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Lifeline
Vol. 15 • No. 1 • Fall 2006
COLLEG E OF ME DICIN E
UN I V E R SI T Y OF I LLINOIS
AT URBA NA - CHA MPA IGN
35 Y E ARS
Dean’s Letter
35 Years of
Making a Difference
The success of the College for over 35 years, which is best exemplified by the outstanding quality of
our graduates, is truly the result of the support of individuals who have been dedicated to promoting
the College of Medicine and its mission.
Human health has emerged as one of the top priorities of the University of Illinois’s strategic plan
and the College has been given a leadership role in building human biomedical capabilities across
campus.
As a result, we are now embarking on a new era—one that will transform how human health is
studied on this campus. To do this, we will capitalize on our unique interdisciplinary approach
to education and research to create a nexus for opportunity. Through this approach, we can make
significant contributions in the most critical areas of research in human health and biomedical
education. Without a doubt, this transformation can happen only through the support of our
community partners, our friends and alumni, and our colleagues at this great institution.
We thank you for your support over the years, we deeply appreciate your loyalty and strength and
we hope you will join us in making this transformation. The College of Medicine on the campus of
the University of Illinois has a brilliant future ahead—together we can make it happen!
Sincerely,
Bradford S. Schwartz
Regional Dean
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Contents
A COLLEGE OF MEDICINE FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Members of the First Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Charter Members of the Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Medical Sciences Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
FIRST GRADUATING CLASS AND MEDICAL SCHOLARS PROGRAM ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
First Graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Medical Scholars Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
STRENGTHENING CAMPUS CONNECTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Martha Sweeney
GROWING IN NATIONAL PROMINENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
ESTABLISHING A HOME FOR THE CLINICAL PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
UNLOCKING OUR FUTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Vision 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
The Promise of Friends and Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Preparing the Next Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
COLLEGE NEWS AND VIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Match Day 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Convocation 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Length of Service Awards Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Community Medical School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Celebrating 35 Years! Homecoming 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Alumni News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Introducing Our New Faculty Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Department Heads, Administration and Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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Dr. Nelson and friend
1971
I1971–1976I
“The seeds for the School of Basic Medical Sciences
at Urbana-Champaign were planted in the Flexner
Report of 1910. The report recommended an
expansion of medical education facilities throughout
the state, specifically indicating a medical school
n the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a growing
at Urbana-Champaign. The recommendation lay
concern of the part of the Illinois legislature that there were
dormant until 1964, when the State Board of Higher
many areas across the state that did not have an adequate
number of physicians. As Richard Gumport, an inaugural
Education was established and became concerned with
faculty member, recalls the legislators believed “that there was a
health education in Illinois. In 1969 the decision was
need to develop family practice physicians and that physicians would be
most likely to practice in the state where they were educated” so they looked
made to accept a class of 25 students in a pilot program
at opening up more medical sites across the state.
and to expand to a class of 100 as soon as possible. In
Former Dean Daniel Bloomfield described the founding of the medical
addition to this educational commitment, affiliations
school in Urbana-Champaign as originally “a response to a short-lived wave
of enthusiastic public funding designed to relive a ‘doctor shortage’ in the
with area hospitals were also recommended.”
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FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS
state.” And according to him, it was this “short-lived . . . public funding”
that later created challenges for the College, when during the 1980s, financial and other pressures led to discussions of closing the Urbana medical
school campus.
JOHN D. ANDERSON, PH.D., ASSOCIATE DEAN OF THE SCHOOL
OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES, IN REMARKS AT THE 1975
DEDICATION OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING
However, with the support of the University of Illinois campus, the local
medical community, the leadership of Dr. Bloomfield, and the establishment of the Medical Scholars Program the College’s future was ensured.
“The M.D./Ph.D. program was integral to the College’s survival,” says Dr.
Gumport. “It gave us a genuine mission on this campus, allowing us to have
a full program here and turn out scholars in medicine.”
Members of
the First Class
Fa ll 1971
ko
Kenneth A. Bat
n
David L. Bowte
imer
Steven C. Delhe
J. Gregg Fozard
urg
David L. Ginsb
kins
Thomas H. Hos
ion
Patrick J. Marm
Allen L. Neese
onoghue
Michael J. O’D
en
James J. Rusthov
Schultz
Ronald Walter
Gale G. Sidler
gmann
Gregory V. Stie
Keith D. Vrhel
trick
Mary Alice Wes
The rest is history.
o,
Mitchell J. Ziark
Jr.
Bloomfield House and first-year students
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1972
1973
1974
Charter
of the F Members
aculty
John An
de
FIRST DIRECTOR
John D. Anderson, Ph.D.
After earning a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford
University in 1949, John Anderson joined the
Department of Physiology at the University
of Illinois. Little did he know at the time that
he would be in a position to set direction for
the education of generations of future medical
students.
But that’s just what happened as he was instrumental in guiding plans for the establishment of
the school and construction of its facilities. In the
1960s Dr. Anderson was named to an informal
planning group to study the possibility of such
an endeavor, and in 1969 when the plan was set
in motion he served as the liaison between the
Urbana-Champaign campus and the College of
Medicine in Chicago. A year later Dr. Anderson
was named associate dean of the school. He held
this position until his retirement in 1977.
Dean Daniel Bloomfield, in his remarks at the
dedication of the Medical Sciences Building in
1975 praised Dr. Anderson for his vision and
commitment: “One individual, more than any
other, has nurtured this building from its inception to its completion. He is Associate Dean John
Anderson, who spent countless hours planning,
designing, studying changes and making special
arrangements to meet specific faculty needs
and without whose steady hand this building
would be far less functional. Always cheerful and
incredibly skilled at meeting countless conflicting
demands, Dean Anderson guided this building
with unparalleled experience and skill.”
In 1989 Dr. Anderson was recognized for his
longtime support and loyalty to the College when
he was presented with the Special Recognition
Award.
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rson
Detlef B
ie
Daniel B
lo
Founding Faculty
ger
omfield
William
Daniel
E. Rich
ard Ens
rud
Michael
Gabridg
e
Thomas
Gamble
Richard
Gumpo
rt
Lowell H
ager
Michael
Harms
Janet H
arris
Charles
Hockm
an
George
Hody
Benita K
atzenell
enbogen
Aulikki
KokkoCunnin
gham
Jordan K
onisky
George
Ordal
John Po
llard
Dwayne
Savage
Melvin
Schoenb
erg
Grover
Seitzing
er
William
Slater
William
Sorlie
Benjam
in Willi
ams
1975
1976
GRADUATE
GRADUATE
FACULTY
Keith Vrhel
Mary Alice Westrick
Richard Gumport
Many students in the first class and many of
the faculty members that first year would agree
with Keith Vrhel, who describes the experience
of being in on the groudn floor of the medical
school as “sometimes making it up as we went
along.” Anything new often requires such a strategy of being ready to adapt to changing circumstances, and Dr. Vrhel experienced that again later
in his career while on the forefront of another
medical challenge.
For the only woman in the first class of 16
medical students, Mary Alice Westrick remembers
“adapting to my role as ‘one of the guys.’” She
enjoyed the camaraderie with her classmates and
the time spent at “the old house,” the College’s
first home on California Street, which had administrative offices downstairs and a “medical library”
and study facilities upstairs. She says the students
often “rotated between the old house and Treno’s,”
a campus bar, to study.
Richard Gumport describes his tenure as a
biochemistry professor and an inaugural member
of the College of Medicine faculty as “a great
adventure that the first class of M1 students and I
entered into together in the fall of 1971.”
After completing his residency in internal
medicine at the University of Missouri, he began
working in San Diego in 1981. “I diagnosed one
of the first AIDS patients back at a time when
we didn’t know what we were dealing with,” Dr.
Vrhel recalls. “Since then I’ve been at the forefront of HIV/AIDS in treatment, research, and
teaching.”
“Life was fairly intense” in that year in Champaign-Urbana, Dr. Westrick recalls, but she
enjoyed the respite from the urban environments
of St. Louis, where she completed her undergraduate work in 1971, and Chicago, where she
continued her medical school education in 1972.
Currently the medical director for Park Center for
Health, the largest gay and HIV-positive practice
in San Diego, Dr. Vrhel appreciates the experience
he had at Illinois and “the dedicated and hardworking staff and students.”
Dr. Westrick is board certified in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology. She
conducted research and was a faculty member at
the University of Iowa College of Medicine and
earned an MBA from the University of Dallas.
Initially, a health system’s marketing research and
medical management consultant, Dr. Westrick is
currently a business management consultant for a
marketing firm in Jacksonville, Florida.
Dr. Gumport came to the University of Illinois
to pursue a research career in biochemistry, but
for the first several years much of his time and
effort went into developing the curriculum for
the medical school and teaching and mentoring
the students. Thirty-five years later, his career is
marked by success as a researcher and an author,
with his Student Companion to Accompany Biochemistry now in its sixth edition. He has also
made his mark as a faculty member who is committed to exploring the best methods of educating
medical students—not only in his early role as
teacher but also in his current role as the associate
dean for academic affairs for the College, where
he has responsibilities for curriculum development.
“Medical education is always in a state of curriculum churning,” says Dr. Gumport. “We are continually trying new things, but we’re not always
sure what will actually work. Most of the faculty
members here are research scientists who are good
citizens and are willing to put a lot of time and
effort into their instruction while still trying to
focus on their research. Our medical school has
succeeded because of these faculty members.”
For the past 35 years, Dr. Gumport has been
an excellent example of just that kind of faculty
dedication.
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Medical Sciences Building
The first home for what was then called the School of Basic Medical
Sciences at Urbana-Champaign was an old gray frame building at
1205 W. California. According to Richard Gumport, who was an
original member of the School’s faculty as well as a biochemistry
professor, “We would all sit around a table in an upstairs room of that
old building to conduct a class.”
But that all changed in 1975 when the
Medical Sciences Building opened. At the
time, it was touted as “the best modern architecture has to offer for education and laboratory research.” Complete with a library and
multimedia center, an auditorium, laboratory
animal quarters, and a tissue culture center, it
was considered state-of-the-art.
It was also a sign of the commitment of the
State to its mandate of doubling the output of
physicians by 1980—from 200 to 400 annually—by providing a home and equipment to
accomplish that task.
But as John Anderson, then associate dean
of the school, remarked at the building’s
dedication: “Although space and equipment are nice and necessary,
space and equipment do not make a program. Faculty, with staff
support, interacting with students generates, maintains, and improves
program.” For the past 35 years, that has been the College’s focus.
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FACULTY
Allan Levy
It’s difficult to envision a College of Medicine
campus without computers, but when Allan
Levy, M.D., joined the faculty in 1975 that was
the case. The Medical Sciences Building had just
been completed, and Dean Daniel Bloomfield
had recruited Dr. Levy from Baylor College of
Medicine, which had one of the first computer
research centers, to head the College’s Medical
PLATO project.
“The goal was to convert much of the basic
science curriculum to computer,” says Dr. Levy.
“PLATO was a very important step in computerbased education. Not only did we develop many
lessons for our students, but we cooperated with
5 to 10 other medical schools who agreed to join
the Health Sciences Network. It was pioneering
work.”
More than 30 years later, microcomputers and
web-based learning make that early work seem
cumbersome and inefficient, but it was groundbreaking at the time. And because of Dr. Bloomfield’s vision and Dr. Levy’s expertise, it put our
College and our students in a position to be at
the forefront of important technological developments.
Dr. Levy takes great pride in the fact that over the
years he played a part in developing an environment “where the training of physician-scholars
is first rate.” Now retired from the College, he
continues to be involved in the bioinformatics
field as a consultant and is an active volunteer
with CASA, Court-Appointed Special Advocates,
where he serves as an advocate for abused and
neglected children.
The Curriculum
The inaugural class of students at what was then called the School
of Basic Medical Sciences at Urbana was introduced to the study
of medicine through independent study. According to Richard
Gumport, one of the school’s first faculty members, “this self-directed
approach was the hot, new way of teaching medical students at the
time.”
Ken Batko, one of the students in that first class who went on to
become an ophthalmologist and glaucoma specialist, remembers
“enjoying reading through the textbooks at my own pace and in my
own place. It gave me confidence that I could learn even the most
technical information on my own. That confidence stayed with me
throughout my career,” he says.
“PLATO was a very important step in
computer-based education. Not only
did we develop many lessons for our
students, but we cooperated with 5 to
10 other medical schools who agreed to
join the Health Sciences Network. It was
pioneering work.”
ALLAN LEVY, M.D.
Dr. Gumport explains that at the time the curriculum consisted of
“written learning objectives and self-tests that were to be taken by the
students on the computer at their own pace.” But it wasn’t an instructional strategy that worked for most students, and so a more formal
curriculum of lectures and textbooks began to take shape even before
the end of the first year.
There was little classroom contact, but when such sessions were organized they were held in the School’s first home in an upstairs room
of a converted private home that stood at 1205 W. California Street,
just southeast of the present south entrance of the Medical Sciences
Building.
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1977
1978
I1977–1981I
FIRST GRADUATING CLASS
AND MEDICAL SCHOLARS
PROGRAM ESTABLISHED
First Graduates
of COM-UC
Class of 1981
on
ts
Barbara J. Alber
r
Lance B. Becke
Annis Wakelee
Diana L. Gray
Bledsoe
eigh
Michael C. McV
are
Kathleen E. O’H
mon
David A. Shew
aker
James D. Shoem
Judith A. Suess
David J. Svetich
eler
Wayne B. Whe
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1979
GRADUATE
GRADUATE
Diana Gray
James Shoemaker
As a member of the
inaugural clinical class
at the College, Diana
Gray, M.D., a 1981
graduate, was among
the first students to
complete clinical work
in Champaign-Urbana. It was a groundbreaking
endeavor. “There were no residents, fellows, or
more senior students to mentor us, which in some
ways made it difficult,” says Dr. Gray. “But we got
a lot of firsthand experience with procedures and
had a lot of direct interaction with the faculty.”
James Shoemaker is someone who often is in the
right place at the right time. While a medical
student in Urbana in the late 1970s, Dr. Shoemaker had the opportunity to deliver a baby in
the same room in Burnham Hospital where he
had been born decades
before. And then
in 1984, in another
instance of good
timing, he had the
distinction of becoming the College’s first
M.D./Ph.D. graduate.
Since then, Dr. Gray has found herself to be in on
the ground floor of other exciting developments
in the field of medicine. As a resident and fellow
in obstetrics/gynecology ultrasound and medical
genetics at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish/
St. Louis Children’s Hospitals in the early 1980s,
her choice of specialty couldn’t have been more
well-timed. “The discipline of prenatal diagnosis
had been around for only about a decade or so
when I began my medical studies,” she says. “And
what spurred the development of the field was
ultrasound and amniocentesis. These tools revolutionized the practice of OB/GYN.”
