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ALUMNI IN GOOD COMPA NY Medical School Alumni in Business and Industry

Lindsay A. Rosenwald, MD ’83, Chair, CEO and Founder of the Paramount BioCapital group of companies

ALSO INSIDE: STUDENTS WITH A PAST! and CLASS OF ’04 RESIDENCIES

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Features COVER STORY page 2

Alumni in Good Company 2

E D I TO R / P R I N C I PA L W R I T E R

Giselle Zayon Director, Alumni Affairs

Hospital Medicine 16

A RT D I R E C TO R / D E S I G N E R

Jacqueline Spadaro Temple University Office of Publications [066-04]

Students With a Past 18

P H OTO G R A P H Y E D I TO R

Jannine Medrana

Where are They Now? 40

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Vivica Aycox Gwen Coverdale Harriet Goodheart Eryn Jelesiewicz Jannine Medrana Jordan Reese Kate Santoro Betsy Winter

Residencies, Class of 2004 41

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P H OTO G R A P H E R S

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John M. Daly, MD ’73 A S S I S TA N T D E A N , DEVELOPMENT and A L U M N I A F FA I R S

Alumni and Faculty Honors 6

Irv Hurwitz P R E S I D E N T, A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N

News Notes 20

Louis X. Santore, MD ’80 CORRESPONDENCE

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In Memoriam 47

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He’s been called an all star, the best of the best. When it comes to assessing emerging drugs and biotechnologies, few physicians can top Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald. He’s definitely the specialist to see if your biotech company is ailing. But if your health is at issue, you’ll have to go elsewhere, because this highly successful venture capitalist doesn’t practice medicine. Lindsay A. Rosenwald, MD ’83, is Chairman, CEO and Founder of the Paramount BioCapital group of companies. With offices on three continents, Paramount specializes in asset management, investment banking, venture capital, and direct investing in the biotechnology and life-sciences industries.

ALUMNI IN GOOD COMPANY Medical School Alumni in Business and Industry Dr. Rosenwald has gained fame and fortune “on the Street” for nailing big gains with deftly timed purchases and trades. About two dozen of his “seedlings” are now listed on national markets—Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Repligen Corporation, Discovery Laboratories, Inc., and Cell Therapeutics, Inc., to name a few. He broke an industry record for getting a drug in clinical trial to market (Arsenic Trioxide, made by PolaRx BioPharmaceuticals, Inc.—30 months) and shepherded three new chemical entities through FDA approval. “I manage investor assets through domestic and offshore hedge funds as well as private equity,” says Dr. Rosenwald, “and conduct private placement offerings for development-stage biotechs—or take controlling interest in start-ups and turn-arounds, both private and public.” For some alumni, the transition from exam room to board room followed an unforeseen progression. But not in Dr. Rosenwald’s case. It was all part of a plan. He majored in finance and economics as an undergraduate. “While in medical school, I never let my Wall Street Journal subscription lapse,” he says. After graduating from Temple in 1983, he completed his residency in internal medicine, practiced for a few years in suburban Philadelphia—just long enough to finance his move to New York—and completed his MBA. Then he landed a series of jobs to bring his financial know-how up to snuff with his understanding of medicine. He worked as a securities analyst at Ladenberg Thalmann for a year, then moved to the Wall Street investment firm DH Blair as Senior Vice President for Corporate Finance. Each move and each deal sharpened his ability to identify researchers or companies whose ideas were not merely “good,” but marketable. He left Blair to become Chairman of the Castle Group, a venture capital firm on Park Avenue. Then, in 1992, he launched Paramount. With his impressive track record, Dr. Rosenwald gets a lot of calls from reporters hoping to glean sage advice. His speaking talents have added a tell-it-like-it-is sparkle to numerous financial summits and conferences, and he makes regular appearances on lists like Genetic Engineering News’ roster of “Molecular Millionaires.” Dr. Rosenwald isn’t the only Temple University School of Medicine graduate who is a major player in the world of business and finance. 2

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Are you familiar with the Breathe Right® nasal strips that millions wear for easier-breathing sleep (and athletes wear for better breathing at play)? They’re the product of Daniel E. Cohen, MD ’77 (see page 4). Consider also Kenneth M. Borow, MD ’74, profiled on page 4. Then there’s Leonard Jacob, PhD ’75, MD, as described on page 8; Frank Baldino, PhD ’80, Founder and CEO of Cephalon, Inc.; Mitchel Sayare, PhD ’75, President and CEO of ImmunoGen, Inc.; and the many other alumni businesspeople listed at the end of this piece—some work for big corporations, others for themselves. Most of their businesses are related to medicine, but others have ventured into non-medical zones. THE BUSINESS OF MEDICINE

“Once upon a time, people went to medical school because they wanted to practice medicine, conduct research, or teach,” says John M. Daly MD ’73, Dean of Temple University School of Medicine. “But applicants’ motivations run a much wider gamut these days. We don’t seek out MD degree candidates who intend not to practice medicine, but we absolutely do expect more of our graduates to embark on nontraditional careers—and even ‘traditional’ careers aren’t what they used to be,” he says. Alexander M. Hamling, MBA ’04, who will graduate with the School of Medicine’s Class of 2006, knows exactly what Dr. Daly means. He and the seven other candidates in Temple’s five-year dual degree MD-MBA program are doing all they can to prepare for the realities of medicine as a business. Temple’s “regular” medical school curriculum also incorporates more business-related material than it did in the old days. “No one believes adages like ‘take care of the patients and the bills will take of themselves,’ anymore,” says Mr. Hamling, explaining that today’s medical students recognize that it takes more than just good doctoring to run a successful practice. When it comes time to negotiate that practice merger, your understanding of pathophysiology isn’t going to amount to a hill of beans. Mr. Hamling is making it his business to learn all he can about the business of medicine. A decade ago, MD-MBA programs didn’t even exist. So when the golden age of medicine started tarnishing, there were thousands of alumni out there who had to learn “the hard way.” And many learned their lessons well, becoming highly successful in business and in medicine. Medical practices are businesses—and some contain opportunity for profit no one would have considered in the past. For example, who says you have to send a patient to the hospital for an MRI if you can invest in one yourself? Or consider the fact that most of the 4,000 ambulatory surgery centers in the United States are owned by physicians. Some entrepreneurial alumni go into businesses that solve business and/or clinical problems for other physicians or scientists. Some carve out their own business niches, others form partnerships with investors or corporations seeking new business, and others still seek full- or part-time employment in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. In business and industry as in medicine, one factor is key: Critical thinking. Critical thinking skills will take you far in any direction you choose, said Calvin Johnson, MD, Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Temple, during his keynote address at the Medical School’s commencement for the Class of 2004 in May.

Alexander M. Hamling, MBA ’04 and member of the MD Class of ’06

For more about Temple’s MBA programs, visit the Fox School’s website (www.sb.temple.edu) or contact Donna Ferrari, Director: Fox School of Business Temple University Center City 1515 Market Street, Suite 614 Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-204-2036 215-204-8300 (fax) donna.ferrari@temple.edu

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After the endorsement by 49ers superstar Jerry Rice during a nationally televised football game in the mid ’90s, the sales of Breathe Right® nasal strips took off. Today they’re producing about $87 million in annual sales revenue for their Minnesotabased maker, CNS, Inc., co-founded by Daniel E. Cohen, MD ’77.

“Covalent sets the standard in new approaches to clinical trial management and development of drugs, biologics, and medical devices,” says its President and CEO, Kenneth Borow, MD ’74, who trained at Harvard in both adult and pediatric cardiology.

“CNS stands for central nervous system,” says Dr. Cohen, CNS’s Chairman, explaining that the company was actually started to manufacture neuro- and sleep-disorder diagnostics. CNS’s foray into consumer products was unforeseen—as was Dr. Cohen’s transition to the business world. It all began when he and his partner were neurology residents and witnessed surgical patients experiencing strokes on heart bypass during high-risk procedures.

Kenneth M. Borow, MD ’74

“We envisioned a device to monitor brain function during surgery,” Dr. Cohen says, recalling the steps he took to found CNS. The prototype was tested at the Mayo Clinic. “It worked well,” Dr. Cohen recalls. “But in marketing, it was a disaster.” A few years later, disaster turned dreamy when an inventor approached the company with an adhesive-coated plastic strip that fits across the bridge of the nose to aid nighttime breathing. In addition to Breathe Right® nasal strips, CNS markets a number of other consumer products, such as Breathe Right Snore Relief® throat spray and FiberChoice® tablets. Dr. Cohen’s newest venture is Round River Research Corporation, which provides innovative complementary health products to consumers, such as the Infusion™ Acoustic Body System, which delivers audible music directly to the body, aiding in relaxation and meditation. Dr. Cohen believes that therapies and technologies that promote better integration of the physical and emotional promote better health. Another Round River product designed for use in the entertainment, the Body Sound™ System, is what Dr. Cohen calls “the next generation of sound experience beyond surround sound.” One bit of advice Dr. Cohen offers would-be entrepreneurs is to hire talented, experienced help. Intelligent people thwart their own success or efficiency when they think they’re smart enough to be able to figure everything out on their own. “Why waste time trying to reinvent the wheel?” he says.

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In 1997, when he was brought on to lead the Covalent Group, Inc., it was a fledgling operation. Today, with offices in suburban Philadelphia and London, it is a major clinical research and drug development organization with 150 employees, clients such as Pfizer and Merck, and multimillions in revenue. It was the research organization behind the widely publicized study comparing Pfizer Inc.’s Lipitor and Bristol Myers Squibb Co.’s Pravachol in combating coronary artery disease. In 2003, Covalent managed studies in 22 countries. Dr. Borow explains that his path to the business world was deliberate. Even as a student, he knew he would not assume the traditional physician’s role. Before most of his classmates had even set foot in a research lab, he had already spent endless hours in the cardiac physiology laboratory of former Temple Chief of Cardiology Dr. James Spann. “Cardiology was fascinating. I could see the entire spectrum of disease over the full lifecycle of the individual,” he recalls. Dr. Borow’s career is more about fascination and intrigue than “ambition.” Prior to joining Covalent, fascination led him through residency and fellowship training at Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospital, which led to academic appointments at Harvard. Then he was recruited by the University of Chicago to develop a clinical cardiovascular research program with a worldwide scope. Next he went to Merck to lead its Clinical Research Operations group in the United States and Puerto Rico. He managed clinical operations programs for 38 products including Vioxx®, Fosamax®, Zocor®, and Singulair®. Today at Covalent, he’s helping to develop the lead products of top companies. He’s been on the editorial boards of major journals, sat on numerous committees, and continues to lend his leadership to academia and industry. This fall he will co-chair the Health Care Research and Innovations Congress in Washington, D.C.

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Other Temple Medical School Alumni in Business & Industry Stanley Altan, PhD ’74, North Brunswick, NJ, is a Senior Researcher at Johnson & Johnson. Jay T. Backstrom, MD ’82, Res ’83, Shawnee Mission, KS, is Vice President for Global Medical & Safety at Pharmion Corporation. Ian Ballard MD ’62, Wayne, PA, is an Attending Physician at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Wyeth also employs David Colasante, MD ’80, Newtown Square, PA; and Loran Killar, PhD ’85, Newtown, PA. John Barrett, PhD ’76, Branchburg, NJ, is a Principal Scientist at Johnson & Johnson. Elliott T. Berger, PhD ’75, Chapel Hill, NC, is Senior Director at Merck & Company, Inc. James Bergey, PhD ’76, Chester Springs, PA, is Vice President for Business Development at Locus Pharmaceuticals. Laurence J. Blumberg, MD ’87, MBA, New York, NY, is CEO of Blumberg Capital Management LLC; founding member of Cambridge Heart, Inc.; and co-founder of Syntonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

David S. Krause, MD ’77, Ambler, PA, is Senior VicePresident for Clinical Research and Medical Affairs at Vicuron Pharmaceuticals. Art Lazarus, MD ’80, Chadds Ford, PA, is Senior Director for Clinical Research at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Arthur Leibowitz, MD ’72, Wynnewood, PA, is cofounder of Philadelphia-based Health Advocate, and Executive Vice President at Medscape, Inc. Daniel Lyons, MD ’76, MPH, Wayne, PA, is Senior Vice President for Government Programs at Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia. Malcolm MacNab, MD ’77, Far Hills, NJ, is Executive Director of Clinical Research at Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation. Louis Marmon, MD ’81, PhD ’94, Potomac, MD, is a Principal at Health Ventures, LLC, a consulting and financial services firm. Steven Miola, PhD ’75, Lansdale, PA, is a Director at Merck & Company, Inc.

Jerome Boscia MD ’77, Newtown Square, PA, is Vice President at Centocor a biopharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

Joseph Mosca, PhD ’82, Ellicot City, MD, is Vice President of Development, Mymetics and Senior Scientist, Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.

Ronald Brady, MD ’67, Great Neck, NY, is President of Addiction Management Systems.

Christopher C. Nessel, MD ’94, Randolph, NJ, is Medical Director of Cardiovascular Research at Aventis Pharmaceuticals.

Bristol-Myers Squibb employs Carole Sampson-Landers, MD ’76, Lebanon, NJ; Robert Kessler, PhD ’78, Branford, CT; Richard Pasternak, MD ’77, Richboro, PA; Michael Pucci, PhD ’83, Kensington, CT; and Theodore Ritzer, PhD ’77, Clarksville, TN. Jacquelynne Cook, PhD ’89, Collegeville, PA, is Director of InVivo Pharmacology at Merck Research Labs. Dennis Decktor, PhD ’80, Dresher, PA, is Senior Director of Phase IV Trials at Centocor Biopharmaeuticals. Gregg Fromell, MD ’83, Havertown, PA, is Executive Director of Human Research at PPD, a research and development management firm with offices in 26 countries. Philip Gildenberg, MD ’59, PhD ’70, Houston, TX, is Scientific Director of Houston Stereotactic Concepts. GlaxoSmithKline employs Martin Brandt, MS ’86, PhD, North Wales, PA; James Goldschmidt, PhD ’90, Havertown, PA; Jeffery Hanvey, PhD ’86, Cary, NC; Walter DeWolf, PhD ’81; Michael Cook, MS ’82, MD, Drexel Hill, PA; and William Frank, MD ’72. Lewis Gold, MD ’82, Weston, PA, is President of Sheridan Healthcare, an outsourcing provider for anesthesiology, neonatology and emergency medicine services. Eileen Helzner MD ’72, New Hope, PA, is Vice President of Worldwide Clinical Development and Outcomes Research at Johnson & Johnson. The corporation also employs Ellen Buerklin, MD ’70, Wayne, PA; Kevin Dolan, PhD ’80, Kintnersville, PA; and Joseph Lynch, MD ’72, Flourtown, PA. Woodrow Kessler, PhD, MD ’62, Malvern, PA, is Founder and President of Tele-Diagnostics, Inc.

Judith Ochs, MD ’73, Chadds Ford, PA, is Senior Medical Director of Clinical Research at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Louis M. Renzetti, PhD ’91, Caldwell, NJ, is Senior Director of Discovery Pharmacology at Hoffman LaRoche Laboratories. Brian Rosenfeld, MD ’80, Pikesville, MD, is Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of VISICU, a critical care technology company. R. Paul Schaudies, PhD ’85, Rockville, MD, is Assistant Vice President at Science Applications International Corporation. Howard H. Steel, MD ’45, Villanova, PA, is President & CEO of Steel’s Fudge Shops, Atlantic City, NJ, and Vice President of Operations, Steel’s Gourmet Foods, Bridgeport, PA (see article on page 40). Wendy Panzer Stephenson, MD ’79, MS, MPH, Ambler, PA, is Principal at Wendy Stephenson & Associates, LLC, Experts in Pharmaceutical Safety. Jeffrey Stritar, MD ’76, Stonington, CT, is Director of Clinical Research at Pfizer, Inc. Anthony Sun, MD ’97, New York, NY, is an Associate at Perseus, LLC, a merchant bank and private equity fund management company. Paul J. Tiseo, PhD ’88, Flanders, NJ, is Medical Director and US Team Leader at Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals. Jeannette Whitcomb, PhD ’88, San Mateo, CA, is Vice President for Operations at ViroLogic. Matthew Wikler, MD ’75, Berwyn, PA, is Chief Medical Officer at Peninsula Pharmaceuticals.

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Awards and Honors 2003 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDEES

Four alumni received awards from Temple University School of Medicine during the 2003 reunion weekend:

Blase A. Carabello, MD ’73

LAUGHLIN ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR:

ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD:

Blase A. Carabello, MD ’73

E. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63

In recognition of his contributions to patient care, education, professional affairs and research, the top alumni honor was awarded to alumnus and former Temple faculty member Blase A. Carabello, MD ’73. Dr. Carabello is internationally recognized for his expertise in the treatment of heart valve disease, aortic stenosis, and mitral regurgitation. He is also held in high esteem for the compassion and passion he brings to his roles as a clinician, teacher and researcher.

The Alumni Service Award, which honors individuals whose service and philanthropy to the School of Medicine stand out as an example for others to follow, was presented to E. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63.

“It’s not all the great diagnoses you make or all the lives you save,” he tells students. “It’s the ability to touch people’s lives when it counts the most.” The Moncrief Professor and Vice Chair of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Dr. Carabello has served as a visiting professor the world over, and is a founding member of the International Society for Heart Valve Disease. He also serves in leadership roles for the American Heart Association, the Veterans Administration, NIH, and the FDA. He is Associate Editor of Circulation, and his own publications feature Invasive Cardiology: Current Diagnostic and Therapeutic Issues (Futura, 1996) and four other books.

E. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63

He has accrued an impressive list of honors and awards, including a 1998 Alumni Achievement Award from Temple. The Class of 1984 dedicated its yearbook to him, and in 2001 he was the keynote speaker at Temple’s inaugural white coat ceremony. He was Director of Diagnostic Cardiology and Associate Professor of Medicine and Physiology at Temple from 1981–1985 and, prior to joining Baylor, served on the faculty of the Medical University of South Carolina. Endowed by Henry P. Laughlin, MD ’41, the Laughlin Award honors Dr. Carabello not only for his professional achievement, but also for exemplifying the values and ideals that Temple has prized since its earliest days.

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A member of the School’s Board of Visitors, Dr. Salvitti has been a key participant in the life of the School for many years. He is grateful not only for his own education but also for his daughter’s, Jennifer Salvitti Davis, MD ’00. In addition to serving in volunteer leadership capacities, he has been an extremely generous benefactor. Most important is the scholarship he endowed in honor of his family: The E. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63, Endowed Medical Scholarship Fund, which provides substantial tuition assistance to two members of every new entering class—and will do so in perpetuity. His mission is to assist students whose goals might be thwarted by financial hardship. It is Dr. Salvitti’s way of “giving back.” “I chose to attend Temple to receive a superior education, and it was everything I hoped for. All I wanted was opportunity. Now it is my goal to see that others also have that chance,” he said. A specialist in cataract and refractive surgery, Dr. Salvitti is the founder and medical director of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Eye Center. He also serves on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is an industry consultant for ophthalmic instrumentation. His intraocular lens design is used widely in cataract surgery today. Dr. Salvitti supports several institutions of higher education. What he enjoys most about success, he says, is what it enables him to do for others. “It’s a difficult business decision for anyone to attend medical school,” Dr. Salvitti said. “It’s important that those of us who can do so support medical education.”

