72, currently serves as ter Carey Anders, HS’02-’08, She also frequently volunteers spends half a day teaching at chief of the medical staff of gave birth to Chloe Elizabeth at clinics in Mexico. She lives in the Indiana School of Medicine. Eisenhower Medical Center in Anders on Aug. 6, 2008. Carey Tucson, Ariz. Rancho Mirage, Calif. He also Joe L. Simpson, T’64, MD’68, recently completed an oncol- is commissioner for the Health Lee C. Underwood III, MD’67, DC, was elected president of ogy fellowship at Duke and is Commission for the city of Ran- and his wife Pat are currently the Preimplantation Genetic currently an assistant professor  Eugene J. Harper, MD’67, cho Mirage and was elected a living apart due to Pat’s work, Diagnosis International Society of medical oncology at UNC. HS’67-’68, retired since 2001, fellow in the American College but they plan to move to Wil- for the 2007-09 term. He also Kernolde and Gijsbertus van completed a sailing adventure of Physicians. liamsburg, Va., next year. Lee is the 2007-09 president of the Staveren, MD, HS’82-’85, are from Seattle to Alaska last lives in Portage, Mich., while American College of Medical still co-owners of a sailboat in summer aboard a 32-foot Pat lives in Beachwood, Ohio. Genetics. He currently is the the Mediterranean. Read about pilothouse sloop. He made the She is an associate dean at the executive associate dean for their journeys at ghazure.com. trip with his son Mark and his Francis Payne Bolton School of academic affairs at Florida neighbor. The trio set sail on C. Bruce Malone III, MD’69, Nursing at Case Western Re- International University College May 3 and arrived in Ketchi- of Austin, Texas, is ending his serve University in Cleveland. of Medicine in Miami, where kan, Alaska on June 3. They term on the board of trustees he oversees the curriculum, encountered spouting whales, for the 43,000-member Texas research, and faculty affairs. diving seals, bald eagles, as Medical Association. He served Simpson is the recipient of a well as 12-foot seas and strong as the board’s chair for two 2006 Distinguished Alumnus headwinds. The anchorages years. He is now president of Award from the Duke Medical where they spent many nights TMF Health Quality Institute’s  D. Craig Brater, T’67, Alumni Association. He and were pristine and well-protect- board of trustees and con- MD’71, HS’70-’71, DC, has his wife Sandra have two sons, ed. He says “the salmon run tinues to practice orthopedic been awarded an Honorary Reid, T’08, and Scott, and live hadn’t started so there were surgery full time. He and Libby, Doctor of Science Degree in Miami. no bears walking the beaches WC’66, welcomed their first from Purdue University. He is in spite of us trying to chum C. Stephen Foster, T’65, grandchild on July 29, 2008 in dean and the Walter J. Daly them up by cooking bacon in MD’69, received a lifetime Sydney, Australia. Professor at Indiana School achievement award from of Medicine and serves as the cockpit.” He is posing in  Thomas F. Henley, MD’68, the American Academy of vice president for Indiana the photo with a favorite book, HS’69-’73, DC-Century, won 1970s Ophthalmology. After 30 years University, with responsibilities Passage to Juneau by Jonathan bronze medals in the discus of practicing hospital-based Walter L. Miller, MD’70, DC, for life sciences. He is widely Rabin. He and his wife Marie throw at the National Senior academic ophthalmology, and his colleagues’ discovery recognized as a leader in live in Harrisonburg, Va. Games in the age 60-64 he created a unique private of a new form of congenital academic medicine and clinical category in 2003, 2005, and institution, combining patient adrenal hyperplasia, P450 pharmacology. He joined the 2007. His 2007 medal-winning care, basic and clinical re- oxidoreductase deficiency, has Indiana University School of throw was 147 feet, 11 inches. search, and fellowship training been recognized with named Medicine faculty in 1986 as a He served as president for in ocular immunology. The lectureships at the University professor and director of the Piedmont Healthcare for 25-person institution located of North Carolina, University Division of Clinical Pharmacol- Women in 2006. Henley is an in Cambridge, Mass., has of Pittsburgh, and Boston Chil- ogy. He and his wife Stephanie OB/GYN with Greensboro OB/ 13,000 patient visits a year dren’s Hospital. Miller is chief and their daughter Aimee are GYN Associates in Greensboro, and receives funding from two of endocrinology and professor actively involved in the Indiana N.C. He and his wife Sandra National Institutes of Health of pediatrics at the University University-Moi University facul- have three children and live in grants and six industry grants. of California, San Francisco. ty exchange program in Kenya. Greensboro. Their grand- Foster’s wife Frances is a nurse He and his wife Synthia live in They live in Indianapolis. daughter Jenna was born in  Sandra M. Smith, MD’67, practitioner and co-owner San Francisco. Their daughter March 2007. George H. Durham II, MD’73, HS’67-’68, ’71-’72, won a gold and vice president of the Mas- Samantha received a master’s recently was chosen to repre- medal in the Senior Olympics David P. Henry, MD’68, has sachusetts Eye Research and degree from Columbia and sent the senior section of the soccer tournament in which been retired since 1999 and Surgery Institution. The couple works for an environmental Utah Chapter of the American

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Academy of Pediatrics on moment by far, Jarrett says, John B. Fortune, T’72, MD’75, chief of emergency medicine the chapter’s state executive was being just 15 rows in front HS’75-’77, currently is interim at San Francisco General committee. His wife, The Hon- of the podium at Invesco Field chair of the Department of Sur- Hospital. He lives in Newport orable Christine M. Durham, when Sen. Barrack Obama gery at State University of New Beach, Calif. L’71, serves on the executive formally accepted the party’s York (SUNY) Upstate Medical Thom A. Mayer, MD’77, committee of the Duke Uni- nomination for the presidency. University. He is also founder DC-Century, received the versity Board of Trustees. The “What a great experience and and president of Sim* Vivo, 2008 James Hamilton Book couple lives in Salt Lake City. what a sense of being a part LLC, a company that develops, of the Year Award from the of history,” he says. Jarrett is a assembles, and sells medical Charles K. Scherer, MD’73, American College of Health- psychiatrist and medical direc- education simulation products. has had to scale back his care Executives for his book, tor of Jarrett and Associates He and wife Janellen live in geriatrics private practice Leadership for Smooth Patient DM & ADR Clinic in Athens, Syracuse, N.Y., and have two following an airplane accident Flow. He and his wife Mau- Ga. He and his wife Patricia children. Books, 19, attends in 2007 in which his small  Leonard A. Zwelling, reen live in Great Falls, Va. have two sons, Paul and Sean. Colorado College in Colorado plane experienced engine T’69, MD’73, DC, has been Their son Josh is a second- Springs, and Neely, 17, is in failure, made a hard landing Joanne A. P. Wilson, MD’73, selected as one of eight Robert year law student at Duke, and high school. and flipped. Scherer suffered a was named the recipient of Wood Johnson Health Policy their son Kevin is a senior on broken spine at L3, L4, and L5, the 2008 Outstanding Women Fellows and is spending a year Jerome Paulson, MD’75, the Duke lacrosse team. as well as a broken calca- in Science Award from the in Washington, D.C. The fel- has been appointed medical Dale E. Bredesen, MD’78, neous. He says his wife Susan American Gastroenterological lowship is a unique residency director for national and global DC, is professor and founding has been a tremendous asset Association. She also received program for mid-career medi- affairs at the Child Health Ad- president of the Buck Institute in his recovery. The couple lives a Student National Medi- cal professionals who will par- vocacy Institute at Children’s for Age Research in Novato, in Delray Beach, Fla. cal Association Trailblazers ticipate in the national health National Medical Center in Calif. He says it is the nation’s Award. Wilson is professor policy process, working closely Washington, D.C. Paulson only independent research of medicine in the Division of with key legislative committees will continue his role as a institute devoted to aging and Gastroenterology at Duke. She and leaders. After orientation co-director of the Mid-Atlantic age-related diseases and was and her husband Kenneth live the fellows become working Center for Children’s Health designated a national center in Chapel Hill and have three members of congressional and the Environment—one of excellence by the NIH in children. Nora is a fourth year offices, developing legislative of 10 pediatric environmental 2004—just five years after its medical student at Duke on proposals, arranging hearings, health specialty units in the opening. Bredesen and his wife leave as a Rotary Ambassado- briefing legislators, and staff- U.S. He and his wife Gwen live Aida live in Novato. rial Scholar working in Mali ing House-Senate conferences. in Alexandria, Va. with Save the Children. Sarah Zwelling is a professor of Edward C. Geehr, MD’76, Marianne Jackson, WC’72,  David B. Jarrett, MD’72, is a lab manager at the Dur- medicine and pharmacology has been named executive G’74, MD’78, DC, is pursuing was elected an alternate ham VA Medical Center, and at The University of Texas vice president of operations a master’s degree in public delegate for the state of Geor- Court, T’04, is a web design M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. for Abraxis BioSciences, Inc., a health in health policy and gia to the 2008 Democratic and database consultant. Zweller and his wife Eugenie global biochemistry com- management with a focus on National Convention in Denver, Kleinerman Zwelling, MD’75, pany based in Los Angeles. health care quality at UNC. Colo. During the first several HS’75, DC, live in Bellaire, Tex- In this newly created position She lives in Chapel Hill. Her days of the convention he went as. They have three children, Geehr will be responsible for son Erik Anderson is a junior to breakfasts and caucuses to Richard, T’03, Andrew; and commercial, manufacturing, at Duke majoring in Chinese discuss issues of health care, Craig, a Duke sophomore. and marketing operations. and is pre-med. He spent Social Security, and Medicare, Jared N. Schwartz, MD’74, He has extensive experience a year in Kunming, China, and heard speeches from PhD’75, HS’73-’77, DC-Cen- as a founder, manager, and conducting drug rehabilitation former President Jimmy Carter, tury, the director of pathology board member of companies in outcomes research. Howard Dean and James at the Presbyterian Pathology the fields of medical devices, Roosevelt, Jr. (FDR’s grand- Linda H. Perangelo, MD’78, Group in Charlotte, has been health services, and technol- son.), among others. Jarrett DC, has been retired from president of the College of ogy. He also was associate says it was particularly moving allergy private practice since American Pathologists since professor of medicine and when Sen. Ted Kennedy and 2005, and now is teaching 2005. He and his wife Diane surgery at the University of Sen. Hilary Clinton gave their physical diagnosis at Saba live in Charlotte. California-San Francisco, and speeches. The most exciting University School of Medicine,

