DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

House Staff Notes: 50s

George W. Hambrick, Jr., MD, HS’51-’53, has received a distinguished medical alumnus award from Johns Hopkins University. He served as director of dermatology at Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1966 to 1976. Hambrick retired from practice in 2006 but now serves as president of the American Skin Association, a not-for-profit organization in New York that supports research, education, prevention, and cure of skin disorders. He lives in Charlottesville, Va.

John Morledge, MD, HS’52-’53, principal investigator of the National Institutes of
Health’s ALLHAT six-year antihypertension clinical trial, has completed a two-year series of hypertension outcomes lectures for primary care groups in the upper Midwest and mountain states. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, member of the university’s institutional review
board, and member of the medical school’s admissions interview committee.

George J. Race, MD, PhD, HS’47-’48, ’51-’53, reports that his wife Anne died on August 23, 2007. He lives in Dallas, Texas, and is an emeritus professor of pathology and associate dean of continuing medical education at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Joe B. Hall, MD, HS’48-’50, ’55-’56, of Fayetteville, Ark., received the Asklepion Award from the Arkansas Medical Society (AMS). The award is “designed to recognize and honor an AMS member who promotes the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.” Hall was the first internist in northwest Arkansas and has
been credited with establishing the first nuclear medicine laboratory in Arkansas. He is
a supporter of the Arkansas Country Doctor Museum in Lincoln and has made nearly 100 video interviews of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, patients, and families discussing their prescientific medical experiences and Arkansas medical history.

William C. Ruffin Jr., MD, HS’55-’56, has retired from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Fla. For the past 13 years he was chief of staff and assistant dean for clinical affairs. Previously he was acting chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Psychiatry. He
now works 20 hours a week as a consultant at the VA Medical Center in Gainesville, working in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and general mental health clinics. He and his wife Ann live in Gainesville.

Lewis B. Lefkowitz, Jr., MD, HS’56-’57, is semi-retired but still teaching several courses at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. He is no longer in clinical practice or doing funded research. He and his wife Judith, N’56, live in Nashville. They have three sons: David is an assistant professor of arts at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.; Jerry is a freelance computer consultant in Minneapolis; and Paul is director of the Families First Welfare to Work Program for the state of Tennessee and lives in Nashville.

Robert K. Myles, MD, HS’55-’57, who retired as a family physician in 1990, has recently been honored in Reno, Nev., where he lives, as well as nationally. On Aug. 1 he received the Second Annual Healthcare Hero Lifetime Achievement Award for Northern Nevada from the Nevada Business Journal and Anthem/Blue Cross, Blue Shield. On Sept. 19 he received the 2007 Director’s Award for the Western Region from the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH). It was presented at the NALBOH conference held in Anchorage, Alaska. Myles and his wife of 57 years, Jean, were featured in the Nov.-Dec. issue of Reno Magazine. They have endowed several scholarships at the University of Nevada-Reno, Truckee Meadows Community College,
and at the Northern Nevada Fire and Rescue Academy.

David D. Schottenfeld, MD, HS’57, received the John Snow Award from the epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association in November. The award recognizes “excellence in epidemiologic research and contributions of enduring
value to the improvement of human health or substantial reduction in the burden of disease.” Schottenfeld is the John G. Searle Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan. He and his wife Rosalie live in Dalton, Mass.

Sidney E. Grossberg, MD, HS’54-’55, ’57-’58, received a lifetime achievement award
from the American Society for Virology. He lives in Milwaukee, Wis., with his wife Josette Brugerolle Grossberg, MD, HS’58.

John Laszlo, MD, HS’59, has been retired since 1997 but stays active by doing volunteer work on physician suicide. He also does consulting work. He and his wife Patricia have four children, the youngest of whom was married in October, and four grandchildren. They live in Atlanta.