Class Updates - The University of Chicago Medicine

James L. Whittenberger, SB ’37, MD ’38,
of Weston, Mass., wrote to say he
regretted not being able to attend reunion
weekend due to health problems and has
many “fond memories of the University
of Chicago.”
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Elbert Tokay, PhD ’41, of Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., enjoys retirement and chairs the PreMedical Advisory Committee at Vassar
College, where he was a biology professor.
Maurice R. Hilleman,
PhD ’44, received the
Prince Mahidol Award
for his contributions to
public health.
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Raymond D. Goodman, SB ’42,
MD ’44, is the medical director of the
Medical Reserve Corps of Los Angeles,
an organization primarily of retired
health care professionals who serve as
first responders in man-made or natural
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disasters. In 2002 he was elected into
the UCLA School of Public Health
Hall of Fame.
Maurice R. Hilleman, PhD ’44, received
the Prince Mahidol Award for his
contributions to public health. As director
of the Merck Institute for Vaccinology, he
pioneered the discovery and development
of more than three dozen vaccines.
Other awards include the National Medal
of Science and the World Health
Organization’s Special Lifetime
Achievement Award, and election to the
National Academy of Sciences, the
Institute of Medicine and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Winslow G. Fox, SB ’45, MD ’48, has
moved to a retirement community with
his wife, Elizabeth, PhB ’48, where they
seek a simpler life in retirement.
Eugene Gootnick, PhB ’47, SB ’48,
MD ’52, retired from his obstetrics and
gynecology private practice and is a
clinical professor emeritus at the
University of Southern California School
of Medicine. An avid golfer, he lives in
Palm Desert, Calif.
Janet D. Rowley, PhB
’45, SB ’46, MD ’49,
recently received the
Mendel Medal from
Villanova University.
Recently she received the Mendel Medal
from Villanova University, the Benjamin
Franklin Award from the American
Philosophical Society, an honorary degree
from the University of Lund in Sweden
and the Distinguished Service Award from
the University of Chicago Medical and
Biological Sciences Alumni Association.
(See page 34.)
Ernst R. Jaffe, SB ’45, MD/SM ’48, has
been retired for more than 11 years and
resides in Tenafly, N.J.
Eugene J. Van Scott, SB ’45, MD ’48,
received the Distinguished Service Award
from the University of Chicago Medical
and Biological Sciences Alumni
Association in June. (See page 35.)
Eugene Weinberg, SB ’42, SM ’48,
PhD ’50, and wife Frances Izen Weinberg,
PhB ’47, SB ’49, were profiled recently
in the Bloomington, Ind., newspaper,
The Herald Times about their lives as
one of Bloomington’s first Jewish
families. In September they celebrated
their 54th anniversary. Gene retired
11 years ago after teaching 42 years at
Indiana University and Fran retired in
1984 after teaching 15 years at Childs
Elementary School.
Janet D. Rowley, PhB ’45, SB ’46,
MD ’49, served as the University of
Chicago’s deputy dean for science from
January 2001 to November 2002.
75 Years
School of Medicine and the University
of Chicago Hospitals celebrated a joint
75th anniversary with festivities and
awards this past June. Notable events
included a ceremony in Rockefeller
Memorial Chapel to honor the school’s
faculty and staff who have inspired
generations of students, revolutionized
medical education and the care of
patients, and set the standard for
integrating research training with
medical studies.
Several outstanding young alumni,
who are judged to be among the
nation’s emerging scientific leaders,
were featured at the Rising Star
Symposium, and exceptional alumni
and faculty were honored with
Distinguished Service Awards and
Gold Key Awards, respectively.
E. Russell Alexander, PhB ’48, SB ’50,
MD ’53, retired from teaching but still
has administrative duties with the Institute
of Medicine’s Committee on Smallpox
Vaccination Implementation and other
committees and boards.
Norman Cadman, MD ’53, had a
pathology practice from 1962 to 2000 in
Pomona, Calif., and now is a volunteer
surgical pathologist in developing nations.
Recognizes outstanding leadership
and significant contributions that
have brought honor to the Division
of Biological Sciences, the Pritzker
School of Medicine and the University
of Chicago.
by Susan Soric
Alumni and friends of the Pritzker
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Joseph B. Kirsner, MD, PhD ’42, speaks at
the 75th anniversary convocation.
The Gold Key
Alumni may notice a change in the look of their association’s
communications.
The Medical & Biological Sciences Alumni Association has embraced
its former “official key” image for letterhead, newsletters and other
communications.
Originally presented as a pendant to Billings Hospital residents, the
Gold Key was adopted in 1944 as the association’s official symbol.
Alumni also could get a key pendant engraved with their initials and
graduation date.
In 1951 the association created the Gold Key Award to honor selected
faculty and staff during alumni reunions.
“The Gold Key is an ideal brand for the association,” said association
President Stephanie K. Williams, AB ’77, MD ’81. “[It] not only helps
our communications stand out among other University alumni
publications but [also] carries a rich history and the sense of excellence
we associate with being part of the university.”
