Temple Medicine, Summer 2006

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TEACHING NEW MEDICINE THE TEMPLE WAY

THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNVEILS A NEW CURRICULUM

ALSO INSIDE: TEMPLE ALUMNI LEADERS IN SPORTS MEDICINE

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New Medicine Taught the Temple Way 2

page 40 E D I TO R / P R I N C I PA L W R I T E R

Celebrating the Art and Science of Surgery: The Babcock Surgical Society’s Centennial 8 25+ Year Faculty Club 10 page 2

Giselle Zayon Director, Alumni Affairs A RT D I R E C TO R / D E S I G N E R

Jacqueline Spadaro Temple University Office of Publications [322-0506] E D I TO R I A L A S S I S TA N C E

In the Game: Temple Alumni Leaders in Sports Medicine 12

Departments

Kenneth R. Cundy, PhD Beth Galinsky Jannine Medrana Barbara Rubin CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Vivica Aycox Gwen Coverdale Tory Harris Eryn Jelesiewicz Preston Moretz Jordan Reese Ingrid Thack P H OTO G R A P H E R S

Joe Labolito Mark Stehle DEAN

John M. Daly, MD ’73

News Notes 15

A S S I S TA N T D E A N , DEVELOPMENT and A L U M N I A F FA I R S

Irv Hurwitz

Alumni and Faculty Honors and Awards 22

P R E S I D E N T, A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N

Paul Hermany, MD ’82 CORRESPONDENCE

Class Notes 30

Temple University School of Medicine Alumni Office 3223 N. Broad Street, Suite 415 Philadelphia, PA 19140 215.707.4850 800.331. 2839

Match Day 40

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Philanthropy Notes 42 In Memoriam 45

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TO MOVE FORWARD, LOOK BACK “In medicine, as in all disciplines, new models do not necessarily replace the old; rather, they take the best of, refine, and move ahead,” says Gerry Sterling, PhD, Associate Dean for Medical Student Education, who played a key role in the curriculum renewal process.

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“That’s why we pay homage to Temple’s great past with the introduction of six “colleges” as an organizational tool for our new curriculum,” adds Ellie Kelepouris, MD, Professor of Medicine, who also played a key role in the effort.

Named for legendary Temple faculty: Babcock, Durant, Marks, Nelson, Parkinson, and Sherry, each college enrolls 30 students, follows an identical track, and has a college master (a senior member of the clinical faculty) and eight core faculty (seven clinical and one basic science) who each serve as preceptors to three students. Each college also has two faculty advisors representing the basic sciences.

Subspecialists serve all colleges to provide special training in their areas of expertise.

The students in each college travel together through a system of interdisciplinary “blocks” rather than discipline-specific courses. The path they take is outlined on page 4.

The Medical School’s new curriculum groups students into six colleges named for legendary faculty: Drs. Parkinson, Sherry, Durant, Marks, Nelson, and Babcock (biographies on facing page).

THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNVEILS A NEW CURRICULUM Medicine is changing. Therefore what we teach must change.

Education itself is changing. We know more than ever about how people learn. Therefore how we teach must change.

The entire landscape of medical science is changing. Advances in technology are changing it, shifting demographics are changing it, and new care delivery and financing models are changing it. Therefore, the way we prepare physicians to work in the new milieu must change, too.

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and in what context, setting, and order. More than 80 percent of medical schools in the United States are revising their approaches to medical education, as are many schools throughout Europe and Southeast Asia.

After three years of intensive planning and research, Temple introduced an exciting new curriculum this past September. The Class of 2009 will be the first to negotiate all four years of it.

While radically changed in some respects, the new curriculum retains the special qualities and values that say Temple.

“It’s the new Temple way of teaching medicine,” says John Daly, MD ’73, Dean.

THE FIRST AND SECOND YEARS Years One and Two have thematic designs. Year One covers normal body structure and function.

Year Two covers disease processes—the causes, diagnosis and management of disease.

Year One is divided into seven blocks covering basic science concepts, plus a longitudinal course spanning the entire year. This course, Doctoring, provides students with opportunities to apply information in the clinical setting.

“We are teaching students to think like clinicians from day one,” says the Dean. For instance, they might learn about the anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the heart in the morning, then listen to heart sounds that afternoon. It’s all about interweaving didactics with their clinical correlates.

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ME DIC AL EDUCATI ON MODE LS THROUGH HISTORY Apprenticeship Model Discipline-Based Organ System Model Problem-Based Model Clinical Presentation Model Competency-Based Model

1760’s 1870’s 1950’s 1970’s 1990’s Today

NAMESAKES OF OUR SIX COLLEGES W. Wayne Babcock, MD (1872–1963), surgical innovator, educator, and author, became Chair of Surgery in 1903 and taught at Temple for 45 years. He earned worldwide recognition for pioneering the usage of spinal anesthesia and stainless steel sutures; for developing the abdominoperipheral proctosigmoidectomy and other procedures; and for inventing such surgical instruments as Babcock’s viscera forceps and Babcock’s sump drain. Babcock’s Principles and Practice of Surgery remained the authoritative text in surgery through the 1950s.