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on the small island of Saba in Chalmers M. Nunn, Jr., T’76, to the College of American their oldest daughter, Sarah, and “have not looked back the Caribbean, where she and MD’80, HS’80-’85, of Lynch- Pathologists. She is co-founder this summer. The Smalls also since,” writes Silverstein. her husband Henry live. burg, Va., served as the 2007 of the Lower Naugatuck Valley have two other daughters, Claire L. Spain-Remy, MD’85, president of the American Col- Women’s Health Initiative. She Kathleen and Rebecca. They Robert C. Shepard, MD’78, is now specialty medical lege of Physician Executives. has written several grants, the live in Englewood, Colo. is vice president of PRA director for Multicare Health His daughter Chelsea was largest and most successful of International, a global clinical System, a four-hospital system married on July 27, 2008, in which was one from the Susan research organization based in Tacoma, Wash., with more Shelburne, Vt. B. Komen Foundation to fund in Raleigh that currently is than 340 employed providers. breast cancer coordination at conducting trials in more than Carnell Cooper, MD’82, She and her husband Claude Griffin Hospital, which led to 60 countries. He says he “is practices at the Shock Trauma live in Lakewood, Wash. the hospital’s state-of-the-art still looking quixotically for a Center in Baltimore, Md. He breast cancer center 10 years Colonel Dean C. Taylor, cure for cancer – any cancer.” also stays busy caring for his ago. She is married to Ruben MD’85, HS’87-’91, DC , is He adds that his career went daughters: a 3-year old and Kier, MD’83, HS’83-’87. They the head team physician for from basic to translational 18-month-old twins. have two daughters—Melanie, the Duke men’s basketball to clinical research and now Gina L. Michael, MD’82, a Yale junior, and Shelley, a  Roslyn ‘Roz’ Mannon, team. He is also director of focuses on drug development. HS’82-’85, has been named student at George Washington MD’85, HS’85-’90, DC, and the Duke Sports Medicine He and his second wife Vera associate chief of staff for University School of Law. They husband Peter, MD, HS’83- Fellowship Program. Prado Shepard live in Raleigh. primary care at the St. Louis live in Orange, Conn. ’89, DC, have been recruited His son Aaron is in his first year Jeffery M. Vance, MD’85, VA Medical Center. She and to the University of Alabama at Columbia Law School. Linda K. Matson, MD’84, an HS’85-’88, has been named her husband Marc Wallis live at Birmingham (UAB). Roz emergency room physician at chairman of the Dr. John Pamela R. Wood MD’78, DC, in St. Louis. has been named director of Children’s Hospital in Omaha, T. MacDonald Foundation has spent the past 25 years research for the Alabama Lawrence R. Wu, MD’82, Neb., learned to scuba dive Department of Human Genet- as a faculty member in the Transplant Center and a HS’82-’85, A’87, of Cary, N.C., before a trip to Australia and ics at the Miller School of Department of Pediatrics at professor in the Department of is researching reimbursement now has logged 150 dives in Medicine at the University of the University of Texas Health Nephrology. Peter has joined for e-visits as a part of his the Caribbean, Great Barrier Miami. He also is director for Science Center in San Antonio. UAB as a professor in the project with the North Carolina Reef, Hawaii, and Kenya. She genomic medicine at the Mi- Her husband, John, T’74, Division of Gastroenterology Medical Society Leadership and her husband Michael R. ami Institute for Human Ge- MD’78, DC, practices family and Hepatology. Roz previously College. His daughter Lindsey Howland have three children netics at the school. He and medicine at Wesley Primary was a leading physician-scien- is applying to medical school and five grandchildren. They his wife Margaret live in Coral Care Center, a clinic for un- tist at the National Institutes for 2009. live in Omaha. Gables, Fla. Their daughter derserved patients. Their son of Health. Prior to joining the Danica, T’08, recently gradu- Charles is a fourth-year medi- Robert C. Harland, MD’83, James M. Small, PhD’83, NIH she was on faculty at ated from Duke. cal student at UT Southwest- HS’86-’92, the director of the MD’84, received a Lifetime Duke. Roz was the president ern in Dallas. Their daughter Kidney and Pancreas Trans- Achievement Award from the of the Duke Medical Alumni Tana Grady-Weliky, MD’86, Margaret is a second-year plant Programs at the Univer- College of American Patholo- Association for 2006-’07. DC, is serving as president of medical student there as well. sity of Chicago, was honored gists at its annual meeting in They live in Birmingham. the Association of Women Psy- She spent July 2008 working recently with a teaching award September. He also was rec- chiatrists through May 2009. Jonathan S. Silverstein, T’81, in Lesotho with the Baylor from the surgery house staff. ognized for transplanting the She is an associate professor MD’85, now works at the Uni- Pediatric AIDS Program. He and his wife Christine, who college’s See, Test, and Treat at the university of Rochester versity of Utah as an assistant works in television production, Program for women’s health Medical Center in Rochester, professor specializing in PET/ have a daughter Madison, 4, in underserved areas to a mis- N.Y. She and her husband 1980s CT. After having developed and live in Chicago. In his free sion clinic in Juarez, Mexico. Michael and their 1-year-old David N. Howell, T’76, five imaging centers in the time Robert unwinds by skiing, He has been a pathologist daughter live in Pittsford, N.Y. MD’80, PhD’82, HS’84-’87, Tampa Bay, Fla., area and then running, and biking. with The UniPath Group in DC, has been appointed selling them to a major hospi- Beth B. Belkin, N’78, MD’87, Denver, Colo., since 1990. president-elect of the Society Stephanie L. Wain, MD’83, tal chain, he and his wife Ruth is a member of the executive He and his wife Denise Bogie for Ultrastructural Pathology. HS’83-’86, the chair of the purchased a second home in board of the New York Coun- Small—the former assistant He is currently a professor of Department of Pathology and Park City, Utah. They recently cil of the American Academy head nurse at the Duke uni- pathology at Duke. Laboratory Medicine at Griffin decided to make Utah their of Child and Adolescent Psy- versity Hospital Burn Unit— Hospital in Derby, Conn., is permanent home, and moved chiatry. She is also a clinical celebrated the wedding of the Connecticut delegate their family there in June 2008 assistant professor of psychia-

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try at Weill Cornell Medical director of cardiopulmonary Cambridge, Mass. She and College. She and her husband rehab for Alamance County. He Carlos S. Ince, Jr., MD’92, has husband Christian have four Robert, MD, HS’83-’86, live and his wife Lisa, E’88, live in been named president of the children—Nicholas, 7; twins in Scarsdale, N.Y., and have Elon College, N.C., and have Association of Black Cardi- Caroline and Ellie, 5; and Lily, three children. Daniel is a four children: Andrew, 18; ologists, Inc., an organization 3—and live in Winchester. second-year student at Weill Matt, 16; Meredith, 14; and dedicated to eliminating health Todd S. Barry, MD’95, Cornell Medical College, Sam Megan, 10. care disparities in the African- PhD’95, has joined the medical is a senior at Tisch School of American community and Robin G. Witkin, MD’90, a staff of Clarient Inc., a medical the Arts at New York Univer- improving the health care of all pediatrician in Silver Springs, testing service for pathologists, sity, and Molly is a sophomore individuals. Ince is a physician Md., reports that her practice oncologists, and the pharma- at Duke. with Mid-Atlantic Cardiovas-  David J. Terris, MD’88, moved to a new suite with ceutical industry based in Aliso cular Associates in Baltimore, Wilson Crone, T’82, MD’87, DC, chair of the Department ample room after being in Viejo, Calif. Most recently he Md. He and his wife Tammy PhD, an assistant professor of Otolaryngology-Head and the same location for 22 was the director of molecular have three children—Alyssa, at Albany Medical College, Neck Surgery in the Medical years. She and her husband pathology and hematopathol- 10; Cody, 7; and Ashley, 2. In received the Faculty Teaching College of Georgia School of 18 years, Scott, have three ogy for six years at PhenoPath February 2007 the couple lost Scholar Award from the Sosa of Medicine in Augusta, has children: Rachel, 15; Alex, Laboratories, PLLC, a national their oldest child, Alexis, 11, Academy of Medical Sciences released his second book, Thy- 12; and Steven, 9. The family reference laboratory located after a brief illness. The family at Albany Medical College. He roid and Parathyroid Diseases: enjoys swimming and hiking. in Seattle. Barry earned his lives in Reistertown. was presented with the award Medical and Surgical Manage- They recently hiked more than bachelor’s degree in biology during commencement in May ment. Released by medical 20 miles in Bug Sur, Calif. Hiranya A. Rajasinghe, from UNC-Chapel Hill, and his 2008. His wife Donna, PhD’89, publishing leader Thieme Inc., MD’92, DC, was named to the medical degree and PhD in Lisa Ann Maier, MD’91, is a clinical assistant profes- the book is a reference on the Executive Council of Florida immunology at Duke. HS’91-’94, currently serves as sor at Renssalaer Polytechnic care of patients with thyroid Vascular Society. He was also associate professor and head Steven M. Kent, T’91, MD’95, Institute in Troy, N.Y. Their two and parathyroid diseases and named a top doctor by Gulf- of the Division of Environmen- completed his military service daughters, Cathy and Emily, includes insights from experts shore Life magazine. He lives in tal and Occupational Health after 11 years at Walter Reed attend Troy High School. on the subjects. He and his Naples, Fla. Sciences at National Jewish Army Medical Center. He now wife Martha, MD, HS’86-’88, Health in Denver, Colo. Outside Jeremy N. Rich, MD’93, is a partner at Pinehurst Medi- Susan M. Racine, T’82, DC, have two sons—Trevor, a of medicine she enjoys ballet, HS’97-’98, has moved to cal Clinic in Pinehurst, N.C. His MD’88, a hospital internist in Duke freshman, and Garrett— hiking, skiing, and traveling. Cleveland after 11 years at wife Karin, T’91, MD, practices Dorchester, Mass., spent four and live in Martinez, Ga. She and her husband, Shawn Duke as a fellow and associate pediatrics. They have two sons, days in August working with a Conrad L. Flick, MD’89, is P. Zinnen, PhD’94, have two professor studying the role Mitchell, 6, and Thomas, 4. mobile medical clinic in Accra, chairman of the Department children: Gianna, 10, and of cancer stem cells in brain Ghana. The clinic was jointly Ravi N. Samy, T’91, MD’95, is of Medicine at Duke Health Kylee, 6. tumor biology. He now is chair sponsored by the Founda- director of both the adult co- Raleigh Hospital, and chairman of the Department of Stem tion for Africa Relief and the Christopher J. Stille, MD’91, chlear implant program and the of the American Academy of Cell Biology and Regenerative Apostolic Church of Ghana. is now in his ninth year as a neurotology fellowship program Family Physicians’ Commission Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. She and her husband Carl faculty member at University at the University of Cincinnati. on Governmental Advocacy. recently celebrated their 23rd of Massachusetts. He is an Christopher P. Piller, MD’94, He and his wife Carrie wel- His wife Anita is a professor of anniversary. They have a son associate professor of general and his wife Kathy welcomed comed twin girls, Gabrielle and biology at North Carolina State Joshua, 11, and live in West practice. He writes, “My job is their first child, Sophie Clare, Emma, on July 7, 2008. University and director of the Roxbury, Mass. a nice blend of primary patient on May 27, 2008. They live in Pre-Health Advisory Center. Anjali S. Advani, MD’96, care, health services research, Rome, Ga. They have two children—Al- HS’02, an assistant professor and quality improvement yse, 17; and Austin, 14—and Susan Moran-Arangio, of hematology oncology at research.” His wife Sheila, MD, live in Cary. MD’95, left academic the Cleveland Clinic Founda- is an assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts tion in Cleveland, Ohio, is family medicine and director of General Hospital a year ago to co-principal investigator for 1990s the dental residency program pursue a career in biotech- a national acute lymphocytic at UMass. The couple lives Mark F. Miller, MD’90, HS’90- nology. She now is medical leukemia trial. in Shrewsbury, Mass., with ’93, is president of Kernodle director of pharmacovigilance their children Peter, 11, and Jeffrey R. Cusmariu, MD’96, Clinic in Burlington, N.C., and at Genzyme Corporation in Meghan, 9. an orthopedic surgeon in

