Brody School of Medicine
Class Notes
Class of 1982
Kenneth Everett Olive, MD
Dr. Olive was appointed Executive Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs at the Quillen
College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University, effective July 1, 2008. (November)
Class of 1989
Arthur William Blackstock, Jr., MD
Dr. Blackstock was recently named chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center. He was recently named one of the nation’s top African-
American doctors by Black Enterprise magazine. Dr. Blackstock is also an accomplished clinical
trial investigator in lung and gastrointestinal cancers who has been the principal or co-principal
investigator for 10 national and international research studies. (October)
Class of 1993
Temple Howell-Stampley, MD, FACP
Dr. Howell-Stampley completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
She is currently on faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and is a Fellow in the
American College of Physicians. She and her husband of 12 years, Marion, have three children; Alex
(8), Madison (7), and Morgan (3). (October)
Class of 1997
Monica E. Miller, MD
Dr. Miller currently works at Boston University Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery in Boston,
Massachusetts. (March)
Class of 1999
Barbara Darnell Aldridge, MD
Dr. Aldridge recently joined the staff of Piedmont Health Services as lead physician of Scott
Community Health Center. Piedmont Health Services provides primary care to rural and
underserved patients in Alamance, Caswell, Orange and Chatham Counties. She lives in Graham
with her husband, Ben, and eight year old son, Quin. (December)
Class of 2000
Jana Watts, MD
Dr. Watts is currently practicing as a sports medicine physician at Mission Hospitals’ Sports
Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic in Asheville, NC. She and her husband have been married for 3
½ years and she enjoys traveling, skiing, cooking and white water canoeing. (November)
Class of 2001
Brian Cabarrus, MD
Dr. Cabarrus recently joined the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the Brody School of
Medicine. He completed residency training at the University of Florida and completed fellowships
in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at ECU. Dr. Cabarrus sees patients at the
East Carolina Heart Institute under the auspices of ECU Physicians. (December)
David Collier, MD
Dr. Collier, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Brody School of Medicine,
was inducted on February 2, 2009, to the new Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy. The
inaugural class of scholars were selected from a pool, recommended by the deans, and is comprised
of one scholar from each college. An induction ceremony was held for the ten scholars with the
Chancellor of East Carolina University and other administrators/academic leaders. (February)
Shawn Dalton-Bethea, MD
Dr. Dalton-Bethea has been back in NC from the lovely northeast since August of 2007. She is
working at Vanguard Brain & Spine Specialists and is currently the only non-surgical physician with
an eight male neurosurgical group in Greensboro. (March)
Shandal Emanuel, MD
Dr. Emanuel is working at Eastern North Carolina Medical Group in Rocky Mount, NC. She is
working in a multi-specialty group practicing Meds/Peds and would love to mentor students who
are interested in this specialty. (March)
Reza E. Ershadi, MD
Dr. Ershadi’s specialty is interventional cardiology and he currently works at Coastal Carolina
Cardiology in Greenville, NC. (March)
Class of 2003
Badie T. Clark, III, MD
Dr. Clark will finish his pediatric critical care fellowship at the University of Virginia in June of 2010.
In June of 2008 he married Julie Prouty of Wilson, NC. (May)
Michael Warren, MD
Dr. Warren has taken a new position as Medical Director of The Governor’s Office of Children’s
Care Coordination (GOCCC) for the State of Tennessee. The GOCCC is responsible for
coordination of children’s services as provided by the various state agencies and a number of child
advocacy groups. His responsibilities include Tennessee’s infant mortality initiatives and
preventative health services efforts. He will continue to see patients at Vanderbilt on a part-time
basis and will keep his Vanderbilt email address. (February)
Class of 2005
Luke Martin, MD
Dr. Martin is currently preparing for his chief year in general surgery at West Virginia University.
He recently won the Bernard Zimmerman research competition with the presentation “Impact of
transfer status in trauma patients in a rural setting”. (May)
Class of 2006
Gregory C. Appert, MD
Dr. Appert will finish his residency in internal medicine in June of 2009 and will be joining a private
practice in July of 2009. (March)
Nick Jernigan, MD
Dr. Jernigan will start his fellowship in Neurodevelopment Disabilities in 2010. (March)
Jill Marie Sutton, MD
Dr. Sutton and her husband, Jereme, welcomed their daughter, Hannah Grace, into the world on
July 1, 2008. (March)
Class of 2007
Claudine Warfel Corbett, MD
Dr. Corbett and her husband, Mark, are finishing up their second year of family medicine residency
at Wake Forest University. (March)
David C. Ehrmann, MD
Dr. Ehrmann is currently a pediatric resident at PCMH/BSOM. He and his wife, Sarah, celebrated
the birth of their second boy, Benjamin Charles. Jacob is now a big brother. (March)
Holly A.C. Warren, MD
Dr. Warren is currently an internal medicine resident at Duke University Medical Center. (March)
Class of 2008
Ashleigh Johnson Freeman, MD
Dr. Freeman recently married Eric Glenn Freeman, Jr., on May 24, 2008. She is a family medicine
resident at McLeod Regional Medical Center. (March)