Anthony F. Cutilletta, MD ’68
Cutielletta is medical director, associate
dean and professor of pediatrics at
Rush Children’s Heart Center in Chicago.
The board-certified pediatrician and
pediatric cardiologist is a partner and
primary program developer in a practice
management software company, and has
held leadership and administrative
positions in academic medical centers,
hospital systems and private practices.
Early in his career he investigated the
molecular biology of cardiac growth
and development, and did clinical research
on primary hypertension. He has served
on institutional compliance, and quality
and process improvement committees.
James E. Dahlberg, PhD ’66
The Frederick Sanger Professor at
the University of Wisconsin Medical
School, Dahlberg did postdoctoral work
in Cambridge, England, at Frederick
Sanger’s laboratory and in Switzerland
at the University of Geneva. His honors
for his work on nucleic acid function
and intracellular transport include the
Eli Lilly Award for Biological Chemistry,
the National Institutes of Health MERIT
Award and the Italian National Research
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Alexander Ervanian, MD ’53, enjoys
retirement by gardening, entertaining his
dogs, traveling, visiting friends, lecturing
on wine, attending medical conferences
and reading.
Bruce D. Ackerman
MD ’58 enjoys playing
chess and attending the
University of Chicago
Alumni Book Club in
New York City.
Frank W. Fitch, MD ’53, SM ’57,
PhD ’60, received the Distinguished
Service Award from the University of
Chicago Medical and Biological Sciences
Alumni Association in June. (See below.)
Paul B. Glickman, PhB ’48, SB ’50,
MD ’53, is an associate professor of
medicine at Rush Medical Center and
associate section director of the
rheumatology section.
David S. Greer, MD ’53, is a professor
emeritus at Brown University’s
Department of Community Health
and dean emeritus of medicine.
John H. Landor, PhB ’48, MD ’53,
retired from a career in academic surgery
and recently wrote From Anaconda to the
North Star and Beyond, The Life of Lester
Dragstedt, Physiologist-Surgeon.
Jean Hirsch Priest, PhB ’47, SB ’50,
MD ’53, is a professor emeritus in
pediatrics and medical genetics at
Emory University.
Gerald Reavan, AB ’47, SB ’50, MD ’53,
has been at Stanford University since 1959
where he teaches and does research.
Ira G. Wool, MD ’53, PhD ’54, received
the Distinguished Service Award from the
University of Chicago Medical and
Biological Sciences Alumni Association in
June. (See page 36.)
Bruce D. Ackerman MD ’58, practices
neonatology in New York. Hobbies
include chess and attending the University
of Chicago Alumni Book Club in New
York City.
Robert A. Barbee, MD ’58, is semi-retired
as a professor emeritus of pulmonary
critical care medicine. He writes, “It’s been
a good career — no regrets.”
Caesar Briefer, MD ’58, retired after
more than 20 years as university health
services director at the University of
Michigan. He now travels and enjoys
golf, tennis and skiing.
Bryan J. Carder Jr., MD ’58, retired
from practicing medicine in June 2001.
He lives in Glendale, Ariz., where he
enjoys gardening, traveling and digital
photography.
Richard Gier, MD ’58, retired after 16
years at the Veterans Affairs Medical
Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He audits
classes at the University of Utah, studying
such subjects as Latin, history, Middle
East studies and anthropology.
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Council’s Buzzati-Traverso Award for
Molecular Biology. A member of the
National Academy of Sciences, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the European Molecular Biology
Organization, he also founded two
biotechnology companies.
The 2003 Distinguished Service Award recipients with James Madara, dean of the Biological
Sciences Division (second from left).
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Charles M. Alexander, MD ’58, practices
ophthalmology and teaches.
Frank W. Fitch, MD ’53, SM ’57, PhD ’60
The Albert D. Lasker Professor Emeritus
at the University of Chicago, Fitch is
internationally recognized as a cellular
immunologist. The former John and Mary
R. Markle Scholar and former director
of the Ben May Institute, he was named
a Commonwealth Fund Fellow and a
David Ginsberg, AB ’53, SB ’55,
MD ’58, lives in Ann Arbor, Mich., with
his wife, Marcia. They love spending time
with their daughter and 8-year-old twin
grandchildren. He says he now has a PhD
in “spoiling small children.”
Seymour B. Goren, MD ’58, is an
associate professor of ophthalmology at
Northwestern University Medical School.
He has an active private practice with his
son, which enables him to devote more
time to traveling, enjoying grandchildren
and other interests.
Carl H. Gunderson, SM/MD ’58, is a
professor of neurology and the clerkship
director for neurology at the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences.
Seth L. Haber, SM/MD ’58, and his wife,
Roz, have been happily married for 47
years. They live in Palo Alto, Calif., and
run their company, Pathco, which
produces and distributes specialty products
for anatomic pathologists. Seth also writes,
audits classes at Stanford University and is
switching from film to digital in his hobby
of portrait photography.
Guggenheim Fellow and received an
honorary MD degree from the University
of Lausanne and a Basic Science Teaching
Award from Pritzker School of Medicine
students. He is past president of both the
American Association of Immunologists
and the Federation of American
Societies of Experimental Biology
and the former editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Immunology.