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Birmingham, Ala., received Wendy M. White, MD’97, will work to develop new Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Medical Center in Manhat- subspecialty training in sports HS’99-’03, will be leaving partnerships in the U.S. and Scholars Program at the Uni- tan, where they currently are medicine. He and his wife private practice soon to begin Canada with a focus on using versity of California, Los Ange- third-year residents in internal Tamara welcomed a son, Zach- a maternal-fetal medicine electronic tools to expand les. She writes she is “loving medicine. The bride received ary Liam, on July 9, 2008. They fellowship at the Mayo Clinic evidence-based medicine the opportunity to explore her medical degree from also have a two-year-old son, in July 2009. After completing implementation. She and her health services research.” Northwestern. The couple Benjamin Ian. a residency and fellowship at husband John, L’99, have a lives in New York City. Manisha Patel, T’99, MD’04, the Mayo Clinic, her husband son Jonah, 3, and live in Daniel Kristi W. Durgin, MD’98, DC, has been selected to partici- Laura A. Downey, T’03, Jim Onigkeit, MD’03, began Island, S.C. and her husband, Harry, E’92, pate in the Pediatric Cardiology MD’08, is an intern at the Uni- a staff position in anesthesiol- MD’96, DC, completed the Fellowship Program of the Chil- versity of Washington and will ogy and critical care medicine. Ironman Arizona Triathlon in 2000s dren’s Healthcare of Atlanta begin a residency in anesthesi- They live in Rochester, Minn., 2007. She took a break from Deverick J. Anderson, MD’01, Sibley Heart Center and Emory ology at Stanford University in with their three children, Jona- triathlon training in the fall HS’01-’06, and his wife Ann University School of Medicine July. She lives in Seattle. than, 5; Lauren, 3; Nicholas, 1; while she awaited the birth of welcomed their first son, in Atlanta. The program offers and two dogs and one fish. their fourth child in November Henry John Anderson, on Aug. training that prepares fellows David C. Hostler, MD’08, 2008. The Durgins live in Ashvin Pande, MD’99, has 27, 2008. The family lives in to provide leading-edge thera- MPH, reports that his wife Meridian, Miss., with their joined the Cardiovascular Divi- Chapel Hill. pies to children throughout the Kim is on her second over- children Isabella, 7; Ava, 5; sion at Caritas St. Elizabeth’s country. Fellows rotate through seas deployment, this time George A. Manousos, MD’01, and Harry III, 3. Medical Center in Boston, all disciplines of pediatric car- to Afghanistan. He lives in HS’02-’05, and Erica Berger, Mass., as an attending physi- diology, including catheteriza- Kailua, Hawaii. Joanne J. Lager, MD’98, MD, HS’01-’04, were married cian in interventional cardiol- tion, echocardiography, elec- HS’02-’04, DC, works in last year, and in June wel- Anna P. Lillis, MD’08, PhD’08, ogy and vascular medicine. He trophysiology, clinical services, cancer drug development at comed daughter Eva. George and her husband Milan also is director of the Structural and intensive care cardiology. GlaxoSmithKline and recently is a pediatric hospitalist with welcomed a baby boy, Milan Heart Disease Program. He Training lasts 36 months and was named the acting head Levine Children’s Hospital in Joseph on July 14, weighing and his wife Reena welcomed includes 12 months of clinical, of clinical development for a Charlotte. Erica is a physician 8 pounds, 3 ounces. Anna is daughter Sonia last November. translational, or basic science drug discovery unit focusing with University Pediatrics in currently an internal medicine She joins brother Nikhil, 5. The research. on tumor metabolism. Her Charlotte, where the family intern at Caritas St. Elizabeth’s family lives in Brookline. husband Patrick, PhD’06, lives. She has taken her hus- Aaron P. Lesher, MD’06, and Medical Center in Boston. In MD’08, B’08, works for band’s name. his wife Diem-Thu welcomed 2009 she will begin a radiol- LabCorp. They have a three- a daughter, Ann, on Aug. 20, ogy residency at Brigham and Quinton V. Cancel, MD’02, year-old son, Jack. 2008. Their son, Campbell is Women’s Hospital. She and her HS’02-’08, has joined the staff 2. The family lives in Charles- family live in Cambridge, Mass. at Cookeville Regional Medical ton, S.C. Center in Cookeville, Tenn., as a urologic surgeon with Lauren S. Livingston, MD’06, Upper Cumberland Urology and Keri Beth Livingston, Associates. He has an interest T’02, welcomed a son, Ezra in penile prosthesis for the Cope Livingston, on June treatment of severe erectile 8, 2008. The family lives in dysfunction. He and his wife Asheville, N.C. Kristea live in Cookeville. Sarita U. Patil, MD’06, is Ranya N. Sweis, MD’02, and about to start a fellowship her husband Mark Faasse in allergy and immunology welcomed a daughter, Carolyn at Massachusetts General Hope Faasse, on Aug. 25, 2008. Hospital in Boston.  Carolyn Simpkins, MD’99, The family lives in Chicago. is now working for the British Adam J. Zucker, MD’06, mar- Medical Journal Publishing Sonali P. Kulkarni, T’00, ried Westyn Branch-Elliman, Group as the U.S. business MD’04, moved to Los Angeles MD, in August. The two— development manager. She in June 2008 to start the both 28—met at Mount Sinai

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Raymond D. Adams, MD’37, HS’36-’38, Bernard C. Holland, Jr. MD, HS’52, Charles E. Mengel, MD, HS’58-’59, ’61-’62, Chestnut Hill, Mass., Oct. 18 Atlanta, Dec. 4 Overland Park, Kans., Oct. 11 Page A. W. Anderson, MD’64-’65, ’70-’73, William B. Jones, T’45, MD’52, Mountain John B. Nowlin, T’55, MD’59, Powhatan, Durham, Nov. 8 Brook, Ala., Sept. 3 Va. Jan. 8, 2009 Albert M Attyah, MD, HS’48-’49, Paul C. Kemmerly, MD, HS’61, Nashville, Harry B. O’Rear, MD, HS’46-’49, Waynes- Los Angeles, Oct. 24 Tenn., Dec. 21 ville, N.C., Oct. 30 Walter R. Benson, T’42, MD’44, HS’44-’45, Thomas C. Kenaston, Jr., T’50, MD’54, Keith L. Parker, MD, renowned Duke ‘52-’54, Tamaqua, Pa., Dec. 10 Rockledge, Fla., Oct. 1 researcher, Dallas, Dec. 13 John R. Blake Jr., MD’50, Auburn, Calif., Johannes A. Kylstra, MD, former Duke Kenneth A. Podger, T’37, MD’41, Durham, Nov. 3 faculty, Corpus Christi, Texas, Dec. 16 March 2008. Charles W. Fairfax II, MD, HS’57-’59, New Arnold M. Kwart, MD’68, Washington, Theodore B. Schwartz, MD, HS’48-’50, Bedford, Mass., Dec. 9 D.C., Nov. 4 Skokie, Ill., Oct. 17 Forest J. Funk, Jr., MD, HS’48-’49, Lowell R. King, MD, Duke’s first full-time Cristina Stemmler, MD, HS’74-’77, Houston, Atlanta, Dec. 6 pediatric urologist, Oct. 26, Oct. 25 Gloria Lee Grimes Cochran, WC’45, MD’49, Albuquerque, N.M Howard K. Thompson, MD, HS’58-’61, East Norman, Okla., Oct. 7 Albert Dominic “Bert” Loro, Jr., MD, Duke Greenbush, N.Y, Nov. 8 Gene S. Gordon, MD’72, HS’72-’75, psychology faculty, Durham, Oct. 30 Robert G. Thompson, MD’46, HS’49-’50, Houston, Oct. 25 Frank H. McGregor, Jr., T’59, G‘63, Iva., S.C., Oct. 12 Earl Haltiwanger, Jr., MD’51, HS’51-’57, DC, MD’65, Oakland, Calif., Jan. 9, 2009 Wade S. Weems, T’58, MD’62, Linville, Atlanta, Oct. 11 Henry D. McIntosh, MD, HS’50-’51, ’53- N.C., Dec. 14 Frederick M. Hanson, MD’45, HS’45-’46, ’55, Lakeland, Fla., Dec. 26 Harold L. Williams, T’47, MD’51, Newport Danville, Calif., Dec. 27 J. Alexander McMahon, T’42, chair of the News, Va., Oct. 27 Julius N. “Buddy” Hicks, T’49, MD’53, Duke University Board of Trustees and Alexander “Sandy” Woods, MD, HS’53-’58, emeritus faculty member, Durham, Oct. 30 Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 5 Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 15, 2008

