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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

1954
Gene (MD) and Linda Fabry Farley ’51RC, ’55 (MD), ’70 (Res), emeritus faculty at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, led a discussion on universal health insurance in Manitowoc, Wis., last September.

1967
William Munson (Res), ’68 (Flw), an endocrinologist, was interviewed last August in the Colorado Springs Business Journal, where he discussed the need for more endocrinologists. He has worked at the Colorado Springs Endocrine Clinic since 1972.

1969
Karen Hitchcock (PhD) was named to CardioMag Imaging’s board of directors.

1970
Linda Fabry Farley (Res) (see ’54).

1972
Ruby Sturgis Belton (see ’04).

1979
Carl Patow (MD), executive director of the HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education, was awarded a Bush Foundation Medical Fellowship to pioneer reform of graduate medical education in Minnesota.

1982
Craig Smith (Res), chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, was the lead surgeon for the medical team that performed former President Bill Clinton’s heart bypass surgery last September.

1984
John Fung (Res) is chair of general surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. Previously, he was transplant chief at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

1986
Steve Gilbert (PhD) (see ’73RC undergraduate).

1988
Wendy Weitzman Cohen (MS) (see ’87RC undergraduate).

1989
Mark Kimmel (Flw) has been appointed medical director of the Middlesex Hospital Cancer Center in Connecticut.

1994
Air Force Maj. Steven Pflanz (MD) was elected vice president of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry and was appointed chair of the American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Psychiatry in the Workplace. He currently is assigned to McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey.

1996
Yvonne Murphy (MD) and Walter Wojcik were married on September 12. Yvonne teaches and practices family medicine, and Walter practices neurology, at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill.

1997
Kelly Goonan (MPH) writes, “I have been promoted. My new title is associate director of quality of care at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Previously, I was program manager of evidence-based medicine. I live in Greensboro, N.C.”

1998
Joseph Bliss (PhD), (MD) joined Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in the pediatrics department. He specializes in neonatology.

1999
Shahin Shahgoli (Pdc) joined the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Centers in Marion, Ohio, as an oral surgeon.

2000
Vidya Jayawardena (Res), staff physician at the spinal cord injury unit at the Hunter Holmes McGuire V. A. Medical Center in Richmond, Va., and assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, received the 2004 Ernest Bors Award for Scientific Development, given by the American Paraplegia Society. . . . Ann Marsh (MD) is an emergency department physician at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and Providence Hospital in Michigan.

2002
Juan Cordero (Res) is a cardiothoracic surgeon at CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Previously, Juan was an attending cardiothoracic surgeon in Phoenix.

2004
Douglas Belton (MD) was profiled in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle last May. He is the son of Ruby Sturgis Belton ’72 (MD), the first African-American female graduate of the School of Medicine and Dentistry.