Upstate Medical Alumni Journal Winter 2014

Alumni JOURNAL UPSTATE MEDICAL

WINTER 2014 PUBLISHED BY UPSTATE MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

PLACE MATTERS HOW THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT IMPACTS MEDICAL TRAINING

REPORT OF GIFTS

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K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79 President Richard M. Cantor, MD ’76 Vice President Dennis D. Daly, MD ’83 Treasurer Robert A. Dracker, MD ’82 Secretary Thomas A. Bersani, MD ’82 Debra Buchan, MD ’87 Larry S. Charlamb, MD ’88 Richard W. Doust Gregory L. Eastwood, MD Mark Erlebacher, MD ’79 Brian J. Gaffney, MD ’72 Sadri Garakani Diane Green-el, MD ’78 Douglas W. Halliday, MD ’79 Ruth Hart, MD ’80 Karen Heitzman, MD ’83 Jeffrey R. LaDuca, MD ’98 Kirsten Magowan, MD ’87 Barbara A. Morisseau, MD ’98 Mark S. Persky, MD ’72 Amy L. Reynders, MD ’01 Charles J. Ryan III, MD ’82 Jack Schneider, MD ’66 Ralph L. Stevens, MD ’81

James Terzian, MD ’75 Jack Yoffa, MD ’69

EMERITUS

A. Geno Andreatta Frederick R. Davey, MD ’64 E. Robert Heitzman, MD ’51 Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65 Michael H. Ratner, MD ’68 Gregory A. Threatte, MD ’73

EX-OFFICIO

Donna Bacchi, MD, MPH David B. Duggan, MD ’79 Paul Norcross Julie White, PhD

HONORARY

Frederick N. Roberts, MD ’42

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES Meenakshi Davuluri ’15 Binghamton Devin Halleran ’15 William Ericksen ’16 Lisa Ryder ’16 Binghamton Ramzi El Hassan ’17 Gabrielle E. Ritaccio ’18

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Reunion Recap The College of Medicine welcomed back classes ending in 4 and 9.

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Be Willing to Leave Your Comfort Zone Sharon Brangman, MD ’84, on leading through challenges.

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Place Matters

WINTER 2014 ISSUE Published three times in 2014 in spring, fall, and winter.

Published by the Syracuse (HSC) Medical Alumni Foundation of Upstate Medical University, Setnor Academic Building #1510, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, New York 13210-9976 Issue Number: 63 Submissions and address corrections should be sent to Director of Medical Alumni Relations and Giving, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Setnor Academic Building #1510, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, New York 13210-9976

A unique photo research project documents the impact of training in rural communities on medical education for students in the RMED program.

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Email: murphyl@upstate.edu

Bubblehead Medicine

Paul Norcross Executive Editor

John McCarthy, MD ’69, shares memories of his tour as a submarine doc.

Renée Gearhart Levy Managing Editor

Departments

Sarah Burns Lori Murphy Kristen Piescik Chere Raven Contributing Editors

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Fax: 315/464-4360

Kiefer Creative Design and Production Darryl Geddes Stan Linhorst John McCarthy, MD ’69 Jim McKeever Doretta Royer Amber Smith Contributing Writers

Matt Champlin William Mueller Debbie Rexine Rich Whelsky Klineberg Photography Chuck Wainwright Photographers

Michael H. Ratner, MD ’68, Chair Thomas Bersani, MD ’82 Debra Buchan, MD ’87 Fred Davey, MD ’64 Diane Green-el, MD ’78 Ruth Hart, MD ’80 James Terzian, MD ’75 Editorial Board JUST A CLICK AWAY Visit the Medical Alumni web page at www.upstate. edu/medalumni for special event information, excerpts from past Alumni Journals, giving opportunities, and more. Plus, you can now make secure financial transactions on our web site!

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ON THE COVER: Photograph by Matt Champlin, Skaneateles, NY

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P R E S I D E N T

Medical Alumni Foundation

Dear Fellow Alumni,

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t’s hard to believe a year has passed since beginning my two-year term; I am happy to report to you on a productive year. My first important undertaking was to form a search committee to fill the vacant Medical Alumni Association executive director position. Having served on a number of search committees in the past, I was fully aware of the challenge of having the right candidate available at the right time for consideration. Fortunately, Paul Norcross stood out as having the experience we were looking for, as well as personality and enthusiasm that make him an ideal fit for the job.

Another plus is Paul’s interest in going on the road to meet with alumni face-to-face. Give him a call if you would like to have him meet with a group of alumni in your area.

Reunion Weekend is always one of the highlights of the year, and for me, this year’s reunion was extra special. Not only was I able to represent the Medical Alumni Association as president, I was also able celebrate my 35th Upstate reunion with many fellow classmates. Overall, a record number of alumni returned and the weather was near perfect. It’s wonderful to see how delighted alumni are to reunite with former classmates and view all of the changes to campus.

If you haven’t been back in awhile, please plan to do so in the future.

As president, I have also had the honor of being a part of a number of events for students supported by the Medical Alumni Association, including graduation of the Class of 2014, the White Coat Ceremony for the incoming Class of 2018, and the scholarship presentation ceremony during Reunion Weekend. This year 87 students received 102 scholarships totaling more than $300,000, entirely as a result of alumni giving over the years.

I truly appreciate the opportunity to serve as your representative, and in that role, learn how appreciative College of Medicine students (also known as future alumni) are for all the benefits that your generosity provides for them. Thank you for your participation and support of the Medical Alumni Association.

Best wishes,

K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79 President Upstate Medical Alumni Association Setnor Academic Bldg #1510 | 750 E. Adams St. | Syracuse, NY 13210 | Ph: 315.464.4361 | Fax: 315.464.4360 | medalum@upstate.edu | www.upstate.edu | SUNY

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Upstate Welcomes the Class of 2018 at the Annual White Coat Ceremony and Reception avid R. Halleran, MD D (left), past president of the Onondaga County Medical Society, and K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79, president of the Upstate Medical Alumni Foundation, welcome incoming students Gabrielle Ritaccio ’18 and Cody McGee ’18.

THE THIRD GENERATION of the Wanamaker family is represented in this year’s incoming class. Emily Wanamaker ’18 is the daughter of Hayes Wanamaker, MD ’85, and Tammy Anthony, MD ’86, and the granddaughter of the late Hal Wanamaker, MD ’56 (below).

Upstate Faculty and Clinician Honors

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pstate held its annual fall convo­cation and awards ceremony in September to recognize distinguished service to the institution. Among those honored:

President’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service: Vincent E. Frechette, MD ’91, Department of Medicine

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching: Ann Sutera Botash, MD ’85, Department of Pediatrics

President’s Award for Outstanding Voluntary Faculty College of Medicine: Michael J. Parker, MD ’82, Center for Sinus & Allergy Care, Camillus, NY

President’s Award for Excellence in Philanthropic Service: Robert B. Cady, MD ’71, (pictured with wife Linda and granddaughters Hope and Chloe)

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Academy of Upstate Educators: Neerja Vajpayee, MD, HS ’02, Department of Pathology

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Upstate Library Adds Curator of Historic Collections

Dr. Patricia Numann pictured with the portrait and plaque honoring Drs. Carlyle and Ellen Jacobsen

Jacobsen Foyer Dedicated

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he foyer of Weiskotten Hall was officially named the Carlyle and Ellen Cook Jacobsen Foyer on November 12, a tribute to the former Upstate administrators who worked tirelessly and effectively to promote academic excellence and a strong sense of commu­ nity during a period of exceptional growth at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Carlyle Jacobsen, PhD, was an internationally known neurophysiologist and leading figure in medical administration who served as president of Upstate

from 1957 to 1965.

His wife, Ellen Townley Cook Jacobsen, MD ’50, was a longtime Upstate professor of medicine and psychiatry and the founding director of Student and Employee Health.

Speakers at the dedication ceremony included David G. Murray, MD, HS ’58, professor and chair emeritus of the Upstate Department of Orthopedic Surgery, and Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65, Lloyd S. Rogers Professor of Surgery Emeritus.

THE UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY has hired Cara Howe as Curator for Historic Collections. Howe comes to Upstate with dual master’s degrees in library sciences and museum studies and an additional certification of Advanced Study in Cultural Heritage Preservation. She was previously the assistant archivist for the Pan Am Flight 103/ Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives at Syracuse University.

As Howe begins her work with the Historic Collections, she will spend a significant amount of time cataloging, arranging and preserving the materials currently held in the vault on the second floor of the Library, in addition to making efforts to expand the collection.

Cara Howe, Curator for Historical Collections at Upstate Initial projects include an oral history program focusing on interviews with long-time Upstate faculty and staff, new exhibitions for the library’s display areas, and a memorial web page for Carlyle “Jake” and Ellen “Cookie” Jacobsen, to coincide with the dedication of the new Jacobsen lobby in Weiskotten Hall.

Howe invites anyone with materials related to the history of medicine, Upstate Medical University, and/or the research materials of alumni and faculty to contact her at 315-464-4585, or howec@upstate.edu. Information on the collecting policy for the Historic Collections, guides to the current collections, as well as hours of operation, may be found on the website http://library. upstate.edu/resources/historical/.

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Eastwood Honored as Public Health Champion

Gregory L. Eastwood, MD

GREGORY L. EASTWOOD, MD, interim president of Upstate Medical University, is being honored as a public health champion for his role in creating a smoke-free campus by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Also recognized are the continu­ing leadership efforts of Upstate Medical University in promoting practices and policies to reduce the incidence and burden of cancer. He received the network’s Donald A. Gemson Cancer Prevention Public Policy Award at a ceremony in New York City on October 2.

Under Eastwood’s leadership, Upstate became the first smoke-free hospital in New York in 2005, and the first SUNY site to establish an entirely smoke-free campus. In partnership with the American Cancer Society, Upstate has led policy change in the 64-campus State University of New York and Onondaga County. In the work environment, its clinical mission and research focus, cancer is the highest priority at Upstate.

Two Upstate Medical Students Chosen as National Leadership Scholars

U New Alumni Website— Includes Alumni Directory!

TO BETTER SERVE ALUMNI AND STUDENTS, the Medical Alumni Association has launched a new improved website. It is now easier than ever to stay in touch with Upstate. Alumni can create and update an on-line profile and access the Alumni Directory. You can also register for events, make donations, view giving history, submit class notes, and more!

Students, parents and friends can also create on-line profiles and use many of the new interactive features. Visit www.upstate.edu/ medalumni today!

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pstate Medical Univ­ ersity fourth-year medical students Andy Beltran ’15 and Elizabeth Zane ’15 were among 40 students nationwide selected for the highly competitive Paul Ambrose Scholars Program Student Leader­ ship Symposium in June.

Beltran and Zane were selected from applicants from more than 80 health professions schools across the country, and spent three days with other medical, physician assistant, dental, phar­ macy, public health and graduate nursing students at the Washington, DC, leadership program.

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The Ambrose scholars submitted project pro­ posals with an eye toward federal Healthy People 2020 goals. The initiative is designed to improve the health and lives of Americans of all ages and all groups.

Zane’s “Spring Sprouts” proposal brings nutrition education and gardening skills to a Syra­ cuse elementary school.

Beltran’s “Breaking the Silence” proposal aims to educate children in grades 4-12 about mental health and decrease suicide rates among youth.

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Medical Students Share Research at Refugee Conference

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group of medical students who volunteered at the Upstate Health Care Center’s Refugee Intake Clinic as first- and second-year students presented five research posters at the North American Refugee Health Confer­ ence in Rochester in September.

The students, most of them now MSIIIs, served as coordinators of the Refugee Intake Clinic, an Upstate volun­ teer opportunity through the Center for Civic Engagement. The students partici­ pate in the Domestic Health Screening exams for refugees at the Upstate Health Care Center (UHCC).

While working with the clinic, the team of coordinators collected data on health trends among the refugee patient population. They presented their findings at the June conference on a variety of refugee health issues and case studies.

Clinic director Peter Cronkright, MD, who was also a speaker at the confer­ ence, mentored the Upstate students and led the team throughout the process of submitting their findings to confer­ ence organizers.

Neurology News LUIS J. MEJICO, MD, has been named interim chair of the Department of Neurology. Dr. Mejico most recently served as associate chair of the department and succeeds Jeremy Shefner, MD, PhD, who has accepted a position at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mejico has served as medical director of the Neurology Ambulatory Services since 2006. He is an active clinical investigator and has been supported by several grants from the NIH since 2005, as well as many industrysupported trials. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Society, and the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society.

Luis J. Mejico, MD

Upstate’s College of Medicine was well represented at the North American Refugee Conference in Rochester. From left, students Matthew Perlstein ’16, Cheryl DuMond ’16, Finny John ’16, and Ruchika Sangani ’16; Associate Professor of Medicine Peter Cronkright, MD; students Yu Lin Chen ‘16, Peter Edmonds ’16, Kristy Semenza ’16 and Wing Tai Kong, MD ’14.

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Welcome Reunion 2014

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HE SUN WAS OUT. The leaves

were turning. We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful Syracuse weekend to welcome back alumni from classes ending in 4 and 9.

Indeed, Reunion 2014 attracted a fantastic turnout from across the country.

Back Terrorism. His talk was followed by the recognition of exceptional alumni—Distinguished

While it may seem like just yesterday that

Alumnus Frederick Davey, MD ’64, Outstand-

they were students themselves, alumni enjoyed

ing Young Alumnus Nienke Dosa, MD ’94, and

the opportunity to reminisce with classmates

Humanitarian Zaven Ayanian, MD ’59—and the

and mentors during activities that included a

presentation of scholarships to 87 current

medical writing seminar, tours of exciting new

students, all funded through alumni giving.

facilities on the ever-evolving campus, and of

Whether visiting from near or far, Reunion 2014 was a wonderful weekend of looking back

course, class dinners.

A standing-room-only crowd filled the Med-

and paying it forward, of reconnecting and

ical Alumni Auditorium to hear Patrick Basile,

revisiting. Thanks to all who made it such a

MD ’03, give the Weiskotten Lecture on Military

wonderful weekend. See you again in five years!

Medicine and Lessons from the Global War on

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• 1979 • 1984 • 1989 • 1994 • 1999 • 2004 Robert Kribs ’15 received the Ayanian Family Scholarship.

Jasmin Sahbaz ’15 received the Samuel G. Rosenthal MD ’64 Scholarship.

Members of the class of 1964 celebrate their 50th reunion.

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Reunion 2014 D I STI NG U I SHED ALUMNUS

Frederick R. Davey, MD ’64

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the function of lymphocyte subpopulation in varirederick R. Davey, MD ’64, is professor ety lymphoid malignancies. emeritus of pathology at Upstate Medical During a sabbatical leave at the Ratcliff Hospital University. At the time of his retirement in in Oxford, Davey gained significant experience in 2001, he was chairman and professor of the the use of a panel of monoclonal antibodies in the Department of Pathology, director of the immunophenotyping of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoPathology Laboratories, and professor of mas in paraffin embedded tissue section, technolinternal medicine and microbiology. ogy brought back to the Upstate Medical University After earning his medical degree in 1964, Dr. and applied to the study of myeloid leukemias Davey stayed at Upstate for his internship, then and myelodysplastic syndromes. These studies completed a residency in pathology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Boston Women’s Hospital. In addition, he served as a research fellow at Harvard Medical College. In his final post-graduate year, he was a fellow in hematology with William Maloney, MD, director of hematology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

Following service in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, Davey joined the Upstate faculty as an assistant professor of pathology in the Division of Clinical Pathology in 1971. He became full professor in 1979.

Davey’s research activities focused on the fields of blood banking and hematopathology. His earliest investigations were in collaboration with Charlene Hubble and Dr. John Henry Fred Davey, MD ’64, with Dean David Duggan, MD ’79, Alumni Association President K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79, and Interim President Gregory Eastwood, MD regarding the association of human histocompatibility antigens with the incidence of several hematologic were among the first to demonstrate the utility of disorders. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Davey, enzyme labeled antibodies in identifying antigens along with Michael Morris, MS, Douglas Halliday, in paraffin embedded tissue sections. Variations of MD ’79, and Dr. A.A. Marucci, used histochemical these techniques are now routinely used in today’s stains and immunoperoxidase labeled antibodies histopathology laboratories. to phenotype lymphoid neoplasms. They demonAs a result of combined efforts with many colstrated that the classification of lymphoid maligleagues, Davey contributed to 165 journal publicanancies at that time was not only inadequate but, tions and 50 textbook chapters. In 1988, he was inaccurate. In the next several years, Dr. Davey, guest editor of a volume of Clinics in Laboratory together with Dr. Nancy Dock and Dr. Jeffrey Medicine entitled “Classification, Diagnosis and Wolos, used early cell separation techniques and Molecular Biology of Lymphoproliferative Disorautologous mixed lymphocyte cultures to examine

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OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNA

Nienke P. Dosa, MD ’94, MPH

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Dr. Davey with classmate Gerald J. Bargman, MD ’64

ders” and in 1990, he served as guest editor for another issue entitled “Myeloproliferative Disorders.” Davey was also associate editor of the textbook Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods.

During his tenure, Davey held various positions within the Department of Pathology, the College of Medicine, and at University Hospital. He was also active in a variety of national committees, serving as secretary, vice-president and president of the American Board of Pathology; chair of the Residency Review Committee in Pathology for the ACGME; and serving on the executive committee of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists.

In 1998, Davey received the Certificate of Appreciation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for his leadership as chair of the Residency Review Committee in Pathology. In 2000, he received the President’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, and the following year was made Life Trustee of the American Board of Pathology. In 2004, he received the President’s award for Excellence in Philanthropic Service.

ienke P. Dosa, MD ’94, MPH, is a developmental pediatrician who joined the Upstate faculty in 2002.

She currently holds the Upstate Foundation Professorship in Child Health Policy and is a Senior Fellow at Syracuse University’s Burton Blatt Institute.

Dr. Dosa is a graduate of Yale University, the Upstate Medical University College of Medicine, and Upstate’s Pediatric Residency Program, where she was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. She was the recipient of a National Research Service Award at the University of Rochester, where she obtained a Master of Public Health degree and completed fellowship training in neurodevelopmental disabilities. While at Rochester, Dosa received the Clausen Research Award to study the health care of children with developmental disabilities in neonatal and pediatric ICUs in the Netherlands. She is board certified in pediatrics and in neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Nienka Dosa, MD ’94, with Drs. Duggan, Simmons, and Eastwood

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Reunion 2014 Dosa’s clinical practice is the care of children and adolescents who have spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and vision impairment/blindness. Her academic work focuses on the development and evaluation of community-based models for developmental disability care, particularly as this relates to transition to adulthood and inclusive fitness. As medical director of the Spina Bifida Center of Central New York, she launched a group visit program that has received national recognition. She works closely with faculty in the Department of Adapted Physical Education at SUNY Cortland, Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and the Syracuse University School of Education. Via her affiliation with the Burton Blatt Institute, she also works with scholars in public policy and disability law.

Dosa is a member of the Professional Advisory Council of the Spina Bifida Association and leads the research reviews for that organization. She is also active in the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. She was the recipient of that organization’s Transformative Care Award for work she is doing with the Department of Orthopedics at Columbia University to launch a lifespan care program at the Weinberg Cerebral Palsy Center in Manhattan. She is a member of the executive cabinet of the National Center for Health Care Transition and has published numerous scholarly articles and textbook chapters on lifespan care for individuals with developmental disabilities. She has also produced six instructional DVDs, a 10-part curriculum on healthcare transition for youth with developmental disabilities (www.HealthyTransitionsNY.org), and a series of guidebooks on inclusive fitness for high school students.

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care. Each summer she offers internships to local high school and college students. She launched “Parent Partners in Health Education,” a home visit program that introduced residents in pediatrics, family medicine, and psychiatry to systems of care for patients with developmental disabilities. Since 2006, she has directed the New York State Institute for Health Transition Training, and in 2010, she was appointed to the New York State Council for Graduate Medical Education.

With support from her Upstate Foundation Endowed Professorship, Dosa has launched an annual “Fit-IN” conference to promote inclusive fitness in Central New York. She is involved with numerous adapted sports and health promotion programs for people with developmental disabilities and has received more than $1-million in grant support for various community-based initiatives since joining the Upstate faculty.

HUMANITARIAN AWAR D

Zaven S. Ayanian, MD ’59, FACP

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he Upstate Medical Alumni Association honors Zaven S. Ayanian, MD ’59, for his voluntarism and commitment to providing health care for the underserved in his community as a volunteer physician at the Parker Family Health Center.

A native Syracusan, Dr. Ayanian earned his undergraduate degree at Syracuse University and attended Upstate Medical University with assistance from the GI Bill after serving in the Korean conflict. He completed internship and residency training in internal medicine at Robert Packer Hospital/Guthrie Clinic in Pennsylvania, then joined a multi-specialty practice in Matawan, New Jersey, where he practiced for 35 years.

Early in his career, Ayanian became involved in the creation of a new acute care hospital needed in his community, and upon its opening, became the first medical staff president of the 225-bed Bayshore Community Hospital and chairman of

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• 1979 • 1984 • 1989 • 1994 • 1999 • 2004 Dr. Ayanian with cousin Charles Koolakian and wife Judy

its Department of Medicine. He was later elected to the hospital’s board of trustees, serving until 2010, when the hospital merged with the Meridian Health System.

In 1995, Ayanian was selected by the medical staff of Bayshore Community Hospital as Physician of the Year.

The selection committee described their honoree as the “quintessential Zaven Ayanian, MD ’59, with Dean David Duggan, MD ’79, Alumni doctor to people in the community . . . Association President K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79, and Interim President Besides practicing excellent medicine, Gregory Eastwood, MD his love and devotion to his patients has endeared him to them.” room visits and hospitalizations. His approach to Although he retired from private chronic disease care is comprehensive. He works practice in 1999, Ayanian continues to care for closely with the clinic’s dietician, social worker low-income, uninsured patients at the Parker and diabetes educator, seeking to educate patients Family Health Center, an organization he has about their condition and—in his words—facilihelped grow from a walk-in clinic operating out tate their self-care. Many patients have complex of a modified trailer two nights a week into a conditions and significant co-morbidities and comprehensive healthcare facility open six days a Ayanian is committed both to improving patients’ week, providing 10,000 patient visits annually. health as well as reducing strains on the healthcare The Parker Family Health Center serves the system by preventing hospitalizations that would working poor in Monmouth County, New Jersey, be inevitable without proper care. providing care at no cost to patients, in some cases In 2010, the Parker Center nominated Ayanian even paying for medications when the situation for the American Medical Association’s Jack B. calls for additional assistance.

McConnell, MD Award for Excellence in VolunAyanian was the second physician-volunteer teerism, an honor he received. In announcing the recruited for the clinic and for the past 15 years award, AMA Foundation president Richard Hovhas treated more than 3,000 patients. He has also land praised Ayanian’s enduring presence with the been an active participant in the clinic’s program Parker Family Health Center and his commitment for third-year medical students from UMDNJ, the to serving the working poor. “Dr. Ayanian is not state’s university of health sciences. only a compassionate physician,” said Hovland, Ayanian’s focus at the clinic has been on “he is also a teacher, mentor and leader.” patients with chronic disease, primarily heart disease, hypertension and diabetes, which are present in the patient population at very high rates, but also patients who are triaged when they present with acute problems, thus preventing emergency

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Scholarship Recipients

Thanks to the generosity of alumni support,

the Medical Alumni Association awarded more than $300,000 in student scholarships during Reunion Weekend.