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1940s 1987. He and his wife Geraldine a $200,000 fund for mela- Jonathan, and two grandchil- live in Elkins Park, Pa. noma awareness and research dren, Will and Celia. Robert H. Hutchinson, MD, for treatment of malignant HS’41, has retired from the U.S. Harold R. Silberman, MD, 1950s melanoma. It is in honor of his Air Force as a brigadier general. HS’56-’58, ’60-’62, retired, John Laszlo, MD, HS’59, is first wife Yolanda “Jerri” Kre- He is a clinical professor of continues to teach physical a consultant for a biotech shon. He and his current wife orthopedic surgery at the Uni- diagnosis, and is a preceptor for company that he says “is doing Marguerite live in Charlotte. He versity of Texas Health Science interns and first- and second- exciting work” on electropora- has a total of eight children, 18 Center at San Antonio. He and year residents at the Durham tion for effecting DNA vaccines. grandchildren, and five great- his wife Louise established an VA Medical Center. He also The company is conducting grandchildren. endowment for research in serves as an appeals expert for trials for HIV and malignant orthopedic surgery at Duke. Wellpath Insurance Co. Silber- melanoma. He and his wife William S. Tunner, MD, They live in San Antonio. man and his wife Audrey, who Patricia have four children and HS’60-’61, retired in 2007 after  Charles E. Harrison, Jr., live in Durham, celebrated the Irving Young, MD, HS’46- four grandchildren. They live in spending 35 years in pediatric MD, HS’63-’64, has joined The birth of their first great-grand- ’47, says his daughter Nancy Atlanta, Ga. and adult urology in Richmond, Multiple Sclerosis Center of child, a girl named Charley, on recently was appointed chair of Va. He also was cofounder of Atlanta (MSCA), a non-profit November 1, 2007. the Department of Pathology 1960s the Virginia Urology Center. He, health center dedicated to and Lab Medicine at the Albert Martin J. Kreshon, Sr., MD, his wife of 43 years, Sallie, and the diagnosis, treatment and Einstein Medical Center of HS’57-’60, DC Century, retired their horses and dogs moved to support of people living with Philadelphia—the same posi- in April from Charlotte EENT a new farm in Charlottesville. multiple sclerosis. His role is to tion from which he retired in Associates. He has established They have two sons, Billy and provide patients with general

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medical care, including long- the Duke Executive Committee and have three grandsons and which is made up of three 2000 but is keeping active term primary and preventive for Medical School Admissions. two granddaughters. hospital systems. His wife Jane as a volunteer for promoting care that complements the died in December 2007 from children’s injury prevention Charles Johnson, MD, HS’65, Robert L. Carolla, MD, HS’68- neurological care that MSCA recurrent breast cancer. He and health insurance coverage ’66-’67, received the Howard ’69, semi-retired since August provides. He and his wife Betty has two daughters and four for the Georgia chapter of the University College of Medicine 2008, is medical director of live in Atlanta. grandchildren who live nearby American Academy of Pediat- Distinguished Service Award the Hulston Cancer Center in in Columbia. rics. He was the chapter presi- Samuel R. Lathan, Jr., MD, during the National Medical Springfield, Mo. dent from 2006-’07. He and his HS’63-’64, retired since 2006, Association’s annual meeting Kenneth E. Wood, MD, HS’70- George P. Henderson, Jr., MD, wife Clara live in Atlanta. now works part time for the in Atlanta, Ga., in July 2008. ’72, has joined Lake Norman HS’66-’69, has been retired Multiple Sclerosis Center of He also was honored by the Regional Medical Center as a Lynn A. Hughes, MD, HS’71- since 2003 but still works one Atlanta. “It’s a wonderful job!” Durham Committee on the spine specialist. He has opened ’75, has written a book, Lame day a week as an otolaryngol- he writes. He recently received Affairs of Black People during the Lake Norman Spine Center Science and Blind Religion: ogy, head and neck surgery the Montague Boyd Award the organization’s 73rd annual in Mooresville. He and his wife Bridging the gap between consultant at the VA Hospital for the third time for medical banquet in Durham in August Rhonda have three children— science and religion. He says in Fayetteville, N.C. He and his writing from Piedmont Hospital. 2008. Johnson retired in 1996 Michael, David, and Stacy— writing the book, which will wife Norma have three daugh- His paper, “Treadmill Testing in but currently serves as interim and live in Mooresville. be published in December ters and six grandchildren, and the Office” won Best Clinical medical director for the Central 2008, gave him a chance to tie live in Southern Pines, N.C. David R. Brown, MD, HS’71- Review. Lathan also takes Regional Hospital in Butner, together his master’s in theol- ’73, retired since 2005, is a history courses at Georgia Tech N.C. He and his wife Carol live Joseph C. Parker, Jr., MD, ogy with his medical degree. part-time research consultant and is actively involved with in Durham. HS’68-’69, was named Clinical He practices at the Northeast for Beth Israel Medical Center. the Cashiers Historical Society Scientist of the Year for 2008 Ear, Nose, & Throat Center James D. Eggers, MD, HS’67- He also is a volunteer mediator in Cashiers, N.C. He plans to by the Association of Clinical in Concord, N.C., and lives in ’68, was recognized in 2007 in special civil court in Essex help organize a symposium on Scientists. He also received Huntersville, N.C. as Volunteer Physician of the County, N.J. He and his wife mountain music for the histori- the Favorite Faculty Award Year by Community Health, Mindy, a social worker, have Calvin R. Peters, MD, HS’72- cal society in 2009. He and his by the University of Louisville a volunteer clinic for the two children. Seth, an associ- ’75, recently was appointed wife Millie live in Atlanta and School of Medicine pathology uninsured on the West Side of ate professor at Notre Dame professor of surgery at the have three children and three residents. Parker is a professor Chicago. He and wife Joan live University, is married with two University of Central Florida grandchildren. of pathology and director of the in Glenview, Ill., and have six children. Eli is a film producer College of Medicine in Or- pathology residence program. Joel R. Temple, MD, HS’60- children and seven grandchil- and editor in Brooklyn, N.Y. lando. Peters is medical direc- He and his wife Patricia live in ’61, ’63-’64, an allergist in dren. Their youngest daughter, tor and president of the Center Louisville, Ky. They have two David J. Steinbauer, MD, Dover, Del., recently became a Kathryn, F’07, received a for Plastic and Reconstructive children and two grandchildren. HS’70-’73, a retired otologist, great-grandfather. master’s degree in environmen- Surgery in Orlando. In August recently completed a six tal science from Duke. he was joined in the practice Dale P. Armstrong, MD, week, 13,000 mile road trip 1970s by his son Kendall. Calvin was HS’62-’65, is an adjunct as- John J. Gleysteen, MD, HS’67- with his 18-year-old son. They Frank H. Anderson, MD, the 2003 president of the Duke sociate professor of surgery in ’68, retired in July from the traveled from their home in HS’70-’71, closed his neurology Medical Alumni Association. the plastic surgery department surgical faculty at the Univer- Grottoes, Va., to the northern private practice in December He and his wife Pamela, L’78, at the University of Utah in sity of Alabama-Birmingham. Yukon in Canada, touring 2007 in Chevy Chase, Md., and live in Orlando. Salt Lake City. He and his wife His short-term plans include historic sites from the Pacific accepted the position of chief of Margaret live in Park City. travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Coast back to Virginia. Thomas M. Bashore, MD, the Neurology Consult Service for surgical medical mission HS’75-’77, has been promoted William D. Bradford, MD, at the Clinical Center at the Richard E. Black, MD, HS’74- work. He lives in Birmingham. to vice chief for clinical opera- HS’65-’66, DC, was elected National Institutes of Health in ’76, served as the 2007-2008 tions and education in the Divi- to the Duke chapter of Alpha Sarah D. Blumenschein, MD, Bethesda. He and his wife Con- president of the Pacific Asso- sion of Cardiology at Duke. Omega Alpha in 2008. He also HS’66-’69, is an associate stance live in Washington, D.C. ciation of Pediatric Surgeons. He previously spent 12 years received a lifetime achievement professor of pediatrics at UT He and his wife Katherine live James H. Herlong, MD, as director of the Cardiology award from the YMCA of the Southwestern Medical Center, in Salt Lake City, Utah. They HS’67-’71, of Columbia, S.C., Fellowship Training Program. Triangle and was appointed Children’s Medical Center in have seven children and 12 serves on the Palmetto Health He and his wife Jill have three to the organization’s board of Dallas, Texas. She and her hus- grandchildren. Baptist Hospital board. He children. Todd, T’94, a full- trustees in 2008. In 2007 he band George live in Arlington is also a board member for John S. O’Shea, MD, HS’70- time jazz musician in New York was appointed vice-chair of the Palmetto Health Alliance, ’74, has been retired since City, lives in Plainsboro, N.J.,

