Scarab - Winter 2006 by VCU Development

Winter 2006

Medical College

Volume 55 Number 1

of Virginia Campus of

The Magazine for Alumni, Faculty and

Virginia Commonwealth

Friends of the MCV

University

Campus of VCU

Medical Campus Alumni are

Embracing Technology and in Some Cases Bringing it to the Next Level

A LUMNI S COPE SOUND

CLEAR

WATER

. . . Swimming is

of clinical services for the Arkansas Cancer Research Center. In his

good for the body, but swimming a mile or so every day is – well,

new position, Nicholas will help UAMS expand key areas of expertise

boring. Even committed swimmers like Sheldon Retchin ’79HS,

such as adult joint reconstruction services and hip and knee joint

CEO of VCUHS, need a little something to get them through their

replacement programs. UAMS (www.uams.edu) is the state’ s only

daily routine. Retchin and VCU biomedical engineer Marty Lenhardt

comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate

have succeeded in their search to make swimming less

school, a medical center, five centers of excellence and a

mind-numbing. The pair developed a concept using

statewide network of regional centers.

bone-conduction technology (patent pending). Finis,

NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Inc. in Livermore, CA incorporated the technology

M I C H B I O . . . Stephen T. Rapundalo ’83PhD was

developed by Retchin and Lenhardt into the SwiMP3,

recently named executive director of MichBio, Michigan’s

which sends sound signals through “headphones”

life sciences organization. In announcing the appoint-

connected to the jaw or cheekbone. Now swimmers can

ment in August, Randal Charlton, chairman of MichBio’s

download their favorite music and lap to the sounds of

board of directors, said, “Stephen brings an outstanding

Mozart or Madonna. “Bone-conduction technology is absolutely safe and the sound is crystal clear,” says

combination of qualifications and experience to his role Sheldon Retchin ’79HS

Retchin. The SwiMP3 is available in two sizes at retailers like Wal-Mart, or directly from the manufacturer at finisinc.com. MEDICAL

DIRECTOR

HONORED

. The American

Academy of Family Physicians’ Degree of Fellow recognizes AAFP members who have distinguished themselves by their outstanding

as the principal spokesman for the life sciences industry in the state.” MichBio serves drug discovery, medical diag-

nostic and medical device companies as well as professional organizations that provide services to the life sciences industry. RESEARCHER DISEASE

STUDIES

RARE

GENETIC

. . . Back in 1988, Katy Phelan ’82PhD helped discover

service to the field, by their advancement of health care to the

a rare chromosomal disorder marked by poor muscle tone, mental

American people and by their ongoing professional development.

retardation, facial abnormalities and other characteristics. Today,

Kevin Fergusson ’85MD, ’95MSHA was recently awarded the

Phelan is director of the cytogenetics laboratory at Molecular Pathology

prestigious Degree of Fellow.

Laboratory Network in Maryville, TN, where she spends much of

Fergusson is medical director for the Virginia Health Quality

her professional life researching Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, also

Center’ s Physician Office Quality Improvement Organization Sup-

known as 22q13 Deletion Syndrome. Currently Phelan is investigat-

port Center. A practicing physician and founder of VitalTrust Physi-

ing the possibility of replacing genetic material missing in people

cians, PC, Fergusson is also active with the Physician Consortium

with Phelan-McDermid. More information about Phelan-McDer-

for Performance Improvement (AMA), the Governor’ s Task Force

mid/22q13 Syndrome can be found at www.22q13.org.

for Electronic Medical Records for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the American College of Physician Executives, the American Academy of Family Practice, and the Medical Society of Virginia.

ORTHOPAEDIST COUNTRY

HEADS

THE

NORTH

. . . Nancy Ensley ’84MD joined the Duluth, MN Clinic

in August, where she is specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of TUMOR CHAIR

EXPERT

NAMED

DEPARTMENT

. . . The new chair of the department of orthopaedic surgery

disorders of the neck and spine. After leaving the School of Medicine, she completed her residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University

in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical

of Washington and completed a pediatric orthopaedic fellowship

Sciences (Little Rock) is Richard W. Nicholas Jr. ’81MD. Nicholas, a

program at Vanderbilt University. Ensley is board certified by the

nationally known expert in orthopaedic tumors, joined the UAMS

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.

faculty in 1989. He is a professor of orthopaedics and serves as director

CONTENTS F D E P A R T M E N T S

Inside cover

Alumni Scope

R e u n i o n We e k e n d

23 Grand Rounds

25 Vital Signs

Inside back cover MCVAA Gifts

10 [COVER STORY]

Te c h n o l o g y I m p r o v e s Productivity and Accur acy in the Office and the Lab

12 S c a r a b

SCARAB Winter 2006 Volume 55 Number 1

Editor Joan Tupponce Art Director Nadine McGinnis ’95BFA/A Grand Rounds Marcy Horwitz In Memory Marcy Horwitz Vital Signs Michaelann Greene-Russell ’91BS/B

S O f f i c e r s o f t h e M C V A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n o f V C U

George W. Burke III ’70MD President Mary Snyder Shall ’91PhD/M-BH President Elect Rebecca T. Perdue ’62 BS(CLS)/AH Past President Elizabeth Reynolds ’91DDS Secretary Hugh E. Aaron ’88MHA Treasurer Kenneth Kolb ’82DPHA Assistant Treasurer

A Race for Time

V i c e - P r e s i d e n t s

Kimberly Taylor ’89BGS’97MS(G)/AH Allied Health

S t a f f

Executive Editor Lou Brooks ’77BFA/A ’82BS(PT)/AH

Alums Never Met a Te c h n o l o g y T h e y D i d n’ t L i k e

Ellen Byrne ’77BS/P’83DDS’91PhD/M-BH Basic Health Elizabeth T. Nance ’77DDS’02MSHA Dentistry Maurice Schwarz ’73MD Medicine Beth McNeil ’81BS/N Nursing

Schools Grab Grants for Research

Bronwyn Burnham ’89BS/P Pharmacy

T r u s t e e s - A t - L a r g e

Donor Giving S t r e n g t h e n s VC U ’ s Ability to Educate, I n s p i r e a n d Tr a n s f o r m

Term Expires 2009 Terri A. Gaffney ’81BS/N Mario P. Grasso II ’93MSNA, ’02MSHA Hill Hopper ’89BS/P Elizabeth A. Kleiner ’98MS, ’02MD Melissa B. Nelson ’98MD Timothy W. Robertson ’92BS/P

Michaelann Greene-Russell ’91BS/B

Ann Nelms

All in the Family

Term Expires 2008 Zelda Benjamin ’03BS/N Michael L. Huband ’93DDS Diana C. McKinney ’00PhD Joanne Monticelli ’96MHA Myra G. Owens ’96MS(G)/AH Renita Randolph ’91DDS Pete Sowers ’70MD Dennis D. Stanley ’74BS/P Sandra P. Welch ’87PhD/M-BH

M C V A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i o n o f V C U S t a f f Keith Braxton

Barbara Payton ’83/MC Nannette Wall

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Scarab is the official magazine of the Medical College of Virginia Alumni Association of Virginia Commonwealth University. An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action University

Term Expires 2007 Barry V. Kirkpatrick ’66MD Tim McGranahan ’00BS/N Jim H. Revere ’65DDS Paula B. Saxby ’84MS, ’92PhD/N J. Neil Turnage ’97DDS Amy L. Whitaker ’98DPHA

A LUMNI S COPE A

DIFFERENT

KIND

RESEARCH

where she participated in specialized training at Tripler Army Med-

. . . David

Molowa ’86PhD has a new title: he’ s now a venture partner in the

ical Center. She now works with the Battalion Staff in Committees,

New York office of Venrock Associates. Molowa has a stellar back-

planning and executing training for the Spider Battalion.

ground in life science and biotech equity securities research. Previ-

WISHING

ously, he had been associated with UBS Securities, JP Morgan Securities

years, Michael B. “Mickey” Dowdy resigned as chief development

and Bear Stearns; he had been a senior research biochemist at Merck

officer of the MCV Campus . He has been named vice chancellor for

and Co. Originally established as the venture capital arm of the

advancement at East Carolina University and president of the East

Rockefeller family, Venrock is today one of the nation’ s largest

Carolina Foundation. Dowdy, who served as president of the MCV

venture capital firms with special expertise in biotech, health care

Foundation and the chief development officer for the MCV Campus,

and emerging technologies.

left the campus in June. He was selected by ECU after a national

NURSING ONE

STUDENTS

RANKED

MANY

FOND

FAREWELLS

. . . After 13

search and will oversee ECU’ s fund-raising and alumni activities.

NUMBER

Joining Dowdy in his move to North Carolina is his wife, Lynn,

. . . CDT Joanna Klein ’07N, a senior in the University of

Richmond ROTC program, ranked number one in her ROTC class.

who worked for the MCV Alumni Association for 26 years and coor-

Upon her graduation from VCU’ s School of Nursing she will earn

dinated more than 200 class reunions. She resigned as assistant director

a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps. As

of the MCV Alumni Association. “This is a wonderful opportunity as Mickey will manage a uni-

cadet battalion commander, she is responsible for planning and supervising training, on and off campus, for over 100 cadets from six

versity-wide advancement program that mirrors the complexity of

different schools. Klein recently returned from Landstuhl, Germany

VCU in many ways,” said Peter L. Wyeth, vice president for university

where she gained invaluable hands-on experience working as an

advancement at VCU. “Mickey was a senior member of our team at

army nurse in one of the world’ s largest hospitals, Landstuhl Army

VCU and while we are always pleased to have our team members be

Medical Center.

selected for larger positions, we are nevertheless very sorry to be loosing such an outstanding person.”

CDT Marissa Heath ’07N, also at

The MCV Foundation has estab-

UR ROTC, will receive a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army

lished an endowment in recognition

Nurse Corps upon her graduation

of Dowdy’ s 13-year service to the

from VCU’ s School of Nursing as

Foundation. The MCV Alumni Asso-

well. This summer Heath attended

ciation’ s Board of Trustees made a

the Leadership Development and

$2,000 donation to the endowment

Assessment Course at Ft. Lewis, WA,

in honor of Lynn’ s dedicated service

a 33-day course that serves as the

to the Association and in recognition

culminating test of the training, skills

of Dowdy’ s sage financial advice and

and intestinal fortitude of ROTC

friendship to the Association over

cadets across the nation. Heath

the years.

earned the coveted Recondo Badge at Ft. Lewis by demonstrating technical and tactical proficiency in a number of areas. Heath then flew to Honolulu Farewell to Lynn and Mickey Dowdy

Dear Scarab Editor, I want to express my delight at reading the latest issue of Scarab. I especially enjoyed reading “The 47 Names You Need to Know” article as well as the ones on Hunton Hall, Among the New Buildings…, Memories of West Hospital, and The Shaia Legacy. This issue is a “keeper.” Thank you very much, and keep up the good work on Scarab. Very truly yours, John R. Metz ’64P Charlottesville, Virginia Dear Scarab Editor, In reference to your question, in the most recent copy of Scarab, what names would you add? You have done well with the 47 listed. The names I would add were contributors to Modern Medicine as we know it. From the Editor: 1) H.L. Osterud, PhD - dedicated anatomy teacher 2) John Shelton Horsley, Sr. – 1st in experimental & animal surgery 3) I.A. Bigger - pioneer in thoracic & vascular surgery 4) C.C. Coleman – nationally recognized neurosurgeon 5) Lee E. Sutton – dean of medicine (pediatrics) 6) Harvey Haag – pharmacology 7) Thomas W. Murrell – dermatology 8) A.I. Dodson – urology 9) Carrington Williams – clinical surgery 10) Harry J. Warthen – associate professor of surgery, history of medicine 11) H. Hudnall Ware, Jr. – associate professor of obstetrics 12) Frank L. Apperly – (Australia) pathology

We knew that the “47 Names You Need to Know” cover story in the Summer issue of Scarab would generate lots of interest, especially the question “What names would you add to the list?” Because of space restraints, we had to keep the copy to a minimum, knowing that we couldn’t list all of the individuals who have made their mark on the MCV Campus of VCU. In this issue, we’d like to share with our readers some of the feedback we have received. A few of the names that have been sent to us include Harry Lyons ’23DDS, former dean of the School of Dentistry who left a $670,000 bequest to support the Judaic Studies program at VCU and Charles Cardwell, a pioneer in funding the first transplant programs at MCVH. Also missing from the list were Jonah Larrick, YMCA director at MCV (the Jonah L. Larrick Student Center carries his name) who brought a cohesiveness to the school, and

Sincerely Best Wishes,

Sadie Heath Cabaniss who was the first superintendent of the Old

Dr. William Russell Jones, Jr. ’41MD

Dominion Hospital Training School, one of the schools that is part of the VCU School of Nursing’s proud history. Cabaniss, who had

Do you have feedback for us? Do you know an alumnus with an inspiring story or have an idea for an article that would be interesting to MCV Campus alumni? Share it with us! We are always looking for great story ideas. Call the MCV Alumni Association at (804) 828-3900, fax us at (804) 828-4594, email us at migreene@vcu.edu or write to Scarab editor, P.O. Box 843044, Richmond VA 23284-3044.

two buildings named after her, is considered to be the initiator of professional nursing in Virginia. We also received the following two letters from alumni. We’d like to thank you for your feedback and hope you will continue to write in.