It’s an opportunity
he’s made the most of,
with an 18-year career as the founder and director
of the metabolic screening lab at the St. Louis
University School of Medicine. Each year, his
lab is responsible for processing more than 1,500
urine samples from children across the Western
hemisphere in order to detect inborn errors of
metabolism. A review of thousands of recent
samples from seriously ill infants and children has
shown that clinically relevant nutritional metabolic abnormalities outnumber genetic metabolic
abnormalities by about 10 to 1. His current
research includes the evaluation of special nutritional needs in children with Down’s syndrome
and the diagnosis of vitamin deficiency by quantification of urinary metabolites after an oral dose
of amino acids and other food constituents.
Dr. Gray continues her work with patients but
now has added the role of professor of OB/GYN
and of radiology as well as associate dean for
faculty affairs in the School of Medicine at Washington University. “It wasn’t a role I saw myself
in, but it’s a challenge that I really enjoy and an
opportunity to be a strong voice for affecting
change,” she says.
More than 100 children have been diagnosed
with very rare metabolic diseases using the
method invented by Dr. Shoemaker—a method
that has roots in the translational research he
conducted while a graduate student in the lab of
Willard Visek, M.D., Ph.D.
1980
1981
The Medical Scholars Program
In 1978, the College of Medicine began a joint venture with the
Graduate College at the University of Illinois that set the stage
for new levels of interdisciplinary research. The Medical Scholars
Program (MSP) was unique in its ability to offer dual degrees in not
only the biomedical sciences but in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, engineering and physical sciences.
Nearly three decades later, the MSP is one of the largest, most diverse,
and highly regarded training programs for physician-scholars in the
country. According to Diane Gottheil, former associate director of the
MSP, the program “is unlike any other combined degree program in
medicine” because of the diversity of scholarly interests, the rigorous
academic standards, and the degree combinations offered.
The reputation of the program and its
students is apparent in the steady stream of
National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellowships and other highly competitive awards that
MSP students receive each year as well as their
success as physician-scientists and scholars.
And that’s just what was envisioned when the
MSP was established. Daniel Bloomfield, who
was dean of the College at the time, predicted
in 1991, during the College’s 20th anniversary, that the future of the College “lies in the
success of its graduates. We’re looking forward
to the accomplishments of our medical scholars, which I think will begin to have an impact
in the next five to ten years.”
Dr. David
Webb
Dr. Ralph
Nelson
Dr. Ivens Siegel
“The Medical
Scholars Program
is unlike any
other combined
degree program in
medicine.”
DIANE GOTTHEIL,
FORMER ASSOCIATE
DIRECTOR OF THE MSP
Fifteen years later, his prediction certainly
rings true.
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FACULTY
FACULTY
FACULTY
Willard Visek, M.D., Ph.D.
Byron Kemper
Bill Daniel
As one of the first two clinical professors associated with the University of Illinois College of
Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Visek used
his expertise to develop the clinical nutrition
curriculum. His work established the College
as having the first required clinical clerkship in
nutrition in a U.S. medical school.
Byron Kemper has spent nearly three decades
as a member of the College of Medicine faculty
teaching pharmacology and studying how genes
in cells are “turned on” and how proteins that are
made in the cells get to the right cellular location.
For the last 25 years, the focus of his lab has been
on genes that produce drug-metabolizing enzymes
that usually inactivate drugs and toxins that are
ingested. In humans, a single enzyme is responsible for metabolizing about half of all therapeutic drugs and many of these drugs “induce”
or increase the activity of the enzyme, which, of
course, affects the action of a second drug that
is metabolized by the enzyme. The study of the
mechanism of induction and the normal cellular
physiology of this important class of enzymes
has been a sometimes
frustrating, but usually
rewarding, experience.
When Bill Daniel arrived on the University of
Illinois campus in 1972, the College was in its
infancy. With 16 students housed in a white
frame building, the program was small but ready
to grow.
Over the years, Dr. Visek has used that training
to educate students about the important roles
that nutrition and metabolism play in disease
prevention. “It seems obvious to people now that
diet impacts your health, says Dr. Visek. “In fact,
everyone really thinks they’re an expert on nutrition. But back then it was a fairly new idea.”
Dr. Visek’s graduate students, including the
College’s very first M.D./Ph.D. student, James
Shoemaker, benefited from his expertise and
mentorship. “I knew that Illinois was one of the
best places to pursue a Ph.D. in nutrition because
of Dr. Visek,” says Dr. Shoemaker. “The experiments I conducted in his lab led directly to my
work today.”
The College honored Dr. Visek for his work by
recognizing him as a recipient of the 2006 Special
Recognition Award.
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But for Dr. Kemper,
the most rewarding
experience has been
working with many
talented students and
watching their intellectual growth. “Because
medical students need
to learn so many facts in so short a time there is
always a tension in balancing the facts with the
underlying experimental basis, not to mention
providing clinical relevance,” says Dr. Kemper.
“After 30 years, I still am not satisfied that I have
it right. However, in both research and teaching,
not being satisfied and striving to learn more or
to make it right is both important and keeps life
interesting.”
For 30 years, Dr.
Daniel contributed to
that growth by guiding
students in his roles as
teacher, researcher, and
mentor. As a medical
geneticist, he also used
his expertise to develop
the College’s medical
genetics curriculum
and to establish a genetic counseling program,
both of which were relatively new concepts when
he began his work on campus.
Dr. Daniel’s work as a medical geneticist led to his
being named a founding fellow of the American
College of Medical Genetics, and his reputation
as a teacher earned him recognition as a five-time
Golden Apple winner in the College of Medicine.
F irst graduating class, 1981
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1982
1983
I1982–1986I
INTERNAL
MEDICINE
RESIDENCY
PROGRAM
ESTABLISHED
1984
Earl Ensrud
GRADUATE
As plans began to take shape to establish a School of Clinical Medicine to go
along with the existing School of Basic Medical Sciences, Daniel Bloomfield
enlisted the help of MD Advisors—that is, local physicians who volunteered
to serve as clinical associates, working with students and recruiting other
volunteer physicians.
Michael Kelly
E. Richard Ensrud, M.D., a Carle gastroenterologist since 1957, was one of
the first MD Advisors. His work with the College extended far beyond this
role, however, when he agreed to help organize a formal Internal Medicine
Residency Program in Urbana-Champaign. Along with a dozen other local
physicians from Carle Foundation Hospital, Mercy Hospital, and the Danville VA Hospital, Dr. Ensrud and the other committee members submitted
an application for this program to the Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education. The proposal received provisional approval in 1983, and
Dr. Ensrud agreed to serve as the program director.
“We had about 15 residents in the program in
that first year,” he says. “With the help of the
associate program directors Robert Kirby from
Carle Foundation Hospital, Lewis Winter at the
Danville VA Hospital, and James Cowan from
Mercy Hospital, who was later replaced by Bill
Marshall, we started from scratch and built it into
a very fine program. Three or four years after our
provisional approval was given, we received full
approval.”
Class of ’86
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Dr. Ensrud retired from his position as program
director in 1991, but recalls fondly the time spent
working with young physicians and the opportunity to help them gain a unique perspective.
“The three-hospital association that our program
is based on makes it special because residents get
the perspective of the large private practice group
from Carle Clinic, the individual and group
experience at Christie Clinic and Provena (Mercy Hospital), and the public
institution experience at the VA Hospital,” Dr. Ensrud says. “The size of the
program means the directors get to know the residents better, plus it allows
for more personal guidance and support—all of which create a successful
program and successful residents.”
Things are constantly
changing in the field of
medicine, and Michael
Kelly, M.D., certainly
can vouch for that. A
1984 graduate of the
College of Medicine
and a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Miami
Plastic Surgery, he says “there’s always a new procedure, new equipment, and new techniques to
perfect” in his field. “The challenge is to balance
the desire to be first in performing a technique
with the need to be sure it has been tested enough
to work for the patient.”
Being in on the ground floor of something new
is familiar territory for Dr. Kelly, who was an
undergraduate at Illinois in the early years of the
medical school. “When I was at Illinois, there was
a sense that it was a new campus for medicine.
And when I was a medical student, the clinical
program was still being developed, which was a
fun and exciting thing to be a part of. There was
flexibility as far as rotations, so I had an opportunity to go to older programs across the country
and bring that experience back.”
Today, he continues to share his experience not
only with his patients, but with the adults and
children he helps each year as part of Operation
Smile, an organization that coordinates health
care teams to provide cleft lip and palate repair
around the world.
1985
1986
GRADUATE
GRADUATE
Mary Burke Duke
Michael Bishop
When Mary Burke Duke, M.D., was searching
for physician-educator role models as a medical
student in the 1980s, she didn’t have to go far. In
fact, she found them in people like Dr. Robert
Parker, Dr. Terry Hatch, and Dr. Kathleen
Buetow, mentors who she met during her clinical
training in Urbana-Champaign. “These people
were consummate professionals,” says Dr. Duke.
“They were the caliber of physician that attracted
me to internal medicine and pediatrics,” and to
the clinician educator role that has been her focus
for more than 20 years.
When Michael Bishop came to Urbana-Champaign to interview for the Medical Scholars
Program, he recalls that his plan to examine
HMOs and PPOs was met with many quizzical looks. “I came from Minnesota, and in 1981
HMOs and PPOs were already very much a part
of the state’s health care system,” he says. “But
they hadn’t taken off throughout much of the rest
of the United States yet.”
As an associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Dr. Duke has been
responsible for directing the combined internal
medicine/pediatrics residency program. She also
recently was elected to a four-year term as governor of the Kentucky Chapter of the American
College of Physicians, the world’s largest medical
specialty society.
The governorship is a challenge she welcomes,
and the organization’s philosophy about patient
care and physician education is one that meshes
with her own. “I have been an ACP member
since I became a physician, and it has always felt
like my professional home,” Dr. Duke says. “The
people I have come to know in the organization
are among the most high-minded people I have
met in medicine. They remind me of my mentors
at the UI.”
And this country’s system wasn’t the only one he
had a chance to study while working toward his
M.D./M.B.A. As the winner of the Richardson
Award in 1986, Dr. Bishop spent four months
working at King’s College Hospital in London
learning about the British health care system and
completing his pediatrics rotation. It was this and
the clinical and educational opportunities of the
MSP that inspired his career as a pediatrician and
a clinical instructor at Baylor University and the
University of Texas.
“I view my years at the University of Illinois as a
period of personal and professional growth and
challenge,” says Dr. Bishop. “There were so many
memories to recall: the first and only medical
school float entered into the Homecoming
Parade; the late nights in the cadaver lab; anxious
anticipation on Match Day; and the Hooding
Ceremony and recitation of the Hippocratic Oath
on Graduation Day. Undoubtedly, the friendships
I built while at Illinois will last a lifetime, and the
education, clinical training, and other opportunities provided were instrumental to my success and
prepared me well for my chosen field.”
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FACULTY
STAFF
Ivens A. Siegel, Ph.D.
Kathy Carlson
When Ivens Siegel, Ph.D., retired from the
College in 1999, his tenure as a dedicated faculty
member, a scientist of the first order, and an
outstanding administrator was marked by another
important distinction. In his 20 years as a professor, he was recognized 10 different times as the
winner of the Raymond B. Allen Instructorship
Award, establishing a record for the Urbana
campus.
Kathy Carlson began
her work in the College
of Medicine in 1980 as
the staff secretary for
the Medical Scholars
Program. The MSP
had only been in existence for two years at the time, so Kathy has had
the opportunity to see a fledgling program grow
into a model for excellence in physician-scholar
education.
Certainly that means he inspired hundreds of
medical students, and to hear students and colleagues tell it, he made
a real difference.
Members of the Class
of 1999 chose to honor
Dr. Siegel’s work by
selecting him as the
recipient of their
Special Tribute Award
citing the kindness,
generosity, quick wit,
and sense of humor that he shared with medical
students over the years. And as Byron Kemper,
Ph.D., head of the Department of Pharmacology,
said upon learning of Dr. Siegel’s selection as the
College’s Special Recognition Award winner in
2001: “What makes him exceptional is his dedication to his students. He suffers with them when
they struggle and celebrates with them when they
do well.”
Gwen Gaynor
robing Dr.
David Webb
Founding Director Dr. Anderson,
first Dean Dr. Daniel Bloomfield,
and second Dean Dr. Charles C.C.
O’ Morchoe
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Now the secretary to Dean of Students Jenny
Bloom, Kathy works directly with MSP and
traditional students to assist them with clerkship
schedules and residency applications—a process
that has changed significantly in her 26-year
tenure. “When I first came we made hundreds
and hundreds of copies of residency applications,
all of which had to be individually signed and
mailed,” she says. “It was a very time-consuming
administrative task. But about 10 years ago we
started using the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) program, and it has really
streamlined the process because it is now all done
on computer, both the application submission
and the matching.”
And that’s been good for the students as well as
the staff. “Our job is to make things easier for
the students,” Kathy says. “They are the lifeblood
of the College, and I feel so fortunate to be in a
position to help them and to get to know them
personally,” she says. “They are an absolutely
amazing group of people that you come to care
for as your own. It’s always a sad day for me when
they graduate and move on.”
“The Internal
FACULTY
Medicine training
Ralph Nelson
program has a
Ralph Nelson describes coming to the College
of Medicine and Carle in 1979 as the best thing
he ever did—a sentiment shared by his medical
students and colleagues
alike.
An M.D./Ph.D.
student himself and
the first NIH Fellow
at Mayo Clinic, Dr.
Nelson knows the
rigors and the rewards
of the physician-scientist career path. For
more than 23 years,
he brought that perspective to his work with the
College, helping to create an atmosphere of excellence for our M.D./Ph.D. program. His worked
earned him recognition as one of the College’s
Special Recognition Award winners in 2006.
A professor of nutrition and internal medicine,
and later head of the Department of Internal
Medicine, until his retirement in 2002, Dr.
Nelson also served as director of research for
Carle Foundation Hospital, work he continues to
pursue today.
Much of his groundbreaking research has focused
on black bears and how what we know about
their metabolism can improve the health of
humans. This biodiversity research has made
important contributions to the treatment of
osteoporosis and kidney disease.
quality reputation,
and we work to
continue that
reputation by
providing the best
teaching and all
the resources the
students need.”
SARITA PRADHUDESAI,
M.D.
College of Medicine faculty and staff
Drs. Elizabeth
Trupin, Lew Trupin,
and Suzanne Trupin
Ca mpbell
“This is an excellent atmosphere for an M.D./
Ph.D,” says Dr. Nelson. And certainly his contributions have helped make it so.
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1987
1988
1989
I1987–1991I
GRADUATE
Carmen Koubicek
STRENGTHENING CAMPUS
CONNECTIONS
s the second regional dean in the College’s history, Charles C.C. O’Morchoe,
M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., definitely had a full plate. Not only did he have the administrative responsibilities of the college, but he also taught anatomy, histology, and
pathology and had an active research program. “It could be quite a balancing act,” he
says, “but one of the many advantages of balancing three jobs is that if one isn’t going as
well as you like, you have two others to bring you joy.”
And Dr. O’Morchoe found lots of joy in his time with the College. “I loved being on this impressive campus with its wonderful academicians,” he says. “I enjoyed the students enormously. I had the
chance to get to know them because we didn’t have huge classes. In addition, they were on campus for
many years, and I had the good fortune to teach them. I still keep in touch with many of them.”
