PRODUCED BY THE OFFICE OF ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT
Megan Dodge
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Megan Dodge
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Copyright Dartmouth College Spring 2024 (Vol. 28, No. 1)
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Geisel medical students gathered at a celebration of volunteers.
Dear alumni and friends,
There has been much excitement at Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health since our last issue, as we welcomed graduates of our MD, MPH, MS, PhD, residency, and fellowship programs to our alumni community, and welcomed a new cohort of students and trainees to the Dartmouth community. The energy and excitement throughout our campuses during these transitions is palpable.
In the fall, members of our Asian American/Pacific Islander, Black, International, LatinX, Women, and First Generation Alumni in Healthcare and Biomedical Sciences affinity groups volunteered to be paired with students in corresponding Geisel MD student interest groups for a pilot mentoring program that is off to a great start. Alumni affinity group membership continues to grow along with opportunities to connect with other alumni and students around shared backgrounds and experiences.
As some residency and fellowship programs resume in-person interviews, we are reinstating the Helping Our Students Travel (HOST) program and are seeking alumni who are willing to open their homes to students and trainees who are traveling to interviews or clerkships.
We recently welcomed MD classes ending in threes and eights back to campus to reconnect during reunion. You’ll see photos throughout this issue from the weekend. I feel so much pride in hearing about the career paths of our alumni and all you have accomplished along the way. Please continue to stay in touch and share your stories.
In this issue, get to know your new Alumni Council President, Kristin Casale D ’89, MED ’94, and her goals for the alumni council. Hear how Martha Wu MED ’97 and Seth McClennen MED ’97, Syvertsen Fellows and new co-chairs of the Rolf C. Syvertsen Memorial Committee hope to bring visibility and recognition to the award. Read about ophthalmologist, microbiologist, and forensic medical historian John Bullock D ’65, MED ’66, MPH, MSc, and his gift that will help incorporate the humanities into the medical school curriculum, and learn about the work of orthopaedic surgeon Taylor Yong, MD, MS ’19, RES ’21, as he cares for patients who have complex injuries after falling from the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Thank you for your commitment to supporting our students, trainees, and alumni. Please enjoy this issue of Alumni News & Notes!
With gratitude,
Megan Dodge Associate Director of Alumni Engagement Medical & Healthcare AdvancementCompton,
PhD Dean, Geisel School of MedicineJoanne M. Conroy, MD, D ’77
CEO and president, Dartmouth Health
What makes a “well-rounded” doctor? For ophthalmologist and microbiologist John Bullock D ’65, MED ’66, MPH, MSc, it’s the marriage of medicine and the humanities. In this issue of Alumni News & Notes, we explore how Dr. Bullock merged those passions to become a forensic medical historian. He now spends his time uncovering medical mysteries of the past. (You can read about his detective work on page 4.) But Dr. Bullock is also leaving his mark on the future— in the form of the Bullock Family Endowed Fund to help Geisel School of Medicine incorporate the humanities into its medical curriculum.
Dr. Bullock’s gift highlights how Geisel and Dartmouth Health approach guiding the next generation of healthcare leaders to think about medicine and their place in the field. At both the medical school and the academic medical center, we are committed to providing physicians-in-training and other leaders in healthcare with the tools to bring deeply enriched humanity to their care and wise leadership.
In another article in this issue, you will read about orthopaedic trauma surgeon Taylor Yong, MD, MS ’19, RES ’21, who often treats especially vulnerable patients in El Paso, Texas. Dr. Yong credits the combination of a six-year surgery residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and a Master of Science in Health Care Research at The Dartmouth Institute as training him to treat any patients that walk through his door with humanity and the best possible care.
Alumni and friends like you supported our vision of educating the next generation of leaders like Dr. Bullock and Dr. Yong by joining in Dartmouth
College’s wildly successful Call to Lead campaign over the past eight years. In June, the Collegewide campaign concluded having broken multiple records for participation and philanthropic gifts. The campaign raised nearly $3.8 billion, surpassing the fundraising goal by $800 million, and inspired more than 60% of undergraduate alumni participation, demonstrating a strong commitment to our lifelong community among our alumni.
From both the medical school and the academic medical center, we are deeply grateful for your generosity, and continued commitment to our community and values. As part of the Call to Lead campaign, alumni and friends like you raised nearly $290 million in cash, commitments, and bequests dedicated to Geisel, surpassing our goal of $207 million. The support marshalled through this campaign will help elevate our education of complete physicians who embody our values of medically excellent, compassionate, culturally sensitive care.
Accomplished ophthalmologist, microbiologist , and retired chair of ophthalmology at Wright State University, John Bullock D ’65, MED ’66, MPH, MSc, now spends his time uncovering medical mysteries of long ago—exemplifying the connection between the humanities and medicine.
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2 dartgo.org/BullockDomPerignon
3 dartgo.org/BullockEulerBlind
As a forensic medical historian, Bullock has studied how Saint Paul1 of the Bible went blind, showed that Dom Perignon2 actually didn’t go blind, and uncovered which infectious disease caused mathematician Leonhard Euler’s 3 blindness. (In his research, he also tackles topics unrelated to eye disease, such as how the fifth and sixth biblical
Egyptian plagues were linked, rather than independent events.)
Bullock wants to share his passion of the humanities with medical students, and he hopes his gift to establish the Bullock Family Endowed Fund will help the Geisel School of Medicine curriculum incorporate studies on how medicine intersects with history, literature, ethics, and other humanities disciplines. “It’s an interest in the humanities,” Bullock says, “that helps create a well-rounded doctor.”
“If you have a long-term relationship with a physician, you don’t want someone who is a math or science
I had a large print version of William J. Mayo’s admonition hanging in my waiting room: ‘The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered.’
or chemistry geek,” he says. “For example, ethics: How a physician treats people is a critical aspect of being a doctor. It’s not just science—it’s the whole person who is the doctor. As a physician, I had a large print version of William J. Mayo’s admonition hanging in my waiting room: ‘The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered.’”
Not that a love of math, science, or chemistry is bad, though: In fact, it was mathematical formulas and a light-bulb moment that set Bullock on the path to ophthalmology. He recalls a lab in the first week of his second year when the students were measuring zones of focusing ability, and the professor wrote out math formulas to use with these measurements. In that moment, everything clicked and his future career was decided.
Bullock hopes that other Dartmouth alumni feel as grateful as he does for the education they received and are inspired to give back.
“Dartmouth Medical School set us all on our career,” he says. “You cast bread upon the waters, so to speak. Dartmouth was kind enough to give me scholarship money when I needed it, so I wanted to pass it on.”
Recipients of alumni awards are recognized for their achievements in the fields of medicine, science, or other endeavors. The 2024 Alumni Awards Ceremony will be held in Hanover during Reunion Weekend, September 27-28, 2024.
The Geisel School of Medicine Alumni Recognition Committee is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Alumni Awards.
Learn more about the Alumni Awards program and submit your nominations here: dartgo.org/aawards
Special Thank You to the Following Alumni:
For their years of service on the Alumni Recognition Committee:
Aristotle Damianos MED ’88
Manish Mishra MED ’05, MPH ’09
Vincent Pellegrini MED ’79
Charles Wira PhD ’70
Oglesby Young MED ’75
For their continued service on the Alumni Recognition Committee:
Sarah Johansen MED ’89/’90, Chair
Joseph O’Donnell MED ’71
Katherine Peeler MED ’10
To our new Recognition Committee Members:
Samuel Bakhoum PhD ’09, MED ’13
Anne de Papp MED ’88
Ana-Maria Dumitru PhD ’17, MED ’19
Abiodun Kukoyi MED ’11
Brita Reed Lucey MED ’82
Daniel Lucey MED ’81/’82
Kathryn McGoldrick MED ’68
Derrik Woodbury MED ’77
Introducing Your New Alumni Council President: Kristin Pisacano Casale
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What inspired you to run for Alumni Council President?
I went to Dartmouth College and the medical school, so I spent most of my young adulthood in Hanover. I had so many firsts there: the first time I lived on my own, the first time I ruined a load of laundry, the first time I scrubbed for surgery. My time in Hanover shaped who I am as a person and a doctor. I feel like it is my duty to give back to a place that gave me so much.
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What would you like alumni to know about you?
I want alumni to know my job is to serve them and to help communicate their desires to the administration. So, I want their feedback. One of the reasons I wanted to take on this job is that I think we can do a better job communicating with our alumni. There are so many things happening at Dartmouth that
There are so many things happening at Dartmouth that I don’t think the alumni know about. We need to toot our own horn to get alumni jazzed about being engaged.
Kristin Pisacano Casale D ’89, MED ’94
I don’t think the alumni know about. We need to toot our own horn to get alumni jazzed about being engaged. I want to hear what alumni want to participate in.
Q Why is it important for Alumni to stay engaged with their alma mater?
Because it makes the school more like a family than an institution. When alumni participate in affinity groups or write white coat notes or share stories in the Wisdom Book, it makes students feel like there’s a family that cares about them and there’s community beyond their time in Hanover.
Writing white coat notes is an easy way to stay engaged with Dartmouth, and they make a big impact on the students. You write one note welcoming them to their first year and then one congratulating them on Match Day. They always write back, and it’s really nice to see where they started and where they’re ending up. It would also be nice to hear back from them after their residency. I might encourage that in the next white coat note I write—let me know how you’re doing in a couple of years; you have my address.
Q What makes Geisel students—and a Dartmouth medical education—so special?
My peers were supportive and cooperative instead of competitive, and I think that comes from the top down. These friends helped get me through tough times in medical school. When I was overwhelmed with being a mom and a doctor and feeling like I wasn’t good at either one, one of my friends felt the same way, and having someone commiserate with you is helpful. They can do it in a way that other people can’t.
QCan you share some special memories of your time at Dartmouth Medical School?
I was a runner at the time, and running around Hanover was amazing. There are so many places to lose yourself and get out of your own head.
I remember Dr. (William) Mosenthal, my anatomy professor. I didn’t do very well on my first anatomy exam, and it made me wonder, ‘Am I cut out for this?’ I was really upset, but Dr. Mosenthal made me feel better, and it made such a big difference to have that individual attention. I’ll remember him forever because of that.
QWhat do you hope to accomplish as Alumni Council President?
We need a more interactive online community. I would love to have an “Alumni Council President’s Corner” as a way to highlight exciting things happening at Dartmouth. I would also like to create a job board. As a Dartmouth alum, I should go to Dartmouth first to see who needs a job. We also don’t have a way to connect with people who live in our area. I want to help push that forward.
I want to hear what kinds of activities the alumni want. I’m excited about the new “Conversations that Matter” events from the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, and I think our affinity groups can be more robust. I would love to get alumni more involved, maybe as speakers or panelists.
I’d also like to support current students in new ways, like creating mentoring opportunities. That would be fun for alumni to do and a helpful thing for students to have access to.
Join an Affinity Group Today!
Alumni Affinity Groups aim to reflect and celebrate the diverse interests, backgrounds, and geographic origins of Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health, and Dartmouth College learner and alumni communities. Each group aims to foster leadership development and advocacy through events and activities, while providing personal and professional networking opportunities for group members, and support for the Dartmouth healthcare and biomedical science communities in the ways that matter most to them.
Asian Pacific Islander Desi
American Alumni in Healthcare and Biomedical Science
Chair: Will Lee MED ’92
Currently seeking co-chair for this group
Black Alumni in Healthcare and Biomedical Science
Chair: Irene Dankwa-Mullan MED ’97
Currently seeking co-chair for this group
First-Generation Alumni in Healthcare and Biomedical Science
Chair: Pauline AhamNeze MED ’94
Currently seeking co-chair for this group
International Alumni in Healthcare and Biomedical Science
Currently seeking co-chairs for this group
LatinX Alumni in Healthcare and Biomedical Science
Co-Chairs: Adrianna Stanley MED ’19 and Eric Quiñones MED ’04
LGBTQIA+ Alumni in Healthcare and Biomedical Science
Chair: Kristina Duarte MED ’95
Currently seeking co-chair for this group
Native American Alumni in Healthcare and Biomedical Science
Chair: Patricia Dillon MED ’86
Currently seeking co-chair for this group
Women in Healthcare and Biomedical Science
Chair: Imithri Bodhinayake MED ’10
Currently seeking co-chair for this group
Benefits for Joining Cultural Affinity Groups:
Mentoring students
Virtual gatherings with alumni and students
Heritage month events with students
Secure digital community for making connections
SPECIALTY AFFINITY GROUPS*
Orthopaedic Alumni
Co-Chairs: Timothy Lin MS ’14, RES ’16 and Alexander Orfanos MED ’18
Primary Care
Currently seeking co-chairs for this group
Surgery
Currently seeking co-chairs for this group
Benefits for Joining Specialty Affinity Groups:
Quarterly virtual gatherings
Group socials at annual meetings
Secure digital community for making connections
*Interested in a group not listed above? Email Geisel.Alumni. Relations@dartmouth.edu with your suggestion. Additional affinity groups are in the works!
As an orthopaedic trauma surgeon in El Paso, Texas, Taylor Yong, MD, MS ’19, RES ’21, often cares for an especially vulnerable patient population—people who have received complex injuries after falling from the U.S.–Mexico border wall.
“Often these patients don’t have access to good medical care and have poor health literacy. They’re often traveling from thousands of miles away under dangerous conditions to find their family in the U.S., and now they have a severe injury,” says Yong, who works at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, the only Level 1 trauma center in the region.
“It’s the Hippocratic oath—we’re not concerned about where the patient is coming from. We just do the best we can to help them.”
During Yong’s six-year orthopaedic surgery residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), he also earned a Master of Science in Health Care Research at The Dartmouth Institute. He says the additional degree has been beneficial to his practice as a physician on the border.
“I wanted to do more research, and it has been helpful in understanding social determinants of health and the burden of illness, which we learned about in the TDI (The
Dartmouth Institute) program,” says Yong, who was also born at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. “The research methodologies I learned inform patient care and better equip you to be an academic orthopaedic trauma surgeon.”
It
’s the Hippocratic oath—we’re not concerned about where the patient is coming from. We just do the best we can to help them.
As an assistant professor in Texas Tech’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Yong says he loves the teaching aspect of his job. He says educating residents is invigorating because of the energy they bring to their training experience.
Yong stays involved with his alma mater through the orthopaedics alumni advisory group, which helps guide the residency program and the department’s engagement with alumni. He encourages other alumni, especially those who live in the New England area, to join and be active in promoting the mission of the residency in order to maintain the value and reputation of the program.
Since he lives halfway across the country, however, Yong’s main focus is his work in education, research, and surgery for vulnerable patients.
“We don’t know what happens to them; they get little to no follow-up care. It’s a challenging situation and an unfortunate circumstance,” he says. “But they are patients who come through the doors of our hospital, so we give them the best care we can.”
“Among this group of amazing students, the Scholars stand out a little more. It’s normal to have doubts and difficult times. This kind of recognition lifts you up and gives you the wherewithal to keep going.”
