PROGRAM LEADERSHIP 

 

Department Chair
J. Lloyd Michener, M.D.

Dr. Michener graduated from Oberlin College and from Harvard Medical School. He completed residency in Family Medicine at the Duke-Watts program, receiving the national Mead Johnson Award in Family Medicine his senior year. He completed the Duke Faculty Development Fellowship, after which he joined the Duke faculty. In 1994, he was named Clinical Professor and Chairman of the Department. He has a long- standing interest in community health, prevention, informatics, and training of faculty. Nationally, Dr. Michener is a member of the Boards of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, the Administrative Board of the Council of Academic Societies, and the Executive Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Internationally, Dr. Michener and the Department faculty have an increasing role in training physicians in several Eastern European countries in prevention and primary care.

 

 

Victoria S. Kaprielian, M.D., FAAFP

Dr. Kaprielian graduated from Brown University and from the University of California at Los Angeles Medical School.  After medical school, she moved to Durham , NC in 1985 to begin her residency at the Duke-Watts Family Medicine residency program. She returned to UCLA to complete a Clinician-Teacher Fellowship, and in 1989 joined the faculty of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center .  Dr. Kaprielian has worked extensively in multiple levels of medical education, serving as Director of Predoctoral Education for 10 years, leading faculty development programs for 8 years, and teaching in the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program since 1991.  Dr. Kaprielian is Professor and Vice Chair for Education for the Department of Community and Family Medicine.

 

 

Dr. Warburton graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1965, and received his MD at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1969.  In 1972, he completed his Family Medicine Residency at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, NJ.  Dr. Warburton is Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He is also Chief of the Division of Duke Family Medicine.  In the past he has served as Medical Director of Duke Family Medicine, National Medical Director for Quality Management at Aetna, and Chief Medical Officer for NylCare, a division of New York Life.  In addition to his current duties as Professor and Chief, he is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Hospice Foundation.  

 

 

Justine Strand, DrPH, PA-C  

Dr. Strand graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Health Sciences and Physician Assistant Certificate in 1981.  She later received a Master of Public Health in 1998.  Currently, she is Associate Clinical Professor and Chief of the Physician Assistant Division in the Department of Community and Family Medicine.  She serves as a Co-coordinator for Practice & the Health System, the coordinator for the Gynecology and OB units of Clinical Medicine for the Physician Assistant Program and as Co-director, Introduction to Health Care Policy (with Christopher Conover, PHD, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy).  She is President of the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation, and is a member of Pi Alpha, the national physician assistant honor society. In 2005, Ms. Strand was named Outstanding PA of the Year for the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

 

 

Michelle J. Lyn, MBA, MHA

Michelle J. Lyn, MBA, MHA, Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, is the Chief for the Division of Community Health and Director of the Community Health Research Training and Liaison Centers of the Duke Center for Community Research (DCCR), Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI). In these roles, she creates and leads community-engaged disease prevention/health promotion and primary care research and service programs for at-risk populations. She also plans and manages educational programs for trainees of all levels as well as for faculty at Duke and across the US. She serves as the Program Director all Community Health educational programs and a member of the core faculty for the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program.  Ms. Lyn has worked in various capacities of clinical and educational program design and implementation for the Division of Community Health since 1998.

 

 

 

Ro has been a part of education at Duke University since 1989.  She joined Community & Family Medicine as a Graduate Medical Education Coordinator in 2008.  She is now the Education Director for the department.