Inside Duke Medicine
Longtime Duke adviser McMahon dies at 87
posted November 3rd, 2008
J. Alexander McMahon, who as a trustee chair, faculty member and health care leader helped advise Duke University and hospital officials for more than four decades, is dead at 87.
A native of Monongahela, Pa., and a 1942 Duke graduate, McMahon began working with Duke officials when he was president of North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the late 1960s. He worked with Dr. William Anlyan and other Duke medical officials on regional health issues.