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C. Edward Coffey, MD’80, the vice president of behavioral health services and the Kathleen
and Earl Ward chair of psychiatry at the Henry
Ford Health System in Detroit, Mich., has received two notable awards. In September he received the 2006 Alwyn Lishman Lecture Award at the biennial meeting of the International Congress of Neuropsychiatry in Sydney, Australia. It recognizes “a distinguished clinician and researcher who has contributed to the practice, teaching, or service delivery of neuropsychiatry beyond the boundaries
of his or her own country.” In May he received
the Association for Convulsive Therapy 2006
Honored Speaker Award. This award recognizes
“life-long achievement and leadership in electroconvulsive therapy and related brain stimulation therapies, as well as service to the association.” He also was appointed to a two-year term as chair of the board of directors of the association. He and his wife Kathleen have three children and live in Troy, Mich.

Douglas J. Sprung, MD’80, HS’80-’83, DC, is still in a private gastroenterology practice in Maitland, Fla., where he lives. This year he is presenting three abstracts at the American College of Gastroenterology annual meeting in Las Vegas. One of the studies was completed with his son Greg, T’09, who currently is a Duke sophomore. His daughter Katherine is in New York City doing an internship for ABC Primetime and 20/20. His wife Denise helps him in his study production and planning when she is not selling vintage and couture clothing online.

Richard J. Calvert, T’77, MD’81, a captain and research medical officer with the Public Health Service of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was deployed to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma last year. When not deployed, he enjoys serving as the official announcer for the Quince Orchard Otters summer swim team, and the Quince Orchard Cougars high school swimming and diving team. He and his wife Norma have two sons—John, a senior at Quince Orchard High School; and William, a seventh-grader at Gaithersberg Middle School. The family lives in Gaithersberg, Md.

Andrea M. Jackson, MD’84, has relocated her practice to Florence, S.C., after 18 years in Alexandria, Va. Her OB/GYN practice is affiliated with Carolinas Hospital Systems. She is married with four children ages 5 to 18, and lives in Florence.

Joseph R. Newton, Jr., MD’84, a cardiothoracic surgeon living in Norfolk, Va., has been named director of Thoracic Surgical Services at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Paul W. Sperduto, T’80, MD’84, G’84, HS’85-’87, was honored in September as the Distinguished Alumnus of his high school in Wyoming, Ohio, for his work in brain tumor research, radiation oncology, and stereotactic radiosurgery. He received the 2002 Society of Neuro-Oncology Award for Excellence in Clinical Research. He is
co-director of the Gamma Knife Center at the University of Minnesota and principal investigator on a second nationwide clinical trial in patients with brain metastases.
He reports that his “tennis game is deteriorating rapidly.” He lives with his wife Jody, T’80, PhD’90, and their three children in Wayzata, Minn.

Cheryl Walker-McGill, T’80, MD’84, HS’84, was married in April at the Washington Duke Inn to Paul A. McGill, MD, an orthodontist in Charlotte, N.C., where they live.

Thomas J. Maroon, Jr., T’81, MD’85, has been named chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and co-director of the special care nursery at Excela Health Systems in
Greensburg, Pa., where he lives.

Colonel Dean C. Taylor, MD’85, HS’87-’91, a professor of orthopedics at Duke, retired last year from the U.S. Army after serving 24 years. The last 10 years of his
military service was spent at West Point as the Army’s head team physician. At Duke he also is head team physician for the men’s basketball team and director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program. He and his wife Ann, N’84, have
two children—Kate, 15; and Ben, 11—and live in Durham.

William “Ken” Mask, MD’88, has written his second novel, Luke Jacobs, PI. It is set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras in 2005 and is a follow up to his novel Murder
at the Butt. In this book, the main character, Jacobs, teams up with a forensic pathologist to uncover the reasons for unjustly jailed Jake Matos’ assault. They
learn a little too late that Jake wanted to take on the Mega Alcohol Network,
suing on behalf of patients with alcoholrelated mental illnesses, an action that would dwarf the tobacco payouts. The book is available on amazon.com. Mask is a researcher and assistant professor of clinical radiology at Louisiana State University
Medical Center in New Orleans.

Michael Armstrong, Jr., MD’89, an otolaryngologist in Richmond, Va., where he lives with his family, says he’s been “working way too hard this year” after installing new practice management software and hiring an associate physician. He says he hasn’t had nearly enough time to attend to all of his children’s activities such as cross country races, tennis and wrestling matches, and basketball and soccer games. He and his wife Ellen will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this year. They have three children: son Michael recently earned his Eagle Scout badge and will be learning to drive this winter, daughter Meredith is looking forward to high school, and son James is “cuddly, rambunctious, and hilarious.”

Martee L. Hensley, T’85, MD’89, is an associate professor and associate attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Her clinical research focus is gynecological malignancies and uterine sarcomas. She and her husband Ted P. Szatrowski, MD, have two sons, Austin, 3, and Adam, 16. They recently returned to the U.S. after two years living and working as ex-patriots in Basel, Switzerland, where Austin was born. They now live in New York City.