There was a real learning curve for Carmen
Koubicek, M.D., when she made the transition
from working as a pediatrician at Carle Clinic in
Danville to setting up a solo practice in Louisiana—one that had little to do with medicine or
location but had everything to do with business.
DEAN EMERITUS
Charles C.C.
O’Morchoe
Even when the threat of closure hung over the College and administrative responsibilities were at their
most challenging, there was still a silver lining for Dr. O’Morchoe. “To our great joy, there was an
outpouring of support from across campus that actually changed the president’s mind regarding closure
of the College,” Dr. O’Morchoe recalls. “The MSP had a great deal to do with this because faculty from
various disciplines saw the advantages of having these truly outstanding students on campus. They
recognized the MSP as a quality program that helped them to attract the best students to their departments as well as to the College of Medicine.”
“21st century
physician leaders
need extraordinary
opportunities
to develop
In 1984, Dr. O’Morchoe left his position the Department Head of Anatomy at Loyola University
extraordinary
Stritch School of Medicine in 1984 to take over the leadership of the College. “The MSP was in its
infancy, but it had already established a name for itself,” he notes. “There wasn’t anything like it around
skills.”
the country during my tenure. No other program had the breadth of disciplines that ours did and still
does.”
Much of the MSP’s success and the College’s reputation for excellence is a result of Dr. O’Morchoe’s
visionary leadership. He was committed to building strong administrative and faculty relationships
across campus, to developing collaborative relationships with the community healthcare institutions,
and to strengthening the academic excellence of the program in every way possible.
When he and his wife, Jean, professor of pathology and cell and structural biology, retired from the
College in 1998, they left satisfied that their goals of building a stronger stable program had been
achieved. Colleagues, students, and staff could not agree more.
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DR. CHARLES C.C.
O’MORCHOE
“At Carle, all my necessities were taken care of,”
she says. “All I needed to do was provide medical
care to my patients. Now in private practice, all
the business and administrative duties are my
responsibility. It has been challenging and at times
frustrating, but it’s also very rewarding to see the
fruits of my labor.”
That labor began at the College of Medicine,
where she was a student from 1986 to 1990.
It continued with a pediatric residency at the
University of Florida at Jacksonville, where she
received extensive training in neonatal medicine and management in addition to pediatrics,
and then with her five years as a Carle pediatrician. For the past six years, that labor has meant
caring for children at Doc 4 Kids, Dr. Koubicek’s
practice in Opelousas, a town of 25,000 in south
central Louisiana that saw its share of displaced
individuals from the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina. “Unlike what we see in the media,
the people and patients I have run across affected
by this storm have shown not only determination
but a resilience that is very admirable,” she says.
While at the College of Medicine, Dr. Koubicek
was grateful for the many instructors who helped
her pursue her goal of becoming a physician.
“My special appreciation goes out to Dr. Richard
Mintel for his unique style of teaching fueled by
his love for biochemistry (the Kreb Cycle still
haunts me), and of course his patience with me,”
she says.
1990
1991
GRADUATE
Scott Enochs
Class of ’87
Scott Enochs’ original plan was to complete his
M.D./Ph.D. and pursue a career in aerospace
medical research with the Air Force. There wasn’t
a defined pathway for him to take, but he made
contacts and felt confident that he would be able
to combine his medical interests with lab work
in biophysics. Unfortunately, personnel changes
and a shift by the Air Force to outsourcing these
research activities altered his plans. And yet his
journey has come full circle.
Currently a radiologist at Bryn Mawr Hospital
(reportedly home to the nation’s first radiology residency) in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, Dr.
Enochs completed a diagnostic radiology residency
and neuroradiology fellowship, both at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. During the fellowship, he saw an ad for the Air Force Reserves and decided
to tackle both jobs at once, hardly a stretch for someone
used to balancing the demands of the Medical Scholars
Program. Over the next eight years, he held an academic
position in neuroradiology at Thomas Jefferson University
Hospital in Philadelphia and practiced as a general medical
officer, later training as a flight surgeon, with the 913th
Airlift Wing, Willow Grove Air Reserve Station north of
Philadelphia.
Class of ’88
Class of ’89
So now in addition to his work in private practice and
training radiology residents, Dr. Enochs is a flight surgeon
and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. That
means devoting one weekend a month and two weeks a year
to his Reserve duties. “It’s not the research path I had originally envisioned,
but the work is important and I enjoy it very much,” says Dr. Enochs. “You
function much like a family practitioner but utilize specialized occupational
and preventive medicine training as well. And you’re one of the flight crew.
Combining this work with my radiology practice and teaching role has been
a great opportunity.”
Class of ’90
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GRADUATE
GRADUATE
Lisa Gould
Kirk Moberg
Lisa Gould, M.D., ’90, Ph.D., ’89, and now an associate professor of surgery
at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), recalls the rigors of the
Medical Scholars Program.
There are graduates of the College of Medicine
practicing their specialties across the country and
across the world. And there are some, like Kirk
Moberg, M.D., Ph.D., who continue to make
their difference right here in Champaign-Urbana.
“It was a very demanding program,” she says. “So we were especially grateful
for people like Diane Gottheil who provided strong leadership and helped
steer us in the right direction when we were struggling. But it was those
demands and the training and discipline that go along with them that have
been the most helpful in practice. The program taught me how to conceptualize, organize and complete a project, which are extremely important and
valuable skills.”
They were skills she used first in her work at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she had an academic practice in plastic surgery and hand and
microsurgery as well as a research practice that centered on wound healing.
In 2001, she left the cold Wisconsin winters for sunny Texas and the opportunity to move her wound healing research forward. “The UTMB Surgery
Department is extremely well known for research and the support and
resources provided to carry it out,” she says. “Plus, I’ve been able to develop
the microsurgery program here and am doing very complex cases. In addition, I work with medical students both in the lab and when they’re rotating
through geriatrics. One of my recent summer undergraduate students is now
an M.D./PhD student at UTMB.”
Dr. Gould has recently reconnected with
former MSP Director Hal Swartz. “I’ve
developed a research collaboration with him
that focuses on oxygen and wound healing,”
she says. “It certainly was unexpected, but
chance favors the prepared mind.” And
preparation is certainly something that the
MSP delivered for Dr. Gould.
With a Ph.D. in genetics and a master’s degree in
health policy and administration to go along with
his medical degree, Dr. Moberg completed his internal medicine residency
at the University of Illinois and started working as an internist at the Carle
Clinic in 1994. A year later he began a combination practice of critical care
and addiction medicine. He began his career in administrative medicine in
2000 and currently serves as senior vice-president and chief medical officer
of the Carle Clinic Association and medical director of Carle’s Addiction
Recovery Center.
Seeing a need for today’s medical students to be exposed to the problems of
addiction, Dr. Moberg has developed an addictions curriculum for the M2
students that has been instituted for the 2006-2007 academic year. “Addiction is a major public health problem,” he says. “There is practically no
specialty in which a physician won’t have some interaction with someone
struggling with addiction, yet it often goes unnoticed in our profession.
Adding it to the curriculum heightens awareness and provides students with
a knowledge base so that when they graduate they are
better prepared.”
His work on behalf of the College and the students
earned him recognition as the 2006 winner of the
Art of Medicine Alumni Award, presented to an
exemplary physician who is committed to the ideas
of life-long learning and humanistic patient care; an
outstanding teacher involved in educating peers, residents, students and allied health professional; and an
involved physician who understands the role medicine
plays in various cultures and communities throughout
the nation and the world.
Carmen Koubicek and daughter
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FACULTY
FACULTY
FACULTY
Benita Katzenellenbogen
Abigail Salyers
Kathleen Buetow
In 1970, Benita Katzenellenbogen, Ph.D., came
to the University of Illinois to work with Jack
Gorski, professor of physiology and biochemistry, whose University lab was at the forefront of
important endocrinology research. More than
35 years later, Dr. Katzenellenbogen is herself
an internationally recognized endocrinologist
and cancer researcher, and now it is her work
that often brings talented students from across
the country to the University and the College of
Medicine.
Abigail Salyers is someone who is as comfortable
answering a congressional leader’s question about
antibiotic resistance as she is answering a medical
student’s question about microbiology. And her
experience, knowledge, and commitment to education are all qualities that have served the public
and the College well over her 26-year career at
Illinois.
For more than 40 years, Kathleen Buetow, M.D.,
Dr.P.H., has been caring for the littlest patients
in east central Illinois as a pediatrician at Carle
Clinic Association. During much of that time,
she’s also been responsible for nurturing the
development of the College’s clinical program
in pediatrics. Improving the situation for each
student—and each child—has been the focus of
her work as a faculty member and a physician.
A founding member of the faculty in the College,
Dr. Katzenellenbogen’s tenure is one of distinguished achievement. A former president of
The Endocrine Society and the winner of the
Jill Rose Award for outstanding research from
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the
Distinguished Scientist Award from the Susan G.
Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Dr. Katzenellenbogen has contributed significantly to her field
and to the education of M.D./Ph.D. students.
“It’s very gratifying to see students move on to
establish distinguished careers in academia, governmental agencies, and the pharmaceutical and
biotechnology industries,” she says. “I’m proud
of the legacy of trainees and associates who are
making important contributions of their own.”
For many of them, it’s an opportunity that would
not have been possible without the guidance of
professors and mentors like Dr. Katzenellenbogen.
Dr. Salyers’ research on antibiotic resistance has
earned her international recognition and made
her a sought-after speaker and resource for the
scientific community. She has authored textbooks,
developed curriculum for M1 and M2 microbiology courses, and has served as president of
the American Society for Microbiology. She has
received several campus awards for excellence in
teaching, was the recipient of the Illinois Society
for Microbiology’s Pasteur Award for Research
and Teaching, and was named the 2002 Faculty
Member of the Year for the four campuses that
comprise the University of Illinois College of
Medicine.
Educating the public is a responsibility that Dr.
Salyers takes seriously. She is proud to be associated with colleagues who feel the same. “It’s
gratifying to work in an environment where there
are so many high-quality faculty members who
are dedicated to educating both students and the
public,” she says.
Dr. Buetow has established a reputation not
only as a fine physician but also as an expert
in the evaluation of children for possible abuse
and neglect. She has worked tirelessly leading
the Child Protection Team at Carle and serving
on local and state teams that review records of
all child accidental deaths for ways to institute
prevention.
In the College, Dr. Buetow has served as the head
of pediatrics since the clinical program began and
has also been involved with curriculum development since the early 1970s. “Over the years I’ve
seen the structure and organization of the College
take shape, and I’ve been grateful to be a part of
it,” she says. “It’s been important to me that we
always look for ways to expand the opportunities
available to our students.”
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1992
1993
I1992–1996I
GROWING
IN NATIONAL
PROMINENCE
Dr. Willia m Greenough in his lab.
20
en years after the establishment
of the Medical Scholars Program
in 1978, plans began to take
shape for the College to host the
first National Conference on the
Education of Physician-Scholars in
1989. Diane Gottheil, Ph.D., associate director
of the MSP at the time, organized the conference
along with Harold M. Swartz, M.D., Ph.D., then
MSP director. It drew directors of elite dualdegree programs from across the country as well
as representatives from the National Institutes
of Health, the Association of
American Medical Colleges,
and major private foundations
involved in funding medical
education.
“The conference was an
excellent opportunity for
the College to showcase
our program and our
students, and it allowed
the University to showcase
the Beckman Institute,
which was brand new in
1989, and its commitment to interdisciplinary
research,” Dr. Gottheil
says. “It was a big undertaking, but certainly a
big accomplishment
as everyone was very
pleased with the
conference and came
away impressed by our
school.” And it was the
beginning of growing national exposure for the
MSP in the early 1990s.
1994
The 1989 conference was the impetus for a book
entitled The Education of Physician-Scholars:
Preparing for Leadership in the Healthcare System,
which was published in 1993. Several chapters
were written by conference attendees, with the
remainder of the book written and edited by
Drs. Gottheil and Swartz. “I heard from program
directors that the book became their bible in
developing and carrying out their programs,”
says Dr. Gottheil. “It was gratifying to have our
College seen as being on the forefront of sharing
this unique educational process with other programs.”
“Our students were
so impressive at
these conferences,
and it became
clear that we were
Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the reputathe most serious
tion of the MSP continued to grow as students
program in the
attended national conferences for M.D./Ph.D.
programs in the humanities and social sciences.
country.”
“Our students were so impressive at these conferences, and it became clear that we were the most
serious program in the country,” remembers Dr.
Gottheil. This reputation continues today thanks
to the vision of those who founded the College’s
MSP. “Those who first conceived this program
were incredibly imaginative and understood that
medicine and society were going to increasingly
interact,” Dr. Gottheil says. “We attract and
educate students who want to understand social
issues in a scholarly way and also understand the
constraints of the clinical environment. The talented students in our program bring that perspective to their research and demonstrate the value of
interdisciplinary work.”
DR. DIANE GOTTHEIL
1995
1996
GRADUATE
GRADUATE
GRADUATE
Tom Franzen
Alan Marumoto
Bradley Katz
Tom Franzen, M.D., had been a pre-med/biology
major at Eastern Illinois University, but he had
a change of heart after his junior year in college
and decided to pursue a vastly different career.
So he switched course and began taking classes
that would allow him to graduate with a teaching certificate in elementary education. For four
years, he taught students, until deciding to return
to school himself to pursue his original interest in
biology—this time as a medical student.
“I used to joke with Diane Gottheil that getting
the M.D. and Ph.D. took so long that I’d probably see the fall of communism before I’d finish,
or maybe I’d see the Cubs win the World Series,”
remembers Alan Marumoto, a 1996 graduate of
the College of Medicine. He did witness one of
those historical moments, but he’s still waiting to
see the Cubs win it all.
As an assistant professor of ophthalmology and
neurology at the University of Utah, Bradley
Katz, M.D., Ph.D., has the career he began
thinking about as an undergraduate more than
20 years ago. After earning his bachelor’s degrees
in electrical and biomedical engineering from
Northwestern University in 1986, he was looking
for a dual-degree program that would prepare him
for a career in academic medicine. He found it at
Illinois.
Because Dr. Franzen grew up in Royal, Illinois,
the College of Medicine was a logical and close
choice. “I got a very well-rounded education at
Illinois,” says the 1993 graduate. “The rotations
we did in the third and fourth years were especially good because we had the chance to work
with attendings, which is a real benefit.”
Now a family practice physician at the Carle
Clinic location in Rantoul, Dr. Franzen still is
close to home. Though he completed an internship in obstetrics and gynecology at Methodist
Hospital in Indianapolis, he decided to return to
Carle to complete a family practice residency. He
enjoys the opportunity he now has to work with
residents in the same program he participated in
during the mid-1990s.
It may have taken
nearly a decade to
complete the requirements for his M.D.
and Ph.D. in chemistry, but according to
Dr. Marumoto it was
worth every minute.
Now an adjunct assistant clinical professor
of interventional radiology at UCLA and the
clinical director of University Center Imaging in
Melbourne, Florida, Dr. Marumoto has had an
interesting academic and professional journey.