Waldo E. Nelson, MD (1898–1997), a giant in the field of pediatrics, came to Temple in 1940 and chaired the Department of Pediatrics for 24 years. He also served as Director of Philadelphia’s St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, bringing it to prominence as a regional referral center. In addition to developing renown in tuberculosis, juvenile diabetes, and convalescent care for children, Dr. Nelson gained world-wide fame as the longtime editor of the “green bible,” the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, which was published through numerous editions and translated into dozens of languages.

William N. Parkinson MD (1886–1971), a graduate of the School of Medicine’s class of 1911, served as Associate Dean at Temple 1921 to 1924, left to continue his studies, then returned in 1929 as Medical Director and Dean—a post he held for 30 years. In the Conwellian tradition, Dr. Parkinson was known for making medical education accessible to talented students from all backgrounds and for recruiting faculty of national and international renown. Deeply involved in all aspects of the school’s life, it often seemed he ran the operation single-handedly, managing strategic decisions and minute details.

Sol Sherry, MD (1916–1993), a pioneer in the field of thrombosis, served as Chair of Medicine at Temple 1968 to 1984, founded the Thrombosis Research Center which now bears his name, and was Dean of the School of Medicine from1984 to 1986.

Dr. Sherry revolutionized the treatment of acute MI through his pioneering work in thrombolytic therapy and trained many of the leaders in the field of thrombosis and hemostasis today. He founded the Council on Thrombosis of the American Heart Association and the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

Thomas Durant, MD (1905–1977), the consummate diagnostician, joined the Temple faculty in 1936 and served as Chair of Medicine from 1956 to 1966. With his methodical approach to history and physical exam, he culled findings at the bedside that would later be confirmed through laboratory analysis—enthralling students, residents, and colleagues alike. He also made notable contributions in electrocardiography, contrast visualization, and the dynamics of circulation and respiration. Dr. Durant was Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine and President of both the American Federation for Clinical Research and the American College of Physicians.

Dawn B. Marks, PhD (1937–2000), beloved for her devotion to students and love of teaching, joined the Biochemistry faculty at Temple in 1968 and served as Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies from 1984 to 1998. She developed innovative teaching techniques in biochemistry and molecular biology, always grounding concepts in clinical medicine. Her text, Review of Biochemistry (1990), has been translated into five languages and became the basis for a USMLE biochemistry board review book.

She also wrote Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach (1996), and developed computer-based teaching programs. She was honored with numerous teaching awards throughout her career.

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The Year-One Doctoring course, “Introduction to the Culture and Practice of Medicine,” acquaints students with the skills that are fundamental to the practice of clinical medicine: performing a complete history and conducting a physical exam; gathering and documenting data for the medical record; demonstrating a working knowledge of medical ethics, professional behavior, and an understanding of the factors impacting health and healthcare delivery.

“It’s the foundation of clinical problem solving,” notes Dr. Kelepouris, who serves as Course Director.

Year Two contains 10 blocks that are systemsbased, again featuring both basic and clinical topics, and again, with the year-long Doctoring course collating information and experience into a practical, clinical whole. The focus of the YearTwo Doctoring course is on more advanced interviewing and physical examination skills and physical diagnosis. Students see patients in the hospital as well as in ambulatory and community practice settings and submit write-ups of complete patient evaluations. Preceptors guide students on their presentation skills and begin introducing concepts of clinical reasoning.

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Intro to Medical Practice

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Orientation; Intro to Medical Ethics; Intro to the Patient

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Required Core Clinical Clerkships 8 WEEKS EACH Internal Medicine

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Distribution throughout the year by Group May

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January

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April

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Doctoring 301 Evidence-Based Medicine and FCC301 Professionalism, Medical Decision-Making Throughout the Year

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YEAR FOUR BLOCK 1

Structural Anatomy

2 weeks

Integrated Systems in Gross Anatomy

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Elements of Bioscience

11 weeks

Basics of Genetics; Molecular Biology; Basic Cell and Tissue Structure and Function; Cellular Physiology, Signalling and Metabolism; Biochemistry of Nutrients

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Body Systems I

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Development, structure, physiology and biochemistry of the Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Urinary and Gastrointestinal Systems

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Body Systems II

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Development, structure , physiology, and biochemistry of the Integument, the Musculoskeletal System, Endocrine and Reproductive Systems

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Body Systems III

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Concepts in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology; basics of psychological development and behavior

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Basic Principles of Immunology, Pathology and Pharmacology

4.5 weeks Intro to Pathology and Pharmacology; Immunology and Inflammation

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Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

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Microbiology; Virology; Parasitology; Infectious Diseases; Antimicrobial Drugs

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Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Cardiovascular Disease

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Respiratory System

3 weeks

Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Respiratory Disease

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Musculoskeletal System

2 weeks

Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Diseases of the Skin and Musculoskeletal System

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Gastrointestinal System

3 weeks

Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Gastrointestinal Disease

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Central Nervous System

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Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Neurologic and Psychiatric Disease; Behavioral Medicine; Neuropharmacology

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Renal System

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Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Renal Disease

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Endocrine and Reproductive Medicine

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Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Endocrine and Reproductive Disease

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Hematology and Oncology

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Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Diseases of Blood

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Required Core Clinical Clerkships 4 Surgical Emergency Intensive Care Anesthesiology Subspecialties and Radiology Medicine

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YEARS THREE AND FOUR Years Three and Four consist of rotations in anesthesiology and critical care, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery, emergency medicine, neurosciences, radiology, sub-internships in medicine, family medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery, plus 16 weeks of electives. Throughout, using an evidencebased approach, students are expected to delve into the clinical literature to support their clinical decisions.

