DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

Class Notes: 1970s

Harvey J. Cohen, MD’70, PhD’70, recently stepped down as chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University and chief of staff at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. He has returned to doing laboratory research in comparative proteomics and caring for children with cancer and blood diseases. He and his wife Ilene live in Los Altos Hills, Calif., and have two sons and four grandchildren.

Walter L. Miller, MD’70, DC, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), continues receiving NIH RO1 funding to run what he calls “the best pediatric endocrinology fellowship program in the U.S.” He currently serves on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Board of Scientific Counselors. His wife Synthia H. Melon, PhD, is a professor of OB-GYN at UCSF. Their
daughter Samantha recently graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and is
now a graduate student at Columbia University. The Millers live in San Francisco.

William R. Welch, MD’71, is continuing his highly rewarding career in surgical pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He and his wife Laurel
moved to Cape Cod in 2003 and he says “life is great!”

Dana K. Andersen, T’68, MD’72, HS’76-’80, DC, has been with Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center since 2005. He currently serves as vice-chair of surgery and surgeon in chief. His wife Cindy is a pediatric surgeon at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. They live in Silver Spring, Md. Their daughter Ashley is CEO of Soundprints, a publishing
company in Norwalk, Conn., and their daughter Lauren
graduated cum laude from Northwestern in June 2007.

Elwood W. Hopkins III, MD’72, HS’72-’73, has been appointed department head for neurology at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Calif. He and his wife Judy
live in San Diego. They have three children—Julie, who works for Lucas Films; Ben, a
graphic artist who designs CD covers for heavy metal bands; and Sam, a special education teacher in Oakland.

David B. Jarrett, MD’72, and his wife Pat recently celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary. In addition to having his own private psychiatry practice, David also serves as medical director for the substance abuse clinic DM & ADR Inc. in Athens, Ga. He is recently on the board of the Athens Justice Project and serves as chair of the personnel committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens. He also serves on the executive committee of the democratic party of Clarke County. Pat continues to work in human resources for the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget in Atlanta.
Their son Paul, a New York University film school graduate, was recently married and works for a production company, and his wife Christine Green, is a 2007 graduate of Villa Nova Law School. Their son Sean, a Florida State graduate, recently moved to Atlanta after spending two years working for Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Mass.

Christian E. Jensen, MD’72, has been promoted to chief executive officer for the Delmarva Foundation—a top healthcare organization in Maryland. He formerly served as the foundation’s chief operating officer and medical director. Prior to joining Delmarva, he served as medical director of the Western Integrity Center for Computer
Sciences Corporation. He and his wife Gail live in Denton, Md., and have two children, Christian J. and Wendy.

Morton H. Levitt, MD’72, HS’72-’74, G’81, has moved to Boca Raton, Fla. with his wife Cynthia to become clinical professor of Biomedical Science at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine regional campus in Boca Raton. He has been re-elected governor of the College of American Pathologists, was appointed chair of the Governance Committee, and is a member of the Education Council. His daughter Tamara was married in October 2006.

Samuel P. Martin IV, MD’72, practices vascular surgery at the Vascular Center of
Orlando in Florida. He is a past president of the Florida Vascular Society. He has three
children. Samuel V, T’01, a real estate attorney in Philadelphia, is married to Ashley Primis, T’02. Randall, T’04, is a fourthyear medical student at the University of Florida. Allison graduated from Davidson College in 2005 and is considering a career in health care.

John M. Peterson, PhD’68, MD’72, joined the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. He and his wife Linda, live in Rock Island, Ill., and planned to spend two weeks during the summer traveling the countryside of Aix-en-Provence, France. They also spent Memorial Day weekend at YMCA Camp Manito-wish in northern Wisconsin, helping to ready the camp for its summer programs. John attended the camp in the 1950s. John’s daughter Kristen, an assistant professor in neurobiology at the University of Memphis, is married and was expecting a daughter in August. John’s son Mark is working on a PhD in bioinformatics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Linda’s daughter Heather recently moved to California to pursue a career in cosmetology.

Jeffrey Wilson, T’68, MD’72, HS’72-’74, ’76-’79, DC, a rheumatologist in Lynchburg, Va., received the William Barney Award from the Lynchburg Academy of Medicine for his contributions to the community and organized medicine. He is married to Sandra L. Wilson, WC’68.