“I’ve had the good fortune to stumble into some
great opportunities,” he says—opportunities that
have included tangential working associations
with five different Nobel Prize winners from
1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2005. And he’s
taken advantage of the opportunities to obtain
and develop a coast-to-coast research and clinical career that is personally and professionally
rewarding.
Dr. Marumoto also “stumbled” into another role
while on the UI campus, making a name for
himself as the “Point Illinois Guy” at women’s
volleyball games. “It was an exciting time to be
a volleyball fan and a great distraction from the
rigors of the MSP,” he says.
“I was impressed with the number of research
opportunities that were available as part of the
Medical Scholars Program,” Dr. Katz says. “The
variety of scholarly interests and the breadth of
graduate programs that were part of the MSP
made me feel that it would be a stimulating environment. And that certainly proved to be true.”
No doubt, Dr. Katz’s commitment to academic
medicine provides a similar environment for
the students and colleagues he works with. In
his clinical and research practice, he focuses on
understanding the genetic basis of optic nerve
disease, including optic nerve drusen, and evaluating treatments for blepharospasm. Dr. Katz is also
currently developing an instrument to measure
critical flicker fusion frequency, which is especially
relevant for patients with multiple sclerosis and
optic neuritis.
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Dr. Dixie Whitt
FACULTY
STAFF
Diane Gottheil
Jim Hall
In the nearly 20 years that Diane Gottheil, Ph.D.,
served the College of Medicine as part of the
Medical Scholars administrative team, it was not
unusual for medical students to turn to her for
advice. And when their questions focused on how
to take on a new challenge, Dr. Gottheil could
offer advice from experience.
During the 23 years
that Jim Hall, Ed.D.,
has been a member
of the College of
Medicine staff, he has
served as a consistent
and vocal advocate
for student concerns. With responsibilities that
began in the financial aid area and expanded to
include admissions, advising, career development,
and everything in between, Dr. Hall is someone
students have sought out for his patience, knowledge, and problem-solving abilities.
That’s because prior to joining the College as
coordinator of the MSP in 1984, Dr. Gottheil
had spent her entire career studying, teaching,
and working in political science, international
relations, and criminal justice. “I was fully
immersed in that career when Dr. Bloomfield
approached me about this position,” she says. “It
was an intriguing challenge and one that really
made me understand from a personal standpoint
that you can always make things work and that
all the skills you learn
have relevance, even in
a field that’s completely
different.”
That personal philosophy, along with an
unwavering commitment to the personal
and professional
success of each student,
has earned Dr. Gottheil the praise of students and colleagues alike.
She was honored by MSP students in 1999 with
a scholarship they established in her name, and in
2002 she was a recipient of the Special Recognition Award for her outstanding contributions and
service to the College.
“It has been a privilege to work with this remarkable group of students, to get to know them well,
and to call them friends,” says Dr. Gottheil.
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Now the assistant dean for student affairs and
the Medical Scholars Program, Dr. Hall meets
with students for most any reason. “I work with
them on everything from financial aid issues
to difficulties in the classroom to negotiating
the multi-campus system,” he says. “I enjoy the
administrative part of the work, but it is the
energy and enthusiasm that our students bring
to the study of medicine that is most infectious.
I would be lost without the interaction with the
students.”
And to hear the students tell it, they would be
lost without Dr. Hall’s guidance. Named the
Special Tribute recipient in 2000, the graduating class praised his ability to help them navigate
“the complex financial aspects of undergraduate
medical education” as well as his commitment
to being “a firm supporter of student rights and
needs.”
FACULTY
Terry Hatch
To Terry Hatch, M.D., much of the success of
the College can be attributed to “the small size
and unique mission of the school, the atmosphere
of openness, pragmatism, and flexibility, and
the willingness of talented people to share their
gifts.” To those who have learned from and worked with him over the past
32 years, Dr. Hatch has played a large part in fostering that mission and
atmosphere and is one of those talented people.
Dr. Hatch grew up in Champaign-Urbana and graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine. After completing his internship and residency
in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins in 1973, he joined Carle Clinic and began
his affiliation with what was then the School of Basic Medical Sciences. In
1976, he began a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology, which at the time
was a new discipline. When Dr. Hatch returned to Carle at the completion
of the fellowship, he assumed additional responsibilities as both the director
of medical education for Carle Foundation Hospital and clinical education
center director for the College, which offered him a chance to help develop
the College’s curriculum.
In addition to his pediatric gastroenterology practice, his responsibilities as
the associate vice president of educational services at Carle, his direct work
with students, and his work in the division of nutritional sciences (ACES
at UIUC), Dr. Hatch has been committed to serving the profession as well.
He has been involved in medical mission work, has held numerous positions
with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Illinois chapter, has served
as chair of the accreditation committee for the Illinois State Medical Society,
and has been the international program chair for the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education.
Class of 1994
Class of 1995
Class of 1996
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1997
1998
I1997–2001I
ESTABLISHING
A HOME FOR
THE CLINICAL
PROGRAM
n 1999 the Carle Forum opened its doors. For the local
community, that meant access to a state-of-the-art health
education and resource center. For the College of Medicine,
it meant that and much more. For the first time, the clinical
program would have a “home.”
“One of my proudest achievements was persuading Carle and the University
to pursue this partnership to build the Forum and then working to raise the
money to make it happen,” says Charles C.C. O’Morchoe, M.D., Ph.D.,
dean of the College from 1984-1998. “It was very important to establish a
physical center for our clinical program.”
Now it’s hard to imagine how the students and the clinical staff managed
without it. With 10,000 of the Forum’s 43,000 square feet leased by the
College, the facility provides state-of-the-art resources for students and
faculty and serves as the College’s center for clinical education.
Ron Brewer, Ph.D., associate director of clinical affairs, oversees the programming for students at the Forum. “This facility is the gold standard in
clinical teaching,” he says. “The Pollard Auditorium provides high-tech,
functional lecture space, and the accessibility of the Forum allows students
the opportunity to work shoulder to shoulder with experienced physicians.
It’s an arrangement that gives students the tools to be successful.”
Second-year students, in particular, have benefited from the availability of
the Forum. Prior to its opening, M2s were on campus all year. Now they
have the opportunity to be in a clinical environment while they make the
transition from the basic science curriculum. According to Tim Barber,
who coordinates the activities for M2s, “moving the second-year students
to the Forum has greatly enhanced our ability to assist them. Plus, in this
environment students are in close proximity to the physicians, which aids in
mentoring and modeling for the students.”
Terry Hatch, M.D., associate vice president of educational services at Carle,
agrees. “We have an especially strong second-year program that is unique in
transitioning students. The small group learning, the opportunity to work
directly with attendings, and the interaction of the more senior students
with the more junior students, provide our graduates with a truly unique
experience that prepares them well for residency.”
The Forum provides the physical space, resources, and opportunities to help
make that happen.
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1999
GRADUATE
Jill Benson
After graduating from the College of Medicine in
1997, Jill Benson completed a residency in emergency medicine and then a fellowship in hyperbaric medicine, both supervised by Dr. Cheryl
Adkinson at Hennepin County Medical
Center in Minneapolis.
Her research on hyperbaric oxygen therapy
of iatrogenic cerebral
arterial gas embolisms
(CAGE) examined the
effectiveness of such
treatment on patients
over a 12-year period.
Now practicing emergency medicine with Wake
Emergency Physicians Professional Association in
Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina, Dr. Benson is
also board certified in Undersea and Hyperbaric
Medicine and hopes to continue her research in
that field. “The demands of emergency medicine
keep me extremely busy right now, but I found
the fellowship work I did to be very interesting,
so I’m hoping to explore it further in the near
future.”
Dr. Benson credits her parents, Paul and
Sheryl, and her medical school advisor, the
late P.J. O’Morchoe, M.D., former head of the
Department of Pathology, with providing the
support she needed during medical school. “Dr.
O’Morchoe helped me through the angst of
medical school and made some suggestions for
rotations that helped me in deciding my specialty.
She went out of her way to assist me, even though
emergency medicine wasn’t her area.”
2000
2001
GRADUATE
GRADUATE
Jason and Carol Rockhill
Andrew Krivoshik
In 1998, Jason Rockhill, M.D., Ph.D., was named the first recipient of the
Patricia J. and Charles C.C. O’Morchoe Leadership Award, an honor presented to a student in the Medical Scholars Program (MSP) who has demonstrated outstanding leadership on campus. Nearly 10 years later, Jason,
along with his wife Carol, also an MSP graduate, is again being honored.
The Rockhills are the first recipients of the Contributions to the College of
Medicine Award for their work in supporting and promoting the College.
Andrew Krivoshik, M.D., Ph.D., hasn’t moonlighted as an engineer since he
was a graduate student, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t using that engineering background every day. As an associate medical director of the oncology
group at Abbott Labs, Dr. Krivoshik is responsible for providing the medical
support for early drug development for pediatric and adult cancers. It’s a task
where his training in biophysics and computational biology comes in handy.
An assistant professor of radiation oncology and neurological surgery at
the University of Washington, Dr. Rockhill’s research and clinical practice
focuses on brain tumors. After earning his M.D. and his Ph.D. in biochemistry, Dr. Rockhill stayed in Champaign-Urbana to complete his residency
in internal medicine and to do post-doc work in Richard Gumport’s lab.
The Rockhills then moved to Seattle, where Jason completed his residency
in radiation oncology and Carol
completed fellowships in child and
adult psychology. She continues her
research work while pursuing her
M.P.H.
The Rockhills’ commitment to the
College stems from the perspective
they gained while MSP students.
“The Ph.D. students in the nontraditional areas of the humanities and
physical sciences bring a valuable
perspective to everyone’s work,” says
Jason. “They don’t look at medicine
from strictly the cellular or molecular point of view—and that adds a dimension that makes the MSP unique from other combined degree programs.
This perspective is a tradition I’ve tried to carry forward in my work at the
University of Washington.”
“What I do now often relates to trying to quantitate model simulations
and to translate predictions of different things we would observe clinically
and preclinically,” Dr. Krivoshik says. “My engineering background is a real
benefit in this regard because it provides the framework for how to bring a
large-scale project with multiple collaborators together to achieve a goal.”
Such a multidisciplinary approach was something Dr. Krivoshik saw firsthand as an MSP student. “The research lab environment I was in fostered
the development of true independent investigators,” he says. “You got the
direction you needed to attack a specific problem and you were encouraged
to pursue it.”
Dr. Krivoshik believes the same was true for his clinical experience in
Urbana-Champaign. “One of the things I came to appreciate as a resident
and then as a fellow was the level of experience our clinical training allowed.
There seemed to be a belief that if you take good students and challenge
them they will do good things. The physicians that mentored us would assess
our ability and often would give us more responsibility in patient care than
we might otherwise have gotten in a larger environment. This practical experience was a true help during internship and residency.”
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Dr. Siegel and company
FACULTY
FACULTY
William Marshall
Paul Gold
When Bill Marshall began his association with the College of Medicine as
a clinical instructor 25 years ago, he remembers “going over to the Medical
Sciences Building at night with Bob Kirby to work on the curriculum for the
endocrine program. We would put together case reports and lectures for the
second-year students in our off hours.”
Paul Gold had accepted a position as a professor
in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois and was visiting ChampaignUrbana to look for a home when he received a call
from Dean Brad Schwartz requesting a meeting
as soon as possible. Ten minutes later, Dr. Gold
found himself in the Dean’s office learning about
the College of Medicine and the Medical Scholars
Program. By the end of the meeting, he had been
offered the position of interim director of the
MSP, but Dr. Gold,
unsure of how those
responsibilities would
mesh with setting up
his research lab, did
not accept the position
at first.
Today, dedicated faculty members like Dr. Marshall and Dr. Kirby and
scores of others continue to give of their time in order to serve the College
and provide the best education for the students.
“The clinicians at all three hospitals spend a
great deal of time teaching medical students and
residents,” says Dr. Marshall. “In these days when
there are so many demands on the physician’s
time, we are fortunate to have so many amazingly
dedicated people who have done this for years and
years.”
As the former head of the Department of Internal
Medicine for the College and a former associate director of the Internal Medicine Residency
Program, Dr. Marshall knows firsthand the importance of the volunteer
clinicians to ensuring a successful program. “The students get an excellent
education, in part, because of the high level of expertise and the commitment of our volunteer faculty members,” he says.
Robert Kirby, Senior Associate
Dean for Clinical Affairs.
Since 1975, Dr. Kirby has been
a leading force at the College of
Medicine.
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At the same time, the presence of the residency program and the students are
a real plus for the local hospitals and physicians. “The residency program and
the medical school allow us to have a teaching atmosphere in our hospitals
and help us to recruit physicians who want to be a part of this atmosphere,”
says Dr. Marshall, who is now the deputy chief of staff at the VA Hospital
in Danville. Plus, it’s personally rewarding. “For me, and I would guess for
many of my colleagues, the time that I enjoy the most is the time when I’m
with the students and the residents. I look forward to it, and I get a lot out
of it.”
A visit to the MSP
website changed his
mind. “I fell in love
with the program as I
spent time reading the descriptions of students’
dissertations,” Dr. Gold recalls. “The diversity of
the research profile was extraordinary, with students pursuing topics that were well outside the
traditional biological research that I had assumed
would be the case with an M.D./Ph.D. program.”
During his two years as MSP director from 2000
to 2002, Dr. Gold enjoyed helping the students
balance the enormous demands on their time
and took pride in the establishment of the Bench
to Bedside series of mini-symposia covering one
topic from basic science, clinical, and societal perspectives. Currently, Dr. Gold is focusing on his
research work in neuroscience, but he also serves
on various campus committees where he continues as an advocate for the College and the MSP.
“These are hidden jewels,” he says, “so different
from any other medical school or M.D/Ph.D.
program across the country.”
Carle Foru m
Class of 2001
“This facility is the
gold standard in
clinical teaching.”
RON BREWER, PH.D.,
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
OF CLINICAL AFFAIRS
Carle Foru m opening
Dr. Qiang Liu
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2002
2003
I2002–2006I
UNLOCKING
OUR FUTURE
2004
Vision 2010
or 35 years, the College has been
providing the highest quality medical
education and clinical training for promising students. The efforts of those who first
conceived of the College, who took on the
challenge of teaching and learning here, and who
ushered it through the first three decades set high
standards and a successful course. “The outstanding work of our graduates and the dedicated
efforts of our faculty and staff have created an
environment of educational and clinical excellence and established a highly regarded national
reputation for our College,” says Brad Schwartz,
M.D., dean of the College of Medicine.
As the College prepares for the future, there is
excitement about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead and a vision for ensuring
success. The key components of that vision are:
• To become a globally recognized center for
cross-disciplinary scholarship that brings
innovative clinical opportunities in human
biology and the human condition to all
scholars on campus
• To be a leader in innovative medical education and a source of the nation’s top physician-scientists and physician leaders
• To develop private-public partnerships that
significantly impact the greater good of
society in areas of human health
The groundwork for achieving these objectives
was laid in 1978 when the College established the
Medical Scholars Program (MSP) to complement
the four-year traditional medical education. This
joint venture between the College of Medicine
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and the Graduate College at the University of Illinois set the stage for interdisciplinary research and
the growing national prominence of the College.
