DukeMed Alumni News
Fall 2007

Class Notes:
1980s

Jonathan D. Christenbury, MD’81, HS’81-’85, DC, and his wife Mary, MD, HS’80-’84, DC, have two children at Duke this fall. Joseph is a rising senior and Liz is a freshman. Jonathan is medical director of Christenbury Eye Center, PA, in Charlotte, and Mary is a private practice physician. The family lives in Charlotte.

Betsy McCarley Billys, MD’82, has opened a medispa called McCarley Dermaspa in Visalia, Calif. where she is raising her three kids, Lauren, a sophomore at Southern Methodist University; Jimmy, a high school senior; and Alyssa, a high school freshman.

Christine G. Bounous, T’75, MD’82, HS’82-’85, DC, and her husband Edwin, MD’80, T’81, HS’84-’85, B’99, DC, practice internal medicine in New Bern, N.C., where they are part of a 34-physician internal medicine/subspecialty group. Their daughter Charlotte, T’08, is an undergraduate at Duke, and their son Michael is a high school junior.

David Calcagno, MD’82, quit his vascular surgery practice this year and has since opened an office in Mechanicsburg, Pa., where he only treats varicose veins. “It’s great to be able to see the family and sleep through the night,” he writes. He and his wife Elizabeth have a son Paul, 14, and a daughter, Tess, 12.

Thomas H. Grote, MD’82, HS’82, is medical director of Forsyth Regional Cancer Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., and an assistant consulting professor of Medicine at Duke. He and his wife Susan live in Winston-Salem.

Rosanne Pollack Kappa, MD’82, is a physician with Women’s Health Care Specialists in Kingsport, Tenn. She and her husband Jeff, T’78, MD’81, a general and vascular surgeon, celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary in August. Their oldest child, Stephen, 22, graduated from Yale in May and plans to attend Vanderbilt Medical School in the fall. Their son David, 20, will graduate from Yale in 2008 and is applying to medical schools. Son Jason, 18, will attend Yale in the fall, and their daughter Laura, 15, will be a high school sophomore in the fall.

Greg K. Kirschner MD’82, has returned to his role as associate director of the family medicine residency program at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill. He says he enjoys training family physicians, not only in the Chicago area, but also in Nigeria, where he and his family remain actively involved at ECWA Evangel Hospital in Jos. The family served there for seven years and continues to make regular trips back. Kirschner recently was named a fellow in the West African College of Physicians. Outside of medicine he enjoys playing the piano, banjo, and guitar. His wife Carolyn is a gynecologic oncologist in practice at Evanston Northwestern Hospital. She is also involved with the care of women with vesicovaginal fistulas in Nigeria.
The couple has four teenage children: Christine, Katie, Stephanie, and Jonathan.

Deborah Jean Kondis, MD’82, recently received the Vanderbilt Resident’s Faculty Teaching Award. In addition to her private gynecology practice and operating room teaching responsibilities as assistant clinical professor of OB-GYN at Vanderbilt University, she has spent the past year working part time in an aesthetic medical center. She lives in Nashville, Tenn., and has two children. Pamela is a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, and Casey is a senior in high school.

Susan Page Lodewijks, T’78, MD’82, currently is a family physician at Edgeworth Medical Centre in Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. Her husband John, G’82, PhD’85, is a professor of economics. They have three children. Ben and Emma attend Sydney University, and Rachel is in high school.

Keith R. McCrae, MD’82, HS’82-’85, a professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, remarried in 2007 after being widowed in 2002. He has two children. Brett, 19, is at Brown University, and Kristen, 16, is a high school senior. He and his wife Katherine Emerson live in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Diana B. McNeill, T’78, MD’82, HS’87-’88, and her family spent two weeks in China and Japan in May. She has been on staff at Duke for 20 years, including being program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program since 2001 and full professor of endocrinology since March. She and her husband David, T’77, have four children—Matthew, 21, a Duke senior; Jenna, 18, a Duke sophomore; Jonathan, 22, a recent UNC graduate; and Cameron, 11. The family lives in Durham.

Steven Mark Ornstein, MD’82, in collaboration with his wife Lynne Nemeth, is conducting a study to assess a model to improve colorectal cancer screening in primary care practices across the United States. The study is funded by the National Cancer Institute. He is director of practice partner research at the Medical University of South Carolina. Steve and Lynne have two children. Joseph, 20, is a junior at Dartmouth College; and Joellen, 18, is a freshman at Northwestern University.

