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COVID CRUSADER

Ron Elfenbein, MD ’00, leads Covid testing efforts in Maryland

MEDICAL ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Larry S. Charlamb, MD ’88

President

Barbara A. Morisseau, MD ’98

Vice President

Thomas A. Bersani, MD ’82

Treasurer

Danielle A. Katz, MD ’97

Secretary

Richard M. Cantor, MD ’76

Peter J. Christiano, MD ’85

Barbara Jones Connor, MD ’82

Dennis D. Daly, MD ’83

Mantosh Dewan, MD

Robert A. Dracker, MD ’82

Mark S. Erlebacher, MD ’79

Brian J. Gaffney, MD ’72

Douglas W. Halliday, MD ’79

Ruth H. Hart, MD ’80

Robert H. Hill, III, MD ’06

Bruce M. Leslie, MD ’78

Barbara Clayton Lutz, MD ’92

Kirsten P. Magowan, MD ’87

Mark S. Persky, MD ’72

Amy L. Reynders, MD ’01

Charles J. Ryan III, MD ’82

K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79

George L. Stanley, Jr., MD ’94

Ralph L. Stevens, MD ’81

James A. Terzian, MD ’75

EMERITUS

A. Geno Andreatta

Frederick R. Davey, MD ’64

Richard W. Doust

Karen K. Heitzman, MD ’83

Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65

Michael H. Ratner, MD ’68

Gregory A. Threatte, MD ’73

Jack Yoffa, MD ’69

EX-OFFICIO

Lawrence Chin, MD

Christopher Morley, PhD, MA, CAS

Paul Norcross

Julie White, PhD

HONORARY

Sadri Garakani

STUDENT

REPRESENTATIVES

Haley Burdge ’22

Tyler Fuller ’22

Binghamton

Barnes Werner ’23

Casey Manzanero ’23

Binghamton

Gavrielle Rood ’24

Nathan Ihemeremadu ’25

Upstate

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Upstate Experiences Record Research Growth

During the last fiscal year, Upstate Medical University had record growth in research expenditures—a rate higher than any other campus in the entire SUNY system. Research expenditures grew 11 percent over the previous fiscal year, for a total of nearly $39 million. Research expenditures at Upstate have grown 35 percent during the last five years, which is an especially impressive accomplishment given the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic,

says David C. Amberg, PhD, Upstate vice president for research.

In addition to an 11-percent increase in direct expenditures, there was a 10 percent increase in indirect expenditures, which amounts to an additional $1 million in operational money Upstate receives to support research.

“Every year we’re seeing more grants being submitted,” he says. “We saw a record number of grant submissions during Covid. The

“We saw a record number of grant submissions during Covid. The faculty took that time when they couldn’t come in and do experiments in the lab to write papers and to write grants.”

—David C. Amberg, PhD, Upstate vice president for research

faculty took that time when they couldn’t come in and do experiments in the lab to write papers and to write grants.”

Upstate departments that expanded research in the last year include: biochemistry (40 percent increase); urology (38 percent); microbiology (35 percent); pharmacology (21 percent); ophthalmology (18 percent); medicine (18 percent). The top research investigator at Upstate is infectious disease physician-scientist Stephen J. Thomas, MD, credited with $2.2 million in research expenditures. As director of Upstate’s Institute for Global Health & Translational Science, Thomas has significantly expanded the number of clinical trials Upstate offers, including 32 Covid-19-related clinical trials.

Upstate Awarded $2M to Upgrade Telehealth Infrastructure

UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN awarded $2 million from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help upgrade and support its telehealth infrastructure with a focus on video consults and remote patient monitoring as part of its electronic medical record (EMR)

system. The upgraded telehealth platform will be deployed across the institution connecting dozens of Upstate clinics and physical sites.

“The pandemic has shown us firsthand the necessity of a sound telehealth program that features electronic access to medical records, test results, and real-time patient appointments through a video option,” said Mantosh Dewan, MD, president of Upstate Medical University. “This funding allows us to move our institution forward by leaps and bounds as we break down barriers to care and move to our goal as a smart hospital.”

The funding will help strengthen and streamline telehealth options for Upstate and patients many of whom come from miles away to access Upstate’s singular medical services. Upstate estimates that 97,500 patients in Central New York could be supported by this upgraded telehealth infrastructure with approximately 250 earmarked to receive broadband access through the project, who may not otherwise have this access.

Upstate Researchers Land Federal Grants for New Method to Study the Brain and Disease

JONATHAN HESS, PHD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has been awarded a $445,500 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for a novel approach to studying how biological changes in the brain contribute to psychiatric disease.

Dr. Hess has spent three years developing BrainGENIE, which stands for Brain Gene Expression and Network Imputation Engine. The method uses existing data on gene markers from brain tissue samples from deceased donors and compares it to new data on those same gene markers in blood samples from patients living with psychiatric disorders. Those illnesses could include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, as well as autism spectrum disorders and Alzheimer’s disease.

BrainGENIE could be influential in the field of psychiatric genomics because studying living brain tissue in human subjects is notoriously difficult. While brain tissue samples can help scientists understand psychiatric disorders, studying those samples must usually occur after death because a brain biopsy in a living person is complicated and impractical. And studying tissue samples from a cadaver has limitations since the person likely took

medications over the years to treat their mental illness, which can change the brain’s biological makeup over time.

WEI-DONG YAO, PHD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and neuroscience and physiology, has been awarded $682,211 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to support research on frontotemporal dementia (FTD). FTD is the most prevalent dementia before age 65 and the most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Yao’s study represents the first attempt to investigate the role of a new disease gene in FTD pathogenesis and have the potential to uncover novel pathogenic mechanisms and treatment strategies for FTD and related neurodegenerative diseases.

Yao is a SUNY Empire Scholar who joined Upstate from Harvard University in 2014 through the SUNY’s Empire Innovation Program. He is director of the Molecular Cellular Neuropsychiatry Laboratory at Upstate, which studies how psychiatric diseases damage brain cells and their proper wiring, and how these impairments cause mental illnesses.

Wei-Dong Yao, PhD

Jonathan Hess, PhD

Francesca Pignoni, PhD, Named Chair of Neuroscience and Physiology

Francesca Pignoni, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, effective July 1, 2021. She had served as interim department chair since December 2018.

“Dr. Pignoni is a distinguished scholar, researcher and academic leader and I am grateful for her continued leadership of this important department,” says Lawrence Chin, MD, dean of the College of Medicine.

Neuroscience and Physiology includes 11 faculty and serves as the home department for the Neuroscience PhD Program. Faculty research focuses on diseases of the nervous system, including degenerative retinal diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, schizophrenia, autism, congenital muscular dystrophies, and the neurological manifestations of Covid-19. In addition, 25 neurosci-

“Dr. Pignoni is a distinguished scholar, researcher and academic leader and I am grateful for her continued leadership of this important department.”

—Lawrence Chin, MD, dean of the College of Medicine

ence research faculty from clinical departments have joint appointments in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology.

Pignoni joined Upstate in 2009 as an Empire Scholar in the Department of Ophthalmology. She has played leadership roles in the research and academic efforts of the department and the Center for Vision Research (CVR). In recognition of these contributions, she was awarded the President’s Award

for Excellence and Leadership in Research in 2017 and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2018.

Her research is focused on eye development, studying the function of genes that are linked to ocular malformations and vision loss, and is currently funded by the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, and the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.

and the chief diversity officer at Upstate. To view the video: https://youtu.be/wrMtG8s1sws or scan QR code.

Francesca Pignoni, PhD

DARYLL C. DYKES, PHD, MD ’95, JD, recorded an interview with his father, Rychard Dykes, who described growing up with a black father, a white mother and a sister with blue eyes. Their videotaped interview was part of a series connected to “Belong at Upstate,” an initiative led by Dr. Dykes to promote increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion at Upstate Medical University. Dykes is an orthopedic surgeon

Faraone Named Top Scholar on Mental Disorders

An Upstate Medical University professor has been named a “world expert” for being one of the world’s top scholars writing about mental disorders. Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Research of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stephen Faraone, PhD, received the honor from ExpertScape, which places him in the top 0.1 percentage of scholars writing about mental disorders in the last decade. Faraone is the author of more than 1,000 journal articles, editorials, chapters, and books. From 1990 to 1999, he was the eighth highest producer of High Impact Papers in Psychiatry as determined by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). In 2005, ISI named him as the second

highest cited author for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. From 2014 to 2019 he was listed as a highly cited researcher by Thomson/ Reuters/Claritive Analytics. In 2013, he was cited as being the third mostcited psychologist or psychiatrist in the world and the top-cited psychologist or psychiatrist scholar in the United States, according to Microsoft Academic Search, a free academic search engine. In 2019, his citation metrics placed him in the top 0.01 percent of scientists across all fields. ExpertScape has previously cited him for being the toprated expert in ADHD, worldwide.

“Dr. Faraone is a superstar among our many distinguished and prominent research faculty,” says David C. Amberg, PhD, Upstate vice presi-

dent for research. “He publishes prolifically on the genetics of mental disorders, is one of the most heavily cited scientists in the world and has been continually very well-funded by government and private funding agencies. He is particularly known for his work elucidating genetic risk factors for attention deficit disorder and has received many accolades over his amazing career.”

FAMILY MEDICINE

DOCTOR Joseph Wetterhahn ’87 (back center) hosted a healthy cooking class for Upstate students enrolled in the Food as Medicine elective in October at the teaching kitchen at his practice in Adams, New York.

Stephen Faraone, PhD

Upstate Cited for Commitment to Medical Staff Wellbeing

UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY is one of only 44 institutions in the country to be a recipient of the 2021 Joy in Medicine Health System Recognition Program. The accolade from the American Medical Association recognizes Upstate for its “demonstrated commitment to preserving the well-being of health care team members by engaging in proven efforts to combat workrelated stress and burnout.”

“The Covid-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary stress on physicians and other health care professionals,” said AMA President Gerald E. Harmon, MD. “The health systems we recognize today are true leaders in promoting an organizational response that makes a difference in the lives of the health care workforce.”

Upstate’s efforts at preserving medical staff wellbeing are led by Chief Wellness Officer (CWO) Leslie Kohman, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Surgery.

The post of CWO was created, in part, out of concern for wellness among Upstate’s staff. One of the first tasks was to create a wellbeing task force to advise the CWO on issues and develop wellbeing goals for the campus.

KATIE FARKOUH ’25 was one of four lucky winners of gift baskets from the Medical Alumni Foundation. First and second-year students filled out raffle tickets when they picked up their copies of textbooks provided by the Medical Alumni Foundation and the gift basket of Upstate Medical University memorabilia was an extra bonus.

One of the first efforts was to help staff deal with adverse clinical events. Upstate is now a member of a regional 5-hospital peer support network, The Clinician Peer Support Program of Central New York, funded by a grant from the New York Health Foundation. As part of this program, 85 clinical staff have been trained in peer support and are available to all staff, with a special emphasis on those dealing with recent adverse events.

Another initiative identified by the task force and developed is the Clinical Collaboration Center, or CUBE, a dedicated space where providers can meet and interact for collaboration, support, relaxation and a sense of community.

“Positive wellbeing is no longer a personal issue, it’s very much an institutional one, and we have had a great start here at Upstate for providing support to our staff,” says Kohman. “Practitioner wellbeing improves the quality of patient care, efficiency of practice, and patient satisfaction. This recognition from the AMA is significant and we look forward to making further progress and supporting more wellbeing initiatives in the coming year.”

Leslie Kohman, MD

THE UPSTATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE officially welcomed 170 incoming medical students at a White Coat Ceremony held on August 21. A separate White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2024 was also held that day, as Covid-19 prevented holding the event last year.

Top of Their Class

Each fall, the Medical Alumni Foundation honors reunion-year alumni who have made an exceptional impact on medicine. Please celebrate our 2021 honorees.

Distinguished Alumnus:

Russell Warren, MD ’66

Russell F. Warren, MD ’66, surgeonin-chief emeritus at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, is a pioneer in the field of orthopaedic surgery, specializing in shoulder and knee surgery. He is co-developer of the Biomet Comprehensive Shoulder system, the most widely used shoulder replacement system in the world. Over five decades, Dr. Warren has trained hundreds of orthopedic surgeons at Weill Medical College and HSS. He has also spent 40 years caring for elite athletes as team doctor for the New York Giants.

Warren was born in 1939 in Burlington, Vermont, and received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia College, where he played football and baseball. He pursued medical study at Upstate Medical University, earning his medical degree in 1966. He then completed a one-year surgical residency at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York before serving as a Lt. Commander for the U.S. Navy for two years during Vietnam. He received the U.S. Navy Medal of Commendation in 1969.

“I’ve always been one that liked variety. I don’t like doing the same thing two days in a row.”

University, where he served as chair of orthopedic surgery from 1994-2003 and is currently professor of surgery. At HSS, Warren served as head of the shoulder and sports medicine services from 1981-1993, and as surgeon-inchief from 1993-2003. Under his leadership, HSS grew from approximately 6,000 to 20,000 surgeries annually. It is ranked as the number one orthopedic program in the United States and is home to the top-ranked orthopedic residency in the United States. Warren has been a member of the board of trustees since 1993 and is currently surgeon-in-chief emeritus.

Following his Naval service, Warren returned to New York and completed a residency in orthopaedic surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery and a fellowship in shoulder surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He also began his teaching career in orthopaedics at Weill Medical College of Cornell

For 10 years, Warren was director of the HSS Soft Tissue Research Lab. Discoveries from the laboratory have advanced progress toward better treatments that reduce pain and restore mobility for patients with soft tissue injuries of the shoulder and knee. Warren has published more than 500 papers and given more than 1,000 invited talks, most in his specialties of knee and shoulder surgery, specifically pertaining to ligament injury (ACL & PCL), shoulder instability, cartilage loss and repair, arthroscopic rotator cuff repair and stabilization and shoulder replacement surgery. He holds numerous patents, many related to the shoulder replacement system he helped develop. In 2005, HSS established the Russell F. Warren Research Chair in soft tissue research to ensure this area

of study continues in perpetuity. He has served as editor in chief of Techniques in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery since 1999.

In 1984, Warren became team physician for the New York Giants, treating athletes in residence during training camp, performing physicals each Wednesday during the season, and on the sidelines during games. Through his association, numerous HSS fellows received hands-on sports medicine training and have gone on to become head team physicians throughout the National Football League. Warren was named team physician emeritus in 2015.

Warren served as president of both the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) and the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES), an organization he helped found. He has received AOSSM’s O’Donoghue Award for

Sports Medicine Research three times since 1982 along with the Humana Award for Clinical Research in 1992 and Mr. Sports Medicine in 2003. He has received the prestigious Neer Award for basic science research from the ASES in 1989, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2010 and the Jerry “Hawk” Rhea Award for Outstanding NFL Team Physician in 2004. He has also received numerous honors for teaching.

Warren continues to work full time, teaching, treating patients and performing surgeries, conducting research, and caring for New York Giants athletes.

Dr. Warren examines x-rays with other HSS sports medicine staff at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.

Giants team physician Russell Warren, MD ’66, confers with Jason Pierre-Paul during Super Bowl XLVI in February 2012.

Outstanding Young Alumna: Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD ’01

Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD ’01, MPH, has been the director of the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) since April 2015, responsible for a staff of more than 470 employees and a budget of $170 million, both of which increased significantly during the Covid pandemic response.

Dr. Alexander-Scott brings tremendous background to this position from her work as a specialist in infectious diseases for children and adults and from her experience in academia as an associate professor of pediatrics, medicine, and public health (with a focus on health services, policy, and practice).

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Alexander-Scott attended Cornell University, majoring in human development and family studies. That foundation directed her medical studies at Upstate Medical University, where she remained interested in the human condition and behavior from the very youngest to the very oldest patients. As a medical student, she was recognized with several scholarships, including the James L. Potts Medical Principles Award, the Joseph J.

Gadbaw, MD 12/’43 and Ann Gadbaw Scholarship, and the Medical Alumni Scholarship Award.

Alexander-Scott completed a combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency at University Hospital at Stony Brook, followed by a four-year combined adult/pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she developed an interest in public policy, particularly relating to HIV testing in pregnant women. Her efforts led to a new state law in 2007 that made testing for HIV a routine component of prenatal screenings. She went on to earn a master’s in public health from Brown University in 2011.

In 2009, Alexander-Scott joined the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University as an associate professor with appointments in both the Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, and as an attending physician at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital and as consulting physician at Women and Infants’ Hospital, all in Providence. She also served as a consultant to RIDOH, working with the Division

Dr. Alexander-Scott addresses reporters about the coronavirus pandemic in mid-March 2020, before daily briefings were moved to the Rhode Island State House and held remotely.

“Eighty percent of what makes someone healthy happens outside of the examination room. Covid has really nailed down the need to put resources and steps in place to improve determinants of health.”

of Community, Family Health, and Equity; Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology; and Office of HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB.

In 2015, Alexander-Scott was appointed director of RIDOH by Governor Gina Raimondo. The position holds a five-year term, and she was reappointed in 2020. Under her leadership, RIDOH has established three leading priorities: addressing the socioeconomic and environmental determinants of health; eliminating disparities of health and promoting health equity; and ensuring access to quality health services for all Rhode Islanders, including the state’s vulnerable populations. She has been heralded for her leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic. Rhode Island emerged early on as a national leader in per-capita testing for the virus and is among states with the highest rates of vaccination.

Alexander-Scott is board certified in pediatrics, internal medicine, pediatric infectious diseases, and adult infectious diseases. She has published and served as an invited speaker on varied topics related

to public health. She serves on numerous Rhode Island state committees and has been a member of the Reforming States Group of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a bipartisan group of state health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches. She is a member of the board of directors for the Association for State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), for which she has served in numerous capacities. As president of ASTHO from 2018-2019, Alexander-Scott established a President’s Challenge on “Building Healthy and Resilient Communities,” which was subsequently adopted as a permanent focus.

Alexander-Scott has been recognized by numerous local and national organizations for her commitment to health equity, including Grow Smart Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Kresge Foundation.

Alexander-Scott discusses the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic during a briefing at the State House in April 2020.

Humanitarian Award: Daniel T. Burzon, MD ’91

For more than 20 years, New Jersey

urologist Daniel T. Burzon, MD ’91, has organized annual medical missions to Haiti, bringing much needed urological care to the country’s impoverished and medically underserved population. Working through the CRUDEM Foundation at Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, he has performed hundreds of surgeries on patients who would likely not otherwise have access to such specialty care.

Dr. Burzon was raised in Chappaqua, New York, and attended Cornell University. As a medical student at Upstate Medical University, he became interested in surgery, eventually focusing on urology. He completed both general surgery and urology residencies at the University of Rochester. Since 1997, he has been a member of Coastal Urology Associates, a group practice with locations in Brick, Lakewood, and Neptune, New Jersey, and is currently president of the practice. Burzon is also chief of urology at both the Jersey Shore Medical Center and Ocean Medical Center and is medical director of the Shore Outpatient Surgicenter. A diplomate of the American Board of Urology and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, he has conducted research and published on treatments for prostate and bladder cancer.

Burzon made his first trip to Haiti in 1999, accompanying the retired urologist he had replaced in his practice. “All it takes is one trip,” he says. “You see the conditions, the need, and the appreciation and you’re hooked.”

Burzon became part of the medical team of urologists, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other volunteers who would travel to the medical center annually. After five years, he became a team leader, organizing his own team, which travels to Milot the first week of January every year. “I started bringing urology residents, grooming them, and then when they become attendings, they can lead their own team,” says Burzon, who has also taken his wife and

“Our

Hôpital Sacré Coeur”—The Haitian operating room staff and our U.S. volunteer doctors, nurses, and anesthesiologists after a busy day

“All it takes is one trip. You see the conditions, the need, and the appreciation and you’re hooked.”

children as volunteers. Burzon pays his own travel expenses and those of his nursing staff as well. The hospital operates on a system that focuses on a different specialty each week. With only three weeks out of the year devoted to urology, Burzon says his team is typically greeted by hundreds of patients, many who have been waiting in line for days. They spend the first day assessing patients, and by the end of that day, the week’s surgical schedule is full. In 2010, Burzon and his team were in Haiti during the major earthquake and later

returned to lead postquake care.

Despite donations from abroad, Burzon describes the hospital facilities as “operating in 1950,” conditions that limit treatment options. Common surgeries include repair of congenital defects and undescended testicles, hydrocele to eliminate fluid retention around the scrotum, and prostate and penile cancers, which are often much more advanced than seen in the United States. “The patients and their families are incredibly grateful and it’s a very rewarding experience,” he says.

Closer to home, Burzon has served as a board member for the New Jersey chapter of the Fellowship of Christian athletes for 18 years, a Christian organization that encourages youth from elementary school through college to participate in athletics drug and alcohol free. He is also a board member and medical director of the Open Door Pregnancy Center in Toms River, New Jersey. The organization provides medical care, counseling, and financial assistance to young pregnant women to assist them in keeping their babies.

"Team Burzon”—wife Teddi of 36 years, son DJ (30) and daughter Mikki-Jean (36), both of whom grew up on the Upstate campus, and youngest daughter Jaylin (26).

The Burzon family at their “Happy Place,” Lake George

UPSTATE RESPONSE

Vaccinating the Most Vulnerable

A student-led team took vaccination to the streets.

As Covid vaccination rates began to stagnate across the country, a team from Upstate Medical University took to the Syracuse streets to offer vaccinations to those who might not otherwise have access.

Upstate’s Mobile Vaccination Clinic consisted of four medical students, coordinated by second-year student Elana Sitnik, and their supervisor, Upstate community psychiatrist Sunny Aslam, MD. Drawing on Dr. Aslam’s community contacts, the team spent every Tuesday from May through August visiting shelters, halfway houses, and going door-to-door in some of the city’s poorest and most vulnerable neighborhoods. They also visited shut-ins and elderly in suburban and rural parts of the county and attended community events such as the Downtown Regional Market and Jazz Fest.

