Alumni News & Notes — Spring 2023

Alumni Alumna’s Fond Memories Inspire Major Gift page 4

Alumni Profiles: Tsai MED’14 and Fernando RES’10 page 6-7

2023 Alumni Award Recipients Celebrated page 8

News & Notes Syvertsen Fellow and Scholars Recognized page 10

The Art of Wellness in Medicine

Spring 2023

Alumni

News & Notes PRODUCED BY THE OFFICE OF ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT Amanda Bassett Director Megan Dodge Associate Director Annette Achilles Assistant Director Bridget Connolly Project Coordinator

MANAGING EDITOR Annette Achilles CONTRIBUTORS Annette Achilles Amanda Bassett Duane Compton Bridget Connolly Joanne Conroy Ashley Festa Amy Galt Dana Cook Grossman Catherine Meno Sage Palmedo Michael Serra Class Secretaries PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Washburn DESIGN & PRODUCTION Linnea Spelman COVER ILLUSTRATION Devina Gonzalez ’25 Copyright Dartmouth College Spring 2023 (Vol. 27, No. 2)

CONTACT INFORMATION Office of Alumni Engagement (HB7070) Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756 Tel: 603-646-5297 Geisel.Alumni.Relations@dartmouth.edu D-H.Alumni.Relations@hitchcock.org www.GeiselAlumni.org GeiselMed.dartmouth.edu

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Dear Alumni and Friends, It is hard to believe it is already spring time and we are preparing to graduate another cohort of healthcare professionals and scientists into the workforce. A workforce that so undoubtedly needs them. It’s been over three years since the global pandemic began and as I have started to meet many of you in person over the past year, I have been amazed by your resilience and inspired by your stories of service, the way many of you bring the humanities to medicine, and your approach to staying well throughout one of the most trying times in modern history.

I have seen similar traits first hand this past fall when we launched an effort with the MD admissions office around engaging our top admission applicants with our local alumni community. I was moved by the alumni who stepped up to host these prospective students and the stories they shared about their experience at Dartmouth, especially around why choosing Dartmouth was the right decision for them. As you can imagine, the small class size, the access to faculty leaders were among the responses that were shared but the common theme amongst these alumni was the value of this community.

This issue highlights a few examples of how our alumni and students are practicing the Art of Wellness in Medicine individually and in the communities they serve. Whether through medicine, research or public health Geisel School of Medicine is continues to prepare the brightest leaders in healthcare.

As always, I hope you enjoy this issue of Alumni News & Notes!

With gratitude, Amanda Bassett Director of Alumni Engagement and Strategic Events Medical & Healthcare Advancement

A Message from Leadership uane A. Compton, PhD D Dean, Geisel School of Medicine oanne M. Conroy, MD, D’77 J CEO and president, Dartmouth Health

For more than 225 years, generations of Dartmouth physicians, scientists, and public health professionals have produced groundbreaking advances, transformed clinical care, and strengthened the health of individuals and communities in the Upper Valley, across our nation, and beyond.

What began at Dartmouth in 1797 now extends to one of our nation’s most-respected academic medical centers and an alumni community with a truly global impact on human lives.

That impact is powerfully exemplified in breakthrough technology, developed at the Geisel School of Medicine, that underpins COVID-19 vaccines credited with preventing more than 18 million hospitalizations and saving millions of lives in the United States alone.

It is also reflected in the transformational work of thousands of alumni who every day seek to ensure that each individual can reach their highest health potential.

In this issue of Alumni News & Notes, we celebrate the alumni who are bringing humanity—and the humanities—to health and healthcare.

We were inspired by a profile of Rajeev Fernando, MD, RES’10, who founded a global humanitarian organization that recently opened a wellness center for those experiencing conflict-associated trauma.

A profile of Cindy Tsai MED’14, entrepreneur and bestselling author, shares her perspectives on wellness and physician burnout.

You will read news of a recent multi-million dollar gift that advances two key priorities for Dartmouth Cancer Center and Dartmouth Health: diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; and cancer research.

Established by Dick D’64, Th’65 and Barbara Couch, the Couch Endowed Fund for Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellowships will support the recruitment and retention of up-and-coming cancer clinician-scientists from underrepresented-in-medicine groups.

In January, we launched the new Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science, which seeks to accelerate the pace at which research and scientific evidence can be deployed in clinical practice. Jeremiah Brown, PhD, professor of epidemiology at Geisel and founding director of the Center, hopes to share more on this in the coming months.

Finally, you will also read many stories of recent alumni achievements, including those of our 2023 Alumni Awards recipients. At this, one of the most consequential inflection points in the history of human health, they exemplify the influence, and the impact, of our community.

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PHILANTHROPY IN ACTION

Left: Dean Duane Compton, Kathryn McGoldrick, and Sarah Johansen MED’89/’90 presenting Kathy with her Career Achievement Award. Right: Kathryn McGoldrick with husband, Jonathan Mardirossian, MD.

Fond Memories of Medical School Inspire Major Gift

Kathryn McGoldrick MED’68, is an anesthesiologist, author, educator, and the recipient the 2022 Career Achievement Alumni Award from Geisel School of Medicine. Receiving this honor prompted McGoldrick to reminisce about how much she valued her time in Hanover. And, those memories prompted her to make a valuable philanthropic gift.

“In my talk at the awards ceremony, I spoke about how much I appreciated the people at Dartmouth Medical School, from my classmates to my teachers,” says McGoldrick, who gave $100,000 to Geisel’s annual fund. And in an effort to inspire other alumni to give she allocated this to be used as a dollar-for-dollar match for other alumni. Additionally, this level of support allowed her to become a member of Geisel’s Health Leaders Circle and Dartmouth College’s Centennial Circle. “I always thought your professional life is determined, to a certain extent, by what classmates and teachers made you. Saying thank you for this award made me appreciate how fortunate I’ve been to have such people.”

McGoldrick recalls in particular how well her professors modeled the soft skills of medicine—especially communicating compassionately with patients.

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PHILANTHROPY IN ACTION

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If I had given $100,000 to Cornell, what incremental impact would it have? But giving to Dartmouth’s medical school, that will have a big ripple effect.

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“Those soft skills are among the hardest to teach and to learn,” says McGoldrick, who always worked to establish trust with patients right away. “A textbook can’t teach that. The best way is through rolemodeling. You see it in clinicians you respect, how they do it, and that had a profound effect on me.”

After her graduation, McGoldrick served as class agent for more than a decade, and one of her duties was fundraising for the medical school. Instead of recommending a certain amount to give, she always told alumni, “I don’t care how much you give—let’s just all give something.” And we had a pretty high percentage of giving.

When speaking to alumni of her era, McGoldrick asks them to consider where their philanthropic gifts can make the greatest impact. When they were students, Dartmouth Medical School was a two-year program, so medical students went to other universities to complete their degrees—McGoldrick earned her MD from Cornell University Medical College in 1970. Many alumni make gifts to those medical schools instead of to Geisel. But McGoldrick says a philanthropic gift can make a greater impact at the small, rural medical school. “If I had given $100,000 to Cornell, what incremental impact would it have?” she asks. “But giving to Dartmouth’s medical school, that will have a big ripple effect.”

For more on McGoldrick’s Career Achievement Alumni Award, visit dhmcalumdev.hitchcock.org/events/ award-winner-mcgoldrick.

Supporting Inclusive Excellence Dartmouth Health has received a $2.5 million gift from Dick and Barbara Couch to establish the Couch Endowed Fund for Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellowships at Dartmouth Cancer Center.

The Couches’ gift is magnified by matching funds from Dorothy M. Byrne’s recent gift establishing the Byrne Family Cancer Research Institute, bringing the total endowment for Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellowships to $5 million.

This historic gift is the largest philanthropic investment to date in support of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at Dartmouth Cancer Center and Dartmouth Health.

The fund will support the recruitment and retention of up-and-coming cancer clinician-scientists from underrepresented-in-medicine groups—particularly those exploring health disparities and healthcare inequities.

“This gift was inspired by our belief that the educational and research mission of Dartmouth Health and Dartmouth Cancer Center is greatly enhanced by a diverse faculty,” said the Couch family. “The hospital is committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment necessary to retain the diverse faculty that this gift is designed to recruit and support.”

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ALUMNI VOLUNTEER

Physician-turnedEntrepreneur Sets the Tone for Good Mental Health As a best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and life coach, Cindy Tsai MED’14 encourages Geisel School of Medicine students to prioritize their own well-being as they pursue their goals of being a physician.

“Practicing mindfulness and gratitude are important, and we must normalize the conversations around exhaustion and self-care,” Tsai says. “Think about a car without gas or a smartphone without battery—they don’t work. It’s only when you are well that you have more to give to others.”

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e have to make space for creativity W and honor those passions. It will add to your experience and help you become a better clinician in ways you never thought of.”

Cindy Tsai MED’14

Tsai returns as a regular speaker at Dartmouth events, such as Geisel’s Wellness Week where she gave a keynote on managing stress using the mindbody connection, sharing her integrative approach to wellness. She emphasizes that women are particularly at risk of putting their own mental health on the backburner for the sake of others, the topic of a workshop she led on “Burnout: Tools that Work” with the Women of Dartmouth alumnae.

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Cindy Tsai encourages using the mind-body connection to manage stress.

“This was an opportunity to discuss the importance of self-compassion and how to be kind to yourself,” Tsai says. “Across cultures and generations, women have been conditioned to live up to an unrealistic ideal, which can be an obstacle in terms of growth and wellbeing. There’s so much more to life than studying and good grades. The key is to start from within.”

She notes that she has learned to make peace with perfectionist tendencies—and sets aside time to support her mental health, starting with a morning meditation session to get grounded for the day. As a busy entrepreneur, Tsai says her world can be fastpaced with many distractions, and this daily practice helps her focus on the present.

Thinking back on her time at Geisel, Tsai fondly recalls making one-of-a-kind jewelry and pottery pieces on campus to “use a different part of her brain.” She says physicians sometimes lose sight of their creative side.

“Time is finite, and you don’t have to wait until you finish school or training to do what you really want to do,” she says. “Give yourself permission to explore and honor those passions. You have to make space for the fun. It will enrich your life and help you become a better clinician in ways you never thought of.”

ALUMNI PROFILE

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very day is a new challenge with humanitarian work, but we must E honor the oath we took. We can’t stand by and watch people suffer.”

Rajeev Fernando RES’10

Doctor Finds Creative Ways to Treat Mental Illness in Ukraine Rajeev Fernando, MD, RES’10 boarded a flight to Ukraine immediately after Russia’s invasion in February 2022. At the time, Fernando didn’t know what he would do there, but he knew he had useful skills as a disaster medicine physician. Since then, his focus has become fighting an invisible enemy—mental illness.

Rajeev Fernando outside Red Cross buildings in the Ukraine.

“Russian aggression has exacerbated mental health problems,” says Fernando, medical director of HealCorp, a Florida-based nonprofit currently dedicating its focus to Ukraine, treating soldiers and civilians with mental illness, among other humanitarian efforts.

“Every Ukrainian goes to bed at night not knowing whether they’ll wake up.”

Fernando is also the founder of Chiraj, a global humanitarian nonprofit based in New York City. In June 2022, Chiraj opened a wellness center in Ukraine where Fernando serves as chief medical officer, treating victims of war suffering from mental illness and conflict-associated trauma. He says 40% of the center’s clients have experienced threats to their lives or witnessed such threats to others.

Art therapy is one of the most conservative treatments available at the center and is especially helpful for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Dmitry Tytula, the center’s art therapy psychologist, says developing therapeutic creativity with patients can help them better cope with tension and complex emotions, a “mental reboot,” as he calls it. Both adults and children can participate in art therapy, and some of the children’s artwork is displayed at the Vakulenko Art Consulting Gallery, one of the largest galleries in Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv.

As for Fernando himself: “I do prophylactic mental health upkeep. Otherwise, stress can accumulate.” For

example, over the holidays, he went to the Santa Claus Village in Finland to find out whether reindeer really can fly, he said with a laugh.

He has always been interested in helping people around the world, which is why he chose to do his fellowship at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

“I didn’t see other programs with infectious disease combined with international health,” says Fernando, who was recently awarded with the inaugural Martin Luther King Distinguished Alumni Award from Geisel’s Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement. During his fellowship, he helped care for the large refugee population in the region.

“Every day is a new challenge with humanitarian work, but we must honor the oath we took,” Fernando says.

“We can’t stand by and watch people suffer.”

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ALUMNI AWARDS

2023

ALUMNI AWARDS

Recognize Eight Alumni

The Alumni Recognition Committee has selected eight esteemed alumni to recognize on Friday, May 19 at the 2023 Alumni Awards Ceremony. Each honoree typifies the Geisel/ DMS tradition of excellence in their field of medicine or service to the Dartmouth community. All are invited to join us in-person or virtually using this link: dartgo.org/aawards23.

YOUNG ALUMNI AWARDEE Matthew M. Ippolito, PhD, D’02, MED’11 is a physician-scientist who primarily focuses on malaria research in Zambia in his medical career. Additionally, he cares for patients at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and educates students as an assistant professor of infectious diseases and clinical pharmacology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and at the Malaria Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Ippolito is the director of clinical epidemiology for the Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research.

Matthew has conducted scholarly and humanitarian work in many countries, including Zambia, Peru, Tanzania, and Guatemala. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana and is on the editorial board of Frontiers in Malaria.

OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARDEE Kenton (Kent) E. Powell MED’07, RES’11 has dedicated himself to serving patients as well as learners throughout his medical career. He joined the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) faculty in 2011 in the Lyme clinic. In 2013, Dr. Powell became director of the primary care track Internal Medicine Residency program and the associate director of the Internal Medicine Residency program. He became the medical director of the Lyme clinical site in 2017 and co-director of the advanced ambulatory medicine clerkship in 2019. He is also a preceptor for the On Doctoring program and a faculty member at the Geisel School of Medicine. Kent developed a new approach to getting DHMC residents engaged with the Employee Assistance Program.

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDEES Joyce A. Sackey D’85, MED’89 is instrumental in championing the cause of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the United States as well as internationally.

As associate dean and the inaugural chief diversity and inclusion officer for Stanford Medicine, she utilizes her passion for equity and creating inclusive environments, particularly in medical professions. Prior to Stanford, she served as associate provost and chief diversity officer for Tufts University Health Sciences Schools, as the dean for Multicultural Affairs and Global Health in the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM), and as the Jane Murphy Gaughan Endowed Professor at TUSM. As dean, she oversaw the medical school’s programs that aimed to increase the number of underrepresented-in-medicine students pursuing careers in the biomedical sciences and health professions.

Megan T. Sandel MED’96 is a staunch advocate for the health of children and underserved families, a passion that began as a student at Dartmouth Medical School and continues into her professional career as a researcher and innovator.

She serves as professor at the Boston University (BU) Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and a professor at the BU School of Public Health. She’s also the co-director of the Grow Clinic for Children at Boston Medical Center (BMC), which is a multispecialty clinic for children with failure to thrive. She is the principal investigator for the Boston Opportunity System Collaborative, which connects underserved Boston neighborhoods with employment and affordable housing opportunities. She’s also the co-lead principal investigator for Children’s HealthWatch at BMC, and leads the medical center’s $6.5 million housing and place-based community health initiative.

ALUMNI AWARDS

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARDEES A. Stuart Hanson D’59, MED’60, a pulmonary medicine and critical care physician from 1971 to 2012, dedicated his career to patient care, smoking reduction, and improving working conditions in healthcare. Now retired from clinical care, Stu has served since 2010 as president of the nonprofit Behavior at Work Collaborative, which focuses on creating abuse-free work environments. Dr. Hanson served in many leadership positions over his four decades as a practicing pulmonologist. As a leader in smoking-cessation campaigns, Stu was past president and board chair of Smoke-Free Generation Minnesota, and he was the founding president and board chair of the Minnesota Coalition for a Smoke-Free Society. He also served as vice chair of the Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco.