Gary Gitnick, SB ’60, MD ’63
Gitnick is a professor of medicine and
chief of the Division of Digestive Diseases
at the David Geffen School of Medicine
at University of California, Los Angeles.
“I still love being a
doctor, and the idea
of retirement is very
hard to accept.”
– Myron J. Jacobson,
MD ’58.
Myron J. Jacobson, MD ’58, works part
time as a police surgeon in the New York
Police Department’s Medical Division
and as a thoracic surgery consultant at
the Newport Medical Veterans Affairs
Center. He writes, “I still love being a
doctor and the idea of retirement is very
hard to accept.”
Kenneth Z. Kurland, MD ’58,
transitioned from an orthopedic surgeon
to a part-time ER physician during the
past couple years and then retired last year.
Norman L. Mages, AB ’53, MD ’58,
shares a practice with his wife, Ruth, in
Marin County, Calif. They also are busy
raising their twins and traveling.
Neil Proshan, MD ’58, has been training
for and running 5K and 10K races.
Henry Rothschild, MD ’58, and his wife
now have two homes, one in Dallas,
Texas, and one in New Orleans, La.
Sanford J. Schreiber, MD ’58, won the
2002 Outstanding Teacher Award of the
Yale University clinical faculty.
Fred Solomon, AB ’54, SB ’55, MD ’58,
practices adult, adolescent and child
psychiatry and has no retirement plans.
He just concluded a decade as an elected
delegate to the Assembly of the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, representing the 225
Washington, D.C.-area child psychiatrists.
Franklin J. Star, AB ’53, SB ’55, MD ’58,
retired Sept. 30, 2002, after 37 years of
active practice. He now enjoys time at his
vacation home in the western North
Carolina mountains.
James A. Survis, MD ’58, ended his
surgical pathologist career about eight
years ago. He now plays chamber music
on his violin and studies Spanish.
He has served as chief of staff of the
UCLA Medical Center and medical
director of the UCLA Health Care
Programs. He has more than 300
publications to his credit and has written
or edited 63 books. He is president of the
Medical Board of California and founder
of the Fulfillment Fund, a nonprofit
organization with more than 1,000
volunteers who mentor more than 3,000
bright, disadvantaged or disabled students.
David A. Kindig, MD ’68, PhD ’68
Kindig, professor emeritus and vice
chancellor emeritus for health sciences at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Jeffrey M. Leiden, AB ’75, PhD ’79, MD ’81,
gives a presentation at the Rising Stars
Symposium.
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Charles S. Tidball, MD
’58, volunteers as a lay
Eucharistic minister at
the National Cathedral
in Washington, D.C.
manager of the Cathedral Information
Systems Program, which is developing
computer databases on the cathedral’s
artwork and historically significant people.
Leong T. Tan, MD ’58, retired from
his urology practice and now focuses on
the SOAR Foundation, which provides
financial support to help impoverished
students in rural China acquire a basic
education.
Richard A. Weinberg, MD ’58, practices
family dermatology in Springfield, Penn.
Donald E. Temple, MD ’58, spends more
time at his Naples, Fla., winter home and
travels to visit his children on both coasts
and in Chicago.
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Eugene U. Thiessen, AB ’51, MD ’58,
teaches in the department of preventive
medicine at State University of New York,
Stony Brook and enjoys sailing on Long
Island Sound, the Maine coast and the
Chesapeake Bay.
Robert J. Weiler, MD ’58, retired from a
full-time hematology and oncology
practice last year and volunteers as locum
tenens physician.
Sidney K. Wolfson Jr., MD ’58, is an
emeritus professor of surgery at the
University of Pittsburgh. He is active in
the Pittsburgh Opera Association and the
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and
enjoys skiing and biking.
Norman Zinner, MD
’58, is the medical
director at Western
Clinical Research, Inc.,
in Torrance, Calif.
Charles S. Tidball, MD ’58, volunteers as
a lay Eucharistic minister at the National
Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and as
Norman Zinner, MD ’58, is a
practicing urologist and the medical
has held several senior positions in the
public and private sectors. The National
Health Service Corps’ first medical
director and deputy director of the Bureau
of Health Manpower, he chaired the
federal Council of Graduate Medical
Education and was senior adviser to the
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Elected to the National Academy of
Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, he is an
honorary fellow of the American College
of Physician Executives and was
president of the Association for Health
Services Research.
Janet D. Rowley, PhB ’45,
SB ’46, MD ’48
Rowley is the Blum-Riese Distinguished
Service Professor of Medicine, of
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, and
of Human Genetics at the University of
Chicago. She is widely recognized for her
discovery of chromosome translocations in
human leukemia and lymphoma. In
collaboration with colleagues, she has
shown that particular translocations are
associated with specific morphological
subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia and
that the type of chromosome abnormality
director at Western Clinical Research,
Inc., in Torrance, Calif., and a clinical
associate professor of urology/surgery at
the University of California School of
Medicine, Los Angeles.
