
DukeMed Alumni News, Summer 2023
Heeding the Call: Dismantling Racism
A Seat at the Table
In his nearly nine years working at Duke, Lowell Tyler says there have been countless times when he’s been the only Black person or Black man in the room. It can be a bit of a challenge, and even though it’s a situation he has gotten accustomed to, he says it’s one that can—and should—change.
Alumni Spotlight: Eric Dziuban, MD’07
A Long Struggle
Eric Dziuban, MD’07, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s country director for the southwest African nation of Namibia, was enjoying a weekend at the coast with his family when the call came. A Romanian couple who had recently arrived in the Namibian capital of Windhoek from Spain had fallen ill. Tests confirmed everyone’s fear: COVID-19 had finally come to Namibia.
Will You Put the Hat On?
Alumni Spotlight: Charles Lucore, MD'83
Adapt and Innovate: Medical Education During a Pandemic
Giving Back to the Next Generation of Duke Cardiologists
Remembering a Founding Father of the Field of Free Radicals
Biochemist Irwin Fridovich, the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Medicine and a familiar figure on the Duke campus for more than 60 years, died on November 2, 2019, at the age of 90. Fridovich was internationally known for his work on the body’s responses to “free radicals,” dangerously corrosive oxygen molecules that would cause serious damage to tissues if left unchecked.
After 45 Years, Devoted Duke Medical Alumnus Reunites with Pilot Whose Arm He Saved
As an Air Force surgeon stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, during the height of the Vietnam War, Robert Green, AB’56, MD’60, saw a lot of badly injured servicemen cross his operating table. But one of them in particular stuck with him, a wounded young pilot whose journey from the skies over North Vietnam to Dayton was especially remarkable.
A Tribute to a Duke Great: Frederic M. Hanes, MD
When Wilburt C. Davison, MD, the founding dean of Duke University School of Medicine, was looking for a candidate to serve as the school’s inaugural chair of the Department of Medicine, the first name that came to mind was that of Frederic M. Hanes, MD.
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