SETTING A STANDARD FOR
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Today, with MSP students in more than 30
graduate programs in 8 of the 10 colleges
on campus, the program’s multi-disciplinary
approach is evident. And so is its success. “The
vast majority of our graduates go on to residencies
that are ranked in the top 10 in their fields, places
like Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Harvard, and
UCLA,” says Madeleine Jaehne, director of public
affairs and advancement for the College. “Plus,
these high-profile programs repeatedly recruit our
graduates, which indicates a high level of satisfaction with the education that students obtain in
our College.”
In addition, the reputation of the program and
its students is apparent in the steady stream of
National Institutes of Health fellowships and
other highly competitive awards that MSP
students receive each year as well as their success
as physician-scientists and scholars. As a result,
the College has become recognized as a center for
medical education and bioscience excellence.
IMPACTING MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
According to Dr. Schwartz, “Medicine has a lot to
gain from integration with other disciplines. We
know there are mutually beneficial relationships
with the physical sciences, chemistry and engineering, for instance. But the social sciences have
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equally great things to contribute because the
social impact of medicine is so vitally important.”
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and partners, without whose support we could not continue our mission of educating
tomorrow’s physicians.
It’s a dimension that not only makes the MSP
unique, says Dr. Schwartz, but influential. “Our
graduates are exceptional clinicians and scholars,”
he says. “They have the opportunity to impact
healthcare across the country because they practice as physicians and physician-scientists at the
most prestigious programs in the United States.
They thrive there and then go on to other institutions and set up research laboratories. The ripple
effect we have is disproportionate because we have
a small number of students, but they are making
a big impact.”
ost of the medical students who benefit today from the Barbara Houseworth
Emergency Loan Fund weren’t even born when the Medical Faculty Wives group
first came up with the idea. Just after the School of Basic Medical Sciences was established in 1971, the group began to meet, and one of their first priorities was to raise money
to provide direct aid to students. The fundraiser came in the form of a used book sale, a successful project that the group and the County Medical Auxiliary sponsored for several years.
THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE BEGINS
HERE
But even when the groups moved on to other projects, Barbara Houseworth, a founding member of the
group and the wife of John Houseworth, M.D., a pulmonologist at Carle Foundation Hospital from
1954 to 1984, continued coordinating the booksales.
Building the capacity for collaborative, interdisciplinary academic programs is an important part
of the College’s vision for the future. According to
Dr. Schwartz, it’s integral to the College’s success,
but, even more importantly, it’s vital to the future
of medicine.
“We are committed to continuing to set the
highest standards in collaborating with faculty
across campus to deliver the excellence in
research, education, and service that the University and the College of Medicine are known
for,” he says. “This reputation is a product of the
unique collaborative environment that we foster
here. As we continue to build on that reputation,
we will be recognized as a model for how to seamlessly bridge different disciplines for the benefit of
human health at both the individual, and societal,
levels.”
Making Things Easier for Students
“We started collecting donated books, and we stored them in the Bloomfield’s basement,” she says.
“Later, I continued to collect books and then set up a space at Sunnycrest Mall where I sold them each
month. Everyone knew I was continuing the project, and they were very generous in donating books. I
stopped doing the monthly sales in the mid-1980s, but people still came to me with requests for books
and with donations, so I continued collecting and selling in a limited capacity until a few years ago.”
From the proceeds of the sales, Mrs. Houseworth would make annual donations to the fund. “We came
up with the emergency loan fund because it was a way to help the students when they really needed it,”
she says. “Because the fund is administered by the College, the students don’t need to go through the
traditional loan channels and wait for approval and disbursement. This makes it easy for them to get
some money quickly in emergencies.”
Jim Hall, Ed.D., assistant dean for student affairs and the Medical Scholars Program, has seen just how
important the fund has been for students. “For example, when a student’s rent is due and their loan
check hasn’t arrived yet, the fund provides the temporary help they need to meet their living expenses,”
he says. “It’s a quick answer for students, because we write the check here in the office. Over the years,
the fund has been absolutely invaluable for innumerable graduates.”
Barbara Houseworth’s passion for books and her 35-year commitment to the College ensures that the
same assistance will be there for tomorrow’s graduates as well.
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Honor Roll of Donors
July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006
Major Gifts
Gifts of $10,000 or more
American Heart Association
American Institute of Nutrition
Carle Development Foundation
Dr. Charles C. C. O’Morchoe
Oxford University Press, Inc.
Provena Covenant Medical Center
Presidents Council
We are pleased to recognize the following alumni, faculty,
staff, and frequent donors to the College of Medicine at
Urbana-Champaign who are members of the Presidents
Council.
Colonel John and Elinor Barr
Dr. Donald G. and Suzanne I. Bartlett
Dr. Donna T. Beck
Dr. Carl J. and Carol J. Belber
Dr. Michael J. and Patricia O. Bishop
Dr. Robert J. and Susan Boucek
Drs. Imhotep K.A. Carter and Katrina D. SheriffCarter
Dr. G. D. and Penny D. Castillo
Drs. Marcia K. and David L. Chicoine
Dr. Timothy L. and Roberta S. Connelly
Dr. Robert E. and Barbara J. Cranston
Dr. Robert B. and Susan H. Danley
Dr. Gregory J. and Laura Delost
Dr. Albert C. England, III
Dr. Roger A. and Edith S. Ewald
Dr. Lester J. and Anne Farhner
Dr. Mark E. and Julie Poulos Faith
Dr. Harlan J. and Patricia J. Failor
Dr. Victor F. and Judith S. Feldman
Dr. Don A. and Sue Anne Fischer
Dr. Theodore W. and Linda Frank
Dr. Stanley E. and Charlotte M. Goldstein
Dr. Michael S. and Laurie C. Goldwasser
Drs. Diane L. and Fred M. Gottheil
Dr. Lawrence V. and Judi M. Gratkins
Dr. Jeffrey L. and Catherine C. Hallett
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Dr. James J. and Ellen Sathre Harms
Dr. Terry F. and DiAnne W. Hatch
Dr. Aldred A. and Nina K. Heckman, Jr.
Drs. Ellen Jacobsen-Isserman and Andrew Mark
Isserman
Richard L. and Madeleine A. Jaehne
Dr. Lawrence L. and Nancy L. Jeckel
Drs. Ana M. and Jiri Jonas
Drs. Judith B. and Richard L. Kaplan
Dr. Benita and John A. Katzenellenbogen
Dr. Scott V. and D. Jane Kline
Dr. Ronald P. and Suzanne Konchanin
Dr. Larry R. and Glenda Lee Lane
Dr. James C. and Robin Leonard
Dr. Garron Michael and Sharon R. Lukas
Dr. David M. and Christine Coorman Main
Dr. Charles R. and Karen L. Maris
Theresa Klitzing-Martin and Larry L. Martin
Dr. John C. and Donna J. Mason, Jr.
Dr. John Miles and Kristina Anne McClure, III
Dr. James K. and Karen S. McKechnie
Drs. Tamara T. and George W. Mitchell, III
Dr. David W. and Nancy F. Morse
Dr. Mark Scott and Margaret Evans Musselman
Dr. Steve Nandkumar
Dr. John L. and Mary Newman
Dr. Terry R. and Margaret M. Noonan
Dr. Charles C. C. O’Morchoe
Drs. Soo H. Park and Sunny Lee
Dr. John A. Peterson and Joanne M. Chester
Drs. Kenneth A. Poirier and Barbara A. Kochanowski
Dr. John W. and Gwen C. Pollard
Dr. J. Roger Powell
Dr. Crystal and Karl Radnitzer
Drs. Janet Solomon Reis and Wayne C. Solomon
Dr. Donald and Gay Roberts
Dr. Sidney and Krista Rohrscheib
Drs. Dilip V. and Sandhya D. Sarwate
Dr. Richard J. and Susan B. Schimmel
Dr. John D. and Joyce Schmale
Dr. Brad S. Schwartz and Karol L. Castle
Dr. Deborah Sue and Alan Robert Singleton
Dr. John F. and Stephanie Stoll
Dr. Richard P. and Norma J. Taylor
Dr. Arthur R. Traugott
Dr. Lewis and Marilyn Elaine Trupin
Dr. Suzanne Trupin and Stanley R. Johnson
Dr. Robert J. and Suzanne R. Twohey
James E. and Dena J. Vermette
Dr. Willard J. and Priscilla F. Visek
William M. and Rita M. Weisiger
Dr. David J. and Christina Catanzaro Whippo
Drs. Charles L. and Sarah U. Wisseman, III
Dr. Joseph A. and Katheryn R. Zalar, Jr.
Membership in The Presidents Council – a donor
recognition program administered by the U of I
Foundation – is accorded for cumulative outright
gifts at successive requisite giving levels of $25,000;
$50,000; $100,000; $500,000; $1 million; $5 million;
and $10 million, and for deferred gifts beginning at
$50,000. Joint membership is extended to couples at all
recognition levels.
Established in 1964 to honor chief executives who
have guided the University of Illinois to excellence for
more than 135 years, The Presidents Council is the
University’s/Foundation’s way of recognizing significant
private contributions to the University of Illinois.
Silver Stethoscope Society
For over 30 years, the College of Medicine at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been
committed to the highest standards of academic
excellence. Generous donors have assisted the College
in meeting its commitment, and the Silver Stethoscope
Society exists to recognize that generosity and
dedication to excellence.
Members of the Silver Stethoscope Society contributed
at one of the following levels between July 1, 2005 and
June 30, 2006:
1. An annual gift or pledge equal to the cost of one
week of instruction for one student at the College of
Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana ($525).
2. An annual gift equal to the cost of one day of
instruction ($105) – this level is open to individuals
currently in a residency or fellowship program.
Gifts may be designated to any fund within the
College. Unrestricted gifts are designated for student
fellowship programs.
For further information about the Silver Stethoscope
Society, visit www.med.uiuc.edu, contact the Office of
Advancement by phone at 217-333-6524 or via e-mail
at [email protected].
Drs. Sari Gilman and Kenneth S. Aronson
Dr. Susan M. and Art Bane
Dr. Harold F. and Gaylene G. Bennett
Drs. Keith C. Bible and Mary Jo Kasten
Dr. Michael J. and Patricia O. Bishop
Drs. M. Kathleen and Dennis E. Buetow
Champaign County Medical Society
Dr. Richard G. and Nancy Christiansen
Dr. George R and Barbara J. Cybulski
Dr. W. Scott and Connie Enochs
Dr. E.R. and Nathalie P. Ensrud
Dr. Joseph P. and Andrea M. Goldberg
Dr. Stanley E. and Charlotte M. Goldstein
Drs. Diane L. and Fred M. Gottheil
Drs. Diana L. Gray and Mark E. Ferris
Dr. Daniel M. Hallam and Cindy K. Bushur-Hallam*
Dr. Terry F. and DiAnne W. Hatch
Dr. John W. and Mary M. Hendrix
Dr. John H. and Barbara R. Houseworth
Richard L. and Madeleine A. Jaehne
Drs. Ana M. and Jiri Jonas
Dr. Bradley J. Katz and Tracey E. Conrad-Katz
Dr. Ralph J. and Jackie M. Kehl
Dr. Susan M. Kies
Dr. Robert W. and Claudia A. Kirby
Drs. James H. and Jean M. Lee
Dr. Katherine S. Lin
Drs. Susan W. Lee and Sai-Keung Don
Dr. Alexander Craig and Jennifer C. MacKinnon, Jr.*
Dr. Alan K. Marumoto
Dr. John C. and Donna J. Mason Jr.
Dr. Julia A. and William D. Mattson
Drs. Daniel McGee* and Gretchen Soderlund
Dr. James H. and Genevieve Morrissey
Dr. David W. and Nancy F. Morse
Dr. Mark S. and Margaret C. Musselman
Dr. Nora L. Zorich and Thomas W. Filardo
Dr. Charles C. C. O’Morchoe
Dr. John A. Peterson and Joanne M. Chester
Drs. Kenneth A. Poirier and Barbara A. Kochanowski
Dr. Brad S. Schwartz and Karol L. Castle
Dr. Stacie Shepherd*
Dr. James M. Slauch and Sandra L. Rosborough
Drs. William E. Sorlie and Diane L. Essex-Sorlie
Drs. Harold M. Swartz and Ann Barry Flood
Dr. Michael Swindle
Dr. Kaye Harms Toohill
Ming-Chi and Fu Mei Wu
*Denotes student or resident membership.
Gifts over $500 from Corporations
and Foundations
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Intel Foundation
JMW Consulting
The Procter & Gamble Fund
The Wolfe Foundation
Contributors
Gifts up to $524
3M Foundation
Dr. Sarah M. Axel
Dr. Donald G. and Suzanne I. Bartlett
Dr. Carl J.and Carol J. Belber
Eugene and Joan R. Bernstein
Michael and Shelley Bloomfield
Nathaniel and Suzanne Bloomfield
Dr. Richard A. and Betty Bloomfield
Ruthi Bloomfield
Janis Bloomfield and Steven Ban
Drs. Kathleen M. Bottum and Shelley A. Tischkau
Dr. Linnea R. Boyev
Dr. Harry L. and Charlene S. Bremer
Dr. Arthur J. Bucci
Drs. Gordon F Buchanan and Hanna E. Stevens
Luke L. and Pamela S. Burchard
Dr. Vera J. Burton and Paul T. Harleston
Ester Capin
Kathryn Carlson
Dr. Stephanie Ceman
Champaign County Highway Department
Dr. Steven E. Chen and Thora G. Tam
Linda Clem
Dr. Steven K. and Sandra Kostyk Clinton
Dr. Rachel A. Coel
Dr. James B. Day
Loretta K. Dessen
Norman and Patricia Donze
Dr. Heidi M. Dunniway and Richard Gustafson
Dr. E. R. and Nathalie P. Ensrud
Drs. Kendrith M. Rowland, Jr. and Nancy E. Fay
Dr. Jamie L. Feldman
Dr. Victor F. and Judith S. Feldman
First Busey Trust and Investment Company
Dr. Don A. and Sue Anne Fischer
Drs. Kevin B. and Helen W. Garner
Dr. William and Phyllis Gingold
James John and Carole Abel Giordano
Dr. Barry H. and Delores Ann Goldberg
Dr. Lisa J. Gould
Drs. Donald A. and Elizabeth H. Greeley
James W. Hall
Drs. James J. and Ellen Sathre Harms
Dr. Matthew E. Hartman
Dr. Melvin and Elizabeth Hess
Internal Medicine Associates
Dr. Maitreyi and Rajalingam Janarthanan
Dr. Timothy E. Jessen
Marjorie B. Kaplan and Francis J. Sweeney
Drs. Benita S. and John A. Katzenellenbogen
Dr. Brian M. Keefe
Dr. Michael E. and Ilyse M. Kelly
Dr. Bruce K. and Sandra Watson Kimbel, Jr.
