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 DukeMed Alumni News
Fall 2007
In Brief:
An Anesthesiology Summit of Friendship
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They may all have founded anesthesia departments at separate universities, had storied medical
and research careers, and have endowed professorships named in their honor, but it is their gut-level fondness for each other that keeps these three retired anesthesiologists so close after nearly 60 years of friendship.
Former Duke faculty members Merel Harmel, MD, in photo at right, and Kenneth Sugioka, MD, left, make a point to get together with their friend Joseph Artusio Jr., MD, center, at least twice year. In July they met for lunch at the University Club while Artusio
was in town visiting his daughter.
Harmel, 90, founded the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke, as well as at SUNY Downstate, and the University of Chicago (now Pritzker University);
Sugioka, 87, founded the anesthesiology department at UNC before coming to Duke; and Artusio, 89, founded the department at Cornell.
They met in the late 40s while attending national meetings around the country. A friendship worth preserving blossomed. Today they don’t talk much about anesthesiology, they said, but like to chat about food, wine, and family.
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