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Fellows, Faculty and House Staff
1932
Harry Neel, of Albert Lea, Minn., has received a lifetime achievement award from the Freeborn County Medical Society for outstanding accomplishments during his 43-year career there as a surgeon and clinician. Neel, who turned 103 on May 14, has become a local celebrity, according to Dieter Heinz, president of the medical society. The American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) designated Albert Lea part of its Blue Zone initiative to improve the longevity of individuals by changing the lifestyles of those who live in a community and Neel has been interviewed and celebrated as a key figure in the 10-month project. (Fall 2009)
Joseph Hafkenschiel, Jr., of Portola Valley, Calif., has published A 21st Century Memoir. (January 2009)
1943
Merel Harmel, of Chapel Hill, N.C., is mentioned in an article about the history of anesthesia in the Fall 2009 issue of Hopkins Medicine magazine. (October 2009)
1946
Peter Randall, of Gwynedd, Pa., professor emeritus of plastic surgery at University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has been honored with the creation of the Peter Randall Endowed Chair in Pediatric Plastic Surgery. (Winter 2009)
1949
James Hansen, of San Pedro, Calif., emeritus professor of medicine at the Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, delivered the Distinguished Scientist Honor Lecture at the 2008 meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Philadelphia last October. His topic was “What’s New in Spirometry.” He still teaches and performs research at the medical center. (October 2008)
Alan Hofmann, of La Jolla, Calif., has had curative back surgery, climbed a mountain in Austria, taken his grandchildren up the Rhine and down the Seine, and published his 325th scientific paper. (Winter 2009)
1957
Ethan Welch, of Webster, N.Y., has published La Trappe Creek Chronicles: A Log of Adventures...Sailing with Friends,a lavishly illustrated history of the creation and nurturing of a sailing organization, the La Trappe Creek Historical and Ecological Society. (Fall 2009)
1959
Mac DuBose, of Durham, NC, shared this note about philanthropy and his time at Hopkins with classmates at his 50th Reunion. (June 2009)
Jeremiah Barondess, of New York, N.Y., president emeritus of the New York Academy of Medicine, joins NYU College of Nursing's Board of Advisors. (August 2009)
Raymond Lenhard, of Baltimore, recently became a member of the Oncology Nursing Society Foundation Board of Trustees. (Fall 2009)
Gary Birnbaum, of Excelsior, Minn., has published a new book, Multiple Sclerosis. Part of the Oxford Neurology Library, this practical pocket book covers current approaches and new developments in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of the disease, including both early and advanced stages. (Fall 2009)
David Levin, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., has received the Gold Medal of the Association of University Radiologists. (March 2008)
1965
Barry Strauch, of Mc Lean, Va., received the 2008 Laureate Award from the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Physicians. (Spring 2009)
1969
James Muller, of Auburndale, Mass., is founder and head of InfraReDx, which has built a near-infrared spectroscopy catheter to find vulnerable coronary plaques. FDA approval was obtained for the device in April 2008, and it now is being used throughout the U.S. (Spring 2009)
Bennie I. Osburn, of Wilton, Calif., dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California–Davis, has been named to the Board of Directors for Medical Management International, in Portland, Oregon.
1971
Susan Shurin, of Bethesda, Md., currently the deputy director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, will serve as acting director for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development beginning October 1.