Matthew Ralston, MD’82, HS’83-’87, a radiologist with Radiology Associates in Portland, Maine, says he misses his classmates and any of them who make it to Maine should “look us up. We’re in the phone book.” He and his wife Katherine, L’89, have two children, Scott, 10, and Elizabeth, 8, and live in South Portland.

J. Philip Saul, T’78, MD’82, has been appointed medical director of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Children’s Hospital in Charleston, S.C. He continues as pediatric cardiology director. He recently was honored with induction into the Westminster School’s Thompson Science and Technology Hall of Fame. Westminster School is a private, co-ed, K-12 Christian school in Atlanta. He and his wife Amy, T’76, recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They have two children, Davis, 15, and Lillian, 10, and live in Mount Pleasant, S.C.

Leslie Schultz-Suhonen, T’78, MD’82, enjoys her time away from medicine by entering agility and obedience competitions with her 3-year-old Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever (Toller) named Misty. They were expected to compete in the Toller Championship Trials in September in their homeland of Finland. “Competitions are exciting,” she says, “because results depend on the flawless performance
of two athletes—the trainer and the dog.” She also points out an additional positive effect: “Because of Misty I usually get out for over an hour or more of brisk walks in the parks and nearby forest each day, in addition to agility practice twice a week. Otherwise I’d probably have my nose buried in a book all the time.” She and her husband Matti have two children, Janne and Anssi.

Susan Ina Spitz, MD’82, is a senior editor with Houghton-Mifflin Co. and American Heritage Dictionary. She is editor for the American Heritage Medical Dictionary; and 100 Words to Make You Sound Smart. She is a certified member of the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences. She has a daughter Megan Savage,19, who is a sophomore at Harvard College. Spitz lives in Newton, Mass.

Katherine Gutmann Wu, MD’82, HS’82-’85, ’86-’87, is a staff psychiatrist at Human Resource Consultants, PA, in Raleigh, N.C., where she practices holistic psychiatry. Her husband Lawrence, MD’82, HS’82-’85, A’87, is a regional medical director at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, where he works with a crew of medical directors, 70 percent of whom are Duke trained. He enjoys running in 5K races, although he reports that his times are a bit slower now. “Running in the older age groups enables me to win more races for my age group,” he writes. Katherine and Lawrence
have three children; one daughter recently graduated from Williams College and hopes to go to medical school. The family lives in Cary.

Marc T. Galloway, MD’84, an orthopedic surgeon, has received a Kappa Delta Award. It was presented to him at the Orthopaedic Research Society’s annual meeting in San Diego in February. Galloway is a physician at the Cincinnati Sport Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in Ohio.

Vincent Vilasi, MD’86, is president of Fair Oaks Anesthesia Associates in Fairfax, Va. He and his wife Leah live with their three children in Oak Hill, Va.

Beth Broadwin Belkin, BSN’78, MD’87, was named a distinguished fellow by the American Psychiatric Association. She is member of the board for the NY Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and a member of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee for the American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She also is a voluntary faculty member at Weill Cornell Medical College. She and her husband Rob, MD, HS’83-’86, have been married for 28 years and live in Scarsdale, N.Y. They have three children: Daniel, 23, will be a first-year medical student at Cornell University this fall; Sam, 21, is a third-year student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; and Molly, 18, will be a freshman at Duke this fall.

Oren Cohen, MD’87, DC, recently attended a CEO roundtable on cancer in New York along with other leaders, including Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski. Cohen is currently chief medical and scientific officer for Quintiles Transnational, a biopharmaceutical research organization headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C. He also is consulting professor of medicine on the infectious diseases faculties at the Duke and George Washington University schools of medicine. His other activities include serving on Chancellor for Health Affairs Victor Dzau’s executive committee for the 2007 American Heart Association Heart Walk and chairing this year’s Multiple Sclerosis Society Dinner of Champions. His wife Marla plans to open a private practice in psychiatry this fall. Their children Mark, 10, and Meredith, 5, attend Durham Academy and are “already die-hard Duke fans.” The family lives in Durham.

Andrew Coundouriotis, T’83, MD’87, HS’87-’92, has transitioned his practice to exclusively include facial plastic and reconstructive surgery after 12 years of practicing both facial plastic surgery and ear, nose, and throat. His new office is located in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he lives with his wife Elena.

