DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

House Staff Notes: 2000s

Anthony J. Choe, MD, HS’98- ’01, is making house calls as president of a newly opened private practice called Chelsea Village Family Medicine, PC, in Chelsea, Mich. He and his wife Cheryl and daughter Emily live in Tecumseh, Mich.

Peter DeBalli III, MD, HS’98-’01, was named chief of anesthesiology at Parrish Medical Center in January 2007. He and his wife Shannon welcomed their third son, Malcolm, on August 11, 2007. Their oldest son Peter is 7, and Grant is 5.

Daniel T. Kuesis, MD, HS’01, has opened a new orthopedic practice in the northwest
suburbs of Chical in Elk Grove Village, Ill., called Core Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
He and his wife Cynthia welcomed a son, Maximus, on June 30. The family lives in
Barrington, Ill.

Alvin F. Wells, MD, HS’96-’01, was recently named one of“America’s Top Physicians” in rheumatology. He also opened a second clinic and wellness center in the north Chicagosouth Wisconsin area. He and his wife Gina live in Grayslake, Ill.

Thomas K. Bond, MD, HS’02-’03, a sports medicine and family medicine physician, is
president of Total Care Health and Wellness Medical Center in Lafayette, La. He is a team physician for the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and a consulting physician for the U.S. Snowboarding Team. In March he went on a medical mission trip to Honduras. He and his wife Ann, a registered nurse in pediatric oncology, have a son Thomas, Jr., 2. They live in Houma, La.

Douglas J. Bell, MD, HS’01-’04, an anesthesiologist with Anesthesiology Associates of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, is also medical director of anesthesia services at St. Luke’s South Shore Hospital. He and his wife Molly, son Owen, 2, and daughter Julia, who was born in August, live in Menomonee Falls, Wis.

Noel A. Brownlee, MD, HS’03-’04, is a pathologist with Pathology Associates and
Consultants of Greenville, PA, in Greenville, S.C., and an adjunct professor of pathology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. In October he and his wife Caroline Dillard Brownlee, MD, moved to Piedmont, S.C.

Christophe Lillis, MD, HS’00-’04, recently became a member of the Washington, D.C.,
National Medical Response Team. He currently is a partner with Heritage Village Internal Medicine, PC, in Gainesville, Va., and lives in Fairfax.

Zainab A. Malik, MD, HS’02-’05, a physician at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York City, had his research abstract accepted at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America. He and his wife Salman A. Bajwa live in New Rochelle, N.Y.