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’60s Robert H. Seller, M.D. ’56, G.M.E. ’60, is an emeritus professor of family medicine and medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, where he also served as chairman of the Department of Family Medicine. He recently established the David S. Seller, M.D. ’22, and Robert H. Seller, M.D. ’56 Prize. It will be awarded annually to a Penn Med graduating student who demonstrates excellence in diagnosis. The sixth edition of Seller’s textbook Differential Diagnosis of Common Complaints was published in December 2011. Since the first edition in 1986, it has been translated and published in Spanish, Indonesian, Polish, Lithuanian, Italian, and Chinese.
’70s David L. Rosenfeld, M.D. ’70, G.M.E. ’76, chief of endocrinology and infertility at North Shore University Health Care System, received the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, N.Y. Marie Savard, M.D. ’76, G.M.E. ’79, has joined the Philadelphia office of Diversified Search as a managing director in its Health Care Practice, the largest executive search firm in the United States that was founded and is owned by women. Savard is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and earned her B.S. degree from Penn’s School of Nursing. A former director of the Center for Women’s Health and associate professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Savard has been a health columnist for Women’s Day magazine and is a part-time contributor to ABC News.
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Marc S. Micozzi, M.D. ’78, Ph.D. ’84, is the editor, with Michael A. Jawer, of Your Emotional Type (Healing Arts Press), which examines the interplay of emotions and chronic illness and pain. They argue that certain chronic conditions (such as asthma, allergies, chronic fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, and others) are intrinsically linked to certain emotional types and are best treated by choosing a healing therapy in line with an individual’s type. A national leader in the field of complementary and alternative medicine, Micozzi is adjunct professor of physiology and biophysics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He organized and edited the first U.S. textbook in the field, Fundamentals of Complementary & Alternative Medicine, now in its fourth edition.
’80s Eric G. Neilson, M.D., G.M.E. ’80, became the Lewis Landsberg Dean and Vice President for Medical Affairs of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in September. He is also the chair of the board of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation. From 1998 to 2010, he chaired the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University and was honored with the Robert H. Williams Award from the Association of Professors of Medicine for outstanding leadership as the chair of an academic department of internal medicine. Earlier, Neilson spent 23 years at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he served as the C. Mahlon Kline Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and director of the Penn Center for Kidney and Hypertensive Diseases. James F. McLeod, M.D., G.M.E. ’83, was appointed senior vice president of clinical research and development as well as chief medical officer of Galleon Pharmaceuticals, a leader in the pharmaceutical treatment of breathing-control disorders. Before joining Galleon, he managed the experimental medicine group at Merck Research Laboratories and the early clinical research and experimental medicine group at the Schering-Plough
Research Institute. He is boardcertified in internal medicine and endocrinology and metabolism.
’90s Charles R. Bridges, M.D., Sc.D., G.M.E. ’91, has been named chair the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center. He joins CMC and the Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute from Penn Medicine, where he was professor of surgery and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital. His expertise and experience allows patients to receive “bloodless” or “transfusion-free” cardiac surgery that historically has been performed on patients with certain religious beliefs that do not allow blood transfusions. Bridges’s journal series on Jehovah’s Witness patients will appear this year in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. He is also the recipient of a $3 million grant for four years from the National Institutes of Health to investigate novel molecular and regenerative therapies as a means to improve heart function in patients with advanced heart failure. Stephen B. Gruber, M.D. ’92, Ph.D., M.P.H., a physician-scientist who has been at the University of Michigan, was appointed director of the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. He was also named the H. Leslie Hoffman and Elaine S. Hoffman Chair in Cancer Research and visiting professor of medicine at the Keck School. Gruber’s research interests include the genetic epidemiology of cancer, with emphasis on colorectal cancer; the molecular pathogenesis of cancer, integrated with genetic epidemiology; and clinical cancer genetics and molecular epidemiology; and clinical cancer genetics and translational research in cancer prevention. Since 2005, he has been chair of the Colorectal Family Registries Advisory Panel for the National Cancer Institute. For the past three years, he chaired the Cancer Genetics Education Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Charles F. Orellana, M.D. ’92, G.M.E. ’95, was named senior
medical director at Clinical Care Associates, the primary-care network of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He joined C.C.A. in 1995, practicing internal medicine at Bala Cynwyd Medical Associates. Orellana currently oversees physician recruitment, quality improvement, and the graduate and undergraduate education programs and research at the network. Over the last six years, he has been instrumental in developing an orientation and mentoring program for C.C.A. physicians. K. Andrew Larson, M.D. ’99, North Palm Beach, Fla., medical director for the Bariatric Wellness and Surgical Institute of JFK Medical Center, and his wife, Ivy Larson, a healthy lifestyle coach, have developed Clean Cuisine, a science-based nutrition plan. Created more than a decade ago by Andrew Larson when his wife was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the plan is based on anti-inflammatory unrefined whole foods. They are the authors of Whole Foods Diet Cookbook, The Gold Coast Cure: The 5-Week Health and Body Makeover, and others. Andrew is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and is president-elect of the Palm Beach County Medical Society.
OBITUARIES
’30s Maurice J. Blocklyn, M.D. ’37, Darby, Pa., retired chief of radiology and chief of staff at CrozerChester Medical Center; March 28, 2011. The Medical Center’s School of Radiologic Technology honored his work by creating the Maurice J. Blocklyn Academic Award, for the graduate with the highest grade-point average. Blocklyn was also a volunteer who tutored young people in reading, arithmetic, French, and mathematics. Lloyd W. Stevens, M.D. ’37, G.M.E. ’44, Bryn Mawr, Pa., former director of surgery at Presbyterian Medical Center; September 25, 2011. From 1939 to 1979, he was on the medical faculty at the