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1935
John Eagan, Sr., of Birmingham, Ala., is former chief of staff of the Department of Medicine of Trinity Hospital. (July 2011)
1946
Josephine Mandeville, president of the Connelly Foundation, presented a certificate of recognition from Dean Edward Miller to Lewis Bluemle, Med '46, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., senior vice president of the Connelly Foundation, in June 2011. (November 2011)
1943
Harry P. Porter Jr., of Cockeysville, Md., and his wife, Elaine, moved into a retirement home in 2009 and are very happy. (November 2011)
1949
William Fritz, of Towson, Md., just published his first book, a murder mystery titled "Thy Will Be Done". (January 2011)
William F. Rienhoff III, of Worton, Md., is a retired surgeon living on Maryland's Eastern Shore (January 2011)
1953
T. Scott McCay, of Jackson, Miss., is retired and enjoying life along with 12 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. (January 2011)
1954
Eugene Blank, of Portland, Ore., had a new version of his book, "USMC 457703: World War II, A History, A Memory", published in April 2010. (January 2011)
Don Carey, of Gilford, N.H., and his wife, Barbara, were not outdoors enthusiasts until they moved to New Hampshire in the early 1970s. But in the last 40 years, they’ve more than made up for lost time. Read more here. (May 2011)
1956
David Paton, of East Hampton, N.Y., published his memoir, "Second Sight: Views From An Eye Doctor's Odyssey". Proceeds from the book will be used in part to support a new Global Ophthalmology Fellowship at ORBIS International, Inc. Excerpts may be found at secondsightbook.com. (July 2011)
1960
C. Richard Conti, of Gainesville, Fla., was the honoree of the 2011 American Heart Association's Gainesville Heart Ball.
1963
Edward R. Laws of Jamaica Plain, Mass., an expertin the treatment of neuroendocrine disorders, was named director of the Neuro Endocrine/Pituitary Program at Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital in June 2008. (January 2011)
1967
Lisa Dunkle, of Madison, Conn., is chief medical officer of Protein Sciences Corporation, where she develops purified proteins for vaccines by cell based methodology – influenza, seasonal and pandemic. (July 2011)
William Jack II, of Corpus Christi, TX, retired from cardiology. (July 2011)
Issam Shaker, of Macon, Ga., is the 2011 president of Bibb County Medical Society. (April 2011)
Richard W. Garner of Anchorage, AK, is an orthopedic surgeon at the Anchorage Fracture and Orthopedic Clinic in Alaska. (January 2011)
1968
Vernon Tolo, of Pasadena, Calif., is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. (July 2011)
1969
A. Everette James, of Chapel Hill, N.C., is a doctor, author, and noted collector of American art. He is on the boards of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements and the Center for Study of the American South as well as a consultant for the Smithsonian Institution. (January 2011)
Leslie P. Weiner, of Los Angeles, Calif. is chair of the Peer Review Committee for the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health Stem Cell Research Program. (January 2011)
Eitan D. Schwarz, of Wilmette, Ill., a child and adolescent psychiatrist, is the author of "Kids, Parents, and Technology: An Instruction Guide for Young Families" (lulu.com. 2009). (January 2011)
S. Robert Hurwitz, of Las Vegas, Nev., is in full time practice in radiology, professor at University of Nevada (Las Vegas) and professor of radiology at Touro University School of Medicine. His current research interests are antibody therapy of carcinoma. (July 2011).
1971
Risa Mann, of Chevy Chase, Md., retired in 2004 as professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after being on the faculty in surgical pathology and hematopathology for 27 years. She was also director of the Residency Program in Anatomic Pathology for 17 years. (July 2011)
1972
Mary Guinan, of Henderson, Nev., is featured in an alumni profile on the The University of Texas Medical Branch website. (November 2011)
1974
Timothy C. Hengst, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has advanced to the rank of full professor at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. (January 2011)
Timothy Hengst, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., illustrator of more than 60 medical and surgical texts, as well as a contributor to more than 100 scientific journals, chairs the multimedia department and teaches digital illustration and graphics at California Lutheran University. He recently displayed as artwork at the university's Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture in the Soiland Humanities Center. (April 2011)
Richard Kay, of Briarcliff, N.Y., writes, "Professional life remains satisfying in turbulent times. Family life is great with 3 grandchildren, all nearby. Roberta and I are disappointed that we will miss the 35th reunion in 2011 because of a family event conflict, but hope to make the 40th!"
Ingram Roberts, of Southport, Conn., was elected to the Board of Directors of the American College of Physician Executives.
