DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

Class Notes: 1990s

Sarah Hollingsworth Lisanby, T’87, MD’91, HS’91-’95, has been promoted to director of the Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation at Columbia University in New York City, where she lives with her husband Satish I. Anjilvel.

Andrew J. Fisher, MD’92, has been named one of Denver’s top radiologists for the fifth consecutive year. In the past 10 months he has completed six ultra-marathon races. In the photo he is 43 miles into a 50 mile race in California. His longest-ever race was 70 miles.“It is a fabulous way to experience the Colorado Rockies,” he says of ultra-long-distance races. He lives in Englewood, Colo., with his wife Tanya and their children, Elana, 7; Mika, 5; and Chava, 1.

Lisa Fay Fowlkes, MD’93, left private practice to become
a hospitalist at St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, Ga. She
says she was recently divorced and has been traveling the
world as much as possible with her children, Aaron, 13,
and Ashley, 10.

G. Scott Dean, MD’93, HS’93-’99, a physician with Piedmont Orthopedics in Greensboro, N.C., teamed up with David Bright, MD’93, and a friend to win the team event of the White Lake, N.C. Half- Ironman Triathlon. Dean and his wife Mary and family live in Greensboro, N.C.

Andrew M. Kaplan, MD’93, the director of Cytopathology at South Shore Hospital in
South Weymouth, Mass., was recently named director of anatomic pathology. He is in a small group practice of six pathologists working at two hospitals. He has affiliations with major medical centers in Boston including Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He and his wife Linda have a son Ryan, 5,
and live in Scituate, Mass.

Steve K. Lee, MD’93, is now an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery and associate chief in the Division of Hand Surgery at New York University Hospital, Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institute. He and his wife Ona T. Wang, PhD’95, live in New York City.

David J. Esposito, MD’94, a cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon with Milford Vascular
Institute in Milford, Conn., received his MBA from Yale in May. He and his wife Melissa
have three sons—Dane, 10; Gino, 8; and Nico, 4—and live in Milford.

Cathy A. Petti, MD’95, HS’96-’99, ’00-’02, was awarded the 2007 College of American Pathologists (CAP) Foundation Humanitarian Grant Award. The grant will support the collaborative vision of Petti and the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah to enhance the delivery of medical care to people of Eldoret, Kenya. Petti currently serves as medical director of the infectious diseases laboratory at ARUP Laboratories, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is also an assistant professor of pathology and medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She lives in Salt Lake City.

John G. Pazin, MD’96, HS’96-’99, and his wife Carol welcomed their second son, Jacob, on August 9. John is an internal medicine physician with Cranberry Internal Medicine Associates in Cranberry Township, Pa. The family lives in
Wexford, Pa.

Mark A. Mallory, MD’97, became a partner at the Digestive Health Clinic in Boise, Idaho, in 2005 after having joined the group in 2003. The group, made up of seven physicians and one nurse practitioner, plans to expand the clinic in the next few years. Mallory is president of the Idaho Gut Club, which meets twice a year to discuss cases and listen to guest speakers. He is also medical director of endoscopy at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center and recently performed a Beethoven sonata and a Chopin nocturne at the Annual Musician Physicians concert, a fundraiser for the hospital’s new addition. He is married to Nancy Roellich Mallory, MD, a family practitioner. They live in Eagle, Idaho, with their two-year-old daughter Ava Rose.

David E. McCarty, MD’97, completed a sleep medicine fellowship in spring 2007 and plans to take the boards in November. He closed his primary care practice in August
to spend more time practicing sleep medicine. He also teaches physical diagnosis and
problem-solving skills to medical students at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He is married to Emma, a primary care physician in private practice. They have two daughters, Jacqueline, 5, and Audrey, 3.

Michael Hung-Hwa Yen, MD’97, DC, an interventional cardiologist with the Hudson Valley Heart Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. has been appointed director of Carotid
Intervention and is conducting several clinical trials in cardiovascular medicine. He and his wife Jenny C. Sung, MD’97, live in Poughkeepsie.

Lisa G. Criscione, T’93, MD’98, HS’98-’03, an assistant professor at Duke, started the Duke Lupus Clinic on July 1, 2007 with two colleagues. She and her husband Eric, G’96, PhD’00, have two children, Andrew, born in December 2006, and Natalie, born in May 2005. The family lives in Durham.

Catherine Pascoe Kaminetzky, MD’98, HS’98-’01, was named associate chief of staff for education at the Durham VA Medical Center in August. She lives in Durham.

Sean Ming-Yuan Wu, PhD’98, MD’99, HS’99-’01, completed his cardiology fellowship last June and started his own research lab at Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiovascular Research Center. His wife Joy Y.

Wu, PhD’00, MD, finished her endocrine fellowship in June. She is a staff endocrinologist at Mass General. They have two daughters, Julia, 7, and Alicia, 3. They live in Chestnut Hill, Mass.