BIOSTATISTICS ALUMNUS KARL PEACE COMMENDED BY THE VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY Karl Peace, PhD’76 (BIOS), has been commended by the Virginia General Assembly as “a prolific biostatistician and devoted educator, [who] has contributed immensely to his field and inspired countless students at the Medical College of Virginia and other universities to achieve greatness in science and medicine.” For more than 30 years, Peace has served the Department of Biostatistics as an adjunct or affiliate faculty member. In addition to his service on the MCV Campus, Peace is senior research scientist and professor of biostatistics in Georgia Southern University's Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. The college's Center for Biostatistics and Survey Research bears his name, and he is the founder of the Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium, now in its 21st year as well as the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, now in its 23rd year. In recognition of his contributions, House of Delegates member Jennifer L. McClellan (D-Richmond) offered House Joint Resolution
Commission on Forensic Science. The Commissioners will work to improve the practice of forensic science by developing guidance concerning the intersections between forensic science and the criminal justice system. Bieber is a medical geneticist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Congratulations to Leah Bush, M’84, H’88, F’89, of New Kent, Va., who was honored in April during the Reunion Weekend as the medical school’s Outstanding Medical Alumnus. See photo on page 33. David Alan Chandler, M’88, of Mechanicsville, Va., practices with Richmond Eye Associates specializing in cataract/implant surgery. Lois Gail Clary, M’85, of Hendersonville, N.C., was awarded the Community Faculty Award by the Hendersonville Family Practice Residency Program in June 2013. This award recognizes a community faculty physician for excellence
No. 5073, approved by both the House and Senate on June 12. The resolution describes Peace's impact on the field of biostatistics and also notes that he has created scholarship awards that have helped more than 50 students earn master's degrees or doctorates in biostatistics from VCU's MCV Campus. He also generously supported the Hans Carter Professorship on the MCV Campus and GSU's Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health that bears the name of his late wife as well as many other education and charitable organizations. As described in his autobiography “Paid in Full,” Peace was born into a family of southwest Georgia sharecroppers. He was the first person in his family to go to college, and a Georgia State Teacher's scholarship supplemented by seven part-time jobs helped him complete his bachelor's degree in chemistry, even while he supported his siblings and cancer-stricken mother. Education proved to be the road that would change Peace's life and that of his family. Rising from an entry-level biostatistician position at Burroughs-Wellcome to vice president of worldwide technical operations at Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert, Peace went on to start Biopharmaceutical Research Consultants Inc. in 1989. He provided expertise to dozens of international biotech and pharmaceutical companies and played a key role in the development and regulatory approval of dozens of medicines, including drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease, hypertension, arthritis, anxiety, depression and panic attacks and gastrointestinal ulcers.
in teaching residents and in patient care. She sold her practice, Carolina Lung and Sleep Physicians, to the local hospital at the end of last year and hopes to resume some hobbies after her daughter graduates high school in 2015. She looks forward to seeing her classmates in 2015 at their 30th reunion! Charles H. Cockrell, M’82 H’86, is an associate professor of radiology on the MCV Campus. He is married to his wife Carolyn, who earned master’s and doctoral degrees from VCU’s Department of Psychology. This August, their daughter Hannah was admitted to the medical school’s Class of 2018. Geoffrey G. Cooper, H’87, of Richmond, Va., has been named to the 2015 American Academy of Ophthalmology Leadership Development Program. For one year, participants attend education sessions concerning leadership, advocacy and association governance issues. Cooper is a specialist in comprehensive ophthalmology at Virginia Eye Institute.
Martha Corcoran M’87, is an otolaryngologist with Sutter Solano Medical Center near San Francisco, Calif. This August, her daughter Allison Levitt was admitted to the medical school’s Class of 2018. Robert Dabrow, M’84, is the associate program director for the new pediatric residency program at Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando. The program began in July 2013. Steven E. Daniels, M’81, of San Antonio, Texas, is an interventional cardiologist with South Texas Cardiovacular Consultants. Mark DeCoster, PhD’89 (BIOC), of Ruston, La., presented in July at the International Bioprinting Congress in Singapore. His talk focused on new bioprinting methods for 2D and 3D cell and tissue models. He says, "What is so new and exciting about 3D printers in the biomedical sciences and engineering is that we can now enable our imagination to convert a good idea into something that is printable and
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