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HONORED PROFESSOR AWARD:

ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:

Charles R. Shuman, MD ’43

Robert W. Ford, MD ’63

The text that Charles R. Shuman, MD ’43, studied at Temple in the early 1940s, The Fundamentals of Internal Medicine, had this to say about endocrinology: “Little can be said on the subject with any degree of finality…[but it] is a lustily growing science which promises shortly to grow up and attain respectability.”

One afternoon in 1987 as he was contemplating retiring as Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at North Hills Passavant Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA, Robert W. Ford, MD ’63, glanced at his copy of the Oath of Hippocrates—and its meaning gripped him as never before.

That it did. And alumnus and longtime faculty member at Temple, Dr. Shuman, did so right along with it. Both are still making progress after more than 60 years. When Dr. Shuman graduated from Temple in 1943, the link between diabetes and kidney and eye disease was just being recognized. He saw the insulin syringe invented in 1944, the first oral drugs in the mid-1950s, and was there in 1959 when the distinction between Types I and II was made. Dr. Shuman didn’t just see these things. He taught them to thousands of patients, students, residents, and fellows over the years. Countless physicians will tell you: “Everything I learned about diabetes I learned from ‘Sugar Charlie’ ”—Temple’s Dean among them. For more than half a century, Dr. Shuman has been a source of knowledge and inspiration to students, patients and colleagues—and his family, too, including his son C. Ross Shuman, III, MD ’78, and grandson, Charles A. Shuman, MD ’00, Medical School alumni, too. “When you are taught by legends, you learn why medicine is both science and art,” said Dean Daly. “And if you practice and teach the way Dr. Shuman has, you become a legend yourself.” The Honored Professor Award honors longtime faculty members whose contributions to medical education exemplify the tenets and ideals Temple prizes in education and clinical practice.

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Perhaps 30 years in practice and some 10,000 deliveries had prepared him for a new purpose, a rebirth. And this was it: He would volunteer in an underserved country. Since 1990, Dr. Ford and his wife Karen have made more than a dozen month-long trips to the Jos University Hospital, a government outpost in a region of north central Nigeria nearly forgotten by the world. The hospital serves some 25 million people, but never had a single computer, printer, ultrasound machine, or collection of medical journals until the Fords and their volunteer colleagues came along. Over the years, Dr. Ford and his World Health Mission have donated nearly $2 million worth of equipment and supplies to the hospital. They have helped the staff institute screening and treatment programs, such as Pap testing, mammography, and hepatitis immunization. They have also championed public and professional education programs, including Nigeria’s first ultrasonography school.

Charles R. Shuman, MD ’43

Robert W. Ford, MD ’63

“We’ve been able to contribute what they have needed, and they have made us better for it,” said Dr. Ford. “I feel now, when I look at the Hippocratic Oath, that I live it.” The 2003 Alumni Achievement Award honors Dr. Ford for devoting his retirement to people who are benefiting enormously from his knowledge, affection, philanthropy, and hope.

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LEONARD JACOB, PH D ’75, MD, RECEIVES TEMPLE’S 2004 CERTIFICATE OF HONOR Each year, as part of its Founder’s Day celebration,

the University honors a distinguished graduate of each of its schools.

Certificate of Honor recipient Leonard S. Jacob, PhD ’75 MD (center), with Senior Associate Dean Richard J. Kozera, MD (left), and Medical Alumni Association President Louis X. Santore, MD ’80

This year’s School of Medicine hororee is Leonard S. Jacob, PhD ’75, MD, Founder, Chairman and CEO of InKine Pharmaceuticals, a NASDAQ-traded specialty biopharmaceutical firm based in suburban Philadelphia. Visicol™, a pre-colonoscopy cleanser in pill form, and IBStat™, an oral spray treatment for irritable bowel syndrome, are two of the seven prescribed drugs Dr. Jacobs has commercialized at InKine. He also holds a half-dozen patents. Prior to founding InKine in 1997, Dr. Jacob was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of another biotech company, Magainin Pharmaceuticals, now Genaera—and before building Magainin’s profile, he served as worldwide Vice President for Pharmaceutical Development at SmithKline Beckman (now GlaxoSmithKline). In addition to managing InKine’s complex affairs, Dr. Jacob is also adjunct Professor of Pharmacology at Drexel University College of Medicine, serves on the boards of several service and charitable organizations, has authored numerous professional publications, and sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology. In 1987 he established an academic/industrial cooperative program in clinical pharmacology between Temple University School of Medicine and his then-employer, SmithKline.

Paul Lyons, MD

A generous Medical School benefactor, Dr. Jacob recently funded a fellowship gift in Pharmacology in honor of his friend and fellow alumnus Ronald J. Tallarida, PhD ’67 (see page 10). In addition to recognizing Dr. Jacob’s distinguished professional accomplishments, the 2004 Certificate of Honor lauds his civic and University contributions.

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FAMILY MEDICINE’S LYONS RECEIVES 2004 LINDBACK AWARD

“Teaching is what gets me out of bed in the morning. It’s the most important part of my job,” said Paul Lyons, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Chair for Clinical Education in Temple’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, winner of the 2004 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Lyons believes that teaching and patient care are actually one and the same. “I have students with me all of the time. They add to the experience and make it more meaningful for patients,” he said. In “Fundamentals of Clinical Care,” Dr. Lyons teaches first- and second-year students clinical skills. He stresses the importance of giving good physical exams and taking thorough medical histories. For third- and fourth-year students, he directs the clerkship in family and community medicine, overseeing the educational process at more than 35 sites in four states, in office and hospital settings. He created an online community to help bring together students on clerkships. He gives them assignments to research online, followed by a chat room discussion. At Temple, students and residents learn from Dr. Lyons in several settings—adolescent medicine, internal medicine, and obstetrics—where he provides and supervises patient care. Students and residents praise Dr Lyons: “I hope to balance ‘knowing medicine’ and ‘knowing people’ the way he does …. He has a great ability to cut through extraneous material and get to the heart of the problem … He provides flexibility and independence but is always approachable and available … A great physician … A wonderful humanistic approach … An excellent role model.” “I want to instill in students the same enthusiasm that I have for medicine,” Dr. Lyons said. “That’s my goal. They all have to be as happy as I am.”

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ALUMNI SHARE AWARD FOR SPINAL CORD INJURY RESEARCH

Joseph S. Torg, MD ’61, and Helene Pavlov, MD ’72, are recipients of the 2004 Elizabeth Winston Lanier Kappa Delta Award of the Orthopaedic Research Society/American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. This prestigious award recognizes research “of high significance and clinical impact.” They share the award with Albert Burstein, PhD, of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York (retired). The award-winning research, “The Pathomechanics, Pathophysiology, and Prevention of Reversible and Irreversible Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Results of a Thirty-Year Clinical Experience,” summarizes research conducted on the mechanics, treatment and prevention of spinal cord injury during a three-decade span. In sum, the researchers: • identified a previously unrecognized but extremely common mechanism of cervical spine injury: axial loading; • created effective injury-prevention measures that resulted in a ban on “spearing,” using the top of the football helmet as the initial point of contact in tackling, profoundly reducing the number of cervical spine injuries resulting in paralysis (and with the development and implementation of clearly defined injury and injury prevention mechanisms, could also profoundly reduce injury rates in diving, rugby, ice hockey, trampoline, wrestling and other high-risk sports as well); • developed new criteria to guide clinicians in management decisions for the injured patient; and • promoted the concept of spinal cord resuscitation.

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and hyperextension, retrospective review of thousands of videotaped cases logged with the National Football Head and Neck Injury Registry indicated that axial loading was the actual mechanism in every instance. Another provocative finding is that immediate closed reduction produced significant and unexpected neurologic recovery—an approach at odds with those who recommended attempts at gradual reduction of cervical dislocations. Dr. Torg, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Temple and former team physician for the Flyers, the Eagles and the 76ers, is well-known in sports medicine. In the 1960s, he pioneered the changes from the old style of football cleat to the present soccer-type of shoe, saving many thousands of athletes from serious knee injury. In 1974 he co-founded the country’s first outreach Sports Medicine Clinic at Temple. He has numerous honors to his credit, including the 2002 National Athletic Trainers Association President’s Challenge Award.

Joseph S.Torg, MD ’61

“Few in sports medicine have had the impact of Joseph Torg,” said William Clancy, former President of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. Dr. Pavlov, Radiologist-in-Chief at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Professor of Radiology in Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, is well known in both the radiologic and orthopaedic communities as a leading authority on sports medicine radiology and athletic injury imaging.

Helene Pavlov, MD ’72

In professional circles, Drs. Torg and Pavlov are known for the Torg-Pavlov Ratio—a measurement dividing the width of the vertebral body on the lateral C-spine radiograph into the corresponding space encompassing the cord. A value of less than 0.8 can indicate spinal stenosis.

Several key findings of the research challenge traditionally accepted principles. For instance, while cervical spine injury mechanism theories have long emphasized the roles of hyperflexion

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PHARMACOLOGY’S TALLARIDA RECOGNIZED BY JOHNSON & JOHNSON

Ellen Codd, PhD, of Johnson & Johnson, awards a Focused Giving Grant to Ronald Tallarida, PhD ’67, Professor of Pharmacology

Noted alumnus and Temple faculty member Ronald Tallarida, PhD ’67, Professor of Pharmacology, is recipient of a recent Johnson & Johnson Focused Giving Grant that supports his work in drug combination theory, design and experimentation. Johnson & Johnson’s Focused Giving program awards academic investigators who are conducting basic research to advance science and technology in medical fields. This is the second time Dr. Tallarida has received this honor. A noted pharmacologist and mathematician, Dr. Tallarida is the immediate past Vice President of the Mid Atlantic Pharmacology Society (MAPS) of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. In addition to teaching Temple medical, dental, podiatric, and graduate students cardiovascular pharmacology and drug-receptor theory, he has published over 200 works, and has authored or co-authored eight books, including Drug Synergism & DoseEffect Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2000), which presents everything the scientist needs to perform the quantitative analysis of dose response data. New drug combinations have been the primary focus of Dr. Tallarida’s work. He played a role in the development of Ultracet®, a combination of tramadol and acetominophen used in the treatment of pain, and he recently published preclinical research in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics regarding the ability of the nutritional supplement glucosamine to boost the pain-relieving power of ibuprofen. Drug combinations can sometimes magnify a drug’s powers. “When this happens, a phenomenon known as drug synergism, it’s like finding buried treasure,” Dr. Tallarida said.

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STEVEN K. SHAMA, MD ’70—AN ALUMNUS WITH A JOYFUL CAUSE

“Are you a doctor who happens to be a person— or a person who happens to be a doctor?,” posed Steven K. Shama, MD ’70, MPH, who delivered the first Distinguished Alumni Lecture to students and faculty at the School of Medicine last February. A dermatologist who has practiced in Boston for more than 20 years and a member of Harvard’s clinical faculty, Dr. Shama asks this question dozens of times each year as he presents talks and workshops around the country. A person’s answer to this question says a lot about his or her capacity to experience and inspire joy—in medicine, in family, in life— which Dr. Shama thinks is very important. This is why he’s focused his presentations on joy nearly exclusively for the past seven years. “What’s the first thing we ask someone we’ve just met?,” Dr. Shama asked. “That’s right: ‘What do you do?’ And you’ll hear ‘I’m a cardiologist, a computer programmer, a student’. Try asking people what they do when they aren’t doing what they typically do,” he said excitedly, noting that we are more than our professional roles. Dr. Shama relayed an incident that spurred him to re-evaluate his own value system. At Grand Rounds at Massachusetts General Hospital about ten years ago, the moderator announced that a longtime member of the faculty had died. After citing a number of remarkable things about the man that were not widely known, the moderator asked for a moment of silence, then dove into the morning’s agenda. “Ten seconds to remember a life, I thought,” said Dr. Shama. “And what a pity we didn’t celebrate it when he was still with us.” Since then, Dr. Shama resolved to do things differently. He takes every opportunity he can to appreciate people in daily life—patients, family, and colleagues.

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Then he talked about something all physicians can relate to: The experience of giving without receiving in return. All physicians must learn to cope with patients who don’t seem to appreciate their diagnostic skills and clinical acumen. “Sometimes without realizing it, we carry a lot of baggage into the exam room. Malpractice premiums, office tiffs, family squabbles,” noted Dr. Shama. “The patient will immediately feel it. “So take a deep breath and clear it all out; remind yourself that the next several minutes belong to your patient,” advised Dr. Shama. “Remember the old adage, ‘people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care,’” he said. “Something as simple as listening, really listening, can reconnect you to the joy and the rewards, all over again,” he said. Moreover, he noted with a twinkle in his eye, “the best listeners have the most successful practices—and that’s no coincidence.”

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NEPHROLOGY’S KELEPOURIS RECEIVES KIDNEY FOUNDATION HONOR

Ellie Kelepouris, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief of Nephrology at Temple, has been named 2004 Physician of the Year by the National Kidney Foundation, Delaware Valley Chapter. The award recognizes her professional accomplishments as well as her dedication to the Foundation’s work. As chair of the Foundation’s medical advisory board, Dr. Kelepouris spearheaded the Inter-City Kidney Rounds, one of the most successful physician education series in the country, and the Kidney Early Evaluation Program, co-sponsored by Temple, which screens patients at risk for developing kidney disease. She is nationally recognized for her research contributions in the areas of cell physiology and transport, having received research awards from the National Kidney Foundation and the American Heart Association.

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A faculty member since 1991, Dr. Kelepouris serves as an important role model for physicians in training. “It’s not teaching for the sake of teaching—in teaching, you’re creating new doctors,” she said. In 2003, she received the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, one of the highest awards that can be bestowed upon a teacher, and was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Educators in Medicine. “Temple is a rich center for information exchange and cutting-edge ideas,” she said. “We’re here because we love to teach things that are really important.”

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TEMPLE’S 2004 ALPHA OMEGA ALPHA CELEBRATION

Thomas Fekete, MD, and Bennett Lorber, MD

Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the academic medical honor society, was founded in 1902 in protest of the “rowdyism, boorishness, immorality, and low educational ideals” that typified medical students of the day. Back then, admission criteria for most schools centered mainly on applicants’ ability to pay. Enter AOA—and Abraham Flexner, who evaluated and recommended standards for medical education nationwide—and Reverend Russell Conwell, who founded Temple and assembled an excellent faculty. Their collective efforts spawned huge improvements. AOA has 124 chapters in North America today. In March, Temple’s Epsilon chapter held its annual new member induction. Amy Goldberg, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, is Councilor, a post previously held by alumnus and former faculty member Michael Love, MD ’70. A warm-hearted lecture by Morton Kligerman, BS ’38, MD ’41, AOA member and a founding father of modern radiation oncology, started the day. The former President and Gold Medalist of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology Oncology might have traced the history of the field, or predicted its future—but in typical Temple fashion, “Klig” decided to talk about “The Compleat Doctor” instead. “Nothing beats taking care of people,” he said. “Everyone with patient contact must be kind, understanding, unhurried, reliable, and reachable,” he added, noting that he always gave patients his home phone number. “My Ivy League colleagues might have trained in better-equipped research labs, but I could take care of patients,” said Klig. “Temple made me a good doctor, and I’ve sung its praises all over the world.”

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The celebration continued with a banquet and induction ceremony at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. John M. Daly, MD ’73, Dean and AOA member, opened the program by recounting the ideals that Temple and AOA share. Next, in his remarks to initiates, Thomas Fekete, MD, AOA member and Professor of Medicine, expounded on the process of scientific discovery from the time of Darwin and Pasteur to today. Then Dr. Goldberg announced this year’s faculty initiates, listed on the next page. After the faculty induction, Chitra N. Sambasivan of the Class of 2004 and Sean P. O’Donnell, 2005, AOA members and Epsilon President and President-Elect, respectively, joined Dr. Goldberg in the induction of new members among their classmates. They, too, are listed here. Along with many proud parents and family members, Bernard Remakus, MD ’78, was on hand to see his son Christopher welcomed into the Society. Other alumni and faculty AOA members who attended and/or lent their support this year include Philip Alburger, MD ’62; Bertram Channick, MD; Rodger Barnette, MD ’79; William Barry, MD; E. Howard Bedrossian, MD ’45; Neil Brister, MD-PhD ’83; Raul DelaCadena, MD; Daniel Dempsey, MD; Angelo DiGeorge, MD ’46; Richard Eisenstaedt, MD; Albert Finestone, MD ’45; Mary Stuart Fisher, MD; Enrique Hernandez, MD; Brenda Horwitz, MD ’93; Vernon Kratz, MD Res ’73; Richard Kozera, MD; Bennett Lorber, MD; James McClurken, MD ’76; Allan Marks, MD ’62; Joseph “Chip” Marshall; Darilyn Moyer, MD ’86; Eugene Myers, MD ’62; Stephen Permut, MD ’72; A. Koneti Rao, MD-PhD; Edward Resnick, MD ’52; Charles R. Reed, MD ’66; Fred B. Rogers, MD ’48; Ronald N. Rubin, MD ’72; Scott Schartel, DO; Carson Schneck, MD ’59, PhD ’65; Audrey Uknis, MD ’87; Wayne A. Satz, MD ’92; Charles R. Shuman, MD ’43; Byungse Suh, MD; Charles Tourtellotte, MD ’57; Howard Warner, MD ’53; and Kathryn Zerbe, MD ’78.