A. Geno Andreatta Scholarship Ryan Van Nostrand Benjamin N., Mollie P. and Gerson H. Aronovitz, MD ’57 Memorial Scholarship Sarah Beth Evans and Kathryn McHugh The Ayanian Family Scholarship (endowed by Zaven S. Ayanian, MD ’59) Robert Kribs The Martin Black Family Scholarship (endowed by Drs. Martin, Gerald, Michael and Robert Black) Devin R. Halleran Bernard J. Burke, MD ’43 Jeremy Di Bari Leonard D. Carpenter, MD ’33 and Ruth E. Carpenter Memorial Scholarship Colm Kelleher Edwin T. Dailey, MD ’68 Memorial Scholarship in Radiology Evan Kastner The Dracker Family Scholarship Zoe Grabinski and Amy Reed DuFlo Robert Eitches, MD ’78 Scholarship in Honor of Shirley and Irving Eitches Sarah Beth Evans Alfred F. and Shirley D. Enwright Endowed Scholarship Rachel Kopicki Joseph C. Fischer, MD ’79 Memorial Scholarship John Charitable Sarah Loguen Fraser, MD, Class of 1876, Scholarship Michael Enechukwu Joseph J. Gadbaw, MD 12/’43 and Ann Gadbaw Scholarship Nefertari Alisha Owens Max Gara and Robert H. Gara, MD ’56 Scholarship Sabine S. Khan Suzan and Philip M. Gaynes, MD ’63 Scholarship Zoe Grabinski

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Samuel Gersten, MD ’39 and Martha Gersten Endowed Scholarships Colm Kelleher, Robert Kribs, Michael Christopher Harold Miller, and Ryan Van Nostrand Jerome C. Goldstein, MD ’63 and Rochelle Goldstein Scholarship Tammer Ghaly Frances A. Harmatuk, MD ’41 Geriatric Scholarship Kelly Cummings Grant Hobika, MD ’52 Scholarship Tommy Fu Robert V.P. Hutter, MD ’54 and Ruth L. Hutter Scholarship Ellie Garbade E. Gregory Keating, PhD Memorial Scholarship Michael Roberts, College of Health Professions

Presidential Award Recipients

Peggy and Adolph Morlang, MD ’66 Scholarship Adeseye Adekeye

John B. and Henrietta E. Simeone Scholarship Sarah Lander

Dr. Oscar and Mrs. Luba Trief Memorial Scholarship Rebecca Adler

Rudolph J. Napodano, MD ’59 Scholarship Mary Ngaleu Nkamany

Frederick W. Sloan, MD ’74 Scholarship Nathan Jones

Medical Alumni Foundation Founders Scholarship Devin R. Halleran

Onondaga County Medical Society (OCMS) Medical Student Scholarship Adwoa Boahene and Melissa Gadsden

Susan B. Stearns, PhD Scholarship for Community Engagement Nicole Cifra and Cheryl DuMond-Martinez

Barbara and Harold H. Wanamaker, MD ’56 Scholarship Jessica Christiano

The Lynch Family Scholarship Ellie Garbade

Betty Reiss, MD ’68 and Jacob Reiss, MD ’68 Family Endowed Scholarship Krista Tookhan

Alphonse A. Maffeo, MD ’72 Scholarship Fremlin Akwasi Dekyi

Esther and Monroe Richman, MD ’55 Scholarship Lambert Lewis

Susan B. Stearns, PhD Scholarship for International Travel Adeseye Adekeye and Rebecca Roach

B. Dale Magee, MD ’75 Scholarship Corey Vasisko

The Samuel G. Rosenthal, MD ’64 Scholarship Jasmin Sahbaz

Patrick T. Mathews, MD ’03 Memorial Scholarship Thomas Franzon

Sanders/Kilkelly Scholarship Hansitta Uche

Martha S. Kincaid, MD Scholarship Jeremy Di Bari Sonya A. LaBella Memorial Scholarship Benjamin Onderdonk Stanley D. Leslie, MD ’51 Memorial Scholarship Nicole Thompson

James L. McGraw, MD ’41 Scholarship Sabine S. Khan Gustave P. Milkey, MD ’43 and Janet B. Milkey Merit Scholarship Erika Steinbrenner

The Schein Family Scholarship Catherine White Jack J. Schneider, MD ’66 Scholarship Matthew Chiarello Julius Schwartz, MD ’33 Scholarship Thomas Franzon and Jasmin Sahbaz

Ralph Stevens, MD ’81 Madison-Oneida Counties Scholarship Joshua Bonville, Allie Clapp, Mary White Kolb, William Reed, Michael Siegenthaler, and Butros Toro Subik Family Scholarship Tiffany Bush The Swift Family Legacy Grants Matthew Chiarello, Brian Ruhle, Jasmin Sahbaz, Rachelle St. Onge, and Matthew TerBush

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Andrew D. Weinberg, MD ’78 Memorial Geriatric Scholarship Kelly Cummings Herbert M. Weinman, MD ’65 and Suzy Weinman Scholarship Award Alexandra Aarons Susan and Jack Yoffa, MD ’69 in Memory of Elaine Yoffa Hornung Scholarship Rachelle St. Onge Leanne and Frank E. Young, MD ’56 Scholarship Sarah Beth Evans, Thomas Franzon, and Matthew Helm Class of 1966 Scholarship Lindsey Koester Carol Kavanagh and Class of 1973 Scholarship James Sul

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Alumni Scholar Recipients

Presidential Awards

Alumni Scholars

The President’s Office supports full or partial tuition payments for outstanding medical students identified by the Admissions Committee.

The Medical Alumni Foundation Scholarships and the George J. Buchholtz, MD ’52 Scholarships support full or partial tuition payments for outstanding medical students identified by the Admissions Committee.

Matthew Basciotta Darik Benson Solomon Kyaka Bisangwa Candace Hatten Nathan Jones Dami Oluyede Lisa M. Ryder

Oluwafisayo Adekoya Kevin Bampoe Naomie Delone Lingyun Du Justin Faulkner Aluko Gift Ashlee Noell Green

Onecia Hannibal Rachel Kopicki Valerie Kyser Lambert Lewis Leonardo Meehan Adekorewale OdulateWilliams

Kyle Richardson Michael Rivara Allan So Felix Tavernier Justin Zelenka

Student Citizen Awards These awards recognize those students who have distinguished themselves as leaders and volunteers in the life of our campus and greater Syracuse community.

CLASS OF 2015 Priya Chhikara Kathryn McHugh

CLASS OF 2016 Leesha Alex Ellie Garbade Adriana Verwey CLASS OF 2017 Kathryn Leyens Rosemarie Mastropolo Heli Shah

Student Citizen Award Recipients

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Alumni, students, and friends enjoy the opportunity to reconnect and reminisce at Reunion 2014.

The 2014 AlumniSupported Scholarship Recipients

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B E W I L L I N G TO L E AV E YO U R

Comfort Zone Sharon Brangman, MD ’81, on Leading Through Challenges B Y

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r. Sharon Brangman has a number of titles: professor of medicine at Upstate Medical Uni­versity. Division chief of geriatrics at the university, where she also directs the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Training Program.

Director of University Geriatricians, a clinical practice associated with University Hospital. Director of the Central New York Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center. Past president of the American Geriatrics Society and president-elect of the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs.

She uses her prominence to push America’s medical schools to improve training in geriatrics.

“There’s a certain amount of advocacy that goes with geriatrics, because we’re always fighting to help older adults get the right kind of care,” Brangman says. “We need to make sure the health-care workforce is educated so they can take care of them. So I got involved in doing things in Washington and in various national committees to help make sure we’re training the health-care workforce.”

She champions new approaches: “We have an ACE team — an acutecare-for-the-elderly team. We evaluate people when they come into the hospital so we can help make sure that they don’t lose any physical or cognitive function.”

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WERE YOU IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS GROWING UP? I probably was always the organizer, the one who would come in and next thing you know I’m doing something.

I remember organizing a little summer day camp with kids who were just hanging out. I charged like 25 cents a day. I created things for the kids in the neighborhood to do.

I like to put lots of moving parts together and make sure things are organized and that we’re working toward a common goal. Disorganization isn’t efficient.

I was born in Brooklyn. We moved to Syracuse when I was in eighth grade.

So I’ve got a foot in two places, but my New York City blood is getting thinner.

So I went to junior high school here, and I went to high school here, and I went to Syracuse University and I went to med school here.

Then I left. In fact, I was never coming back. I was down in New York City, but the appeal of Central New York was really strong, especially after I had two kids. So we moved back.

WHO INFLUENCED YOU AND HELPED DEVELOP YOUR LEADERSHIP? My mother.

She was the first or among the first nurse practitioners in Central New York. She was in the first class at the University of Rochester. If things were different in her day, she probably would have been a physician.

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She had a lot of different interests and was involved in the arts. The Metropolitan School for the Arts and Salt City Playhouse and other little things that were always interesting and maybe unexpected.

That was the spirit I grew up with.

Here’s an example: I went to Nottingham High School. I wanted to do skiing. There was nobody interested in skiing that looked like me. But I wanted to do it, and I ended up skiing.

A lot of things that I did I was the first or the only and I may not have always had someone per se as a mentor.

Over time, I was able to find some. I know mentors now are considered very important in success. It’s challenging when you’re the first or the only and trying to find someone who can help.

YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT GENDER AND BEING AFRICAN-AMERICAN? Yeah.

HOW DID THAT INFLUENCE THE WAY YOU DEVELOPED? I was determined to make things happen no matter what. I have always been very determined to succeed or make things happen or pull the right groups together no matter what. I can’t say I’ve always been successful in that, but a good part of the time I have been.

If you spend a lot of time thinking about it, that’s all you’ll do. That can be pretty depressing, so you just gotta keep moving.

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Sharon Brangman, MD ’81, is a champion for geratric medicine.

TELL ME MORE ABOUT GERIATRICS AND YOUR WORK ON THE NATIONAL STAGE. There are not enough of us, which is one of our biggest concerns.

Friends who aren’t in medicine say, “Oh, this is the best time to be in geriatrics because of the demographics and the population increasing.”

But this is not a demographicdriven specialty. So just when we have the Baby Boomers aging—I think the statistics are they’re turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 a day—the number of people who are trained to take care of them is taking a precipitous dive.

We don’t have the pipeline to provide the care. It’s not just doctors. It’s also nurses, it’s pharmacists, it’s physical therapists, it’s the way hospitals and health-care services are designed to be accessible.

A lot of it is just changing the culture and the mindset of aging. Aging is something we all aspire to, but most people are terrified of it. We have a culture and society that doesn’t value old people.

WHY ARE NUMBERS OF CAREGIVERS DECLINING AS THE MARKET IS GOING UP? Economics is a big issue. You have medical students who are graduating with a record debt, and geriatricians are among the lowest paid of the docs.

Medical care in our country is reimbursed based on procedures— what you can do to someone, like surgery or scoping them or something like that. Geriatrics, like general internal medicine, is a cognitive specialty so you’re thinking about the person— they’re often complex—and you’re helping to coordinate their care among different specialists.

We don’t focus on one organ; we take care of the whole person and often their family and how they relate to the community. That’s time consuming, and it’s not reimbursed at the same level. So you have medical students who are graduating with $200,000 debt. They have to make decisions.

It’s not always taught in medical schools. A lot of nursing programs have eliminated geriatrics. It’s not part of pharmacy training or a lot of physical therapy training.

A lot of students, no matter what their discipline, aren’t even getting exposed to geriatrics.

Then we have challenges in our society and in Washington in problem solving — identifying a problem and coming up with a rational approach to solving it.

That creates obstacles that are completely unnecessary.

So we have a perfect storm of events impacting the way care is delivered to the country in general, but especially to older people.

WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR OVERCOMING OBSTACLES OR TAKING ON A TOUGH CHALLENGE? One of the key factors of aging well is flexibility. If you’re rigid and you can’t adapt to the environment around you, you’re not going to live to be very old.

So that’s a metaphor for how you have to evalate and be flexible and maybe change approach and keep at the main goal.

You have to be willing to leave your comfort zone because none of this is comfortable.

If you have a tough problem, you have to bring together people who have good skills and knowledge. Fill in gaps you don’t have, figure out a way to pick maybe a few pieces out of the bigger problem that you can start working on.

You have to be persistent. Sometimes we set a timeline that’s too short.

It takes longer to do things than we really understand or can imagine. The path isn’t usually a straight one. It usually has lots of turns and deviations.

If you have an issue that you think has merit, you have to be in it for the long haul. You have to set goals, but I think a lot of times we give up too soon.

Because change takes a long time. n Reprinted by permission from the Syracuse Post-Standard and Syracuse.com.

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lthough the medical student was a smalltown girl herself, she wasn’t particularly excited about the location of her clin­ ical assignment in Upstate’s Rural Medical Education Pro­ gram (RMED), which places medical students in small communities in Upstate New York to work side-by-side with local physicians.

But over the course of the year, as she grew in her clinical confidence, became acclimated to the area, and made friends and professional connections, all of that changed. She became a member of the community and pictured herself returning there to practice when her training was complete.

That metamorphosis is captured in a photograph that shows a wall of coats and snowmobile helmets in a res­ taurant coatroom. “By the end

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PLACE MATTERS It’s often said that a picture is worth 1,000 words. A unique photo research project documents the impact of training in rural communities on medical education for students in the RMED program. of the winter,” the student wrote in her caption, “my own coat and snowmobile helmet were hanging among many others in the entrance of a local restaurant.” That was her way of knowing—and showing—that she belonged.

The photo was taken as part of a research project that used student photography to explore how training in a rural community changed RMED students’ perspectives about practicing medicine.

The study was initiated by co-principal investigator Carrie Roseamelia, PhD, associate

director of the RMED program, who has a background in qual­ itative medical education research. She thought the project would be a great method to learn more about students’ clinical training experiences and how those experiences interact with their rural site.

The study coincides with the 25th anniversary of the RMED program, which was established in 1989 to address the needs of medically under­ served communities in Upstate New York by attracting young doctors to rural practice.

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The program places third-year Upstate medical students in small, rural communities for nine consecutive months to work and learn under the supervision of board-certified family physicians and other specialists. The goal is to attract students to return to similar areas to practice when their training is complete, and it seems to be working.

Program data shows that students who participate in RMED are four times more likely to practice in a rural setting and five times more likely to work in rural New

“Some moments in my rural community were so breathtakingly beautiful, they made me stop and appreciate simply being alive and well enough to experience them.”

“By the end of the winter, my own coat and snowmobile helmet were hanging among many others in the entrance of a local restaurant.”

“Farm life involves a close relationship between farmers and animals. An understanding of potential infections, illnesses, and injuries that can result from this close interaction is important in rural medicine.”

York than their peers. One in five students who go through the program end up practicing in an RMED community and one in 10 return to the same community where they did their RMED training to practice.

“Statistics tell us the program is effective in recruiting clinicians to serve in rural communities and our evaluations tell us students are highly satisfied with their experiences in rural training, but we don’t really have a lot of data on how students interact with their rural com­ munities during their rotations and how the rural setting influ­ ences their clinical training,”

“Photovoice allowed the students to represent their experiences through their own lenses and to express what they might have trouble saying outright.”

— CARRIE ROSEAMELIA, PHD, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE RMED PROGRAM

says Roseamelia. “We con­ ducted our study to learn more.”

The RMED Student Photo Research Project, conducted from March to May 2014, is an Upstate IRB-reviewed human subjects research project, and as such, requires student par­ ticipants to remain anony­ mous. Roseamelia asked the third-year medical students and physicians’ assistant stu­ dents working at RMED sites to take photos that captured their feelings about working in their rural environment and to write a few sentences—or vignette—about the photo.

It’s a group analysis method known as Photovoice,

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which is commonly used in the fields of community develop­ ment, public health, and edu­ cation. Participants are asked to represent their community or express their point of view by photographing scenes rele­ vant to their community or experience, in this instance, to convey their impressions of how their rural medicine expe­ rience impacted their lives, what they learned from their experiences, and how their experiences have changed their perspective on medicine. “Pho­ tovoice allowed the students to represent their experiences through their own lenses and to express what they might have trouble saying outright,” 19

said Roseamelia, who received 64 photographs back from 11 participating students.

“An image of rolling fields, for example, gives the notion of a seemingly isolated setting,” says one student participant. “This helps depict the idea that rural areas struggle to attract physicians who fear professional and social isolation. Another example is a farmer laboring in her orchard while a foot of snow lay beneath her feet, which depicts the strong work ethic and resilience often found in rural patients who make their livelihood off of hard labor. This lifestyle has implications in areas of care such as access to care and patient compliance.”

Once the students sub­ mitted their photographs, the interdisciplinary research team coded each picture and vignette with the themes they thought the photos repre­ sented. Next, a second focus group session was held with the participating students, who confirmed, revised and elabo­

rated on the themes that emerged, allowing Roseamelia and fellow researchers to “code” the photos and vignettes into thematic areas: PARTICIPANTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF OTHERS. The ethnic and cultural diversity of patients and the specific medical conditions typical in their rural settings was clearly different than what the stu­ dents experience in Syracuse.

“They see more Mennonites and refugees and medical con­ ditions related to farming and a work culture that keeps patients from seeking medical attention and resistant to rest,” says Roseamelia. In addi­ tion, students see things like intestinal issues related to eating game.

“Farm life involves a close relationship between farmers and animals,” wrote one student. “An understanding of potential infections, illnesses, and injuries that can result from this close interaction is important in rural medicine.”

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE. Students described the beauty of the rural setting as a space for personal reflec­ tion, relaxation and spiritu­ ality, which took on much more importance to them.

“Students talked about how they were really close to their patients and really dealing with hard stuff such as abuse and death. Up here, we train them to rely on their cohort of peers as a support system, but out there, they’re on their own, which can be tough,” says Roseamelia. “They used the physical space as an outlet.”

“There are places where I go to refresh my mind and body so that I can be mentally

“There are places where I go to refresh my mind and body so that I can be mentally and physically prepared to be the best medical provider that I can be.”

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and physically prepared to be the best medical provider that I can be,” wrote one student.

Students also described rurality in terms of its inacces­ sibility for patients seeking care. “Many rural patients live, work, and play in remote wil­ derness,” wrote another. “This has many implications on access to care, particularly emergency care. In winter, it can take several hours for a rescue team to reach a snow­ mobile trauma in such a location.”

TRAINING ENVIRONMENT. As rural trainees, students felt appreciated, part of the team, and given unparalleled learning opportunities. They experi­

“Snow or rain, the work must get done. Work ethic and resilience of rural laborers persist even when treatment calls for rest.”

enced the true essence of con­ tinuity of care as they followed patients from the clinic, into surgery, to the hospital floors, and later back in the clinic, resulting in a depth of patient/ student interactions and understanding. Continuity of family care, including extended families, was not unusual.

“Medical training is not all about lecturing and science,” one student wrote. “Rather, because of my experience in a rural site with such welcoming physicians and staff, I have learned it is very humanistic and includes a great deal of social work, cultural aware­ ness, off-label treatments, and pearls only learned from experience.”

SELF IDENTITY. Students described the juxtaposition as insiders and outsiders of the rural communities where they trained. They felt like insiders in terms of making real con­ nections within their hospital and professional circle, yet revealed themselves as out­ siders in their vignettes as they made assumptions and gener­ alizations of the patients they encountered and their work in trying to “fit in” with their rural communities. For those training in their hometowns, fitting in was much easier.

“I learned almost immedi­ ately that as an outsider

mov­ing into a small rural community, all eyes were on me . . . ,” wrote one student. “I began to understand the importance of maintaining a professional image, as I was very much in the spotlight and the members of this commu­ nity were trusting me with their health.”

Roseamelia is in the process of analyzing all of the coded data, which will result in a manuscript the team will try to publish. In the meantime, she is presenting on the project at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Conference in Atlanta in February. And ultimately,

“. . . because of my experience in a rural site with such welcoming physicians and staff, I have learned it [medical training] is very humanistic and includes a great deal of social work, cultural awareness, off-label treatments, and pearls only learned from experience.”

the information gained can be used to enhance Upstate’s RMED Program and better prepare students for their experience through the pro­ gram’s Introduction to Rural Health course.

She also plans to repeat the project, with a few changes. This time around, she will introduce the project to RMED students during their orientation, allowing them a longer time period to take photos. With the inaugural project, in an effort to get quick approval through the IRB process, students were not allowed to take photos showing people’s faces. “I didn’t think that would matter, but one of the things that emerged in the focus group was how connected students were to patients in their com­ munities,” says Roseamelia.

“One student told the story of going to a local pizza place and the owner remem­ bered her as being in the delivery room when his baby was born. He had a photo of the baby up in the restaurant and she would have liked to have taken a picture of herself with the father and the photo.

So I’m hoping next time to be able to allow students to take photos of identifiable people.”

Funding from the Depart­ ment of Family Medicine allowed Roseamelia to create a photo book using some of the photos and vignettes. Each participating student was asked for the name of a pre­ ceptor who was particularly influential, and the books were sent to those preceptors as a thank you. “They had a very hard time choosing just one,” she says. “I was also surprised that all of the students wanted

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a book for themselves. They wanted to capture a memory of their experience.”

As one student wrote in her photo caption, “I am grateful that my rural educa­ tion has allowed me to appre­ ciate the small things in life; getting a medical education doesn’t mean sacrificing every­ thing. It is a balance, one that seems easier in a rural area.” n

25 Years of RMED RMED was created in 1989 by Thomas Wolff, MD, in the Department of Family Medicine with a goal of alleviating the state’s ongoing shortage of physicians who practice general medicine in New York’s rural communities. Over 25 years, 215 students have graduated from the program, which has proven successful in providing primary care and specialty physicians for rural practice. A few facts: Upstate’s RMED students are 4x more likely to practice in a rural set­ting and five times more likely to work in rural New York than their peers.

70% of the RMED students go into primary care (mostly family practice) and the remainder into specialties or non-clinical practice.

RMED’s specialty graduates are equally likely to work in a rural setting as primary care RMED graduates.

1 in 5 students end up practicing

in an RMED community; one in 10 students go back into practice in the same community where they completed their RMED training.

41 of the graduates who have completed residency training in the last 10 years are in practice in Upstate New York; about half are in rural communities.

For information on how you can support the RMED program, please contact Paul Norcross at (315)464-4361 or norcrosp@upstate.edu.

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D A M E E H D E L I B MY TOUR AS A SUBMARINE DOC

BY JOHN T. MCCARTHY, MD ’69

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n a cold, wintry January 12, 1971, I arrived at the submarine base in Groton, Connecticut, to begin a sixmonth submarine medicine course for drafted physicians. The Navy had snatched me from the jaws of a pediatric residency in Denver, Colorado, in the midst of an increasingly unpopular Vietnam War that had already claimed my kid brother, Peter, on a battlefield in An Lao Valley. Not knowing left from right when it came to military matters, I stumbled into my first class with 10 other equally clueless newbies looking for adventure on the high seas in foreign ports. I set my sights on the tropical waters of Hawaii and dreamed of sipping Mai Tais while surfing the waves. Thus began my career in Bubblehead medicine.

I quickly learned that submariners were aptly dubbed “Bubbleheads” in contrast to sailors (“Skimmers”) aboard surface ships. Bubbleheads are obsessed with buoyancy, ballast, and, yes, bubbles. Filling a sub’s ballast tanks with water makes a boat heavier, more sinkable, and less buoyant. Displacing water in ballast tanks with highly pressurized air makes a boat less sinkable and more buoyant.

Maintaining a balance between the two at any given depth is known as trim. That’s where bubbles come in. Like a carpenter’s level, you can shift the centralized bubble to the right or to the left should you desire to have the aft section of a sub to be heavier than the fore section. Our submarine medicine indoctrination included such topics as atmospheric control, potable water, sanitation, radiation monitoring, diving medicine, trauma treatment, emergency surgery, dental care, indications for medical evacuation while on patrol, and of course, general wellbeing and mental health of the crew. We also practiced escape from a sunken sub on a simulator and took scuba lessons in the frigid Thames River on base.

Upon graduation from the course in June, 1971, I received orders to report to the Blue crew of the USS James Monroe. Nuclear Polaris Subs have two 130-man Blue and Gold crews, alternating on 90-day cycles. I happily noted that the James Monroe was attached to Submarine Squadron 15 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and thinking I had won the Trifecta, headed for the sands of Waikiki. Having failed to read the fine print, however, my bubble burst a nanosecond after my arrival when my predecessor greeted me with a smile and a lei and informed me that the rest of the Blue crew was eager for me to join them in the long flight past the International Dateline to Guam for a rendezvous with the Gold crew in Apra Harbor.

Chosen not as a resort destination, Guam was even closer to the equator than the Hawaiian Islands and more remote. But it had strategic importance. Apra Harbor, within spitting distance of the famed, nearly seven-mile

August 1971: Captain J.H. Nicholson, Submarine Squadron Commander, presents Dr. McCarthy with a citation for meritorious service for treating five crewmen aboard the USS James Monroe Blue crew overcome by Freon gas intoxication, who required resuscitation and evacuation to the hospital.

deep Marianas Trench, was a great hiding place for Nuclear Polaris subs to become virtually invisible from anyone interested in tracking them. In a few days, we relieved the Gold crew and took over control of the James Monroe, dubbed the “Jimmyfish.” When I first glimpsed her, this black hulk looked like a gigantic whale, more than a football field in length and God only knew how deep below.

“Welcome aboard, Sir,” the Jimmyfish sentry replied to my request to come aboard, as I gingerly crossed the gangway, entering my new home for the next three months.

A distinct whiff of submarine air tinged with the scent of sweat, smoke, and male hormones confronted me.

I felt calm as I descended down a 20-foot steel ladder into its womb and thought of the biblical story of Jonah being swallowed by a whale. I first entered a compartment referred to as the Control Room, where the Captain ruled supreme as he barked out orders. I would get to know this room even more intimately once we were submerged on patrol. Another stairway, much easier to navigate than the vertical entry ladder, led down to the next level where Officer Country was located. The dining room seated 10 officers and served as a multi-purpose room for meals, meetings, and movies. Three-man staterooms were located across the hall. Each stateroom, no larger than a pantry, contained triple-decker twin-sized beds covered by a thin mattress. It certainly felt cramped when all three men were there. We shared a small sink and a few drawers

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speech topside, five machinist mates working in a for our personal possessions. I chose the bottom bunk so I cramped compartment down below were overcome by a could easily roll out of bed when needed rather than climb Freon gas leak and the Corpsman and I were summoned to up and down. It reminded me of my room growing up in help. After resuscitating a few, they were all evacuated to the Bronx, which was no bigger than a walk-in closet but the Guam Naval Hospital for further evaluation and treatat least had a window, which looked out on a tall maple ment, where the puzzled ER staff asked, “Why did they tree and the one-way street below. No such luck here. drink Freon?” revealing their ignorance about Freon and All submariners must by nature be claustrophiles. its toxic effects. The next day, the Chief of Medicine at the Cramped spaces don’t bother them. By contrast, the hospital medically cleared three of the five majority of people I’ve met over the years are crewmen, but because two had abnorclaustrophobes. During the first 30 mal EKGs, he advised they not go on days in port preparing for our two patrol. Two days late and two men month submerged patrol, we short, the Jimmyfish steamed often escaped evenings to out of Apra Harbor and rapthe Officers Club for idly disappeared. some fun. While “My life began flash­ When the Captain there, many of the ordered “Dive, Dive,” Naval Hospital’s ing before me. The Captain I thought we were doctors and nurses calmly ascended the stair­ surely going to sink begged me to take to the bottom of the them on a tour way to the Control Room where Marianas Trench, of the Jimmyfish. he ordered a manual tweak of the as an eerie crackAlmost always, ling-crunching noise they called me to emergency blow system. Just as surrounded me. cancel the next suddenly, this maneuver rapidly Amused, my Corpsday after they had man explained that’s sobered up. One reversed the sub’s downward the normal sound the physician actutrajectory . . . . ” boat’s hull makes when ally showed up expanding and contractand descended ing as it changes depth. What down the vertia relief. I learned to ignore this cal steel ladder into the airsound as we settled into a patrol conditioned Control Room. I routine and continued to hold daily noticed beads of sweat dripping sick call. Although most visits were roufrom his forehead and asked if he was tine, we occasionally dealt with some challengokay. “I don’t know how you can go out on ing health problems that had me scouring through old patrol on this boat even for one day let alone 60,” medical texts to come up with a diagnosis and treatment. he responded, and beat a hasty retreat up the Once I treated our Master Chief Torpedoman for a relaladder never to be seen again. tively rare ophthalmic Herpes Zoster (shingles), primarAs a physician aboard a nuclear Polaris submarine, my ily with pain medication in a pre-Acyclovir era. I prayed primary responsibility was to advise the Captain on matthat it not extend into his eye, which would require the ters of health and habitability both in port and at sea. I ran Jimmyfish to surface for an air evac to the nearest medical our Medical Department of two aboard with the help of center. Luckily by the end of our patrol, his shingles had a seasoned, well-trained Hospital Corpsman. During our largely resolved. month in port, the Corpsman and I held sick call daily.

