ALUMNI YEARBOOK 1968 • 1973 • 1978 • 1983
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS THURSDAY, OCT. 26 Welcome Reception FRIDAY, OCT. 27 Morning Breakfast and College Updates Afternoon at the Races, Keeneland Castle & Key Distillery Reunion Class Dinner, Gatton Student Center SATURDAY, OCT. 28 UK Football Game Watch Party at The Origin Hotel, or Game at Kroger Field SUNDAY, OCT. 29 Farewell Breakfast
MESSAGE FROM DEAN GRIFFITH To our devoted alumni, We are excited to welcome you back to campus for another reunion season. Reunions are wonderful opportunities to reconnect with your classmates and revisit your “old stomping grounds.” They are also great times for reflection. Why did you go into medicine? What did you enjoy during your medical school experience, and what were some of the challenges? What have been some of the big moments in your career? And importantly, what advice do you have for the learners following in your footsteps at the UK College of Medicine? My advice is always to have pride in what you do. As a physician, you uphold important responsibilities to serve your community and to remain compassionate and diligent in your search for answers. At the UK College of Medicine, we hope this message reigns true for our learners. I know it did for me. As an alumnus of the UK College of Medicine’s internal medicine-pediatrics residency program, I was fortunate to receive a great education and be connected to incredible mentors. They instilled within me an appreciation for being a physician, for having such important responsibilities. Our alumni are great examples of what can be possible with a UK College of Medicine education. It has been a joy to witness how you and your fellow classmates have taken your experience and made a tremendous impact as physicians, educators, scientists, and health care professionals. You have built storied careers in medicine and research. You have made a difference for patients across the country. I look forward to connecting with all of you for this year’s reunion and hearing more about your work, the people you have helped, and the lives you have built. I hope that you have pride in what you have accomplished, and please know that we are so grateful to be part of your journey. Charles “Chipper” Griffith, MD, MSPH Dean, College of Medicine
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The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merged and created America’s sixth largest corporation and the nation’s largest transportation company.
President Johnson signed the Truth in Lending Act and the 1968 Civil Rights Act into law. The Redwood National Park is created in California to protect the Giant Redwoods.
The Rolling Stones The Supremes The Beatles Fleetwood Mac Aretha Franklin The Grateful Dead The Monkees Simon and Garfunkel The Beach Boys
NASA’s Apollo 8 space mission was launched on Dec. 21. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, also known as Bobby Kennedy or RFK, were assassinated.
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DR. ROBERT BERGEN
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After graduating from the University of Kentucky medical school in 1968, I did a residency in ophthalmology in New York. Following that, I did a fellowship in retinal diseases at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In April 1974, I opened my own practice in northern New Jersey. I had a 600-foot office with one exam room, and over the years I had five offices, nine retina specialists, and 100 employees. I was extremely fortunate and had a wonderful career. I owe a great deal to the University of Kentucky. There is a professorship in my name at the University of Kentucky because I was so grateful. I am happily married and have two beautiful grandchildren. I am sorry that I cannot attend the reunion but I wish everyone well.
CAPT. ROBERT BREWER, USN (RET) PROFESSIONAL HISTORY - Served 25 years military training in general and plastic surgery and a long career until military retirement in 1992. This was followed by 10 years as a civilian plastic surgeon, hospital-based practice at Bon Secours for eight years and 15 years as wound care specialist at the Hampton Veterans Medical Center. During 50 years he served in various capacities as director, chief, chairman, Navy specialty advisor, consultant, surgeon at both government and civilian hospitals. Retired medical practice December 2021. LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE - Dr. Brewer’s medical experience includes: 12 years chief and specialty advisor to Navy Surgeon General for plastic surgery, and over 15 plus years chief, division of plastic surgery civilian hospitals in addition to part-time reconstructive surgeon at the Hampton VA Medical Center. Volunteer leadership positions include 30 years leadership with Boy Scouts of America and over 20 years in Rotary International were he served as director and president of the Churchland Rotary Club. In addition, he has been in leadership positions in the Portsmouth chapter of MOAA and served in multiple leadership roles in both local Catholic Community and the Dioceses of Richmond, Va. Other past volunteer positions include board members of Oasis Social Ministry and Portsmouth Volunteers for the Homeless. Currently serves the board of the Churchland Rotary Club and the Portsmouth Chapter of MOAA. PERSONAL LIFE - Married in 1973 to Cynthia, is a father of three boys, and now has three grandchildren. Lived in Western Branch Chesapeake for the last 40 years. TEACHING - 12 years assistant professor of plastic surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School. Extensive military/civilian instructing, training, supervision, and evaluation experiences. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
• Diplomat, American Board Plastic Surgery • Virginia Board of Medicine • American College of Surgeons • American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
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DR. DANIEL FERMAGLICH
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Following graduation in 1968, I spent the next two years at UKMC in pediatrics and the following two years at Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center in New York finishing as the chief resident in pediatrics. Then in 1972, I joined the Navy and spent the next two years as a Lt. Cdr., teaching at U.S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va. I then took a one-year fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in pediatric endocrinology before returning to Lexington to spend the next two years on the pediatric medical staff under Dr. Noonan. Following that my wife Dr. Lois Fermaglich (UKMC grad 1970) and I returned to the Northeast and opened a joint pediatric practice in Denville, New Jersey, where we had a wonderful pediatric practice for the next 37 years, finally retiring in 2010. During this time we had two children, a daughter Kirsten, who is a history professor at Michigan State University, and a son Lewis, who is also a pediatrician (graduated UK College of Medicine, Class of 2002). Of interest, both our son and daughter married pediatricians as well! And the office we started has grown into a practice of six pediatricians and two offices! We have been blessed with five grandchildren whom we have visited with every chance we get since our retirement, so in some sense, we are still in pediatrics! It is with great humility and thanks that we feel that UK has made all this possible.
DR. HENRY GOLDSTEIN I can’t believe it has been 55 years since graduation, but I know my medical school memories are as wonderful today as when I left in 1968. As a new medical school, we were very fortunate to have an incredible faculty and facility and be exposed to awesome clinical experiences. After graduation and a surgical internship at the Bronx Municipal Hospital center, I spent 16 months in the Navy including a year in Vietnam as a battalion medical officer. After an ophthalmology residency in New York, I practiced for 40 years in Port Jervis, N.Y., while living just across the beautiful Delaware River in Milford, Penn. I am blessed with a wonderful daughter, Julie, and now have two precious grandchildren, Joshua and Rebecca…sadly my loving wife of 37 years did not get to see them. My favorite activity over the years has been trekking, having been to the top of Kilimanjaro and to the base camps of Mount Everest and Annapurna. At 80, it’s still good to be alive…I am fortunate to have never been in the hospital as a patient! I’ve been retired for the past nine years, spending winters in Naples and the rest of the year in Pennsylvania, a few hours from the grandchildren. I will always be grateful to the University of Kentucky for accepting me into their medical school…it has led to a wonderful and fulfilling life.
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DR. MARIANNE McGRATH
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After graduating from medical school, I completed a pediatric residency in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. I then established and staffed a clinic for care of the medically underserved in Northern Kentucky. From there, I joined the staff of the division of adolescent medicine at Cincinnati Childrens’ Hospital, remaining for 17 years as an associate professor of adolescent medicine and associate director of the division of adolescent medicine. I left academic medicine to go into private practice. From there, I completed a second residency in psychiatry and devoted my private practice to adolescent and adult psychiatry. This shift enabled me to continue full-time practice despite increasing symptoms and decreasing mobility from post-polio syndrome. I continued this practice until my retirement in my early 70s. Personally, I married during my pediatric residency. My husband and I settled in Northern Kentucky and worked largely in Cincinnati. We had three children, all adults now. My husband of 49 years, died five years ago after a difficult struggle with head and neck cancer. I remain retired, live in our family home, and enjoy our children and seven grandchildren. Post-polio syndrome continues to be the “giving that keeps on giving,” and my mobility continues its decline. I do feel fortunate to remain living independently.
DR. GERALDINE SPURLIN After 35 years of private OB/G YN practice, I closed my office in 2006 after the death of my husband, Rudolph Leake. I now reside in Lexington and thoroughly enjoy retirement, gardening, and travel. My daughter, Seana Spurlin, resides also in Lexington and my granddaughter, Lauren Walker, is a senior at UK. I winter in Fort Lauderdale and come home for the spring meet at Keeneland. This year I’m being honored as a distinguished EKU graduate.