1960s
Lorna Puttkammer Straus, SM ’60,
PhD ’62, received the Gold Key Award
from the University of Chicago Medical
and Biological Sciences Alumni Association
in June. (See page 39.)
Eugene R. DeSombre, SB ’60, SM ’61,
PhD ’63, received the Gold Key Award
from the University of Chicago Medical
and Biological Sciences Alumni Association
in June. (See page 37.)
Harold N. Bass, SM/MD ’63, is a
clinical professor of pediatrics and
medical genetics at the University of
California, Los Angeles, an adjunct
professor of biology at California State
University, Northridge, a member of the
board of directors at Southern California
University, and a pediatrician and
medical geneticist with Kaiser
Permanente. He and wife Phyllis have
been married for 42 years and have two
daughters and two granddaughters.
Phillip Epstein, SB ’59, MD ’63, works
in neurodiagnostic medical consultation,
research and development.
Gary Gitnick, SB ’60, MD ’63, is the
chairman of digestive diseases at the
University of California School of
Medicine, Los Angeles. He is founder and
board chairman of the Fulfillment Fund,
which provides mentoring, education and
scholarships to 3,000 underprivileged
children each year. In June he received the
Distinguished Service Award from the
University of Chicago Medical and
Biological Sciences Alumni Association.
(See page 33.)
Charles M. Schlossman, SB ’59, MD ’63,
retired from the Permanente Medical
Group in 1997.
James E. Dahlberg, PhD ’66, received the
Distinguished Service Award from the
University of Chicago Medical and
Biological Sciences Alumni Association
this past June. (See page 31.)
Gary Gitnick, SB ’60,
MD ’63, is founder
and board chairman of
the Fulfillment Fund,
which provides
mentoring, education
and scholarships to
3,000 underprivileged
children each year.
Julian Rimpila, SM/MD ’66, was
featured in the summer 2003 issue of
AMA Voice for his role in saving
Chicago’s Grant Hospital and in guiding
its transformation into the new Lincoln
Park Hospital. In March 2003, he was
among the five winners of the Chicago
Medical Society’s Poster Presentation
Session at the 59th Annual Midwest
Clinical Conference.
is the most reliable predictor of a patient’s
response to treatment and survival.
Rowley has received the Albert Lasker
Clinical Medicine Research Prize, the
National Medal of Science and the
Benjamin Franklin Medal.
Eugene J. Van Scott, SB ’45, MD ’48
Van Scott is recognized for his skin cancer
research. He and R. J. Yu founded The
NeoStrata Company to advance skin care
and treatment and educate people about
the benefits of alpha-hydroxy acids.
A former dermatology professor at
Jose Quintans (left), professor of pathology and MSTP
Dean Madara during the 75th celebration.
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John T. Bonner, MD ’63, is in
neurobiological surgery private
practice and serves as historian for
the Western Neurosurgical Society
and secretary and newsletter editor
for the California Association of
Neurobiological Surgeons.
Anthony F. Cutilletta, MD ’68, received
the Distinguished Service Award from the
University of Chicago Medical and
Biological Sciences Alumni Association in
June. (See page 31.)
David A. Kindig, MD/PhD ’68, received
the Distinguished Service Award from the
University of Chicago Medical and
Biological Sciences Alumni Association
this past June. (See page 33.)
Joel B. Sheffield, PhD ’69, won Temple
University’s Great Teacher Award, which
carries a $15,000 cash prize. Sheffield has
taught biology at Temple for 26 years.
1970s
Stephen P. Spielberg, PhD ’71, MD ’73,
has been named dean of Dartmouth
Medical School. His wife, Laurel Axelrod
Spielberg, AM ’71, is an associate
professor of epidemiology at Drexel
University School of Public Health.
Ruediger Kratz, MD ’73, directs
neurology services at the DuBois (Penn.)
Regional Medical Center.
Ward Rice, PhD ’76, MD ’78, was unable
to attend his 25th reunion because he had
Temple University’s Skin and Cancer
Hospital, he spent almost two decades at
the National Cancer Institute. His honors
include the Albert Lasker Award and the
American Academy of Dermatology’s
Master in Dermatology. He is a member
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American
Academy of Dermatology and the
American Dermatological Association.
Also, Glaxo Dermatology has founded the
Eugene J. Van Scott Fellowship Award in
his honor.
director, and Ruth Benca, PhD ’79, MD ’81, visit with
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committed to help build a house for the
Jimmy Carter Work Project in La Grange,
Ga. It was the ninth house he has helped
build and his fifth time working with the
former president. He also ran his first
marathon last spring.
Christine White, AB
’74, MD ’78, is the
vice president of
medical affairs at
IDEC Pharmaceuticals
in San Diego, Calif.
Brooke Alt, AB ’69, MST ’70, MD ’78,
has been in a private pathology group in
Boulder, Colo., for the past 20 years.
Husband Bill is a pathology professor at
the University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center in Denver. Both sons are
in college.
Mary N. Austin-Seymour, MD ’78, is the
vice chairwoman of the department of
radiation oncology and last year became
the Wootton Professor of Radiation
Margaret Barron, MD ’78, was married at
Old Saint Patrick’s Church in July 2003,
and plans to move back to Chicago.
