DukeMed Alumni News
Fall 2007

Class Notes:
1970s

Donald “Craig” Brater, T’67, MD’71, HS’70-’71, DC, the dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2007 Indiana Public Health Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Service in Years of Health Advancement. He joined Indiana University in 1986 and was selected to be chair of the Department of Medicine in 1990. He has been dean since 2000. He and his wife Stephanie have a daughter Aimee who lives in Florida. The Braters live in Indianapolis.

Charles J. Jaffe, MD’71, PhD’72, HS’71-’73, has been appointed the first chief executive officer for Health Level 7, Inc., an international standards development organization. HL7 is responsible for clinical information for patient care, clinical research, and administrative data employed across public and private sectors. Jaffe previously was the senior global strategist for the Digital Health Group at Intel Corporation, vice president of life sciences at SAIC, and director of medical informatics at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Throughout his career he has been the principal investigator for numerous clinical trials and served in various leadership roles in the American Medical Informatics Association and other professional organizations. He lives in Del Mar, Calif.

Peter T. Scardino, MD’71, married Judith Ann Kelman in June. Scardino, a previous recipient of a Duke Medical Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award, is a urologist and prostate cancer specialist and the chairman of the surgery department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Kelman is the author of many books, including Summer of Storms for which she received the Mary Higgins Clark Award for best suspense novel of 2001 from the Mystery Writers of America. Together they wrote Dr. Peter Scardino’s Prostate Book in 2005. They live in New York City.

Clifford G. Andrew, MD’72, PhD’74, HS’76, is part-time assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and a solo clinical neurologist in Severna Park, Md., where he lives with his wife Jane. He has three children, including Galen, who received a master’s degree in computer science in 2005 from Stanford; Amalie, currently getting a master’s degree in occupational
therapy at the University of Pittsburg; and Erin, who is earning a bachelor’s degree in English at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa.

Michael J. Andrews, Jr., MD’72, HS’71-’76, a urologist with Danville Urologic Clinic in Danville, Va., completed yoga teacher training in 2003. He and his wife Rosemary recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary, and he is growing a vegetable garden for the first time. They have six grown children—three daughters and three sons—and live in Danville.

J. David Dalton, T’63, MD’72, is retired and spending much of his time painting on large canvases with acrylic paint. He says he began painting while an undergraduate at Duke. His website is www.daltonsart.com. He and his wife Rebecca have three children, James Jr., MD’90, HS’90-’96; Michael; and Bennie, and live in Meggett, S.C.

James H. Haynes, MD’72, has been retired since 1998. After closing his practice he continued to instruct physical diagnosis students at Vanderbilt University until 2005. He and his wife Mary have eight grandchildren whom he says “delight and enlighten me.” They live in Brentwood, Tenn.

John K. Herpel, MD’72, retired in March 2001. He and wife Stella, WC’72, who were married in Duke Chapel in 1976, live in Acworth, N.H.

Christian E. Jensen, MD’72, is president and CEO of The Delmarva Foundation, a non-profit healthcare organization serving several communities in Maryland. Last year he became a member of The Quality Improvement Organization for Medicare. He is retired from the U.S. Navy Reserves after 42 years of service. He and his wife Gail have two grown children, Christian, an attorney, and Wendy, a nurse. They live in Denton, Md.

John G. Migliori, MD’72, DC, is a staff anesthesiologist and co-director of anesthesiology for Treasure Valley Hospital in Boise, Idaho. He and his wife Mary, MD, have twin boys, Armand and Giancarlo, who were born on their wedding anniversary on April 24, 2004. The family lives in Boise.

Alfred (Fred) P. Sanfilippo, MD’74, PhD’75, HS’76-’79, DC-Century, has been named executive vice president for health affairs, chief executive officer of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and chairman of Emory Healthcare at Emory University, Atlanta. He begins his new posts on October 1. He currently is a physician-scientist and senior vice president and executive dean of health sciences at Ohio State University in Columbus. He and his wife Janet, WC’72, B’80, have two children, Lisa and Joseph.

Paul S. Auerbach, T’73, MD’77, a clinical professor of surgery in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, was honored with a 2006 New Orleans Grand Isle (NOGI) Award by the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences. NOGIs are given each year to distinguished divers. It is the oldest award in the diving industry. Past recipients include Jacques Cousteau and Robert Ballard. Auerbach also recently saw the publication of the fifth edition of his textbook Wilderness Medicine, and the third edition of Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine is in the works. He and his wife Sharon have three children. Brian is a senior at Vanderbilt University; Lauren will attend the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the fall; and Dan is a sophomore in high school. The family lives in Los Altos, Calif.

Claude L. Hughes, Jr., MD’77, PhD’81, HS’81-’85, will miss the fall reunion because he plans to spend most of the month of October in China as a Chinese Visiting Scholar at major research universities in Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Beijing. He writes, “It is a singular honor, and I cannot fail to go!” He and his wife Linda Ann Sakiewicz live in Mebane, N.C.

John D. Kennedy, Jr., T’73, MD’77, of Marietta, Ga., plans to return to work in August after a four-year sabbatical. His son Daniel, T’05, married Aletta Kupor in Budapest, Hungary, in June. His son Christopher, T’05, attends Duke Law.

Wendy Paulson Moeller, MD’77, DC, is a physician with Eastern Carolina Internal Medicine in Pollocksville, N.C. Outside of work she is involved with church activities and serves on the board of trustees for the local community college. She also enjoys spending time with her four children: Carrie, T’05, Thayer, T’07, Cameron, and Chandler. Thayer recently graduated from Duke and is now employed by a financial consulting firm in New York. She says the family is now “getting used to a different color of blue” as son Cameron heads to UNC in the fall.

Carolyn Frances Pedley, T’73, MD’77, is director of the Web site for Evergreen Healthcare (www.forevergreenmedical.com). A book about Eugene Stead, Considering Challenges with Dr. Eugene Stead, is included on the site’s online catalog. Five percent of the proceeds go to Duke Medical
Center. Pedley’s husband, Robert L. Bloomfield, MD’77, is the primary investigator on two grants on diabetes, one of which is the ACCORD study from the National Institutes of Health. They live in Winston Salem, N.C.

Neil W. Trask III, MD’77, DC, is a cardiologist with Cardiology-Gastroenterology Associates in Myrtle Beach, S.C. His wife Donna is an administrator for Bible Study Fellowship in Myrtle Beach. Their son Benjamin is a 2007 graduate of Coastal Carolina University with a BS in resort and tourism management. Their daughter Rachel plans to attend Coastal Carolina University in the fall.

David S. Shimm, MD’78, HS’78-’80, is practicing radiation oncology in Beckley, W.V. where he is vice president of Beckley Oncology Associates, a multi-specialty oncology group. He also is medical director of Hospice of Southern West Virginia, medical director of the free clinic Beckley Healthright, and book review editor for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. He and his wife Carmen live in Charleston, W.V.