Dr. Napolean B. and Pamela Knight
Dr. Curtis J. and Susan Krock
Dr. David C. Kuo
Dr. Douglas D. and Stephanie V. Lehmann
Dr. Benjamin Horowitz and Shaun R. Levi
Dr. Allan H. and Merle L. Levy
Drs. Jon C. and Judith S. Liebman
Dr. Garron Michael Lukas
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Dr. L.E. and Nellie B. Massie
Dr. James K. and Karen S. McKechnie
Dr. Patricia Johnston and Jon N. McNussen
Meijer
Joseph M. and Susan D. Murray
Dr. Ralph A. and Rose Maria Nelson
Joseph P. and Joan L. Nosal
John E. and Christine L. Neumann
Janet K. Odle
Dr. Nalin M. Patel
Pekin Prescription Laboratory, Inc.
Drs. Richard J. Perrin and Jacqueline E. Payton
Dr. Stephan J. Quentzel
Marvin and Shirley D. Rademacher
Dr. Nestor A. and Lynda T. Ramirez
John D. and Linda S. Ross
Dr. Edward J. and Marie L. Roy
Dr. Annette J. and Robert J. Schlueter
Dr. J. Timothy and Judy A. Sehy
Dr. Joshua S. and Rebecca K. Shimony
Dr. Arthur J. and Doris J. Siedler
Dr. Robert E. and June R. Sostheim
State Farm Companies Foundation
Dr. Samuel E. and Shelley R. Steffen
Dr. Elizabeth Sweet-Friend
T.I.S., Inc.
Dr. Richard C. and Nancy G. Trefzger
Dr. Suzanne Trupin and Stanley R. Johnson
James E. and Dena J. Vermette
Jeanne M. Wegner
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Women’s Health Practice LLC
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Matching Gift Companies
All previous gift levels include credit for corporate
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A Commitment to Public Engagement
The College of Medicine Receives $5 Million National
Science Foundation Grant
The University of Illinois received a $5 million grant to establish the
Institute for Chemistry Literacy and Computational Science. The
College of Medicine is one of the primary awardees of the grant that
will provide a program to improve achievement in chemical sciences
and computational literacy among students in rural Illinois high
schools. Ms. Diana Dummitt, in the College’s Office of Advancement, is a lead primary investigator for the project.
At the University of Illinois, other units participating in the grant
include the Department of Chemistry and the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The A-C Central Community Unit School District 262 in Chandlerville, Illinois and the
Regional Office of Education in Lincoln, Illinois also will participate
in developing the institute.
This is one of the most significant areas that the College, which is
committed to public engagement as a key mission, has taken on. As
part of a land-grant university, the task of helping to prepare future
Illinois scientists and health care leaders is critically important and an
essential part of its public service to the citizens of the state.
Walk Across
Illinois with
Lt. Governor
Pat Quinn
GRADUATE
Bryan Cho
At orientation this fall, M-1 students had an
opportunity to learn about strategies for success
in medical school from someone who has been
there. Bryan Cho, M.D., Ph.D., returned to
campus to share his experience as a student as well
as his work as a clinical instructor of dermatology
at University of California at San Francisco.
“The College gave me great training for my residency and internship,” says Dr. Cho. “I want to
give back to the College for all it’s given me and
coming back to talk with students about how to
succeed in medical school and how to make career
choices is one way I can do that.”
Dr. Cho’s own career began with a Ph.D. in
biochemistry in 1997, followed by two years of
post-doc work at MIT, and rounded out with the
final three years of medical school. After graduating in 2002, he completed his residency in
dermatology at UCSF and a post-doc in immunology. He is currently running a high-risk skin
cancer clinic for transplant recipients, HIV, and
other immuno-suppressed patients and conducting research on how immune cells get into the
skin as a way to develop new methods of treating
skin cancer or skin inflammatory disease.
GRADUATE
FACULTY
FACULTY
Eric Horn
Uretz Oliphant
Gregory Freund
Eric Horn was a pre-med student at the University of Illinois when he had the opportunity to
work in a physiology lab doing research. It didn’t
take long for him to realize he had a passion for
the rigors and discovery potential of research
work. And so when the time came to look at
medical school programs, the choice for him
was obvious—the Medical Scholars Program at
Illinois.
When Uretz Oliphant was in college and considering his career options, he didn’t have to be in a
hurry. He had the luxury of taking his time and
even changing his mind. But his decision to work
in the emergency room changed all that.
Students in our Medical
Scholars Program aren’t the
only ones who come to the
College of Medicine and
the University of Illinois
because of the opportunities to conduct collaborative
research. Some of our faculty
members are drawn to
Champaign-Urbana for the
same reason. Gregory Freund,
M.D., is one of those faculty
members.
In 2000, he received both his M.D. and his Ph.D.
in neuroscience and began his residency at the
Barrow Neurological Institute, the world’s largest
neurological institute, in Phoenix, Arizona. Now
the chief resident in neurosurgery, Dr. Horn plans
an academic career, practicing clinical neurosurgery and conducting research on spinal cord
injuries.
“The independence that the Medical Scholars
Program provided was a great benefit,” he says.
“Plus, I had some excellent mentors, including
Tony Waldrop, who was influential in supporting
my research interests, and Carl Belber, who was
invaluable in helping to formulate my growing
interest in neurosurgery and who has continued
to be supportive throughout my residency.”
After earning his medical degree from the
University of Minnesota in 1983, Dr. Oliphant completed his residency in general surgery
at the University of Illinois at Chicago and his
fellowship in trauma and critical care at the
Illinois Masonic
Medical Center, also
in Chicago. It was
an experience that
brought him face to
face with the problems
associated with delivering health care in an
urban environment.
Now a trauma surgeon
at Carle and an assistant professor of clinical surgery, he brings that
experience, plus his calm demeanor and his skills
as a deliberate decision maker, to his work. And
that benefits patients and students alike.
“By its very nature, trauma is not an area of
medicine you can sit by and watch,” he says. “It
requires immediate involvement and can be very
overwhelming. It’s important that students know
how to respond.” Dr. Oliphant makes sure they
get the opportunity.
There was an opportunity to
join a strong clinical practice,
and “there appeared to be a
very fertile ground for collaborative research here,” says Dr. Freund, about his decision to join Carle
Clinic and the College of Medicine in 1994. Dr. Freund’s instincts were
certainly right regarding these opportunities.
Twelve years later, he is now the director of cytopathology at Carle and the
founding director of Carle’s School of Cytotechnology, the first school of
its type that provides didactic and clinical teaching at a distance site. In
addition, he is the head of the Department of Pathology at the College and
a co-founder of the Integrative Immunology and Behavior Program, a collaborative research endeavor that spans the Colleges of Medicine, Animal
Sciences, and Applied Health Sciences. As part of that program, Dr. Freund
has an active research lab that explores the immune complication of diabetes
and obesity using the research tools of psychoneuroimmunology.
“I’ve had the opportunity to have several MSP students in my lab over the
years,” Dr. Freund says. “In fact, my first student, Keith Cengel, is now an
assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in radiation oncology.
I believe we have an excellent environment here for the training of the next
generations of physician-scientists.”
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FACULTY
BOARD MEMBER
Sarita Pradhudesai
Varghese
Chacko
Sarita Pradhudesai, M.D., joined the staff at the
Veterans’ Administration Hospital in Danville
27 years ago, just about the same time that the
College was establishing its Internal Medicine
Residency program there. “From the beginning, we have taken a key role in supporting the
residency program,” says Dr. Desai. “It has always
been a part of the mission of the VA nationally
to provide training for
physicians, nurses, and
ancillary services. In
fact, the VA supports
70 percent of the
residencies across the
country.”
After completing her
residency at the State
University of New
York at StoneyBrook,
Dr. Desai joined the VA as a staff psychiatrist.
It wasn’t long before she had responsibilities for
teaching residents during their psychiatry rotation. As the chief of staff for the Danville VA
for the past six years, Dr. Desai no longer works
directly with students but she continues to advocate for the residency program.
“The Internal Medicine training program has a
quality reputation, and we work to continue that
reputation by providing the best teaching and all
the resources the students need,” she says. “At the
same time, the presence of a residency program
benefits our hospital because it allows us to recruit
quality physicians who want to participate in an
academic program, and that translates to better
outcomes for patients.”
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Varghese Chacko has
long been in the business of helping people
carry out strategies that
take their enterprises
to a new level, so when
he got a call from Brad Schwartz, dean of the
College of Medicine, asking for his leadership and
advice as the College implements its vision for
the future, he willingly accepted a position on the
Dean’s Advisory Board.
As president of the Midwest chapter of the U.S.
Pan-Asian Chamber of Commerce, Chacko assists
Asian-American entrepreneurs as they develop
new businesses and bring existing businesses
from “a mom and pop level” to a medium-sized
company and beyond. He also has developed a
successful direct mail and marketing business, a
warehousing and distribution enterprise, and is
the founding chairman of the All-American Bank
Community bank, an Asian-American-owned
financial institution.
The Dean’s Advisory Board is a group that
consists of alumni, academicians, and medical
and business leaders from across the state and the
country. These partners bring their individual
expertise to the task of establishing the College
as a 21st-century center for medical education
and research. “Our role is to provide guidance
and support to the Dean on how the College can
best implement its vision,” says Chacko. “We
also work to market the College’s strengths to
the public as a way to engage their support and
attract students.”
Welcome to All of Our College
Advisory Board Members
First Row: Madeleine Jaehne (ex-officio), Andrea Hunt, Diana Gray,
M.D., Nora Zorich, M.D., Ph.D., Carol Slough, Varghese Chacko.
Second Row: James Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Alan Marumoto, M.D., Ph.D.,
Andrew Krivoshik, M.D., Ph.D., P.E., Dean Brad Schwartz (exofficio), John Forman, Joseph Golbus, M.D.
“Our role is to provide guidance and
support to the Dean on how the College
can best implement its vision.”
VARGHESE CHACKO, BOARD MEMBER
Preparing the Next Generation
STUDENT
STUDENT
J.P. Yu
Stacey Hughes
When J.P. Yu was considering M.D./Ph.D.
programs as an undergraduate at Dartmouth
College, he learned about the Medical Scholars
Program’s reputation, flexibility, and opportunity.
But it wasn’t until he arrived on campus in 2001,
that he found there
is something special
about the MSP that
you don’t read about in
the program’s admissions literature—and
that’s the people.
Unlike many medical students who follow the
traditional path of studying biology or a pre-med
curriculum as an undergraduate, Stacey Hughes
earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from
Illinois State University in 1994. But then she
wasn’t planning a career in medicine, so there was
no reason to follow the science path.
“The staff in the
MSP office are really
invaluable in terms of
support and steering
us in the right direction, both personally and
professionally,” says Yu. “It’s not something you
realize when you make the decision to enroll, but
it makes a huge difference in your experience.”
For Yu, a second-year medical student who
completed his Ph.D. in biophysics last spring,
that experience has included an opportunity to
conduct research that has implications for the
development of a promising antibiotic. “The
strength of completing a Ph.D. while studying
medicine is that it really illuminates the basic
science,” he says. “You appreciate that the medicine is rooted in the science and that the science
can revolutionize clinical medicine.”
And Yu looks to pursue a career that blends both.
“Right now I’m interested in radiology, especially
molecular imaging,” he says. “There is great
potential to do exciting clinical and research work
in this area to bring science and technology to the
bedside.”
It wasn’t until she became pregnant, that she
began to entertain the possibility of becoming
a physician. “I’d worked as a fitness instructor
and had always been interested in health and the
body,” Hughes says, “but when I became pregnant
and spent more time in the doctor’s office myself
and then with my children, I became very interested in medicine as a career for me.”
Now in her second year of medical school,
Hughes is glad to have the first year behind her.
“It has been a continual challenge to balance
family and school, but I have tremendous support
from my husband Michael,” says the mother of
Gabrielle, 10, and Allison, 9. “And the College
provides lots of resources for help. Whether you
have a personal or academic issue, there are people
who will make you feel comfortable and who will
give you good advice.”
Although it’s still early in the decision-making
process for Hughes, she is very interested in internal medicine, particularly geriatrics, as a career
choice. And not surprisingly, given what sparked
her passion for medicine in the first place, she is
also considering obstetrics and gynecology.
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COLLEGE NEWS AND VIEWS
Match Day 2006
Convocation 2006
First Row: Amanda Cuevas, M.A. (Assistant Dean, Student Affairs
and Medical Scholars Program), Michael Peterson, M.D., Lori
Cudone, M.D., Christina Dothager, M.D., Eric Robinson, M.D.,
Joshua Larson, M.D., Ph.D., Jennifer Bloom, Ed.D. (Associate Dean,
Student Affairs and Medical Scholars Program)
Second Row: Roxana Yoonessi, M.D., J.D., Aikiesha Shelby, M.D.,
Chad Thomas, M.D., Ph.D., Kim Schutterle, M.D., Matthew
Hartman, M.D., Ph.D., Matthew Cox, M.D., James Hall, Ed.D.
(Assistant Dean, Student Affairs and Medical Scholars Program)
Thursday, March 16 was Match
Day for graduating medical
students across the country.
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Third Row: Brad Schwartz,
M.D. (Regional Dean),
Leigh Saint Louis, M.D.,
Michael Wilson, M.D.,
Ph.D., Jonathan Weiss,
M.D., Clayton Green,
M.D., Ph.D., Benjamin
Yan, M.D., Ph.D.,
James Uhles, M.D.
Length of Service Awards
Reception
On October 11, 2006, faculty and staff gathered to recognize the hard work
and achievements of their colleagues. Dr. Carol Packard was the recipient of
the Academic Professional Employee of the Year Award and Judy Kerr was
the recipient of the Staff Employee of the Year Award, presented by Dr. Jim
Slauch.
Community Medical School
Twice a year the College of Medicine, along with Carle Foundation Hospital, offers a three-part
medical series to the public. This series of informative presentations on current medical topics is
delivered, by College of Medicine faculty and area physicians, in a manner that can be understood by the layperson, as well as, offer new information to the medical professional. With the
addition of displays and information from local organizations, this truly is a community event.
• Spring 2006 – The ABCs of Infectious Disease
• Fall 2006 – Obstetrics 101
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Celebrating 35 Years! Homecoming 2006
MillerComm
Continuing Medical Education Luncheon and Program
Dr. Nora Zorich
The Imhotep Carters and fa mily
Dr. Mark Siegler
Dr. Jim Shoemaker and friends
Dr. Christine Weaver. Dr.
O’ Morchoe, Dr. Diane Gottheil
MillerComm and Alu mni welcome reception
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Awards Dinner and Reception
The Mobergs
University of Illinois Chancellor Herman
The Dr. Sid Miceks
Dr. Robert
Kirby
Dr. Jim Shoemaker
The Drs. Rockhill
Dr. Jennifer MacKinnon
Dr. Kirk
Moberg
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Tailgate
Dr. Jenny Bloom, Dr. O’ Morchoe,
Steve Sanderson
Dean Brad Schwartz, Karol Castle,
and the Mortlands
Drs. Zorich and Reed
The Michael Kelleys
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Alumni News
1981
1989
Lance Becker, M.D., was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Science. This is a major accomplishment and an honor that some
have compared with getting into the baseball hall of fame.