My physician duties did not fill the entire day, so as a Most visits were routine and included minor injuries, sunmeans to mingle with the crew, learn how a nuclear sub burn, colds, and hangover headaches. Some required a works, and pass time, I volunteered to stand a six-hour physical exam as part of the boat’s radiation control prowatch daily as a Diving Officer in the Control Room. (If gram. Once, while canoodling at the local Chief’s Club a medical emergency occurred while I stood my Diving after work, one of our crewmen drank too much, got into Officer watch or the boat held a practice drill, someone a brawl, and sustained a lacerated lip. We dragged him relieved me.) My job entailed monitoring two helmsmen onto the Proteus where I, in plastic surgeon mode, careand maintaining the depth ordered by the Captain or his fully stitched up his lip good as new. Not bad for a halfdesignated Officer of the Deck. It could get dicey when the baked pediatrician. boat was at periscope depth of 70-feet below the surface.

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During this time, in addition to holding sick call on Ford Island, I went to the Tripler Army Medical Center’s library to find out everything thenknown about human Freon toxicity. The librarian helped me collect a pile of scientific review articles, which I pored over and brought with me on my second patrol. In addition to my usual patrol activities, I finished reading and re-reading those papers and then wrote a comprehensive review paper. Conclusion: Freon 11 and 12, then used on nuclear subs for cooling and refrigeration, are toxic indeed like a bad anesthetic and a potential killer. Recommendation: Use fewer toxic Freon substances aboard.

To become “Qualified in Submarines” as a physician, I submitted the following documents to a review board at the Submarine Medicine School on the June 1973: Dr. McCarthy is promoted from Lieutenant Groton Sub Base: to Lieutenant-Commander. Captain Robert Chewning, (1) a completed comCommander of Submarine Squadron 7, places prehensive written McCarthy’s new rank on his right collar. exam on Submarine Medicine; (2) my included peering through the periscope to review paper entiscan the horizon for surveillance, dumping tled: “Freon Toxiccompacted trash, discharging waste, and ity in Humans”; and snorkeling to suck in fresh air to enrich (3) a cover letter by the boat’s atmosphere. Too heavy, the my Captain recomsub sinks like a rock, but too light it pops mending approval of The USS James Monroe to the surface like a cork, risking detection. my application. HapI remember one of those “housekeeping pily, in May 1972, chores” evenings while having dinner with other officers toward the end of my tour aboard the USS James Monroe, and the Captain, when the sub began to take a disconcertI received board approval designating me as “Qualified in ing steep nose dive and soon passed 300 feet. I thought, Submarines,” entitling me to wear the prestigious Gold “This is it!” My life began flashing before me. The Captain Medical Dolphins. I thereupon joined a small elite group of calmly ascended the stairway to the Control Room where physicians so honored. This accomplishment undoubtedly he ordered a manual tweak of the emergency blow system. cemented my bond with my fellow Blue crew bubbleheads Just as suddenly, this maneuver rapidly reversed the sub’s that has lasted me a lifetime. To top it off, I subsequently downward trajectory by forcing enough pressurized air learned several years after my tour of duty that my recominto the main ballast tanks to make the boat more buoyant. mendation to employ more benign Freon on Submarine During my stint as a Diving Officer, I learned an awful cooling and refrigeration systems was actually implelot of useful information: (1) When in doubt, ask the Chief mented. n of the Watch to bail you out; (2) If the boat’s trim suddenly goes kafluey, suspect a trim party and, where appropriate, After finishing his tour of duty, Dr. McCarthy returned to take action; (3) The fastest way to get a hot cup of coffee Denver, Colorado, to complete his pediatric residency. This is to ask the Go-fer to bring you “black and bitter”; (4) launched his civilian career in medicine, which included stints For credibility, pepper your conversation with scatologiin pediatrics, child development, and child and adolescent psycal Bubble-ese. For example, if you want someone to get chiatry. McCarthy found time to join the Army Reserves in organized, say, “Get your shit together.” Or should you 1986 after serving another tour of duty at Tripler Army Medical want to tell a tale, refer to it as a “No Shitter”; (5) How to Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, retiring in 2003 as a Colonel in the imitate a dead shrimp for comic relief; and finally (6) the Medical Corps. In 2011, he and his wife, Jane Lowinger Falkenvalue of the Emergency Blow System to keep one safe from stein, MD ’69, retired from their medical practices and moved to Davey Jones Locker.

Troy, New York, where they enjoy an active life. Between them, Before I knew it, my first patrol was over and we were they have nine grandchildren. headed home to Honolulu for our three months off crew.

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Report of Gifts Legacy Society

Peter J. Adasek, MD ’65 Stanley A. August, MD ’69* Leo S. Bell, MD ’38* Mat G. Boname, MD ’26* Arline I. Bourner* Kathryn* and George J. Buchholtz, MD ’52* Bernard J. Burke, MD 3/’43* Jane and Benjamin H. Button, MD ’58* Ruth* and Leonard D. Carpenter, MD ’33* Edwin T. Dailey, MD ’68* Frederick Dushay, MD ’57 Walter F. Erston, MD ’70 Mary Elizabeth Fletcher, MD ’41* Edwin J. Foley, MD ’31* Robert H. Gara, MD ’56* Martha* and Samuel Gersten, MD ’39* Amy and Leon I. Gilner, MD ’74 Catherine and P. William Haake, MD ’65 James B. Hanshaw, MD ’53 Emma M. Kent, MD ’35* Donna W. Layden, MD ’82* Stanley D. Leslie, MD ’51* Geraldine G. Lynn, MD ’40* David T. Lyon, MD ’71 William G. McKechnie, MD ’54* Sydney L. McLouth, MD ’40* Roy S. Moore, Jr, MD ’45* Cheryl Morrow Brunacci, MD ’97 Lloyd S. Rogers, MD* Seymour H. Saltzman, MD ’51* Rose* and Jules R. Setnor, MD ’35* K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79 Margery W. Smith, MD ’50* Julius Stoll, Jr, MD 12/’43* Alice J. Turek, MD ’51* William Wickman, MD ’36* Leanne* and Frank E. Young, MD ’56 *DECEASED

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Leadership Gifts WEISKOTTEN SOCIETY $25,000 and above Anonymous Coyne Textile Services Thomas M. Coyne Richard Endres, MD Edward F. Higgins, Jr., MD ’78 Jules R. Setnor, MD ’35* Peter D. Swift, MD ’77 Alice J. Turek, MD ’51* Frank E. Young, MD ’56 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL SOCIETY $10,000-$24,999 Zaven S. Ayanian, MD ’59 Jane Button Adolph Morlang, MD ’66 Marshia K. Witting JACOBSEN SOCIETY $5,000-$9,999 Mindy and James H. Brodsky, MD ’74 Barbara Carter-Moore, MD ’50 Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Doust Robert A. Dracker, MD ’82 Marc Isaacs and Family Jonas T. Johnson, MD ’72 Ann Kasten-Aker, MD ’79 Angeline R. Mastri, MD ’59 Marcia Mathews Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65 Catherine E. Palmier, MD ’85 James Palmier, MD ’85 Stephanie S. Roach, MD ’93 Suzy and Herbert M. Weinman, MD ’65 PLATINUM SOCIETY $2,500-$4,999 Jay G. Barnett, MD ’64 Peter J. Christiano, MD ’85 Emanuel Cirenza, MD ’84 James J. Cummings, MD ’82 John J. DeTraglia, MD ’68 David B. Duggan, MD ’79 Barry Freeman, MD ’70 Brian J. Gaffney, MD ’72 Onondaga County Medical Society, Inc. Lewis Robinson, MD ’73 Anne H. Rowley, MD ’82 Stephen M. Rowley, MD ’82 Charles J. Ryan, III, MD ’82 Peter F. Sharkey, MD ’84 Susan Stearns, PhD Ralph L. Stevens, MD ’81 Marc A. Subik, MD ’79 Joseph R. Tobin, MD ’83

GOLD SOCIETY $1,000-$2,499 David H. Adamkin, MD ’74 Robert F. Agnew, MD ’64 Honora Ahern Luz Alvarez, MD ’85 Barrie Anderson, MD ’67 David J. Anderson, MD ’84 Anonymous Frederick Arredondo, MD ’78 Associated Gastroenterologists of CNY, PC John R. Ayres, MD ’84 Robert Baltera, MD ’85 Bank of America Cinthia T. Bateman, MD ’98 Michael C. Bateman, MD ’98 Joseph G. Battaglia, MD ’79 Cynthia A. Battaglia-Fiddler, MD ’79 Douglas Bennett, MD ’92 Jane S. Bennett, MD ’92 Melvyn D. Bert, MD ’67 Martin M. Black, MD ’51 John E. Bloom, MD ’55 Robert D. Bona, MD ’80 Arlene Brandwein, MD ’68 Elliot Brandwein, MD ’67 Jerry Brown, MD ’74 Edward Burak, MD ’64 Stanley B. Burns, MD ’64 Linda Burrell, MD ’84 William Canovatchel, MD ’85 Robert L. Carhart, Jr., MD ’90 Laura R. Carucci, MD ’96 Michela T. Catalano, MD ’71 David L. Charney, MD ’68 Frank T. Cicero, MD ’59 Janet F. Cincotta, MD ’74 Joseph A. Cincotta, MD ’75 Lynn M. Cleary, MD Coca Cola Matching Gifts Program Kenneth J. Cohen, MD ’87 Steven B. Cohen, MD ’84 Mary E. Collins, MD ’44 Robert N. Cooney, MD George N. Coritsidis, MD ’83 Richard D. Cornwell, MD ’84 Kevin M. Coughlin, MD ’83 Hugh D. Curtin, MD ’72 Dennis D. Daly, MD ’83 Colleen M. Dargie, MD ’86 Frederick R. Davey, MD ’64 Mr. and Mrs. I. Stephen Davis Joseph P. Dervay, MD ’84 Stamatia Destounis, MD ’88 Surinder S. Devgun, MD ’96 Kenneth J. Edwards, MD ’84 Kenneth A. Egol, MD ’93 Alan Ehrlich, MD ’72 Nathan Endres Daniel W. Esper, MD ’86 Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Michael and Elizabeth Fascitelli Fenimore Asset Management, Inc. Philip L. Ferro, MD ’54

Noah S. Finkel, MD ’69 Joseph W. Flanagan, MD ’92 C. Michael Franklin, MD ’81 Philip A. Fraterrigo, MD ’94 Jill Freedman, MD ’90 Hugh S. Fulmer, MD ’51 Philip M. Gaynes, MD ’63 Jeffrey Gelfand, MD ’92 Lori J. Goldstein, MD ’82 David A. Goodman, MD ’84 Mary Ellen Greco, MD ’91 Seymour Grufferman, MD ’64 Kenneth M. Grundfast, MD ’69 Andrew W. Gurman, MD ’80 Lowell L. Hart, MD ’80 William M. Hartrich, MD ’84 Steven Hassig, MD ’85 E. Robert Heitzman, MD ’51 Robert W. Hempel and E. Ann Gill William L. Hinds, MD ’54 Timothy S. Huang, MD ’95 Patsy M. Iannolo, MD ’81 Prosper I. Igboeli, MD ’77 John J. Imbesi, MD ’99 Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Lewis W. Johnson, MD ’64 Peter C. Johnson, MD ’80 David J. Joswick, MD ’98 Rachel Kapen Mark H. Katz, MD ’75 Beverly Khnie Philip, MD, ’73 Chong S. Kim, MD ’95 Donald W. King, MD ’49 Gerald A. King, MD ’65 Adam P. Klausner, MD ’96 Alan S. Kliger, MD ’70 Patrick W. Knapp, MD ’77 Reginald Q. Knight, MD ’80 Michael Komar, MD ’84 Paul L. Kupferberg, MD ’70 Michael A. Kwiat, MD ’87 Christina LaBella, MD ’91 John LaBella, MD ’91 Amy L. Ladd, MD ’84 Jeffrey R. LaDuca, MD ’98 Ira J. Langer, MD ’59 Margaret A. Leary, MD ’94 Avery Leslie O’Neill and Hank O’Neill Barbara A. Levey, MD ’61 Renee M. Lustick David A. Lynch, MD ’75 Helen Lynch Petrina Alphonse A. Maffeo, MD ’72 C. David Markle, MD ’64 John M. Marzo, MD ’84 Maureen E. McCanty, MD ’78 Timothy McCanty, MD ’85 Medical Liability Mutual Insurance, Co. Patricia Merritt, MD ’91 Donald S. Miller, MD ’88 Gregg A. Miller, MD ’95 Lisa Minsky-Primus, MD ’00 Michael J. Moeller, MD ’78

Christina Morganti, MD ’92 Lori J. Mosca, MD ’84 Ralph Mosca, MD ’85 Maureen T. Murphy, MD ’85 Henry P. Nagelberg, MD ’86 David Nelson, MD ’90 Michael F. Noe, MD ’69 Michael J. Parker, MD ’82 Lucia Pastore, MD ’77 Donald Patten, MD ’84 Joseph T. Pedersen, MD ’94 Todd R. Peebles, MD ’94 Paul E. Perkowski, MD ’96 Mark S. Persky, MD ’72 James H. Philip, MD ’73 Debra I. Poletto, MD ’83 Bernard Portnoy, MD ’55 Eleanor Fischer Quigley and Bob Quigley Pamela J. Reinhardt, MD ’84 Michael E. Rettig, MD ’86 Patrick J. Riccardi, MD ’76 Michael A. Riccione, MD ’85 Monroe Richman, MD ’55 Harold Richter, MD ’82 William H. Roberts, MD ’69 Stewart J. Rodal, MD ’80 Natalie M. Roney, MD ’04 Louis A. Rosati, MD ’66 Gary G. Sauer, MD ’85 Dorothy F. Scarpinato, MD ’84 Louise Judith Schwartz Lawrence Seidenstein, MD ’70 Lawrence Semel, MD ’79 Elaine M. Silverman, MD ’89 David R. Smith, MD William Snearly, MD ’86 Philip J. Speller, MD ’55 Mallory Stephens, MD ’54 Thomas J. Stevens, MD ’65 Lawrence C. Stewart, MD ’82 Dr. and Mrs. Richard Stram Keith Stube, MD ’88 Pamela L. Sunshine, MD ’82 Dawn M. Sweeney, MD ’89 Dr. and Mrs. George P. Tilley Robert L. Tiso, MD ’86 Raymond C. Traver, Jr., MD ’68 Paula Trief, PhD Lauren H. Turteltaub, MD ’98 Christopher G. Ullrich, MD ’76 Josef J. Vanek, MD ’89 Katherine A. Van Savage, MD ’98 Joseph D. Verdirame, MD ’75 John R. Wanamaker, MD ’87 R. Douglas Wayman, MD ’55 Elizabeth V. Whalen Bradley A. Woodruff, MD ’80 Elizabeth Yerazunis Palis, MD ’84 Jack E. Yoffa, MD ’69 Ralph D. Zehr, MD ’64 Robert H. Zimmer, MD ’54 Stanley Zinberg, MD ’59 *DECEASED

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2013-2014 Report of Gifts 1935 Total Giving $1,768,405 Percentage of Giving 50% $25,000 and above Jules R. Setnor*

1942 Total Giving $315 Percentage of Giving 50% $100-$499 Alson F. Pierce

March of 1943 Total Giving $500 Percentage of Giving 100% $500-$999 Miriam B. Swift*

1944 Total Giving $1,275 Percentage of Giving 50% $1,000-$2,499 Mary E. Collins

$100-$499 Anthony J. Oropallo* George A. Roberts

1947 Total Giving $825 Percentage of Giving 54% $100-$499 Carl I. Austin Lynne T. Greene Maerit B. Kallet Wolfram G. Locher Muriel C. Silbar $1-$99 Shirley M. Ferguson Rayport George P. Fulmer

1948 Total Giving $100 Percentage of Giving 13% $100-$499 William Levy

1949 Total Giving $2,605 Percentage of Giving 43% $1,000-$2,499 Donald W. King

$1-$99 Edmund Furcinito

$100-$499 Stuart K. Cohan Leona C. Laskin Robert Meyer Shirley M. Stone Cohlan

1945

$1-$99 John H. Grimm* Thomas E. Snyder

Total Giving $750 Percentage of Giving 20%

1950

$100-$499 Harry P. Felger

$500-$999 Thomas M. Flanagan $1-$99 George R. Gillmore

1946 Total Giving $200 Percentage of Giving 20%

1951

1953

Total Giving $209,100 Percentage of Giving 50%

Total Giving $1,485 Percentage of Giving 40%

$25,000 and above Alice J. Turek*

$500-$999 John S. Forrest Sheldon J. Horowitch

$1,000-$2,499 Martin M. Black Hugh S. Fulmer E. Robert Heitzman $500-$999 Edward Dunn $100-$499 Helen R. Early

1952

$100-$499 Donald S. Abelson Robert T. Buran Murray L. Cohen James B. Hanshaw Paul P. Stobnicke Frederic F. Taylor $1-$99 J. Robert Huszar James E. Lewis

1954

1955 Total Giving $8,000 Percentage of Giving 45% $1,000-$2,499 John E. Bloom Bernard Portnoy Monroe Richman Philip J. Speller R. Douglas Wayman

Total Giving $5,456 Percentage of Giving 54% $5,000-$9,999 Barbara Carter-Moore

$500-$999 Anonymous

Total Giving $8,254 Percentage of Giving 60%

$100-$499 Norma B. Granville Norman R. Loomis Ronald A. Miller Frank J. Staub

$1,000-$2,499 Philip L. Ferro William L. Hinds Mallory Stephens Robert H. Zimmer

$1-$99 Milton Alvarez William F. Bernhard Karl Easton Fleurene P. Holt

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$100-$499 Keith R. Dahlberg David C. Green William H. Hampton, Jr. Donald W. Hillman William M. Nicholas Thomas A. Treanor $1-$99 Carl W. Janovsky Harold L. Kaplan William E. Locke Jesse H. Marymont, Jr. Arnold M. Moses Robert E. Sostheim William I. Staples William D. Wiley

Total Giving $1,400 Percentage of Giving 28%

$100-$499 John W. Esper Kenneth F. Golden

$500-$999 Albert F. Mangan Bertram S. Mersereau H. Ketcham Morrell

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$500-$999 Fernando C. Cocca $100-$499 Robert H. Drachman Irving H. Goldman Eugene R. Jacobs Aram Jigarjian Eleanor M. Luce Richard J. Rice Robert G. Spiro Ronald H. Spiro $1-$99 Robert E. Austin Howard E. Fink, Jr. C. Brent B. Olmstead Edward P. Wandersee

1956 Total Giving $29,702 Percentage of Giving 65% $25,000 and above Frank E. Young $100-$499 Jerome H. Blumen Stanley D. Chovnick Willard Cohen Michael L. Del Monico Donald M. Ettelson Albert Frankel James P. Giangobbe Joseph Gold* Howard W. Goldbas

2013-2014 Report of Gifts

Marshall A. Greene Milton Ingerman Arvin J. Klein Bertram G. Kwasman W. Frederick Lahvis John W. Lawrow Robert D. Lindeman Donald N. Mantle Robert Penner Lawrence H. Port Donald E. Robins Judah Roher I. Michael Samloff Ira H. Scheinerman James L. Sterling Arthur M. Stockman Harvey I. Wolfe $1-$99 Henry M. Eisenberg David M. Essom James J. La Vine John C. Sanborn

1957 Total Giving $2,215 Percentage of Giving 47% $100-$499 M. Arthur Budden Melvin E. Cohen Arnold H. Derwin Frederick Dushay Francis J. Froehlich Eugene A. Kaplan

Bertram G. Katzung Marvin A. Leder David B. Levine Bernard L. Meyers Ronald A. Nackman J. Walden Retan Howard T. Rosenbaum Jerome B. Shapiro Bertram Warren $1-$99 Gene L. Cary Robert W. Daly Richard R. Dole Thomas R. Miller, II Murray V. Osofsky Charles W. Serby

1958

$1-$99 Robert S. Chavkin Dennis R. Derby Paul M. Fine John F. Gorman* George E. Randall Donald H. Wilsey

1959 Total Giving $20,700 Percentage of Giving 52% $10,000-$24,999 Zaven S. Ayanian $5,000-$9,999 Angeline R. Mastri

Total Giving $2,305 Percentage of Giving 30%

$1,000-$2,499 Frank T. Cicero Ira J. Langer Stanley Zinberg

$500-$999 Newton B. Chin George B. Jacobs

$500-$999 Samuel Hellman

$100-$499 Allen S. Goldman Martin L. Nusynowitz David S. Pearlman L. Robert Rubin Richard Schoenfeld Howard L. Weinberger Seymour Zimbler

$100-$499 Martin Berkowitz Samuel J. Braun Sheldon P. Braverman Philip J. Burke A. Byron Collins Henry K. Hasserjian Richard J. Lubera Myron Miller Barry P. Pariser

David A. Scheer Carl E. Silver Philip Zetterstrand

Lewis Wexler Philip A. Wolf

$1-$99 Arthur Sternberg

$1-$99 Gerald E. Epstein George A. Lamb Garo H. Taft Donald M. Werner

$1-$99 Leonard R. Friedman Howard I. Levine Leonard Levy Roger D. Moore Frank J. Weinstock

1962

1960

1961

Total Giving $3,110 Percentage of Giving 54%

Total Giving $4,138 Percentage of Giving 32%

$500-$999 Ronald A. Naumann

$1,000-$2,499 Barbara A. Levey

$100-$499 Robert E. Alessi Mary G. Ampola Julian M. Aroesty Robert A. Bornhurst Angelo R. Brigandi* Lynn J. DeFreest Harvey R. Gold Mark Greenspan Harold J. Hubis Eugene J. Karandy William B. Kremer Richard P. Malsan Suzanne T. Miller Joseph V. Scrivani Robert R. Siroty Samuel O. Thier Allen H. Unger

$500-$999 Schiele A. Brewer* Carlo R. deRosa Barton Pakull Nelson P. Torre $100-$499 Norman S. Coplon Peter Greenwald Stuart Hodosh Robert C. Kelly Abraham S. Lakshin Stanley P. Meltzer Howard R. Nankin Robert I. Raichelson Bennett L. Rosner

Total Giving $3,400 Percentage of Giving 40% $100-$499 David J. Albert Morris Asch Richard H. Bennett Howard B. Demb Gerald A. Glowacki Reynold S. Golden Kirtland E. Hobler Robert E. Lubanski Bedros Markarian William J. Mesibov Walter J. Okunski Robert Poss Younger L. Power Jerome M. Reich Burton A. Scherl Stuart J. Schwartz Richard K. Shadduck Alan Solomon Theodore K. Tobias Jack Wittenberg Donald J. Ziehm $1-$99 Peter A. Klem Mead F. Northrop

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1963 Total Giving $5,050 Percentage of Giving 30% $1,000-$2,499 Philip M. Gaynes $500-$999 Gustave L. Davis Marcia C. Kirsch $100-$499 Paul E. Berman Richard F. Carver Arnold R. Cohen Angela Diamond I. Bruce Gordon Ronald A. Housman* James R. Moyes Frank A. Pedreira Stuart B. Polisner Raymond W. Shamp Martin J. Silverstein Kenneth T. Steadman Edward D. Sugarman Richard J. Wells $1-$99 Carl Salzman

1964 Total Giving $18,475 Percentage of Giving 61%

$2,500-$4,999 Jay G. Barnett $1,000-$2,499 Robert F. Agnew Edward Burak Stanley B. Burns Frederick R. Davey Seymour Grufferman Lewis W. Johnson C. David Markle Ralph D. Zehr $500-$999 Allan J. Ebbin Eugene D. George Jack C. Schoenholtz $100-$499 Michael Andrisani Anonymous Kenneth J. Bart Donald R. Birnbaum Martin J. Braker Frank J. Bruns Donald W. Curtis John P. Fitzgibbons Nathan M. Hameroff Carl A. Hammerschlag Daniel L. Harris Phineas J. Hyams Louis S. Jagerman Mark D. Kiviat Stephen F. Kucera David S. Lederman Murray J. Miller Lawrence W. Myers Alan J. Noble Ira Reiskin Alan M. Roth Peter R. Saltzman

The class of 1964 received the highest percentage of giving award.