Eric Donnenfeld D’77, MED’80, P’05 exemplifies a broad range of contributions to the field of ophthalmology including scholarship, technological advancements, and, of course, experienced and empathetic patient care. Eric is a clinical professor of ophthalmology at New York University Medical Center since 2006.

He also founded the Lions Eye Bank for Long Island, where he acts as surgical director. As an internationally recognized expert and pioneer in the field of refractive, cornea, and cataract surgery, Dr. Donnenfeld was among the first five people in the world to perform both laser vision correction and laser cataract surgery. As a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Dr. Donnenfeld has been recognized with the organization’s Secretariat Award, Honor Award, Senior Honor Award, and Life Achievement Honor Award.

John A. Zaia MED’66 has made significant contributions throughout his 55-year career to the fields of virology and infectious diseases, especially concerning gene therapy for AIDS, vaccines, and immune globulin therapies for viral diseases.

He has worked for 42 years at City of Hope National Medical Center as a pediatrician and virologist.

Among his current leadership roles at City of Hope, he serves as the director of the Center for Gene Therapy within the Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation Institute, as the founding director of the Infectious Diseases Section in the Department of Pediatrics, and as the director of the City of Hope Alpha Stem Cell Clinic. He also currently serves on a number of committees and boards.

Daniel R. Lucey D’77, MED’81/’82 has spent 40 years fighting epidemics through patient care, research, education, and public health policy. This work began in 1982 with AIDS in San Francisco, before HIV was discovered, and overseas every year from 2003 to 2020 with SARS, MERS, avian and pandemic flu, Ebola (with Doctors without Borders), Zika, yellow fever, chikungunya, plague (with the World Health Organization), and COVID-19. With this experience, Dr. Lucey proposed an exhibit on viral epidemics in 2014 to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. With over 40 U.S., international, and Smithsonian colleagues, he helped create the content for the exhibit which had 3.3 million visitors from 2018 to 2022. He has also delivered 525 presentations in the U.S. and internationally.

ALUMNI AWARDS

The Geisel School of Medicine’s Alumni Recognition Committee is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Alumni Awards. Deadline for nominations: October 13, 2023.

Many thanks to the Alumni Recognition Committee who, in 2023, carefully reviewed and revised each of the award category descriptions and created the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Learn more about the Alumni Awards program and submit your nominations here: www.GeiselAlumni.org/AlumniAwards.

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SYVERTSEN SCHOLARS The Syvertsen Memorial Committee (back row) with the Syvertsen Scholars and Fellow (front row).

Syvertsen Scholars Former Dartmouth Medical School Dean Dr. Rolf Syvertsen fostered academic accomplishment and scientific rigor, a passion for learning, a love of medicine, and cultivated in students a deep sense of human concern, community spirit, and citizenship. Today, the Syvertsen Scholars and Fellows program honors fourth-year Geisel School of Medicine students who exemplify the qualities he stood for.

2022-23 Syvertsen Fellow Arvind Suresh ’23 graduated from Dartmouth College in 2019, where he studied biology and computer science. At Geisel, Arvind furthered his interests in health equity as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow working to address food insecurity in rural N.H. and Vt. communities and served on the Physicians for Human Rights National Student Advisory Board.

He led student vaccination efforts during the COVID19 pandemic, which earned him the Excellence in Public Health Award from the United States Public Health Service, and the Upper Valley Human Rights Clinic, which provides forensic medical and psychological evaluations for individuals seeking asylum. Throughout his four years at Geisel, Arvind has worked with his peers to develop a longitudinal curriculum for patients with disabilities and, with the Office of Student Affairs, built a longitudinal career advising and peer mentoring program. He researches to improve outcomes for patients with hematologic

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malignancies and received a grant from the American Society of Hematology to study early neurotoxicity in patients following CAR T-cell therapy.

2022-23 Syvertsen Scholars Aya Bashi ’23 earned her HBSc. in Global Health and Human Physiology from the University of Toronto. She then pursued an MPH in Epidemiology with a women’s health focus at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. At Dartmouth College, Aya was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow and was involved in various advocacy initiatives. She also served on several medical education committees that promoted inclusive learning environments at Geisel. She has a particular interest in gynecologic surgical equity and access to surgical care for underserved populations. ennedy Jensen ’23 earned her BA in Anthropology K and Biochemistry at Dartmouth College, where she also competed as a distance runner. Upon graduation,

SYVERTSEN SCHOLARS

Arvind Suresh ’23

Aya Bashi ’23

Kennedy Jensen ’23

Colin McLeish ’23

Kennedy was awarded a Lombard Public Service Fellowship to advance health equity in the Canadian Arctic. When she returned to Dartmouth for medical school, she focused her time outside the classroom on advocacy, mentorship, and teaching. She is applying into general surgery with interests at the overlap of remote health systems strengthening, trauma and critical care, and health equity. olin McLeish ’23 is a MD/MBA student with the Tuck School of C Business. His interests in access and affordability led him to organize for universal healthcare, where he served as a national delegate to Students for a National Health Program and locally on the board of Good Neighbor Health Clinic. At Geisel, he was editor-in-chief of Lifelines, Student Government Chair of Wellness, and led the Internal Medicine Interest Group and Ethics Interest Group. He is a recipient of the David A. Winston Health Policy Scholarship (2022) and Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholarship (2022).

Linda Morris ’23 joined the MGH Proton Radiation Research Team and worked with patients with advanced gastrointestinal malignancies. She became interested in supporting patients’ highest possible quality of life while offering new clinical trial solutions. At Geisel, she coupled her hospice companion work with her interest in clinical research as a Translational Oncology Program Scholar at the Dartmouth Cancer Center. She became invested in peer advocacy and collaborating to propose new education policies and held positions as leader of Medical Education Scholars and student body Chair of Academics.

Isabelle Tersio ’23 attended the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in Biological Basis of Behavior. She is going into pediatrics and worked as a former garden and cooking teacher, where she developed ways to help kids learn about themselves, others, and their sense of autonomy. While at Dartmouth, she has held leadership roles as Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, as well as student representative on the Restorative Justice Committee and Committee for a Respectful Learning Environment. Further, she has been an active tutor and enjoys nearpeer mentorship.

Linda Morris’23

Isabelle Tersio ’23

THANK YOU Special thanks to the Syvertsen Alumni Committee for their work and time in interviewing this year’s Scholars and Fellow!

Andrew Auerbach MED’92 Narath Carlile MED’09 chair Patricia Dillon MED’86 Benjamin Gilson D’54, MED’55, RES’58 Edward Horton D’54, MED’55, RES’62 Sarah Johansen MED’89/’90, RES’93 Daniel Kaser MED’09 Seth McClennen MED’97 O. Ross McIntyre D’53, MED’55, RES’60, FEL’64 Nancy McNulty MED’95 John Moran D’54, MED’55 Joan O’Brien MED’86 Alan Rozycki D’61, MED’63 Peter Spiegel D’58, MED’58 Julie Taub MED’01 Charles Thayer D’76, MED’79 Robert Thurer D’67, MED’68 Martha Wu D’93, MED’97 Are you a past Syvertsen Scholar or Fellow and interested in joining the Alumni Committee?

Contact Amanda Bassett at Amanda.J.Bassett@hitchcock.org.

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

The Artist Behind the Cover Art Devina Gonzalez ’25

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Our cover art for this issue of Alumni News & Notes was designed by second-year medical student Devina Gonzalez. The painting depicts a surgeon knitting a strand of DNA. Devina notes, “I wanted to convey the idea that just as a knitter (art form) carefully creates a pattern with thread, so too do doctors and scientists delicately manipulate DNA to improve human health—similarly there’s a convergence of art

and medicine and techniques of things such as knitting that are advantageous and parallel some techniques in medicine. The painting serves as a reminder of the beauty and complexity of the intersection between medicine and art.

“The painting is a visual representation of the limitless potential of the intersection of art and medicine and how it can be used to improve human

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he cover painting is a visual T representation of the limitless potential of the intersection of art and medicine and how it can be used to improve human lives. It is a reminder of the boundless creativity and skill that is required to achieve these goals.”

Devina Gonzalez

lives. It is a reminder of the boundless creativity and skill that is required to achieve these goals.”

Devina describes the intersection of art and medicine in her life through this experience: “While watching a cataract-removal surgery, I abruptly realized the complexities of a cataract— the extraordinariness of a non-extraordinary condition. There was something otherworldly about the cataract’s irreplicable color schemes of yellow cadmium, phthalo green, midnight black, and titanium white. When magnified, the brown cataracted eye possessed its own solar system— its own celestial sphere of constellations. It was cosmic—it was art. The clouded lens was eventually removed and replaced with an intraocular lens.

It was during that procedure I developed a more profound love for medicine, or perhaps it was the overwhelming delirium from witnessing an eye be incised, but I believe it was because my two worlds of art and medicine collided, and it all made sense.”

Devina earned her BA in neuroscience at Smith College, where she worked as a research aide in several neuroendocrinology laboratories and became an intern and scholar for New York University’s Project Healthcare program. After graduation, she worked as a health assistant for the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth, and conducted two years of cardiac electrophysiology research at Cedars Sinai in the Smidt Heart Institute. Devina later pursued a master of public health (MPH) at Dartmouth College, where she focused on health inequities impacting Latino communities. Currently, she is a second-year medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine and a national leader for the Latino Medical Student Association, where she leads the graphic design and web management committees.

She is committed to health accessibility and equity, the intersection between art and medicine, and providing culturally competent care in any specialty she enters!

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary John Moran at 77 Cliff Street, Plymouth, MA 02360; 508-746-1492 (home); or jmmoran1114@gmail.com.

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John Stanley reports that he has been feeling reasonably well. He has been following the news closely and was looking forward to voting in November. John and Manel have been busy hosting visitors at their Gilroy, Calif., home, including Manel’s sister and her brother (who lives in Sri Lanka).

John has maintained his up-to-date status, as he has recently purchased a plug-in hybrid SUV! Piloting that vehicle will require an immense amount of acclimatization to the many electronic features the car has. We wish him many happy hours and miles of travel.

John, please be certain to plug the automobile in at night!

Phil Mossman remains busy writing for numismatic publications—specifically about currency and coins on this continent prior to 1790 CE, in the early colonial period of the United States.

—Allen Root 4916 Saint Croix Drive Tampa, FL 33629-4831 813-286-1333 (home); aroot3@jhmi.edu

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From Larry Seymour: “Hi, Al. I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. That is an important time for our family to get together. And then we have a Christmas brunch on the Sunday before Christmas. This has gone on for more than 30 years, and grandchildren who now have their own children are delighted and very happy that we can once again have this celebration.

A group of 30 is planned, with one grandchild from Florida and four of our five great-grandchildren here.

“Joan and I took a cruise from Oahu through French Polynesia, with stops

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in New Zealand and ending in Sydney, Australia. Three days before getting to our first New Zealand stop, I came down with COVID. Though it was worse than the usual cold, I recovered easily— but I had to spend five days quarantined and not in my stateroom but in a small, almost cell-like room on the third deck. Joan did not get the virus, but she had to have her nose swabbed five days running. On the last day, while going down a staircase, she fell and broke the surgical neck of her humerus.

The ship doctor took good care of her, but we had to get along with her left arm immobilized and with balance issues that she had had before but that worsened. She is now five weeks post-injury and doing OK but still not fully independent. It could have been worse (head or femur rather than arm).

All in all, I am doing well despite the page-long list of diagnoses my doctor sends me out of his office with.

“I hope that the start of 2023 finds you and Diane doing well physically. Happy holidays to you both and your family.”

From Gerry Finkel: “An update on my activities means just more of the same. We are still lying low because of COVID but are getting out a bit more—having picnic lunches in the park, avoiding crowds (especially the theater), and so on. Thanksgiving will be one short because my older stepson just tested positive for COVID. Jack Crowley, our DC class secretary published one of my poems in this month’s edition of the alumni magazine. It was very kind of him, and I must admit I was flattered.”

Kenneth Herrmann wrote: “Hello to all my classmates in the great DMS Class of 1957; 2022 was a year of exciting activities for me and Ruth (my now, almost-two-year-reconnected partner in life). Both Ruth and I have had to roll with the punches of aging, as I know many of you are also dealing with. We are showing signs of early dementia (but bits and pieces of wonderful past

memories still exist), and Ruth has Parkinson’s disease, which is slowly progressing. We are sharing residences in two states—Georgia and Florida.

Highlights of the year have been family gatherings (with Ruth’s family in Kansas and mine on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota). Glad we could do that now that COVID-19 has taken a back seat (although the evil virus will be with us for many years to come).

In September, we flew to Europe to experience a Viking River Cruise on the Danube, with a special opportunity to attend the renowned Oberammergau Passion Play, which has been performed one year every decade since the black plague in the mid-1300s.

“It was a very exciting trip but had its ups and downs. The Danube is a wonderful river on which to cruise, even though the water level was low on this trip, resulting in our longboat getting grounded on a sand bar on our way to Vienna. It was Octoberfest in Germany and Austria, and the crowds were large, the beer was flowing freely, and nobody wore masks. As a result, both Ruth and I contracted COVID infections on the last day of the trip, in Budapest. We had mild symptoms but were quarantined for 10 days after returning to Florida. As I write this, we’re now back in Atlanta until early January. I’m looking forward to all of my kids, their spouses, and my four grandkids gathering at my home in Atlanta for Christmas.”

—Alan Friedman 115 Central Park West, #4B New York, NY 10023 212-679-5580 (fax—preferred); ajfmdpc@yahoo.com

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I was somewhat dilatory in my calls this month; several people seemed to be absent, but their phones indicated they’re still around. The five whom I was able to contact had a great deal to say. I decided I would focus on three topics: how they survived COVID,

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whether they took any trips during COVID, and if they have travel plans for after COVID. Bob Vogel said that they had not had COVID but that he and his wife, Helen, were planning some trips now.

He was in Florida when I reached him.

He was in California during the lockdown. His son is an important figure in the attorney general’s office in LA, and Bob is proud of him. Helen is having a hip replacement in the near future, and our prayers go out to her for a successful procedure. Bob was outside of the hurricane zone in Florida, although he installed heavy window protectors in case the hurricane diverted in their direction. His other news was that he had his fourth great-grandchild (Mary and I just had our first).

I next turned to Maury Tanennbaum. He said that he and his wife had their vaccinations but then tested positive for COVID. Like many people, he was not very sick, but he did have a bad sore throat. He is now recovered, happily, from that whole business. He traveled to California in 2022 to see his family, and he was about to leave for Israel the day I talked to him. In a true ecumenical gesture, he planned to go to Morocco later in the year (both trips seemed to be headed by responsible people). One of his joys was seeing his grandson getting married. He reminded me that he and Paul Raslavicius were the representatives from our class at the 2018 reunion. He said his wife, Gloria, has recovered from all her health problems and they were looking forward to their trips in the new year.

Arny Mulder checked in, having had COVID in May after his vaccinations. He apparently was in Florida for a funeral when he got sick. He took medicine and, to his dismay, the COVID returned, but he did not have symptoms the second time. He has done some traveling and went to Scotland this last summer.

On my first series of calls, I had missed Tom Watt, among others. But I was very pleased when Tom called me back. Neither he nor Sally has had COVID, and they have been to Florida and to South Carolina to visit their great-granddaughter. Sally has been fine. Tom has been having some medical/kidney problems and an episode of acidosis that has responded to treatment.

I received an email from Nick Tschetter. He wrote: “On May 25, I had my right knee replaced. Three days later, I had a pulmonary embolism.

That was treated with anticoagulants for three months. Two weeks later, I had sepsis that responded to Rocephin.

After six weeks of rehab, I finally came home and am doing fairly well.

“In August, I had some abdominal pain that turned out to be my gallbladder. My gallbladder was necrotic—filled with sludge and stones. The surgeon said it could’ve been that way for weeks or even months. After my gallbladder surgery, I had some physical therapy and now I am doing pretty well.”

It has begun to look like our classmates have survived the lockdown very well—I am relieved! I think that all of us now, with our various problems, are beginning to appreciate the words of a professional athlete who said that as he aged, “I don’t feel like I’m an old person. I feel like a young person with something wrong with them.”

