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).