During Year Three, the Doctoring sequence culminates with an observed history and physical examination. Further, preceptors begin advising students on course selection and postgraduate plans.

While the concept of clerkships itself is not new, the School of Medicine has substantially broadened the variety of settings in which the rotations are offered in order to expose students to diverse settings and locales for delivery of care—rural, urban, hospital-based, private office-based, primary, specialty, etc.

“Having had a head start in terms of clinical exposure in the new curriculum, our students are going to get more out of their rotations than ever before,” says the Dean.

THE NEW MODEL: COMPETENCY As outlined in the chart of medical education models on page 3, various themes have organized the approach to medical education through the years. The newest approach is a focus on competencies—competencies pertaining to everything doctoring entails: a knowledge base in basic and clinical science, well-developed clinical skills, and professionalism.

“Remember, it’s possible to be ‘good’ at all the individual components, yet still not be competent,” cautions the Dean. “That’s why the ability to integrate and synthesize skills and knowledge is the real secret to the art of medicine.”

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By teaching the basic sciences in relationship to clinical medicine, we are teaching in a manner consistent with the way physicians actually practice medicine,” he says.

“In real life, we would never approach a patient strictly from a biochemistry perspective and then switch to physiology. Developing the ability to think in an integrated fashion is essential for the physician,” he says, “and our new curriculum is designed to teach just that.”

Moreover, the new curriculum tackles the topics of professionalism, medical ethics and communication head on—not like in the “old days” when such matters were left to students to develop on their own.

“Do students automatically know how to interact with patients—or give bad news to families—or deal confidently with ethical issues?” poses the Dean. “No,” he asserts. “We now place much more focus on these important matters and build in opportunities for observation and practice.”

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SIMULATION AND STANDARDIZATION

Last fall, the School of Medicine opened a new Institute for Clinical Simulation and Patient Safety, the most sophisticated venue of its type in Philadelphia—and the only in the country to combine two of the hottest teaching tools in medicine: Simulation and standardization.

“It’s preparation for working with real patients, but not a replacement,” says Andrew Herlich, MD, DMD, Medical Director of the Simulation Center and Professor of Anesthesiology, Otolaryngology and Pediatrics. “Working with standardized patients helps students get over their jitters, practice basic techniques, and gain valuable experience in dealing with ethical dilemmas.”

Standardized patient programs have been around for many years, but now examining standardized patients is required for licensure. In the making for a decade, the clinical-skills component of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam was introduced in 2003. The test is a day-long event for FourthYear students who see 12 standardized patients for about 15 minutes each, recording medical histories, and suggesting diagnoses and management.

The exam measures how well students communicate with patients, how sensitive they are to patients’ emotions and cultural preferences.

Do they communicate clearly, without medical jargon? Do they make good eye contact? As they palpate the body or listen to the heart, do they explain what they are doing and why?

Charles D. Crigger, MD ’80, listens to Sim Man’s chest during the alumni tour of the new facility during class reunion weekend

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With 7,000 square-feet of flexible, modern space, the Simulation Center of the Institute houses programmable, anatomically detailed and physiologically functional mannequins and task trainers that are used to teach clinical skills.

And right next door is a Patient Skills Center, a suite designed like a private physician’s office, which accommodates the School’s standardized patient program. This program employs actors trained to present symptoms of various illnesses, helping students learn to take histories, conduct physical exams, make diagnoses, and relate to patients as professionals.

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Treating people is clearly the ultimate point— but starting with “standardized” and “simulated” ones is a very safe and effective approach.

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Six colleges of 30 students each, named after Babock, Durant, Marks, Nelson, Parkinson, and Sherry The teaching of basic science and clinical medicine is interwoven, just as medicine is practiced Emphasis on physician competencies: knowledge, clinical skills, professionalism, humanism, behavior, cultural competencies Incorporation of outcomes-, evidence-, problem-based and mentoring teaching models, with promotion of longitudinal relationships between faculty and students Increased emphasis on changing demographics (examples: geriatrics, alternative and complementary medicine) Use of simulation and standardized patients in clinical training Geared toward adult learning styles, not rote memorization of facts, with emphasis on lifelong learning, identification of knowledge gaps, critical appraisal of information Training in interdisciplinary, inter-professional teams, again reflecting realistic scenarios of actual practice

Like standardized patient programs, clinical simulation has also been around for years. Early simulators were called “partial task trainers” —models of arms or organ systems. Today’s models are sophisticated and physiologically functional: full-sized adults and children that can talk and breathe and produce heart sounds and pulses. Amazing in their complexity, they have vasculature with replaceable fluids; bronchial trees that are anatomically accurate (even for fiberoptic bronchoscopy); ECG libraries of more than 2,500 rhythm variants; bilateral carotid, brachial, radial and femoral pulses that can be synchronized with blood pressure and anatomical position; and much more.

