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receiving this award, and I hope my research has contributed to women being more aware of their risk for heart disease and how to prevent it.” Jill Marie (Kapplinger) Huber, MD’08, received the 2011 LeeAnn McCaffrey, MD, Women in Medicine Award from the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education in Rochester, Minnesota. The award recognizes excellence in the internal medicine residency program. After completing her residency at the Mayo Clinic in July 2011, Huber
assumed a position in the Division of Primary Care Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester. Sawsan (Susie) Salman Kara, AB’98, MD’02, writes that she is happily married with two young children and working as a general pediatrician in the San Francisco Bay Area. Amber T. Pincavage, MD’07, gave an oral research presentation titled “Risk of Resident Clinic Handoffs: Showing Up Is Half the Battle,” based on her MERITS project at the 2011 Society of General Internal Medicine spring meeting. At the time she was ambulatory chief resident, internal medicine, at the University of Chicago Medicine. She now is assistant professor of medicine and co-clerkship director for internal
medicine at the University. She is especially interested in primary care for underserved populations and internal medicine ambulatory training. Francisco Ponce, MD’04, is featured on a new medical website, Barrow50. org. Ponce is a neurosurgeon at the world-class Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. He is focusing on the use of deep brain stimulation to treat depression and other conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Sandra A. Weiss (D’Amore), MD’04, has joined the Christiana Care Center for
Heart & Cardiovascular Health in Delaware. In addition to medical school, Weiss also completed her fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Melissa Weston, MD’11, is the first author of an article, “Factors influencing uptake of intrauterine devices among postpartum adolescents: a qualitative study,” which appeared in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Joshua Williams, MD’11, published an article titled “Attention to Inpatients’ Religious and Spiritual Concerns: Predictors and Association with Patient Satisfaction” in the July 2011 Journal of General Internal Medicine.
In Memoriam Alwyn T. Andrew-Mziray, AB’94, MD’00, IMB’00, passed on suddenly at age 39 in Zanzibar, Tanzania, in February 2011. Andrew-Mziray had returned to his native Tanzania in 2009 to help pioneer the specialty of emergency medicine. His passion, energy, and enthusiasm played a critical role in co-founding the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic and establishing a new emergency department at Muhimbili National Hospital and an emergency medicine residency program at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, both in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. These accomplishments represent a major step forward for emergency care in East Africa. Previously, Andrew-Mziray worked in health care banking on Wall Street, as a health care consultant and as principal at a private equity group that focused on global pandemics. He co-founded the American chapter of the Tanzanian AIDS organization WAMATA, and served on the board of Operation Smile in New York. Joseph H. Coggin, Jr., PhD’65, professor emeritus of microbiology and immunology at the University of South Alabama (USA) College of Medicine, died on August 21, 2011, at age 73. Coggin was well known in the medical community for his research into therapies and potential vaccines for cancer. He served as associate dean for basic medical sciences at USA and chair of microbiology and immunology. His research led to the development of potential cancer vaccines and cancer detection technology. Coggin’s work was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute for more than 40 years. He also was section chief of tumor immunology for the Oak Ridge National Labs in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Coggin is survived by his wife, Sharon Scroggs Coggin, four children, and seven grandchildren. Thomas Frew Ednie, AB’51, SB’53, MD’55, passed away on April 26, 2011, in Idaho. Ednie spent much of his career in the U.S. Air Force, including some years at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he was chief of neuropsychiatric service for the largest inpatient psychiatric unit in the USAF. He also served as chair of the Neuro-Psychiatric Department of a teaching hospital at Travis Air Force Base. Following his retirement from the USAF, he worked for a brief period at Napa State Hospital in California before opening a private practice, which continued for six years. Ednie served two years as a Jesuit volunteer, working as a bus driver and maintenance man for the Colville Confederated Tribes at Paschal Sherman Indian School, as a means of catching his breath and realigning his life into something consistent with his later life goals. He chose to practice psychiatry in
