In appreciation of the gifts of knowledge and training, the George W. McLean estate has funded an endowment to support endocrinology research.

When Elizabeth Harden entered Duke School of Medicine in 1974, only 22 percent of medical school students in the U.S. were women. Harden found no such attitudes at Duke.

Georgeanna J. Klingensmith's generous bequest funds a professorship in pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine.

Duke alum Leslie Graves has known about Duke’s mission to provide life-changing cancer care since she was a teenager. Her father was a childhood friend of legendary cancer surgeon William Shingleton, MD, when the two were growing up in eastern North Carolina.