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Jennie Robertson Crews, MD’90, HS’90-’95, the director of oncology at Comprehensive
Cancer Care in Washington, N.C., has been elected as a member at large to the Board of the North Carolina Oncology Association. She and her husband Philip live in Washington.

Daniel J. George, MD’92, an associate professor of oncology at Duke, says his career is skyrocketing with numerous professional accomplishments including tenure, several publications, two patents, and many industry-sponsored talks. He and his wife Carla have a daughter named Shasta. They enjoy camping and exploring. They live in Durham.

Hiranya A. Rajasinghe, MD’92, is entering his fifth year of private practice as a vascular surgeon in Naples, Fla. He recently was named chief of
surgery at Physicians Regional Medical Center in Naples and was published in the Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery on the use of covered stents to treat popliteal artery aneurysms percutaneously. He is engaged to Rhonda Hendricks.

Steven F. Stasheff, PhD’91, MD’92, has been awarded the 2006 Child Neurology Society Scientific Award, as well as a 2006 Lewis Rhodes Charitable Trust Research Grant. The awards will fund research into the changes in physiology of retinal ganglion cells accompanying inherited retinal degeneration and neuronal ceroid lipfuscinosis. He also reports that he is thrilled to be recently engaged to Colleen
Fennell, a reading specialist, developmental educator, and elementary school teacher. Stasheff is an instructor in neurology at Harvard Medical School and an assistant in neurology at Children’s Hospital Boston.

Amir-Hossein Mehran, MD’94, has been named director of Bariatric Surgery
at UCLA School of Medicine. He said that on a daily basis he must “defend Duke’s honor against nonsense about UCLA basketball being ‘the best thing since sliced bread.’” He and his wife Maryam Pourmalek-Mehran live in Encino, Calif. They have two children, Arya, 6, and Neeka, 4.

Cynthia M. Boyd, MD’97, is assistant professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins. She and her husband Gregory Lucas, MD’94, a Hopkins faculty member in infectious diseases, have two children—Graham, 3, and Liam, 1. They live in Towson, Md.

Michael Bolognesi, MD’98, HS’98-’03, DC, and his wife Kelly welcomed their second child Mariana in December 2006. She joins a brother John Paul. Michael recently was named director of Adult Reconstruction in Orthopedics at Duke. The family lives in Durham.