CLASS NOTES
C L ASS N OT E S With Medicine on the Midway now online, we are capable of linking straight to classmates’ websites, as well as YouTube videos, with a simple click of the mouse. When sending in your updates, please include links to your websites and JPEGs of your most recent headshots that we can run in the magazine. You can send them to alumni@mcdmail.uchicago.edu.
1950s Walter B. Eidbo, MD ’56, is retired after 50 years of surgical practice and enjoys returning to campus for reunions.
Memorial Hospital, Shriners Hospital for Children, the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
2000s
Theodore J. Jacobs, MD ’57, is practicing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in New York City, teaching at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, and doing a fair amount of writing and speaking on psychoanalytic topics.
Lieutenant Commander Andrew Stan Flotten, MD ’07, just returned from a seven-month deployment as senior flight surgeon for all U.S. Marines in Iraq and is currently stationed on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. He was recently selected for a radiology residency. Feel free to contact him at andrew.flotten@med.navy.mil.
1960s
Paul A. VanderLaan, PhD ’06, MD ’08, has been named chief resident for anatomic pathology (2011–12) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
David Wilbur Larson, MD ’67, retired at the end of February, four days after his 70th birthday. In addition to a fi ne party that ended minutes before another snowstorm began, there were numerous fetes culminating in a reception at the Spruce Pine Community Hospital in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. He began work there 37 years ago and, with the exception of seven years in Winston-Salem on the faculty at the Wake Forest School of Medicine and six months in Desert Storm, practiced there until retirement.
1980s Timothy G. Buchman, SB ’74, SM ’74, PhD ’78, MD ’80, has recently been honored with the Distinguished Investigator Award, the most prestigious honor given by the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He is currently a professor of surgery and anesthesiology at Emory University and is also the founding director of the Emory Center for Critical Care. Gregory A. Dumanian, MD ’87, has been named chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He is currently professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, neurological and orthopaedic surgery, and has been on the faculty since 1996. He holds appointments at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Children’s
IN MEMORIAM
1950s Clayton B. Edisen, PhB ’49, MD ’53, died of surgery complications on January 8, 2011. Born in Chicago, he had practiced medicine in New Orleans since 1954. After returning from military service in Europe in 1946 with the U.S. Army, he received his medical degree from the University of Chicago and Tulane University School of Medicine. Edisen was board certified in neurology and psychiatry and formerly was a full professor in Tulane University’s department of teacher education. He was an honorary state senator. He received the gold medal for outstanding community service from the International Who’s Who in Community Service and was a life member of Sigma Xi (National Honor Fraternity). Edisen served on several committees of the Louisiana State Medical Society and published numerous articles in national and international journals. He was a member of the American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, Louisiana State Medical Society and Orleans Parish Medical Society. In addition to his medical practice, Edisen was president of the Schreier-Edisen Development Corp. and the White House
Corp., both privately held companies. He also was chairman of the board for the Schreier-Edisen Foundation. Edisen loved opera and was on the board of directors of the New Orleans Opera Association for more than 25 years. He also loved to play golf and bridge and watch football. He is survived by his children, Laura, Glenn and Lynn; stepchildren, Brenda Schneider and Niki Bradley; grandchildren, Eric, Anthony, Jennifer and Joshua; and great-grandchildren, Zachary and Miles. To view and sign the family guestbook, please visit lakelawnmetairie.com. W. McFate “Mack” Smith, MD ’51, a leading expert in high blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors, died February 25, 2011, at his California home of complications from Lewy body disease, which causes dementia. He was 84. Smith’s career included more than 20 years of work for the U.S. Public Health Service, from which he retired in 1973 after attaining the ranks of rear admiral and assistant surgeon general. Smith also spent 20 years as a professor of medicine and director of the preventive medicine residency program at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. He is survived by three children, one stepchild and eight grandchildren.
1960s Richard L. Hall, MD ’61, died of complications from a stroke on February 15, 2011, at age 75. Richard “Dick” Hall had a reputation as a natural leader and a devoted caregiver. A respected physician in the La Jolla area of California, the urologist practiced medicine in the San Diego area for more than 35 years and served as an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Hall was past president of the San Diego Urological Society and the San Diego chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He was appointed to the Scripps Health board of trustees in 2006 as a physician member after he retired from medical practice. Hall helped set up the Scripps robotics program and also served on the board of directors of the Scripps Memorial Hospital Foundation. Hall is survived by his wife of more than 45 years, Judy; two
daughters, Nicole Hall Brown and Diana Ferguson; a sister, Lynne Goldsmith; and three grandchildren.
F O R M E R F A C U LT Y Melvin Griem, MD, professor emeritus of radiation and cellular oncology, died of pneumonia February 7, 2011, at the Grove at Lincoln Park, in Chicago. He was 85. A pioneer in the field of radiation oncology, Griem is remembered by his colleagues for his unique background in engineering, physics and medicine, which gave him the ability to build equipment needed to test new clinical approaches. He helped launch the neutron therapy unit for cancer treatment at the University of Chicago in 1975, one of the fi rst four such facilities in the nation. Griem served as a radio repairman in the U.S. Army during World War II and earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1953. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1957 as an instructor of radiology and became chief of the Section of Radiation Therapy in 1966. During the 1960s, he performed radiation therapy clinical studies, developing a technique similar to one now widely used to treat prostate cancer. Griem taught at the University for 38 years and in 2010 was given the Paul C. Hodges Alumni Excellence Award from the Department of Radiology. Griem is survived by his three children, three grandchildren and sister. Charles Schuster, PhD, a founder of behavioral pharmacology, died February 21, 2011. He was 81. A professor of psychiatry, pharmacology and behavioral science from 1968 to 1986 at the University of Chicago, Schuster founded and directed the Drug Abuse Research Center. He directed the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, from 1986 to 1992. In October, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience named a lecture series after him. Schuster is survived by his wife, four children, a sister and six grandchildren.
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