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1950s Theodore L. Johnston, MD ’50, died on December 19, 2015 in Loveland, Colorado. He was 94 years old. A native of Chicago, Johnston earned degrees in chemical engineering and zoology at Iowa State University. Upon entering medical school in 1946, he met dietetics teacher Barbara Ruby and, as he would repeatedly state, “When she gave me an A, I decided to marry her.”
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Robert “Bud” Ozeran, SB ’51, MD ’55, died on June 2, 2016, after living with Alzheimer’s disease for many years. He was 85. After his graduation from medical school, he moved to Los Angeles for surgical training at the Wadsworth VA hospital. On completion of his residency, he continued as staff surgeon at the VA. Starting in 1960, he served two years as a captain in the U.S. Army at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He returned to Los Angeles and ultimately became chief of surgery at the Wadsworth VA and taught at UCLA Medical Center. He was one of the pioneers of dialysis access surgery and together with Jack Cannon, MD, led the UCLA program. He developed and perfected fistulas and shunts that improved the quality of life for many patients with renal failure — before and after the advent of kidney transplantation — and published many articles and book chapters on the topic. In 1971, Ozeran entered private practice but continued to teach and mentor many surgeons. He was an active and proud member of the American College of Surgeons and served leadership roles in many surgical societies. He loved his family and was proud of their accomplishments. He enjoyed travel, was an excellent chef and supported may charitable causes. He was preceded in death by his wife of 46 years, Sue. He is survived by his four children: Larry, MD ’86; Steven, AB ’84, MD ’88; Danny, SM ’86, PhD ’95, MD ’97; and Victoria; their spouses and seven grandchildren. Jack P. Edelstein, MD ’56, died on November 25, 2016, in Palo Alto, California. He was 85. A respected physician and psychiatrist, he founded one of the first child and adolescent psychiatry practices in the Palo Alto area. Edelstein interned at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach
and completed a pediatric residency at the Mayo Clinic. After a stint as a captain in the U.S. Army, he trained in general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and psychoanalysis at The Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He and his wife, Marcia Cecile Swiren, a graduate of the University of Chicago, and their three sons moved to Palo Alto in 1965, where Edelstein established his practice and was appointed clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. Beloved for his gentleness, kindness, humor and intellectual curiosity, he received an Outstanding Teacher Award for his work with residents. He volunteered at the Alzheimer’s Association in his later years and became a reading mentor for schoolchildren. Edelstein is survived by his wife; sons, Mark, Scott and Peter; sister, Vivian Nelson; and six grandchildren.
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Robert C. Talley, MD ’62, died on October 8, 2016, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was 80 years old. Talley completed an internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and was a cardiology fellow at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. A leader in medical education, Talley served as chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine (SSOM) from 1975 to1987 and as dean and vice president for health affairs from 1987 to 2004. As dean, Talley introduced the now-prevalent longitudinal model for clinical education. He went on to direct the SSOM Internal Medicine Residency Program and to chair the
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James R. McGrath, SB ’43, MD ’45, died on November 15, 2016. He was 95 years old. The first full-time pediatrician in the Eastside area of Seattle, McGrath was a trusted physician for three generations of children. The son of a Nebraska physician, he graduated magna cum laude from Doane College, where he met and married Charlotte Balzer in 1945. An accomplished actor in college, he briefly toyed with a stage career but chose to pursue medicine. He served two years as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. After completing a pediatric fellowship in 1949, he joined the Bellevue Clinic outside of Seattle. McGrath later joined a group of physicians who established the Overlake Medical Center and served as the first chief of pediatrics and then chief of staff. In the 1980s, he became involved with Physicians for Social Responsibility, reflecting his lifelong dedication to nonviolence. He and his wife also supported efforts to provide transitional housing for at-risk groups. McGrath, preceded in death by his wife in 2004, is survived by their children, Margaret, John (Paula), Peter (Barbara), Robert (Yasmine) and Mary (Bill), and 18 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
After completing his training in ophthalmology, he entered the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in 1955 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The couple enjoyed Cheyenne, and Johnston and Robert Stump, MD, formed a partnership ophthalmology practice there in 1957. “Dr. Ted” went on to practice at the Cheyenne Eye Clinic and the Johnston Eye Clinic before he retired in 1994. Both Johnston and his wife were active in musical theater and he was a familiar figure on stage, performing lead roles in “Man of La Mancha,”“The Mikado,”“The Pirates of Penzance” and more. He is survived by his children, Randolph L. Johnston, MD (Patty), Patty Johnston McNussen, MD (Jon McNussen), and P. Scott Johnston, MD (Ann Yanagi), three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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David P. Gormley Sr., MD ’61, died on January 1, 2017, after a prolonged illness. A graduate of Tufts University, Gormley interned at Philadelphia General Hospital, completed residency training at the University Hospital in Cincinnati and served two years in the U.S. Public Health Service. Gormley specialized in child psychiatry, first in private practice and then at the Fairfax County (Virginia) Behavioral Health Services. A devoted father of three, he enjoyed traveling, reading, the arts and coin collecting. He is survived by his three sons, David Paul Gormley, Jr., Craig Gormley (Elizabeth) and Blair; their mother, Charlene; and two grandchildren, Melinda and Owen. John R. Hotchkiss Sr., MD ’61, died in Evanston, Illinois, on November 14, 2016. He was 84 years old. A graduate of Wheaton College, Hotchkiss served as a corpsman in the U.S. Navy before attending medical school, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed his internship, medical residency and nephrology fellowship at his alma mater. A quiet, steady physician-educator, he established an active practice in internal medicine and nephrology at Evanston Hospital and taught at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine for 35 years. An avid outdoorsman, Hotchkiss enjoyed many camping trips with his sons and was fascinated by forestry and ornithology. He also loved music, and sang with church choirs the Swedish Choral Club and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Hotchkiss is survived by his wife of more than 55 years, Sandra Hotchkiss; their sons, John (Dr. Mary) Hotchkiss, MD, and Andrew (Michelle) Hotchkiss, MD; his sister-in-law, Suzanne Wahlstrom Smith; five grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
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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