1977
Wayne Shandera, of Houston, TX, received the 2011 Saint Martin de Porres Award, presented by the Southern Dominicans, on May 5. (May 2011)
Warren Lovinger, Jr., of Nevada, Mo., recently was installed as a Master of the American College of Physicians. (April 2011)
1978
Keith Lillemoe, of Zionsville, Ind., recently became surgeon-in-chief and head of the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. A world-renowned specialist in pancreatic and biliary surgery, Lillemore spent 27 years at Hopkins, serving as deputy director of the Department of Surgery, prior to becoming surgeon-in-chief and chairman of surgery at Indiana University Hospital in 2003. (April 2011)
1981
Louis Aronne, of Greenwich, Conn., is clinical professor of medicine at Weill-Cornell Medical College and has an adjunct appointment at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program, past president of The Obesity Society and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. (July 2011)
Alan Genicoff, of Lodi, Calif., decided after 23 years in emergency medicine to go to law school. He received his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis in 2007 and now practices both emergency medicine and provides consultation in health law matters, offering his services as an expert witness in emergency medicine and internal medicine. (April 2011)
1982
Chi Van Dang, Med ‘82, professor of medicine, cell biology, oncology and pathology, The Johns Hopkins Family Professor, and vice dean for research, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences whose current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. (April 2011)
Samuel Yang, of Helena, Mont., is thrilled that his daughter just got accepted into the MSPH program of the International Health Department at Hopkins /Bloomberg School of Public Health. (March 2011)
1983
Mark Schlissel, of Moraga, Calif., former dean of biological sciences in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California–Berkeley, was named the 11th provost of Brown University. (July 2011)
Carey Bligard of Fort Dodge, IA, a physician and author, has published her debut novel, "Mr. Darcy's Little Sister" (Sourcebooks, 2010), written under her pen name, C. Allyn Pierson. (January 2011)
1985
Elizabeth Engle, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., was featured for her research with a group of rare eye disorders in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin (February 2011), in the article "Eyes Wide Open". (November 2011)
Richard Pomerantz, recently returned to Baltimore as chairman of the Department of Medicine at St. Agnes Hospital, after 20 years on the cardiology faculty at the University of Rochester Medical Center. (April 2011)
Todd Cohen, of Port Washington, N.Y., associate professor of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is also director of electrophysiology, director of the Pacemaker-Arrhythmia Center, and director of Advanced EP Technology and Innovations at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y. He has published "A Patient's Guide to Heart Rhythm Problems" (The Johns Hopkins University Press). It is an easy-to-read book that provides detailed information to help people with arrhythmias obtain accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment. (April 2011)
Steven Rosen, of Dix Hills, N.Y., recently became director of the Cushing Neuroscience Institute at South Side Hospital. (April 2011)
Se-Jin Lee, of Baltimore, professor of molecular biology and genetics at the School of Medicine, is one of five Hopkins researchers who have been elected Fellows of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. Lee was chosen for his discovery of the protein hormone myostatin, a master regulator of skeletal muscle mass and homeostasis. (April 2011)
Richard Van Breemen, of Elmhurst, Ill., has received the Harvey W. Wiley Award, the top accolade from the international Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC International). He also has been recognized for his work in natural products and dietary supplements. (April 2011)
Hank Wuh, of Honolulu, HI, founder and CEO of Cellular Bioengineering Inc., was involved with a partnership to produce "The Tempest", which was nominated for an Oscar this year for best costume design. (April 2011)
Christine Harter, of Scottsdale, Ariz., notes, "Christine Harter started a solo internal medicine private practice in Phoenix, Arizona in 2008 that has been growing over the past two years. The practice is approximately 50% general internal medicine, and 50% headache medicine. She was certified in 2006 as a headache specialist by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties, at that time one of only three physicians in Arizona to be so certified. She has been married for 30 years to Bob Harter, and their daughter Claire is graduating from Hillsdale College in 2011. Their son Andrew attends Sewanee -- the University of the South." (April 2011)
Jonathan Talamo, of Newton, Mass., notes, "Am now entering my 3rd decade practicing ophthalmology in/around Boston. After several years in academia, I have been in small group private practice since the late '90's specializing in refractive, corneal and cataract surgery (i.e. front of the eye...). I remain on the volunteer faculty at Harvard as an Associate Clinical Professor of Opthalmology and enjoy teaching. Consulting for the medical device industry (special interest in lasers) keeps me busy traveling and doing research with new technology. If someone had told me 25 years ago that this was how it was all going to work out (i.e. not full time academics) I probably wouldn't have believed them, but I do still enjoy getting up and going to work in the morning..." (April 2011)