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and has two children. Tiffany Technical Community College Ronald E. Woosley, MD, of Addrenex Pharmaceuticals Judd W. Moul, MD, HS’88- lives in Durham and has one in South Carolina. He is also HS’72-’78, is currently an in Durham. He and his wife ’89, helped facilitate the open- child. Blake lives in San Diego. chairman of the Sargent Foun- employee of St. John Health Debbie live in Mint Hill, N.C., ing of the new Duke Prostate dation and is a member of the System and a member of with their children, Joseph, 17; Center Clinic. He also was A. D. Gouliamos, MD, HS’76- board of trustees for Bob Jones a six-person neurosurgical Christopher, 15; and Emily, 14. featured recently on the “NBC ’77, will be congress president University. He and his wife group at St. John Neurosurgi- Evening News” to discuss the at the Sept. 2009 European Teresa have two sons, Robert, cal Institute in Tulsa, Okla. PSA screening controversy with Society of Neuroradiology 17, and David Jay, 11. The fam- He and his wife Carol live in anchor Brian Williams. Moul is Annual Meeting in Athens, ily lives in Greenville. Tulsa and have six children professor and chief of Duke’s Greece. He is a radiologist with and eight grandchildren. Division of Urologic Surgery. Aretaieion University Hospital Russel E. Kaufman, MD, in Athens, where he and his HS’73-’78, has received the William F. Terry MD, HS’74- Kathleen M. Seibel, MD, wife Despina live. American Cancer Society ’79, reports that his wife Jo HS’86-’89, a consulting as- Cancer Control Award from recently retired as executive sociate with Duke University Harold E. Shaw, Jr., MD, the American Cancer Society, director of the Community Medical Center, has become HS’74-’77, received a 2008 Southeast Region. The Coalition on Family Violence. board certified in psychoso- Secretariat Award from the award celebrates the spirit They live in Knoxville, Tenn., matic medicine. She lives in American Academy of Ophthal- of volunteerism and recog- and have three daughters. Grimesland, N.C. mology. The award recognizes nizes key American Cancer Laura will soon complete a special contributions to the Society volunteers whose work PhD in cell biology at Vander- academy and ophthalmology.  Ulrich Mennen, MD, 1990s advances cancer research, bilt; Elizabeth is a fourth-grade He and his wife Minor live in HS’83, a private practice hand Angelo Colosimo, MD, HS’84- patient care, and advocacy. teacher; and Julia recently Greenville, S.C. surgeon and professor and ’90, is the team physician Kaufman is president and graduated from Vanderbilt. head of Medical University for the University of Cincin- Ervin M. Thompson, MD, CEO of The Wistar Institute, of South Africa in Pretoria, nati Bearcats, the Cincinnati HS’73-’77, resumed his an independent non-profit 1980s South Africa, was elected in Bengals, and 18 high schools. position in October as medical biomedical research center in Jeffrey L. Mathews, MD, March 2007 as president of He and his wife Mindy Osborne director and chief of psychiatry Philadelphia that is a National HS’78-’81, has received a the International Federation live in Villa Hills, Ky., and have at Carolinas Medical Center in Cancer Institute-designated physicians recognition award of Societies for Surgery of the four children, Joseph, Michael, Charlotte after spending nearly cancer center. yearly since 1983. He is Hand (IFSSH). He has been an Nicolas, and Sophia. two years in private practice Michael D. Schneider, MD, president of the Arthritis Clinic executive committee member in Hilton Head, S.C. Thompson Andrew J. Kaplan, MD, HS’76-’78, relocated in of Central Utah and is a clinical of the South African Society says “the allure of resort life HS’87-’90, married Mary 2007 to Great Britain from faculty member in the Depart- for Surgery of the Hand for 23 and outpatient private practice Kaplan in June 2008 and has Baylor College of Medicine in ment of Family Medicine at the years, as well as its past presi- proved misleading, and I two new adopted children Houston, Texas. He is head University of Utah School of dent. He and his wife Johanna was fortunate to be asked to ages 5 and 1. The family lives of cardiovascular science for Medicine. He and his wife Amy live in Pretoria. return.” His wife Toni is resum- in Phoenix, Ariz. the National Heart and Lung raise horses on their mountain ing her educational therapy Peter J. Mannon, MD, HS’83- Institute at Imperial College farm in American Fork, Utah. Catherine A. McHugh, MD, practice in Charlotte. They ’86, ’87-’89, DC, joined the in London. Recently he was They have nine children and 18 HS’87-’90, and her husband, have two children—son Dane University of Alabama at named the British Heart Foun- grandchildren. Louis R. Jacobson, MD, is a freshman at N.C. State Birmingham Division of Gas- dation Simon Marks Professor HS’88-’91, opened a pediatric studying architecture; and Henry J. Horacek, Jr., MD, troenterology and Hepatology of Regenerative Cardiology. practice in Sparta, N.J., in daughter Erin is a social worker HS’82, has written a book, as a professor in August 2008. He directs Imperial’s British 2004, and recently they had and program development Brainstorms: Treating the He previously worked at the Heart Foundation Centre for to move into a larger space. trainer in Boston. Emotional Storms of ADHD National Institutes of Health Research Excellence and is Their oldest child, Matthew from Childhood to Adulthood. (NIH), where he created a Robert A. Wilson, MD, the recipient of an Advanced Jacobson, is a sophomore at A specialist in attention deficit clinical program in inflam- HS’74-’77, is chairman of the Investigator Grant from the Duke majoring in computer hyperactivity disorder and matory bowel disease. Prior Greenville County Commission European Research Council. science and math. other neurological disorders, to joining the NIH, he was a for Technical Education (Area Horacek has invented a drug faculty member at Duke. Joseph T. Beck, MD, HS’88- Commission), which is re- called Clonicel, which he ex- ’91, a physician with Highlands sponsible for the development pects to receive FDA approval Oncology Group, PA, in and operation of Greenville soon. He also is part owner Fayetteville, Ariz., has recently

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founded a community cancer of Hematologic Oncology at and Stephanie—and live Kieren A. Marr, MD, HS’93- Asheville, N.C. The family lives center in Northwest Arkansas. Memorial Sloan-Kettering in Baltimore. ’96, recently accepted the in Arden, N.C. He and his wife Melanie have Cancer Center in New York position of director of the Danya E. Lewis, MD, HS’00- three children—Jacob, 19; City. His wife Lia Palomba is Kathleen A. Riley, MD, Johns Hopkins Transplant ’01, a hospitalist at Blanchard Anne Marie, 16; and Maddie, a physician-scientist at Sloan- HS’90-’93, stays busy with her and Oncology Infectious Valley Regional Hospital in 13—and live in Fayetteville. Kettering specializing in lym- practice and Rotary and United Disease Program. She has two Findlay, Ohio, and director of phoma. They have two sons, Way commitments. She and children—Avery, 3; and Lillian, Robert S. DiPaola, MD, medicine at Pathways Counsel- Alessandro, 12, and Lucas, 6, her husband Mark Reed live in 1—and lives in Baltimore. HS’88-’91, has been named ing, became board certified in and live in New York City. Asheboro, N.C. with their two director of the Cancer Institute Chyke A. Doubeni, MD, May by the American Board of daughters, McKenna, 12, and of New Jersey in New Bruns- Gregory P. Fontana, MD, HS’95-’98, received a Psychiatry and Neurology. He Kyla, 9. wick. He is a noted researcher HS’84-’93, is vice chairman of mentored career development lives in Findlay. in the areas of prostate, surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Y. Ralph Chu, MD, HS’93- award. He currently is an assis- Keri L. Livingstone, MD, bladder, and kidney cancer. Center. He also is principal ’96, currently is working on tant professor at the University HS’97-’01, was married to His current work focuses on investigator for a clinical trial purchasing and remodeling an of Massachusetts. He and his Gary Kleiner, HS’00-’01, in targeting cancer cell proteins on transcatheter aortic valve ambulatory surgery center. He wife Anna, MD, HS’95-cur- March 2008. Though they that resist chemotherapy, and replacement and a medical con- and his wife Jodi have a three- rent, live in Worcester, Mass., both trained at Duke, they did cell metabolism in an effort to sultant for a TV program, The year-old daughter, Chloe. They with their children, Tare, 16; not meet until later in Miami. starve cancer cells of nutrition. Doctors. His wife Jeannie, MD, live in Bloomington, Minn. Ebimene, 13; and Preye, 4. She has a solo practice in He and his wife Marcie live in PhD, a stem cell expert, serves Ira G. Early, MD, HS’94- Hartmuth Bittner, MD, Miami Shores, Fla. The couple Long Valley, N.J. on a committee to oversee ’96, the medical director HS’91-’99, is a full profes- is expecting their first child in California’s $3 billion budget Alexander D. Babich, MD, of Upstate OCC Med in sor of cardiac surgery and February 2009. for stem cell research. They live PhD, HS’88-’92, reports that Spartanburg, S.C., has been thoracic organ transplanta- in Los Angeles with their three Jonathan J. Halford, T’90, his wife Sarah Hanly received selected by the U.S. Depart- tion at Leipzig Heart Center children: Conrad, 17; Christina, MD, HS’97-’99, ’00-’02, her second PhD in psychol- ments of Energy and Labor in Germany. 16; and Antonio, 6. has helped develop a level ogy from the University of as a toxicologist to review four comprehensive epilepsy Missouri-St. Louis. Their son, Lewis H. Hogge, Jr., MD, cases of former Department of 2000s program at the Medical Stefan, is a high school senior, HS’90-’93, a physician Energy workers for potential Garrett W. Scales, Jr., MD, University of South Carolina and their son, Luke, is a fresh- specializing in anesthesiol- occupational illnesses. He is HS’97-’00, is an anesthesi- in Charleston. He and his wife man in high school. The family ogy, has been named medical one of 100 toxicologists na- ologist and member of the Heather, MSN’00, live in lives in St. Louis, Mo. director of perioperative tionwide reviewing cases, and Board of Directors of Capital Mount Pleasant, S.C., with services at Greater Baltimore says “it is a way to remember Eugenia H. Pritchett, MD, Anesthesiology Association their two children, Benjamin, Medical Center (GBMC) . He and assist those workers HS’90-’92, this fall will begin in Austin, Texas. He and his 4, and Charlotte, 2. will oversee daily operations who helped the U.S. win the a six-month service with wife Mischa, PhD, have two of the operating suites at one nuclear weapons war.” He Doctors Without Borders. daughters—Janaye, 6; and of the busiest surgical hospi- lives in Spartanburg. She does not yet know where Ellen, 1—and live in Austin. tals in Maryland. Hogge has she’ll be going. In addition Steven E. Hearne, MD, HS’92- been on GBMS’s medical staff Jitendra I. Vasandani, MD, to her geriatric practice ’96, and his wife Kathleen for 16 years. As a member of HS’98-’00, is president of the in Englewood, Colo., she have seven children—one the newly formed Periop- West Texas Rheumatology As- volunteered for medical adopted from Korea and two erative Services Executive sociation. He has two sons and service work after Hurricane adopted from Russia. The fam- Committee, his responsibili- lives in Lubbock, Texas. Katrina and also served in ily lives in Salisbury, Md. ties will include developing the Republic of Niger with Pierre DeMatos, MD, HS’94- policies and procedures for David I. Klumpar, MD, HS’90- Medical Teams International. ’01, and his wife Monica, operating rooms, participat- ’96, founded a successful She and her husband Ballard, MSN’01, welcomed their third ing in strategic planning and dermatology practice that B’92, have two sons and live child in April. Andrew joins capital budgeting for surgical now has four providers and in Englewood. brothers Adam and Alexander. services, and working to 20 staff members. He lives in Pierre is a surgeon with Re- Marcel Van Den Brink, MD, increase patient volume. He Pinehurst, N.C., with his wife. gional Surgical Specialists in HS’91-’93, was appointed in and his wife Dene have two They have a child who is in March as head of the Division children—Lindsey the eighth grade.

