Ward Cunningham Rundles:  

I graduated from Duke University n 1967. My last semester was actually spent in genetic courses New York University and from work as an operating room tech at NYU teaching Hospital. I then matriculated at NYU. It so happened that when I began there, the nameplate said “Ward”. I figured, new town, new name, and have been “Ward” ever since. In the long run, most of my family came to New York, and we added my grandparents name Cunningham, and we have all been hyphenated since then. My first wife, with whom I lived for almost 4 decades, died in 2009. After I got my MD, I did post doctoral training at Bellevue Medical Center, and then fellowship in Immunology and Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University. I went into medical practice and since ...Expand for more