Marc Safran, of Fayetteville, N.Y., notes, "Marc Safran is an ophthalmologist in Liverpool, NY just north of Syracuse. Despite 200 inches of snow this year, he hasn't had to ski into work (quite yet). He just built a new office which has incorporated his visual love of photography into the decor and ambience of the facility." (April 2011)
1986
Suzanne Koven, of Concord, Mass., launched her new monthly column in The Boston Globe, "In Practice," highlighting the shared stories at the heart of medicine. The column will appear the last Monday of the month in the G section of the newspaper and also online along with a weekly blog by the same name at boston.com. (March 2011)
Elissa Palmer, of Las Vegas, Nev., notes, "Elissa J Palmer, MD, of Las Vegas, Nevada, currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine and Interim Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, was selected as a Bishop Fellow for 2011-2012 and was honored with the national Society of Family Medicine Advocacy award. She completed her term as President of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, started the third Urgent Care Fellowship in the nation, and continues to pursue development of family medicine residency programs in rural Nevada. She recently celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary with her husband, Richard. Their daughter, Cara, a Presidential Scholar at the University of Southern California, is enjoying her freshman year as are mom and dad since they visit for Trojan football and basketball games." (April 2011)
Nicholas Suite, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., notes, "Portfolio diversification may be the buzz-phrase for the investment banking crowd, but for those of us still caring for patients, "Payer mix optimization" may be our best bet for survival. To live well in today's economy, many of us must step outside of our "doctor box" and do non-patient care endeavors. In any event, I and my family are happy, satisfied, and productive.....but I do look back fondly on the unabashed freedom to pursue pure scholarship that I once enjoyed at Johns Hopkins, when I was unfettered by the chains of potential economic angst." (April 2011)
Ariella Mirowski Rosengard, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., notes, "I am really looking forward to seeing everyone again!" (April 2011)
1987
James Hildreth, of Brentwood, Tenn., an immunologist and professor at Meharry Medical College, who directs its Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research, was named the new dean of the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences. Read more. (November 2011)
Francis McMahon, of Bethesda, Md., was named chief of the Human Genetics Branch of the NIMH Intramural Research Program at the NIH, but still finds time for Alice (6) and Henry (13), and his wife, Ann. (February 2011)
1989
Leigh Ann Curl, of Owings Mill, Md., was featured in the November 2011 Johns Hopkins Magazine article "Roving the Sidelines".
1990
Tomasz Beer, of Portland, Ore., notes "I am traveling across the warm (southern) part of the country with my 12 and 14 year old daughters and my wife Angie, as part of my sabbatical. 5000 miles in, we have made it from Oregon to Florida. In my real life, I serve as deputy director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and a prostate cancer doc. I will be taking a break from that and writing a book for the rest of 2011. Feel very lucky to get a chance to do this." (April 2011)
1991
Knute Buehler, of Bend, Ore., announced his candidacy for Oregon Secretary of State. (November 2011)
William Bowling, of Flint, Mich., was made a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons this past fall. He is currently a staff trauma surgeon at Hurley Medical Center in Flint. (April 2011)
I-Chow Jow Hsu, of San Francisco, Calif., was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology during a convocation ceremony at the annual conference held in May in Washington, D.C. (January 2011)
1992
Michele Shermak, of Baltimore, was mentioned to the UPI article "Breast reduction: Higher risk older women". (November 2011)
Lawrence Kim, of Littleton, Colo., was elected secretary of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. Kim is a managing partner of South Denver Gastroenterology, P.C. and was also elected to the governing board of the American Gastroenterological Association. (July 2011)
Hyung Kim, of Saint Louis, Mo., was elected chief executive officer of Southern Illinois University HealthCare, the medical practice group of their School of Medicine. (April 2011)
1993
W. P. Andrew Lee, of Baltimore, a hand surgeon heralded for his successful hand transplants and breakthrough research on overcoming rejection in composite tissue grafting, has been named the chair of the newly formed Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. (April 2011)
1996
John Strouse, of Baltimore, was quoted in the U.S. News & World Report article, "Melanoma May Be More Aggressive in Kids". (November 2011)
Dorry Segev, of Baltimore, is noted in the The New York Times article, "A New Push to Let H.I.V. Patients Accept Organs That Are Infected". (April 2011)
1998
Simon Tsiouris and his wife, Fatima, have welcomed a new baby boy, Zachary Oliver! (March 2011)
2000
Mohamad Allaf, of Baltimore, had a big surprise at his recent wedding his fiance commissioned Duff Goldman of "Ace of Cakes" to make a grooms cake shaped like the da Vinci surgical system robot, with which Allaf works regularly. (January 2011)
