Meet Medical and Nursing Alumni
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Alumni Making a Difference: Erich Huang, PhD’02, MD’03, HS’03-’08
Erich Huang, PhD’02, MD’03, HS’03-’08, is head of clinical informatics at Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences.
Alumni Making a Difference: William Stead, AB’70, MD’74, HS’73-’77
William Stead, AB’70, MD’74, HS’73-’77, is the McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University.
Alumni Making a Difference: Roslyn “Roz” Bernstein Mannon, MD’85, HS’85-’90
Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Alumni Making a Difference: David Axelrod, MD’96, MBA’96
Professor of Surgery-Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Iowa
On The Inside
Emily Wang, MD’03, a professor in the Yale School of Medicine, explores the health effects that mass incarceration has on populations both inside and outside of prison — a subject that the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief.
Navigating an Evolving Profession
In a lot of ways, Susan Blackwell (Crawford), MHS, PA-C’89, and the physician assistant profession have grown up together. They were born at roughly the same time, matured in parallel and proximity, and for more than three decades they’ve been inextricably linked.
Alumni Invents Disposable Intubation Drape
Tony Sandstrom, MSN’05, collaborated with PhD student Hideyo Tsumura, Health Innovation Lab and Center for Nursing Research for development and trial.
Inspired by the Greats of Duke Pathology
When James Junker, PhD’80, first came to Duke to pursue a PhD in pathology in the mid 1970s, he was surrounded by esteemed faculty members who were greats in their field. He credits many of them, including Joe Sommer, MD, with influencing his own successful career and for inspiring him to give back to the department that he says gave him so much.
Rauch Foundation Makes Historic Gift for School of Medicine Financial Aid
A family foundation established by the late Dudley Rauch, AB’63, has pledged $30 million to establish an endowment for need-based financial aid for medical students in the Duke University School of Medicine.
