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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

1945
Orthopedic surgeon James Dineen (MD) received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s medical school last April. In addition to his orthopedic practice, James taught at UNC from 1958 to 1992. Last year, he received a lifetime achievement award from the school’s orthopedics department.

1946
David Metcalf (MD) writes, “I now migrate between Montana (summer) and South Carolina (winter). I fish, read, and socialize. Sheila and I are doing well.”

1958
Francis Mahoney (Mas) was named an honorary member of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology at the group’s annual meeting last October. Since 1972, Francis has been the radiation program director and chief of radiotherapy development at the National Cancer Institute.

1963
Paul Levine (MD) has had two articles published, one on a suspected human breast cancer virus in the journal Cancer, and the other on patterns of inflammatory breast cancer in the United States. He continues his research and teaches at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

1977
Barbara Gruebel (Res) writes, “After completing my internal medicine residency at Strong in 1977, I received the American Lung Association fellowship in pulmonary medicine, studying respiratory muscle fatigue at the University of Michigan, and was recognized by the American College of Chest Physicians as one of the ‘Young Pulmonary Physicians of the Future.’ Since my fellowship, I have taught at the University of Texas Health Center in Dallas as a clinical assistant professor, with a private pulmonary medicine practice at Methodist Medical Center, where I was codirector of pulmonary services. In addition to teaching at the health center in Dallas, I was invited to study and lecture in several countries. In 1993, I lectured at the International Conference on Women’s Health in Beijing and several medical schools in China. I received the American Medal of Honor for Teaching Abroad in 2001 and the International Peace Prize for lecturing abroad in 2003, and many more recognitions, as well as being chosen by the mayor of Dallas as one of the top women leaders in their respective fields. I was listed in the Consumers’ Research Council of America’s Guide to America’s Top Physicians (2004–05), Who’s Who in Medicine and Health Care (1990–present), International Who’s Who of Women (1992), and Women’s Inner Circle of Achievement (1992). I also have remained very active in supporting the arts and performing arts, civic leadership, and community volunteer leadership in developing programs for the needy and camps for chronically ill children.”

1979
Robert Brodell (MD), ’81 (Res) was the fifth person inducted into the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Hall of Fame. He was recognized for his involvement in the Trumbull County (Ohio) 2005 Relay for Life event, which raised more than $1 million for the American Cancer Society; for promoting his “brainchild,” “Celebration on the Hill,” which brought cancer survivors from across the nation to Washington, D.C., to advocate for cancer issues; and for his participation as a member of the national Relay for Life advisory team. . . . Kevin Campbell (PhD) was named head of the physiology and biophysics department at the University of Iowa. Kevin, the Roy J. Carver Chair of Physiology and Biophysics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has served as interim head of the department since 2002.

1980
Robert Simms (MD), a rheumatologist at Boston Medical Center and professor of medicine at Boston University, was named one of “America’s Top Doctors” by Castle Connolly Medical.

1981
Robert Brodell (Res) (see ’79).

1984
Brian Zink (MD) has been elected to the board of trustees of Huron Valley Ambulance. Brian is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor.

1986
Richard Gallo (MD), (PhD) has joined Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals’ scientific advisory board. Richard is chief of the dermatology department at the University of California at San Diego.

1989
George Gray (PhD), executive director of the Center for Risk Analysis and a faculty member at the Harvard University School of Public Health, was nominated by President Bush to be an assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

1993
Child psychiatrist Eva Szigethy (MD) is director of the medical coping clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s inflammatory bowel disease center.

1995
Terese Honel Bailey (Pdc) is cofounder and president of Bailey Family Dental, which serves children and adults.

2001
Matthew Funderburk (MD) and Jennifer Schum were married on October 30, 2004, in Fairport, N.Y. Matthew is a chief resident at Strong, and Jennifer is completing a postdoctoral fellowship there. They live in Rochester.