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Arnold Bayer, MD ’70, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, has received the Outstanding Senior Research Investigator Award of the Geffen School of Medicine’s Biomedical Research Institute (UCLA). The award recognizes 20-plus continuous years of NIH funding for Bayer, a Distinguished Professor of Medicine.
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Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine (University of Pennsylvania), was the recipient of CHOP’s 2016 Richard D. Wood Distinguished Alumni Award. Ludwig is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a former president of the Academic Pediatric Association. Sandra Harmon-Weiss, MD ’74, FAAP, Cape May,
Washington Hill, MD ’65,
John Pagana, MD ’72,
FACOG, Sarasota, FL, Chair of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Director of MaternalFetal Medicine at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, was recently named one of the “Top 100 Black Physicians in the Country” by Black Enterprise magazine. Hill is also Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of South Florida.
Sunbury, PA, now retired after a 30-year career in family practice, received the 2016 Adam Smith Award for Distinguished Leadership for his service to EconomicsPennsylvania, which promotes economic and financial literacy in K-12 education.
NJ, has been elected to Temple University’s Board of Trustees. A nationally known expert in Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured populations, Harmon-Weiss is a former executive of both U.S. Healthcare and Aetna, and has provided counsel to the NIH and the Institute of Medicine. Harmon-Weiss was the recipient of LKSOM’s Henry P. Laughlin Alumnus of the Year Award in 2015, its Alumni Service Award in 2009, and was inducted into the University’s Gallery of Success in 2004. She is the Chair of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine Board of Visitors.
Charles Cutler, MD ’74, MACP, Merion Station, PA, is President of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, a 16,000member organization. An internist who practices with the Einstein Healthcare Network, Cutler has been active with the Society — and with other organizations promoting better health for Pennsylvanians and the nation — for 35 years. He is a former Chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians.
Bernard Remakus, MD ’78, Hallstead, PA, recently published his seventh book, The Lame Duck (221 East Publishing), a medical suspense novel that received five-star reviews from the San Francisco and Manhattan Book Reviews. Remakus has been the sole practicing physician in Great Bend Township, PA, for 36 years. His three children, Chris, Ali, and Matt, also earned their medical degrees from Temple University.
Michael Emmett, MD ’71 , MACP, Dallas, TX, Chief of Internal Medicine and Director of the Nephrology Laboratory at Baylor University School of Medicine, recently served as the National Kidney Foundation’s Shaul G. Massry Distinguished Lecturer.
David Leber, MD ’67, Mechan-
icsburg, PA, has retired after a 37-year career in plastic and reconstructive surgery with the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic. Over the years, he has traveled with the World Surgical Foundation on missions to Ecuador, Thailand, Nepal, and many other countries to serve patients in need.
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Stephen Ludwig, MD ’71 , Haverford, PA, Senior Advisor for Medical Education at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and
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HILL: COURTESY UNIV. SOUTH FLORIDA; LEBER: COURTESY DR. LEBER; EMMETT: COURTESY BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE HEALTH; LUDWIG: COURTESY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA; CUTLER: COURTESY PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY; HARMON-WEISS: JOSEPH V. LABOLITO
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