Martha Wu D ’93, MED ’97
In its nearly 40 years of existence, the Syvertsen Fellows and Scholars program has recognized five Scholars and one Fellow every year—except one. There was one year, 1996, that the Rolf C. Syvertsen Memorial Committee could not choose a single Fellow from among the six students presented as Scholars.
down their decision. Those two Fellows, Martha Wu MED ’97 and Seth McClennen MED ’97, love to recount the story.
“No one on the committee knew we were engaged at the time,” remembers Wu, an internal medicine physician in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “So that was kind of cool.”
Seth McClennen MED ’97 and Martha Wu D ’93, MED ’97, co-chairs of the Rolf C. Syvertsen Memorial Committee, aim to raise the profile and prominence of the fellows and scholars program.
So, they chose two.
It’s the only time the committee was stumped, unable to narrow
McClennen, a cardiac electrophysiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, confesses that the details of their first encounter at Dartmouth Medical School are a bit fuzzy after 25 years of marriage. But the couple remembers they were enamored with each other
from their first week of classes in 1993.
When the two young medical students received notification that they had been chosen as Syvertsen Scholars by the medical school’s faculty and administration, they felt both thrilled and perplexed—they had never heard of the Syvertsen program. Now as co-chairs of the Syvertsen Committee, Wu and McClennen aim to raise the program’s profile and prominence.
The program began in 1984, when several generous alumni established the Rolf C. Syvertsen Memorial Fund. Named for former Dartmouth Medical School dean Dr. Rolf Syvertsen DMS ’23, the fund offers scholarships to six exceptional fourth-year medical students every year. The Syvertsen Committee is composed of more than a dozen alumni volunteers who gather annually to select a Fellow from among the six Scholars.
To date, the committee has welcomed more than 220 scholars and fellows into the program, each of whom has personified the values
of academic accomplishment and scientific rigor, a passion for learning, and a love of medicine.
As co-chairs, Wu and McClennen want to help ensure the program endures long into the future—that future generations of Geisel’s best and brightest will continue to be recognized for their potential and their leadership for years to come. Their first action was to start recruiting more alumni to serve on the committee. Wu and McClennen have had a positive response, noting that it’s not a lack of interest, it’s simply a lack of visibility that has prevented new members from joining the committee.
As part of the Fellow selection process, committee members return to Dartmouth once a year for a Friday evening dinner and Saturday interview session. Then they name a Fellow, the Scholar who represents the best of the best.
“It’s recognition that you are a subset of driven, academically successful students,” McClennen says. “It’s validation that you’re doing a good job. Someone is recognizing you have a lot of potential.”
Wu agrees: “Among this group of amazing students, the Scholars stand out a little more. It’s normal to have doubts and difficult times. This kind of recognition lifts you up and gives you the wherewithal to keep going.”
The couple joined the committee as members a few years ago and enjoyed getting to meet the students and reconnect with alumni. They never expected to lead the committee, but they saw a need to bring more attention to the program. So they decided to step up, Wu says, and give back to the school that gave them so much.
Being a member of the committee doesn’t come without its challenges, though.
“Every student is mind blowing— from academics to research to community service, and in everything they do,” Wu says. “It’s difficult to pick just one person.”
“But,” McClennen adds, “that’s part of the fun of it.”
If you have written a book (please no textbooks) in the past two years and would like it considered for inclusion in a future issue of Alumni News & Notes, please submit a hi-res .JPG of the cover of the book, and a maximum 100 word summary utilizing this form: dartgo.org/bookshelf.
DHMC ARC co-presidents
Anna Bauman, MD, third year pediatrics resident and Ryan Dean, MD, fourth year orthopaedic surgery resident
Geisel Student Body President, 2023-2024, Kristina Ali, MD Candidate, Class of 2024
The Associated Resident Council (ARC) at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is a resident-led group formed to support and improve resident well-being, both in and out of the hospital. Goals for the 2023-2024 academic year cover a variety of topics, yet each will provide tangible benefits to residents.
We are working to improve food options and accessibility in the form of increased allocation for call shifts and expanded options to apply meal money.
Additionally, we aim to continue yearly events (such as our summer barbeque and ski day at Whaleback Mountain) while also planning new activities that appeal to the general resident body.
Finally, we hope to tap into our strong alumni network for improved residentattending connections beyond the DHMC system. We envision the strengthening of these opportunities and relationships to be mutually beneficial, reconnecting alumni with the programs they trained in while creating additional mentorship and, perhaps, career opportunities for residents.
We appreciate the support of the alumni and are excited for the year to come.
At Geisel, our strong sense of community is at the core of who we are. This is embodied by Geisel’s five-year strategic plan, which highlights our continued commitment to promoting community both within Geisel and across Dartmouth. The Geisel Student Government strives to ensure that the voice of the student body is reflected and included in these initiatives.
Our primary goal is to enhance student engagement so that our voices are integrated into all issues impacting the student body, including wellness initiatives, grading policies and curriculum, improvements to diversity in our education, and professional development opportunities. In addition, we look forward to bringing together our students, faculty, staff, and alumni through programming that connects all of us at Geisel, as well as our partners at Dartmouth Health and the wider Dartmouth community. Finally, we aim to improve communication between students and administration to ensure decision making is transparent and readily available to students, ultimately building greater trust.
Our student leaders are grateful for the opportunity to work on behalf of the Geisel student body and excited to continue pushing our institution forward. We know that all facets of Geisel are valuable and we invite our alumni community to join us in building a strong and inclusive future so our plans will have a lasting and sustained impact.
55The last issue of the Alumni News & Notes, for the first time in 24 years, had no column from DMS ’55 and listed only my contact information. This was due to an administrative glitch that left me off the deadline mailing list. So I finished up the notes that I’d partially written and sent them to the alumni office, and they went out to 1955’s 12 survivors in early July. In the unlikely case that anyone else out there wants a copy, let me or the alumni office know.
More recently, Chuck Tannenbaum reported “some weird events.” He said that last December he developed severe septicemia of urologic origin, resulting in hospitalization. “I was out of it for three or four days,” he wrote, “but it could have been worse.” A measure of the seriousness of his situation is that he needed hospital care for five weeks, followed by three weeks in a rehab facility and ongoing rehab PT at home. During his hospitalization, he developed right peroneal nerve paralysis and resulting foot drop, unrelated to his illness. That has been quite disabling, including preventing him from driving. He works out on a stationary bike and was looking forward to getting outdoors on his recumbent bike. “Carol has been an absolute trooper during all of this, looking after me,” he said. “I’m sure that at times I was a royal pain in the ass.” When Chuck wrote in June, Carol was preparing for her annual lavender open house. “Her auto license plate reads ‘Lav Ldy,’” Chuck concluded.
Last December, Jay Chandler realized that he could no longer care for Fleur—a full-time job for some time, as her Alzheimer’s disease progressed—so she had to be admitted to the memory unit in their assisted living facility. Jay suffered a severe depression at the time, but it eventually passed. When I talked with him in June, he was at his cottage in Ontario, north of Ottawa, a place that has been in the family for
many years. He was in the process of tuning it up, including seeing to the installation of solar panels, for the benefit of all future Chandlers.
When I talked to John Crowe in early July, he and Joan were preparing for their annual trek to their compound on Lake Kezar in Maine. Some time ago, he turned it all over to his “kids,” one of whom is son Jeff, who has served on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. During our chat, we got on the subject of old cars for some reason. John still revs up his 1931 Model A Ford and packs a few kids in the rumble seat for a ride in the local parade. I reminded him of my 1931 Model A Ford Phaeton, which I drove back and forth from my North Dakota home to Dartmouth in our sophomore and junior years. Both the car and I somehow survived.
Lloyd Tepper wrote: “At the time your class notes arrived, I would have said that not much was going on. However, since then, my son in Tacoma, an active academic field geologist, has been stented for a coronary artery occlusion, and my son who lives in London flew in for Lamonte’s birthday. A lot of long-postponed yard work got done, and there was much good food and drink on the table. Otherwise, I’ve become skilled at traveling in the slow lane and getting on with my specialty of puttering, which goes very well as long as the terrain is level. Lamonte does not age and looks like she did 40 years ago, although her hair is now snow white. It’s easy to spot her when we’re out shopping: just look down the aisle for the hair. We have a PT come to the house twice a week for her supervised exercise and walking. Our age cohort is moving into the range when it’s time to go—normal but always sad. I’m always much affected by the memorial services for DC ’54s at Rollins Chapel. Let’s postpone that event for a few more years.”
The night before the Cancer Center’s annual Prouty fundraiser in
July, Ross McIntyre and Helen hosted a large gathering at their Lyme home, featuring well-known guitarist, raconteur, and teacher Andy Avery. It was a very successful evening, as was the Prouty, which raised well over its $7 million goal.
I’m sad to report that Sarah Gilson died on July 17, after a brief downhill course with abdominal cancer, thought to be a return of the ovarian cancer she had over 30 years ago, but it turned out to be colon cancer. I put her name in bold because she was practically a member of ’54 and an active participant in reunion doings. She and Ben shared a love of choir singing; she sang in venues as widespread as Boston’s Symphony Hall, Vienna, and three locations in Hanover. Sarah picked this lovely quotation for her obituary: My life flows on in endless song, above earth’s lamentation. I hear the sweet, though far-off hymn that hails a new creation. Through all the tumult and the strife, I hear the music ringing. It finds an echo in my soul—how can I keep from singing?
—John Moran 77 Cliff Street Plymouth, MA 02360 508-746-1492 (home) jmmoran1114@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Allen Root at 4916 Saint Croix Drive, Tampa, FL 33629-4831; 813-286-1333 (home); aroot3@jhmi.edu.
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Alan Friedman at 115 Central Park West, Apt. 4B, New York, NY 10023; 212-679-5580 (fax); ajfmdpc@yahoo.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary
Melvin Britton at 8545 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel, CA 93923; 650-483-1262 (cell); melvincbritton@aol.com
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Thomas Aaberg at 2391 Parrotts Pointe Road, Greensboro, GA 30642; 706-467-9382 (home); ophttma@emory.edu
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Stu Hanson wrote that his broken and repaired leg is healing nicely. He also informed me that the Midwest Independent Publishers Association named his book A Senior’s Guide for Living Well and Dying Well as the best entry in the health category. So he is now, in his mid-eighties, a writer, publisher, and book-award–winner. The book is selling well around the Midwest. If you’re interested, you can check it out on Amazon.
I always enjoy hearing from Tip Putnam, who wrote back after getting the last email I sent out. He always conveys good humor in his messages, and he also has a great memory for the facts of our time at DMS.
Please send me anything you feel is fit to print about yourself or your family for the next issue.
—Barry Smith 195 Willey Hill Road PO Box 238 Norwich, VT 05055 802-649-1438 (home) or 603-748-1332 (cell) bdsmith646@earthlink.net
Caress, Joe Okimoto, Dave Vaules, Frank Virnelli, and yours truly, Sol Rockenmacher. Stay tuned, as this Zoom beat will go on every few months. And now for some emailed news: Marty Weiss reports: “Not much from my end since my activity is curtailed until I get this GI problem hopefully resolved. You might want to comment about Dave Vaules ’s participation in international choral activities over the years, as well as Frank Virnelli ’s work with Operation Smile. Please send my best to Virginia and Dick Petrie; I was so pleased to hear that Dick had picked up his trumpet activities!”
From Don Caress: “Hi, Sol: I enjoyed the one reunion I went to with you. I would be happy to do a Zoom reunion. I was very sorry to read about Jerry Bart . It brought about memories of the year we roomed together. It also made me realize how many classmates I hadn’t seen since graduation.”
their retirement. I wish that Joe had shared more about his work rebuilding the gardens and farm, which were a showplace before the Japanese community was removed from Vashon and imprisoned during WWII. He could also have mentioned the very active ukulele group that he formed with friends 10 years ago. Jeanie continues to write and has published 25 books on a wide variety of subjects. I recently enjoyed one of her novels, The Reinvention of Albert Paugh, which was set on Vashon. I hope Marty is able to get a larger group together in two months. Zoom has its limitations, but Marty did a great job keeping the conversation going.
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First of all, thank you, Marty Weiss, for bringing us into modern times and the Zoom generation, with our first online get-together, held on July 20. Joining in were Marty, Don Bartlett , Don
Frank Virnelli wrote after the Zoom session: “It was wonderful to get together with classmates yesterday. I think that most of us were a little inhibited about discussing the many interesting things that have happened in our lives since we left DMS 62 years ago. My recent visits with roommates Joe Okimoto on Vashon Island and Dick Petrie in Durham, N.H., were opportunities to catch up on details of their long careers and how they have spent their time since closing down their practices. Dick has returned to the trumpet, which he played for years with the Barbary Coast; he travels around the area with multiple groups and keeps busy with a variety of other interests. I think we all enjoyed his photos of what we looked like when we were together in Hanover. Virginia was on her annual trip to Austria, where she has been teaching skiing for over 40 years. Joe and Jeanie live in an idyllic spot overlooking Puget Sound, in a lovely home that they rebuilt for
Jim Penza wrote what he referred to as “a long-overdue communication. I trust this note finds you and Linda well. Sandra and I are also ‘stable.’ She sends a hello! We are living in Hingham, Mass., and go back and forth to Naples, Maine. Very sorry about Jerry Bart—a wonderful, soulful person. There is much to catch up on, and I will eventually share past Penza family happenings. I appreciate your keeping us informed; although a delinquent correspondent, I often reflect on the many wonderful experiences and friendships at DMS. This note was prompted by the news of the upcoming Zoom meeting. Unfortunately, I have a conflicting appointment and won’t be attending. Please relay my and Sandra’s love and best wishes to all.”
Your class secretary, yours truly, is busy keeping up with caring for various diagnoses and, although slowing down, Linda keeps me going and trying to keep up with family activities and ongoing volunteer work at our temple. We just enjoyed a lovely dinner with Virginia and Dick Petrie, who were about to take off for a family vacation in California and Cabo San Lucas.
I spoke on the phone with Tay Weinman, who is now in an assisted living retirement community in
Torrance, Calif. He has significant difficulty getting around because of cardiac issues. His wife Jeannie is in another section of the facility with severe Alzheimer’s. Marty Weiss is a wonderful friend who checks in frequently with Tay. We will send out updates on upcoming Zoom events. In the meantime, please keep those cards and letters (rather, emails) coming.
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As of July 2023, as I write this column, global climate change seems to be only getting worse. Doug Zipes ’s home on the west coast of Florida was severely damaged by a storm in 2021. Vermont, especially the Montpelier area, was recently flooded to the nth degree. However, there is some good news from Vermont: Valerie Leval Graham is now in a CCRC that is on high ground in western Vermont (near Burlington). She had no damage or flooding in her current location. The condition of her home in Charlotte, Vt., was unknown but is hopefully okay. Valerie finds her new location has a good variety of interesting people. She turned 89 in August.