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Brand-new AOA Inductees: Front: Garen Steele, MD ’04; Christopher Remakus, MD ’04; Jaime McCord ’05; Joseph McGinley, MD ’04; Sean O’Donnell ’05; Chitra Sambasivan, MD ’04; and David Hoganson, MD ’04. Second row: Robert Zemble, MD ’04; Erica Liverant, MD ’04; and Monica Garg, MD ’04.Third row: Michael Hung, MD ’04; Ram Vasudevan, MD ’04; Aaron Lipskar, MD ’04; Mary Simpson, MD ’04; Kathryn Konscsol, MD ’04; and Susannah Berke, MD ’04. Back: Spencer Haller, MD ’04; Kurt Hoffmayer ’05; Nicholas Panetta ’05; John Gibson, MD ’04; Matthew Hogan, MD ’04; and Craig Chuhuran, MD ’04

Class of 2004 Initiates

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Jennifer S. Alvarez Wallace A. Baker Thomas W. Ball Susannah E. Berke Simon Chao Craig M. Chuhran Josef K. Eichinger J. Raymond Fitzpatrick, III* Monica Garg Joseph Gatial* John M. Gibson Donald Glaser* Spencer L. Haller Michele L. Hirsch Matthew R. Hogan David M. Hoganson Michael K. Hung Jeffrey B. Kaplan Kathryn A. Koncsol Aaron M. Lipskar Erica Liverant Alison M. Ludwig Michael A. Malstrom Joseph C. McGinley Robin M. Naples Christopher B. Remakus Chitra Sambasivan* Siddharth Shah Mary C. Simpson Garen D. Steele Nicholas Vendemia Ram R. Vasudevan Megan L. Werner Robert M. Zemble * inducted in 2003

Kurt S. Hoffmayer Jaime H. McCord Sean P. O’Donnell Nicholas L. Panetta 2004 Faculty Initiates

Elizabeth T. Drum, MD ’87 Associate Professor and Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology

Carson D. Schneck, MD ’59, PhD ’65, with Ram R.Vasudevan, MD ’04

Inyanga Mack Collins, MD Associate Professor and Clinical Director of Family Community Medicine Robert M. McNamara, MD Chair of Emergency Medicine William J. Mannella, Jr., MD Chair of Surgery at Temple affiliate Crozer Chester Medical Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery

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PHILIP GILDENBERG, MD ’59, MS ’59, PH D ’70, RECEIVES DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Philip Gildenberg, MD ’59, MS’59, PhD ’70

Philip Gildenberg, MD ’59, MS ’59, PhD ’70, received the 2003 Distinguished Service Award of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery for his longstanding dedication to the Society and to the development of the field. He is a past president of the Society as well as a former president of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery—and served in other leadership capacities for both organizations over the years. With numerous patents to his credit for devices and techniques relating to stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, Dr. Gildenberg is an internationally recognized authority in minimally invasive neurosurgery. He has written extensively in the field, having coauthored the Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (McGraw Hill, 1994), and was Editor of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery from 1975 to 2002. In addition to serving as Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Gildenberg was the first chief of neurosurgery at both the University of Arizona School of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He has served as visiting professor and lecturer at more than four dozen universities and medical centers around the world. Dr. Gildenberg is Scientific Director of Houston Stereotactic Concepts, which manufactures and markets many of the innovative technologies Dr. Gildenberg invented. “Our mission is to improve stereotactic surgical techniques by developing and incorporating new, imaginative, and clinically relevant technology, and to extend such techniques beyond the field of neurosurgery,” Dr. Gildenberg says. Dr. Gildenberg was inspired to enter the field as a medical student at Temple nearly 50 years ago when he met Professors Ernest A. Spiegel, MD, and Henry T. Wycis, MD, pioneers in the field. Check out the next issue of Temple Medicine for the full story.

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PORTRAITS DEDICATED TO THE MINGS

Last fall, portraits of Professors Si-Chun Ming, MD, and Pen-Ming Lee Ming, MD, were presented to the School of Medicine. The couple taught in the Department of Pathology at Temple for more than 30 years. Many former students, colleagues, and University and School officials attended the celebration and sang the Mings praises. Si-Chun Ming, MD, came to Temple in 1971 following his residency in pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as Acting Chair of Pathology from 1978 to 1980, then as Deputy Chair from 1980 to 1986. “His major contribution has been in GI pathology,” said Henry Simpkins, MD, PhD, Chair of Pathology at Temple. “In 1976 he proposed that human gastric carcinomas be classified into two types: expanding and infiltrating,” said Dr. Simpkins, explaining that Dr. Ming’s reputation soon grew to international scope. Dr. Ming has been host to a large number of visiting professors working in GI cancer–many of whom came from China, Italy, Egypt, and other distant lands to learn from him, and has lectured all over the world. In the mid 1970’s, he wrote the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology fascicle on tumors of the esophagus and stomach, and later contributed to the World Health Organization’s classification of intestinal tumors. He also co-authored a book that became a seminal work in GI pathology: Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract (WB Saunders; 1992 and 1998). Pen-Ming Lee Ming, MD, trained in obstetrics/gynecology in both Taipei and Boston at the New England Deaconess Hospital. She became a research fellow at Peter Brent Brigham Hospital in gynecologic endocrinology, completed a residency pathology at the Brigham and Women’s, and then studied clinical genetics at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. Once at Temple, she ran the cytogenetics laboratory for 26 years (1972 to 1998).

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Above: Pen-Ming L. Ming, MD, and Si-Chun Ming, MD Left: The Mings with artist Joseph Routon

“She was an essential member of the laboratory team here,” said Dr. Simpkins, noting that Dr. Ming authored some 55 publications and was boarded in both anatomic pathology and medical genetics. Moreover she was also deeply committed to teaching and service. She was honored with two Golden Apple teaching awards (1988 and 1992) and received the Lindback award for Distinguished Teaching in 1994. “Very impressive records for two very distinguished people,” Dr. Simpkins concluded. “There have been other couples on the faculty at Temple, but none more extraordinary than SiChun and Pen-Ming Ming,” said Marvin Wachman, PhD, former President of Temple University. “This is a most remarkable couple, with exceptional careers,” he said, explaining that although both Si-Chun and Pen-Ming received their medical degrees from the National Central University School of Medicine in Nanking, China, they did not meet until after they had each moved, separately, to the States. They met in Boston at the home of a mutual friend in 1955, married in 1957, and went on to build very productive careers at Temple. They also have six children, two of whom are physicians.

Ravy Lu, MD ’94, Res ’97, was also on hand for the portrait dedication. “Today in academic medicine, the focus is on professionalism,” she said, “And in their work and in their lives, the Mings have always exemplified it. How fortunate we were to have such outstanding members of the profession at Temple,” she said. Dr. Pen Ming has been beloved by generations of medical students, explained Dr. Lu. Her pathology laboratory sections were sought after because students knew that she put her best into teaching, always explaining difficult and challenging material in a way that students could understand. “Faculty like the Mings prepare students to go forth with confidence,” said Dr. Lu, noting that their portraits represent the true meaning of teaching.

Si-Chun Ming, MD, and Director of Clinical Chemistry Fram R. Dalal, PhD

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OS PITAL M E DICI NE Three alumni—Laurence Wellikson, MD ’73, Andrew Fishmann, MD ’77, and Adriana Monferre, MD ’94—have leading roles in the fastest-growing area of specialization in medicine in the United States today: Hospital medicine—sometimes called inpatient medicine. Hospitalists manage patients through the continuum of hospitalization, coordinating consults, ordering tests, and providing bedside care throughout the inpatient stay. Laurence Wellikson, MD ’73, is Executive Director of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), a national organization founded in 1997 that serves as the leading resource for nearly 5,000 member hospitalists. Also well known and widely respected in the field, Andrew Fishmann, MD ’77, recipient of SHM’s 2004 Clinical Excellence Award, is cofounder of Cogent Healthcare, a leading inpatient management company that operates hospitalist programs in 13 markets nationwide. And Adriana Monferre, MD ’94, is Director of Temple’s hospitalist program and Associate Professor of Medicine. Six full-time hospitalists staff the service— and further expansion is planned. “Temple is making a significant investment in its hospitalist program,” says Michael Duncan, CEO of Temple University Physicians. “In addition to

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the value it adds to our clinical and educational portfolios, it has proven an essential component of management,” he explains. In Europe and Canada, role specialization between hospital- and communitybased physicians is well established, but here in the United States, it’s only recently begun to catch on—and fast, says Dr. Wellikson. Approximately 8,000 hospitalists practice in the United States today, and their ranks are predicted to swell to 25,000 by the end of the decade. While there is no board certification in hospital medicine at present, it is moving towards recognition as a distinct subspecialty. A physician-entrepreneur and soughtafter speaker on topics such as physician integration and physician empowerment, Dr. Wellikson is no stranger to emerging models in healthcare. And hospital medicine, which he believes holds keys to the way medicine will be practiced in the future, is what’s capturing his time and attention today. “It’s difficult for the internist or the family practitioner to have a full office practice and spend adequate time with his or her hospitalized patients,” Dr. Wellikson explains, noting that the average physician spends only 12 percent of his time with hospitalized

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patients. Whereas the typical primary care practitioner is unlikely to see any one condition requiring hospitalization more than three times per year, hospitalists spend all of their time on acute conditions and, thus, become expert and well-versed, he explains. Studies conclude that hospitalistattended patients incur lower costs and have shorter lengths of stay. Moreover, hospitalists are providing a solution to the unassigned patient who does not have a doctor. As SHM’s leader, Dr. Wellikson is in a unique position to influence critical clinical and quality initiatives on a national level. And so is Andrew Fishmann, MD ’77. In addition to being senior partner at California Lung Associates and cofounder of Cogent Healthcare, he is the only hospitalist to be appointed to the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which provides advice and recommendations on priorities for national health services. Cogent Healthcare provides the systems, data, and clinical support systems for hospitalists, and launched the first internet-based continuing medical education program for the specialty. As director of Cogent’s mentoring program, Dr. Fishmann shares his expertise with hospitalists and care teams as he

makes on-site visits to hospitals to teach, observe and coach. Dr. Fishmann also assists in the development of Cogent’s “best practices” guidelines, establishing research-based standards of care for common hospital problems. Through the years, he has helped launch a number of hospitalist programs across the country. In April the SHM presented Dr. Fishmann with its 2004 Award for Clinical Excellence in recognition of his “vision and leadership,” as well as “for his penchant for freely sharing his knowledge and clinical expertise.” Prior to deciding to apply to medical school, Adriana Monferre, MD ’94, Director of Temple’s hospitalist program, worked as an economic research analyst at a national firm. She was particularly interested in economic policy for healthcare—a subject that still fascinates her—but it was all desk work, removed from people, abstract. As a hospitalist, she enjoys the teamwork and organized effort that pays off for the patient.

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Like many of her counterparts, Dr. Monferre enjoys the variety, the intensity of caring for the hospitalized patient. “Medical problems occur within people, so they’re never uncomplicated or straightforward, even if the medical problems themselves are,” she says. Like people, sometimes hospitals can also be quite complicated. Five different departments must coordinate their actions to deliver an aspirin to the patient in room 510. Hospitalists like Dr. Monferre become experts in how hospitals are managed. They see opportunities to simplify, streamline, troubleshoot, and get things done. Drs. Wellikson and Fishmann also laud the specialty for the efficiency and clarity it so often helps to bring. In fact, Dr. Wellikson believes that hospital medicine is going to change how hospitals in America are staffed, structured and organized. “Want to talk about the hospital of the future?” he asks with a twinkle in his eye. Of course we do… but that’s a subject for another day.

Andrew J. Fishmann, MD ’77

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Students with a Past Like many of her classmates at Temple University School of Medicine, Gina Bundy of the Class of 2007 spent the spring of 2002 studying for the MCAT and filling out her medical school application. It’s just that in Ms. Bundy’s case, these tasks were punctuated by training runs for the United States Women’s Bobsled Team at Lake Placid. A top athlete throughout high school and college, she had been approached by an Olympic team recruiter at a track meet during her senior year of college. After some deliberation, the 6foot, 155-pound triple jumper decided to try out. That decision led to months of strength and speed tests, mandated weight gain, and the Lake Placid training runs that earned her a place on the National Olympic Team. “I won a 2002–2003 World Cup medal in Calgary in the two-person women’s bobsled about the same time I was accepted to medical school at Temple,” she recalls, noting that she hopes to combine her love for athletics and medicine someday. “I’m leaning toward orthopaedics and sports medicine,” she says. Gina Bundy ’07

As a scholar-athlete, Ms. Bundy is in good company among scholar-athletes at the Medical School, where you’ll find a Tang So Doo black belt, a former Miami Heat dancer, the former mascot for the NY/NJ Metrostars soccer team, and athletes representing a dozen other sports. “Temple medical students are a fascinating, multi-talented group,” says Audrey Uknis, MD ’87, Associate Dean for Admissions. “Diversity isn’t just about race at Temple,” she says. “It’s about birthplace, educational background, age, life ambitions, and religious and political beliefs. Our goal is to assemble the best,

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brightest, and most diverse student body whose common denominators are intelligence, talent, commitment to humanity, and passion for medicine and science,” she says. Dozens of students bring the arts to campus— music, painting, photography. One student is a former first-chair clarinetist from a university symphony orchestra. Another holds a Master of Arts degree in music history. A classmate of his, Eric Davis, an undergraduate music major, used to play guitar professionally in clubs in Hawaii and Los Angeles. Mr. Davis also represents students who came to Temple medical school with one career already mastered. A lawyer for 15 years, he is a former Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney who later ran his own general practice. Although he enjoyed his work, he says it never felt like the right fit. “It was the path I chose, and it didn’t occur to me that there was an option to do something else,” he explains. “But as the years went by, my perspective began to change. I realized it is possible to change your life—and once I decided to enter medicine, I never looked back.” With that, he changed the focus of his practice from trial law to estate planning because it gave him enough scheduling flexibility to take the science classes he needed. It wasn’t long before he won a place at Temple, starting in 2002. Like Mr. Davis, many other professionals are now medical students at Temple—former teachers, administrators, computer experts—professionals in many trades. A number also served in the armed forces. One student served as a Patriot Missile crew member and squad leader in Operations Desert Storm and Shield. Another was a Brigade Logistical Officer stationed in Bosnia.

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Medicine changes lives, and lives will change for medicine. Kristin Bresnan of the class of 2005 used to own a coffee shop. She says her “midlife” decision to pursue medicine affected her business, family, finances—everything.“Giving up a comfortable income and acquiring new debt is rough, but I take consolation in what medicine will mean to my family in the future,” she says, explaining that her husband is now primary caretaker of their year-old son, and that her parents and sister also pitch in and help.

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of 2007, for instance, 65 students (37 percent of the class) speak a language other than English, and two are fluent in American Sign Language. “Temple is a mecca for medical students who are exceptional and unconventional,” says Dean John M. Daly, MD ’73. “This makes Temple a rich environment for the study of medicine and a great place for people,” he says.

Like Ms. Bresnan, a significant number of Temple medical students are no longer twentysomethings. “I will turn 36 with or without my MD, so it might as well be with,” she says. Temple medical students hail from nearly every state, and dozens were born and raised in other countries. Accordingly, a significant percentage speak languages other than English. In the class

Kristin Bresnan ’05

TEMPLE MEDICAL STUDENTS… …WERE teachers, hospital administrators, a legislative assistant to a United States congressman, computer programmers and systems analysts, emergency medical technicians, a middle school teacher, a biology teacher for troubled youth, management consultants for big eight accounting firms, a lung transplant coordinator, a high school science teacher, a victim advocate for Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, a web designer/graphic ar tist, a laboratory technician for the United States Depar tment of Agriculture, quality control and lab technicians at biomedical and pharmaceutical companies, an intellectual proper ty paralegal, research assistants at medical centers, a drug chemist for a county coroner’s office forensics lab, physician office assistants, a lawyer, a professional magician, a teacher of English as a second language, a language translator for a software developer, a graphic ar tist, a British parliamentary intern. …ARE FROM Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Libya, Myanmar, New Zealand, Nigeria, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Spain, Syria, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, the Ukraine, the United States, the United Kingdom, Vietnam. …VOLUNTEERED in hospitals and medical clinics in the United States, Kenya, Africa, Honduras, Mexico, India, Chile and Haiti; built homes in Nicaragua; par ticipated in exchange programs teaching conversational English in China; served in Americorps; were America Reads volunteers; did AIDS education in South Africa; did volunteer research in Germany, Japan and Germany. …HAVE A VARIETY OF ACADEMIC DEGREES AND CREDENTIALS including undergraduate science degrees (biology, “pre-med,” biochemistry, chemistry, molecular biology, neuroscience, microbiology, biomedical engineering, mathematics, pharmacy science, geology and cell biology); non-science degrees (psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, English, Spanish, economics, political science, the humanities, public health, accounting, criminal justice, music, communications); double-majors, pairing a science such as biology or chemistry with a non-science (economics, French, Spanish, sociology, psychology, philosophy, finance, business administration, computer science); advanced degrees, including PhDs (cardiovascular biology, chemistry, microbiology/immunology, physiology); Pharm.D. MPH; MBA; JD; MS (microbiology and immunology, molecular biology, pathology, education, hospital administration, biotechnology, physiology). …ARE ATHLETES. marathon and cross country runners, little league and cheerleading coaches, a karate greenbelt, a Tang So Doo black belt, a former Miami Heat dancer, scuba divers, skydivers, ski instructors, a competitive biker, a former mascot for the NY/NJ Metrostars soccer team, NCAA Division I wrestlers, hockey, soccer, rugby, and field hockey players, baseball, softball and volleyball players, gymnasts, tennis, cricket football and lacrosse players, fencers, swimmers, divers, wrestlers. …ARE ARTISTS. painters, photographers, graphic designers, violinists, a flutist, a former first-chair university symphony orchestra clarinetist, a jazz saxophonist, guitarists, a sitarist, pianists, fiction writers, poets, performers.

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News Notes Joel Richter, MD, Named Chair of the Department of Medicine Joel Richter, MD, will join the faculty of the School of Medicine as Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Medicine, effective August 1, 2004. He comes to Temple from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, where he was Professor of Medicine, Chairperson of the Department of Gastroenterology, and CoDirector of the Digestive Disease Center. After earning his BS from Texas A&M University and his MD from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dr. Richter completed a residency in medicine and a fellowship in medicine/gastroenterology at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, where he later joined the faculty. Prior to his tenure at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, he served on the faculties of Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Richter specializes in the diagnosis, management and clinical research of esophageal diseases including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Barrett’s esophagus, extraesophageal presentation of GERD (asthma, ENT and dental problems), achalasia and other motility disorders, non-cardiac chest pain, dysphagia and the

effects of H. pylori on the esophagus. He helped develop the BRAVO™ pH Monitoring System, a catheter-free alternative to measuring stomach acid levels, currently being used at Temple. Widely honored for outstanding clinical care, teaching and research, Dr. Richter is a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology, and he belongs to numerous professional organizations, including the American Federation of Clinical Research and the World Organization for Specialized Studies on Diseases of the Esophagus. He is certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Internal Medicine-Gastroenterology. Dr. Richter currently serves on the editorial boards of ten scientific journals and has published more than 500 articles, abstracts, chapters and books. He is the current Co-Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology and past President of both the American College of Gastroenterology and the World Organization for Specialized Studies on Diseases of the Esophagus. His research has been funded by the NIH, GI societies, pharmaceutical companies and philanthropic patients.

