DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

House Staff Notes: 80s

Stuart Packer, MD, HS’74- ’80, has been named section head for Thoracic, Head and
Neck Oncology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City where he lives with
his wife Barbara.

Richard E. Moon, MD, HS’79-’83, reports that his son Andrew, a graduate of Rutgers,
is volunteering in Moshi, Tanzania, with the Duke HIV Project and is applying to medical
school. His other two sons are both seniors in college; one attends N.C. State University and the other attends Franklin and Marshall College. Moon, a professor of anesthesiology at Duke, lives in Durham.

Elise A. Olsen, MD, HS’80-’83, a tenured professor of dermatology at Duke, was first
author on a consensus paper in 2007 revising the stages and classification of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the
American Academy of Dermatology and helped to organize a cutaneous lymphoma conference at the World Congress of Dermatology in Buenos Aires. She is also chairman of a multi-center project on hair loss in African-American women. Her daughter, Jennie Cheesborough, T’05, is a third year medical student at Emory
Medical School in Atlanta, and her son Kent Cheesborough is a junior business major at Miami University of Ohio. Elise lives in Chapel Hill.

Mary A. Warner, MD, HS’79-’83, recently joined the ultrasound faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass. Her husband David, HS’78-’82, continues in private practice. Their son Ryan is a freshman at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Their son Matthew is a first-year law student at Columbia University in New York.

Audrey P. Corson, MD, HS’82-’84, a physician with Bethesda Physicians, PC, in Bethesda, Md., will become president of the Montgomery County Medical Society in April 2008. She and her husband Daniel Kazzaz live in Bethesda and have three children: Zachary, a Duke sophomore; Rebecca, a recent graduate of Washington University- St. Louis, who was married in July; and Jeremy, a senior at Washington University-St. Louis.

Andrew R. Scott, MD, HS’83-’85, and his senior men’s team won the United States
Tennis Association’s national championships at the 4.5 level (the highest senior level) in Indian Wells, Calif., in October. He lives in Leawood, Kans. His four-year-old daughter, Clancy, was the honoree at the American Heart Association’s annual heart ball, which emphasizes pediatric heart disease. Five days after birth Clancy had corrective surgery for a rare congenital heart condition called total anomalous pulmonary venous return. Her surgeon was Gary Lofland, MD, HS’79-’86, at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. Andrew is happy to report that Clancy is doing well.

Judith K. Visscher, MD, HS’82-’85, was recently appointed to the clinical faculty at the University of Washington. She also is chair of the family practice department at Saint Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, Mont. She and her husband John have a 16-year-old son, Tor, a high school junior.

Raymond H. Welch, MD, HS’83-’86, is president of Rhode Island Dermatology & Laser Medicine in Providence, R.I. His daughter Emma is a Shamu trainer at Sea World Orlando.

Dennis A. Clements III, MD, PhD, HS’73-’76, ’86-’88, is now working as a senior advisor to the Duke Global Health Institute. He and his wife Martha A. Keels, T’79, PhD, live in Chapel Hill, N.C. He has three children. Gillian is finishing a doctorate degree in music education and is working in Kenya. Morgan matriculated business school at the University of California- Berkeley. Meredith, T’04, matriculated medical school at St. George’s in London, England.

Doris S. Mugrditchian, MD, HS’85-’88, is living and working in New Delhi, India, as the focal point for quality and safety in health care at the World Health Organization
office for Southeast Asia. She encourages her Duke friends to“pack up your bags and come and visit.”

Jeffrey Gilbert Wong, MD, HS’85-’88, returned to Duke briefly to participate in a
Department of Medicine Resident-as-Teacher retreat sponsored by Larry Greenblatt,
MD. Wong is the faculty advisor for the Medical University of South Carolina chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He also is senior assistant dean for medical education academic practice at University Medical Associates in Charleston, S.C. His wife Lisa Hall Preis continues to be active at the International Birds of Prey Center.
They live in Mount Pleasant, S.C., with their two children, Andrew, 10, and Eva, 6.

Judd W. Moul, MD, HS’88-’89, director of the Duke Prostate Center, is overseeing the opening of a new clinical care center at Duke. The new center is devoted to state-of-the-art care and clinical trials in prostate cancer as well as rapid-access second opinions.