I think that is a good statement for all of us. We do feel young but know there is something wrong. I hope to get in touch with more of you next time, and I promise myself I will get an earlier start on the endeavor! I might add that our class will mark its 65th reunion in 2023; the dates are Sept. 22-24, for any who can make it.

—Melvin Britton 8545 Carmel Valley Road Carmel, CA 93923 650-483-1262 (cell); melvincbritton@aol.com

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Thomas Aaberg at 2391 Parrotts Pointe Road, Greensboro, GA 30642; 706-467-9382 (home); or ophttma@emory.edu.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Barry Smith at 195 Willey Hill Road, PO Box 238, Norwich, VT 05055; 802-649-1438 (home) or 603-748-1332 (cell); or bdsmith646@earthlink.net.

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I need to start this submission with the sad news of the passing of our classmate Jerry Bart, on October 29 in Owl’s Head, Maine, after a period of declining health since a head injury suffered last December. For me, Jerry was a friend, a former roommate, and the best man at my wedding to Linda 60 years ago.

Jerry came to Dartmouth College from Trumbull, Conn. He was on the swimming and diving teams and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from the College magna cum laude in 1960 and then got his bachelor of medical science degree from DMS with our Class of 1961.Then it was on to Harvard for his MD, which he completed in 1963. After an internship and residency in internal medicine in Buffalo, he went to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester for a fellowship in hematology.

After completing his training, he made his way to Houston for a long career as a hematologist-oncologist at Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. He was presented with an Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award from Baylor in 1993 and with a Super Doc Award from KelseySeybold in 2003.

After retirement, Jerry moved to Owl’s Head to be close to his son, Aaron, who had some health issues. His daughter, Joelle, and her husband also moved to the same community to be near her father and brother.

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Classes of 1961 and 1962 outside of the AKK House in Hanover, NH.

Now for some memories of Jerry. I remember his wonderful smile—may his memory be a blessing. Don Bartlett wrote so say he was very sorry to learn the news. From Marty Weiss: “May he rest in peace. Hope that the rest of us stay well.” Joe Okimoto noted: “I, too, am saddened to learn of the death of Jerry. I remember with fondness visiting him when Jeanie and I were passing through Portland, Maine, on the way to Halifax. I also remember visiting him in Owl’s Head and seeing where he did his woodworking magic and daily push-ups. He was a devoted dad to his kids.” Frank Virnelli noted: “I’m very sorry to hear about Jerry.

Judy and I were very glad to have the opportunity to visit Jerry in Owl’s Head a few years ago. Judy had always liked Jerry and appreciated his sense of humor. We reminisced about a dinner in Boston that Joe Okimoto hosted when Jerry entertained us with some great stories about his life in Houston. He was the chief of hematology at a large Houston hospital but after retirement was glad to settle on the Maine coast, where he was dedicated to supporting the recovery of his brain-damaged son. Jerry had more than his share of tragedies to deal with, but I never heard him complain about them. Don Caress adds: “Very sorry to hear about Jerry. I haven’t seen him since graduation but his loss takes me back to those days when we were young. I hope that all the rest of our classmates are well.”

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Jerry Bart ’61’s infectious smile.

After the sad news above, and knowing that a number of us are not in top-notch health, now is a good time to go “back to those days when we were young,” even if only in our memories.

A few nights ago, Linda and I had a wonderful dinner visit with Virginia and Dick Petrie. Dick was our photographer extraordinaire in days of yore, and he gave me some wonderful pictures from the past, which I have sent out to the class. After I sent these pictures, Tay Weinman wrote back: “Aii, we were so young and so thin!” I will include two of the photos with this column: One of a smiling Jerry and one showing DMS ’61 and ’62 guys outside the Alpha Kappa Kappa house.

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season; be safe and well.

—Sol Rockenmacher 25 Saint Andrews Drive Bedford, NH 03110-6129 603-232-3477 (home); rockenmacher@comcast.net

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The weather in the Upper Valley the second full week of September 2022 was a perfect time for the 60th reunion of DMS ’62. Six classmates attended all or some of the Friday through Sunday events: Doug Zipes, David Steinberg, Georges Peter, Valerie Leval Graham, Alan Larimer, and Class Secretary Ted Tapper.

At the all-reunion dinner on Saturday night in the Hanover Inn ballroom, Valerie got a well-deserved standing ovation from everyone, acknowledging her role as the first woman to attend and graduate from DMS. Val still lives in the Burlington, Vt., area and drove down to attend the reunion.

Alan Larimer drove from Ohio to be there. He stayed at the Norwich Inn and walked to and from Hanover to attend the Friday evening dinner at Impasto just off Main Street. Then he and his wife drove back to Ohio.

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The class of 1962 at their reunion this past September. L to R: Shelley Phillips with Ted Tapper ’62, Joan and Doug Zipes ’62, Valerie Leval Graham ’62, and Carolyn and Georges Peter ’62.

A standing ovation at the Reunion Saturday night dinner in honor of the first female graduate Valerie Leval Graham ’62.

The whole event was filled with warm, good feelings about our class and the DMS experience overall.

We were well-prepared for our final two years of medical school and left Hanover in 1962 with positive vibes about our time there. After this reunion, we were eager to gather again—sometime, somewhere.

Doug and Joan Zipes left for Florida in early November but instead of staying in their home down there, they were renting because Doug said the house was trashed by Hurricane Ida and is being restored. Doug was recently elected to the Harvard Medical School Alumni Association, becoming its oldest (and most likely wisest) member.

Alan Larimer is taking a regular college course (in Chinese history) at his alma mater, tutoring his classmates in the course—and on life lessons in general.

I wonder how Len Skerker fared in Ida, since he lives on Florida’s west coast not that far from Doug.

I also wanted to share the sad news that our classmate Joe Dorsey passed away on November 22, 2022.

You can read his obituary here: dartgo.org/Dorsey.

I have been spending a fair amount of time over the past five-plus years trying to get a former patient out of prison. He has been locked up since 2011 for a crime I’m convinced he could not have committed. You can read about it in The Atlantic (it was the cover story in the November 2022 issue—and is available online at dartgo.org/cjrice).

You can also hear a radio interview on injustice and C.J. Rice’s conviction by googling Jake Tapper and his dad.

In brief, Mr. Rice, at age 17, was shot at least three times and hospitalized

for nine days while recovering from the shooting and extensive surgery. He had a nine-inch midline incision from his sternum straight down. The incision was closed with 35 to 40 staples. One bullet tore through him and fractured his ilium. I saw him in the office about a week after his hospital discharge. He walked very slowly, bent over, and in pain and was having trouble getting on and off the exam table. Five days after I saw him, someone shot at some people and ran away. Mr. Rice was certainly not able to walk quickly by then, let alone run. Nobody was killed or even seriously injured in the shooting (which he couldn’t have done anyway). The only “evidence” against him was one shaky, uncertain “eyewitness”—no weapon, no DNA, nothing else. He received a 30- to 60-year sentence and has been locked up already for over 11 years.

It’s a typical case of blind American legal system injustice.

—Ted Tapper 522 Howe Road Merion Station, PA 19066-1107 610-664-3590 (home); ted.tapper@live.com

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Wow, have you all been quiet these past few months! The sole responses to my request for news came from Bill Couser, Mike Norman, and Jack Babson. The latter two, Mike and Jack, were housemates during our second year. Couser’s comment was that I write too often about our 9 East South Street housemates—point well taken! Mike, who’s been dealing with lots of medical issues, confirmed that he’ll make it to our Geisel (aka DMS) Class of 1963 60th reunion (Sept. 22-24, 2023) in person, or

by Zoom if necessary.

Jack sent an opinion piece that, with his permission, I’ll share with you. After graduating from HMS, Jack finished his general surgical training at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond (now known as Virginia Commonwealth

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Annie Laurie and Jack Babson ’63 and Roger Christian ’63 with Jan Carrigan upta fishing.

School of Medicine), spent two years in the Army (one of those in Vietnam), and then became a general surgeon in private practice in a community hospital in Plymouth, Mass. He and spouse Annie Laurie (and dog) spend the good weather way up north in Sinclair, Maine, and also in Montrose, Calif., where Annie Laurie grew up.

Here’s what Jack wrote: “My major focus as a surgeon is the training of physicians. Simply put, we are not training physicians to go into a rural or community hospitals and do the job required. And credentialing boards are controlled by specialty societies that seem to be more interested in turf control than in care of the patient.

“I have concerns about Dartmouth and Dartmouth Medical School. They have helped rural Maine by training physicians who go to rural Maine. This last year’s graduating class had five physicians who were generalists and plan to practice in rural areas. However, I believe that medical schools and residencies should train more physicians who can go to rural and community hospitals and do a job that is badly needed. Unfortunately, medical schools are training too many specialists.

“What is needed is a discussion by organized medicine on how to train these physicians—what can they do and how to train them. Obviously, there are procedures and treatments that have to be done by specialists.

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However, I submit that with rethinking the training, we should be able to train generalists well.

So there you have it! If any of you have updates to share, please send them my way.

—Alan Rozycki 56 McKenna Road Norwich, VT 05055 802-649-1578 (home); alan.a.rozycki@dartmouth.edu

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I have not heard from any of our classmates in the last few months. The old adage is “no news is good news,” so I hope that means everyone is well. I had a chance recently to meet with someone from the Dartmouth College development office. The tuition at Dartmouth Medical School is now $67,500 a year, and of course added to that is room and board, travel, and many miscellaneous expenses. Multiply that by four, and it costs a great deal to go to Dartmouth, as well as many other medical schools. I discussed with the development representative the idea of a class sponsoring a student. It is a nice idea but would take coordination. Why has tuition gone up so much? I could not get a good answer.

Let your classmates know how you are doing.

—Rich Edelson 3001 Veazey Terrace NW, #1602 Washington, DC 20008 redelson@gmail.com

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We are currently seeking a secretary for the Class of 1965. To learn more, or if you have news to share, contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 603646-5297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@ dartmouth.edu.

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As I write this column in his December, Polly and John Kaiser are back in Florida, enjoying the sunshine, warmth,

and their grandkids. “We’ve had no damage from either hurricane and are in good health.” They had fun kayaking the Douro River for seven days in Portugal, with great wine tastings every day. Please feel free to give us a call and visit us in Florida, or in Maine in the summer.” You can contact them at 207659-1714 or jkaiser@maine.edu.

Last summer, Sue and Sandy Hight “had a wonderful hiking trip in northern Italy around Lake Como and the Lake District. Cooking classes and fly-fishing in Trento gave us a bit of balance.” They dodged COVID and remained healthy. They were in Alaska for some salmon and rainbow fishing. They also went “to Stockholm in December to experience the holiday joys and festivities, and also north to the Arctic Circle to ride on dogsleds and view the northern lights.” In a completely other vein, Sandy says he is still enjoying participating in events at the Connecticut Children’s Hospital.

Steve Sherman reports that “it was a quiet summer in Arizona, if you stayed off political donation lists. I turned 80, with a recent family party at my son’s home near Denver, Colo. We raked leaves, went to an NHL hockey game, and ate well. The Calvados wasn’t bad either! Gale has been busy with her volunteer urban bobcat study. If you’re interested, look it up at BobcatsinTucson.net.”

John Looney says that he and Susan have been at “our Tennessee farm more now, as we are also at our retirement home in Franklin, a suburb of Nashville. We go to Texas to see friends and look after personal things a good bit.” Although he retired from the Duke faculty at the end of June, he is “working on a paper to present in London this summer at the joint meeting of the American and British William Osler Societies. It is called ‘A Psychiatrist Looks at Tricking.’ Osler was a big trickster, and it sometimes got him into trouble. I am going to

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At left: The Class of 1967 at their September reunion. L to R: Frank Sharkey, Rick Donn, and Phil Livingston.

Above: John Mulvihill ’67 and Matt Liang ’67 at the Four Aces Diner in West Lebanon, N.H.

compare him to other doctor tricksters, from benign to mean and malignant.”

John says that after the London event they will be off for more traveling.

—John Davenport 2012 Drew Avenue S Minneapolis, MN 55416 952-237-4076 (cell); jdav0743@gmail.com

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After a productive stint as our class secretary, Frank Sharkey has passed the pen and laptop to your novice scribe, John Mulvihill, whose goal is to get exclusive reports from all ~24 survivors of our great class (contact information is needed for Richard Corkey, James Henderson, and William Hinkley). I asked Frank to file a dispatch on the 55th reunion in September 2022, asked the attendees to summarize their impressions, and asked the rest to complete this sentence: “The highlights of my last five years were . . .” The seven responses I received follow; I await others for the next issue!

Frank Sharkey (San Antonio, Texas) summarized: “The September trip to Hanover offered the quinquennial pleasure of recalling our special experiences at DMS. On Friday evening,

five of us—Rick Donn, Phil Livingston, Matt Liang, John Mulvihill, and I (plus two wives)—had a prolonged dinner at the Lyme Inn, filled with reminiscences, mostly true (we think). Mulvihill posed this question: ‘What was the moment, event, or situation that made you realize medicine was your right career choice?’ All had a memorable personal occasion with a patient (even our pathologist), but details were lost to history. On Saturday, three attended official events, like the all-class dinner (see picture). The campus, now campuses, have grown almost beyond recognition, except for the Green, the library, and the parking lot behind the old medical school. It was sheer enjoyment to visit with classmates again (and to persuade John Mulvihill to take over as class secretary).”

Other comments on the reunion began with Phil Livingston (New York, N.Y.), who wrote: “My condolences on your new title. Rick Donn organized our intimate Friday evening dinner at the Lyme Inn, with Sharkey, Liang, Mulvihill, me, and two brave, wonderful wives. At our last reunion, we had to telephone Matt in China! On Saturday, Rick and I and our wives, Lucy and Myriam, hiked around the defunct and now-wild

Dartmouth golf course, including its dry stream beds, mini-ravines, and grand vistas. Looking forward to being with all at the 60th, in 2027!”

Rick Donn (Thornwood, N.Y.) noted: “Bruce Nisula (Boca Raton, Fla., and Frye Island, Maine) passed in August 2022 ( see www.glickfamilyfuneralhome.com/obituary/Bruce-Nisula).”

Rick added, “Enjoyed the reunion, then met my wife in Sardinia and sailed between Sardinia and Corsica. Due to sail to Antigua in December.”

Mac Rogers (Scarborough, Maine) completed the prompt with “. . . living in Maine near family and friends, including Matt Liang; having a couple of shows of my artwork; and completing a stint as board chair of a local life-care community (Piper Shores).”

Charles Kelley shared a terse but meaningful high point: “Followed in the footsteps of Jesus throughout Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon!”

Dick Reese (Orr’s Island, Maine) offered these highlights: “Watching the growth of our five grandkids (from 12-year-old twin granddaughters to an 18-year-old grandson); a family celebration of our golden wedding anniversary at the Outer Banks, N.C.; yard and garden work and swimming in the tidal

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waters of beautiful Mid-Coast Maine; biking, reading, and swimming at Sanibel Island with wife Shirley during most Februarys; and coveting each day without a schedule since retiring in mid-2013.”

Matt Liang (Boston, Mass., and Scarborough, Maine) wrote: “The highlights of my last five years were too many to tell, but the class dinner was near the top—it was only my second reunion at any educational venue.

After dinner, I vowed not to miss any reunions to come: a small group in their 70s with war stories about their medical adventures and misadventures, fantastic retirement projects and voyages, our near or complete transitions, the story behind the exhumation of Gregor Mendel near his 200th birthday, sitting next to the person whose lab discovery led to the current herpes zoster vaccine (which would have prevented my admission with disseminated disease), and on and on.

Numerous lived experiences and life lessons that should be spread before it’s too late and we have even fewer people to hear!”