Ernest Brahn, MD ’78, is a professor
of medicine at the University of
California School of Medicine, Los
Angeles, Division of Rheumatology.
He also directs rheumatology training
and is Web editor for the American
College of Rheumatology.
Bruce, MD ’78, and Diane Lind,
MD ’78, Fenster, have lived in Green Bay,
Wisc., for 22 years. Both practice at the
Prevea Clinic: Diane in pediatrics and
Bruce in internal medicine.
Elio John Frattaroli, MST ’73, MD ’78,
spent three weeks this year traveling
through Italy with wife Diane and
children Nicole and Greg.
David M. Jaffe, MD ’78, is the Dana
Brown Professor of Pediatrics at
Washington University, St. Louis and
directs emergency services at St. Louis
Children’s Hospital. He has been in
St. Louis for 12 years and previously
worked in Toronto and Chicago.
Patricia Martin, AB ’74, MD ’78, has
been in private practice since 1989 and
now works with five other cardiologists
in Hinsdale, Ill. Older daughter Erin is
planning a 2004 wedding and younger
daughter Catherine is an Indiana
University sophomore.
Giovanni Smith, MD
’87, was elected 200304 chairman of the
board for the American
Lung Association of
Los Angeles County.
Julia Moran, MD ’78, is semi-retired and
travels the United States in a bus with
husband Bruce.
Dean L. Rider, MD ’78, is in
gastroenterology private practice in San
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Ira G. Wool, MD ’53, PhD ’54
The A. J. Carlson Professor of Biological
Sciences at the University of Chicago,
Wool and his colleagues were the first to
define the structure of the RNAs and the
entire set of 79 proteins from eukaryotic
(specifically mammalian) ribosomes. He
has given many special and plenary
lectureships and held visiting professorships and visiting research scientist
appointments at Cambridge University,
the Max Planck Institute for Molecular
Genetics and Columbia University’s
College of Physicians and Surgeons. Wool
has published more than 250 research
Jim Madden, MD ’73, looks at class composites.
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Oncology at the University of
Washington. She lives in Seattle with her
two children and husband Ron, who
recently attended seminary and was
ordained as a Lutheran minister.
Francisco. He enjoys golfing, traveling and
spending time with his son, Dean Jr.
Jurrian Strobos, MD ’78, is a consultant
for start-up pharmaceutical companies to
design and conduct clinical trials under
FDA regulations.
Paul M. Sullam, AB ’74, MD ’78, teaches
medicine at the University of California,
San Francisco, and is a member of the
Division of Infections Diseases.
Christine White, AB ’74, MD ’78,
visited campus this spring with her
daughter, who is considering the
University of Chicago for her
undergraduate studies. Christine is the
vice president of medical affairs at IDEC
Pharmaceuticals in San Diego, Calif.
Arthur Weiss, PhD ’78, MD ’79, is the
chief of the rheumatology division and an
investigator at Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, University of California, San
Francisco.
Paul Sternberg, MD ’79, is the G.W.
Hale Professor and chairman of the
Vanderbilt department of ophthalmology
and visual sciences.
articles, and his awards include the Federal
Republic of Germany’s Alexander von
Humboldt Special Fellowship and the
Immunotoxin Society’s Pierce
Immunotoxin Award.
2003 Gold Key Awards
Presented each year by the Medical &
Biological Sciences Alumni Association to
recognize faculty members for service to
the Division of Biological Sciences and the
University of Chicago.
1980s
David H. Whitney, MBA ’78, MD ’80,
has a private dermatology practice. He
enjoys spending time with his wife,
Juliana, and two children, Alec and Eric.
Joseph Heitman, SB/SM ’84, received the
2003 Squibb Award from the Infectious
Diseases Society of America for
outstanding contributions to the
understanding of infectious disease.
Gregg A. Bendrick, AB ’84, SM ’86,
MD ’88, is NASA’s Aeronautical Research
Center medical director and has published
the novel The Making of a Flight Surgeon.
Giovanni Smith, MD ’87, is a
pulmonologist at the Institute for Better
Breathing, a group practice in Burbank
and Glendale, Calif. He was elected
2003-04 chairman of the board for the
American Lung Association of Los
Angeles County and will be leading the
program, Open Airways, which informs
teachers and nurses about managing
asthma in schools.
Martin J. Fee, MD ’88, is an infectious
disease specialist in private practice in
Newport, Calif. His wife, Janice, is an
Eugene R. De Sombre,
SB ’60, SM ’61, PhD ’63
Professor emeritus in the Ben May
Institute for Cancer Research and a
member of the Committee on Cancer
Biology, De Sombre’s research on the
mechanism of estrogen action in normal
and neoplastic tissues led to the first
identification, purification and
characterization of a steroid receptor
protein, the estrogen receptor. Antibodies
prepared against this receptor provided
key reagents for basic studies and led to
the first cloning of the gene for a steroid
receptor. This research established that
obstetrician/gynecologist and they have
two children, Erin and Dennis.