Reunion Weekend 2006 Alumni Award Recipients

Pharmacy Alumnus Service Award Winner John Hasty ’56BS/P

Distinguished Pharmacy Alumnus Award winner Cynthia Pigg ’81BS(MT)/AH, ’84BS/P, ’91MS(HA)/AH

MCVAA Awards (left to right) Outstanding Alumnus Award winner Charles E. Barr ’54DDS. Hodges-Kay Service Award winner Henry Addington ’51BS/P

Dentistry Awards (left to right) Harry Lyons Outstanding Alumnus Award winner Noel Strickler Root ’82DDS James H. Revere Outstanding Service Award winner Robert Eshleman ’60DDS

Medicine Awards (left to right) Caravati Service Award winner Wyatt S. Beazley III ’61MD,’66HS, Jerome F. Strauss III, Dean for the School of Medicine and Outstanding Alumnus Award winner Jeffery Taubenberger ’86MD, ’87PhD(A)/M

Basic Health Sciences Award (Department of Microbiology and Immunology) (left to right) Outstanding Basic Health Sciences Alumnus Award winner is Gregg Duester ’81PhD(M&I)/M and Ellen Byrne ’77BS,’83DDS,’91PhD, MCVAA Division Vice President for Basic Health Sciences. Awarded on September 19, 2006

(left to right) Outstanding Nurse Alumnus Award winner Patricia Rager ’71BS/N, ’78MS/N and Judy Collins ’75NP(Ob-Gyn)/N, Chair for the MCVAA Nursing Awards Committee S

Outstanding Nursing Service Award winner Nancy Mitchell ’57BS/N

50-Year Reunion 2006 Alumni Classes Celebrate Alumni shared laughter, fun and memories. Five classes celebrated 50-year reunions.

SCHOOL

MEDICINE

Seated (left to right): Drs. George Fifer, Frank Burns, Tony Constant, James Sease, Dorothy Wright, Albert Moser, Benjamin Ogburn, Tony Deep, William Deardorff, Loretto Auvil, Echols Hansbarger, Jr. Standing: Drs. John Ray Smith, William McCabe, Billy Mauck, William Brown, Donald Howell, Kinsey Glover, Gary Ripley, Dave Skewes, Fitzhugh Mullins, Allen Thurman, Charles Ashby, Bernard Wittkamp, Freeman Epes, John Russell Good, Jim Wiley, Larry Smith, Page Hudson, Larry Zacharias, Bobby Robertson, Frank Dunlap, Carl Crimm, Bill Kappes, Charles Moseley

SCHOOL

ALLIED HEALTH (LEFT

RIGHT

)

Florence Bernstein (RS), Claudelia Barnes (MT), Herman West (PT)

SCHOOL

PHARMACY

Seated (left to right): Sydney Clement, Jr., Barbara Morgan, Richard Collins, Emily Ellis, Sylvia Reinhardt, Manfred Reinhardt Second Row: John Hasty, Betsy Daniel, George Detterman, Jr., Charles Davis, Harold Smith Third Row: James Woodruff, Jr., John Collins, Ruth Collins, Fay Andrews, James Roberts, C. Eugene White

SCHOOL

DENTISTRY (LEFT

RIGHT

)

Seated: Drs. Stan Tugwell, Charlie Fletcher, Jack Pash, Glenn James, John Lapetina Standing: Drs. Shreve Spitler, Ted Deane, Pat Colvard, Joe Jenkins, Ed Armstrong, Charlie Barnett, John Prince

50-Year Reunion 2006 Alumni Classes Celebrate

MCV NURSING

AND

THE

ST. PHILLIP SCHOOL

NURSING (LEFT

RIGHT

)

Seated: Connie Dulaney Waters, Rebecca McGlohon Boyle, Willie Newkirk Norfleet, Mylie Cobbs Dawkins, Betty Tesh Quarles, Sallie Smith, Katherine Bobbitt Standing: Sally Sewell Hudson, Nancy Brown Messick, Emily Menefee Johnston, Beverly Fleming Lee, Margaret Bolen Bonds, Marjorie Towns-Craig, Janet Hoylman Locklear, Eleanor Browning, Patricia Webster Taylor, Malissa Harkleroad Williams

MCVAA President George Burke III ’70MD, presents a token of appreciation to MCVAA Past President Rebecca Perdue ’62BS(CLS)/AH.

2006 MCV Campus Alumni Award Recipients B A S I C H E A L T H S C I E N C E S -- D E P A R T M E N T MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Several MCV alumni were honored for their contributions and service during Reunion Weekend.

This year, the O U T S T A N D I N G A L U M N U S A W A R D , presented to a graduate who is nationally recognized and acknowledged by leaders in his or her chosen profession as having made distinguished contributions to health care, was presented to Charles E. Barr ’54DDS. Internationally respected and recognized, Barr has distinguished himself in the clinical, teaching and research fields of dentistry. Barr is a clinical professor in the division of oral medicine at the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He was appointed diplomate on the American Board of Periodontology in 1964 and appointed as a fellow with the American College of Dentists in 1988. He is a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor Society and the Scientific Research Society, Sigma Xi. He has co-authored several books, including AIDS: A Guide for Dental Practice.

The Outstanding Alumnus Award, which recognizes an alumnus for significant contributions to the profession, was given to Gregg Duester ’82PhD, who is professor of oncodevelopmental biology at The Burnham Institute for Medical Research in San Diego, CA. Duester is a leader in the field of retinoic acid and oncodevelopment research. Duester received his award on Sept. 19, 2006.

The Outstanding Alumnus Award, recognizing an alumnus for significant contributions to the profession, was presented to Jonathan B. Perlin ’91PhD, ’92MD, ’96HS, ’97MSHA. Perlin was appointed as Under Secretary of Health of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in April 2005. In that position, Perlin led the Veterans Health Administration, the nation’s largest integrated health system. He had served as Acting Under Secretary for Health prior to his 2005 appointment. Perlin has recently been appointed senior vice president, quality and chief medical officer of HCA. He will be presented with his award in early 2007.

This year’s annual Outstanding Alumnus Award, presented to an alumnus who is nationally recognized and acknowledged by leaders in the field of medicine as having made distinguished contributions to health care, was given to Jeffery K. Taubenberger ’86MD, ’87PhD. Taubenberger successfully initiated a project to crack the code to the genetic sequence of the 1918 human influenza virus. Taubenberger and his team at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology published their study results in the Oct. 6, 2005 issue of Nature. Taubenberger was the lead author on the findings, which noted that the “full sequence is strong evidence that the 1918 flu virus is derived wholly

DENTISTRY

Each year the Harry Lyons Outstanding Alumnus Award is presented to a graduate in recognition of his or her outstanding loyalty and service to the school, its alumni and students. This year’s recipient was Noel Strickler Root ’82DDS. Root was instrumental in the development of the Jamaica Project which provides indigent rural peoples of that country with dental care while simultaneously providing dental students with the opportunity to utilize their health care skills in an environment unlike any other they have experienced. He has also The H O D G E S - K A Y S E R V I C E A W A R D is presented each year to an alumnus in recognition of service to the MCV Alumni played a key role in the Mission of Mercy (MOM) Project directing Association and participation in the activities of the association, their the Triage Core. He has recently left his private practice in Richmond to pursue his dream of establishschool and/or the university. ing a public health dental clinic This year’s winner, Henry W. on the Eastern Shore. Addington ’51P, provided supThe James H. Revere Outport toward the construction of standing Service Award is prethe MCV Alumni House and sented either to an alumnus or to Paul A. Gross Conference Center. an honorary alumnus who has Addington has been an active shown outstanding leadership, member of the MCV Foundaloyalty and service to the comtion’s Board of Trustees for over a munity, or to the school or decade. He served on the School university, or to professional or of Pharmacy’s National Advisory community organizations. This Council for eight years and annuyear’s recipient, J. Robert Eshleally sponsors three or more man ’60DDS, has faithfully members of the graduating class served on the faculty since 1960 to attend Reunion Weekend Alumni have fun catching up during Reunion Weekend (over 45 years), researched and activities. He has established an developed acid-etch bridges, endowed scholarship for students served as interim chair of the restorative dentistry department from interested in pursuing independent community pharmacy. 1983 to 1986, and also as chair from 1986 to 1992. He has presented Awards were also handed out to honored alums in the Schools of Allied numerous continuing education classes and volunteers throughout the Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. dental community for agencies such as the Cross-Over Clinic. Eshleman has also participated in dental mission to Guyana. A L L I E D H E A L T H -- D E P A R T M E N T O F HEALTH ADMINISTRATION MEDICINE

form the Greensville-Emporia Coalition for Delaying Parenthood in Youth. Prior to the formation of this coalition, Emporia had consistently ranked # 1 in the state for teenage, unwed pregnancies. Over the past 11 years, both Emporia and Greensville have recognized significant declines in these rankings. Among the 135 Virginia cities and counties, Emporia’s total teen pregnancy rate declined from 9th in 2003 to 22nd in 2004. Mitchell’s efforts have been recognized with the “Making A Difference Award” from the Virginia Department of Health and the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Hospice Support Group of Southside Virginia.

from an ancestor that originally infected birds.” In 1999, Taubenberger was named Medicine’s Alumni Star. He serves as the chair of the molecular pathology department at the Institute. The Caravati Service Award is presented to an alumnus in recognition of service to the MCV Alumni Association, participation in activities of the School of Medicine and contributions to the local community. This year’s winner, Wyatt S. Beazley III ’61MD, ’66HS, currently serves as co-chair of the School of Medicine’s $87 million campaign. He has served as chair of the Medical School Advisory Council, as host of the Reunion Weekend Grand Alumni Dinner (for retired faculty and alumni who graduated more than 50 years ago) and hosts many School of Medicine events at his home throughout the year. Beazley has headed the Oral History Project of the Richmond Academy of Medicine since the Academy authorized the project in 2001. Beazley and his committee developed two presentations: “Waking Sleeping Giants: How Personalities Shaped Richmond Medicine in the 1950s” and “Medicine in Richmond: The Hume Years, 1956-1973.”

PHARMACY The Distinguished Pharmacy Alumnus Award is presented to an alumnus most worthy of recognition for significant contributions to the profession and/or the community. This year’s recipient, Cynthia Pigg ’81BS-Med Tech ’84P, ’91MHA, has become a well-known and highly respected expert within managed-care circles. A former vice president of CIGNA Pharmacy Management, who directed operations at both the regional and national levels, Pigg is now executive director for the Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy. She is leading the Foundation’s efforts to support research and education, advance sound medication management principles and strategies to improve patient health outcomes and quality of life. The Pharmacy Alumnus Service Award, presented to the graduate most worthy of recognition for loyalty and service to the school, went to John Hasty ‘56BS. Hasty is a member of the School’s National Advisory Council and chairman of a $10 million capital campaign to support pharmacy student scholarships and academic excellence. He established the Virginia Pharmacists Aiding Pharmacists program which provides assistance to drug and alcohol addicted pharmacists, as well as the Virginia Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth. His commitment to advancing the profession earned him state and national recognition including the first “National Pharmacist of the Year” award presented by First Lady Nancy Reagan. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Daniel B. Smith Award presented by the American Pharmaceutical Association for his work in combating drug abuse.

NURSING Patti Rager ’71BSN, ’78MSN is the recipient of the Outstanding Nurse Alumnus Award. The award is presented in recognition of a successful nursing career. The recipient is recognized as a leader and expert who has contributed to health-related and other groups and has impacted the nursing profession with creativity and innovation. During her career, Rager launched Nursing Spectrum magazine in the Washington D.C./Baltimore and Philadelphia regions in 1990. She later became its president and publisher when Gannett acquired the publication in 1996. Since that time, Rager has grown the company six-fold. Nursing Spectrum’s 13 regional print magazines reach over 1 million RNs from coast to coast. The award-winning websites garner nearly 2 million page views each month and enable RNs to participate in popular nursing online communities. In April, Rager was promoted to chairman of Nursing Spectrum. The Outstanding Service Award honors School of Nursing alumni who have shown outstanding leadership and service to the community, the school or university, or professional or community organizations. This year’s winner, Nancy Mitchell ’57BSN, helped

CALL

FOR

2007 NOMINATIONS

The MCV Alumni Association is currently seeking nominations for the 2007 MCV Campus Alumni Award program. Nomination forms can be requested by contacting the MCV Alumni Association at (804) 828-3900, or (800) MCV-7799 or by emailing migreene@vcu.edu.

Technology Improves Productivity and Accuracy in the Office and the Lab By Marcy Horwitz

Now technology goes where it has not gone before: into the

Medicine in the 21st century is all

file cabinet. Electronic health record (EHR) systems are being hailed as a way

about technology. Innovative advances

to reduce costs and improve the health care system. EHR systems can help save lives. By providing doctors with immediate access to infor-

in the laboratory have spawned new

mation about medications, allergies, vital signs, progress reports, past medical history, laboratory data and radiology reports, EHR

surgical techniques, new diagnostic

systems can help save. Such systems can also reduce paperwork and eliminate duplicate testing. The resulting cost savings are significant.

tools and new medications.

Harry Brodie, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;75MD is active in the implementation of EHR systems. At his practice, Family Care Southwest in Littleton, CO,

Brodie offers patients in his practice access to their medical records

Thirty years later, Wise – an active pathologist who lives in Newton,

anytime, anywhere. Patients can access their EKGs, X-ray reports

MA – is the creator of a software tool kit that checks and double-checks

and lab studies.

lab test results. Drawing on his experience as a clinical pathologist and programmer, Wise describes how the Labkit streamlines

“Electronic medical records are very portable,” says

the auto-verification process for laboratory results.