Stephen Z. Schilder Robert J. Snowe A. A. Tripodi Anthony E. Voytovich David W. Watson Milton A. Weiner $1-$99 Ronald G. Harper Robert M. Spurgat

1965 Total Giving $16,886 Percentage of Giving 52% $5,000-$9,999 Patricia J. Numann Herbert M. Weinman $1,000-$2,499 Gerald A. King Thomas J. Stevens

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$500-$999 Peter J. Adasek Robert G. Noble Lawrence F. Simon $100-$499 Bruce E. Baker Alan L. Breed Jack Egnatinsky Herbert Fellerman David B. Gelles Michael L. Goldfein P. William Haake John P. Hemmerlein

Paul J. Honig Dirk E. Huttenbach Donald L. Jeck George A. Knaysi Graham B. Kretchman Stephen Lipsig Bruce M. Marmor Terrence M. O’Neill Ronald A. Rohe Thomas G. Rumney Philip S. Schein

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1966 Total Giving $26,345 Percentage of Giving 42% $10,000-$24,999 Adolph Morlang $1,000-$2,499 Louis A. Rosati $500-$999 Robert A. Levine Elizabeth R. McAnarney $100-$499 Mark D. Aronson Nathan Billig Charles E. Cladel Malcolm D. Davidson Norman Dishotsky Norman L. Fienman

Neal M. Friedberg Robert A. Gardner Bernard D. Glasser Susan E. Glasser Ronald A. Henrikson A. Michael Kaplan Michael S. Levine Bonnie M. Norton Stuart N. Novack John W. Petrozzi Alan F. Pritchard Irwin Schlossberg William H. Story Russell F. Warren Stephen A. Wilson $1-$99 Lawrence Panitz Stuart B. Paster Frank G. Yanowitz

1967 Total Giving $10,297 Percentage of Giving 45% $1,000-$2,499 Barrie Anderson Melvyn D. Bert Elliot Brandwein

$500-$999 Alfred P. Coccaro Martin L. Cohen Jay Grossman Daniel G. McDonald Martin R. Post Harvey A. Rubenstein Hollis A. Thomas $100-$499 Janet O. Bernstein Abba E. Borowich Roger A. Breslow Leslie M. Burger Charles F. Converse Paul A. DeMare Warren C. Gewant Mark A. Goodman Michael Kozower Ira D. Levine Gilbert B. Mandel Norman J. Marcus Daniel C. McCabe Bruce L. McClennan John R. Moore Allan J. Press Robert S. Rhodes Charles T. Sitrin Jesse Williams Elizabeth D. Woodard Bertram Zarins

$1-$99 James A. Barnshaw Joseph C. Martino

1968 Total Giving $112,163 Percentage of Giving 36% $25,000 and above Anonymous $2,500-$4,999 John J. DeTraglia $1,000-$2,499 Arlene Brandwein David L. Charney Raymond C. Traver, Jr. $500-$999 Karl G. Baer Bruce W. Berger David J. Greenfield Kathryn D. Iorio John O. Olsen Michael H. Ratner $100-$499 Ira I. Berger Stephen P. Blau Peter F. Coccia

Richard J. Feinstein Allan I. Kanter Philip Kaplan David L. Katz Marvin Kolotkin William W. MacDonald Betty Miller Wayne A. Miller David H. Postles Elliott Rosenworcel Stanley Rothschild Charles Salinger Gary P. Schwartz Arthur J. Segal Michael L. Silverstein Eleanor Williams $1-$99 William S. Halsey

1969 Total Giving $17,300 Percentage of Giving 55% $1,000-$2,499 Noah S. Finkel Kenneth M. Grundfast Michael F. Noe William H. Roberts Jack E. Yoffa

$500-$999 Donald P. Alderman Nicholas Bambino Joann T. Dale Robert C. Dale Daniel J. Driscoll Richard I. Markowitz Lee F. Rancier Harvey A. Taylor $100-$499 William Affolter Allan L. Bernstein Laura L. Bernstein Joan E. Berson Larry A. Danzig Robert S. Davis Ruth B. Deddish Jane L. Falkenstein Frederic C. Fenig James H. Fleisher Aart Geurtsen Warren L. Gilman Joel Greenspan Jeffrey G. Kaplan Robert I. Klein Sherwood B. Lee Ivens Leflore Zan I. Lewis Martin D. Mayer John T. McCarthy Edward M. Nathan

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2013-2014 Report of Gifts Michael Novogroder Robert H. Osofsky Stanley I. Rekant Thomas E. Root Ronald M. Rosengart Gerard Selzer Andrew J. Swinburne Judith S. Warren Robert E. Woods $1-$99 Robert V. Davidson Richard Hillel Ronald J. Saxon

1970 Total Giving $11,550 Percentage of Giving 39% $2,500-$4,999 Barry Freeman $1,000-$2,499 Alan S. Kliger Paul L. Kupferberg Lawrence Seidenstein $500-$999 Mary Ann Antonelli Stephen D. Brenner Roy A. Kaplan $100-$499 John L. Albrigo Frederic S. Auerbach Paul E. Buckthal Robert L. Chiteman Robert W. Doebler Dennis A. Ehrich Donald M. Haswell William A. Henion David J. Honold Benjamin F. Levy John P. Marangola A. Peter Paladin Arthur C. Peckham Andrew J. Rurka* Lloyd I. Sederer William D. Singer Bruce P. Smith Joel A. Strom Richard L. Sullivan Lawrence A. Virgilio Alan L. Williams Mark L. Wolraich Howard D. Wulfson Nathan J. Zuckerman $1-$99 Alan D. Drezner Peter A. Freedman Richard M. Gritz Douglas J. Harben* Frida G. Parker Linda M. Simkin

1971 Total Giving $7,225 Percentage of Giving 39% $1,000-$2,499 Michela T. Catalano $500-$999 Robert B. Cady Lawrence F. Geuss Richard A. Goldman Steven R. Hofstetter Jeffrey A. Klein Charles J. Matuszak Charles L. Rouault $100-$499 Philip Altus Rosemary Bellino-Hall Dominic Cappelleri Geoffrey M. Graeber William R. Greene Richard J. Hausner Tomas M. Heimann Bruce Hershfield Michael Hertzberg Eugene M. Kenigsberg Gary J. Levy David A. Ostfeld James F. Parks Paul I. Schneiderman Richard M. Stratton Ernest B. Visconti Edward J. Zajkowski John J. Zone

$1-$99 Jay B. Brodsky Michael Ende Norman F. Jacobs Ira D. Lipton Daniel Rutrick Lee P. Van Voris

1972 Total Giving $17,825 Percentage of Giving 41% $5,000-$9,999 Jonas T. Johnson $2,500-$4,999 Brian J. Gaffney $1,000-$2,499 Hugh D. Curtin Alan Ehrlich Alphonse A. Maffeo Mark S. Persky $500-$999 Carol L. Bender Stephen C. Robinson John L. Sullivan $100-$499 Dennis L. Allen Paul Blando Douglas J. Blatz Ronald S. Bogdasarian Joseph P. DeVeaughGeiss

Bruce E. Fredrickson Richard B. Gould Janet E. Graeber L. Robert Hanrahan, Jr. Richard C. Hawley William J. Malone Stephen P. Michaelson Paul B. Nussbaum Thomas I. Osborn David N. Osser Andrew K. Palmer Janice E. Ross Paul L. Treger Dwight A. Webster Michael L. Weitzman Eva Z. Wiesner Stephen J. Winters $1-$99 Robert E. Ettlinger Alan G. Kenien Stephen A. Silbiger Sanford P. Temes

1973 Total Giving $9,315 Percentage of Giving 26% $2,500-$4,999 Lewis Robinson $1,000-$2,499 Beverly Khnie Philip James H. Philip

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$100-$499 David M. Davis Harold P. Dunn Leonard Dunn Neil M. Ellison Paul G. Fuller, Jr. William M. Harmand Thomas L. Kennedy Athanasios Mallios Joseph Maloney Lee Rosenbaum Steven M. Rothman Harold A. Sanders Steven A. Schenker Marc J. Schweiger Warren Steinberg Paul L. Sutton G. Robert Taylor Gregory A. Threatte Daniel R. Van Engel Ralph J. Wynn John F. Zdrojewski $1-$99 Richard F. Adams Michael S. Jastremski Judith D. S. Noel

1974 Total Giving $15,925 Percentage of Giving 32% $5,000-$9,999 James H. Brodsky

$1,000-$2,499 David H. Adamkin Jerry Brown Janet F. Cincotta $500-$999 Stephen P. Heyse Michael W. Slome $100-$499 Jack A. Aaron Jeffrey A. Abend Thomas L. Applin Rosalind M. Caroff Ronald A. Fischman Philip L. Florio Alan D. Freshman Aaron L. Friedman Leon I. Gilner J. Peter Gregoire Charles W. Hewson John M. Horan Lia E. Katz Gary M. Kohn Joseph P. LiPuma James T. Marron Howard E. Miller Dennis R. Novak Teresa J. Pagano-Parke Robert G. Parke Jay M. Ritt Ernest P. Scarnati Leo J. Scarpino Roni I. Sehayik Mark D. Simms Peter R. Simon Stuart O. Tafeen Albert I. Tydings Joseph C. Wu

2013-2014 Report of Gifts 1975 Total Giving $11,170 Percentage of Giving 30% $1,000-$2,499 Joseph A. Cincotta Mark H. Katz David A. Lynch Joseph D. Verdirame $500-$999 Donald Fagelman John D. Fey Robert M. Green James A. Terzian Albert L. Zens $100-$499 Anonymous Louis Bland Jeffrey J. Boxer Gary C. Brown Glenn Champagne James A. Dispenza Jay A. Erlebacher Judy S. Fuschino Emile H. Galib Phillip C. Gioia Bruce Greenstein Paul M. Grossberg Richard F. Kasulke Louis Korman David N. Lisi

Jonathan Lowell David J. Novelli Samuel N. Pearl Robert S. Pyatt, Jr. Anthony J. Scalzo Walter H. Short Jay M. Walshon $1-$99 James A. Truax

1976 Total Giving $7,300 Percentage of Giving 27% $1,000-$2,499 Patrick J. Riccardi Christopher G. Ullrich $500-$999 Richard M. Alexander Richard M. Cantor Deborah Reede Margaret A. Sennett $100-$499 Allen D. Alt Adrienne Altman Gerald A. Cohen Stephen D. Conrad James F. Cornell Susan J. Denman Dennis L. Feinberg

Thomas W. Furth Irving Huber Frank J. Kroboth Marc Levenson Leonard H. Madoff Michael H. Mason Julia A. McMillan William M. Nauseef Janice M. Nelson Lorinda J. Price Thomas J. Rakowski Howard Sackel Eve Shapiro Thomas E. Staley Maurice J. Whalen $1-$99 Mary Daye Michael A. Finer Marc Rothman

1977 Total Giving $61,576 Percentage of Giving 36% $25,000 and above Peter D. Swift $1,000-$2,499 Prosper I. Igboeli Patrick W. Knapp Lucia Pastore

$500-$999 Arunas A. Budnikas Charles C. Gibbs Thomas J. LaClair Drake M. Lamen Neil E. Strickman $100-$499 Mitchell Atlas Paul F. Bachman Peter Birk Johana K. Brakeley Stephen C. Brigham John Canale Larry Consenstein John J. Cucinotta Gary Dunetz Robert H. Fabrey, II Henry S. Friedman Peter J. Gencarelli Gerard R. Hough Catherine J. Husa Robert M. Kellman Lester Kritzer Debra Kuracina William R. Latreille Celeste M. Madden John M. Manring Charles L. McCord Frank V. Messina Linda Rexford Anthony Scardella James A. Schneid Carolyn A. Smith Donald S. Stevens

Cynthia S. Terry Mark Zilkoski $1-$99 Theodore D. Close

1978 Total Giving $85,325 Percentage of Giving 32% $25,000 and above Edward F. Higgins, Jr. $1,000-$2,499 Frederick Arredondo Maureen E. McCanty Michael J. Moeller $500-$999 Stephen L. Cash Joseph Monkofsky $100-$499 Anonymous Daniel E. Bechard Mark Belsky Stephen W. Blatchly Patrick S. Collins Robert Fulop Gerald N. Goldberg Diane F. Green-El James L. Greenwald John B. Grippi Melanie S. Kim

Robert J. Kitos Ronald D. Klizek Thomas Kristiansen Michael Lustick Colleen E. O’Leary Michael R. O’Leary Jean-Bernard Poulard Stephen E. Presser Neal Rzepkowski Richard J. Steinmann Craig Summers John N. Talev James J. Vacek Irene O. Werner Gary M. Yarkony $1-$99 Elliott Friedman Herbert E. Mendel Ronald W. Pies

1979 Total Giving $26,935 Percentage of Giving 40% $5,000-$9,999 Ann Kasten-Aker $2,500-$4,999 David B. Duggan Marc A. Subik $1,000-$2,499 Joseph G. Battaglia Cynthia A. BattagliaFiddler Lawrence Semel $500-$999 Anonymous Peter T. Curtin Mary E. Fallat Richard M. Goldberg Teresa R. Miller Elizabeth A. Rocco K. Bruce Simmons James A. Trippi $100-$499 Sharon L. Abrams David R. Ancona Michael J. Bond Robert M. Constantine James P. Corsones Joan S. Dengrove David H. Dube Mark S. Erlebacher Bruce E. Gould Adrienne Greenblatt Douglas K. Hyde Barry F. Kanzer Karen M. Kaplan

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2013-2014 Report of Gifts Joseph C. Konen Robert A. Kozol John M. Manfred John L. Marsh John B. McCabe Mark L. Moster Marlene R. Moster Richard A. Muller William G. Patrick Linda M. Rice Marilyn Ryan Ronald J. Siegle Joby Swerdlow Nancy J. Tarbell Gregory White $1-$99 Henry Adam Stephen L. Ferrante

1980 Total Giving $15,433 Percentage of Giving 40% $1,000-$2,499 Robert D. Bona Andrew W. Gurman Lowell L. Hart Peter C. Johnson Reginald Q. Knight Stewart J. Rodal Bradley A. Woodruff

$500-$999 Brian J. Chanatry David A. Goodkin Edward C. Gross Nancy S. Knudsen Robert Mitchell Michael D. Privitera John H. Soffietti $100-$499 Jeffrey S. Abrams Marc H. Appel Mary Blome Peter T. Brennan Michele A. Cook Timothy E. Dudley Gary C. Enders John F. Fatti Ernest M. Found Robert T. Friedman David Greenblatt Scott R. Greenfield Bonnie Grossman Ruth Hart Gregory G. Kenien Michael J. Kornstein Marilyn Krch Paul Menge Marjie L. Persons Gerald B. Rakos John E. Ritchie Neal M. Shindel Stephen M. Silver Peter J. Stahl Nicholas J. Stamato

William L. Sternheim Robert M. Vandemark Alexander E. Weingarten Dale R. Wheeler David Withers Joanna ZolkowskiWynne $1-$99 Deborah W. Robin Fleta Sokal

1981 Total Giving $13,302 Percentage of Giving 34% $2,500-$4,999 Ralph L. Stevens $1,000-$2,499 C. Micheal Franklin Patsy M. Iannolo $500-$999 William P. Berkery Steven M. Connolly Gary D. Dean William W. Faloon, Jr. Martin P. Jacobs Carol A. Simmons Barbara E. Strassberg

$100-$499 Paul L. Asdourian Wendy L. Balopole Jody S. Blanco Stephen P. Bogosian Sharon A. Brangman Ronald C. Brodsky Charles F. Carrier Steven P. Galasky David C. Goodman David G. Greenhalgh David B. Grossberg William P. Hannan Michael R. Harrison Rachel F. Heppen Linda Hu Lori Jalens Sternheim David E. Kolva Paul L. Kuflik Vincent J. Leonti Dennis J. Nave Louis M. Papandrea Peter G. Ronan Stephen A. Spaulding Richard M. Steinbruck Kathleen Stoeckel Scott A. Syverud James D. Telonis Stuart W. Zarich $1-$99 David M. Armesto Michael R. Gilels Ellen M. Kaczmarek Jeffrey C. Long

Gary M. Russotti William D. Ryan Jonathan R. Sporn Anthony J. Viglietta

1982 Total Giving $31,740 Percentage of Giving 36% $5,000-$9,999 Robert A. Dracker $2,500-$4,999 James J. Cummings Anne H. Rowley Stephen M. Rowley Charles J. Ryan, III $1,000-$2,499 Lori J. Goldstein Michael J. Parker Harold Richter Lawrence C. Stewart Pamela L. Sunshine $500-$999 Alan J. Goodman Gary B. Kaplan Ann M. Lenane Norman R. Neslin David M. Novick Michael A. Ricci Sophia Socaris William S. Varade

$100-$499 Bruce K. Barach James F. Boehner Frederick J. Bunke Joseph Cambareri Thomas E. Coyle Robert C. Cupelo John D. DiMenna Michael P. Duffy Joseph J. Fata John J. Giannone Monica M. Goble J. Scott Kortvelesy Diane H. Lubkeman Robert McCann John C. Morris John J. Mucia Eileen M. Murphy Michael J. Murray Dennis S. Poe Robert B. Poster Frank Rhode Richard C. Rothman Henry W. Schoeneck William S. Sykora James S. Teryl Pamela D. Unger Amy J. Yale-Loehr Steven Yarinsky $1-$99 Thomas A. Bersani Stephen M. Kinne Bonnie S. Koreff-Wolf

CLASS SCHOLARSHIP GIFTS 1955 Class Scholarship John E. Bloom, MD ’55 Fernando C. Cocca, MD ’55 Robert H. Drachman, MD ’55 Eugene R. Jacobs, MD ’55 Aram Jigarjian, MD ’55 Eleanor M. Luce, MD ’55 Bernard Portnoy, MD ’55 Monroe Richman, MD ’55 Philip J. Speller, MD ’55 1966 Class Scholarship Mark D. Aronson, MD ’66 Nathan Billig, MD ’66 Malcolm D. Davidson, MD ’66 Norman Dishotsky, MD ’66 Norman L. Fienman, MD ’66 Neal M. Friedberg, MD ’66 Ronald A. Henrikson, MD ’66 A. Michael Kaplan, MD ’66 Michael S. Levine, MD ’66 Bonnie M. Norton, MD ’66 Louis A. Rosati, MD ’66 William H. Story, MD ’66 Stephen A. Wilson, MD ’66

Class of 1971 Scholarship Philip Altus, MD ’71 Robert B. Cady, MD ’71 Dominic Cappelleri, MD ’71 Lawrence F. Geuss, MD ’71 Richard A. Goldman, MD ’71 Michael Hertzberg, MD ’71 Eugene M. Kenigsberg, MD ’71 Jeffrey A. Klein, MD ’71 Ira D. Lipton, MD ’71 Charles J. Matuszak, MD ’71 Paul I. Schneiderman, MD ’71 Edward J. Zajkowski, MD ’71 Carol Kavanagh & Class of 1973 Scholarship Bill and Kathanne Mitchell Class of 1977 Scholarship Larry Consenstein, MD ’77 Arunas A. Budnikas, MD ’77 John J. Cucinotta, MD ’77 Robert H. Fabrey, II, MD ’77 Charles C. Gibbs, MD ’77 Prosper I. Igboeli, MD ’77 Patrick W. Knapp, MD ’77 Debra Kuracina, MD ’77 Thomas J. LaClair, MD ’77

Drake M. Lamen, MD ’77 Celeste M. Madden, MD ’77 Lucia Pastore, MD ’77 Linda Rexford, MD ’77 James A. Schneid, MD ’77 Neil E. Strickman, MD ’77 Class 1980 Scholarship Gerald B. Rakos, MD ’80 Rick Zogby, MD Class of 1984 Memorial Scholarship David J. Anderson, MD ’84 John R. Ayres, MD ’84 Robert M. Black, MD ’84 Eva F. Briggs, MD ’84 Linda Burrell, MD ’84 Emanuel Cirenza, MD ’84 Hal E. Cohen, MD ’84 Steven B. Cohen, MD ’84 Richard D. Cornwell, MD ’84 Joseph P. Dervay, MD ’84 Kenneth J. Edwards, MD ’84 Philip A. Falcone, MD ’84 Debra S. Feldman, MD ’84 Albert F. Finn, Jr., MD ’84 David A. Goodman, MD ’84 Brett B. Greenky, MD ’84 Anthony W. Hartmann, MD, ’84

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William M. Hartrich, MD ’84 David P. Haswell, MD ’84 James R. Jewell, MD ’84 Cynthia E. Johnson, MD ’84 Michael Komar, MD ’84 Anthony Lama, MD ’84 Richard Lichenstein, MD ’84 Sandra M. Lombardo, MD ’84 John M. Marzo, MD ’84 Timothy McCanty, MD ’85 Mega IME Corp John J. Minoli, MD ’84 Lori J. Mosca, MD ’84 Ralph Mosca, MD ’85 Erik A. Niedritis, MD ’84 Wendy R. Parish, MD ’84 Donald Patten, MD ’84 Pamela J. Reinhardt, MD ’84 Maura J. Rossman, MD ’85 Dorothy F. Scarpinato, MD ’84 Peter F. Sharkey, MD ’84 Michael G. Sheehan, MD ’84 Lynn M. Sutley-Hartmann, MD ’84 Thomas G. Westner, MD ’84 Daniel C. Wnorowski, MD ’84 Brian D. Woolford, MD ’84 Elizabeth Yerazunis Palis, MD ’84

2013-2014 Report of Gifts Steven A. Radi Martha A. Reitman Joseph A. Smith Jeffrey D. Spiro John S. Tsakonas Nicholas G. Tullo

1983 Total Giving $15,015 Percentage of Giving 30% $2,500-$4,999 Joseph R. Tobin $1,000-$2,499 Anonymous George N. Coritsidis Kevin M. Coughlin Dennis D. Daly Debra I. Poletto $500-$999 Larry N. Bernstein Debra A. Brown-Norko Lloyd M. Cook Eric L. Fremed Karen K. Heitzman Michael A. Norko Gary D. Usher $100-$499 Richard G. Birkhead Christopher A. Clyne Cheryl A. DeVito Phyllis D. Fried David M. Friedel Seth S. Greenky Jules Greif Ellen B. Kaplan Lya M. Karm Joseph H. Keogh Joseph P. Laukaitis Robert Lowinger Theodore M. Mazer Ellen M. Mchugh Robert J. Ostrander Paul P. Romanello Marc R. Rosen Larry S. Sandberg Susan E. Schraft Sandra D. Wiederhold Charles I. Woods Darryl A. Zuckerman $1-$99 Michael L. Black James P. Blanchfield David M. Connuck Dennis W. Fera Wanda P. Fremont Susan Jensen Marcy E. Mostel Douglas L. Seidner Zachary S. Spigelman

1984 Total Giving $41,518 Percentage of Giving 44% $2,500-$4,999 Emanuel Cirenza Peter F. Sharkey $1,000-$2,499 David J. Anderson John R. Ayres Linda Burrell Steven B. Cohen Richard D. Cornwell Joseph P. Dervay Kenneth J. Edwards David A. Goodman William M. Hartrich Michael Komar Amy L. Ladd John M. Marzo Lori J. Mosca Donald Patten Pamela J. Reinhardt Dorothy F. Scarpinato Elizabeth S. Yerazunis Palis $500-$999 Lydia A. Alexander-Cook Robert M. Black Eva F. Briggs Hal E. Cohen Philip A. Falcone Albert F. Finn, Jr. Frederick D. Grant Brett B. Greenky Anthony W. Hartmann Howard M. Heller Hisham E. Kashou Anthony Lama Richard Lichenstein Sandra M. Lombardo John J. Minoli Wendy R. Parish Lynn M. SutleyHartmann Daniel C. Wnorowski Brian D. Woolford $100-$499 Sam T. Auringer William P. Bundschuh Bradley M. Denker Michael A. DeVito Harry C. Dietz Philip Dolin George T. Fantry Debra S. Feldman David P. Haswell James R. Jewell Cynthia E. Johnson Maria Tasso Longo Hindi T. Mermelstein Erik A. Niedritis David C. Richard Richard D. Scheyer

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The Class of 1984 Honors the Memory of Richard Zogby, MD ’84

eceiving the award for highest reunion class giving was a bittersweet vic­ tory for the class of 1984 this year. While the class raised $41,518, a large percent­ age—$24,600—was given to fund a scholar­ ship in memory of classmate Rick Zogby, MD ’84, who died in February 2013 after a heroic 11-year battle with metastic stomach cancer.

Dr. Zogby was a talented, dedicated phy­ sician who was highly respected by friends, colleagues, and patients, who he tirelessly served during many years as an orthopedic and spine surgeon in Syracuse. Even during his personal struggles with cancer, he con­ tinued to care for patients, providing them the best possible treatment. He left behind a wife, three sons, and a daughter.

Zogby remained close to many of his medical school classmates and his death hit them hard. “Our class wanted to make a gift in Rick’s memory so his example might persist and flourish through the education of gifted future physicians who might choose to follow his path,” says Dan Wnorowski, MD ’84, Zogby’s friend and partner in orthopedic practice. “They will need big shoes.”

In many regards, Zogby was a role model: an Eagle Scout, a college athlete, a U.S. Army reserve officer. “He always had something important to say, and people lis­ tened to him,” says Wnorowski.

He was also a lot of fun. Brian Wicks, MD ’84, got to know Zogby when both were tapped by the same “secret society” while seniors at Dartmouth College, and forged a lifelong friendship after they both landed at the College of Medicine. “We studied hard but spent plenty of time in the gym at the CAB and on Marshall Street. We would go to parties at the SU fraternities and pretend we were college freshman seeking advice on what classes to take. We played football at Thornden Park and spent lunch hour eating chicken noodle soup with hot peppers and watching “All My Children” before heading back to class,” Wicks recalls.