Lawrence A. Mishlove, MD ’88, is chief
of radiology imaging and director of MRI
at Brooksville Regional Medical Center.
Jacqueline Moline, AB ’84, MD ’88,
is Mount Sinai’s vice chairwoman for
community and preventative medicine,
specializing in occupational and
environmental medicine.
Kimberly A. Lovett,
AB ’92, MD ’97, is
the mental health
flight commander and
the only psychiatrist
in the U.S. Air Force
stationed at Elmendorf
Air Force Base in
Anchorage, Alaska.
Franz Wassermann, SB ’41, MD ’43,
celebrated his 60th class reunion.
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1990s
Vandana B. Sharma, AB ’89, SM ’95,
PhD ’97, MD ’99, is a fellow of medical
oncology at Stanford University Hospital.
Ameena T. Ahmed, MD ’96, completed
her internal medicine residency at
Stanford University, earned an MPH from
the University of California, Berkeley, and
now is the medical director of Survivors
International, a San Francisco organization
that provides medical and psychological
care to survivors of torture.
2000s
The research of
William L. Russell, PhD
’37, led to standards
for acceptable levels
of human exposure
to radiation and paved
the way for discoveries
about occupational
exposure to radiation
and exposure to
atomic weapons.
Meryl Kersten Perlman, MD ’01, was
appointed chief pediatric resident of
Massachusetts General Hospital for the
Eric Lee, PhD ’03, is a student at the
University of Virginia School of Law.
Kimberly A. Lovett, AB ’92, MD ’97, a
major in the U.S. Air Force stationed at
Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage,
Alaska, is the mental health flight
commander and the only psychiatrist.
Kim and her husband, Billy, have four
children: Kathleen Elizabeth, 5; Ryan
Patrick, 4; Conor Brendan, 2; and Declan
Liam, 1. They plan to move back to their
hometown of Boston next August.
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Andrew Aronson, MD ’69, and Patricia
Spear, PhD ’69, visit during the 75th
anniversary celebration.
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2004-2005 year. Her father, James
Perlman, who sent us a note about the
appointment, is, “quite proud of Meryl
and thought that her medical school,
which prepared her for her career, would
be as well.”
estrogen receptors in breast cancer could
be used to identify patients likely to
benefit from hormonal therapies, a test
now used around the world.
Atef H. Moawad, MD
Moawad, the Blum-Riese Professor
Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology
and former director of maternal-fetal
medicine, focused on perinatal research
and the etiology and management of
premature labor. He has co-directed the
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Alumna Screens Ground Zero Workers
In Memoriam
Yolanda F. Holler, MD, joined the
neurology staff at the Akron Children’s
Hospital in August.
Thousands of people exposed to irritants at Ground Zero still suffer from
acute respiratory problems.
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Alex G. Little, MD, was appointed
professor and the Elizabeth Berry Gray
Chair of Surgery at Wright State
University School of Medicine in Dayton,
Ohio, in September.
Frank W. Putnam, PhD, moved to a
retirement community in Cincinnati and
now lives close to his son, Frank W.
Putnam Jr., MD.
Michael Roizen, MD, was featured on
the Today show and The Oprah Winfrey
show with his new book, Cooking The
Real Age Way. He is a professor of
anesthesia, critical care and medicine at
State University of New York Upstate
Medical University and the CEOdesignate for Central New York
Biotechnology Research Corporation.
That’s the finding of a New York medical screening program that examines
people who worked or volunteered at Ground Zero on or after Sept. 11.
More than half of the over 8,000 people screened exhibit ongoing health
problems. Among them: shortness of breath, nasal congestion, headaches,
asthma, and ear, nose and throat problems.
Workers may have been exposed to jet fuel and to asbestos, lead, fiberglass,
cement, glass and other pulverized building materials. Effects from
exposure to such things as carcinogenic asbestos, however, may take at
least 20 to 30 years to manifest, said Jacqueline Moline, AB ’84, MD ’88.
The University of Chicago alumna is medical core director of the World
Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program at New
York City’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Study findings will help the nation prepare for attacks or natural disasters
in the future that involve fumes, gasses and irritating particles.
“We can learn from the sheer volume of participants what happens after
this kind of massive particulate exposure,” she said.
Initial screening continued through March 2004 and included 12,000 of
the estimated 30,000 people who worked at the site. Congress recently
approved funding for follow-up examinations, which will begin this spring.
university’s perinatal center since 1976
and was the principal investigator for the
university’s maternal fetal medicine unit.
The March of Dimes awarded him the
Jonas Salk Leadership Award for Physicians,
and he has also received the Joseph Bolivar
DeLee Humanitarian Award.
Samuel Refetoff, MD
Refetoff, the Frederick H. Rawson
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and
Pediatrics and a member of the
Committee on Genetics, is a leading
authority on the thyroid and thyroid
hormone. He has discovered and defined
the molecular basis of the resistance to
thyroid hormone (RTH) syndrome, or
Refetoff syndrome. He has edited two
books and authored or co-authored nearly
250 research articles, 50 review articles
and 50 book chapters. His awards include
the Robert H. Williams Distinguished
Leadership Award from the Endocrine
Society, the National Institutes of Health
MERIT Award and the American Thyroid
Association’s Paul Starr Award.