Matt and I—John Mulvihill (Gwynedd, Pa.)—cut Saturday classes to get home, though we visited (but did not oink out at) the Four Aces Diner in West Lebanon (pictured). Matt shared his book (coauthored with Edward R. Lew), Halsted R. Holman and the Struggle for the Soul of Medicine. I retired from NIH and the University of Oklahoma on January 1, 2022, and promptly signed on as special volunteer at the former and an emeritus professor at the latter. After catalyzing celebrations of the July bicentennial of the birth of Gregor Mendel (my hero, despite our poor course in genetics at DMS, but Kurt Benirschke saved me for genetics), I attended a gala commemorative conference in Brno, Czechia.

Hence Matt’s recollection of my report of the exhumation and DNA sequencing of the holy Augustinian friar.

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Colleagues, keep your notes flowing in, please. Consider this your blog (or corner pub) to let us know your professional and personal ups and downs. I shall discreetly edit.

—John J. Mulvihill 405-343-9253 johmulvihill@gmail.com

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary William H. Ramsey at 49 Cranberry Lane, Cheshire, CT 064103504; or williamramsey@sbcglobal.net.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Bill Rix at 55 Audubon Way, Auburn, NH 03032-3109; 603587-0248; or rixwp@comcast.net.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Nigel Paneth at 839 Wildwood Drive, East Lansing, MI 48823-3048; 517-351-9538 (home) or 517-290-5062 (cell); or paneth@msu.edu.

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Unfortunately, I have some sad news. Our gentle and beloved classmate Frank Passero passed away on August 28. On our class Zoom, Frank had told us his courageous story of resilience and positivity while fighting numerous cancers. His wife, Rosara, sent this message: “I’m afraid I have some very sad news about Frank.

He was hospitalized in August and passed away on August 28. It was a shock to his family and friends and completely unexpected, after he had fought and won previous serious medical challenges.

“Here is a link to his obituary: dartgo. org/passero. As you can see, he had a wonderful family, many of whom were physicians (including some Dartmouth graduates). Everyone was very supportive and has continued to be.

“I am sorry to be sending you this sad news. Frank really enjoyed the Zoom meeting you had a while back.”

This just serves to remind me how fragile life can be and how important you all are to me and each other.

I have one more piece of class information, this from Ray Hutchinson: “As far as an update, Sally and I are well! We are enjoying a good University of Michigan football season—so far! I continue to learn guitar, taking weekly lessons. I’m working out, aiming to do some competitive running this coming winter and next summer. We’ll head to Bradenton, Fla., in late November; our house fortunately survived Ian. Our daughters are doing well—one is an economics professor at Notre Dame, working this year on the Economic Advisory Council for the White House, and the other is doing fine art brokering in Indiana—while each cares for four children (eight grandchildren)!

Best wishes!”

Let’s stay in touch! Please send your stories to me so I can include them in our class column.

—Joe O’Donnell PO Box 606 Grantham, NH 03753 joseph.odonnell@dartmouth.edu

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This column includes news from the two-year Class of 1972 and the three-year Class of 1972-3.

Hello, dear classmates. ’Tis most special to have the opportunity to share with all of you not only, as per usual, various classmate updates, but also, in this issue of the Alumni News & Notes, some special news from the recent 50th class reunion that several of you were able to attend in Hanover on Sept. 16-18, 2022. Attending for all or part of those special days were Norm Payson, David Taylor, Lucy Tomkins, Fred Meier, Chris Hallowell, Paul LeMarbre, Bob Arnot, Richard Mamelok, and Joe Schwartzman. You

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can see from the accompanying picture, which includes most of the above, that although 50 years may have changed some of us a bit, that we can certainly recognize everyone as our classmates of old. (It’s interesting to note how well Western states were represented, with Richard, Lucy, and Norm from California; Fred from Washington; and David from Montana!) Further, Harry Morgan, Joe Avellone, and Al Brown had all attended the Dartmouth College 50th reunion held just a few months before, in June—another nice reminder of the special relationship between the medical school on the one hand and Dartmouth College and Hanover in general on the other!

To this, Dave Taylor added some related details of interest. On his way to Hanover, he and Joanne stopped in Concord, N.H., where, along with Chris Hallowell and Cindall, they had a nice visit with Mark Bardo! Then in Hanover, he was part of a group that took a tour of the new medical school complex—so vastly different and much more elaborate than the old Mary Hitchcock Hospital we all knew so well from our days there. He also noted that the medical student who led the tour was a pleasure to talk to and seemed to be upholding all the values he remembered from our own days back in 1972.

He also attended a seminar on the state of medical education, containing plenty of echoes of our days of learning about the “scientific basis of medicine” but also all manner of new bits, such as development of mRNA vaccines like those now used for COVID (with more no doubt coming).

As for Joe Schwartzman, he reports that he is now “basking in the wonderful position of emeritus professor,” still hanging out in the DMS basic science microbiology department, and actually learning more about bacterial pathology than he ever knew as a clinical microbiologist or learned in our special classes with Elmer Pfefferkorn!

The Class of 1972 at their 50th reunion this past September.

L to R: Norm Payson, Chris Hallowell, Joe Schwartzman, Lucy Thompkins, Paul LeMarbe, David Taylor, Bob Arnot, and Fred Meier.

Bob Arnot shared his insights into the power of networking (in which has certainly excelled!) and into a number of mountain and sea sports in which he continues to compete. Fred Meier reported that he had spent the afternoon at the football game and that he and Nancy had renewed their marriage vows, which they first exchanged years ago in Hanover! As for Rich Mamelok, he shared the story about how he has returned to his love of writing poetry, while Lucy Tomkins discussed common friends she has from the world of infectious disease and, of course, her love for her late husband, Stanley Falkow, who was known for his unmatched insights into the mechanisms of microbial pathogenesis.

From California, Alice Hunter reports that she has discovered that retirement—from her career in emergency medicine (!)—has brought a lot of joy, including a number of international trips. She and Mark and some of their grown children enjoyed a vacation in Panama that included motoring through several locks in the canal. They also vacationed in Portugal and France to celebrate their wedding anniver-

sary—but on that trip, unfortunately, both of them came down with COVID and had to quarantine for an extra week. She also reminisced about the fact that she was one of only about four or five women in our class and that it has been a pleasure to see how women’s role in medicine has increased so much since our own DMS years.

From New Jersey, Jack Slater reports that he is just now wrapping up his post-pediatric-practice “teaching career,” in which he served as a consultant to nurses from around the state who made home visits to new mothers and their infants who may have needed special assistance for medical and/ or social reasons. He is now looking forward to catching up with more reading of special books and other home hobbies.

As for me, Eric Brenner, I had hoped to attend the September reunion but unfortunately had surgery right before the date so had to miss the event. My operation was certainly an occasion to “view medicine from the other side,” as it were. Also, although I helped our state health department with some part-time epidemiological

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work when COVID first hit, my work in recent months has been limited to teaching my usual (for 20-plus years now) course in infectious disease epidemiology at our university’s school of public health. That activity has been a special treat this year, with the class including students from India, Pakistan, Senegal, Ghana, and Zimbabwe! It has been a nice reminder of the international collaboration needed to combat communicable diseases.

—Eric Brenner 724 Holly Street Columbia, SC 29205-1852 803-799-6797 (home) or 803-238-9966 (cell); ebrenner@rocketmail.com

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This column includes news from the two-year Class of 1973 and the three-year Class of 1973-4.

As of November 18, I must admit that I had not heard from any classmates.

Feeling embarrassed by the prospect of an empty column, I shook the proverbial tree by sending out a few emails and, lo and behold, have a bushel of news. For others reading this, please send me something for the next issue!

Rob Smith writes from Portland, Maine: “This past summer I changed my focus at Maine Med from regular clinical/admin roles to ongoing (and a couple of new) tickborne infection research projects that span ‘backyard to bench to bedside.’ Peg retired from Bates but is back to teaching a course a year and last year lured me in to assist with a History of Pandemics offering.

We are delighted to have all kids and two grandkids in the Portland area now.

We keep in touch with Andy Roberts and Pearl O’Rourke through regular Zooms and, until COVID, with James ‘Wolffie’ Wolff during our annual ‘old guys’ ski trips to Alta. Hope to resume this activity this winter.”

Don Raddatz writes from Cooperstown, N.Y.: “I continue to work per diem emptying out Epic InBaskets

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when one of my former colleagues is out of the office and taking call remotely (which a rheumatologist can do) one weekend a month. Cathy and I are enjoying our first grandchild, born in Raleigh in early February 2022, and since then spending lots of time there helping out. We are renting down there this winter. Our other daughter and her husband now reside in Cooperstown, and my son from NYC has bought a seasonal camp on Lake Otsego near here. I enjoy playing mediocre golf and taking long walks/hikes with buddies.”

Tom Echeverria writes from Greenfield, Mass.: “After almost 40 years of practicing ortho hand surgery, I retired from clinical practice in April 2018. One morning a week, I now run a sports medicine clinic at a local secondary school, which seems to justify continued subscriptions to a couple of journals and helps keep me from being too bored. My extra free time is spent trying to stay up with the grandkids, on very amateurish photography projects, and enjoying longer vacations on Cape Cod.” Tad Campion writes from Boston, Mass.: “I’m now totally put out to pasture. No more NEJM work, no more HMS charity work, no more MGH activities. I just sit at home and count my bitcoins. Speaking of which, has anyone in the class seen any bitcoins with my name on them? I probably left them somewhere, since Peggy and I have been enjoying travel, such as to Savanah, Maine, DC, NYC, and Santa Fe. We’re also enjoying plenty of hiking, biking, cooking, reading, and loafing. Retirement also lets me see more of my five grandkids (three of them in nearby Newton and two in not-so-nearby Minneapolis). My three sons are all married and productive, but they seem mired in the conventional old hang-up of working for a living, which I’ve now moved beyond.

One son is a poet/professor at the U of Minnesota, one is a chief tech officer

for a promising start-up, and one is a hard-working lawyer doing things none of us would understand.”

Carla Hellekson writes from Bellevue, Wash.: “I spent Thanksgiving week at the Tahoe Donner Ski Resort in California with daughter Olivia’s family, as my three-year-old granddaughter learned to ski. Last summer, I visited with son Teal Emery and wife in the Albany, N.Y., area. I do volunteer speaking on light therapy for SAD, the advantages of permanent Standard Time, jet lag, and disaster psychiatry.”

Will Chamberlin writes from El Paso, Texas: “I have fallen in with some pretty interesting scientists who are advancing a hormonal immune therapeutic that stimulates innate immunity and yet is strongly anti-inflammatory, with broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity. We are working to raise money to conduct a first trial of it against multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. It keeps me from crying over my miserable golf game.”

Nick Hill writes from Boston, Mass.: “I am still chief of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep at Tufts Medical Center.

The pandemic was very difficult for my division. During the first surge— April through June of 2020—we were delivering five times as much critical care as usual and, many people were working nights. The Delta surge in late 2020 and early 2021 was also stressful, but for another reason—a pandemic of the unvaccinated, who didn’t have to become ill and die. This past year, we’re finally moving forward. Looking back, it was an amazing experience—terrifying and exhilarating at the same time, as we learned new ways to care for these critically ill patients on almost a daily basis. I’m still active with clinical medicine and research and do a fair amount of speaking, all things I still enjoy, but I plan to dial down in the not-too-distant future to allow more time for bucket-list items. On the family side, Sophia and I celebrated our 47th

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time but will probably be cutting back in the next year. It has been an incredibly interesting time in the Alzheimer world over the past year. Deb and I have two grandchildren in Minneapolis and two in Boston. We see the Mpls kids frequently—wife Deb weekly, me more like once a month. We try to get out to Boston a few times a year.

Best wishes for 2023. All of us hope to see lots of classmates at our 50th reunion on Sept. 22-24, 2023!

—David Knopman Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Department of Neurology 200 First Street, SW, Rochester, MN 55905-0001 507-288-7557; knopman@mayo.edu.

Some members of the class of 1977 at the September reunion, L to R: Rick Routhier with Sarah Kahn ’77 and Michael ’77 and Ellie Pancoe.

wedding anniversary a few months ago, and we have two daughters: Kyra, who is an environmental lawyer working for the EPA in Atlanta, and Alyssa, who received an MD from the University of Colorado last June and is now a firstyear resident there in family medicine.”

Scott Emery writes from the other Portland (in Oregon, that is): “The practice of neurology now seems almost like a hazily recalled past life, after six years of doing other things.

It’s sure nice to wake up in the morning and see what the day offers. I continue to get out hiking in the Cascades or Columbia Gorge about once a week.

I’m five years into my project working on instrumentation for gait evaluation.

It’s deeply enjoyable, but I’m glad that there’s no product expected to pay the rent. Cindy just retired and is now an emerita professor of communications at Portland State. Even though travel has been minimal over the past couple of years, we’ve visited the Bay Area, where granddaughter Nora lives; I’m exhausted after 72 hours with this bright, active three-year-old creature.

Son Teal was married a year ago in the Hudson Valley to Risa, a great addition

to the family, whom we visited this past spring at their home near Albany, N.Y.” And then there’s Andy Roberts (in Philadelphia), who last week invited me to join his occasional Zoom call with Pearl O’Rourke and Rob Smith.

Andy, who retired from his surgery practice at Temple a few years ago, tells me he keeps busy by walking, listening to e-books, and hanging around his wife, Susan.

Pearl O’Rourke (in Boston) says she keeps busy with a potpourri of activities: she is co-chair of an ethics and regulatory core for the NIH Collaboratory on Pragmatic Research, a member of an ethics working group for the Human Pangenomic Reference Consortium, a member of a few clinical trial data-safety monitoring boards, and a member of a university conflict of interest committee. “But most fun,” she says, “is time spent at a therapeutic horse riding farm in Connecticut. I am on the board. I spend some time helping with therapy sessions and spend lots of time mucking stalls, feeding horses, and doing other ‘horse chores.’”

And finally me, David Knopman, in Rochester, Minn.: I am still working full-

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This column includes news from the two-year Class of 1974 and the three-year Class of 1974-5.

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Bill Thorwarth at 4014 North Center Street, #204, Hickory, NC 28601; or wthorwarth@gmail.com.

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This column includes news from the two-year Class of 1975 and the three-year Class of 1975-6.

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Oge Young at 2 Rum Hill Road, Concord, NH 03301-2556; or ohpryoung@comcast.net.

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We are currently seeking a secretary for the Class of 1976. To learn more, or if you have news to share, contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 603646-5297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@ dartmouth.edu.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Arminda Perez at 3905 Highgrove Drive, Dallas, TX 75220; 972-658-0474; or armindaperez22@ yahoo.com.

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I hope all is well with all DMS ’78s. It has been quite unusual to say the least for the past two-plus years, with COVID et al. I recently received the first message from a classmate in a long time.

Doug Segan (dougsegan@yahoo. com) writes that he is retired from practicing emergency medicine and now is teaching part-time at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra on Long Island and would enjoy getting together with anyone visiting the city.

As for me, Peter Rogol, I returned to campus in June for my delayed undergrad 50th. I retired from my pulmonary practice in 2018 and have been continuing consultations on a part-time basis, as I’ve done since 2010 at Gaylord Hospital, an advanced rehabilitation hospital with an LTAC unit. I will give that up at the end of 2022 and then who knows. Had a nice sit-down recently with Erin Shreve from the Dartmouth development office, while she was touring around the Northeast, but I could not encourage her in terms of deep pockets from the class, though it is always nice to keep in touch. It will be our 45th reunion next year, so maybe I’ll see some of you then—the dates are Sept. 22-24, 2023. Regards.

—Peter R. Rogol 73 West Rock Avenue New Haven, CT 06515 progol48@gmail.com

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Lee Ensalada provided an update for us! He wrote: “I’m semiretired. I remain active in forensic medicine, clinically I work pro bono at a volunteer clinic, and I do search and rescue. We reside in Alpine, Utah, at the base of the Wasatch Range and enjoy all things outdoors. We had been living in Tucson and then in Pagosa Springs. We often stopped in Santa Fe on our travels back and forth. Life is good. Feeling blessed.”

If any of the rest of you have an update, please email it to me at dangellis@me.com.

