DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

In Brief:

'Life Altering Experience' at Duke
Makes Klotman Want to Give Back

Mary E. Klotman, T'76, MD'80, HS'80-'85

The years that Mary E. Klotman, T’76, MD’80, HS’80-’85 spent at Duke were “life altering,” she says. “You really are influenced in profound ways just by being in the Duke environment. I was surrounded by faculty who were exciting and excited about what they did. It motivated me.”

The chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute, and professor of medicine and microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City became president of the Duke Medical Alumni Association during Medical Alumni Weekend in October. She succeeds William C. “Billy” Andrews, T’76, MD’80, HS’82-’86, who held the position for 2006-2007.

Klotman says her goal as president is to promote broader involvement of medical alumni and strengthen the bridge and the dialogue between alumni and the medical school and medical center. Prior to her appointment at Mount Sinai 13 years ago she was at the National Institutes of Health for several years, and is a former assistant professor at Duke.

Klotman and her husband Paul E. Klotman, MD, HS’76-’82, professor and chair of medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, have two children—Alexander, 17, and Samuel, 18—and live in New York City.