George H. Durham II, MD’73, a pediatrician with Intermountain Bryner Clinic in Salt
Lake City, Utah, continues to participate as a co-attending physician at the monthly Down Syndrome Clinic at Primary Children’s Medical Center, also in Salt Lake City, where he lives. In November his wife Christine, L’71, received the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence from the National Center for State Courts, presented by Chief Justice John Roberts.

John W. Hallett, Jr., MD’73, DC, is now editor-in-chief of the second edition of the
textbook, Comprehensive Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. He also serves as
medical director and professor of surgery at Roper St. Francis Heart and Vascular Center in Charleston, S.C. He and his wife Linda S. Austin, T’ 73, MD’77, live in Charleston.

Phyllis C. Leppert, MD’74, HS’74-’76, DC, has been named vice chair of research in
the Duke Medicine Department of OB-GYN. She has initiated the Center for Uterine Fibroid Biology and Therapy and the Center for Fertility Preservation. She lives in Durham.

Stephen C. Lloyd, MD’74, PhD’75, and his wife Cathy have established the South
Carolina Medical Endoscopy Center, Inc., where they extend the skills of primary care
physicians (PCPs) from sigmoidoscopy to full colonoscopy. Patients are more likely to have colonoscopies when they are performed by their PCP. The Lloyds reported the results in the January 2007 issue of Cancer. They live in Lexington, S.C.

David L. Richardson, MD’74, of Lumberton, N.C., had to leave his practice in 2006 due
to an undiagnosed illness that has diminished his motor skills. However, his cognitive ability remains intact. Richardson played an instrumental role in the establishment of Southeastern Regional Medical Center’s $11 million heart center in 2006 and brought the first oncology services to Robeson County by having oncology fellows visit from Duke.

Jared N. Schwartz, MD’74, PhD’75, HS’73-’77, DC, of Charlotte, N.C., was elected
to serve as the 30th president of the College of American Pathologists (CAP). He was
sworn into his two-year term at a ceremony held in Chicago at the college’s annual meeting in September. He is the director of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, where he previously
served as a staff pathologist and chief of the medical staff.

Robert S. Waite, T’65, MD’75, PhD’75, a retired pathologist, is now a computer programmer and Web site developer. He created and developed a private
motor home rental business and is a co-founder of a building company. He lives in Saint Petersburg, Fla. His partner Nita Laca is a professional singer with Pied Pipers and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. His son, a graduate of the University of Florida, is also a computer programmer.

Bernard P. Scoggins, MD’76, has received the 2007 Heroes in Health Care Ethics Award from the Emory University Center for Ethics. He is a physician with Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc., in Albany Ga., where he lives with his wife, the Rev. Nancy Scarborough.

B. Jeanne S. Adams, MD’77, HS’77-’89, recently was promoted to medical director in
clinical pharmacovigilance at Abbott Laboratories. She says she loves living in Chicago
and working in drug safety. Her daughters—MacKenzie, 16, and Mary Spencer, 14—
are both in high school. “It’s great to have another driver in the house,” she writes, “but also scary!”

John T. Brennan, Jr., T’73, MD’77, of Somerset, Pa., is president of the Somerset
County Medical Society and president of hospital medical staff. His wife Barbara Campbell works with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on bone health issues. Their son Luke attends Antioch College, and their daughter Molly attends
Clark University.

Bryan E. Hainline, MD’77, PhD’80, recently became director of the newly created Division of Clinical and Biochemical Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine. He also moved to a new department, the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics. His wife Sarah, MD’77, HS’78-’81, continues to practice OB-GYN in a local inner city health center. They live in Indianapolis, Ind., and have six children and two grandchildren. Their oldest son Chris is a cornea fellow; Laura is finishing graduate
school at California Institute of Technology; Margaret is a third-year medical student at
Indiana University; Sarah is a sophomore biology major at Indiana University; Andrew is a freshman at Purdue; and John is a junior in high school.

Ritchie C. Shoemaker, T’73, MD’77, published a series of papers on the genetics and
innate immune responses that define “sick building syndrome.” He recently testified
before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on the syndrome. He also has defined the causality of “mold illness” and developed the health risk index for re-occupancy for water-damaged buildings. His wife JoAnn is now retired after spending 20 years teaching pre-kindergarten. Their daughter Sally conducts estuarine
research on benthic organisms, an aggregation of organisms living on or at the bottom of a body of water.

William G. Ward, Sr., MD’79, HS’84-’89, was appointed director of adult reconstruction at Wake Forest University Health Sciences/N.C. Baptist Hospital in 2006. He recently completed his term as president of the North American Musculoskeletal Tumor Society. He lives in Winston-Salem, N.C., with his wife Corinne.