—Dennis Angellis 8501 Chilte Pine Road NW Albuquerque, NM 87120 dangellis@me.com

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Celine M. Stahl at 84 Pemberwick Road #A, Greenwich, CT 06831-5044; 203-622-8493 (home) or 203-536-5276 (cell); or cmsdms1980@gmail.com.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Dan Lucey at 420 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004; 202-2994398; or daniel.lucey8@gmail.com; or Mark Lena at 125 Bennoch Road, Orono, ME 04473; 207-866-3839; or mlena@roadrunner.com.

Vincent D. Pellegrini, Jr., MD, FAOA, was recognized by the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) as a Pillar of the Orthopaedic Profession. The AOA honors exemplary orthopaedic surgeons, past and present, as pillars of the orthopaedic specialty. Individuals recognized as Pillars have served as clinicians, educators, and researchers, providing essential support to others in the orthopaedic community.

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Hello, classmates! I have a lot of news this time because we just had our reunion in October. Where have 40 years gone?

Carolyn Brooks was at the reunion and told me she is working three-quarter time as a radiologist in Enfield, Conn.—I believe (my notes may not be the best; LOL). She has a nine-monthold grandchild, Wally, who she is enjoying spending time with. One of her daughters recruits travel nurses and the other does online health coaching, so both are also in the medical field.

Cathy Paige is currently doing locum tenens in anesthesia and lives in North Carolina. I note from Facebook posts that Cathy is also quite the artist and makes some beautiful paintings!

Grace McGorrian is a psychiatrist and has one grandchild, Cedrik, who is 2½. We had quite a lovely time catching up and even more fun attending Brita Reed’s wedding. So right after the reunion, on the next weekend, Brita got married to Dan Lucey MED’81 (though he actually graduated with us in ’82). They reconnected while we class reunion agents were contacting our classmates, as she thought he was a member of our class. One thing led to another, and now they are married and living in a beautiful area of Vermont with a stunning view.

Mark Carney and Jan were also there. Mark is a newborn-care hospitalist at Concord Hospital as his “retirement job,” and Jan is a head dietician, also at Concord. They now have six grandkids, with the newest being a baby boy.

Peter Mazonson and MaryAnne Zetes showed up. MaryAnne is a pediatrician and participates in a barefoot doctors program in Tanzania every year. I believe she was leaving to go there right from the reunion! Peter is a general internist and works one day a week at an inner city location. They also own a company, Enhanced Vitals,

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Clockwise from the top: The Class of 1982 at their September reunion, L to R: Pat Edwards, Betty and Tim Wu, Grace McGorrian, Mark and Jan Carney, Mark Brown, Brita Reed, Dan Lucey ’81, Joan Stratton, and Cathy Paige.

Cathy Paige ’82, Grace McGorrian ’82, Bethany Solomon, Executive Director of Development, Dartmouth Cancer Center, and Pat Edwards ’82 at the Hanover Inn during Reunion.

Grace McGorrian, Pat Edwards, and Brita Reed, all class of 1982.

The Class of 1982 at the All Class Dinner.

which screens patients for behavioral and mental health issues and has wellness programs. They have one grandchild, with another on the way.

Tim Wu was there with his wife, Betty. He has two grandchildren and a third on the way. He practices pulmonary critical care and is planning on retiring in 2023, at the end of March.

He also plays jazz sax with the Harvard Alumni Jazz Band. Another musical classmate!

Joan Stratton has had a career as a track and field MD and has been at world

competitions caring for junior teams.

She has also worked with the track and field masters age group. I never realized that Joan was so involved in track; it sounds like she’s had a lot of good experiences being a sports physician.

Hopefully I got this all down accurately, as notes scribbled on a note pad are not always the best.

Please do send in corrections if I made any errors. It was so nice to be back in Hanover for our reunion, and it was as if we had seen each other yesterday! I do hope many

more classmates will return when we get to our 50th. We have lost some classmates over the last few years, and it just reminds us that life is short and old friends should be cherished.

It would be nice to have a large turnout next time, if just to relive the old memories that we share.

—Patricia Edwards 5 Wheeler Road Bow, NH 03304-4213 603-340-0796 (cell); drpatedwards@yahoo.com

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary David Curran at 8631 Sherwood Bluff, Eden Prairie, MN 55347-3433; 612-868-8355 (cell) or 952-920-7001 (work); or ddcfak@gmail.com.

them often. I hope to read some news from many of you!”

Great to hear from you, Alex! I look forward to hearing from more of our classmates soon!

—Cathy Cantilena cathycantilena@gmail.com

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I heard recently from Lori Ullman. This is what she wrote: “I left Brown and UMass in 2000 for SUNY at Buffalo, where I became Endowed Chair of Dermatology in 2017. I’ve since stepped down from that post and am concentrating now on teaching, research, and mentoring. My son’s a freshman in mechanical engineering and plays in a band. I’m still singing and have been blessed with some cool opportunities. We spend part of each summer off the Cape—can’t shake our love for New England! Hope to make it back for a reunion one of these days and see everyone in person!”

Rich Parker sent an update date to the Alumni Engagement Office: “Dr. Isabelle Yang MED’22 and I finally connected over lunch in the North End. It was great to meet her in person and congratulate her on her terrific progress since we first connected via the White Coat Notes project five years ago!” See photo!

—Laurie Draughon 8437 East Arroyo Seco Road Scottsdale, AZ 85266 925-324-3919 (cell); lauriefd@yahoo.com

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Cathy Cantilena here! I’m new to this role but am happy to serve as the 1986 class secretary. I hope to hear from all of you at some point. I’m easy to reach, at cathycantilena@gmail.com. Any bits about how you and/or your family are doing would be great!

This time around, in response to my email blast, I was glad to hear back from Alex de Nesnera, who wrote:

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Rich Parker ’85 and Isabelle Yang ’22 (Rich’s White Coat Note recipient) had lunch together in Boston.

“Hello to all 1986 classmates. After working close to 30 years at New Hampshire Hospital (the only state hospital in NH), I retired in 2020. It was a privilege to participate in the treatment of our most seriously mentally ill New Hampshire citizens. Over the years, I helped develop state legislation improving the overall treatment of psychiatric patients, represented NH psychiatrists statewide and nationally in advocacy meetings, and was a liaison with the community mental health centers and the State of NH in my capacity as CMO. I developed the medical student teaching program at NHH back in 1990, and it’s still going strong, providing a great third-year psychiatry clerkship experience. I feel fortunate to have had a professional career that was exciting, academically fulfilling, and that (I hope) made a difference in people’s lives. Now, I am enjoying spending time at home with my wonderful wife, Susan, and our dog, Stellaluna. We had a lot of travel plans that were all thrown aside due to COVID, but hopefully such activities will resume this soon. Our son Chris and his wife, Stephanie, live close by, so we see

It sounds like our class had a wonderful 35th reunion this past September. Two pictures are included, showing our impressive turnout!

I heard from Trisha Suppes: She is at Stanford and the Palo Alto VA. She recently started a series of studies using psilocybin and will soon be starting an MDMA study.

Anna Penna married Mark Gatterdam in October 2022. It was a lovely wedding and reception.

Stephanie Lash and I, Harper Randall, were honored to be bridesmaids! There was a great DMS gathering!

—Harper Randall 4482 Fortuna Way Salt Lake City, UT 84124 HarperRandall@comcast.net

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The kitchen was perfectly functional; it was fine.

The refrigerator kept things cold, and the oven made things hot. The faucet spouted out water on demand, and the lights illumined the entire room with but the flick of a switch. Okay, some of the cabinets were crammed with junk and one of the chairs was a little wobbly, but overall the space was serving its purpose well.

So when Fran announced that she wanted to redo the kitchen and update it, I simply agreed and went out and bought her a nice, new, shiny toaster.

Sadly, that’s not what she really had in mind. So now, as I write this, the room where we would cook and eat our meals is down to the studs—no walls, no windows, no flooring. An army of carpenters, plumbers, inspectors, and electricians parades through the shell

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The Class of 1987 at the All Class Dinner Saturday night of reunion weekend.

Anna Penna ’87 married Mark Gatterdam in October 2022.

All smiles from the Class of 1987, L to R: Steve Genereaux, Arny Lewis, Betsy Morse, Garry Jennings, Richard Morse, David Lambert, Andrea Hinkle, Elizabeth Marshall, David Feinstein, Anna Penna, Eileen Lynch, Peter Marro, David Lawlor, Felice Indindoli, Kennon Miller, Joyce Nolan Harrison, Susan Fischer Davis, Drew Breen, Joan Breen, Margaret Rukstalis.

of the entire first level of our home. Yes, the entire first level, since the kitchen floor is contiguous with the dining room floor, so if we’re changing the kitchen floor we also have to change the dining room floor, and that runs into the foyer and the library, and . . . well, the stairs really need to match the whole new look. And since we’re getting a new front door (even though the old one seemed to open and close just fine),

we might as well replace all those old windows and all the trim. Half a wall here, another half down there. Did someone say “wainscoting”?

It may have just been coincidence, or more likely part of the entire renovation’s grand scheme against me, but the most ironic insult was not realized until, unbeknownst to me, the crew carted away the toilet from the downstairs powder room on Thursday

and installed a new tile floor there.

So 40 minutes after slugging down the first half of the bowel prep for my Friday morning screening colonoscopy, I jumped up and started with great urgency running toward the safety and comfort of the powder room commode, only to have Fran yell out, “Do not ruin my new tile! There is no toilet in there!”

Panic-stricken, I navigated around ladders and circular saws, desperately eyeing each plastic bucket to see if it was empty. I then wove my way around the scaffolding on the stairway and dodged shop vacs as I sped down the upstairs hall, all the while engaging in a truly Herculean effort at sphincter control. I finally made it to the upstairs bathroom, where I spent the rest of the night essentially reenacting the Great Cholera Epidemic of 1817.

Why I’m sharing this with all of you is that in my mind, having now reached the respectable age of 60, I had been toying with the idea of retiring in the next few years, or at least of slowing down. But as the cost of this little project has mushroomed to greater than the GNP of many third world nations, I see my dream—of settling down on some Aegean island and sipping ouzo or Metaxa between long siestas—fading away. To make matters worse, the designer orchestrating the whole makeover is a young patient of mine, whom I heard telling my wife, “Fran, it’s really important for both

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of us that we keep Dr. D working for a really, really long time. I need him to keep being my doctor, and you need him to keep updating the house.”

Apparently it was a setup from the start. At least for now, they have not planned to replace me.

It seems that I’m not the only one for whom retirement is but a dream.

From Connecticut, Cathy Zack writes, “I daydream about retiring, but John and I still have to put the kids through school. My son, Dave (whom a lot of you met in 2003 at our 15th reunion, when he was 5 months old), is now 19 and attending trade school to become an electrician. When he tells me what he is studying, I can’t understand any of it. My daughter, Ari, is a senior in HS and is looking to go to a college in the NYC area. That’ll leave a mark in the old checkbook. Therefore I am still working the night shift, 24 to 36 hours a week, as a hospitalist. I hope to see you next year.” Cathy is referring to our upcoming 35th class reunion and amazing extravaganza, scheduled for Sept. 22-24, 2023. Please mark your calendars now, and let me know of any ideas for events or activities.

As far as I know, our first classmates to retire were Dan Austin, after a family medicine career in Washington, and Peg Duhamel, from family medicine in Maine. So perhaps family medicine was far more lucrative than we had all imagined— or maybe it was just working on either coast. The only other retired classmates I know about are Kathy Zug and Bill Laycock, both recently retired from DartmouthHitchcock—dermatology and general surgery, respectively. While Bill apparently lives a life of leisure on the shores of Occom Pond, Kathy is active in the Geisel admissions process. I guess Bill was lucky and Kathy never asked for a kitchen renovation.

As always, drop me an email or a phone call with any remodeling, family, or professional news that you’d like to

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share with your DMS classmates. See you at our reunion in September. By that time, Fran will almost assuredly want to redo the landscaping.

—Aris Damianos 8 Winterberry Lane North Hampton, NH 03862 603-964-3798; adamianos@comcast.net

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This past summer, Helen Manber asked me, Jim Hartford, to take over as class secretary. I want first to thank her for all her devoted work. I am not sure she has asked the right person to step into the job, but I thought this would be great opportunity for an introvert like me to reach out and contact people. So far, I am going down the list of our classmates and have had a few responses to my emails. I’m still waiting for many more.

Now that our brief fire season is over in California, we can formally welcome Joyce Sackey-Acheampong to the Bay Area. Congratulations are in order for her, as she takes a new position at Stanford Medical School as the inaugural chief of diversity. Little did she know that my office is across the street from Stanford on El Camino Real. The next time Helen Manber is down this way visiting her son at that illustrious university, we can all meet for coffee at the Town and Country. I know Joyce is going to miss those New England winters.

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Speaking of New England converts, Dave Sutcliffe, who has been retired since 2018, has spent most of 2019 traveling back and forth between Boston and Sacramento, where his mom was living. He and his wife, Liz, took a 10,000-mile road trip across the country and back over a five-week period this past fall. Dave also spends a week every winter in Waterville Valley, at what Liz calls his silent retreat.

Congratulations are in order to Rick Baker, who is now a grandfather! His new grandson’s name is Avi. He has already made the trek to the Hanover Plain, staying at the Hanover Inn with his grandfather. Rick has laden him down with plenty of Dartmouth regalia.

I can always count on Carrie Crosby for news. She has recently taken on the role of medical director of palliative care for the combined Concord Hospital system. She is now a part-time administrator and parttime primary care physician. She was also able to get away for a fantastic family trip to the Dalmatian Islands off Split, Croatia, last summer. She has also been keeping in touch with Liz Laverack and Chris Blaski.

I would like to write more in the next column. I will be reaching out to as many of my classmates as possible.

—James Hartford jimhartford@comcast.net

On January 15, 2023, Peter Kilmarx assumed the roles of acting director of the Fogarty International Center and acting associate director for International Research at the National Institutes of Health. He joined Fogarty as deputy director on July 1, 2015.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary E. James Wright III at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Urology, 301 Building, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224-2735; 410-550-7739; or ejwright1@gmail.com.

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We are currently seeking a secretary for the Class of 1991. To learn more, or if you have news to share, contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 603646-5297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@ dartmouth.edu.

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Gratitude. If there is one word that embodies the sentiments expressed at our 30th reunion, that is it. It feels somewhat clichéd to even write that sentence, but that sense was heartfelt and pervasive.

From Octavio Borges, who has just retired, to Tramar Murdock Jennings’ students, who are just beginning their careers, the spirit of community, warmth, and enthusiasm was palpable.

Our collective thanks go out to Amanda, Annette, and their team for all the work they put into making it such a great event!

For those of you who couldn’t make it, here are a few tidbits I gleaned: Octavio has retired from his military career, after moving over 30 times in about 40 years, and finally bought Shirley the house he promised her 42 years ago. They will be leaving Ohio in the spring and settling in Narragansett, R.I. So, FYI, we all have a beachfront spot to visit! Shirley, we hope some New England beach air brings you health and happiness with your wonderful family!

Tramar and Gary Jennings came up from Maryland and brought two of Tramar’s students with them to relish the Dartmouth experience and get a glimpse of what it is like to feel so connected to an incredible group

Reunion class of 1992 at the farewell breakfast on Occum Pond.

Reunion class of 1992 cheesing for a selfie.

Reunion Class of 1992 at welcome reception L to R: Octavio Borges, John Houde, Brent Forester, Christy Hollister, Sandra Phillips, Lenny Mankin, Anna Vouros, Melly Sani, Andy Perron, Benjamin Potter, Tramar Murdock Jennings, Andy Auerbach, Diana Hilbert, Roger Guillemette, Chris Colwell, Mark Canning, Peter SantaLucia, and Paul Cardosi.

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of people over decades; and, yes, we made Tramar cry—and it wasn’t just because she almost missed the group photo and everyone had to reconvene (the photographer loved us).