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DR. EMERY A. WILSON
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My life has been one of serendipity. Things seem to have happened by chance. I didn’t have the best grades at Emory University, but I was nevertheless admitted to the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Serendipity! After medical school, I did my residency in obstetrics and gynecology at UK followed by a stint in the Air Force. It was then I considered doing a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology. When I applied to UC San Diego, I received a letter from Dr. Ryan saying he had just been named chair at Harvard if I wanted to join him there. Serendipity! I returned to UK on the faculty and in 1978, baby Louise Brown was born in London, the first conception by in vitro fertilization. I wasn’t sure if that method of conception would be socially accepted here, but later we performed the first successful IVF pregnancy in Kentucky. Serendipity! After 12 years on the faculty, I was interested in being a department chair, and since it didn’t look like Dr. Greene would be stepping down soon, I thought about applying elsewhere. I mentioned my interest in administration to Dr. Peter Bosomworth, then chancellor for the Medical Center. That was in March of 1987 and three months later, I was dean of the UK College of Medicine. Serendipity! So, I owe the College of Medicine a great deal. The requirements for admission are much greater now. I was apparently smart enough to be dean, but I’m just not smart enough to be a student these days! After several other odd jobs, I retired in 2012, and Clara and I traveled a good bit. Now, I don’t do anything, and I don’t start until noon. Clara and I married during medical school, and we have two children and four grandchildren. Clara’s interests have been in the family, stock markets, and genealogy. Emily Wilson Cunningham (Larry) is an obstetrician/gynecologist and won several teaching awards while on the faculty at UK and at the University of Pittsburgh. She is now in private practice in Waco, Texas. Her son, Jackson, is a student at Butler University, and her daughter, Cate, is a student at Rhodes College. Bryan (Mary Leigh) is a retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colo., and continues to work for the U.S. Department of Defense. His son, Cooper, is a student at the University of Kentucky and son, Luke, is a student at Colorado State University. While working with infertility patients, I came to realize that not many of us will ever be famous. The only thing we will do of any significance will be through our children and our children’s children.
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Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album was on the Billboard charts for 741 consecutive weeks from 1973 to 1988, and in total has charted for 917 weeks.
The United States ends its involvement in the Vietnam War after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. Secretariat became the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win the Triple Crown.
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The first handheld cellular phone call was made by Martin Cooper in New York City. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was founded. The Senate Watergate Committee began its nationally televised hearings.
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DR. WILLIAM A. BAUMGARTNER
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Following completion of medical school in 1973, I completed an eight-year residency in surgery and thoracic surgery at Stanford University Medical Center. After a year on the faculty, I was recruited to Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1982. From 1992-2009, I was chief of cardiac surgery and program director of the residency program. I was fortunate to be selected as the executive director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery for an eight-year term. During the latter part of my Hopkins career, I was the vice dean for clinical affairs, president of the Clinical Practice Association and senior vice president of the Office of Physicians. I retired in January 2019. I am currently involved in an Emeritus college, called The Academy where we have engaged retired faculty from the schools of medicine, nursing, and public health, who continue to teach, mentor, conduct research, and are active in volunteer efforts in the community surrounding Johns Hopkins. I am blessed with being married to Betsy for 53 years. We have three married children and seven grandchildren.
DR. JAMES A. FREER James A. Freer, MD, clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine in the medical school, retired from active faculty status on June 30, 2020. Dr. Freer received his BS (1969) degree from Western Kentucky University and his MD (1973) from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, where he was a participant in the Rural Kentucky Medical Scholarship Loan Program. He was a postgraduate trainee in family medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine from 1973-75. To fulfill his rural practice obligation, he practiced family medicine and emergency medicine in Elizabethtown, Ky., from 1975-79, which included onsite training for physician assistant students. Dr. Freer began full-time emergency medicine in Louisville, Ky., in 1980. He relocated to the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., to focus on teaching students and residents emergency medicine in 1990. Dr. Freer joined the University of Michigan faculty as an adjunct clinical instructor in emergency medicine in 1991, and was promoted to clinical assistant professor in emergency medicine in 1995. He also served as the medical director for emergency medicine at W. A. Foote Memorial Hospital in Jackson, Mich., from 1995-98. Dr. Freer played an instrumental role in multiple efforts to improve the education of medical students and residents. He helped in efforts to bring medical simulation to the University of Michigan, and led efforts to test medical competency with standardized protocols with the human patient simulator. Significant collaborative efforts were applied to develop scenarios to be used in medical training. The medical simulator with augmented reality scenarios was first demonstrated in training exercises with control by a remote operator while at sea and at a military base. This concept was further demonstrated at the World Health Organization International Telemedicine/Telehealth Symposium in 2001. He instructed in and then subsequently directed the Emergency Medicine Advanced Airway Course, which incorporated medical simulation as a part of this competency training. Dr. Freer served on numerous hospital and community committees and national groups over the years, always with a goal to facilitate learning and thereby improve patient care and outcomes. As a strong advocate for the patient, he has based a lifetime of practice on a saying hanging on the wall in the work area of his first emergency room: “First, take care of the patient.”
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DR. WILLIAM R. LONG
William R. (Bill) Long died June 21, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn., from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He completed his pediatric training at Vanderbilt Medical Center in 1977, including as chief resident. He then joined Old Harding Road Pediatric Associates where he practiced until 2010. He also served as a clinical professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Becky, three children, and eight grandchildren.
DR. JAMES E. O’NEILL Our class graduated on June 9, 1973, the same day Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown. Great day all around if you lived in Kentucky! In July of 1973 I began an OBGYN residency at UKMC and finished in 1976. I entered private practice in Lexington and worked until retirement in November of 2021. Basically, I moved to Lexington in 1969 and never left. These 50 years have gone by fast. Retirement after a brief adjustment has been fun. We have seen many changes in medicine but none greater than the cost of a medical education. So, in retrospect it’s good to be old.
DR. STEPHEN L. OXLEY After graduation in 1973, my wife, Diane, and I immediately left for Dallas, Texas, where I did a residency in psychiatry. After residency, we stayed and settled in Dallas. I opened an individual private practice of psychiatry in the summer of 1976. Initially, Diane worked for First National Bank of Dallas in their factoring department. Our first child, a daughter, was born in July 1977. Our second daughter was born in May 1980. After the girls were in school, Diane began a career selling real estate. She also decided to go back to school and finish the degree she had put on hold when we married right before moving to Lexington in 1969. She obtained her degree in English literature from the University of Texas at Dallas. CONTINUED ON NEXT
OXLEY, CONTINUED Over the first five to six years of my practice, I began to see psychiatric illness through a neurologic “lens.” Through spending hours reading neuroscience journals in the medical school library and attending continuing education in behavioral neurology, I evolved into what I called a “neurobehavioral psychiatrist.” By the late 1980s, my orientation and practice were more like an academic practice than a typical community practice. At that point two factors converged to propel us toward a change: the nature of my professional interests and the needs of my aging parents back in West Virginia.
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The mid-1980s, while our children were both still in elementary school, was the time to make a move. I explored possible positions at medical schools closer to West Virginia. My first instinct was to come back to the University of Kentucky, but my career path to academia was too atypical, and I was not the type of candidate the department at UK was hiring. Instead, I found a position as an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine, and we moved to Durham, N.C.. I was at Duke from 1988 to 1996. There I practiced inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, taught psychiatric residents and served the department and the hospital in various administrative roles. At the time I left Duke, I was director of inpatient psychiatry for Duke University Hospital. The former department chair at Duke who recruited me had stepped down from the Duke chair and was directing the geropsychiatry division at the local state hospital located near Durham. That hospital served as the inpatient training site for the Duke geropsychiatry fellowship program. It was also a major inpatient training site for Duke’s second-year general psychiatry residents, Duke medical students, and the inpatient component of the child fellowship program. In 1996, I retained my Duke appointment, but moved to the geropsychiatry service at the state hospital. In 2000, I became director of the geropsychiatry unit. In 2004, I became the chief medical officer of the hospital. From 2005 to 2008, I served as the hospital CEO until it was merged with another state hospital into a new larger facility. Our girls thrived in North Carolina. My oldest daughter got a degree in communications from UNC-Greensboro. She lived and worked for a couple years in human resources in Scotland. She finally embraced her repressed aspiration and returned home, got a bachelor’s in nursing from Duke and then a master’s in nursing from East Carolina specializing in midwifery. She works as a midwife with a Duke-affiliated obstetrics and gynecology practice in the area. She is married, lives in Hillsborough, N.C., and has a 13-year-old son. Our younger daughter majored in French and minored in Spanish at NC State University. After spending a year studying at Université Montpellier in France, she worked for a year as an au pair in Madrid. She graduated from NC State. She moved to New York City, first living in Brooklyn and then moving to Little Italy. She worked arranging U.S. travel for international tour groups. While doing her day job, she got a certificate from the Institute for Culinary Education in New York, specializing in pastry. She eventually returned to North Carolina and lived in Durham. She works for a local artisanal bakery as their chief bread maker. She has a 7-year-old son. With the children grown, Diane went to our local community technical college and took courses in computer-aided-design and residential construction. She took courses like carpentry, roofing, wiring, etc. She started her own design-build company for homes and got her general contractor’s license. In 2006, she designed and built the energy-efficient house where we now live. As mentioned previously, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services merged a state hospital located in Raleigh, N.C., with the hospital where I had been working. In July 2008, the merged patient and staff contingent moved into the new 400-bed psychiatric hospital building. The Raleigh hospital had been a major inpatient training site for the University of North Carolina Department of Psychiatry residents. Both the Duke and UNC resident and fellowship training sites were brought together in the new hospital. I became the chief medical officer for the new hospital when it opened in 2008. In June 2017, I retired from the State of North Carolina, and Diane retired from her design-build business. Since 2017, I have maintained my medical license, kept current on my CME, but I have done no clinical practice. Diane and I like to travel. With both of our children working full-time, we stay busy helping with our grandchildren. Now I have time for my long-time hobby of genealogical research and history. In retirement, Diane started a picture framing business and has also become a serious gardener.
