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Libby Carver, DNP, FNP-BC, joined the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health this summer as a clinician working in the Duke Employee Occupational Health & Wellness clinic. She earned her family nurse practitioner certificate from Duke University in 2018, her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Gardner-Webb University in 2015, a Master in Clinical Research Management from Duke University in 2002, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998.

On June 15, the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program celebrated its 2019 family medicine graduates — Anna Afonso, M.D.,  MPH; Jessica Lapinski, DO; Alexa Mieses, M.D., MPH; Alexa Namba, DO, MPH; and Mansi Shah, M.D.

Sara Sawka Mazzarelli, MHS, PA-C, joined the department in this spring as a PA seeing patients at Duke Family Medicine North Duke Street. Mazzarelli graduated from the Duke Physician Assistant Program in 2013, and earned her BA in Biological Sciences from Mount Holyoke College in 2009.

Family Medicine chief resident and resident leaders have been announced for the 2019-20 academic year.

Nick Hudak, MSEd, MPA, PA-C; Melinda Blazar, MHS, PA-C; April Stouder, MHS, PA-C; and Duke colleaugue Nancy Knudsen, M.D., were recognized by PAEA's Support to Advance Research (STAR) Program.

Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD, MPH, assistant professor, earned her Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and her doctorate in molecular biology and genetics from Cornell University. She is currently a Duke Clinical and Translational Sciences Award KL2 Scholar.

Anh Tran, PhD, MPH, assistant professor, is vice chief of education for the Division of Community Health, and serves as program director for the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Prog

Woodhall “Sandy” Stopford, MD, MSPH, assistant professor, serves as senior consultant emeritus to the Duke Toxicology Program, and was director of the program from 1989 to 2013. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1969 and completed his master of science in public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980.

Hunter Spotts, M.D., assistant professor, is a provider at Duke Student Health seeing patients at the Student Wellness Center, located in the heart of Duke University’s West Campus. He graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1995 and completed family medicine residency at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1998.

Cerrone Cohen, M.D., assistant professor, is co-associate program director of the Duke Family Medicine Residency. He sees patients at the Duke Family Medicine Center and at Duke Behavioral Health Broad Street.