Brodie. “Within minutes they can be sent to emergency

Lab computer systems like Meditech© improve the

rooms, insurance companies, or specialists to expedite

speed and accuracy of lab work. Still, there’s often a

patient care.”

need to check test results against universal rules, and

Along with electronic medical records, patients have access to the latest medical information from specialists

against rules and protocols unique to each lab and each

in internal medicine, pediatrics, and family practice,

test. In a complex environment like the University of

along with up-to-date research on drug interactions and

Massachusetts Medical Center, which uses Wise’s soft-

access to insurance formularies. Patients can learn the

ware, this creates an untenable situation.

latest protocols for hypertension, diabetes and high

“The challenge for UMass was to help them verify

William S. Wise ’76HS

that the data coming off their hematology instruments

cholesterol. The site even includes a feature that reminds patients when they need to come in for rechecks, blood tests

is valid. If the data isn’t checked, there can be negative patient conse-

or preventative care.

quences,” Wise explains. Given the amount of data that contemporary hematology analyzers

Making patient records available on the Internet has another benefit: Family Care Southwest can also receive X-rays, CAT scans and

generate, it’s unrealistic to think that there’s enough tech power out

MRls with digital images from specialists throughout the country,

there to verify each sample under a microscope or retest in cases

which can be viewed in their own exam rooms. Privacy – always an

where results are unclear. The Labkit relieves the medical technologist of that burden. The

issue – is assured via passwords and other safety precautions.

Labkit is essentially a software package that integrates clinical rules

Brodie is pleased with his patients’ reaction to the available of electronic medical records on-line.

with Meditech’s lab products.

“It encourages patients’ involve-

Each Labkit user can customize

Alumni Appointed to Governor’s Task Force

ment in their own care and ensures that referrals to specialists are more

Meditech to create new rules or adapt existing ones to assure the accuracy of results of any lab test.

accurate and meaningful.” The important role that EHR systems will play in the future has been recognized by former Governor Mark R. Warner, who created the Governor’s Task Force on Information Technology and Health Care in 2005. The Task Force is charged with developing and implementing a state health information system that uses technology and EHR systems to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care in Virginia. Five healthcare professionals or people who have ties to the campus were among those appointed to the 33-member Task Force:

More information about Family Care Southwest and its use of EHRs is available at www.familycaresw.com. Certainly, technology serves the medical and administrative aspects of modern health care. It also serves an important management function. Software like the Calcwise© Labkit developed by

• Carl F. Gattuso, Executive Vice-President, Chief Corporate Officer and Interim Chief Information Officer for the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System • G. Gilmer Minor, III, Chairman, CEO, Owens & Minor • The Hon. John O’Bannon, ’73MD, member, Virginia House of Delegates • Carol B. Pugh, ’82BS/P, ’84DPH, ’04MS/N, healthcare data consultant for VCUHS’ Department of Community Outreach • Rebecca Snead, ’85BS/P, Executive Director, Virginia Pharmacist Association

William S. Wise, ’76HS helps to increase the efficiency and accuracy of lab technologists. As a pathology resident, “I was writing code in BASIC in the radioimmunoassay lab under Dr. Charles ‘Buck’ Moncure,” he recalls. Soon he was writing programs in many phases of laboratory medicine in private practice.

Reactions from UMass are positive, says Wise. “It’s extremely easy for them to train new people. Lab techs are more relaxed on the job now, because they now have computer back-up checking everything for them.” Wise has developed and is testing additional enhancements that tie the auto-verification rules to Meditech’s auto-release function. As a result, huge increases in productivity are expected. The Hagerstown Medical Laboratory in Maryland has recently purchased the Calcwise Labkit; other medical centers are beginning to take notice of the product. For more information about the product, visit www.calcwise.net.

From left: Maureen McBride ’95PhD/M, Darcy Davies ’90MS/M, Erick Edwards ’90PhD/M, Mary D. Ellison ’85PhD/M, H. Myron Kauffman ’58MD, ’64HS, Roger Brown ’93BS/H&S, Melissa Branham ’92BS/N, Karen L. Mock ’01MSW

A Race for Time By Sande Snead

Many people don’t realize that the base who won the MCVAA Outstanding of operations for the organ transplant Alumnus Award in 2003, and Berkeley network for the entire United States is M. Keck, ’77BS/N. located in Richmond, VA. The United Ellison serves as assistant executive director for federal affairs and Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) maintains an affiliate appointment as an assistant professor of anatomy can be found at Virginia BioTechnology at MCV. Keck, as assistant executive director for information technology, is responsible for the extensive UNOS database and keeping Research Park (BioTech 7), next to it safe and secure. UNOS is the non-profit private agency that runs The Organ the medical campus, and is overseen Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) – the unified by an executive director and four transplant network established by the U.S. Congress under the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) of 1984. The OPTN mainassistant executive directors – two tains the only national patient waiting list and features the most comprehensive data available in any single field of medicine. of which are graduates of MCV – Mary D. Ellison, ’85PhD/M, ’01MSHA, S

In addition to Ellison and Keck, there are an additional 10 UNOS employees who hail from either the MCV or Monroe Park Campus UNOS employs a total of approximately 300 people. H. Myron Kauffman Jr., ’58MD, ’64HS, has been on the surgical faculty on campus for nearly two years. He has been with UNOS since 1998 when he left his private practice. From January through June 2006 there were 14,687 transplants and 7,461 donors. On July 26, the optn.org Web site reported that there were 92,889 waiting list candidates as of 7:42 p.m. That number changes by the minute to reflect the most accurate possible number of candidates waiting for organs. “UNOS has the responsibility for overseeing the national network and all of its activities,” Kauffman explains. “Some think that UNOS and OPTN are synonymous. They are close, but the OPTN includes all organ procurement organizations and all transplant programs. There are 58 different organ procurement organizations and well over 1,000 transplant programs.” Kauffman points out that one medical facility can have several programs under one roof. At the VCU Health System, for example, the hospital’s kidney, liver and heart organ donor programs would each be counted as a separate program. UNOS administers the OPTN under contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Organ allocation policies evolve through a democratic process,” Kauffman says. “There’s a vetting process, public comment, and a board of directors made up of transplant professionals throughout the country that guide the network.” UNOS makes decisions about organ allocations, ranks patients on the waiting list and monitors compliance with policies. The country is divided into 11 regions and UNOS makes sure those regions are in close communication. The organization is governed by an elected board of directors. Emerging topics in the field of organ transplantation include the power and potential risks of using the Internet to locate organ donors. “The transplant community fully recognizes that there are many ways in which relationships with potential living donors are formed, including over the Internet,” Ellison says. “Our concern is that potential donors fully understand the possible medical risks involved, as well as any psychological implications, so that they can make well informed, sound decisions about living donation.” Ellison goes on to say that the organization also takes a dim view of donor solicitation among those who might have access to the media. “The network has elaborate, well reasoned policies governing the waiting list. It’s as fair and equitable as possible,” she says. “If you

have the means to buy a billboard and place advertisements requesting organs, then you have an unfair advantage over others.” Staff throughout UNOS works with the government in a federal initiative to increase organ donation and availability. The research department has several analysts and statisticians who are VCU grads. Darcy B. Davies, ’90MS/M, has been a biostatistician at UNOS for 15 years. She started out at the organization when it was located at The Boulders in the southside of Richmond – UNOS moved to the BioTech Park in 2002. “In the time I’ve been with UNOS, the survival rates have gone up and there is better and more understanding about immunosuppression drugs,” Davies says. “Surgical techniques have also improved.” Davies analyzes organ donor matches on the computer by looking at statistical packages. For example, UNOS wouldn’t normally match a 55-year-old donor with an 18-year-old patient unless it was a dire situation and other characteristics made this a good match. “If we had a 55-year-old who was very healthy compared to a 25-year-old donor who had other complications, we might take the 55-year-old organ,” Davies says.

Other MCV and VCU graduates at UNOS include D. Lee Bolton, ’99BS/N, ’02MS/N, ’02C/N, professional services coordinator; Melissa M. Branham, ’02BS/N, site surveyor, evaluation and quality department; Roger S. Brown, ’93BS/H&S, organ center manager; Cindy S. Cors, ’02MS/M, biostatistician; Erick B. Edwards, ’90PhD/M, acting co-director, Research Department; Karen L. Mock, ’01MSW, professional services coordinator; Maureen A. McBride, ’95PhD/M, senior biostatistician/team leader and John D. Rosendale, ’94MS/H&S, biostatistician II. Sande Snead is a Public Affairs Officer for the Virginia Department of Transportation and a Chesterfield County-based freelance writer.

Alums Never

Met a Technology They Didn’t Like By Marcy Horwitz

It’s often been noted that this generation was born with a mouse in the hand. People born in the 1980’s and beyond can’t conceive of a world without computers and the high-tech applications to which computers are harnessed. A quick look around the world shows how medical campus alumni are embracing technology, and in some cases bringing it to the next level.

the accuracy of the robot’s work before handing the prescription to the customer. Garvin is satisfied with the robot’s performance and ScriptPro’s support. (Statistics show that Leesburg’s error rate is less than .05 percent). But, she says, new developments may change the role of robotics in pharmacies. Manufacturers are beginning to supply a lot of medications in units of use because of FDA labeling requirements. Some of them are charging the same price as they do at the bulk level. If she were considering purchasing a robot now, Garvin says, she’d have to consider whether the numbers make the deal work. Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville has been using a robot to dispense medications since 2001. New technology for the administration of medications is just beginning to take hold, says Janet Silvester, ’79P, RPh, MBA, FASHP, and director of pharmacy services at Martha Jefferson. “We are getting ready to implement barcoded medication administration using a wireless handheld device.” The goal is, of course, to make sure that the right patient is receiving the right medication. And pharmacists, nurses and physicians can access Martha Jefferson’s on-line med ical records as needed.

Computers in pharmacies. Pharmacy operations have long relied on technology for managing patient records and inventory. Now new technologies are finding their way to pharmacy operations across the nation.

You won’t often hear Hurricane Katrina and good news mentioned in the same breath, but Phil Morris ’85P says, “What happened to CVS after Hurricane Katrina is a success story.” It was a success story for CVS customers as well. The firm’s computerized patient network system had long been in place, enabling CVS customers to pick up their prescriptions at any CVS across the country. After Katrina hit, the system allowed CVS to set up mobile pharmacies in the most stricken areas. Teams of pharmacists were immediately sent to the Gulf – Morris himself sent two pharmacists from Virginia – where they were able to refill prescriptions lost in the storm. “Most pharmacies are moving toward this type of technology,” says Morris, who is District Pharmacy Supervisor for CVS.

Cheri Garvin ’90P is CEO of Leesburg Pharmacy, where customers hardly notice that their prescriptions are being filled by a direct descendant of Univac I. ScriptPro’s SP200 is filled with the pharmacy’s most popular drugs. When a prescription is received, a technician enters the data. If the SP200 recognizes it as a drug it is programmed to dispense, it counts and labels the correct amount of medicine, and sends this information to the pharmacy’s main database. A pharmacist verifies S

The Script Pro SP200 at work

like UNICEF in supporting the Center, meals prepared by colleagues on the team, pictures of the children he sees and similar items. Even the most casual visitor cannot help but notice the contrast between the technology that supports McCollum’s blog and the realities he faces every day in a country where the per capita income is around $300. That’s something to think about the next time your own computer acts up. Visit McCollum (and leave him a message) at http://web.mac.com/ericmccollum.

So small, yet so powerful. It sounds like a gadget out of Dick Tracy. You undergo an in-depth, day-long physical examination – EKGs and other cardiovascular measurements, MRIs, CTs, blood tests, the works. At the end, your physician gives you a VitalKey, a USB memory device that holds your electronic medical records. You put your VitalKey on a key chain and forget about it. When you need medical care – routine or emergent – your doctor will plug the disk into a computer for an up-to-date record of your health. The thumb drive holds information including allergies, diseases, immunizations, past medical procedures, family medical history, medical images and similar information. It also includes information about emergency contacts, your insurance, any medical directives you have in place, and more. See www.vitalkey.com for an on-line demonstration of the VitalKey concept. J. Rand Baggesen, ’97MD, head of the executive health evaluation program at CJW’s Levinson Heart Hospital in Richmond, developed the VitalKey. He and his partners are marketing the device because, he says, access to portable health information helps prevent medical errors. Technology in the field. “I hope that this site keeps family and friends in touch despite our geographical distance, while stretching our collective horizons a little further,” writes Eric D. McCollum, ’03MD as he invites you to visit his blog. McCollum is a pediatric physician with Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative. He’ll spend the next year at the Ugandan Pediatric Infectious Disease Center of Mulago Hospital, Uganda’s national referral center and the largest pediatric HIV center in the world. McCollum’s entries vary widely. “Emily died, and Ruth lived,” begins one entry. He goes on to compare the cases of these two little girls with AIDS. Other entries discuss his travels to the Ugandan interior, the role of NGO’s

Technology is here to stay. Yet it seems that the more we rely on the machines, the more we rely on trained, compassionate professionals to verify, oversee and troubleshoot. MCV-trained health professionals are up to the task – today, and going forward. Marcy Horwitz is a freelance writer in Richmond.

Eric McCollum with young friends in Uganda

Schools Grab Grants for Research By Sande Snead

treatment failures to the first-line antibiotic treatment, increasing relapses after treatment; and increasing cases of severe disease/complications such as toxic megacolin, perforation, colectomy, shock, and death. “C. difficile occurs almost entirely in patients who have received previous antimicrobial treatment,” Pakyz says. “Therefore antibiotics are seen as the most consistent modifiable risk factor for the diarrhea.” There are more than 70 antibiotics currently on the market, and almost all have been reported to cause C. difficile-associated diarrhea in hospitalized patients, but the risk is not considered equal among different antibiotics. Pakyz is working with two other faculty members as well as graduate students on this project. She is the lead principal investigator. “This project will allow us to identify which antibiotic classes, or antibiotics in particular, are most likely to cause C. difficile-associated diarrhea,” Pakyz explains. “This will lead to targeted interventions to reduce the risk of developing this diarrhea. As it is now, the patient is already in the hospital, and this complication increases their stay, increases the cost and can increase morbidity. People ages 65 and older are even more prone to it.” Bonny L. Bukaveckas, PhD, FACB, assistant professor in the departments of pharmacy and pathology and director of the VCU PGx Working Group, is also working on a study made possible by grant money. She received a grant for about $75,000 a year for three years to build a system for warfarin (also known by the brand name Coumadin) anticoagulation. Coumadin is an oral medication used to prevent blood clots associated with many disorders. The major risk is bleeding; patients must be monitored closely with frequent blood testing.