With simulators, students get a chance to practice taking vital signs, suturing, starting intravenous lines, placing catheters, conducting breast and pelvic exams—and more complex procedures, such as management of lung collapse. Student interventions and errors can be allowed to reach their conclusions, all for the purpose of learning—at no risk to real patients and no worries of medical malpractice.

The simulators can be programmed to present a wide range of conditions, playing out potentially thousands of different scenarios of illness and injury. They can even be preprogrammed to speak with prerecorded phrases, such as “I’m having trouble breathing.”

Faculty can join students at the treatment table or watch from an adjoining room. As the Center houses projectors, cameras, and retractable screens, the events and interventions can be videotaped and played back, enabling students to learn from their errors.

“Simulators have a profound effect on the skill level—and confidence—of students,”says the Dean. “They enable us to plan lifelike medical events and students to ‘practice’ without fear of real-life complications or consequences—a great way to hone clinical judgment and technical skills.”

SUM OF THE PARTS Temple’s new curriculum immerses students in basic sciences combined with clinical sciences right from the start, along with experience with simulated, standardized and real patients.

“Medicine continues to evolve. As the population ages, as models of healthcare delivery and medical education evolve, we will continue to evolve our curricula,” says Dean Daly. “We are engaging students in a more comprehensive fashion than at any time in history.”

Truly a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

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CELEBRATING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SURGERY: The Babcock Surgical Society’s Centennial Celebration

by Jordan Newmark ’07 President, Babcock Surgical Society

In 1958, Dean William Parkinson and David Allman, MD, President of the American Medical Association, presided over the Society’s 50th anniversary.

“The Babcock Surgical Society should be one of our enduring traditions—it is my sincere hope that…its ideals of scholarship and character will be continued,” asserted Dean Parkinson.

W. Wayne Babcock, MD (1872–1963), surgical innovator, teacher and writer, became Professor and Chair of Surgery at Temple in 1903 and taught here for 45 years. He earned worldwide recognition for pioneering usage of spinal anesthesia and stainless steel sutures, for developing the abdominoperipheral proctosigmoidectomy and other procedures, and for inventing surgical instruments, including Babcock’s viscera forceps, Babcock’s sump drain and lamp chimney sump drain, rib spreader, thoracic trocar, ostal periosteotome, nerve clamp, and vein stripper. Babcock’s Principles and Practice of Surgery remained the authoritative text in surgery through the 1950s.

The Art and Science of a Legend

The Birth of the Society

A hallmark of Temple—and of surgery, medical education, research, and humanism—is W. Wayne Babcock, MD, Professor and Chair of Surgery from 1903 to 1948. Now 100 years old and named in his honor, the Babcock Surgical Society, is Temple’s oldest student organization. Alumni worldwide take great pride in its traditions.

One century ago in the old Samaritan Hospital, seven students dissected a brachial plexus to understand the fine nerve surgery by Dr. Babcock the night before. The idea of honoring this brilliant surgeon was then conceived—and one month later the Babcock Surgical Society was born. Dr. William A. Steele (Dr. Babcock’s assistant) became Charter President and Dr. Babcock named Honorary President.

Surgery is neither art nor science, but a blending of the two.

In the 1929 edition of Babcock’s Text-Book of Surgery for Students and Physicians, Dr. Babcock proclaimed, “The science of surgery is the adaptation of the various medical and related sciences to the solving of surgical problems.

The art of surgery is the practical use of physical or chemical measure in the treatment of disease…The highest art is the protection of the patient...”

Dr. Allman proclaimed Dr. Babcock “the outstanding man in the history of Temple Medical School and one of the finest teachers in the country.” He regarded the Society as “one of the most prominent and active in the nation.”

Through the 1970s the Society encouraged presentation of papers by members, annually voting on the best each year; pursued contacts with prominent surgeons (Dr. Mayo of Clinic fame, for example); and hosted an annual parent/child banquet among members.

Today the Society features three shadowing programs: the trauma surgery program where students spend nights on the trauma service with faculty and residents, in the Surgical Skills Lab where students learn surgical procedures via simulation, and in orthopedic surgery. These programs have impact. One participant was certain he was going to become an ER physician, but now contemplates a career in trauma surgery.

A Keynote and Call to Action Frederick Simeone, MD ’60, Clinical Director of the Simeone Center for Neurosurgery at Pennsylvania Hospital, revealed how the technology of surgery has evolved as a consequence of Dr. Babcock.

Surgery was different a century ago. There were no specialties.

Surgeons were expected to do all procedures. Techniques of the era seem primitive by today’s standards—for example, hand-compression of the abdominal aorta to control bleeding during leg amputation.

“Babcock was a man who did things first and talked about them afterwards,” once said then-Chair of Surgery, George Rosemond, MD ’34. “He was far ahead of his time. If he got an idea in his head he would not hesitate to try it. But… I dare say, if he were living today, he might be a good candidate for litigation.”

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The Executive Board of the Babcock Surgical Society (L-R): Jordan Newmark ’07, President; Michael Ast ’07, Secretary; Mitzi-Ann Davis ’07,Vice President; Dean Daly; David Ni ’07,Webmaster; and Group Advisor, Harsh Grewal, MD, Professor of Surgery. Kathryn Giroux ’07,Treasurer, not pictured.The plaque commemorates the centennial of the Society and depicts its seal, a caduceus and two crossed scalpels, with a quote from Babcock: “A surgeon will esteem relief from suffering and disability as his greatest reward.” See more photos from the celebration on page 34.

