HCC Durham was initiated in 2015 as a partnership between Duke School of Medicine and City of Medicine Academy High School.
The HCC faculty sponsors at Duke School of Medicine are Dr. Patricia Martinez Quinones and Dr. Brian Gilmore.
Patricia Martinez Quinones, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Critical Care Specialist, General Surgeon, Trauma and Critical Care Surgeon
Duke School of Medicine
Brian F Gilmore, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Duke School of Medicine
At City of Medicine Academy High School, the HCC program is facilitated by guidance counselor Ms. Jennifer Watson, under the leadership of Principal Dr. Renita Griffin Jordan.
This HCC site was initiated by Duke medical students Victoria Bendersky and Harold J. Leraas who were recipients of the Health Career Academy Program Initiation Grant sponsored by Aetna’s Division of Racial and Ethnic Equality. The program is further supported by Duke School of Medicine’s General Surgery Interest Group.