In addition to providing a public service, the mobile clinic gave student volunteers a real-world glimpse into issues surrounding health care equity and access.

“I got a firsthand view of barriers to health care access that we talk about in public health theory, things like transportation and childcare that prevented

“I got a firsthand view of barriers to health care access that we talk about in public health theory, things like transportation and childcare that prevented people from going to get a vaccine.”

—ELANA SITNIK

people from going to get a vaccine,” says Sitnik, who is dually enrolled in Upstate’s master’s in public health program.

Sitnik said she was struck by many of the stories she encountered in the field. One woman told her she’d wanted the vaccine, but her daughter’s work schedule prevented her from taking her to get it. A man who worked overnight at a pharmacy said he was always too tired after his shift to stay and get the shot. Both appreciated Upstate’s clinic coming to them, she says.

While many were thrilled to have the opportunity to ask questions about the

vaccine and receive it in the convenience of their own living space, others were less receptive, reflecting the vaccine debate that continues across the country.

“People talked to me about their experiences with healthcare, with medical mistrust, with historic marginalization, so it was completely understandable why they would have hesitancy around a brand-new vaccine,” says Sitnik.

As an African American, second-year student Robertha Barnes thought she might carry some influence within that population for those hesitant to receive the vaccine. “I had my badge on and thought people would view me as knowledgeable, but a lot of people have their minds made up and there wasn’t much I could say,” she says.

The team members say their role was not to be confrontational, but to answer questions and provide access to the vaccine to those interested. Through the course of the summer, 164 people were vaccinated, most with the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The majority of vaccinations were performed by the students, who learned how to draw and administer the vaccine.

Students say having this clinical experience so early in medical school

RESPONSE TO COVID

was invaluable, not just the technical aspect of learning to give vaccinations, but in interacting with patients. “I learned a lot from watching Dr. Aslam talk to people, some of whom were intellectually or cognitively impaired,” says Sitnik. “It’s important to make sure people who are struggling in that way are informed and still have agency over their healthcare.”

Aslam launched the project with fellow Upstate doctor David Lehmann, MD, who provides medical care to the homeless throughout Onondaga County. He says the goal was to put Upstate medical students

in charge of the clinic to provide them a richer learning experience.

“We’re always teaching our students about leadership, about public health and population health, and this is a oncein-a-century event,” Aslam says. “This type of experience is something no one will ever be able to take away from them; they vaccinated some of the most vulnerable people and contributed to public health.” n

Sunny Aslam, MD, and medical students Robertha Barnes ’24 and Kasia Rybczyk ’24 at the Downtown Farmers Market. At right, Elana Sitnik ’24 with the vaccine cooler.

Tracking Covid Through Gene Sequencing

Upstate’s SUNYMAC lab tapped by state to identify Covid-19 variants.

In July, Upstate Medical University’s SUNY (SUNYMAC) Molecular Analysis Core laboratory was announced as one of five labs chosen statewide to help New York state identify and monitor Covid-19 variant strains and expand genetic sequencing.

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) is partnering with labs at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Cornell University, the University at Buffalo, the University of Rochester Medical Center, and New York Medical College through $20 million received from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program.

While the New York-DOH fundedproject officially launched in September, SUNYMAC has been conducting SUNYfunded sequencing and monitoring of variants since the very beginning of the pandemic, back in the spring of 2020. “We have generated more than 3,000 full viral genome sequences to date and anticipate obtaining approximately eight to 10 times that number over the next 12-15 months,” says lab founder and director Frank Middleton, PhD.

According to former New York State Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, MD, the Covid-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of whole genome sequencing in identifying variants of concern as an integral part of the state’s public health response. “The new partnership will expand this surveillance ability statewide and assist in ongoing Covid-19 pandemic response efforts,” he said at the time.

The goal is to greatly expand genetic sequencing on SARS-CoV-2 positive specimens derived from the general population of New York state outside of New York City, building on current genome/variant surveillance efforts and characterization of the transmission and

spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the state.

In addition to surveillance, the data generated will help build on understanding of disease manifestations, therapy, or vaccine evasion and efficacy, and will support other discoveries to inform public health intervention. Sequencing results from the partner laboratories will be reported to the New York State Department of Health and the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data.

At Upstate, Middleton says SUNYMAC has tracked the rise and fall of various variants at different college campuses across New York state, including the Iota (“New York”), Epsilon (“California”), Alpha (“UK”) and Delta lineages. “We’ve been able to associate different lineages with some notable changes in virus levels, as well as higher rates of breakthrough infection (or vaccine evasion),” he says.

“We have generated more than 3,000 full viral genome sequences to date and anticipate obtaining approximately eight to 10 times that number over the next 12-15 months.”

—FRANK MIDDLETON, PhD

The lab is currently receiving and sequencing samples from more than 30 counties across the state and has only a one-to-two-week turnaround time for results. “To achieve such quick results, we optimized many protocols, and are now able to submit the official variant information directly to the New York State Electronic Clinical Laboratory Reporting System (ECLRS), which enables public health officials to track the emergence of variants across the state,” says Middleton.

The project is being coordinated through the Wadsworth Center (WC), New York State’s public health laboratory in the New York State Department of Health. The project is expected to last 18 months and is funded as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases Enhancing Detection Expansion supplement. n

Upstate’s SUNYMAC lab is a leader in the genetic sequencing of Covid-19 variant strains

Knowledge is Power

Upstate’s Project ECHO provides doctors across Central New York with the most current information about their Covid concerns.

At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, the greatest need among all health care providers was information: What was Covid-19? How was it spread? How should we treat it? And how do we stay safe in the process?

Administrators at Upstate Medical University needed to assist medical professionals across Central New York communities with time-sensitive knowledge about issues related to the pandemic. And they already had the perfect vehicle.

Long before Zoom technology became commonplace, Upstate’s Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) program used Zoom to offer regular educational programming to doctors and other healthcare professionals from experts in a variety of specialties, including pediatrics, geriatrics, endocrinology, and toxicology. Quickly, Project ECHO added Covidrelated programming, and as of October 2021, has hosted 28 such programs attracting providers from a wide swath of Upstate New York.

One of the earliest Covid-focused sessions occurred in mid-March 2020, after the initial Covid shut down.

“There were also providers who tuned in for the first time during Covid, found the experience beneficial, and are now making time for the regular sessions. As a result, we’re adding more specialties to the mix.”

Stephen Thomas, MD, Upstate’s division chief of infectious disease, provided a 40-minute presentation about Covid-19 followed by questions from attendees from across 10 New York state counties and included staff from multiple county health departments, general physicians and pediatricians, emergency room personnel, social workers, and others including an EMT and a flight nurse.

The demand for information was palpable. “I’m sure we could have spent three more hours sitting there,” recalls Deidre Keefe, manager of Project ECHO.

— DEIDRE KEEFE

Other early sessions included pediatric infectious disease specialist Jana Shaw, MD, MPH, MS, speaking on the need for personal protective equipment (PPE) and local testing availability, and a consultation between physicians at Upstate and counterparts in Wuhan, China, who advised on best practices for protecting staff, treating patients, and handling the pandemic. Another session provided how-to information for the rapid implementation of telemedicine. “Many primary

care offices had nothing in place and didn’t know where to start,” says Keefe.

Project ECHO is an international program designed to equip primary care practitioners in rural areas with the knowledge they need to provide high-quality specialty care. In the U.S. alone, 255 ECHO hubs reach thousands of communities across 49 states as well as Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. Around the world, Project ECHO programs operate in 52 countries. Upstate started its Project ECHO program in 2018, in part to support providers in rural areas of Central New York with consultation services from specialists at Upstate. Prior to Covid, Upstate’s Project ECHO sponsored one or more sessions a week for a variety of specialties with a small but regular following.

The Covid sessions have attracted hundreds of attendees, and in the process, increased interest in the “regular” Project ECHO programming.

“I think people are much more accustomed to and comfortable with using Zoom,” says Keefe. “There were also providers who tuned in for the first time during Covid, found the experience beneficial, and are now making time for the regular sessions.

As a result, we’re adding more specialties to the mix.”

More recently, Project ECHO has focused on the rise of the Delta variant and the numbers of pediatric cases seen since the start of the school year, holding a session for school nurses and administrators to have Upstate pediatricians answer their questions.

“We’ve proven this is an excellent way to transmit information during a public health emergency,” Keefe says. n

Pediatricians Jana Shaw, MD, and Stephen Blatt, MD ’83, share information about vaccinating children against Covid-19 through Project ECHO.

Responder First

BY RENÉE GEARHART LEVY

Through forward-thinking and tenacity, emergency medicine doc

Ron Elfenbein, MD ’00, became Maryland’s leader in Covid

testing.

Every week, approximately 300 members of the U.S. military depart for overseas deployments via Baltimore Washington International (BWI) airport. And before they board their flights, they need to secure a negative test for Covid-19 within 48 hours of travel.

That task has become much easier since August, when FirstCall Medical Center opened a facility within BWI, one of only a handful of urgent care centers located in airports nationwide. FirstCall works directly with the USO Lounge at the airport to facilitate testing for military personnel.

But the service isn’t just for service members. According to airport officials, some 70,000 people walk through BWI every day. FirstCall provides Covid testing and vaccination to airport employees and travelers and because the clinic is located outside of airport security, to visitors as well.

“We’re one of the only ones in the nation to do this,” says Ron Elfenbein, MD ’00, medical director for FirstCall Medical Center.

Dr. Elfenbein is a board-certified emergency medicine doctor with privileges at several hospitals across the Eastern shore of Maryland and Delaware. He opened his first urgent care facility in Gambrills, Maryland, in 2016.

The idea to open a second location of FirstCall at BWI came shortly after—long before the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. The original goal was simply to provide physical exams, and routine and emergency health care to airport staff and travelers. But as with all else in the world, Covid changed everything.

Through a combination of foresight and tenacity, Elfenbein has successfully pivoted his business model

to respond to healthcare needs posed by the pandemic, resulting in tremendous public service as well as growth for his business. Prior to the pandemic, FirstCall had about 20 employees at one location. As of October 2021, the company had approximately 200 employees spread over two urgent care centers, three Covid-19 testing centers, two monoclonal antibody infusion centers, and a soon-to-be-deployed mobile testing unit. The company has tested more than a half million people and treated more than 2,500 with monocloncal antibodies.

“Covid-19 has impacted everybody,” says Elfenbein. “We were able to be forward-thinking to provide needed public health services. In the process, that allowed us to grow as a business and provide about 180 new jobs, which is a great thing.”

It all began in early 2020 at the onset of the pandemic.

“I looked at the rest of the world and could see what was going to happen in the United States,” says Elfenbein.

That meant stocking up on testing supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE). Elfenbein and his staff spent countless hours sourcing PPE. “We were stood up by plenty of suppliers, but it was the perseverance to relentlessly keep calling, emailing, and meeting with people that paid off,” he says.

As a result, FirstCall never ran out of PPE. Not when the county health department ran out. Not when the state health department ran out. FirstCall became a regional referral center, testing 500-600 patients daily at the height of the pandemic. “We’ve never turned anybody away because we didn’t have the supplies or ability to treat somebody,” he says.

FirstCall was even able to donate PPE to other doctors as well as to the Drug Enforcement Agency, which needed N95 masks for protection during an upcoming drug bust.

To help accommodate the numbers of patients needing testing, FirstCall opened three standalone Covid testing centers. At the height of the pandemic, FirstCall began visiting nursing homes to provide on-site Covid testing to staff and residents. “It was very labor intensive, but people were suffering and there was nobody to help,” says Elfenbein. “We stepped in and filled the void.”

When monoclonal antibody treatment became available, FirstCall successfully petitioned the state to open an infusion site. Shortly after, the company was approached by both the federal and Maryland departments of health and human services to run a second monoclonal site and rapid testing center outside FedEx Field, adjacent to a state-run PCR testing facility.

“We’re seeing a ton of volume, the busiest in the state,” says Elfenbein. “As of October, we were receiving 15 percent of the state allocation of monoclonal antibodies.”

Again, part of that volume is due to Elfenbein’s outof-the box thinking, which simplified the procedure for patients. “Initially, the process for a patient to get approval was very onerous and required a referral from a primary care physician,” he explains.

FirstCall set up a call center, where patients could call for a screening evaluation, or could be referred by a provider on site. “At some locations, patients who test

positive can simply go across the hallway to get infused right then and there,” he says.

“The more people that can get monoclonals the better,” explains Elfenbein. “You dramatically increase their chances of survival and decrease their chances of having to be hospitalized. Now, individuals considered high risk are able to get prophylactic monoclonal antibody treatment if they’ve been exposed to somebody who had Covid.”

He hopes to be able to expand treatment options to include mobile visits to nursing homes. “If someone has had an exposure, we could provide a prophylactic dose so that Covid doesn’t spread throughout the facility,” he says.

Elfenbein’s public health efforts during the pandemic extend beyond his own business. Along with a friend, Elfenbein started a nonprofit and raised $10,000 to build intubation boxes that were donated to hospitals across the country. “It’s basically a plexiglass box with armholes. When you have to intubate someone, you put it over the patient and it decreases the amount of aerosolized particles so you reduce the risk of catching Covid for everyone in the room,” he explains.

His partner built the units in his garage. “We set up a website. When a hospital would make a request, we’d send one out,” says Elfenbein, who has become a regular guest on national news shows, providing a medical perspective on issues related to Covid testing and vaccination.

Ron Elfenbein, MD ’00, cuts the ribbon to officially open the FirstCall Medical Center at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The urgent care center has become a hub for Covid testing, particularly for members of the military heading overseas.

In life, Elfenbein believes it’s important to “roll with the punches” and be open to embrace opportunities that come your way.

As an emergency medicine resident at Johns Hopkins University, Elfenbein frequently volunteered to serve as an on-site doctor for training missions at the nearby Secret Service Academy in Beltsville, Maryland. Subsequently, he was one of three residents chosen to accompany Secret Service members to the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City and provide medical care for the 5,000 Federal agents there.

“There were some in the residency program who were disgruntled about not being selected. But I remember the program director saying, ‘whenever we ask for volunteers for anything, these are the people who always say yes,” he says. “That stuck with me.”

As an Upstate medical student, Elfenbein did a clerkship at the Johnson Space Center. While at Hopkins, he received a grant from NASA to develop a hands-free device to guide an astronaut through airway management in microgravity, for use on the space shuttle and space station.

Coming out of his chief resident year, Elfenbein applied to the space program to be an astronaut, becoming one of 200 to receive an interview out of 10,000 applicants.

At the time, Elfenbein’s wife, Heather Symons, MD, was a fellow in pediatric oncology at Hopkins and knew she wanted to stay at the institution (she currently is clinical director of the pediatric bone marrow transplant program there). The couple settled in the Annapolis area of Maryland, and Elfenbein works at various hospitals in the region.

In the early 2000s, there was a crisis brewing in Maryland regarding proposed increases to malpractice insurance. Then-Governor Robert Ehrlich called a special

session of the legislature to deal with the issue. Elfenbein attended a rally at a park outside the State House. Frustrated by the lack of momentum, he began speaking to the crowd about why the issue was important and why the increase was untenable. “The next thing I knew, all these TV cameras were in my face,” he recalls. Shortly after, Elfeinbein was approached by the governor’s office to run for state senate, which he did in 2010, and was narrowly defeated by the incumbent.

But he has no regrets. Undoubtedly, the connections made while running for office have helped him in his current endeavors. And he concedes the experience of crafting messages on the campaign trail likely led to his ease in dealing with the national media today.

“Things might not always go your way. You might not get the job you want. But it opens the door for other things, and you always have to be looking,” he says.

Elfenbein’s efforts to open a FirstCall site at BWI had been mired in the red tape of the Maryland Transportation Authority, but the pandemic spurred the process.

“I reached out and said, ‘we got to get this moving,’ and they were in agreement,” Elfenbein recalls. “They kind of lit a fire under everyone because we all realized the need.”

When the grand opening ceremony was held in August, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan was in attendance, presenting Elfenbein with a citation for service to the state of Maryland and its citizens.

He’s most proud of the service FirstCall is able to provide to the U.S. service members who use BWI, something he’s embarrassed to say he was unaware of beforehand. “I knew there was a big USO facility at BWI, but I had no idea this was a primary departure airport,” he says.

Early on, there was a group of 16 soldiers who came to get tested five times within a two-week period because their flight kept getting canceled. “These poor guys. Covid testing is not a pleasant experience,” Elfenbein recalls. “And they were coming to us at their own expense.”

Once again, Elfenbein spotted a need. He found out where the soldiers were staying and sent a team to test them at their hotel.

Subsequently, FirstCall at BWI developed a system with the airport USO to communicate in a HIPAAcompliant way using Microsoft Teams. “The USO has comfortable furniture, free food, and entertainment. So, we have the military personnel hang out there, and we can message and say, ‘send 10 people,’ and that way nobody has to wait.”

It all goes back to Elfenbein’s philosophy of creating your own luck. “If you go out of your way to help other people, people will go out of their way to help you,” he says. “The pandemic was a devastating thing, but I’m proud to have been able to seize opportunities and provide help where people needed it.” n

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan presented Elfenbein with a citation of service to the citizens of Maryland for his efforts during the pandemic.

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Stephen E. Presser, MD ’78

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Patrick J. Riccardi, MD ’76

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Robert E. Todd, MD ’93

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Paula Trief, PhD

James A. Trippi, MD ’79

Lauren H. Turteltaub, MD ’98

Upstate Medical University Foundation

Mark B. Van Deusen, MD ’09

Josef J. Vanek, MD ’89

Joseph D. Verdirame, MD ’75

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Bradley A. Woodruff, MD ’80

Stephen H. Wrzesinski, MD ’02

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Anson K. Wurapa, MD ’94

Gary M. Yarkony, MD ’78

Jack E. Yoffa, MD ’69

Roy T. Young, MD ’65

Ralph D. Zehr, MD ’64

Robert H. Zimmer, MD ’54

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Neal Zung, MD ’85

Legacy Society

Our Legacy Society honors those who have provided for a gift to the College of Medicine in their estate plans. The Legacy Society allows us to give these donors the recognition they deserve during their lifetime.

Peter J. Adasek, MD ’65

Aldona L. Baltch, MD ’52*

Carol Bender, MD ’72

Jane and Benjamin H. Button, MD ’58*

Robert H. Cancro, MD ’70

Alan M. Davick, MD ’67

Frederick Dushay, MD ’57

Mark S. Erlebacher, MD ’79

Walter F. Erston, MD ’70

Robert E. Ettlinger, MD ’72

Mary Elizabeth Fletcher, MD ’41*

Amy and Leon I. Gilner, MD ’74

Catherine and P. William Haake, MD ’65

James B. Hanshaw, MD ’53*

Paul L. Kupferberg, MD ’70

Michael S. Levine, MD ’66

David T. Lyon, MD ’71

Albert F. Mangan, MD ’54*

Cheryl Morrow Brunacci, MD ’97

Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65

Barton Pakull, MD ’61

Stanley M. Polansky, MD ’79

K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79

Margery W. Smith, MD ’50*

Julius Stoll, Jr, MD 12/’43*

Leanne* and Frank E. Young, MD ’56*

To view complete Legacy Society list, visit https://medalumni.upstate.edu/legacy

1944

TOTAL GIVING $1,000 Percentage of Giving 33%

$1,000-$2,499

Mary E. Collins

1945

TOTAL GIVING $100 Percentage of Giving 50%

$100-$499

Brinton T. Darlington

1947

TOTAL GIVING $120

Percentage of Giving 100%

$100-$499

Maerit B. Kallet*

$1-$99

Shirley M. Ferguson Rayport

1949

TOTAL GIVING $300 Percentage of Giving 50%

$100-$499

Shirley M. Stone Cohlan

$1-$99

Stuart K. Cohan

Leona C. Laskin

1950

TOTAL GIVING $100 Percentage of Giving 14%

$100-$499

John W. Esper

1951

TOTAL GIVING $1,000 Percentage of Giving 33%

$1,000-$2,499

Hugh S. Fulmer

1952

TOTAL GIVING $1,000 Percentage of Giving 25%

$1,000-$2,499

Norman R. Loomis

2020-2021 Report of Gifts

1953

TOTAL GIVING $100 Percentage of Giving 22%

$1-$99

James E. Lewis

Daniel J. Mason

1954

TOTAL GIVING $19,073 Percentage of Giving 40%

$10,000-$24,999

Albert F. Mangan*

$1,000-$2,499

Mallory Stephens

Robert H. Zimmer

$100-$499

Keith R. Dahlberg

William M. Nicholas

Thomas A. Treanor

$1-$99

William E. Locke

1955

TOTAL GIVING $650 Percentage of Giving 10%

$500-$999

John E. Bloom

$1-$99

Robert E. Austin

1956

TOTAL GIVING $29,400 Percentage of Giving 43%

$25,000-$49,999

Lawrence H. Port

$1,000-$2,499

William V. Delaney

$500-$999

Douglas S. Langdon

Robert D. Lindeman

Robert Penner

Ira H. Scheinerman

$100-$499

Willard Cohen

Henry M. Eisenberg

Milton Ingerman

Arvin J. Klein

Donald N. Mantle

Judah Roher

James L. Sterling*

Harvey I. Wolfe

1957

TOTAL GIVING $1,678 Percentage of Giving 30%

$500-$999

David B. Levine

$100-$499

Melvin E. Cohen

Arnold H. Derwin

Frederick Dushay

Arthur J. Florack

Eugene A. Kaplan

Bert G. Katzung

Marvin A. Leder

Ronald A. Nackman

Paul D. Parkman

$1-$99

Thomas R. Miller, II

1958

TOTAL GIVING $6,875 Percentage of Giving 35%

$1,000-$2,499

Kedar K. Adour

Newton B. Chin

Welton M. Gersony

George B. Jacobs

Howard L. Weinberger

$100-$499

George S. Goldstein

Ella B. Noble

David S. Pearlman

George E. Randall

Richard Schoenfeld

$1-$99

Martin L. Nusynowitz

1959

TOTAL GIVING

$422,390

Percentage of Giving 41%

$50,000 AND ABOVE

Zaven S. Ayanian

$10,000-$24,999

Rudolph J. Napodano

Stanley Zinberg

$1,000-$2,499

Frank T. Cicero

Angeline R. Mastri

$100-$499

Samuel J. Braun

Samuel Hellman

George A. Lamb

Ira J. Langer

Richard J. Lubera

Myron Miller

Barry P. Pariser

Carl E. Silver

Philip Zetterstrand

RECEIVED FROM OCTOBER 1, 2020 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 | *DECEASED

