Some of Myles Owens IV’s fondest memories with his dad are on the family’s boat at Jordan Lake. When his dad passed away in 2015 after a hard-fought battle with prostate cancer, the family spread his ashes at the lake.

On Valentine’s Day 2009, Meg Lindenberger was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Growing up in a family of physicians, Garheng Kong, MD’01, PhD’00, MBA’03, knew he would continue the family tradition and become a physician like his father, uncles, and cousins.

Ernest Borden, MD’66, had only been at Duke University School of Medicine for a week when he went on a blind date with a School of Nursing senior.