Dr. Babcock’s legacy was echoed at Temple with the centennial celebration of the Babcock Surgical Society.

Nearly 200 alumni, faculty, and students gathered with Dean John M. Daly and Frederick Simeone, MD ’60, noted neurosurgeon and keynote speaker. Alumni attending the celebration included Paul Steel, MD ’52, Milton Wohl, MD ’49, John Hall, MD ’41, Morton Kligerman, MD ’41, and many others.

Dr. Simeone noted how the malpractice epidemic has thwarted the progress of surgery. Babcock couldn’t be the same research pioneer if he were in surgery today. For medicine to advance, we need to labor against the restrictions and limitations, expressed Dr. Simeone.

Dean Daly lauded Dr. Babcock’s innovations and 45 years of service to Temple and to surgery. “Dr. Babcock changed the field and put Temple on the map,” Dean Daly affirmed, noting that Dr. Babcock won the 1954 American Medical Association Distinguished Service Gold Medal.

The Babock Surgical Society is indeed unique to Temple.

We must maintain its ideals of scholarship and character.

We owe Dr. Babcock this—and so much more.

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“We must appreciate and honor those who, like Babcock, enable us to practice medicine as we do today,” added Dean Daly.

The Babcock Surgical Clinic portrait, painted by Furman J. Finck, a wellknown portrait artist on Temple's faculty who also painted portraits of Presidents Eisenhower and Truman, was commissioned in 1943 to mark Dr. Babcock’s retirement as Temple’s Chair of Surgery.The painting, which hangs in the lobby of the medical school's Kresge Building, depicts Dr. Babcock, surrounded by ten of his former students, associates, and a nurse.

Frederick Simeone, MD ’60, Clinical Director of the Simeone Center for Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, gave the keynote address at the celebration and was awarded honorary membership. He is well known for his integrative approach to research and clinical practice. His book, The Spine, is now in its fifth edition. Dr. Simeone is a member of the TUSM Board of Visitors.

Visit the Babcock Surgical Society website: www.temple.edu/babcock.

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The School of Medicine has been hiring new faculty in record numbers over the last two years. These talented newcomers hail from leading institutions around the nation, bringing a broad diversity of experience that will guide Temple into new frontiers.

“But setting the course toward that frontier, establishing the foundation upon which Temple stands, are hundreds of full- and part-time faculty who have served the School of Medicine for the better part of their careers,” says Dean Daly.

Kenneth J. Cundy, PhD, past president of the 25+ Year Faculty Club (second from left) with fellow members (left to right) Arthur Miller, MD; Edward Resnick, MD ’51, and Norman Willet, PhD

More than 50 faculty members, in fact, have been teaching here for 25 or more years—and an amazing number of them are youthful, productive and clearly at the height of their careers. Steven Houser, PhD ’78, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Physiology, comes to mind. As do Joe Thoder, MD ’82 (Orthopaedics); Ronald N. Rubin, MD ’72 (Hematology); Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70 (Cardiology); Carson Schneck MD ’59, PhD ’65 (Anatomy and Cell Biology), and many others.

Interesting that many happen to be alumni!

But you don’t have to be an alum to carry the torch of Temple tradition—and two prime examples are Norman Willett, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology, and Laurie Paavola, PhD, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, with nearly 70 years of service between them.

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“I meet my former students in the strangest places,” says Dr. Willett. “Once, I met one on safari in Africa. He came up to me and said ‘I used to think you were a son of a gun!

Now I really appreciate everything you taught me.’ I guess I was a tough teacher, but the students respect that.”

Although he’s no longer teaching classes, Dr. Willett serves as the faculty advisor for the Temple chapter of “Bridging the Gaps,” a national summer internship for students in medicine and the health professions. As reported in the last Temple Medicine’s story about service, seven universities and more than 100 community-based organizations in the Philadelphia region participate.

Does Dr. Willett have any plans to really retire?

Not yet. “I’m a guy who likes to be in the middle of things,” he says with a smile.

Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology Laurie Paavola, PhD, came to Temple in 1971 as an NIH National Research Service Award Fellow.

She had been working on her PhD at Stanford University when her mentor there, A. Kent Christensen, PhD, took a position at Temple.

Dr. Paavola and her husband agreed to move to Philadelphia so she could finish her program with Dr. Christensen providing they would return to California the following year.

“After the fellowship, Temple offered me a teaching position,” Dr. Paavola recalls. “And 34 years later, my husband is still kidding me about going back to California!”

Dr. Paavola has risen through the ranks to hold several academic and administrative positions, including Associate Dean for Graduate Studies.

Although she recently stepped down from the post (see page 20), Dr. Paavola has no plans to retire. She enjoys research and teaching.

Dr. Willett joined the faculty in 1966. Initially hired as an instructor for the School of Pharmacy, Dr. Willett was Chair of Microbiology and Immunology at the School of Dentistry when he was asked to join the School of Medicine.

Dr. Willett has worked under five different Temple University presidents and has taught thousands of students over the years.

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“When I came on, we had microscopes—now we do everything on PowerPoint,” she says.