1960

TOTAL GIVING $3,625 Percentage of Giving 35%

$1,000-$2,499

Mary G. Ampola

$500-$999

Eugene J. Karandy

$100-$499

Robert E. Alessi

Julian M. Aroesty

Robert A. Bornhurst

Leonard R. Friedman

Leonard Levy

James P. Moore

Robert R. Siroty

Samuel O. Thier

Allen H. Unger

Philip A. Wolf

$1-$99

Roger D. Moore

1961

TOTAL GIVING $3,175 Percentage of Giving 31%

$1,000-$2,499

Alan J. Pollack

$500-$999

Jacob L. Cohen

Carlo R. deRosa

$100-$499

Peter Greenwald

Howard R. Nankin

Barton Pakull

Robert I. Raichelson

Nelson P. Torre

1962

TOTAL GIVING $3,350 Percentage of Giving 24%

$1,000-$2,499

Stuart J. Schwartz*

$100-$499

Steven A. Artz

Morris Asch

Richard H. Bennett

Steven N. Berney

Robert E. Lubanski

William J. Mesibov

Robert Poss

Younger L. Power

Richard K. Shadduck

Theodore K. Tobias

Jack Wittenberg

Donald J. Ziehm

$1-$99

Howard B. Demb

1963

TOTAL GIVING $14,325 Percentage of Giving 42%

$5,000-$9,999

Gustave L. Davis

Philip M. Gaynes

$1,000-$2,499

Irwin P. Goldstein

$500-$999

David I. Rosen

David G. Storrs

$100-$499

Bernard W. Asher

Paul E. Berman

Richard F. Carver

Arnold Derman

Franklin Fiedelholtz

Stuart L. Kaplan

Robert M. Klein

Malcolm E. Levine

David F. Pearce

Carl Salzman

Raymond W. Shamp

Bruce Stewart

Edward D. Sugarman

Richard J. Wells

$1-$99

Howard A. Fabry

Kenneth T. Steadman

1964

TOTAL GIVING $10,868

Percentage of Giving 54%

$2,500-$4,999

C. David Markle

$1,000-$2,499

Edward Burak

Frederick R. Davey

Paul A. Herzog

Ralph D. Zehr

$500-$999

Jack C. Schoenholtz

$100-$499

Robert F. Agnew

Michael Andrisani

Frank J. Bruns

George Burak

Nathan M. Hameroff

Carl A. Hammerschlag

Daniel L. Harris

Lewis W. Johnson

Gary C. Kent

Stephen F. Kucera

David S. Lederman

Daniel J. Marrin

Samuel J. Mazza

Gene R. Moss

Class of 1956, 15th Reunion

Lawrence W. Myers

Alan J. Noble

Alan M. Roth

Stephen Z. Schilder

Albert A. Tripodi

Milton A. Weiner

$1-$99

Kenneth J. Bart

Martin J. Braker

Phineas J. Hyams

Robert M. Spurgat

David W. Watson

1965

TOTAL GIVING $132,875

Percentage of Giving 38%

$50,000 AND ABOVE

Patricia J. Numann

$10,000-$24,999

Thomas J. Stevens

Herbert M. Weinman

$1,000-$2,499

Gerald A. King

Philip S. Schein

Lawrence F. Simon

Roy T. Young

$500-$999

Anthony R. Caprio

Aaron Kassoff

James R. Tobin

2020-2021 Report of Gifts

$100-$499

Alan L. Breed

Jack Egnatinsky

Herbert Fellerman

Michael J. Festino

Pete Haake

Dirk E. Huttenbach

Graham B. Kretchman

Ronald A. Rohe

Stephen F. Wallner

Daniel H. Whiteley

$1-$99

Gary J. Havens

Robert A. Nover

1966

TOTAL GIVING $27,575

Percentage of Giving 45%

$10,000-$24,999

Adolph Morlang

$5,000-$9,999

Anonymous

$1,000-$2,499

Norman L. Fienman

Louis A. Rosati

$500-$999

Neal M. Friedberg

Jerome Goldstein

$100-$499

Peter D. Ambrose

Nathan Billig

Charles E. Cladel

Alvin Cohen

Malcolm D. Davidson

Norman Dishotsky

Bernard D. Glasser

Susan E. Glasser

A. Michael Kaplan

Laurence B. Levenberg

Michael S. Levine

Robert A. Levine

Gerald J. McKenna

George H. Newman

Bonnie M. Norton

Austin M. Pattner

John W. Petrozzi

Alan F. Pritchard

Gerald Sufrin

Stephen A. Wilson

Frank G. Yanowitz

$1-$99

Michael S. Kreitzer

1967

TOTAL GIVING $120,702

Percentage of Giving 41%

$50,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous

$5,000-$9,999

Martin R. Post

$2,500-$4,999

Allan J. Press

$1,000-$2,499

Anonymous

Barrie Anderson

Alfred P. Coccaro

Jay Grossman

Hollis A. Thomas

$500-$999

Leslie M. Burger

Martin L. Cohen

Michael D. Horn

Daniel G. McDonald

John R. Moore

$100-$499

James A. Barnshaw

Joel A. Berman

Roger A. Breslow

Charles F. Converse

Bruce D. Edison

Stanley A. Filarski, Jr.

Warren C. Gewant

Mark A. Goodman

Ira D. Levine

Norman J. Marcus

Joseph C. Martino

Robert M. Quencer

Herbert S. Sherry

Charles T. Sitrin

Aaron N. Tessler

Jesse Williams

Elizabeth D. Woodard

$1-$99

Robert J. Wald

1968

TOTAL GIVING $243,950

Percentage of Giving 38%

$50,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous (2)

Michael H. Ratner

$25,000-$49,999

Betty E. Reiss

Jacob A. Reiss

$10,000-$24,999

Charles Salinger

$5,000-$9,999

Harvey K. Bucholtz

$2,500-$4,999

Michael B. Fisher

Elliott J. Friedel

$1,000-$2,499

Karl G. Baer

Bruce W. Berger

John J. DeTraglia

Cathey E. Falvo

Kenneth A. Falvo

Patrick Fantauzzi

David J. Greenfield

Kathryn D. Iorio

Stanley Rothschild

Raymond C. Traver, Jr.

$500-$999

Stephen P. Blau

John O. Olsen

$100-$499

Peter F. Coccia

Philip Kaplan

Marvin Kolotkin

William W. MacDonald

Betty Miller

Wayne A. Miller

Elliott Rosenworcel

Gary P. Schwartz

Arthur J. Segal

Eleanor Williams

$1-$99

Robert B. Halder

Class of 1961, 5th Reunion

Class of 1966, 5th Reunion

2020-2021 Report of Gifts

1969

TOTAL GIVING $39,275 Percentage of Giving 41%

$10,000-$24,999

Mark C. Rogers

$5,000-$9,999

Michael F. Noe

$1,000-$2,499

Joann T. Dale

Noah S. Finkel

Aart Geurtsen

Richard I. Markowitz

Lee F. Rancier

William H. Roberts

Jack E. Yoffa

$500-$999

Allan L. Bernstein

Zan I. Lewis

$100-$499

Nicholas Bambino

Joan E. Berson

Larry A. Danzig

Robert S. Davis

Ruth B. Deddish

Daniel J. Driscoll

James H. Fleisher

Warren L. Gilman

Joel Greenspan

Robert I. Klein

Martin D. Mayer

Michael Novogroder

Robert H. Osofsky

Ronald M. Rosengart

Gerard Selzer

Harvey A. Taylor

Judith S. Warren

Robert E. Woods

$1-$99

Robert V. Davidson

Ronald J. Saxon

1971

TOTAL GIVING $26,275

Percentage of Giving 34%

$5,000-$9,999

Robert B. Cady

Lawrence F. Geuss

William R. Greene

$1,000-$2,499

Rosemary Bellino-Hall

Richard A. Goldman

Charles L. Rouault

John J. Zone

$500-$999

Philip Altus

Robert J. Cirincione

Geoffrey M. Graeber

Bruce Hershfield

Steven R. Hofstetter

$100-$499

Tomas M. Heimann

1970

TOTAL GIVING $16,283 Percentage of Giving 32%

$5,000-$9,999

William A. Henion

$1,000-$2,499

Douglas E. Brown

Bernard J. Crain

Paul L. Kupferberg

Steven H. Lefkowitz

Alan L. Williams

$500-$999

Mary Ann Antonelli

Donald M. Haswell

Lawrence A. Virgilio

Howard D. Wulfson

$100-$499

Frederic S. Auerbach

Michael A. Bowser

Paul E. Buckthal

Michael V. Cummings

Alan David Drezner

Dennis A. Ehrich

Donald Hay

David J. Honold

Roy A. Kaplan

Benjamin F. Levy

John P. Marangola

William D. Singer

Barry Slater

Bruce P. Smith

Richard L. Sullivan

Mark L. Wolraich

$1-$99

Frida G. Parker

Michael Hertzberg

Eugene M. Kenigsberg

Jeffrey A. Klein

Gary J. Levy

Robert T. Liscio

Charles J. Matuszak

Lester D. Miller

David A. Ostfeld

Daniel Rutrick

Paul I. Schneiderman

Lee P. Van Voris

Ernest B. Visconti

Edward J. Zajkowski

$1-$99

Jay B. Brodsky

Ira D. Lipton

1972

TOTAL GIVING $26,025 Percentage of Giving 39%

$5,000-$9,999

Jonas T. Johnson

David N. Osser

$1,000-$2,499

Joseph A. Caruana

Hugh D. Curtin

Bruce E. Fredrickson

Leo T. Furcht

Alphonse A. Maffeo

William J. Malone

Mark S. Persky

John L. Sullivan

Paul F. Torrisi

$500-$999

Dennis L. Allen

Carol L. Bender

Janet E. Graeber

Leo R. Hanrahan, Jr.

Stephen C. Robinson

Edward G. Stokes

Michael A. Weiner

$100-$499

Eugene S. Arum

Joann C. Blessing-Moore

Ronald S. Bogdasarian

Richard M. Byrne

Joseph P. DeVeaughGeiss

Richard B. Gould

William R. Platzer

Stephen A. Silbiger

David B. Tyler

Dwight A. Webster

Michael L. Weitzman

Eva Z. Wiesner

Stephen J. Winters

$1-$99

Sanford P. Temes

1973

TOTAL GIVING $14,890 Percentage of Giving 30%

$1,000-$2,499

Beverly Khnie Philip

Melvyn C. Minot

Douglas G. Mufuka

James H. Philip

Lewis Robinson

William P. Shuman

$500-$999

Neil M. Ellison

Timothy Fenlon

John D. Nicholson

Leonard J. Parker

Marc J. Schweiger

Allan Shook

$100-$499

David M. Davis

Harold P. Dunn

Leonard J. Dunn

Michael Galitzer

Benjamin R. Gelber

Joel Kalman

Thomas L. Kennedy

Athanasios Mallios

Lee Rosenbaum

Harold A. Sanders

Steven A. Schenker

Warren Steinberg

Paul L. Sutton

Gregory A. Threatte

Daniel R. Van Engel

Ralph J. Wynn

$1-$99

Richard F. Adams

Lars C. Larsen

1974

TOTAL GIVING $10,386 Percentage of Giving 34%

$1,000-$2,499

David H. Adamkin

Philip M. Guiliano

Stephen P. Heyse

$500-$999

Anonymous (2)

Jack A. Aaron

James H. Brodsky

Philip L. Florio

Howard E. Miller

Maria M. Shevchuk Chaban

$100-$499

Jeffrey A. Abend

Joseph A. Blady

Stephen Cooper

Robert A. Edelman

Aaron L. Friedman

Terry A. Gillian

Leon I. Gilner

J. Peter Gregoire

Charles W. Hewson

John M. Horan

Michael A. Jones

Lia E. Katz

Gary M. Kohn

Niki Kosmetatos

Joseph P. LiPuma

James T. Marron

Dennis R. Novak

Teresa J. Pagano-Parke

Robert G. Parke

Jay M. Ritt

JoAnn M. Smith

R. Brickley Sweet

Stuart O. Tafeen

Albert I. Tydings

Mark C. Webster

$1-$99

Rosalind M. Caroff

1975

TOTAL GIVING $29,193

Percentage of Giving 26%

$10,000-$24,999

David A. Lynch

B. Dale Magee

$1,000-$2,499

Robert M. Green

Charles I. Hecht

Mark H. Katz

Joseph D. Verdirame

$500-$999

Edmund D'Orazio

Donald Fagelman

Phillip Gioia

Class of 1971, 15th Reunion

Class of 1976, Commencement

$100-$499

Thomas J. Baesl

Louis Bland

Jeffrey J. Boxer

James A. Dispenza

Jay A. Erlebacher

John D. Fey

Judy S. Fuschino

Robert M. Goldberg

Ken Grauer

Paul M. Grossberg

Joseph W. Helak

Richard F. Kasulke

Louis Korman

Jonathan Lowell

Alan N. Meisel

Samuel N. Pearl

Gretchen H. Rooker

Stuart J. Sorkin

Kenneth I. Steinberg

James A. Terzian

1976

TOTAL GIVING $13,041 Percentage of Giving 24%

$2,500-$4,999

Janice M. Nelson

$1,000-$2,499

Patrick J. Hayes

Marc Levenson

Michael H. Mason

Patrick J. Riccardi

William N. Schreiber

$500-$999

Barry C. Altura

Richard M. Cantor

Gerard A. Coluccelli

Susan J. Denman

Steven Rothfarb

Eve Shapiro

$100-$499

Gerald A. Cohen

James F. Cornell

Dennis L. Feinberg

Michael A. Finer

Thomas W. Furth

Irving Huber

Frank J. Kroboth

Leonard H. Madoff

Julia A. McMillan

Thomas J. Rakowski

Howard Sackel

Margaret A. Sennett

Maurice J. Whalen

$1-$99

Mary Daye

1977

TOTAL GIVING $56,580

Percentage of Giving 29%

$50,000 AND ABOVE

Peter D. Swift

2020-2021 Report of Gifts

$1,000-$2,499

Charles C. Gibbs

Neil E. Strickman

$500-$999

William R. Latreille

$100-$499

Richard J. Baron

Peter Birk

Jody S. Bleier

Johana Kashiwa Brakeley

Stephen C. Brigham

Arunas A. Budnikas

John Canale

Theodore D. Close

Larry Consenstein

John J. Cucinotta

Charles B. Eaton

Robert H. Fabrey, II

Henry S. Friedman

Peter J. Gencarelli

Philip D. Gottlieb

Gerard R. Hough

Lester Kritzer

Debra Kuracina

Thomas J. LaClair

Drake M. Lamen

Celeste M. Madden

Lucia Pastore

Anthony Scardella

Carolyn A. Smith

Jud A. Staller

Donald S. Stevens

$1-$99

James A. Schneid

1978

TOTAL GIVING $26,618 Percentage of Giving 26%

$10,000-$24,999

Bruce M. Leslie

$2,500-$4,999

Maureen E. McCanty

$1,000-$2,499

Frederick Arredondo

Edward F. Higgins, Jr.

Jean-Bernard Poulard

Stephen E. Presser

Gary M. Yarkony

$500-$999

Stephen W. Blatchly

Stephen L. Cash

Michael J. Moeller

William G. Reeves

$100-$499

Anonymous

Judy A. Beeler

Mark A. Belsky

Patrick S. Collins

Mary Catherine DeRosa

Robert Fulop

Marie A. Ganott

Gerald N. Goldberg

Class Scholarships and Awards

1955 Class Scholarship

John E. Bloom, MD ’55

1966 Class Scholarship

Peter D. Ambrose, MD ’66

Charles E. Cladel, MD ’66

Norman Dishotsky, MD ’66

Norman L. Fienman, MD ’66

Neal M. Friedberg, MD ’66

Michael S. Kreitzer, MD ’66

Marilyn Lefkowitz

Laurence B. Levenberg, MD ’66

Michael S. Levine, MD ’66

Robert A. Levine, MD ’66

Gerald J. McKenna, MD ’66

George H. Newman, MD ’66

Bonnie M. Norton, MD ’66

Austin M. Pattner, MD ’66

Louis A. Rosati, MD ’66

Ellen K. Schlossberg

Gerald Sufrin, MD ’66

Stephen A. Wilson, MD ’66

Frank G. Yanowitz, MD ’66

1968 Class Gift

Bruce W. Berger, MD ’68

Harvey K. Bucholtz, MD ’68

John J. DeTraglia, MD ’68

Cathey E. Falvo, MD ’68

Kenneth A. Falvo, MD ’68

Elliott J. Friedel, MD ’68

David J. Greenfield, MD ’68

Betty E. Reiss, MD ’68

Jacob A. Reiss, MD ’68

Eleanor Williams, MD ’68

Jesse Williams, MD ’67

1971 Class Scholarship

Philip Altus, MD ’71

Rosemary Bellino-Hall, MD ’71

Robert B. Cady, MD ’71

Lawrence F. Geuss, MD ’71

Richard A. Goldman, MD ’71

William R. Greene, MD ’71

Bruce Hershfield, MD ’71

Steven R. Hofstetter, MD ’71

Eugene M. Kenigsberg, MD ’71

Edward J. Zajkowski, MD ’71

John J. Zone, MD ’71

1977 Class Scholarship

Robert H. Fabrey, II, MD ’77

Charles C. Gibbs, MD ’77

1979 Class Scholarship

Sharon L. Abrams, MD ’79

Robert J. Balcom, MD ’79

Robert M. Constantine, MD ’79

James P. Corsones, MD ’79

Joan S. Dengrove, MD ’79

David H. Dube, MD ’79

Mark S. Erlebacher, MD ’79

Mary E. Fallat, MD ’79

Ann Kasten Aker, MD ’79

Joseph C. Konen, MD ’79

John B. McCabe, MD ’79

Teresa R. Miller, MD ’79

Mark L. Moster, MD ’79

Marlene R. Moster, MD ’79

Richard A. Muller, MD ’79

Elizabeth A. Rocco, MD ’79

Lawrence Semel, MD ’79

Neal M. Shindel, MD ’80

Marc A. Subik, MD ’79

Susan L. Williams, MD ’79

The Friendship Scholarship in honor of Ernest Found, MD ’80, in memory of his wife, Ellyn and his daughter, Caroline

Madeline Barott, MD ’80

Marty Michaels, MD Class of 1981 Memorial Scholarship

William P. Hannan, MD ’81

Rick Zogby, MD Class of 1984 Memorial Scholarship

Amy L. Ladd, MD ’84

John M. Marzo, MD ’84

Brian P. Sorrentino, MD Class of 1985 Memorial Scholarship

Debra J. Clark, MD ’85

Gerard A. Compito, MD ’85

Mary C. DeGuardi, MD ’85

Anthony J. diGiovanna, MD ’85

Stephen G. Federowicz, MD ’85

Mitchell R. Lebowitz, MD ’85

Boaz A. Markewitz, MD ’85

Maureen T. Murphy, MD ’85

Michael Oberding, MD ’85

Michael A. Riccione, MD ’85

Michael D. Rutkowski, MD ’85

David Salm, MD ’85

Gary G. Sauer, MD ’85

Suzanne B. Sorrentino

Daniel S. Tylee, MD ’19

Adam Oberlander, MD

Class of 2005 Memorial Scholarship

Jason Provus, MD

Diane F. Green-El*

Ronald D. Klizek

Michael Lustick

Leon I. Rosenberg

Neal Rzepkowski

Russell Silverman

Catherine Stika

John N. Talev

Irene O. Werner

$1-$99

A. James Ciaccio

Ronald W. Pies

Richard J. Steinmann

1979

TOTAL GIVING $53,579

Percentage of Giving 32%

$25,000-$49,999

Marc A. Subik

$10,000-$24,999

David B. Duggan

$2,500-$4,999

Joseph C. Konen

$1,000-$2,499

Joseph G. Battaglia

Cynthia A. BattagliaFiddler

Ann Kasten Aker

Teresa R. Miller

Mark L. Moster

Marlene R. Moster

Nancy J. Tarbell

James A. Trippi

Susan L. Williams

$500-$999

Jeffrey K. Cohen

Robert M. Constantine

Richard A. Muller

Lawrence Semel

2020-2021 Report of Gifts

K. Bruce Simmons

Gregory White

$100-$499

Sharon L. Abrams

Henry M. Adam

Robert J. Balcom

Joan Carroll

James P. Corsones

Joan S. Dengrove

David H. Dube

Mark S. Erlebacher

Mary E. Fallat

Richard M. Goldberg

Douglas K. Hyde

Barry F. Kanzer

John B. McCabe

Elizabeth A. Rocco

Andrew D. Rosenberg

Howard M. Simon

1980

TOTAL GIVING $17,200 Percentage of Giving 34%

$1,000-$2,499

Mark D. Brownell

David A. Goodkin

Andrew W. Gurman

Peter C. Johnson

Reginald Q. Knight

Nicholas J. Stamato

Bradley A. Woodruff

$500-$999

Madeline Barott

Robert D. Bona

Michele A. Cook

John F. Fatti

Allan E. Hallquist

Lowell L. Hart

Gregory G. Kenien

Michael D. Privitera

John Shavers

Stephen M. Silver

John H. Soffietti

William L. Sternheim

Jean M. Weigert

$100-$499

Marc H. Appel

Mary Blome

Peter T. Brennan

Timothy E. Dudley

Gary C. Enders

Edward C. Gross

Bonnie D. Grossman

Nancy S. Knudsen

Marilyn Krch

Robert L. Levine

Robert Mitchell

John E. Ritchie

Maris Rosenberg

Neal M. Shindel

Peter J. Stahl

Robert M. Vandemark

Alexander E. Weingarten

Dale R. Wheeler

Nora W. Wu

$1-$99

Paul Menge

1981

TOTAL GIVING $29,544

Percentage of Giving 28%

$10,000-$24,999

Ralph L. Stevens

$1,000-$2,499

William W. Faloon, Jr.