Jane Nosal, M.D., Ph.D., is a Clinical Assistant
Professor at the University of Washington. She also
conducts kodachrome slide Board Review teaching
sessions with the UW dermatology residents.
Diana Gray, M.D., returned to the Urbana campus to speak during the 2006
Convocation ceremony. She also joined the 35th Anniversary celebration, where
she spoke on “Prenatal Diagnosis: Past, Present and Future” during a CME
program.
James Shoemaker, M.D. Ph.D., returned to campus for the 35th Anniversary celebration and spoke on “Follow-up of Abnormal Neonatal Screening for
Inborn Errors of Metabolism” during a CME program.
1984
Mary Burke Duke, M.D., F.A.C.P., was selected as the Governor of the Kentucky Chapter, American College of Physicians.
Michael Kelly, M.D., along with his family, returned to campus for the 35th
Anniversary celebration and spoke on “Third World Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery
with ‘Operation Smile’” during a CME program.
1988
Melissa Hendrix Olken, M.D., Ph.D., is involved in phase 3 and 4 clinical trials
as a sideline from her internal medicine practice affiliated with Borgess Medical
Center. She and her husband, Norm, have two boys, Alex and Charlie. Her
website is: www.drolken.com.
Christine Weaver, M.D., Ph.D., chaired a CME
session during the College’s 35th Anniversary celebration.
1990
Alice Ca mpbell Alu mni Center
Lisa Gould, M.D., Ph.D., has been promoted to Associate Professor of Plastic
& Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. She has also been given the title of Director of the Plastic Surgery Research
Laboratory. Lisa went to Sri Lanka as a Visiting Educator in Hand Surgery in
June of 2006. She returned to campus for the 35th Anniversary celebration and
spoke on “Hyperbaric Oxygen and Wound Healing” during a CME program.
Kirk Moberg, M.D., Ph.D., was elected as a Fellow of the American College
of Physicians in 2005. In October 2006, he chaired a CME session during the
College’s 35th Anniversary celebration. He was also selected to receive The Art
of Medicine Award, a College of Medicine, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign alumni award, which was presented during the 35th Anniversary
celebration.
1993
Annette Schlueter, M.D., Ph.D., returned to
campus for the 35th Anniversary celebration and
spoke on “Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy” during a
CME program.
1994
Julia Winter Mason M.D. M.S., is participating in the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship.
Seattle, WA
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1996
2000
Monique Brown,
M.D., M.B.A., married
Kai Schoenhage on
November 5, 2005, in
Montego Bay, Jamaica.
They are residing in
Berlin.
Peter Bulow, M.D., M.F.A., is now a Research Fellow at New York State
Psychiatric Unit at Columbia University Medical Center. His research is in
the lab of Dr. Sarah Lisanby, Director of the Columbia Brain Stimulation and
Neuromodulation Division. This Division focuses on the use of emerging electromagnetic means of modulating brain function to study and treat psychiatric
disorders. These techniques include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS),
vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), magnetic seizure therapy (MST), deep brain
stimulation (DBS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
1997
Los Angeles
John Chen, M.D.,
Ph.D., completed a
fellowship in Neuroradiology at Massachusetts
General Hospital, and is now on staff at MGH in Neuroradiology. He has been
doing 50% research and 50% clinical for the past year, and has received an NIH
K08 grant, which will move him to 80% research and 20% clinical.
He is working primarily on molecular imaging of neurodegenerative and neurovascular disorders. You can view some information on his research at: http://
cmir.mgh.harvard.edu/ .
1998
Susan Bane, M.D., Ph.D., is now in her fifth year of practice. This year she
developed a corporate wellness program for the 500 employees of Physician’s
East.
Joe Corey, M.D., Ph.D., has been funded by the National Institute of
Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering with a K08 for 5 years. The grant
is entitled “Fibrous Templates for Directed Nerve Regeneration” and funds a
three-dimensional approach to guiding neuron outgrowth, which he worked on
for his Ph.D. dissertation in Bruce Wheeler’s laboratory. Joe was also appointed
to Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of
Michigan, and will eventually have appointments in the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Joe and his wife,
Kathy, are happy in Ann Arbor as are their children Carolyn and David.
Vikas Gulani, M.D., Ph.D., will be appointed as an Assistant Professor (tenure
track) at Case Western Reserve University. The position is 50% research and
50% clinical. Research will be basic MR, while clinically, Vikas will be expanding their body MRI service.
Eric Horn, M.D., PhD., has one year left in his neuroscience residency. He is
currently working on basic science projects for experimental spinal cord injury.
Kevin Sanders, M.D., Ph.D., and Brenda Sanders, M.D., Ph.D. (2003),
are the proud parents of Alyssa Kaelin Sanders. Alyssa was born on November 5,
2005. She was 7 lbs, 8 oz and 20 inches long.
Jason Rockhill, M.D., Ph.D. and Carol Rockhill, M.D., Ph.D. (2000), were
presented with the Contributions to the College of Medicine Award, a College of
Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni award, during the
35th Anniversary celebration.
Todd Zoltan, M.D., J.D., was featured on the December 11, 2005 episode of
the TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Todd is the Associate Director of
the LA Free Clinic which was selected for a makeover on the holiday edition of
the show. Todd manages one of three sites of the LA Free Clinic. It works with
the medically underserved and focuses on the homeless, specifically homeless
youth. He does about 70% clinical work and 30% administrative work.
1999
2002
Robert Althoff, M.D., Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
in the Divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Genetics at
the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He is researching the genetic
and environmental factors involved in common childhood psychopathologies.
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Eli V. Gelfand, M.D., has finished a residency in Internal Medicine at Harvard’s
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a General Cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and is completing
an Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship at BIDMC. He accepted a faculty
position at Harvard Medical School, and is taking on a busy clinical cardiology
practice at BIDMC, where he will be active in the cardiac magnetic resonance
imaging, echocardiography, and critical care cardiology. He will also take on
duties of the Director of Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory, and the Associate
Cardiovascular Fellowship Director at BIDMC, and be on staff in the Coronary
Care Unit. Dr. Gelfand has been active in research, particularly in the areas of
cardiovascular MRI, valvular disease, and acute coronary syndromes. On the
home front, Ellen and Eli Gelfand are proud parents of a 4-year daughter Sonya,
and hope to have more children soon. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sandra Ettema, M.D., Ph.D., had an article published about her titled “Living
and Learning” in the January 2006 (vol. 7, no. 1) issue of Today’s Wisconsin
Woman of Greater Milwaukee. Sandy talks about her fourth year of residency in
the article.
Scott Irwin, M.D., Ph.D., and his wife Lori, announced the arrival of Sean
Aiden Irwin. Sean arrived on December 12, 2005 at 11:27 a.m. He weighed in
at 6 lbs, 2 oz and was 19.5 inches long.
Daniel Llano, M.D., Ph.D., and family welcomed baby number three, Julian
Antonio, in 2006.
Hilary Reno, M.D., Ph.D., and her husband, Shaun Reno, are the proud
parents of Ian Joseph Reno. Ian was born on March 23, 2006, at 2:58 p.m. He
weighed in at 8 lbs, 4 oz and was 22 inches long.
Craig Walls, M.D., Ph.D., and his family recently moved to Pacific Grove,
California, where he has begun working in the County Emergency Department
in Salinas.
Aimee Yu, M.D., Ph.D., and her husband Lance Ballard, welcomed their first
child, Jason Yu Ballard, on December 24, 2005 at 4:58 p.m. Jason weighed in
at 8 lbs, 2 oz and was 21 inches long. Aimee also finished her Internal Medicine
residency last June and started a Geriatrics fellowship at Mayo. The first year
is clinical work, and then she will be doing an additional 2 years of research,
funded by Mayo’s Clinical Investigator track.
2003
Arvin Gee, M.D., Ph.D., is in his fourth year of his general surgery residency.
Next year he will be involved in a year-long fellowship as one of the Surgical
Critical Care Fellows at Oregon Health and Science University. He became
engaged this summer and plans to marry in December.
Fazal Khan, M.D., J.D., accepted an offer from the University of Georgia Law
School and started teaching health law courses there this fall.
Stan Leung, M.D., J.D., M.B.A., will be doing a Gastrointestinal & Liver
Pathology fellowship at Mayo in 2007.
Regional Alumni Gatherings
In 2006, the College hosted regional alumni gatherings in:
Palm Beach, FL
February 2006
Seattle, WA
October 2006
Los Angeles, CA
November 2006
Dr. Christine
Weaver
Dr. Jim
Shoemaker
Dr. Annette
Schluter
Dr. Lisa Gould
2004
Sheela Konda, M.D., Ph.D., and her husband Raghu Dasari welcomed Vijay
Anand Dasari on September 15, 2006 at 12:05 a.m. Vijay weighed in at 6 lbs,
11 oz.
Craig Mackinnon, M.D., Ph.D., reported that his residency is going well.
Jennifer, Craig’s wife, and College of Medicine IMRP alum, is a staff physician
at John Stroger Hospital (AKA Cook County). She works in the adult medicine
division. She’s exposed to a completely different patient pool than she saw at
Carle.
Rick Perrin, M.D., Ph.D., and Jackie Payton, M.D., Ph.D., are the proud
parents of Katherine Payton Perrin. Katie was born on May 1, 2006 at 9:25 a.m.
She weighed 7 lbs, 13 oz and measure 19 ¾ inches. In July 2005, Jackie began a
year of research and Rick began his second and final year of general surgical path
at Washington University.
2005
Mike Itagaki, M.D., M.B.A., and his wife Els, recently moved to Los Angeles
where he began his radiology residency at UCLA Medical Center. In addition,
he recently had a paper published in the Journal of Radiology.
Would you like to get together with alums in your area, or arrange
a regional gathering? If so, contact the Office of Public Affairs and
Advancement at 217-333-6524 for assistance with planning and
coordination.
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Faculty News
Sari Gilman Aronson, M.D., Head of Psychiatry and Clinical Professor of
Internal Medicine, received the Educator of the Year Award from Carle Foundation Hospital in Spring 2006.
Michael G. Jakoby, IV, M.D., M.A., Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal
Medicine, received the Carle Foundation Hospital Medical Staff Award for
Advances in Medicine, in Spring 2006.
Jonathan S. Bailey, D.M.D., M.D., F.A.C.S., Clinical Assistant Professor of
Surgery, chaired a symposium on Oral Cancer at the annual national meeting
of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in October. He
also published a chapter on mandibular reconstruction.
He also received three grants: from Carle Foundation for the Carle Foundation
Hospital Diabetes Care Team Study, as principal investigator, from SanofiAventis Investigator–Sponsored Trial Award for the study of “Basal/bolus
Therapy with Insulin Analogs is Superior to Prevalent Methods of Hospital
Diabetes Management on the General Medicine Service,” as principal investigator; and from the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Construction Engineers
Research Laboratory, Upper Middle Mississippi Valley Cooperative Ecosystems
Studies Unit for a study on “Exploitation of Thyroid Chemistry for Perchlorate
Detection,” as co-investigator.
James H. Ellis, D.O., Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, was selected by
the Class of 2006 to bring the “Remarks from the Faculty” during the 2006
Convocation.
Jeffrey J. Galvan, M.D., Clinical Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
received the 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
James S. Gregory, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, was the
keynote speaker for the 2006 College of Medicine, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign Internal Medicine Residency Program resident graduation.
Dr. Gregory received the 2006 Illinois College of Emergency Physicians Meritorious Service Award, as well as, the Champaign Chapter ARC Local Hero Award
for Medicine. He is also the principal investigator for a Virtual Reality Technology project for which he received a grant from the Beckman Center.
C. K. Gunsalus, J.D., Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities and Social
Sciences, was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to the Commission on
Professionalism and was invited to present on Ethics, Professionalism and Regulation at the Second Annual Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. In addition, she is
currently involved in a College of Medicine funded, pilot project with an interdisciplinary collaborative group on the efficacy of novel approaches to improving
communication skills of medical students and professionals. Ms. Gunsalus has
spoken at many conferences and seminars, and has published several articles and
reviews. Her book, A College Administrator’s Survival Guide, is slated for publication by Harvard University Press this fall.
Jennie C. Hsu-Lumetta, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, was selected by the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign as the 2006 Innovation in Education Award honoree.
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Glenda F. Kaplan, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, was selected by the class of 2007 to receive the Raymond B. Allen
Instructorship (Golden Apple) Award. She was also selected as the 2006 recipient of the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Excellence in Teaching Award.
Susan M. Kies, Ed.D., Associate Dean for Curriculum Management and
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, was invited to speak at the Association
of American Medical Colleges Central Group on Educational Affairs, “Leadership and Scholarship: Across the Medical Education Continuum.” Along with
Joseph Goldberg, M.D., Dr. Kies presented the Undergraduate Medical Education Invited Session: “Is Admission to Medical School an Automatic MD?”
Robert W. Kirby, M.D., Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, received the
college-wide 2005-2006 College of Medicine Faculty of the Year Award, which
was presented during the 2006 Convocation. In addition, Dr. Kirby was selected
by the Class of 2006 to act as a hooder during the ceremony.
Abraham G. Kocheril, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, received the 2006 College of Medicine, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Teaching Appreciation Award.
Kirk D. Moberg, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2005. Dr.
Moberg was also selected to receive The Art of Medicine Award, a College of
Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni award presented
during the 35th Anniversary celebration.
James H. Morrissey, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Biochemistry, and colleagues
reported in a January 2006 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, U.S.A., that a linear polymer known as polyphosphate speeds blood
clotting and helps clots last longer. This work, in collaboration with Dr. Roberto
Docampo, now at the University of Georgia, capitalized on Docampo’s discovery
of polyphosphate granules in human platelets. Polyphosphate was shown to have
three important roles - accelerating two parts of the coagulation cascade, and
delaying the breakdown of clots, which might otherwise cause renewed bleeding.
The study has the potential to make a big impact in the blood clotting field, and
represents a terrific start to Morrissey’s new Center for Hemostasis Research,
recently established with a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver
Charitable Trust.
Ralph A. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, was awarded
the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Recognition Award during the 2006 Convocation.
Uretz J. Oliphant, M.D., Head of Surgery and Clinical Associate Professor of
Internal Medicine, was selected by the class of 2006 to receive the Raymond B.
Allen Instructorship (Golden Apple) Award.
Mary G. Shultz, M.S., Library of Health Sciences, was selected by the Class of
2006 to receive the Special Tribute Award, presented during the 2006 Convocation.
Frank J. Stephens, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, received the
2006 College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Teaching
Appreciation Award.