Joseph Haraszti, of Pasadena, Calif., has started a weekly live webcast, held 9:00-9:30 pm every Wednesday, entitled “Wednesday Evenings with Dr. Joe and Marta.” The topics cover the healthcare field with an emphasis on mental health and addiction medicine. You can also follow him on Twitter. (September 2009)
1972
Eileen Vining, of Baltimore, professor of neurology and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the John M. Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center, has received the J. Kiffin Penry Excellence in Epilepsy Care Award from the American Epilepsy Society. (Spring 2009)
1973
Ronald Luff, of Bethlehem, Pa., recently gave the John K. Frost Lecture at the Hopkins cytopathology course. (Fall 2009)
Michael Lubin, of Atlanta, Ga., just returned from a sabbatical as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo and has published the fourth edition of Medical Management of the Surgical Patient. (Spring 2009)
John Ricotta, of Washington, D.C., was named to the Hawfield Chair of Surgery at Washington Hospital Center, a member of MedStar Health. (Spring 2009)
1974
Peter Agre, of Baltimore, director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, has been named president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (February 2008)
Peter Byeff, of Southington, Conn., has recently been re-appointed as the medical director of the George Bray Cancer Center of the Hospital of Central Connecticut. (Spring 2009)
Monte Del Monte, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is involved in international medical missions worldwide with ORBIS International and other non-governmental organizations. He has served as chair of the International Affairs Committee for the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. (Spring 2009)
Peter Gallerstein, of Morristown, N.J., recently joined the full-time staff at Morristown Memorial Hospital, which soon will open a new facility, the Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute. (Spring 2009)
1975
George Lawry, of Iowa City, Iowa, recently left the University of Iowa in October to become the Division Chief of Rheumatology at the University of California at Irvine. (October 2009)
Shelby Wilkes, of Atlanta, Ga, was recently was elected chairman of the Audit Committee at Capital City Bank. He was re-elected to the office of Treasurer of the National Medical Association Ophthalmology section. (August 2009)
Andrew Yeager, of Tucson, AZ, celebrated his daughter's wedding in Baltimore this past June. The groom's father is Dr. Yeager's classmate from Hopkins, Tom Guarnieri, Med '75! (June 2009)
1977
David Hellmann, of Baltimore, is attempting to turn Hopkins’ symbolic academic triangle into a 3-D pyramid, all in the name of better patient care. (October 2009)
Carlos T. Mock, of Three Oaks, Mich., Floricanto Press editor for its GLBT series, has published his fourth book: Cuba Libre, “Mentirita,” a Cuban history book filled with first hand accounts and anecdotes. He was inducted into the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame in October of 2007.
1981
Morton Kalus, of Manassas, Va., has joined the team of cardiologists at Augusta Health. (August 2009)
Louis Aronne, of Greenwich, Conn., is founder and director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He has just published The Skinny: On Losing Weight without Being Hungry-the Ultimate Guide to Weight Loss Success, a New York Times Best Sellers List selection. (Fall 2009)
1982
Peter McDonnell, of Batimore, is mentioned in the article, "The Wilmer Way", published in Johns Hopkins Medicine's Dome publication. He is the director of the Wilmer Eye Institute. (October 2009)
Donald Small, of Baltimore, Appointed Division Director of Johns Hopkins Pediatric Oncology. (July 2009)
1983
Chris Forsmark, of Gainesville, Fla., chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Florida, has taken over as chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine's Gastroenterology Board. (July 2008)
Steven Holland, of Bethesda, Md., has received the 2009 Abbott Laboratories Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology from the American Society for Microbiology. Chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases and the Infectious Diseases Program of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Holland was recognized for his outstanding contributions to the diagnosis and understanding of infectious diseases, physiological host defenses, and inherited immune disorders. (Spring 2009)
James Robusto, of Urbanna, Va., recently received an MBA from the College of William & Mary. (Spring 2009)
1984
Ann Conjura, of Huntington, W.Va., has been promoted to chief medical director of Hospice of Huntington. She teaches pain management and other palliative skills to third- year medical students at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. (Spring 2009)