Arnold Goldman

David G. Greenhalgh

Paul L. Kuflik

Gerard R. Martin

$500-$999

Paul L. Asdourian

Sharon A. Brangman

Steven M. Connolly

William P. Hannan

Martin P. Jacobs

Lori Jalens Sternheim

Robert G. Shellman

Stuart W. Zarich

$100-$499

Wendy L. Balopole

Jody S. Blanco

Michael J. Boquard

Ronald C. Brodsky

Margot L. Fass

Steven P. Galasky

Michael R. Gilels

David C. Goodman

David B. Grossberg

Michael R. Harrison

Ellen M. Kaczmarek

David E. Kolva

Gerald A. Lauria

James A. Longo

Louis M. Papandrea

Stephen A. Spaulding

Kathleen Stoeckel

Scott A. Syverud

Anthony J. Viglietta

$1-$99

Glen D. Chapman

Gary M. Russotti

William D. Ryan, Jr.

Cary W. Schneebaum

Jonathan R. Sporn

1982

TOTAL GIVING $24,092 Percentage of Giving 29%

$5,000-$9,999

Anne H. Rowley

Stephen M. Rowley

$2,500-$4,999

James J. Cummings

Charles J. Ryan, III

$1,000-$2,499

Robert A. Dracker

Harold Richter

Sophia Socaris

$500-$999

Thomas A. Bersani

Joseph J. Fata

Valerie J. Fein-Zachary

Gregg F. Gerety

Brett P. Godbout

Alan J. Goodman

Gary B. Kaplan

Ann M. Lenane

Charles W. Mackett

John C. Morris

Norman R. Neslin

William S. Sykora

William S. Varade

Theodore M. Vermont

$100-$499

Bruce K. Barach

Frederick J. Bunke

Alan Buschman

Joseph Cambareri

Robert C. Cupelo

Harold Frucht

Barbara Jones Connor

Steven Kelly-Reif

Bonnie S. Koreff-Wolf

Scott Kortvelesy

Robert McCann

Eileen M. Murphy

Dennis S. Poe

Robert B. Poster

Frank Rhode

Mark A. Rothschild

Nicholas G. Tullo

Pamela D. Unger

Amy J. Yale-Loehr

Steven Yarinsky

$1-$99

Joseph A. Smith

Jeffrey D. Spiro

John S. Tsakonas

1983

TOTAL GIVING $14,952 Percentage of Giving 26%

$1,000-$2,499

Larry N. Bernstein

George N. Coritsidis

Kevin M. Coughlin

Dennis D. Daly

Karen K. Heitzman

Joseph H. Keogh

$500-$999

Christopher A. Clyne

Debra I. Poletto

Paul P. Romanello

Gary D. Usher

Cynthia S. Wong

Charles I. Woods

$100-$499

Anonymous

Michael L. Black

Debra A. Brown-Norko

Cheryl A. DeSimone

Ronald R. Domescek

Wanda P. Fremont

Norman R. Friedman

Seth S. Greenky

Jules Greif

Ellen B. Kaplan

Lya M. Karm

Terry H. Lapsker

Joseph P. Laukaitis

Robert Lowinger

Michael A. Norko

Class of 1981, 25th Reunion

2020-2021 Report of Gifts

Robert J. Ostrander

Scott A. Ross

Richard F. Russell

Susan E. Schraft

Charles A. Seager

Douglas L. Seidner

Joan L. Thomas

Elizabeth A. Valentine

Darryl A. Zuckerman

$1-$99

Marcy E. Mostel

Andrea R. Stewart

1984

TOTAL GIVING $27,443

Percentage of Giving 32%

$10,000-$24,999

Lori J. Mosca

$1,000-$2,499

David J. Anderson

Linda Burrell

Emanuel Cirenza

Joseph P. Dervay

Frederick D. Grant

William M. Hartrich

Amy L. Ladd

John M. Marzo

Donald Patten

Pamela J. Reinhardt

Steven M. Shapiro

$500-$999

Patrick F. Ruggiero

Dorothy F. Scarpinato

Elizabeth Yerazunis Palis

$100-$499

John S. Andrake

Harold M. Augenstein

Sam T. Auringer

Eva F. Briggs

William P. Bundschuh

Hal E. Cohen

Richard D. Cornwell

Bradley M. Denker

Michael A. DeVito

Anthony N. Donatelli

George T. Fantry

Barbara L. Feuerstein

David P. Haswell

Cynthia E. Johnson

Holly Kent

Michael Komar

Richard Lichenstein

Hindi T. Mermelstein

Erik A. Niedritis

Kevin O'Connor

Carlene E. Quashie

Vicki C. Ratner

David C. Richard

Hal Rothbaum

Richard D. Scheyer

Gordon W. Single

Steven R. Urbanski

Ira M. Weinstein

Daniel C. Wnorowski

Brian D. Woolford

Robert A. Zamelis

1985

TOTAL GIVING $20,601

Percentage of Giving 30%

$10,000-$24,999

Ralph S. Mosca

$2,500-$4,999

Peter J. Christiano

$1,000-$2,499

William Canovatchel

Stephen F. Coccaro

Boaz A. Markewitz

Timothy McCanty

Maureen T. Murphy

Michael Oberding

Michael A. Riccione

Gary G. Sauer

Neal Zung

$500-$999

Andrew M. Becker

Coleen K. Cunningham

Jill C. Hertzendorf

Joseph A. Pinkes

Michael P. Pizzuto

Jonathan P. Yunis

Robert M. Zielinski

Mitchell Zipkin

$100-$499

Robyn Agri

Joseph P. Augustine

Debra J. Clark

Gerard A. Compito

Mary C. DeGuardi

Anthony J. diGiovanna

Lori E. Fantry

Stephen G. Federowicz

Mark A. Fogel

Robert V. Hingre

Thomas Kantor

Michael W. Kelberman

Daniel R. Kelly

Mitchell R. Lebowitz

Drew Malloy

Frank M. O'Connell

Anthony Petracca, Jr.

Maura J. Rossman

Michael D. Rutkowski

David Salm

Alan M. Schuller

Simon D. Spivack

$1-$99

Michelle M. Davitt

Donna F. Desmone

1986

TOTAL GIVING $15,196

Percentage of Giving 21%

$2,500-$4,999

Colleen M. Dargie

$1,000-$2,499

Gabriel M. Cohn

Daniel W. Esper

Thomas J. Madejski

Henry P. Nagelberg

Michael E. Rettig

Elizabeth Blackwell 200th Anniversary Campaign

Jack A. Aaron, MD ’74

Gina Abbruzzi Martin, MD ’98

Dennis L. Allen, MD ’72

Mary G. Ampola, MD ’60

Eric R. Aronowitz, MD ’94

Karl G. Baer, MD ’68

Carol L. Bender, MD ’72

Thomas A. Bersani, MD ’82

Ronald S. Bogdasarian, MD ’72

Malcolm D. Brand, MD ’94

Erick C. Bulawa, MD ’88

Jayne Charlamb, MD

Larry S. Charlamb, MD ’88

Joseph Y. Choi, MD ’03

Lynn M. Cleary, MD

Hugh D. Curtin, MD ’72

Frederick R. Davey, MD ’64

Stephanie S. DeBuck, MD ’93

Richard W. Doust

Robert A. Dracker, MD ’82

David B. Duggan, MD ’79

William W. Faloon, Jr., MD ’81

Jeffrey Gelfand, MD ’92

Dan Gerstenblitt, MD ’87

Aart Geurtsen, MD ’69

Charles C. Gibbs, MD ’77

Ronald S. Gilberg, MD ’87

David G. Greenhalgh, MD ’81

William P. Hannan, MD ’81

Peter Hasby, MD ’87

Erin K. Hill, MD ’06

Robert H. Hill, III, MD ’06

Robert G. Hogan, MD ’94

Michael D. Horn, MD ’67

John J. Imbesi, MD ’99

Danielle A. Katz, MD ’97

Reginald Q. Knight, MD ’80

Bruce M. Leslie, MD ’78

Theresa Lipsky, MD ’92

C. David Markle, MD ’64

Richard I. Markowitz, MD ’69

Angeline R. Mastri, MD ’59

Daniel G. McDonald, MD ’67

Matthew C. Miller, MD ’03

John R. Moore, MD ’67

Jeanine M. Morelli, MD ’87

Peter J. Morelli, MD ’87

Christina Morganti, MD ’92

Barbara Anne Morisseau, MD ’98

Lori J. Mosca, MD ’84

Ralph S. Mosca, MD ’85

Sarmistha B. Mukherjee, MD ’02

Deepak G. Nair, MD ’98

Christopher Nardone, MD ’91

Jaime H. Nieto, MD ’96

Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65

Meghan E. Ogden, MD ’01

John O. Olsen, MD ’68

Robert J. Ostrander, MD ’83

Lucia Pastore, MD ’77

Donald Patten, MD ’84

Robert Penner, MD ’56

Peter A. Pinto, MD ’95

Debra I. Poletto, MD ’83

Jean-Bernard Poulard, MD ’78

Stephen E. Presser, MD ’78

Elizabeth A. Prezio, MD ’86

Michael D. Privitera, MD ’80

Michael H. Ratner, MD ’68

Michael E. Rettig, MD ’86

Lewis Robinson, MD ’73

Paul P. Romanello, MD ’83

Charles L. Rouault, MD ’71

Susan A. Scavo, MD ’95

William P. Shuman, MD ’73

Stephen M. Silver, MD ’80

Mallory Stephens, MD ’54

Keith Stube, MD ’88

Elizabeth Tanzi, MD ’96

Nancy J. Tarbell, MD ’79

Josef J. Vanek, MD ’89

Howard L. Weinberger, MD ’58

Irene O. Werner, MD ’78

Christa L. Whitney-Miller, MD ’02

Alan L. Williams, MD ’70

Charles I. Woods, MD ’83

Elizabeth Yerazunis Palis, MD ’84

Rachel Zehr, MD ’12

Maria J. Ziemba, MD ’93

Stanley Zinberg, MD ’59

Class of 1986, 20th Reunion

Sarah Loguen Fraser, MD Class of 1876 Alumni Scholarship

Roline L. Adolphine, MD ’02

Norton B. Berg, PhD

Richard J. Blair, MD

Louis Bland, MD ’75

Sharon A. Brangman, MD ’81

Madison C. Cuffy, MD ’02

Yvonne Cuffy, MD ’07

Terry A. Gillian, MD ’74

Roberto E. Izquierdo, MD ’87

Susan H. Keeter

Reginald Q. Knight, MD ’80

Vanessa E. Lowe, MD ’02

James L. Megna, MD ’88

Lisa Minsky-Primus, MD ’00

Donna B. Moore, MD ’93

Lewis Robinson, MD ’73

K. Bruce Simmons, MD ’79

Susan B. Stearns, PhD

Gregory A. Threatte, MD ’73

Wasnard Victor, MD ’15

Anson K. Wurapa, MD ’94

2020-2021 Report of Gifts

1988

TOTAL GIVING $10,650 Percentage of Giving 17%

$1,000-$2,499

Larry S. Charlamb

Alice S.Y. Lee

Kevin R. Math

Keith Stube

$500-$999

Louis Bonavita, Jr.

Erick C. Bulawa

Timothy Scholes

Paul A. Zimmermann

$100-$499

David Anderson

Beth Burghardt

Johanna Daily

Andrew M. Goldschmidt

Eric M. Grabstein

David J. Hoffman

Teresa J. KarcnikMahoney

Leo Katz

Michael Lastihenos

Michael Mahelsky

James L. Megna

Dolores A. RhymerAnderson

Adam L. Seidner

Elizabeth H. Higgins

Thomas A. Holly

Beth L. Jonas

Eileen A. Keneck

Amy L. McGarrity Zotter

Roger E. Padilla

Michael J. Picciano

Mark A. Rubenstein

Marc S. Rudoltz

Ronald C. Samuels

Domenick P. Sciaruto

Laurie K. Seremetis

Elaine M. Silverman

William J. Smith

Nicholas C. Trasolini

1990

TOTAL GIVING $32,800 Percentage of Giving 18%

$25,000-$49,999

Jill Freedman

David R. Nelson

$1,000-$2,499

Robert L. Carhart, Jr.

Cynthia A. Gingalewski

Michael Moore

$500-$999

Ronald J. Costanzo

John H. Van Slyke

Stacia L. Van Slyke

Luci M. Yang

$1-$99

James M. Dennison

Thomas G. Lynch

Philip A. Remillard

1991

TOTAL GIVING $12,775 Percentage of Giving 18%

$1,000-$2,499

Bradley P. Fox

Patrick B. Gregory

Allison Hanley

Joseph Hinterberger

Christopher Nardone

Joan O'Shea

Anne M. Ranney

$500-$999

Louise G. Ligresti

Stuart Pergament

$100-$499

John C. Brancato

Matthew R. Brand

Cynthia Briglin-Mavady

Gwenneth O. Cancino

David Dombroski

1992

TOTAL GIVING $7,775 Percentage of Giving 18%

$1,000-$2,499

Douglas Bennett

Jane S. Bennett

Barbara L. Clayton-Lutz

Joseph W. Flanagan

Jeffrey Gelfand

Jongwon Lee

Christina Morganti

$500-$999

Andrew Cooperman

Joseph Damore, Jr.

Mary Elizabeth Damore

Stephanie SchwartzKravatz

$100-$499

Michael J. Baccoli

David Caucci

Lisa Cupit

Hilda Gartley

Alan Kravatz

Steven Kushner

Dwight Ligham

Theresa Lipsky

Dino A. Messina

$1-$99

$500-$999

Steven B. Goldblatt

Elizabeth A. Prezio

Robert L. Tiso

Barbara C. Tommasulo

$100-$499

Marc Behar

Shelley R. Berson

William Blau

Peter Capicotto

Arthur F. Coli

Donna D. Fasanello

Laurie Rosenberg Karpf

Bennett Leifer

Gerald V. McMahon

Niel F. Miele

Sarah B. Nemetz

David L. Rocker

Donna E. Roth

Ernest M. Scalzetti

Edwin J. Sebold

Scott Sheren

Brian K. Smith

Steven Tawil

Andrew Topf

$1-$99

James H. Hertzog

Richard A. Rubin

1987

TOTAL GIVING $15,425 Percentage of Giving 21%

$2,500-$4,999

Ronald S. Gilberg

$1,000-$2,499

John J. Callahan, Jr.

Samuel Chun

Kenneth J. Cohen

Paul B. Kreienberg

Michael A. Kwiat

$500-$999

Mark D'Esposito

Rebecca K. Potter

John J. Walker

Michael Weiner

$100-$499 Anonymous

Debra A. Buchan

Neil R. Connelly

Daniel DiChristina

Joseph F. Femia

Joseph T. Flynn

Barbara L. Gannon

Dan Gerstenblitt

Peter Hasby

Kristina S. Hingre

Roberto E. Izquierdo

Dennis Kelly

Paul N. Lutvak

Kirsten P. Magowan

Lisa A. Manz-Dulac

Jeanine M. Morelli

Peter J. Morelli

Elizabeth Rajamani

Anthony R. Russo

Edward J. Spangenthal

James Tyburski

Thomas Summers

$1-$99

Brian Schwartz

Holly Sikoryak

1989

TOTAL GIVING $11,725 Percentage of Giving 24%

$1,000-$2,499

Kim Kramer

John A. Larry

Dawn M. Sweeney

Josef J. Vanek

$500-$999

Jeffrey A. Abrams

Karen DeFazio

Linda J. Powell

Sybil Sandoval

George N. Verne

Stephen R. Weinman

$100-$499

Robert H. Ablove

Deborah B. Aquino

Victor M. Aquino

Richard J. Aubry

Jeffrey Belanoff

Emily S. Brooks

Brian S. Brundage

Daniel I. Choo

Carolyn Coveney

Angela V. D'Orsi

Trent Erney

Pamela L. Foresman

Cynthia Jones

Joseph Marsicano

Susan V. Rockwell

$100-$499

Lawrence S. Blaszkowsky

Christina M. Brown

Kerry E. Houston

Kelly R. Huiatt

Paul O. Ketro

Timothy M. Kitchen

Gail Petters

Clark Philogene

Pasquale Picco

Joanne Giambo Rosser

John Rosser

Lawrence S. Goldstein

Mary Ellen Greco Sullivan

Gordon D. Heller

Christopher P. Keuker

Thomas M. Larkin

Denise C. Monte

Valerie Newman

Rosalind S. Odin

David Rosen

Nancy L. Wang

Cheryl D. Wills

Deborah Bassett

Joseph P. Gale

Mirlande Jordan

Jo-Anne Passalacqua

1993

TOTAL GIVING $16,050 Percentage of Giving 21%

$5,000-$9,999

Stephanie S. DeBuck

$2,500-$4,999

James T. O'Connor

Kathleen Tierney

Members of the Class of 1991 at Commencement

$1,000-$2,499

Kenneth A. Egol

Charles J. Lutz

James Schwender

Robert E. Todd

$500-$999

Eileen Gallagher

Joan Mitchell

Lyle J. Prairie

Maria J. Ziemba

$100-$499

Philip Amatulle

Jarrod Bagatell

Jason Feinberg

Brian Gordon

Richard Goyer

Lynne A. Humphrey

Edward McGookin

Florence M. Parrella

Joanne C. Pohl

Yvette L. Rooks

John Sveen

Darvin J. Varon

Pamela Weaner

$1-$99

Janice A. Bedell

Ross D. Crary

Perry Fishkind

Lauren M. Maza

Donna B. Moore

Sean P. Roche

1994

TOTAL GIVING $11,165 Percentage of Giving 13%

$2,500-$4,999

Sharon A. McFayden-Eyo

$1,000-$2,499

Malcolm D. Brand

Philip A. Fraterrigo

Robert G. Hogan

Margaret A. Leary

Anson K. Wurapa

$500-$999

Eric R. Aronowitz

Willie Underwood, III

$100-$499

Lisa R. Berger

Timothy S. Boyd

Michael K. Ditkoff

William Jimenez

John D. Passalaris

James M. Perry

Michael S. Ramjattansingh

Anne R. Sveen

Edward H. Tom

Alan Wang

Russell Wenacur

$1-$99

Matthew P. Dever

Nienke Dosa

1995

TOTAL GIVING $6,900 Percentage of Giving 9%

$2,500-$4,999

Timothy S. Huang

$1,000-$2,499

Susan A. Scavo

$500-$999

Yves A. Gabriel

Peter A. Pinto

$100-$499

Karen M. Clary

Steven J. Colwell

Richard M. Ingram

Lucinda A. Keller

Kathleen M. Lawliss

Joseph D. Pianka

James M. Scaduto

Thomas L. Schwartz

$1-$99

Maureen R. Goldman

1996

TOTAL GIVING $6,675

Percentage of Giving 10%

$2,500-$4,999

Jaime H. Nieto

$1,000-$2,499

Barbara S. Edelheit

Stephen G. Maurer

Paul E. Perkowski

$500-$999

Alexander F. Frank

Alicia K. Guice

Elizabeth Tanzi

$100-$499

Andrew Blank

Gregory G. Carnevale

Wendy Locke Garrity

Amy C. Kasper

Valerie K. Merl

Philip T. Ondocin

Karen Saylor

1997

TOTAL GIVING $9,525

Percentage of Giving 15%

$2,500-$4,999

Sandra J. Giron-Jimenez

Joon-Hong Minn

$1,000-$2,499

Danielle A. Katz

$500-$999

Mutahar Ahmed

Christina T. Langdon

$100-$499

Melissa K. Brandes

William H. Gans

Darlene Henderson

Forbes

Anna K. Imperato

Gifts to the Parents and Family Association

Anonymous (2)

Fatima Aguirre

Ahmed Arafa and Nagwa Elsilimy

Richard J. Baron, MD ’77

Susan Baron

Luann and William Bartlow, MD

Mark and Ann Bieganowski

James Boler, MD

Patricia and Joseph Cambareri, MD ’82

Frank and Alina Catanzaro

Joshua and Rhonda Charlat

Raymond and Grace Chen

Joel and Deborah Chernov

Carolyn Coveney, MD ’89 and Robert Carey

Stephen Craxton

Yalew Damtie and Teigest Abay

Carol Deiulio

Mayurika and Samir D. Desai, MD

Teresa and Nick Despotidis, MD

Rosanne and Christopher Didio

Dorin and Maria Dogaroiu

Phyllis Ehrlich

Arnold and Michelle Etienne

Barbara L. Feuerstein, MD ’84

Lynn E. Fraterrigo Boler, MD ’01

Jean Marc and Sandra Gaspard

Andrew Glidden

Christopher and Teresa Greene

Joseph Guido and Lucy Corno

William and Judith Guilbo

Gregory and Priscilla Gumina

Abigail Hammond

Xiaolong Hao and Hui Fang

Kevin and Teresa Hart

Leesha A. Helm, MD ’16

Matthew F. Helm, MD ’16

David Heslin and Karen Crescenzo-Heslin

James and Stacy Hintze

Lynne A. Humphrey, MD ’93 and Dave Boshart

Teresa J. Karcnik-Mahoney, MD ’88 and Raymond Mahoney

Omar and Lauri Kayaleh

Kiril and Meri Kiprovski

Marc and Chris Kleinhenz

Sonia Kragh, MD

Padma Lal, MD

Diann and Michael Lastihenos, MD ’88

Hayden Letchworth

Peter and Michele Maier

Garfield and Jill Maitland

Ali and Lina Marhaba

Tessie McAlpine

Richard and Suzanne McGuirk

Charles Meaden and Elaine Immerman

Lori A. Murphy

Dr. Radha Murugesan

Sriram Narsipur, MD

Yotin Padungtin and Deborah Tooker

John and Donna Palmer

Sam and Linda Park

Ruth and Clark Philogene, MD ’90

Robert and Katherine Pollock

John and Marita Powell

Krishnakumar and Elizabeth Rajamani, MD ’87

George and Catherine Repicky

Larry and Tracy Sala

Martin and Jane Schulman

Tarun and Mahasweta Sen

Marc and Kelly Settineri

Mark and Kim Shepard

Howard M. Simon, MD ’79

George S. Starr, MD

David Stein and Danielle Laibowitz

Charles and Debra Sullivan

Mathew M. Thannickal and Jessy Mathew

Daniel and Gabriela Tirado

Cory and Randy Weiss

Chris and Mary Wentlent

Maria Wood

Zhandong Zhou and Yingxun Zhu

Members of the Class of 1996 at Commencement

2020-2021

Edward M. Liebers

Shani L. Lipset

Michael A. Marlowe

Colleen M. Quinn

Andrew B. Reese

Stacy J. Spiro

Jeannie Tam

$1-$99

Donald E. Hertweck

Genevieve A. Lama

Michelle E. Liebert

Krugman

James J. Lynch

Shinette Sirmans-McRae

1998

TOTAL GIVING $16,821

Percentage of Giving 20%

$2,500-$4,999

Kirk P. Rankine

$1,000-$2,499

Timothy K. Atkinson

Cinthia T. Bateman

Michael C. Bateman

David S. Edelheit

Jeffrey R. LaDuca

Deepak G. Nair

Tamara A. Prull

Lauren H. Turteltaub

$500-$999

Felice A. Caldarella

Matthew W. Doust

Uma Gavarasana

Matthew R. Kaufman

Karen Y. Ng

Andrew M. Schulman

Sean J. Sheehan

Eric M. Spitzer

Maria E. Wilson

$100-$499

Anonymous

Gina Abbruzzi Martin

Jennifer E. Allen

Drew M. Caplin

Eleas J. Chafouleas

David M. DeVellis

Alexander N. Greiner

Barbara Anne Morisseau

Sherri E. Putterman Caplin

Leanne M. Yanni

$1-$99

Michael D. George

Dario A. Lecusay, Jr.