Martha S. Sweeney, B.S., Lecturer in Medical Cell and Development Biology,
was selected by the class of 2008 (during their M-1 year) to receive the Raymond
B. Allen Instructorship (Golden Apple) Award.
Emad Tajkhorshid, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, in a collaboration with Klaus Schulten’s group at Illinois and researchers at the University of
Arizona, has used molecular dynamics simulations to show how some aquaporins, well-known routes for water transport, have a novel ion channel that can
be opened and closed by the important cellular effector, cyclic GMP. This gating
activity represents a completely new property and is revealed by the experimental
studies of Tajkhorshid’s collaborators in Arizona, in the laboratory of Andrea
Yool. The gating activity of cGMP, which occurs by interacting with a flexible
loop of the aquaporin, greatly extends the significance of this already important
class of proteins (the 2003 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Peter Agre
for their discovery). The work is published in the September issue of the journal
Structure.
Willard J. Visek, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, was awarded
the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Recognition Award during the 2006 Convocation.
Dixie D. Whitt, Ph.D., Instructor of Medical Microbiology, was selected by the
Class of 2006 to act as a hooder during the 2006 Convocation ceremony.
In Memoriam
Dr. Hugo Avalos, the first member of the
College of Medicine Ambassador Program,
passed away on November 16, 2006. Dr.
Avalos was a retired surgeon from Morris,
Illinois and a lifelong community leader for
public service in Grundy County.
Note: Dr. Avalos’ medical bag is featured on
the cover.
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Introducing Our New Faculty Members
Nadeem Ahmed, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Dr. Ahmed earned his medical degree in 1992 from
Dhaka University in Bangladesh, India. He also
received both an M.P.H., in 1996, and a Ph.D., in
2001, at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Ahmed completed his post-graduate training with the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s
Hospital Tulane University. Currently, he practices at
Carle Foundation Hospital and is a Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine. As a clinical instructor, Dr. Ahmed lectures to medical students during
their pediatric core clerkships. His research interests
include childhood cancer and infectious diseases. Dr.
Ahmed is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, and is a member of the American Academy of
Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association
and the American College of Epidemiology.
Kimberly Brockenbrough, M.D.
Dr. Brockenbrough received her medical degree
in 1977 from the Saint Louis University School of
Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed
an internship at the University of Illinois Medical
Center in Chicago, Illinois and a radiology residency
at the West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park, Illinois.
Currently, Dr. Brockenbrough is a Staff Radiologist
at Carle Clinic Association. As a Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine, her responsibilities
include acting as a preceptor for radiology elective clerkships of M-3 and M-4 students, advising
students, participating in the Objective Structured
Clinical Exam for students and providing noon
conference lectures for residents.
Lin-Feng Chen. Ph.D.
Dr. Chen earned his masters degree from Peking
Union Medical University and his Ph.D. from
Kyoto University in Japan. He completed post-graduate training at the Gladstone Institute of Immunology and Virology at the University of California in
San Francisco. Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor
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of Biochemistry with the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and the College of Medicine.
His research interests include epigenetic regulation of NF-κB, the role of NF-κB in apoptosis and
cancer, cross talk between NF-κB and other pathways. He is also interested in the role of post-transcriptional modifications of NF-κB and Histones in
the regulation of NF-κBsignaling pathway.
Charles R. Davies,
M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Davies received his Ph.D.
in Biomedical Engineering
from Case Western Reserve
University Graduate Program
in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988
and his medical degree in
2000 from Case Western Reserve University School
of Medicine. He completed an internship in internal
medicine, a residency in neurology and a fellowship
in sleep medicine at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor. Dr. Davies is a Staff Neurologist with
Carle Clinic Association and a Clinical Instructor
for the College of Medicine. His responsibilities
with the College include acting as an office based
preceptor for M-1 students, participating in the
Introduction to Human Disease course for M-1
students, conducting tutorials and history and physical instruction for M-2 students, participating in
the Objective Structural Clinical Exam for residents,
providing core conference lectures for residents and
participating in patient-based work with residents.
Christine Henrichs,
M.D.
Dr. Henrichs earned her
medical degree in 2000 from
the College of Medicine,
University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign and completed
her post-graduate training at
Spartanburg Regional Medical Center in Spartanburg, North Carolina, during which she earned the
honors of Outstanding First Year Resident in Internal Medicine and the Rubel Award for Outstanding
Performance in OB/GYN. Currently, she practices
at Carle Clinic in Mahomet and is a Visiting Clinical Associate at the College of Medicine. Her duties
with the College of Medicine include precepting
medical students as they rotate through the Family
Medicine core clerkship. Dr. Henrichs is a member
of the American Association of Family Practice and
Society Teachers of Family Medicine. Her research
interests include women’s health and prenatal care.
Richard Jones, M.S.,
PA-C
Mr. Jones received his medical
science degree, with an
emphasis on Rural Primary
Care, from Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, West
Virginia in 2003. Currently,
he is a Physician Assistant with the Veterans Affairs
Medical Center in Danville. As a Clinical Associate for the College of Medicine, his responsibilities
include giving lectures for medical students and
residents, participating in the Objective Structured
Clinical Exam for residents, serving as a research
mentor of residents and participating in patient
based work with residents. His research interests
focus on diabetes related issues.
Thomas E. Knuth,
M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Knuth earned his medical
degree in 1984 from the
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in
Bethesda, Maryland and an
M.P.H. in 1993 from Johns
Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public
Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed a
surgical internship at Fitzsimons Army Medical
Center, a residency in general surgery at Tripler
Army Medical Center, and two fellowships at the
Maryland Institute of Emergency Medical Services
Systems. Dr. Knuth currently practices at Carle
Foundation Hospital and Clinic and is a Clinical Assistant Professor with the College of Medicine. His responsibilities with the College include
precepting medical students in general surgery and
trauma, as well as, lecturing on shock and trauma
in surgery clerkship. Dr. Knuth is a member of
the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma,
the Pan American Trauma Society, the American
College of Surgeons, and the Association of Military
Surgeons of the USA. His awards and honors
include the Expert Field Medical Badge, the Army
Achievement Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the
Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster,
the Army Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf
Clusters, the National Defense service Medal, the
Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Armed
Forces Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the NATO Service Medal.
Batalautundu
Lakshminarayanan,
M.D.
Dr. Lakshminarayanan earned
his medical degree from the
Thanjavure Medical School,
Madras Medical College,
University of Madras, India in
1987. His post-graduate training included internal
medicine residencies at the Madras Medical College;
the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Norwich and
James Paget Hospital in Great Yannouth, United
Kingdom; and Christ Hospital and Medical Center,
University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was
Chief Resident. He also completed a fellowship
in cardiovascular medicine at Christ Hospital and
Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago,
where he was Chief Fellow. Currently, Dr. Lakshminarayanan is a staff cardiologist at Provena Covenant
Medical Center and a Clinical Assistant Professor
for the College of Medicine. As a Clinical Assistant
Professor, he facilitates monthly cardiology rounds
for students and residents, is a teaching attending for
students and residents, acts as a preceptor for elective
clerkships for M-3 students and M-4 students, participates in the Objective Structured Clinical Exam
for residents, and provides core conference lectures
for residents.
Chao-Hsu John Liu,
M.D.
Dr. Liu received his medical
degree from St. George’s
University School of Medicine
in St. George, Grenada, West
Indies in 1966. He completed
an internal medicine internship and a residency in diagnostic radiology at the
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences center in
Oklahoma City. He was an attending at the Okmulgee Memorial Hospital in Okmulgee, Oklahoma
and completed a fellowship in body imaging at the
University of Washington in Seattle. Currently, Dr.
Liu is a radiologist at Christie Clinic Association and
a Clinical Instructor of Radiology for the College of
Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His duties for the College include acting as
an elective clerkship preceptor for M-3 and M-4
medical students, acting as teaching attending for
medicine core clerkship students, being a conference lecturer for M-3 and M-4 medical students and
advising students.
Anu Mani, M.D.
Dr. Mani earned her medical
degree in 1989 at the Madras
Medical College, University
of Madras in India. She was a
house officer for the Epilepsy
Clinic at the Madras Institute
of Neurology in India and a
clinical observer for the Department of Neurology
at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
She completed an internal medicine residency at
Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois.
Currently, Dr. Mani is a staff physician in geriatrics
and extended care service for the Veterans Affair
Illiana Health Care System in Danville. Her duties
as a Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign include
serving as an office-based preceptor for M-1 students, participating in the Introduction to Human
Disease course for M-1 students, providing pathophysiology lectures for M-2 students, tutorials and
history and physical instruction for M-2 students,
acting as preceptor for elective clerkships for M-3
and M-4 students, providing lectures to M-3 and
M-4 students, participating in the Objective Structured Clinical Exam for residents providing noon
conference lectures for residents and assisting with
patient-based work with residents. Dr. Mani also
enjoys serving as a research mentor for the residents.
Maria Louisa Maranon, M.D., F.A.A.P
Dr. Maranon earned her medical degree in 1986
from the University of Philippines College of
Medicine. She completed her post-graduate training
at the Manila Doctor’s Hospital and St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in New York. Currently, Dr. Maranon
is a pediatrician at Christie Clinic Association and a
Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her duties
include precepting medical students during their
pediatric core clerkships. Dr. Maranon is certified
by the American Board of Pediatrics, a fellow of the
American Academy of Pediatrics and is a diplomate
of the Philippine Pediatric Society. Her research
interests include pediatric gastroenterology, nutrition
and diarrheal disease.
Shashi Puttaswamy, M.D.
Dr. Puttaswamy received her medical degree in 1987
from Indiana University School of Medicine. She
completed a pathology residency at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis; a transitional
residency at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis;
and internal medicine residencies at St. Vincent
Hospital and the College of Medicine, University
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of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, Dr.
Puttaswamy is a staff physician in internal medicine
with the Veterans Affairs Illiana Health Care System
in Danville. As a Clinical Assistant Professor for the
College of Medicine, her duties include history and
physical instruction for M-2 students, serving as a
core clerkship preceptor for M-3 and M-4 students
during their internal medicine core clerkships at the
VA, providing general internal medicine lectures to
M-3 and M-4 students, providing core conference
lectures for residents and assisting residents with
patient-based work at the VA.
Emad Tajkhorshid, Ph.D.
Dr. Tajkhorshid earned a Ph.D. in Medicinal
Chemistry from the School of Pharmacy at Tehran
University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from
the University of Heidelberg in 2001. He completed his post-graduate training at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Tajkhorshid is an
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Pharmacology
and Biophysics. His research focuses on structure
function relationship of membrane proteins, in
particular membrane channels and transporters,
and understanding the mechanism of their function
using simulation and computational methodologies. Dr. Tajkhorshid was the winner of the 2004
Visualization Contest organized by Science Magazine
and the National Science Foundation. An animation
displaying the results of his simulations studies on
aquaporin water channels is deposited at the Nobel
Museum web site in conjunction to the 2003 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry awarded to Drs. Peter Agre and
Roderick MacKinnon.Dr. Tajkhorshid is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Molecular Science; and is a member of the Federation of
American Societies for Experimental Biology, the
American Biophysical Society, the Iranian Medical
Council and the Iranian Society of Pharmacists.
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Christopher Todd,
M.D.
Dr. Todd earned his medical
degree in 2000 from the
University of Virginia in
Charlottesville. He completed
his post-graduate training in
pediatrics at the Michigan
State University, Grand Rapids Medical Education
and Research Center. He is currently a pediatric hospitalist at Carle Foundation Hospital and a Clinical
Instructor for the College of Medicine, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His duties with the
College of Medicine include lecturing to medical
students during their pediatric core clerkships. Dr.
Todd is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a member of the American Academy
of Pediatrics, Illinois Medical Society, Champaign
County Medical Society and the Christian Medical
and Dental Association. His research interest is
infectious disease.
Stanley Wu, M.D.
Dr. Wu earned his medical
degree in 2002 from the
College of Medicine, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and completed
a Family Practice Residency
with Carle Foundation
Hospital. Currently, he is with the Department
of Family Medicine at Carle Clinic Association.
In 2003, he was honored for giving the Outstanding Ground Rounds Presentation, “Small Pox.” As a
Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine, Dr.
Wu presents lectures and precepts medical students
during their family medicine core clerkships. Dr. Wu
is a member of the American Academy of Family
Physicians and a Diplomate of the American Board
of Family Medicine.
The College of Medicine at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign is proud of the partnerships
that enable us to offer or participate in the continued education of physicians through local residency
programs. The newest participants in these local
residency programs are:
Family Practice Carle Clinic Association
& Carle Foundation Hospital
Uzma Ahmad, M.D.
Svitlana Antonova, M.D.
Chunling Gong, M.D.
Tarek Hadla, M.D.
Swarnalatha Jaliparthi, M.D.
Vas Naidu, M.D.
Hani Ahmed, M.D.
Geriatric Fellowship Carle Clinic
Association & Carle Foundation Hospital
Nazneen Hashmi, M.D.
Nallu Reddy, M.D.
Internal Medicine College of Medicine
Ellaine Alcaraz, M.D.
Michael Aref, M.D., Ph.D
Sahana Channapatna, M.D.
Srilakshmi Chavali, M.D.
Praveen Cheripalli, M.D.
Ravindra Reddy Chuda, M.D.
Erich Hanel, M.D.
Holly Hare, M.D.
Adarsh Hiremath, M.D.
Prudhvi Rajan Karumanchi, M.D., M.P.H.
Joshua Larson, M.D., Ph.D
Neetu Mahendraker, M.D.
Susmitha Nimmagadda, M.D.
Elisabeth Preson-Hsu, M.D.
Mohammad Siddiqui, M.D.
Shamant Tippor, M.D.
Akshra Verma, M.D.
Suneetha Vysetti, M.D.
Surgery – Oral & Maxillofacial
Carle Clinic Association & Carle
Foundation Hospital
Sherdon Cordova, D.D.S.
Stephen Holm, D.M.D.
Julie Lee, D.M.D.
Jill Weber, D.D.S.
Credits
Department Heads
Sari Gilman Aronson, M.D., Head
Department of Psychiatry
Phillip M. Best, Ph.D., Head
Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
M. Kathleen Buetow, M.D., Dr.P.H., Head
Department of Pediatrics
John E. Cronan, Ph.D, Head
Department of Microbiology
Gregory G. Freund, M.D., Head
Department of Pathology
Martha U. Gillette, Ph.D., Head
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Ralph J. Kehl, M.D., Head
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Byron W. Kemper, Ph.D., Head
Department of Pharmacology
Curtis J. Krock, M.D., Head
Department of Internal Medicine
Evan M. Melhado, Ph.D., Head
Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program
Administration and Faculty
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Joseph A. Flaherty, M.D.
Dean
Sarah J. Kilpatrick, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Dean
Jack H. Kaplan, Ph.D., F.R.S.
Interim Senior Associate Dean for Research
Leslie J. Sandlow, M.D.
Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Bradford S. Schwartz, M.D.
Regional Dean
Richard I. Gumport, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Robert W. Kirby, M.D.
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and GME/CME
Jennifer L. Bloom, Ed.D.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs and the Medical Scholars Program
Susan M. Kies, Ed.D.
Associate Dean for Curriculum Management
Editor
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Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and the Medical Scholars Program
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Department of Biochemistry
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