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School of Medicine and Dentistry

1969

Jeffrey Meilman (MD), ’71 (Res), a Buffalo plastic surgeon, has been named a trustee of Daemen College.

1972

Michael LaCombe (Res) (see ’64 undergraduate).

1973

Jim Clark (MD) writes that his wife, Ann Spiegel (MD), passed away in March, of cancer. Jim and Ann met as Rochester medical students. Jim welcomes classmates to e-mail him at jaljclark@aol.com with notes and remembrances of Ann.

1975

Carol Warren Nichols (MS) (see ’72 undergraduate). . . . Owen Oksanen (MD) has been named to the medical executive committee of the Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf in Port St. Joe, Fla. The committee acts as a liaison between the hospital staff and the hospital’s board.

1979

Stephen Buell (PhD) has been named managing director and director of U.S. equity research at the financial services firm Canaccord Adams. He focuses on the energy, technology, life sciences, consumer, and sustainability sectors.

1981

Kevin Black (MD), ’86M (Res) was elected to the board of directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in March. He chairs the orthopaedics and rehabilitation department at Penn State University’s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa.

1982

Rick Hodes (MD), the medical director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, is the subject of a new book, This Is A Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes (Harper Collins), by Marilyn Berger, and a documentary, Making the Crooked Straight, by writer and filmmaker Susan Cohn Rockefeller that aired on HBO this spring. Rick continues to practice medicine in Ethiopia, and shares his home with more than 20 adopted and foster children.

1985

Mel Reichman (PhD) has been elected to the board of directors of the Society for Biomolecular Sciences, an association devoted to drug discoveries.

1987

Daniel Fish (MD) has been named chief of orthopaedic surgery at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn.

1989

Steven Hanks (MD), ’92M (Res) (see ’84 undergraduate).

1994

Matthew Esposito (MD) has joined the obstetrics and gynecology department of the division of maternal-fetal medicine at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.

1999

David Provenzano (MD) has been named to the research committee of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. David is the executive medical director of the Ohio Valley General Hospital Institute for Pain Diagnostics and Care, an adjunct assistant professor and clinical instructor in the pharmacology department at Duquesne University, and a board member of the American Chronic Pain Association.

2001

Natalia Raoof (MD) (see ’95 undergraduate).