Dr. Willett cites another example of change: “In the 40’s and 50’s, we didn’t even have antibiotics —and now many microbes are already resistant to them,” he says.

No doubt the future and the new faculty will bring yet more change.

“But in the fundamental ways,” says Dean Daly, “in the ways that define character and culture, Temple will remain unchanged.”

Dr. Daly calls Drs. Paavola and Willett and their 25-year club colleagues “true embodiments” of the characteristics for which Temple is known: Collegiality, high standards, and dedication to science and service.

“Our new faculty are happy to carry on the tradition,” says Dean Daly. “It is part of what drew them here, just as it inspires longtime faculty to stay.”

At the 25-year Club dinner for faculty: Front row, L-R: Paul Farber, (Dentistry); Marvin Ziskin, MD ’62; Angelo DiGeorge, MD ’46; Guenther Boden, MD; Paul P. Burke, PhD; Iraj Rezvani, MD. Second row: Ron Rubin, MD ’72; Robert Colman, MD; A. Koneti Rao, MD, PhD; Linda Knight, PhD; Ed Resnick, MD ’51; Earl Henderson, PhD.Third row: Al Lamperti, PhD; Marvin Sodicoff, PhD; Leonard Zubryzcki, PhD; Concetta Harakal, PhD ’62; Charles Tourtellotte, MD ’57. Back row: Len Packman, PhD; Jim Daniels, PhD; Prabhakar Lotlikar, Joe Thoder, MD ’82; Ron Pieringer, PhD

THE 25 YEAR CLUB The following have been teaching at Temple for 25 years or more.

Martin Adler, PhD, Pharmacology E.Victor Adlin, MD ’56, Medicine David Axler, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology Phil Alburger, MD ’69, Orthopaedics Robert Baum, PhD, Microbiology Martin Black, MD, Medicine Guenther Boden, MD, Endocrinology Akbar Bonakdarpour, MS ’58, MD, Diagnostic Imaging Christine Bastl, MD, Nephrology Steven Berney, MD, Rheumatology Guenther Boden, MD, Endocrinology Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70, Cardiology Allen Cohen, MD, Pulmonary Robert Colman, MD, Oncology Alan Cowan, PhD, Pharmacology Allan Cristol, MD, Psychiatry Kenneth Cundy, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology James Daniels, PhD, Pharmacology Jon De Riel, PhD, Biochemistry Angelo DiGeorge, MD ’46, Pediatrics John Drees, PhD, Physiology Nahum Duker, MD, Pathology Toby Eisenstein, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology Paul Farber, PhD, Pathology

Albert Finestone, MD ’45, Medicine Concetta Harakal, PhD ’62, Pharmacology John Harding, MD ’73, Psychiatry James Heckman, PhD, Physiology Earl Henderson, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology Steven Houser, PhD ’78, Physiology Richard Kendall, MD ’56, Urology Linda Knight, PhD, Radiology Al Lamperti, PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology Bennett Lorber, MD, Infectious Diseases Prabhakar Lotliker, PhD Leon Malmud, MD, Diagnostic Imaging Thomas Marino, PhD ’78, Anatomy and Cell Biology Allan Marks, MD ’62, Endocrinology Lois Martyn, MD ’62, Ophthalmology Alan Maurer, MD ’75, Medicine James McElligott, PhD, Pharmacology Arthur Miller, PhD, Anatomy Ray Moyer, MD, Orthopaedics Joanne Orth, PhD ’78, Anatomy Laurie Paavola, PhD, Anatomy Leonard Pakman, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology Hope Punnett, MD, Pediatrics Ron Pieringer, PhD, Biochemistry

A. Koneti Rao, MD, PhD, Oncology Ed Resnick, MD ’51, Orthopaedic Surgery Iraj Rezvani, MD, Pediatrics Ronald Rubin, MD ’72, Oncology James Ryan, PhD, Physiology Thomas Shaffer, PhD, Physiology Carson Schneck, MD ’59, PhD ’65, Anatomy and Cell Biology Charles Shuman, MD ’43, Endocrinology Marvin Sodicoff, MD, Anatomy Howard Steele, MD ’45, Orthopaedics Roy Steinhouse, MD ’68, Psychiatry Robert Suhadolnik, PhD, Biochemistry Frederick Sutliff, MD ’46, Ophthalmology Ronald Tallarida, PhD ’67, Pharmacology Joseph Thoder, MD ’82, Orthopaedics Joseph Torg, MD ’61, Orthopaedics Charles Tourtellotte, MD ’57, Rheumatology Ronald Tuma, PhD ’75, Physiology Howard Warner, MD ’53, Cardiology Michael Wang, PhD, Physiology Norman Willett, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology Marvin Ziskin, MD ’62, Diagnostic Imaging Leonard Zubrzycki, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology

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on the mezzanine of the Tioga Street garage. And the kids called it the ‘sports med garage’ for the longest time. I love Temple,” he says. “There’s less ego and more practicing excellent orthopaedics.”

Another former student of Dr. Lachman is Glenn Perry, MD ’78, team physician for the Charlotte Bobcats (NBA) and Sting (WNBA).

Dr. Perry has practiced orthopaedics in the Charlotte, NC, area for 20 years, and like Dr. Torg, helped found the first sports medicine clinic in his region. He also helped establish the first sports medicine fellowship program in the Charlotte area.