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DR. CAROLYN F. PURCELL
After a medicine internship and OB/GYN residency, I had a short disastrous junior partnership in an OB/GYN practice in Lexington. Subsequently, I had a very busy and rewarding solo practice. After doing OB and GYN for 11 years, I stopped the OB, which was like semi-retirement. When I stopped OB, I also stopped having sleep-deprived fender benders, but the damage remained. After 10 more years of a very busy GYN practice, I retired due to symptomatic cervical spine stenosis. I intended to retrain and do medical ethics, but retirement was so busy and fulfilling that I never did. My first “job” in retirement was being a host mother to a teenage foreign exchange student. She was delightful and we remained close. She is a pediatrician in Germany; her three children call me Oma, and I study German everyday so I can talk to them on FaceTime and on the many trips I have made to Germany to see them. Then I ran for state representative, showing my naiveté. Thank God, I lost. I thought I would be good for the job, being moderate, a good listener, logical, and without a personal agenda. I quickly learned that I would be frustrated and compromised beyond anything I was willing to do. What surprised me was that I enjoyed going door to door and even found what would have been my first bill when I knocked on one door. It was a valuable learning experience and I think everybody needs to run for office at least once. My next “job” was being chairman of the advisory board of the local Salvation Army at a time when funding patterns were undergoing major change. The Salvation Army Corps in Lexington is the most active corps in America for a city its size. I remain on that board. My new “job” was caring for my mother in my home after she suddenly developed vascular dementia at age 89. She died at almost 91. It was my hardest job, but I was fortunate because she was happy and eventually even thought she was in her own home. After my mother died, I finished writing the novel that I started in the mid-90s. I found a New York publisher, spent a year doing edits, and “Saving Jane Doe” was released in May, 2016. Marketing the book required lots of travel and speaking at events. The average book sells 100 copies, and mine sold several thousand. It was also accepted for the Kentucky Book Fair in 2016 and that was an honor. So, while I did not become a best-selling author, my book did have some success and I am writing another one. After my father died in 1985, I gave serious thought to what I believed about spiritual matters. Subsequently, I am active in my church, sing in the choir, and do some Bible studies. I even attended Asbury Theological Seminary and got 20 hours toward a master in Theology. In January of 2019, my college roommate and I did an around-the-world cruise with Road Scholar on the MS Amsterdam, a Holland America ship. Road Scholar planned all the shore excursions and it was a fabulous trip. When I need assisted living, I plan to live on a Holland America ship. An elderly lady lived on the ship during my trip and more than half of the passengers had done the trip before. There were three doctors on board and a small hospital. I propose a cruise for our next reunion but hope everyone comes to this one.
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DR. DENNIS C. STOKES
After graduation and inspired by UK pediatricians including Dr. Noonan, I did my pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins, followed by fellowship in the then-new subspecialty of pediatric pulmonology at Children’s Hospital Boston. I returned to Hopkins as pediatric chief resident, followed by a faculty position in a new pediatric pulmonary division. In 1982, I moved to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (SJCRH) in Memphis as director of the cardiopulmonary section/ICU. In 1990, after discovery of the gene for cystic fibrosis (CF), I moved to Vanderbilt to help start a new division and do clinical research in CF, which remained my academic focus for the next 20+ years. I also moved to Riley Children’s Hospital/IU in 2000-03 and then Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth in 2003-07. In 2007, I returned to Memphis as division chief for pediatric pulmonology at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital/ UT and SJCRH. I retired from UT in 2017 and rejoined Vanderbilt part time in 2018. I still do a few outpatient consultation clinics as well as consulting for a SJCRH project on lung function changes in childhood cancer survivors. I am fortunate to have had my wife Pam along since I was a medical student to successfully coordinate all these moves and raise our two children. We still visit our families in Western Kentucky frequently from our base in Memphis and Nashville.
DR. ALLAN TASMAN I stayed at UK for my first year of psychiatry residency and finished up at the University of Cincinnati. Cathy (who some of you will remember from med school days) and I moved to Connecticut where I started as assistant professor of psychiatry at UCONN Medical School. Just before we moved we had our first child, and later two more in Connecticut. We now have two grandkids. Cathy and I celebrated our 53rd anniversary this year. We stayed in Connecticut for 15 years where, in addition to being a t-ball and Little League coach in West Hartford, I worked my way to vice chair for education. While at UCONN I trained to be a psychoanalyst. I also got involved in public sector work and was on the state board of mental health, and started my research career in cognitive neuroscience. My lab did all the neurophysiology research for the NIAAA-funded Alcohol Research Center. I was recruited back to our hometown to be chair of psychiatry at the University of Louisville in 1991. While chair, we grew our clinical, research, and fellowships and more than doubled the size of the faculty. I conceptualized and spearheaded development of Passport Health Plan, an innovative non-profit HMO, which received a sole source contract for the entire Louisville region of Medicaid from Gov. Brereton Jones. Over 25 years it grew to the third largest Medicaid provider in Kentucky, regularly ranked in the NCQA top rank ,and with an annual $2 billion budget. CONTINUED ON NEXT
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TASMAN, CONTINUED Starting in the 1990s, in addition to my regular clinical and teaching work, I got involved in professional organizations. I became president of five national/international organizations including the American Psychiatric Association and the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. I also served six years as Secretary for Education of the World Psychiatric Association.
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I was honored with a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UK College of Medicine in 2008, and in 2012 from Franklin and Marshall College. I’ve received other awards for excellence in psychiatry, including Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the UK, a special presidential commendation for distinguished service from the American Psychiatric Association, and honorary fellow of the World Psychiatric Association. I retired from the UL in 2019, but didn’t actually retire. During the pandemic years, I’ve been working on the 5th edition of my comprehensive textbook, now called Tasman’s Psychiatry, which will be published by Springer in 2024. Earlier editions were called “the best current textbook of psychiatry” by the New England Journal of Medicine and "the gold standard" by the American Journal of Psychiatry. During the pandemic we’ve been glad for Zoom, which allowed us to stay in touch with our kids and grandkids, and family and friends while unable to travel. I have been able, though, to work more in my garden, which was selected for three garden tours, and to improve my amateur photography, and have been in a number of juried shows and publications. I’ve been fortunate with success I could never have predicted. Likely most of you reading this are surprised too.
DR. PHILLIP A. TIBBS This is Phil Tibbs, proud graduate of the Class of 1973, UK College of Medicine. My education at UK prepared me for a very satisfying and productive career. After graduating with honors and being elected to AOA, I decided to pursue neurosurgery as a profession and elected to train here at UK. Residency was 1973 to 1979, then I joined the faculty and as of this year have served 50 years as a neurosurgeon at our great institution! I began as an assistant professor and rose through the ranks, eventually becoming chair of the UK College of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery in 2008, serving as chair until 2020. In that time I was able to build our department from three neurosurgeons to 12 with comprehensive sub-specializations in all areas of neurosurgery. I have particularly enjoyed teaching in the classroom, clinic, and operating room, and very proud of the 57 young neurosurgeons that I have trained. Clinical research has been a major commitment for me, and with my research partner, neuro-oncologist Dr. Roy Patchell, we have conducted seminal research on the surgical treatment of metastatic tumors to the brain and spine with publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical
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TIBBS, CONTINUED Association, and Lancet. This research clarified the role of surgery in these disorders and have accumulated more than 10,000 citations in our literature, more than any other papers on these topics. Along the way I have been honored to serve as president of the Kentucky Neurosurgical Society and the Southern Neurosurgical Society and was elected to membership in the Academy of Neurological Surgery, our most elite society which allows only 100 members worldwide. I have recently retired from performing surgery but continue to teach and consult with an active clinic practice. UK had an amazing black tie gala for 250 guests in my honor on June 24, 2023, and it was great to have a reunion with so many colleagues and former residents. My wife, Trudy, and I have four beautiful grandchildren living here in Lexington and we enjoy our farm in Carlisle, Ky., our condo in Naples, Fla., and a little farmhouse in Lucca, Italy. I plan to stay busy serving on various community boards in Lexington, writing a book and studying Italian, while enjoying our many world travels. In one lifetime, I have witnessed the amazing growth of UK HealthCare from a small mid-western center to a 1,000-plus-bed magnificent hospital ranked Best Hospital in Kentucky for the last eight years. All of our 1973 alumni can be justifiably proud of our great University of Kentucky!
DR. JOHN J. WHITT Following graduation, we moved to Chapel Hill where I completed residencies in both general surgery and plastic surgery. I was board-certified in each but chose not to retest for general surgery 10 years later when discovering the cost and realizing that I was only doing it to see if I could pass since I really never practiced general surgery. Following Chapel Hill, we moved to Louisville where we have now lived for 43 years. I retired at the end of 2014, traveled a bit, and played a lot of golf until I developed balance issues about 3-5 years ago. I have been diagnosed with an idiopathic (no DM or chemotherapy) neuropathy. This certainly has adversely changed my lifestyle, and I now concentrate on avoiding falls. Two of our three children (Shannon and Andrew, who was named after Andy Moore) live here. Erin and her family live in Fort Wayne after several years in Chicago. Since my life has become more sedentary, I read more and spend a good bit of my time on genealogy. Again, I am very disappointed in being unable to attend the reunion and hope my classmates are doing well.
