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2020-2021 ALUMNI COUNCIL

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chris Albanis, AB’96, MD’00 President Paul Rockey, MD’70 Immediate Past President Doriane Miller, MD’83 Vice President Mark R. Aschliman, MD’80 Alumni Awards Committee Chair and National Reunion Chair Karyl Kopaskie, AB’07, PhD’14 Chicago Partners Program Chair Jeanne Farnan, AB’98, MD’02 Editorial Committee Chair Baruch Solomon Ticho, PhD’87, MD’88 Regional Programs Chair

ALUMNI COUNCIL

Lampis Anagnostopoulos, SB’57,

MD’61 ✱ Andrew Aronson, MD’69 Juliana Basko-Plluska, AB’04, MD Kenneth Begelman, MD’71 Jennifer “Piper” Below, PhD’11 Michael Boettcher, AB’89, MD’93 Kenneth Bridbord, MD’69, MPH Ava Ferguson Bryan, AM’10, MD’18 ✤ Courtney Burrows, PhD’15, MBA’17 Arnold Calica, SM’61, MD’75 ✱ Oliver Cameron, PhD’72, MD’74 Leonard Covello, AB’86, MD’90 Jennifer Ding ✤ Hunter Eason, MD’18 ✤ Gail Farfel, PhD’93 Jonathan Fox, AB’79, PhD’85, MD’87 Jeffrey Goodenbour, PhD’09 Andrew Hack, AB’95, PhD’00, MD’02 Sadia Haider, AB’96, MD’01 Rajiv Jauhar, MD’91 Lucy Lester, MD’72 Daniel Leventhal, SM’13, PhD’16 Howard Liang, PhD’92, MBA’01 Julian Lutze ✤ Jennifer McPartland, PhD’08 Julia Mhlaba, MD’16 Vincent Nelson, MD’98 Michael Prystowsky, MD’81 Steven Server ✤ Coleman Seskind, AB’55, SB’56,

MD’59, SM’59 ✱ Abby Stayart, AB’97, PhD’12 Cynthia Thaik, MD’90 Barry Ticho, PhD’87, MD’88 Maimouna Traore ✤ Sapana Vora, PhD’14 Sydney Yoon, MD’86 Russ Zajtchuk, SB’60, MD’63 ✱

✱ LIFE MEMBER

✤ STUDENT OR RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE

1970s

Louis Constan, SB’68, MD’72, is the author of Two Minds, Your Body: Knowing What’s Going on in Your Doctor’s Head and Getting That Knowledge to Work for You. The book focuses on practical advice for patients who wish to communicate better with their physicians. Constan practiced family medicine in Michigan for 44 years and in 2006 was named Family Physician of the Year. He is a former hospital medical staff president, American Medical Association Physician’s Award winner and Governor’s Award winner for excellence in medical practice. He has written hundreds of editorials in local, state and national physicians’ generalinterest magazines.

Mark L. Friedman, AB’73, MD’77,

was named chief medical officer at First Stop Health. Based in Chicago, First Stop Health has been using telemedicine to triage patients during the COVID-19 epidemic and broaden the availability of medical personnel.

1980s

Caprice Greenberg, AB’94, MD’98,

MPH, was named chair of the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. She previously worked with the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology to help define the emerging field of cancer care delivery research.

2000s

Lydia Dugdale, MD’06, published her first monograph, The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom. The book focuses on the preparation for death. She is currently director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

UChicago MBSAA thanks members for service to the Alumni Council

The University of Chicago Medical & Biological Sciences Alumni Association (UChicago MBSAA) thanks the following four members for their dedication, enthusiasm and leadership as they conclude their terms on the Alumni Council on June 30, 2021: Andrew J. Aronson, MD’69 Oliver G. Cameron, PhD’72, MD’74 Howard Liang, PhD’92, MBA’01 Paul H. Rockey, MD’70, MPH

2021 VIRTUAL PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE REUNION

Visit the Pritzker Reunion page for the latest updates and a library of digital content, including past event recordings and virtual campus and lab tours.

mbsaa.uchicago.edu/reunion

VIRTUAL DISCUSSIONS: WHAT’S NEW IN THE BSD AND PRITZKER

Faculty from the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine joined alumni for virtual discussions on education and programming. Watch recordings of “The Life Cycle of a BSD Trainee” and “Education at Pritzker Today” on the University of Chicago Medical & Biological Sciences Alumni Association Vimeo page (vimeo.com/uchicagombsaa).

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