Class Notes

School of Medicine and Dentistry

1954
Donald Henderson (MD), ’77RC (HNR), a longtime professor at Johns Hopkins University and founding director of its Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, will join others from Hopkins and the University of Pittsburgh to create a new Center for Biosecurity. The researchers will develop models for dealing with large numbers of bioterrorism victims. They also started the field’s first peer-reviewed journal, Biodefense Quarterly.

1959
Michael Lamm (MD), professor of pathology at Case Western Reserve University, has been named the 2004 recipient of the Gold-Headed Cane Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology, given in recognition of long-term contributions to the field.

1963
Albert Wiley (MD) writes, “I retired from radiation oncology as professor emeritus from the University of Wisconsin–Madison but am now working as a senior physician for a Department of Energy Homeland Security group, which is based in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and responds nationally/internationally to radiation emergencies with the International Atomic Energy Agency. See www.orau.gov/reacts.”

1966
Michael Rosenfeld (MD), professor of medicine at University of California–San Diego and a member of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been ranked among the most-cited researchers in the past 20 years by Science Watch, a subscription newsletter that tracks trends and performance in research.

1969
Karen Hitchcock (PhD) announced in October that she plans to step down as president of SUNY Albany at the end of the school year.

1970
Navy Rear Admiral James Johnson (MD) has been appointed director of the west region of Tricare, the Department of Defense’s health care program. His region encompasses 20 states and serves more than two million beneficiaries. . . . Oncologist Donald Kufe (MD), professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has joined the biopharmaceutical company Adherex Technologies as chairman of its scientific and clinical advisory committees. . . . Philip Pizzo (MD), dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, has been elected to the board of directors of California Healthcare Institute, a nonprofit public policy research and advocacy organization.

1972
David Satcher (Res), director of the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine and former U.S. surgeon general, hosted a town meeting with sixth graders from Rochester’s Enrico Fermi School No. 17 last September. The event was part of the Medical Center’s initiative to make Rochester the healthiest city in America by 2020.

1977
Barbara Araneo (PhD) is vice president of development at StemCells Inc.

1979
Francis Thomas (MS) has joined the University of Alabama as dean of the School of Dentistry. Previously, he was chairman of the pediatric dentistry department at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

1981
David Nash (MD), associate dean for health policy at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, was named one of the top 100 most influential people in health care for 2003 by Modern Healthcare magazine. He also was named the first chairman of the Office of Health Policy at Jefferson. The Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy, David is the founding director of Jefferson’s Office of Health Policy and Clinical Outcomes.

1983
Thomas Mahoney (Res), longtime board president of the Rochester Individual Practice Association, has taken over as CEO. He was profiled in the September 12, 2003, issue of the Rochester Business Journal. He lives in Henrietta, N.Y., with his wife, Cheryl, and their two children, Erin, 19, and Kevin, 17.

1988
Gerard Michel (MS), ’88S (MBA) (see ’85RC undergraduate).

1995
Don Dizon (MD) (see ’91RC undergraduate).

1996
Joshua Goldstein (MD) married Irene Herman on November 15, 2003, in New York City. He teaches at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago and directs the residency program in pediatric neurology. She completed a clinical fellowship in surgery in September.

1997
Jon Nezezon (MS) (see ’98RC undergraduate). . . . Kelly Zou (PhD) e-mails that she received a National Institutes of Health grant as principal investigator on neuroinformatics in image-guided neurosurgery. Her research will be funded for three years.

1999
Lynne Arnold (MPH) (see ’93RC graduate). . . . Scott Ng-Evans (PhD) (see ’94RC undergraduate).

2001
Heather Ripstein (MD) married Jason Bonenfant on September 6, 2003. Heather is an internal medicine resident at Strong Memorial Hospital, and Jason is a financial advisor at Prudential Financial Services.

2002
Patrick Sarmiere (PhD) married Casey Edwards on September 27, 2003, in Guilford, Conn. She is a physical therapist, and he is a postdoctoral fellow at Colorado State University and recipient of a Christopher Reeve Foundation Grant. They live in Fort Collins, Colo.

2003
Jonathan Baden (MS) married Melissa Hudecek on July 26, 2003, in Henrietta, N.Y. Jonathan is a scientist in cancer diagnostics at Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics, and Melissa is pursuing a master’s degree at SUNY College at Brockport. They live in Brighton, N.Y.