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’50s William E. Bunney Jr., M.D. ’56, the Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the University of California at Irvine, was a recipient of the 2012 Pioneers in Psychopharmacology Award from the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology. According to the college, the contributions of the honorees “must be internationally recognized as significant to the growth of the field.” Bunney, who also holds the Della Martin Chair of Psychiatry, is a neuroscientist focused on discovering the genes that cause major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Bunney was also one of the two recipients of the 2011 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, presented by the Institute of Medicine. Bunney and Ellen Frank of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, were honored for their complementary achievements in enhancing treatment and understanding of mood disorders. Bunney is the author of more than 390 scientific publications and the editor of seven books.
’60s Stanley J. Dudrick, M.D. ’61, G.M.E. ’67, has joined American Outcomes Management, L.P., a national company owned and operated by physicians that provides home IV therapy. He is medical director for nutritional services. Dudrick is recognized as one of the “fathers” of total parenteral nutrition (TPN), along with the late Jonathan E. Rhoads, M.D., former chairman of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Dudrick’s groundbreaking work in nutrition while at Penn established the research basis for the use of TPN in the clinical setting. He was one of the founders of the American Society for Parenteral
and Enteral Nutrition and served as its first president. He is also a recipient of the Distinguished Graduate Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Perelman School of Medicine. F. Joseph Hallal, M.D. ’66, was named senior manager by ECG Management Consultants, Inc., a health-care management consulting firm. Hallal has more than 40 years of experience in patient care and leadership in management, patient safety, and quality issues. Most recently in his career, he was a consultant for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the branch of CMS that is developing and piloting new programs, as mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Before that, he was at Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he had served as director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at, president of the medical staff, and chief medical officer. Marvin “Spike” J. Lipschutz, M.D. ’68, has become vice president for medical services and chief medical officer of Greenwich Hospital, a member of the Yale New Haven Health System. He retains his prior duties as chief quality officer. Before coming to the hospital in 2007, he served as senior vice president of medical affairs at South Shore Hospital in Massachusetts.
’70s Robert P. Lisak, M.D., G.M.E. ’72, received the 2013 Gold Medal for Achievements in Medical Research from the Alumni Association of Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has been a national leader in basic, clinical, and translational research related to multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, immune neuropathies, and neurologic complications of systemic autoimmune diseases. A faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania for 15 years, he was chairman of neurology at Wayne State University School of Medicine and neurologist-inchief at the Detroit Medical Center until 2011. He was editor of the Journal of the Neurological Sciences from 1998 to 2012.
E. Ralph Heinz, M.D. ’55, emeritus professor of radiology at Duke University, was interviewed last year in the American Journal of Neuroradiology. A former vice president of the American Society of Neuroradiology, he received its Gold Medal Award in 2004. In his career, he has been chief of neuroradiology at Yale University, chair of radiology at the University of Pittsburgh (where the department had two of the first five computed tomography units in the country at that time), and chief of neuroradiology at Duke, where there is a named lectureship in his honor. After his residency, Heinz was also a fellow in radiology with Juan Taveras, M.D. ’49, a recipient of the Perelman School of Medicine’s Distinguished Graduate Award, who was considered one of dominant forces in establishing and advancing the specialty of neuroradiology. Here Heinz describes a “normal day” with Taveras: “We started a 8 a.m. with a schedule that included 3-6 diagnostic angiograms, 4 myelograms, and 3 pneumoencephalograms. . . . Like clockwork every day, Dr. Taveras would come down to the reading room at 3 p.m., dressed very formally in a long white coat. He would spend about 3 hours with us interpreting the
studies. He was simply fantastic at it. He would pay $5 to anyone who found an abnormality he missed and 50 cents for every finding that he had seen but was mentioned by someone before him. It was just a standing joke, he would have paid, but he never had to!” When asked what he would tell someone who is considering a career in his field, Heinz noted the new importance of nanotechnology and functional imaging. “We are at the threshold of the most exciting times for neuroradiology. The purpose of all this is to bring a multidisciplinary approach to brain function.” But the interview in the Journal also revealed another side of Heinz – the athlete. He started playing basketball in high school and went to college on a basketball scholarship. In fact, even when he started medical school, he continued playing basketball with a semiprofessional team. “I managed to do both for a while, and then medicine took over my life and I was forced to give up basketball.” (The drawing shows him at the time he led his highschool team to the state championship game in West Virginia. Along the way, he scored 35 points in one game and led all scorers in the state meet.)
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