Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, social and molecular cancer epidemiologist and associate director, Community Outreach, Engagement and Equity (COEE) at DCI, and Rebecca Previs, MD, adjunct gynecologic oncology faculty.
William Creasman, MD, considered one of the founding fathers of the subspecialty of gynecologic oncology, was hired by then-Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology chair Roy T. Parker, MD (now deceased), in 1970 as the first fellowship-trained gynecologic oncologist at Duke and was the founder of the department’s Division of Gynecologic Oncology in 1972. Creasman is currently a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. (photo courtesy of Duke Medical Archives, circa the 1970s)