Christopher Loftus, MD, Appointed Chair of Neurosurgery Christopher M. Loftus, MD, FACS, has joined the faculty as Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Neurosurgery, effective June 1, 2004. He comes to Temple from the University of Oklahoma, where he was the Harry Wilkins Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery. Prior to his tenure at Oklahoma, he was Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Certified by both the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Neurological Surgery, Dr. Loftus’s areas of expertise include carotid endarterectomy, cerebral aneurysms (ruptured or unruptured), basilar artery aneurysms, cerebral vascular malformations, cavernous malformations, spinal vascular malformations, and Moya-Moya disease. His research interests include intracranial collateral circulation, intraoperative hypothermia for the treatment of aneurysms, extracranial carotid

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occlusive disease and cerebral revascularization. He has four research projects in progress totaling over $6.5 million, including the NIH Intraoperative Hypothermia Aneurysm Surgery Trial. He has more than 200 publications to his credit, including the four-volume Textbook of Neurological Surgery: Principles and Practice (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002) and nearly a dozen other texts. He is Editor-in-Chief of Techniques in Neurosurgery and serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and is past Chair of the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery. He earned his MD from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, and completed his internship in Surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and his neurosurgery residency at New York/Columbia-Presbyterian.

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Donald Parks, MD, Appointed Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs Donald Parks, BA ’73, MD, a Temple faculty member in Family and Community Medicine, and a member of the School’s Board of Visitors, has been named Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs at the School of Medicine. As such, he will strengthen recruitment and retention of minority faculty, students, and staff at the school; lead the School’s efforts to give back to the community by improving health care for North Philadelphians; and direct the School’s newly established Center for Minority Health Studies, one of few in the nation dedicated to the study and improvement of minority health. Dr. Parks, who earned his bachelor’s degree from Temple in 1973 and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, serves on the boards of Temple University Health System and Temple University Children’s Medical Center as well as the School of Medicine’s Board of Visitors. He is also Associate Professor of Medicine. “The first step in improving minority health is attracting the best and brightest minority faculty, staff and students to Temple and keeping them here,” said Dr. Parks. “It’s important that we reflect

the community we serve,” he said, making reference to a recent study from Johns Hopkins University that found that patients had better healthcare experiences when treated by a physician of the same race. “We want our patients to have access to the best treatment available. And the best medical treatment results when patients can choose both from current therapies as well as investigational therapies. Medical research is how we improve health care,” Dr. Parks said, noting that Temple ranks among the top ten in the nation in its percentage of underrepresented minority medical students. With multiple funded research programs that focus on minority health already under way and a strong tradition of community outreach and care, Temple is the perfect setting for a center for the study of minority health. Dr. Parks will coordinate various minority health projects throughout the University by bringing together experts from the schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Health Professions, Dentistry and Podiatry, as well as from colleges and schools located on Temple’s Main Campus.

LCME Ruling for Temple Positive The Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the accrediting commission for US medical schools, removed Temple University School of Medicine from its year-long probation in February, commending the School for its facilities improvements and enhancements in student financial aid. “This decision is a strong endorsement of the improved performance and the tremendous potential of medical education at Temple,” said Temple President David Adamany. “I am thrilled by the LCME’s decision and excited about all that lies ahead,” said Dean John M. Daly, MD ’73. “We are developing a new curriculum, adding leading researchers and teachers, constructing a new clinical skills and simulation laboratory, and will soon break ground on the

first phase of our new medical school building. All of these improvements speak to the rapid and substantive change in direction of the School.” Since Dr. Daly’s arrival in November 2002, the School of Medicine has recruited 70 new faculty and department chairs in fields such as neurointerventional radiology, gastric bypass surgery, and vascular biology. To address the debt carried by graduating medical students—a nationwide concern—Temple focused its development efforts on student scholarship, increasing scholarship and financial aid 40 percent from 2002 to 2003. The School of Medicine enrolls 928 students in six degree programs and conducts more than $32 million in basic and clinical research annually.

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School Assembles Board of Visitors

Frank Baldino, Jr., PhD ’80, Chair

Sandra Harmon-Weiss, MD ’74

Gerald Miller

What areas of research will be most productive for Temple? What strategies are best for recruiting great faculty? How should the School’s curriculum be shaped?

Mitchel Sayare, PhD ’75 (Wellesley, PA) President, Chairman, and CEO, ImmunoGen, Inc.; and Lucien Trigiano, MD ’52 (Las Vegas, NV) physical medicine and rehabilitation consultant.

Questions such as these are the serious and exciting business of the School of Medicine’s new Board of Visitors, an advisory group composed of alumni, business and community leaders from across the country who met for the first time last fall and again in May. The Board was convened to serve a vital mission: To advise the Dean on issues of strategic importance to the School, both today and tomorrow.

“Medicine, education and research are each worlds unto themselves, and when you put them together to form a school of medicine, the number and nature of factors to consider becomes exponentially more complex,” said Dr. Baldino, Board Chair. “Therefore the Board’s first two inaugural meetings acquainted members with basics about faculty, financing, facilities, and many other topics relevant to the advisors’ work.”

Frank Baldino Jr., PhD ’80, Founder and CEO of Cephalon, Inc., a pharmaceutical firm based in West Chester, PA, is Chair. Members are: C. Hilyard Barr ’48 (La Canada, CA) private investor in medical technologies/devices; Kenneth R. Chien, MD-PhD ’80 (La Jolla, CA) Director, University of CA-San Diego Institute of Molecular Science; Sandra Harmon-Weiss, MD ’74 (Norristown, PA) former head of Government Programs and Medicare Compliance Officer, Aetna; Solomon Luo, MD, Res ’86 (Pottsville, PA) ophthalmologist in private practice; Gerald Miller (Springfield, PA) President and CEO, CrozerKeystone Health System; Michael S. Miller (Valley Forge, PA) Managing Director, Planning & Development, the Vanguard Group; Donald Parks, MD (Bryn Mawr, PA) internist in private practice and Assistant Dean and Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine, TUSM; Lindsay Rosenwald, MD ’83 (New York, NY) President and CEO, Paramount Capital; E. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63 (Washington, PA) ophthalmologist in private practice; Louis X. Santore, MD ’80 (Maple Glen, PA), president of the Medical Alumni Association Board, ex-officio;

Throughout the meetings, Dean Daly underscored the commitment that he and the University have made to securing the School’s future. Temple University President David Adamany spoke to the Board to make that point personally—as did many members of the Dean’s staff and faculty. The Board covers a dizzying array of subjects: student debt, community relations, fund raising, admissions trends, and affiliations with other institutions, to name a few. Research is a big topic in terms of current strengths and future possibilities. Where is medicine headed? What areas of focus in the future will be the best match for Temple’s mission? Much discussion is devoted to plans for the new building, too. Its costs, its layout, its ability to accommodate future expansion years down the road. Alumni relations is discussed as well, as the School has become increasingly cognizant of the importance of the support and perceptions of the School from the viewpoints of alumni, faculty, students and other stakeholders including patients and friends.

$1.9 Million NIH Grant to Study Obesity-Associated Diabetes and Heart Disease Guenther Boden, MD, the Laura Carnell Professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology/Metabolism, has been awarded a major grant to examine how obesity-associated diabetes leads to cardiovascular disease. The rise in obesity, now at epidemic levels in the US, has been matched by a rise in diabetes—a deadly combination that increases heart disease risk by two to five times. Insulin resistance appears to play a role in the development of heart disease. “A major link between obesity and insulin resistance is a high level of free fatty acids,” Dr. Boden says. “When levels of free fatty acids circulating in

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the blood are too high, which is usually the case in obesity, they cause insulin resistance and seem to simultaneously set off inflammation—which may provide the missing link to heart disease.” Cardiovascular disease is, to a large extent, an inflammatory process. “We’re starting to understand why being obese, diabetic and insulin-resistant increases the risk of atherosclerotic disease dramatically,” said Dr. Boden, noting that the study will examine the inflammatory process, particularly what triggers it and what inhibits it.

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Temple to Lead Pennsylvania in Lung Disease Research A consortium led by Gerard J. Criner, MD ’79, Professor of Medicine and Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, has been awarded a $4.7 million grant by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for a two part, multi-center program to examine factors for lung disease and to test low-cost interventions in at-risk populations. This trial is based on the prior investigations by Temple’s Lung Transplant and Lung Volume Reduction Surgery programs, which indicated that African-Americans have unique and severe presentations of advanced COPD. African-American patients present with severe COPD at an earlier age than white COPD patients, despite similar smoking patterns. One possible reason is that African-Americans’ lung cells are more susceptible to damage. “However, we think the causes are

much simpler,” said Dr. Criner, noting that people who live in rural areas and people in low-income urban areas are less likely to seek treatment at earlier stages of disease, which alone could account for the incidence of more severe COPD. Co-investigators are Gilbert D’Alonzo, DO, Professor of Medicine; Wissam Chatila, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine; Steven Kelsen, MD, Professor of Medicine; Friedrich Kueppers, MD, Professor of Medicine; and Francis Cordova, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the lung transplantation program. Institutional collaborators are Lancaster General Hospital, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, and the Western Pennsylvania Hospital. Harvard will also be involved in genetics analyses.

Changes in Ovaries Could Indicate Higher Ovarian Cancer Risk Enrique Hernandez, MD, the Abraham Roth Professor and Chair of Obstetrics/Gynecology, is author of a study in a recent issue of Gynecologic Oncology that suggests that certain cellular and molecular changes in the ovary could provide the warning signs needed for early detection. No accurate test for the early detection of ovarian cancer currently exists. The study, “Premalignant lesions in the contralateral ovary of women with unilateral ovarian carcinoma,” compared the ovaries of women with ovarian cancer to ovaries in women without cancer. The ovaries of women with ovarian cancer have not only structural changes, but also molecular changes that are less frequently found in the ovaries of healthy women. The structural changes occurred in the cells of the ovary lining, and the molecular changes involved higher levels of Bcl-2,

a protein that prevents cell death. Similar previous studies have been limited to women genetically predisposed to ovarian cancer. “This study and others like it are building the foundation for better methods of early detection of ovarian cancer,” said Dr. Hernandez. “If we are able to identify early changes along the path by which a normal ovarian cell turns into a cancerous ovarian cell, we might be able to develop a test to detect the disease earlier, even before it becomes cancerous.” The researchers plan to conduct further testing to make sure the changes observed in this study are not the result of inflammation or injury to the ovary. They also plan to test for other molecular markers, like Bcl-2, which could also indicate an increased risk of ovarian cancer.

$1.7 Million NIH Grant to Study WMSDs Steven Popoff, PhD, Chair, and Fayez Safadi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, are part of a team that has received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to determine whether intervention can prevent work-related injury from developing into a chronic disability. The team will examine the effects of ergonomic and pharmaceutical interventions in the secondary prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) in a rat model, building on research they have been conducting since 1998. In recent pre-clinical studies, the group discovered that repetitive tasks do in fact cause nerve, bone and muscle damage, an issue disputed by

experts. Specifically, they found that work-related carpal tunnel syndrome develops through mechanisms that include injury, inflammation, fibrosis and subsequent nerve compression. The study, “Repetitive, Negligible Force Reaching in Rats Induces Pathological Overloading of Upper Extremity Bones,” published in the November 11 issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, is the third in a series. Repetitive tasks that are common during the work day, such as reaching, lifting and typing, can lead to injury and disability, or WMSDs. In the US, WMSDs, including carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis, cost employers $20 billion per year in direct worker’s compensation expenses and additional costs in lost productivity. N E W S

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Temple First in Region to Use Removable Filter Device to Prevent Blood Clots Gary Cohen, MD, Vice Chair of Radiology and Chief of Vascular/Interventional Radiology, and colleagues at Temple are using a removable filter that helps prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the legs and pulmonary embolism in patients who cannot be treated with routine blood thinners. The Recovery® vena cava filter is inserted into the inferior vena cava and can be left in the body as long as warranted. Prior filters could stay in the body no longer than two weeks. Guided by angiography, insertion and removal is performed on an outpatient basis. The technology is ideal for a wide range of patients, such as young patients with thrombosis of the legs, postpartum patients with DVT who require short-

term safeguards, and a wide variety of orthopedic, cancer, surgical and neurosurgical patients at risk for developing venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Older, permanent filters have up to a 10-percent inferior vena cava thrombosis rate that could result in life-threatening leg swelling—a risk virtually eliminated with the new device. “We will see a large role for this new FDA-cleared technology in a significant percentage of the DVT population,” said Dr. Cohen. Approximately 150,000 deaths per year are attributed to pulmonary embolism in the United States.

Botox Treatment for Gastroparesis Researchers in gastroenterology at Temple have received a grant from the American College of Gastroenterology to study the effect of Botulinium toxin (Botox®) as an alternative therapy for gastroparesis that has not improved with standard treatment. “We believe this non-invasive approach may be an effective therapy with fewer side effects than current treatments,” said Frank Friedenberg, MD, Associate Professor, who is leading the study. Gastroparesis often occurs in patients with Types I and II diabetes but can also be caused by postviral syndromes, anorexia nervosa, stomach surgery and certain medications, such as narcotic analgesics and drugs with anticholinergic properties. Symptoms include heartburn, nausea, early satiety, vomiting of undigested food, weight loss and bloating, and diagnosis is made via a gastric emptying scan of a radiolabelled meal. Current drug treatments include metoclopramide, erythromycin, domeperidone and tegasarod; however, efficacy is inadequate for nearly half of patients. These medications also have side effects, such as sedation and diarrhea,

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that may discourage continuation of therapy. Other treatments include parenteral nutrition, venting jejunostomy, pyloroplasty, gastric pacemaker insertion and, in particularly severe situations, total gastrectomy. The Botulinium toxin is injected directly into the pyloric sphincter muscle to block the release of acetylcholine, relax the smooth muscle tissue and improve the passage of gastric contents into the small bowel. Botox® works locally, and no systemic side-effects have been noted in other clinical trials. Patients can leave the hospital within two hours of the procedure. “This research study is not only about relieving the symptoms of this condition, but also about improving our understanding of the pathophysiology of gastroparesis,” says Friedenberg. “Our study examines the changes in regional gastric emptying and looks at changes in the electrical activity of the stomach pre- and post-injection.” In a preliminary study conducted at Temple, 70 percent of patients experienced a reduction in their symptoms after being treated with Botox®.

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Abdelkarim Sabri, PhD, whose research interests pertain to heart failure and cardiac cell dysfunction, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor.

A new chairperson has been named: Joel Richter, MD (see page 20).

Christopher Born, MD, and William DeLong, MD ’78, have each been named Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Co-Director of the Orthopedic Trauma Service at Temple. Both are renowned experts in orthopedic trauma and serve as team physicians for several professional sports teams.

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Five new faculty have joined the Department: Kamardeen Alao, MD, Assistant Professor; Gary Atkinson, BA ’73, DO, Assistant Professor; Harry Bonet, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Bernard Harris, MD, Assistant Professor; and Andrew Herlich, MD, DMD, Professor. EMERGENCY MEDICINE

The Department welcomes four new members: Thomas Barry, MD, Assistant Professor; Charles Fasano, BS ’63, DO, Assistant Professor; Joseph R. Lex, MD, Assistant Professor; and Cherie Mininger, DO, Assistant Professor. HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY

Thomas R. Klumpp, MD, has joined the faculty as Associate Professor and Chief Information Officer of the Fox Chase Temple Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) program. He has 15 years experience in BMT, with special interests in allogeneic and autologous stem cell transplants for hematologic malignancies, BMT supportive care and informatics. Robert V.B. Emmons, MD, has joined the faculty as Associate Professor and Medical Director of the Stem Cell Laboratory of the Fox Chase Temple Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) program. With10 years experience in BMT, with special interests in allogeneic and autologous stem cell transplants for hematologic malignancies, and immunotherapy with NK cells, Dr. Emmons is developing new cellular therapy in transplantation with NK cells.

Ellen Tedaldi, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of Temple’s HIV Clinic, was one of seven Philadelphiaarea physicians to receive the 2003 Mazzoni Award for service to improve quality of life for poor and underinsured HIV-positive people in Philadelphia. Daniel B. Kimball, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Director of the Department of Medicine and the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, PA, has been named a Laureate of the Pennsylvania College of Internal Medicine. This honor is reserved for fellows and masters of the college who have demonstrated longterm commitment to clinical practice, education, research and/or community service. Dr. Kimball has been active in professional affairs at the county, state and national levels. A retired colonel, US Army, Dr. Kimball was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC.

Christopher Born, MD, helps a frightened young boy with a fractured arm in Bam, Iran, after the December 26 earthquake that killed 30,000 people and injured 30,000 others. Dr. Born flew to the disaster site at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to serve on the international team providing medical assistance to casualties. He and 11 other physicians and 50 nurses, pharmacists and EMS workers spent four days treating 727 victims in a mobile hospital. Dr. Born treated all orthopaedic injuries. “We cleaned out wounds, lacerations, stabilized patients and evacuated those that could be,” he said, noting that with no imaging equipment, the team relied almost solely on physical diagnosis. Dr. Born and colleagues were honored for their efforts by the undersecretary of Homeland Security and the head of FEMA.

Nine new faculty have joined the Department: Karin Andersson, MD, Instructor; Paul J. Bandini, MD, Assistant Professor; Robert V. Emmons, MD, Associate Professor; Frank W. Grzywacz, MD, Instructor; Daniel B. Haithcock, MD, Instructor; Aaron R. Kosmin, MD, Instructor; Keith McNellis, MD ’00, Instructor; Alisa Peet, MD, Instructor; and Syed Shahubuddin, PhD, Assistant Professor.

The Department also welcomes Pekka A. Mooar, MD, Associate Professor; Bruce B. Vanett, MD, Assistant Professor; and Albert A. Weiss, MD ’73, Res ’78, Associate Professor.

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S. Ausim Azizi, MD, PhD, Chair, has been named Deputy Editor of Neuroscience Letters.

Vincent Callanan, MD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor; and Judith M. Skoner, MD, has also joined as Assistant Professor.

Anca Popescu, MD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor.

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Matthew T. Hurford, MD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor; and Hong Qu, MD, has joined as Assistant Professor.

Gregg E. Gorton, MD, recently joined the faculty as Associate Professor and psychiatric consultant liaison. Diane B. Gottlieb, MD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor.