Gerald Gacioch, of Fairport, N.Y., plans to complete medical missions in Haiti and Belize, and to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro this year. (Spring 2009)
Robert Wasserman, of Merion Station, Pa., recently joined Roche as the vice president, head of Clinical Research and Exploratory Development in Oncology. (Spring 2009)
1985
Charles Sawyers, of New York, N.Y., receives the prestigious 2009 Lasker~Debakey Clinical Medical Research Award. (September 2009)
1986
Scott Nyberg, of Rochester, Minn., transplant surgeon and professor of surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, has received the Ridgewater College Foundation’s Distinguished Service and Distinguished Alumni Awards. (Agust 2009)
1987
Keith Ablow, of Newbury, MA, is highlighted in an article in the Boston Globe. (September 2009)
William Nelson, of Towson, Md, was recently appointed director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. (June 2009)
Jacqueline Junkins-Hopkins, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., has joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Dermatology as director of dermatopathology. (Spring 2009)
1989
Richard Hairston, of Largo, Fla., has become a fellow in the American College of Surgeons. (Spring 2009)
Lincoln Pao, of New Rochelle, N.Y., was named head of the radiation oncology section of the New York State Radiological Society last year. He formerly headed the society’s New York City office. He has served as a delegate and councilor for the American Radiological Society for the past few years, and previously was the American Cancer Society’s regional vice president for medical affairs. (Spring 2009)
1990
Sharon Crane, of Potomac, Md., recently joined Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C., one of the nation's top intellectual property law firms, specializing in litigation, counseling, licensing, trademarks, copyright, and unfair competition. The firm's clients include leading companies from around the world. (Fall 2009)
J. Michael Ruppert, of Morgantown, W. Va., has been named the first Jo and Ben Statler Eminent Scholar and Chair in Breast Cancer Research at West Virginia University’s Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center. (Spring 2009)
1991
Thomas Lundquist recently joined BlueCross BlueShield Tennessee as vice president of performance measurement & improvement. The family moved in August to Chattanooga, Tenn., along with their newest addition, Anya Sophia, born March 2009! (September 2009)
Markham Luke, of Gaithersburg, Md., is now chief medical officer and clinical deputy director for the Office of Device Evaluation, part of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. (Fall 2008)
1992
Redonda Miller, of Baltimore, has been appointed vice president for medical affairs for The Johns Hopkins Hospital. (June 2009)
1993
J. Quentin Clemens, of Dexter, Mich., is director of the Division of Neurourology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Michigan and was recently named chair of the American Urological Association Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee. (Fall 2009)
Nolan Thompson, Jr., of Woodland Hills, Calif., was recently selected to be the chief of psychiatry for Kaiser Permanente in the Panorama City Service Area, which covers the eastern San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. (Fall 2009)
1994
Benjamin Lee, of New Orleans, La., has been promoted to professor of urology and director of robotics, laparoscopy and endourology at the Tulane University School of Medicine. He also recently was awarded the Arthur D. Smith Endourology Lectureship, known as the “Arthur Award,” at the 26th World Congress of Endurological Society, held in Shanghai, China. The award recognized Lee’s expertise in state-of-the-art techniques for minimally invasive surgery. (November 2008)
1995
Andrea Mathias, of Snow Hill, Md., was named to the position of deputy health officer of the Worcester County Health Department. (August 2009)
1996
Dorry Segev, of Baltimore, associate professor of medicine and director of clinical research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has received a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The $400,000 award will fund a study of the role that frailty plays in clinical decision-making for patients over the age of 65 who are undergoing dialysis and considering kidney transplantation. (Spring 2009)
1998
Susan Mani, of Bedford, NY, has won the prestigious Dr. Melville G. Magida Award for 2009. The Magida Award is presented annually by the Fairfield County Medical Association and The Rosenthal Family Foundation. The award recognizes a young who has shown a notable capacity for patient treatment and care and a special sensitivity to patient-physician relationships. (September 2009)
