ALUMNI

1957

Don Maccubbin (A&S ’53) died on March 7. He was 92. He resided in Hunstville, Alabama, for 54 years where he had a successful career as a neurosurgeon. After retirement, he pursued activities such as scuba diving and owning a small farm.

1960

David K. Rubin (fellow, pathology, 1961–62) died on April 13. He spent his 40-year career at Morton Hospital in Massachusetts, where he served as chief pathologist and head of the laboratory.

1962

Gerald “Jerry” Finerman (HS, surgery, 1966–69; faculty, 1969–71) died in his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 86. For over five decades, he made lasting contributions to the field of orthopaedics, including the development of the modern metal-to-polyethylene artificial knee replacement and the establishment of one of the nation’s first dedicated sports medicine departments at UCLA. He was the team physician for 43 years for the UCLA Bruins and served as chief medical officer for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

1963

Col. Edward George Buck Jr. died on April 27. He was a devoted Lutheran who served as a urologist in the U.S. Army, earning the rank of colonel and acquiring numerous medals. After returning home, he served the Marion, Ohio, community as a urologist through his private practice.

1965

Barry S. Strauch (A&S ’62) died on June 7 in McLean, Virginia. A pioneering nephrologist, he helped shape regional dialysis and transplant care and served in leadership roles across major medical institutions, including as the chairman of the Department of Medicine at Inova Fairfax Hospital, chairman of Washington Nephrology Associates, a trustee on the board of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and as a class representative for his medical school class for 25 years.

1966

William Halsey Barker Jr. (SPH ’72) died on September 17 at the age of 82. Barker’s career ranged from field research on mechanisms of inflammation in Roscoff, on the coast of Brittany, to his lifetime of work in epidemiology, geriatric health services and preventative medicine. His widely lauded monograph Adding Life to Years (Johns Hopkins Press, 1987) recounted his in-depth findings about geriatric health services in the United Kingdom, findings with implications for the improvement of geriatric health services in the United States. In pursuing medicine, he followed in the footsteps of his grandfather Lewellys F. Barker, who succeeded William Osler as director of medicine and physician-in-chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and of his father William Halsey Barker, who was an assistant dean at the medical school until his death due to cancer at age 40.

Robb E. Moses (HS, medicine, 1966–67) died on March 4 in Houston, Texas, shortly before his 85th birthday. During his career, he was chair of molecular and medical genetics at Oregon Health & Science University, and taught faculty at the Baylor College of Medicine, where he later became the associate director of the Alkek Center for Molecular Discovery and associate member of the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

1967

Emily E. Czapek died on October 14, 2024, after a lengthy illness. For over 40 years, she dedicated her life to caring for individuals with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders.

William “David” Jack (fellow, cardiology, 1972–74) died suddenly on May 25, in Harpswell, Maine. Jack was a respected cardiologist who built Cardiology Associates, one of the largest cardiology practices in Corpus Christi, Texas.

2000

Amie Nielsen died on September 19, 2024, from ovarian cancer. After a residency in emergency medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, she started her professional career in 2003 at the emergency department at Saint Mark’s Hospital in Mill Creek, Utah, where she worked for 19 years until her cancer diagnosis.

FORMER FACULTY, FELLOWS & RESIDENTS/HOUSE STAFF

Richard Wine Dodd (HS, otolaryngology, 1958–61) died on March 19, surrounded by his family. After completing his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia, he served in the military as an Army captain before moving to Baltimore to complete a residency program at Johns Hopkins. He later joined a private practice and practiced as an ENT for over 30 years, serving as an instructor in the MCV/ENT clinics and as chief of staff at Stuart Circle Hospital and Richmond Eye & Ear Hospital.

Lawrence Schlachter (HS, radiology) passed away on December 17, 2024. After training, Schlachter worked as a radiologist at St. Joseph’s Hospital and eventually as chief of radiology at Henrotin Hospital in Chicago. In 1985, he started at the Sacramento VA Medical Center as a highly esteemed radiologist before moving to the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center until his retirement.

Philip R. Reid (HS, medicine, 1967–69; fellow, cardiology, 1971–74; faculty, 1974–1985) died at the age of 82 after a 13-year battle with ALS. Reid did his internship, residency, and fellowships in cardiology and pharmacology at Johns Hopkins. He served as chief of cardiology at Sinai Hospital and was part of the team that implanted the first defibrillator. For 20 years, he served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard before retiring.

Col. Craig Sims Kitchens (HS, internal medicine, 1972–73; fellow, hematology, 1973–75) died on March 24 at his home on Julie Mountain, North Carolina. He was a faculty member at the College of Medicine at the University of Florida, vice chairman of the Department of Medicine, program director for internal medicine residency and chief of medicine at the Gainesville VAMC. 

Willie Jasper Bank (HS, orthopaedic surgery) died on May 21. He was an orthopedic surgeon, practicing medicine for over 55 years in the Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia areas, including years of dedicated service at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Timothy Mabry Gardner (HS, medicine, 1989–92; fellow, medicine, 1992–96) died on April 10. He completed his residency in interventional cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, then moved to Wyoming, where he practiced at Internal Medicine Group until 2008. That year, he moved to CHI Health Heart Hospital in Nebraska and worked there until his retirement.

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