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Mary T. Amato, MD’91, HS’91-’94, an emergency
medicine physician with Durham Emergency
Physicians PA, and her husband Joseph B. Tyson, B’93, welcomed triplet girls on Nov. 30, 2005. Their
names are Eva, Grace, and Claire. The family lives in Durham.

Rowena Dolor Cuffe, T’87, MD’91, HS’91-’95, G’98, DC, and her husband Michael S. Cuffe, MD’91, HS’91-’95, DC, are both working for Duke Medicine. Rowena is a general internist at the Durham VA Medical Center and director of the Duke Primary Care Research Consortium. Michael is a Duke cardiologist and serving as vice president of Medical Affairs for the Duke University Health System. They have a daughter and two sons ages 11, 8, and 2, and live in Chapel Hill.

Edwin L. Page, MD’91, an Otolaryngologist with ENT Associates of Columbus, Ga., says he always finds time to coach one of his sons’ sports teams. This summer he coached his son Miller’s 10-year-old Little League All Star Team to the district championship. They were runners up in the state championships. His other sons are Allen, 15; Ben, 13; and Hugh, 7. He and his wife Pam are in the process of trying to adopt a baby girl from China. The family lives in Columbus.

Andrew J. Fisher, MD’92, HS’97, and his wife Tanya Atagi welcomed their third
daughter in May. Chava (pronounced Hava) joins sisters Elana and Mika. Andrew says life in Denver is “great, with lots of time for hiking, running, and general mayhem.” The family lives in Englewood, Colo.

Katharine A. Kevill, MD’94, is a medical instructor in the Duke Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine. She formerly was a pediatric pulmonary medicine fellow
at Yale University.

Jeffery Johns, MD’95, has relocated to Jacksonville, Fla., to join Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital as medical director of the Spinal Cord Injury Center of Excellence, and as associate medical director of the Brooks Health System. He and his wife Virginia “Gigi” have three daughters—Sydney and Avery, 4; and Virginia, 2. The family lives in Jacksonville.

Rebecca S. Usadi, MD’95, DC, and husband Moshe M.E. Usadi, MD’94, DC, have taken positions with Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C. Rebecca has joined the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology. Moshe works at a community health clinic doing family practice. They have three boys, ages 9, 6, and 4, and live in Charlotte.

Gina DiRenzo-Coffey, MD’96, is medical director for inpatient pediatrics for Boys Town National Research Hospital and Alegent Health in Omaha, Neb. She also has an outpatient practice that specializes in children with special needs. She and her husband John have three children, Matthew, 7; Mary (Maggie), 4; and Anne, 2. They live in Omaha.

Sylvia Becker-Dreps, MD’97, is now a primary care research fellow at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. She and her husband Christopher have a daughter Sophia and live in Durham.

Jeffrey D. Greene, PhD’92, MD’97, recently celebrated his sixth year as a pediatrician in private group practice with Durham Pediatrics. He and his wife Karla have three children— Sarah, a high school freshman; Christopher, a sixth-grader; and Daniel, a third-grader. The family lives in Durham.

Eric G. Halvorson, MD’98, recently started work as an assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery at UNC-Chapel Hill. This follows a busy year in which he finished a fellowship in microsurgery and oncologic reconstruction at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and got married in July with a honeymoon in the Greek islands. In August he did volunteer work in Madagascar, mostly taking care of children with severe burn contractures. He lives in Chapel Hill.

Courtney D. Thornburg, T’94, MD’98, DC, an assistant professor of pediatric hematology/oncology at Duke, and her husband Agustin Calatroni, welcomed their second child on July 14. Sofia Calatroni joins older sister Cecilia, 3. The family lives in Durham.

Wendalyn King, MD’98, has completed a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine and in June 2005 joined the faculty at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., as assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine. She lives in Atlanta.

Herb E. Greenman, MD’99, HS’03, says he is excited to report that he has joined his twin brother and father at Greenman Eye Associates in Charlotte, N.C. He focuses on the front of the eye, performing Lasik, cataract surgery, and corneal transplants, while his brother specializes in diseases of the vitreous and retina. He lives in Charlotte.

Craig S. Heinly, T’91, MD’99, HS’03, was recently made a partner in Triangle Dermatology Associates, PA, in Durham, where he lives with his wife Stella A.
Boswell, T’90, and their two daughters, Julia, 8, and Claire, 5.

Paul Borchyung Yu, MD’99, PhD’00, DC, a member of the Division of Cardiology at
Massachusetts General Hospital, received the Mentored Clinical Scientist Award from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association and the National Heart and Lung
Institute. The association granted $300,000 to support Yu’s research in addition to the NIH-mentored clinician-scientist development budget of over $600,000 over a
five-year span. The funds will support Yu’s research on pulmonary hypertension.
He lives in Boston.