Duke Health Named Professorships DUKE HEALTH to Establish Endowed Scientific Opportunities Professorships Are Gifts Here and Around the World

advancing innovation + discovery Duke Health Named Professorships DUKE HEALTH to establish endowed scientific opportunities professorships are gifts here and around the world. Endowed professorships that last forever. Once Great universities succeed are the highest academic inaugurated, they continue on the strength of the honor that the Duke in perpetuity, passing in partnerships they form University School of time from one exceptional with their supporters and Medicine or School of faculty member to the benefactors. Everyone who Nursing can bestow upon a next. Every endowed establishes an endowed faculty member. professorship is both a professorship at Duke These prestigious profound honor for the Health joins with us in positions honor our most faculty member who holds our mission to deliver accomplished physician- it and a meaningful legacy tomorrow’s health care and nurse-scientists and to the visionary benefactor today, accelerate research clinicians. They celebrate who establishes it. and its translation, and Duke University Duke University Lists and Indices those who demonstrate That legacy is evident in the create education that A. Eugene Washington, Emeriti Professors extraordinary achievement pages that follow, as we is transforming. We are School of Medicine School of Nursing Professorships to be Appointed in advancing scholarship, MD, MSc profile our philanthropic deeply grateful for these Introduction Introduction 105 Chancellor for Health Affairs, science, and human Dean Mary E. Klotman, MD 5 Dean Marion E. Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN 99 Named Professorships Not Fully Funded Duke University partners who have partners, who, as you health. And perhaps most President and CEO, generously invested in will read, have propelled Index of Named Professorships importantly, they nurture Duke University Health System endowed professorships our professors and our Nobel Prize Recipients 6 Professors 100 106 innovation, discovery, at Duke Health. They institution to even greater Index of Faculty Who Hold and the expansion of the have demonstrated heights of excellence and Donors & Professors 8 Endowed Professorships 108 boundaries of knowledge. their commitment by impact. Index of Featured Donors 109 As we seek to shape empowering our acclaimed We are truly Advancing the future of health faculty, our sharpest Health Together. and health care at Duke minds, and most visionary Sincerely, Health, we are making researchers and educators endowed professorships to take on the most a foundational priority. pressing health challenges Philanthropic efforts and pursue promising advancing innovation + discovery DUKE UNIVERSITY educators and mentors reaching philanthropic SCHOOL OF MEDICINE who guide our students investments one can make. and trainees. We are profoundly grateful Because of our outstanding At Duke, we aim to be the to the many donors who faculty, Duke University destination of choice for have joined with us to School of Medicine is the nation’s most talented advance the bounds of alive with innovation and leaders and promising knowledge. progress, a place where young faculty in biomedical advances in research and sciences. Endowed patient care are made, professorships are perhaps and health care leaders of the most valuable tool today teach and train those for the recruitment and of tomorrow. retention of these high As evidenced by the faculty caliber individuals. profiled in this book, Duke Mary E. Klotman, MD As you see in the faculty DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE is home to individuals Dean, Duke University School profiled here, endowed recognized for their efforts of Medicine Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, professorships provide to transform medicine and Duke University School of Medicine the brightest minds with 5 health through pioneering the dedicated support scientific research needed to achieve and the translation of boundary-pushing science, breakthrough discoveries care for our patients to the most advanced care and the community, and for patients. It is home educate and train the next to the most skilled and generation of leaders. compassionate physicians and to passionate Endowed professorships are among the most far- DUKE HEALTH NAMED PROFESSORSHIPS Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, was signals to a G protein inside it, See page 36 for Lefkowitz’s See page 31 for Modrich’s When Paul L. Modrich, PhD, as chromosomes replicate. on track to spend his career as allowing the cell to respond professional profile. professional profile. was growing up in New Errors in the genetic code a clinical physician when the appropriately. Because this Mexico, his father, a local frequently transpire during call of the laboratory became process is involved in numerous high school biology teacher, replication within