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Glenn R. Hodges, MD’67, MS, received the 2016 Community Service Award at the annual meeting of the Kansas City Medical Society (KCMS) in Kansas City, Missouri. The Community Service Award is given to a KCMS member or physician group practice that has served in community leadership or made a significant contribution to the community.
Gary Slutkin, MD’75, was named a Chicago Humanitarian of the Year by UNICEF in September. He is the founder and CEO of Cure Violence, currently ranked 14th on the list of best NGOs in the world. Slutkin, a professor of epidemiology and international health at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, was recognized for his pioneering efforts in changing the national and international conversation and approach to stopping violence. “Violence is one of the most pressing public health crises of our time,” he said. “Violence has now been determined to behave like a contagious disease, and has been shown to be able to be successfully treated as such. Most epidemics are managed by the health and public health sector, which is now being activated to better change the course of violence epidemics in the U.S. and around the world.” The Cure Violence model is being applied across the U.S., Latin America and the Middle East, as well as in Africa.
2016 -2017 ALUMNI COUNCIL Executive Committee Michael H. Silverman, MD ’73 President Rene Mora, PhD ’88, MD ’89 Immediate Past President Paul R. Rockey, MPH, MD ’70 Vice President Ernest Mhoon, MD ’73 Alumni Awards Chair Douglass B. Given, PhD ’79, MD ’80 Chicago Partners Chair Chris Albanis, AB ’96, MD ’00 Editorial Committee Chair Dean Rider, MD ’78 Regional Programs Chair Andrew Aronson, MD ’69 Mark Aschliman, MD ’80 Juliana Basko-Plluska, AB ’04, MD Oliver G. Cameron, PhD ’72, MD ’74 Amy Derick, MD ’02 Jeanne Farnan, AB ’98, MD ’02 Stanley E. Friedell, MD ’85 Sanford A. Garfield, PhD ’74 Susan Glick, MD ’90 Keith Horvath, AB ’83, MD ’87 Joel E. Kleinman, SB ’66, MD ’73, PhD ’74 Karyl Kopaskie, AB ’07, PhD ’14 Dennis Lee, MD ’91 Howard Liang, PhD ’92, MBA ’01 Doriane C. Miller, MD ’83 Christian W. Sikorski, AB ’94, MD ’00 Jack Stockert, AB ’05, MBA ’10, MD ’10 Baruch Solomon Ticho, PhD ’87, MD ’88 William Weese, MD ’69 Lifetime Members L.D. Anagnostopoulos, SB ’57, MD ’61 Arnold B. Calica, SM ’61, MD ’75 Coleman Seskind, AB ’55, SB ’56, MD ’59, SM ’59 Russ Zajtchuk, SB ’60, MD ’63 Student Representatives Olufemi E. Adams, MS2 Ava Ferguson, MS4 Pritzker School of Medicine Ittai Eres Alyssa J. Harker Biological Sciences Division Resident Representatives Noura J. Choudhury, MD ’16 Robert J. Sanchez, MD ’15 University of Chicago Medicine
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Wai-Kwan Alfred Yung, MD’75, stepped down from his role as chair of the neuro-oncology department at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and joined the National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) as special advisor to the CEO. He will play an important role in guiding and informing new and ongoing research and science-policy related efforts at the organization. “Dr. Yung has been a friend and advisor to the National Brain Tumor Society for a number of years and is a true giant in the field of neuro-oncology,” said David F. Arons, JD, the organization’s CEO. “Dr. Yung’s new engagement with NBTS will help us gain momentum during this historic period of progress in brain tumor research and drug development to ensure we fully capitalize on the era of precision medicine.”
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Reunion is moving to May Attention medical alumni who graduated in the following years: 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012.
Due to the ASCO conference and limited hotel availability, reunion is moving to May. Mark your calendar for your reunion: May 4-6, 2017. See you on campus next spring! osteoporosis, oncology and endocrine diseases. Previously, she was at GlaxoSmithKline, where she headed an international multidisciplinary team as the medicine development leader for the osteoporosis drug denosumab and led the clinical development of novel agents to treat musculoskeletal diseases and women’s health. She has held many national and international positions, including member of the advisory committee for the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); chair of the general clinical research center study section of the National Center for Research Resources, NIH; and advocacy committee of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR). She served on the National Committee for Quality Assurance technical subgroup on osteoporosis; the clinical guidelines committee of the Endocrine Society; and as associate editor for Mayo Clinic Proceedings and the American Medical Association Scientific Advisory Board osteoporosis guidelines. Her honors include the Boy Frame Award of the ASBMR, the Glenn Foundation Award in Endocrinology and Aging from the Endocrine Society and election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation. She has published extensively in the field of mineral metabolism. Fitzpatrick completed her internal medicine residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and trained in mineral metabolism and endocrinology at the NIH. Previously, she was a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, where she served as director of bone histomorphometry and founding director of the Women’s Health Fellowship.
Mark E. Brecher, MD’82, chief medical officer of Laboratory Corporation of America and an adjunct professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of North Carolina, received the annual Francis S. Morrison, MD, Memorial Lecture Award by the American Society for Apheresis. The award recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the field of apheresis medicine and apheresis professionals who have made a lasting difference in the field at the national level.
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