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 DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008
House Staff Notes: 90s
Karen Bullock, MD, HS-current, continues her active duty Navy service as a fulltime
Duke fellow and received a promotion to Lieutenant Commander in September.
It was celebrated at the Division of Hematology/ Oncology’s Grand Rounds.
She is a second-year fellow in adult hematology and medical oncology and is
pictured with her father, William N. Bullock right), and Capt. Jeffrey B. Cole,
Medical Corps, United States Navy (left), the current chief of internal medicine at
the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va., and Navy Governor of the American
College of Physicians.
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Steve N. Georas, MD, HS’87- ’90,and his wife Lisa Beck,
MD, HS’87-’90, moved to
Rochester, N.Y., in 2006 to join
the University of Rochester
Medical Center faculty. He is director
of the Division of Pulmonary
and Critical Care Medicine,
and she is associate professor
of dermatology and director of
translational research in dermatology.
The medical center was
recently awarded a clinical and
translational sciences award
from the National Institutes of
Health. Georas writes, “These
are exciting times, and we are
expanding the research mission
in our respective groups.”
L. Scott Levin, T’77, MD,
HS’82-’91, a tenured professor
at Duke in the Division of Plastic/
Reconstructive/Oral Surgery,
received the 2007 Master
Clinician-Educator Award from
the Duke University School
of Medicine. He and his wife
Helga live in Durham.
Rakesh Uppal, MD, HS’91-’92, a cardiothoracic surgeon
at University Cardiothoracic
Centre in London, England,
has been appointed director of
Cardiac Services at Barts and
The London Charity, an independent
registered charity for
the three hospitals of Barts and
The London NHS Trust—Barts
in the City, The Royal London in
Whitechapel, and The London
Chest in Bethnal Green—and
their schools of medicine,
dentistry, and nursing. Barts
and The London is the largest
cardiology and cardiothoracic
surgical service in the United
Kingdom, providing tertiary
services to 3.2 million people.
He and his wife Mira have
two daughters—Ria, 7, and
Malika, 4.
J. Brantley Thrasher, Sr., MD,
HS’91-’92, was named a
top doctor in America by the
Consumer Research Council
and as one of the best doctors
in America by Best Doctors
Consortium. He was recently
named a special society editor
for the Journal of Urology,
representing the Society of
Urologic Oncology. He was also
chosen to be president-elect of
the South Central Section of the
American Urological Association
and was elected secretary
for the Society of Urologic
Oncology. He currently is the
coordinating editor of Practical
Reviews in Urology and a
member of the editorial advisory
board for Urology Times.
He and his wife Laurie have
been married for 18 years. They
live in Leawood, Kans., and
have two children, Brantley, 16,
and Madeline, 13.
Tracy M. Collins, MD, HS’89-’93, of Schererville, Ind.,
traveled to Ghana in April on
a medical mission trip. She
spent two weeks caring for
pregnant women with malaria
and performing C-sections and
hysterectomies under “some
very challenging circumstances.”
She also gave lectures to
students at a nurse midwife
school. She and her husband
Darryl Crockett have a son and
daughter in preschool.
John C. Lucke, MD, HS’88-’90,’92-’93, and his family have
been living in Asheville, N.C.,
for the past 12 years. He is
a thoracic surgeon with the
Asheville VA Medical Center. He
and his wife Barbara have two
sons, Taylor, 16, and Austin, 13,
who are both active in school
sports and recreational hockey,
and are both working toward
becoming Eagle Scouts.
Gary Brian Pohl, MD, HS’89-’93, was selected to be the
clinical director of the Community
Transition Unit at the
Central Regional Psychiatric
Hospital in Butner, N.C. He lives
in Hurdle Mills, N.C., with his
wife Sue.
Ali R. Rahimi, MD, HS’91-’93, has been named Mentor of
the Year by students at the
University of Georgia School
of Pharmacy. He also has
been appointed as clinical
professor and elected as
counselor for the State of
Georgia in the Southern Medical
Association. He and his
wife Sorahi Toloyan-Rahimi,
MD, HS’91-’94, have three
children and three grandchildren
and live in Savannah.
Kathleen Ann Riley, MD,
HS’90-’93, a pediatrician with
Randolph Medical Associates
in Asheville, N.C., says she
enjoys small-town practice with
a busy, bilingual population.
She gets special pleasure out
of watching her two daughters
grow and mature as they explore
acting, dance, and karate.
She and her husband Mark
Reed live in Asheville.
Shie-Pon Tzung, MD,
HS’91-’94, received the 2007
Washington State Asian and
Pacific Islander (API) Hepatitis
B Award. He serves as chair
of the Washington State API
Hepatitis B Task Force. He and
his wife Ju-Chuan Hu live in
Bellevue, Wash., with their
children Ashley and Justin.
David A. Wohl, MD, HS’91-’94, has been named director
of the UNC-Chapel Hill AIDS
Clinical Trials Site. He has
received a grant from the
National Institute of Mental
Health of the NIH to study the
prevalence of HIV in North
Carolina state prisons. He
and his wife Alison have two
children, Nia, 8; and Zac, 3,
and live in Carrboro, N.C.
Stephen P. Combs, MD, HS’92-’95, recently was promoted to
president and CEO of Wellmont
Physician Services and vice
president for medical affairs at
Holston Valley Medical Center
in Gray, Tenn. He oversees
all physician activities and a
budget of $165 million, as well
as day-to-day operations. He
still practices part time in his
clinic with his brother Landon.
In July he married Kimberly
Danielle Tousinau. They live in
Kingsport, Tenn.
Norman L. Dean, MD, HS’95-’96, retired in 2005 but is still
active doing pro-bono work for
the Civic Research Institute Society
of Correctional Physicians.
He reviews manuscripts for
the American College of Chest
Physicians for publication in the
journal Chest. He has recently
contributed to several publications
including a chapter on
asthma in the textbook Health
Issues Among Incarcerated
Women and an article on
lung cancer in women for The
Correctional Health Report
and The Correctional Health
Journal. He and his wife Margaret
live in Chapel Hill.
Carl E. Gessner, MD, HS’90-’96, is a clinical associate
professor at the UNC School of
Medicine. He is also chair of the
gastroenterology services committee
at Moses Cone Health
System and director of continuous
quality improvement at the
LeBauer Endoscopy Center in
Greensboro, N.C. For the past
four years he and his wife Debbie
have lived in Greensboro
with their children Maggie, 9,
and Jon Thomas, 5.
R. David Anderson, MD,
HS’94-’95, ’98, recently left
private practice to return to
academic medicine as director
of interventional cardiology
at the University of Florida in
Gainesville. He and his wife
Heather have four children
ages 5, 9, 11, and 26. They live
in Gainesville.
Mark W. Feinberg, MD, HS’94-’98, is a principal investigator
of a vascular biology lab at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
in Boston, where he is a staff
cardiologist. He also is an
assistant professor of medicine
at Harvard Medical School. He
and his wife Lori Feinberg, MD,
PhD, have twin daughters who
turned 3 in October. The family
lives in Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Michelle F. Jones, MD, HS’99,
is the 2007 president of the
North Carolina Academy of
Family Physicians, the largest
specialty organization in the
state. Her presidential project
is helping to coordinate mental
health care in the state through
the iCARE Partnership, whose
website is www.icarenc.org.
She is a physician with Wilmington
Health Associates. She
and her husband James live in
Hampstead, N.C.
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