the body’s 10 too insistent to resist. After diseases, G protein-coupled told him, “You should learn trillion cells. These errors his first six months as a senior receptors are a target for more about this DNA stuff, because are recognized and corrected resident at Massachusetts than a third of all modern it’s really interesting.” Rarely by mismatch repair (MMR), General Hospital, he broke pharmaceutical drugs. has a father’s advice been so and Modrich showed how from the customary path and In addition to his research, thoroughly embraced: Modrich this works. returned to research, which he Lefkowitz is renowned as has spent his entire career His basic science research had gotten a taste for during a mentor. More than 200 studying “this DNA stuff,” and turned out to have significant two years at the National graduate students and post- he’s done it so exceptionally implications for human health, Institutes of Health. While he docs—including Brian Kobilka, that in 2015 he was one of as Modrich and others showed has spent the majority of his now at Stanford, with whom three researchers to share the that defects in the MMR 45-year professional career in he shared the Nobel Prize— Nobel Prize in Chemistry. system are the cause of one DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE the lab at Duke, he continued have learned under Lefkowitz’s Modrich came to Duke in of the most common forms of to make clinical teaching tutelage. And they still do, as Robert J. Paul L. 1976 from the University of hereditary cancer and play a 6 rounds for decades and still he continues to explore the , MD , PhD California at Berkeley and says central role in the development 7 holds an active medical license. secrets of receptors because, as Lefkowitz Modrich he felt at home right away of certain sporadic tumors as James B. Duke Professor of Medicine James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry His research on cell surface he once said, in science “there’s in a small department with well. “Science moves in little Awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry receptors earned him the 2012 always a new detail to discover. Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry an exceptional and collegial steps,” Modrich says, “and you Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the It’s like peeling an onion.” faculty. He carried on his don’t always know where you’ll first ever awarded to a Duke research and won the Nobel end up when you set out.” faculty member. Prize for some four decades Lefkowitz won the Nobel Prize of investigation into how cells for his seminal discoveries on repair errors that occur in DNA G protein-coupled receptors, DUKE HEALTH NAMED PROFESSORSHIPS which detect a huge variety DUKE HEALTH NAMED PROFESSORSHIPS of stimuli outside the cell membrane and transmit Nobel Laureates GIVEN BY DUKE UNIVERSITY GIVEN BY DUKE UNIVERSITY GIVEN BY THE DR. ROBERT C. AND GIVEN BY LENOX D. BAKER, VERONICA ATKINS FOUNDATION ROBERT FLOWERS BAKER, AND Duke University established this professorship Duke University established this professorship LENOX D. BAKER JR. in 2005 to support a faculty member in the in 2005 to support a faculty member in the Robert C. Atkins, MD, founded and was medical Lenox D. Baker, MD, was a member of Duke Department of Anesthesiology. Department of Anesthesiology. Robert C. chair of the Atkins Center for Complementary Virginia Medicine and author of Dr. Atkins’ New Diet University School of Medicine’s first four-year Distinguished RU-RONG JI, PHD Distinguished DAVID S. WARNER, MD Atkins, MD, Revolution, a New York Times bestseller for Flowers Baker graduating class in 1934. After training in Professor of Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology Professor of Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology nearly six years. The Atkins Foundation funds Professor of orthopaedics at Johns Hopkins, he returned to and Veronica independent scientific research examining the role Duke as an assistant professor of orthopaedic Anesthesiology Additional Appointments and Affiliations Anesthesiology Additional Appointments and Affiliations Atkins of metabolism and nutrition in obesity, diabetes, Orthopaedic surgery and then chief of the Division of • Professor of Anesthesiology • Professor of Anesthesiology cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and Orthopaedic Surgery. Baker led the establishment • Professor in Neurobiology • Professor in Neurobiology Professor of other serious health problems. Atkins died in 2003. Surgery of the North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital (now • Professor of Surgery the Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital), and served Education and Training • Faculty Network Member, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Pediatrics MICHAEL S. FREEMARK, MD as medical director until his retirement. Baker and • Postdoctoral Fellow, Peking University

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