1999
Vaia Lambert and her husband, Drew Lambert, Med '98, of Charlottesville, Va, just had a baby boy! Luke Thaddeus Lambert was born August 9th at 9:21 am, 6 lbs 11 oz. (August 2009)
David-Alexandre Gros, of San Francisco, Calif., formerly a vice president in Healthcare Investment Banking for Merrill Lynch, has become a principal in Centerview Partners Healthcare Investment Banking Practice. (Fall 2009)
2001
Chad Wilson, of Boston, Mass., a Massachusetts General Hospital surgeon, recently returned from Kijabe, Kenya, where he spent a year as an MGH fellow in refuge medicine. He performed surgeries on some of the country's most impoverished residents, as well as Somali refugees, in the small town's 200-bed hospital. He undertook everything from general surgery to neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, urology, obstetrics and plastic surgery, as well as embarked on medical missions to refugee camps in northeastern Kenya. Dr. Wilson also worked with refugees from several camps housing persons displaced by Kenya's politically related violence in 2008 and taught surgery to Kenyan medical students, interns and residents. (Fall 2009)
2003
Joshua Zeichner, of New York, N.Y., was recently appointed as the director of cosmetic and clinical dermatology in the Faculty Practice at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
2002
F. Ancrum (Anc) Clarkson, Jr., of Silver Spring, Md, recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, where he served as battalion surgeon for the Second Battalion, 22nd Infantry, a part of the 10th Mountain Division. He was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service and promoted to the rank of major. (Spring 2009)
Matthew Nielsen, of Durham, N.C., after completing residency and A.C.S. at the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins, has joined the urology faculty at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where he is working with the Multidisciplinary Genitourinary Oncology group at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. (Spring 2009)
2005
Steven Chang, of Baltimore, a resident in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, has received the 2009 Best Resident Basic Science Paper Award from the American Head and Neck Society. A 2005 graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Chang received the award for his study “Chronic Cigarette Smoke Extract Induces Apoptotic Dysfunction and Mitochondrial Mutations in Minimally Transformed Oral Keratinocytes.” (June 2009)
2004
Christy Boling married Aslan Turer on September 12, 2009. They have moved to Dallas, Texas to practice at UT Southwestern.
2006
Rebekah Gundry, of Essex, Md., has been awarded a Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The grant provides $952,000 for her stem cell research, which she hopes will eventually help change the way heart disease is treated in the United States. (August 2009)
Kerry Dierberg, of St. Louis, Mo, was awarded the 2009-2010 Massachusetts General Hospital Thomas S. Durant Fellowship in Refugee Medicine. As a fellow, she will travel to Liberia in September for a year to work as the Medical Director of Tiyatien Health and serve as a doctor at a local hospital. (August 2009)
2007
Nivee Amin, of New York, N.Y., will be returning to Johns Hopkins in July 2010 for a cardiology fellowship. (August 2009)
Medical students Philip Song and Maria Garcia (LOA) have been selected for the 2009–2010 cohort in the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars program. Garcia will work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences. Song will train in Beijing, China, at the Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. The Fogarty International Center, the international component of the National Institutes of Health, chose nearly 100 top graduate students and postdoctoral trainees to train in global health research in low- and middle-income countries. The students will be paired with foreign counterparts in order to conduct clinical research abroad under the tutelage of NIH-funded universities or other research institutions working on infectious or chronic diseases, such as AIDS, malaria, and diseases of the heart, lung and blood. (August 2009)
2011
Medical Student, Jane Andrews, of Cincinnarti, OH, published an Op-Ed piece titled "Drug Competition in Peril" the Baltimore Sun newspaper. (August 2009)
Faculty, Fellows, House Staff
Dorry Segev, associate professor of surgery, is one of eight people who received the 2009 Pail B. Beeson Cancer Development Award in Aging Research. He was recognized for his studies on elderly patients' access to kidney transplantation.
