Class Notes

from Alumni News & Notes — Spring 2023

by Dartmouth Health | Geisel School of Medicine

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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.

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 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.” 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.

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

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

“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

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, 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

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.

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

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.

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.”

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

62The 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.

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

63Wow, 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

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.

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 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

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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

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.”

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 66

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

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 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

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 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.

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

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary

William H. Ramsey at 49 Cranberry Lane, Cheshire, CT 064103504; or williamramsey@sbcglobal.net.

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

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

“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.

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.

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

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 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!

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-

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

L 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 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

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 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 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- 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Shout Out 1979

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

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!

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 81

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.

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, 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.

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.

—Patricia

Edwards

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

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

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

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:

“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 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

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 88

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 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.

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.

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 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 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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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).

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.

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 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 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

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!

Jennifer Brokaw wrote from Japan, where she and Allen were traveling with 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 reference). 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.

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

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary

Kristin Casale at 94 Meadow Wood Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830; or kpcasale@gmail.com.

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary

Kristen O. Hansberry at 6385 Oxbow Bend, Chanhassen, MN 55317-9128; 952-473-5500; or Khansbe15@gmail.com.

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.”

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Rondall Lane at 547 23rd Avenue, #A, San Francisco, CA 94121; or rondall.lane@ucsf.edu

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

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

Shout Out 1998

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

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.

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

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

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 - 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

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.

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

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary

Katrina Mitchell at 4087B Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; or kbm9002@me.com

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

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 09

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Kristen Telischak at 725 Hobart Street, Menlo Park, CA 94025; or kristentelischak@gmail.com

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Sarah Dotters-Katz at 1908 North Hawick Court, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-7738; 541-554-1817; or sarahkd@ gmail.com

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

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary

Kolene Bailey at 6191 Massive Peak Circle, Castle Rock, CO 80108; 603209-1439; or kolene.bailey@gmail.com

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 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

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Emma Tang at 1405 Crossfield Avenue, Kingston, ON K7P 0E7 Canada; 603-359-2860; or chentang00@gmail.com

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries

John Damianos at john. damianos94@gmail.com or W. John Porter at wjohnporter4@gmail.com

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

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Lovelee Brown at loveleebrown@gmail.com

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

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.

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

SHOUT OUT PhD

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 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

SHOUT OUT PhD

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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