Patient Care & Community Health News

Welcome Satish Subramaniam, M.D., MBBS, MPH, assistant professor of family medicine and community health. Subramaniam earned his MBBS from Bharathiar University (India), his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School, and his MPH from University of Washington. He completed a residency in family medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and a fellowship in occupational medicine at University of Washington. He is double-board certified in family medicine and occupational medicine.

Brian Antono, M.D., MPH, earned his M.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 2016, and his Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health in 2015.

For the first time in about 20 years, Duke family medicine residents have an inpatient presence at a Duke Health hospital.

Welcome Kenny Herring, M.D., as clinical faculty in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health. Herring graduated from medical school at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2017, and completed his family medicine residency at University of Colorado in 2020.

Last weekend, over 30 volunteers gathered at the Morris Street parking deck in downtown Durham to launch the first phase of the Bull City Community Garden project.

Welcome Gregory Sawin, M.D., MPH, as vice chair for education and faculty development in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. He joined the department on Jan. 1. Sawin earned his medical degree at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga., and he completed family medicine residency at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Va. He later completed the Faculty Development Fellowship in the Department of Family Medicine at UVA and the National Institute for Program Director Development Fellowship. While at UVA, he also received a Master of Public Health with a focus in health care policy, law and ethics.

Debra Whiteheart, MHS, PA-C, has been named assistant medical director of Duke Family Medicine Center, effective immediately. Whiteheart is a 2008 graduate of the Duke Physician Assistant Program, and has worked with the clinic since 2009.

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.

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.

On Feb. 4, Duke Family Medicine opened a second clinic location — Duke Family Medicine North Duke Street at 3116 N. Duke St. — with six patient rooms and three providers. Brian Halstater, M.D., and Lorraine Sease, M.D., MSPH, will see patients there, and an advanced practice provider (APP) position will soon be filled.