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Stead Rounds with Manesh Patel

Manesh Patel, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology), speaks with Duke residents as part of the Stead Attending Rounds at Duke University Hospital. Dr. Patel and this photo were featured in an Associated Press article about a research study investigating renal denervation. Read more in this Palm Beach Post article. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Emeritus professor Whalen, former chief of Internal Medicine, has died

Dean Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, shared with the faculty of the School of Medicine today the news that Robert E. Whalen, MD, professor emeritus of medicine, passed away on April 25 after an extended illness. He was 81. Dr. Whalen trained as an intern, and completed his residency and fellowship in cardiology at Duke. He was a clinical cardiologist from 1961 to 1992, and will be remembered as one of the doctors who helped shape the Duke clinical practice in the late 1970’s and throughout the 1980’s. He became a professor of medicine in 1974.