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Soo Kim, MD ’97

Alexander Parikh, MD

Marvin Ziskin MD ’62, Professor, has been inducted as a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. SURGERY

Ernest Bertha, MD

Several new faculty have joined the Department: Ernest Bertha, MD, Associate Professor and Chief Medical Officer of Temple University Children’s Medical Center; Patricia Campbell, MD, Assistant Professor; Dione Cash, MD, Assistant Professor; Salwa Chawich, MD, Assistant Professor; Barry Evans, MD, Assistant Professor; Surya Gupta, MD, Instructor; Yaron Harel, MD, Assistant Professor; Allan Kahler, MD ’97, Instructor; Alisa LoSasso, MD, Assistant Professor; Stephen Nemerson, MD, Assistant Professor; and Geetanjali Srivastava, MD, Assistant Professor. PHARMACOLOGY

Professor Emerita Concetta Harakal, PhD ’62, and George Kehner, PhD ’02

The Department welcomes three new faculty: Eugen Brailoiu, MD, Assistant Professor; C. Gabriela Brailoiu, MD, Assistant Professor; and George Kehner, PhD ’02, Assistant Professor. PHYSIOLOGY

Satoru Eguchi MD, PhD, has joined the faculty as Associate Professor. His research interests pertain to vasculature in relation to heart disease.

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THROMBOSIS RESEARCH CENTER John Blebea, MD, with Dean Daly

John Blebea, MD, recently joined the faculty as Professor of Vascular Surgery, Section Chief, Director of Temple’s Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory and Director of Temple’s Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program. Prior to joining the temple faculty, he was Professor of Surgery and Radiology at Penn State College of Medicine. His areas of expertise include angiogenesis, ultrasound detection of micro-emboli, ischemia/ reperfusion injury, and clinical vascular outcomes. Vincent Armenti , MD, has joined the faculty as Professor of Surgery and kidney transplant surgeon in the Abdominal Organ Transplant Program. Dr. Armenti is the principal investigator for the National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry, a comprehensive registry to track pregnancy outcomes of transplant recipients. Five other faculty are recent additions to the Department: Soo Kim, MD ’97, Assistant Professor; Christopher Kowalski, MD ’97, Assistant Professor; Alexander Parikh, MD, Assistant Professor; Frank A. Schmieder, MD, Assistant Professor; and Philip P. Stapleton, PhD, Assistant Professor.

Su Hwi Hung, PhD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor. UROLOGY

Michael Ruggieri, PhD, Research Associate of Professor of Urology, received a grant from Astra-Zeneca to conduct pre-clinical trials on medications developed for overactive bladders. Other research projects in Dr. Ruggieri’s lab include several NIH studies that focus on the role of muscarinic receptor subtypes in both urinary bladder and gallbladder function and dysfunction. Michel Pontari, MD, Associate Professor, was recently awarded a second NIH grant for his study, “Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network.” This five-year, $250,000 grant will be used to develop several clinical trials in treating prostatitis.

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Harold Lee Hyman, MD ’43, Haverford, PA, authored a letter to the editor recently published in the New York Times in response to an article on hypochondria. In it Dr. Hyman cautions, “too often, an early significant symptom of a serious illness is ignored or quickly dismissed because the patient is a ‘hypochondriac.’ These patients should be viewed in a holistic, comprehensive way,” he continues. “Hypochondria is only part of the full picture.”

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William H. Rodgers, III, MD ’59, Blue Bell, PA, now works part-time as a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Practice and Community Medicine at the Montgomery Hospital Family Practice Residency Program in Norristown, PA, which he directed for 20 years (1978 to 1998). In 1984, he was recipient of Temple’s Family Practice Preceptor of the Year Award.

Richard P. Albertson, MD ’63

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Mary Lou Ernst-Fonberg, MD ’62, Jonesborough, TN, received the 2002 Dean’s Distinguished Research Award at East Tennessee State University’s James H. Quillen College of Medicine, where she is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Ernst-Fonberg’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, American Heart Association, and NIH.

William Tasman, MD ’55

William Tasman, MD ’55, Glenside, PA, Chair of Ophthalmology at Jefferson Medical College and Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, was the honoree of the 2003 Wills Eye Ball, a fund raiser that brought in support for the William Tasman Chair in Ophthalmology at Wills.

Robert W. Ford, MD ’63, and Karen Ford

Richard P. Albertson, MD 63, Wynewood, PA, a retired anesthesiologist, and Robert W. Ford, MD ’63, Allison Park, PA, recipient of Temple’s 2003 Alumni Achievement Award, recently completed a three-week medical mission to Nigeria. Dr. Albertson provided anaesthesia during surgery and performed the first epidural ever administered at the hospital. He also volunteered in the diabetes clinic and helped conduct a malaria screening study. “The OR is woefully underequipped, but the physicians and nurses do a lot with very little…There are no sewers or sidewalks… poverty is rampant,” he said.

James M. Woodruff, MD ’63, New York, NY, is recipient of the 2003 Fred Waldorf Stewart Award, given by the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to an individual who has made significant contributions to the understanding of neoplastic disease. Dr. Woodruff is renowned for his expertise in the pathology of bone marrow transplantation and neoplasias of the peripheral nervous system and has authored many landmark publications, including the peripheral nerve section of the World Health Organization’s 2000 monograph on the classification, morphology, and genetics of nervous system neoplasms. He is an emeritus attending pathologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Mark A. Levine, MD ’66, Denver, CO, is a member of the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado and active in its Center for Bioethics and Humanities. He also serves on the board of the Colorado Patient Safety Coalition and has served on the Colorado delegation to the AMA.

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Jay Talsania, MD ’91, and Pat McDaid, MD ’95

Rena E. Goldhahn, RN, and Richard T. Goldhahn, Jr., MD ’64

Kathy Buckley and Ronald J. Buckley, MD ’77

Dean Daly with Marjorie R. Cooper, MD ’91, and Shirley Bilheimer

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Enrique Hernandez, MD, Professor and Chair of Obstetrics/Gynecology at Temple, with Mark Frisch, MD

Ronald P. Spark, MD ’67

Ronald P. Spark, MD ’67, Tucson, AZ, was selected as recipient of the 2003 Pima County (AZ) Medical Society Volunteer of the Year Award in recognition of his work on Tucson transportation issues. Craig Pearson, MD ’68, Tempe, AZ, continues to volunteer for victims of ethnic warfare in Yugoslavia and has donated a significant amount of medical supplies and equipment to Save Serbian Children. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Jasenovac Research Institute, a non-profit human rights and research institute.

Tashanna K. Myers, MD ’02, with Dean Daly

Gerard Reme, MD, and Wilbur Carey Tucker, MD ’72

Jack Ludmir, MD ’81, and Washington C. Hill, MD ’65

Kenneth Gould, MD ’69, Los Angeles, CA, is serving his fourth term on the Board of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. The Group provides care to more than 3 million patients.

Patricia Connell, MD ’70, Waterloo, IA, is Senior Staff Physician with the Northeast Iowa Family Practice Residency Program, where she has practiced since 1978. She is also Medical Director of Cedar Valley Hospice.

Robert T. Brown, MD ’71, Columbus, OH, is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Ohio State University College of Medicine & Public Health and Chief of Adolescent Health at Children’s Hospital in Columbus. From 1986 to 1991, he served as Medical Director of the Ohio Department of Youth Services. He co-founded and served as the first President of the Ohio Valley Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.

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David Hartman, MD ’76, Roanoke, VA, spoke at commencement services at his undergraduate alma mater, Gettysburg College, in May and was awarded an honorary degree. A psychiatrist, Dr. Hartman is the first blind person to complete medical school in the United States, and is author of the autobiography White Coat, White Cane: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Blind Physician, the subject of a television movie “Journey from Darkness.” He has been recognized for his contributions to the field of mental health and for his service to people with handicaps.

W. Richard Bukata, MD ’70, Sierra Madre, CA, is Medical Director of the Emergency Department at San Gabriel Valley Medical Center in Los Angeles. He also serves as President of the Center for Medical Education, Inc., a CME company based in Skippack, PA, that focuses on evidence-based medicine in emergency medicine and primary care. He has received two awards from the American College of Emergency Medicine: its 1993 Education Award and its 2000 Award for Outstanding Speaker.

Alan Berger, BA’72, MD ’76, Res ’81, Allentown, PA, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Penn State University School of Medicine. He previously served as Chief of Vascular Surgery at Lehigh Valley Hospital and was recently named in Money magazine’s Best of Health Issue for carotid endarterectomy.

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Board of Visitors member and cloaker Lucien Trigiano, MD ’52, with Neena Singh ’07

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Michael Ast ’07; Roya Azadarmaki ’07; Christopher Barton ’07; Joel Barton ’07; Assem Bhandari ’07; Geeta Bhargave ’07; and Nikil Bhartnagar ’07

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AT THE PUERTO RICO ALUMNI RECEPTION IN JANUARY 2004

Felix Cortes, MD ’54, 1999 Alumnus of the Year, and Dean Daly

Dora O. Chizea, MD ’73, Barrington, NJ, is an active health education communicator, translating nearly two decades of clinical experience into lectures and seminars on stress management. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine and author of the book The Wisdom of Aging (DC Productions, 2002). Barry L. Friedberg, MD ’74, Corona del Mar, CA, developed propofol ketamine technique for minimally invasive surgery, and subsequently launched www.pktechnique.com in 2001 as a patient and physician resource for the elimination of postoperative nausea and pain management.

Rafael Ramirez-Weiser, MD ’49, Iris Margarita Escudero, PhD ’98, and Mildred Ramirez-Weiser, BS ’43

Thomas Viggiano, MD ’74, Rochester, MN, has been named Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Mayo Medical School. He is Professor of Medicine and chairs the School’s Faculty Development Program and Admissions Committee. Dr. Viggiano is also a faculty member of the HarvardMacy Institute for Physician Educators and Leaders in Medical Education. Richard E. Kreipe MD ’75, Rush, NY, received the New York Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatarics’ Adele Hoffman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Adolescent Health in 2003. He recently served as a Society for Adolescent Medicine Visiting Professor at Carolina Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.

Jose R. Nassar. Res ’00; Jose Nassar, MD ’63; Lillian Haddock, MD ’54; Dean Daly; Amaury Capella, MD ’55, David LatoniCabanillas, MD ’55; and Bernardino Gonzalez-Flores, MD ’52

Steven Idell, MD 77, PhD ’87, Res ’83, Tyler, TX, has been named Vice President for Research at the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler. A faculty member there since 1984, he was named Chief of Pulmonary in 1988, Chair of Specialty Care in 1996, and Director of Clinical Research in 1997. He is also Associate Editor of Clinical Respiratory Medicine and a past president of the Texas Thoracic Society (2000– 2002).

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ “Healthy People 2000 & 2010” projects.

Nicholas DiNubile MD ’77, Haverford, PA, is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine in private practice and serves as Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his role as an orthopaedic consultant to the Philadelphia 76ers and the Pennsylvania Ballet, he serves as the representative of the

Peter Robbins, MD ’79, Honolulu, HI, is Director of Nuclear Medicine at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.

Todd D. Moldawer, MD ’78, Encino, CA, serves as a Qualified Medical Examiner and an Agreed Medical Examiner for the state of California Industrial Medical Council’s Department of Industrial Relations.

AT THE DINNER FOLLOWING THE WHITE COAT CEREMONY FOR THE CLASS OF 2007, NOVEMBER 2003

Board of Visitors members Gerald Miller and Sandra R. Harmon-Weiss, MD ’74

Board of Visitors member C. Hilyard Barr’48, with Clyde B. McAuley, MD ’48, and William T. Mixson, MD ’48

Board of Visitors member and 2003 Alumni Service Awardee E. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63, with Blase A. Carabello, MD ’73, Alumnus of the Year 2003

Board of Visitors members Solomon Luo, MD, Res ’86, and Louis X. Santore, MD ’80, President, Alumni Association

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The Class of 1953: Front: Abraham Sunshine, MD ’53; Byron Rovine, MD ’53; Ruth A. Roper, MD ’53; Roselise Wilkinson, MD ’53; Harold Wilkinson, MD ’53; Arnold Kessler, MD ’53; Bill Cauffman, MD ’53; Herbert Rubright, MD ’53; Dominic DeLaurentis, MD ’53; and Roland Moskowitz, MD ’53. Back: George Hewlett, MD ’53; Kenneth Dodgson, MD ’53; John Chogich, MD ’53; John Forest, MD ’53; James Tart, MD ’53; Arthur James, MD ’53; Allen Turcke, MD ’53; James Erickson, MD ’53; and S. Leroy Maiorana, MD ’53

Annie Kotto, MD ’04; Lisa Williams, MD ’04; and Marissa Harris, MD ’04

Bill Baldino, MD ’73; Ronald C. Gove, MD ’73; and John J. Harding, MD ’73

The Class of 1978: Front:Victor Vogel, MD ’78; Sally Vogel, MD ’78; Leslie Frankel, MD ’78; Helene Casselli, MD ’78; David Fish, MD ’78; Rosalind Kirnon-Jordan, MD ’78; and Woodrow Wendling, MD ’78. Back Charles R. Shuman, MD ’78; Arthur Frankel, MD ’78; Richard Jones, MD ’78; Bernard Remakus, MD ’78; and Ronald Talaga, MD ’78

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The Class of 1973: Front: Elsie Cundy; Jean Bello Belasco, MD ’73; Florida Olivieri, MD ’73; Cynthia Boice Hunt, MD ’73; Louis DiNicola, MD ’73; Michael Leopold, MD ’73;Terry Wahl, MD ’73; and Jeffrey Blake, MD ’73. Back: Kenneth R. Cundy, PhD, Emeritus Professor; Bill Baldino, MD ’73; Jack Weiss, MD ’73; John Harding, MD ’73; Robert Belasco, MD ’73; Patricia Hoepp; Morton Silverman, MD ’73; Craig Sussman, MD ’73; Robert Ballek, MD ’73; Anthony Giorgio, MD ’73; Albert Weiss, MD ’73; Ronald Gove, MD ’73; Neal Friedman, MD ’73; Thomas Bem, MD ’73;and James Albrecht, MD ’73

Norman M. Margolis, MD ’48, and Bill Mixson, MD ’48

Arnold Kessler, MD ’53, and Bill Cauffman, MD ’53

The Class of 1948: Front: Harry S. Soroff, MD ’48; Harry Haddon, MD ’48;William T. Mixson, MD ’48; Kenneth Gordon, MD ’48; Charlotte Rowland, MD ’48; Robert Wuertz, MD ’48; and Martin Webb, Jr., MD ’48. Back: Marvin Dorph, MD ’48, Clyde McAuley, MD ’48, Joseph Garfunkel, MD ’48 and Norman Margolis, MD ’48

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Robert A. Copeland, MD ’81, Takoma Park, MD, is Chief of Ophthalmology and Associate Professor at Howard University College of Medicine. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Medical Association and is an editorial advisor for Heart and Soul magazine and Eye Net. He has written extensively on ocular emergencies and other eye diseases. Jack Ludmir MD ’81, Penn Valley, PA, is Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital of the University Pennsylvania Health System. Louis M. Marmon, MD ’81, Potomac, MD, is Chair of Surgery at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, Director of Pediatric Surgery at the Adventist Center for Children, and on faculty at both Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Sindy Paul Friedman, MD ’83, Yardley, PA, recently completed her term as President of the New Jersey Public Health Association. During her presidency, the Association was named the American Public Health Association of the Year—for the first time in its 128-year history. Frank Porreca, PhD ’82, Tucson, AZ, is Professor of Pharmacology and Anesthesiology at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on opioid receptor function and mechanisms of pain.

James L. Gajewski, MD ’83, Bellaire, TX, is Professor of Medicine and Deputy Chair of Hematology at the University of Texas School of Medicine and the MD Anderson Hospital in Houston. Recently named one of the “Best Doctors in America,” Dr. Gajewski is active with the American Society of Hematology’s clinical practice and editorial committees. He lectures nationally and abroad, having recently served as visiting faculty at several universities in China and India. Solomon C. Luo, MD, Res ’86, has been elected to the Federation of Medical Boards, an international organization. For more on Dr. Luo, see page 34. Cynthia Izuno Macri, MD ’83, Kensington, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist and gynecologic oncologist, is Captain, Marine Corps, US Navy and Vice President for Recruitment and Diversity Affairs at the Uniformed University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. She recently served as Director of Medical Department Accessions at the Naval Medical Education and Training Command in Bethesda and was also Department Head for Continuing Medical Education for the Navy. Margaret H. Hager, MD ’85, Philadelphia, PA, has been practicing family medicine with Clinical Care Associates of the University of Pennsylvania Healthcare System since 1994, and was recently listed in Town and Country magazine as one of the top family doctors in the United States.

Andrew M. Rubin, MD ’86, Res ’91, Palm Desert, CA, is Chair of Cardiology at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA, and has been active in numerous research protocols involving atrial fibrillation, pacemaker research, and evaluation of new antiarrhythmic drugs for cardiac disorders. Richard J. Mason, MD ’87, Easton, MD, is Clinical Instructor in Orthopedics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He served as Head Flight Surgeon for a US Marine Corps combat helicopter squadron during Operation Desert Shield/ Storm. John C. Chen, MD ’88, Honolulu, HI, is Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu. Paul J. Mather, MD ’88, Ambler, PA, joined the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University as Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation. He previously served as Associate Professor and Director of the Heart Failure ICU at Temple.

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Joshua Alexander, MD ’90, Chapel Hill, NC, is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and heads a transitional care service for children with acquired disabilities. He also serves on the State of North Carolina Commission on Children with Special Health Care Needs, and helped develop the state Children’s Health Insurance Program. Paul Chungming Ho, MD ’92, Honolulu, HI, is Chief of Cardiology and Director of Cardiac Catheterization at the Kaiser Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu.

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Lisa Asta, MD ’93, Walnut Creek, CA, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, an expert on parenting, and a health and medical writer for Consumer Health InteractiveCHI, and a contributing editor at New Physician magazine. She has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Hippocrates, and the Annals of Internal Medicine, Bay Area Parent, Valley Parent, Parents’ Express, and MetroKids. Guy A. Lee, MD ’93, New Hope, PA, an orthopaedic surgeon at Abington Memorial Hospital, is the Lead Investigator for a multicenter clinical trial of the Dynesys dynamic stabilization system for the spine, an investigational device that uses flexible materials to stabilize the affected lumbar region while preserving the natural anatomy of the spine without fusing. Its safety and effectiveness in the treatment of lower back and leg pain that results from spinal stenosis and/or spondylolisthesis at one or two adjacent vertebral levels between L1 and S1 will be compared to spinal fusion surgery. Timothy Rupp, MD ’95, Dallas, TX, is Associate Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program at University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Amy Sandusky Anderson, MD ’96, Johnstown, PA, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Lee Regional Hospital, has been elected President of the Cambria County Medical Society.

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AT THE 2003 CLASS REUNION EVENTS AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOL IN NOVEMBER 2003

Cheryl Gooden, MD ’88, and Phyllis James, MD ’88

Norman Margolis, MD ’48; Clyde McAuley, MD ’48; Dorothy Robinson; and William T. Mixson, MD ’48

Betty Buzard;Thomas Buzard, MD ’58 and Leo Frank Black, MD ’58

David Black Leeser, MD ’96, Res ’02, Columbia, MD, is Director of Islet Cell Transplantation at the University of Maryland Medical System.

