ALUMNI

1957

Gordon Sharp (HS, rheumatology, 1957–58; HS, medicine, 1957–58) died May 18, 2025, at the age of 92 in Columbia, Missouri. The groundbreaking work done by Sharp and his colleagues led to the first description of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease in 1973 — a discovery that shaped decades of research in rheumatology.

1958

Michael Stelluto (HS, obstetrics, 1958–59) died Nov. 1, 2024. He had a successful career as a Gyn/Ob for more than 50 years, splitting his time between private practice at Addison Gilbert Hospital and academia at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He delivered 10,000 babies before his retirement.

1959

Tabb Moore (HS, medicine 1959–61; HS, medicine, 1963–64) died June 1, 2025, in Blue Hill, Maine. An accomplished physician in endocrinology, he spent his career in private medical practice in Washington, D.C., and served on the faculty at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University medical schools.

1960

Philip Michael Kirol (A&S ’56) died June 30, 2025, at the FirstHealth Hospice House in North Carolina. He joined a medical practice as an Gyn/Ob and delivered hundreds of babies in Western New York before his retirement in 1996.

1967

William “David” Jack (fellow, cardiology, 1972–74) died May 24, 2025. He was a Yale and Johns Hopkins graduate, board certified in internal medicine and cardiology, a respected Corpus Christi cardiologist and a medical leader. He is survived by his wife, daughter and two grandsons.

1968

Walter Meyer (fellow, pediatric endocrinology, 1972–74; faculty, 1974–75) died Nov. 8, 2024, at age 82 in Galveston, Texas. He served in public health service at the National Institutes of Health before returning to Johns Hopkins for his pediatric endocrinology fellowship. In 1975, he became chief of the pediatric endocrine division at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He later led an endocrine patient practice that resulted in awareness of endocrine abnormalities in psychiatric disorders.

1970

Joseph Sack (A&S ’67, ’72; SPH ’71; HS, psychiatry, 1971–75) died at his home in Laconia, New Hampshire, on April 30, 2025. He was 78. Sack was the medical director at the Lakes Region Mental Health Center in New Hampshire, a staff psychiatrist at the Lakes Region General Hospital and co-director of the hospital’s inpatient psychiatric unit. He also served on the visiting faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

1971

Susan Shurin (HS, pediatrics, 1971–72), former director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and a prominent national researcher and clinician of pediatrics blood diseases, died Aug. 31, 2025, in San Diego. She was 80. Among her many accomplishments, she led the trans-NIH development of policies for sharing genomic data obtained using taxpayer funds and developed a global health program in noncommunicable diseases.

1981

Helen Haupt (fellow, pathology, 1984–86; HS, pathology, 1985–86) died Dec. 13, 2024, in Philadelphia at the age of 78. She was a pathologist specializing in anatomic and clinical pathology. During her 43 years in the medical field, she was affiliated with Cooper University Health Care-Camden. She was also a professor of pathology at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University.

2019

Stephen Njau died July 19, 2025, while kayaking in Seattle’s Lake Washington. He was 39. Prior to joining the residency program at University of Washington, he served as a medic and general medical officer in the U.S. Navy, most recently at the Naval Station Everett.

FORMER FACULTY, FELLOWS & RESIDENTS/HOUSE STAFF

Mary Powell, a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon, died July 15, 2024, at the age of 98. She was affiliated with Bryn Mawr Presbyterian, Abington Memorial and Haverford Community hospitals, and was one of the first American women to be board certified in orthopedic surgery.

Richard Colman Rhame (HS, medicine, 1954–55; HS, internal medicine, 1954–55) died Sept. 3, 2025, at his home in Hartfield, Virginia. He was an assistant clinical professor of urology and served as chief of urology in the George Washington University Section of the D.C. General Hospital and as chief of urology at Alexandria Hospital.

Richard Rivlin (HS, medicine, 1960–61; fellow, medicine, 1964–66) died June 30, 2025, at the age of 91. He was a prominent New York City physician and medical researcher, long-time professor of medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and Weill-Cornell Medical College, and an early advocate for exploring links between nutrition and cancer and other diseases.

Gary R. Gutcher (HS, pediatrics,1972–75) died Oct. 24, 2025, at the age of 80. After training, Gutcher became full professor and chairman of the Virginia Commonwealth University/Maternal-Child Health Division of neonatology, caring for more than 9,000 premature infants during his career. He developed pioneering software for nutritional dosage, and designed a state-of-the-art NICU at VCU.

Katharine Harrison (fellow, medicine, 1991–93) died Oct. 13, 2025. She was a physician at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who specialized in infectious disease. In addition to holding faculty positions at Mount Sinai Hospital and Franklin Square Hospital during her career, she served as assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she worked with residents in the Osler Medical Service. In 2014, Harrison and her team were awarded the Maryland Biotechnology Center prize for creating a portable tent to treat patients with Ebola.

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