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Karen M. Kiang, MD, HS’98- health, and/or education. Shah and Morehead City, N.C. He ’02, recently completed is assistant professor of neo- and his wife of four years, a mission with Médecins natal medicine at Stony Brook Sarah, live in New Bern with Sans Frontières (MSF) in University Medical Center in their children, William, 2, and China where she worked on Stony Brook, N.Y. He lives in Caroline Grace, 1. a seven-month HIV/AIDS Great Neck, N.Y. Moahad Dar, MD, HS’03- project. She and her partner Ruth Y. Peng, MD, HS’99-’04, ’06, joined East Carolina Tim Fricke live in Australia has joined the Department of University’s Brody School of and are expecting a baby in Pathology at Mercy Medical Medicine in Greenville, N.C., March. After the baby is born Center in Baltimore, Md. She as an assistant professor Kiang says the family will be earned her medical degree at in the endocrine division ready to take on their “next the Albert Einstein College of in December 2007. He and international adventure.” Medicine of Yeshiva Univer- wife Saira have two children: resource use, and costs to as-  Christian B. Ramers, MD, Shazia H. Choudry, MD, sity in New York City, and Haroon, 9, and Noor, 6. sign patients a score between HS’03-’07, is pursuing an MPH HS’99-’03, and Ansuddin completed a cytopathology 1 and 9. High scores are most degree in the University of Hasan, MD, of Chambersburg, fellowship at the UCLA David appropriate for surgical inter- Washington’s Department of Pa., welcomed a son, Amir, Geffen School of Medicine. vention, lower scores are not Global Health. He and his wife to their family recently. They Andrew R. Wiksten, MD, recommended for surgery, Lauren welcomed their second also have a three-year-old son HS’01-’04, was named vice and middle scores require fur- child—Charlotte—in April. named Adam. president of Anesthesia As- ther evaluation. Patel served She joins brother Diego, 3. The Michael D. Edwards, MD, sociates of Topeka in 2007. He as chair of the Coronary family lives in Seattle. HS’02-’03, and his wife Hayley and his wife Veronica live in Revascularization Writing Laura L. Fitzpatrick, T’97, welcomed their son Reid in Topeka, Kans., with their three Group, and the guidelines MD, HS’02-’08, has joined August 2007. Michael is a ra- children: Anna, 7; Olivia, 6; were published in the Journal the Department of Medicine/ diologist with Pinehurst Radiol- and Sophia, 3. of the American College of Endocrinology at Doylestown ogy Associates in Pinehurst,  Manesh R. Patel, MD, Cardiology in January. Robbie D. Buechler, HS’01- Hospital in Doylestown, Pa., N.C. where the family lives. HS’97-’01, ’02-’06, a Duke ’05, is chairman of a local in association with McGrath, assistant professor of cardiol- William L. Corbett, MD, Katherine Lobello, HS’00- community hospital in Spartan- Gkonos, and Rosenberg, PC. ogy, led a group that wrote HS’04-’07, has taken a position ’03, of Pottstown, Pa., has burg, S.C., where he lives. He She earned her medical degree a new set of guidelines as anesthesiologist with Capital worked with Wyeth Phar- and his wife Jennifer, a psy- at UNC-Chapel Hill and com- designed to aid physicians in Anesthesiology Association in maceuticals since 2007. She chologist, have two children, pleted an internship in internal deciding whether revascu- Austin, Texas. He and his wife currently serves as associate Luke and Savannah. medicine and a residency and larization through bypass Alexa live in Austin. director of global medical fellowship in endocrinology at John Delmonte Jr., MD, surgery or angioplasty is the affairs. She and her husband Zeina Kanafani, MD, Duke. She is certified in inter- HS’02-’05, a hematologist/ best option for heart patients. Michael have a son, Alex, 5, HS’04-’07, was appointed nal medicine and endocrinol- oncologist, has joined the The new guidelines are de- and were expecting a daugh- hospital epidemiologist at the ogy, diabetes, and metabolism medical staff at The Hospital signed to improve consis- ter in December 2008. American University of Beirut by the American Board of of Central Connecticut in tency in choosing surgery or Medical Center in Lebanon in Internal Medicine. Shetal Shah, MD, HS’00-’03, Southington, Ct. He is also angioplasty over medication December 2007. has been named a recipient of director of cancer research and therapy to treat heart Angela M. Meyer, MD, the American Medical Associa- at the hospital’s George Bray blockages. Currently more William T. McClellan, MD, HS’02-’08, has joined Asheville tion Foundation’s 2008 Out- Cancer Center. than 1 million Americans HS’06-’07, presented research Gastroenterology Associates standing Leader of Medicine receive angioplasties and at the 2008 American Society in Asheville, N.C. She provides William C. Corey, DO, HS’06, Award. He received one of the another 500,000 receive the of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery general gastroenterology has entered his second year 14 awards in the early-career more invasive bypass surgery. annual meeting in San Diego. care with a special interest in of private practice as an physician category. Recipients The guidelines employ doc- He and his wife Sarah live in inflammatory bowel disease. interventional radiologist were selected based on their tor’s observations of patients’ Morgantown, W.Va., with their and diagnostic radiologist for outstanding non-clinical symptoms, results of tests two children, Tommy, 5, and Coastal Radiology Associates leadership skills in advocacy, and imaging scans, medical Andrew, 2. PLLC, which serves communi- community service, public evidence, benefits and risks, ties in New Bern, Jacksonville,

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Half Century Club 1946 A resounding thank you to all 2008 Reunion alumni Half Century Club Chair : Robert Dr. James G. Bassett who participated in the reunion gift program! M. “Crusty” Rosemond, MD Dr. Virginia R. Bryan All told, 314 Duke medical alumni came to Durham Dr. Robert Edwin Crompton DC to celebrate Medical Alumni Weekend. Reunion classes 1938 Dr. Frank W. Davis, Jr. raised $563,637 in unrestricted funds for the Duke Dr. Margaret Virginia Burns Dr. Elaine G. Fichter DC Medical Annual Fund/Davison Club. This exceeds the 1941 Dr. James B. Golden DC goal by 25 percent. Reuniting classes had an overall Dr. Stanley Karansky participation rate of 42 percent in the Medical Annual Dr. David S. Hubbell Dr. Frank Rambo Mann, Jr. Fund/Davison Club. Dr. Robert L. Pinck Dr. Lloyd F. Timberlake A total of 143 members of reuniting classes joined the 1947 Dr. James McKnight Timmons Davison Club in honor of their reunion, exceeding the Dr. Ralph Woodward Coonrad goal of 120. 1942 Dr. William A. Lambeth, Jr. Total Duke Medicine support from the 2008 Reunion Dr. Clarence C. Butler + Dr. Loren V. Miller classes is $1,078,557 Dr. John Robert Clark, Jr. DC Dr. Henry H. Nicholson, Jr. Dr. Joseph Henry Cutchin, Jr. Dr. William Watkins Pryor DC Dr. Herbert D. Kerman DL Dr. William W. Thompson Dr. Charles Edward Kernodle, Jr. Dr. Robert C. Welsh Dr. William R. Nesbitt, Jr. Dr. William P. Wilson Dr. W. Conrad Stone Estate + Dr. Richard N. Wrenn DCC 1943 1948 Dr. Donald G. Bard, Jr. Dr. Warren J. Collins DC Dr. Clyde Owens Brindley + Dr. Ross Bache Cone Dr. Matthew Hill Grimmett Dr. Louis G. Harris Dr. Anthony V. Keese Dr. W. Thomas Jay, Jr. + DC Dr. Francis H. McCullough, Jr. DC Dr. Eugene J. Linberg DC Dr. Jane Herring Wooten DL Dr. Robert F. Lorenzen 1944 Dr. Jack G. Robbins Dr. Robert L. Baeder Dr. Hugh Key Sealy, Jr. Dr. Horace Mitchell Baker, Jr. Dr. Robert J. Sheridan + Dr. Walter R. Benson + DC Dr. Robert M. Sinskey Dr. Wilton G. Fritz DC Dr. George Edward Staehle + DC Dr. Marvin M. Gibson DCC 1949 Dr. Francis W. Hare, Jr. Dr. Robert Shields Abernathy Dr. George Wallace Kernodle, Sr. Dr. Rosalind S. Abernathy Dr. George W. Liles DC Dr. Kenneth E. Ambrose Dr. Victor A. Politano Dr. John Powell Anderson DC/DCC Dr. Bernard L. Rhodes, Jr. + DCC Dr. Wayne E. Davis DL Dr. Otho B. Ross, Jr. Dr. Benjamin H. Flowe 1945 Dr. William D. Furst Dr. Adolphus William Dunn, Jr. DC Dr. Suydam Osterhout Dr. Willis Holland Hodges, Jr. Dr. Earl Norman Solon Dr. Ullin W. Leavell, Jr. Dr. John W. Wilson, Jr. Dr. John P. McGovern + 1950 Dr. A. Ziegler McPherson Dr. Wilma Jeanne C. Diner Dr. Oscar McLendon Mims Dr. Norman H. Garrett, Jr. DC Dr. William B. Schwartz Dr. Rufus R. Hambright DC Dr. Edward Lee Hamilton

The 2008 Reunion Honor Roll recognizes members of the 2008 DukeMed reunion classes who have generously supported Duke University Medical Center and the Medical Annual Fund/Davison Club from July 1, 2007 to October 31, 2008. We have made every possible effort to ensure the accuracy of these lists, but please contact James O’Brien at 919-667-2527 or [email protected] should you detect an error or omission.