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Sandpoint, Idaho, where there was great need. He retired after 15 years, following quadruple coronary bypass surgery in 1995. He is survived by his wife of nearly 59 years, Natalie (they married while they were both students at the University of Chicago), six children and 12 grandchildren. Allan M. Goldberg, PhB’45, MD’52, died November 13, 2011. He received a bachelor of philosophy degree with highest honors at the age of 17. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and served on the aircraft carrier USS Badoeng Strait, where he managed radar, sonar, and electrical activities. Upon his discharge, he received the WWII Victory Medal. After the war, he returned to the University, where he met Gretchen Hartmann, AB’47, SB’51, MD’52, and the pair married during their last year of medical school. Goldberg performed research in diabetes and used radioactive iodine from the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge for treatment of thyroid disease. He also studied exfoliative cytology in the treatment of bowel cancer. Hartmann developed incomplete quadriplegia during her residency, and with family help, Goldberg cared for her at home for 40 years. After Hartmann’s death in 1993, he donated a professorship in neurology at the University of Chicago in her memory. Goldberg had a private practice in internal medicine for four decades. While chief of medicine at Ingalls Hospital in Harvey, Illinois, in 1968, he built the first coronary care unit in the south suburban area. In 1996, he was a charter member of the Harper Society, a major philanthropic society at the University of Chicago. At the time of his death, he made major gifts in his beloved wife’s memory, intended to support technology, patient care, and research at the University. Michael F. Golden, MD’58, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, died February 22, 2012, at age 80. Golden served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and had his own practice in psychiatry for many years. He is survived by his children, Catherine Del Tito, Julie Golden, and William Golden; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and his sister, Margaret. Norman Graff, SB’47, MD’48, passed away on December 27, 2011, at his California home. Phyllis, his wife of 65 years, was at his side. Born in Chicago in 1921, he enlisted in the Army after graduation from Chicago Teachers College and served during the Korean War at a medical center for federal prisoners. Graff had a successful private practice of psychiatry in California for many years. He retired at 65, but then joined the Veterans Administration Hospital at Menlo Park to serve in the PTSD program for 10 years. He
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served as president of the Northern California Psychiatric Society, and received multiple honors, including a Distinguished Life Fellowship from the American Psychiatric Association. He was on the clinical faculty of Stanford University. Graff enjoyed sailing, painting, woodworking, photography, ceramics, music and world travel. His family was the most important thing in his life. He is survived by his children, their spouses, and eight grandchildren, in addition to his wife. Abhninav Kapur, MS3, died suddenly on March 25, 2012. A medical student, Kapur served on the executive board of the New Life Volunteering Society Free Health Clinic, a student-run free health clinic in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood that serves a diverse, uninsured population. His international humanitarian work consisted of both scholarship and service, including community research in Hyderabad, India. While an undergraduate, he was a member of Engineers Without Borders, using his technical expertise to bring practical and sustainable contributions to communities worldwide. William A. Kisken, MD’58, passed away in January 2012, at age 79, at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the hospital to which he dedicated decades. Kisken was a medical pioneer who performed Wisconsin’s first cadaver kidney transplant in 1965 and the state’s first living-donor transplant. In 1970, he performed LaCrosse’s first kidney transplant. Kisken retired in 1997. He missed medicine but had more time for such hobbies as carving, something that came naturally for the surgeon. He is survived by his wife, Mary; sons Peter, William and Tom; and daughter, Sara French, as well as other family members. Lloyd Kozloff, SB’43, PhD’48, an influential microbiologist, died March 10, 2012, of heart failure at his California home. He was 88. Born in Chicago in 1923, Kozloff earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry when he was 19. After a stint in the Navy during World War II, he returned to the University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate and immediately was asked to join the Biological Sciences Division faculty. He was promoted to full professor in 1961. Kozloff’s work on bacteriophages helped lay the foundations of modern virology. He was a member of the “phage group,” a network of scientists that included Nobel laureates Salvador Luria and James Watson. Kozloff’s research focused on the biochemistry of virus replication and