Yuliya Rekhtman

1999

TOTAL GIVING $5,973

Percentage of Giving 12%

$1,000-$2,499

John J. Imbesi

Ganga R. Nair

$500-$999

Jerry Caporaso, Jr.

Kristi M. Egner

Vijay K. Kotha

$100-$499

Kenneth K. Cheng

Andrew D. Feingold

James J. Flynn

Navjit K. Goraya

Gina Gudofsky

Meghan E. Hayes

Kristine M. Keeney

Bogart

Tracy Lee

Kenneth Neufeld

Scott R. Oosterveen

Kyle T. Osborn

2001

TOTAL GIVING $4,678

Percentage of Giving 11%

$1,000-$2,499

Edward J. Wladis

Tamara G. Wrzesinski

$500-$999

Stephen W. Merriam

Meghan E. Ogden

Danielle L. Petersel

$100-$499

Cassandra A. Archer

Brett V. Citarella

Lynn E. Fraterrigo Boler

Christie Perez-Johnson

Amy L. Reynders

Arathi R. Setty

Jamie Shutter

Anthony J. Sousou

Lia M. Spina

Danit Talmi

Joshua S. Simon

John A. Ternay

2000

TOTAL GIVING $9,021 Percentage of Giving 14%

$1,000-$2,499

Bharat Guthikonda

Christina M. Liepke

Matthew J. Liepke

Lisa Minsky-Primus

Stephen G. Spitzer

$500-$999

Hana F. Jishi

Brian N. King

Timothy H. Lee

Rosalie Naglieri

Ashish P. Shah

Candice E. Shah

$100-$499

Aimee J. Baron

Brian M. Bizoza

Ron Elfenbein

Adam P. Ellis

Brian M. Grosberg

Sharon L. Hong

Penelope Hsu

Newrhee Kim

Frederick R. Lemley

Heather A. Wheat

$1-$99

Marne O'Shae

Elizabeth Vonfelten

$1-$99

Sanjay Jobanputra

2002

TOTAL GIVING $5,500 Percentage of Giving 10%

$1,000-$2,499

Rebecca L. Bagdonas

Stephen H. Wrzesinski

$500-$999

Sarmistha B. Mukherjee

Christa L. Whitney-Miller

$100-$499

Anonymous

Roline L. Adolphine

Joanne Cordaro

Madison C. Cuffy

Michael T. Gaslin

Erica M. Giblin

Mark E. Hamill

Jessica J. Lee

Vanessa E. Lowe

Joshua M. Schoen

Sohita Torgalkar

2003

TOTAL GIVING $3,650

Percentage of Giving 9%

$1,000-$2,499

Joseph Y. Choi

$500-$999

Matthew C. Miller

Anurag Shrivastava

$100-$499

Lawrence M. Cecchi

Bo Chao

Jay Chen

Nathaniel S. Gould

Kirsten H. Healy

Matthew J. Panzarella

Shannon E. Routhouska

Jessica F. Sherman

William M. Sherman

Erica D. Weinstein

$1-$99

David C. Portnoy

2004

TOTAL GIVING $5,750

Percentage of Giving 16%

$1,000-$2,499

Michael L. Lester

$500-$999

Jimmy Feng

Timothy J. Minton

Jung-Taek Yoon

$100-$499

Matthew J. Egan

Clifford J. Ehmke

Kimberly A. Giusto

Mrinal M. Gounder

Evan B. Grossman

Catherine I. Keating

Amit Kumar

William D. Losquadro

Fares G. Mouchantaf

Michelle A. Mouchantaf

Andrew J. Najovits

John P. O'Brien

Kevin R. O'Connor

Randy S. Parkhurst

Alexander Rabinovich

Jason P. Scimeme

Lauren B. Shinder

Roman Shinder

Mary C. Trusilo

Alexander Tsukerman

2005

TOTAL GIVING $3,844

Percentage of Giving 9%

$1,000-$2,499

Christine Chen

Joby George

$500-$999

Daniel R. Lefebvre

Isabelle Zamfirescu

$100-$499

Yauvana V. Gold

Matthew C. Martinez

Melissa L. Petras

David M. Zlotnick

$1-$99

Jennifer A. Adair

Marcy L. Canary

Dana R. Cohen

Michael de la Cruz

Erin R. DeRose

Rupesh R. Mehta

2006

TOTAL GIVING $1,900 Percentage of Giving 10%

$100-$499

Anna Y. Derman

Scott R. Ekroth

Katrine J. Enrile

Glenn E. Groat

Daniel D. Hayes

Lisa M. Hayes

Erin K. Hill

Robert H. Hill, III

Terrence M. Li

Markhabat O. Muminova

Duc T. Nguyen

Melissa A. Price

Brian F. Strickler

Anne Marie Tremaine

Larisa Vorobyeva

Abigail R. Watson

2007

TOTAL GIVING $4,135 Percentage of Giving 12%

$1,000-$2,499

Amit S. Dhamoon

$500-$999

Roan J. Glocker

Miranda Harris-Glocker

Jing Liang

$100-$499

Anonymous

Bryant Carruth

Brandon Chase

Yvonne Cuffy

Natalya Dubova

Vasiliki Harisis

Jeremy M. Liff

Alexandra McGann

Adams

Avreliya Shapiro

Marny Shoham

Lauren Slater

Edward Smitaman

Adam Stallmer

Kristin Yannetti

2008

TOTAL GIVING $2,108 Percentage of Giving 11%

$500-$999

Marissa Mincolla

Michael Mincolla

Mary Breda Morrissey

Members of the Class of 2001 at Commencement

$100-$499

Steven Altmayer

Paul Aridgides

Benjamin B. Bert

Lindy Davis

Mijung Lee

Matthew Mason

Pavlina NatchevaSmitaman

Marie-Eve Noel

Lisa O'Connor

Christopher Palmer

Anita Sargent

$1-$99

Tina Nguyen

Matthew D. Thornton

2009

TOTAL GIVING $4,250 Percentage of Giving 8%

$1,000-$2,499

Robert Day

Elizabeth LiCalzi

Mark B. Van Deusen

$500-$999

Andrea V. Shaw

$100-$499

Britton M. Chan

Kathryn G. Cheney

Chad Cornish

Dodji Modjinou

Jack P. Palmer, III

Jennifer Schwartz

Sachin Shah

2020-2021 Report of Gifts

Won-Hong Ung

Krystle Williams

2010

TOTAL GIVING $4,075 Percentage of Giving 7%

$1,000-$2,499

Michael G. Fitzgerald

$500-$999

Sari B. Eitches

Swati V. Murthy

Bridgit Nolan

Arun Ramachandran

$100-$499 Anonymous (2)

Christopher Morrison

Jin Qian

Beverly A. Schaefer

Jason A. Williams

$1-$99 Anonymous 2011

TOTAL GIVING $850 Percentage of Giving 4%

$100-$499

Daniel P. Anderson

Shaheena R. Patierno

Dana R. Sall

Carla R. Schwartz

Eva S. Smith

Yening Xia

2012

TOTAL GIVING $4,615 Percentage of Giving 5%

$2,500-$4,999

Rachel Zehr

$1,000-$2,499

Jennifer Caputo-Seidler

$100-$499

Sarah M. Cardillo

David Strosberg

Kerry E. Whiting

$1-$99

Anonymous Rebecca LaValley

2013

TOTAL GIVING $2,600 Percentage of Giving 3%

$1,000-$2,499

Catherine M. Dickinson

Jenny A. Meyer

Justin P. Meyer

$500-$999

Nikolai V. Kolotiniuk

$100-$499

Rhonda L. Philopena

2014

TOTAL GIVING $650 Percentage of Giving 3%

$100-$499

Anonymous

Anthony J. Chiaravalloti

Ryota Kashiwazaki

Lauren M. Titone

2015

TOTAL GIVING $800 Percentage of Giving 3%

$500-$999

Anonymous

$100-$499

Stephanie E. Adamchak Wasnard Victor

$1-$99

Anonymous

Lauren I. Keshishian

2016

TOTAL GIVING $500 Percentage of Giving 7%

$100-$499

William L. Ericksen

Leesha A. Helm

Matthew F. Helm

Avinash V. Ramprashad

$1-$99

Devin J. Burke

Jessica M. Christiano

Sarah G. Mahonski

Andrew J. Nastro

Michelle E. Wakeley

Arthur Zak

2017

TOTAL GIVING $655 Percentage of Giving 3%

$500-$999

Anonymous

$100-$499

Timothy M. Smilnak

$1-$99

Ramzi A. El-Hassan

Julia A. Reiser

2018

TOTAL GIVING $150 Percentage of Giving 2%

$100-$499

Zachary L. French

$1-$99

Kathleen A. Iles

Connor G. Policastro

2019

TOTAL GIVING $206 Percentage of Giving 3%

$100-$499

Karen I. Cyndari

$1-$99

Daniel F. Farrell

Alexander S. Fein

Amanda L. Gemmiti

Daniel S. Tylee

Friends

Anonymous

Jayne Charlamb, MD

Lynn M. Cleary, MD

Barbara and Philip Fraterrigo, MD

Yoshihiko and Sayumi Kashiwazaki

Frank Lancellotti, MD Minho Lee

Donald J. Palmadessa, MD

Lina P. Perry, MD

Matching Gift Companies

Bank of America

Cigna

Goldman, Sachs & Co Matching Gift Program

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

Members of the Class of 2006, White Coat Ceremony

Honor, Memorial Gifts

Memorial Gifts

In Memory of Richard H. Aubry, MD, MPH

Richard J. Aubry, MD ’89

Eileen A. Keneck, MD ’89

In Memory of Dr. Camillo A. Benzo

Ronald J. Costanzo, MD ’90

In Memory of Anne G. Bishop, MD ’82

Michael Komar, MD ’84

In Memory of Christina Merski Brooks, MD ’95

Kathleen M. Lawliss, MD ’95

In Memory of Robert L. Comis, MD ’72

Harold Frucht, MD ’82

In Memory of Stephen Edward Cummings, P’82

James J. Cummings, MD ’82

Debra Tristam, MD

In Memory of my Dad who sacrificed all to further my education

Christine Chen, MD ’05

In Memory of Devin

Alan Buschman, MD ’82

In Memory of Wells D’Orazio

Edmund D’Orazio, MD ’75

In Memory of Alfred W. Doust, MD ’35

Carey Doust Cimino

Liam Doust

Matthew W. Doust, MD ’98

Richard W. Doust

In Memory of David M. Essom, MD ’56

Alexander Kokini

Kathryn E. Kokini

Dr. Klod Kokini

In Memory of Lana Feingold

Andrew D. Feingold, MD ’99

In Memory of Frederic C. Fenig, MD ’69

Neva Fenig

In Memory of Paul M. Fine, MD ’58

Sally Fine

In Memory of Joseph C. Fischer, MD ’79

Mary G. Fischer and Ann-Marie Campbell

Eleanor Fischer Quigley

Bob Quigley

In Memory of Stuart H. Forster, MD ’80

Timothy E. Dudley, MD ’80

In Memory of Florence Grossberg

David B. Grossberg, MD ’81

In Memory of Dean David Goodman, also was my patient

Lowell L. Hart, MD ’80

In Memory of Jarl J. Hasby

Peter Hasby, MD ’87

In Memory of Geraldyne B. Hobika

The Abeyounis Family

Lisa Abeyounis

Bonnie Amato

Kim Bennett

Joy Blair and Karen L. Weickart

Kathleen H. Carley

Clotilde P B Dedecker

Geoffrey G. Hobika, MD

David A. Hohl

Robert and Lynn Klein

Thomas Lombardo, Jr.

Curtis Magnuszewski

Dori Marshall

Ljiljana Mijatovic

Carolynn Moy

Philip A. Pitera

Jolee Porter

Michael and Fay Pullyblank

Sean C. Smith

Richard Stanislawski

VA Anesthesia

Christopher and Amy Wells

Dale R. Wheeler, MD ’80

In Memory of Abraham and Bella Huber, Richard and Hermine Muellerleile

Irving Huber, MD ’76

In Memory of Ellen Cook Jacobsen, MD ’50

Harold Frucht, MD ’82

Michael Mahelsky, MD ’88

In Memory of Franklin Johnson, Jr., MD

Gabriel M. Cohn, MD ’86

In Memory of William J. Jones, MD ’47

Barbara Jones Connor, MD ’82

In Memory of Maerit B. Kallet, MD ’47

Gail Kallet Tasky

In Memory of James Frank Kazmierski, MD ’66

Marcia Kazmierski

In Memory of Stanley D. Leslie, MD ’51

Bank of America

Marc and Janet Crespi

Avery Leslie O’Neill and Hank O’Neill

Bruce M. Leslie, MD ’78

Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz

Priscilla R. Leslie

In Memory of Thomas J. Maher, MD ’83

Kevin M. Coughlin, MD ’83

In Memory of Patrick T. Mathews MD ’03

Marcia Mathews

In Memory of Bertram S. Mersereau, MD ’54

Ruth Hutter

In Memory of Dr. and Mrs. H. Ketcham Morrell ’54

Philip D. Gottlieb, MD ’77

In Memory of Arnold M. Moses, MD ’54

Karen Braun

Jon and Carol Brodsky

Carolyn L. Frymoyer, MD

Paul A. Frymoyer, MD

Dena Hirsch

Danna Levy

Elaine Rubenstein

In Memory of Adam Oberlander, MD ’05

Jason Provus, MD

In Memory of Alex Paley, MD ’19

Kathleen A. Iles, MD ’18

In Memory of Sari Portman

Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz

In Memory of Barbara Price

Melissa A. Price, MD ’06

In Memory of Ms. Jeannie Pulver, who will be missed by all

Hindi T. Mermelstein, MD ’84

In Memory of Tarakad S. Ramachandran, MD, MPH

Margaret and Raja Abdul-Khan, MD

Dr. and Mrs. Mark D. Adelson

Richard H. Bennett, MD ’62

Arthur H. Berg

Tej Bhatia and Shobha Bhatia

Tillie Borys

Michael A. Bowser, MD ’70

Chris, Elaine, Beth and Anne Bradshaw

Bridgewater Associates; David McCormick, Ray Dalio, Bob Prince, Greg Jensen

Jessica Coil

Timothy M. Creamer, MD

Mantosh J. Dewan, MD

June Dolan

Jonathan Ecker, MD

Peter and Rita Ennamorato

FamilyCare Medical Group, PC

Jessa Goss, Executive Director and the Board and Staff of Multiple Sclerosis Resources of CNY

Mary Ellen Greco Sullivan, MD ’91

Christopher Janik

Kristine M. Keeney Bogart, MD ’99

Lorraine Rapp and Jeffrey J. Kirshner, MD

Terrence M. Li, MD ’06

Janice G. Lombardi

James L. Megna, MD ’88

Robert R. Michiel, MD

Lawrence Moloff, MD

Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65

Martha M. Ours

David T. Page, MD

Ajay Pal and Mala Pal

Amit Pal

Joseph V. Peluso

Karen A. Pitoniak

Practice Resources, LLC

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel D. Rabuzzi

Antonio and Paula Riverso

David and Candance Schneckenburger

Perumunda K. Sharma, MD

Drs. Ranita Sharma and Ranga Krishna

Russell Silverman, MD ’78

Antoinette Smith

St. Josephs Imaging Associates

Sanford P. Temes, MD ’72

Upstate Medical University Foundation

Daulat and Jehangir Vania Kameshawar and Kashi Wali

In Memory of Ralph Reichert, MD ’60

Amy K. Reichert

In Memory of Robert F. Rohner, MD ’52, an ultimate human gift

Frederic S. Auerbach, MD ’70

In Memory of Robert F. Rohner, MD ’52, a most inspiring teacher

Simon D. Spivack, MD ’85

In Memory of Samuel G. Rosenthal, MD ’64

Marc S. Rudoltz ’89

In Memory of Irwin Schlossberg, MD ’66

Ellen K. Schlossberg

In Memory of Julius Schwartz, MD ’33

Naxion Research Consulting

Susan Schwartz McDonald, PhD

In Memory of Harold Smulyan, MD

Richard A. Rubin, MD ’86

In Memory of Brian Sorrentino, MD ’85

Suzanne B. Sorrentino

In Memory of George A. Soufleris, MD

Rita Soufleris

In Memory of my mother Nina Spadaro

Mary Ann Antonelli, MD ’70

In Memory of Dr. Oscar and Mrs. Luba Trief

Michael Gordon, PhD

Wendy Gordon, PhD

Paula Trief, PhD

In Memory of Clifford H. Turen, MD ’83

Kevin M. Coughlin, MD ’83

In Memory of Irwin M. Weiner, MD ’56

Burk Jubelt, MD

In Memory of Blanche Weiss

Claudia Leslie and Louis Lipschutz

In Memory of William J. Williams, MD

Harold Frucht, MD ’82

Paul A. Zimmermann, MD ’88

In Memory of Robert Zarich

Stuart W. Zarich, MD ’81

In Memory of Richard G. Zogby, MD ’84

Joseph P. Dervay, MD ’84

Honorary Gifts

In Honor of A. Geno Andreatta

Burk Jubelt, MD

Mark S. Persky, MD ’72

In Honor of N. Barry Berg, PhD

Burk Jubelt, MD

Danielle A. Katz, MD ’97

Sharon A. McFayden-Eyo, MD ’94

In Honor of the Sharon Brangman, MD ’81 Geriatric Award

Sharon A. Brangman, MD ’81

Charlies Lester

Bettina Smallman, MD

In Honor of the Class of 1960

Leonard Levy, MD ’60

In Honor of Richard Doust

Carey Doust Cimino

In Honor of the 50th Wedding Anniversary of Marla and Norman Fienman, MD ’66

Marilyn Lefkowitz

In Honor of the Welton M. Gersony Pediatric Lectureship

Gerard R. Martin, MD ’81

In Honor of healthcare workers caring for people with Covid-19

Mary G. Fischer and Ann-Marie Campbell

In Honor of Beatrice and Michael Horn, MD ’67

Michael D. Horn, MD ’67

In Honor of Claudia Leslie

Marc and Janet Crespi

In Honor of Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65

Robert N. Cooney, MD

Upstate Department of Surgery

Danielle A. Katz, MD ’97

Marcia Kazmierski

In Honor of One Love

Pavlina Natcheva-Smitaman, MD ’08

Edward Smitaman, MD ’07

In Honor of the R-Med Fund for Northern NY

Hugh S. Fulmer, MD ’51

In Honor of Manoj and Sarika Ramachandran and family

Jessica Coil

In Honor of Judah Roher, MD ’56

George S. Goldstein, MD ’58

In Honor of Susan B. Stearns, PhD, Scholarship for Community Engagement

Sarah C. Burns

Catherine I. Keating, MD ’04

Susan H. Keeter

Lisa M. Procanick

Jamie Shutter, MD ’01

Elinor Spring-Mills, PhD

Susan B. Stearns, PhD

In Honor of Paula Trief, PhD

Daniel Himmelsbach

In Honor of Howard L. Weinberger, MD ’58

Mark H. Katz, MD ’75

2021 Scholarship Recipients

Thanks to the generosity of alumni support, the Medical Alumni Foundation awarded more than $800,000 in student scholarships this year.