Kanupriva Kumar, of Baltimore, married Ramesh Kasarabada on April 24. (January 2011)
2001
Andrew Doan, of Temecula, Calif., has published Hooked on Games, which provides insight into the minds of hardcore gamers, helping us understand how and why gamers are lured to and trapped within the digital world of video games and the Internet. (February 2012)
2014
Max Romano, of Baltimore, is noted in this Wall Street Journal article, "Medical Records Don't Improve Outpatient Care Quality: Study". (April 2011)
Faculty, Fellows, House Staff
Roger Brumback (HS, pediatrics, 1971-73), of Omaha, Neb., is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine (JEBCAM; http://cam.sagepub.com), formerly known as Complementary Health Practice Review. (July 2011)
Amy Chappell (HS, pediatrics, 1977-79; fellow, neurology, 1979-80), of Indianapolis, Ind., is the senior medical director at Eli Lilly and Co., where she has worked for 23 years. She also practices child neurology one half day a week at Riley Hospital for Children. (July 2011)
Kriang Tungsanga (fellow, medicine, 1983-84), of Bangkok, Thailand, is director of medicine at the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital of Chulalongkorn University and president-elect of the Royal College of Physicians of Thailand. (July 2011)
Meredith Safford (fellow, radiation oncology, 2001-04), of Baltimore, returned to Johns Hopkins as a full-time coordinator for the Center for Biotechnology for Advanced Academic Programs. (July 2011)
John Hsu (HS, fellow, orthopaedic surgery, 1964-71), of Downey, Calif., is the 2010 recipient of the Weinstein-Goldenson Medical Science Award from the Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation. Hsu, emeritus clinical professor of orthopaedics at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, was honored for outstanding medical research that has enhanced the lives of people with cerebral palsy and neuromuscular disorders, as well as their families. (April 2011)
Peter Dorsen (fellow, medicine, 1972-74), of St. Paul, Minn., currently is a medical columnist for Peasant Remedies, an online alternative magazine, and a lecturer in Western medicine at the Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Roseville, Minn. (April 2011)
Gordon Klein (fellow, pediatrics, 1976-78), of Dickinson, Texas, has been elected a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association. He is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Scott and White Healthcare, a clinical professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and on the medical staff at Shriners Burns Hospital, also in Galveston. (April 2011)
James Coplan (fellow, pediatrics, 1977-79), of Bryn Mawr, Pa., an expert on early child development, has published "Making Sense of Autistic Spectrum Disorders" (Random House, 2010). (April 2011)
Daniel Pauly (HS, internal medicine, 1990-93; fellow, cardiology, 1993-97), of Newberry, Fla., has been elected president of the Alachua County Medical Society. The organization was founded in 1880, and Pauly, associate professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine, is its 80th president. (April 2011)
Linda Guydon (fellow, allergy and immunology, 1992-94), of Duluth, Ga., recently was chosen by her peers as one of Atlanta's Top Docs in allergy/immunology. (April 2011)
Stuart Varon (faculty, psychiatry, 1994 - present), of Baltimore, was named a Top Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by Baltimore Magazine in 2010, based on votes by his peers. He has a private practice in Lutherville, Md. (April 2011)
Ivan Mikolaenko (fellow, neurology, 2002-04), of Long Beach, N.Y., has joined Neurological Surgery, P.C., adding his expertise of neurocritical care to one of the largely and most highly specialized private practices in the greater New York area. (April 2011)
David Goldenberg (fellow, otolaryngology, 2002-05), of Hershey, Pa., and Bradley Goldstein (HS and fellow, surgery, 1999-2005; faculty, otolaryngology, 2005-07), of Bar Harbor, ME, have published "Handbook of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery", a comprehensive source of information and a conveniently portable clinical reference (Thieme Medical Publishers, 2011).
A. Everette James, Jr. (fellow, radiology and nuclear medicine, 1968-769; faculty, radiology and medicine, 1971-75), of Chapel Hill, N.C., has been elected to the board of the North Carolina Decoy Collectors Society. A longtime collector, writer and exhibitor, he was among the first to apply sophisticated radiological techniques to the evaluation of antique decoys. James is on the boards of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements and the Center for Study of the American South as well as a consultant for the Smithsonian Institution. Kevin Kelly (fellow, plastic surgery, 1988-89) of Franklin, Tenn., was the president of the American Society of Maxio-Facial Surgeons for 2008-2009. (January 2011)
Judith Britz (fellow, infectious diseases, 1980-83) of Laurel, Md., a veteran scientist, academician and entrepreneur, was named executive director of the Maryland Biotechnology Center. In her new role, Britz will lead Maryland's bioscience efforts, reaching out to the state's 400-plus bio and life sciences companies to help them grow and create new jobs. (January 2011)
Roland Pattillo (fellow, surgery, 1967) of Newnan, Ga., received the 2010 St. Louis University Merit Award. He is also completing his third book, to be published next year, "From Within: Democratization N60's in South Africa, Tajikistan and Argentina". (January 2011)
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