Adrienne Polishook Tuch, MD ’96, Mountain View, CA, moved to the San Francisco Bay area and joined the Permanente Medical Group in 2000. She is focused on public health issues and especially enjoys working with newborns and adolescents.

Gina L. Rose, MD ’98, Harleysville, PA, and Robert S. Warren, MD ’96, Philadelphia, PA, are both members of the faculty at the Montgomery Hospital Family Practice Residency Program in Norristown, PA.

Sherry Shubin, MD ’99, has completed residencies in preventive medicine (Johns Hopkins) and pediatrics (University of Maryland), and has joined the staff of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as a hospitalist.

Philadelphia-area alumni and faculty(*) were named“Top Docs” in the June issue of Philadelphia Magazine:

Daniel Dempsey MD* Surgery

Harold Paul Koller, MD, Res ’65 Ophthalmology

Stephen A. Solotoff, MD ’65 Dermatology

Kenneth M. Algazy, MD ’69 Medical Oncology–lung

Ralph C. Eagle, MD, Res ’71 Ophthalmology

Craig A Aronchick, MD ’78 Gastroenterology

Howard J. Eisen, MD* Cardiovascular Disease

Diane Barton, MD ’84 Internal Medicine

Leslie B. Frankel, MD ’78 Obstetrics & Gynecology

Judy C. Bernbaum, MD ’79 Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Satoshi Furukawa, MD* Thoracic Surgery

Randal R. Betz, MD ’77, Res ’82 Orthopedic Surgery

Lori J. Goldstein, MD* Medical Oncology–breast

Karin S. Bierbrauer, MD* Neurological Surgery

Ronald C. Gove, MD ’73 Internal Medicine

Christopher Born, MD* Orthopedic Surgery

Amy L. Harvey, MD ’90 Obstetrics & Gynecology

Alfred A. Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’66* Cardiovascular Disease

John A. Heydt, MD ’87 Family Practice

Michael N. Braffman, MD, Res ’83 Infectious Disease

Hal S. Hockfield, MD ’85 Internal Medicine

Susan Celia Brozena, MD ’81 Cardiovascular disease Robert S. Charles, MD ’80 Urology Jonathan H. Cilley, MD ’75 Thoracic Surgery Gary M. Cohen, MD ’90* Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Clyde McAuley, MD ’48; Norman Margolis, MD ’48; Kenneth Gordon, MD ’48;Thomas Buzard, MD ’58; Joseph Garfunkel, MD ’48; and Tirsit Asfaw, MD ’04 (seated)

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Richard M. Donner, MD* Pediatric Cardioolgy

John P. Hoffman MD* Surgery William E. Hooper, MD ’74 Internal Medicine Gary R. Hudes , MD, Res ’83 Medical Oncology–prostate Anand Jillella, MD* Medical Oncology

Evan B. Krisch, MD, Res ’89 Urology

Michael D. Strong, III, MD, Res ’75 Thoracic Surgery

Corey Jay Langer, MD* Medical Oncology–lung/head/neck

Ellen M. Tedaldi, MD* Internal Medicine

Stuart R. Lessin, MD ’82 Dermatology

Raymond Townsend, MD, Res ’84 Nephrology

Bennett Lorber MD, Res ’71* Infectious Disease Stephen Ludwig, MD ’71 Pediatrics Rose L. Magness, MD ’81 Obstetrics & Gynecology

Joseph Treat, MD* Internal Medicine Keith Leslie Wapner, MD ’80 Orthopaedic Surgery

Nathaniel Mayer, MD, Res ’73* Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation

Louis M. Weiner, MD* Medical Oncology gastrointestinal cancer

James B. McClurken, MD ’76* Thoracic Surgery

Lawrence S. Weisberg, MD ’81 Nephrology

John E. Meilahn MD* Surgery

Gerald Williams, MD ’84 Orthopedic Surgery

Robert F. Ozols, MD* Medical Oncology–ovarian

JoAnne Woehling, MD ’85 Pediatrics

Arthur S. Patchefsky, MD, Res ’64 Pathology

Beverly M. Vaughn, MD ’78 Obstetrics & Gynecology

John A. Ridge, MD ’75 Surgery

Marc J. Yardney, MD, Res ’82 Internal Medicine

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Ken Briskin, MD* Head and Neck Surgery

Karl Grunewald, MD* Thoracic Surgery

Ned Carp, MD ’84 Surgical Oncology

Stephen Harlin, MD, Res ’92 General Plastic Surgery

Robert DiGiovanni, MD* Vascular Surgery

Leonard Hirsh, MD* Neurological Surgery

Joseph M. Ardito, MD ’76, Res ’81 Head & Neck Surgery

Nicholas DiNubile, MD ’77, Res ’82 General Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine

David Kim, MD, Res ’96 Hand Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery

Fritz Bech, MD* Vascular Surgery

Stuart Gordon, MD* General Orthopedic Surgery

David Bottger, MD ’82 Dermatology, Hand Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery, General Plastic Surgery

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Ronald J. Mattson, MD ’71 Vascular Surgery, Head & Neck Surgery, Thoracic Surgery Curt Miller, MD ’79, Res ’84 General Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine Guy Nardella, MD* Hand Surgery Robert Seto, MD* Thoracic Surgery

Richard Levenberg, MD ’88 Spinal Orthopedic Surgery

Rebecca Witham, MD* General Plastic Surgery

Gary Lindenbaum, MD ’82 Abdominal Surgery

AT THE TEMPLE BASKETBALL GAME RECEPTIONS IN JANUARY AND MARCH 2004

Dennis Berman, MD ’77 (center) with sons Adam (left) and David

Michael J. Seidman, MD ’02, and “Hooter”

Frederick P. Sutliff, MD ’46, and Stephen R. Permut, MD’72, Assistant Dean and Family Medicine Chair at Temple

Bruce A. Eisenstein, PhD;Toby K. Eisenstein, PhD, Professor; and Joseph M. Nejman, EdM’54

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Dean Daly; Kenneth J. Soprano, PhD,Vice President for Research, and Gerard J. Criner, MD ’79, Assistant Dean and Professor

Dean Daly and David A. Baron, DO, Chair of Psychiatry

AT THE DINNER FOR NEW YORK CITY ALUMNI IN MARCH 2004

Have you accepted a new position? Retired from an old one? Given a lecture? Written an article? Or do you have a comment about Temple Medicine? Let us put it in print. phone 800-331-2839 or 215-707-4868 ask for Giselle Zayon, Editor email templemed@temple.edu or giselle.zayon@temple.edu fax (215) 707-2144

Dean Daly and Lindsay A. Rosenwald, MD ’83

Assistant Dean Irv Hurwitz; Harris M. Nagler, MD ’75; Ilene M. Fischer, MD ’87; Dean Daly; R.V. Paul Chan, MD ’00; Lindsay A. Rosenwald, MD ’83; Joan Wittrin; and Morton S. Eisenberg, MD ’44

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Since the publication of the last Temple Medicine, dozens of gifts ranging from $10,000 to $5.6 million have been donated to the School of Medicine for scholarships, research and building funds. Several are profiled here:

In 2003, after Dr. Chan died, Dr. Luo worked with the Chan family to establish the Guy Hugh Chan Endowed Memorial Medical Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarship support to Temple medical students with financial need. In addition, Dr. Luo has been a longtime supporter of the School’s Department of Ophthalmology.

Solomon Luo, MD, Res ’86 and Wendy Luo

*The Solomon and Wendy Luo Auditorium Solomon C. Luo, MD, who completed his residency in ophthalmology at Temple in 1986, a member of the School’s Board of Visitors, and father of two MD candidates at Temple, has stepped forward with leadership support for the School’s new building project. The seven-figure gift given by Dr. Luo and his wife, Wendy, will support the construction of the Solomon and Wendy Luo Auditorium in the new education and research building that is to be built on the northwest corner of Broad and Tioga Streets. With its inviting accommodations and prominent location on the first floor of the new structure, the Solomon and Wendy Luo Auditorium will be important in the academic, civic, and social lives of Temple University School of Medicine for generations to come. Dr. Luo came to the United States from Taiwan in 1975 to study medicine at the University of Texas—and when applying to residency programs, wanted a solid balance of academic and clinical training. At Temple, Dr. Luo’s first choice, he met Guy H. Chan, MD, then Chairperson of Ophthalmology. The first person of Chinese descent to attain the position of chair of ophthalmology at an academic medical center in the States, Dr. Chan made a tremendous impact on young Dr. Luo’s vision for medicine and for life. “Dr. Chan dedicated his whole life to teaching,” he says.

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After completing his training, Dr. Luo moved to Pottsville, PA, and founded the Progressive Vision Institute Eye Care Center. Today it is a 30,000-patient practice with six offices in Schuylkill and Northumberland counties. Following in his mentor’s footsteps, Dr. Luo also serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the School of Medicine, and recently joined its Board of Visitors (see article on page 22). Benefactors of education and the arts, Dr. and Mrs. Luo are recipients of the 2004 Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts by the Board of Directors of the Schuylkill (PA) Symphony Orchestra. “Temple is already remarkable,” said Dr. Luo, “And with this new building, it will grow to be among the best medical schools in the world.” “Not only is Dr. Luo a valued member of our clinical faculty, but he’s also a true philanthropist. A man whose interest is truly in making the School a better place,” said John Daly, MD, Dean of the School of Medicine.“We have been so fortunate to have his friendship and are so grateful for his support.” For more insight into Dr. Luo’s philosophy, see the Summer 2004 issue of Temple Review, which features a wonderful article about Dr. Luo’s meaningful relationship with the School of Medicine.

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* Clements Family Endowed Medical Scholarship Fund After he and his mother, Gertrude Booth, completed a gift to name a reading room in the planned new medical school building in honor of the late David Clements, MD ’52, David H. Clements, III, MD ’82, says it was time to support student scholarship. “I’m at the time in my life when I can give back,” he says, explaining that financial aid assisted both his father’s and his own education at Temple.

Cynthia L. Alley, MD ’00, and Albert A. Alley, MD ’64

* The Cynthia L. Alley, MD ’00, and Albert A. Alley, MD ’64, Endowed Scholarship Fund Ever mindful of the contributions that others have made for his benefit, Albert Alley, MD ’64, an ophthalmologist in Lebanon, PA, has devoted much of his life to the betterment of others. He is well known in central Pennsylvania as a community leader and supporter of local health and welfare charities—and is internationally known for his work with the World Blindness Outreach, the not-for-profit organization he founded in 1990 to perform pro bono cataract surgery and other ophthalmic treatments in impoverished parts of the world. Dr. Alley’s work with World Blindness Outreach will be detailed in the next issue of Temple Medicine, which will feature alumni and faculty committed to community service both in the States and abroad.

Dr. Clements and his wife Tamara hope that the Clements Family Endowed Medical Scholarship Fund will help Temple continue its tradition of giving a hand up to students who are less advantaged. “Temple has always been a place to get a fabulous education even if you don’t have a fortune to spend,” says Dr. Clements, who practices at Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey and maintains his faculty position in orthopedic surgery at Temple. He describes Temple medical students as incredible. “It is wonderful to see their enthusiasm,” he says, noting he can think of no other job more rewarding than being a physician.

To express his gratitude for the role that Temple played in shaping his career and the blossoming career of his daughter, Cynthia, a graduate of the Class of 2000 who is also specializing in ophthalmology, Dr. Alley established the Cynthia L. Alley, MD ’00, and Albert A. Alley, MD ’64, Endowed Scholarship Fund. Two students will begin benefiting from the Fund next year. “It is such a good feeling,” says the senior Dr. Alley of the new scholarship fund for medical students at Temple. The younger Dr. Alley nods in agreement. Having just begun her fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at George Washington University, she says she has a ways to go in establishing herself financially, but she too, feels very good about the scholarship that bears her name, and she intends to make contributions to it herself someday.

* John Jeffrey Nicholas, MD, Endowed Scholarship Ann L. Johnson created The John Jeffrey Nicholas, MD, Endowed Scholarship to honor the distinguished career of her brother, who recently stepped down as Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Temple. The ideal recipients will be those with financial need as well as an expressed interest in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Ms. Johnson believes that a scholarship for a Temple medical student is a wonderful way to celebrate her brother’s expertise and dedication as a teacher—as those students could go on to have the warm and wonderful kind of impact that he’s had as a clinician and educator. Peers and colleagues clearly agree that Dr. Nicholas’ contributions are nationally noteworthy: He was recipient of the 2003 American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s Distinguished Clinician Award.

In the Department of Neurosurgery at the Plaque Dedication in Memory of Andrea Thompson: Professor Douglas Laske, MD, with Moiya Thompson, Martha Thompson, and Robert Thompson

* Andrea Thompson Memorial Fund Robert and Martha Thompson of West Chester, PA, lost their daughter Andrea as a result of a brain injury. After she died, her family and friends stepped forward to make generous gifts in her memory, creating the Andrea Thompson Memorial Fund to assist research programs in brain injury at Temple. Temple’s expertise in this challenging area remains strong, with research underway in the areas of neurological trauma program, neurosurgical critical care, and clinical drug trials for the treatment of severe head injury.

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* At recent luncheons for scholarship donors and recipients

Jeffrey L. Abrams, Esq., Margaret A. Barry, Esq.; Jocelyn Poruthur ’06, recipient of the William E. Barry Medical Scholarship; Dean Daly; and William E. Barry, MD, Former Associate Dean

E. Howard Bedrossian, MD ’45, Angel Wilson ’05, recipient of the Bedrossian scholarship; and Dean Daly

Dean Daly; Melissa Ross ’06, Class of 1943 Scholarship recipient; and Charles R. Shuman, MD ’43

Dean Daly; Steven Domsky, MD ’04, AKK Phi Chi Scholarship recipient; and Kenneth R. Cundy, PhD

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This year, five classes rallied to raise support for the School of Medicine in the form of scholarship funds as they celebrated their special class reunions. The Class of 1948 Endowed Scholarship Fund 55th Anniversary committee members: Marvin H. Dorph, MD ’48; Kenneth H. Gordon, MD ’48, Co-Chair; Frederick H. Richards, MD ’48 (now deceased); Aureliano Rivas, MD ’48, Co-Chair; and Charlotte W. Rowland, MD ’48 number of donors: 37 % of class participating: 78.7% total raised: $207,458* The Class of 1953 Endowed Scholarship Fund 50th Anniversary committee members: William J. Cauffman, MD ’53; John C. Chogich, MD ’53; Alfred Freeman, MD ’53; Roland W. Moskowitz, MD ’53, Co-Chair; and Abraham Sunshine, MD, Co-Chair number of donors: 44 % of class participating: 69.83% total raised: $237,362*

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Dean Daly; Elsie Cundy; Albert Hicks’ 06, Cundy Scholarship recipient; and Kenneth R. Cundy, PhD, Emeritus Professor

Kay E. Poliner, BS’44; Lizeth Romero ’06, Poliner Scholarship recipient, and Hime S. Poliner, MD ’36

The Class of 1963 Endowed Scholarship Fund 40th Anniversary committee members: Richard P. Albertson, MD ’63, Chair; Robert W. Ford, MD ’63; Thomas S. Herman, MD ’63; Geraldine Mantell, MD ’63; Daniel A. Nesi, MD ’63; E. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63; Kent E. Weaver, MD ’63; Mary Weaver, MD ’63; and Albert J. Woodring, III, MD ’63 number of donors: 43 % of class participating: 43.4% total raised: $133,471* The Class of 1973 Endowed Scholarship Fund 30th Anniversary committee members: Jean B. Belasco, MD ’73; Robert N. Belasco, MD ’73; Anthony R. Giorgio, MD, Chair; and John J. Harding, MD ’73 number of donors: 48 % of class participating: 46.6.2% total raised: $255,461* The Class of 1978 Endowed Scholarship Fund 25th Anniversary David J. Fish, MD, Chair number of donors: 64 % of class participating: 38.3% total raised: $48,860*

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* Other Recent Gifts & Pledges $25,000 to $49,999 E. Howard Bedrossian, Sr., MD ’45, to the Babcock Surgical Society Endowed Distinguished Professorship Fund. H. Robert Blank, MD ’39, to the H. Robert Blank, MD ’39, Endowed Scholarship Fund. Robert E. Decker, MD ’63, and Phyllis R. Decker to the Medical Class of 1963 Endowed Scholarship Fund. John C. Chogich, MD ’53, and Anne S. Chogich to the Anne Chogich Charitable Gift Annuity, which will ultimately benefit the Class of 1953 Endowed Scholarship Fund. James W. Fuessner, MD ’86, Esq., to the James W. Fuessner deferred gift annuity fund, which will ultimately fund a scholarship. Kenneth H. Gordon, MD ’48, and Janice T. Gordon, PhD, to the Kenneth H. Gordon, Jr., MD, charitable gift annuity that will ultimately benefit the Class of 1948 Scholarship Fund.

E. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63, to the E. Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63, Endowed Medical Scholarship Fund. Sandra Harmon Weiss, MD ’74, and Richard C. Weiss, DMD, to the Emma C. Weiss Memorial Scholarship Fund.

$100,000+ C. Hilyard Barr ’48 to the Medical Class of 1948 Endowed Scholarship Fund in memory of Courtland H. Barr, Sr., and Edna Hurlock Barr and in honor of Clyde B. McAuley, MD ’48. The Estate of Jeanne K. Scher to the Barbara J. Gordon Memorial Endowment Fund for research of neurologic diseases at Temple. The Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation to the Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Scholarship Fund.

Foundation Grants of $100,000+ for Research American Heart Association Broad Foundation

Beverly Mikuriya, MD ’73 to the Class of 1973 Scholarship Fund

The Susan G. Komen Foundation

Aureliano Rivas, MD ’48, to the Class of 1948 Endowed Scholarship Fund.

The Oberkotter Foundation

Richard D. Scott, MD ’68 and Mary D. Scott, MD, to the Frank S. Deming Endowed Scholarship Fund.

The W.W. Smith Charitable Trust

The Philadelphia Foundation, as directed by Elwood W. Moore, MD, and Edith M. Moore, to establish the Elwood W. and Edith M. Moore Memorial Scholarship Fund. Allen Field Turcke, MD ’53 to the Allen F. Turke, MD, Gift Annuity, which will ultimately benefit student scholarships.

The Samuel S. Fels Fund Johnson and Johnson, Inc.

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For more information or to make a gift in support of the new Medical School Building, contact Irv Hurwitz, Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Affairs: 215-707-3023 or irv.hurwitz@temple.edu

Josephine Trujillo, MD ’48, to establish the Josephine Trujillo, MD ’48, Scholarship Fund.