The A. Geno Andreatta Scholarship

Aleksandar Popovic

The Benjamin N., Mollie P., Gerson H. ’57 and Martin W. Aronovitz, MD ’65 Memorial Scholarship

Bethany R. Regan

The Nathan and Ada August Memorial Scholarship

Bethany R. Marbaker and Justin J. Patricia

The Stanley A. August, MD Memorial Scholarship

Alexsaundra T. Zywicki

The Zaven S. Ayanian, MD ’59 Family Scholarship

Dominic N. Facciponte

The John R., MD ’84 and Deborah L. Ayres Endowed Scholarship

Erik C. Baim

The Theresa Baltera Memorial Scholarship

Maria V. LaMontagne

The N. Barry Berg, PhD Scholarship for Musculoskeletal Medicine

Abigail Bideaux

The Martin Black Family Scholarship

Katherine Schumacher

The Elliot Brandwein, MD ’67 and Arlene Eckstein Brandwein, MD ’68 Scholarship

Katherine J. Forsythe, Mallory A. Rowley and Alexis G. Saunders

The Sharon A. Brangman, MD ’81 Geriatric Scholarship

Kelly Gao

The Bernard J. Burke, MD ’43 Memorial Scholarship

Anyeli P. Mueses

The Cady Family Scholarship

Gamael F. Saint Surin

The Leonard D. Carpenter, MD ’33 and Ruth E. Carpenter Memorial Scholarship

Julia K. Raleigh

The David L. Charney, MD ’68 Endowed Scholarship

Carlie Thompson

The Douglas (Ed Ben-Edison) Cox, MD ’63 Scholarship

Gloria Munayco Maldonado

The Edwin T. Dailey, MD ’68 Memorial Scholarship in Radiology

Alexis G. Saunders

The Dracker Family Scholarship

Marissa L. Rice and Jaimie L. Rogner

The Robert Eitches, MD ’78 Scholarship in Honor of Shirley and Irving Eitches

Kyle A. Powers

The Alfred F. and Shirley D. Enwright Endowed Scholarship (endowed by Michael O’Leary, MD ’78 and Colleen Enwright O’Leary, MD ’78)

Molly K. O’Brien

The Joseph C. Fischer, MD ’79 Memorial Scholarship

Garrett W. Esper

The Medical Alumni Foundation Founders Scholarship

Dominic N. Facciponte

The Sarah Loguen Fraser, MD Alumni Scholarship

Keren Valerus

The Friendship Scholarship in Honor of Ernest Found, MD ’80, in Memory of his wife, Ellyn Slocum Found, and his daughter, Caroline Slocum Found

Megan Lafferty

The Joseph J. Gadbaw, MD 12/’43 and Ann Gadbaw Scholarship

Anyeli P. Mueses

The Max Gara and Robert H. Gara, MD ’56 Scholarship

Almasa Talovic

The Suzan and Philip M. Gaynes, MD ’63 Scholarship

Bethany R. Regan

The Susan E. and Welton M. Gersony, MD ’58 Endowed Scholarship

Kelly Gao

The Samuel Gersten, MD’39 and Martha Gersten Endowed Scholarship

Erik C. Baim, Joon Yup Kim, James F. Lyon and Alexis G. Saunders

The Jerome C. Goldstein, MD ’63 and Rochelle Goldstein Scholarship

Melia B. Wakeman

The Douglas W. Halliday, MD ’79 Scholarship

Cailey M. Burrows

The Francis A. Harmatuk, MD ’41 Geriatric Scholarship

Kelly Gao

The Edward F. Higgins, MD ’78 Scholarship

Joseph Settineri

The Geraldyne and Grant Hobika, MD ’52 Memorial Scholarship

Alexandra H. Tatarian

The Robert V.P. Hutter, MD ’54 and Ruth L. Hutter Scholarship

Emma Oskar

The Kasten Aker Family Scholarship

Margaret M. Mandato

The E. Gregory Keating, PhD Memorial Scholarship

Evelisse K. Viamonte

The Martha S. Kincaid, MD ’73 Scholarship

Haley L. Burdge

The Sonya A. LaBella Memorial Scholarship

Mallory A. Rowley

The Stanley D. Leslie, MD ’51 Memorial Scholarship

Sara Rosenzweig

The Lynch Family Scholarship

Anyeli P. Mueses

The Alphonse A. Maffeo, MD ’72 Scholarship

Margarita Vazquez Almonte

The B. Dale Magee, MD ’75 Scholarship

Steven Crescenti and Bryan Mera Reyes

The Stephen Major, MD Psychiatry Award

Diane E. Mathews

The Helen and Albert F. Mangan, MD ’54 Endowed Scholarship

Kristina Bell

The Angeline R. Mastri, MD ’59 Scholarship

Zachary T. Farina

The Patrick T. Mathews, MD ’03 Memorial Scholarship

Marissa L. Rice

The McAnarney Family Endowed Scholarship in Pediatrics

Marissa L. Rice

The James L. McGraw, MD ’41 Scholarship

Olivia Chen

The Gustave P. Milkey, MD ’43 and Janet B. Milkey Merit Scholarship

Steven C. Stone

The James and Dolores Moffett Memorial Scholarship

Marissa L. Rice

The Peggy and Adolph Morlang, MD ’66 Scholarship

Apeksha Ashok Kumar and Omar Sey

The Joseph A. Morra, MD “Renaissance Man” Memorial Scholarship

Katherine Schumacher

The Rudolph J. Napodano, MD ’59 Scholarship

Gary Shmorgon

Nightingale Scholars

Kristina M. Dolan, Sarah C. Gibson and Benson W. Li

The Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65 Endowed Scholarship

Melia B. Wakeman

The Onondaga County Medical Society (OCMS) Medical Student Scholarship

Rachel Garn and Andrew Salmons

The Allan J. Press, MD ’67 Endowed Scholarship

Anyeli P. Mueses

The Betty Reiss, MD ’68 and Jacob Reiss, MD ’68 Family Endowed Scholarship

Haley L. Burdge

The Monroe Richman, MD ’55 and Esther Richman Scholarship

Taylor Pong

The Samuel Rosenthal, MD ’64 Scholarship

Gavin G. Ajami

The Rural Medicine Alumni Endowed Scholarship

Kyle A. Powers

The Sanders/Kilkelly Scholarship

Mallory A. Rowley

The Schein Family Scholarship

Apeksha Ashok Kumar

The Jack J. Schneider, MD ’66 Scholarship

Jaimie L. Rogner

The Julius Schwartz, MD ’33 Scholarship

Nicholas M. Angeloni

The Setnor Family Endowed Scholarship

Mikayla H. Delbridge-Perry

The Ara A. Sheperdigian, MD ’60 Memorial Scholarship

Myranda A. Steingraeber

The John B. and Henrietta E. Simeone Scholarship in Memory of Fiorindo A. Simeone, MD

Dominic N. Facciponte

The Frederick W. Sloan, MD ’74 Scholarship

Megan Lafferty

The Brian P. Sorrentino, MD ’85 Memorial Scholarship

Dominic N. Facciponte

The Susan B. Stearns, PhD Scholarship for Community Engagement

Tyler G. Fuller

The Ralph Stevens, MD ’81 Madison-Oneida County Scholarship

Adam J. Cole, Katie Farkouh, Holly Gamlen, Diane E. Mathews, Julia B. Norton, Sarah Papa, Julia K. Raleigh and Mallory A. Rowley

The Rosemary Stevens, MD Annual Scholarship (endowed by Thomas Stevens, MD ’65 in memory of his mother)

Christiana Agbo

The Student Citizen Award

Daniel J. DeNoble, Mackenzie Hintze, and Katherine Schumacher

The Marc A. Subik, MD ’79 Family Scholarship

Eunice E. Choe

The Swift Family Legacy Grants

Natalie Fordjour, Aminat Haruna, Michael Olu-Talabi, Moje Omoruan and Julian Sit

The Dr. Oscar and Mrs. Luba Trief Memorial Scholarship

Catherine B. Braun

The Barbara and Harold H. Wanamaker, MD ’56 Scholarship

Ahmed Y. Souid

The Andrew D. Weinberg, MD ’78 Memorial Geriatric Scholarship

Alexis G. Saunders

The Herbert M. Weinman, MD ’65 and Suzy Weinman Scholarship

Anyeli P. Mueses

The Williams Family Scholarship

Julia B. Norton

The Susan and Jack Yoffa, MD ’69 in Memory of Elaine Yoffa Hornung Scholarship

Catherine B. Braun

The Leanne and Frank E. Young, MD ’56 Scholarship

Siya Bhagat

The Rick Zogby, MD, Class of 1984 Memorial Scholarship

Katherine Schumacher

Class Scholarships

The Class of 1966 Scholarship

Jada S. McMahon

The Class of 1971 Scholarship

Apeksha Ashok Kumar

The Carol Kavanagh and Class of 1973 Scholarship

Aysha Malawaraarachchi

The Class of 1977 Scholarship

Haley L. Burdge

Alumni Scholars

Amylisa M. Phillips

Zachary T. Farina

Romario Gibson

Jason Grullon

Ryan J. Hart

Chelsie L. Jacques

Caroline Johnson

Kevin Leon

Michelle Melfi

Nicolette C. Nunez

John J. Paliakkara

Avery T. Pellnat

Tyler J. Pocchiari

Jaimie L. Rogner

Pending Scholarships

Peter J. Adasek, MD ’65 Scholarship

Class of 1955 Scholarship

Class of 1965 Memorial Scholarship

Class of 1979 Scholarship

Class of 1980 Scholarship

Alfred W. Doust, MD Endowed Scholarship in Otolaryngology

David M. Essom, MD ’56 Scholarship

The Garakani Family Scholarship

J. Bruce Gordon, MD ’63 in Honor of Professor William H. Bergstrom

Adam Oberlander, MD Class of 2005 Memorial Scholarship

Tarakad Ramachandran, MD Memorial Scholarship

Michael H. Ratner, MD ’68 Endowed Scholarship

Other Awards/ Grants

Class of 1968 Primary Care Endowment

The Jerry Hoffman Advocacy Award

Carlyle and Ellen Cook Jacobsen Memorial Fund

Fellowships

Susan and Gustave L. Davis, MD ’63 Summer Fellowship for Pathology

Ellen Cook Jacobsen, MD ’50 Fellowship in Psychiatry

Pediatric Residents Endowment for International Travel

Lectureships

The Welton M. Gersony Pediatric Lectureship

Robert V.P. Hutter, MD ’54 and Ruth L. Hutter Endowed Lectureship

The Donald and Mary Elizabeth King Endowed Lectureship

The Lawrence Pickett, MD Endowed Lectureship in Pediatric Surgery Professorships/ Chairs

Stanley A. August, MD ’69 Endowed Professorship in Pediatrics

Medical Alumni Endowed Professorship in Bioethics

The Patricia J. Numann, MD ’65, Chair of Surgery

Lloyd S. Rogers Endowed Professorship in Surgery

Leanne and Frank E. Young, MD ’56, PhD, Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science

STUDENT ROUNDS

Admission Granted

UPSTATE STUDENTS OFFER KEYS TO SUCCESS IN APPLYING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL THROUGH A NEW PODCAST.

Andrea Price ’24 and John Cote ’24 are talking about their paths to medical school. For Cote, it was volunteering at a local hospital during college that solidified this desire. “I fell in love with being able to help people and experiencing what it was like to be on a hospital floor,” he says. “If I had it to do over again, I would have started in high school.”

Price says she was drawn to medicine in high school after a close family member was diagnosed with a neuro-degenerative disorder. “I felt so helpless. I truly looked up to the doctors providing care and knew I wanted to enter the medical field,” she says.

The conversation between the two second-year Upstate medical students is not a private chat, but an episode of Admission Granted, a podcast sponsored by the Upstate Office of Admissions. Price and Cote are the hosts. “Our goal is to help applicants be successful in applying for graduate programs in healthcare and medicine by sharing what we’ve learned from our own experiences,” says Price.

The podcast was the brainchild of Krystal Ripa, PhD, director of special programs in Student Admissions at Upstate. “The information on medical school admissions can be difficult to distill for some students,” she says, not to mention online forums, such as Reddit, that provide cloudy messaging. “I saw a podcast as an opportunity to both extend our reach and to provide some clear advice for aspiring medical students about what’s next in their process from those who’ve been through it.”

In its inaugural year, Ripa reached out to Price to gauge her interest in participating in the podcast. Price had served as summer teaching assistant in Upstate Accelerated Scholars, Upstate’s BSMD program, which Ripa manages. Price

“The information on medical school admissions can be difficult to distill for some students. I saw a podcast as an opportunity to both extend our reach and to provide some clear advice for aspiring medical students about what’s next in their process from those who’ve been through it.”

—Krystal Ripa, PhD

immediately thought of Cote, with whom she’d had passionate conversations about the admissions process. As a bonus, Cote makes electronic music as a hobby and is proficient with recording equipment and software. The pair teamed up to co-host the project, which is marketed and distributed by Upstate.

For its inaugural season, Price and Cote identified what they call the “six keys” to unlocking successful medical school admission—things like volunteering, research, and preparing for the MCAT—and are devoting an episode to each. “The idea is that a student should be able to find an episode of the podcast that offers some tips to help them at any stage in the process,” says Cote.

While Ripa provides ideas for content, she largely gives her student co-hosts free reign. “I see the podcast as a space where our students can be candid and open,” she says. “I do listen to the episodes before we post them, but I try not to stifle the reality of their experiences.”

Part of that is her trust in Price and Cote, who she views as both positive and insightful role models for other aspiring medical students.

Coincidentally, both students attended Fayetteville-Manlius High School in suburban Syracuse. A strong science student, Price attended SUNY Binghamton and applied to the College of Medicine as a college freshman through Upstate’s Early Assurance Program. Her acceptance allowed her to forgo taking the MCAT, which is a major hurdle for many applicants.

A high school athlete, Cote says he was in and out of an orthopedist’s office for years with sports injuries. “At the time, I thought these season-ending injuries were the end of the world and I really appreciated how my doctor was able to reassure me,” he says. “I got to know him

and he kind of inspired me to want to do the same for others.”

Because Cote attended a smaller liberal arts institution—Wesleyan University—he says his college advisor offered limited guidance on preparing and applying to medical school. “I kind of had to figure it out on my own, so I feel like I learned a lot about what I needed to do to be successful just through trial and error,” he says.

“We’re offering advice on how to present themselves as well-rounded applicants,” adds Price.

While the initial focus is on the application process, Price and Cote would like to eventually branch out to cover topics such as the interview process, the first-year medical school experience, and studying for the Step exam.

Ripa says the podcast will continue beyond Price and Cote’s tenure at Upstate with future teams of medical students.

“We’ve been fortunate that John has the ability and equipment to tape and pro-

duce the episodes but plan to transition that to the HealthLink on Air facility,” she says. And ultimately, Ripa’s goal is to offer more interprofessional advisement to any aspiring health professional graduate student; upcoming episodes will feature students from Upstate’s own Physician Assistant and Physical Therapy programs.

As of October, the student co-hosts had taped and released four episodes, which are available both on the Upstate website https://www.upstate.edu/podcasts/admission-granted/ and through Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

“Getting the podcast onto larger platforms like Apple and Spotify is a big deal,” says Ripa. “This gives students around the world insights on applying so they won’t be intimidated and miss out on a rewarding career in health care or the health sciences.” Analytics show the podcast is gaining a momentum of listeners and followers, which the Admission Granted team hopes will only continue to grow.

Admission Granted co-hosts

Andrea Price ’24 and John Cote ’24 (right) discuss ideas for upcoming podcast episodes with Krystal Ripa (left), director of special programs in admissions.

She views the Podcast more as a public service than an Upstate recruitment effort. “We’re offering general admissions advice and we always advise students to apply broadly,” says Ripa. “Obviously we’re excited if listeners are considering Upstate but this is really intended to be information to help students be successful in applying anywhere.”

Each 20-minute episode takes approximately 10 to 12 hours to produce in multiple sessions, which includes both prep-time, the recording itself, and mix and mastering the audio, time that has to be carved out between the co-hosts’ classes, studying, research, and volunteer activities. Nonetheless, they’re happy to do it. “I know hearing something like this would have really helped me when I was going through the process,” says Cote. “Hopefully, our experiences can help others.”

CLASS NOTES

1945

Brinton T. Darlington, of Seattle, WA, is working on memoirs for his century birthday in January 2022. “I use a walker to get to regular activities, getting to the dining room and medical trips. My daughter Ann lives nearby and provides transport plus.”

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1953

Daniel J. Mason, of Coral Springs, FL, writes “Thirtyfive years in retirement from OB/GYN. Married 69 years to my Syracuse sweetheart, Lauris Lapidos. Our oldest son is a retired MD. We have three children, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild with another on the way. I’m a full-time south Floridian. Can you believe it?”

1956

Michael L. Del Monico, of Raleigh, NC, still misses New York State.

1957

September 16•17, 2022

1959

Richard J. Lubera, of Grosse Pointe, MI, was honored to be selected as a Top Doc by Hour Detroit magazine for 2021. He has an active practice and assists his patients during the Covid-19 crisis through working at the hospital and utilizing telemedicine at his office. He recently celebrated his birthday at the Detroit Athletic Club with his family and friends, overlooking the city on the rooftop of the club where the evening started with a toast.

1960

Leonard R. Friedman, of Middleton, MA, writes “I was not surprised to see references by Linkedin to 2020-2021 published articles by Samuel O. Thier on medical science research, Mary Giambattista Ampola in neurology, and Philip A. Wolf in work studied during the Framingham Studies. These graduates of the Class of 1960 have already received recognition by the school as

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Kirtland E. Hobler, of Milford, OH, and Joanna Carlson Hobler write “We remember the class of 1962 graduation just 59 fast years ago. We’re off on another Road Scholar trip in October.”

alumni standouts receiving the prestigious Distinguished Alumnus Award. I would note others who contributed to medicine: Julian M. Aroesty, in cardiac treatment through Harvard Medical School on the East Coast and is still writing fictional stories as a Cornell and Upstate graduate. Lewis Wexler in radiology through Stanford Medical on the West Coast, developed the original cardiac catheterization methodology. Both continue to work into their 80s. Now at the 50th anniversary of the Attica Prison Riots, John F. Edland * was the Monroe County New York medical examiner and diffused the myths surrounding the prison disturbance leading to the local paper winning a Pulitzer Prize. I am still amazed how a small school, Upstate, was able to place as one of the top 10 tested schools in the nation in the 1960s and whose alumni constantly contribute to the progress of our knowledge.”

*deceased

1963

Malcolm E. Levine, of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, and Margie are pleased to note that their two oldest granddaughters are engaged and will be married in June 2022 and October 2022.

1965

Philip S. Schein, of Stuart, FL, was recently elected to Mastership by the American College of Physicians, through a combination of achievements, including the practice of internal medicine, academic contributions, and service to the college. The qualities that the award committee considers are strength of

Richard J. Lubera ’59 with family and friends

Kirtland E. Hobler ’62 and Joanna Carlson Hobler

character, integrity, perseverance, leadership, compassion, devotion and clinical expertise and commitment to advancing the art and science of medicine.

Lawrence F. Simon, of Pomona, NY, continues working full time and is enjoying it.

1966

Norman L. Fienman, of Broomall, PA, writes, “When the vaccine was about to become available, I volunteered to help our county administer giving shots. They were thrilled I was a pediatrician with 50 years of experience of immunizing people. I did virtual orientation and then I received a phone call. ‘Sorry we can't use you because you are over 75 and our insurance will not cover you.’ Absurd age discrimination so they continued to use whomever they could get, even first year nursing students who had never given real shots. Fortunately, my hospital system and my grandchildren’s school districts were thrilled to have me volunteer. Now I am on the list for volunteers to immunize those under 12 as soon as the FDA and CDC give emergency authorization. I’m also keeping busy tutoring English and am a docent at the Brandywine River Museum. We were able to visit Charleston before Delta strain arrived and have been commuting between Broomall and our New Jersey shore house.”

1967

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Hal (Harold) C. Burchel, of Hillsborough, NC, retired in May 2017, having worked 50 years. He was board certified in primary care and later in emergency medicine. He enjoyed ER work tremendously, seeing each new patient who came through the doors as a mystery to solve. “I thoroughly enjoyed my 50th reunion in September 2017. Seeing many of my classmates made me realize how good God is,” he writes. “We’ve had full lives indeed. Ruthan and I spent nearly half of our medical careers in Africa. She was an RN and we always worked side by side. She went to heaven June 27. I miss her terribly; she was the love of my life. I am 81 and still in quite good health. Our mission work was all done in Africa and I have prayed with over 8,000 Africans to receive Jesus. I will be returning to Kenya in late December to resume my spiritual ministry. I will return to the States every few months for a rest and to see my primary care physician.”

Martin L. Cohen, ’67, of Morristown, NJ, worked part time for the summer. “We have a lot to thank Upstate for and are grateful for the friends we have from Syracuse. Looking forward to the next reunion, and hope to spend part or all of the winter in Florida,” he writes.

1968

Robert L. Bard, of New York, NY, presented 3D doppler image-guided cancer treatment at the NY Proton Center, the most advanced facility for cyclotron treatment in New York State.

Jacob A. Reiss and Betty E. Reiss, of Portland, OR, were on the Jersey Shore with Rissa and Michael Ratner getting too exposed to the sun at Harvey Bucholtz and Joan’s beach house in Bradley Beach, in July. “We had a great time!”

Betty E. Reiss ’68, Jacob A. Reiss ’68, Harvey K. Bucholtz ’68, Joan Bucholtz, and Rissa and Michael Ratner ’68

Hal C. Burchel ’67 and his wife Ruthan in 2018

Robert L. Bard ’68 at the NY Proton Center

CLASS NOTES

Walter

F. Erston, ’70 is living in retirement with his wife in Charlotte, NC, after spending his last radiology experience with a local group. His chief occupation now is yardwork and keeping the bird feeders full. “Best wishes to my fellow classmates,” he writes. “I haven’t been back to Syracuse in many years.”

