DukeMed Alumni News
Fall 2007

House Staff Notes:
1960s

George J. Ellis, III, MD, HS’63-’68, says he is enjoying retirement playing tennis and working out. He recently joined the continuing education faculty at Montreat College. He also has continued attending endocrine meetings every June and has maintained his license. In 2005 he underwent an aortic dissection and since then he says he “is living happily ever after.” His wife Ursula has had several art exhibits in Boone, Raleigh, and Rocky Mount. They live in Black Mountain, N.C.

Richard S. Panush, MD, HS’67-’69, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., is president-elect of the Association of Chiefs and Chairs of Medicine. In his free time he is an active cyclist and marathon runner. His wife Rena is a lyric/coloratura soprano. They have three grown children and live in Florham, N.J.