DukeMed Alumni News
Summer 2008

Class Notes :

1970s

Clifford B. David, T’68, MD’72, is senior physician with Nemours Children’s Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., where he lives with his wife Brenda.

James W. Ellett, T’69, MD’73, of Sumter, S.C., is a semi-retired member of a six-physician surgical group. He no longer works in the office or takes call but assists his partners with operations. Outside of work he enjoys playing golf and hunting. He has gone quail hunting in Texas and water fowl hunting in North Dakota and Arkansas. He also spends his time managing a woodland/tree farm/wildlife area and is taking courses in forestry and wildlife management at Clemson University. He and his wife Rebecca recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. They have two daughters, both graduates of Furman University.

David H. Mason Jr., MD’73, DC, of Marietta, Ga., recently founded a pharmaceutical company called Percept BioSciences. He is married to Melinda E. Mason and has five children: Jeff, 39; Conor, 30; Hannah, 28; Emma, 6; and Holly, 3.

Pamela B. Davis, PhD’72, MD’74, HS’73-’75, DC, was named dean and vice president for Medical Affairs at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in September 2007. Shortly after she was named dean, the university’s Clinical and Translational Science Award program—for which she is principal investigator—was funded by the NIH, which launched another adventure for her. She says 2008 will be a busy year that will include the summer marriages of both of her sons, Jason, 30; and Galen, 27. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio

L. Andrew Koman, T’70, MD’74, HS’74-’79, DC Century, was appointed in July 2007 as chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. He also is the current president-elect of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. He will become president of the society this September. He is married to the former Leigh Emerson, WC’71, DC Century and is the father of Amy Koman Grady, T’01, and Alexander.

Eric D. Lister, MD’74, is a physician/consultant with KI Associates, Ltd. in Portsmouth, N.H.. He assists health care boards, physicians, and executive teams in dealing with the changing face of American medicine. He recently spoke about the changes in the nature of professionalism at the University of Massachusetts Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds. He also helped the Leapfrog Group—a patient safety organization—design and conduct its January conference in Los Angeles. The title of the conference was “The Future of Hospital Governance: Quality at the Leading Edge.” He and his wife Marcie have two grown children and divide their time between living at a condominium in Portland, Me., and a waterfront home far up the Maine coast.

Richard M. Waugaman, MD’74, continues to practice psychiatry and sychoanalysis in Potomac, Md., and is clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University. For the past five years he has devoted much of his time to researching the works of William Shakespeare, especially the question of authorship of many of his works. Waugaman has published two recent articles attributing anonymous 1585 poems to Edward de Vere, also known as “William Shake-Speare.” He is researching other works by de Vere. Waugaman and his wife Elisabeth, PhD’77, live in Potomac and have three children—Garrett, Adele, and Richard.


Paul R. Lambert, T’72, MD’76, HS’76, has been elected to the 18-member American Board of Otolaryngology, the certifying organization for the specialty. He also holds the positions of vice president of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and secretary-treasurer of the American Otological Society—the oldest society within the specialty. Since 1999 Lambert has been chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, S.C. His daughter Lara, T’02, is an internal medicine intern at MUSC.

L. Reuven Pasternak, MD’77, MPH, MBA, has been named chief executive officer of the Inova Fairfax Hospital campus and executive vice president of academic affairs for Inova Health System in Falls Church, Va. In these roles he will oversee Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children, and the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute. He previously served as executive vice president and chief medical officer of Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, a system of seven hospitals.

Joseph Cheung, MD’78, is the principal investigator on two NIH RO1 grants. In 2006 he was appointed the Capizzi Professor of Medicine and chief of the Division of Nephrology at Jefferson Medical College. Outside of medicine he enjoys traveling, going to concerts, trying new restaurants, and collecting antique metal toy soldiers. His wife Barbara A. Miller, MD, HS’76-’80, is the Four Diamonds Professor of Pediatrics, chief of pediatrics hematology/oncology, and vice-chairman of pediatrics research at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Her NIH RO1 grant has been competitively renewed.

J. Douglas Graham III, MD’78, and others in his group at Indiana Heart Physicians were published in Circulation for their study on a cutting-edge approach to rapid intervention for acute myocardial infarction. He and his wife Lynn, N’73, live in Indianapolis, Ind. Their daughter Erin married Justin Kirby in September 2007.

Randall C. Rickard, T’74, MD’78, DC, a physician with Family Practice Partners in Murfreesboro, Tenn., received the 2007 Clinician of the Year Award from the Middle Tennessee Medical Center. He and his wife Susan, T’74, DC, have three children. Their daughter Dorsey, T’03 is a Med/Peds intern at Vanderbilt; son David is a computer programmer with Microsoft; and daughter Katie is a graduate student in education at Middle Tennessee State University. The Rickards live in Murfreesboro.

James S. Tiedeman, PhD’74, MD’78, HS’78-’82, DC Century, was named chairman of the American Board of Ophthalmology for 2008. He and his wife Patricia live in Charlottesville, Va. They have two children: Jenny, T’94, is an attorney in Washington, D.C., and John is an anesthesiology resident at the University of Virginia.