Like Wicks, Amy Ladd, MD ’84 was also a classmate of Zogby’s at both Dartmouth and Upstate. “Rick was the kindest, gentlest of

giants I’ve ever known,” she says. “He was compassionate, soulful, and funny, softspoken and all mischief, kind of like the class cut-up but the first to bring the teacher flowers.”

After Zogby’s death, class representative Lori Mosca, MD ’84, sent out an appeal to classmates to create a scholarship in his name; the response was immediate, coming within a few hundred dollars of reaching the endowment amount of $25,000.

Michael DeVito, MD ’84, who met Zogby on the first day of medical school orienta­ tion, says that response is a reflection of how much Rick meant to his classmates. “He was always generous in all things, whether it was school, listening to problems, or just having fun. He never had a bad word to say about anyone.”

“It’s very clear why it struck a chord,” adds George Fantry, MD’ 84, one of Zogby’s roommates throughout medical school. “Rick had a great zest and love for life. He kept things in proper perspective and was incred­ ibly fun to be around.”

Zogby was a guard on the Dartmouth College football team and Joe Dervay, MD ’84, says he played much the same role in the leadership of their class. “A guard’s job is to lead the sweep and protect the quarter­ back. It was the same at Upstate—Rick led us with spirit and good nature and protected the friendship and cohesion of our class with loyalty, kindness, and a helping hand.”

While the criteria used to award the scholarship is still under discussion, Wicks says the perfect recipient would be “someone who has a quick and easy smile, someone who thinks first of the needs of others, and is dedicated to working in the ‘trenches’ of medicine to help make this world a little bit better.” Someone just like Rick.

To contribute to the Zogby Scholarship, please visit www.upstate.edu/medalumni, call 315-464-4361, or send gifts to Zogby Scholarship, Upstate Medical Alumni Foundation, Setnor Academic Building #1510, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210.

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2013-2014 Report of Gifts Michael D. Schwartz Michael G. Sheehan Gordon W. Single Bruce B. Sloane Steven R. Urbanski Ira M. Weinstein Thomas G. Westner $1-$99 Daniel J. Duprey Holly Kent

1985 Total Giving $34,375 Percentage of Giving 41% $5,000-$9,999 Catherine E. Palmier James Palmier $2,500-$4,999 Peter J. Christiano $1,000-$2,499 Luz Alvarez Robert Baltera William Canovatchel Steven Hassig Timothy McCanty Ralph Mosca Maureen T. Murphy Michael A. Riccione Gary G. Sauer

$500-$999 Yuk-Wah N. Chan Grace Chung Anthony J. DiGiovanna Carol Lundin-Schwartz Maura J. Rossman Joel Schwartz Sandra K. Wechsler Robert M. Zielinski Mitchell Zipkin Neal Zung

Drew Malloy Francis G. O’Connor Janet L. O’Connor Anthony Petracca, Jr. Mark S. Potenza Marc I. Rozansky Michael D. Rutkowski Alan M. Schuller Andrew Shaer Simon D. Spivack Jonathan P. Yunis

$100-$499 Robyn Agri Joseph P. Augustine Robert C. Berlin Jonathan D. Bier Jane B. Black Jo-Ann Blaymore-Bier Debra J. Clark Gerard A. Compito Mark Costanza Mary Deguardi Lori E. Fantry Stephen Federowicz Karl Gauss Paula A. Gauss Marya C. Gendzielewski Jill C. Hertzendorf Robert V. Hingre Thomas Kantor Michael W. Kelberman Daniel R. Kelly Vito J. Losito

$1-$99 Coleen K. Cunningham Michelle M. Davitt Mark A. Fogel Anthony N. Passannante Hayes H. Wanamaker

1986 Total Giving $14,684 Percentage of Giving 29% $1,000-$2,499 Colleen M. Dargie Daniel W. Esper Henry P. Nagelberg Michael E. Rettig William Snearly Robert L. Tiso

The class of 1984 received the largest class gift award.

$500-$999 Lawrence C. Calabrese Gabriel M. Cohn Steven B. Goldblatt Sharon Hertz John Labiak Kathleen A. Leavitt Thomas J. Madejski Edwin J. Sebold Barbara C. Tommasulo

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$100-$499 Georgianne Arnold Marc Behar Andrew S. Bensky Gregg S. Berkowitz Shelley R. Berson Arthur F. Coli Gary M. Freeman Peter Kouides Daniel Luthringer Gerald V. McMahon Niel F. Miele Sarah B. Nemetz Elizabeth A. Prezio

Russell Rider Toufic A. Rizk David L. Rocker Richard A. Romer Donna E. Roth Ernest M. Scalzetti Lee M. Shangold Mitchell S. Shek Scott Sheren Marc Z. Simmons Michele Simmons Steven Tawil Andrew Topf

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$1-$99 Tammy L. Anthony Pedro J. Cepeda James H. Hertzog

1987 Total Giving $10,200 Percentage of Giving 26% $1,000-$2,499 Kenneth J. Cohen Michael A. Kwiat John R. Wanamaker $500-$999 John J. Callahan, Jr. Samuel Chun Paul B. Kreienberg Elizabeth Rajamani Julia M. Shi Michael Weiner $100-$499 Bernadette Albanese John Becker Neil R. Connelly Joseph F. Femia Joseph T. Flynn Dan Gerstenblitt Eric Goldsmith Paul L. Guadagnino Cynthia B. Heller

Bruce M. Henry Stafford C. Henry Kristina S. Hingre Roberto E. Izquierdo Dennis Kelly Ruth Kouides Thomas LoRusso Robert E. Lubanski Kirsten P. Magowan Lisa A. Manz-Dulac Leonard Marotta R. Keith Miller Rebecca K. Potter Joseph Rand Diane Sommer Edward J. Spangenthal Victor Szemetylo James Tyburski Catherine M. Vernon Steven Weinreb $1-$99 Debra A. Buchan Anthony R. Russo

1988 Total Giving $10,645 Percentage of Giving 31%

$1,000-$2,499 Stamatia Destounis Donald S. Miller Keith Stube $500-$999 Rajendra Achaibar Louis Bonavita, Jr Erick C. Bulawa Larry S. Charlamb Leo Katz Maureen L. Sheehan Thomas P. Stuver $100-$499 David Anderson Donald Calzolaio Johanna Daily Frank Dolisi Kurt C. Foxton Andrew M. Goldschmidt Eric M. Grabstein John M. Gray David J. Hoffman Teresa J. KarcnikMahoney Jeffrey M. King Christina I. Klufas Denise Lawrence Michael Mahelsky Kevin R. Math Michael S. McGarrity James L. Megna Anne Mirth Scott Palmer

James Peak Dolores A. RhymerAnderson Elissa S. Sanchez-Speach Timothy Scholes Adam L. Seidner Andrew M. Sopchak David P. Speach Thomas Summers John P. Teixeira Kathi F. Teixeira David T. Terasaka $1-$99 Beth C. Burghardt Michael Lastihenos Ellen Reich Michael Schwartz Katherine H. Sikoryak

1989 Total Giving $17,409 Percentage of Giving 38% $1,000-$2,499 Elaine M. Silverman Dawn M. Sweeney Josef J. Vanek $500-$999 Jeffrey A. Abrams Anonymous

Karen DeFazio Lawrence L. Greenwald Beth L. Jonas Gloria A. Kennedy G. Michael Ortiz Sybil Sandoval Lynn B. Swisher Nicholas C. Trasolini $100-$499 Robert H. Ablove Joseph Albano Deborah B. Aquino Victor M. Aquino Faranak Argani Richard J. Aubry Susan L. Auffinger Jeffrey Belanoff Joseph G. Borer Ursula Boruta-Heberlein Brian S. Brundage Linda A. Bulich Donald A. Chiulli Daniel I. Choo Carolyn Coveney Sulona Denloye Angela V. D’Orsi Trent Erney Pamela L. Foresman Teresa C. Gentile Elizabeth H. Higgins Thomas A. Holly Eileen A. Keneck Sherry Kondziela Kim Kramer

Daniel G. McBride Amy L. McGarrity Zotter Mark Milner Roger Padilla James F. Palombaro Michael J. Picciano J. Marc Pipas Linda J. Powell Guillermo Quetell Ira Rashbaum Mark A. Rubenstein Marc S. Rudoltz Ronald C. Samuels Allen Schawe Domenick P. Sciaruto D. Peter Van Eenenaam Stephen R. Weinman John D. Wrightson Elizabeth Zick

1990 Total Giving $7,573 Percentage of Giving 22% $1,000-$2,499 Robert L. Carhart, Jr. Jill Freedman David Nelson $500-$999 Kevin Abrams Gregg Foos

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ONONDAGA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY The Jerry Hoffman Advocacy Award Anwar S. Ahmad, MD Adrienne Allen, MD Department of Anesthesiology Arthritis Health Assoc, PLLC Associated Gastroenterolo­ gists of CNY, PC Richard H. Aubry, MD* Dr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Baker Richard A. Beers, MD Raymond J. Cassady, MD Brian A. Changlai, Jr., MD Brian Y. Changlai, MD Charles J. Sellers & Co, Inc Jeffrey B. Chick, MD Joan and Armand Cincotta, MD CNY Anesthesia Group, PC CNY Fertility Center Paul S. Cohen, MD Timothy M. Creamer, MD Theodore G. Dalakos, MD Robert W. Daly, MD ’57 Mr. and Mrs. I. Stephen Davis Mary Daye, MD ’76 Francis J. Durgin, MD Gregory L. Eastwood, MD Excellus, BlueCross BlueShield Dr. and Mrs. Fuad Farah Joyce B. Farah, MD ’01 Ramsay S. Farah, MD ’95 The Farah Family Philip L. Ferro, MD ’54 Gianfranco Frittelli, MD Marya C. Gendzielewski, MD ’85 Aart Geurtsen, MD ’69 Joseph Gold, MD ’56* Diane F. Green-El, MD ’78 Hank and Carla Greenwald David R. Halleran, MD William M. Harmand, MD ’73 Ruth Hart, MD ’80 E. Robert Heitzman, MD ’51 Kenneth E. Hoogs, MD Peter P. Huntington, MD Lawrence B. Hurwitz, MD Dr. Trevor Iskander Brian D. Johnson, MD Mary Jumbelic, MD and Marc Safran, MD Ronald Kameny, MD Marcia C. Kirsch, MD ’63

Bonnie S. Koreff-Wolf, MD ’82 Padma Lal, MD Antonio V. Marasigan, MD John B. McCabe, MD ’79 Medical Liability Mutual Insurance, Co Michael Meguid, MD Dr. Herb and Ilene Mendel Madhavi C. Menon, MD Bertram S. Mersereau, MD ’54 Robert R. Michiel, MD Ronald A. Miller, MD ’52 Joseph Monkofsky, MD ’78 James L. Mostrom, MD Ronald A. Naumann, MD ’60 Dennis J. Nave, MD ’81 Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65 Anis I. Obeid, MD Teresa J. Pagano-Parke, MD ’74 David T. Page, MD Robert G. Parke, MD ’74 Virginia and Frederick Parker, Jr., MD Susan and Barry Rabin, MD Research & Marketing Strategies, Inc Jala Sadrieh, MD Henry W. Schoeneck, MD ’82 Joseph V. Scrivani, MD ’60 Kendrick A. Sears, MD Jeffrey S. Sneider, MD George A. Soufleris, MD Philip J. Speller, MD ’55 George Starr, MD Richard J. Steinmann, MD ’78 Anne and Donald Stewart, MD Lawrence C. Stewart, MD ’82 Neil S. Stewart, MD Edward D. Sugarman, MD ’63 Pamela L. Sunshine, MD ’82 Sanford P. Temes, MD ’72 Elaine A. Thomas Elapumkal A. Thomas, MD* Dr. and Mrs. George P. Tilley Robert E. Todd, MD ’93 Darvin Varon, MD ’93 Vascular Surgeons of Central New York, PLLC Visiting Nurse Association of CNY, Inc Richard N. Waldman, MD William J. Williams, MD Ivan L. Wolf, MD

OCMS Medical Student Scholarship Fund Excellus, BlueCross BlueShield Mr. and Mrs. Gerald N. Hoffman Onondaga County Medical Society, Inc White Coat Ceremony Fund Mary Abdulky, MD Tammy L. Anthony, MD ’86 Arthritis Health Assoc, PLLC Carl I. Austin, MD ’47 Dr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Baker Richard A. Beers, MD Thomas A. Bersani, MD ’82 Allan Birnbaum, MD Robert M. Black, MD ’84 Robert A. Bornhurst, MD ’60 Debra A. Buchan, MD ’87 Beth Cady Burghardt, MD ’88 Edward W. Carsky, MD Jeffrey B. Chick, MD Joan and Armand Cincotta, MD ClearPath Diagnostics Lynn M. Cleary, MD CNY Anesthesia Group, PC Willard Cohen, MD ’56 Mr. and Mrs. James E. Coulthart Jacinto M. Cruz, MD Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Cupelo Carlo R. deRosa, MD ’61 John P. DeSimone, MD Mantosh J. Dewan, MD James A. Dispenza, MD ’75 Robert A. Dracker, MD ’82 Frank Dubeck, Jr., MD Michael P. Duffy, MD ’82 David B. Duggan, MD ’79 Gregory L. Eastwood, MD Matthew J. Egan, MD ’04 Dr. and Mrs. Fuad Farah Ramsay S. Farah, MD ’95 The Farah Family Philip L. Ferro, MD ’54 Michael A. Fitzgerald, MD Cedric Francis, MD Michael J. Geiss, MD Aart Geurtsen, MD ’69 Irving H. Goldman, MD ’55 John F. Gorman, MD ’58* Diane F. Green-El, MD ’78 Eva Gregory, MD Robert J. Gregory, MD David R. Halleran, MD Dr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Harris

Richard L. Hehir, MD E. Robert Heitzman, MD ’51 Frederick S. F. Ho, MD G. David Hoeft, MD Gerald N. Hoffman David J. Honold, MD ’70 Peter P. Huntington, MD Brian D. Johnson, MD Randy Kalish, MD Richard K. Keene Kristine M. Keeney Bogart, MD ’99 Gregory G. Kenien, MD ’80 Leslie J. Kohman, MD Leonard Levy, MD ’60 James E. Lewis, MD ’53 Marybeth McCall, MD Andreas H. Meier, MD Stanley P. Meltzer, MD ’61 Bertram S. Mersereau, MD ’54 Robert R. Michiel, MD Marissa Mincolla, MD ’08 Michael Mincolla, M.D. ’08 Sujata V. Murthy, MD Musculoskeletal Medicine PC Dennis J. Nave, MD ’81 Ovid O. Neulander, MD Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65 Colleen E. O’Leary, MD ’78 Michael R. O’Leary, MD ’78 Onondaga County Medical Society, Inc David T. Page, MD Pathology Associates of Syracuse, PC William G. Patrick, MD ’79

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Thangam Perumal, MD Joel Potash, MD Barry Rabin, MD Patricia Randall, MD Michael H. Ratner, MD ’68 Rebecca Reeves, MD Jianming Ren, MD Nicholas M. Ricciardi, MD ’65 Henry W. Schoeneck, MD ’82 Joseph V. Scrivani, MD ’60 Kendrick A. Sears, MD Richard K. Sheehan, MD Harold Small, MD Jeffrey S. Sneider, MD George A. Soufleris, MD Philip J. Speller, MD ’55 Philip J. Speller, MD ’99 Teamsters Local Union No. 1149 George P. Tilley, MD Robert E. Todd, MD ’93 Jorge A. Torretti, MD Upstate Urology, Inc Kevin M. Walsh, MD Hayes H. Wanamaker, MD ’85 Robert W. Weisenthal, MD Edwin Yarwood, MD Robert H. Zimmer, MD ’54

2013-2014 Report of Gifts

What the White Coat Ceremony Meant to Me

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s I entered the building two hours before the start of our class’s White Coat Ceremony, I remember looking around at the unfamiliar faces of my new class­ mates. Everyone looked eager, excited, and carefree while hold­ ing their neatly folded, crisp white coats over their arms. We all had seen doctors in white coats before–the recognizable symbol of the established med­ ical professional. It was our turn to receive ours.

I recall feeling a sense of accomplishment and knowledge when I was handed my coat. Cer­ tainly attending medical school is an accomplishment, but that night I realized we were not being congratulated for simply attending, but instead being reminded how gratifying and rewarding the next four years of our education were going to be.

Medical school is a journey.

It is a challenging process that requires determination and selfguided hard work to navigate. As we walked across the stage that night, we were accepting the challenge not only for ourselves, but also for our classmates and for our patients. The White Coat symbolizes our devotion to com­ pleting this journey.

Although the White Coat Ceremony was put on to cele­ brate the incoming Class of 2016, we students were in the minority that night. The audi­ ence consisted of parents, grand­ parents, siblings, and friends, all of who made it possible for us students to be where we are in our lives. The ceremony was in large part to show appreciation to my family for all the years of

support and reassurance they had given me up until that point.

It is now that I am getting into the clinical rotations of my third year here at SUNY Upstate that my white coat has become a staple in my wardrobe. It holds the essential medicine pocket book, stethoscope, and drug ref­ erence guide, but it also keeps granola bars and snacks nearby to keep me moving throughout the day. Patients often yell “Hey, doctor!” in my direction causing me to quickly remind them that I am still a couple years away from that title.

With the white coat comes responsibility to do what is best for our patients.

On behalf of myself and all of the students here at SUNY Upstate, I want to thank the Onondaga County Medical Society for continuing to co-sponsor this memorable event, (along with the Medical Alumni Foundation). As I have mentioned, the White Coat Cer­ emony is a night that neither my family nor I will ever forget. It served as a reminder of how far we had come as college gradu­ ates but that we still have a life­ time of dedication and learning ahead of us. White coats are a part of the medical profession and it is our duty to understand and respect what they symbolize to ensure the best care for all those we come across in the years to come.

Tommy Marino ’16 OCMS Medical Student Representative Reprinted with permission from the OCMS Bulletin

$100-$499 Anne F. Barash John D. Bisognano Kenneth Bizovi Lawrence S. Blaszkowsky Christina M. Brown Luci M. Chen David Diamant Elizabeth Donohue Robin Gross Kerry E. Houston Kelly R. Huiatt Cynthia Jones Joseph Marsicano Joan E. Pellegrino Gail Petters Pasquale Picco Susan V. Rockwell Joanne Giambo Rosser John Rosser Ninad Samant Anthony Sanito John H. Van Slyke Stacia L. Van Slyke $1-$99 Ann Barton Scott C. Buckingham Tracy L. Buckingham Philip Remillard

1991 Total Giving $10,812 Percentage of Giving 17% $1,000-$2,499 Mary Ellen Greco Christina LaBella John LaBella Patricia Merritt $500-$999 Bradley P. Fox Christopher P. Keuker Joan O’Shea Anne M. Ranney $100-$499 John C. Brancato Matthew R. Brand Molly A. Brewer Gwenneth O. Cancino Carl C. D’Andrea David Dombroski Steven W. Falen Edward C. Gabalski Lawrence Goldstein Gordon D. Heller James A. Krukowski Denise Monte Joanne Samant Cheryl D. Wills $1-$99 Nora E. Bolanos Abdul Wali

N. Barry Berg, PhD Scholarship for Musculoskeletal Medicine Donna Bacchi, MD Michael Baccoli, MD ’92 Yuk-Wah N. Chan, MD ’85 Anthony Giordano, MD ’07 Gerald B. Gordon, MD Elizabeth H. Higgins, MD ’89 Letitia E. Hillsman, MD ’02 Ann and Burk Jubelt, MD Thomas J. LaClair, MD ’77 Timothy H. Lee, MD ’00 Dan and Terry Miller Douglas D. Sandbrook David R. Smith, MD Julie E. Yoon, MD ’04

1992 Total Giving $9,710 Percentage of Giving 22% $1,000-$2,499 Douglas Bennett Jane S. Bennett Joseph W. Flanagan Jeffrey Gelfand Christina Morganti $500-$999 Jaime A. Alvarez Barbara L. Clayton-Lutz Andrew Cooperman Timothy D. Kane $100-$499 Michael Baccoli Wendy M. Book David Caucci Lisa Cupit Dorothy T. Damore Hilda Gartley Nancy Giannini Alan Kravatz Steven Kushner Lawrence J. Kusior Dwight Ligham Theresa Lipsky Dino Messina Michael Piansky Mark Saporita Stephanie SchwartzKravatz Eric Seybold

$1-$99 Deborah Bassett Joseph P. Gale Mirlande Jordan Steven C. Scherping, Jr.

1993 Total Giving $9,200 Percentage of Giving 14% $5,000-$9,999 Stephanie S. Roach $1,000-$2,499 Kenneth A. Egol $500-$999 Charles J. Lutz $100-$499 Chamain Austin Jason Feinberg Brian Gordon Joan Mitchell Donna B. Moore Florence M. Parrella Michael Plevyak Joanne C. Pohl Lyle J. Prairie Robert E. Todd Darvin Varon Anthony G. Visco $1-$99 Daniel Alley Janice A. Bedell Annemarie Etienne Hester Heather C. Koelling Sean P. Roche Theresa Stolz

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2013-2014 Report of Gifts Joshua M. Rubenfeld Jennifer M. Salm Andrew M. Schulman Eric M. Spitzer $1-$99 John F. Defrancisco Michael D. George Dario A. Lecusay, Jr. Yuliya Rekhtman John M. Russo Karen L. Tedesco

1999 Total Giving $5,095 Percentage of Giving 16% $1,000-$2,499 John J. Imbesi $500-$999 Jerry Caporaso, Jr. Craig S. See Matthew L. Shafiroff

1994 Total Giving $8,925 Percentage of Giving 15% $1,000-$2,499 Philip A. Fraterrigo Margaret A. Leary Joseph T. Pedersen Todd R. Peebles $500-$999 Malcolm D. Brand John H. Ephron Willie Underwood, III $100-$499 Daniel F. Brown Annmarie A. Gaskin Lee J. Herbst Robert G. Hogan Michele Jamison Richard Mascolo Sharon A. McFayden-Eyo James M. Perry Michael S. Ramjattansingh John P. Risolo Bruce H. Schwartz Vincent N. Scialdone George L. Stanley Edward H. Tom Alan Wang

$1-$99 Anonymous Timothy S. Boyd

1995 Total Giving $6,970 Percentage of Giving 14% $1,000-$2,499 Timothy S. Huang Chong S. Kim Gregg A. Miller $500-$999 Karen M. Clary Ramsay S. Farah Joan E. Olson $100-$499 Lynn C. Berger Steven J. Colwell Sean A. Fullerton Yves A. Gabriel Michael D. Gitman Maureen R. Goldman Lucinda A. Keller Kathleen M. Lawliss Thomas P. Morrissey Peter A. Pinto Luis A. Santos Susan A. Scavo Thomas L. Schwartz

$1-$99 Joseph D. Pianka

1996 Total Giving $7,865 Percentage of Giving 16% $1,000-$2,499 Laura R. Carucci Surinder S. Devgun Adam P. Klausner Paul E. Perkowski $500-$999 Alicia K. Guice $100-$499 Andrew Blank Erwin J. Bulan Jeanine H. Bulan Michael Coriale Daniel S. Crough Barbara S. Edelheit Wendy L. Garrity Ileen Y. Herrero-Szostak Sonja M. LichtensteinZayneh Melinda B. Mcminn Valerie K. Merl Jaime H. Nieto Philip T. Ondocin Michael J. Szostak Elizabeth Tanzi

$1-$99 Ellis A. Boudreau Gary S. Shapiro

1997 Total Giving $2,430 Percentage of Giving 16% $100-$499 Melissa A. Brown Michael C. Fischi Darlene Henderson Forbes Danielle A. Katz Valerie J. Lang James W. Leyhane John K. Lightfoot Shani L. Lipset Shelly S. Lo Michael A. Marlowe Cheryl A. Morrow Robyn A. Osrow Rola H. Rashid Andrew B. Reese Stacy J. Spiro $1-$99 William H. Gans Timothy G. Keenan Alice Y. Kim Genevieve A. Lama Michelle E. Liebert

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James J. Lynch Jeffrey M. Riggio

1998 Total Giving $10,195 Percentage of Giving 20% $1,000-$2,499 Cinthia T. Bateman Michael C. Bateman David J. Joswick Jeffrey R. LaDuca Lauren H. Turteltaub Katherine A. Van Savage $500-$999 Timothy K. Atkinson Karen Y. Ng Harshit M. Patel Tamara A. Prull $100-$499 Gina M. Abbruzzi Martin Jennifer E. Allen Laura A. Allen Cindy H. Baskin Eleas J. Chafouleas David M. DeVellis Matthew R. DiCaprio David S. Edelheit Barbara A. Morisseau Ari M. Perkins Amy L. Pierce

$100-$499 Samuel G. Alpert Robert S. Cady Kenneth K. Cheng Sarah C. Ellestad Andrew D. Feingold Kristine M. Keeney Bogart Tracy Lee Steven J. Ognibene Scott R. Oosterveen Kyle T. Osborn Ronald P. Pigeon Gina Schindelheim Joshua S. Simon John A. Ternay Michael H. Tong $1-$99 Lauren J. Jones Philip J. Speller Jennifer G. Summer Leslie K. Tomek Stephen H. Tomek

2000 Total Giving $6,000 Percentage of Giving 15% $1,000-$2,499 Lisa Minsky-Primus $500-$999 Hana F. Jishi Timothy H. Lee Dana C. Ranani $100-$499 Tracy E. Alpert Brian M. Bizoza Laura Dattner

