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Byron P. Croker, Jr., MD’71, HS’71-’72, ’76- ’77, a professor and chief of the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Florida, enjoys alligator trapping during the August and September trapping season. He says that legal trapping hours are at night—30 minutes before sunset to 30 minutes after sunrise. He says the meat is tender and he likes to cook it Katsu style. He lives in Gainesville, Fla.

Martin L. Schwartz, MD’71, PhD’72, DC, an OB/GYN for Kaiser- Permanente in Portland, Ore., was honored this year with Alpha Omega Alpha membership. He is caucus chairman of the Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society. He and his wife Marcia Freed, WC’70, MD’74, DC—a private
practice psychiatrist— have a son Daniel, 14, and live in Portland.

Jonathan M. Ward, MD’71, a cardiologist currently living in Thailand with his family, continues to lecture and attend to patients at Chiang Mai University Heart Center. His wife Maggi volunteers at the orphanage and international school that their
daughters attend.

Joanne A.P. Wilson, MD’73, DC, says it was great to see so many friends during Medical Alumni Weekend. She is a tenured Duke professor, continues to work in
the GI Clinic and serves on the National Commission on Digestive Diseases of NIDDK-NIH. Her husband Ken H. Wilson, MD, works in the area of infectious diseases at the Duke VA Hospital. He is active in Congolese drumming, having formed a local group, and now is giving lessons. They have three children—Nora, MSII, Court, T’03, and Sarah. The Wilsons live in Chapel Hill.

Bert “Alton” Brantley, Jr., T’70, MD’74, PhD’78, retired three years ago as chief information officer for a multihospital system and now consults with physicians
and hospitals on information technology. He and his wife Ingrid, MD’74, spent a year caring for their granddaughter Haley while their daughter Kirsten Feiereisel did a chief residency at Wake Forest. She is now associate residency program director
at Wake Forest and doing a fellowship in resident education at UNC. The Brantley’s son Darren is writing software for satellite networks. They live in Davidsonville, Md.

Eric D. Lister, MD’74, has left the clinical practice of psychiatry to work full time as a consultant to the senior leadership of health care organizations addressing issues of clinical quality, governance, leadership, and hospital/physician relations. He speaks regularly for the Governance Institute as well as a variety of state and national organizations. His clients include hospitals, health systems, and group practices across the country. His two grown daughters, Kalen, an aspiring singer,
and Johanna, an MPH graduate student, live in New York and Washington, D.C., respectively. His wife Marcie continues a practice addressing the psychosocial aspects of reproductive medicine. Eric and Marcie divide their time at home
between a condominium in Portland, Maine, and a house on the ocean “downeast,” which he says means Northeastern Maine.

Kenneth D. Weeks, Jr., MD’74, DC, a cardiologist in Hunterville, N.C., has been honored as a recipient of the Charles A. Dukes Award for outstanding volunteer
service to Duke. The citation honors individuals who reflect dedication to the university and are selected by the Duke Alumni Association Board of Directors. Weeks has been a member of the Davison Club since 1986 and president for 2004-
2006. To help drive club membership he launched a Charlotte-based campaign and hosted an event at the Duke Mansion. Gifts to the club increased by 13 percent. Weeks also has been a member of the Medical Alumni Council since 2002. He and his wife Rebecca have three children, Kenneth III, T’04; Rebecca, and Katherine,
and live in Mooresville, N.C.

Stephen Unger, MD’76, HS’75-’76, DC, a private practice general and vascular surgeon in Miami Beach, Fla., says that his two most memorable Duke experiences
occurred this past summer. The first was standing in Duke Chapel alongside his
father as they recited the Hippocratic Oath with his son Joshua, E’96, MD’06. The second great memory was two weeks later when Joshua married Sarah Hart-Unger, MSIV, in Duke Gardens. He and his wife Beverly have three grown children and are expecting their first grandchild soon.

M. Sharon “Sherry” Webb, MD’76, gave up practicing medicine in 1997 and now is an attorney living in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Sigmund I. Tannenbaum, T’72, MD’76, HS’76-’82, DC, is a urologist with The Urology Center in Greensboro, N.C. He and his wife Ellen have a son Evan, 9, who hopes to play Duke basketball for Coach K some day. The family lives in Greensboro.

Larry C. Harris, MD’77, HS’77-’80, a consulting associate at Duke University Medical Center, has authored a book titled, It All Starts At Home: 15 Ways To Put Family First, (www.itallstartsathome. com ). He and Bertie—his wife of 30 years—have two grown children, Michelle and Larry Jr., and live in Fayetteville, N.C.

Jerry S. Apple, T’74, MD’78, HS’78-’82, DC, was named a “Top Doctor” in 2004 and 2006 by Philadelphia Magazine in the category of diagnostic radiology, including
subspecialization in musculoskeletal radiology, arthrography, and TMJ disorders. He and his wife Janice, a speech pathologist, have three children—Alexander, T’07, is a Duke senior; Andrew, T’10, is a Duke freshman; and Emily is in eighth grade. The family lives in Voorhees, N.J.

Margaret L. Smiley, MD’78, is now chief medical officer for Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in Durham, N.C. She and her husband Peter H. Gilligan, PhD, a professor
in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, live in Chapel Hill.