From the West Coast, Cathy and Eric Dahms, Geri and Lenny Mankin, Melly Sani, Chris Colwell, Diana Hilbert, Andy Auerbach, Paul Cardosi, and Christy Hollister all made the trek! Eric slept through the welcome breakfast but did rally for dinner. Lenny led us on a highly educational hike around Storrs Pond, providing regular commentary on the flora, fauna, and history of significant landmarks. And I liken Melly to Paul Rudd for her agelessness—it truly felt like 30 years had not passed!

And from not quite so far west but still out there, Sandy Phillips joined us from Utah. We are all invited for a mini-reunion in Salt Lake City; there is plenty of room, since her husband, John, is working in Abu Dhabi, and their daughter is in Colorado at school.

I’m sure she would love our company during ski season.

From Maine, Jane and Brian Youth and Dina and Ben Potter—all empty-nesters—came back to enjoy the Hanover Plain. Brian and Jane have one following in their footsteps to medical school—big shoes to fill—and twins in college! Ben was his usual shy and subdued self, but we were finally able to draw him out of his shell. It might have had something to do with a compromising photo that may or may not have featured Lisa Peace, a whip, and two unidentified classmates.

There will be an appendix with information on how to access said photos.

Lisa, since you chose not to spend your birthday with us, we couldn’t get your side of the story—but we did get the backside(s) . . .

Betsy and Andy Perron (who is now basically running the medical school) did not have far to go, coming from their new house in Hanover. We

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are all jealous that he gets a do-over in Hanover and can really enjoy all the Upper Valley has to offer—including the fabulous Dartmouth College swim team, which Betsy coaches!

Allison Friedman and I didn’t have quite as short a drive, coming from Massachusetts. Mark, who joined Allison, was a great sport, taking photos of all of us on demand!

The empty nest was a common theme, with Melly, Paul, Sandy, Roger, Brent, John Houde, Diana, Brian, Andy, and Allison, to name a few classmates, all having fledglings who’ve flown.

Melly’s daughter, Amber, flew far away, starting a four-year program at the American University of Paris. Now that’s a parents’ weekend I want to attend!

And speaking of parents’ weekends, we were missing Mike Verneris because, unlike the bad parent that I am, he was at Bucknell, where both of our sons have started their freshman year. Mike, I hope the Susquehanna River was as beautiful as the Connecticut (which Paul and Christie ambled around when they got their tour of the boathouse—both of them being avid rowers). Side note: Christie started rowing about 10 years ago, is part of a rowing club, and rowed in Head of the Charles last year; go, Christie! Paul continues to be an avid outdoor adventurer—in fact, you can listen to him narrate a “get to know your doctor” video of him back-country skiing; I’m sure his three kids enjoyed that immensely.

John Houde’s nest was far from empty for the weekend, as he was housing Kim and Brent Forester, Lauren and Mark Canning, Roger Guillemette, Andy Auerbach, and Dina and Ben Potter. I’m not sure that is part of his job description as Alumni Council president, a role that he carries off with aplomb. John, thank you for all your hard work.

Not to be outdone, Ben and Dina hosted Lenny, Geri, Eric, and Cathy

at their island home in Maine. It sounds idyllic!

Miriam and Pete SantaLucia, Chris Colwell, and Mike Phillips still have some kids in the nest. Mike brought his lovely daughter, Leila, to see Dartmouth, and Pete brought his terrific son, Peter, to visit colleges in Boston on his way to Hanover. Risking life and limb, Peter (the son) did confide that the Boston sports teams are better than Buffalo’s. I will not print father Pete’s response here. Chris still has a daughter, Anna, at home but managed to sneak away for an extra two days, coming to Hanover early to give Grand Rounds on Wednesday morning at the medical center. Next time he needs to time it so we can all hear him!

We missed those of you who couldn’t join us. And to Cheryl and Joe Franklin, we send well wishes with expectations that we will see them at the 35th! Cheryl, we are in your corner!

Evan Teplow, we hope that your trip to Nepal is going smoothly—and hopefully at our 35th you will trek with us around Storrs Pond; Lenny will gladly be your sherpa!

To quote one of our reunion virgins, Paul Cardosi (BTW, Christie was the other one), “It’s hard to put into words all the emotions this reunion brought up—but I just feel like I realize I had this big band of brothers and sisters all along, and it’s a great feeling to just pick it up seemingly right where it left off—but now it’s even better somehow.”

If anyone has any qualms about coming for the 35th, reach out to Paul or Christie for their reunion testimonials.

Since five years seems like a long way away, we are already planning a mini-reunion in April in San Diego, at the ACP meeting. The dates for the meeting are April 27-29. Let me know if anyone is interested in joining us; so far we have Lenny, Melly, Eric, Paul, Christy, Diana, and me, and we’re hoping Chris and Andy can make the

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Clockwise from the top: Kris Rosbe ’93 and Andrew Auerbach ’92 with this son rowing for Bates in the Head of the Charles. Brian Boxer Wachler ’93 in Israel for his daughter’s volleyball team. Cara Walther ’93 and her daughter Carly in Idaho.

trip from San Fran. It may be that the alumni office can put together a little DMS reception for us, too—email me if you think you can make it. And no worries—we can all sit behind the Houde line for the lectures.

Finally, a little housekeeping follow up on the reunion: We know there are tons of photos out there. If you’d like to text them to Melly at 858-692-7961, she will add them to the shared iPhone album. We will make sure to add you so you can access them. And for all you voyeurs, we are happy to include you as

well. Just send me an email with your cell number, and we will add you. It won’t be quite like you were there, but it may entice you to come to the 35th!

With that, I hope I’ve conveyed my appreciation for the four years we were together, creating the bonds that have kept us connected all of these 30 years.

With my sincere gratitude, AV. —Anna Vouros 106 Elm Street Concord, MA 01742 617-320-0659 (cell); avouros@partners.org

As I’m writing this, we’ve had the first snowfall of the winter, right on the heels of an unseasonably warm autumn. By the time you are reading this, we should be on the other side of yet another winter.

As the updates started rolling in, I got excited about a potential volleyball theme. My youngest son was dating a volleyball player, and I fondly recalled my last attempt to play as a first-year (or maybe second-year) student at DMS. I was encouraged to join the weekly pickup games that I believe Susanne Krasovich organized at Alumni Gym— until I showed up once, and after that I was encouraged not to join! It was a bit of a disaster; I could run, but give me a ball and I became dangerous.

The “not about Robyn” volleyball news is a bit more encouraging: One of Brian Boxer Wachler’s 16-year-old daughters played volleyball in Israel for Team USA at the Maccabi Games (the whole mishpacha went to cheer her on!), and Pat Ginn wrote that he and Susanne remain active in Wisconsin with running, biking, and playing volleyball (he notes that they do these activities not nearly as fast, far, or well as they used to). Then my son broke up with volleyball girl, and the incoming updates shifted focus to other sports.

Pat Ginn (writing in for himself and Susanne) reports that their daughter, Rachel, is on the track team at Case Western Reserve, where she sprints and throws. She is studying psychology, environmental science, and biology.

Their son, Michael, graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and has started a PhD in computational linguistics at UC Boulder.

Kris Rosbe received my plea for an update while she was in Boston for the Head of the Charles, in which her son Ben was rowing for Bates in the same boat as Fletcher, the son of DMS grads Kenneth Libre MED’94 and Carolyn

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Clockwise from top: Sidhu Gangadharan (7th from right) with Geisel Urban and Global Health Scholars; Members of Class of 1997 at the reunion All Class BBQ; Marisa Ciufalo MED’97, with husband Paul Sobol and daughters L to R: Samantha, Shayna, and Sophia.

Anctil MED’92. Kris notes that she and her husband, Andy Auerbach MED’92, are “going on 20-plus years with our careers at USCF—me in pediatric otolaryngology and him in hospital medicine. We are grateful to be able to live and work in such an amazing place.”

Cara Walther and her daughters (20 and 17) remain active as well at her home in Sun Valley, Idaho. She spends her summers kiting and winging in Hood River, Ore., with her girls and working as a ski instructor for a specialty women’s group called DIVAS (Das Incredible Vemin Shredders).

Her elder daughter is a sophomore at Dartmouth and loving it. Her younger daughter is a high school senior. Cara is open to suggestions as to how to live her next chapter as an empty-nester!

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two friends and trekking in the mountains. She notes that Allen continues to work in breast imaging at CPMP in San Francisco but is cutting back and finding time to play more golf. Jennifer is working as the employee health physician for the SF Fire Department.

Their daughters are out of school and working in LA. In addition to the proud-papa news about his girls, Brian Boxer Wachler, who has become a bit of a social media influencer, announced the publication of his book Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception. See page 44, for more book details.

Here is his description: “It does a deep dive and reveals everything you want to know about social media (TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), the ‘dark arts’ of social media (Harry Potter fans will get the refer-

ence). It’s the culmination of my experiences, published research, and insights of 15 top influencers I interviewed. My conclusion: social media is like fire—it can be used for illumination, or you can badly burn yourself.

“Check out the book! Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception. It’s on Amazon and everywhere books are sold.” Brian also sent a photo from a get-together with Beth Dorn, who is working as a concierge internist in Palos Verdes.

As for me (Robyn Jacobs) and my news from Strafford, Vt., things here are quiet and peaceful, as I like them! My boys are settled into jobs on the West Coast. One is in San Francisco, working on the sound design team for Apple, and one is outside of LA, doing environment art for Insomniac Games.

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Members of the Class of 1997 L to R: Seth McClennen, Cally Gwon, Scott Schluter, Marisa Ciufalo, Geoffrey Gilmartin, Pat Casey, Dave Cohen, Martha Wu.

They are happy, healthy, and off the Jacobs payroll, which means Tom and I are content as empty-nesters.

I’m enjoying my low-volume private practice; my very part-time work with the White River Junction VA; spending time in my gardens and with my horses; and never, ever playing volleyball.

Hope to see you all in Hanover for our 30th reunion, Sept. 22-24! (How did that happen??)

—Robyn Jacobs 18 Justin Morrill Memorial Highway South Strafford, VT 05070 rjacobs@hygeiawomen.com

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Hi, classmates! What an interesting time it still is in the world! I hope everyone is surviving through COVID and everything else. The burnout numbers are scary in our generation of docs; I hope you are faring okay out there.

Sidhu Gangadharan connected with Geisel’s Urban Health Scholars and Global Health Scholars while they were in Boston, Mass., in September.

Be sure to check out the photo.

I have a correction from the last round of notes. Jennifer Retsinas has actually been in New Zealand for some time—in Palmerston North, a little southwest of Napier (for those of you who, like me, did neurology in Napier and have warm, fuzzy Kiwi memories). She writes: “I’ve been working in New Zealand since 2017 as an obstetrics and gynaecology consultant. It’s an amazing place— great for the whole work/out-of-work chainsaw juggle—so great for me, my teenagers, and our retired farm dog.

New Zealand’s national healthcare system is like a breath of fresh air— so fair and reasonable. And being marooned here during the height of COVID was almost idyllic.”

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See, this is why you shouldn’t leave it to me to try to sleuth you online; I might end up placing you practically as far away as you can be on the planet from where you actually are.

So—send me a note with an update (emilytransue@gmail.com) and save the confusion!

Thanks—and apologies to Jen, and sending good wishes to all of you!

—Emily Transue 1248 22nd Avenue E Seattle, WA 98112-3535 emilytransue@gmail.com

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Lucille Vega, RI Healthcare Family Practice, 962 Warwick Avenue, Warwick, RI 02888-3650; 401-3837830 (work) or 401-301-9505 (cell); or vegadirectmedical@gmail.com.

Chidi Chike Achebe MED’96, MBA, MPH will be the 2023 Geisel School of Medicine Class Day Speaker on May 27.

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The Class of 2022 at their September Reunion, top of the stairs descending and L to R: John Dick, Emily Cooney, Morris Rivera, Christian Meko, Robert Fortuna, Miriam Meko, Elizabeth Jewell, Beth Skoropowski, and Garth Skoropowski.

UCLA Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 25, Torrance, CA 90509; 310-222-3033; or jozao-choy@ dhs.lacounty.gov; or Blair Hammond at 48 Monroe Avenue, Larchmont, NY 10538; 212-744-3944; or blair. hammond@mssm.edu.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Danielle Albushies at 4 McNichol Lane, Bow, NH 03304-5409; or dalbushies@gmail.com.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Maya Mitchell Land at 4904 Stonehedge Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95405; 707-800-5916; or mayamland@gmail.com.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Jill Marple at 102 Somers Place North, Moorestown, NJ 08057; 856-495-8613; or jill.a.marple.97@ dartmouth.edu.

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Jennifer Vines at 2940 North East Cesar Chavez Boulevard, Portland, OR 97212; 503-453-5879; or vines.jennifer@gmail.com.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Junko Ozao-Choy at Division of Surgical Oncology, Harbor-

Mark T. Edney, MD, MBA, has been named the next Public Policy chair for the American Urological Association (AUA). He will assume the role of chairelect on June 1, 2023, and begin his fouryear term as chair on June 1, 2024.

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Greetings, everyone!

What a year—2022 is almost over as I write this! My son started middle school, and I (Ndidi Onwubalili) have had to modify our treasured walks to the bus stop on my day off, lest I cause terrible embarrassment. No more of my arm across his shoulder and definitely no more hugs or kisses. I pat him briskly on the shoulder and send him off to the bus. Where did the time go? But it’s nice to see all the neighborhood children head off to school and feel that things are slowly reshaping in a new normal, post-COVID. I was glad to hear from Matt Weitzel. He writes, “I don’t think I’ve ever sent an update for the Alumni News & Notes, so there’s a lot to include to cover the past 18 years, but here’s the sketch: I finished my family medicine residency at Lancaster General Hospital, married a local girl, and worked for the residency for two years before transitioning to a community health center, where I’ve been working since 2010. I still deliver babies and round on our postpartum moms/babies in addition to my outpatient work. Our family now includes five children, who, by the end of the summer, will range from 12 years down to 2 years old. My in-laws live with us in separate in-law quarters, and we are experiencing the blessings of multigenerational living.

Next door to us is an eight-acre pasture with sheep and goats, and we have a little flock of chickens. I like to garden and have several berry patches, including strawberries, blueberries, rasp-

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Additional guests at the September reunion, top of the stairs descending and L to R: Fred Varn PhD’18, Natasha Resendes ‘17, Stephanie Morton ‘17, Nicholas Coant, Ana Resendes, Ayanna Lewis ‘12, and Manual Resendes.

berries, and blackberries. I just added grapevines this year. The best email address to reach me at is drmweitzel@ gmail.com.” Matt is in Lancaster, Pa., and apparently living the dream!

The end of the year is typically very busy for everyone, so I appreciate the time taken to reach out in any way. I hope to hear from more of you by the next issue of the News & Notes. I really do enjoy receiving your updates.

I hope you all had a happy holiday season! And I wish you a very Happy New Year!

—Ndidiamaka Onwubalili ndidi5@hotmail.com

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We are currently seeking a secretary for the Class of 2005. To learn more, or if you have news to share, contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 603646-5297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@ dartmouth.edu.

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We are currently seeking a secretary for the Class of 2007. To learn more, or if you have news to share, contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 603646-5297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@ dartmouth.edu.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Rebecca (Rotello) Craig at 3137 Casa Bonita Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111; or rebecca. rotello@gmail.com.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Jill Rosno Huded at 8009 Cherokee Lane, Leawood, KS 66206-1131; or jill.huded@gmail.com; or Abiodun T. Kukoyi at abbeykay@gmail.com.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Jill Kaspar Baird at 2434 NE 58th Avenue, Portland, OR 97213; 515-520-9899; or jill.kaspar.baird@ gmail.com.

Hi, Class of 2014! I hope you’re all doing well. Brief updates this time around!