Doug Zipes ’s newest book, Ari’s Spoon (2021), was very favorably reviewed in the last issue of the Alumni News & Notes. The novel is a very interesting take on the Holocaust and contemporary American society. For me, it was a book worth reading and thinking about. Doug also had a Facebook posting on a previous book, the autobiographic Damn the Naysayers, also an account worth reading about a life well-lived.
Jonathan Rosefsky is still in Bryn Mawr, Pa. One of his four grandchildren is an undergrad at nearby Swarthmore. Their home suffered a severe fire in 2017. It took over two years to restore
it to its former status. Georges Peter strongly agrees with Jonathan that getting older is not for the faint of heart or sissies.
Shelly and I ( Ted Tapper) were planning on being in Hanover for the October meeting of the DMS Alumni Council. Shortly after that, we planned to be in Israel for almost two weeks, mostly in and around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. I took a solo trip there in February 2023 for, again, almost two weeks. We see friends there and explore new places, as well as places we’ve seen before.
In closing, Bill Weintraub ’s wife, Franee, asked me to share this: “Bill and I were married on June 7 in South Orange, N.J. It was 1964, just 59 years ago. Art Provisor, David Steinberg , and Ted Tapper were ushers at our wedding. It was a rain-soaked Sunday, but a happy one. Ten days prior to that, we weren’t sure it would take place. Seems we needed to get our blood samples taken in the state of New Jersey and sent to city offices pronto! Hardly any time to drive to N.J. and return to Boston in time for Bill to finish at HMS and I at Lesley College in Cambridge. We had to pack, attend our graduations, and leave by May 31. We had to find a way to manage all this in a short amount of time. Fortunately, my family had a dear, compassionate, primary physician, Dr. Arnold Rosenthal, and he made our wedding happen! He rushed us blood tubes, all filled out with our information and ready to be returned. How lucky we were that no one noticed the Boston postmark! Art Provisor took our blood at Mass General, and all went off as planned. Just recently I discovered that Dr. Rosenthal’s daughter, Debby, was married just a year prior to us, to Marty Weiss D ’59, DMS ’61—and both were graduates of my high school, Weequahic HS in Newark, N.J. Isn’t it a small world? I hope Debby gets to read this. Her dad was a very fine man. We
have been blessed with two wonderful daughters, a great son-in-law, and a dear granddaughter. We have been living on the Main Line of Philadelphia since 1979. Franee Abram Weintraub (franeew@icloud.com).”
May all you do benefit yourselves and others.
—Ted Tapper 522 Howe Road Merion Station, PA 19066-1107 610-664-3590 (home) ted.tapper@live.com
Dear DMS ’63 classmates, As I write, the 60th reunion for our class is approaching—on September 22-24, in Hanover. Despite that fact, our class has been relatively silent. I say “relatively” because Bill Babson, Roger Christian, Bill Couser, Ken Danielson, Gene Lariviere, and I continue to do monthly Zooms, orchestrated by Bill Couser’s spouse, Adrienne. At least four of us—Couser, Christian, Danielson, and I—will gather at the medical school campus to celebrate our class’s 60th. We’d hoped to have a few more classmates join us, but it doesn’t appear that will be the case.
So, what’s new?
The Babsons have a new puppy; Bill Babson is boycotting the reunion because he feels the medical school and hospital are totally unsupportive of the need for rural-based general physicians, medical and surgical, and are turning out too many interns who specialize.
Roger Christian has, for a number of years, been singing in a men’s group in Boston.
Adrienne and Bill Couser, who live in Seattle, planned to return east for the reunion (Bill grew up in Lebanon, N.H.), then will spend some time here in Norwich with me and also with family in Connecticut, and then will fly to Slovenia in mid-October for his son’s wedding!
Karen and Ken Danielson are fully retired in a beautiful location in Peacham, Vt.
Eleanor and Gene Lariviere are now permanent residents of Sun Lakes, Ariz., and love it—the excessive heat is dry and so tolerable, Gene says!
Joan, my partner, and I just returned from hiking in Scotland. She preceded me by a week in the Highlands, and then we rendezvoused in Edinburgh where we hiked around the city’s restaurants, pubs, coffee houses, ice cream stalls, and used bookstores, plus an occasional castle and museum!
So there you have it! I wish some of you would let me know what’s happening in your lives. In the meantime, stay well.
—Alan Rozycki 56 McKenna Road Norwich, VT 05055 802-649-1578 (home) alan.a.rozycki@dartmouth.edu
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Rich Edelson at 3001 Veazey Terrace NW, Apt. 1602, Washington, DC 20008; redelson@gmail.com
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Dave Zamierowski reports: “I had the honor of sending a letter nominating John Zaia for the Alumni Distinguished Career Award a few years ago, and then of presenting him with the award a few months ago in a ceremony at Dartmouth; it
was well deserved for his lifetime of achievements. The work of writing up the nomination was done by Deane Mosher and John Mulvihill Paul Bates and I were able to join John Zaia and his family in Hanover for the award. It was nice to get back to Dartmouth for spring and the lilacs. Everyone is excited about the new president.”
Sarah Donaldson: “It has been 57 years since we left Hanover, following Year 2 at DMS, to go into our clinical rotations. Approximately two-thirds of the class went to Harvard, which this year had a reunion. Four of us attended in person: Suzie Chagnon Boulter, John Bullock , Kent Salisbury, and me, while others joined the special sessions by Zoom. I think it is fair to say that the bonding of our DMS class in Hanover could not be equaled. That said, the HMS reunion was really fun; it was therapeutic to reunite with those who shared this experience and both interesting and informative to discuss life in 2023! For me, the socialization was the best part and reinforces what fun we had at our 50th DMS reunion. Hopefully, we will have more opportunities to reunite while we still can. We are so fortunate!”
John Looney: “I continue to work part-time with some addiction psychiatry colleagues to build a 50-bed, doctorowned addiction hospital in Raleigh. We think it will be one of the best programs in the Southeast. Susan and I are traveling more. We just got back from a trip to the UK. While in London, I presented a paper to the joint meeting of the British and American Societies for Sir William Osler. In the paper, I tried to understand Dr. Osler’s lifelong habit of tricking people. His tricks and deceptions did not seem to fit with the rest of his professional persona. Our classmate and a distinguished DMS graduate, John Bullock , also presented a paper at this meeting, and we had great fun at dinner with the Bullocks.”
Suzie Boulter : “I agree with Sarah’s comments about the recent 55th reunion we attended in Boston. The togetherness we had in Hanover, with six days a week of lectures and labs, certainly promoted our close class relationships. It was stunning to learn that currently there are zero lectures at HMS in Years 1 and 2. So how does learning take place? Apparently, all the materials are sent electronically, and the groups of 40 in each of four ‘societies’ meet in a technologically heavy room where topics are discussed among the students and professors. Also stunning was the anatomy table, with the digital ability to make ‘cuts’ using joysticks to reveal connections.
“Phil and I are enjoying our time living on Lake Winnipesaukee half the year and in Waterville Valley the other half. Our two grandkids are now ages 13 and 9, and we see them quite a bit. We remain active in spite of several joint replacements. It’s kind of amazing that we’re still able to downhill and cross-country ski, bike, and play tennis and pickle ball. It’s a marvel of progress in medical procedures!”
Deane Mosher : “Medical student instruction at Wisconsin is as described by Suzie, except that I don’t think of my use of the room in which I serve as a resource for a student team as being technologically heavy. There are other rooms on campus where that happens. Dave Zamierowski has his name on a unit for such instruction in Kansas City—the Zamierowski Institute for Experiential Learning (ZIEL)—that sounds amazing.
“My daughter Hilary has moved to Minneapolis to take a position in general medicine-geriatrics at their VA. She has been looking for a more challenging job than the one she had in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her daughter will be taking a job in Oregon, and her son works in Detroit, so she will have many more direct flights from Minneapolis than from Cedar Rapids. She recently bought
a cabin near Hayward, Wisc., that is close to ski trails and about the same distance from us in Madison, Wisc.”
Paul Bates: “I don’t have much to report; I have been mostly balancing golf and doctors’ visits. As Dave Zamierowski mentioned, Connie and I made a quick two-day trip to Hanover to witness John Zaia’s honor. I thought the ceremony and reception were well-done, and we had a chance to have dinner with John and Dave. On our trip back to Ithaca, we took some infrequently traveled Vermont roads. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at our next reunion.”
As for your secretary, John Davenport , Cheryl and I have continued to enjoy our lives in the Twin Cities. We have daughters and grandchildren here, and spend much good social time with them. This spring we went on a Road Scholar trip to southern Ireland, with a focus on Cork, busing through the countryside and walking around small and larger towns with our very social group from all over the U.S. We were able to see the 15th-century Blarney Stone (though we didn’t personally kiss it!) and visit several museums, especially one in Dublin that exhibited the 9th-century Book of Kells. Historic Ireland at its best!
—John Davenport 2012 Drew Avenue S Minneapolis, MN 55416 952-237-4076 (cell) jdav0743@gmail.com
My question to classmates to inspire this column was “Thoughts on Turning 80.” Here were the responses:
Mac Rogers: “My main thought is to try to preserve my fitness so I can enjoy the things I love to do and let go of things I don’t really want to do anymore. Also gradually prune down stuff in my house so it isn’t left as a burden for my children.”
David Bush: “At our age I’m not sure whether we should look forward
or backward. Maybe there is a place to talk about those who have been ‘gathered.’”
Frank Sharkey: “Physically, lots of a.m. joint and muscle pains. The stuff between the ears blames everything on age. Embarrassing moments are becoming more common, but are quickly forgotten. ’Nuff said?”
Richard Dunn: “I am looking forward to turning 80 in January but I hope to make it to our 60th reunion. At this age, I keep Mark Twain’s aphorism in mind: ‘You pick Heaven for the climate and Hell for the company.’”
Phil Livingston: “Lows: sick and dying friends. Highs: our continuing good health and our happy grandson. Aren’t we fortunate?”
And yours truly, John Mulvihill : “The old saw, ‘Better than the alternative.’ Every day is a bonus over average lifespan (thereby proving we’re not average).”
And here’s some further news: Frank Sharkey: “The last academic year was very busy for me, even as a part-timer. In addition to caring for our biorepository (~10,000 samples), which is my main task, I have been helping with liver pathology cases (my favorite), working with the new residents on their first few autopsies and participating with the local IRB committee. Of course, I am still performing lab inspections for the College of American Pathologists and taking part in lab accreditation committees. Since we returned to on-site inspections, I have been doing about one a month, including some international places (Singapore twice and Taiwan). Vacation travel resumes with a fall trip to Japan.” You can contact him at sharkyf@uthscsa.edu or 210-567-4135 (weekday office phone). “I don’t carry a cell phone,” he says. How many can write that?!
David Bush reported on family vacation with kids and grandkids. He also noted the upcoming 55th reunion of the Harvard Medical Class of 1969;
his inside info revealed a high rate of psychiatrists from that class and led to some alums on the “find” list from Dartmouth Med—we’ll follow up. He also reported that Dick Reese was facing his second hip replacement. “As you would expect from an ID guy/pharmacologist, he was just a bit nervous,’” David wrote. You can contact him at dcbush17@gmail.com or 570-971-2706.
Speaking of active-duty psychiatrists, Richard Donn and wife Miriam had a two-day rest in July in Hanover, after “a memory-lane trip through the Adirondacks, across Lake Champlain, up to Burlington, and then down to Hanover. We stayed at the Lyme Inn and had dinner at the Hanover Inn. They are redoing the front of the Hopkins Center, but Hanover remains recognizable even after a half century.” You can contact him at 914-260-4641.
Phil Livingston said, “I write from Northfield, Mass., where Lucy Hann (my child bride, DMS 1971) and I spend our summers, simply. Birds at our feeders, a minimum of yard maintenance, and bike riding, walks, and a little tennis and golf at public facilities. Hoping to see Rick Donn and perhaps others when we return to NYC.” You can contact him at 646-241-5492.
Mac Rogers reports living across the street from Matt Liang ’s escape from Boston and invites me to stop in when in Maine to visit my two brothers! (Might be grist for next column!) You can contact him at 7 Cole Farm Drive, Scarborough, ME 04074 or 617-435-8653.
Matt Liang had another almostmeeting with his maker in March 2023. From his 1,800-word summary to Lufthansa: “I flew LH 442, 20 March 2023 (Boston to Duesseldorf). On the first leg to Munich, I had an acute coronary syndrome (heart attack). I was then taken by ambulance 21 March from Munich Airport to Klinikum Freising Cardiology Hospital. The saga from the heart attack to returning to Boston 26 March 2023 by private charter was only made possible by my wife working nonstop to get me home. . . . [I] had the great fortune of three German cardiologists, a senior German physician, my Boston primary care physician, and my Boston cardiologist directly involved during the entire predicament.”
In June 2023, yours truly, John Mulvihill , received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Washington School of Medicine (for longevity?) and published an article in JAMA’s “Arts and Medicine” section
titled “The Gregor Mendel Bicentennial Tribute—Enduring Mementos of the Founder of Genetics” (PMID 37382949, doi 10.1001/jama.2023.9766). When my brother moved to the Portland area, Dartmouth classmates rallied to plug him into medical care in the area: Dave Bush ’s son diagnosed and managed my brother’s frozen shoulder, Mac Rogers pointed him to rehab services, and, for another brother, Matt Liang identified a rheumatologist! Thanks, guys!
—John J. Mulvihill 1611 Foulkeways Gwynedd, PA 19436 405-343-9253 johmulvihill@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary William H. Ramsey at 49 Cranberry Lane, Cheshire, CT 064103504; williamramsey@sbcglobal.net.
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Greetings, classmates. It’s not too early to be thinking about our 55th reunion in Hanover, in the fall of ’24. Be sure to get the dates (September 27-29) on your calendars now. Let me know if you’re interested in attending. Also, let me know how you are doing in general: work status, fitness routine, sports, hobbies, books you’ve been reading, grandkids, tips on managing retirement, etc.
Looking forward to hearing from you. —Bill Rix 55 Audubon Way Auburn, NH 03032-3109 603-587-0248 rixwp@comcast.net
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Nigel Paneth at 839 Wildwood Drive, East Lansing, MI 48823-3048; 517-351-9538 (home) or 517-290-5062 (cell)
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Joe O’Donnell at PO Box 606, Grantham, NH 03753; joseph.odonnell@dartmouth.edu
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This column includes news from the two-year class of 1972 and the three-year class of 1972-3.
Hello again, all. Even though our 50th was last fall, it is still, as always, a pleasure to help keep us connected through these News & Notes
From Boston, Pablo Gomery reports that he is still working full-time as a urologist at Mass General Hospital, though he commented that he has seen numerous younger MDs and RNs leaving clinical care. Thus, he notes, in some settings an extra burden now falls on those of us who are older and still working.
