Alumni Notes

Send news and photos to: P&S Alumni Association College of Physicians & Surgeons 630 W. 168th St. New York, NY 10032 By Marianne Wolff ’52       1944 James Kieran, past president of the American Thoracic Society and the American Lung Association, is clinical professor emeritus at the University of California in San Francisco. 1946 Joseph C. MacKnight and his wife, June, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. 1952 Victor Herbert was awarded Mastership from the American College of Physicians in April 1998. His contributions have been in two main areas. In hematology, he has done basic scientific and clinical research that led to diagnosis and better understanding of megaloblastic and iron deficiency anemias. In his dual role as physician and attorney he has exposed and brought suits against medical charlatans and proponents of fraudulent cancer therapies and irrational health food claims. 1953 Edgar Housepian was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia for collaborating in neurophysiology research. He also received an honorary degree from Armenia’s Yerevan State Medical University for medical services he has offered to Armenia over the past 10 years. 1954 The American College of Physicians gave its John Phillips Memorial Award in April 1998 to Philip W. Brickner in recognition of distinguished achievement in clinical medicine. He is chairman of community medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in New York....A recently retired cardiologist, William F. Haynes Jr., is studying for a master’s degree at La Salle University’s Graduate School of Theology. Descended from a line of ministers, he plans not to become ordained himself, but rather lecture medical students on human spirituality and speak to seminary students on the approach to medical patients. Bill is the author of “A Physician’s Witness to the Power of Prayer” and “Minding the Whole Person: Cultivating a Healthy Lifestyle from Youth through the Senior Years,” both published by Loyola University Press. 1956 Leo J. Dunn is chairman of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which oversees 7,519 accredited residency training programs for 27 specialties. He is professor emeritus at the Medical College of Virginia. 1958 Having worked for five years in a bush mission hospital in Western Zambia in Africa, James H. Jewell is now on the surgical staff at the University of Zambia. 1960 Audrey S. Penn has been named acting director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH. Astronaut Alumnus Helps Launch Pediatric ICU Story Musgrave’64, a veteran of six space shuttle missions, and two other astronauts, Dr. Byron Lichtenberg and Dr. Norman Thagard, were among the speakers at the official opening of the new pediatric intensive care unit at Babies & Children’s Hospital on June 4. The state-of the-art facility was designed with a space motif. “It’s always great to come home,” said Dr. Musgrave, who recalled training on the same floor under the legendary Dr. Hattie Alexander. “This facility is like a space ship,” he said, looking around, “but it’s more advanced than anything we’ve got today.” 1964 Stephen F. Wang is vice president for academic affairs for Atlantic Health System, which encompasses Morristown, Memorial, Overlook, and Mountainside hospitals and the General Hospital Center at Passaic, all in New Jersey. 1965 ASM Press published the second edition of Jay A. Levy’s book, “H.I.V. and the Pathogenesis of AIDS.” In March 1998 he was listed as one of 10 persons judged to have the greatest influence on life in the San Francisco Bay area. He is professor of medicine at UCSF and has been involved in AIDS research for more than 16 years....Robert P. Lisak was appointed editor of the Journal of Neurological Sciences. 1968 Carlton Boxhill was elected president of the Medical Board at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, succeeding his classmate Richard Fried. 1969 The first Distinguished Physician Award presented by the Endocrine Society went to John P. Bilezikian....Lynne L. Johnson is director of cardiology fellowship programs and nuclear cardiology at Rhode Island Hospital. She has been named to serve on the Radiology Study Section for NHLBI for a five-year term. 1970 Stephen A. Cole is medical director of outpatient services at Brattleboro Retreat in Brattleboro, Vt. He is an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill bestowed its Exemplary Psychiatrist Award on him in the years 1993 and 1996....Edmund G. Howe is professor of psychiatry at U.S. Uniformed Health Services in Bethesda, MD, and serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Ethics. 1971 Erik Gann, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA, assumed the presidency of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society in June 1998 for a two-year term. 1972 Peter K. Shaw will serve another year as governor for Maine’s chapter of the American College of Cardiology but has completed his term as president of the Northern New England Tri-State Chapter....Robert Stanton was elected chairman of the Council of Delegates and member of the Board of Directors of the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine. 1975 Anesthesiologist Ellise D. Delphin has been named executive director of operating rooms at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. She is associate professor of clinical anesthesiology and a lecturer at the School of Public Health, having received her MPH degree in health policy and health services management from Columbia. Ellise and classmate/husband Eric Rose, chairman of surgery at P&S, have four children....Steven R. Gambert, professor and vice chairman of medicine at UMDNJ in Newark, is particularly interested in endocrinology and geriatrics. He has become governor for the New York Downstate I Region of the American College of Physicians....Eli Gang has been named clinical professor of medicine at UCLA....Marvin A. Konstam has been serving on the Cardiovascular and Renal Advisory Panel of the Food and Drug Administration. He is chief of cardiology at New England Medical Center-Tufts University....Alan R. Schned has been promoted to the rank of professor of pathology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He also serves as secretary-treasurer of the New Hampshire Society of Pathologists. 1978 Leslie Davidson has been named director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University....Mark D. Stegall, associate professor of surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has become director of kidney and pancreas transplantation and director of the transplantation immunology research laboratory at Mayo. For his work on the role of adhesion molecules in auto-immune diabetes and pancreatic islet allograft rejection the American Diabetes Association honored Mark with its Career Development Award. 1979 Joel E. Chodos has been named one of Delaware’s Top Docs....Board certified in both emergency medicine and addiction medicine, Donald Kurth is medical director of the Chemical Dependency Unit of the Behavioral Medicine Center at Loma Linda University in California. 1980 David R. Larach is chief of cardiac anesthesiology at the St. Joseph Heart Institute in Towson, MD, the busiest open heart surgery program in Maryland. 1981 As a 40th birthday celebration, Rhonda Lubka completed the 1997 Los Angeles Marathon, then backpacked to the peak of San Jacinto Mountain (11,500 feet). She has twins in second grade....Ohannes Nercessian was awarded an honorary degree from Yerevan State Medical University in Armenia for serving on a team that aided earthquake victims in 1988 and for advising the Armenian Ministry of Health (along with Edgar Housepian’53) in setting standards and developing new laws governing health care. 1982 Jonathan D. Licht, associate professor of molecular biology and medicine at Mount Sinai, is also assistant director of that school’s M.D.-Ph.D. program. 1984 Donna Maria Scuderi, formerly director of neuro CT at Georgetown University Hospital, has entered private practice in New York City. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Radiology with an additional qualification in neuroradiology and is a senior member of the American Society of Radiology. 1988 James MacDowell Markert, assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Alabama, is working on genetically engineered herpes simplex virus for the treatment of gliomas. The NIH supports the research....Gwen R. Zornberg received an Sc.D. degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1997. The subject of her thesis was the development of measurements of neonatal conditions that predict schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Gwen is associate director of residency education in psychiatry for the Harvard Longwood Program and director of residency education at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. 1989 Paul J. Sharek received his MPH degree from the University of California at Berkeley and is doing a fellowship in health service research while serving on the pediatrics clinical faculty at UCSF....Having completed two years of service in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ann R. Thomas is still with the CDC, pursuing a preventive medicine residency. 1991 Natalie M. Neu is a pediatric infectious diseases attending at CPMC and also works in private practice.

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