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DR. LAWRENCE V. BRENNAN, JR. Larry Brennan and Karen Enzweiler were married a week after graduation from UK. They have five children, all of whom are employed and have health insurance - a marker of successful upbringing - and five grandchildren. Larry practiced until 2022 as a medical oncologist at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Northern Kentucky. He then retired, and is working two to three days per week proctoring oncology fellows at the VA Medical Center in Cincinnati. He enjoys traveling, golfing, and biking, and looks forward to meeting any of his old classmates who make their way to this reunion.
DR. THOMAS D. DAUM I practiced as a family physician from 1981 until 2022 in both Kentucky and Illinois. Practicing medicine was joyful for the first 10 years following my plan of “using science to help people.” I was then sued and put on trial for the death of a man. The naivete of my idealism came crashing down. Despite “winning” my case, I was lost. The experience broke me as a man and broke me as a physician. What followed was the acceptance of the legal risks of medicine, the joyless practice of defensive medicine, and the steady state of being on high alert. Despite counseling and medications I never returned to the level of joy I once felt for life. My brain was changed. Together with the abusive reimbursement games of insurance companies, private practice was a wearing no-win experience. It was a grueling life with long long hours. That said, I know that I helped a lot of people get through their complex lives both physically and emotionally. In response I heard a multitude of expressions of gratitude from my patients. My work was not for naught. My personal life had its share of ups and down but I am grateful for my no drama family of Molly, kids, and grandkids. I am very grateful to be where I am now in life. I will miss the 2023 reunion weekend due to a family wedding but send my best to all of you. I appreciated your friendships as we went through those four years. We had some good laughs. I miss Judith Powell Pachtman from our class and encourage you to direct your future donations to her named Professorship/Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology fund at UK, set up by our other classmate, Mike Pachtman.
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DR. MARK GREENFIELD
After UK College of Medicine graduation in 1978, I completed a pediatric residency at Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1981, I moved to Seattle, Wash., and did a three-year pediatric infectious disease fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Afterwards, while still maintaining a strong interest in pediatric infectious disease, I decided to migrate to general pediatric practice, joining a small multi-specialty group in the south Seattle suburb of Burien in 1985. After numerous twists and turns, including several years of being an employed doc in a hospital system in the 1990s, our group of pediatricians broke off into private practice and never regretted it. I found the profession of an outpatient general pediatrician to be so completely rewarding. I had wonderful colleagues and a very stable, long-term office staff. Along with being a physician, it felt to me that I was just as much a teacher-counseling, reassuring, and imparting knowledge to my patients. I initially chose pediatrics after a wonderful rotation in peds at UK with Drs. Jackie Noonan, David Wilson, and others, giving up my initial plan to do psychiatry. Over the years, I found such joy in taking care of patients who can be incredibly ill but have such resilience to recover completely. The advances in pediatric care with newer vaccines, diagnostic modalities, and more specialists were amazin g to watch and be a part of. Of course, there were the periodic pediatric deaths--all tragic, wrenching, and heartbreaking. I was the last of the old-guard owners of my practice to retire and left the office to the younger partners in late 2019. My plan was to work through 2020 as a locum tenens a few times a month when the other docs took vacations, but by early March, the first large outbreak of COVID hit a bunch of nursing home patients in the Seattle area. The younger partners and I, knowing that the office wouldn’t be open as much, and that they wouldn’t be taking many vacations due to the pandemic, and that one of us was “of a certain age,” decided that it didn’t make sense for me to continue to work. I gracefully (gratefully?) stopped working after that point. All in all, I had a wonderful 35-year career in private practice and have never regretted the choice of pediatrics. Caring for a vulnerable subset of our population and helping their parents navigate their roles as caregivers was fulfilling, and I hope they got as much out of it as I did. Since retirement, as I get periodic pediatric questions from my children, nieces, and nephews about their kids, I seem to have forgotten a lot of the daily scripts that I used to use in everyday practice talking to parents...it used to be easier when it was all on autopilot. I’m trying to continue to maintain some competence and occasionally counsel the younger doctors in my old practice by looking at too many medical websites and signing up for lots of online pediatric, infectious disease and COVID webinars. I’ve somehow filled the rest of my newfound free time with lots and lots of outdoor yard work, raising and giving away fruits and vegetables when available, and finally doing some traveling now that it seems safer. Best wishes to the rest of the Class of 1978. I hope the rest of you are doing well.
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DR. F. JOSEPH “JOE” HALCOMB III
The years since medical school have been filled with more adventures than I could have ever imagined. Hearing a different drummer, I pursued a career as an executive in the medical device and biotech industries, and in private equity. This has given me the opportunity to be a part of some extraordinary things: innovations that have changed the lives of millions of people around the world. On reflection, I discovered I could serve more patients—in a more significant way—than I could in a lifetime of practicing medicine. After completing a year of post-graduate training in internal medicine at UK, I returned to MIT to finish my master’s degree in mechanical engineering. Instead of the usual fourth-year clinical electives in medical school, I immersed myself in a graduate program focused on engineering and orthopaedics at MIT. There, my mentors offered me an incredible opportunity to take an idea from the laboratory into the operating room—and inspired the development of a revolutionary product in the orthopaedic industry. In 1980, my journey took me to Warsaw, Ind.—known as the “Orthopaedic Capital of the World” and birthplace of orthopaedic design and manufacturing. I joined Zimmer, a leading orthopaedic device company, eventually serving as vice president of product development, and then as president of the Hall Surgical Division in California. By 1995, I was recruited by Amgen, a multibillion-dollar global biotechnology company. I served in various executive roles, including vice president of drug product and device development. Little did I know, I would later be a patient benefitting from one of the drug products my team helped develop. While at Amgen, I joined the board of a small orthopaedic company in California. After the company was acquired, I became more involved in private equity investment, as a partner at Telegraph Hill Partners and later in founding Phoenix Initiãre. In 2010, I retired from Amgen but have stayed busy with private equity and a number of nonprofit organizations. Following Clint Eastwood’s philosophy on aging, “I just get up every day and go out—and don’t let the old man in.” In 2014, I was honored to be inducted into the UK College of Engineering Hall of Distinction. To pay tribute to my father, I established the Halcomb Family Endowed Fellowship in Medicine and Engineering at UK. After a larger commitment to the endowment in 2016, the F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering became the first named department at the University. I serve as chair of the Engineering Campaign Committee and as a member of the UK Philanthropy Leadership Council. I am also a member of the Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council and Biomedical Engineering Advisory Board. In 2021, I received an honorary Doctor of Engineering from UK and was inducted into the UK Hall of Distinguished Alumni later that year. Outside my professional pursuits, I have held leadership roles in several nonprofit organizations and currently serve as a trustee of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation. I am also active in our local church and have participated in mission trips to Burundi, in central Africa, to help local churches bring lasting change in their communities. I still love driving my restored 1957 Mercedes-Benz 190SL Roadster. And I continue to play a custom drum kit made from the burlwood of a 300-year-old poplar tree. Joani and I have been blessed with two daughters and eight grandchildren, including two sets of twins. Recently, Joani and I relocated from Southern California to Franklin, Tenn., to be closer to our extended family. We are looking forward to celebrating our 50th anniversary next June. Our daughters and grandchildren bring immense joy and pride to us both.
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DR. ALAN S. HYMANSON
I had a very satisfying career after graduation from UK. Following my three-year residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital, I completed my fellowship in cardiology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. I moved to York, Maine, as the second cardiologist in a busy practice. We grew the practice to 12 cardiologists over the years servicing three hospitals. I retired after 35 years in December 2019, just before the pandemic. What luck! We now spend around six months a year at our home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., at a wonderful place called The Country Club at Mirasol. My wife, Patty, retired from her neurology practice about nine years ago and was elected to the Maine House of Representatives for four terms. She is now “termed out,” but made her mark there as chair of the Health and Human Services Committee. Great to have a physician in that capacity. We have three children, 33-yearold identical twin boys who are both working in consulting firms, one living in Dallas, and his brother in Chicago. Our daughter lives and works in mid-coast Maine at a unique place called Broad Arrow Farm. I still am an avid golfer playing about four days a week and my handicap is a respectable 7. I also am playing a fair amount of jazz piano and doing some reading. I just finished “American Prometheus” about J. Robert Oppenheimer. Great book. I continue to read a fair amount of cardiology to keep up and maintain my license. I hope all of my old friends and classmates are doing well after all these years!