From California—or, rather, from her usual summer perch in Montana— Lucy Tompkins reports that at the end of this year she will transition to an emerita position at Stanford. However, she is pleased to note that she will still be working half-time, doing some of her favorite jobs: faculty mentoring, remaining as associate director of the ID division, and writing the promotion packages for faculty in ID and other divisions of the Department of Medicine at Stanford, where, she notes, the “talent is just incredible.” Nice information about Lucy’s career may be found at dartgo.org/LucyTompkin and on Wikipedia. She also mentions that her offer to receive old friends as visitors in her summer Bitterroot Valley, Mont., home remains open!
Alice Hunter (in California, too) and I had a nice email exchange in which we reminisced that back during our DMS days, she gave Karlann and me two kittens, Muffi and Djaku, who lived with us initially in Strasenburgh Hall and later, in our last year at DMS, in a nice old red-barn apartment along the
river halfway to Lyme. We remember Djaku once running after us out of Strasenburgh Hall to join us as we were walking down to the Hopkins Center! (After all, why should cats not be able to take a walk with us, as do dogs.)
And when we mention cats and dogs, we naturally think of Jim Grillo, who, you may all recall, went to veterinary school after having been in medical practice for years. In a recent exchange regarding care he gave at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans to elephants and lemurs, Jim pointed out that he had also cared for giraffes and okapis. What a professional treat. (Jim also noted the pleasure of caring for four-legged rather than two-legged patients!) It would be interesting to know how many MD-DVMs there are in this country (or in the world) and what they could help teach us about “one health.”
From his rotation through his three residences (in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida), Ron Polinksy reports considerable news about his family—with the good news including that his son is having a wonderful career as a cardiologist and that one of his grandsons, now in high school, may wind up at Dartmouth. His sad news, though, concerns the recent passing of his wife, Barbara, to whom he had been married for 53 years—thus almost since the day that he joined our medical school class in the fall of 1970. It was very sad to have lost a partner who had accompanied him literally every step of the way! Ron also notes that Barbara had known essentially everyone in our class! As a side note, as we were further reminiscing, Ron reminded me that he and Barbara had lived in one of the Strasenburgh apartments and that their dog, Baron, was actually formally named Baron von Strasenburgh!
From Palo Alto, Rich Mamelok reports having had shoulder surgery in May, after his many years of swimming and an old ski injury finally caught up with him. Fortunately, he reports a
good recovery and is looking forward to starting to train for a century bike ride. He is also the poetry editor of The Pharos and is curating a poetry and music event sponsored by the Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. And he has been enjoying taking drum lessons for the last six months. Further, he and his wife are shortly embarking on a trip to Japan and Korea! So busy!
From Bozeman, Mont., Dave Taylor reports that all is well with his family. He has spent some time thinking about what it means to be 75—but reports that he did not get beyond its being just a number! He said that in October, Bozeman would be hosting a medical history conference that was to include a symposium on the discovery of Rickettsia rickettsia, the agent that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Fred Meier, who now lives in Seattle, was to be one of the keynote speakers, presenting “A Frontier of Science Comes to Montana: The Short and Splendid Career of HT Ricketts.”
Also, Dave had previously mentioned that on his way to our class’s 50th last fall, he and Joanne had stopped in Concord, N.H., along with Cindall and Chris Hallowell , where they had a nice visit with Mark Bardo. However, David has now reported that Mark passed away last March. During his career, Mark practiced in Colorado, Montana, and New Hampshire. David pointed us to a very nice obituary (readily accessible via Google), which, in addition to mentioning Mark’s time at Dartmouth College, as well as at DMS for two years, points out that after he transferred to the University of Washington, he did not complete his medical degree there until 1978! The reason for the two-year delay was that while there, he took two years off to work as a Peace Corps volunteer (PCV) in a community health program in South Korea! (See below for more on this subject.)
From Vermont, just north of Hanover, Dan Wing reports that he and Dina recently met up with Betsy Bardo and Cindall and Chris Hallowell for a nice supper in White River Junction. A good time was had by all, though Mark Bardo himself was sorely missed. Dan will also soon be having a meal with Chris and Norm Payson just before he (Dan) becomes busy with a yearly project called Window Dressers (WD). WD volunteers build hundreds of low-cost insulated interior storm windows in towns across Northern New England, selling them at cost to those who can pay and providing them free to low- and fixed-income families living in drafty old housing stock. This year the project will run for a week in late October. An interesting model to be sure!
From Seattle, Fred Meier has been in touch regarding various matters, especially the passing in February of our beloved pathology professor, Miguel Marin-Padilla (MMP). DMS has published a lovely article about MMP (see dartgo.org/MarinPadilla), which highlights his contributions as a neuropathologist and a teacher and which, in a sense for us, is a nice reminder of all the special teachers we had during our DMS years, including not only MMP but also Heinz Valtin, Marsh Tenney, Elmer Pfefferkorn, and others, who together helped launch us so well on the way to our own medical careers!
As for me, Eric Brenner, I stopped this year teaching the annual infectious disease epidemiology course I’ve been giving at the school of public health for over 20 years. I will be moving to doing some mentoring and guest-teaching. In addition, I’ve been thinking of writing a couple of books for new public health students and professionals! So, more on those next time!
To conclude, it is perhaps worth mentioning that our class also had several others who served as PCVs, in addition to Mark Bardo in Korea— including Jack Slater (in Colombia), Eric
Brenner (in Ivory Coast), and I believe someone else (in Micronesia?), in these additional instances prior to our time at DMS. It would be of interest to review the contributions that our PCV experiences made to our subsequent medical careers; they might be of interest to our children, grandchildren, and others!
—Eric Brenner 724 Holly Street Columbia, SC 29205-1852 803-799-6797
ebrenner@rocketmail.com
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The word for the weekend was friendship. About a fifth of our class returned to Hanover this past September: Will Chamberlin, Rob Smith (and wife Margaret), Nick Hill (and wife Sophia), Andy Roberts (and wife Susan), Scott Emery (and wife Cynthia), Pearl O’Rourke, Marian Petrides, and your class secretary, Dave Knopman (and wife Deb). We missed Don Raddatz and Tom Echeverria , who couldn’t come at the last minute.
We had a very nice opportunity to visit, reminisce, and enjoy each other’s companionship, which began more than 52 years ago. Several of us are still working— Nick Hill as a pulmonologist at Tufts, Rob Smith in infectious diseases at Maine Medical Center, and myself in neurology at Mayo—and the rest are working hard at retirement in one way or another: Pearl O’Rourke in Boston, tending horses and serving on various DSMBs; Scott Emery in Portland, Ore., working on a remote diagnostic app for gait evaluation; Andy Roberts on learning a lot of history, especially American; Will Chamberlain on serving as chief medical officer of a pharma start-up that’s seeking to develop therapies for drug-resistant tuberculosis and other
indications; and Marian Petrides in northern Vermont.
It was truly amazing how a bunch of people who met over 50 years ago but then each went their separate ways could fall back into easy and warm conversation. Sure, some of us have maintained contact over the years, and all of us share a common background in education and profession, but, at least for me, I am grateful for this opportunity.
—David Knopman Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Department of Neurology, 200 First Street, SW, Rochester, MN 55905-0001 507-288-7557, knopman@mayo.edu
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This column includes news from the two-year class of 1974 and the three-year class of 1974-5.
If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Bill Thorwarth at 4014 North Center Street, Apt. 204, Hickory, NC 28601; wthorwarth@gmail.com
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This column includes news from the two-year class of 1975 and the three-year class of 1975-6.
If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Oge Young at 2 Rum Hill Road, Concord, NH 03301-2556; ohpryoung@comcast.net
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Mary Anne Whelan shared this update: “What have I been up to in retirement? A friend introduced me to the useful phrase ‘nibbled to death by ducks,’ which means ‘doing this and that in a fragmented way.’ Probably a major occupier of my time and attention has been the fallout from my 2020 book, Freddie’s Last Ride, an examination from a medical point of view of the evidence of the death of Freddie Gray (which was at the hands of the arresting officers, in Baltimore, and not a consequence of the van ride—their successful but inaccurate defense).
Members of the class of 1978, clockwise from top left: Kevin Rist, John Maxfield, Dinah and John Hodgson, Susan and Peter Rogol.
“Additionally, I’m doing a number of community-related things: working at the food pantry, participating on the zoning board of appeals, remaining on the ethics committee of my hospital, serving as a member of the family council for the local nursing home, etc. Probably 10 years older than my average fellow DMS classmates, I have been saddened not only by the loss of friends but also by witnessing their grief at the loss of their adult children—three of them in the past year, two of those as a consequence of drug abuse. I am also saddened by the state of American medicine, with increasing corporatization stripping medical practice of its idealism and its lodging in a personal knowledge of one’s patients and reducing it to the control of practice by third parties. And I’m distressed by the appalling political situation.
“From a personal and physical point of view, I am largely okay, using the excellent local gym five times a week, walking the ever-present German shepherd, still driving, still feeling good about the community in which I have been living for the last 40 years, with its wealth of interests and the characters behind them. Cheers to all! Yours, Mary Anne.”
We are currently seeking a secretary for the Class of 1976. To learn more, or if you have news to share, please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 603-646-5297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@dartmouth.edu —Editor
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Arminda Perez at 3905 Highgrove Drive, Dallas, TX 75220; 972658-0474; armindaperez22@yahoo.com
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A remnant of DMS ’78 managed to return to campus for our 45th reunion. Despite the low numbers, I think all involved will agree it was a most pleasant affair. Our class somehow was able to raise in the neighborhood of $40K for the school. I can claim no credit, though my name was used on the solicitation. Most of us were in the Northeast for some reason or other. I actually live closest, still in New Haven, though I used the opportunity to deliver some old records to the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive. There was one regret. John Mellors was in Europe selling his biotech company. Maybe there is a
better meeting place than Hanover. The weekend consisted really of just three events: a welcome buffet in a tent in front of Remsen on Friday (the hot cider and donuts were particularly good); a class dinner at the Hanover Inn on Saturday evening; and a farewell breakfast at the Inn on Sunday morning. The College’s new president, Sian Leah Beilock, stopped by the breakfast for handshakes and selfies. Her field is neuroscience (the study of stress) and she states she has a firm interest in seeing the medical school succeed. We wished her well in her endeavors. Respects were paid to our classmates of fond memory: Peter Kolack , Helen Robinson, Carol Dembe, Mark Winter, and Bob Lang
One never knows what may happen at these gatherings, but besides the three planned events, which were worth attendance by themselves, my wife and I enjoyed meaningful Saturday morning Jewish services at which we met a gentleman who grew up two blocks from where we live, a rabbi from Chicago whose husband is a Geisel grad, and a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor whose memoir details her miraculous journey during the war and its aftermath.
Did I forget some details about the attendees? You could have come, so now you will have to wait for part two.
—Peter R. Rogol 73 West Rock Ave New Haven, CT 06515 PROGOL48@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Dennis Angellis at 8501 Chilte Pine Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120; dangellis@me.com
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Since 2014, the Geisel Alumni Council’s Alumni Recognition Committee has been honoring the achievements of DMS/Geisel graduates who have
distinguished themselves in the fields of medicine, science, and other endeavors. Each honoree typifies the DMS/Geisel tradition of excellence in their field of medicine or service to the Dartmouth community. This year, Eric Donnenfeld D ’77, MED ’80, P ’05 was selected and celebrated at a reception at the Dartmouth Club in NYC in April 2023. Eric is and always has been a star to Dartmouth College and to DMS/ Geisel. He not only exemplifies a broad range of contributions to the field of ophthalmology, including scholarship and technological advancements, but he is well known for being an experienced and empathetic patient care provider in New York and Connecticut. Eric has been a leader for decades. He has been a clinical professor of ophthalmology at NYU Medical Center since 2006. He founded the Lions Eye Bank for Long Island and serves as its surgical director. He is an internationally recognized expert and pioneer in the field of refractive, cornea, and cataract surgery. He was among the first five people in the world to perform both laser vision correction and laser cataract surgery. He has authored more than 225 peer-reviewed papers and has published more than 45 book chapters and three books on corneal, external disease, cataract, and refractive surgery. Eric, we are all so proud to know you and count you as a DMS 1980 classmate. Heartiest congratulations and best wishes for continued personal and professional success.
I heard from Diane Arsenault , who had this to say: “I’ve been retired since June 2022, after 39 years as a family physician and 24 years as a hospice physician. While the transition to retirement took a while before I settled in, I am now happily enjoying life as a retiree. I volunteer as a ‘bog host’ at Quincy Bog, a local nature center (I took the UNH Cooperative Extension Natural Resource Stewards course in 2019), am a board member of Pemi-
Baker Home Health and Hospice (the agency for which I was the hospice medical director), am gardening to bring my permaculture design for our property closer to fruition (I took a permaculture design course in 2014), and am generally enjoying living in the New Hampshire outdoors (hiking, kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding) and spending time with grandchildren.
“The New Hampshire/New England medical community includes numerous DMS ’80 classmates! I see Bob Brew (a high school and high school summer program classmate, as well as a DMS classmate), who is also happily retired, at Advanced Studies Program reunions, and will also see him at our upcoming 50th high school reunion. Birgit Houston is a family physician in Hollis. Tom Ward is a Dartmouth Health neurologist to whom I referred patients. Brian Sullivan is a pediatric pulmonologist in Manchester, N.H. Nancy Pettinari and Will Danford live/work in the Seacoast Region. Seddon Savage and I served on the New Hampshire Medical Society executive council together; she is a well-known addiction medicine and pain management physician, as well as a DMS (Geisel) faculty member. Sara Chaffee is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at DHMC. And Sarah Goodlin and I occasionally crossed paths at annual American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine meetings.
“I look forward to seeing many (all?) of our classmates at our 45th (and 50th!) reunions. COVID turned our 40th reunion into a minimal-attendance virtual event.”
I hope to see other DMS 1980 graduates and/or hear from them about their personal and professional passions, accomplishments, travels, and adventures. I am sure most of us are spending time with friends, family, and grandchildren. Send me updates and photos for the next issue of the News & Notes
As for myself, I have been blessed
with a granddaughter (in SF) and grandson (in NYC) this year, so I travel to San Francisco and Manhattan frequently. I have taken trips back in time to attend concerts in NYC featuring Judy Collins, Barry Manilow, and Diana Ross, and I have upcoming tickets to hear Dionne Warwick, Earth Wind and Fire, and Lionel Richie. I frequent the Metropolitan Art Museum and the New York Botanical Garden, volunteer at Greenwich Library, and support NEADS (the National Education for Assistance Dog Services) outside of Boston. Myles Sheehan MED ’81 has been a puppy-raiser for NEADS. Our next reunion, our 45th, is just two years away. I hope to see some of you before then. If you are in NYC, I would love to meet at the Dartmouth/ Yale/UVA Club across from Grand Central Station. Stay safe, stay healthy, stay connected.
