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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

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 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- 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

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.