DR. JAMES P. ROACH Dr. Roach is known as America’s Healer. On his newest book, Brilliance – The Pursuit of Hope, Wisdom, and the Divine, the #1 integrative oncologist for the past several decades says, “It is truly a Brilliant book, produced by a brilliant and encyclopedic mind… (he is) one of the finest physicians in the world, in the arenas of Integrative Medicine, holistic healing and in the true integration of spirituality and healing…. This is the most amazing and comprehensive book I have ever read.” Dwight McKee, MD. Brilliance is also endorsed by the #1 holistic psychiatrist Scott Shannon, MD. Robert Zieve, MD: Dr. Roach is “a sacred blending of ancient intuitive knowing, scientific prowess, and other worldly experiences…” His previous book - Vital Strategies in Cancer - gives groundbreaking insight on how to offer cancer care and outcomes at a level above what conventional oncology can achieve alone, and is endorsed by multi #1 NY Times author Mark Hyman, MD. His book on his patient’s spiritual near-death experiences God’s House Calls was #1 Amazon in four categories. CONTINUED ON NEXT
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ROACH, CONTINUED Multi NY Times #1 bestseller Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, said to Dr. Roach “You have this amazing amount of knowledge… you are one of the most encyclopedic minds I have ever met.” See Jack’s interview of Dr. Roach about Vital Strategies in Cancer at www.drroach.net. Dwight McKee, MD, calls the book “…the most important, practical, and comprehensive (indeed, encyclopedic) book to appear in the integrative cancer area that I have ever seen.” In cancer, he is a published researcher, national speaker, experienced practitioner with a national clientele, and with one of the most comprehensive understandings of integrative strategies in the world. He is one of the world’s leading integrative medicine experts, America’s top botanical physician, #1 Amazon best-selling author in holistic medicine, national speaker, international consultant, international medical educator, international media communicator, researcher, and widely sought clinician. Specializing in nutritional, botanical, functional, spiritual, integrative, genetic, and holistic medicine, he hosts, and is chief presenter for an annual national practitioner integrative holistic and cancer conference. He is “double-boarded” in integrative medicine – ABOIM, ABIHM. He has presented across the country from Connecticut to Miami, Los Angeles to Boston, and Houston to the Mayo Clinic. His current focus is transcendence, which includes increasing understanding of consciousness, extraterrestrials, and the Universe. His mission with patients is a spiritual one. His website www.drroach.net links to his conference and monthly newsletter sign-up.
DR. MITCHELL SOSIS After graduation, I did a residency in anesthesiology at Columbia University. I then practiced at academic institutions and in private practice. I also did research. I am mostly retired now and live with my wife, Judy, in a suburb of Philadelphia. I do some consulting work. We do lots of traveling and I enjoy hiking, biking, and swimming. Feel free to contact me at: mbs4117@gmail.com
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DR. JOHN D. STEWART, II
Residency: University of Texas- Houston General Surgery, 1978-83 Fellowship, Vascular Surgery, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, 1983-84 Fayette Surgical Associates, 1984-2016; managing partner 2002-2016 Lexington medical career: President, Lexington Medical Society; President, Southern Surgeons Collaborative; Chief of Staff Samaritan Hospital; Chief of Surgery, St. Joseph Hospital, KMA Delegate Board of Directors: St Joseph Hospital, Central Kentucky Blood Center, Ronald McDonald House; Numerous civic boards. 2017-present: 5th generation Chairman / CEO of Stewart Home and School (Frankfort) a family-founded (1893) family-operated private year-round residential special-needs school for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (300 residents). Wife: Dr. Magdalene Karon, OBGYN, robotic specialist Children: daughter, Magda, equine veterinarian, and son, John, engineer, Boeing
DR. MARY CATHERINE F. WELDING The expected road led to a family practice residency, 10 years in the ER group providing care at the same hospital, ACLS/ATLS/PALS training, board certifications in FP and EM, then a relocation, with a final almost year and a half at a VA outpatient clinic. After a personally chosen rest stop, a different road beckoned. It led to nearly 11 years at a private reading clinic, teaching one-to-one foundational decoding, comprehension, and basic math skills. Clients ranged from early elementary students to workforce adults. A subsequent period of part-time general tutoring in my home involved a similar variety of people and varied class work/fields, eventually receding after successful Da Vinci surgery for cancer, and lasting through the first COVID summer. An accessory road of volunteering at a Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic studio, reading aloud from health care textbooks, had overlapped and linked the main roads, until the studio was shuttered by the main office. Still, the roads had converged: several residents/attending physicians honed comprehension/study/test skills with me. They achieved their respective board certification goals after previously unsuccessful encounter(s). Diverging from Robert Frost to paraphrasing from The A-Team’s Hannibal Smith: “Don’t you love when an un-plan comes together?” Happy graduation anniversaries to all. “God bless us, everyone.” (Tiny Tim)
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DR. GREGORY P. BARCLAY
Greetings, UK College of Medicine Friends from the Class of 1983! Sally and I regret that we are unable to join you for this year’s #40 reunion as we have other obligations, but look forward to the next opportunity to gather with my classmates with whom we spent those four long years. As requested, here is an executive summary of the past 40 years in 500 words or less, wow! After graduation in 1983, I spent eight years in the U.S. Navy as a medical officer, completed my residency in general psychiatry, married, and fathered three children. I left the U.S. Navy in 1990 and worked as a clinical psychiatrist in various settings in Indiana and Iowa until pulling up stakes and leaving the Iowa prairie in 2015 to join the Delaware Medicaid Program in a full-time administrative role. On trajectory to retire from Delaware Medicaid in 2024 with plans to supervise residents at a nearby psychiatry training program, continue mentoring students in local schools, and pursue latent or new interests beyond medicine in retirement. Will continue to serve (since 2018) as president of The American Board of Adolescent Psychiatry, which offers specialty certification to general psychiatrists working with teens and young adults and am presently involved in building a core curriculum of training in adolescent psychiatry for physicians as a prerequisite to the certification. We have three grown children each with partners/spouses and three grandchildren on two coasts ranging in age between 0-4, so we are racking up the frequent flier points going back and forth to San Francisco to see two of them (and their parents too). Also, still married, and happily, to the same person as before (who never seems to age incidentally) and will celebrate #40 anniversary in 2024. Have a great reunion and let me know your updates! Definitely will see you for #45!
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DR. DEBBIE BORCHERS
Who would have imagined 40 years ago where medicine would be today? HMOs, EMRs, MRIs - there is such an alphabet soup surrounding us daily. I am glad to have been a part of this journey through the years. I’m sure we all remember our Friday cram nights for Saturday exams. I will never forget the thrill of delivering my first newborn. With my sights set on pediatrics, there were months that provided more challenges - like being at the VA. But we made the best of it - does anyone else remember our senior Lampoons songs “Papa was a VA Gome’” and “Splish Splash”? Given that our Lampoons band folded after that one gig senior year, I had to abandon the class rock band and go with the backup medical career. After graduation I moved back to Northern Kentucky for peds residency at Cincinnati Children’s, staying an extra year for a fellowship in developmental disabilities. I have spent the majority of my career in primary care in the Cincinnati area, working nine years in private practice and 25 years in federally qualified health care centers. As I became a parent through international adoption, I also became involved in adoption and foster care medicine. This led to a six-year stint on a national committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics, speaking at multiple conferences, teaching foster parents, and writing a policy statement (since revised) for the AAP. One of my highlights was being named a Congressional Angel in Adoption in 2005. It brought back many memories of returning to the University of Kentucky in February 2003 to give pediatric grand rounds on medical issues in international adoption. Although I considered retirement two years ago, I made a career pivot instead and joined the faculty of Cincinnati Children’s where I now work in the NICU follow-up clinic. Twenty percent of the time involves teaching fellows. The pace and complex patients suit me much better than primary care at this stage of my life. Life has been wonderful in so many other ways. I’m blessed with three kind, generous daughters, all born in China and adopted as little ones. Single parenting was just as challenging as med school, but also endlessly rewarding. Unfortunately, my one granddaughter lives on the west coast so I don’t have enough time with her. Besides family, my biggest accomplishment outside of medicine? Eleven half and two full marathons, including this year’s Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati through a rainstorm. I enjoy music, the arts, reading, crocheting, and just hanging with my adult kids. Despite the insane hours, alphabet soup, and challenges of medicine, I still love being a part of the crazy field we entered together over 40 years ago. For now I’ll hold onto my stethoscope and keep caring for my complex kids at Children’s. That is, until the Lampoons Revival Band is booked for another gig.