Lorna Puttkammer Straus,
SM ’60, PhD ’62
Professor Emeritus of Organismal Biology
and Anatomy, Straus has dedicated her
career to teaching and advising students.
Louise Marshall, PhD ’35, of Los
Angeles, Calif., has died.
Herbert Landahl, SM ’36, PhD ’41, died
in May. He was a pioneer in mathematical
biology at the University of Chicago and a
researcher for the military, focusing on
how chemicals affect the lungs and are
distributed throughout the body. He
developed mathematical systems to
demonstrate how cells divide and how gas
is transported across cells during
respiration. He stepped down from the
University of Chicago in 1967 and retired
from the University of California, San
Francisco in 1980.
John Post, SB ’32, MD ’36, died in June.
Post interned at Barnes Hospital in
St. Louis and Billings Hospital in Chicago
before joining his father, Wilber E. Post (a
former trustee and dean of the Pritzker
School of Medicine), in private practice
and the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital.
After World War II, he was medical
director for Zenith Radio Corp. and
president of the Medical Director’s
She is an active alumna leader at the
University of Chicago and at Radcliffe
College, her undergraduate alma mater.
At Chicago, she has served as the college’s
dean of students, dean of admissions and
associate dean of the college, as well as
chairwoman of the college’s curriculum
committee. Twice she received the
Quantrell Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching and 15 times
she was elected to the university’s
Committee of the Council. She was among
15 trustees elected to the North Central
Association’s Higher Learning Commission
and serves as commission chairwoman.
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Association, the Chicago Association of
Industrial Physicians and the American
Association of Senior Physicians. He
retired in 1973 to Elko, Nev., and
continued in medical practice.
Leonard M. Asher, MD ’37, has
passed away.
William L. Russell, PhD ’37, an
internationally recognized geneticist,
died in July at age 92. His research led
to standards for acceptable levels of
human exposure to radiation and paved
the way for discoveries about
occupational exposure to radiation and
exposure to atomic weapons. In 1947, he
became Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s
principal geneticist and chief of the
mammalian genetics and genomics
program. In 2001, Oak Ridge dedicated
its new mouse research facility in honor
of Russell and his second wife, Liane. He
was a member of the National Academy
of Sciences and received the prestigious
Enrico Fermi Award.
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Frederick J. Wahl, SB ’39, MD ’42, of
Los Angeles, Calif., died Oct. 17, 1998.
One Scientist’s Fight to Conquer Malaria
The most lethal of the four parasitic species that cause malaria, Plasmodium
falciparum, has a formidable enemy in Thomas Wellems, MD ’81, PhD ’80.
A consultant to malaria researchers around the world, Wellems has discovered the
mechanism of P. falciparum’s resistance to chloroquine, one of the most effective
antimalarial drugs.
More than one-third of the world’s population is at risk for malaria, particularly
people living in the developing world, where P. falciparum kills more than a million
infants and children each year.
These statistics are a driving force for Wellems, who heads the Laboratory of
Malaria and Vector Research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases.
“It’s a constant battle. These organisms are smart. New drugs are badly needed
and nine out of 10 new candidate drugs fail pre-clinical or clinical testing,” said
Wellems, who spoke at this year’s Howard Taylor Ricketts Award Lecture. The
award commemorates the University of Chicago biologist who discovered the
source of typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
After quinine, chloroquine became the antimalarial drug of choice in 1945,
Wellems said. But in the 1960s, resistance to the drug increased in parts of
Africa, deaths from malaria skyrocketed and the World Health Organization
became alarmed.
To solve the mystery of how P. falciparum developed chloroquine resistance,
Wellems and his research team mapped the parasite’s genetic structure and then
isolated its genes. They discovered the source of the resistance: A piece of genetic
material on one of the parasite’s 14 chromosomes had mutated, altering a
membrane protein called PfCRT. This protein sits in the wall of the parasite’s food
vacuole, blocking out chloroquine and protecting the parasite.
That finding led the team to yet another discovery: Resistant strains are able to
pump the drug from their bodies. Knowledge of genetic differences between
chloroquine-resistant and chloroquine-sensitive strains of the parasite has helped
researchers to focus on producing drug compounds to counter chloroquine
resistance.
“All the data are now telling us that the chloroquine resistance mechanism has a
lock-and-key effect,” Wellems said. “When we’ve modified this drug structure
significantly, the resistance mechanism fails, and those compounds can still kill the
parasite, which is exciting [news].”
Wellems advises the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), a nonprofit foundation
engaged in multiple drug studies with a goal to create affordable drugs to help
eliminate malaria. A promising new drug in development at MMV is Isoquine.
Discovered at the University of Liverpool, the amodiaquine-like compound “avoids
any cross-resistance with its chemical cousin chloroquine,” according to the MMV.
“This drug is less toxic than chloroquine,” said Wellems, who is optimistic that
Isoquine will move forward rapidly. “It costs less than chloroquine and may be a
replacement for chloroquine in the future.”