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Dr. Mervyn Ray Hamlin DL Dr. James Michael Bacos DL/DCC 1954 1956 Dr. Daniel Atlee Mairs Dr. Bruce L. Baer DC Dr. Jerome E. Adamson DC Dr. Dewey Lockwood Barton Dr. Dean McCandless DC Dr. Melvin Berlin Dr. Robert Miller Arthur Dr. Gordon D. Benson DC Dr. Henry D. Messer DC Dr. Stuart Osborne Bondurant, Jr. DC Dr. John C. Ayers, Jr. Dr. Edward B. Brown Dr. H. Victor Murdaugh, Jr. DL Dr. Richard Winstead Borden Dr. John M. Brewer DC Dr. W. Andrew Dickinson, Jr. Dr. Simmons Isler Patrick DC Dr. Gerald Don Nelson Bryant, Jr. DC Dr. Charles Lee Brock Dr. Laurie L. Dozier, Jr. Dr. William J. Perry Dr. Lubin Fletcher Bullard, Jr. Dr. Charles Edward Buckley III DC Dr. James F. Easterling Dr. William Dennis Rippy Dr. John W. Caffey, Jr. DC Dr. Henry James Carr, Jr. DC Dr. Robert M. Failing Dr. Philip E. Russell DC Dr. Ernest W. Chick Dr. James F. Elliott, Sr. DC Dr. Lucy Rawlings Freedy DC Dr. John L. Vogel Dr. J. Raymond Chittum Dr. Kenneth G. Gould, Jr. DCC Dr. H. Lee Griffin, Jr. DL Dr. Charles David Williams, Jr. Dr. William G. Cobey Dr. I. Stanton Hudmon Dr. Jerome A. Grunt 1951 Dr. Dorothy Casto Cody Dr. Charles A. James Dr. Alan M. Hollett Dr. Charles M. Earley, Jr. + Dr. Paul Huie Cook DC Colonel William B. Jones Dr. Peter Hutchin DC Dr. Eugene M. Evans, Jr. DC Dr. Earl Haltiwanger, Jr. + DC Dr. Huitt E. Mattox, Jr. Dr. James Robert Jackson Dr. William C. Evans, Jr. Dr. Laurena B. Japenga Dr. Thomas E. Morgan, Jr. Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, Jr. DC Dr. John Lewis Fishel DC Dr. David Armistead Lockhart Dr. James F. O’Neill DC Dr. Horace S. Kent DC Dr. John F. Flanagan Dr. Joanne Elizabeth Mertz Dr. Si Alexander Past, Jr. Dr. Eugene Leslie Komrad Dr. Ross L. Fogleman, Jr. DC Dr. Charles D. Pruett Dr. George H. Pierson, Jr. DC Dr. David Edmond Miller DC Dr. Laurens N. Garlington Dr. Evelyn D. Schmidt Dr. Henry Pinsker DC Dr. Henry Curtis Mostellar, Jr. Dr. James Francis Glenn DC Dr. J. Graham Smith, Jr. DC Dr. George Brook Skipworth DC Dr. Bruce Newell Dr. Julius N. Hicks + DC Dr. James E. Welch DC Dr. D. Reid Tickle Dr. Sidney Olansky + Dr. Charles Harlan Hillman Dr. Thaddeus B. Wester Dr. John V. Verner DC Dr. Adhemar W. Renuart Dr. Charles Keck Dr. Sidney H. Wanzer Dr. Joseph Walter Shands, Jr. 1952 Dr. Alfred H. Kent DC Dr. Robert B. Yudell DC Dr. C. Norman Shealy DC Dr. Marshal Edward Agner Dr. Donald Reid Kernodle 1955 Dr. Carroll Clifton Shoemaker + Dr. Joe Jackson Bethany, Jr. DC Dr. Harold C. Lane Dr. Richard A. Steele + DCC Dr. Gerald Alexander Dr. Richard M. Bowles DC Dr. Paul Alexander Mabe, Jr. Dr. James J. Townsend Dr. Margaret H. Arky + DC Dr. Spencer Brewer, Jr. DC Dr. Edward B. Mabry Dr. John C. Turner Dr. Norman H. Bell DC Dr. Robert Edward Chambers DC Dr. Hugh Munroe McArn, Jr. Dr. Thomas D. Vance DC Dr. Lawrence Michael Blum Dr. Berryman E. Coggeshall, Jr. Dr. Irwin H. McNeely Dr. Alan D. Whanger Dr. Michel Bourgeois-Gavardin Dr. Joseph Durham Corpening Dr. Rudy K. Meiselman DC Dr. Harry A. Whitaker, Jr. Dr. David Harold Carver Dr. Noble J. David DC Dr. Franklin Chalmers Niblock, Jr. Dr. George D. Wilbanks DC Dr. David E. Cowan DC Dr. Ruth Kimmelstiel Freinkel DC Dr. George R. Parkerson, Jr. DC/DCC Dr. Charles A. Wilkinson Dr. Thomas Harold Crowder, Jr. DC Dr. James Phillip Hartley Dr. John Kent Pearson Dr. Horace B. Cupp, Jr. DCC 1957 Dr. Frank B. Magill Dr. Ellison C. Pierce, Jr. Dr. Robert G. Deyton, Jr. DC/DCC Dr. Billy F. Andrews DC Dr. Gerard Marder Dr. Lawrence W. Pollard, Jr. Dr. John Ashley Goree Dr. George Edgar Bacon DC Dr. D. Parker Moore, Jr. DC/DCC Dr. Richard Brandon Rankin, Jr. Dr. Gordon H. Ira, Jr. DC Dr. Lamuel E. Barnhill, Jr. Dr. Max V. Skeen Dr. Robert Malone Rosemond DC Dr. Allen Nathaniel Jelks, Sr. DC Dr. Richard F. Bedell Dr. Donald Eugene Warren DC Dr. Samuel Ott Sager DC Dr. Robert E. Kinneman, Jr. Dr. L. Thompson Bowles DC Dr. Henry Livingston Wright, Jr. Dr. Delford L. Stickel Dr. Harold Pons Lipton Dr. Stanley J. Cannon Dr. Eldora H. Terrell Dr. E. Reid McAuley, Jr. Dr. James Burns Creighton, Jr. DCC 1953 (55th) Dr. Thomas Eugene Terrell Dr. David C. Mitchell Dr. Thomas L. Dulin DC Class Chairs: Robert M. “Crusty” Dr. Tom Alford Vestal Dr. Beverly Carver Morgan Dr. Thomas David Elder Rosemond, MD Dr. Francis Edward Winslow, Jr. Dr. Amos Townsend Pagter, Jr. DC Dr. Robert N. Ellington DC Melvin “Blitz” Berlin, MD Dr. Anne Roof Yobs Gift Participation: 83% Dr. Donald E. Saunders, Jr. Dr. Thomas Dudley Davison Club & Medical Annual Dr. Donald Silver Boggess Fennell Fund Support: $22,822 Dr. John B. Sledge, Jr. Dr. James S. Hall, Jr. Total DUMC Support: $310,470 Dr. Thomas Byron Thames DCC Dr. Eugene L. Harley DC Total Davison Club, Davison Dr. Eugene O. Wiggs Dr. David Bennett Hill Century Club, and Davison Dr. Buna Joe Wilder DC Dr. R. Rodney Howell DC Lifetime Members: 15 Dr. Dana S. Williams Dr. Ralph M. Howse Dr. James Morningstar Young + Dr. L. Ronald Hurst DC

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Dr. W. Scott James, Jr. DC/DCC Dr. John Steed Evans Dr. John B. Emery, Jr. Dr. Michael J. Arons Dr. Stephen B. Karpman Dr. Joseph Francis Fraumeni, Jr. DC Dr. Mark L. Entman DC Dr. John P. Atkinson Dr. William R. Lewis DC Dr. John J. Furth Dr. James B. Farrell Dr. Stephen B. Baylin Dr. Angus G. McInnis, Jr. Dr. Gould C. Garcia Dr. Andrew J. Gabor DC Dr. Gayle H. Bickers Dr. Robert G. Moseley Dr. David Enrique Garcia-Trias DC Dr. Joel S. Glaser DC Dr. Peter W. Bickers Dr. Samuel E. Myrick, Jr. Dr. Donald Goldberg DC Dr. William R. Goldston DC Dr. Martin J. Brickman DC Dr. Samuel I. O’Mansky Dr. Barry C. Harris DC Dr. Thomas P. Graham DC Dr. Gerald Chotiner DC Dr. Boris L. O’Mansky Dr. M. Wayne Heine Dr. George R. Grant, Jr. Dr. Joseph W. Cook, Jr. DC Dr. Shirley K. Osterhout Dr. T. Rudolph Howell DC Dr. Nancy R. Haslett DC Dr. Richard E. Damiano DC Dr. William E. Painter DC Dr. Philip T. Howerton DC Dr. Chester C. Haworth, Jr. Dr. M. Julian Duttera, Jr. DC Dr. Constantine G. Pantelakos Dr. James C. Hurlburt Dr. Warren F. Holland, Jr. Dr. Carl S. L. Eisenberg Dr. Roman L. Patrick, Jr. DC Dr. Billy Ernest Jones Dr. Lewis B. Holmes Dr. Frederick J. Elsas DC Dr. George Pepper Dr. David R. Jones Dr. William M. Hull, Jr. DC Dr. Robert J. Emslie DC Dr. Henry Thomas Perkins, Jr. DCC Dr. Thomas A. Kirkland DC Dr. William R. Hutchinson IV DC/DL Dr. William H. Fee, Jr. Dr. Robert L. Poston Dr. John E. Lee DC Dr. Barry Noel Hyman DC Dr. Lois T. Flaherty Dr. William Ivan Procter DC Dr. James M. Lee DC Dr. Pascal John Imperato Dr. David M. Goodner Dr. James S. Redmond, Jr. DC Dr. Dean Towle Mason DC Dr. A. Everette James, Jr. DC Dr. Richard L. Green DC Dr. Nathan A. Ridgeway, Jr. Dr. Clayton H. McCracken, Jr. Dr. Charles M. James DC Dr. Thomas F. Henley DC/DCC Dr. Richard L. Rogers Dr. Calvin H. Mitchell DC/DL Dr. Jerry L. Jones Dr. Forney Hutchinson III DC Dr. Ralph E. Roughton Dr. Irwin Bernard Moore Dr. Paul W. Jones Dr. Frank Kern Dr. Clyde Vernon Sanders, Jr. Dr. George H. Porter III Dr. Peter Ogden Kohler DC Dr. Rebecca Trent Kirkland Dr. Harold Paul Schulz, Jr. Dr. Virginia P. Porter Dr. Arnold Kramer Dr. Ted R. Kunstling DC Dr. Melvin J. Schwartz Dr. Charles E. Rackley DC Dr. Edward Lloyd Lewis, Jr. Dr. Arnold M. Kwart + DC Dr. Hugh M. Shingleton Dr. Hal Judd Rollins, Jr. Dr. Donald T. Lucey DC Dr. Bertram Joseph Levy Dr. Whitman E. Smith, Jr. Dr. William M. Satterwhite, Jr. DC Dr. Charles R. Martin Dr. Roger J. Porter DC Dr. Alan Solomon DCC Dr. Charles P. Scheil DC Dr. Angus M. McBryde, Jr. Dr. Terence N. Reisman DC Dr. Angelo P. Spoto, Jr. DC Dr. Robert J. Shofer DC Dr. William O. McMillan, Jr. DC Dr. Ronald P. Seningen Dr. Robert W. Taylor Dr. Douglas F. Smiley Dr. John S. Poindexter III Dr. Geoffrey K. Sherwood Dr. Lois H. Watts Dr. Hunter G. Strader, Jr. Dr. Norman J. Robinson Dr. David N. Silvers DC Dr. Edward Bernard Weiss Dr. Norman Alan Thorne DC Dr. Henry F. Safrit Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson DC Dr. Dorothy L. Woods Dr. Donald H. Tucker DC/DCC Dr. Frank K. Sewell, Jr. Dr. Joel J. Snider Dr. Henry A. Yancey, Jr. Dr. Charles E. Warner DC Dr. Stephen J. Shimm Dr. J. John Stasikowski Dr. Karl A. Zener Dr. Floyd L. Wergeland, Jr. DC Dr. Karl J. Stumpf Dr. Charles V. Taft Dr. James T. Williams Dr. Owen B. Tabor Dr. Andrew T. Taylor, Jr. 1958 (50th) 1963 (45th) Dr. Waller L. Taylor, Jr. Dr. Thomas G. Thurston III Dr. Randall B. Vanderbeek DC Dr. John D. Utley Class Agent: Class Agent: Dr. Harlan I. Wald DC Charles E. Warner, MD William R. Goldston, MD Dr. Stephen A. Wohlgemuth Class Chair: Reunion Chairs: 1968 (40th) T. Rudolph Howell, MD A. Everette James, Jr. , MD Class Agent and Communications Gift Participation: 65% Communications Coordinator: Coordinator: Davison Club & Medical Annual James A. Carter, MD Ted R. Kunstling, MD Fund Support: $104,471 Gift Participation: 52% Reunion Chair: Total DUMC Support: $196,487 Davison Club & Medical Annual Thomas F. Henley, MD Total Davison Club, Davison Fund Support: $36,345 Gift Participation: 49% Century Club, and Davison Total DUMC Support: $85,766 Davison Club & Medical Annual Lifetime Members: 24 Total Davison Club, Davison Fund Support: $86,202 Century Club, and Davison Total DUMC Support: $91,652 Dr. E. Everett Anderson DC Lifetime Members: 18 Total Davison Club, Davison Dr. Luther E. Barnhardt, Jr. DC Century Club, and Davison Dr. John H. Bell DC Dr. Thomas K. Carlton, Jr. DC Lifetime Members: 17 Dr. Robert J. Brandt DC Dr. James A. Carter Dr. William F. Bryant DC Dr. Robert E. Cline DCC Dr. Donald F. Mandetta Dr. John N. Christie, Jr. Dr. E. Stephen Edwards DC Dr. Ann Crosson Abbas