A past President of the NBA Team Physicians Society, Dr. Perry was the head team physician for the Charlotte Hornets, served as team physician for the USA Men’s World Championship basketball team in 1998, and worked with the USA Basketball Pre-Olympic Tournament of the Americas team in 1999.

The following year, he served as team physician for the gold medal USA Men’s Senior National Basketball team in the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.

Joe Torg, MD ’61, Professor of orthopaedic surgery

Sports medicine, one of the most popular fields of modern medicine, owes a great deal to Temple. In addition to the fact that we opened the nation’s first university-based sports medicine clinic in 1974, many of the world’s athletic trainers, medical advisors, and team doctors trained at Temple. Temple Owls are in collegiate and professional locker rooms everywhere.

“Before the MRI, before people understood the significance of a torn ACL, Lach taught us this simple test—and it is 98 percent accurate,” says Joe Torg, MD ’61, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Temple. Dr. Torg also found widelycelebrated success in treating sports-related injuries and is a former team physician for the Philadelphia Flyers, Eagles, and 76ers.

Before there was sports medicine there was John Lachman, MD ’43. Dr. Lachman came to Temple University as an undergraduate in 1936, stayed for both medical school and residency in orthopaedics, then joined the faculty under the late John Royal Moore, MD, an acclaimed orthopaedic surgeon who originated the techniques of delayed reduction of fractures. Dr. Lachman, or “Lach,” as he was affectionately called, ultimately succeeded Dr. Moore as Chair of Orthopaedics and earned the respect of legions of trainees and fellow faculty.

He also became a household name in orthopaedics as founder of the Lachman Test, commonly considered the most reliable clinical test for diagnosing rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

“Few in sports medicine have had the impact of Joseph Torg,” said William Clancy, former President of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports.

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In the 1960s, Dr. Torg pioneered the changes from the old style of football cleat to the present soccer-type of shoe, saving many athletes from serious knee injury. He and the late Temple athletic trainer Ted Quedenfeld were also responsible for the rule change to ban “ramming” or “spearing” in both high school and collegiate football, saving innumerable athletes from cervical spine injuries. And perhaps most significantly for Temple, he and Ted Quendenfeld co-founded the country’s first outreach sports medicine clinic in 1974.

“We opened the clinic to serve the community’s athletes,” Dr. Torg recalls. “It was originally located

“With Dr. Perry directing our program, we know our players are under excellent supervision and guidance,” said Ed Tapscott, Bobcats and Sting Chief Operating Officer. “He is nationally recognized as one of the top.”

“Being a team doctor is thrilling and challenging, with substantial pressure riding on the athletepatients I treat,” says Dr. Perry. “My training at Temple, as both a medical student and a resident, prepared me well for this career.”

Joel Boyd, MD ’94, concurs. He’s a Twin Cities orthopaedic surgeon who is one of the head physicians for the Minnesota Lynx (WNBA) and the Minnesota Wild (NHL).

Joel Boyd, MD ’94

Dr. Boyd didn’t know much about hockey when he first joined a Minnesota sports medicine practice in 1989, but the sport’s huge regional following offered him ample opportunity to learn. He started working with young teams during junior tournaments and quickly built a reputation. Soon, officials

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Among the many alumni and faculty with connections to professional sports teams are: Craig Aronchick, MD ’78 • Philadelphia Flyers Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70 • Philadelphia 76ers Michael Clancy, MD (former chair, orthopaedics) • Philadelphia 76ers Mitchell E. Cooper, MD ’93 • Miami Heat Edward Decter, MD-Res ’76 • NY/NJ MetroStars William De Long, Jr., MD ’78 • Philadelphia Phantoms and Philadelphia Flyers Nicholas A. DiNubile, MD ’77 • Philadelphia 76ers and the Pennsylvania Ballet Harris Gellman MD ’79 • Florida Panthers (NHL) John B. Jeffers, MD (faculty, ophthalmology) • Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers Paul Marchetto, MD-Res ’85 (faculty, orthopaedics) • Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia Phantoms Richard Mason, MD ’87 • Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Flyers, and Philadelphia Kixx John M. McShane MD ’87 • Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Phillies Robert H. Mills, Jr., MD ’88 • Miami Dolphins and Florida Marlins Alexander Sapega, MD ’80 • consultant to NFL John H. Wolf, MD ’62 • Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers Do you belong on this list? Contact the Alumni Office at medalum@temple.edu or 800-331-2839

from USA Hockey, the sport’s governing body, asked him to get more involved to help broaden the sport’s appeal. Dr. Boyd’s reputation in hockey circles flourished. In 1998, he was asked to serve as a team physician for the USA Olympic hockey team in Nagano, Japan. He was also team physician for the 2004 World Hockey Cup team.

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“hockey doc,” as well as a physician who cared for many Timberwolves (NBA) players and area high school athletes. This reputation led to his link with the Lynx, and the rest, as they say, is history.

There have been dozens of Temple alumni and faculty with professional sports teams ties over the years—for instance, Stanley Lorber, MD, former chair of Gastroenterology, who was team physician for the Philadelphia 76ers for 25 years.

He had the pleasure of seeing the team win two NBA championships (1967 and 1983).

