Inside Duke Medicine
PA Hall of Fame inductees
posted October 28th, 2008
Inductees into the Duke PA Program Hall of Fame who attended the PA celebration on Oct. 6 in the Searle Center:
Front row, left to right: Arnold Grandis, Joyce Copeland and Mildred Woody.
Second row, left to right: George Parkerson, E. Harvey Estes Jr., Patricia Jennings and Michael Hamilton.
Photo by Duke Photography
Oct. 6 is a special day for physician assistants (PAs) and for Duke University Medical Center. On that day in 1967, the first three PAs graduated from Duke University.
At 3 p.m. this Oct. 6, alumni joined students, faculty, staff and friends for a celebration that featured comments by Michael Cuffe, M.D., vice president for medical affairs; E. Harvey Estes Jr., M.D., one of founders of the PA profession; and Victoria Kaprielian, M.D., vice chair for education, Department of Community and Family Medicine. One of the first three PAs to graduate from Duke, Victor Germino Jr., also attended the event. A reception was held afterward in celebration of National Physician Assistant Week. Patricia R. Jennings, DrPH, PA-C (‘89) and the following Honorary PAs were inducted into the Duke PA Hall of Fame:
Kathleen Gainor Andreoli, R.N.; Joyce Copeland, M.D.; Donna Davis; Sewell H. Dixon Jr., M.D.; Edward Harvey Estes Jr., M.D.; Doyle Gene Graham, M.D., Ph.D.; Arnold Grandis, M.D.; Michael Amin Hamilton, M.D.; Dennis Robert Howard, M.D. (posthumously); David Edmund Lewis; James Charles Mau; Charles B. Neal III, M.D. (posthumously); Suydam Osterhout, M.D., Ph.D.; George Robert Parkerson Jr., M.D., Ph.D.; Eugene S. Schneller, Ph.D.; Jay Samuel Skyler, M.D.; George Hanford Spooner, M.D.; Eugene Anson Stead Jr., M.D. (posthumously); Henry Lee Treadwell (posthumously); and Mildred M. Woody.