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Dr. David Wayne Deaton 1973 (35th) 1978 (30th) Dr. Peggy Susan Lindsey Dr. Charles D. Lutin Dr. Almond Jerkins Drake III Class Agents: Class Agents: Dr. Mack H. Mabry Dr. Bruce M. Freedman DC Lawrence J. D’Angelo, MD Kurt D. Newman, MD Dr. Charles W. Mains DC Dr. Whitney James French Dale R. Shaw, MD Steven F. Roark, MD Dr. Donald M. McIntosh II Dr. Herbert Edgar Fuchs Reunion Chair: Matthew B. Stern, MD Dr. Kurt D. Newman DC Dr. John A. Gallalee Lawrence J. D’Angelo, MD Reunion Chair: Dr. Anton Peter Nielsen II Dr. Herbert Jeffrey Glatt DC Communications Coordinator: Kurt D. Newman, MD Dr. Lauren I. O’Brien Dr. William L. Gottesman DC Joanne A.P. Wilson, MD Communications Coordinator: Dr. Linda H. Perangelo DC Dr. Gregory Grayson Hall Gift Participation: 34% Jonca C. Bull-Humphries, MD Dr. Marc L. Peters-Golden Dr. Wesley Francis Hambright DCC Davison Club & Medical Annual Gift Participation: 54% Dr. Charles W. Plummer Dr. Stephen C. Hamilton Fund Support: $64,625 Davison Club & Medical Annual Dr. Randall C. Rickard DC Dr. John Rutherfoord Handy, Jr. Total DUMC Support: $69,906 Fund Support: $101,635 Dr. Steven F. Roark DC Dr. William Andrew Total Davison Club, Davison Total DUMC Support : $259,910 Dr. Celeste Robb-Nicholson Hazel, Jr. DC/DCC Century Club, and Davison Total Davison Club, Davison Dr. Emmett Vance Schmidt Dr. Michele Hensley Lifetime Members: 16 Century Club, and Davison Dr. Lyn Alice Sedwick DC Dr. Karl Brinton Hiatt DC Lifetime Members: 28 Dr. Carlton C. Sexton Dr. William Edward Hooper Dr. Thomas Carroll Cole, Jr. DCC Dr. Michael W. Shannon Dr. William G. Kaelin, Jr. Dr. Martin James Conley, Jr. Dr. Stephen Edward Alpert Dr. Douglas Paul Sherman Dr. Steven P. Karas DC Dr. Craig M. Coulam Dr. David Alyono DC Dr. Margaret Lynn Smiley Dr. David Lawrence Katz DC Dr. Lawrence J. D’Angelo DC Dr. Jerry Stewart Apple DC Dr. Hanes M. Swingle DC Dr. Gary Earl Kay Dr. Jonathan Mark Ducore Dr. Genie L. Bailey Dr. Terry Taylor DC Dr. Mark Stephen Komrad Dr. George Homer Durham II The Reverend William Reed Bell, Jr. Dr. Lynn H. Thomas Dr. Virginia Byers Kraus Dr. James W. Ellett DC Dr. Henry Harold Bible, Jr. Dr. George Stackley Tyson, Jr. Dr. William Erle Kraus Dr. Douglas R. Gnepp Dr. Dale Eric Bredesen DC Dr. John Charles Wood DC Dr. Jan Andrew Kylstra Dr. John William Hallett, Jr. DC Dr. Garrett S. Bressler Dr. Pamela Runge Wood DC Dr. John Griffith Lease Dr. William L. High, Jr. DCC Dr. Samuel Joseph Buff Anonymous DC Dr. Charles Lee Lucore DC Dr. Stephen Gregory Kahler Dr. Jonca Camille Bull-Humphries Anonymous DC Dr. Philip A. Marino, Jr. DC Dr. Peter Douglas Lawrason Dr. William Bernice Bunn III Dr. Lawrence Gordon Mendelow Dr. Seth Hawksworth Lowell Dr. Philip Joseph Butera DC 1983 (25th) Dr. Lucy Dalton Moore Dr. Ronald Vitt Maier DC Dr. Robert McKinnon Califf DC Dr. Martin A. Morse DC Class Agent and Dr. Robert Schnoor McConaughy Dr. William Robert Clarke Dr. Robert Leland Murrah, Jr. DC Communications Coordinator: Dr. Douglas Anthony Medlin Dr. Patrick Robert Conner DC Dr. Cathy Leilani Ow Martin A. Morse, MD Dr. Joseph Matthew Miller, Jr. Dr. Phyllis D. Cross DC Dr. Joseph J. Parelman Reunion Chair: Dr. Jonathan Moss DC Dr. James M. Douglas, Jr. DC Dr. Etta Driscoll Pisano Etta D. Pisano, MD Dr. Glenn E. Newman + DCC Dr. Thaddeus L. Dunn DC Dr. Mitchell S. Rein Gift Participation: 45% Dr. Roger H. Ostdahl DCC Dr. David Ginsburg Dr. Kenneth Berwick Roberts Davison Club & Medical Annual Dr. Mitchell Charles Pilot Dr. Joel Steven Goldberg Dr. David Robinson Fund Support: $92,039 Dr. Salvatore V. Pizzo DC Dr. Michael R. Gorman Dr. Grace Allison W. Rose Total DUMC Support: $292,423 Dr. Terry Milton Schroeder Dr. J. Douglas Graham III Dr. Richard A. Sarner DC Total Davison Club, Davison Dr. D. Michael Shasby Dr. E. Wilson Griffin III DCC Dr. Robin Lynn Schaten Century Club, and Davison Dr. Dale R. Shaw DC/DCC Dr. Jodelle S. Groeneveld Dr. Linda Glaubitz Schymik Lifetime Members: 16 Dr. Clement Lawrence Slade DC Dr. Melissa Hamp Dr. Julia L. Stevens Dr. Warren James Strittmatter DCC Dr. Jeffrey B. Hanson Dr. Scott David Stevens Dr. Joseph W. Baker DC Dr. Chung-Shin Sung DC/DCC Dr. Elizabeth Ann Harden DC Dr. Thomas B. Thames II Dr. Eric B. Bass Dr. Donald C. Watson, Jr. DC Dr. Wayne Lee Harper DC Dr. Stacey A. Wood, Jr. Dr. Katherine M. Bass Dr. Richard David Weiner Dr. G. Byron Hodge, Jr. DC/DCC Dr. John Bernard Buse Dr. Joanne A. P. Wilson Dr. Robert M. Hoffman Dr. Wendell Decamp Butler Dr. Leonard A. Zwelling DC Dr. Joseph P. Isley Dr. Christian Theodore Campos DC Dr. Marianne Jackson DC Dr. Anne Teresa Carlon DC Dr. Robert Bruce Johnson DC Dr. Huey Willy Chu Dr. Joan H. Kaestner Dr. Jan Neal Cools Dr. Susan L. Kelley DC Dr. James M. Crawford

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DukeMedAlumniNews 39 FEATURE story

Bye Bye Bell Building

By Jim Rogalski Medicine, former vice chancellor for health work in the lab from 8 to 10 in the morn- affairs, and former director of the National ing, walk three minutes to the hospital and hen it opened in 1947 it was affec- Institutes of Health. “For me it was abso- see patients from 10 to 12, then go back tionately referred to as the “animal W lutely ideal. I had a lab in the middle of the to my lab in the afternoon.” He says the house” because it had four times more space biochemistry department and had easy ac- Bell Building was a key factor to Duke’s to house animals vital to medical research. cess to all of my colleagues. It would have ensuing national prominence in immunol- It was the first building of Duke University been much more difficult at other schools ogy and virology. Medical Center that wasn’t connected to to do what I did.” “There were some labs in the medical the hospital and main buildings. It helped The Bell Building, as it is known today, school, but they had become inadequate to launch Duke medical research into a new was named in 1950 after William Brown for modern research,” he says. “And as the Bell, the president of the American medical school grew, more and more stu- Cynamid Company and a trustee dents had research ambitions, but there was of the Duke Endowment and of no way to accommodate them.” Duke University. Bell had a longtime Wyngaarden says the additional lab space interest in Duke medical research allowed Duke to develop the MD/PhD and helped to fund the work of training program, which he helped to take faculty member Joseph W. Beard, national by serving on the NIH Advisory MD, who used canines to help Committee for MD/PhD programs. develop vaccines. The building was “The initial medical student training named after him to honor his years program offered students nine months of of service to Duke. research training between the second and Beard, and his research assistant— third year of medical school and still allowed his wife Dorothy Beard, MD— them to graduate with their classes,” Wyn- developed the first vaccine for gaarden says. equine encephalomyelitis, a disease The initial building cost $190,000. It was that had struck down thousands of financed with a $10,000 grant from the horses across the country; purified Rockefeller Foundation and included funds and photographed the virus that from the Dorothy Beard Research Fund, era by providing copious modern labora- causes warts and skin cancer in rabbits; the Duke Endowment, the departments of tory space for scientists and students under isolated the cause of avarian leukosis, a medicine and surgery, the U.S. Public Health one roof, and is where the student medical cancer-like disease that cost the poultry Service, the Markle Foundation, and gifts research training program began. That pro- industry millions of dollars each year; from medical center staff. gram is a forerunner of Duke’s current MD/ identified leukemia in chickens; and first The first wing was added in 1958 to form PhD program. reported evidence of viruses in association a “T,” then another in 1960 to form an “H.” And by the time you read this it likely will with human leukemia. Additions in 1964 and 1979 completed the be gone. When the Bell Building was being structure, which included roughly 100,000 The William Brown Bell Research Building is proposed, Duke faculty members were square feet of space. coming down to make way for the more than resistant to moving there because it was Most recently the building housed the half a million square-foot hospital expansion not attached to the hospital. Beard and gross anatomy labs and offices for the de- that will modernize 160 of its 924 beds and biochemistry faculty member Hans Neur- partments of surgery, pediatrics, radiology, add 16 new operating suites, among other ath, MD, were the first to agree to move if OB/GYN, and psychiatry. All labs and offices things. Demolition was scheduled for late the new building were built. Soon, many were relocated in late 2008. December and January. others agreed as well. “I’m a little nostalgic about it,” says James Wyngaarden says he loved the location. B. Wyngaarden, MD, a former faculty “It was close to the hospital so I would member, former chair of the Department of

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