Over the years, research grants have provided the monies needed for teachers and graduates to discover much-needed breakthroughs. A $30,000 grant for two years will go a long way in a study being conducted by Amy L. Pakyz, ’93BS/P, ’96DPHA, assistant professor, VCU School of Pharmacy. Titled, “Incidence and Risk Factors for Clostridium difficile-associated Diarrhea in Patients within University HealthSystem Consortium Hospitals,” the study looks at a large database of about 35 hospitals to examine what risk factors are involved that may cause C. difficile-associated diarrhea, a common infectious cause of diarrhea in hospitalized patients. “A lot of single hospitals have done small, flawed studies in the past,” Pakyz says, “but this study will capture a larger amount of data, including the antibiotics that patients received before they developed C. difficile-associated diarrhea. We have access to a database that provides antibiotic use data in 35 U.S. health centers over a four-year period. A case-control study will identify patient-level factors associated with C. difficile, including previous antimicrobial treatment.” Recent reports indicate increasing numbers of C. difficile cases that are

Amy Pakyz studies antibiotic use data

Bonny L. Bukaveckas stands in front of a Power Point presentation

“Warfarin is the most frequently prescribed anticoagulant and is Bukaveckas and her team are building and testing SmartWarf, used by more than 2 million new patients in the U.S. alone,” a new warfarin dosing tool that takes the genetic variation of the Bukaveckas explains. “Yet, administering the proper dose of this patient into account. Evaluation of its effectiveness will take place in medication is largely a trial and error process. We are focused on a clinical trial of 300 patients. personalized medicine and trying to expand the patient information “Existing dosing strategies already look at age, gender, height, we get to make better decisions in weight, medications and other the drug regimen.” diseases that might affect dosing “A lot of single hospitals have done While there are several dosing decisions,” Bukaveckas says. “We strategies and computer programs are adding inherited genetic variasmall, flawed studies in the past available to assist with achieving tions to the mix.” but this study will capture a larger optimal warfarin dosing, there SmartWarf is being built using is still up to 55 percent variation a warfarin research database, amount of data, including the in dosing that these methods extensive clinical experience antibiotics that patients received cannot predict. and both warfarin management “Recent retrospective studies and clinical genotype testing. before they developed C.difficilehave demonstrated that adding Bukaveckas’ team also tests for two genes can account for includes grads Melissa associated diarrhea.” up to 50 percent of the remaining Williams,’94BS/P, ’98DPHA, variation in warfarin dose,” ’98-99HS and William Rock, Bukaveckas says. “This indicates ’75BS/P, ’79DPHA. Both are now the need to incorporate genetic information into a new tool to assistant professors of pharmacy at the VCU School of Pharmacy and achieve better results. We’ll also test patients for underlying hyperwill be involved in study participant clinical care. sensitivity and resistance to warfarin and incorporate the test results into the treatment plan. “ Sande Snead is a Public Affairs Officer for the Virginia Department of Transportation and a Chesterfield County-based freelance writer.

Donor Giving Strengthens VCU’s Ability to Educate, Inspire and Transform ’

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From July 2005 to June 2006, the Campaign for VCU raised square-foot oasis atop a parking deck for enjoyment by cancer more than $67 million in its bid to reach a goal of $330 million by patients, their families as well as researchers and staff members. June 2007. The brainchild of dedicated Massey volunteer, Rebecca Massey, the In a short amount of time, the Campaign has left its mark on “healing garden” also was the beneficiary of private support. VCU in many ways. Alumni, friends, corporations and foundations 2. Bon Secours Health System, which operates four hospitals in have contributed almost $3 million to complement the $14 million the Richmond area, donated $250,000 to endow a new professorship from the state to construct a new School of Nursing building. The in the Department of Health Administration in the School of Allied 70,000-square-foot building is under construction on the north side of Leigh Street at its intersection with 11th Street, adjacent to the VCU Medical Center Bookstore and parking deck. This state-of-the-science facility is the first building specifically built to accommodate all the functions of the School of Nursing and will enhance the school’s ability to fulfill its three-pronged mission of teaching, research and community service. It will include research space, a clinical learning center with human patient simulators, space for the Community Nursing Organization, a 150-seat auditorium, a variety of differentsized classrooms, student study and lounge areas, faculty offices and a Heritage Room to showcase the school’s rich history and contributions of its alumni. Work is on schedule, and the School will move in no later than the summer of 2007. Giving has a tremendous impact inside VCU’s buildings as well, enriching learning More than $1.5 million was raised to support “Becky’s Garden,” which was the brainand research in many ways. child of Massey Cancer Center volunteer Rebecca Massey. She was involved in planning 1. In May, the Massey Cancer Center every detail of the garden. opened the doors to its new “jewel,” The Goodwin Research Laboratory. The new $41.5 million, 80,000Health Professions. The Bon Secours Professorship will help square-foot lab, which was named in honor of the generous support recruit or retain a nationally ranked faculty member. Bon Secours is of William H. and Alice T. Goodwin, is designed to foster greater committed to developing future leaders, said Sister Patricia Eck collaboration, generate new ideas and allow researchers to work ’72BS/N, ’81MHA, Bon Secours Health System chair, and that’s why more efficiently. The lab also features Becky’s Garden, a 3,000the hospital system made the donation.

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3. The School of Pharmacy received a $250,000 gift from CVS Pharmacy to create an endowment to help support a satellite campus program at INOVA Hospital in Fairfax, Va. In 2007, the program will bring 20 pharmacy students together with 24 medical students to complete their final two years of study. A CVS Pharmacy Student Learning Resource Center at the INOVA campus also will support distance-learning technologies that will keep students in Fairfax connected with faculty and resources in Richmond.

Participants at the May 6 ribbon-cutting ceremony included (from left) William E. Massey Jr., Rebecca Massey, Morgan Massey, Alice T. Goodwin, Eugene P. Trani,

cardiovascular research laboratories in Sanger Hall. Dr. Rakesh 4. The second annual Kukreja’s lab will be named in honor of Jeanette Lipman, in appreVCU Children’s Medical ciation for her many years of support. Center telethon, held in 7. In May, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute for conjunction with WTVR Women’s Health received the CBS-6 “For Kids Sake,” Jenkins Foundation Award. highlighted stories of The $70,000 grant will support a courageous children who shelter-based health-services are battling or have overproject created by the institute come a variety of illnesses. in partnership with YWCA of Papatya Tankut, vice president of During the April 20 event, CVS Pharmacy Services, and Victor Richmond, Safe Harbor and doctors and other medical Yanchick, dean of VCU’s School of Richmond Enhancing Access to professionals fielded more Pharmacy, talk with pharmacy stuCommunity Healthcare. The than 180 calls. Through the dents. project is designed to provide support of local governon-site health assessments, care ments, corporations and community members, more than $325,000 coordination and referral serwas raised. All of the money will stay in our community to help vices as well as a health-educaadvance the pediatric clinical care, to fund groundbreaking research tion program for shelter resiand to help train the pediatricians of the future. William G. “Bill” Reynolds, Jr. dents and community-health died of a brain tumor in 2003. 5. The Richard S. Reynolds Foundation pledged $1 million to providers. About 250 women His family's foundation, the the School of Medicine to endow the William G. Reynolds, Jr. Chair and 75 children are expected to Richard S. Reynolds Foundain Neuro-Oncology, which will expand options for patients with benefit from the program. tion, pledged $1 million to the cancers of the brain and spinal cord. Until his death in 2003, School of Medicine to endow a Reynolds Company executive and philanthropist Bill Reynolds had chair in his name. served the Richmond community, including a three-year term For more information about on VCU’s board of visitors and the Campaign for VCU, visit stints as a trustee of the Medical www.vcu.edu/campaign. College of Virginia Foundation To make a gift on the MCV Board and as a member of the Campus, contact Sharon School of Business Advisory Larkins-Pederson, senior develCouncil. The dean of the School opment officer for the MCV of Medicine, Dr. Jerome F. Foundation, at (804) 828-4599 Strauss III, has made a commitor slarkins@vcu.edu. ment to match the Reynolds grant dollar-for-dollar. 6. The Lipman Foundation Pediatric oncology patient Hannah Clemmer (right, with CBS pledged $250,000 to help with ren- anchor Julie Bragg) and her family participated in the telethon ovating the Pauley Heart Center’s for the second year to share their story and support the hospital. PHOTO BY TEAL FEATHERSTON-WILKINSON

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Ph.D., Dr. Gordon D. Ginder and William H. Goodwin Jr.

All in the Family By Marcy Horwitz

Is there a genetic tendency toward a career in pharmacy? Scientists might want to look at the extended Longest family to see if there’s something in their blood. Ben Longest ’58P has spent over 40 years in independent community pharmacy work. Upon graduating from MCV, Longest worked for an independent pharmacy in Richmond’s West End. Ten years later, he opened his own pharmacy in Stratford Hills. By 1974, Longest was running an independent pharmacy in Tappahannock. At one point, he was managing 10 stores. Still, he found time to serve on the board of the Virginia Pharmacists Association (VPhA), and he was an active member of the American Pharmacists Association and the National Community Pharmacists Association. He also was a member of the Chamber of Commerce (Tappahannock) and mentored young people through the DECCA program. In recognition of his outstanding record of civic leadership, the Virginia Pharmacists Association awarded Longest the Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Bowl of Hygeia at the VPhA’s 2006 convention. His wife, Nancy, had already received VPhA’s Award of Merit in 2005, the association’s highest honor for non-pharmacists. Longest is semi-retired now, working part-time for Hudgins drug store in Mathews and Marshall’s drug store in Urbanna. Retirement leaves him more time to enjoy his family. The Longests have four children, three of whom are planning to follow in Dad’s footsteps. Caroll Longest Throckmorton ’91P is president and CEO of her own pharmacy, Main Street Pharmacy in Kilmarnock. She maintains ties to MCV, serving on the Pharmacy School’s National Advisory Council. She’s also president of the Chesapeake Pharmacists Association. Caroll’s sister, Cynthia Longest Bene ’91P, is also a pharmacist. Baby sister Olivia Longest ’08P is two years away from graduating from the School of Pharmacy. But wait! as they say on late-night television. There’s more! Caroll’s husband Gary sells pharmaceutical software for QS1, which bought the business that his dad, Bill Throckmorton, founded as CRX. Bill is also a 1997 recipient of the Bowl of Hygeia. Perhaps there is a gene for success in the pharmaceutical community. If there is, the Longest family certainly has it.

Caroll Longest Throckmorton ’91P; Ben Longest ’58P; Nancy Longest, Olivia Longest ’08P. Not pictured: Cynthia Longest Bene ’91P

The Medical College of Virginia Alumni Association of Virginia Commonwealth University is pleased to introduce

The MCV Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship This scholarship is now available to recognize and reward excellence among direct relatives (children/stepchildren, grandchildren/stepgrandchildren) of dues paying members of the MCV Alumni Association. For more information, please contact Barbara Payton at (804) 828-3900, (800) 628-7799, or bpayton@vcu.edu

Marcy Horwitz is a freelance writer in Richmond.

MCV ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF VCU: LIFE MEMBERS The Association is grateful for all of its regular and life members. The following alumni became life members between July 1, 2005 and August 1, 2006 Ms. Elnora H. Allen Mr. Kevin S. Allgood Mrs. Paula F. Allgood Mrs. Lucretia Hamlin Alston Mrs. Patricia A. Alvis Dr. Stephen G. Alvis Dr. Janet C. Armstrong Dr. Richard H. Armstrong Mrs. Ellen B. Atwell Dr. Gary V. Avakian Dr. John C. Barber Dr. Robert C. Bass Dr. Renee Ann Beirne Dr. Tim M. Beirne Ms. Florence C. Bernstein Dr. Nadia Blanchet Dr. Marvin J. Bleiberg Dr. Thomas P. Bowe, Jr. Mr. John S. Bowling CAPT Timothy J. Brady Dr. Michael T. Brazda Dr. Lewis W. Bridgforth Ms. Susan E. Brown Dr. Fred A. Bubernak Ms. Crystal M. Burfoot Dr. John F. Burnett Dr. Bradley T. Butkovich Mrs. Deborah Butkovich Mrs. Pamela Weston Carlson Dr. Roy T. Carter II Dr. Sobia N. Carter Ms. Martha S. Cleveland Mr. A. Downer Clore, Sr. Ms. Rachel K. Cobb Dr. Leslie R. Coker Ms. Sandra E. Coles Dr. Richard W. Cottrell Mr. George A. Coy Dr. David G. Crittenden Dr. Samuel R. Crockett, III Ms. Uvonna P. Curott Mrs. Katie B. Dalton Dr. Robert B. Dalton Dr. Hollis D. Day Ms. Carol Peeler de Perczel Dr. Lori M. Degaetano Dr. Christopher E. Deitch Dr. Judith R. DeJarnette Mrs. Lee W. DePuy Dr. Robert W. DePuy Mrs. Alyson F. DeSalvo Dr. Gregg L. Duester Mrs. Candy B. Dunn Dr. J. Henry Dwyer Ms. Grace S. Edwards Mrs. Fiona Ellen Dr. J. Harry Ellen Mrs. Melinda M. Fiore Dr. Steven M. Fiore

