Class Notes
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Reunion News
School of Medicine and Dentistry classes celebrating reunions
October 12–14, 2006
60th Reunion: 1946
55th Reunion: 1951
50th Reunion: 1956
45th Reunion: 1961
40th Reunion: 1966
35th Reunion: 1971
30th Reunion: 1976
25th Reunion: 1981
20th Reunion: 1986
15th Reunion: 1991
10th Reunion: 1996
For more about Alumni Weekend, visit the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s office
of Alumni
Relations
1945
David Baldwin (MD) (see ’43RC undergraduate).
1953
Gordon Currie (Res) (see ’82RC undergraduate).
1954
Sam Chapin (MD) (see ’50RC undergraduate).
1960
Bert Meisner (MD), Harvey
Alter ’56RC, (MD), and Art Pearson (MD)
held a minireunion in Naples, Fla., in February. Bert recently retired and moved
to Naples. Harvey, who is with the National Institutes of Health, was a guest
lecturer at the monthly meeting of the Retired Physicians Association of Collier
County (Fla.) He spoke on hepatitis C, which he helped discover. Art founded
and was the first president of the Retired Physicians, which now has 230 members.
1962
Walt Sy (MD) (see ’58RC undergraduate).
1964
Robert Kirchner (Mas) has joined the board of
directors of Longview Fibre Co. in Longview, Wash.
1966
Julian Earls (Mas) delivered the 14th annual Garnet
Baltimore Lecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last April. Julian is
director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland.
1969
Karen Hitchcock (PhD) became the principal (the
equivalent of the president) of Queen’s University at Kingston in Ontario,
Canada, in July. Karen is the cohost of the public radio program The Best
of Our Knowledge. She received an honorary degree from St. Lawrence University
last May.
1977
Barbara Natkow Schuster (MD), ’80 (Res)
received the Dema C. Daley Founder’s award from the Association of Program
Directors in Internal Medicine. She is professor and chair of the Department
of Internal Medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton,
Ohio.
1979
Carl Patow (MD) received the Alliance for Continuing
Medical Education’s award for innovation in continuing medical education.
An associate dean for faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine,
Carl lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Sue, and 10-year-old son, Alex. . .
. Steve Phillips (Flw) writes, “My wife,
Peggy, and I are relocating from Atlanta to Dallas. I have accepted a position
as chief biosafety officer for the Baylor Institute of Immunological Research.
The institute’s work involves select agents and biodefense. We are looking
forward to returning to Dallas after a three-year absence.”
1980
Barbara Natkow Schuster (Res) (see ’77).
1983
Ines Altemose (Mas) is senior director of clinical
operations for Integrium, a contract research organization.
1986
Dolores Bacon (MD) writes, “I was selected
to receive the Mid-Atlantic Regional Award for Excellence as a clinician-teacher
from the Society of General Internal Medicine.” . . . Rob
Levy (Mas) (see ’80RC undergraduate). . . . Joe
(Bill) Putnam (Res) is chairman of the newly created department of thoracic
surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
1987
Bruce Holm (PhD) was appointed executive director
of the newly expanded Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life
Sciences at the University at Buffalo.
1989
Mary Gavin (MD), ’92 (Res) is the medical
editor of www.kidshealth.org
and the author of Fit Kids: A Practical Guide to Raising Healthy and Active
Children from Birth to Teens.
1992
Joseph Bifano (MD) is Corning (N.Y.) Hospital’s
chief of radiology. . . . Mary Gavin (Res) (see
’89).
1996
Cheryl Counsell (MD), a staff physician at the
Syracuse Community Health Center, received certification from the American Board
of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
1998
Jamal Merhy (Res), an internal medicine specialist
and endocrinologist, has joined the medical practice of endocrinologist George
Borst at Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Russell, Ky.
2000
George Silver (Res) was inducted as a fellow of
the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. George is a partner at Orthopaedic
Associates of Saratoga (N.Y.)
2001
Pattarachai Kiratisin (PhD), a faculty member
at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, was the 2004 recipient of the Dade
MicroScan Young Investigator award, given by the American Society for Microbiology.
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