2013-2014 Report of Gifts Ron Elfenbein Adam P. Ellis Amy P. Huang Rajesh K. Jain Newrhee Kim Christina M. Liepke Matthew J. Liepke Mark D. Minier Kim L. Rickert Sarah T. Stewart Shelley V. Street Callender Heather A. Wheat Liyuan Yu $1-$99 Penelope Hsu Rosalie Naglieri

2001 Total Giving $3,075 Percentage of Giving 9% $500-$999 Carina Cartelli Joyce B. Farah Joseph A. Lasek Meghan E. Ogden Danielle L. Petersel Amy L. Reynders $100-$499 Lynn E. Fraterrigo Boler

Christie Perez-Johnson Jamie D. Shutter Lia M. Spina Danit Talmi Katherine M. Walker Foster $1-$99 Sanjay Jobanputra Elizabeth Vonfelten

$1-$99 Julie D. McNairn Rebecca L. Orendorff

2003 Total Giving $2,491 Percentage of Giving 12%

2002 Total Giving $2,550 Percentage of Giving 11% $500-$999 Elvis Grandic $100-$499 Anonymous Rebecca L. Bagdonas Erica D. Berg Sophia Bichotte-Ligonde Madison C. Cuffy Amir Garakani Michael T. Gaslin Letitia E. Hillsman Jessica J. Lee Brian Y. Ng Oleg Shapiro Sohita Torgalkar Christa L. Whitney-Miller

$100-$499 Patrick L. Basile Jonathan I. Berg Bo Chao Jay Chen Joseph M. Ferrara, Jr. Natasha Fievre Nathaniel S. Gould Ari I. Jonisch Matthew C. Miller Christopher E. Paoloni Shannon E. Routhouska Jessica F. Sherman William M. Sherman Erica D. Weinstein $1-$99 Eric Horowitz Sivia K. Lapidus Eugene Lee Sean P. O’Malley

Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65 Endowed Department Chair of Surgery Lynn M. Cleary, MD Robert N. Cooney, MD Coyne Textile Services Thomas M. Coyne David B. Duggan, MD '79 Amy L. Ladd, MD '84 Patricia J. Numann, MD '65 Marshall E. Redding, MD Natalie M. Roney, MD '04 Mary Jean and F. Deaver Thomas, MD Marshia K. Witting

2004 Total Giving $5,925 Percentage of Giving 19% $500-$999 James K. Farry Michael L. Lester Kevin R. O’Connor Natalie M. Roney

$100-$499 Scott P. Albert Marsha T. Austin Amy L. Barnett Matthew J. Egan Jimmy Feng Kimberly A. Giusto Evan B. Grossman Seth J. Isaacs Nickolas Katsoulakis Amit Kumar William D. Losquadro Andrew J. Najovits John P. O’Brien

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Sarah Loguen Fraser, MD Class of 1876 Scholarship Lydia A. AlexanderCook, MD ’84 Anonymous Marsha T. Austin, MD ’04 N. Barry Berg, PhD Sophia BichotteLigonde, MD ’02 Louis Bland, MD ’75 Sharon A. Brangman, MD ’81 Jerry Brown, MD ’74 Lynn M. Cleary, MD Lloyd M. Cook, MD ’83 Madison C. Cuffy, MD ’02 Yvonne Cuffy, MD ’07 David B. Duggan, MD ’79 Natasha Fievre, MD ’03 Sean A. Fullerton, MD ’95 Diane F. Green-El, MD ’78 Alicia K. Guice, MD ’96 Bruce M. Henry, MD ’87 Roberto E. Izquierdo, MD ’87 Mirlande Jordan, MD ’92 Reginald Q. Knight, MD ’80 Ivens Leflore, MD ’69 John B. McCabe, MD ’79 Donna B. Moore, MD ’93 Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65 Lewis Robinson, MD ’73 K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79 Shelley V. Street Callender, MD ’00 Wanda M. Thompson, PhD

Randy S. Parkhurst Jason P. Scimeme Anna Shapiro Alyssa M. Stephany Alexander Tsukerman Anselm H. Wong Julie E. Yoon $1-$99 Chris C. Bannerman Robert L. Kitts Leon Kushnir Fares G. Mouchantaf Michelle A. Mouchantaf

2005 Total Giving $1,170 Percentage of Giving 11% $100-$499 Jeremy B. Barowsky Jonathan C. Gabel Daniel R. Lefebvre Matthew C. Martinez Megan E. Sheehy Kelly M. Willman Isabelle Zamfirescu $1-$99 Jennifer A. Adair Dana R. Cohen Michael de la Cruz Erin R. De Rose Yauvana V. Gold Iva Gotz Rupesh R. Mehta William M. Parker Mariam E. Youssef

2007

$500-$999 Robert Day Andrea Kreiger

$1-$99 Daniel P. Anderson Eva S. Smith

$100-$499 Mark Gentile Won-Hong Ung

2012

$100-$499 Yvonne Cuffy Amit S. Dhamoon Paige Dorn Anthony Giordano Roan Glocker Miranda Harris Faye Knoll Lisa K. Law Emily Lazzari Alexandra McGann Adams Naveed Naeem Marny Shoham Kendra Smith

$1-$99 Jennifer Clarke Chad Cornish Bruce Derrick Edward R. Gould Katherine A. Kaproth-Joslin Erin Nozetz Lauren Schlanger Sachin Shah Aly Sheraly Krystle Williams

Total Giving $85 Percentage of Giving 2%

$1-$99 Brandon Chase Sarah Finocchiaro Sara Karjoo Jeremy Liff Arash Radparvar Lauren Slater Edward Smitaman Adam Stallmer James Terzian

Total Giving $530 Percentage of Giving 5%

Total Giving $1,762 Percentage of Giving 16%

2008 Total Giving $1,427 Percentage of Giving 11% $500-$999 Marissa Mincolla Michael Mincolla

2006

$100-$499 Lindy Altmayer Steven Altmayer Jacqueline R. Busingye Julie M. Smolinski

Total Giving $1,093 Percentage of Giving 12% $100-$499 Jill-Ann E. Cilente James G. Distefano Jodie M. Howell Kathleen M. Morrell Elyssa L. Pohl $1-$99 Kristin M. Arcara Jennifer Erin Bashant Katrine J. Enrile Shimon M. Frankel Glenn E. Groat Daniel D. Hayes Lisa M. Hayes Joanne Kacperski Markhabat O. Muminova Duc T. Nguyen Aaron M. Powell Melissa A. Price John L. Reagan Anne M. Tremaine

2010 $100-$499 Sarah E. Fabiano David Fernandez $1-$99 Douglas Hildrew Jin Qian Beverly A. Schaefer Christopher Tanski Jennifer L. Tibbens-Scalzo Jason A. Williams

2011 Total Giving $20 Percentage of Giving 1%

Friends

Chandra and Ramaseshu Anne Lynn M. Cleary, MD The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties, Inc. Fenimore Asset Management, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Philip Fraterrigo Ann Gadbaw Sami Husseini, MD Frank Lancellotti, MD Mark Schmitt, PhD

Matching Gift Companies

Bank of America Coca Cola Matching Gift Program General Electric Matching Gift Program Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Merck and Company, Inc. Pfizer Foundation Matching Gift Program

$1-$99 Tyler Call Lisa Figueiredo Pavlina Natcheva-Smitaman Tina Nguyen Casey Roche Megan Sick Rebecca Swan Robert Swan Matthew Thornton Melissa Urckfitz Nelson

2009 Total Giving $1,726 Percentage of Giving 9% The class of 1989 received the award for highest attendance.

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Endowed Scholarships Peter J. Adasek, MD ’65 Scholarship A. Geno Andreatta Scholarship Benjamin N., Mollie P. and Gerson H. Aronovitz, MD ’57 Memorial Scholarship Nathan and Ada August Memorial Scholarship Stanley A. August, MD Memorial Scholarship The Ayanian Family Scholarship (endowed by Zaven Ayanian, MD ’59) Theresa Baltera Memorial Scholarship N. Barry Berg Scholarship for Musculoskeletal Medicine The Martin Black Family Scholarship (endowed by Drs. Martin, Gerald, Michael and Robert Black) Elliot Brandwein, MD ’67 and Arlene Eckstein Brandwein, MD ’68 Scholarship George J. Buchholtz, MD ’52 Scholarship Bernard J. Burke, MD ’43 Scholarship Leonard D. Carpenter, MD ’33 and Ruth E. Carpenter Memorial Scholarship Class of 1966 Scholarship Carol Kavanagh and Class of 1973 Scholarship Douglas E. Cox, MD ’63 Scholarship Edwin T. Dailey, MD ’68 Memorial Scholarship The Dracker Family Scholarship Robert Eitches, MD ’78 Scholarship in Honor of Shirley and Irving Eitches Alfred F. and Shirley D. Enwright Endowed Scholarship (endowed by Michael O’Leary, MD ’78 and Colleen Enwright O’Leary, MD ’78) Joseph C. Fischer, MD ’79 Memorial Scholarship Sarah Loguen Fraser, MD, Class of 1876 Scholarship Joseph J. Gadbaw, MD 12/’43 and Ann Gadbaw Scholarship Max Gara and Robert H. Gara, MD ’56 Scholarship The Garakani Family Scholarship Suzan and Philip M. Gaynes, MD ’63 Scholarship Samuel Gersten, MD ’39 and Martha Gersten Endowed Scholarship Jerome C. Goldstein, MD ’63 and Rochelle Goldstein Scholarship Frances A. Harmatuk, MD ’41 Scholarship Edward F. Higgins, MD ’78 Scholarship Grant Hobika, MD ’52 Scholarship Robert V.P. Hutter, MD ’54 and Ruth L. Hutter Scholarship Kasten Aker Family Scholarship E. Gregory Keating, PhD Memorial Scholarship Martha S. Kincaid, MD Scholarship Sonya A. LaBella Memorial Scholarship Stanley D. Leslie, MD ’51 Memorial Scholarship The Lynch Family Scholarship Alphonse A. Maffeo, MD ’72 Scholarship B. Dale Magee, MD ’75 Scholarship Patrick T. Mathews, MD ’03 Memorial Scholarship James L. McGraw, MD ’41 Scholarship Medical Alumni Foundation Founders Scholarship Medical Alumni Foundation Student Fund Gustave P. Milkey, MD ’43 and Janet B. Milkey Merit Scholarship Peggy and Adolph Morlang, MD ’66 Scholarship Rudolph J. Napodano, MD ’59 Scholarship Sam and Carol Nappi Endowed Scholarship

Onondaga County Medical Society Medical Student Scholarship Betty Reiss, MD ’68 and Jacob Reiss, MD ’68 Family Endowed Scholarship Esther and Monroe Richman, MD ’55 Scholarship Samuel Rosenthal, MD ’64 Scholarship Sanders/Kilkelly Scholarship The Schein Family Scholarship Jack J. Schneider, MD ’66 Scholarship Julius Schwartz, MD ’33 Scholarship The Setnor Family Endowed Scholarship (endowed by Rose and Jules R. Setnor, MD ’35 and Stanford S. Setnor, MD ’42) John B. and Henrietta E. Simeone Scholarship in Memory of Fiorindo A. Simeone, MD Frederick W. Sloan, MD ’74 Scholarship Susan B. Stearns, PhD Scholarship for Community Engagement Susan B. Stearns, PhD Scholarship for International Travel Ralph Stevens, MD ’81 Madison-Oneida Counties Scholarship Subik Family Scholarship Dr. Oscar and Mrs. Luba Trief Memorial Scholarship Barbara and Harold H. Wanamaker, MD ’56 Scholarship Andrew D. Weinberg, MD ’78 Memorial Geriatric Scholarship Susan and Jack Yoffa, MD ’69 in Memory of Elaine Yoffa Hornung Scholarship Leanne and Frank E. Young, MD ’56 Scholarship Awards/Grants Alfred W. Doust, MD Endowed Program in Otolaryngology The Jerry Hoffman Advocacy Award Medical Alumni Recruitment Awards Student Citizen Awards The Swift Family Legacy Grants Herbert M. Weinman, MD ’65 and Suzy Weinman Scholarship Award Fellowships Ellen Cook Jacobsen, MD ’50 Fellowship in Psychiatry Lectureships The Lawrence Pickett, MD Endowed Lectureship in Pediatric Surgery The Donald and Mary Elizabeth King Endowed Lectureship Professorships Stanley A. August, MD Endowed Professorship in Pediatrics Medical Alumni Endowed Professorship in Bioethics Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65 Endowed Professorship Lloyd S. Rogers Endowed Professorship in Surgery Leanne and Frank E. Young, MD ’56 PhD Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science ALL GIFTS RECEIVED FROM OCTOBER 1, 2013 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 | *DECEASED

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2013-2014 Report of Gifts Honor, Memorial Gifts In Memory of Eleanor Abend Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of Stanley A. August, MD ’69 Richard Hillel, MD ’69 In Memory of Lorraine Ayanian Garo H. Taft, MD ’59 In Memory of Jane Bachman Patrick W. Knapp, MD ’77 In Memory of Theresa Baltera Gerard A. Compito, MD ’85 Jill and Amy Imossi F. Thomas and Linda Kaplan In Memory of Leon Bender Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of Dr. Camillo A. Benzo Todd R. Peebles, MD ’94 In Memory of Max Berry Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of Burton L. Block, MD ’60 Philip A. Wolf, MD ’60 In Memory of David Block Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of Bronislaw Boruta Ursula Boruta-Heberlein, MD ’89 In Memory of Elbert Brodsky Ronald C. Brodsky, MD ’81 In Memory of Benjamin H. Button, MD ’58 Jane Button In Memory of Dorothy Carl Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of Maxine Carlin Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of Stephen E. Cummings James J. Cummings, MD ’82 In Memory of Edwin T. Dailey, MD ’68 David L. Charney, MD ’68 In Memory of William T. Dean Gary D. Dean, MD ’81 In Memory of Alfred W. Doust, MD, ’35 Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Doust In Memory of Drs. Amelie and Noles Etienne Annemarie Etienne Hester, MD ’93 In Memory of Lana Feingold Andrew D. Feingold, MD ’99 In Memory of J. Howard Ferguson, MD Anonymous In Memory of Joseph C. Fischer, MD ’79 Mary G. Fischer & Anni Campbell Eleanor Fischer Quigley and Bob Quigley

In Memory of Stuart H. Forster, MD ’80 Timothy E. Dudley, MD ’80 In Memory of Charles Goldsmith Priscilla R. Leslie In Memory of Rolla Hill, MD Mark H. Katz, MD ’75 In Memory of Ronald A. Housman, MD ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Boehmcke Barbara F. Cardea Daniel Cohen, MD, PhD Susie Danziger Margaret W. DeLuca Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Flade William Hassett Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Hoffman Medical Board of Southside Hospital Sue Anne Vogelsberg Patricia J. Walsh Claudia and Robert L. Wasserman, MD Dr. Stuart Weitzman In Memory of Abraham Huber and Richard Muellerleile Irving Huber, MD ’76 In Memory of Robert V.P. Hutter, MD ’54 Gustave L. Davis, MD ’63 Ruth Hutter Bertram S. Mersereau, MD ’54 Larry & Caren Rothenberg and friends of Hutter family Lois Steinberg In Memory of Ellen Cook Jacobsen, MD ’50 Johana K. Brakeley, MD ’77 Barbara and Tom Clarke Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Dube Dr. and Mrs. Fuad Farah Michael Gordon, PhD Wendy Gordon, PhD Albert H. Hume Dirk E. Huttenbach, MD ’65 Burk Jubelt, MD Eugene A. Kaplan, MD ’57 David V. Keith, MD Michael Mahelsky, MD ’88 Arthur C. Peckham, MD ’70 Paul E. Phillips, MD Doris E. Webster Marshia K. Witting In Memory of Sheldon Kapen, MD ’59 Rachel Kapen In Memory of E. Gregory Keating, PhD Evan B. Grossman, MD ’04 Nicole Morgante Wallis In Memory of Martha S. Kincaid, MD ’73 Nathan Endres Richard Endres, MD Frederick W. Kincaid

Ernest and Alice Putnam Kim Sherwood Caso Patrick Stephan and Maria E. Van De Pol In Memory of Sonya A. LaBella Christina LaBella, MD ’91 John LaBella, MD ’91 Wallace L. Philips In Memory of Stanley D. Leslie, MD ’51 Bank of America Marc and Janet Crespi Marc Isaacs and Family Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz Avery Leslie O’Neill and Hank O’Neill Priscilla R. Leslie Cynthia B. Stewart Alice J. Turek, MD ’51* David and Carol Udis In Memory of Howard Lipschutz Marc and Janet Crespi Priscilla R. Leslie David and Carol Udis In Memory of Anne E. Livingston, MD ’84 Cynthia E. Johnson, MD ’84 In Memory of Barbara Lurie Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of Bernard R. Lustick, MD ’49 Renee M. Lustick In Memory of Irene "Iloo" Lynch Coca Cola Matching Gifts Program Helen Lynch Petrina In Memory of Thomas J. Maher, MD ’83 Kevin M. Coughlin, MD ’83 In Memory of Patrick T. Mathews MD ’03 Patrick L. Basile, MD ’03 Marcia Mathews In Memory of Murray Mellman Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of W. Brian Paul Bill and Kathanne Mitchell In Memory of Dr. Stanley Pearl Donald E. Robins, MD ’56 In Memory of Lawrence Pickett, MD Michael H. Ratner, MD ’68 In Memory of John T. "Jack" Prior, MD Bertram S. Mersereau, MD ’54 In Memory of Ralph Reichert, MD ’60 Honora Ahern Michael and Elizabeth Fascitelli Elizabeth Feldman Alan Gregory Emmet and Arica Hirsch Andrew Klaber Ellis Rinaldi Nancy Yih

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In Memory of Elaine Roth Priscilla R. Leslie In Memory of Adele Rubin Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of Henry W. Schoeneck, Jr., MD Henry W. Schoeneck, MD ’82 In Memory of Julius Schwartz, MD ’33 National Analysts, Inc. Louise Judith Schwartz Susan Schwartz McDonald, PhD In Memory of Zella M. Small, MD ’77 Louis Bland, MD ’75 David F. Kennedy In Memory of Joseph A. Smith, MD ’72 Kendra Smith, MD ’07 In Memory of Arlen K. Snyder, MD ’63 James R. Moyes, MD ’63 In Memory of my parents Nina L. and Louis M. Spadaro Mary Ann Antonelli, MD ’70 In Memory of Robert M. Spitzer, MD ’65 Eric M. Spitzer, MD ’98 In Memory of Selma Stahl Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz In Memory of Mernie Swift, MD 3/’43 Andrew J. Rurka, MD ’70* In Memory of Elapumkal A. Thomas, MD Elaine A. Thomas In Memory of Dr. Oscar and Mrs. Luba Trief Adam Himmelsbach Daniel Himmelsbach Joshua Himmelsbach Paula Trief, PhD In Memory of Susan Vandemark Robert M. Vandemark, MD ’80 In Memory of Harold H. Wanamaker, MD ’56 Donald E. Robins, MD ’56 John R. Wanamaker, MD ’87 In Memory of Irwin M. Weiner, MD ’56 Rose A. Giammarco, MD Patsy M. Iannolo, MD ’81 Burk Jubelt, MD Dorothy E. Krakuszeski Arnold M. Moses, MD ’54 Carl and Rose Rosenzweig Trudi M. Schraner Louise and Larry C. Stoner, MD Mary Ellen Trimble, PhD Bonnie D. Wierbinski

2013-2014 Report of Gifts

In Memory of Joseph P. Whalen, MD ’59 Elizabeth V. Whalen Fred M. Ziter, MD In Memory of Stuart L. Yunis, MD ’58 Jonathan P. Yunis, MD ’85 In Honor of A. Geno Andreatta Paul F. Bachman, MD ’77 David L. Charney, MD ’68 Burk Jubelt, MD Mark S. Persky, MD ’72 In Honor of Mary Amuge Jacqueline R. Busingye, MD ’08 In Honor of Upstate Medical University Faculty Jay M. Ritt, MD ’74 In Honor of the Martha and Samuel Gersten, MD ’39 Scholarship Joshua M. Rubenfeld, MD ’98

In Honor of Roan Glocker, MD ’07 Graduation from UAB fellowship Mr. and Mrs. David Glocker In Honor of Matthew Mason, MD ’08 Jim and Carol Mason In Honor of Max Mozell, PhD Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65 In Honor of the R-Med Fund for Northern NY Hugh S. Fulmer, MD ’51 In Honor of Robert F. Rohner, MD ’52 Robert L. Chiteman, MD ’70 Noah S. Finkel, MD ’69 In Honor of Jack N. Rothman, MD ’73 Retirement Leonard Dunn, MD ’73 In Honor of Elinor Spring-Mills, PhD Michael Baccoli, MD ’92 Jamie Shutter, MD ’01 In Honor of Susan Stearns, PhD Michael Baccoli, MD ’92

Sarah C. Burns Lisa M. Procanick K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79 Susan Stearns, PhD In Honor of Michelle Stram Dr. and Mrs. Richard Stram In Honor of Paula Trief, PhD Adam Himmelsbach Daniel Himmelsbach In Honor of Julie White, PhD Dr. and Mrs. Richard Stram In Honor of William J. Williams, MD Anonymous Shawky Z.A. Badawy, MD

Gifts to the Parents and Family Association GOLD SOCIETY $1,000-$2,499 Robert W. Hempel and E. Ann Gill Dr. and Mrs. Richard Stram SILVER SOCIETY $500-$999 Ashok and Shilpa Patel CENTURY SOCIETY $100-$499 Eileen and Stephen A. Albanese, MD Sadiq and Eman Al-Samrrai Orit and Mark Antosh, MD S. Rao Aravapalli, MD Deborah and Joseph P. Augustine, MD '85 Mr. and Mrs. Fai Auyoung Julie and Nabil A. Aziz, MD Edna Badu Isaac and Dinah Bampoe William and Luann Bartlow Robert and Beth Belkin Regina and Robert M. Black, MD '84 Imtiaz Bokhari and Cynthia Strippoli Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Buel Cathy Bush Joseph and Lori Calleo Patricia and Joseph Cambareri, MD '82 David Campbell and Noreen KenneyCampbell Gabriel and Gertrude Capili Carl and Emelyne Casimir Jia Min Chen and Ang Ho Lam William and Colleen Connelly Larry Consenstein, MD '77 Joseph and Susan DeMari

Mr. and Mrs. Paul DuFlo Amin and Nada Elhassan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Elsner Pauline Enechukwu John and Suzanne Evans Lynn E. Fraterrigo Boler, MD '01 Kenneth and Catherine Gardiner Allan and Ann Geisendorfer Richard and Elaine Gergelis Joel and Sheree Green Karen and Edward C. Gross, MD '80 Muhammad and Nuzhat Habibullah David R. Halleran, MD Kevin and Jeanne Harris David and Martha Haughey Thomas and Aries Helm Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hessenauer Blaine and Robin Jones Bradley and Teresa Joyce Yoshihiko and Sayumi Kashiwazaki Rajeswari Kota Stanley and Jean Kulesa Michael Kyi Ronald and Claudia Landry Anthony and Annawati Liem Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lin Celeste M. Madden, MD '77 Ronald and Mary Meeker Alaric and Carolyn Mitchell Mark C. Mitschow Wali Mohammad, MD Lori A. Murphy Dima and Imad S. Nsouli, MD Carlos Palacio Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Rabinowitz Elizabeth Ramirez Vinode and Nalini Ramprashad

Allen Reiser and Nora Jordan Michael and Suzanne Rivara Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Santiago Henry W. Schoeneck, MD '82 Ruvan and Karen Shein Jong-Chuan Shieh and Hsueh-Hui Lee Roland and Anne Smilnak Yong-chern Su and Chiu-chu Kung Marion Tabi Russell and Maria Titone Tenlin Tsai Xin Tu and Anna Tan Toan Vo and Mai Le David and Elaine Wackerow Craig and Mary Wakeley Jay M. Walshon, MD '75 Robyn and Michael Weiner, MD '87 Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wilson

Paul Kurland Mr. and Mrs. David Lind Jim and Carol Mason Robert and Catherine McDonough William and Alice McNamara John and Catherine Moore Alsacia Pacsi Victoria Pawlick Mr. and Mrs. Harry Persaud Dennis and Caroline Polmateer Mr. and Mrs. Michael Storonsky Paul Taylor Michael and Barbara Tydings Mr. and Mrs. Walter Zagieboylo

$1-$99 Michael and Kathryn Anderson Kenneth and Kathleen Caiola Nina and Richard M. Cantor, MD '76 Frank and Stephanie Chiaravalloti Robert and MaryAlice Clapp Robert Craxton Mr. and Mrs. Cosimo Di Bari George and Jane Dragnich Anne Dziuba Theresa Egan Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gnirke Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Jacobs Peter and Annie Kalotschke Mike and Deirdre Keenan Michael and Trish Kenderes Gary Kuch and Ellen Tillapaugh Albert Kukol and Marcia Ward ALL GIFTS RECEIVED FROM OCTOBER 1, 2013 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 | *DECEASED

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STUDENT ROUNDS A Community Effort THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE CREATES SMALL LEARNING COMMUNITIES TO ENHANCE THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE.

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o you want Chipotle or Pita Pit?” That was the choice Hal Cohen, MD ’84, gave the first-year medi­ cal students he was hosting for dinner.

The students had never met Dr. Cohen before and didn’t know his reputation as a jokester, so they were surprised when they found themselves with a dinner reservation at the University Sheraton instead of a Marshall Street fast-food restaurant.

The incoming students were having “Dinner with a Doctor” the night before their first day of class. Although the pro­ gram is not new, the way the students were assigned to the doctors they dined with was given an added twist.