Mr. Samuel C. Fisher Dr. James H. Forsee, Jr. Dr. M. W. Foster, Jr. Mrs. Mary Foster Dr. Robert T. Fraker Mrs. Suzanne S. Fritz Dr. Earl W. Fuller, Jr. Mr. David G. Fuqua Ms. Marion H. Fuqua Mrs. Lynne S. Garner Mr. R. Alan Garner Dr. Frank W. Gearing, Jr. Dr. Chris J. Getchell Dr. Chandak Ghosh Dr. Darrell K. Gilliam Dr. Darlene A. Giugliano Dr. Marc A. Goldberg Dr. Alvin S. Goodman Dr. Richard G. Grassy, Jr. Dr. Heather A. Greene Dr. Richardson Grinnan Dr. Charles K. Guttas Dr. Charles L. Halstead Ms. Ann-Sydney S. Harden Dr. James A. Harrell, Jr. Mrs. Mary P. Harris Mrs. Roxie M. Harwell Mrs. Alice B. Hatcher Dr. Jack S. Hirsch Dr. Mildred A. Hopkins Dr. Cynthia Pfeiffer Horner Dr. R. Leroy Howell, Sr. Mrs. L. Beth Hungate Dr. W. Glenn Hurt Mr. Edward K. Im Mrs. Elizabeth J. Inge Dr. Wellford W. Inge, Jr. Dr. Chioma N. Iweha Dr. Brenda S. Jackson Dr. James B. Jackson Dr. Joseph G. Jenkins, Jr. Mrs. Phyllis H. Jenkins Dr. Martin L Johnson LT COL Valerie A. Johnson Mr. Robert S. Jones Dr. Tana Necsary Kaefer Dr. Mary Tilden Kavanagh Mr. Bassam A. Kawwass Dr. John V. Kiluk Dr. Vinita C. Kiluk Mr. John F. Knapp LT COL Jane M. Knight, (RET) Dr. Kenneth W. Kolb Dr. Gregory Kontopanos Dr. Isaac Koziol Mrs. Catherine L. Kreter Dr. James K. Kreter Mrs. Adina C. Krum Dr. John J. Kupcha S

Dr. Kent L. Rollins Ms. Marilyn C. Rooney Dr. Noel S. Root Dr. G. Bayley Royer Dr. Ivy J. Sacknowitz Dr. Fadi N. Salloum Dr. Walter E. Saxon, Jr. Mrs. Landora B. Schermerhorn Dr. Thomas J. Schermerhorn Dr. Ivan R. Schiff Dr. Shawn G. Scott Ms. Bonnie J. Sechrist Mr. David P. Setchel Mrs. Melinda B. Setchel Mr. David M. Shanahan Mrs. Marian D. Shanahan Mrs. Martha H. Shelhamer Mr. Michael T. Sherrod Ms. Patricia N. Sherrod Mrs. Caren S. Sizemore Mr. R. Macon Sizemore Dr. Roberta M. Smith Dr. James R. Snodgrass Dr. Albert C. Song Mrs. Amy Song Mrs. Linda M. St. George Dr. Robert D. Stacks Dr. Jeffrey A. Staples Mr. Luke M. Stephens Dr. Deborah Crecraft Taylor COL Joseph A. Taylor Dr. Clayton L. Thomas Dr. William N. Thornton IV Dr. J. Neil Turnage Mrs. Celia N. Vaughan Dr. Dan J. Vick Mrs. Thelma M. Voska Dr. David A. White Dr. Raymond P. White, Jr. Dr. Jon W. Williams Mr. Leigh B. Williams Dr. Malissa A. Williams Mrs. Deborah L. Wingfield Dr. Robert M. Woodard Dr. Joseph C. Woofter Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Wynn Dr. Torill A. Yamarik Dr. A. Nelson Yarbrough Dr. Sandra R. Yarbrough Dr. Shizuo Yoshida Dr. John E. Yurko Dr. Kareem A. Zaki Dr. Tara Lowe Zier Dr. Bruce S. Zimmer

Dr. Lawrence J. Kyle Ms. Sherry A. Lane Mrs. Sharon G. Lanier Dr. Stephen T. Lanier Mrs. Anne M. Layman Dr. David A. Layman Mrs. Ann K. Leake Dr. Kimberly M. Lenhardt Dr. Edward L. Lilly Dr. Fritz Lin Dr. Jerome Lisk Dr. Donald B. Longest Dr. Edward Y. Lovelace, III Dr. Kusuma R. Mallikaarjun Dr. Suresh Mallikaarjun Dr. M. L. Martin Mrs. Kathleen H. Martine Dr. Thomas P. Mayhew Dr. Donald H. McNeill, Jr. Mrs. Frances W. Merkey Dr. Randolph V. Merrick Ms. Edna C. Metoyer, ASCP Dr. Bruce A. Miller Mrs. Ellen R. Miller Ms. Martha A. Miller Dr. Glenwood E. Morris Ms. Holly K. Morris Dr. Charles B. Morton Dr. Gary B. Moss Dr. Hubert V. Moss, Jr. Dr. Robert E. Mount, Jr. Dr. Jean A. Muench Mrs. Frances Musselman Dr. Laurence K. Musselman Dr. Denise T. Nguyen Dr. Mai T. Nguyen Dr. William P. Nixon, Jr. Dr. William A. Nuckols Mrs. Diana W. O'Daire Dr. Tracy S. Oliver Mrs. Sherrell R. Orrock Dr. Alan M. Padgett Mrs. Harriette F. Padgett Dr. Thomas E. Paisley Dr. John B. Parker Dr. Ken Passamaneck Mrs. Jean C. Patterson Mr. Keith W. Peters Dr. Thomas W. Peterson, Sr. Mr. Edward L. Pickett CAPT Elizabeth T. Provenzano Dr. George W. Raborn Dr. Moira A. Rafferty Dr. Lourdes M. Ramon Dr. Patrick A. Reardon Dr. David Rice Dr. William C. Richardson, Jr. Dr. Gerald J. Robbins Dr. William A. Robertson

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The 2005 VCU Health System Employee of the Year is the Rev. Dr. Ann Charles-Craft ’96C/AHP, manager of Bereavement Services in VCU’s Pastoral Care Department. CharlesCraft is often called on in times of critical illness and the death of infants and children. She serves as a resource for families, offering emotional and spiritual care, education, policy development and problem solving. “My practice of pastoral care is founded on the value and belief that we are called to be servant leaders and to offer to others a depth of hospitality that nurtures body, mind and soul,” Charles-Craft told VCU News Service. “Offering hospitality is more than food, clothing or shelter – it is to offer an inviting space that allows another to be very vulnerable and yet feel safe. I hope I offer this safe space for all whom I encounter.”

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V ITAL S IGNS *Member of the MCV Alumni Association of VCU ** Life Member of the MCV Alumni Association of VCU

* * A r t h u r K i r k ‘ 4 1 M D of Portsmouth, VA recently received the First Citizen Award of Portsmouth. Kirk was the first orthopedic surgeon in Portsmouth when he began his practice in 1951. He also co-founded the Kirk-Cone School for Children, which works with children who were barred from public schools because of physical or mental handicaps. Kirk also found time to volunteer for a clinic for indigent children and the CARE-MEDICO.

1950’s Warren Betts ‘57BS(BA&M)/B ’ 5 9 M H A ( H A ) / A H retired from BJC HealthCare in 1994 and has been “clowning around” ever since as “Buttons the Clown” for the Shriners Hospital benefits in Florissant, MO. (photo on left) O t i s D o s s ‘ 5 9 M D was honored by Shore Memorial Hospital for his almost 40 years of general surgery service. “Doss has dedicated his time, energy, and considerable interest to the well-being of Eastern Shore residents.” Now retired, Doss has time for family celebrations and sporting events. * W i l l i a m H a l e ‘ 5 8 M D practiced internal medicine for many years until his retirement for health reasons. His health never slowed him down; he started doing geriatric research and the lists of charitable offices are too numerous to mention. Hale was named Mr. Delightful Dunedin, Citizen of the Month, History Maker and Free Enterprise Citizen of the Year. Gov. Bush honored him with a Point of Light Award for his work with the elderly and developmentally disabled. Hale lives in Dunedin, FL.

* H a r r i s o n H a w l e y ‘ 6 9 M D is emeritus professor for the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University. He is also serving as president of the Infectious Diseases Society of Ohio. K a t h l e e n M a y s ‘ 6 8 B S / N “I have many fond memories of MCV as well as fun with friends. I went on to move to New York City and obtained a master of arts in psychiatric nursing from NYU. I earned a certificate in psychotherapy from the Greenwich Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in New York City in 1978. Later, in 1987 I graduated from Yeshiva University, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in New York City, with a PhD in developmental psychology. I am currently in private practice for psychoanalytic psychotherapy in New York City and am assistant director of the Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health, also in New York City, where I am on faculty and supervise analysts in training. I come back to Richmond frequently to visit my mother and other relatives, and had fun at a reunion of the 1968 class of nursing a few years ago. I will always be grateful for and proud of the nursing education I received at the Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing, of the Virginia Commonwealth University. All the best regards to the school and its alumni.”

“I found one year of retirement boring so when I was asked to join the Medical Examiner’s office, I said yes! I am currently a forensic pathologist in Boston, MA.” * M a r j o r i e P e r r i n ‘ 5 3 B S / N recently received the first Elise Woodward Stutzer Award by the National Health Ministries of the Presbyterian Church. Perrin headed efforts to establish three nursing schools while she worked with Humana in order to address the nation’s nursing shortage. She served as dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Spalding University, where she initiated the first parish nursing-certificate program. Perrin helped establish a parish nurse program at Second Presbyterian Church in Louisville. The Stutzer Award was established after Stutzer left $16 million to the former United Presbyterian Church, which has supported health ministry in the denomination “for decades.” * A l t o n S h a r p e J r . ‘ 5 4 M D has retired for the second time. After serving on the MCV faculty for 32 years as professor of medicine and radiology and as chairman of the division of nuclear medicine, he started his private practice, Thyroid Specialists, Inc., retiring in 2004. Sharpe stays very busy managing his farm, hunting and fishing with his son, J e w e t t S h a r p e ‘ 8 3 M D and his grandchildren. **John Parker ‘56MD

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works as an ANCC for Home Health Nurses. She is a board- certified psychiatric and mental health nurse. In private practice, Smith is a nationally certified biofeedback therapist with certification from the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America with expertise in the field of pelvic muscle dysfunctions. She also serves as a nurse representative for the California Nurses Assoc. as a nurse negotiator.

**Harriet Buss ‘69BS/N ‘02MS ( H A E ) / A H has been appointed senior vice president and chief nursing officer with Nash Health Care Systems in Rocky Mount, NC. As a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, her last assignment was as chief nurse with the 3274th Army Reserve Hospital in Durham. Buss also served on active duty during Desert Storm.

has been elected to the Board of Pharmacy by Gov. Tim Kaine. Stredler is owner and chief pharmacist for Bayview Plaza Pharmacy in Virginia Beach, VA.

of Otolaryngology with the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine. Johnson’s research focuses on head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. He is collaborating with others on vaccine development for oral cancer and specifically on DNA-based vaccines for the disease. *Bruce McWhinney ‘70BS/P a senior vice president of Clinical Affairs and Pharmacy Management with Cardinal Health in Dublin, OH has been appointed to the board of directors for the National Quality Forum. “NQF has a critical role to play in our ongoing efforts to improve the quality of health care in this country,” said McWhinney. “I’m confident that the NQF will continue to bring all healthcare stakeholders to consensus on the myriad issues facing us. As part of this coalition, the supplier community has a great deal at stake, with talented people that can make valuable contributions to our work.”

**Michael Stredler ‘64BS/P

1970’s V i j a y A g g a r w a l ‘ 7 7 P h D ( P & T ) / M has joined the IBT Reference Laboratory’s board of directors. “As a recognized scientific and business leader in the fields of pharmaceutical development and clinical laboratory testing, Aggarwal will provide IBT with strategic counsel in the areas of new business initiatives, operational protocol, research and development.” P a m e l a D o u g l a s ‘ 7 8 M D was recently installed as the 54th president of the American College of Cardiology. She is only the second woman to hold this position. Douglas is the chief of cardiology with Duke University Cardiovascular Center of Medicine and the Ursula Geller Professor for Research in Cardiovascular Diseases, as well as director of cardiovascular research strategies at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. J o h n G l i c k ‘ 7 8 M D and Stephen Phillips ‘78MD are a comedy act that joined Nickels and Wiener at Court Square Theater’s Comedy Fest this past winter. They write and sing songs that are sometimes political or related to the medical profession. In the act, Glick is the straight man and Phillips is the goof. Phillips says his size makes him better for the role: “Fat guys generally make good comics.” By day Glick is an acupuncturist and Phillips is director of Rockingham Memorial Hospital’s Center for Corporate Health. W i l l i a m H a r r i n g t o n ‘ 7 8 M D opened a solo family practice in Midlothian, VA after spending 11 years as a Baptist missionary doctor in Tanzania, Africa. In Tanzania he would see as many as 150 patients a day. His practice offers virtual visits for regular patients in addition to office visits. J o n a s J o h n s o n ‘ 7 0 H S - S has been appointed chair for the Department

**Michelle Whitehurst-Cook ‘79MD

has been named associate dean of admissions in the VCU School of Medicine. Whitehurst-Cook has served on the School of Medicine faculty since 1993 as associate professor of Family Medicine and as director of Predoctoral Programs in the Department of Family Medicine, chair of the VCU School of Medicine Admissions Committee and co-physician coordinator for M1/M2 Foundations of Clinical Medicine required course. She also directs the Inner City/Rural Preceptorship Program.

