Reunion returns in person

What a comeback! Reunion returns to campus

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Classmates reunite at the 50th Reunion Class Celebration at Smith & Wollensky on May 20.

Alumni close out Reunion Weekend with a celebration at Vu Rooftop in South Loop.

Jeanne Farnan, AB’98, MD’02, MHPE, Associate Dean for Medical School Education, gives an update during the Welcome Breakfast.

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Rebecca Anderson, MD’02, and children at the Reunion photo booth.

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Alumni from several classes celebrate at Morton’s The Steakhouse.

Biological Sciences Division alumni gather during the Alumni Night Out event at Pinstripes.

After two years of “virtual reunions,” alumni returned to campus May 20-21 for the 2022 Pritzker School of Medicine Reunion and inaugural Biological Sciences Division Reunion.

Mark Mimee, PhD, left, Allison August, MD’93, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Infectious Diseases, at Moderna, and emcee Gail Farfel, PhD’93, gave short lectures on their work during the Lightning Talks event.

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Callum Ross, PhD, Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, leads a tour of the Anatomy Lab.

Milestone classes celebrate Reunion

CLASS OF 1972 50 YEARS

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CLASS OF 1982 40 YEARS

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Members of the Class of 1972 raise a glass during their induction to the Alumni Emeriti Society.

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CLASS OF 1992 30 YEARS

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CLASS OF 1987 35 YEARS

CLASS OF 200715 YEARS CLASS OF 1997 25 YEARS

CLASS OF 200220 YEARS

UChicago MBSAA recognizes alumni

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS

Anita Blanchard, MD’90

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Retired, the University of Chicago

Anita Blanchard, MD’90, devoted 22 years of her career to medical education. In the roles of associate dean for graduate medical education and designated institutional official, she supervised and supported 133 residency and fellowship programs, including 1,023 residents and fellows. As a practicing gynecologist, Blanchard specialized in the treatment of cervical dysplasia, menopause management and geriatric gynecologic care. She also served as a trustee and vice president of the board of directors of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) OB-GYN review committee, and as the University’s co-principal investigator of the ACGME Pursuing Excellence Initiative. She is committed to enhancing Chicago’s South Side community by increasing the diversity of physicians and building programs to fulfill community needs. Together with the Urban Health Initiative team, she launched Community Champions, a program facilitating resident and fellow participation in community engagement.

John Fung, PhD’80, MD’82

Professor of Surgery; Chief, Section of Transplant Surgery; Co-Director, Transplant Institute, the University of Chicago

John Fung, PhD’80, MD’82, is the co-director of the University of Chicago Medicine Transplant Institute. He is an accomplished immunologist with over 30 years of involvement in abdominal and cellular transplantation. His research interests are in transplant immunology, liver immunity, immunosuppression and outcomes analysis. Fung is the former chair of the Cleveland Clinic Health System Center for Transplantation, where he oversaw five locations globally. He also served as chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, where he trained earlier in his career with transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl, MD, PhD. A member of numerous scientific and surgical societies, Fung was president of the International Liver Transplantation Society from 1997 to 1999 and is currently vice president of the Transplantation Society. He has published over 1,200 articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial board for several medical journals.

Robert C. Gallo, MD

The Homer and Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine and Microbiology; Co-Founder and Director, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Co-Founder and International Scientific Advisor, Global Virus Network

Robert C. Gallo, MD, attended medical school at Thomas Jefferson University, completed his training at the University of Chicago and spent 30 years at the National Cancer Institute. His career interests have focused on studying the basic biology of human blood cells, their normal and abnormal growth, and the involvement of viruses in these abnormalities. Gallo and his co-workers pioneered human retrovirology, discovering the first human retrovirus (HTLV-1) and, along with others, showing it was a cause of a particular form of human leukemia. He and his colleagues independently discovered HIV and provided the first results to show it was the cause of AIDS. In 1976, he and his co-workers discovered Interleukin-2, setting the stage for all groups to culture human T cells. Currently, he and his team have been working on an HIV-preventive vaccine candidate. Gallo has received 35 honorary doctorates from universities around the world and several international prizes, including the Albert Lasker Award twice.

Daniel Pine, MD’90

Chief, Emotion and Development Branch, and Chief, Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience; National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health

Daniel Pine, MD’90, is chief of both the Emotion and Development Branch and the Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program. He moved to this position in 2000, after 10 years of training, teaching and research at Columbia University. His research focuses on pediatric mental disorders, as reflected in more than 600 peer-reviewed publications. Currently, his group examines the degree to which pediatric mood and anxiety disorders are associated with perturbed neural circuitry function. Pine has served as the chair of the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, chair of the Child and Adolescent Disorders Work Group for the DSM-5 Task Force, and president of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. He was selected as a Distinguished Investigator, which recognizes the most impactful individuals from among approximately 1,500 scientists across the National Institutes of Health.

UChicago MBSAA Alumni Award recipients Daniel Pine, MD’90, left, Anita Blanchard, MD’90, Robert C. Gallo, MD, John Fung, PhD’80, MD’82, and Michael H. Silverman, MD’73.

ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD

Michael H. Silverman, MD’73

Founder and Principal, BioStrategics Consulting Ltd.

Michael H. Silverman, MD’73, is a double board-certified internist, and founder and principal of BioStrategics Consulting Ltd., which provides strategic and technical clinical development consulting services to development-stage biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies around the world. Since 2008, when he joined the Alumni Council of the University of Chicago Medical & Biological Sciences Alumni Association, he has been actively engaged in alumni activities. He chaired the Chicago Partners Committee, which sponsors programs that foster alumnistudent interactions and mentorship activities, and served as president of the Alumni Council from 2015 to 2017. From 2009 to 2021, he was an active member of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine Council, and a founding member of its Nominating Committee. In 2020, he was awarded the University of Chicago Alumni Service Medal in recognition of extended, extraordinary service to the University.

ABOUT THE AWARDS The Distinguished Alumni Award honors the contributions alumni make in medicine and science. The Alumni Service Award recognizes contributions by alumni through philanthropy and volunteer service to the University of Chicago.

The 2022 recipients received their awards in May at the University of Chicago Medical & Biological Sciences Alumni Association (UChicago MBSAA) Awards Luncheon during Reunion Weekend.