—Celine M. Stahl 104 Ritch Avenue West, Condo 10 Greenwich, CT 06830 cmsdms1980@gmail.com
Greetings, fellow DMS ’81s, from New England! For most of us, the weather was very odd here in the Northeast this past summer. It started out cold and rainy in June, then it was muggy and wet in July, and finally, in August, I can say that things seemed more normal.
I continue to work at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bangor on a slightly reduced schedule of four days a week and no regular call. The job finally got perfect! I have at last rebuilt my practice to 5.5 full-time GI providers, only the third time I’ve done this. I’m still the president of the Maine GI Society and am the American College of Gastroenterology’s governor for Maine. Katahdin continues to call my name, and so I continue to climb it in all seasons.
I have not heard from many of you with news for this column. However, I did want to write about the recent 2023
Alumni Awards presentation, held on May 19. Tim Shafer and I, Mark Lena , traveled to Hanover that day to see our own Dan Lucey honored with a career achievement award, recognizing his 40 years of fighting epidemics around the world. He has been on the forefront of treating AIDS, Ebola, Zika, and COVID19. He counts Tony Fauci as a personal friend! He has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the New England Journal. Dan is now a clinical professor of medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. He lives in Norwich with his wife, Brita Reed DMS ’82. Congrats to Dan for such outstanding career achievements and the well-deserved recognition.
Tim Shafer continues to practice in Townsend, Vt., though at a slightly reduced, sane pace. He and Deb continue to have amazing produce from their Vermont farm.
That’s all I have for now. I would love to hear from all; let me know how life is treating you!
—Mark Lena 125 Bennoch Road Orono, ME 04473 207-866-3839 (home) mlena@roadrunner.com
—Dan Lucey 420 7th Street NW Washington, DC 20004 202-299-4398 (cell) daniel.lucey8@gmail.com
Hello, classmates. Not much to report this time, but I hope everyone is safe given the crazy weather we’re having. In New Hampshire it rained almost every day in June, it seemed, and July is very hot and humid. Climate change is real. Anyone in the New Hampshire area should consider joining New Hampshire Healthcare Workers for Climate Action and helping us spread the word and educate people about climate change. I also have another site to share with you—a place where you can get
involved with medical school affinity groups. You’ll meet people who share some experiences and values with you as well as mentor students. The place to check this out is dartgo.org/affinity.
Also, the med school is looking for nominations for the Alumni Awards. So if you know someone who is deserving of this honor, please go to this link and sign up your nominee: https://dartgo. org/aawards.
Well, I’m off to Ireland with my Girl Scout alumna friends for a few weeks. I think it’s cooler over in Ireland, so I’m going to enjoy that for sure. Don’t forget, I welcome any news for the column, and hope I don’t have to wait till the next reunion year to hear from some of you!
—Patricia Edwards 5 Wheeler Road Bow, NH 03304-4213 603-340-0796 (cell) drpatedwards@yahoo.com
84Hello, Class of 1984! How can it be that it has been nearly 40 years since we received our diplomas as doctors of medicine from Dartmouth Medical School? By now, I suspect that many of us have retired after a long career caring for others! My hope is that all of you are able to enjoy the final years of practice or the beginning of a new chapter.
I was so excited to hear from Jonathan Segal this spring, reporting that he had indeed retired in 2018, after practicing psychiatry for nearly 30 years at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. By virtue of a late marriage and no children, Jon has been able to travel to many far-away destinations, including the Amazon, New Guinea, and the Himalayas (even the base camp of Mount Everest!). His life now consists of hiking, playing guitar, spending time with friends, and making many trips to his hometown of Hanover. Jon is a docent at a local nature preserve,
which serves as a constant reminder of the beauty and splendor of Mother Earth. Certainly there will be many more opportunities for travel and new experiences along the way. For anyone interested in contacting Jon, his email address is jtoobad53@gmail.com.
Word also came from Meg Krilov of her retirement in December of 2019. She is now living with her husband in Riverdale, in the West Bronx. In order to host their children and grandchildren, they moved in September of 2022 to a three-bedroom apartment—which has enough room that they could host their first Chanukah party. Five grandchildren (four boys and a girl) ranging from age 9 to 1 keep Meg and her husband very busy.
As for me, I continue in full time ob-gyn practice but am no longer taking call. I realized for the last couple of years I had either been dreading my call nights, doing my call nights, or recovering from them. Uninterrupted sleep is not to be underestimated. My wife, Dina Curran DMS ’86, and I have welcomed our first grandchild, Vincent Carmen Curran, born to our son Kent (currently a third-year ENT resident at the University of Virginia) and his wife, Julia. Our daughter, Francesca, is due with our second grandchild (a girl) around Thanksgiving, and our oldest son, Cory, and his wife, Lovi, are due in February of 2024.
That’s all for now. Please write when you can. If anyone happens to find themselves in Minnesota, please track me down. Visitors are scarce from November thru April (I wonder why), but the spring, summer, and fall can be divine. And I certainly welcome any tidbits of information about your lives. Take care, all, and be well!
—David Curran 8631 Sherwood Bluff Eden Prairie, MN 55347-3433
612-868-8355 (cell) or 952-920-7001 (work) ddcfak@gmail.com
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Hi, all. I heard from Suzanne Bird in June. Here is what she had to say: “All is good with me. I am still working full-time, running the psychiatric service in the ED at Mass General. Two weeks ago, I had the special pleasure of attending the graduation of our daughter Lucia Joseph, Geisel ’20, from internal medicine residency at Dartmouth. Many memories of med school arose at that event in response to speaking with and hearing from faculty and residents at DH and the WRJ VA. Our younger daughter, Liza, is six months away from finishing a doctorate in physical therapy at UVM. It’s so helpful for aging parents to have both an internist and a PT in the family! I see Anne Mosenthal and Diane McGrory regularly and stay in touch with Rich Parker, who lives just a few miles away. How can it be that we all met each other more than 40 years ago? I hope everyone is healthy and as happy as reality allows :-). Best, Suzanne.”
—Laurie Draughon 8437 E Arroyo Seco Road Scottsdale, AZ 85266 925-324-3919 (cell) lauriefd@yahoo.com
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First, I have sad news to share, about the passing of our classmate Andrew Dodds. His obituary can be viewed at dartgo.org/ADoddsobit.
Terry Trow wrote: “I have been a professor of medicine at Yale University, directing the pulmonary vascular disease program until recently, when I decided to cut back on my clinical responsibilities to focus on a role as medical editor for a point-of-care tool for physicians called DynaMedex. Have had the pleasure of working with Vito Iacoviello on this until his recent retirement, but our renewed friendship will last well into both of our retirements. Teaching pro
bono at Yale as well, in limited fashion. My wife and I moved recently from Newtown, Conn., to Mystic, Conn., and are loving our new place. Have stayed in touch with John Britton and his wife, Paulette, as well, as my work at DynaMedex in Ipswich, Mass., often takes me close to them in Rochester, N.H. Hope all in the class of ’86 are well and thriving!”
As for me, as I write the summer is proceeding in suburban Maryland, where we were treated to colorful sunsets on the hazy days when the smoke rolled in from Canadian wildfires. I partially retired at the end of 2023, after 34 years at NIH. My goal is to eliminate deadlines from my days. I don’t care for big life changes, so I’d like to be retired for 34 years, too. I’ll let you know what happens. Since I will have more time as I wind down, please drop a note or a picture to my email for the next 1986 alum news!
—Cathy Cantilena cathycantilena@gmail.com
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This past May, Rebecca Broderick Rodie was able to “hood” her daughter, when she received her DDS degree from the University of Colorado. “As a physician (the one in green), I was able to participate. Really amazing and a very proud moment.”
Mike and I, Harper Randall , have decided to uproot ourselves from Salt
Lake City after 36 years and will be moving up to Salem, Ore., early next year. Keep us in mind if future travels take you near there.
—Harper Randall 4482 Fortuna Way Salt Lake City, UT 84124 385-315-8987
HarperRandall@comcast.net
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Well, if you missed our reunion, you missed one heck of a party, 35 years in the making. Seventeen of our DMS ’88 classmates returned to Hanover on the occasion of our 35th, for a pictureperfect fall weekend filled with great fun, great memories, and the rekindling of great friendships. Many thanks to my reunion co-chairs, MaryAnn Volpe, Sarah Troxel , and Tenagne HaileMariam, for helping to round up the troops and provide such a fun-filled and memorable gathering.
Friday night started out under the tent where the Ritz-Carlton of student accommodations, Strasenburgh Hall, once stood and within a stone’s throw of where the DeRayne Boykins memorial bench now sits. While many reunion regulars were there, classmates cheered the first-ever appearance of Tony Mega at such an event. In actuality, Tony had just driven up from Providence to pick up a hat he had forgotten in the bowels of Chilcott in 1985 after falling asleep during an
SBM lecture. Tony is an oncologist at Brown specializing in prostate cancer and also mentors local high school students. Congratulations to Gowrie Anandarajah, recently named associate dean of medicine for Brown’s master of science Gateways Program. Reliable reunion staple Henry Sachs has been at Brown since it was more chestnut than brown and has spent his psychiatric career there working with autistic and developmentally delayed kids. He’s president of Bradley Hospital. Wow, if it weren’t for DMS grads, Brown would be falling apart! Not quite from Providence, but almost, Patricia Andrade continues her surgical practice, specializing in breast surgery, near her hometown of New Bedford, where she served last year as grand marshal of the 50th Cape Verdean Recognition Parade.
Carleen Broderick made it to reunion yet again, taking a break from her responsibilities as a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Not physically at the festivities (due to the wildly lame excuse of being on call) but FaceTimed into our Saturday night dinner was Glenn Prescod. (Of course Glenn’s lame excuse for not coming was better than Ellie Pitts ’s no excuse for her absence). Susan Arceneaux , a physical medicine and rehab specialist, once again made the trek from Ohio and served as unofficial photographer for the weekend.
Skip Walton has gone through more professional metamorphoses than just about anyone in our class. Originally focusing on kids as a pediatric ER doc, and of course as a celebrated summer camp medicine guru, Skip went on to join the new William Beaumont School of Medicine in Michigan. Most importantly, though, hats off to Skip for his selfless tours with the Navy, which have seen him deployed over the years to Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and, more recently, during the early
and frightening days of the pandemic, to the makeshift COVID hospital at the Javits Convention Center in New York. As he enters a new phase of his multifaceted career, Skip is now delighted have transitioned from kids to working as an ER doc at the Ann Arbor VA. Hats off also to Tenagne Haile-Mariam, an ER doc at George Washington, who was also very much on the front lines of the coronavirus epidemic, serving the most vulnerable disenfranchised and minority patients in D.C. Colleen Kelley, heroic in her own right for successfully being a mom during medical training, continues in emergency medicine in Bennington, Vt., and is delighted that her institution is now part of Dartmouth Health. Sandy Kelsey has also had a bit of transition, from pediatrician at
Dartmouth to director of the Family Health Center in Lebanon, N.H. But what Jonathan Greenberg appreciates most about Sandy is Sandy’s Lyme farm, complete with extremely plump pigs who apparently make extremely delicious bacon. Jon happily spends his days as an anesthesiologist at the Bassett in Cooperstown, but his joy at putting patients to sleep prior to their colonoscopies (and having them wake up at the end) pales compared to the rapture of breakfast at Sandy’s farm with the best bacon Jon has ever had.
Far and away, though, the highlight of the weekend, hands down, was the special edition 37th anniversary screening in Kellogg Auditorium of our second-year skits, “Circus Medicus.” A thousand thanks to Sarah Troxel for coming up with a tape and arranging
the showing. Honestly, the amount of energy and talent that went into those skits was staggering. Joan Breen, our DMS bingo “free space,” served as ringleader of the circus. These days, sans top hat, Joan is ringleader of coordinating virtually every aspect of patient care as director of neurology at her rehabilitation hospital. Gary Chinman was the perfect Elmer Pfefferkorn, extolling the virtues of fecal veneer opposite the incessant hand-wringing of my Dr. Jacobson. Gary steers mostly clear of fecal veneer as a psychiatrist at Harvard, where much of his work has focused on wellness issues for physicians and medical students. MaryAnn Volpe spends her time as director of the special care nursery at Tufts, but after watching her “Circus Medicus” performance taking Drs. Naitove and Colachio down to the mat like a Tasmanian Devil wrestler, I’m sure she could develop a huge WWF following. Sarah and Ann Bracken sang a delightful duet, “You Light Up My Scope,” pining to be noticed by their heartthrob instructor. Sarah is back in Hanover, semi-retired, after many years as a plastic surgeon in Anchorage. Ann is queen of Dick’s House, as director of clinical medical services for student health at Dartmouth, and can frequently be found loitering in the vicinity of Occom Pond.
One of the highlights of watching our wonderful skits again was being reminded of some of the incredible talent outside of medicine that many of our classmates possess. Cathy “The Girl” Zack was unable to join us for the reunion but delighted and astounded all of us with her phenomenal voice in 1986, singing a medley of My Fair Lady-based songs as she portrayed an initially mild-mannered medical student who was committed to the virtuous and holistic life of family practice, only to be turned into a callous and aggressive surgeon during her surgical clerkship. The real-life Cathy
did go into family practice and was featured on the cover of her hometown’s magazine holding a newborn. I would be remiss to also not mention the musical backdrop to our show, particularly the amazingly beautiful piano playing of Greg Cummings Dan Austin was unable to make it back to Hanover for our 35th, but he wanted me to share this message with everyone: “We just returned from a month in Europe, where, among other things, Sandy and I celebrated our 50th anniversary with all of our ‘immediate’ family in a modest castle we rented in southern France—11 of us, ages three to 75 (guess who?). Assuming I am still alive, well, and oriented, Sandy and I will see you all for our DMS 40th. I will only be a young 80 then!”
So there you have it, thanks to those who came—and we missed those of you who did not. And, as Dan says, on to our 40th!
—Aris Damianos 8 Winterberry Lane North Hampton, NH 03862 603-964-3798 adamianos@comcast.net
89I had quite a good response this issue to the request for news for the class column. I encourage everyone to update your email address with the alumni office so I’m able to contact you for the latest info that your classmates would love to hear. And in case you didn’t see the obituary in the last issue, our classmate Beverly Stephenson passed away last November. She began her career practicing medicine in Minnesota. She will be sorely missed. Kathy Gill kindly touched base with me last month. She has been enjoying family practice in Santa Monica, Calif., for the past 33 years. She concentrates on children with special needs, with an emphasis on traditional and biodynamic osteopathy. She currently has a focus on newborns with oral
dysfunction, CP, Erb’s, gait disorders, and plagiocephaly. I am overwhelmed by the good she is doing in this world. She also devotes time to academia, has lectured on cardiac development, and directed the 2024 annual conference for the Osteopathic Cranial Academy on Development. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, electric biking, music, and the Pacific Ocean at her front doorstep. Her son is following in her footsteps, completing a family medicine residency in West Covina, Calif. He plans to practice traditional osteopathy and sports medicine.