1980’s Marian Altman ‘83BS/N ‘90MS/N ‘ 9 6 C e r t ( N P ) / N has been elected to a three-year term on the American Association of Critical Care Nurses board of directors. The AACN is the world’s largest specialty nursing association. * * M i t c h e l l A n s c h e r ‘ 8 1 M D has been named professor and chair of VCU’s Department of Radiation Oncology. Anscher is nationally recognized for his research and clinical programs. “We are entrusting one of the nation’s premier departments of radiation oncology to a distinguished alumnus,” said Dr. Jerome F. Strauss III, dean of the VCU School of Medicine. “Dr. Anscher’s experience in administration, his expertise in the treatment of prostate cancer and his productive research will add additional luster to an already outstanding program.”

**W. Baxter Perkinson Jr. ‘70DDS

was recently honored by the Arthritis Foundation Virginia Chapter for his generosity with his art. Perkinson contributed four paintings to an auction sponsored by the AFVC and each sold for thousands of dollars. He started painting in the late 70’s and has raised millions of dollars by donating paintings to charitable causes. Perkinson runs a very successful dental practice in Richmond. S h e l d o n R e t c h i n ‘ 7 9 H S and a partner invented the SwiMP3. It connects “headphones” to the jaw or cheekbones instead of into the ear during swimming. Retchin has been a swimmer for many years and found the silence boring. But thanks to the digital-music era and the human skeletal system, Retchin has found his device. * C u r t i s S m i t h ‘ 7 5 B S / P is serving as mayor for the town of Kilmarnock, VA. V i c t o r T r i c a r i c o ‘ 7 4 M D after 26 years in a career in emergency medicine is now a hospitalist with Prime Doctors Inc. at St. Francis Bon Secours Medical Center in Midlothian, VA.

**Stuart Binder-McLeod

has been named professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Delaware. Binder-McLeod’s research focuses on the effects of selected electrical stimulation parameters on muscle performance with both healthy individuals and patients in the muscle performance lab. He also serves on the faculty of the Biomechanics and Movement Science Program. He has received several grants, as principal investigator, from the National Institutes of Health for research on human skeletal muscle and other projects.

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IN PRACTICE Serving the Medical Needs of Underserved Women Around the World By

Marcy Horwitz

Draper spent four months in Ethiopia in March 2006. She trained at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, considered one of the pre-eminent hospital dedicated exclusively to victims of obstetric fistula. “Vesicovaginal fistula is a reality in the developing world,” says Draper. Fistulas – perforations between the vagina and the rectum or bladder, leading to incontinence – are the result of prolonged labors in young girls who are too small to deliver their babies without injury to themselves. Fistulas are relatively unknown in developed countries, where Caesarian sections are performed when the birthing process is too prolonged. She feels privileged to have trained in the repair procedure at the hospital that pioneered such surgery. She looks forward to utilizing her new skills in future mobile medical missions. In Kenya – this was her third trip to that country – she practiced general medicine and OB/GYN at Kapsowar Hospital in July and August 2006. Draper sees more mobile medical missions in her future. “It’s been a great year, a challenging year,” Draper says. “I’ve seen some beautiful places and seen some wonderful people.” “But it’s good to be home again, too.”

etting in touch with Joy Draper, ’93MD, ’96HSFM, ’03HSOB, can be challenging. Draper is quick to explain why a recent e-mail went unanswered. “I’ve been in Kenya for the past seven weeks,” she says, “and there was only one computer for the entire city center.” What could keep a double-boarded physician – who was once a practicing attorney – busy for seven weeks in sub-Saharan Africa? Joy Draper has a story to tell.

“I always knew I wanted to be a physician,” says Draper. Medicine runs in the family: her great-grandfather graduated from MCV in 1895, and her father in 1955. An early interest in family medicine led to another specialty in OB/GYN. (Draper is board certified in both areas). After completing a family practice residency at VCU’s Blackstone Family Practice Residency Center, Draper went on to earn a J.D. at the University of Richmond. She returned to VCU where she was named assistant professor; while there, she was medical co-director of the maternal infant unit. Draper particularly enjoyed working with underserved women. That was what led her to resign from VCU in 2005. “It was a very hard decision,” she says. She enjoyed her work. She enjoyed her colleagues. But another voice was calling her. “I am a Christian. I have always felt called to do medical mission work. And working with women on their health care was my first love.” Blackstone, says Draper, paved the way by allowing her to work with rural women. Law school also directed her course. As a lawyer, she was involved in human rights law, working on women’s issues in the developing world. Draper has been a member of the medical staff at CrossOver Health Clinic since 2004. She specializes in providing prenatal care to poor women. Many of her patients are undocumented women who face real obstacles in accessing medical care. She also works with Bon Secours’ Care-a-Van, a mobile health clinic that provides medical services to children and adults residing in Richmond’s poorest neighborhoods. This past year, Draper heeded the call to work overseas. September 2005 found her in Russia, treating women in Tver, an area in northern Russia where she delivered women’s health care to women living in rural areas without ready access to care. In Moscow, she taught a symposium on women’s health to family medicine residents at the medical university there.

R o b e r t D e u e l l ‘ 8 3 M D was recently named one of “Texas Best” by the Texas Medical Association. He was appointed vice-chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services. Deuell and his family live in Greenville, TX.

has received the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation’s 2005 Sharon H. Kohlenberg Healthcare Service Award. The Award is presented to individuals who make a difference in the Commonwealth and go above and beyond the call of duty in caring for those affected by breast cancer. Hackney serves as director of Massey’s Rural Cancer Outreach Program, which provides oncology services to cancer patients in rural communities who have limited access to oncology care services. She also teaches hematology oncology at VCU’s School of Medicine. Mary works with medical students on their oncology rotations and mentors medical residents on breast cancer care.

**Mary Hackney ‘88HS-H&O

**Mary Cindy Farach-Carson ‘ 8 2 P h D ( B C ) / M has been appointed director of the Center for Translational Cancer Research, which includes the University of Delaware, Christiana Care’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and the Nemours Research Institute. Farach-Carson is currently professor of biological sciences at the University of Delaware. **Kevin Fergusson ‘85MD ‘ 9 5 M S ( H A E ) / A H was recently awarded the Degree of Fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Fergusson is the medical director for the Virginia Health Quality Center’s Physician Office Quality Improvement Organization Support Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is a practicing physician and founder of VitalTrust Physician, PC. D e b o r a h F i s h e r ‘ 8 7 B S / N ‘ 9 6 M S / N is the clinical director of Pediatric Palliative Care and Pain Management at VCU Health Systems. The division is new within the Department of Pediatrics. A l a n G i l m a n ‘ 8 5 M D has joined the anesthesiology staff of Northwest Medical Center in Oro Valley, AR. Gilman and his family enjoy exploring state and national parks and vacations back to Florida where Alan was in practice for 15 years. D e n i s e G o u d e l o c k ‘ 8 8 B S ( D H ) / D has been awarded the 2006 Captain Candace M. Jones Dental Hygienist of the Year Award by the Dental Hygiene Professional Advisory Group of the U.S. Public Health Service. Goudelock is a commissioned officer, assigned to the Indian Health Service - Puyallup Tribe in Tacoma, WA. She received the award because she demonstrates leadership in her work and serves as a role model to others.

employees who get the job done and the governor. Her secretariat has a $9 billion budget and the 12 agencies employ about 18,000 people. “No one had to convince me to take this job. I had even told my boss at HCA some time ago that when I left here and went to Nashville to start the outpatient group, I said I was going for two to three years to get the program up and running. Then I would like to do public service, give something back to the community,” Tavenner said.

1990’s K i r s t e n W a t s o n A l c o r n ‘ 9 2 M D is currently living in Olney, MD, where the “first baby of our class,” Juniper just turned 17. Her brothers are 14 and 11. Alcorn is working at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. in the Department of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and is director of Blood Donor and Transfusion Services. J u a n A s t r u c J r . ‘ 9 6 M D of Glen Allen, VA has been elected to the Medical Advisory Board for the Department of Motor Vehicles by Gov. Tim Kaine. Astruc is a partner at the Retina Institute of Virginia.

Richard Hudson ‘81MHA(HA)/AH

has accepted the position of president with Wilson Medical Center in Wilson, NC. D a v i d M o l o w a ‘ 8 6 P h D ( P & T ) / M has been appointed to Favrille, Inc.’s board of directors. Favrille is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of targeted immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases of the immune system. R i c h a r d N i c h o l a s J r . ‘ 8 1 M D has been named chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science. He also serves as professor of orthopaedics and director of clinical services for the Arkansas Cancer Research Center. * M i c h e l e R o m a n o ‘ 8 4 M D continues to serve on the VCU Board of Visitors. Romano is a physician with a private family medicine practice in northern Virginia. She is a member of the VCU School of Medicine’s Campaign Committee and the VCU Health System’s board of directors.

Paris Brinkley ‘87BS(B)/H&S ‘91MD

and their two children are currently in San Antonio, TX where Carl is stationed at Fort Sam Houston and teaches at the Army Medical Department. Paris is working at Brook Army Medical Center in the Family Practice Center. D a v i d C h o ‘ 9 8 M D has been appointed as the onsite medical director of radiation medicine at Cayuga Medical Center. Cayuga Medical Center provides state-of-the-art radiation therapy services to cancer patients in Ithaca and the Finger Lakes region of NY.

**Marilyn Tavenner ‘83BS/N

Rebecca Cole “Heath Knight”

has been named Virginia’s Secretary for State Health and Human Resources by Gov. Tim Kaine. Tavenner oversees 12 agencies, and answers to legislators who control the agencies’ budgets, the ‘89MHA(HA)/AH

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‘87BS(B)/H&S ‘91MS(M&I)/M

‘ 9 4 P h D ( H G ) / M is the vice president of Business Development with Gentris Corporation. Gentris is a leading global provider of applied clinical pharmacogenomic services and diagnostic product solutions.

has been appointed president of the Maine Medical Association. Flanigan and wife, K a t h e r i n e ‘ 9 2 M S ( N A ) / A H live in Pittsfield, ME.

medical problem with specific practical skills to be learned in a context that requires careful attention to cultural competency and other psychosocial factors. The program presentation is entirely user-driven, requiring students to practice critical thinking and initiative at each step. Peel is assistant professor of Family Medicine at MCV and Principal Investigator of the HRSA grant that funded the programs development. A a r o n P e n n ‘ 9 9 B S / N and his wife, Lisa, are pleased to announce the birth of identical triplet girls: Emmanuelle, Rachel and Samara. The family lives in King of Prussia, PA.

Kevin Flanigan ‘93MD

Lenore Gay ‘70BS(S&A)/H&S ‘84MS(S)/H&S ‘92MS(RC)/AH

recently published her first novel, The Hobo. The novel is not autobiographical, she says, but it does capture a certain essence from her childhood. C a r r i e K l e t t ‘ 9 3 M D has joined Lincoln Medical Center as an OB/Gyn physician. K e n n e t h L i p s h y ‘ 9 6 H S - O N is the chief of surgery services with VAH Hampton in VA. * * A l l i s o n L u c a s ‘ 9 3 B S / P and * * T i m L u c a s ‘ 9 3 B S / P are pleased to announce the birth of Keaton Joseph born on Dec. 25, 2005. He was welcomed by his three sisters. The family lives in Roanoke, VA where Tim and Allison will celebrate their fifth year in business at DownHome Pharmacy in October 2006. recently moved his academic surgery practice from the University of Buffalo to the University of Virginia. He is associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery as well as an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Milhalko and wife, Lori, are pleased to announce the addition of Michelle Grace on Aug. 5, 2004. The family of six lives in Charlottesville, VA. A r i k O l s o n ‘ 9 8 M D was recently quoted in the USA Today article “Medicine goes mobile: The house call returns.” Olson has been making house calls for several years. He believes “by caring for patients in their home, you see the patient as a person, rather than as a disease.” C a r o l y n P e e l ‘ 9 2 M D has developed a set of eight CD-ROM interactive multimedia cases designed to prepare third-year medical students for clinical work by simulating the basic procedure for patient encounters within the Family Medicine Clerkship curriculum. Each case depicts a common ‘93PhD(BS)/M ‘93MD

Dana Wilmoth ‘94BS/N ‘04MS(FNP)/N

married Andrew Britt on Sept. 10, 2005. Wilmoth is a nurse practitioner in the interventional radiology department at VCU Health Systems. The couple lives in Chester, VA.

2000’s Melissa Adams ‘06BS(DH)/D

‘ 9 2 M D ‘ 9 7 M S ( H A E ) / A H has been appointed senior vice president, quality and chief medical officer of HCA. Perlin will provide senior clinical direction, oversee monitoring and lead the effort to continually improve quality at HCA’s approximately 180 hospitals. J o d y P e t t i t ‘ 9 4 M D has been appointed technology coordinator for Oregon by Gov.Ted Kulongoski. Pettit is a board-certified internist.

married William Shaw Jr. on July 22, 2006. The couple lives in Ashland, VA. N i c o l e B o d e ‘ 0 5 B S / N and J e f f r e y T h o m p s o n ‘ 0 4 B S ( M ) / B were married on May 16, 2006. R o b D i x o n ‘ 0 5 D P T ( P T ) / A H married Jennifer O’Connor in Mason, OH on Oct. 15, 2005. The couple resides in Charlottesville, VA where Dixon is a PT for University of Virginia Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital and O’Connor is a NP and home health nurse with Martha Jefferson Hospital.

