CELEBRATING CAREERS
A HALF CENTURY OF
EXCELLENCE JANUARIO “HENRY” ESTRADA, BSMT/HT(ASCP) retired in June 2019 after 50 years of service to the Department of Pathology. Estrada was a molecular laboratory scientist specialist who had a particular expertise in electron microscopy (EM). He was dedicated to his profession with a passion for excellence, teamwork, and for serving the patients whose diseases were difficult or impossible to diagnose by any means other than EM. Estrada recounts some memories of his tenure in a June 2019 interview.
by SUSAN REEVES
The early days Henry Estrada came to Duke from the Philippines, where his mother was a schoolteacher and his father a lawyer, and they stressed the importance of a good education to their 7 children. “So all of us, luckily, finished college in the Philippines. And that’s when the mass exodus began to come to the United States to make a better life for all of us.” Estrada proudly lists the professional careers of his siblings: three doctors,
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Henry Estrada at work at the electron microscope in 2019.