Carl Bromwich, who is a regular at our reunions, continues to enjoy life in southern Quebec. Not quite the same climate as Santa Monica! Only 361 days until he cuts back on his academic/ clinical duties to around 20 weeks of clinical a year. I applaud him for the intelligent reduction in workload. His youngest child is 18 and will be leaving the nest next year. Carl has taken up rowing in his free time. He visited with Robin and Jon Wood last month. The Woods now have five grandchildren.
Chris Bean has started his 29th year of orthopedic practice in central Vermont. His oldest daughter, Theodora, recently married at his camp in Clearwater Lake, Maine. His son, Walker, works in Portland, Maine, and his youngest, Antonia, just graduated from Tulane. Retirement is in the corner of his eye, maybe five years off. He has downsized his house and enjoys more time cross-country skiing. He continues to race with other old XC skiers at the Worldloppet Marathon every year in Europe.
Terry Vaccaro has found a new home on Ragged Mountain in Andover, N.H. It has great views and hiking, mountain-biking, and ski trails. She is frequently visited there by Julie Corsini and Laura Robertson. Terry continues to work part-time doing more pediatric radiology, which she finds very fulfilling. Her son, Kai, has
started a band and has original singles on Spotify—see “SneakyJack.” His band plays primarily along the New Hampshire Seacoast.
On May 19, Joyce Sackey received the Distinguished Alumni Award from DMS! Congratulations are in order.
Everyone, please drop me an email so I can keep your classmates up to date. I’d also like some photographs for the column.
—James Hartford
650-823-0471
jimhartford@comcast.net
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary
E. James Wright III at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Urology, 301 Building, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224-2735; 410-550-7739; ejwright1@gmail.com
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Brian Dwinnell wrote in with this update: “Jean and I are both faculty members at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Jean is in the Department of Ob-Gyn and was recently named a “5280 Top Doc,” voted on by Denverarea colleagues. I am in my seventh year as the associate dean of student life at the University of Colorado SOM.
“I have included a family picture— Audrey (far left) is an occupational therapist in Denver, working with kids with neurodevelopmental diagnoses; Evan is a senior at Clemson University as an audio technology major and member of the marching band (the Tiger Band); and Allison is entering her second year of veterinary school at Cornell.”
We are currently seeking a secretary for the class 1991. To learn more, or if you have news you would like to share, please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 603-6465297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@ dartmouth.edu. —Editor
I hope summer (as I write)— and fall (by the time you read this!)—have treated everyone well. It’s hard to believe it’s already been almost a year since our reunion.
Since Joe Franklin was unable to join us for the reunion, I’m thrilled to share the word that he’s reported in with the wonderful news of 41 years of marriage to sweet Cheryl, who is thankfully healthy and well. I’m delighted to hear about his next adventure since retiring last year. He says: “Hope you’re well and taking advantage of summer to slow down a bit and recharge/ renew. Cheryl and I are enjoying West Texas, with its constants of wind, dust, and red pepper. Thankfully, the other constants of wide-open spaces and friendly people are additional blessings to our recent move out here.
“We recently celebrated our 41st anniversary by cooling off at Balmorhea State Park in the state’s largest swimming pool (spring-fed) followed by supper at a hotel popular with visitors to Texas. We certainly missed seeing everyone at the last reunion and, God willing, will be there for the next one. Until then, we are in Alpine, Texas, called ‘the gateway to Big Bend National Park,’ and have plenty of room for those seeking a different type of
adventure! Come see us! With much affection, Joe and Cheryl.”
Another retiree is in our midst! Eric Dahms (no, not him) sent a fantastic picture of himself with Pete Woodson, who just retired from the Navy. Congratulations and thank you for your service, Pete. We hope now that you are footloose and fancy-free, you and Jen can join us for reunions!
Brent Forester, in contrast, has jumped feetfirst into a new role. He’s left McLean and is now the director of behavioral health, psychiatrist-in-chief, and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical School.
I loved Brent’s heartfelt message to his colleagues of 25 years: “Today is a bittersweet day in my professional journey. I have spent 25 years at McLean Hospital and Mass General Brigham, from my internship days in medicine at MGH, psychiatry training at McLean Hospital, and the past 21 years in geriatric psychiatry at McLean and, more recently, in population health at MGB. Through it all, I have had a professional home and family that has supported and taught me about excellence in patient care, training the next generation of mental health professionals, and conducting mean -
Brent Forester named the Dr. Frances S. Arkin Chair of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine.
ingful clinical research impacting the lives of our patients and their families. My colleagues, mentors, mentees, and friends have become a growing extended family who will always be there as I embark on this next phase of my career, beginning June 1, as psychiatrist-in-chief and chair of psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center, director of behavioral health for Tufts Medicine, and chair of psychiatry at Tufts University Medical School. I expect many opportunities for collaboration and bridge-building in this new and amazing role. Thanks to you all for your incredible support and wisdom over so many years.”
No rest for the weary, even though both of his children have graduated from college and are gainfully employed. Rylan is living and working in Manhattan,
and Sasha just graduated from college and will be working in Washington, D.C. He did report that despite the new role, he was able to take time for a fun dinner with Andy Auerbach, Diana Hilbert, and Chris Colwell while in San Francisco in May at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.
Diana is our common thread on the conference circuit :-). We were able to get together with her when Melly Sani, Lenny Mankin, Eric Dahms, and I were all at the ACP meeting in San Diego. Diana’s husband, Stephen, and Eric’s wife, Kathy, patiently joined us, tolerating the incessant reminiscing, and we all came away feeling so lucky to be learning together once again!
And, speaking of reminiscing, Paul Cardosi shared some fantastic old photos that I hope will make it into the
Chris Colwell, Paul Cardosi, Pete Woodson, and Pete Santa Lucia on Match Day in 1992.
John Houde, Brent Forester, and Mark Canning (all class of 1992) and their wives.
Chris Colwell, Brent Forester, Diana Hilbert, and Andy Auerbach (all class of 1992).
newsletter, including a fabulous one of himself with Chris Colwell , Pete Woodson, and Pete Santa Lucia on Match Day.
I wish you all well and hope to hear and share news from more of you in the months and years to come. Keep it coming!
—Anna Vouros 106 Elm Street Concord, MA 01742 617-320-0659 (cell) avouros@partners.org
I am sorry to have missed our 30th reunion. It is hard to believe that so much time has passed.
Chris May had dropped me the following update prior to reunion— before he was sure he’d be able to
The class of 1993 returned to Hanover en masse for reunion weekend. Bottom to Top and L to R: Brian Boxer Wachler, Cara Walther, Saul Weiner, Tara Sweeney, Michael Golden, Christopher May, David Makil, Peter Allen, Michael Staebler, Archie McGowan, Raymond Bleday, Roland Chan, Granville Lloyd, Kelly MacMillan, Jennifer Brokaw, Allen Fry, David McCarthy, Dina Galvin, Bonnie Henderson, Brian Brodwater, Lynne Kelley, Elizabeth Bradley, Paul Lafontaine, Colleen Powers, Marybeth Durkin, Loyd West, and Kevin Kerin.
attend: “Kids are both out of school, debt-free, and self-supporting homeowners. My proudest achievement, surpassing my medical career. Barb and I celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary next year. Also a great achievement, but more on her part than mine. My parents have both gone to their reward. We have a new West Highland terrier named Wally who is a real joy to our hearts. Best dog ever. Career continues the usual trend of more work for less reimbursement but is still rewarding in many other ways. No prospect of retirement just yet. Recent trips to Spain, England, Cabo San Lucas.”
I owe a special thanks to Jennifer Brokaw, who attended reunion and sent
Members of the class of 1993 enjoying the reunion photo booth.
Michaela and Jordynne (one of them is applying early decision to Dartmouth).
Granville Lloyd (in Colorado) and Paul LaFontaine are enthusiastic about urology and have no plans to slow down, while others, like Cara, have already retired. Colleen Powers has a pediatric private practice in Rhode Island and two sons who are collegeaged. She is still working hard.
Brian Broadwater (in radiology in North Carolina) and Mike Staebler (in ortho in Rhode Island) are both counting the days until they can retire to pursue hobbies they’ve put off for years. Mike took his first trip to Hood River in 30 years last summer to windfoil!
Lynne Kelley is CEO of a startup oncology drug development company, focusing on nanomolecules.
Roland Chan said his attitude toward practicing rheumatology in Massachusetts changed for the better during the coronavirus pandemic because of the effects of immunosuppressive drugs on his patients’ risk of serious illness and the new challenges that presented in managing rheumatologic disease.
the following comprehensive update, as well as the accompanying photos:
The theme of the reunion was life stages and appreciation for Joe O’Donnell Brian Boxer Wachler made temporary photo tattoos of Joe for all of us, and we slapped them on. Joe himself came to the dinner Saturday night at the Hanover Inn and remembered everyone well. The man does not seem to have aged much!
Many attendees were empty-nesters, but some people, like Paul LaFontaine and Lynne Kelley, have middle schoolers. Liz Bradley ’s daughter, Katherine, is a third-year medical student at Geisel. Cara Walther has two daughters at Dartmouth. Brian Wachler brought his twin daughters,
Saul Weiner is practicing and podcasting in Chicago, where his wife Suzanne is a rabbi; they have one daughter in her twenties.
Peter Allen has been chair of oncologic surgery at Duke for four years, after stints at Sloan Kettering in New York, Walter Reed in D.C., and in the field during the Iraq War. Remarkably, he says his career feels like it’s just getting started.
Dave Makil lives in Las Vegas, Nev., with his wife, Michelle, and is still practicing and teaching nephrology.
Finally, while Sarah Henry didn’t attend the reunion, we (Jen Brokaw and Allen Fry) and Peter Allen were able to catch up with her. Sarah stopped practicing as a nocturnist at Boston Children’s during the pandemic, but is focusing on political advocacy
in New Hampshire and still lives part of the year in Concord.
We are riding it out in San Francisco, despite its challenges. Allen does breast cancer radiology exclusively and has cut back a bit to play more golf. I have been the supervising physician for the SF Fire Department for the past four years. Our two daughters live in Los Angeles.
—RobynJacobs 18 Justin Morrill Memorial Highway South Strafford, VT 05070 rjacobs@hygeiawomen.com
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Hello, friends. Can you believe we finished med school 28 years ago? Yes, that is correct!
Not only are we older (and maybe gray), but our kids are adults or nearing adulthood! What does that mean? Our 30th reunion is coming up (September 26-28, 2025), so start planning a homecoming to Hanover! It would be really great to connect again in person.
Thank you to everyone who chose to share some news! It is always fun to hear what folks are up to. You all continue to impress me as you make your mark on the world. I am blessed to have shared a formative part of your life with you!
I heard from Drew and Cecily Peterson. They shared: “Our oldest, Chip, is now entering his junior year at University of Michigan in nuclear engineering. He’s just completing an internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is planning for a future career in fusion energy development. He plans to attend graduate
school for a PhD in engineering. Maybe we will see a future Nobel in the family (it won’t be from us). AJ, our youngest, is currently auditioning for college football. He has offers currently from Amherst, Rhodes College, and Claremont in California. We’re hoping his ‘fall film’ will land him some D1 offers, potentially close to home at Davidson or Georgetown, but he really likes Brown and Penn, too. Cecily transitioned out of hospital medicine to the good life in primary care in the Duke health system for the last seven years. Outside of clinic, she is busy at the medical school with clinical education and the leadership curriculum and was recently invited to join the executive committee for admissions. Drew’s Division of Urology recently became a department in July. For better or for worse he was appointed as the vice chair for education, another job with more duties and no added pay. He has now been the urology residency program director going on 10 years at Duke. At home, we dove head first into suburban organic homesteading over the last couple of years. The garden is a mishmash of ‘foodscaping’ and terraced raised beds, and we should have eggs from our new chickens in another month.” Geez, guys! You are really slacking down in N.C.!
Elaine Stanek Perry wrote that they moved to Richmond, Va., last summer and that she is now the health director for Richmond City and Henrico County. She states, “I’m really enjoying being back in local public health.” That is fabulous and seems like such a great fit for you, Elaine.
Mary Gaffney has big news as well. She says, “I just finished my nephrology fellowship at Brown—woo-hoo! Now I am finally an attending at a ripe old age :-). I am really excited to be joining the faculty at Brown, and our nephrology group is super-collegial and easygoing. I’m happy, too, to give up the fellow call schedule, which pretty much wrecked me! My husband, Jim, is still an emergency physician and has cut back on his hours somewhat so he can spend more time working on our little farm (theoretically). Our oldest daughter, Emily, is a third-year medical student at Penn and really likes med school. She hopes to go into ob-gyn and is far less excited about nephrology— darn kidneys! Our youngest daughter, Molly, is leaving soon for Indonesia, as she received a Fulbright scholarship to teach English there. She also spent some time in Belize doing bird research in the field; Jim and I were able to visit her there and had a great trip. We also recently traveled to Kenya to teach and consult on renal patients at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret. What an amazing, enriching experience! I hope to go back there annually with the Brown global health group. Would love to see any DMS alumni if you come to Rhode Island! Hope everyone is doing well.” I am so happy for you, Mary, as you begin this stage of your life journey. I am not so sure I would have had the energy to do all you have done! Enjoy your new job!
It was wonderful to hear from Tisha Gallanter, too. She reports: “I still live in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., and work in the emergency department at Baptist Medical Center Beaches in Jacksonville. When I am not working, I try to travel the world and explore new destinations.” We are hoping to get together on one of her upcoming trips to Minnesota. It will be great to see her! Shannon Thyne sent a couple of pictures from a junior spring college trip with her son. She says: “Had to take a quick walk from the Hanover Green over to the old stomping ground. A lot has changed, but not the wonderful outdoorsy vibe and smalltown charm.” Maybe Shannon will have two reasons to return to Hanover for the reunion!
That is about all for now! My husband, Mark, and I still live about 30 minutes west of Minneapolis. Our oldest two are in the workforce, or “off the payroll,” as we lovingly say. They both work in healthcare. Our daughter, Sarah, is involved in bringing innovative digital technologies to the wellness and benefits leaders of Fortune 500 companies. Matthew just started a career in finance with United Health Care. My other sons are still in school. Charlie is halfway to becoming a commercial airline pilot (yay—free flights for me), and my youngest is in his junior year of high school. This will be my fifth time through junior year, and I am kind of ready to be done!
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Hope you are all well. Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible in 2025, where we can talk retirement plans and maybe even grandkids!! Gosh—how did we get this old already?
Miss you guys.
—Kristen O. Hansberry 6385 Oxbow Bend Chanhassen, MN 55317-9128
952-473-5500 Khansbe15@gmail.com
96Hi, classmates! I hope all of you are avoiding climate calamities and staying out of the smoke. (I finally got a window AC unit a few weeks ago, after 23 years in my house.) I’m not aware of anyone from our class being in Hawaii, but if so, sending special thoughts to them.