Hilaire Thompson ‘96MS/N

Rebecca Grubbs ‘01BS(B)/N

**Jonathan Perlin ‘91PhD(P&T)/M

**William Mihalko ‘89MS(BE)/EN

Professional Affairs Committee of the New York State Society of Pathologists and is the pathology representative on the Medical Society of the State of New York’s Interspecialty Committee.

recently joined the faculty at the University of Washington School of Nursing as an assistant professor and was named both John A. Hartford Foundation Claire M. Fagin Fellow and the NIH Roadmap Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Scholar. “These appointments will allow me to continue my research examining factors that influence outcomes of older adult patients with traumatic brain injury.” * * D a n V i c k ‘ 9 4 M D received the American Medical Association Foundation’s 2006 Leadership Award. Recipients of the award demonstrate outstanding non-clinical leadership skills in advocacy, community service and/or education. Vick is currently a partner with St. Joseph’s Pathology, PC in Syracuse, NY. He serves as the chair of the New York delegation to the College of American Pathologists’ House of Delegates, chair of the ‘98Cert(NP)/N

‘02BS/N ‘04MS/N ‘04Cert(NP)/N

married Danny Wyatt on June 10, 2006. The couple lives in Mechanicsville, VA. M . S c o t t H i l l ‘ 0 0 M S ( H A ) / A H has been named chief executive officer for Montgomery Regional Hospital in Roanoke, VA. Montgomery Regional Hospital has 146 beds and about 425 full-time employees. The facility is operating under a strategic plan that includes improving patient satisfaction, looking at space needs, constructing a new outpatient imaging center and increasing cardiology volumes. D o u g l a s J o h n s o n ‘ 0 3 M D is looking forward to his upcoming year as chief medical resident and clinician educator with VCU’s Health Systems. Next year he will begin his fellowship training in endocrinology at VCU.

* * S a r a h L a u g h o n ‘ 0 0 M D has started a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Magee Women’s Hospital in PA.

Systems. After her residency she is planning a career in academic general medicine.

fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina and Skorupa is in her third year of hematology/oncology fellowship at MUSC. The family lives in Charleston, SC.

Jeannie Siri ‘99BS(B)/H&S ‘04MD

is currently in her third year of general surgery residency at the University of Florida Gainesville. She received the Outstanding Resident Teacher Award from the University of Florida Society of Teaching Scholars. Siri is at the University of Florida with N i c o l e K i s s a n e ‘ 0 5 M D and R o b e r t F e e z o r ‘ 9 9 M D , who are also surgery residents. (photo below)

Prateek Mendiratta ‘98BS(B)/H&S

recently received the Grumet Award from Northwestern University. The award was established to honor Dr. Gerald Grumet, a former resident and fellow. The award is given to the senior resident who is voted best teacher by the intern class. Mendiratta is currently a fellow in Hematology and Oncology at Duke. R y a n M i r e ‘ 0 2 H S - I M is the author of Transitioning Into Private Practice: A Guide to Employment After Residency. K e v i n P h i l l i p s ‘ 0 1 M D and his wife, Melissa have moved to Nashville, TN for Phillip’s neuroradiology fellowship at Vanderbilt University. * J o h n P o r t ‘ 0 3 M D is a chief medical resident with VCU’s Health System. He is interested in primary care and general medicine and is looking forward to life as a general internist. K e l s e y S a l l e y ‘ 0 3 M D is a chief medical resident with VCU Health ‘02MD

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1930’s R o w e n a B r i n s e r ‘ 3 5 D i e t of Columbia, SC on Aug. 20, 2006. She was 93. Frederick McConnell ‘39MD of Kingsport, TN. Elizabeth Ryan ’30BS/N’48Cert/N

of Honaker, VA on April 16, 2006. She was 98. V e r n o n T i l l a r ’ 3 4 D D S of Emporia, VA on July 5, 2006. He practiced dentistry for 52 years and volunteered for service in WWII, serving as captain in the U.S. Army Dental Corps. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Frances. Tillar was 96.

and A l e x a n d e r are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter Sarah Hayes born on May 10, 2006. Sarah joins her big brother Jacob. Ellis is in his third year of pediatric cardiology Amy Skorupa ‘00MD Ellis ‘00MD

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IN PRACTICE Tachi Yamada Selected to Lead Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program By

Joan Tupponce

After graduating from Stanford University, Yamada entered medical school at New York University. He completed his internship and residency at MCV in 1974 – he was at the school from 1971-74. “MCV provided me with a very broad, comprehensive medical education that taught me how to think as a solid physician,” Yamada said in a video prepared for VCU. “This knowledge is something I use every day in my job.” Yamada says he gained “broad experience as an internist” while at MCV. “What I have learned in terms of clinical judgment is really what I took with me from MCV,” he says. Yamada went on to become chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and physicianin-chief at the University of Michigan Medical Center and later served as president of the American Gastroenterology Association. Yamada left academia to join SmithKline Beecham, which later merged with Glaxo Wellcome in 2000 to become GlaxoSmithKline. Yamada has been chairman of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline since 2001 and joined the company’s board in 2004. At GSK, Yamada oversaw more than 100 clinical projects, a budget exceeding $4 billion, and more than 15,000 employees. He has been credited with transforming research and development efforts at GSK, and expanding its product line. Yamada is looking forward to helping the foundation as “it works to transform health in the world’s poorest countries, and save millions of lives.” “I’m deeply honored to join this extraordinary organization,” he adds. “The Gates Foundation is bringing new energy, resources and attention to long-neglected health problems.” Yamada is a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a foundation that promotes global sustainable development, peace, democracy and security. He is past president of the Association of American Physicians, past president of the American Gastroenterological Association, master of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a board member of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners.

t’s difficult to catch Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada ’74HS in his office. As the executive director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program, Yamada travels the world. Founded by Bill and Melinda Gates, the Seattle-based foundation works to reduce inequities and improve lives around the world. In developing countries, it focuses on improving health, reducing extreme poverty and increasing access to technology in public libraries. In the United States, the foundation seeks to ensure that all people have access to a great education and to technology in public libraries. In its local region, it focuses on improving the lives of low-income families. Yamada joined the organization in February, 2006. “Melinda and I are thrilled to have someone with Yamada’s breadth of experience leading the foundation’s work on global health,” noted Bill Gates at the time of Yamada’s appointment. “He’s organized the best talent around big challenges, knows what it takes to bring promising science from the lab to people in need, and understands how to engage new partners. We look forward to working with him to help close the gap in health between rich and poor countries.” CEO of the foundation, Patty Stonesifer, refers to Yamada as an “outstanding leader for the Global Health program.” “He’s an innovative scientist, an accomplished manager and he shares our deep commitment to improving health in the developing world,” she says. “He has the skills and experience needed to advance our three major priorities: accelerating research and product development, delivering health tools to people who need them, and building resources and political commitment for global health.” In his position, Yamada leads the foundation’s efforts to develop and deliver drugs, vaccines and other tools to fight developingworld diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. He oversees the foundation’s global health grant portfolio, which includes more than $5.7 billion in active grants. A native of Tokyo, Japan, Yamada, 61, came to the United States at the age of 15 to attend Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. His father, who had obtained his degree in the US, wanted his son to do likewise.

* H e n r i e t t a D u n n i g a n ‘ 4 4 B S / N of Richmond, VA on Aug. 19, 2006. Dunnigan served as a nurse during WWII in the South Pacific Theater of Operations. “Throughout her life, she gently touched and enriched the lives of so many people as a nurse and a friend.” Dunnigan was 86. D o n a l d G r e e v e r ‘ 4 5 M D of Sanibel Island, FL on Feb. 25, 2006. Greever practiced medicine in Chilhowie, VA for many years. He was the widower of N e l l G r e e v e r ‘ 4 6 C e r t / N . * * G a r l a n d H a b e l ‘ 4 0 B S / P of Burkeville, VA on March 7, 2006. * P h i l i p H a n d y ‘ 4 2 D D S of Lynchburg, VA on May 7, 2006. G l a d s t o n e H i l l ‘ 4 6 D D S of Portsmouth, VA on June 1, 2005. B e t t e H o p k i n s ‘ 4 8 C e r t ( O T ) / A H of Charlottesville, VA on July 25, 2006. She was an instructor in the occupational therapy department at MCV for many years. Hopkins was 80. B e s s i e K i r k l e y ‘ 4 9 S t . P of Staten Island, NY in May 2004. Kirkley worked as a health care nurse at MCV for many years. H a r r y L i n g e r ‘ 4 6 M D of Bridgeport, WV. * L l o y d M o s s ‘ 4 1 M D of Fredericksburg, VA on Aug. 28, 2006. Moss started practicing internal medicine with Pratt Clinic in 1948 until his retirement in 1989 at age 75. The Lloyd F. Moss Wing at the Pratt Medical Center was dedicated in 1986. After retirement, Moss continued to pursue his passion to provide health care to all in the community. In 1993, the free clinic was established in the Amy Guest Wing at Mary Washington Hospital and was later renamed the Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic. Moss continued to see patients at the free clinic until age 85. Moss is survived by many friends and family including his two sons, * L l o y d M o s s ‘ 7 8 D D S , J o h n M o s s ‘ 7 9 M D and daughter-inlaw, K a r e n M o s s ‘ 7 6 B S / N . Moss was 90. J o h n R e a d ‘ 4 6 M D of San Angelo, TX on Sept. 1, 2005. C h a r l e s R o b i n s o n ‘ 4 5 M D of Fort Worth, TX.

1940’s *Ann Clark ’48BS/N

of Belhaven,

NC. of Danville, VA and most recently of Fearrington Village, NC on July 22, 2006. Cornett opened the first oral surgery practice in Danville, VA where he served Southside Virginia and the adjacent North Carolina areas until his retirement in 1998. Cornett is the father of

*Fred Cornett ‘47DDS

John Cornett ‘95MS(BC)/M ‘01MD.

He was 84. Key To Abbreviations Alumni are identified by year degree/school Degrees: Associate’s Degree AS C E R T Certificate BS Bachelor of Science D D S Doctor of Dentistry DH Dental Hygiene D i e t Dietetic Intern D p h A Doctor of Pharmacy HS House Staff MD Doctor of Medicine M H A Master of Health Administration M N A Master of Nurse Anesthesia MS Master of Science PC Post-Certificate PhD Doctor of Philosophy SW Social Work Schools: Allied Health AH C L S Clinical Laboratory Sciences G Gerontology H A Health Administration H A E Health Administration Executive H C M Health Care Management H S O Health Services Organization M T Medical Technology N A Nurse Anesthesia O T Occupational Therapy P C Patient Counseling P T Physical Therapy R C Rehabilitation Counseling R S Radiation Sciences B Business BH Basic Health Sciences D Dentistry E Education EN Engineering H & S Humanities and Sciences B Biology C Chemistry M Medicine A Anatomy B C Biochemistry M & I Microbiology and Immunology P Physiology P & T Pharmacology and Toxicology O Otolaryngology MC Mass Communications N Nursing N P Nurse Practitioner R N - B S N Registered NursingNTS P St.P SW

Bachelor’s Science Nontraditional Studies Pharmacy St. Philip School of Nursing Social Work

Donald Schweizer ‘43MD

of Wilm-

ington, NC. of Shillington, PA on Feb. 24, 2006. A n n e W h i t t e n ‘ 4 9 B S ( M E T ) / A H of Richmond, VA on Aug. 11, 2006. She is survived by many friends and family including her husband of 56 years, Thelma Thomas ‘48Cert/N

G. Harrison Whitten Jr. ‘50BS(B)/B.

1950’s * * J e r i l l C a v e n d e r ‘ 5 2 M D of Charleston, WVA on March 16, 2006. Cavender was a family practice physician and an anesthesiologist for 45 years. Cavender received a Purple Heart in WWII. He is survived by his wife, * * J e a n P l u n k e t t C a v e n d e r ‘ 5 2 M D of 55 years. W i l l i e T e r r y E l m o r e ‘ 5 9 D D S of Emporia, VA on June 6, 2006. E l s i e S c o t t F r i e r s o n ‘ 5 1 S t . P of Upper Marlboro, MD in Jan. 2006. She worked as a public health coordinator at Howard University in Washington, DC for many years. W i l l i a m H a l e ‘ 5 2 B S / P of Miami, FL on Jan. 23, 2006. Hale was a pharmacist with the Navy before moving to Miami. Hale was 80. B e n j a m i n H o u s t o n ‘ 5 2 D D S of Goldsboro, NC. * * J o h n “ J a c k ” M a t h e w s ‘ 5 8 M D of Appomattox, VA on March 17, 2006. He practiced family medicine for many years from which he retired in 1993. Mathews served as president of the Virginia Academy of Family Practice. He was 78. D a l t o n M c C o y ‘ 5 2 B S / P of Norfolk, VA on Nov. 12, 2005. H e n r y M a u c k J r . ‘ 5 6 H S - M of Richmond, VA on Sept. 2, 2006. Mauck was a professor of pediatrics and professor of medicine with MCV. He also served as president of the Richmond Area Heart Association and Governor of Virginia for the American College of Cardiology. He was also director of the pediatric cardiac catherization laboratory and was co-author of numerous publications and abstracts. He also contributed to several texts on cardiology. Mauck was 80.

I . S l a y d o n M y e r s ‘ 5 5 D D S of Martinsville, VA in June 2006. L . W . P a i n t e r ‘ 5 2 D D S of Salem, VA on Jan. 27, 2006.

medicine. “I found him to be one of the most intelligent, knowledgeable people in medicine,” said Hermes Kontos, retired Dean for MCV’s School of Medicine. “He was a great teacher and an excellent collaborator. He ran the curriculum very effectively in the dean’s office.” He was 78. * B a r b a r a W a t t s ‘ 5 4 B S / N of Roanoke, VA on Aug. 4, 2006. She was a professor of nursing at Virginia Western Community College. After her retirement, she volunteered for the American Cancer Society Discovery Shop, History Museum of Western Virginia and Art Museum of Western Virginia. She was married to * E . W i l s o n W a t t s J r . ‘ 5 5 M D for many years. Watts was 75. J a y W e m p l e ‘ 5 0 M D of Miami, FL on Oct. 14, 2005. D o n W h i t e d ‘ 5 5 D D S of Charlottesville, VA on Jan. 19, 2006. Whited practiced orthodontics for many years. He served as president of the Charlottesville/Albemarle Dental Society, president of the Shenandoah Valley Dental Component and was a fellow of the Virginia Dental Association. Whited was also president of the Virginia Orthodontic Association. He was 82.

