CLASS NOTES
Craig S. See, MD ’99, of San Antonio, TX, writes that after 15 years on active duty and five deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan as a general surgeon in the U.S. Army, he will be leaving the military practice at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, on January 2, 2012 and joining a private practice.
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David W. Dexter, of Erie, PA, is a general and trauma surgeon and the medical director for Great Lakes Surgical Specialists and Hamot Shock Trauma at UPMC Hamot. He is also a Governor for the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Dexter and his family have been in Erie for 11 years. His daughter, Jen, is a junior at RIT and son, Chris, is a high school senior. He and his wife, Patti, can be found on their boat or bike when the weather is good. Dexter invites all alumni who ride to join him at the annual Roar on the Shore motorcycle rally held each July. He can be reached at dexterdw@upmc.edu.
Brian A. Meltzer, of Pennington, NJ, is thrilled to be returning to Upstate on a regular basis as a member of the board of directors for the Central New York Biotechnology Research Center.
1993 Daren Repishti, of Louisville, KY, is an interventional radiologist and is president of DXP Imaging and Louisville Endovascular. He has three children, Bryan, 17, Julie, 15, and Nicole, 14. Dr. Repishti is engaged to Kimberley Bloomfield also an inter ventional radiologist.
Craig S. See, MD ’99, and family
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Mutahar Ahmed, of Franklin Lakes, NJ, is enjoying a great career in robotic/laparoscopic urologic surgery. Dr. Ahmed is married with four children.
2000 Shelley V. Street Callender, of Lincoln Park, MI, married Charles Callender, MD, on July 18, 2010.
2002 Mahesh A. Netravali, of Old Saybrook, CT, married Carolina Maharbiz in February of 2011. Dr. Netravali is part of an allergy and asthma practice.
Alexis, daughter of Jonathan Berg, MD ’03 and Erica (Shapiro) Berg, MD ’02
Jonathan Berg and Erica (Shapiro) Berg ’02, of New City, NY, welcome their daughter, Alexis Jamie, born on February 10, 2011. Jonathan is practicing pulmonary/critical care and sleep medicine in Rockland County, NY, and Erica is practicing pediatrics part time in New York City. Michael J. Eckrich, of Milwaukee, WI, received the 2011 Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Oncology (ASCO).
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