DR. CHARLES M. BEASLEY, JR. AND
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DR. REBECCA L. BUSHONG MARRIED COUPLE • COMBINED BIO
When everyone saw us last, we were off to Connecticut for our internships, Becky in a one-year pre-dermatology match in internal medicine and Charles in psychiatry. In the northeast, Charles was in his chosen element (for example, he traded easy clinical rotations for extra time in the ICU), and sleep-deprived Becky hated the year. Other than the potential effect on our relationship, Becky was quite satisfied that she matched with a dermatology residency in Cincinnati. After almost no discussion, Charles announced that he would also request a change in his residency program and arranged a transfer to Cincinnati. At that point, we knew we were a pair! Before leaving town, we decided to celebrate by scheduling our wedding ceremony in the Yale Hospital Chapel. Scott Casper gave us the most incredible wedding presents by taking an extra night of call for Becky so that we could have a two-day honeymoon in New York City. We completed our residencies at the University of Cincinnati, Becky’s in dermatology and Charles’ in psychiatry. As probably with all dual-doctor couples, where we would “set up shop” was an agonizingly complex and most assuredly not fun process. Charles was planning on taking a faculty position at the University as director of a research ward. Becky, believing we would both be settling in Cincinnati, signed a one-year contract for a dermatology position with a local multi-specialty HMO. The University began giving signs of reneging on the position that Charles had thought he would be assuming (e.g., no written contract) and then hinted that the position would be at the VA detox unit rather than the research ward. Shortly after that, Charles got a call from a recruiter looking for a psychiatrist to take a clinical research and development position with Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis. Two weeks later, Charles, still having no contract with the University, accepted the position with Lilly. Fortunately, Lilly encouraged its physicians to teach or provide clinical care a half day per week. Charles’ management was very accommodating, and he arranged a part-time teaching and occasional psychopharmacology consultant position at the University of Cincinnati, one full day every other week. We alternated our commute each weekend for our first year as “real” doctors. Having more good luck, Becky was released from her contract a month early and could finally move to Indianapolis in June 1988. Charles cannot imagine a professional opportunity for himself better than what he was able to develop at Lilly. The first drug he had major development responsibilities for was fluoxetine (Prozac®). While Charles did not contribute to the studies that resulted in the drug’s regulatory approval (FDA in the U.S.), he designed multiple post-approval studies in collaboration with academic psychiatrists around the U.S. The first drug for which he and colleagues designed the clinical studies leading to the drug’s approval was olanzapine (Zyprexa®), Lilly’s first antipsychotic. This research involved worldwide responsibilities. Charles later served as medical director for tadalafil (Cialis®) Lilly’s erectile dysfunction treatment for two years. This period was followed by two more years of working in psychiatric development. Charles spent the last quarter of his Lilly career working in the area of drug safety assessment, mostly with statisticians. CONTINUED ON NEXT
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BEASLEY, JR. AND BUSHONG, CONTINUED Early in his career, Charles traveled extensively to Western and Eastern Europe and Japan, with a few other countries thrown in. Occasionally, we traveled together, mainly to Western Europe. Becky got the advantage of a cheap vacation paying only for personal flight and food. “Uncle Eli” covered the hotels and Charles’ expenses.
One business trip was especially memorable. Becky’s mother had died in November, and she was dreading the coming Christmas holidays. To Charles’ surprise, he was required to attend a business meeting in Tokyo on Christmas Day, a secular holiday in Japan. Charles’ boss took pity on us and paid for a round-trip, Business Class ticket for Becky. Charles upgraded us both to First using some of his blue zillion frequent flyer miles. We arrived at the hotel on Christmas Eve, listened to Christmas carols in multiple languages sung by the American School choir, and had Kobe beef for dinner. The next morning (Christmas Day), we took a commercial tour of Tokyo to see a Shinto Shrine, among other sites. In the afternoon, Charles, who had stayed at our hotel multiple times, took Becky on a walking tour to Tokyo Tower and the most gorgeous, large lay-Buddhist temple. That evening was the business affair that Charles had to attend. It was an extremely formal affair in which the results of a Japanese study of olanzapine were first disclosed. Becky was able to attend as well. The next morning (the day after Christmas), we took the two-hour bus ride to Tokyo’s primary airport and flew home. It was a magical experience we both needed. Charles had mandatory retirement from Lilly at age 65 in 2015. Since then, he has been a consultant to multiple pharmaceutical companies, operating as Beasley Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Consulting, LLC. Charles did take a full-time position with a young pharmaceutical company in New Haven, Conn., but after 18 months decided consulting was preferable. Charles and the company parted ways on good terms, and that company is now his most active client. Becky loved her professional time working in clinical dermatology with a greater emphasis on clinical medicine rather than surgery or cosmetics. She initially worked with a wonderful, small dermatology group in Muncie, Ind. After about seven years, she got tired of commuting one hour each way to the office and decided to open a small private practice in Anderson, Ind., which had about half the driving time to her office. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for her to discover that trying to run a small private solo practice was a disaster. It took way too long to decide to close the office, but it was a relief to have made the decision and to return to being an employed doc. The remainder of her dermatology career was spent working where needed in dermatology offices in Central Indiana. When the pandemic arrived, Becky planned on taking a three-month leave of absence until it passed. When it became apparent that COVID was not going away quickly, the leave was converted to permanent retirement in October 2020. To take advantage of our newfound retirement freedom, we moved to a 55-year and older community (Meadowood) in Bloomington, Ind. (Yes, it is the home of Indiana University, and we now own IU sweatshirts!). We have also found time to enjoy our hobby - book collecting!!!!! During our internships, we visited an antique show/fair where we purchased a stereopticon with cards illustrating dermatologic diseases. This was the beginning of what has become a significant hobby for us. When traveling, Charles initially began collecting antiquarian dermatology books and manuscripts as gifts for Becky. The travels that Charles made to Europe facilitated the collecting because Charles could visit brick-and-mortar antiquarian dealers’ shops in the early 1990s before sales through the Internet were legal. With the addition of internet shopping, adding to the collection has become easier but less fun. Due to concern for the safety of the dermatology books, especially after a roof leak, we donated the collection to the Lilly Rare Book Library on the IU campus here in Bloomington in 2009. This library houses antiquarian books, manuscripts, and special collections. We can now visit the books as often as we like, and in conjunction with the Lilly Library itself, we continue to add to the collection. So, if any of you make it to Bloomington, we would love to introduce you to the Lilly Library and our obsession!
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DR. SCOTT E. CASPER Associate Clinical Professor, Yale Medical School.
Clinical Practice in Obstetrics and Gynecology since 1987, Yale New Haven Hospital. Completed Master of Health Science (Medical Education), Yale Medical School 2020. Active in obstetrical simulation, Yale Medical School. I teach multiple courses at Yale Medical School and Yale physician assistant program. Married 46 Years, I have two daughters (36, 39) one grandson, age 3. Adopted daughter (Nicole) age 7. I completed 10 marathons. Triathlete (completed Louisville Ironman 2013). Avid cyclist and swimmer.
DR. KIM CLAWSON ROSENSTEIN After graduation in 1983, I did my residency at UK in family medicine. They were trying to groom me for geriatric care so I did a lot of extra work, lectures, and meetings in geriatrics, but I took a left turn and joined student health (now the University Health Service) which I loved from the moment I did my medical school and family medicine rotations there! I enjoyed 14 years there, splitting my time between the walk-in clinic, gynecology, and sports medicine (team physician for various sports at UK). After leaving UK I joined a family practice with Dr. Jim Roach in Midway that soon after became The Midway Center for Integrative Medicine. I enjoyed taking numerous courses in holistic, integrative, and functional medicine. I retired from the bureaucracy of medicine in 2013 really to spend more time with my family, especially all of our aging parents. Since that time my husband of 41 years, three children, their spouses, and five grandchildren have kept me very busy and happy! All stages of my medical career have been very fulfilling, and my latest certification has been in the Bredesen Protocol for Alzheimer’s disease through Apollo Health. It is an intense course that needs to be in all medical schools developed through research and actually reversing dementia. It was developed by Dale and Aida (Lasheen) ‘83 Bredesen, so we will see where it takes me, but maybe I am going back to geriatrics after all!
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DR. ROBERT L. CORGAN
I did a family medicine residency in Cincinnati with an interest in attitude formation. Ruth and I married in 1984, and she has been with me since by the grace of God. Residency was completed in 1986 and I was recruited to the emergency department of Deaconess Hospital Cincinnati. Planning to stay for 30 days, I stayed for 22 years. Now gone, Deaconess was thought to be a family doctor’s hospital. I worked full-time in the ED and attended inpatient, ICU, and nursing homes in two states with 12 referring physicians. I never said “no” and worked 90 hours a week. I got professional help to cut back. Ruth finished dental school at UK and our family grew. Liz, Ted and Dan. A shoulder injury forced Ruth to leave dentistry. Liz finished college and works for 3M. Ted finished UD in Engineering. Dan designs transformers for Pike Engineering. Both boys are Eagle Scouts. Ruth provided tender loving care for her now deceased mom and dad. COVID was a horror show. I have a tiny concierge medical practice. 10 hours a week. I sing with three choral groups for fun. A chorist’s motto: “If you can breathe, you can sing." Anyone wishing to sing at the reunion should contact me. Postcards: Ruth and I do not travel, but friends do. I have postcards from all over the world. Send one please! Some in the family have chronic medical problems. But that keeps us humble. I am well read on the attitudes of “substance use disorders.” See you soon! Regards to all. Go Wildcats!
