DukeMed Alumni News
Fall 2007

Class Notes:
2000s

Vikas J. Patel, T’96, MD’00, HS’01-’04, and Neha Gohel were married in North Carolina on June 23. They live in Tysons in northern Virginia, where Patel works as a dermatologist and Gohel is a senior analyst for Omniture, Inc.

Daniel T. Ruan, MD’00, and his wife Janie Ho, MD’00, are back to San Francisco, Calif., while he completes a one-year fellowship in endocrine surgery. He has signed on to be an attending at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2008. Ruan completed his surgery residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Ho finished her ophthalmology residency at the University of California, San Francisco and her retina surgery fellowship at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. They have a three-year-old son, Nolan, and are expecting a second child in October. Ho plans to take a one-year hiatus from private practice to spend time with their children.

Nina Athar Ali, MD’02, recently joined the staff as assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of OB-GYN. She and her husband Asif have two daughters, Nylah, 3, and Nadia, 1, and live in Houston.

Michael Keith Bowman, MD’02, completed his residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in June and went into private practice in July. He and his wife Jennifer were recently married. Their family includes his stepson Dylan, 9, and their children Aiden, 2, and Mirra, 6 months. Their “extended” family is also made up of four horses, two dogs, a cat, a parrot, and a gerbil. They live in Pike Road, Ala.

Heather J. Frederick, MD’02, HS’02-’06, will finish her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Duke in November. She and her husband Erik, PhD’00, have two young children, Alek and Erin, and live in Durham.

Anand Rohatgi, T’97, MD’02, is completing his third year of a cardiology fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. He and his wife Susan Matulevicius, E’98, welcomed their first child, Dhilan, in February. The family lives in Dallas.

Jane Vy Trinh, MD’02, HS’02-’06, is now chief resident of ambulatory care in Duke’s Department of Internal Medicine. She and her husband Peter Michael Grossi, MD’02, HS-current, live in Durham.

B. Ryan Phelps, MD’03, is in Swaziland working for the Pediatrics AIDS Corps as part of the Baylor College of Medicine’s International Pediatrics AIDS Initiative. He keeps a web log (blog) about his experiences in Swaziland and invites fellow alums to check it out at www.pediatrician-in-swaziland.blogspot.com

Brad D. Talley, MD’04, has been elected by the faculty and residents of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals as chief resident in the Department of Radiology. In the past year he has presented on malignant pleural mesothelioma at the Radiological Society of North America, and he continues to serve as a regional interviewer for Duke. He and his wife Robin live in Brookline, Mass. They enjoy spending weekends on Cape Cod and summer evenings at Fenway Park.

Joshua M. Unger, E’96, MD’06, a surgeon at UNC Hospitals, was recently honored with the 2007 Medical Staff Executive Committee House Officer Award. He was selected along with five other resident physicians based on his outstanding performance and compassion to patients and their families. Unger and his wife Sarah, G’06, MD’07, live in Durham.