CLASS NOTES
their first child in October.
Robert Nastasi ’08, wife Wendy, and children
Robert Nastasi, of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, and his wife, Wendy, have two young boys: Ethan, three and Quinn, one. They enjoy spending time on the beach in Ponte Vedra when Rob is not working at his private practice pain medicine office. “Go Jags!”
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Meaghan Stumpf, of Memphis, TN, and her husband have had two children since graduation: Ryker, two, and Declan, born in April. She will be completing her residency in MedPeds this June and starting endocrinology fellowship at UVA this July. Christopher Weaver, of Charlottesville, VA, will join a comprehensive ophthalmology practice in Greensboro, NC, in August 2016. He and Jenna were also happy to welcome Adalyn Rose on April 2, 2016.
2013 Anthony T. Giuffrida, of Albany, NY, recently proposed to his girlfriend, Brittney Fellows. They are planning to be married in summer 2017.
Blesserene (Punzalan) Kazacos ’12 and Stefan Kazacos ’12
Stefan Kazacos and Blesserene (Punzalan) Kazacos, of Seoul, South Korea, got married on August 24, 2014. They both completed their emergency medicine residencies in 2015 and are currently living and working in Seoul on the U.S. Army base. In May they went on a Mongolian horseback riding adventure trek. They are expecting
Anthony T. Giuffrida ’13 and fiancée Brittney Fellows
Justin P. Meyer ’13 and Jenny A. Johnson ’13 with Upstate friends and classmates
Justin P. Meyer and Jenny A. Johnson, of New York, NY, were married on May 29, at Highland Forest in Fabius, NY. Justin is chief resident of psychiatry residency at Mt. Sinai, and Jenny is chief resident of neurology residency at Montefiore Medical Center/ Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Jenny was accepted to neuromuscular fellowship starting in 2017, and Justin plans to work as an inpatient psychiatry attending. John and Mark Quare sima, have joined forces at Hudson Headwaters Health Network in Queens bury, NY. They were former chiefs at Dartmouth and Albany, respectively, and will be helping HHHN start a new family medicine residency serving the southeastern Adirondacks. Mark and his wife, Meghan, recently welcomed a second baby boy, Ian, in May, who joins Luke, two. John and his wife, Jennie, have three girls: Amelia, seven; Eliza, four; and Izabella, one.
House Staff Robert S. Wilkinson, Jr. HS ’62, of Washington, DC, has been awarded the Outstanding Volun teer Clinical Teacher Award from the American College of Physicians, the national organization of internists. The award was presented at ACP’s annual Convocation ceremony on May 5, 2016. He remains very grateful to Dr. Richard Lyons, who was chair of the department of medicine when he was a resident and fellow and had such a positive impact on his professional career.
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Robert S. Wilkinson, Jr.
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