$50,000 to $100,000: Robert Belasco, MD ’73, and Jean Bello Belasco, MD ’73, to create the Robert Belasco, MD ’73, and Jean Bello Belasco, MD ’73 Charitable Gift Annuity that will ultimately benefit student scholarship. John M. Daly, MD ’73, and Mrs. Mary F. Daly to the John M. Daly, MD ’73, and Mrs. Mary F. Daly Charitable Remainder UniTrust that will ultimately fund a scholarship. Alfred Freeman, MD ’53 and Shirley Singer Freeman to create the Dr. Alfred and Mrs. Shirley S. Freeman Biomedical Information Center—to be profiled in the next issue of Temple Medicine. Daniel H. Polett, Trustee, to the Daniel A. Polett Fund for the new Medical School building. Hime S. Poliner, MD ’36, and Kay Poliner, BS ’44, to the Dr. Hime S. and Kay Poliner Endowed Medical School Scholarship Fund.

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Kriebel Scholarship recipient Annette Gadegbeku, MD ’04; Dorothy E. Kriebel, MD ’43, and Dean Daly

Nathan Schnall, MD ’47, and Class of 1947 Scholarship recipient Michael Gluhanick ’06

R.V. Paul Chan, MD ’00, and Chan Scholarship recipient Mary Staaby ’06

Dean Daly; Associate Dean for Admissions Audrey Uknis, MD ’87; and Medical Scholars Assistance Fund recipients Asma Mahedavi ’06, Julie Ma ’05 and Arthur Au ’07

Arthur Papacostas, PhD ’89, with Papacostas Scholarship recipient Leanne Fike ’07

Richard Wagner; Lisa Learner Wagner; David Learner Wagner; Learner Scholarship recipient Amanda Horn 06; and Lorraine Learner

Measey Scholarship recipients: Front: Matteo Trucco ’06; Chitra Sambasivan, MD ’04; Jaime Alton, MD ’04; Jaime McCord ’05; and Gia Viaggiano ’06. Back,: Simon Chao, MD ’04; Dean Daly; James Brennan, Esq., Counsel and Board Member of the Measey Foundation; Jeffrey Schildhorn ’05; and John Fitzpatrick, MD ’04

Class of 1948 Scholarship recipient Che Ward ’06; Marvin Dorph, MD ’48; Robert Wuertz, MD ’48; Dean Daly; and Class of 1948 Scholarship recipient Patrick Costa ’05

Class of 1969 Scholarship recipients Colleen Annesley ’06 and Dena Gu ’06 with Eric K. Holm, MD ’69

* At the Heritage Society Dinner in April 2004

Alma and Albert J. Finestone, MD ’45

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Shirley Plotkin; Dean Daly; and Robert F. Plotkin, MD ’47

Dean Daly; Charlotte Rowland, MD ’48; Class of 1948 Scholarship recipient Che Ward ’06; Janice Gordon, PhD; and Kenneth Gordon, MD ’48

Robert Belasco, MD ’73, and Jean Bello Belasco, MD ’73

A Couple of Great Alumni A Charitable Gift Annuity Jean Bello Belasco, MD ’73, and Robert Belasaco, MD ’73, met at Temple Medical School in 1969, graduated in 1973, and married in1974. Both completed their residencies at Temple, too.

To honor Temple’s importance in their lives, the Belascos set up a charitable gift annuity with the School of Medicine.

“In exchange for our gift, the Medical School will pay us a fixed annuity when He is a cardiologist in Norristown, PA; she we reach retirement age,” says Dr. Jean Carmen Bello, MD is a pediatric oncologist at Children’s Belasco. “We could have arranged to begin Hospital in Philadelphia; and both are members of getting annuity payments now, but deferring for a the Medical School’s Alumni Association Board. number of years will provide us with a larger chariThey hope to see their daughter follow in their foot- table deduction and a higher rate of return.” steps as a Temple-trained physician some day. “Some day, after we pass away,” adds Dr. Robert Jean’s father, Carmen Bello, MD ’43, also an alumnus, Belasco, “The School of Medicine will use the princiwas Professor of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine pal balance to fund student scholarships. In addition at Temple for many years—and many members of to the tax advantages it supplies, this gift gives us Robert’s family attended Temple University too. great satisfaction.” Planned gifts can be structured in a variety of ways.

Charitable Gift Annuity Rates ONE PERSON

Age 60 65 70 75 80 85 90+

Rate 5.7% 6.0% 6.5% 7.1% 8.0% 9.5% 11.3%

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Ages 60 & 60 65 & 65 70 & 70 75 & 75 80 & 80 85 & 85 90 & 90+

Rate 5.4% 5.6% 5.9% 6.3% 6.9% 7.9% 9.3%

For more information, contact: Jerry Rohrbach, Director of Planned Giving • 1938 Liacouras Walk • Philadelphia, PA 19122 email: jerry.rohrbach@temple.edu • phone: 800-822-6957

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Certain names come up fondly and frequently when alumni inquire about their favorite faculty. So, for the benefit of those of you who have asked, “Whatever happened to—-,” we will present “Where Are They Now?” on a regular basis.

HOWARD H. STEEL, MD ’45

Just for fun, Howard Steel, MD ’45, once sat in the back of a lecture hall during a talk by a professor who is still teaching at Temple, and heckled him. Now 84, Dr. Steel still enjoys raising a little cain— and dedicates at least two days week to something he enjoys even more: Mentoring residents and fellows in pediatric orthopaedics at Temple, where he’s Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and seeing patients at Philadelphia Shriner’s, where he’s Emeritus Chief of Staff. Renowned for his untamable spirit and lifelong devotion to orthopedics, Dr. Steel continues to lecture worldwide, with recent engagements in San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington, DC, and a lecture planned for Australia this fall. There’s plenty to pack into every day. Dr. Steel lends his voice to recording medical books and other titles for Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic—and received its 1999 Distinguished Reader Award. For 30 years, he has served as a Trustee of his undergraduate alma mater, Colgate University, and for almost as long, has headed the Howard H. Steel Foundation, a resource for pediatric orthopaedic care and for orthopaedic surgeons. In addition to supporting research in spinal cord paralytic injury, the Foundation has provided organizations such as the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Society, the American Orthopaedic Association, and the British Orthopaedic Association with grants for lectures outside of medicine, sponsoring talks by Dr. Walter Persegat of the Sistine Chapel renovation, Dayton Duncan of Lewis and Clark expertise, and L.M. Krauss on the physics of Star Trek. People ask if Dr. Steel is connected with the Steel family of Atlantic City, NJ, fame. Yes. In fact, he and his brother Paul (also an alumnus, Class of 1952) run Steel’s Fudge Shop and Steel’s Gourmet Foods, based in Bridgeport, PA. Once the nation’s showplace, Steel Pier originally opened in 1898

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and showcased the world’s top entertainers, attracting tens of thousands of visitors in its heyday. From the 1920’s through the 50’s, everyone who was anyone played Steel Pier. Others ask if Howard Steel is any relation of William A. Steel, MD, who was a Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine in the 1920s and ’30s. Yes. “Even today, I meet patients who tell me that my uncle saved so and so’s leg,” says Dr. Steel, who clearly loves his family. He and his wife have eight children and 17 grandchildren. They take frequent trips west together, enjoying horseback riding, skiing and flyfishing. These are the things that mean the most to this former Fulbright Professor and Temple’s 1988 Alumnus of the Year (who’s also a National Treasure of Japan; an honorary member of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Irish Orthopaedic Association; and winner of distinguished achievement and service awards from organizations such as the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America and the American Pediatric Association). For all these reasons and more, Howard Steel is still looking forward at 84.

Residencies Class of 2004 ALABAMA OPHTHALMOLOGY

Donald Glaser, MD Transitional Baptist Health System Alabama YEAR TWO

Ophthalmology University of Alabama School of Medicine Birmingham, AL TRANSITIONAL

Donald Glaser, MD Transitional Baptist Health System Alabama

Joseph McGinley, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA YEAR TWO

Diagnostic Radiology Stanford University Programs Stanford, CA EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Amir Aminlari, MD Emergency Medicine Martin Luther King, Jr./Drew Medical Center Los Angeles, CA

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Ophthalmology University of Alabama School of Medicine Birmingham, AL

Wallace Baker, MD Family Practice Ventura County Medical Center Ventura, CA

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Tracy Rydel, MD Family Practice University of CaliforniaSan Francisco San Francisco, CA

GENERAL SURGERY

James Rough, MD General Surgery University of Arizona Affiliate Hospitals Phoenix, AZ PSYCHIATRY

Alfredo Velez, MD Psychiatry Maricopa Medical Center Phoenix, AZ CALIFORNIA ANESTHESIOLOGY

Michael Hung, MD Preliminary Medicine Kaiser Permanente-San Francisco San Francisco, CA YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology University of CaliforniaSan Francisco San Francisco, CA DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY

Joseph Kim, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA YEAR TWO

Diagnostic Radiology University of California Irvine Medical Center Orange, CA

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Alfredo Castellanos, MD Internal Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Miguel DiFrancisco, MD Internal Medicine Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA Hoda Ghanem, MD Internal Medicine University of California Irvine Medical Center Orange, CA Margarita Racsa, MD Internal Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Chitra Sambasivan, MD Internal Medicine Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA Wendy Wong, MD Internal Medicine Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA Darice Yang, MD Internal Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA

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Bethlehem Chapin, MD Pediatrics University of CaliforniaSan Francisco San Francisco, CA

Angela Brooks, MD Pathology Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT

Aida Field-Ridley, MD Pediatrics Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA

Susan Samuel, MD Primary Medicine Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT

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Michael Hung, MD Preliminary Medicine Kaiser Permanente-San Francisco San Francisco, CA YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology University of CaliforniaSan Francisco San Francisco, CA PRELIMINARY SURGERY

Ramy Eskander, MD Preliminary Surgery Kaiser Permanente-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA

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Neurology Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center Chicago, IL TRANSITIONAL

Candice Hacker, MD Transitional Hospital of St. Raphael New Haven, CT YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT DELAWARE

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Alison Ludwig, MD Primary Medicine University of CaliforniaSan Francisco San Francisco, CA

Thomas Ball, MD Emergency Medicine Christiana Care Health System Wilmington, DE

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Brooke Goldner, MD Psychiatry Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Torrance, CA COLORADO INTERNAL MEDICINE

Ravi Adhikary, MD Internal Medicine University of Colorado School of Medicine Denver, CO

Mateen Khan, MD Emergency Medicine Christiana Care Health System Wilmington, DE Bruce Nisbet, MD Emergency Medicine Christiana Care Health System Wilmington, DE GENERAL SURGERY

Ryan Engdahl, MD General Surgery Christiana Care Health System Wilmington, DE

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Candice Hacker, MD Transitional Hospital of St. Raphael New Haven, CT

John Betteridge, MD Internal Medicine Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, DC

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Anesthesiology Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT

Yogen Dave, MD Internal Medicine George Washington University Washington, DC

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Christopher Nguyen, MD Internal Medicine National Naval Center Bethesda Washington, DC

Michelle Val, MD Family Practice Martin Army Community Hospital Fort Benning, GA

Manoj Oommen, MD Internal Medicine Washington Hospital Center Washington, DC

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Ingrid Pacowski, MD Internal Medicine Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, DC Sujoy Tagore, MD Internal Medicine Georgetown University Hospital Washington, DC OPHTHALMOLOGY

Erica Edell, MD Preliminary Medicine Washington Hospital Center Washington, DC YEAR TWO

Ophthalmology Georgetown University Hospital Washington, DC PRELIMINARY MEDICINE

Naana Boakye, MD Preliminary Medicine Howard University Hospital Washington, DC YEAR TWO

Dermatology SUNY Health Science Center Brooklyn, NY Erica Edell, MD Preliminary Medicine Washington Hospital Center Washington, DC YEAR TWO

Ophthalmology Georgetown University Hospital Washington, DC FLORIDA GENERAL SURGERY

Eddie Manning, MD General Surgery Jackson Memorial Hospital Miami, FL Manoucher Tavana, MD General Surgery University of South Florida College of Medicine Tampa, FL

Esther Kim, MD General Surgery Eisenhower Army Medical Center Fort Gordon, GA

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Maria Birzescu, MD Preliminary Medicine Abington Memorial Hospital Abington, PA

Cara Riley, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA

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Anesthesiology Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD

Anesthesiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA

Kristy Jennings, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA YEAR TWO

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Anesthesiology University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore, MD

Matthew Hogan, MD Internal Medicine Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA

Michael Phelps, MD Preliminary Medicine University of Virginia RoanokeSalem Program Roanoke, VA

Ali Kashkouli, MD Internal Medicine Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA ILLINOIS INTERNAL MEDICINE

Marcin Baber, MD Internal Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago, IL Monica Garg, MD Internal Medicine University of Chicago Hospitals Chicago, IL John Magenau, MD Internal Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago, IL Siddharth Shah, MD Internal Medicine McGaw Medical CenterNorthwestern University Chicago, IL Heather Simpkins, MD Internal Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago, IL NEUROLOGY

Susan Samuel, MD Primary Medicine Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT YEAR TWO

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Stacy Kennedy, MD Internal Medicine University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore, MD

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Heather Hammerstandt, MD Emergency Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA INTERNAL MEDICINE

Susan Kim, MD Internal Medicine Boston University Medical Center Boston, MA Cameron Ramsay, MD Internal Medicine Boston University Medical Center Boston, MA Evelyn Taiwo, MD Internal Medicine Boston University Medical Center Boston, MA PEDIATRICS

Spencer Haller, MD Pediatrics Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA MICHIGAN

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Jacob Wisbeck, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Union Memorial Hospital Baltimore, MD

Samir Patel, MD Emergency Medicine Henry Ford Health Science Center Detroit, MI

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Jeffrey Conly, MD Transitional Frankford Hospitals Philadelphia, PA

Michele Hirsch, MD Internal Medicine University of Michigan Hospitals Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI

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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Sinai Hospital Baltimore, MD TRANSITIONAL

Kwaku Obeng, MD Transitional Harbor Hospital Center Brooklyn, MD YEAR TWO

Diagnostic Radiology Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC

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David Hoganson, MD General Surgery Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO NEUROLOGY

Arun Varadhachary, MD Preliminary Medicine Washington University St. Louis, MO YEAR TWO

Neurology Washington University St. Louis, MO

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Ram Vasudevan, MD Neurosurgery University of Missouri St. Louis, MO

Ryan Cramer, MD Preliminary Medicine Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH

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Arun Varadhachary, MD Preliminary Medicine Washington University St. Louis, MO YEAR TWO

Neurology Washington University St. Louis, MO NEW HAMPSHIRE INTERNAL MEDICINE

Lisa Sunwoo, MD Internal Medicine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, NH PSYCHIATRY

Harris Strokoff, MD Psychiatry Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, NH NEW JERSEY INTERNAL MEDICINE

Marjan Koch, MD Internal Medicine UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Camden, NJ ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

Larry Bloomstein, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch, NJ PEDIATRICS

Jennifer Chuang, MD Pediatrics UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical Center Newark, NJ NEW YORK ANESTHESIOLOGY

Jess Brallier, MD Preliminary Medicine Graduate Hospital Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology Mt. Sinai Hospital New York, NY DERMATOLOGY

Naana Boakye, MD Preliminary Medicine Howard University Hospital Washington, DC YEAR TWO

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Jenny Mattina, MD Emergency Medicine Beth Israel Medical Center New York, NY Rewadee Soontharothai, MD Transitional Mercy Catholic Medical Center Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Emergency Medicine Lincoln Medical Center Bronx, NY

Robert Zemble, MD Internal Medicine New York Presbyterian HospitalColumbia Campus New York, NY OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Tirsit Asfaw, MD Obstetrics and Gynecology New York University School of Medicine New York, NY Shevon Joseph, MD Obstetrics and Gynecology Long Island Jewish Medical Center Floral Park, NY OPHTHALMOLOGY

Jennifer Huang, MD Preliminary Medicine Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Nadine Youssef, MD Emergency Medicine Brooklyn Hospital Center Brooklyn, NY

Ophthalmology New York University School of Medicine New York, NY

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Marissa Harris, MD Family Practice Beth Israel Medical Center New York, NY

Prouskeh Ebrahimpour, MD Orthopaedic Surgery SUNY Health Science Center Brooklyn, NY

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Lisa Williams, MD General Pediatrics North Shore Long lsland Jewish Health System Hempstead, NY

Jeffrey Kaplan, MD Pathology New York Presbyterian HospitalColumbia Campus New York, NY

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Miles Levin, MD Pathology Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center Bronx, NY

Christina Biller, MD General Surgery Beth Israel Medical Center New York, NY Christopher Kizina, MD General Surgery Staten Island University Hospital Staten Island, NY Aaron Lipskar, MD General Surgery Mt. Sinai Hospital New York, NY INTERNAL MEDICINE

Sheetal Desai, MD Internal Medicine St. Vincent’s Hospital Staten Island, NY David Duong, MD Internal Medicine Winthrop-University Hospital Mineola, NY Alejandro Villegas, MD Internal Medicine Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn, NY

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Cynthia Skelly, MD Pediatrics Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center Bronx, NY PLASTIC SURGERY

Nicholas Vendemia, MD Plastic Surgery New York Presbyterian HospitalNew York Weill Cornell Medical Center New York, NY PSYCHIATRY

Cora Sterling, MD Psychiatry New York University School of Medicine New York, NY

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Rajiv Sharma, MD Preliminary Medicine Drexel (MCP Hahnemann) University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Radiation Oncology Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center Bronx, NY OHIO GENERAL SURGERY

Stacey Milan, MD General Surgery University Hospital, Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH INTERNAL MEDICINE

David Rose, MD Internal Medicine Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH PEDIATRICS

Jennifer Alvarez, MD Pediatrics Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH Jacqueline Matus, MD Pediatrics Medical College of Ohio Toledo, OH PRELIMINARY MEDICINE

Ryan Cramer, MD Preliminary Medicine Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH YEAR TWO

Diagnostic Radiology Westchester Medical Center Valhalla, NY PENNSYLVANIA ANESTHESIOLOGY

Adam Fleckser, MD Preliminary Medicine Abington Memorial Hospital Abington, PA YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA DERMATOLOGY

Nektarios Lountzis, MD Preliminary Medicine Geisinger Health System Danville, PA YEAR TWO

Dermatology Geisinger Health System Danville, PA

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Andrew Adams, MD Internal Medicine Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA Jennie Barbieri, MD Internal Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Janine Darby, MD Family Practice Montgomery Hospital Norristown, PA

Amy Chang, MD Internal Medicine Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Diagnostic Radiology Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA

Annette Gadegbeku, MD Family Practice Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Eric Choi, MD Internal Medicine Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Shalin Jhaveri, MD Transitional Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh, PA

Stephanie McKnight, MD Family Practice Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, PA

Craig Chuhran, MD Internal Medicine Lehigh Valley Hospital Allentown, PA

Anthony Tomassi, MD Family Practice Reading Hospital and Medical Center Reading, PA

