Joyce E. Myers, MD ’79, Cambridge, MA, is Vice President of Clinical Development at Cognoptix, Inc., a diagnostics-development company focused on Alzheimer’s disease. She has held leadership positions at Boehringer Ingelheim and Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
1980s
interests include lupus, osteoporosis and bone metabolism, rheumatoid arthritis, and vasculitis.
2000s
James Fingleton, MD ’85,
FACS, Barrington, RI, is Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Southcoast Health System and Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University in Providence. Howard Greenfield, MD ’85, Miami, FL, is Founder Melodee Lasky, MD ’80,
Annandale, NJ, a family physician, is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health and Wellness at Rutgers University of the State University of New Jersey.
and Principal of Enhance Perioperative & Anesthesia Consulting. He is also one of the founding partners of Sheridan Healthcare and a former chief of anesthesiology at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida.
LASKY: COURTESY LARRY MCALLISTER II; WILLIAMS: COURTESY R. NERONI/ROTHMAN INSTITUTE; FINGLETON: COURTESY SOUTHCOAST HEALTH; PATEL: COURTESY CARE DIMENSIONS; WEBB-DETIEGE: COURTESY OCHSNER CLINIC; CHAN: COURTESY ILLINOIS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY.
1990s
James Goldschmidt, PhD ’90, Havertown, PA, is Vice
Gerald Williams, Jr., MD ’84,
Villanova, PA, is President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, which represents 39,000 orthopaedic surgeons nationally. The John M. Fenlin, Jr., MD, Professor of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and a Rothman Institute physician, Williams is a past president of both the MidAtlantic Shoulder and Elbow Society and the Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society.
President of Business Development at CASI Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics for cancer and unmet medical needs. He has also worked for Macrophage Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, and SmithKline Beecham. David Mauro, MD-PhD ’96, Washington Crossing, PA, is Chief Medical Officer of Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on cancer immunotherapy. Previously he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Advaxis Immunotherapies. Mauro is a member of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine Alumni Board.
Stephanie Patel, MD ’97, FAAHPM, Danvers, MA, is Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Care Dimensions, the largest hospice and palliative care provider in Massachusetts. She also serves on the faculty of Harvard University’s Palliative Care Medicine Fellowship Program and is affiliated with the medical staffs of several hospitals, including Cambridge Health Alliance Hospitals. David Stuhlmiller, MD ’98,
FACEP, CMTE, Madison, NJ, is Chief Medical Officer of Air Methods Corporation, a global leader in air medical transport. Stuhlmiller leads a team of 70 medical directors across the U.S., developing best practices to advance the air medical health care industry.
Tamika Webb-Detiege, MD ’99, New Orleans, LA, is at-
tending rheumatologist with the Ochnser Health System and Senior Lecturer and Academic Discipline Head for Medical Specialties at the University of Queensland Ochsner Clinical School in Australia. Her clinical
R.V. Paul Chan, MD ’00,
Chicago, IL, is Vice Chair for Global Ophthalmology and Director of Pediatric Retina and Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary. A volunteer with ORBIS International, which fights blindness around the world, Chan has visited more than a dozen countries to teach local physicians to recognize and treat ROP. “Education leads to sustainability,” says Chan, who is a member of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine Board of Visitors. Susanne Spano, MD ’05, Fresno, CA, is Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of Wilderness Medicine Education at the University of California-San Francisco. She contributes to the development of national protocols for delivering prehospital aid in wilderness settings. She also volunteers on the Fresno County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Mountaineering Team and has helped to lead national conferences on disaster and wilderness medicine.
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