Meet Medical and Nursing Alumni

The 2018 School of Nursing Alumni Award Winners

A more than 30-year commitment to understanding human metabolic regulation has helped Christopher Newgard discover new insights and potential new therapies for metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.

Kafui Dzirasa’s work on neuro-engineering technologies is nothing short of revolutionary, which hold great promise for treating psychiatric illnesses.

Juan Battle founded Elias Santana Hospital for the Poor in Santo Domingo, and took the Dominican Republic out of the dark ages of eye care.

Robert Margolis is a pioneer in new models of team-based, coordinated health care, and has been on the front lines of health care reform for more than 40 years.

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.

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.

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.