Steven Domsky, MD Internal Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Kitty Ho, MD Preliminary Medicine Drexel (MCP Hahnemann) University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

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Diagnostic Radiology Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Robert Antoniuk, MD Emergency Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Michael Duchynski, MD Emergency Medicine Geisinger Health System Danville, PA John Gibson, MD Emergency Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Julia Gold, MD Emergency Medicine Drexel (MCP Hahnemann) University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA Peter Intemann, MD Emergency Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Jennifer Jackson, MD Emergency Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Christopher Macaluso, MD Emergency Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Justin Mazur, MD Emergency Medicine Drexel (MCP Hahnemann) University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA

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Lauren Trimeloni, MD Family Practice Latrobe Area Hospital Latrobe, PA Megan Werner, MD Family Practice Abington Memorial Hospital Abington, PA John Wood, MD Family Practice Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, PA GENERAL SURGERY

Paul Cesanek, MD General Surgery Lehigh Valley Hospital Allentown, PA Tejwant Datta, MD General Surgery Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, PA J. Fitzpatrick, MD General Surgery Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA James Kaslewicz, MD General Surgery Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA Jonathan Lieberman, MD General Surgery Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Merritt Fajt, MD Internal Medicine Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA Russell Jones, MD Internal Medicine University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Medical Education Program Pittsburgh, PA Minisha Kochar, MD Internal Medicine University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Medical Education Program Pittsburgh, PA Jennifer Maranki, MD Internal Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Matthew McCall, MD Internal Medicine Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA

Christopher Remakus, MD Internal Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Gina Suh, MD Internal Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Fortunata Verdetti, MD Internal Medicine Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Sefton Vergano, MD Internal Medicine Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Andrew Weber, MD Internal Medicine Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA Alfonso Zangardi, MD Internal Medicine Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Gina Cantarella, MD Obstetrics and Gynecology Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia, PA Adam Chrusch, MD Obstetrics and Gynecology Abington Memorial Hospital Abington, PA Myrna Marron, MD Obstetrics and Gynecology York Hospital York, PA Kai Wu, MD Obstetrics and Gynecology Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA OPHTHALMOLOGY

Jennifer Maida, MD Transitional University of Pennsylvania Health System Presbyterian Medical Center Philadelphia, PA

Thomas McKenna, MD Internal Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

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Elizabeth Mcllmoyle, MD Internal Medicine Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA

Michael Malstrom, MD Transitional The Reading Hospital and Medical Center Reading, PA

Ophthalmology Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

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James Reichart, MD Internal Medicine Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Ophthalmology Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA

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Simon Chao, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Neil MacIntyre, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Garen Steele, MD Orthopaedic Surgery University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Medical Education Program Pittsburgh, PA PATHOLOGY

Tracy Levitt, MD Pathology Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Deborah Marks, MD Pathology University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Medical Education Program Pittsburgh, PA PEDIATRICS

Susan Back, MD Pediatrics Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA Joseph Gatial, MD Pediatrics University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Medical Education Program Pittsburgh, PA Annie Kotto, MD Pediatrics Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA Justin Lynn, MD Pediatrics St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children Philadelphia, PA

PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

Scott Davidoff, MD Preliminary Medicine Drexel (MCP Hahnemann) University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Chong Kim, MD Preliminary Medicine Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA YEAR TWO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh, PA Robert Roberts, MD Preliminary Medicine Lankenau Hospital Huntingdon Valley, PA YEAR TWO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Ayasha Williams, MD Preliminary Medicine Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA PRELIMINARY MEDICINE

Maria Birzescu, MD Preliminary Medicine Abington Memorial Hospital Abington, PA YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD Jess Brallier, MD Preliminary Medicine Graduate Hospital Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Colleen McCamant, MD Pediatrics St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children Philadelphia, PA Matthew Sharron, MD Pediatrics St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children Philadelphia, PA David Zobian, MD Pediatrics Thomas Jefferson University/ Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children Philadelphia, PA

Anesthesiology Mt. Sinai Hospital New York, NY Scott Davidoff, MD Preliminary Medicine Drexel (MCP Hahnemann) University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Adam Fleckser, MD Preliminary Medicine Abington Memorial Hospital Abington, PA YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Kitty Ho, MD Preliminary Medicine Drexel (MCP Hahnemann) University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA

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Nathaniel McElhaney, MD Preliminary Surgery Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA

Diagnostic Radiology Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA

Catherine Schermer, MD Preliminary Surgery Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Jennifer Huang, MD Preliminary Medicine Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Benjamin Scoll, MD Preliminary Surgery Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

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Ophthalmology New York University School of Medicine New York, NY

Urology Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

Chong Kim, MD Preliminary Medicine Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA

Rohan Gopalani, MD Psychiatry Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

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Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh, PA Nektarios Lountzis, MD Preliminary Medicine Geisinger Health System Danville, PA YEAR TWO

Dermatology Geisinger Health System Danville, PA Robert Roberts, MD Preliminary Medicine Lankenau Hospital Wynnewood, PA YEAR TWO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Rajiv Sharma, MD Preliminary Medicine Drexel (MCP Hahnemann) University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Radiation Oncology Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center Bronx, NY Devin Spera, MD Preliminary Medicine Geisinger Health System Danville, PA Ayasha Williams, MD Preliminary Medicine Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA PRELIMINARY SURGERY

Javier Coronado, MD Preliminary Surgery Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh, PA

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PSYCHIATRY

Sheri Hollander, MD Psychiatry Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA TRANSITIONAL

Jason Adler, MD Transitional University of Pennsylvania Health System Presbyterian Medical Center Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Diagnostic Radiology Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh, PA Jeffrey Conly, MD Transitional Frankford Hospitals Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Sinai Hospital Baltimore, MD Carl Danzig, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA Kristy Jennings, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore, MD Shalin Jhaveri, MD Transitional Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh, PA YEAR TWO

Diagnostic Radiology Western Pennsylvania Hospital Pittsburgh, PA

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Joseph Kim, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA YEAR TWO

Diagnostic Radiology University of California Irvine Medical Center Orange, CA Erica Liverant, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA

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Emergency Medicine Lincoln Medical Center Bronx, NY UROLOGY

Benjamin Scoll, MD Preliminary Surgery Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA YEAR TWO

Urology Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA

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Medicine Surgery Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Anaesthesiology Family Medicine Obstetrics/Gynecology Orthopaedics Radiology Pathology Psychiatry Ophthalmology Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Neurosurgery, Neurology, Radiation Oncology, Dermatology or Plastic Surgery

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Dermatology St. Joseph’s Hospital Marshfield, WI and University of Wisconsin Madison, WI Kathleen MacDonald, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology University of Vermont-Fletcher Allen Health Care Burlington, VT Jennifer Maida, MD Transitional University of Pennsylvania Health System Presbyterian Medical Center Philadelphia, PA

RHODE ISLAND PEDIATRICS OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Mary Christina Simpson, MD Obstetrics and Gynecology Womens & Infants Hospital Providence, RI ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

Alan Zonno, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Rhode Island Hospital-Brown University Providence, RI PRIMARY MEDICINE

Kathryn Koncsol, MD Primary Medicine Rhode Island Hospital/ Brown University School of Medicine Providence, RI

YEAR TWO

Ophthalmology Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA Michael Malstrom, MD Transitional The Reading Hospital and Medical Center Reading, PA YEAR TWO

Ophthalmology Wills Eye Hospital Philadelphia, PA Joseph McGinley, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY

Kwaku Obeng, MD Transitional Harbor Hospital Center Brooklyn, MD YEAR TWO

Diagnostic Radiology Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC GENERAL SURGERY

Cedrek McFadden, MD General Surgery Greenville Hospital System Greenville, SC

UTAH INTERNAL MEDICINE

David Green, MD Internal Medicine University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals Salt Lake City, UT VERMONT ANESTHESIOLOGY

Kathleen MacDonald, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology University of Vermont-Fletcher Allen Health Care Burlington, VT VIRGINIA EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Robin Naples, MD Emergency Medicine University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA GENERAL SURGERY

Diagnostic Radiology Stanford University Programs Stanford, CA

TEXAS

Mathew Matiasek, MD General Surgery Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA

ANESTHESIOLOGY

INTERNAL MEDICINE

Cara Riley, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA

Karen Mitchell, MD Anesthesiology Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX

Susannah Berke, MD Internal Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk, VA

INTERNAL MEDICINE

PRELIMINARY MEDICINE

Eric Pacini, MD Internal Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Dallas, TX

Michael Phelps, MD Preliminary Medicine University of Virginia RoanokeSalem Program Roanoke, VA

YEAR TWO

Anesthesiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA Rewadee Soontharothai, MD Transitional Mercy Catholic Medical Center Philadelphia, PA 46

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Ana Molina, MD Pediatrics University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Galveston, TX

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Anesthesiology Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD

WASHINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE

Kristine Delamarter, MD Family Practice Tacoma Family Medicine Tacoma, WA GENERAL SURGERY

Aaron Jensen, MD General Surgery University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals Seattle, WA INTERNAL MEDICINE

Sean Reilly, MD Internal Medicine Madigan Army Medical Center Tacoma, WA ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

Josef Eichinger, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Madigan Army Medical Center Tacoma, WA WISCONSIN DERMATOLOGY

Erica Liverant, MD Transitional Crozer-Chester Medical Center Upland, PA YEAR TWO

Dermatology St. Joseph’s Hospital Marshfield, WI and University of Wisconsin Madison, WI OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Aubrey Smith, MD Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Madison, WI PRIMARY MEDICINE

Pamela Cines, MD Primary Medicine University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Madison, WI

In Memoriam University of Minnesota. Dr. Davis then practiced surgery in Kansas City, MO, and served as Chief of Surgery at both St. Luke’s Hospital and the Olathe Medical Center. He was a member of the Babcock Surgical Society at Temple, a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Abdominal Surgeons. He was active with the Mayo Alumni Association and with his wife, Ardis, who survives him, founded the Doctors’ Mayo Society. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three children, 13 grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Russell E. Morgan, Sr., MD ’35, FACS, originally of Minersville, PA, and longtime resident of Bethlehem, PA, a notable surgeon and community leader with a large and loyal following of patients and friends died in Bethlehem on December 5, 2003, at the age of 94. He was President and the last surviving member of the Class of 1935. After medical school and internship, Dr. Morgan became Annville, PA’s first physician. Then in 1942 he pursued post-graduate training in general surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, and thereafter set up a surgical practice in Behlehem, PA. During World War II, Dr. Morgan was Lieutenant Commander of the destroyer escort ship Chourre in the Pacific, part of the initial medical response to bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. After the war he returned to Bethlehem and resumed his surgery career in alliance with St. Luke’s, Sacred Heart, and Muhlenberg Hospitals. After semi-retiring, Dr. Morgan helped establish the Community Health Center in Dingmans Ferry, PA, where he served as Medical Director. He was medical consultant to the Drug & Alcohol Program of Pike, Monroe, and Carbon Counties; the Mental Health & Retardation office of Pike County, and the Lehigh County Prison System. Passionate about music, Dr. Morgan possessed a fine Welsh baritone voice and was an accomplished clarinetist and aspiring bassoonist. He helped revitalize the Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem in the 1980s, serving as President for two terms, and was a long-time guarantor of the Bach Choir. He also served on the Fountain Hill School Board as President, and was active with the Bethlehem Historic Society. He is survived by his second wife, three children, and three grandchildren. Donald R. Davis, MD ’46, of Prairie Village, Kansas, died on August 9, 2003, at the age of 84. A native of Wisconsin who spent his childhood on a dairy farm, Dr. Davis was a surgical resident at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, spent two years at the Olathe Naval Air Station in Kansas, set up a family practice in Olathe, and in 1951 was appointed to a fellowship in surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, simultaneously obtaining an MS degree in Surgery at the

June Peters Byers, MD ’48, of Medford, OR, originally of Homer City, PA, died on June 7, 2003 at the age of 81. For 42 years she practiced family medicine in Medford, with her husband, Malcolm, who survives her. Active in many medical and community organizations, she was former director of the area Planned Parenthood chapter and was the first woman to serve as president of the Jackson (OR) County Medical Society. In addition to her husband, she is survived by five children and eight grandchildren. Shirley Van Ferney, MD ’53, of Princeton, NJ, died on October 14, 2001. A native of Scotland, SD, and a child psychiatrist, Dr. Van Ferney founded Corner House in Princeton in 1975 in response to the growing problem of drug abuse among young adults and adolescents. She is survived by her husband of 41 years, Bob Lewis, MD, a Princeton pediatrician, two sons, and eight grandchildren. Richard V. Smalley, MD ’57, of Edgewater, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Chief of Medical Oncology at Temple, died on January 17, 2004, from chronic lymphocytic leukemia and glioblastoma. Dr. Smalley graduated from Temple in 1957, completed his residency at Temple, and following his fellowship at Ohio State University and service with the US Navy, returned to Temple to direct medical oncology. During that time he also served as Vice Chair of the Southeastern Cancer Study Group. In 1982, he was recruited by the National Cancer Institute to serve as Branch Chief of the Biologics Response Modifiers Program. He later joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, and then in 1991 started his own cancer clinical trials management company, Synerton, Inc. Dr. Smaller published a variety of articles on cancer and was a charter member of the Society of Biological Therapy, where he served as President from 1988 to 1990. He was also an active member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Cancer Society.

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David Larson MD ’73, MSPH, of Rockville, MD, a nationally recognized expert on the connection between religion/spirituality and health, died on March 5, 2002. He was 54. An epidemiologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Larson was founder and president of the National Institute for Healthcare Research, now called the International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality. He spent a decade as Captain in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, serving in several capacities: Senior researcher in the office of the Director of NIH; senior policy analyst at the US Department of Health and Human Services; and Chief of the primary care research section of the National Institutes of Mental Health. He received five Corps awards for his contributions during his tenure, including the commendation medal for developing a quantitative research methodology called the Systematic Review, which is widely used today. At the time of his death he was on the faculties of Duke and Northwestern Universities, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. He has more than 240 presentations and 153 articles, 39 book chapters and nearly a dozen books to his credit. He is survived by his wife and two children.

John E. Fryer, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Temple, a pioneer in the death awareness movement, died in Philadelphia on February 21, 2003. He was 67. In addition to being wellknown as the keyboard accompanist at many School of Medicine graduations, Dr. Fryer was instrumental in the American Psychiatric Association’s decision to declassify homosexuality as a disease and was one of the first psychiatrists to specialize in the care of persons with HIV/AIDS. He founded the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement—whose work continues to shape teaching, research and clinical practice in the care of the dying and the bereaved.

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Paul A. Cox, MD ’34 10.16.2003 Russell E. Morgan, Sr., MD ’35 12.5.2003 Simon H. Nagler, MD ’35 1.7.2004 Clinton H. Toewe, MD ’36 9.13.2003 Bayard R. Vincent, MD ’38 9.6.2003 Charles J. Lemmon, Jr., MD ’39 6.11.2003

Leon Cander, MD ’51 9.19.2003 Daniel Hilton Seals, MD ’53 11.2.2003 James E. Wilson, Jr., MD ’53 11.12.2003 David L. Mudrick, MD ’54 4.4.2004 Valentine F. Pytko, MD ’54 2.9.2004 John W. Lawrence, MD ’55 2.22.2003 Nicholas J. Pozza, MD ’55 12.25.2003 James R. Clifford, MD ’56 5.19.2004 Harry A. Kaupp, Jr., MD ’56 3.25.2004 James G. Kornmesser, MD ’56 5.3.2004 Richard V. Smalley, MD ’57 1.17.2004

Jay M. Cooper, MD ’70 Brian Louis Hayes, MD ’71 Janet Gail Perry, MD ’74 David B. Larson, MD ’73 Francis C. Lazorik, MD ’76 Dennis M. Everton, MD ’78

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40s Helen R. L. Marshall, MD ’40 2.27.2004 John W. Mills, MD ’40 2.11.2003 Murdina M. Desmond, MD ’42 7.11.2003 Luke W. Jordan, MD ’42 10.18.2003 Herbert C. Fett, Jr., MD ’43 4.7.2004 Joseph Gordon, MD ’43 11.4.2003 Andrew Sokalchuk, MD ’43 8.7.2000 Edward J. Vogeler, Jr., MD ’43 1.14.2004 Frank A. Lippi, Jr., MD ’44 4.17.2003 Paul R. Casey, Sr., MD ’45 2.12.2004 Donald R. Davis, MD ’46 8.9.2003 Trudeau M. Horrax, MD ’46 8.13.2003 James G. Lione, MD ’46 2.16.2004 Asher Woldow, MD ’46 4.18.2003 Frederick H. Richards, MD ’48 12.13.2003 Arthur J. Thiele, Jr., MD ’49 6.27.2003

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Hugh J. Dillon, MD ’61 5.6.2004 William J. Stewart, Jr., MD ’61 1.30.2004 Samuel Stuart Mehring, MD ’62 4.27.2003 Bernard M. Varberg, MD ’64 1.4.2004 Mervyn Feierstein, MD ’66 12.27.2003 Daniel Joseph Pavuk, MD ’66 3.6.2004

2.4.2004 3.1.2004 2.10.2004 3.5.2002 3.13.2004 9.27.2003

80s Kimberly Paterson-Lang, MD ’82

2.23.2004

Robert M. Vale, MD ’87

7.20.2003

RESIDENTS Alfred T. Wagner, MD-Res ’50

7.17.2003

John Alexis Burland, MD-Res ’58 Edward Depue Titus, MD-Res ’66 Gary L. Kellett, MD-Res ’72

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EARN UP TO 11.3% ON YOUR MONEY AND BUILD A LEGACY. October 30, 2004

Reunion

Events and Attractions Transportation between the Westin Hotel and the Medical School for daytime events •••

State of the School Address John M. Daly, MD ’73, Dean •••

Legends, Quacks & Anatomical Facts Carson Schneck, MD ’59, PhD ’65 Professor of Anatomy •••

Estate and Gift Planning Seminar: Minimizing What You Give to Uncle Sam and Maximize What You Give to Charity Jerry Rohrbach, CFRE Director of Planned Giving

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Continuing Medical Education (1 credit): Using PDAs to Improve Patient Care and Practice Efficiency Benjamin Krevsky, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine •••

Tour of the Medical School campus •••

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phone (800) 331-2839 or (215) 707-4868 e-mail medalum@temple.edu fax (215) 707-2144 Hotel Reservations at the Westin Philadelphia: (888) 627-8153 For the nights of October 29 and 30, 2004. Availability and special rates for reunion group members guaranteed only through October 7, 2004.

Reunion Banquet at the Westin Philadelphia Hotel featuring cocktail parties, class photos, anniversary diplomas for senior celebrants, and awards: Laughlin Alumnus of the Year Douglas L. Mann, MD ’79 Achievement Award Gerard J. Criner, MD ’79 Honored Professor Award Martin W. Adler, PhD Service Award Robert H. Bedrossian, MD ’47