Class Notes

School of Medicine and Dentistry

1958
Anthony Tartaglia (MD) is lead independent director at Albany Molecular Research. He has been on the company’s board of directors since 1995.

1966
Julian Earls (Mas) was a finalist to become Alabama A&M University’s 10th president. Julian is director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

1971
Mohamed Sharawy (PhD), professor of oral biology and maxillofacial pathology at the Georgia School of Dentistry, received the 2005 Isaiah Lew Memorial Research Award from the American Academy of Implant Dentistry Research Foundation.

1974
Paul Mintz (MD) (see ’70RC undergraduate).

1976
Capt. Jack Riggs (MD), ’81 (Res), ’82 (Res) and Col. Michael Panosian ’86 (MD), ’94 (Res) met in the desert of Kuwait while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Jack writes, “We reminisced about our common medical school experiences in cold, snowy Rochester while serving together in hot, sandy Kuwait.” Jack, who has served in the Navy Reserves for 25 years, is commanding officer of the U.S. Military Hospital in Kuwait and Expeditionary Medical Facility Dallas, a unit that staffs the Kuwait hospital and nine clinics in Kuwait and Qatar. Michael, who has served with the Air Force for 22 years, is commander of the 386th Expeditionary Medical Group. Jack is professor of neurology at West Virginia School of Medicine. He and his wife, Christine, have four children—three in college and one who will be attending West Point in the fall. Michael and his wife, Rene, have two middle school–age children. They live in Xenia, Ohio.

1979
Barry Rosenstein (PhD) (see ’73RC undergraduate).

1981
David Nash (MD) is a coauthor of The Quality Solution: The Stakeholder’s Guide to Improving Health Care. David is the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy and chair of the health policy department at Thomas Jefferson University’s medical college in Philadelphia.

1982
Patrick Pullicino (Res), professor and chair of neurosciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, was reappointed to the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council, a component of the National Institutes of Health.

1983
Melinda Saran (Mas) (see ’82RC undergraduate).

1984
Christopher Hillyer (MD) is chair of the scientific advisory board of Immucor, a blood transfusion equipment manufacturer. Christopher is director of the transfusion medicine program at Emory University in Atlanta.

1986
Dolores Bacon (MD) writes, “In December 2004, I was promoted to associate clinical professor of medicine at Columbia Presbyterian College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.” . . . Michael Panosian (MD), ’94 (Res) (see ’76). . . . Tess Schmalbach (Flw), ’89 (PhD) is senior vice president of clinical and medical affairs and chief medical officer of Dyax Corp, a biotherapeutics company. Previously, Tess was vice president of clinical development at Coley Pharmaceutical Group.

1990
Denise Dion (MD) was appointed to the Oregon Governor’s Commission on Senior Services. Denise is the medical director of Greater Oregon Behavioral Health.

2002
Todd Whitman (MD) is an internist at the NorthEast Medical Center in Concord, N.C.

2003
Julie Neuberg (MS) and Paul Mason were married on October 8, 2005, in Lockport, N.Y. Julie is a scientific technical assistant at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany, and Paul is a computer programmer at Element K in Düsseldorf.