Class Notes

1962 Geoffrey Sperber (MS) has published a third edition of Craniofacial Embryogenetics and Development (People’s Medical Publishing House), incorporating new findings in embryonic research. He’s a professor emeritus of medicine and dentistry at the University of Alberta.

1964 Larry Nazarian (MD), ’66 (Res) writes: “With sadness I report the passing of Steve Kunitz (MD), in April. After completing his training as a physician, Steve earned a master’s degree in the history of medicine and a PhD in sociology. A prolific researcher and writer, he became an expert in the sociology of medical knowledge, the history of medicine, and the relationship between social change and morbidity and mortality. Widely traveled, Steve worked with natives of the Polynesian Islands, Australian aboriginal people, and the Navajo people, among others. His career involved many years on the faculty of the School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is remembered by his friends for his superb intellect and his wonderful sense of humor, manifested often by outrageous puns. Steve is survived by his wife, Izzie, daughter Lisa, son Daniel, and grandchildren Rachel and Joseph.”

1979 Elizabeth Warner (MD), ’83 (Res) is the coauthor, with Adrienne Bonham ’10S (MS), ’01M (Res) and James Woods, former chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Rochester, of The Little Book of Menopause: Living with the Challenges of Breast Cancer (University of Rochester Press). Elizabeth is a clinical professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at Rochester; Adrienne is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Rochester.

1980 Wendy Schlessel Harpham (MD), a physician and cancer survivor, has published Healing Hope: Through and Beyond Cancer (Curant House). “Hope remains a vital element in the illness journey,” she writes. “The topic of healing hope will resonate with anyone who has ever been a patient or cared for a patient.” . . . Robert Smith (Flw) writes that a fourth edition has been published of Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method (McGraw-Hill). He adds: “I was a fellow in the consultation liaison group of George Engel in 1979–80 and on faculty as an assistant professor from 1980 to 1984.” Robert holds the title University Distinguished Professor and is a professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University.

1982 Harold Paz (MD) (see ’77 College).

1983 Elizabeth Warner (Res) (see ’79).

1999 Teresa Herbert (MPH) has been named chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs at Park Ridge Health in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

2000 Marla Bruns (MS) (see ’99 College).

2001 Adrienne Bonham (Res) (see ’79).

2004 Roger Di Pietro (Pdc) has published a book, Decoding Persistent Depression: Book One—Mysteries and Mindsets (Lulu), the first in a planned series on long-term depression. Roger is a clinical psychologist in private practice with offices in Rochester, Syracuse, and Baldwinsville, New York.

2016 Alison Gaylo (PhD), ’18 (MD) (see ’13 Graduate).