*Richard “Sonny” Peatross Jr.

of Warrenton, VA on April 26, 2006. Peatross was 72. R a l p h P e t r e e ‘ 5 8 D D S of Pinehurst, NC on Nov. 6, 2005. * W i l l i a m P r i c e ‘ 5 0 D D S of Monroe, NC on Dec. 17, 2005. F l o r e n c e R i n e r ‘ 5 3 B S / N of Elkin, NC on March 13, 2006. Riner was a registered nurse for Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital for many years. Riner was 80. * W i l l i a m R u s h e r ‘ 5 5 M D of Richmond, VA on June 25, 2006. He was a general practitioner for four years in Crewe, VA before practicing ophthalmology in Richmond. Rusher was an adjunct professor at VCU and a medical consultant in the State Department of Rehabilitation Services. Rusher was 84. B a r b a r a S i m p s o n ‘ 5 1 B S / N of Shelby, NC. * * A l i c e S m i t h ‘ 5 3 B S / N of Richmond, VA on March 25, 2006. She served for the US Coast Guard Auxiliary for over 30 years holding staff positions on the flotilla, division and district levels. Smith was 73. D o r o t h y S m i t h ‘ 5 2 S t . P of Hillside, IL. A r t h u r S u n d q u i s t ‘ 5 2 B S ( O T ) / A H of Springfield, OH on Jan. 12, 2006. * N o r m a n T i n g l e S r . ‘ 5 1 M D of Irvington, VA on May 10, 2006. Tingle practiced medicine for 45 years. He was 84. T h o m a s T r a v i s ‘ 5 2 M D of Montross, VA on April 17, 2006. He was 84. E a r l W a l k e r ‘ 5 3 H S - G of Newark, DE on Nov. 3, 2005. * * H . C h a r l e s W a l k e r J r . ‘ 5 1 M D of Grand Forks, ND. * * A l b e r t W a s s e r m a n ‘ 5 1 M D of Richmond on Sept. 9, 2006. Wasserman was professor emeritus of medicine and clinical pharmacology and served as associate dean for MCV’s School of Medicine. He was a local and regional expert on medical pharmacology and the use of drugs in ‘54BS/P

Fellow of Biomedical Ethics with the University of Virginia. He was 75.

1960’s of Mechanicsville, VA on April 2, 2006. She taught anatomy and physiology at Old Dominion University, general biology laboratory at RandolphMacon College and was an assistant professor in the department of biology at VCU, where she taught human anatomy. She had been a courtappointed special advocate and a reading instructor for the Literacy Council in Hanover, VA. Bateman leaves behind a host of friends and family including her five children:

*Irma Bateman ‘66MS(A)/M

*Irma Adams ‘96PhD(P&T)/M, *Amy Patina ‘98DPhA, Julia Galleher ‘98MS(TEE)/E, Henry Bateman III

and Bateman

‘03SMS(BE)EN ‘04Cert(CS)/EN *Ropon Bateman ‘06DPhA.

was 65. Francis Filipowicz ‘62PhD(BS)/M

of Richmond, VA on Nov. 24, 2005. He was a retired periodontist who practiced in Richmond for more than 35 years. D o n G r i f f i t h ‘ 6 1 D D S of Luray, VA on Dec. 14, 2005.

Walter “Moff” Zirkle Jr. ‘56MD

Richard Heinemann ‘68PhD(BS)/M

of Harrisonburg, VA on Feb. 28, 2006. Zirkle held many positions for Rockingham Memorial Hospital including: president and chairman of the Medical Staff Executive Committee, chairman of the Obstetrical Services and Surgical Services Committees and president of the RMH Foundation. Zirkle also became the first vice president for Medical Affairs at RMH and was named a

of Farmville, VA on Dec. 15, 2005. Heinemann was professor emeritus in the Department of Natural Science and Genetics for Longwood College for more than 30 years. He was 74. C h e r y l J o h n s ‘ 6 9 B S ( M E T ) / A H of Midlothian, VA on Nov. 25, 2005. She retired from a career as a medical technologist with MCV. Johns was 57. * G l e n w a r d K e e n e y ‘ 6 7 M D of Fayetteville, NC on March 17, 2006.

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mond, VA on April 19, 2006. Ward was 68. E u g e n e W i e n e r ‘ 6 4 M D of Pittsburgh, PA on June 29, 2006. Wiener was the executive vice president and chief medical officer of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He was also professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was very involved with research on childhood cancer and helped lead recent childrens’ improvements involving patient safety and the quality of care. Wiener served as senior surgeon on the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group and on the Children’s Oncology Group, the nation’s largest clinical research organization devoted to pediatric cancer. L u c i e n Y a r b r o u g h J r . ‘ 6 1 D D S of Woodbridge, VA in July 2006.

Keeney was in private practice at the Fayetteville Women’s Care, PA where he worked from 1977 until his passing. Keeney was a board-certified OB/Gyn. He was described by his partner of 26 years as “a great example to young physicians. He treated every patient the same. All patients were attended to with the same high regard,” said Dr. Haithcock. Keeney leaves behind many friends and family including wife, *Elizabeth Keeney ‘66BS(MET)/AH. Virginius Livesay ‘65BS(SW)/SW ‘ 6 7 M S ( R C ) / A H of Richmond, VA on Feb. 23, 2006. Livesay worked with veterans as a rehabilitation counselor. He will be remembered by family and friends as “an incredibly courageous and caring person, who always had a bright smile for everyone.” He was 85. J o h n M a s o n S r . ‘ 6 0 D D S of Loudon, TN on Aug. 21, 2006. Mason practiced dentistry in Richmond for 35 years. He was a member of the Richmond Dental Society and the ADA. After retiring in 1995, he practiced part-time as a volunteer dentist for Crossover Health Ministries. Mason was 75.

1980’s *Floyd Johnson Sr. ‘89BS(RS)/AH

of Glen Allen, VA on March 14, 2006. M i k e P o h l m a n ‘ 8 8 M S ( P T ) / A H of Edwardsville, IL on May 7, 2006. He was a physical therapist for Fitness Design Physical Therapy. “He was a fantastic physical therapist.” “Scores of high school and college athletes owe their quick return to the field or court to Pohlman, but he also worked on people of all ages, from every walk of life.” In his spare time Pohlman was an avid biker, runner and racquetball player.

1990’s

Stephen Adams Sr. ‘74BS(MET)/AH

of Windsor, VA on Aug. 11, 2006. Adams was a professor of medical technology and taught at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, just to name a few. In 1996 Adams made a career change to financial planning. He trained as a financial advisor with the American Express Financial Advisors, now known as Ameriprise. He was 52. J . R o g e r C u l p e p p e r ‘ 7 7 P h D ( P ) / M of Fyffe, AL on Jan. 24, 2005. * C a r o l D a u g h e r t y ‘ 7 0 D i e t . of El Dorado, AR on Feb. 16, 2006. J u n e E n g l a n d 7 0 B S ( P T ) / A H of Roanoke, VA on March 23, 2006. England was a physical therapist with the VA Medical Center in Salem. She was 58. F r e d M e l g a r d J r . ‘ 7 5 M S ( R C ) / A H of Richmond, VA on Aug. 27, 2006. Melgard worked for many years with the Rehabilitation Center for the Blind, both as assistant director of Business Enterprises for the Blind and as a rehabilitation counselor. M c A r t h u r N e w e l l ‘ 7 7 H S - O B / G y n of Pleasant Garden, NC in 2002. ‘83PhD(P)/M

of Richmond, VA on Nov. 25, 2005. * * J o s e p h S c h w a r t z ‘ 6 3 B S / P of Hatfield, PA on Aug. 14, 2006. Schwartz was the Burroughs-Wellcome Professor and director of industrial pharmacy research at the College of Pharmacy of the University of Sciences in Philadelphia, PA. He also served as senior research pharmacist in pharmaceutical research and development for Merck Sharp and Dohme Laboratories, now Merck and Company. Schwartz served as editor of the PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology and was co-editor of the three volume series, Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms: Tablets, and a section editor for the Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st editions. He was consultant to the FDA. He had lectured in the People’s Republic of China, Canada, Europe, Israel, Puerto Rico, South America and throughout the United States. Schwartz was 65. M e r e d i t h W a r d ‘ 6 0 B S / N of Rich-

Thomas Consedine ‘98MS(HAE)/AH

of Mechanicsville, VA on Dec. 4, 2005. Consedine wore many hats during his career; he was the lead singer of “The Tigermen,” and was director of operations for Owens and Minor. He also served in the military where he received numerous awards and medals during his career, including a Bronze Star for Valor for his heroic service in Vietnam. Consedine was 58. P h i l l i p C r o s s o n ‘ 9 2 M S ( R C ) / A H of Charlottesville, VA on Aug. 31, 2006. K e i t h O l s o n ‘ 9 8 D D S of Salt Lake City, UT on March 21, 2006. Olson ran a successful dental practice in Draper, UT. “Keith loved the outdoors and enjoyed and excelled at skiing, fly-fishing, hiking and camping.” P a u l S a v a s ‘ 9 2 M D of Williamsburg, VA in Feb. 2005. He is survived by his wife, J e a n n i e S a v a s ‘ 9 0 M D .

Faculty L e s l i e E d w a r d s of Sandston, VA on March 14, 2006. Edwards was a former professor for the department of physiology at MC. He also served on the Admissions Committee for many years. Edwards was 91.

Marcia Nunnally ‘71BS(OT)/AH ‘75 MED(SE)/E

G l e n S h i v e l I I I ‘ 7 2 M D of Richmond, on June 23, 2006. He was a retired radiologist with Radiology Associates of Richmond.

1970’s

Victoria Saunders ‘66MS(H&HA)/AH

April 11, 2006.

of Lake Wylie, SC on

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Dr. Charles Paul Boyan died on May 6. Born in Bulgaria in 1916, he received his medical and surgical training at the University of Sofia. He trained as a dentist in Austria but switched to anesthesiology, receiving his training at McGill University in Montreal. In 1950 he joined Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as an anesthesiologist, where he pioneered the concept of warming blood prior to transfusion. His innovation resulted in a dramatic decrease in the number of deaths due to cardiac arrest in surgical patients. In 1968, Boyan was named the first chairman of MCV’s newly created department of anesthesiology. He is credited with the establishment of MCV’s nurse anesthetist program. Boyan retired in 1986. He is survived by his wife, Helga Anna. The MCV Foundation is accepting gifts in Dr. Boyan’s memory.

Dr. William Harrison Higgins, Jr. ’48HS died on March 10. A native of Richmond, Higgins was a graduate of John Marshall High School, Davidson College, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II. An internal medicine specialist, he made house calls throughout this career. Higgins was an assistant professor at MCV. He had been president and chairman of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and president of the Richmond Heart Association. A lover of the arts, Higgins served for over two decades on the Board of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, serving as its president from 1972 to 1977. He also was a member of the boards of directors of the Greater Richmond Community Foundation, Planned Parenthood and the Citizens Advisory Committee on furnishing the Governor’s Mansion. Higgins is survived by his wife, Emily Peyton Higgins, and their three children.

On September 16, Susanne Berthe Hirt died at the age of 93. Born in Berlin in 1913, she was refugee from Hitler’s Europe. She taught anatomy in the then-new School of Physical Therapy at MCV beginning in 1946, serving as chair of that department from 1948 to 1982. Hirt held the chairmanship for 34 years and retired in 1982. She was especially known for her work with polio patients. She used methods developed by Australian polio pioneer Sister Elizabeth Kenny, who advocated stimulating and re-educating affected muscles rather than immobilizing them. She organized Richmond’s post-polio support group, a group that is still active today. At the age of 79, Hirt became certified to teach the Feldenkrais Method of movement. She continued to see patients until she was 89. Hirt received the American Physical Therapy Association’s highest award, the Mary McMillan Lecture Award, in 1981. In 1983 Hirt was named one of 10 Outstanding Women of Greater Richmond by the YWCA for her work in health and fitness. In 1981 Hirt made the initial contribution to establish the Susanne Hirt Physical Therapy Fund to provide an important, flexible and reliable source of funding for the Department of Physical Therapy. Gifts in Miss Hirt’s memory can be made to the Susanne Hirt Physical Therapy Fund at the MCV Foundation.

Physician, teacher and humanitarian J. David Markham ’41MD died in Richmond on April 9. A native of Rockville Centre, NY, Dr. Markham moved to Richmond in 1937 after graduating from Columbia College. He received the Bronze Star for meritorious service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Markham joined the teaching staff at MCV and began a private practice; in 1984 he left private practice to devote himself to teaching at MCV. In 1988 the Dr. J. David Markham Award for Excellence in Teaching was created in his honor. The goal of that fund, he said, was to “honor teaching which promotes quality of care, instills the art of medicine and the value of conscientious histories and physical examinations, promotes diagnostic acumen, and involves the patient in the health care team.” Dr. Markham’s first wife, Sara, founded the Children’s Museum of Richmond; he is survived by his second wife, Pearl, three children and seven grandchildren. The MCV Foundation is accepting contributions to the Award for Excellence in Teaching in Dr. Markham’s memory.

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