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DR. RONALD DWINNELLS
Ronald Dwinnells, MD, is the founder and chief executive officer of the Ohio North East Health Systems, Inc. located in northeastern Ohio. He earned his undergraduate (BS) and medical degrees (MD) from the University of Kentucky and his MBA from the George Washington University in Washington D.C. Serving as a pediatric resident and later chief resident between 1983 through 1986, Dr. Dwinnells completed a threeyear pediatric residency training at Tod Children’s Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. He helped establish the Ohio North East Health Systems, Inc., known as ONE Health Ohio in 1986 to help address the health care needs of the poor and medically underserved populations in Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley. Thirty-seven years later, Dr. Dwinnells has grown the program from a four-person, $50,000 annual budget organization to its present $27 million budget, employing over 250 doctors, dentists, counselors, nurses, and clerical staff to service 10 health centers throughout Youngstown, Warren, Newton Falls, and Alliance. During his 37-year tenure, Dr. Dwinnells has written for and received over $70 million worth of federal grants and has infused over $300 million into the local economy through health care services and improving the community’s health. His clinical facilities have provided medical, dental, and mental health care to over one million patient-visits since opening these facilities, most of whom were medically uninsured, underinsured or underserved. For these efforts, he was awarded the University of Kentucky’s Community Service Award (2004), the HOPE Lifetime Achievement Award (2022), the Mahoning Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce, Non-Profit Professional of the Year Award (2021), and the Regional Medical Society’s Distinguished Physician Award (2022), and the City of Youngstown Hometown Hero Award (2022). Dr. Dwinnells has also conducted and published clinical research studies focusing on integrative health care delivery programs and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). His research interests include emotional and behavioral trauma of children, disparities of health care delivery, health care economics, and integrative behavioral health care in the clinical setting. He is also the founder of a private nonprofit foundation called Butterflies and Hope which endeavors to support childhood mental and behavioral health issues afflicting the youth of our communities. He fundraises for this foundation through his hobby of mountain climbing and has now climbed 21 mountains including some of the world’s highest peaks such as Mt. Rainier, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and Mt. Elbrus in Russia. Dr. Dwinnells is also an award-winning author of the book titled, “Don’t Pick Up All the Dog Hairs, Lessons for Life and Leadership.” His second book, “30-Days hath September,” a fictional novel, is scheduled to be published later this year. He has four other book projects he is currently working on. Ron is married to Kathy Dwinnells, PhD, a nursing professor at Kent State University. They have five children, Erin (an English professor in Tokyo, Japan), Sarah (a speech pathologist in New York City for the Manhattan School District), Emily (a billing and collection manager at ONE Health Ohio), Abbey (a fourth-year medical student at Central Michigan State University), and Adam (a senior undergraduate student majoring in political science/pre-law at Kent State University). Despite having an amazingly varied and adventurous life, Dr. Dwinnells is proudest and most satisfied with how he and his wife built such a wonderful and beautiful family!
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DR. JOHN FURCOLOW
I finished residency in 1986 and came to Prestonsburg (in Appalachia) to practice. A lot of long nights. I worked at the local hospital (both in private practice and for the local hospital) as well as at local clinics and the VA. I retired in 2017. Still married to Melisa (51 years), with two kids and three grandkids. I have gone to Perú 16 times on medical missions. Many war stories but those will have to wait for another time. Have fun.
DR. AIDA LASHEEN-BREDSEN After completing family practice residency in San Francisco, I worked at Kaiser in SF, then at UCLA Student Health. My friendship with Dr. Kim Clawson-Rosenstein and my years spent in third-world countries inspired an interest in functional medicine which seeks to understand root causes of chronic illness. The research of my husband, a neuroscientist and neurologist, showed that ApoE4 (the most common genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease) impacts many genes related to inflammation. We realized that our interests converged, and we have been working together to try to understand and treat this devastating illness. We are very rewarded to have witnessed many reversals and humbled by how much remains to be learned. We have two wonderful daughters and enjoy their proximity to us in the Bay Area.
DR. GLEN LIESEGANG After graduation, I married Karen Ann Wipke, a family therapist in training whom I met at UKMC. That summer, we moved to Winston-Salem where I began an internship in family medicine at Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Sadly, it soon became apparent that our choice was not a wise one, and led to our separation and my repeating my intern year at the Bristol Regional Family Practice Medicine CONTINUED ON NEXT
LIESEGANG, CONTINUED Program in 1984, which I completed in 1987. Although, through this, I learned to trust in God and learned much about interpersonal and family dynamics, which has served me well over the years. Sadly, Karen and I divorced in 1985.
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After completing my residency, I joined two other physicians at the Blowing Rock Medical Clinic in the small resort town in the western portion of the state. In our rural clinic, my responsibilities were wide and varied, with being on-call one night in three, which increased to one in two when a partner was out of town, often for two weeks. As our town has many retirees and “snowbirds” from Florida, I trained to receive additional qualifications in geriatric medicine.
Over my 24 years of practice with our group, I used every ounce of my training at UKMC and BRFM, except for obstetrics and neonatal and infant care, to truly provide cradle to grave medical care. At the peak of my responsibilities, I practiced outpatient medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, psychiatry, acute and hospital inpatient medicine, rehabilitation medicine, and long-term and palliative care. We even had industrial medicine patients at the IRC factory in nearby Boone, and I assisted in occasional surgeries. Our clinic was connected to the small rural Blowing Rock Hospital and Extended Care facility. In the ER, any medical condition could come through the door at any minute, day or night, most often skin rashes, foreign bodies in the eye from the coal-burning trains at the nearby Tweetsie Railroad theme park, tick bite, earache, acute pharyngitis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, and musculoskeletal issues, and burns from campfires from nearby National Forest campgrounds. Though not an “adrenaline junkie,” my pulse would race when the ambulance arrived at our doors with patient with moderately severe lacerations to repair, victims of falls and motor vehicle accidents who needed triage, patients with strokes, heart attacks, life-threatening medical conditions like DKA, severe asthma,and arrhythmias. I would perform ACLS to hopefully resuscitate victims of cardiac arrest via ACLS. We admitted patients as well, to the Watauga Medical Center in nearby Boone, covering the full range of internal medicine issues on the regular floors, the Coronary Care and Intensive Care Units, following them to discharge and placement. In our SNF, we cared for patients needing rehabilitation after knee and hip surgeries. I received my certification in geriatric medicine, and, at our SNF, cared for our patients in the nursing home and dementia care units. Many times I was called on to care for terminal patients and to provide solace to grieving families. In 2012, I left the clinic to join the outpatient - only rural Happy Valley Medical Center in nearby Lenoir. In 2018, I moved on to the High Country Community Health Clinic in Boone, NC. At both clinics, we cared for the homeless, uninsured, Medicaid and Medicare patients and those suffering from mental health issues and substance abuse. Linda recently retired from serving for many years as the chief pharmacist at the Hunger and Health Coalition in Boone, which provided free medications for the uninsured. Soon after starting practice, I met the hospital’s beautiful pharmacist named Linda Harirus. We were both from “Up North,” Lutheran, and shared interests in hiking and owning animals, and travel. We were soon married, then built our dream farmhouse adjoining the Moses Cone Park. We only have two daughters. Holly was born in 1993, and through an adoption, which can only be called miraculous, our youngest, Emma, in 2002. Holly lives in Roanoke and is an occupational therapist, and Emma is still in University of NC Asheville. She is divorced, has one child, Helena, now age 12, with whom she shares custody. Over the years, Linda and I have loved being in our home’s peaceful setting outside Blowing Rock, our yard and surroundings, and especially the outstanding natural beauty. We taught ourselves “natural horsemanship,” have owned numerous horses, and have enjoyed both hiking and riding our painted Tennessee Walkers on the many miles of horse trails. Sadly, Bella, at 32 is now out to pasture. We have loved and lost numerous dogs and cats, and have raised several broods from chicks into flocks of free-range adults, enjoying fresh eggs daily. Other activities we have also enjoyed are local hikes, travel, mainly in our region, but also to Williamsburg, Virginia and SC beaches, “out West,” and to Europe several times. We frequently visit Holly in Roanoke on weekends with Helena when Holly does not come down.
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DR. THOMAS LITTON
After graduation, I completed a residency in general surgery at Richland Memorial Hospital/USC School of Medicine in Columbia, S.C., the last half of which was spent under the tutelage of Dr. Rick Bell, whom you may remember from the UK surgical faculty. Since then, I have been actively practicing in Charleston, S.C., at Trident Medical Center and affiliated sites, experiencing the range of medical staff offices (chief of surgery, chief of staff, chairman of Board of Trustees) as would be expected with longevity. I have been a fellow of the American College of Surgeons since 1991, serving as president of the S.C. chapter and governor of the college. I’m still very active in clinical practice, doing everything from routine general surgical operations to complex robotic procedures. Our facility has just started its own surgical residency program, and I have been pushed into the associate program director role, which has actually been rewarding in the opportunity to bring new blood into the surgical community and teach some promising residents. I hope you all are doing well and enjoying life, and I am sorry I will not be able to attend the reunion.
DR. LARRY C. MUNCH After graduation, I completed a urology residency at UK and was invited to be an assistant professor on the UK faculty with specialization in minimally invasive urology. I was promoted to associate professor and received the initial Will Farrish Endowment Chair for Endourology. In 2001, I joined the faculty at Indiana University Health where I was co-director of the Minimally Invasive Fellowship program. In 2012, I moved to the Denver/Boulder area and joined a multi-specialty group (Boulder Medical Center). I became chair of surgery at Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville, Colo., and received my MBA from the University of Colorado in 2019. After earning my MBA (much harder than what I remember of medical school), I joined the Marshfield Clinic in central Wisconsin where I worked through the COVID years. After buying a “retirement” house in Bayfield, Wisc. (population 584) overlooking Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands, I joined the Memorial Medical Center of Ashland, Wisc., in 2022 and moved full-time to Bayfield. Over the years, I have sailed competitively, earned my commercial pilot rating which allowed me to fly a pressurized turboprop over the mountains and beyond until I sold in during the COVID years due to lack of flight hours and continued my bicycling and cooking hobbies. I have purchased a 1900-era building in Bayfield which is being converted back to a bar which occupied the main floor from 1934-2000. I hope to make it into an art deco style wine bar with a kitchen that will initially serve up charcuterie boards during the tourist season and prepare “cook at home” meals and breads in the off-season. I have shared most of these adventures with Paulette Holley, MD, who also completed her urology residency, since 2002 although we have never practiced in the same city, but share all of the properties and as much free time together as we can. I look forward to seeing as many of my 1983 classmates as I can!