1969

Gary S. Luckman, of Oakland Park, FL, continues to actively practice gastroenterology in Fort Lauderdale. He was one of the founders and first president of DigestiveCare, a 50 G.I./20 office practice in south Florida. The practice merged with GastroHealth, a practice with more than 300 gastroenterologists in six states. He has stepped away from the management team and enjoys his continued practice in G.I. and taking time to enjoy the rest of life with his wife, Cheryl, three adult children, and four grandchildren.

1970

Bernard J. Crain, of Hickory, NC, is very busy working on Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Back from the Brink grass roots movement. Learn more at psr.org, wncpsr.org, and preventnuclearwar.org.

1971

Lester D. Miller, of Aptos, CA, continues teaching rheumatology fellows at University of California, San Francisco. His daughter Alison is an executive at Instacart, and his son Aaron is co-director of the AsiaPacific Institute at UCLA. “My wife Martha and I look forward to resuming world travels soon.”

1972

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Carol L. Bender, of Williamsburg, VA, writes “I am one of six women in my class, and am proud to still be practicing.”

David B. Tyler, of Fayetteville, NY, retired in 2016 after practicing general surgery in Syracuse for 40 years. “I am still living in the Syracuse area with my wife Sherry of 56 years,” he writes.

1974

Philip M. Guiliano, of Chester, NJ, is enjoying the many gifts of retirement with his wife Tracy. “Having moved to North Jersey we are getting great workouts walking its many hills and most importantly we are enjoying grandparenting,” he writes.

1975

Sharon E. Mace, of Chesterland, OH, was awarded the Pamela P. Bensen Trailblazer Award, in recognition of her seminal contributions over time to the growth of the college and the specialty of emergency medicine, by the American College of the Emergency Physicians at their last annual meeting. Mace is a professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. She is a physician at the Cleveland Clinic in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and is currently the director of research. She has written more than 200 articles in the medical literature and is now writing/editing her third textbook in emergency medicine.

1977

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Mark W. Zilkoski, of Wolf Point, MT, recently had a visit from classmate Peter Birk and his wife Elaine.

“We enjoyed a few beers at our pub, Missouri Breaks Brewing, and they stayed in our Airbnb above the pub. They were on their way to Glacier Park. We had a wonderful visit after 40 years! I also just finished a grueling two-year course on how to teach mindfulness with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.”

1979

Stephen L. Ferrante, of Estero, FL, writes “After refractory atrial fibrillation stole 18 years from my imaging career, I am now well enough to get back in the game. On July 1, I entered the general radiology fellowship at the University of Miami and hope to re-enter practice when I finish in June 2022. I never dreamed I’d return to formal training at my age, but it tickles me to be simultaneously studying the same books as my son, who is in his second year of radiology residency in

Mark W. Zilkoski ’77 and Peter Birk ’77

Pittsburgh. I feel blessed to be given another chance to use my medical education, and I’m also thankful to have celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary with our five kids and granddaughter recently.”

Neil F. Shallish, of Trumansburg, NY, recently retired from Family Medicine Associates of Ithaca after 39 years of practice to be able to spend more time with his family and beautiful granddaughters.

1982

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Bruce K. Barach, has semi-retired and moved to Pawleys Island, SC. “I am doing some officebased plastic surgery in a dermatology practice here and enjoying the warm weather, beaches, and golf. My Medicare card arrived in September, it’s hard to believe where the time has gone,” he writes.

Monica M. Beckford, of Austin, TX, attended the University of Texas in an attempt to reset her career and received a Master of Education degree in 2002. She had a short story published in Writing Austin’s Loves, a collection of stories written by people in Austin, and has contributed to a

blog entitled, Communication and Intimacy. “My greatest skill is listening to people and giving them the gift of catharsis. I send to all of you love and wish that you are loving your chosen fields,” she writes.

Joseph A. Smith, of Hillsborough, NJ, sold his family practice in January 2020. He was a founding partner and loves being an employee now. “I see my patients, don’t worry about administrative stuff, and go home to enjoy the rest of my life,” he writes. “My wife Fern and I became first-time grandparents on August 8, to our granddaughter Angela Kennedy Duane. Regards to everyone from Class of 1982.”

1985

Drew Malloy, of Santa Cruz, CA, is enjoying worklife balance and his family, including a rescue dog named Cleo who came to them during the pandemic.

1986

Kevin D. Stuart and Pamela J. Stuart, continue their practices in northern California. Kevin is in solo practice in gastroenterology/hepatology and has also taken on the role of medical director for a local hospice after completing his master’s in palliative care this year. Pam recently retired from emergency medicine after serving as medical director for the past 30 years. She also has a private skin care center that she opened 22 years ago and continues to enjoy.

Their oldest son Ben followed in their footsteps and is a fourth-year chief resident in neurology and is starting his neuro-critical care fellowship next year. Their younger son Daniel directs and produces science and natural history films.

1987

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Ronald S. Gilberg, of Tarpon Springs, FL, moved to Tampa Bay, FL, for residency training at the University of South Florida Morsani School of Medicine and is a practicing boardcertified geriatrician in Hudson, FL. “Michael Trevisani ‘84 is chief medical officer at Regional Medical Center at Bayonet, where I am an attending,” he writes. “Despite opportunities to meet, it amazingly, never happened until the Upstate White Coat Ceremony for the class of 2025, when we discovered our two sons Caleb Gilberg and Christopher Trevisani are MS1 classmates and that we share the great honor of being legacy families. In fact, both our sons already met

and became friends before we attended the ceremony. What a story!”

1988

Daniel M. Young, of Vestal, NY, was named the 2021 Family Medicine Educator of the Year by the New York State Academy of Family Physicians. This award recognizes his many contributions to family medicine education. He has been a family medicine physician for 30 years and has been actively teaching residents and students for his entire career. For the last 10 years, he has been the champion of education for future family medicine

Monica M. Beckford ’82

Kevin D. Stuart ’86, Pamela J. Stuart ’86 and family

Michael F. Trevisani ’84 with son Christopher Trevisani ’25 and Caleb Gilberg ’25 with his father, Ronald S. Gilberg ’87

physicians as the program director of United Health Services Family Medicine Residency in Binghamton, NY, his residency alma mater. He has been a member of the NYSAFP for 30 years, while practicing full-time, full-spectrum family medicine in a rural community, to the next generation of physicians.

1989

Susan L. Auffinger, of Clemmons, NC, competed in the 2021 North Carolina Senior Games track event. She won the silver medal in 200M dash, and bronze medals in the 100M and 50M events in her age group. Although never previously a track competitor, she did play field hockey and lacrosse at the University of Massachusetts in the early 1980s. She was a freshman starter on the 1982 lacrosse team, which went undefeated and captured the NCAA Championship. She is slated for induction into the UMass Athletic Hall of fame in 2022, which will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the National Championship.

1990

Kevin Abrams, of Miami Beach, FL, was honored to be awarded Fellow of the American College of Radiology (FACR) in May.

CLASS NOTES

1992

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Brian A. Meltzer, of Wilton, CT, is currently leading global pharmaceutical development teams in therapies for rare disease. The global program he is running for Alexion AstraZeneca Rare Disease announced the top line results of a clinical trial that they completed for their new therapy in Wilson Disease.

1994

Alan Wang, of Williamsville, NY, was selected as the overall anesthesia chairman for the Catholic Health System of western New York in May. In addition to remaining as chair at Sisters of Charity Hospital’s Main Street and St. Joseph’s campuses, he will now oversee anesthesia services at Buffalo Mercy Hospital, Kenmore Mercy, and Mount St. Mary’s.

1995

Carolyn L. Danzi Marasco, of Wesley Chapel, FL, recently celebrated her 20th anniversary with

BayCare Health system. “I work in outpatient pediatrics and love watching my patients grow up and bring their children to see me. I am currently involved with a new pediatric residency program at BayCare kids, where I am core faculty, an outpatient site director at my office location, and wellness champion,” she writes. “I love my pediatric patients and can’t wait to help train the next generation of pediatricians.”

Rustin B. Morse, of Dublin, OH, completed a pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at what is now Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. He then moved to Arizona for his first faculty position at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. There, he got involved in quality and patient safety, and after 12 years, moved to Children’s Medical Center Dallas where he served as chief quality officer for eight years. In 2020, he moved to Columbus, OH, to join Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) as chief medical officer. Rustin absolutely loves central Ohio and NCH. He lives in a suburb of Columbus along with his wife Michelle and two children, Braeden, 17, and Eli, 14. When not at work, he enjoys running and riding, and now watching Buckeyes football. “Go

Bucks!”

1996

Leah Hinkle-Thompson, of Forest, VA, writes “Our 25th Upstate reunion was cancelled due to Covid, but we still had the weekend off. Myself and Karen Saylor met in Boston for some fun and catching up. We got David J. Joswick

Leah Hinkle-Thompson ’96, Karen Saylor ’96, and David J. Joswick ’98

’98 to meet us, too! Just like old times.”

1997

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1998

Deepak G. Nair, of Sarasota, FL, was elected president of the Florida American College of Surgeons and is a governor for the National American College of Surgeons. “I am proud to be the first person of color in the role, and also proud to represent our medical school here in Florida. I enjoyed getting together a year ago with fellow alums here in Sarasota,” he writes.

2001

Jamie Shutter, of Tampa, FL, opened his second and third Women’s Health Laboratories in North Carolina and Texas in the last quarter of 2020 for Unified Women’s Healthcare. The first is located in Tampa.

2002

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2007

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2009

Greggy D. Laroche ’09 with his wife Imhabibi and sons Immanuel and Godfrey

Greggy D. Laroche, of Ocala, FL, along with his wife Imhabibi Laroche and son Immanuel Laroche, welcomed their newest member to the family, Godfrey Ezekiel Laroche on August 2, 2021.

2012

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Carolyn Danzi Marasco ’95

2013Charles D. Hannum, of Boston, MA, is excited to announce that in May he was named the core clerkship director for pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. He leads 160 Boston-based students for their pediatric clerkship at more than a dozen clinical sites and is excited for this new step in his career. He was also the recipient of the Tufts Children’s Hospital

Sydney S. Gellis, MD, Young Physician’s Award, which fosters the education and careers of young physicians who seek to improve treatments, outcomes, and the quality of life of sick children.

Rhonda L. Philopena, of Jamesville, NY, and her husband had their second child in May, a son. Rhonda works as assistant clinical professor in the pediatric emergency department at Upstate.

Rhonda L. Philopena ’13 and her family

ALISON MITZNER, MD ’97

An Alternative Path

After five years as a pediatrician in private practice in New York City, Alison Mitzner, MD ’97, was second-guessing her career choice. She loved kids. And she’d loved the science of medicine. But she found the day-to-day of her clinical practice simultaneously too stressful and too repetitive. “I was often triple booked. And most of what I was doing wasn’t that challenging,” she says. “I was most interested in the really complicated cases that were referred out to the sub-specialists.”

Dr. Mitzner considered applying to fellowship programs. But then a friend from San Francisco mentioned that many doctors he knew worked in some capacity in the pharmaceutical industry.

After doing some research and networking, Mitzner honed in on the safety and regulatory aspect of the industry, where she has worked for 15 years. She’s been at Pfizer since 2006, currently serving as senior director for Worldwide Safety and Regulatory, focusing on medical documentation safety oversight and customer engagement programs. She has previously led quality control efforts of medical review, led safety teams, and mentored physicians globally.

She’s found the work deeply satisfying. “There’s a lot of medicine and science and I’m still impacting patients, but on a much larger scale,” she says.

And she hasn’t lost touch with pediatrics. Early on, Mitzner positioned herself to become one of the pediatric subject matter experts, serving as part of the pediatric council and writing for the company’s public website on a range of pediatric topics. Over time, she began blogging and submitting articles to other outlets on topics ranging from medicine and pediatrics to more personal issues such as motherhood, wellness, fitness, and alternative therapies.

“I love that I can be a resource hub for moms across the world,” says Mitzner, a single mom of two children and fitness enthusist who placed in the top five in the 2018 FitDoc competition.

Much of her writing was inspired by her own experiences. After an injury 10 years ago, Mitzner explored a variety of alternative therapies to cope with pain, including meditation and acupuncture. They made an incredible difference in her life, which she realized impacted her parenting.

She shares that knowledge in her first book, Calm and Confident Parenting, How to Care for Yourself (and Your Kids) Through Life’s Chaos (Lioncrest, 2021),

published in August. Mitzner combines science-backed information with her own experiences to offer strategies for making small changes to mindset, routine, and habits. By making adjustments that improve nutrition, fitness, and time management, Mitzner argues that parents will be better equipped to raise children with calm confidence and to enjoy their parenting journey.

Mitzner says she set out to address common parental challenges that new parents go through: the exhaustion, the anxiety, the stress, the sleeplessness. “As I delved into these topics, I could see that a lot of the information provided from popular sources was often incorrect and the medical information was presented in a way that was just plain boring,” she says. Instead, she wrote the book she wishes she had during her first pregnancy.

“Children learn from watching and observing their parents. We are their biggest role models. If they see you calm and reacting to stressful situations calmly, they will learn to stay calm when anxious or faced with a stressful situation,” she says.

“Parenting can be overwhelming, and in the process, parents often neglect themselves, but this is the wrong thing to do,” says Mitzner. “My message is that self-care can have a positive impact on both you and your kids.”

—Renée Gearhart Levy

Alison Mitzner, MD ’97, (with her children) is an executive at Pfizer and writes on issues related to self care and parenting.

CLASS NOTES

2015

Richard P. Jean-Louis ’20, Elizabeth M. Presutto ’19, Leigh A. Presutto ’15 with wife Meryn, Meghan E. Jacobs ’15, and Stephanie N. Grube ’15

Leigh A. Presutto, of Lincolnville, ME, was married to Meryn on August 23, 2021. A few Upstate graduates joined in their beautiful celebration of love.

James C. Prezzano and Kavitha M. (Mannava) Prezzano, of Manlius, NY, welcomed Maya Prezzano, born July 27. James opened a dermatology practice in Fayetteville, NY, (Fayetteville Dermatology) the following month in August, and is accepting new

12.8oz.

2018

John J. Lofrese, of San Diego, CA, graduated from internal medicine residency at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and was stationed at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton. He has since been deployed to help provide care for incoming Afghan refugees to the United States.

2019

patients. Kavitha is a radiation oncologist with Hematology Oncology Associates of CNY.

2017

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Ramzi A. El-Hassan, of Rochester, NY, and wife Diana M. Dunn welcomed a baby girl to the world on June 23. Quinn Maureen El-Hassan was born at 37 weeks, weighing 5lbs

Alexandra S. France, of Rochester, NY, was married to Ming Qi Wu ’18 on October 9, in the beautiful finger lakes on Seneca Lake. Five of the bridesmaids were medical school classmates of the class of 2019.

Kavitha (Mannava) Prezzano ’15, daughter Maya, and James C. Prezzano ’15

Ramzi A. El-Hassan ’17 with his wife Diana M. Dunn and daughter Quinn Maureen El-Hassan

Ogochukwu M. Ezeoke ’19 and husband Philip A. Cox

Ming Qi Wu ’18 and Alexandra S. France ’19

Bride Alexandra S. France with her bridesmaids, Alison Rosser, Amanda Gemmiti, Michelle Baker, Jamie Nord and Nicole Lifson, all members of the class of 2019.

ANTHONY KASHOU, MD ’18

Demystifying the EKG

Growing up as the son of an interventional cardiologist in Binghamton, New York, Anthony Kashou, MD ’18, dreamed of following his father’s career path. But as a third-year medical student, Dr. Kashou found learning to read EKGs a challenge during his internal medicine rotation.

The problem, he says, was the learning materials were either too basic or too advanced and didn’t always do a good job explaining clinical relevance. He turned to textbooks and medical literature to fill the gap. “I was constantly asking my father and the cardiologist I was working with, ‘what does all this mean?’”

Kashou invested time learning and mastering the material. As a fourth-year medical student, he worked with a cardiologist to recreate and teach a curriculum to third-year students. He did an away-rotation at the Cleveland Clinic, where he was charged with providing education to medical students. As a video learner himself, Kashou began making videos about reading EKGs that he posted to YouTube. By the end of the year, he had created hundreds. “Learning in medical school is kind of like drinking from a fire hose with all the information we’re expected to know,” he says. “So learning what makes content ‘click’ is essential.”

Flash forward four years. Kashou is now in his first year of a National Institutes of Health-funded research and cardiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he also completed his internal medicine residency training. But he’s also known far and wide as The EKG Guy. His social media channels have garnered more than 1-million followers and he’s produced well over 500 video lessons. He's also created a comprehensive course that he claims can take someone with no EKG experience to advanced interpreter level, as well as EKG coding and pacemaker courses, intended for cardiology fellows and more advanced trainees. He offers multiple courses accredited by the American Medical Association and Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education that are available on his website, theekgguy. com, for practitioners at all levels.

“Every person who enters an emergency department with chest pain or shortness of breath gets an EKG—it’s one of the most simple, non-invasive cost-effective diagnostic tools in medicine,” says Kashou. “EKG interpretation skills are critical for patient care, yet many providers feel unequipped to achieve EKG proficiency; oftentimes, they don’t understand why they see what they see on an

EKG and simply memorize patterns they need to know to pass exams.”

Kashou’s “Ultimate EKG Breakdown” now serves as the primary EKG course for the electrophysiology technician and physician assistant programs at the Mayo Clinic. Kashou also leads seminars for medical professionals at Mayo who want to improve their EKG proficiency. He’s even developed an EKG course for cardiology fellows, in part to prepare them for their board exam. “One section of the exam is about coding EKGs and is the section that’s most commonly failed,” he says.

While Kashou is passionate about advancing EKG knowledge among non-cardiac specialists for the benefit of patient care, he’s equally committed to innovation in the field. His research focuses on the development of automated algorithms to aid in wide complex tachycardia differentiation, the application of artificial intelligenceenabled electrocardiography in clinical practice, and the creation of educational solutions to improve EKG literacy among medical providers.

“This work is exciting, and the leaps we’re making are incredible,” says Kashou, who anticipates a career in academic medicine. “We have a chance to truly transform the way we address clinical problems and deliver patient care.”

—Renée Gearhart Levy

Anthony Kashou, MD ’18, has recorded more than 500 EKG video lessons, available online.

Ogochukwo M. Ezeoke, of Chicago, IL, and Philip A. Cox met in Syracuse in August 2017 and were married on October 9.

CLASS NOTES

2021

Danielle E. Clifford, of Worcester, MA, was married to Ryan Schmitz on September 11, in Saratoga, NY. Danielle’s hometown is Esperance, NY, and Ryan’s hometown, is Scotia, NY.

Mystery Solved

“Iwas excited to see the ‘Mystery Photo’ in the Autumn 2021 Alumni Journal of two scientists in a lab. They were the eminent renal physiologist Roger Bowman, PhD, and his long-time technician Fern Barney Warner. They were tending to an array of columns for perfusing isolated rat kidneys, a technique that they had perfected and used productively for many years.

Dr. Bowman was part of a powerhouse array of renal physiologists in the Department of Pharmacology in the 1970s and ’80s that included Drs. Ike Weiner, Charles Ross, Larry Stoner, Peter Holohan, Mary Ellen Trimble and Richard Coulson. I spent two years of my postdoctoral fellowship in Roger Bowman’s lab and became proficient in his isolated perfused kidney technique. Roger died in 1990.”

Stephen J. Scheinman

President and Dean

Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Dean, Upstate College of Medicine, 2004-11

MPH

Summer M. Barrows, of Syracuse, works as an infection preventionist in a nursing home, which on September 23 became one of the highest vaccinated buildings in Tompkins, Cortland, and Onondaga Counties. “I am proud of my coworkers and the care they give to our residents,” she writes.

Residents

John M. Barry, of Portland, OR, writes “As I tiptoe into complete retirement, I was surprised and pleased to receive the Keyes Medal from the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons on August 27.” The Keyes Medal is presented to an individual for their “outstanding contributions in

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the advancement of urology,” and is recognized as the greatest individual citation in the specialty.

Vikrant V. Tambe, of Syracuse, was an internal medicine resident from 2016-2019. He married Shampa Adnak on July 14, in Lonavala, India. She works in marketing and business development.

Vikrant is currently working as an assistant professor in the department of geriatrics at Upstate.

Mark M. Tavakoli, of Birmingham, AL, finished his residency at Upstate Medical University in 1972, and joined the anesthesiology faculty at University of Alabama five years later. He later joined a private group in Birmingham and retired in 2006. “I was invited back to UAB, as associate professor and worked for 10 more years and was the oldest anesthesiologist in active prac-

tice in our state,” he writes. “I finally retired in 2020 after working for more than 50 years. The success I had in my career had a lot to do with the training I received at Upstate Medical University, and I am grateful for that.”

Serdar H. Ural, of Hummelstown, PA, was an OB/ GYN resident from 19931997 and is currently at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and is a tenured professor and director of the Maternal Fetal Medicine division and Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship training program.

Vikrant V. Tambe, MD, HS ’19, and his wife Shampa Adnak

Danielle E. Clifford ’21 and her husband Ryan Schmitz

IN MEMORIAM

1947

MAERIT B. KALLET, of Phoenix, AZ, died July 21. Dr. Kallet was survived by his daughter, Gail Kallet Tasky, and family.

