{"id":51346,"date":"2026-06-11T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=51346"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:45:25","slug":"doctor-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/doctor-in-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor in the Family!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\" style=\"margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"390\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dr.-Cassidy-Kurita-Nancy-Whitaker.jpg?fit=318%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51347\" style=\"width:250px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cassidy Kurita, daughter of Babette (Whitaker) and Makoto Kurita&nbsp; received her Doctorate degree from UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.&nbsp;She is now doing her residency at Duke University Hospital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Younger sister,&nbsp;Remi finished her Masters in Geo Science and&nbsp;got accepted to the University of South Carolina for her PHD receiving&nbsp;&nbsp;paid tuition and a stipend for 4 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cassidy and Remi Kurita are also the granddaughters of Nancy and the late Pete Whitaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mother Babette is originally&nbsp;from Scott Ohio and a graduate of Wayne Trace&nbsp;High School. Father&nbsp;&nbsp;Makoto is from Tokyo. They currently reside in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassidy Kurita, daughter of Babette (Whitaker) and Makoto Kurita&nbsp; received her Doctorate degree from UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.&nbsp;She is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[29214,29213,29216,29215,12838,29219,29217,29218],"class_list":["post-51346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-school","tag-babette-whitaker-kurita","tag-cassidy-kurita","tag-duke-university-hospital","tag-makoto-kurita","tag-nancy-whitaker","tag-pete-whitaker","tag-remi-kurita","tag-university-of-south-carolina"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dr.-Cassidy-Kurita-Nancy-Whitaker.jpg?fit=318%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-dma","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 10:16:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51348,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51346\/revisions\/51348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}