Inside Duke Medicine
SOM, SON faculty get distinguished professorships
posted April 28th, 2010Ten School of Medicine faculty members and one from the School of Nursing are among 28 faculty who have been awarded distinguished professorships by Duke University. They are:
School of Medicine
- Vadim Arshavsky, Helena Rubinstein Foundation Professor of Ophthalmology
-- A. Wesley Burks, Kiser-Arena Professor of Pediatrics
-- Blanche Capel, James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology
-- Nelson Chao, Donald D. and Elizabeth G. Cooke Cancer Research Professor
-- David Benjamin Goldstein, Richard and Pat Johnson University Professor of Cardiovascular Genomics
-- Robert A. Harrington, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology
-- Nicholas Katsanis, Jean and George W. Brumley, Jr., M.D. Professor of Developmental Biology
-- Paul Noble, Charles Johnson, M.D. Professor of Medicine
-- Eric D. Peterson, Fred Cobb, M.D. Professor of Medicine
-- John H. Sampson, Dr. Robert H. Wilkins and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery
School of Nursing
-- Ruth A. Anderson. Virginia Stone Professor of Nursing
The professors were recognized at a dinner Tuesday, April 27, at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, with other university distinguished professors -- current and emeritus -- in attendance.