Wilson Crone, T’82, MD’87, an assistant professor and science instructor at Albany Medical College in Albany, N.Y., is actively involved in the physician assistant program, teaching courses ranging from anatomy to research methods, as well as mentoring many of the students’ master’s projects.
In 2004 he was awarded the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He and his wife Donna, PhD’89, a research associate and lab manager at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, live in Troy, N.Y., with their two children, Cathy and Emily.

Mary C. Digel, MD’87, has a full-time family practice in the mountains of Alleghany County, North Carolina. She and her husband Richard J. Wurster have two children. Their daughter Rebecca, 23, is a third-year medical student at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, Calif. Her life’s goal is to work full time for Doctors Without Borders. Their daughter Anna, 14, is a high school freshman who says she will “never consider a job which requires a beeper.” The family lives in Sparta, N.C.

Marc H. Gorelick, MD’87, is in his seventh year as chief of pediatric emergency medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and recently became associate director of the Children’s Research Institute with a primary focus on clinical research. He gets to the Triangle occasionally as a member of the American Sub-board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine which is based in Chapel Hill. When not practicing medicine he plays tuba in a brass quintet, runs, and brews his own beer. His wife Lynn Broaddus, PhD’91, is executive director of Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers. Their oldest son Evan is entering the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall. Their younger son Girard will be a high school freshman. The family lives in Wauwatosa, Wisc.

Langdon A. Hartsock, MD’87, HS’87-’93, is the inaugural holder of the John Arthur Siegling, MD, Endowed Chair in Orthopedic Surgery at Medical University of South Carolina. His wife Charlotte is a full-time mother and accomplished tennis player. They have three sons, Langdon, 11, Thomas, 10, and Charles, 6, and live in Charleston.

Ann Elizabeth Miller, MD’87, is moving back to the Durham area after 16 years of private OB-GYN practice in New Jersey. Her partner Carmen Williams, E’81, MD’86, now works for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Miller’s two daughters are ages 15 and 11.

Leslie Joan Parent, MD’87, HS’87-’91, has been appointed chief of the Division of Infectious Disease at Penn State University College of Medicine, where her husband George J. Olt, MD, HS’84-’88, is division chief of gynecologic oncology. They have two daughters—a freshman and a junior in high school. The family lives in Hershey, Pa.

Reggie D. Parlier, MD’87, a physician with New Hope Family Medicine in Gastonia, N.C., has been busy recently with a mission trip to Rwanda, a canoe trip to the Maine wilderness, and as assistant scoutmaster for Troop 4 of the Boy Scouts in Gastonia. He and his wife Barbara have two sons, David, 14, and Mark, 13.

Robert D. Rehnke, MD’87, HS’92-’95, travels to Guatemala with his brother each June to do medical mission work. This year his wife Tammy and their twin daughters, Shelby and Katelynn,13, traveled with him to Guatemala. For the past 12 years he has been in private practice in St. Petersburg, Fla. He and Tammy have been married for 26 years.

Marc R. Safran, MD’87, left the University of California-San Francisco in April to become a professor of orthopedic surgery, associate chief of sports medicine, and team physician at Stanford University. He also recently received the International Tennis Hall of Fame Tennis Education Merit Award. He and his wife Lee, T’88, have three children, Janna, 10, Nathan, 8, and Clark, 6. They live in Burlingame, Calif.

Susan Weaver, T’83, MD’87, is the executive director of Alliance Medical Ministry, a faith-based nonprofit clinic that provides affordable primary medical care to the working uninsured in Wake County, N.C. Alliance provides care for more than 5,000 uninsured patients with comprehensive primary care at a fraction of the cost of local emergency rooms. Weaver also serves as medical director of community access at WakeMed Health and Hospitals and is president of the CapitalCare Collaborative (CCC), which uses Web-based initiatives to increase access to care for the uninsured. She was named “Tar Heel of the Week” by the Raleigh News & Observer earlier this year. She and Rob, T’83, celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary this year and live in Raleigh with their four children ages 17, 15, 13, and 9.

Mark E. Dovey, T’85, MD’89, has been named chief of the Section of Pulmonology and Allergy in the Department of Pediatrics at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pa. Prior to this he was chief of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, and Immunology at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children is a 161-bed pediatric hospital and a Level 1 pediatric trauma center with an affiliation with Drexel University College of Medicine. Dovey lives in Philadelphia.

W. Ross Stevens, MD’89, HS’89-’90, was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Radiology (ACR) at a formal convocation ceremony during the 84th ACR annual meeting and leadership conference in Washington, D.C. He is a clinical professor of radiology at Southern Illinois University. He and his wife Ann live in Springfield, Ill.