Ilya Bendich is currently an adult reconstruction surgeon at Washington University in St. Louis and has performed the first robotic hip replacement at WashU. Cindy Tsai’s TEDx Talk, “Body Intelligence: An Integrative Approach to Health and Wellness,” has gone live (search for it on YouTube!). She shares

Ashley Miller was chosen as the recipient of the 2022 Green Mountain Pediatrician Award. This award is given to a pediatrician who exemplifies dedication and contribution to child and adolescent health in Vermont.

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her own health journey, introduces the field of integrative medicine, and discusses how the quick fix is not a fix in terms of our health and wellness.

Congratulations, Ilya and Cindy!

Also, thanks to Helen Ma for sharing this photo of some 2014 Californians!

—Justin K. Kim PO Box 724 Mercer Island, WA 98040 206-512-6261; justinkim.dart@gmail.com

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Some of the class of 2014 who currently live in California.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Wenlu Gu at 262-498-4995 or wenlu.gu@ gmail.com; or Lynn K. Symonds at lynn.k.symonds@gmail.com.

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Alex Orfanos at alexander_ orfanos@brown.edu.

One quick update this time: Cait Hopeman is a new pediatrician at St. Luke’s Family Medicine Clinic in Ketchum, Idaho. There was a nice write-up on her appointment which you can read here: dartgo.org/hopeman.

Email me your updates so we can all celebrate with you!

—Kathleen Leinweber kathleen.a.leinweber@hitchcock.org

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Chad Lewis at chad.y.lewis@ gmail.com or Gayathri Tummala at gtummala46@gmail.com.

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Joseph Minichiello at jminichiello13@gmail.com or Isabelle Yang at yangisabelle1@gmail.com.

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I, Bob Joyner (Physiology PhD’98— Leiter Lab), am writing this column while anticipating the wonderful celebrations that happen at the end of each year. There’s lots to remember, most of it joyous, though some experiences that need to be overcome with time.

An excerpt from a familiar song sung around the world at this time of year reminds us that “For auld lang syne, we’ll drink a cup of kindness yet, for the sake of auld lang syne.” With that said, I happily have lots to report, so I’ll keep my own words short this time.

Stephanie Morton and Natacha Resendes, both Class of 2017, at their September reunion.

Charles Wira (Physiology PhD’70— Thesis with Dr. Allan Munck)—see photo—writes to say he is now an emeritus professor of microbiology and immunology and was co-chair and organizer of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Immunology, held in Santa Fe, N.M., in June 2021 (see https://theasri.org/santa-fe-2021).

He also recently received word of a $250K supplement award to his parent grant from the National Institute of Aging. Chuck explains that “with the increased incidence of HIV infection in postmenopausal women, an urgent need exists to understand the impact

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Sam Bakhoum, MD, PhD (mentee of Steve Leach at Memorial Sloan Kettering) is one of the six 2023 Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Award recipients. These awards are for outstanding early-career investigators for projects aimed at addressing unmet needs in cancer research. The Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Award program empowers scientists to take on innovative, high-risk/highreward projects that have significant potential to improve outcomes for cancer patients.

of aging on mucosal immune protection against HIV in the female reproductive tract (FRT). . . . The overall goal of our proposed studies is to define the effect of aging on immune protection by epithelial cells that line the FRT and the susceptibility to HIV infection of CD4+T cells and macrophages in the upper and lower FRT.” He adds that he co-authored four peer-reviewed papers in 2021-22.

Congratulations, Chuck. I have fond memories of being a graduate student in your lab!

Richard Miller (PharmacologyToxicology PhD’73—Berndt Lab) writes to say that he is still in Rochester, N.Y., at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He and his wife, Judy, have a busy life with their beloved six children and spouses, 14 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren, plus one on the way. Richard continues to work full-time as a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, environmental medicine, and pathology. His lab continues to receive NIH funding for its placental studies (perfusions, explants, and pathology).

His work includes both basic and clinical research and counseling of pregnant women concerning environmental and therapeutic exposures—a

combination he has “enthusiastically embraced.” He mentioned what a pleasure it was to work with the phenomenal faculty he had at Dartmouth, many of whom were trained or had worked at Rochester and were attracted to Hanover during the re-founding of DMS. “Of particular note,” he wrote, were “Marsh Tenney MED’44, MD, dean and chair of physiology; Robert Gosselin, MD, PhD, the first chair of pharm-tox; John Gatzy, PhD; Robert Nye, MD; and Donald Bartlett Jr. D’59, MED’61, MD, a professor of physiology—all from the University of Rochester. I’m currently marking 49 years at the UR School of Medicine and Dentistry and still going.”

Wow, Richard—I have been working almost 30 years at this point, but I have a lot to go to catch up to you!

David Sullivan (Physiology PhD’80) writes to say that he was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston for 40 years. He chose to close his laboratory in October 2020 and focus his efforts on the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society (TFOS). David is the founder, recent president, and current chair of the board of directors of TFOS, a nonprofit organization that was created in 2000 to advance worldwide research on, literacy about, and

Chuck Wira PhD’70 as co-chair of the 42 Annual Meeting of American Society of Reproductive Immunology in Santa Fe, N.M.

education in the scientific field of the tear film and ocular surface. David has organized nine international conferences, overseen the awarding of more than 225 young investigator awards, and organized TFOS international workshops on dry eye, meibomian gland dysfunction, and contact lens discomfort. These global workshops involve the efforts of 60 to 150 scientific and clinical experts. And the organization’s journal, The Ocular Surface, was the second-highest-ranked eye journal in the world in both 2019 and 2020. David is currently organizing a TFOS workshop titled “A Lifestyle Epidemic: Ocular Surface Disease” (see dartgo.org/tfos) and just finished organizing an experts’ meeting on glaucoma. All of his work for TFOS is on a volunteer basis, and he’s very proud of the impact the organization has had on basic scientists, clinical researchers, and industry representatives in over 90 countries. Congratulations, David, on all of your accomplishments.

Betty Lee (Pharmacology PhD’94) writes to say that during the height of the pandemic, she drafted a Federal Register notice titled “Request for Comments Concerning the Imposition of Export Controls on Certain BrainComputer Interface (BCI) Emerging

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Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD received the 2022 James E. Cottrell Presidential Scholar Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) at its annual meeting in New Orleans. The award recognizes anesthesiologists who dedicate their formative careers to research.

Technology; it was published in 2021. In February 2023, Betty will be organizing a meeting with industry leaders and interagency government personnel who are evaluating controls on BCI for national security reasons. In June-July 2022, Betty was a panelist for two sessions at a hybrid meeting of the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Annual Update conference in Washington, D.C. In July 2022, she was a speaker representing the Department of Commerce at a workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on “Intangible Technology Transfer” for Malaysian government delegates. Betty, you have one of the most diverse jobs of anyone who writes me. Congratulations on your accomplishments.

Brian Moyer (Physiology PhD’98— Stanton Lab) writes to say that he is now the VP and head of biology at Latigo Biotherapeutics, a startup company in Thousand Oaks, Calif., working on nonopioid therapies for pain disorders. Brian was a classmate of mine, and I remember him fondly. Keep up the important work, Brian—we need alternatives to opioids.

Mardi Crane-Godreau (Physiology and Immunology PhD’04—Fiering Lab) writes to say that long COVID has become a focus of her recent work. Mardi is publishing a blog on Substack to address insights that she believes are relevant to both patients with long COVID and the medical and scientific community (see dartgo.

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org/mardi). She would love to get feedback from our community.

Thanks for your work, Mardi.

Mandeep Kaur (Cancer Biology PhD’12—Cole Lab) writes to say that he recently completed his law degree and has been admitted to the Massachusetts bar. He is now an intellectual property attorney at Choate, Hall and Stewart LLP in Boston. Mandeep says he truly enjoys being immersed in the latest scientific developments and working to protect innovative ideas and inventions.

Congratulations, Mandeep!

Christiaan Rees (PhD’18, MED’20) writes to share that he has matched into a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship, and will be joining the team at the University of Colorado beginning this summer.

Congratulations, Christiaan—well done, and I look forward to hearing about your future accomplishments!

I have reached the word-limit that Dartmouth gives me, so that’s it for now.

But please keep the updates coming, and enjoy the spring and summer of 2023. I look forward to hearing from each of you for our fall column.

— Bob Joyner TidalHealth Peninsula Regional Richard A. Henson Research Institute 100 East Carroll Street Salisbury, MD 21801 410-543-7017 (work); robert.joyner@peninsula.org

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Brad Schenkel (Evaluative Clinical Sciences MS’01), seen in the photo, writes to say that he recently joined Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. where he is the head of the Health Economics and Outcome Research (HEOR) team. The company is based in Princeton, N.J. At Sun Pharma, Brad manages all of the HEOR research projects across the company’s portfolio of compounds, including Winlevi for patients with acne vulgaris, Ilumya for patients with moderate to severe psoriasis, and a host of other therapies in additional areas.

Classmates Mabel Balduf, Grace Nicksa, Denise Serrano-Eanelli, and Tina Jackson (all MPH’10) held a reunion full of fun in the sun in Florida this past summer (see photo).

This was the first time all four had gotten together in almost a decade, although they have seen each other in smaller combinations over the years.

They are so grateful for their time at TDI and the lifelong friendships that blossomed there.

Regina-Anne Cooper (MPH’12) shared that her son Justin, who works on the DHMC Central Sterile team, married his girlfriend, Clarissa Eda, at their family home on Labor Day weekend. Clarissa was stuck in the Philippines throughout COVID due to travel restrictions. She finally was allowed back into the U.S.A. in July 2022, just in time for the wedding.

Sappho Gilbert (MPH’14) is a PhD student at the Yale School of Public Health. He was recently interviewed for the podcast series Environmental Health Chat, which is run by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The host and Sappho discussed his dissertation research on climate change, food security, and the nutrition transition in the predominantly Inuit, Canadian Arctic territory

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Clockwise from the top: Brad Schenkel MS’01 recently joined Sun Pharmaceutical Industries in Princeton, N.J. Greg Corwin and Rose Solomon, both MPH’15, got married on the Dartmouth College campus in February 2022. Members of TDI MPH Class of 2010 reunited in Florida in February 2022, L to R: Mabel Balduf, Grace Nicksa, Denise SerranoEanelli, and Tina Jackson.

of Nunavut and the resultant health, economic, and cultural impacts. Here is the link to the podcast: dartgo.org/niehs.

Pearly Ittickathra (MPH’15) writes that in 2014, Greg Corwin (MPH’15) met Rose Solomon (MPH’15) during a TDI classroom project. He was in love, she wasn’t so sure. But Rose’s friend Pearly saw the value of a guy who would show up at a morning class with goodies, as Greg did—bringing coffee and blueberry muffins for Rose and Pearly to Paul Gardent’s lecture every Friday morning. Pearly decided this was the move for Rose. Fast-forward

to a snowy February weekend on the Dartmouth campus, when Greg married Rose (see the photo). He came for the public health degree and met the love of his life.

Salman Hussain (MPH’16) began his MBA at Harvard Business School this past fall. He was also voted to serve a second term on the board of directors of the National Alopecia Areata Foundation. Outside of his professional roles, Salman was named the Chris A. Santos Inaugural Emerging Artist of Brookline, Mass., in recognition of his poetry and music.

Furaha Kyesi (MPH’17) just joined the master’s of science program in pediatric hematology-oncology at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania.

Chia-ding Shih (MPH’18) is starting a new position as an assistant professor of clinical surgery at Keck School of Medicine at USC and is an attending physician at Keck Hospital of USC and affiliated hospitals.

—Tina Jackson 939 South Serrano Avenue, #403 Los Angeles, CA 90006 tina.e.jackson@gmail.com

Residents & Fellows I heard from Laurie Rennie (Internal Medicine ’54-55): “Robert—it has taken a fractured hip in August to slow me down. I am now using a walker and am back in our residence at the Westminster Canterbury retirement center here in my hometown, Richmond, Va. We look forward to my 94th birthday next week, an event I share with my twin, who lives here also. I continue to be active in furni-

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ture-building, gardening, sailing our 22-foot sailboat, ornithology, and our huge family. Alas, my twin and I are retiring from the church choir that we joined in 1939.

“Our fourth daughter and her husband are employed at Dartmouth, and their daughter Hannah Chipman is on the biathlon team in her second year at Dartmouth. Both parents are Dartmouth grads.

“I finally left medical activities at age 85 and treasure the time I spent at Mary Hitchcock-Dartmouth.” Laurie is a retired a professor of neurology from Virginia Commonwealth University; her wife, Barbara, is also a veteran of Sachem Village.

Reed Andrew (Intern ’58-59): “My wife and I remain healthy and chipper, with eight sons and one daughter scattered throughout the country, plus 26 grandchildren scattered throughout the world, and now 10 great-grandchildren.

“I love recalling the happy days at Dartmouth, great mentors, friendships with fellow house officers, grand local cultural opportunities (such as Robert Frost reading his own poetry and Rudolf Serkin performing Beethoven and Chopin), autumn colors, and the beautiful New Hampshire countryside. What great Dartmouth-Hitchcock memories!”

Congratulations to Robert Curtis Mills (Hematology-Oncology ’70-77), who was the 2022-23 recipient of the American College of Physicians’ Ralph O. Claypoole Sr. Memorial Award for Devotion of a Career in Internal Medicine to the Care of Patients. This award brings honor to you and the institutions with which you are affiliated, Robert.

Edward “Ted” Walworth (Surgery ’70-75) wrote from Lewiston, Maine: “Sorry news from Manchester, N.H. David Charlesworth (Surgery ’70-78) died recently. He was my classmate at Columbia P&S in 1970. Then we did concurrent internships at DartmouthHitchcock and became surgical residents together. In 1972, he went to

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Germany for service in the U.S. Army and came back to finish his training in 1978. (I had a Berry Plan deferment and was able to stay at DHMC.) “After a cardiothoracic fellowship in Toronto and some years of practice in Salt Lake City, David moved back to New Hampshire and spent the rest of his career at Catholic Medical Center.

“If you Google ‘David C. Charlesworth Obituary,’ you will find more details.

“David and his wife, Jane, were nice enough to come over from New Hampshire last summer to attend the memorial service for my wife, Candace Walworth, MD (Internal Medicine ’70-74), also a P&S classmate and fellow resident. I also saw David and Jane at our 50th (actually 52nd) P&S reunion in NYC this past May. David was failing but was unfailingly cheerful, as always.”

Culley Carson (Internal Medicine ’71-73) also wrote in about “the death of Dave Charlesworth in Bedford, N.H. Dave was a year ahead of me at Trinity, was a surgery resident at MHMH in the early 1970s, and then did a cardiac surgery fellowship. Most will remember his great sense of humor and compassion.

“I have retired as Rhodes Distinguished Professor and chair of urology from the University of North Carolina. While I still do consulting, speaking, and some surgery in South America, Mary Jo and I are enjoying international travel and chasing after our three grandchildren.”

Jack Kirk (Internal Medicine ’71-74) wrote: “Hi, all! It’s 51 years since I arrived at DHMC, and as I finally enter (with some trepidation!) my retirement from clinical medicine, I thought I’d humbly try to convey my experiences practicing in northern New England— the joys and satisfactions of delivering primary care medicine in one place over many years, much of it with wonderful support from DH. “I came to DHMC and New Hampshire in 1971, after medical

school at Cornell and internship at the University of Chicago (my hometown), to finish my internal medicine training at the invitation of Professor Ken Johnson; he had come from Cornell to DHMC/DMS to start the Department of Community Medicine, with the specific goal of helping improve—indeed save—healthcare in rural northern New England. His unique and groundbreaking physician-manager primary care residency (before family medicine became a named specialty) gave many of us an opportunity to complete our internal medicine or pediatric residency requirements, while adding a year of cross-training in other important specialties to better prepare us for practice in small rural hospitals/ medical groups, where we would have to be capable and comfortable in a broader range of clinical areas than just our primary specialty. Indeed, after 12 months of serious pediatric training, I was able to be on the pediatric call team (including attending at difficult births) and to handle minor orthopedic and psychiatry issues when I became a full-time internist at New London Hospital in 1977—after two years in Iceland with the Navy, on a four-person primary care team at the isolated Keflavik Naval Air station, where we cared for families with wide range of ages; during those two years, I surely valued that additional year of training.