WOLFRAM G. LOCHER, of Wausau, WI, died April 3, 2019. Dr. Locher served in the U.S. Navy aboard the hospital ship USS Haven during the Korean War. In 1955, he moved to Wausau, where he practiced until his retirement in the 1990s. He was the only anesthesiologist in Wausau for a number of years, starting out at St. Mary’s Hospital. During his career he discovered the anesthesia-related disease malignant hyperthermia (MH). His pioneering work with MH is known worldwide and has saved countless lives. He served as assistant professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Locher was survived by his sons, Eric, Fred, and Ralph; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

ARTHUR A. VERCILLO, of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, died August 19. Dr. Vercillo completed his residency in surgery at Upstate. After residency he was assigned to the Navajo Hopi Native American Hospital in Fort Defiance, AZ, where he worked as the chief of surgery to complete his public health service requirement. He then returned to Syracuse and established his own surgical practice and was later joined by his son, which was one of his greatest joys. He also became the chairman of the Department of Surgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He was clinical professor of surgery at Upstate and both professor of surgery and professor emeritus of surgery at Syracuse University. He received the Hyde Teaching Award by his surgical residents at Upstate for Best Teacher of the Year. This was a great honor as this aligned with his passion and love of teaching many residents throughout his career. He is predeceased by his wife, Margaret Vercillo ’49. Vercillo was survived by his daughters, Susan, Jean, Nancy and Mary Beth; son Arthur P. Vercillo ’82; nine grandchildren, including Natalie Sciarrino ’11; and five great-grandchildren.

Arnold M. Moses, MD ’54

ARNOLD M. MOSES, of Syracuse, died on August 4. Dr. Moses grew up in Newburgh, NY, and after high school, enlisted in the U.S. Army at age 17. Following World War II, he earned a BS in chemistry, magna cum laude, from Syracuse University and attended medical school at SUNY Upstate where he graduated with honors in 1954. After training at Montefiore Medical Center and Mount Sinai Hospital, he returned to Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. His career spanned 55 years of extraordinary dedication, service, and accomplishments, culminating with his appointment as Emeritus Professor of Medicine.

Moses was the quintessential “triple threat:” a renowned scientist, clinical researcher, as well as an outstanding clinician. His legacy includes extraordinary leadership and service to the endocrinology community. Widely recognized for his pioneering research on the physiology and pathophysiology of the neurohypophysis, he also contributed to ground-breaking studies on calcium metabolism and pseudohypoparathyroidism. His neurohypophysis and calcium metabolism research overlapped in his studies on end organ resistance to AVP and parathyroid hormone (PTH). Methods used in his classic paper from over 50 years ago describing partial neurohypophyseal defects are still used today. Moses coorganized the second (1976) and fifth (1992) International Conferences on the Neurohypophysis, served on the editorial board of Endocrinology, the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Diabetes Insipidus Foundation, was editor-in-chief of EndoTrends (Endocrine Fellows Foundation) and coauthored the chapter on Disorders of the Neurohypophysis in Harrison’s

1952

DONALD L. CARLON, of Rochester, MN, died December 1, 2020. Dr. Carlon was drafted to serve in World War II. He was an infantryman in the 42nd Division from 1943-1946 and received the rank of 1st sergeant. He received the Bronze Star and participated in the liberation of Dachau, which affirmed his desire to serve others through medicine. He completed his radiology residency at Mayo Clinic in 1956. He served many communities as the central Minnesota radiologist. In 1963, he served as the chief of radiology at St. Ansgar Hospital until his retirement in 1980. Carlon was survived by his daughters, Jane and Ann; son Todd and seven grandchildren; two step grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.

EDWARD S. KONWINSKI, of Bradford, PA, died May 7. Dr. Konwinski served as a medical officer in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, doing his internship and general surgical residency at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco. He then served as a surgeon at the U.S. Army Hospital at Croix

Principles of Internal Medicine beginning with the 8th edition (1977) through the 14th edition (1998) as well as numerous other publications.

In recognition of his many accomplishments, he was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1971. The American College of Endocrinology presented him the award for Distinction in Clinical Endocrinology in 2004. He also received, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award in Recognition of Exemplary Contributions to Research and Scholarship (2003), was named SUNY Distinguished Service Professor (2007), and SUNY Upstate Distinguished Alumnus (2009).

Moses undertook his work with passion, dedication, humility, and the highest level of integrity and was known by colleagues for his unbound fairness, kindness, intelligence, love of endocrinology, and the special care and attention he provided for his patients. At Upstate, he was the Director of the General Clinical Research Center, which later became the Clinical Research Unit, for 34 years, working tirelessly to promote and contribute to patient-oriented research. He also established the Metabolic Bone Disease Center in Syracuse, served as a member of the New York State Osteoporosis Advisory Council, and as an advisor to then Governor Pataki and the New York State Department of Health on the prevention of fractures and treatment of osteoporosis.

Moses was a role model for hundreds of students, fellows, nurses, faculty, researchers, trainees and other health care professionals in whom he instilled a love of endocrinology and helped develop their clinical and research expertise. He was a brilliant physician-scientist, gifted teacher, a giant in endocrinology, and an inspiration to those who follow in his footsteps. Moses was survived by his daughters Linda, Laurie, Amy; and five grandchildren.

Arnold M. Moses, MD ’54

IN MEMORIAM

Chapeau in LaRochelle, France, and as chief of the general surgical section at the U.S. Army Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. He attained the rank of major. He entered private practice in Bradford in 1962 and was a partner at Surgical Associates of Bradford. He was certified by the American Board of General Surgery and was named a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He retired from the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps with the rank of colonel. Bradford was survived by his sons, Edward, Robert and Donald; daughter Laurie; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

1955

ERWIN L. HOFFMAN, of Burbank, CA, died October 20, 2020. Dr. Hoffman served in the U.S. Navy as the ship’s doctor for the USNS General Rose from 1957-1959. He then moved to Los Angeles in 1959 and began his medical career. He practiced pediatric medicine for more than 40 years in Inglewood and Westchester CA, while teaching pediatric residents at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and UCLA. He retired in 1992 but continued part-time practice at Port Hueneme Naval Base in Oxnard. Hoffman was survived by his wife, Arlene; sons Wayne and Bruce Watson and Jordan and Todd Hoffman; five grandchildren; and numerous great grandchildren.

1956

JAMES L. STERLING, of Medina, NY, died April 18. Dr. Sterling was a U.S. Air Force veteran and served at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL, for two years, reaching the rank of captain. He was a family doctor in Medina, NY, for 27 years. In his early years of practice, he would make house calls. As a physician, he delivered more than 2,000 babies, served as county coroner, gave anesthesia in innumerable operations, referring to himself as the “bag man.” Sterling was survived by his wife, Ila Mae; sons Doug, Dan, Mark and Mike; and 10 grandchildren.

1957

GENE L. CARY of Lansdale, PA, died October 11. Dr. Cary served in the U.S. Army as a Sergeant in Okinawa. He earned his college degree on the GI bill in 1952 at University at Buffalo. He began his career at Upstate Medical University at Syracuse where he later became a faculty

member of the Department of Psychiatry. In 1971 he moved to Hershey, PA, where he helped develop and direct the Department of Psychiatry at Penn State University Medical School. His varied psychiatric practice included teaching, counseling and forensic work. He consulted at the Hoffman Homes for Youth; the Oxford House of Adams-Hanover Counseling Center; the Polyclinic Hospital, Harrisburg; the Advances of Whiley House and elsewhere specializing in the treatment of troubled adolescents. He retired as a psychiatrist in private practice with Hershey Psychiatric Associates at age 70. Cary was survived by his sons Phillip, Brian and Bruce; daughters Allison and Meghan; 10 grandchildren; and two great grandchildren.

MELVIN E. COHEN, of Lake Mary, FL, died on October 24. After earning his medical degree, he completed a rotating internship at Meadowbrook Hospital (now Nassau County Medical Center), East Meadow, NY and returned to Upstate Medical University Hospital for his OB/ GYN residency. For most of his career, he was an OB/GYN in Corning, NY. He also donated two years of volunteer service to the Farm Workers Clinic in Apopka, FL. Dr. Cohen was survived by his wife Judith; daughters Miriam and Renee; and son Harvey; and four grandchildren.

1958

DONALD M. BEBAK, of Wichita, KS, died January 15, 2019. Dr. Bebak was instrumental in staffing the Syracuse Right for Life organization and was a board member of National Life Center. Bebak was survived by his wife, Diane; son Brian; and one grandson.

L. ROBERT RUBIN, of Danbury, CT, died October 9. After medical school Dr. Rubin served in the U.S. Army as a Captain. He was a pediatrician for more than 40 years in Danbury, and enjoyed being recognized by former patients or their parents. Rubin loved to read and especially loved volunteering to read to school children with the Reading Partner Program. He loved life and people and everyone loved him. Dr. Rubin was survived by his wife Myrna JacobsRubin; children Linda, David, Ken, Jodie, Margie and Elayne; nine grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.

DONALD H. WILSEY, of Gloversville, NY, died August 23. In 1963, Dr. Wilsey moved back to Gloversville and began to practice medicine with his father at 25 First Ave., in the same house where he grew up. He was a prominent physician in Gloversville for 42 years and delivered more than 5,000 babies at Nathan Littauer Hospital.

Wilsey was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth and Linda; son Christopher; stepchildren Thomas, Michael, Tammy and Tara; 17 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

1961

LEROY G. APPELL, of Fort Myers, FL, died June 22, 2020. Dr. Appell graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952. He had a successful career as an anesthesiologist throughout South Florida. Appell was survived by his wife, Jane; sons Karl and Michael; daughters Susan and Jennifer; eight grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren.

NORMAN L. POLLOCK, formerly of Sudbury, MA, died on July 4. Dr. Pollock joined the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam conflict and was honorably discharged as a commander. He practiced as an orthopedic surgeon at Marlborough Hospital and retired to West Palm Beach, FL, with his wife. Pollock was survived by his wife, Bobbie; four children; 11 grandchildren; and a great granddaughter.

1962

STUART J. SCHWARTZ, of West Palm Beach, FL, died September 14. Dr. Schwartz completed two years of general surgery at University Hospitals in Cleveland followed by a urology residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He practiced urology in Utica, NY, retiring in 1997. He was survived by his wife, Elaine; daughter Janice; son Harold; and two grandchildren.

1963

OPAL MAE BOHALL ZSCHIESCHE, of Oklahoma City, OK, died June 20. Dr. Zschiesche was awarded an internship and residency at the University of Oklahoma in conjunction with the VA Medical Center in Oklahoma City. She did a one-year fellowship in gastroenterology under Jack Welch, MD. After residency, she was hired by the VA Medical Center and held various chief positions including chief of outpatient medicine, which included the emergency room, chief of rehabilitative medicine, and chief of occupational health and community medicine, where she oversaw the state-owned veterans nursing home and the health of VA Medical Center employees and volunteers. Zschiesche retired from the VA Medical Center in July 1999. After retirement,

she worked for the Federal Occupational Health Clinic in Oklahoma City and the Occupational Health Clinic in Enid, OK. Zschiesche was survived by her brother, Elton Bohall; and her son, Dale.

1971

MATTHEW M. ZACK, JR, of Atlanta, GA, died July 31. Dr. Zack trained in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MPH at the University of California School of Public Health, Berkeley. In 1974, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention training program for medical detectives and worked for the CDC for 47 years until his passing. At the CDC, he was one of the agency’s foremost authorities on medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics and statistical programming. He often served as a consultant to the other Department of Health and Human Service agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Federal Drug Administration, Healthy People initiatives, Veterans Administration, Georgia Department of Aging Services, and to external groups such as Karolinska Institute and Uppsala University in Sweden and the United Way. He played a pivotal

role in the early development of what is the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH). Zack was survived by his cousin, Judy Ann; and other family. Donations can be made in memory of Dr. Matthew M. Zack to the Upstate Medical Alumni Foundation, Setnor Academic Building, Ste. 1510, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210.

1972

IRWIN SAVODNIK, of Torrance, CA died April 26. He was survived by family and friends.

1976

CHRISTOPHER G. ULLRICH, of Charlotte, NC, died August 8. Dr. Ullrich completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at Upstate Medical University and a two-year fellowship in neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins in Boston. He worked at Charlotte Radiology for 38 years, retiring in December 2020. Ullrich was active in the American College of Radiology, the North Carolina Radiology Society, the Cervical Spine Research Society, and the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council, becoming

Diane Green-El, MD ’78

DIANE GREEN-EL, of Fayetteville, NY, died October 2. Born in Brooklyn, Dr. Green-El earned her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and her medical degree from Upstate Medical University. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Buffalo in 1981, and later that year, earned her board certification in pediatrics. In 1995 she earned a master’s in business administration from Syracuse University.

Green-El’s successful career as a pediatrician and a health care administrator began when she accepted a position at the Syracuse Community Health Center, launching a 40-year commitment to promoting quality health care for all. Her mission, to ensure the highest quality of care be delivered to the Health Center’s diverse patient population, was evidenced in all of her work. Green-El chose pediatrics because she believed every child deserved quality care but after assuming her role as medical director, she soon found herself promoting quality health care for all, including access to prenatal care for young women and mental health services for those who might otherwise be excluded from care. During her career in Syracuse, she served multiple terms as medical director and later as chief clinical officer.

chairman in 2014. He received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine for public service by the governor and was on the board of Hospice and Palliative Care of Charlotte. Ullrich was survived by his wife, Betsy; sister-in-law, Sally; and cousins.

1977

JOHN BORIGHT, of Pleasanton, CA, died January 8, 2018.

1979

WILLIAM G. PATRICK, of Fayetteville, NY, died January 29. Dr. Patrick completed his internal medicine residency at Wilson Hospital in Johnson City and his dermatology residency at University of Rochester Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital. Patrick opened his practice, Fayetteville Dermatology in 1989. He loved practicing medicine, his patients, and his staff. Patrick was survived by his wife, Sarah; daughters Meghan, Katherine ’19, Christina and Elizabeth; son William; and four grandchildren.

Green-El later became the first medical director for Total Care, a licensed health maintenance organization specifically designed to insure medically underserved populations. She also provided clinical oversight for the establishment of one of the first seven-day-a-week urgent care programs in the county, Extended Hours Services. She later guided the organization, expanding the OB/GYN department to also include nurse midwives who managed care in the office and deliveries in the hospital. Under her clinical leadership, Syracuse Community Health Center became one of the first to become certified by the newly reorganized Joint Commission on Health Care Organizations. Even though her administrative responsibilities were often arduous, she continued fulfilling her work as a pediatrician, maintaining regular clinical hours in the office, managing a hospital schedule caring for sick children, and rounding on newborns.

Green-El was an active member of the National Medical Association and of Central Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Emanuel B. Henderson Jr. She was survived by her mother; Doris; her brother Charles; stepsons, Emanuel B. Henderson III and LaMar B. Henderson; and other family.

Donations can be made in memory of Dr. Diane Green-El to the Upstate Medical Alumni Foundation, Setnor Academic Building, Ste. 1510, 750 E. Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210.

Diane Green-El, MD ’78

IN MEMORIAM

1992

PAMELA R. GILMORE, of Danbury, CT, died December 22, 2014. Dr. Gilmore started the Women’s Health Care of Maine Practice, in 2005, in a room no larger than a closet, which grew into one of the largest OB/GYN practices in Bangor. The practice was started to provide health care to underserved women in the Bangor area. In May 2013 she left to join Candlewood Center for Women’s Health in Danbury, CT. Gilmore was a gifted surgeon and one of the first to introduce robotic surgery at EMMC. Gilmore was survived by her brother, Douglas; stepsister Debbie; and the “Gilmore Girls,” Amanda, Lisa, Lois, and Lisa.

Resident

TULIO J. CANIZARES, of Vero Beach, FL, died May 23, 2020. Dr. Canizares came to the United States during the Cuban revolution to finish his medical training. He practiced anesthesia for most of his career at Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, NJ. Canizares was survived by his wife, Joan; daughters Susan, Joanne, and Lenore; and son Donald.

GEORGE DUTKEWYCH, of Juno Beach, FL, died September 7, 2019. Dr. Dutkewych was a veteran, serving his country as a flight surgeon and Green Beret. He was an accomplished surgeon and physician and volunteered for the underserved in Bolivia. Dutkewych was survived by his wife, Deborah; children Andreas, Sonya, Adriana, Dave, and Sean; and 14 grandchildren.

JOSEPH M. FREIBERG, of San Antonio, TX, died October 26, 2020. Dr. Freiberg received his medical degree from the University of Kentucky Medical School and completed his internship in internal medicine while serving in the U.S. Public Health Service in Boston. He continued to serve in the U.S. Public Health Service in Galveston, TX, and Gallup, NM. He completed his fellowship in endocrinology at Upstate Medical University and received his PhD from the department of Pharmacology at Upstate. He completed his fellowship in nephrology at John Hopkins School of Medicine and served on the faculty of the Renal Section at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He was in solo practice in San Antonio until his retirement in 2018. Freiberg was survived by his wife, Sharon; son Kenneth; daughter Signe; stepdaughter Leslie; and two grandchildren.

FORREST K. HUNTINGTON, of Greenville, SC, died April 27, 2020. Dr. Huntington graduated from the University of Rochester and completed his medical residency at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He then served as captain in the medical corps of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 14th Armored Cavalry, in Bad Kissingen, Germany. After his service, he completed his residency in internal medicine at Upstate Medical University and finished his fellowship in gastroenterology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1963, he started his private practice in internal medicine. He later joined Gastroenterologist Associates, the practice he retired from after a long career serving the Greenville community. Huntington was survived by his wife, Betty; his children, Elizabeth, Sarah, David, Amy, Molly and Jervey; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

LIONEL A. RUDOLPH, of Fayetteville, NY, died August 6. Dr. Rudolph entered the military earning an honorable discharge as lieutenant colonel for the medical corps. He then attended New York University School of Medicine, followed by residency at Bellevue Hospital Center and then his internal medicine residency at Upstate Medical University. Rudolph had a primary care practice on University Avenue for over 40 years. He also served as a primary care physician for Hutchings Psychiatric Center and was on faculty at Upstate Medical University College of Medicine. Rudolph was survived by his daughter, Susan; sons Daniel and Alan; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

LLOYD H. SCRIBNER, of Salisbury, MD, died June 29. Dr. Scribner attened Loma Linda University School of Medicine and his orthopaedic surgery residency at Upstate Medical University and in Buffalo, NY. He had an orthopedic surgery practice in Takoma Park, MD, from 1965 until he retired in 2012. Scribner was survived his children, Brenda, Gregory, Kelvin, and Robson; and 12 grandchildren.

JOSE L. ZUBERO, of Madrid, Spain, died November 30. Dr. Zubero moved from Spain to the United States and made his life in Jacksonville, FL. He set up his private practice in ophthalmology in the Riverside area from 1963-1989. He was a pioneer in his field as being one of the first to successfully perform an eye transplant. He also gave back to those less fortunate by traveling the world to operate on a voluntary basis for those in need of corrective eye surgery. In 1967, he volunteered his medical service to the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War. Zubero was survived by his wife Lidia; daughter Julia; sons David and Martin; and four grandchildren.

Faculty

LESLIE F. MAJOR, of Brackney, PA, died September 5. Dr. Major served his country as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. He worked as the director of Behavioral Health at UHS Hospital and helped to advance the psychiatric care available to the people of the Southern Tier. During his tenure, he worked to implement the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at Binghamton General Hospital, bringing emergency services to those in crisis. As a physician, researcher, and professor of psychiatry, his work contributed to the National Institutes of Mental Health and Upstate Medical University’s Clinical Campus. His tireless effort revolutionized mental health care in the community. Major was survived by his wife, Ann Marie; daughter Nicole; sons Anton, Nathan and Nicholas; and seven grandchildren; and his brother, Edward A. Major ’64

Emeritus Faculty

GEORGE ADAM SOUFLERIS, of Jamesville, NY, died September 4, 2020. Dr. Soufleris served in the U.S. Army in Japan at the end of World War II. He attended Dartmouth College and the University of Vermont Medical School. He moved his family to Syracuse where he did his internship and residency training in OB/GYN and subsequently spent the next 36 years helping take care of the women of Onondaga County. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was medical director of the Onondaga County Family Planning Program and the consulting gynecologist at Van Duyn Hospital. He also held teaching appointments in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Upstate, progressing from clinical instructor to full clinical professor in 1976. He served for five years as the chief of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital. Soufleris was one of the founding fathers of the Onondaga Pastoral Counseling Service and served as a member of the board at Vera House. Soufleris was survived by his wife, Rita; sons Mark, Philip and Peter; eight grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren.

Medicine

College of Medicine Alumni Supporting College of Medicine Students

A Campaign to Help Future Generations of Upstate Physicians

“In my lifetime there has never been a time when I wasn’t aware of the Upstate Medical University College of Medicine. My grandfather, Alfred G. Doust, MD 1887, my father Alfred W. Doust, MD 1935, my son Matthew W. Doust, MD 1998, along with a great uncle, Henry B. Doust, MD 1900 and three cousins, Brewster C. Doust, Sr., MD 1914, William C. Doust, MD 1945, Brewster C. Doust, Jr., MD have all been a part of the incredible history of the College of Medicine. The impact of this on Joan and myself has been tremendous. This is why we have chosen to take a leadership role in supporting the Upstate College of Medicine,” says Richard Doust.

Joan and Richard served on the Medical Alumni Foundation Parent’s Board for many years and Richard on the Medical Alumni Foundation Board of Directors since 1998, just this year becoming emeritus. Together they made the lead gift funding renovations to Weiskotten Hall’s ninth floor, naming the boardroom to honor the Doust legacy at Upstate. Joan and Richard also established an endowment in support of the Department of Otolaryngology and recently established an endowment funding a scholarship for a medical student interested in otolaryngology.

Joan and Richard have chosen to make a leadership level commitment to the Generation to Generation Campaign and to serve on the Leadership Committee. “Our family is proud to be a part of the Upstate College of

Medicine. Please join with us and the many other Alumni and friends in supporting the Generation to Generation/Excellence in Medicine Campaign.”

Joan and Richard Doust

Richard and Joan Doust with their children and grandchildren

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Enduring Bonds

In addition to a medical education that provides the foundation for a fulfilling , successful career, four years at the Upstate College of Medicine results in lifelong friendships. Look no further than Alexandra S. France ’19 and Ming Qi Wu ’18, who met as medical students and whose recent wedding was attended by many Upstate classmates. We’re always happy to share your good news!