Even so, the future of antimalarial efforts remains complicated, Wellems added,
because variable forms of malaria parasites are as plentiful as “stars in the universe.”
Frank F. Evans, SB ’42, MD ’44, died in
August at age 87. During World War II,
he served in the Army and then worked as
a psychiatrist at Hines Veterans Hospital
near Maywood and later started his own
practice. In 1955, the Institute for
Psychoanalysis in Chicago certified him to
practice psychoanalysis. He taught briefly
at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute
and was voted most outstanding secondyear instructor in 1968.
Henry Etten McWhorter, SB ’42,
MD ’44, a plastic surgeon, died March 6,
2003, at age 81. Following an internship
at Los Angeles County Hospital and a
residency at Chicago’s Presbyterian
Hospital, he served as a Navy medical
officer from 1946 to 1948 and as a
general and plastic surgery fellow at the
Mayo Clinic from 1948 to 1954. He
then established a private practice in
Toledo, Ohio.
Morris Friedkin, PhD ’48, of La Jolla,
Calif., died Aug. 19, 2002.
Sherwood P. Miller, SM ’47, MD ’49,
an oncologist who conducted research
on coagulation disorders and cancer
From left: Eugene Geppert, professor of medicine who retired this year, speaks from the podium during the
2003 Divisional Academic Ceremony; Lawrence Wood, professor of medicine (right), congratulates Donald
Ayers, MD ’03, and his father; Zandra Shu-mei Wells (left) with Soldrea Lyn Roberts, both MDs ’03.
Graduating students head to the Divisional Academic
Ceremony; soon-to-be alumnus Andy Aesham.
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chemotherapy, died April 21, 2003, at
age 77. A Navy hospital orderly during
World War II, he served as a medical
officer during the Korean War. He was
appointed senior investigator of the
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, the
research unit of the National Institutes of
Health, and later worked at Maimonides
Hospital and Meadowbrook Hospital
before entering private practice.
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Raymond L. Birndorf, PhB ’46,
SB ’48, MD ’53, died April 27, 2003.
He graduated from the University of
Chicago and practiced medicine in
Chicago for 13 years. His residency was
interrupted when he was drafted as a
captain into the Air Force. In 1973, he
and his family moved to California where
he was on staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital
and served as chief of staff at the Medical
Center of North Hollywood.
Harry W. Parks, PhB ’48, MD ’53, died
July 9, 2003. Parks was a pathologist at
Clinical Laboratories, Mo., and Memorial
Hospital, Belleville, Ill. He served as a
lieutenant commander in the Navy from
1955 to 1957 and did his residency in
pathology at Hartford Hospital in
Connecticut from 1957 to 1961. He was
certified by the American Board of
Pathology in pathological anatomy and
clinical pathology and by the American
Board of Nuclear Medicine in
radioisotopic pathology, as well as by the
American Board of Forensic Pathology and
the American Board of Forensic Medicine.
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Irma J. Bland, MD ’74, an adolescent and
adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, died
in 2003. She graduated from Dillard
University in 1970 and Pritzker in 1974.
She completed her residency and
fellowship at Northwestern University.
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Irwin M. Weinstein, MD, an international authority on clinical hematology,
died July 19, 2003. He held numerous
positions at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
and was a member of the Board of
Governors. He also was a clinical professor
of medicine at University of California
Medical School, Los Angeles. He helped
start the National Israel Cancer Research
Fund and later founded the Los Angeles
chapter. The Irwin M. Weinstein
Endowed Lectureship in Health and
Public Policy was established in perpetuity
at the medical center. A recipient of the
Cedars-Sinai Pioneer in Medicine award,
he also was appointed to the committee
to study HIV transmission through blood
products at the Institute of Medicine in
1994 and was a member of Space Biology
and Medicine for the National Academy
of Sciences.
An inspirational gift
While visiting his native Greece, Lampis Anagnostopoulos,
SB ’57, MD ’61, journeyed to the island of Kos, where
Hippocrates had lived and worked.
“I saw someone selling a copy of the Hippocratic oath along
with leaves from the plane tree under whose shade
Hippocrates held discussions and seminars,” said
Anagnostopoulous. He promptly bought the souvenirs for
friends and alumni council members. Upon returning to
Chicago, he ordered 125 more to present to the June
for a Graduating
But why this particular gift?
During the ceremony, Anagnostopoulos delivered the
Hippocratic oath in the ancient Greek, the way Hippocrates
did.
“I’m sentimental and the Hippocratic oath means so much to
all of us as we graduate,” he said. Anagnostopoulos also was
inspired by “visiting the island where Hippocrates lived and
taught and seeing that tree that’s at least 2,700 years old.”
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After the ceremony, students thanked him for the unique gift,
which Anagnostopoulos said brought him closer to the new
doctors embarking on their lives’ work.
“One young lady asked if she could introduce me to her
father, and so I followed her,” he said. “She stood next to
him and both were aglow. The pride, the trust, the
commitment, the bond of father and daughter — it was a
most memorable image.”
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