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DR. DOUGLAS G. OWEN Once I graduated medical school, I went on to do a residency in ophthalmology at UK. Adrienne Millett, also an ophthalmologist, and I had three boys.
The oldest is a pilot for Fedex. The youngest is a pilot for United Airlines. My middle son got his degree in public relations. They all went to Eastern Kentucky University. I am very proud of them. I have two grandkids whose names are Hunter and Ruby Cate. I was a member of Baptist Health Hospital in Richmond (formally Pattie A. Clay Hospital). I was on medical staff for 35 years. During that time, I was the president of the Medical Executive Committee. I was on the board of the hospital for 10 years and rotated off in January 2022. I owned commercial and residential property in Richmond. I was a developer and established three developments in Richmond, Ky. I received a beautification award from the chamber of commerce for one of my developments. I was a head of the downtown revitalization for several years. I also received, from the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, the Wallace Maffett Award for many years of outstanding service and contributions to the quality of life in the community. After doing Leadership Madison County, I went on to do Leadership Kentucky. I was part of a group that started Madison Bank, which was purchased by Kentucky Bank and then Stock Yards Bank. I sold my practice in 2019 to Huffman and Huffman. I am still working part-time for Huffman and Huffman but primarily in Lexington, Ky. I have been involved in philanthropic endeavors. I have contributed to Baptist Health Richmond Hospital, for which they named the surgical waiting room after me. I am contributing to the UK College of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences to develop a lecture series for the residents. I am presently on the board of the Baptist Health Hospital Foundation in Richmond, Ky. I was on the advisory board for Hospice from 2004-2007. In 2022, I moved to Lexington from a house I designed on a napkin and built in in Boone Trace, Madison County. The biggest change in my thinking came when I was in my late 40s. At that time I formally developed several aphorism on how I wanted to live my life. Winston Churchill said, “We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.”
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DR. JOHN M. PATTERSON
I completed my residency in urology at the University of Kentucky in 1988 and spent the remainder of my career in Frankfort, Ky., in group practice initially Tri- County Urology Associates with Dr. Willett Rush. We eventually merged with Commonwealth Urology in Lexington forming a large group treating patients in South Central Kentucky. Finally, Commonwealth Urology joined Lexington Clinic as associate physicians where I remained until retirement, still working in Frankfort. Ann Pollock-Patterson, MD (‘82, internal medicine) and I practiced in Frankfort for over 34 years until our joint retirement in January 2022 and raised three wonderful children. Elaine Alexander MD is a rheumatologist in Lexington, Miles is a software developer in Cincinnati, and Daniel is an engineer in Lexington. We continue to live in a nature preserve at Frankfort’s State Fish and Wildlife Game Farm where we enjoy gardening and communing with deer, raccoons, and other garden pests. Of course, my passion has been aviation and along with the practice of urology I was able, along with my father, to restore several airplanes over the years. The latest was a 1934 biplane that still graces the skies of Frankfort and Lexington on clear days. I was also an FAA air medical examiner for pilots. Since retirement we have been busy with travel and with our three grandchildren, and it seems to take up all of our time. Ann and I have also been very involved in the formation of a Global Methodist Church here in Frankfort, which we hope will grow, serve, and do good things in our community. We look forward to seeing everyone and comparing notes.
DR. JAMES PETTEY I took my last few weeks as an elective in West Africa, got enamored with an RN from CA who was there for a year, and extended a couple of weeks and missed the grad ceremony. I did an FP residency but quickly found out that wasn’t for me so took a year off, spent a year in Kenya at a mission hospital, joined the USAF (meant to stay three years, wound up staying 20), did a second residency in orthopedic surgery at UC Davis, and just retired about five years ago. But I still do volunteer work overseas and am on a few disaster response teams, so I still have some fun. I did marry the RN and one son is in his final year at UT Galveston. (He’s up here now studying for his USMLE part II) and wants to be a pediatrician.
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DR. ELLEN SUTHERLAND
After graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, we moved to Houston, Texas, completing a pediatric residency and a chief residency at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. My husband, Jim Freeman, was also at Baylor doing cancer research. In 1987 we moved back to Kentucky where I joined a primary care pediatric practice in Lexington. Jim became faculty at UK. In 1993, the UK College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics recruited me to be clinical director of the private practice clinic. In that capacity I helped start an after hours clinic that remains in operation today. In 1998, Jim was recruited to the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio so we relocated to Texas. After that move, I started a pediatric hospitalist practice at Methodist Children’s Hospital of South Texas. The remainder of my career was spent doing inpatient pediatrics. In addition to my hospital work, I started an after-hours pediatric clinic Good Night Pediatrics in 2004. In 2016, I started working part-time. True to my goal of wanting to live in Kentucky, Jim and I returned to Lexington in 2016 and continued to work part-time in San Antonio until we fully retired in 2020. Despite busy careers, Jim and I found time to have two children - Millie born in 1989 and Thomas in 1998. Millie kept the tradition alive becoming the fourth generation in my family to graduate from the University of Kentucky. She returned to San Antonio to marry her high school sweetheart where she now lives. Millie and her husband have blessed us with four grandchildren. Thomas has always loved city life and received his undergraduate degree from NYU. After spending two years as a writer for a magazine in NYC, he returned to graduate school getting a masters in advertising in Richmond, Va. Once he obtained his graduate degree, he returned to NYC working for a large advertising agency. Since our retirement, Jim and I have enjoyed traveling. We remain huge UK Wildcat fans. I have become very involved in a small nonprofit organization that provides preventive health care to children in Guatemala. As a board member of that organization, I go to Guatemala twice a year on medical missions. Currently, my days are filled with watching the Wildcats, playing duplicate bridge, sweating through personal training sessions, walking with friends, taking tennis lessons, and being a grandmother. Life is full.
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DR. DAVID VICKERS
Married Jane April of 1983. Moved to Columbia, S.C., for family practice residency at USC. (Richland Memorial and VA Hospital). Finished in 1986. Moved to Henderson, Ky., and enjoyed six years of family practice. Moved to Franklin, Tenn., and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville with my brother and did an anesthesia residency from 1992-94. I joined Nashville Anesthesia Services January of 1995. Two of the other doctors are UK grads. Semi-retired now. Play racquetball Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Boat, surf, wakeboard, and ski on Tims Ford Lake every chance I get. We travel and enjoy the National Parks. My son, Hunter, and his wife, Maddie, have a son, Forrest, and they also live in Franklin.
DR. JOHN C. WELCH I attended the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 1979-1983. I was blessed to attend UK as an out-of-state applicant. I fulfilled my promise to continue with primary care by accepting a family practice residency in Terre Haute, Ind. Little did I know that I would practice in Terre Haute for the next 39 years as a family physician. I retired in October of 2022. The business aspect of medicine overtook the profession of medicine, and I was happy to retire although I continue to miss the relationships with colleagues and patients. Life is great as I enjoy the time with my wife, Ann, of 44 years and my four sons. We are blessed with two daughters-in-law and three grandchildren. I continue to staff the local family practice residency program offering my “experience” to the youngsters. I like to travel, read, go to sporting events, backpacking, or being with my family. My Catholic Faith is a big part of my life.
IMPROVING HEALTH CARE FOR KENTUCKIANS AND BEYOND The University of Kentucky is excited to officially break ground on its new innovative, state-of-the-art Health Education Building. This world-class health education facility will include approximately 515,000 square-feet of classrooms, simulation suites, seminar rooms, conference rooms, and faculty and staff workplaces for the future site of the UK College of Medicine. It also will house programs and services for the UK colleges of Public Health, Health Sciences, Nursing, and the Center for Interprofessional and Community Health Education. The building will serve as the hub for medical-related education and preparation for the next generation of health leaders in the Commonwealth and beyond. Because of the new Health Education Building:
• Medicine will be enabled to grow to one of the largest medical schools in the country with the ability to enroll more than 1,000 medical students, a 30-percent overall increase.
• Nursing will be able to double its enrollment in the traditional program, increase enrollment in the Accelerated
Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, and offer new programming specialized to the needs and resources of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
• Health Sciences will be able to introduce new programs and increase its enrollment by more than 30 percent across 10 programs.
• Public Health will be able to increase enrollment by more than 60 percent across its undergraduate and graduate programs.
• The Center will be able to impact 50 percent more students annually who will be prepared to provide quality teambased care as professionals.
The University of Kentucky will break ground on Friday, Oct. 27, as many of our College of Medicine alumni will be on campus for their reunions. The building will include naming opportunities. We invite our alumni interested in contributing to the new Health Education Building to contact the Office of Philanthropy. philanthropy@uky.edu | Sturgill Philanthropy Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0015 (800) 875-6272 | (859) 257-3911 | provost.uky.edu/heb
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