Leon Eisenberg (HS, faculty, child psychiatry, 1950-67), of Cambridge, Mass., has received the first Juan José López Ibor Award from the World Psychiatric Association. Now a professor of social medicine emeritus at Harvard, Eisenberg was recognized for his significant scientific contributions to a better understanding of psychiatric diseases while enhancing the human dignity of patients and their families. The award was presented at the World Psychiatric Congress in Prague last September. (August 2008)
Theodore Malinin (HS, pathology, 1960-61), of Miami, Fla., has published Cancer Merchants, a history of the National Cancer Institute’s now-discontinued Viruses and Cancer Program, founded in 1958 but long marred by scandal, infighting, and flawed leadership. Malinin, a former researcher at the National Cancer Institute, has been a professor and researcher at the University of Miami for the past 38 years. (Spring 2009)
John Hsu (HS, orthopedic surgery, 1964-71), of Downey, Calif., and Charles Classen, Jr., (HS, orthopedic surgery, 1968-71), of Kingston, N.C., met at the fall leadership meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Dallas, Texas. Hsu was there representing the Board of Specialty Society and Classen is a member of the organization’s board of councilors. Also a fellow (aladin has from 1964-71) (Spring 2009)
Amin Barakat (HS, pediatrics, 1969-70), of Vienna, Va., and Russell Chesney (HS, pediatrics, 1968-70), of Memphis, Tenn., have published Pediatric Nephrology for Primary Care, a 511-page book that is part of an explanatory series on pediatric specialties being produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics for the benefit of primary care physicians, residents, and medical students. Barakat is clinical professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and Chesney is professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. (Spring 2009)
Owen Surman (HS, medicine, 1968-69), of Newton, Mass., has published The Wrong Side of an Illness: A Doctor’s Love Story. The book received honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest’s 16th International Self-Published Book Awards, Life Stories Section. (Spring 2009)
Francisco Sabado, Jr. (HS, fellow, otolaryngology, 1968-71), of Martinsburg, W.Va., has been named assistant professor in otolaryngology at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. (Fall 2009)
John Ruckdeschel (HS, medicine, 1971-72), of Grosse Pointe, Mich., has been named director and chief executive officer of the Nevada Cancer Institute. (Spring 2009)
Hiroshi Nishida (fellow, pediatric neonatology, 1972-74), of Tokyo, Japan, has retired from Tokyo Women’s Medical University, where he was chairman of the Maternal and Perinatal Center. His 23 years of work helped to make the Japanese neonatal mortality rate, and subsequently the infant mortality rate, the lowest in the world. (Spring 2009)
Brian Conway (HS, ophthalmology, 1972-77; faculty, ophthalmology, 1977-78) of Charlottesville, Va., has stepped down as chairman of ophthalmology at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine after 30 years; he is still practicing. (Spring 2009)
Stanford Goldman (faculty, radiology and urology, 1972 – 1993), of Houston, Texas, professor of diagnostic and interventional imaging and urology at University of Texas-Houston Medical School, adjunct professor of radiology and urology at Baylor College of Medicine, and clinical professor of radiology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, will receive the Honorary Membership in the Royal Belgium Radiological Society of November 14th, 2009 in Ghent, Belgium.
Noah Lightman (HS, fellow and faculty, radiology, 1973-77), of Baltimore, has been named chairman of the Department of Radiology at Sinai Hospital and LifeBridge Health. (Spring 2009)
Alan Romanoski (HS, psychiatry, 1977-80; faculty, psychiatry, 1984-07) of Baltimore, now has a part-time private practice in general psychiatry at Green Spring Station. (Spring 2009)
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Kathryn Gann (fellow, medicine, 1985-87), of North Providence, R.I., is the new senior medical science liaison at Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Fall 2009)
Terence Flotte (HS, fellow, faculty, pediatrics, 1986-96) now is dean, provost, and executive deputy chancellor at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. "I cannot tell you how much I value the time I spent at Hopkins or how much of a difference it has made in the opportunities that I have had." he writes. (Fall 2009)
Paul Fisher (HS, pediatrics and neurology, 1989-95; faculty, neurology, 1995-97), already professor of pediatric neuro-oncology at Stanford University, has been promoted to professor of neurology, pediatrics, neurosurgery, and human biology, and has been appointed chief of the division of child neurology in the Stanford School of Medicine. (Fall 2009)
Timothy Hickman (HS, fellow, obstetrics & gynecology, 1990-97), of Houston, Texas, has been named director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. (Spring 2009)
Serdar Ural (fellow, obstetrics & gynecology, 1997-2000), is the chief of the division of maternal fetal medicine at Penn State University's College of Medicine, where he also is the founding director of a fellowship training program approved by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. (Fall 2009)
