DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

Class Notes: 2000s

Carolyn C. Port, T’96, MD’01, has become a partner in her group practice, The Pediatric Center in Glen Allen, Va. She and her husband John, T’96, have two children—Anna, 4; and Madeline, 2—and live in Richmond.

Rahul Khurana, MD’02, has been named one of the 2007 Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the United States Junior Chamber (Jaycees). In 2007 he also received the American Medical Association’s Foundation Leadership Award and was named the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology Paul Kayser International Travel Scholar. Khurana currently is a clinical instructor and surgeon at the Wilmer Eye Institute at
the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He lives in Baltimore, Md.

Arlene Molino Ruiz de Luzuriaga, MD’03, completed her dermatology residency at the University of Chicago in June. She now is on staff at the Cleveland Clinic-Beachwood Family Health and Surgery Center in Beachwood, Ohio. In September 2006 she married Brian Ruiz de Luzuriaga, MD’03. They live in Fairlawn, Ohio.

Lisa M. Schweigler, MD’03, completed her residency in emergency medicine at the
University of Michigan in June 2007. She is now a research fellow in the Robert Wood
Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michigan, where she is focusing
on emergency department overcrowding and the function of the emergency epartment as a health-care safety net for the medically underprivileged.

Sonali Prakash Kulkarni, T’00, MD’04, finished her residency in June and spent the rest of the summer visiting medical school friends on the east coast. She recently celebrated her one-year anniversary with husband Kapil. They live in San Francisco.

Nicholas A. Viens, T’03, MD’07, HS-current, was married to Lindsey Brooke Klee in
Duke Chapel on Sept. 1. His bride is from Kentucky and a UNC graduate, while he is from Maine and a die-hard Blue Devils fan. He says, “I guess it proves something special when a Tar Heel from Kentucky can marry a Blue Devil!” Viens is a first-year resident in orthopedic surgery at Duke. The couple lives in Durham.