I got a lovely note from Ben Gardner : “In May, I was able to attend the spring meeting of the Alumni Council as your representative and was lucky to be there to see the Geisel Distinguished Alumni Award presented to our classmate Megan Sandel (who did not look a day older than the day we graduated). She has had an incredible career (and still going strong) as ‘a staunch advocate for the health of children and underserved families,’ primarily in Boston and within the Boston University system. Google her and you will learn much. Best wishes to all of you, and please call if you are in the Hanover area, as I have lived here for the past
Andrea Mendelssohn joined Gifford Health Care, providing care as part of the Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Midwifery team at Gifford Medical Center. Mendelssohn was drawn to Gifford in part by the reputation of its midwives. “I love and appreciate midwifery, and I feel really privileged to be here supporting all these great midwives,” she said.
decade—still working in rural health. Best wishes, Ben Gardner.”
Seriously, you should Google Megan. And many congratulations to Megan for the award and all the amazing accomplishments that led up to it!
As for Ben, he is the medical director at Mascoma Community Health Care in Canaan, N.H. He also noted that a recent DMS update was written by Bill Boyle, the pediatrician who in 1978 took care of his first-born son, now 45 years old. It’s amazing to think of Ben’s kids as being middle-aged, though I suppose it shouldn’t be, given that the rest of us have been through that transformation as well.
Best wishes to all of you, and please drop me a line and let me know what you’ve been up to! Warmly, Emily. —Emily Transue 1248 22nd Avenue E Seattle, WA 98112-3535 emilytransue@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Lucille Vega , RI Healthcare Family Practice, 962 Warwick Avenue, Warwick, RI 02888-3650; 401-3837830 (work) or 401-301-9505 (cell); vegadirectmedical@gmail.com
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The Class of ’98 had an amazing 25th reunion! I (Mark “Shred” Edney) was asked to share a report of the gathering, since our class secretary, Ron Lane, was unable to be there. The turnout was phenomenal! The energy seemed to increase with every classmate who appeared around the corner to join the group.
We all spent parts of the weekend doing what we needed to do on our first trip back to the Upper Valley in a long time—tailgate at the football game, shop at the bookstore, or just spend time with each other.
The main group events were dinner at the Hanover Inn and the after-party
Kathy Collins, Ali
Allison Cohen, Ursula Brewster, Meredith Atkins, and Paul Hammerness.
on Saturday night at the (sick) Lyme Inn! See the photos. SDK was in the house, by the way! Hype! Hype!
In a way, it seemed like no time had passed. But it was also clear that we’re all in the late summer/early fall of our careers, and there was a sweet appreciation of reconnecting with a group of people with whom we shared something powerful and transformative 25 years ago.
I think we are all energized for the 30th and hope at that next milestone to see the many classmates who weren’t able to make this trip.
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As I write this column, it’s still summer (I hope everyone had a great one!) and just a few hours before the final deadline for this issue. My
procrastination reminds me of the cramming needed for our weekly quizzes in our first year!
It’s fun when I have pictures to include with the column, as I do this issue.
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) presented Joel T. Moncur with the CAP Distinguished Service Award. He was recognized for his ability to identify, design, execute, and report on scientific studies that use CAP Proficiency Testing (PT) data to address important issues involving molecular diagnostics for cancer.
The first is of Julia Nordgren and me on a walk near her house in Portola Valley, Calif. It’s from April 2023, when the Albushies family went to tour all around San Francisco. We had a chance to have dinner with Julia’s husband, Rob, and had an incredible time catching up. The second picture captures a last-minute meeting between Julia and Janelle Guirguis-Blake. They were both in an online writers group, messaged each other, and realized they were both in Tacoma, Wash. Janelle lives in Tacoma and Julia had just dropped off her oldest at the University of Puget Sound. I know there are many
of you with children going off to college, so I hope the drop-offs went well for everyone.
Sue Calder ’s daughter, Quinn, is attending her alma mater, Colgate, and I received a graduation announcement card that Geoff Emry ’s son will be a freshman at NYU as of the fall of 2023. Love the East Coast representation— but Serge Kaska will still claim the “West is best.”
Just a few days ago, I had a chance to walk around DHMC in Lebanon. The main hospital seemed so familiar, with welcoming natural light, Sbarro’s Pizza, and quiet, carpeted hallways off which great care and teaching happens. The grounds were not as familiar, with a huge, new inpatient wing and a detached outpatient surgery center.
Please send me updates. All my best to everyone.
—Danielle Albushies4 McNichol Lane Bow, NH 03304-5409 dalbushies@gmail.com
00Hi, all. I have several updates this time.
Thank you to those who responded.
From Travis Matheney: “Our boys, Jack (10) and Henry (9), are owning us but provide an awesome counter-
weight to Michele and me and our lives at Children’s here in Boston. Out of work is lots of lawn chair butt-sitting for baseball and soccer. I’m still basically a hip doc who, in recent years, discovered he has hip dysplasia. So no more long races; I will live vicariously through Lara Hanlon’s exploits on FB! Man, would I love to see all of you again—25th? Much love to all of you out there livin’ your best lives. Very proudly DMS 2000.”
From Eric Walsh: “The biggest update is our daughter Emily, who was eight months old when I started DMS and is getting married in September! It makes me realize how old we all have become, but also how much experience we have all gained! Hugs to everybody.”
From Joe Vitterito: “I am still chair of pediatrics and division chief of neonatology at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn. Still also medical director at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf. Have a new children’s book called The Platypus Company coming out the fall of 2023. Getting married in September to Khalaf Jerry. Have three sons—Eli, Elliot, Evan, ages 11, 10, 7, respectively.”
Lara Hanlon O’Mara has two exciting updates. She climbed Kilimanjaro with two of her kids. And her son, Sean, is going to start at Dartmouth this fall.
He’ll have to meet up with Mike Betsy ’s son and shoot the boot (when they are 21, of course). Have a wonderful rest of 2023, and send me your updates.
—Maya Mitchell Land 4904 Stonehedge Drive Santa Rosa, CA 95405 707-800-5916 mayamland@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Jill Marple at 102 Somers Place North, Moorestown, NJ 08057; call 856-495-8613; jill.a.marple.97@ dartmouth.edu
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We are currently seeking a secretary for the Class of 2002. To learn more, or if you have news you would like to share, please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 603-646-5297 or Geisel. Alumni.Relations@dartmouth.edu
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Junko Ozao-Choy at Division of Surgical Oncology, HarborUCLA Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 25, Torrance, CA 90509; 310-222-3033; jozao-choy@dhs.lacounty. gov ; or Blair Hammond at 48 Monroe Avenue, Larchmont, NY 10538; 212-7443944; blair.hammond@mssm.edu
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Ndidiamaka Onwubalili at ndidi5@hotmail.com.
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Hello, classmates! I, Ben Solomon, have volunteered to be class secretary. Please send any updates, pictures, and news for future columns to me.
Evan Dvorin writes: “My first job out of residency was at a community health
clinic in Boston, MGH Charlestown. Emily and I lived in Jamaica Plain, which we loved. Soon after having our two sons, Jeremy and Benny, we decided we needed more family around (a common story), and we moved to New Orleans, near Emily’s family. Soon after arriving, we welcomed Lilly, and now our kids are 14, 12, and 10 years old. I have been working at a large health system called Ochsner Health. I am an associate program director in the internal medicine residency program, have a primary care practice, and engage in some QI when time allows. The last two years, I have met up with DMS Urban Scholars who attend an annual spring break with a service slant in New Orleans. I hope you all are doing well. If any of you will be in New Orleans, I would love to reconnect/give some insider tips.”
Rebekah Kim reports that she had a spring reunion of Dartmouth-Brown folks in Arlington, Va., near where she
Spring reunion for a few members of the class of 2005: Rebekah Kim, Liz Moran, Urvi (Paivani) Gonzales, and Michelle Morreale-Karl.
lives. In attendance were Liz Moran, Urvi (Pajvani) Gonzales, and Michelle Morreale-Karl . She writes that Liz is practicing in Tucson, Ariz.; Michelle is in Boston; and she and Urvi are in northern Virginia. Also shown in the picture are Michelle’s family (her husband, Brian Karl, and her two children, Nicholas and Ada). Rebekah is holding her son, Joshua, and standing next to her is her husband, Charles Kwon D ’94. Matt Babineau, Colin Stack MED ’06, and Mel Watts MED ’06 are all loyal ED docs at DHMC; the relative merits of indoor plumbing is still an important topic of their daily conversations.
Ben and Kathleen (DelGrosso) Solomon live in the middle of D.C. with their two utterly delightful teenagers, Sam and Amelia (Amelia’s middle name is Molly, after their smelly but wonderful medical school dog).
—Ben Solomon solomonbenjamind@gmail.com
Seema Bakhru, one of Connecticut Breast Imaging’s fellowship-trained radiologists, was honored at the American Cancer Society’s “Women Leading the Way to Wellness” luncheon for her unwavering commitment to the early detection of breast cancer and for being the first female Chair of the Department of Radiology at Danbury Hospital and Norwalk Hospital.
Members of the class of 2008 during reunion weekend. L to R: Abigail Proffer, Andrea Russo, Jennifer Lacy, Rusty Phillips, and Kandice Nielson.
Members of the class of 2008 pose for a photo during reunion’s Saturday evening reception.
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Katrina Mitchell at 4087B Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; kbm9002@me.com
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We are currently seeking a secretary for the Class of 2007. To learn more, or if you have news you would like to share, please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at 603-646-5297 or Geisel. Alumni.Relations@dartmouth.edu
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Rebecca (Rotello) Craig at 3137 Casa Bonita Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111; rebecca.rotello@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Kristen Telischak at 725 Hobart Street, Menlo Park, CA 94025; kristentelischak@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Sarah Dotters-Katz at 1908 North Hawick Court, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-7738; 541-554-1817; sarahkd@ gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Jill Rosno Huded at 8009 Cherokee Lane, Leawood, KS 662061131; Jill.huded@gmail.com; or Abiodun T. Kukoyi at abbeykay@gmail.com
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Hello, Class of 2012! I hope you are enjoying the fall and are all doing well.
Anna Eley was able to send a quick update! “Hello! I hope you are well :-). I’m doing great but (as you know) life is crazy. I was working as a general/ trauma surgeon and trauma medical director in California (Tahoe foothills area) for a while after residency. I have three little girls (1.5, 4, and 6), and when the third one was born we decided it was time for a new adventure, so we moved to Seattle, where I’m working as a surgeon for Kaiser. We are now living 10 minutes away from Molly and Dave :-). Just recently ran into Alexandra Coria in the hospital lobby while on call—small world!”
That’s it for updates for now. Please continue to send me any updates and life changes. We love to keep in touch! Sending all my best.
—Kolene Bailey 6191 Massive Peak Circle Castle Rock, CO 80108 603-209-1439 (cell) kolene.bailey@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Jill Kaspar Baird at 2434 NE 58th Avenue, Portland, OR 97213; 515520-9899; jill.kaspar.baird@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Justin K. Kim at PO Box 724, Mercer Island, WA 98040; 206-5126261; justinkim.dart@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Emma Tang at 1405 Crossfield Avenue, Kingston, ON K7P 0E7 Canada; 603-359-2860; Chentang00@gmail.com
Matt Mackwood MPH ’13, an assistant professor of community and family medicine, and co-course director of Patients and Populations at Geisel School of Medicine, was selected to participate in the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “This program is important for giving someone like myself an opportunity to be represented and visible in academic medicine, and I’m excited to launch my career in a new way,” Mackwood says.
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Wenlu Gu at 262-498-4995; Wenlu.gu@gmail.com; or Lynn K. Symonds at Lynn.k.symond @gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Lovelee Brown at loveleebrown@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Alex Orfanos at Alexander_ Orfanos@brown.edu
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Kathleen Leinweber at Kathleen.A.Leinweber@hitchcock.org
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries John Damianos at John. damianos94@gmail.com; or W. John Porter at Wjohnporter4@gmail.com
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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries Chad Lewis at chad.y.lewis@ gmail.com; or Gayathri Tummala at gtummala46@gmail.com
If you have news to share, contact Class Secretaries
Joseph Minichiello at jminichiello13@gmail.com; or Isabelle Yang at yangisabelle1@gmail.com
I received quite a few updates and pictures this time around. Thank you to everyone who had the opportunity to share.
Hao “Derek” Cheng (MicrobiologyImmunology PhD ’18—Ackerman Lab) married a fellow Dartmouth alum, Jie Tan (MCB PhD ’17), and they are currently living in Somerville, Mass., with their dog, “Doodle.” Derek is the chief scientific officer at Yurogen Biosystems/Abclonal, a biotech firm located in Worcester, Mass. Jie works as a computational biologist at a biotech firm in Waltham, Mass. Derek sent a picture of himself with his company colleagues; he is the second one from the left.
Karina Pino-Lagos (MicrobiologyImmunology PhD ’11—Noelle Lab) wrote in for the first time. Welcome, Karina, and thank you for the email. After completing her PhD, Karina returned to her home country of Chile. In 2011, she received her first grant and was hired as an assistant professor at Universidad de Chile, where she worked until 2015. Currently, Karina is working at Universidad de los Andes, at the Research Center for Biomedical and Innovation. She continues to work in immunology, investigating immune tolerance using a transplantation and tumor model. You can find her at www. kpl-lab.cl. Karina lives in Santiago with her son, Nilo (who was born in the Upper Valley!).
Raymond Stephens (Molecular Biology PhD ’66—Kane Lab) writes to say he retired at the end of January 2011 after 32 years of teaching and research in the Department of Physiology and
Adrianna Stanley ’19 (left) poses with some Latino Medical Student Association students while she was in Hanover for the Center for Global Health Equity 10th Anniversary event.
Biophysics at the Boston University School of Medicine. At that time, and for well over a decade, he also concurrently maintained a year-round lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. Raymond now spends his free time doing Japanese gardening and construction. His aesthetic sense of gardening was acquired from Drs. Shinya
Hao “Derek” Cheng (second from left) is serving as the chief scientific officer at Yurogen Biosystems/ Abclonal in Worcester, Mass. He completed his microbiologyimmunology PhD in 2018 in the Ackerman Lab.
Inoue and Hidemi Sato in the former Department of Cytology during his time at Dartmouth Medical School. Thank you for writing—it seems that Dartmouth led you to lifelong learning even outside of the molecular biology field.
Yifan Zhao (QBS MS ’23) is continuing her studies toward a PhD in the quantitative biomedical sciences at
Dartmouth. Yifan, we hope to hear about your academic progress over the next couple of years. Please stay in touch.
Joseph and Jean Sanger (PhD ’68—McCann and Jackson Labs, respectively) wrote to let us know they both were elected members of the SUNY Upstate Cancer Institute in Syracuse, N.Y. Congratulations to both of you—we look forward to hearing more from you soon.