This fall, the Upstate College of Medicine launched a new initiative designed to foster community among students, a connection to the institution, and improve advising, specifically from clinical faculty. All Upstate medical stu­ dents have been assigned to one of five “learning communities,” each named for one of the Central New York region’s five major Finger Lakes. These first-year stu­ dents were dining with members of their community—fellow incoming students, a second-year peer adviser, and the clinical faculty adviser who was hosting them.

The idea is simple, says Dean David Duggan, MD ’79: create smaller groups that bring students from all four years together with faculty from clinical and basic science backgrounds in settings designed to foster a sense of community, group learning and mentoring. “We also hope that it will be fun,” he says.

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So far, it’s working. “Getting to spend time with your mentors in a casual way is what makes these communities so special,” says Ian Kratzke ’17, a member of the Keuka community and part of Cohen’s dinner group. “Now that I have met physicians, researchers, administra­ tors and students who have said they are there to help me, I feel connected to the school in a way that I never would have before these people I’d never previously met put themselves out there for me.”

Noella Richman ’18 had dinner at the home of neurosurgery chair Larry Chin, MD, who heads the Cayuga community.

“We spent hours talking about both medical school and a myriad of other top­ ics,” she recalls. “It was early in the year when we were just getting acquainted with medical school and it assured me that SUNY Upstate was a very welcoming academic community.”

In fact, Dr. Chin provided the impetus for creating the College of Medicine’s learning communities. Before joining Upstate three years ago, Chin was on the faculty at Boston University, where he chaired a learning community there.

He approached Dean Duggan with the idea of starting a similar initiative at Upstate. Dr. Duggan loved the idea and connected Chin with Julie White, PhD, dean of student affairs. Coincidentally, Dr. White had created the learning com­ munity program in her previous post at SUNY-ESF, and was looking for ways to bolster student advising at Upstate, and specifically, to engage students with clini­ cal faculty earlier in their medical school experience. They pulled in basic science

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faculty member Margaret Maimone, PhD, and together began to create the concept for Upstate.

The result is five learning commu­ nities—Canandaigua, Cayuga, Keuka, Seneca, and Skaneateles—each composed of 32 students from each of the four medical school classes with a chair and co-chair who are clinical faculty mem­ bers. Within each community, students are broken down into subgroups of eight, each with two clinical faculty advisers, one basic science adviser, and one student affairs adviser.

“The learning community effort really came about as a result of us wanting stu­ dents to feel like they are getting the very best academic and career advisement and to develop a better connection with the place,” explains White.

The learning communities are not separate entities, but rather five fingers of a hand, adds Chin “The community is really Upstate. There are differences, but in the end, we come together.”

There are high hopes for what the learning communities can achieve. The first is to help bolster a sense of institu­ tional connection and pride. “Upstate is not attached to an undergraduate school where it’s easy to foster that kind of loyalty and school spirit,” says Chin. “We have to work a little harder.”

The second is to help students build some instant friendships and camarade­ rie, as well as relationships with students from other class years. “Our coursework and schedules rarely allow for us to talk to MS2s and MS3s outside of our com­ munity meetings,” says Richman. “I have

The Cayuga Learning Community Student Advisory Council meets over dinner to discuss upcoming community programs and services.

used those meetings to get their advice and perspective.”

Peer advising is key. Already this fall, first-year students have had advising ses­ sions by community with their secondyear counterparts and second-year’s have enjoyed similar meetings with third-years in their communities.

“Nobody knows better what the stu­ dents are going through than the group of students who just finished it,” says pathology chair Robert Corona, DO, MBA, chair of the Skaneateles community.

That’s one reason Joseph Kalet ’17 signed on to be an adviser to MS1s in the Keuka community. “The biggest challenge I had in my first year was that I felt over­ whelmed at times and did not know if I could do everything I needed to in order to do well. I definitely understand the stress and anxiety the first-year students may be feeling and want to show that if

we could make it through the first year, then they definitely can too.”

Finally, the program is designed to foster relationships between students and clinicians so that students can intersect with role models earlier in their medi­ cal school experience. “Right now, that might seem a little artificial for first-year students, but that’s okay because when it becomes important for them later next year, they’re going to know at least six docs in their learning communities that they can go to with questions,” says White.

The program was formally launched at this year’s White Coat ceremony, where students were grouped by com­ munity and coated by their group’s clini­ cal chair. Within the first few months of the academic year, the groups seem to be solidifying nicely, both through formal advising meetings, and non-academic

activities such as community service and social events.

“As with any new program, we’re creating this with a basic structure with the understanding that a lot of things will change over time,” says family medicine chair John Epling, chair of the Keuka com­ munity.

Regardless of the structure or activi­ ties, he says the goal is to create a sense of togetherness that carries students through their time at Upstate. “I think this is an important, positive change.

Everyone who is involved is because they want to create a better experience and memory of Upstate and a stronger iden­ tity and allegiance once students leave.

The learning communities have the abil­ ity to deliver that.”

–Renée Gearhart Levy

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CLASS NOTES

Doris Decker Marshall, late wife of Charles B. Marshall ’49

1945 Classmates: Brinton T. Darlington, George R. Gillmore, Tom M. Flanagan, William A. Schiess 12/’43, and Murray A. Grossman

1945 Thomas M. Flanagan, of Norwich, NY, and his wife, Esther, held his annual summer meeting at their home, which was attended

by Brinton T. Darlington ’45 and wife Ann, George R. Gillmore ’45, William A. Schiess 12/’43, Murray A. Grossman ’45, and Paul E. Norcross, executive director of the Medical Alumni Association.

“Life has been good and continues to be enjoyable,” he writes.

1949 Charles B. Marshall, of Martinsville, VA, shares that his wife, Doris Decker Marshall, co-recipient of the Upstate Humanitarian Award in 2009, departed this life on July 27.

Thomas E. Snyder, of Syracuse, NY, attended his 65th reunion and was reminiscing with classmate Robert W. Rakov, and wanted to share that both their fathers were graduates of the Syracuse Medical School in 1922— Mathias F. Snyder, MD ’22 and Daniel Rakov, MD ’22. Dr. Rakov’s son, Robert D. Rakov, MD ’86, is also a graduate of Upstate Medical University.

1952 Aldona L. Baltch, of Menands, NY, is professor emeritus of Albany Medical College.

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Martin F. Sturman, of Media, PA, is still involved with his website: easydiagnosis.com, a symptom-oriented expert system. “If any grads from SUNY wish a username and password for the site, contact me at martin. sturman@gmail.com.” The programs on this site are useful for teaching and also exist as Apps on android devices (Google Play Store: “easydiagnosis”) and at http://www.medicinfo. nl, a major Dutch medical insurer. We invite our fellow alumni and students to try our software for free.

We will provide a username and password good for two weeks. He also writes he is married, with two children and two grandchildren, and at 87, is still in reasonably good health. “Regards to Ron and all fellow alumni.”

1953 Murray L. Cohen, is spending retirement in Boston, MA, at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement and his winters in St. Petersburg, FL, at the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College. “It has been fun so far,” he writes.

1954 William H. Hampton, Jr., of Greenwich, CT, was unable to attend his 60th reunion but sends “Best wishes!” He will turn 90 next year and is still prac­ ticing in Greenwich.

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William L. Hinds, of Houston, TX, was unable to make his 60th reunion in September due to declining health and the inability to travel long distances.

Combined, he and Marilyn have five children, five grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. He has been retired from his practice of diagnostic radi­ ology for 20 years. He also writes, “My 36 years in the practice of radiology was a pleasure as it spanned darkrooms and red goggles to the birth of CT, ultra­ sound, MRI, etc. I notice that our current doctors no longer enjoy their practice and many are retiring early due to the many govern­ ment regulations. I wish good health to all and best wishes to all the members of the class of 1954!”

Albert F. Mangan, of Port Angeles, WA, writes “golf and fishing are things of the past, but I’m still living at home.”

1955 Monroe Richman, of Koloa, HI, recently completed a cruise from Singapore to Dubai.

“Fabulous!”

1956 Arthur I. Segaul, is “alive and well and living in Carbondale, CO. I will try to make our 55th reunion.”

Keep in touch at asegaul@ aol.com.

CLASS NOTES

Allen S. Goldman ’58, of Camden, ME, has hosted a round table for the last 12 years—first on Greek classics, then Shakespeare, and now on Ovid—which includes about a dozen people gathered around his dinner table two hours a week in the winter.

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Paul M. Fine, of Omaha, NE, is “still kicking!” He continues working clinically about two days a week and does volunteer teaching at two local universities. He enjoys spending time with his great grandchildren.

“Thinking back on our days together,” he writes.

Richard Schoenfeld, of Bethesda, MD, is enjoying retirement with his beautiful wife, three fantastic grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren.

Charles H. Reiners, of Manlius, NY, has just begun his fall series of OASIS classes. These are seniororiented classes on current events, history, American history, music appreciation, etc. that have been a real boon to his retirement education and enjoyment.

The classes are one- to twohours, and each course is one- to six-weeks each. He spends considerable time there on an almost daily basis. “Try it, ‘chule like it.”

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Arthur D. Goldstein, of Suffren, NY, is beginning his 50th year in the active practice of plastic surgery.

He supports his community as surgeon for Brewer Fire Company, Rockland County Sheriff’s Department and the Ramapo Police. He is now emeritus status (still active, however) as one of the medical examiners in the Rockland County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Michael F. Cahn, and wife Hilda, moved from Port Ludlow, WA, to the independent-living area of a three-level continuing care community in Redmond, WA. “We remain well and active, and con­ tinue to enjoy retirement,” they write.

Bedros Markarian, of Hilton Head Island, SC, has been seeing patients in family medicine at the local

Volunteers in Medicine for the past eight years, two mornings a week.

iary, Acreditas Global. They are planning on coming to Syracuse for his 50th class Reunion.

1963

Leslie B. Lindenberg, of West Hartford, CT, and wife Ellen have four sons and 13 grandchildren. He is still in solo practice in pulmonology and Ellen is a labor and delivery nurse.

Three of their sons have finished medical school.

Judah is a neurologist in Cleveland, OH; Noah is an oncologist in Cherry Hill, NJ; and Daniel is a gastro­ enterologist in Boca Raton, FL. “I still love working and look forward to each day’s challenges,” he writes.

Carl Salzman, of Water­ town, MA, writes “Still working full time and loving it!”

1964 Stanley B. Burns, of New York, NY, is publishing his 44th book. He is the technical medical advisor to the HBO/Cinemax series “The Knick.” He was recently featured in the New York Times on his historic photo archive and new postmortem memorial photography exhibition.

Anthony E. Voytovich, of Farmington, CT, retired in 2006 as professor of medicine, associate dean, and chief of staff at University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He and Glenna celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary!

He is playing alto sax in a local jazz quintet and vol­ unteering as a guide at the New England Air Museum.

Michael W. Weiner, of San Francisco, CA, is still an active medical investigator. His focus is on use of imaging, biomarkers and technology to study Alzheimer’s disease and to develop improved diagnostic methods treat­ ments. He is the principle investigator of Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) the largest NIH grant on Alzheimer’s disease. He is also the principle investigator

1965 Jack Egnatinsky, of St. Croix, VI, and his wife Judy, celebrated their 50th anniversary in June, meeting the family in San Diego. Jack remains very active as a sur­ veyor and medical director for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and their international subsid­

Jack Egnatinsky ’65 and family

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CLASS NOTES of three Department of Defense grants to study the effects of post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury on Alzheimer’s disease. He recently launched http:// BrainHealthRegistry. org which is a website for the recruitment, assess­ ment and longitudinal monitoring of brain health for neuroscience studies.

He and wife Barbara recently celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary and their two children are doing well.

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Sheldon Cohen, of Miami, FL, and his wife, Sandy, are more than five years into a happy retirement. They will soon celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with their entire family on an Alaskan cruise.

Kenneth M. Grundfast, of Chestnut Hill, MA, continues to serve as professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology and as assistant dean in the office of student affairs at the Boston University School of Medicine. He has a daughter living in Bethesda, MD; a daughter living in Santa Monica, CA; and two grandchildren.

Herbert S. Sherry, of New York, NY, is clinical professor of orthopaedic surgery and clinical professor of medical edu­ cation for the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and has been director of the

Philip S. Schein ’65, of Bryn Mawr, PA, is a member of the board of the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS).

The organization manages research on the international space station.

1966 Martin S. Goldstein, of Boca Raton, FL, retired from his gynecologic surgery practice in New York City this year and relocated to Florida. He and Susan have nine grandchildren, ages two to 15. He was awarded the 2014 Jacobi Medallion, the highest award given by The Mount Sinai Hospital Alumni Association.

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musculoskeletal course since 1979. He was chief of orthopaedic oncology at Mt. Sinai Hospital for the first 20 years of his clinical practice. In October 2014, he received the Mt. Sinai Alumni Award for Achievement in Medical Education for a lifetime of dedication to educating physicians in the field of orthopaedics. He is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Teaching Award by the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.

1970 Frederic S. Auerbach, of Portland, OR, is retired from emergency medicine and doing overseas NGO work. Son Joshua Auerbach ’08, after com­ pleting a residency in anesthesia and fellowship in regional anesthesia, joined a local group.

Brandon, who graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2012, is completing an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and will return to Seattle with his wife. Another son is a mechanical engineer in Washington. “We are delighted the family is finally physically close,” he writes.

Steven H. Lefkowitz, of Swampscott, MA, writes that his oldest son, Todd, was married recently to Jody Blank, MD, a hospi­ talist at the Lahey Clinic in Boston. Todd is vice

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president at an Internet security firm (Rapid7) in Boston. Their younger son, Marc, is heading Youtube in the Asia-Pacific region for Google, and resides in Tokyo.

Joel A. Strom, of Tampa, FL, and his wife just spent a lovely French Rivera holiday with their daughters and their families, including five grandchildren ages eight to 18. They are headed to London and Israel this fall. “Good thing I’m still working,” he writes.

Nathan J. Zuckerman, of Langhorne, PA, is cur­ rently working as a medical director with United Healthcare. He is a perma­ nent resident of Naples, FL, and is working hard on his golf game.

1971 Jeffrey A. Klein, of Virginia Beach, VA, has retired after 26 years with Hampton Roads Radiology Associates in Virginia Beach.

1973 Paul L. Sutton, of Danville, PA, writes he retired from the practice of allergyimmunology (Allergy Partners of Lewisburg, PA) in August 2013.

CLASS NOTES

MARY E. FALLAT, MD ’79

The Children’s Advocate “C

hildren are not small adults” is an adage frequently referenced by pediatricians.

For pediatric surgeon Mary E. Fallat, MD ’79, that holds equally true when it comes to emer­ gency care, both EMS and ambulance services and in the hospital.

In the primarily rural state of Kentucky, where Dr. Fallat lives and works, there are 100 hospitals with emergency departments, 20 of which are located in the urban centers of Lexington and Louisville. “There are many coun­ ties in Kentucky with no hospital, and some of those hospitals are very small. The people who serve in the emergency departments or ambulance services may only see an injured or seriously ill child once a year so their abilities to understand how to take care of those children are, in many cases, lacking,” she says.

Fallat, Hirkati S. Nagaraj Professor and chief of pediatric surgery at University of Louisville School of Medicine and chief of surgery at Kosair Children’s Hospital, has spent the last 25 years working tirelessly to ensure that acutely ill and injured children in Kentucky receive the very best care possible. She currently heads two federal grants to improve pediatric emergency services in her state: one to develop standard­ ized protocols and train EMS workers in the emergency care of ill and injured children; the second to train EMS providers who find them­ selves consoling grieving parents who have lost a child to a fatal accident or illness outside the hospital. Previously, she spearheaded efforts that led to national guidelines to ensure that all ambulances carry equipment to care for children of all ages and campaigns to enforce the use of safety equipment (like seatbelts) to prevent traumatic injury to children in the first place.

“If you can do something that will affect the lives of many children, I think that’s a noble cause,” she says.

Although Fallat is a general pediatric surgeon—she performs 600-700 surgeries a year—she has a long interest in trauma, stem­ ming from her own surgical residency at the University of Louisville and pediatric surgery

Mary Fallat, MD ’79

fellowship at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, DC, both busy trauma centers.

When she joined the University of Louisville faculty in 1988, she started the children’s hospi­ tal’s first trauma service and trauma team, serv­ ing as chief of trauma until 2005, simultaneous­ ly developing leadership roles in the American College of Surgeons state and national commit­ tees on trauma. “About 10 percent of all ambu­ lance runs involve children, so it’s not unusual for pediatric surgical care to be trauma care,” says Fallat, who was one of the first appointed members of the Kentucky EMS Board and serves as chair of the EMS for Children subcommit­ tee and the vice-chair of the Trauma Advisory Committee.

In addition, to her surgical prowess and her national reputation in the fields of trauma and EMS for children, Fallat, for more than 20 years, ran a pediatric surgery research lab

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at the University of Louisville focused on the relationship between high Müllerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) levels and infertility, leading to medical expertise in reproductive endo­ crinology and surgical expertise in children with intersex anomalies. She also has a strong interest in medical ethics and served as chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Bioethics, writing AAP position statements on fertility preservation for children and adolescents who have cancer, and resusci­ tation orders for children who need surgery and anesthesia. “The ethics around that have been pretty well solidified for adults for quite a while but I discovered that no one had ever written an ethics statement defining care for children,” says Fallat.

While her areas of involvement may seem divergent, Fallat says they share a common theme. “I’ve tried to recognize areas where we need to be more concerned about children as a group,” she says. “I like to take on things that serve a population that is not being considered in the same light as adults only because they are children,” she says. “Children deserve to be recognized, treated and not discounted simply because they are children.”

–Renée Gearhart Levy

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CLASS NOTES Harvey M. Cohen ’72, of Boca Raton, FL, is retired from practice after 36 years.

He is teaching and on the admissions committee at Florida Atlantic University School of Medicine. He is grandfather of a three and a-half-year-old. “Come visit in beautiful Boca Raton,” he writes.

1974 J. Peter Gregoire, of Romulus, NY, retired in 2010. He thought he would miss practicing, but hasn’t much. He keeps busy with his five grandchildren, traveling, gardening and running. “Would love to hear from classmates: call, e-mail, or stop by!”

1975 1975 Classmates Kevin R. O’Hara, Charles I. Hecht, Robert M. Green, and Jeffrey J. Boxer

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Charles I. Hecht, of Glendale, AZ, attended a Pirates game in June and reunited with classmates, Kevin R. O’Hara, Robert M. Green, and Jeffrey J. Boxer.

1978 Mauri R. Cohen, of Marblehead, MA, continues to practice internal medi­ cine/geriatrics in Danvers, MA, for Beverly Hospital (now merged with Lahey clinic). His wife and three boys are all doing well.

“Middle son Zack is in his second year at Brown Medical School. This will keep me working for many more years,” Cohen writes.

“He loves it there.”

Robert Fulop, of Short Hills, NJ, shares that his daughter, Julie, graduated in May 2014 from New York University Law School.

1979 Nancy J. Tarbell, of Waban, MA, was unable to make reunion, but writes “Best to my class!”

1980 James T. Bilbo, of Ft. Mitchell, KY, says his practice is still going strong in the Northern Kentucky/ Cincinnati area and he hasn’t gotten the bug to retire yet. His sports medicine practice is busy taking caring of athletes of all ages and as team physician at Northern Kentucky University. His wife, Becky, is chairman of the Thomas More College Art Department; daughter Carrie is a jewelry designer in New York City; and son Tom is a graduate student at Texas Tech in

environmental toxicology.

They make frequent trips to Colorado for winter skiing and summer fun and to Syracuse to visit family.

Ruth Hart, of Manlius, NY, was awarded the St. Joseph Sister Patricia Ann Award in September in Syracuse. The award is given in recogni­ tion of the contributions of outstanding physicians and employees who embodied the same characteristics as Sister Patricia Ann, which are their mission values: “passionate healers dedicated to honoring the Sacred in our sisters and brothers.”

Robert M. Vandemark, of Hillsborough, NC, will retire from his position as chief of radiology at the Orlando VA Medical Center at the end of 2014, and head back to North Carolina to be closer to his children and grandchildren. He has had a long, successful career with Duke University and the VA Hospital system in North Carolina and Florida, but is ready to enjoy life with family and friends.

1982 Robert C. Cupelo, of Manlius, NY, recently returned to solo practice after 20 years and is enjoying working with his wife, Barbara. His daughter, Emily Daugherty ’13, is in her second year of residency in radiation oncology.

Nicholas G. Tullo, of Towaco, NJ, performed the first implant in New Jersey of the Medtronic Linq min­

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iaturized cardiac monitor in February 2014. He is a partner at Consultants in Cardiology in West Orange, NJ, and practices cardiac electrophysiology. In May, he was on the faculty and presented his research on implantable cardiac moni­ tors at the Heart Rhythm Society convention. He is currently assistant clinical professor of medicine at Rutgers University School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Also in May, he was selected by the faculty, resident physicians, and medical students at St. Barnabas Medical Center to receive the Harvey E. Nussbaum Golden Award for excellence in teaching.

He is also the creator of the educational website ECGAcademy.com.

1983 Herbert E. Cushing, of Greenwood, IN, has been appointed chief medical officer at Temple University Hospital, effec­ tive August 18.

Ruth Zodkevitch Scher, of Holmdel, NJ, wishes to share the exciting news that her daughter, Alyssa, presently a junior at Emory University, was just accepted via the early assurance program to Upstate Medical University.

“We are so thrilled and know she will love the medical school as much as I did! Hope she will be lucky to have Dr. Stearns as her Anatomy professor! We are also thrilled to say that our younger daughter, Rachel, a sophomore at Emory, will

MARK A. SUBIK, MD ’79

Small Town Roots G

rowing up in Johnstown, New York, Mark A. Subik, MD ’79, recognized the interconnectedness of his community. “As in most small towns, most people know each other. You’d see people on the street, you knew who they were, and you knew their family.”

Today, Dr. Subik works in similar communities, Procterville and Gallipolis, Ohio, with populations of 574 and 3,000, respectively. “It’s similar to the way I grew up. I know who my patients are. I see them around town.

There’s more of a personal relationship,” he says.

Subik, a gastroenterologist, lives in Huntington, West Virginia, where he completed his internal medicine resi­ dency, returning after two years in Houston where he did a fellowship in gastroenterology at the Baylor College of Medicine. He met his wife in Huntington (it’s her home­ town), and has found it a great community to raise their two children, now teenagers.

For nearly 20 years, Subik worked at the Marshall School of Medicine and the local VA Hospital. Ten years ago, he decided he’d like to pursue private practice and found an opportunity with a large multi-specialty group, right across the river in Procterville, Ohio. While Procterville is only 10 minutes from home, Gallipolis, where he works three days a week, is a 55-minute com­ mute. “I realize folks in much bigger cities spend as much time in a commute but may go only 5 to 10 miles. My commute is 45 miles on a two-lane road, with farmland on both sides. If I need a break from listening to public radio, I can always count road kill and see how it changes from day-to-day,” he says, only half jokingly.

Subik’s mother and aunts were nurses and their experi­ ences helped pique his initial interest in medicine. He chose gastroenterology because he liked the combination of internal medicine and technical/surgical aspects of medi­ cine. “It’s a balance of using your knowledge to analyze patient complaints, taking a good history and physical, and putting all the information together to make a diagnosis, which sometimes results in a test or procedure,” he says.

While his practice encompasses all typical areas of gastroenterology, he sees many patients with complica­ tions of Hepatatis C, mostly resulting from drug abuse.

“I know this is not specific to Southern Ohio or West Virgina, and is prevalent to many rural areas,” he says.

When he came to medical school, Subik was assisted with tuition costs by a scholarship from his county. He appreciates the lifestyle his career has afforded him and, in an effort to pay it forward, has established three scholarship funds to assist others. One is at the Marshall University College of Education in Huntington and is named after Subik’s father, who was a high school guidance

Mark Subik, MD ’79

counselor. The scholarship is given annually to assist college students with learning disabilities. The second scholarship was established by Subik and his two broth­ ers at their old high school in Johnstown in honor of their mother, and is given annually to a graduating senior to help with the cost of college tuition during the freshman year.

Subik has also funded a scholarship at Upstate Medical University, specifically for a student from a several-county area in the Adirondack region where he grew up. “It’s sort of my way of paying back,” he says.

“I think it’s important to give back to your community and I feel fortunate to be in a position to do so.”

From his own experience, Subik recognizes that people from more rural areas are more likely to choose a similar place to practice and those are the places that often need doctors most. “Growing up in Johnstown didn’t inspire me to go into medicine,” he says, “but the experience of growing up there left an impression of the kind of place I’d want to practice.”

–Renée Gearhart Levy

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Rachel’s twin brother, Evan, is in the business school at The College of New Jersey, but has not yet decided on a career path. The healthcare field has not been excluded! I wish everyone well in the upcoming years and hope that Upstate will forge ahead with the recognition it deserves for its commitment to its students and community.”

1984 John R. Ayers, of Saint Petersburg, FL, recently finished the Syracuse Half Ironman with Dan Wnorowski. “Dan went on to do the Lake Placid full Ironman,” he shares. “I went home and recovered with a trip to Scotland and Ireland where I drank Guinness and did NO running, cycling, or swim­ ming!”

Brian D. Woolford, of San Diego, CA, retired from practicing medicine on June 20, after providing comprehensive primary and HIV-specialty care for 19 years at Family Health

Centers of San Diego. Now that he has more free time to travel, he attended his 30-year Upstate class reunion this past fall in Syracuse, while also visiting his family in Upstate New York and Vermont.