“We also had one more additional year of ‘fellowship’—studying the issues/challenges of rural healthcare; gaining clinical experience in rural practices; and understanding state-level challenges, such as closing Northeast Kingdom Hospital in Hardwick, Vt., and consolidating it with nearby Morrisville Hospital, or consolidating other small hospitals (such as Springfield and Mt. Ascutney in Vermont and Alice Peck Day and Valley Regional in New Hampshire). This was all interesting and great experience for providing clinical care to a rural population.

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Resident and Fellow Appreciation Celebrations

“In addition to the residency itself, the Department of Community Medicine also introduced the concept of having Dartmouth medical students rotate in rural practices, to familiarize them with the joys and challenges of such work. I also recall the beginning of the Dartmouth/Northern New England COOP Project, a primary care research consortium that’s still active, engaging rural clinicians with Dartmouth researchers in meaningful studies addressing clinical challenges in primary care, which were rarely addressed by university research teams.

“In brief, I had the extraordinary opportunity to teach and do primary care research all my years in New London. At the same time, I had long, close personal and clinical relationships with patients (who were often friends), and similarly long-standing relationships and friendships with the whole New London team and with colleagues elsewhere—at Mt. Ascutney, APD, and numerous independent practices. These were all immensely valued relationships.

“I learned that many of the valuable realities in life come less from deliberate planning and more from unexpected opportunities!

“I retired from New London Hospital in late 2017 at age 74 but continued working with Lake Sunapee VNA Hospice and Woodlawn Nursing Home

DHMC celebrated Resident and Fellow Appreciation Week January 15-21. The Alumni Engagement Office sponsored breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all and gave out reusable lunch containers and green beanies. Here, Geisel students display the cookies and appreciative posters they contributed alongside Alumni Engagement. We hope to hear from these very trainees soon within these pages.

in Newport, N.H., until June 2022, when I let my medical license expire at age 78.

I miss the joy of the relationships and the challenges of clinical practice but am aware of the cognitive and physical demands of practicing medicine; we have to know when it’s time to withdraw.

“I worry that the world of clinical medicine is changing dramatically, due not only to COVID but also to all the administrative/nonclinical responsibilities that threaten to take away much of the joy we knew, when the greatest amount of our time was spent tending to people we cared about. I hope that somehow healthcare can reclaim the joy I was fortunate to experience for 50 years.

“I have three wonderful children and four grandchildren, a most wonderful

(and forgiving) spouse, and a young cockapoo puppy, all within hailing distance—and am getting used to my less work-scheduled days, allowing me to enjoy the blessings of family and the New England environment! Blessings and warm regards to all.”

James Evans (General Surgery ’71-76) also shared word of the recent loss from our ranks: “Alumni who knew him and worked with him are especially sad to note the passing of David Charlesworth. David was a talented surgeon, a leader of physicians, and a loving husband, father, and grandfather. He was full of life, a man of grace, and a good friend to many.”

Peter Delfausse (Psychiatry ’71-74): “Retired after almost 50 years in Concord, N.H., where I did mostly

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public sector work in the state hospital and mental health centers in the area.

Now spending time in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Florida, volunteering and singing in choirs and choruses, or hitting a tennis ball on a regular basis.”

Michael Wagner (Internal Medicine ’86-90): “Leaving role as chief physician executive at Tufts Medicine to become president and CEO of Care New England (CNE). CNE comprises Women and Infants, Kent Hospital, Butler Hospital, and Integra ACO.” Congratulations on this new job!

Sarah Pletcher (General Surgery ’05-08) wrote in that she is “the system vice president and executive medical director, strategic innovation, at Houston Methodist.” On her LinkedIn page, she says, “I spend most of my professional energy working on ways to make healthcare smarter—bringing patients better/more convenient/more comfortable/more safe care, while at the same time helping the care teams get the support and tools they need to provide highest quality care, efficiently.”

Houston Methodist was recognized for this great work in Newsweek as one of the World’s Best Smart Hospitals.

Rajeev Fernando (Infectious Diseases ’09-10) wrote: “I did my ID

In Memoriam The following deaths have been reported to us as of February 28, 2023.

To report the death of an alumnus/a, please contact Annette Achilles at 603-646-5297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@dartmouth.edu.

Alumni

Faculty

Samuel L. Katz MED’50 Donald W. Clark MED’52, RES’58 Donald K. Brief MED’55 Frank M. Weiser MED’55 Joseph L. Dorsey MED’62 Francis J. Pauli MED’63 Beverly Stephenson MED’89 Robert J. Cimis, Jr. MED’94, RES’98

Lauren Gilstrap, MD Michael B. Sporn, MD Miguel Marin-Padilla, MD

fellowship at DHMC. Since February 2022, I’ve been volunteering in Ukraine and work in refugee medicine. Over the past five months, my role has pivoted to assisting with the mental health crisis in Ukraine. I’ve started two psychology/wellness clinics. I would love to share more about our programs.” Read more about his work in Ukraine on page 7.

Libby Copeland-Halperin (Plastic Surgery ’18-21) completed a microsurgery-breast reconstruction fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She

Housestaff Walter G. Frey III RES’58 Robert W. Chamberlin Jr. RES’57 William H. Edwards RES’77, FEL’78

is thrilled to return to New York City and has joined her mother, Dr. Michelle Copeland, in the practice of cosmetic, plastic, and reconstructive surgery.

Such wonderful news from former residents and fellows! Keep sending in those updates here: dartgo.org/ annupdate.

—Bob Lewy 176 Upper Turnpike Road Norwich, VT 05055-9557 802-649-2194 (home); lewyrob@hotmail.com

Miguel Marín-Padilla MD, MA A Spaniard, he graduated from Granada University School of Medicine in 1956 and came to America for the opportunity to teach and do research. He started at Dartmouth in 1962 teaching Pathology; as a pediatric pathologist, he became known for his clinical and diagnostic skills. In 1966, he spent a sabbatical year in Madrid, learning Golgi techniques of the Nobel Laureate Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

He built his neuroscientific career on the Golgi method in his seminal work that included several key discoveries and over 190 mostly single author publications. He secured NIH funding throughout his career including the Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award.

He received many awards in his lifetime, both domestic and international, as well as the Geisel Academy of Master Educators Lifetime Achievement award in 2017, and the Spanish Knighthood in 2021. In retirement, he published “The Human Brain: Prenatal Development and Structure” in 2011 and a fiction book “Leyendas de Altamira” in 2021.

His greatest passion by far were his students. In class he would challenge them, presenting concepts through ancient history or art. As a mentor, medical students frequently spent time in his office discussing their goals and building lasting relationships.

He remained active, walking and writing into his 90s and passed away on February 10, 2023.

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BOOK SHELF

Book Shelf The Book Shelf is a selection of books written by alumni within the last two years.

These are neither endorsements nor critiques of the books.

FICTION Nature’s Bite (2022)

By Mark Powers MED’77

Unseen forces collide in a desperate attempt to seize command and control of the U.S. Government. For nothing is what it seems in DECEPTION.

Ari’s Spoon (2021)

By Douglas Zipes MED’62

It’s April 2024, and a mysterious visit from FBI agents interrupts a quiet evening at Dr. Phineas Mann’s house. Worsening climate change is leading to more difficult asthma cases, and Phineas is tasked with investigating a novel drug treatment with Dr. Marie Porter for the pharmaceutical giant, SynMedical. Marie has just returned to North Carolina 26 years after her single mother abruptly extracted her from the sixth grade to disappear without explanation into the rural Northwest.

Meanwhile, the Republican U.S. President, in the final year of his second term, develops alpha gal syndrome; caused by Lone Star ticks finding their way north as the planet warms.

Then a surprising assignment sends Phineas and Marie, against their wills, into intrigue at the highest levels in a hotter, dirtier, and more polarized country.

Deception (2019)

By Derrik Woodbury MED’77, RES’82

As young surgeon Gabe Goerner and his wife, Cassie, enter the church for his three-month old daughter’s baptism, her gown, a family heirloom of unknown origins, triggers the security metal detector. After Gabe discovers the cause is an engraved silver spoon sewn into the double-layered hem of the tiny gown, the mysterious discovery soon transports him through a cascade of unforgettable events that lead him from contemporary Indianapolis to the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, from underground bunkers to operating rooms, and from the safety of home to the Treblinka death camp. What he finds on his mission will forever transform his life. Ari’s Spoon is the historical tale of a young surgeon’s journey to the truth after he finds a spoon hidden in his daughter’s baptismal gown.

NONFICTION The Digestive System for Babies and Toddlers (2022)

George Anderson is President of the United States and he needs urgent surgery. An enigmatic billionaire named Douglas sees an opportunity to expand his power and replace the Anderson Administration with a puppet President without the national angst of an assassination or scandal. Only Jim Williams, a Georgetown surgical resident, and Frederick Hall, an aging legendary Secret Service Agent can prevent this cunning treachery. A young charismatic senator and the world’s most popular entertainer are also ensnared in this web of love, danger, subterfuge and murder.

By Dr. Haitham Ahmed MED’10 The Digestive System for Babies and Toddlers offers the perfect introduction to the wonders of the human body.

This interactive board book teaches your little one about the digestive system, one of the body’s most vital organ systems. Be amazed at how much your child (and you) can learn. Through words and pictures, this board book for children captures the imagination, stimulates curiosity, and facilitates a love for science in the next generation.

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A Senior’s Guide for Living Well and Dying Well

By A. Stuart Hanson MED’60 and Carolyn Papke A Senior’s Guide for Living Well and Dying Well is an effort by an engaged group of seniors to address most questions of aging.

Dr. Hanson has taken the content from years of expert group presentations and condensed them into a readable, unique, and accessible guide for seniors and their families. There are sections on aging well and retirement issues, physical and mental well-being, driving, sleeping, depression, and fraud.

Also covered is healthcare on aging bodies, the capacity and limitations of healthcare systems, palliative and hospice care, end-of-life planning, dementia, and grief. Also included are choosing financial and healthcare representatives, writing legacy letters, making wills, estate planning, memorial and funeral plans, organizing records, and conversations with loved ones are all covered. The book’s greatest value may be in the real-life stories included in many chapters.

So Much Better: Life-Changing Strategies to Develop Calm, Confidence & Curiosity to Become Your Own Inspiring Success Story (2022)

By Cindy Tsai MED’14

Higher Education Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Supporting Teaching and Learning through Turbulent Times (2023)

By Kimberlee Mix PhD’03, et al.

Higher Education Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic documents first-hand experiences from faculty and students in order to help navigate the path to supporting teaching and learning in the wake of such turbulent times, and beyond. The essays in this volume contextualize the setting of higher education as the outbreak occurred, explore how faculty and students adapted their work-life (im)balance as they transitioned to distance learning, describe teaching and learning across institution types, provide strategies for adjusting teaching based on discipline, and look at emerging trends in the future of the professoriate. With essays from a diverse range of experts, this volume will serve as a comprehensive guide to many affected higher education communities. The chapter by Kimberlee Mix PhD’03 is entitled, “Inspiring citizen scientists and future public health heroes.”

INFLUENCED (2022)

By Brian Boxer Wachler MED’93

So Much Better is a transformative self-help book that offers a research-based process to help high-achievers fulfill their dreams.

This practical guide explores strategies to help readers overcome anxiety and burnout, reprogram their brain’s default, and become the inspiring success stories they were meant to be.

Drawing on a mix of inspiring quotes, practical exercises, and thought-provoking perspectives, Dr. Cindy Tsai will take readers on an enlightening journey, sharing her incredible Inspiring Success Story Method™ to help them redefine and reinvent their lives. Perfect for any unfulfilled high achiever who is suffering from chronic stress, overwhelm, procrastination—or anyone who feels like you’re just “going through the motions”—So Much Better will reignite your passion for life, give you the tools to escape your comfort zone and manifest your true potential with ease.

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Influenced unpacks and pulls the curtain back on what happens to our brains and our behaviors each time we addictively engage social media and the influencers we encounter there. Individuals seeking to widen their tribes of friends, fans, and followers have an abundance of resources for building their digital footprints and social media popularity.

All of this seems well and good from the perspective of revenue, exposure, and perhaps ego-building, but what is the impact of this on the human brain and our behavior? Our brains literally light up with every buzz, ding, alert, and ring in anticipation of how our network is responding to us. Dr. Boxer Wachler includes his own social and medical findings and highlights them with interviews with top influencers, the latest studies, and pop-culture anecdotes.

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Weight Loss for Life (2021)

The Complete Family Guide to Dementia (2022)

By Lawrence J. Cheskin MED’80 and Kimberly Gudzune

By Thomas Harrison and Brent Forester MED’92

Leading experts from Johns Hopkins provide you with all of the information you need to develop a plan that works best for you.

Anyone struggling with unwanted weight gain will find this program helpful, compassionate, and clear.

A central feature is a Personal Plan of Action to help you set reachable goals, plan meals, and make time for movement. Unlike other works, Weight Loss for Life covers it all: supplements, prescription medications, and surgical options. Throughout, testimonials from others who have followed the program along with interactive features and hundreds of photographs and drawings will educate and keep you motivated.

If you are facing the unique challenges of caring for a parent with dementia, you are not alone. This wonderful book speaks directly to adult children caring for a parent with dementia, and gives equal weight to the facts, the feelings, and the often bumpy road to understanding, acceptance, and effective care. The sections on how to communicate and resolve conflicts with the ‘other’ parent— the one who doesn’t have dementia—are unique. Above all, this book shows us how to focus on the feelings—our own, our siblings’ and our parents’—that are at the heart of caregiving but can give us the biggest challenges.

Teaching Kids to Pause, Cope, and Connect: Lessons for Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness (2022)

John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain Science (2022)

By Samuel H. Greenblatt RES’74

By Mark Purcell and Kellen Glinder MED’98 Students today face many challenges that did not exist a generation or two ago, and rates of emotional disorders (including anxiety and depression) have increased steadily over the years.

Students must also manage an overwhelming amount of information. With today’s reliance on technology and social media, they have fewer opportunities to develop effective self-regulation strategies and interpersonal and stress management skills.

Helping students understand their emotions and behavior when they’re young will set them on a path to being successful learners and empathetic people throughout their lives. With thirty easy-to-implement, skill-based lessons and activities, Teaching Kids to Pause, Cope, and Connect provides educators with strategies to help their students.

John Hughlings Jackson (18351911) cofounded modern clinical neurology (with Jean-Martin Charcot) by analyzing clinical cases with a combination of Spencerian evolution and theoretical analyses at both the cellular and (hierarchical) cortical levels. This approach was most successful in his work on epilepsy, e.g., Jacksonian seizures. In this new biography, John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution and Victorian Brain Science, Samuel H. Greenblatt provides a critical analysis of Jackson’s work within the professional, social, and intellectual contexts of his Victorian milieu. The book follows Jackson’s intellectual development through a close examination of his published writings, in chronological order, from the case reports and Suggestions of his early medical career to the major lectures he delivered in his later years.

If you have written a book (please no textbooks) in the past two years and would like it considered for inclusion in a future issue of Alumni News & Notes, please submit a hi-res .JPG of the cover of the book, and a maximum 100 word summary utilizing this form dartgo.org/bookshelf.

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Health Leaders Circle (HLC) is a committed group of donors who give $5,000 or more in a fiscal year to an unrestricted fund at Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine, including the Fund for Geisel, Medical Student Scholarships, the Fund for Research and Discovery, and the Cancer Director’s Fund for Excellence.

Unrestricted dollars are flexible, allowing emergent and critical needs to be funded immediately—not later.

New philanthropic support from HLC members is already making a meaningful difference in the career paths of Geisel students in a variety of ways, including: Increased funding for scholarships and student stipends New research opportunities and expanded healthcare science and policy degree programs Career mentoring and coaching, and 24/7 counseling and mental health services Like our staff and alumni, Geisel is always looking to improve and innovate. Supporting an unrestricted fund provides the resources that make innovation possible.

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