Stan Willenbring (Physiology PhD ’95—Coombs Lab) was one of the first students I met during my time at Dartmouth. He wrote to say, “I’m still retired and intend to stay that way.” He now writes stories aimed at kids around middle-school age but hopes that people of all ages enjoy them. He has finished two books for young adult readers—the first in a series of stories that follow the same characters and that he is hoping to eventually assemble as chapters in a novel. He still enjoys playing music but admits he keeps this joy to himself these days. He is developing a website to post his stories and music on. He enjoys hiking and “just diddling around” on his wooded property. In his email to me, Stan reminded me that we are “so old now that the program we graduated from doesn’t exist anymore.” Ugh, Stan, that hurts!
Those are the updates I received this time around. With that, I will leave you with these thoughts: Recently, I came across an excerpt from Carl Sagan’s book The Pale Blue Dot. In an attempt to explain the significance of this book to some of my younger colleagues, I learned that many of my colleagues don’t know who Carl Sagan is. I was stunned. However, this fit directly with a quote he used in this book, which came from a 1752 story by Voltaire titled Micromegas The quote goes like this: “One philosopher asserted that he knew the whole secret. . . . He surveyed the two celestial strangers from top to toe, and
maintained to their faces that their persons, their worlds, their suns, and their stars, were created solely for the use of man. At this assertion our two travelers let themselves fall against each other, seized with a fit of . . . inextinguishable laughter.” I take this to mean that we all must learn to enjoy life as it is, and that’s the secret. It is so good to hear from all of you, and if you have never read any of Voltaire’s short stories, do yourself a favor and read Micromegas first. It’s a 300-year-old reminder of how precious and rare each of us are. Please stay in touch. You are one of the links to those things that make me happiest in life. Warmest regards, Bob J. — Bob Joyner TidalHealth Peninsula Regional Richard A. Henson Research Institute 100 East Carroll Street Salisbury, MD 21801 410-543-7017 (work) Robert.Joyner@peninsula.org
There were only a few news items that came in from The Dartmouth Institute alumni for this issue. We suspect there is a problem with the emails being sent out to ask for updates. If you did not receive an email asking for news for this column, please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement at Geisel. Alumni.Relations@dartmouth.edu so
we can add you back to the distribution list. Here is the news that did come in:
Mary Beth (Walsh) Moran (Evaluative Clinical Sciences MS ’07) wrote: “I am the current director of the Center for Healthier Communities at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, a department within the Division of Population Health and Care Redesign. In this capacity, I manage five priority areas: oral health, nutrition and healthy lifestyle, injury prevention, maternal and child health, and youth development. I have a leadership role as co-chair of the San Diego County Oral Health Coalition and co-chair of the health domain of the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative, and I am on the advisory board for the California State Childhood Health and Safety Coalition. Within this work, we aim to improve social drivers of health, increase access to healthcare (including dental care), prevent illness and injury through educational programs, and improve diversity among healthcare professionals through our health career pipeline program, FACES for the Future. I look forward to connecting with other alumni in Southern California who are committed to similar programs.”
Rachel Smith (MPH ’22) wrote: “Hello, everyone! So great to see all the updates—what a great group of people. I have recently been promoted to chief nursing officer at Lincoln Health and am starting a family nurse practitioner program at Regis University this fall.”
Jonathan F. Smith, of Lawrence, Kan., was selected as the next director of the health department by the board of Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. “I’m humbled to have been selected by the LDCPH board to help lead the work in addressing social determinants of health for all of Douglas County,” Smith said.
Hailey Voyer (MPH ’22) wrote: “After graduating just over a year ago, I now work as a public health epidemiologist for the Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals. I collect and analyze data to evaluate mental health and substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery programs funded by the state.”
Brian Urban (MPH ’23) wrote: “Hello! As head of innovation and emerging markets at FinThrive, I am leading the launch of our Data Humanity Lab. This lab is purposed to give data donations to improve health equity programs and research powered by our exclusive access to TransUnion socioeconomic data. Our web page on the company site and promotion of the program officially launched August 10! Check it out here: dartgo.org/BrianUrban.
“I developed this idea and program through my work while getting my MPH at TDI. My main mentors were Dr. Megan Longacre, Dr. Manish Mishra, and Jared Rhoads! We’re excited to be the first and only for-profit company to be donating our privatized credit bureau data for health equity research—seeing the person first, then the patient, is how socioeconomic data will truly help the lives we all serve!”
For future issues, if you have news to share, contact TDI Secretary Tina Jackson at 939 South Serrano Avenue, Apt. 403, Los Angeles, CA 90006; tina.e.jackson@gmail.com
—Editor
There has been a lot of news since the last issue!
Reed Andrew (Intern ’58-59) writes: “Thanks for the invitation to residency alumni to update their information.
Having trained at MHMH 65 years ago, I suppose few if any colleagues remain who might remember me. But in response to your message, I’ll submit a brief current resume in case someone might recognize my name. I loved my time at Dartmouth, and I’d be pleased to hear from anyone who recollects me (I can be reached at reedandjan@ gmail.com). Career: University of Michigan 1954-1958, DartmouthHitchcock 1958-59, U.S. Navy flight surgeon 1959-1962, Henry Ford Hospital Eye Residency 1962-1966, board-certified 1967, private practice in Wisconsin 1966-2004. Personal: married to Janice, nine children, 26 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren. Interests: classical music, history, private aviation, wilderness camping.”
Alan Kaplan (Internal Medicine ’69-71, Cardiopulmonary and Medical Informatics Fellowship ’70-72) writes: “Semiretired as a cardiology consultant, aviation medical-legal consultant, and medical director for Union for Reform Judaism camping programs in Massachusetts. Living with my wife, Emilie, and our two dogs, Gabe and Ner, in Manchester, N.H., and recently bought a home in Grantham, N.H., where we enjoy outdoor activities yearround. Entering my 21st year as founder and artistic director of the Manchester Community Theatre and Second Stage professional companies. Looking forward to travel in U.S. and abroad over the next two years. Five adult children all enjoying their professional careers.
“Hope most of my classmates are healthy and enjoying their lives and pursuing their later-in-life dreams. Best regards to all, Alan.”
Harold Sox (Internal Medicine ’71-72) writes: “Have just retired 52 years after completing chief residency in the old Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. My most recent job was as director of peer review at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute in Washington, D.C. Still living in West
Lebanon and enjoying the sunsets over the Vermont hills.”
Harry Cramer (Internal Medicine ’71-72) writes: “Now retired from interventional radiology practice. We have decided to stay in Pensacola, our home for the past 37 years, as long as hurricanes don’t drive us out! Enjoying our five grandchildren, doing some sail-boating, and traveling a bit. Got to Antarctica last December, a place that is awe-inspiring. A very tough neighborhood for any life to survive, and yet some species are thriving.
“Trying to ignore my orthopedist’s very well-intentioned advice to stop jogging, but finding it easy to walk now that I have gotten my right hip replaced. All in all, life is good!”
Susan Lisman (Surgery Intern ’78-79) writes: “I am totally, 100% retired from my practice of pediatric anesthesiology. I retired as director of pediatric anesthesia at Newton-Wellesley Hospital on December 31, 2017, and from Kona Community Hospital in 2022. The best part is sleeping past 5:00 a.m.! We spend half the year on Hilton Head Island and half the year in North Reading, Mass.
Robert Harbaugh (Neurosurgery ’78-85, on the faculty 1985-2003) writes: “I have stepped down as chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Penn State and presently serve as the senior vice president for the Penn State Health academic faculty and as interim chief medical officer for the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.”
Timothy Beddow (Pathology ’82-86) writes: “Retired after 41 years of practice, the last 25 years at MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Moved from Cleveland, Ohio, to Iowa City, where our eldest child and her husband are both neurosurgeons on staff at University of Iowa Medical Center—and the parents of our only grandchildren, a three-year-old grandson and a
one-year-old granddaughter. Our second child, another daughter, is an ob-gyn with Doctors Without Borders, recently in South Sudan and now in Bangladesh. Our youngest, a son, is in a PhD program in philosophy at the University of Chicago. My wife, Doreen, is continuing to work as an RN with the University of Iowa.”
Avie Rainwater III (Psychology ’88-89) writes that he is now semi-retired, seeing patients as a clinical psychologist only two days a week, with plans to cut off another half-day next year. He says he “still enjoys work and is in no rush to fully stop seeing patients,” as his middle son (Seth A.J. Rainwater, IV, PsyD) is the managing partner of their group (LifeCare
Psychology Group, LLC, in Florence, S.C.). “It is fun to do what I love and great that I get to do it with one of my sons,” he concludes.
Leslie Snider (Psychiatry ’90-95) writes: “After three and a half years founding and directing a mental health and psychosocial support initiative for children and families in adversity for Save the Children in Denmark (the MHPSS Collaborative), I have happily returned to Holland and the consulting life. Working with the wonderful folks at the Olympic Refuge Foundation, training coaches who work with refugees in the foundational skills for safe and supportive sports. We’re adapting the model from previous work in psychological first aid and enjoyed
The new Resident and Fellow Support Fund is designed to provide current residents and fellows with the additional support they need to make the most of their time at Dartmouth Health. The fund will be administered by the Graduate Medical Education Office, in consultation with the Medical & Healthcare Advancement Alumni Engagement Office, Associated Resident Council, and Dartmouth Health alumni leadership.
It will provide for resources that past residents and fellows have requested, including, but not limited to:
Travel to professional conferences and meetings
Programming aimed at DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) and well-being/wellness efforts
Assistance with emergency expenses
By covering the cost of these relatively small expenses, the Resident and Fellow Support Fund has the potential to make a huge impact on the experiences of our current and future Dartmouth Health residents and fellows. To support this fund—and our trainees—make a tax-deductible gift at go.d-h.org/SupportRF.
pilot trainings in Paris, Moldova, and Warsaw so far. Also fun was a visit to the International Olympic HQ in Lausanne (impressive central staircase modeled after the five Olympic rings) and a stay at the training center in Olympia, Greece! Also working on an evaluation of the MHPSS programming of the International Organization for Migration and am ever more impressed with their work across the globe with displaced persons and migrants for decades now.
“One perk of returning to consulting life has been the opportunity to work from anywhere. Here is a photo of where I am today, in the forest in Sweden. Greetings from the whispering trees!”
Lynn Levasseur Marshall (Internal Medicine ’95-98 and MED ’95) writes: “This month I decided, after 20 years of working for the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt., to try something new, and I now find myself working for a company called WorldClinic. Its headquarters are in New London, N.H., my hometown these last 25+ years! I joined a growing group of physicians caring for traveling patients’ acute issues but will be focusing more as a general internist on their platinum members who require more longitudinal care. I am so very excited about this opportunity, having known the CEO for the better part of two decades, following him and his company peripherally, with regular check-ins to see if I was still happy with the trajectory of my career. The timing of the latest check-in was perfect for a move, and at the moment I couldn’t be happier with the decision!
“This summer also marks my first as a completely empty-nester, with both Cameron and Emilie out of college and on their own, leaving Rich and me with Toby, our 14-year-old corgi, who is still very vibrant!”
Martin Palmeri (Internal MedicinePrimary Care ’04-07, HematologyOncology Fellowship ’08-11) writes: “Received the 2023 Lecudo-USA
Leadership and Service Award for my activities assisting internally displaced persons in Cameroon. Received the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Advocacy Champion Award, President’s Circle. Chair-elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Government Relations Committee for 2023-24. President of the North Carolina Oncology Association for 2022-2024. Gave a presentation titled “Developing a Framework for Delivering Medical Care for Chronic Disease States in Cameroon: 90-day Follow-up Clinic Review” at the Lecudo-USA annual meeting on July 30, 2023. Participated in a panel discussion at the Western North Carolina Colorectal Cancer Health Equity Summit in Asheville, N.C., in March 2023. Co-authored “Examining Colorectal and Cervical Cancer Care in Appalachia: A Review of the Barriers and Interventions to Cancer Screening, Genetic Services, and Continuity of Care” in Oncology, Vol. 38(3) 2023.”
Simon Khagi (Internal Medicine ’09-12) writes that after approximately two years as the Dartmouth Cancer Center’s regional director of oncology services in southern New
Hampshire, he has taken on the role of medical director of neuro-oncology at Hoag Family Cancer Institute in Newport Beach, Calif. Prior to joining Dartmouth, he was the director of the Neuro-Oncology and Brain Metastases Program at UNC in Chapel Hill, N.C. “We are looking forward to being closer to our families,” he says, “as everyone resides between LA and San Diego (the grandparents are especially excited about having the grandkids nearby)!”
He adds that he’s maintained an active academic presence within the field of neuro-oncology, with recent publications in Science, Nature, and JAMA He’s looking forward to bringing his expertise to southern California. In addition, he continues his collaborations across multiple institutions and industry partners as part of his consulting firm, SKBio Advisory.
Jacob Ossof (Otolaryngology ’13-18) is in private practice in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Elliot Backer (Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship ’15-18) writes: “After my DHMC fellowship, I moved on to pursue a fellowship in interventional pulmonology at the University of
Minnesota. I then returned to DHMC in 2020 to become the director of interventional pulmonology and bronchoscopy. Today, we help run multiple inpatient and outpatient multidisciplinary services (i.e., pleural disease service, pulmonary nodule clinic, interventional pulmonology clinic); in addition, we have developed robotic bronchoscopy and bronchoscopic lung volume reduction programs, and several other service lines that continue to grow. This allows us to deliver better, minimally invasive, endoscopic modalities for our patients with a variety of lung and airway diseases.”
XueWei Zhang (Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Fellowship ’20-21) writes that he is currently working at Yale New Haven Hospital.
That’s it for submissions this time around. It was great to hear from so many of you! Please keep those updates and photos coming—we all love seeing them.
—Bob Lewy 176 Upper Turnpike Road Norwich, VT 05055-9557 802-649-2194 (home) lewyrob@hotmail.com
The following deaths have been reported to us as of November 1, 2023. To report the death of an alumnus/a, please contact Annette Achilles at 603-646-5297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@dartmouth.edu.
Alumni
Walter S. Price MED ’44
James F. Dickson MED ’45
Elliott B. Sweet MED ’48
A. Alden Carpenter MED ’52
Arthur R. Stagg, Jr. MED ’61
Patrick A. Dowling MED ’63
Donald D. Harrison MED ’72
T. Andrew Dodds MED ’86
Lynette Oligino PhD ’05
Monte G. Clinton
Michael W. Fanger, PhD
John F. Radebaugh, MD
Gordon F. Wright Faculty
Residents & Fellows
Alvin E. Tobis RES ’57
Elliot Danforth, Jr. RES ’66
Peter B. Hope FEL ’69
Hal D. Cash RES ’86
Karen A. Spletzer RES ’91
Nancy Kuemmerle RES ’09
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