1985 Martin D. Fried, of Asbury Park, NJ, has a new website, www.healthydays.info.

Simon D. Spivack, of Sleepy Hollow, NY, has been professor and chief of pulmonary medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City for the last seven years.

His main responsibility is shaking down the feds at NIH to continue his addic­ tion to science, against all reason and health. His complaint is that there was no relevant “hold-ups and shake-downs” course taught at Upstate, a deficiency he attributes to the “outrageously cut-rate state tuition.” Suggestions welcome.

Stephen F. Coccaro ’85, of Setauket, NY, recently returned from a medical mission in Ecuador with Blanca’s House. He does these missions at least once a year and invites fellow alumni to visit www.blancashouse.org if interested in volunteering.

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1988

Stafford C. Henry, of Chicago, IL, writes, “In July, before leaving for a business trip to Okocim and Krakow, I put my house in Lincoln Park on the market, thinking that my time away would be a great opportunity for showings. Although I was thrilled my house sold in five days, my joy was soon replaced with panic when I realized I would soon have no place to live. Later in the summer, a home about five minutes from my current one came on the market.”

As he looks back on the last several months, two senti­ ments come to mind. “First, we spend so much time planning and controlling our personal and profes­ sional lives, sometimes, we just need to surrender and let life run its course. The second and more compel­ ling, is a profound sense of gratitude, especially given the world in which we live. I try to remember how lucky we are and how fortunate it is to have options.”

Teresa J. KarcnikMahoney, of Hurley, NY, is a radiologist at Crystal Run Health Care, LLP, a multi­ specialty physician group and ACO, based in Hudson Valley, NY. She lives with her husband and younger daughter, who is a senior in high school and currently very involved in the college search. Her older daughter is a third-year biochemistry major at SUNY-New Paltz.

Joseph Rand and his wife, Debby, of 25 years, recently relocated to Raleigh, NC. Joe left a private solo endocrine practice after 19 years in Venice, FL, and joined a single-specialty group practice in Raleigh.

He was also awarded FACP this past July.

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Leo Katz, of Voorhees, NJ, was recently appointed co-chair of the MD Care Committee on patient satisfaction at Jefferson Health System.

1989 Linda J. Powell, com­ pleted 22 years as the sole physician in Odessa, WA, a town of 1,000 people. Her oldest child, Zack, graduated from the Colorado School of Mines and now works in Littleton, CO. Her youngest, Griffey, graduated from high school and will be going to South Dakota School of Mines, and daughter Kira is a junior at the Colorado School of Mines.

Stephen R. Weinman and Herbert M. Weinman ’65, celebrated seeing their medical center’s 100,000th patient this year. They opened FirstCare Medical Center, in Highland, NY, along with Steve’s sister

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1993

Stephen R. Weinman ’89, Herbert M. Weinman ’65 (far right), and Virginia Leiter with Oliver Fisher, their 100,000 patient

(Herb’s daughter) Virginia Leitner, PA-C, in 2008. It contains an urgent care, a family practice, physical therapy and a medispa.

1990 Cynthia Gingalewski, moved to Portland, OR, where she is medical director of pediatric surgical services at Randall Children’s Hospital. She and the kids love the Pacific Northwest and recon­ necting with Biz Donohue and Ken Bizovi.

1991 Molly A. Brewer, of Farmington, CT, was recently named chair of obstetrics and gyne­ cology at University of Connecticut Health Center.

Bradley P. Fox, of Fairview PA, has been practicing family medicine since 1991.

He is also the SeaWolves’ baseball team doctor, a position that he has held for the past 22 years, and on occasion he has served as their batboy!

1992 Mark E. Ohl, of Hamilton, NY, and his wife recently celebrated the birth of their first grandson: Ethan Mark Schroer, who was born to Jennifer and Tom on November 25, 2013.

“Jennifer remembers my med-school years, as she used to help me give tours of the campus to prospec­ tive students. After two or three of these tours, she did all the talking!” he shares. We LOVE being grandparents!”

Janice A. Bedell, of New Hartford, NY, is working for Upstate University Hospital as a Locum Tenens radiologist and couldn’t be happier. “Being a mom and a doctor is the hardest and most rewarding thing I’ve ever done in my life.

I have three beautiful children with one of them considering becoming a doctor, one considering politics and law, and the last considering veterinary School. I couldn’t be more proud.”

Elliot Rodriguez, of Cazenovia, NY, has been promoted to associate professor and named vice chair of clinical operations for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Upstate Medical University.

Scouts, with her daughters, Mia and Sofia. Husband Matt and all the family recently returned from Alaska. They could not be happier.

Mary E. Obear of Corfu, NY, is an RMED preceptor and received the preceptor of the year award from the New York State Academy of Family Physicians.

1998 Tamara A. Prull, of Canandaigua, NY, and her husband welcomed their first baby, Alison, in June.

Tamara is still practicing at Rochester General Hospital and Finger Lakes Health.

1995 Wai Lang (Winnie) Lau, of Vero Beach, FL, writes, “Finally after more than a decade of internal medicine private practice, I’ve achieved my dream job as a nephrologist. I returned to training for fellowship in 2008-2010, and have been providing renal care now for one year! Woo hoo!

It’s never too late to chase your dream.”

Carolyn L. Marasco, of Wesley Chapel, FL, is a partner in Baycare Medical Group as a pediatrician in Tampa, FL. She is involved in many committees for Baycare as well as Girl

Carolyn L. Marasco ’95, with husband Matt and daughters Mia and Sofia, dog sledding in Juneau, Alaska

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CLASS NOTES Yuliya Rekhtman, of Rockville, MD, was named chief of pediatric gastro­ enterology and nutrition at Georgetown University Hospital, in Washington, DC.

on faculty at University of California-Davis School of Medicine, serving the departments of derma­ tology and pathology as an expert in skin cancer and melanoma.

1999

2002

Keira L. Barr, of Gig Harbor, WA, is currently the co-founder and presi­ dent of Aegis Consulting Group, LLC, where she provides domain expertise in medical disciplines across broad applications including healthcare, bio­ technology, and personal care. She currently serves as domain subject matter expert and medical director for A.R.O., Inc., to develop Brightly, an app that functions as a personal UV exposure monitor. Prior to her work with A.R.O., Inc., she practiced dermatology and dermatopathology

Erica D. and Jonathan I. Berg ’03, of New City, NY, welcomed a new member to their family, son Aaron Davis, born in August 2013.

He joins big sister, Alexis, who is three. Jonathan was appointed physician champion for his hospital’s network and is busy getting them ready for a new office- and hospital-wide computer system. Erica still works part-time in Manhattan and was named a New York Rising Star Physician. They reside in Rockland County.

Timothy D. Riley, of Columbia, PA, was appointed an assistant professor at Penn StateHershey and is on the teaching faculty in the Penn State Hershey Family Medicine Residency.

2003

Erica’02 and Jonathan I. Berg ’03 with their new son, Aaron Davis, and daughter Alexis

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Heather Mackey-Fowler, of South Kingstown, RI, has finally made the move to be near the ocean! She is working for South County Hospital in their primary care office in Wakefield, RI, as well as their urgent care center. Her husband, Jim, who once worked as the residency recruiter at Wilson Hospital in Johnson

Erin (Murphy) Masaba ’09 and Oliver Masaba ’09

City, is the new vice president of enrollment at Salve Regina University in Newport. Their sons, Kieran, seven, and Declan, two, love living five ­minutes from the beach and are busy making new friends. “We would love to have visitors,” she writes.

2004 Jason Weaver Maloney, of Lakeland, FL, is a neuroradiologist who has recently joined Watson Clinic’s team of imaging specialists.

2005 Ruchir Gupta, and his wife, Supurna, welcomed their second child, baby boy Ishaan Gupta, on May 5. They live in Dix Hills, NY.

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2007 Shaun Conlon, of Atlanta, GA, just celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary with his wife Katherine, and they welcomed their first son, Henry, in October.

Shaun is working in private practice in nephrology in the Atlanta area.

2008 Robert Nastasi, of Ponte Vedre Beach, FL, has taken a position at Coastal Spine and Pain Center in Jacksonville, FL, to provide comprehensive pain medi­ cine and psychiatric care.

Megan Sick, of Cohocton, NY, is a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy.

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SAVE THE DATE:

Erin M. (Murphy) Masaba, of New York, NY, was recently married to Oliver Masaba ’09, on June 7, 2014 in Geneseo, NY.

Reunion 2015

Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26, 2015

Dodji Modjinou com­ pleted his internal medicine internship and residency at the SUNY Stony Brook Teaching Hospitals and a rheumatology fellowship at the NYU Hospital for Diseases in New York City, and has joined Arthritis Health Associates in Syracuse.

2010 Bridgit Virginia Nolan, of Miami, FL, recently gradu­ ated dermatology residency from the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital (2014) and began private practice in derma­ tology in South Florida with Diane Walder, MD, PA. She married Jesse Ryan Howard, who works for Goldman Sachs in Palm Beach, FL, on April 26, 2014, in Indian Creek Island, FL.

Interested in helping to plan your class reunion...contact Lori Murphy at murphyL@upstate.edu.

Bridget V. Nolan ’10 with her husband, Jesse Ryan Howard

Adam P. Stern, of Boston, MA, married Carrie Vaudreuil in a small ceremony at the Boston Public Garden. On July 1, he was named director of psychiatric applications in the Berenson-Allen Center for non-invasive brain stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

He will be an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Nikolai V. Kolotiniuk, of San Diego, CA, and his wife had their first child, Nate, who was born on January 6, 2014.

Salma K. Syed, retired from Summerwood Pediatrics in April and moved to Albuquerque, NM, and is enjoying travel­ ling, and visiting family and grandchildren.

2011 Daniel P. Anderson, of Elmwood Park, NJ, completed his residency in pediatrics at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital.

He and his wife Stephanie, and children Isabella and Connor, moved to New Jersey, where he is a pedia­ trician at Tenafly Pediatrics.

2013

House Staff 1974

Nikolai V. Kolotiniuk ’13, with his wife, and son, Nate

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IN MEMORIAM March ’43

1953

MIRIAM B. SWIFT, of Syracuse, NY, died July 10. Dr. Swift returned to Syracuse after residency and began a public practice through community clinics. She worked with the Syracuse University Health Service and College of Human Development, the Syracuse City School District, and the Family Medical Center.

She was director of the Family Medical Center and oversaw a comprehensive program that offered medical and counseling services to families from Onondaga County social services.

In 1972, she was honored as a Post Standard Woman of Achievement in medicine and later honored as a Lifetime Woman of Achievement. Her name is included in the Woman’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls. She was survived by her daughter, Cheryl; sons, Douglas, Bradley, and Stephen; seven grandchildren; and eight great grandchildren.

ROY P. WALCHENBACH, o f Pittsfield, MA, died November 13, 2013. Dr. Walchenbach served in the Korean War as a ship’s surgeon in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the USS Randolph. He was a surgeon in Berkshire County for 36 years. During that time he served as both the chief of surgery and chief of staff at Hillcrest Hospital. He also practiced at Berkshire Medical Center and Plunkett Hospital in Adams, MA. He was survived by his wife, Dorothy; daughter Amy; sons Paul, Peter, and Tod; nine grandchildren; and several other family members.

1946 THEODORE BACHARACH, o f Grimes, CA, died July 10, 2013. Dr. Bacharach retired from the military as a Lt. Colonel after more than 20 years of service. He first worked at Weimar Medical Center, then later became a founding member of the Auburn Faith Community Hospital. He practiced medicine until he was 82. He was survived by his daughters, Ellen, Su, and Wendy; grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

1949 JOHN H. GRIMM, o f Kerrville, TX, died, July 13. In 1951, Dr. Grimm was commissioned as a 1st Lt. in the Air Force Medical Service Reserve, where he became chief of aviation medicine and assistant medical inspector. In 1952, he was designated a chief flight surgeon. He also served in the Korean War. Grimm practiced radiology at M.D. Anderson Hospital, Hermann Hospital, and Memorial City Radiology in Houston. He retired in the early 1980’s. He was survived by his wife, Linda; daugh­ ters Jacqueline, Janet, Jeanette and Patricia; his son, John; grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

1950 CHARLES BENJAMIN TEAL, JR., o f Gainesville, GA, died on May 19. Dr. Teal was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and served on the Manhattan Project at the University of Rochester. He also held a master’s in public health. He practiced medicine as a family practitioner for 15 years and served for 19 years as district medical director of public health overseeing 13 counties in Northeast Georgia. He was survived by his wife, Arline; daughters Linda, and Janice; grandchildren, step grandchildren, and a great granddaughter.

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1954 ROBERT V.P. HUTTER, of West Orange, NJ, died July 2.

Dr. Hutter served two years of active duty in the Navy. He returned to Memorial Sloan-Kettering where he was chief resident in pathology and an American Cancer Society clinical fellow, and then to Yale, where he did his residency and became a tenured professor of pathology at the age of 39. Hutter was a former chairman of the Department of Pathology at St. Barnabas Medical Center, beginning his tenure in 1973, and helped transform St. Barnabas Hospital into a world leading center. In 1982, he served as the national president of the American Cancer Society and helped to spearhead the ACS’s first nutrition guidelines that emphasized a low-fat, high fiber diet. He was survived by his wife, Ruth; son Andrew; daughters Randi and Edie; and 10 grandchildren.

GERALD E. WEINSTEIN, o f Princeton, NJ, died June 28, 2013. Dr. Weinstein served as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps at Fort Bragg, NC, from 1956 to 1958. He was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Baltimore City. He taught at medical schools, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland and the BPI. In 1989 he reestablished his practice and taught at Rutgers University Medical School.

He was survived by his wife, Aura Star; sons David, Matthew, and Benjamin; stepsons Orrin and Jonathan Star; two grand­ children; and several other family members.

1956 JOSEPH GOLD, of Syracuse, died March 1. Dr. Gold was director of the Syracuse Cancer Research Institute, which he founded in 1966, and was still actively working on his research. He was the developer of Hydrazine Sulfate, which was a breakthrough drug in the treatment of cancer and now used worldwide. He was a member of Temple Adath Yeshurun and a lifetime member of the Onondaga County Medical Society. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Judith; their sons, Shannon and Skye; three grandchildren; and extended family.

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IN MEMORIAM

1957

1960

ROBERT FAYER, of Walnut Creek, CA, died October 11, 2012. Dr. Fayer was an Army captain and served at a M.A.S.H. unit in Korea. Fayer practiced at three hospitals, primarily in Orange County, CA. He ran the trauma center at the Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, then relocated to Seattle, WA, specializing in family medicine. He was survived by his wife, Maudine; daughter Dina; and several other family members.

ANGELO R. BRIGANDI, of Irondequoit, NY, died August 10. Dr. Brigandi entered the Air Force after his residency. He was honorably discharged in July 1966 as chief of internal medicine at Amarillo Air Force Base. He then returned to Rochester, where he practiced medicine for more than 50 years. He was survived by his daughter, Kathy; two grandchil­ dren; and several nieces and nephews.

SCHIELE A. BREWER, of Sherrill, NY, died September 4. Dr. Brewer was commissioned with the Air Force as a flight surgeon and performed active duty from 1962-1964. He also served in the Air Force Reserves for more than 20 years, retiring as a colonel in 2000. In 1968 he started his ophthalmology practice in both Oneida and Rome continuing to help people preserve their vision for 30 years. He also served as a faculty member, training new ophthalmology residents at the VA Hospital in Syracuse. He was survived by his wife Heleene; daughters Christine and Anne; sons William, Edward, Paul, Mark and Ken; 16 grandchil­ dren; and other family members.

ROGER S. KUSHNER, o f Niagara Falls, NY, died May 25. Dr. Kushner was chief resident of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital in Madison, WI. Kushner also served as a captain in the Army at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, PA, where he was assistant chief of pediatrics. In 1966 he returned to Niagara Falls to open his own practice, first with Niagara Pediatrics and then later with Summit Pediatrics.

He also served as chief of pediatrics at Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston. He retired in 2004.

He was survived by his wife, Ruthie; a son, Dr. Brian; daughter Stacy; three granddaughters; and a brother.

1958 JOHN F. GORMAN, of Fayetteville, NY, died September 12. Dr. Gorman practiced medicine in Upstate New York. He won the Robert Nesbit Society Award for 50 years of distinguished service as a gynecologist. He was survived by his wife, Martha; daughters Mary Beth and Sheila; sons Kevin and Paul; six grandchildren, and several other family members.

STUART L. YUNIS, of Bayside, NY, died March 16, 2013. Dr. Yunis served in the U.S. Army. He was a pioneer in the field of nephrology. He was double board certified in both internal medicine and nephrology. Yunis founded a very successful medical practice in Lake Success with specialists in every field. He also created the first in-house department at Long Island Jewish Hospital and later moved to St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, where he launched the in-house dialysis unit. He was survived by his wife, Victoria Schneps-Yunis; seven children; and 14 grandchildren.

1959 ANDREW C. SABEY, of Coronado, CA, died September 24. Dr. Sabey began his medical career as director of medical education at Mercy Hospital.

In 1963 he established an internal medicine prac­ tice in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego, where he practiced solo internal medicine until 1994. He then joined the Mercy Physicians Medical Group, retiring in 1999. He was survived by his wife, Deloscia; son William; daughters Christine and Holly; four grandchildren; and a brother.

1961 RICHARD A. KONYS, of Hilton Head, SC (formerly Dewitt, NY), died on October 20. After completing his medical training, Dr. Konys was commissioned as a captain in the U.S. Air Force and for two years was chief of surgical services at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome. He then became a partner in the practice of general surgery and peripheral vascular surgery, Surgical Associates of Upstate New York. He was a Diplomat and Fellow of the American College of Surgery, a past president of the Onondaga County Medical Society and for many years was a County Medical Society Delegate to the House of Delegates of the Medical Society of the State of New York. In 1994, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, the County Medical Society’s highest award. Konys was presi­ dent of the Medical Staff of Community General

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Hospital of Greater Syracuse, a clinical associate professor of General Surgery at Upstate, and was a member of the board of directors of many organiza­ tions. He was survived by his wife, Elinor; sons, Dr. Richard A. Konys and Dr. David M. Konys; daughter, Susan; and 10 grandchildren.

MAX G. MENEFEE, o f Harrison, OH, died January 28.

1962 ROBERT S. COHEN, of Saint Louis, MO, died August 26. He was survived by his wife, Kathryn; daughter, Alice; sons, Alan and Andrew; five grand­ children; and several other family members.

1970 DOUGLAS J. HARBEN, o f Cornelius, NC, died June 21.

ANDREW J. RURKA, o f Syracuse, died November 2. A pediatrician for more than 40 years, Dr. Rurka began his career at the Syracuse Neighborhood Health Center. When that clinic closed, he went into private practice, caring primarily for children from low-income families. He was proud to care for many families through three generations.

He was equally dedicated to his medical school alma mater, having served on the Medical Alumni Association Board of Directors since 1977 (as presi­ dent from 1990–92) and as a longtime member of the Upstate Medical Alumni Journal Advisory Board. He was survived by his sister, Josephineanne Rurka. (See tribute on page 60.)

Faculty RICHARD H. AUBRY, of Syracuse, NY, died on October 11. Dr. Aubrey is a graduate of New York Medical College and did his training in obstetrics and gynecology at Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, Albany Medical Center, and Upstate Medical University. He also earned a master’s in public health from Harvard in 1987. Aubry was on the obstetrics and gynecology faculty at Upstate for more than 50 years, teaching more than 8,000 students. He was one of the nation’s first maternal-fetal medicine specialists focusing on high-risk pregnancies. He founded the Central

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IN MEMORIAM Brothers by Mutual Adoption

A TRIBUTE TO ANDREW J. RURKA, MD ’70, A DEAR FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE

By Patsy Iannolo, MD ’81

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first met Andy in the fall of 1979. I was 25, a third-year medical student, and a new dad. I was just beginning a pediatric clerkship, and as part of that training, was assigned to Andy to experience outpatient pediatric care.

He had recently joined a private pedi­ atric practice after nine years with the Syracuse Community Health Center. I liked him right away. As an attending physician, he was engaging, thoughtful, confident, kind, and patient. He was a great teacher, who could simultaneously be respect­ ful and challenging to a student. When I started my own office practice years later, I learned how difficult it can be to have a student in your office, to teach properly and at the same time keep your office schedule. It is challenging to give patients enough of your time despite sending in a student to do most of their office visit.

Andy pulled it off with incredible ease and throughout his career he continued to vol­ unteer himself to pediatric teaching and to interviewing medical school applicants.

We shared common backgrounds.

He grew up in the Pioneer Homes in the shadow of Route 81. I grew up on Burnet Avenue in the shadow of Route 690. We were both first-born sons of immigrants with one sister apiece. He worked his way through medical school and I was doing the same. We shared the common values of hard work, a love for God, and a devo­ tion to our families. We shared a passion

New York Regional Perinatal Center in 1976, one of the first facilities of its kind in the country. The center serves high-risk mothers and babies from a 15-county region. He also helped develop the Maternal & Child Health Center at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse. For years, Aubry was a key player in extensive efforts to slash the region’s high infant mortality rate, which, by the early 1990s, rivaled that of developing nations.

He worked with Onondaga County to launch a federally funded program in 1997 called Healthy Start that promotes healthy pregnancies through home visits, case management, and education. He was survived by his wife, Marjorie; daughter Ann Marie; sons Richard J. Aubry ’89 (Eileen Keneck ’89) and John; four grandchildren and several other family members.

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for SU basketball and he began to take me to games at Manley Field House. As we began to know each other more on a social basis, I learned that he was a bachelor and devoted to his parents and sister. As opportunities arose, he began to attend family functions with us as well.

As I began teaching at the College of Medicine, Andy was a constant sound­ ing board and advisor for me on how to engage and relate to students. We shared a respect and appreciation for the education and opportunity that we received from Upstate Medical University. In our hearts, I think we both realized that coming from our economic and ethnic backgrounds, neither one of us would have been physi­ cians had it not been for SUNY Upstate.

He held a high standard for representing the College of Medicine well, and for giving back time or funds for future generations of students.

The essence of Andy’s life was the practice of pediatrics, especially to the underserved. To many, pediatrics repre­ sents the specialty requiring the greatest nurturing of patients with the lowest sal­ ary level in medicine, the reason many doctors avoid the field. Andy reveled in it; his rewards did not come in dollars, they came in big grins with missing teeth, high fives and big hugs from little arms. The rewards came in taking care of children who brought him their children and then their grandchildren. He did not need a

Mercedes; a minivan was fine and he filled it with toys from the dollar store that he was always giving away. As the years passed, and he became more debilitated by his own medical illnesses, it was this devo­ tion to his patients that sustained him to practice much longer than many physicians would have.

Ironically, during his final hospital stay, Andy was on 7 Memorial at Crouse, which used to be the pediatric floor and nursery where he cared for many of his patients.

I think he found comfort in these familiar surroundings. At one point a nurse made the mistake of calling him “Mister” Rurka.

Despite his failing voice and labored breath­ ing, he quickly and loudly corrected her.

“Doctor Rurka.” Nothing else need be said.

WILLIAM R. CHAFFEE, o f Marlborough, MA (formerly of Auburn, NY), died October 14, 2013.

Dr. Chaffee served in the U.S. Navy. He completed his residency in internal medicine, and started a private practice in Orange, CT, before returning to Upstate New York to serve on the faculty of Upstate Medical University and the Syracuse VA. In 1966, he joined Drs. Lawrence Smith and Joseph Rowley in Auburn, NY, to form the practice Internal Medicine Associates. He was a member of the practice for 35 years and retired in 2011. He was survived by his wife, Emily; daughters Anne and Jean; a son, Robert; and seven grandchildren.

LAURA W. NEVILLE, formerly of Cotuit, MA, and Fayette­ville, NY, died October 21, 2012. Dr. Neville completed her residency in psychiatry. She was in private practice and served as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Upstate until her retire­ ment in 1987. She was survived by her daughters, UPSTATE MEDICAL ALUMNI JOURNAL | WINTER 2014

Margaret, Katherine, and Nancy; sons John and Robert; nine grandchildren; one great grandson; and several other family members.

House Staff MARIA JAVAID, of Lawrence, KS, died October 12. Dr. Javaid was an interventional cardiologist at Providence Medical Center in Kansas City. She completed her internal medicine residency in 2004 and a cardiology fellowship in 2007.

ALI A. KANCHWALA, of Lawrence, KS, died October 12. Dr. Kanchwala was a pulmonolo­ gist and Medical intensivist at Stormont-Vail HealthCare in Topeka. He completed his residency in internal medicine in 2007.

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UPSTATE MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION/FOUNDATION SUNY Upstate Medical University Setnor Academic Building, Suite 1510 750 E. Adams St. Syracuse, New York 13210

NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE

PAID

SYRACUSE NY PERMIT #994

Dear Medical Alumni Association,

T

hank you for all the work you have done to make the medical student experience at Upstate Medical University a more enjoyable one, and for the awards and scholarships you have provided to numerous students (myself included) throughout the years.

The full-tuition Medical Alumni Scholars Award I received really helped me overcome the financial burden my family and I would have endured otherwise. The day I received your letter with the news of this award was one of the happiest days ever!

I have looked forward to the day when I could pay back, at least a little bit, by becoming a life member of the Medical Alumni Association.

Sincerely,

Michael de la Cruz, MD ’05 PATHOLOGIST ALLIED DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY CONSULTANTS WILMINGTON, DE

For more information about how you can support the College of Medicine by becoming a member of the Medical Alumni Association, please contact Paul Norcross at the Upstate Medical Alumni Foundation; 315-464-4361 or www.upstate.edu/medalumni/giving.