24 Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin
ClassNotes School of Medicine and director of the Child Protection Team at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect. He and his partner, Jamie, live in Denver.
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Nancyanne Freeman Lerner is a partner with Anesthesiology Associates of Clark County in southern Indiana. She and her husband, Guy Lerner, MD, live in Louisville, Ky., and have two children, Aaron and Rachel.
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Iqbal Anwar lives in Los Angeles and has three sons. Anwar practices orthopaedics with Kaiser Permanente.
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Daniel K. Meyer recently was elected chair of the Board of Directors of the Opera Company of Philadelphia.
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He also serves on the board of the William Penn Foundation and advises the Wyncote Foundation on philanthropic grant-making. Meyer lives in Philadelphia. Alice L. Truscott is chief of pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente’s Delta Fair Medical Office in Antioch, Calif. Truscott lives in Berkeley.
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Blanche Mavromatis is practicing medical oncology in Cumberland, Md. She and her husband are enjoying life in a small town with their three children.
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Marty Makary has written a book, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care, which was published in September 2012 by Bloomsbury Press. Unaccountable urges
hospitals to make their outcomes available to patients so they can make informed decisions on where to seek care. Makary was featured in the Sept. 24, 2012, issue of Newsweek, and has also appeared recently in Reader’s Digest, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal and on NPR, CNN and CBS. A surgeon at Johns Hopkins, he specializes in advanced laparoscopic surgery and performed the first laparoscopic Whipple surgery and the first laparoscopic central pancreas removal at Hopkins. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Matthew J. Watson is a partner with Northside Emergency Associates in the Atlanta area, where he has been practicing emergency medicine for the past 11 years. Watson is president of the Georgia College of Emergency Physicians. He and his wife, Christine, and their three children live in Alpharetta, Ga.
Christina McAdams married Victor Williams in December 2009. Classmates in attendance included Eugene Glavin, Cecelia Schmalbach and Paul Zelkovic. McAdams and Williams live in Jacksonville, Fla., with their daughter, Tierney, and son, Thomas.
Heather A. Nesti and her husband, Leon Nesti, MD ’02, welcomed their son Charles Leon Nesti in December 2011, just one week after Leon’s return from Afghanistan following a six-month deployment with the U.S. Army. They are also parents
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Louis Giangiulio opened a solo pediatric practice, Sugartown Pediatrics, with offices in Newtown Square and Malvern, Pa. He lives in West Chester, Pa.
James McKeith, MD ‘92, Shows Jefferson Colors in the Antarctic
From left to right: Alumni Association President Marianne Ritchie, MD ’80; Lorraine King, MD; James Fox, MD ’70; Nancy Czarnecki, MD ’65; and George Valko, MD ’86.
James McKeith, MD ‘92, holds a Jefferson banner at Hut Point on McMurdo Station, a U.S. Antarctic research center, on Sept. 24, 2012. McKeith is lead physician at McMurdo General Hospital. He expects to go to the South Pole when planes start flying there at the end of the month — but first, the temperature needs to drop below -50 degrees.
JMC at the Beach
Alumni met in Stone Harbor, N.J., on July 28 to celebrate the second annual “Jeff at the Beach” event. This casual gathering includes an informal reception and dinner during which alumni can catch up with each other and with current JMC faculty. “Thanks to all who joined us this year, and for those who could not make it, we hope to see you next summer!” says Ritchie.