Scholarship funds enabled wife and mother Sarah Free to pursue a full-time nursing degree at Duke, where she is following her passion to serve women and children.

Samuel L. Katz, MD, described himself as merely a “young, enthusiastic, and naïve pediatrician” who “came along at the right time, in the right laboratory, with the right colleagues.” This is a remarkably humble reframing of the accomplishments of the pioneering virologist, pediatrician, and chairman emeritus and Wilburt C. Davison Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine.

As founder and leader of the World Bank’s Climate Change and Health Program, Timothy Bouley works with governments to safeguard their health programming against potential detrimental effects of climate change.

Vicki Grossmann is director of the Good Shepherd Clinic and Children’s Home in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She and her small medical team care for more than 2,000 indigent adults and orphan children a year.

Peter Morrisette and his family are grateful to Duke for saving his life after multiple tumors were discovered in his lower leg.

Heath underwent a heart transplant when he was eleven months old. Now ten, Duke Children's and his supportive family give Heath all the tools he needs to lead a healthy and active life.

Duke Children's patient Graham Rogers and his family share their moving story of Graham's kidney transplant and how his Duke Pediatric Nephrology Care Team saved his life and secured a promising future for the now-20-year-old.

The push to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s disease has been a promising and disappointing endeavor over the past two decades, yielding a greater understanding of the disease yet still failing to generate successful new drugs.

Bill Hudson and L.C. Industries provided major financial support for building the new state-of-the-art Duke Eye Center building. Mr. Hudson and Duke's world-class ophthalmologists and researchers, share a passion to cure all blindness by creating the future of eye care at Duke.

R. Rodney Howell, MD’57, HS’57-’60 has dedicated his career to advancing the screening of newborns to diagnose potentially harmful conditions.