The late James Klint, MD ’68, who served as team physician for the San Francisco 49ers from 1979 to 2003, is one of the few team doctors with five Super Bowl rings. And, true to Temple character, Dr. Klint didn’t just serve as team physician; he helped create the well-respected testing, counseling and treatment programs the NFL has used since 1993.

An internationally renowned name in sports medicine is John Bergfeld, MD ’64, Director of Community Medical Affairs at the Cleveland Clinic, Sports Health. Dr. Bergfeld has been team physician for the Cleveland Browns since 1976 and Cleveland Cavaliers since 1982, gaining wide respect as an expert in musculoskeletal problems of the athlete as well as arthritic conditions of the knee (especially with regard to ligament and articular cartilage injuries). He is currently national President of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine and has served as President of both the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and the American College of

Sports Medicine. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, was a Carl Berg Research Fellow of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, and received the George Rovere Award for Excellence in Teaching of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

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“In addition to its strong academic orientation and research base, Temple orthopaedics has just the right balance of the collegial and the competitive. Maybe that’s why so many of our alumni have gone into sports medicine,” says Dr. Thoder.

Orthopaedics is a strong department. In addition to sports medicine, the Department features sections of arthritis and joint replacement, foot and ankle, hand surgery, pediatric orthopaedics, scoliosis and spine surgery, and trauma. The principles that characterized Dr. Lachman’s era— integrity, dedication to patient care, and excellence in teaching— still characterize Temple today.

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Neuroscience Department Created, Khalili Named Chair

Joseph Thoder, MD ’82, Chair of Orthopedics at Temple, says many alumni and faculty have made contributions to orthopedics and the sports medicine fields. For example, Dr. Torg and Helene Pavlov, MD ’72, are known for the Torg-Pavlov Ratio—a measurement dividing the width of the vertebral body on the lateral C-spine radiograph into the corresponding space encompassing the cord. In 2004, the two earned the Elizabeth Winston Lanier Kappa Delta Award of the Orthopaedic Research Society/American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons for their substantial body of work.

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With new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, depression, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis—and with rapidly advancing stem cell and gene therapy technologies—neuroscience has emerged as one of medicine’s most rapidly developing fields. The number of patients with neurological complaints is expected to exceed 73 million in the next decade.

Recognizing such, Temple University’s Board of Trustees recently approved the creation a new department at the School of Medicine: The Department of Neuroscience. “Its establishment underscores the growing importance of this area of scientific research, patient care and medical education,” says Dean Daly.

The Department will bring together faculty from various parts of the University and School of Medicine within a single interdisciplinary center for education and research.

The core group will transfer to the School of Medicine from the Center for Neurovirology and Cancer Biology, which previously fell under the auspices of the College of Science and Technology.

Kamel Khalili, PhD, Director of the Center for Neurovirology at Temple, has been named Chair of the new department. Internationally recognized as a pioneer in neurovirology, Dr. Khalili is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Neurovirology and helped found the International Society of Neurovirology. A former Fogarty Scholar at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), he served on the faculties at Thomas Jefferson University and MCP-Hahnemann University before joining Temple in 1999.

Several programs are underway at the Department with regard to the nervous system’s interactions with viruses, as well as viral-induced neural tumors. Additional programs will be developed in signal transduction and differentiation, neural cell regeneration, neural cell plasticity, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis.

NeuroAIDS will continue to be a focal point, as the Department has just been awarded a $6.1 million NIH grant for NeuroAIDS research. The five-year grant will support 23 researchers and staff for three projects, continuing the

Department’s ongoing investigation into the molecular biology and genetics of the interaction between viruses and host cells in the central nervous system.

“We will be looking at HIV’s effect on the nervous system to discern the molecular basis for the development and progression of neurological diseases that occur in some AIDS patients,” notes Dr. Khalili, noting that HIV can trigger the JC virus, which causes the fatal demyelinating disease, Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML). The JC virus infects more than 90 percent of the population worldwide during early childhood but remains latent throughout most people’s lives.

However, in the immunosuppressed, the JC virus can become active again.

Dr. Khalili and team will investigate the molecular mechanisms that cause reactivation, including how the JC virus affects the integrity of the DNA by disregulating the host cell’s DNA repair machinery.

“I am very pleased to accept the position as chair of the Department of Neuroscience,” said Dr. Khalili.

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Fels Drugs Show Promise In Cancer, Leukemia A team of researchers at Temple led by Prem Reddy, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research, has developed a new drug that halts cancer cell division, instigating tumor death.

The drug, which works by interfering with the activity of a gene called Plk1, is now in phase I clinical trials at Johns Hopkins and Mt. Sinai Medical Center.

Plk1 is one of several molecules that play a critical role in the spread of cancer. When Plk1 activity is blocked, cancer cells cannot divide. The new drug, ON01910, blocks tumor cell invasion of normal cells, blocks angiogenesis, and induces tumor cell death.

The drug was tested on 94 different cancers in animals, often inducing complete tumor regression.

“Someday it might work either as a single drug or in combination with other drugs,” says Dr. Reddy. “It also appears to be very safe,” he says. “It can be given in very high doses with little or no side effects. And it works with several existing cancer drugs, often inducing complete regression of tumors.”

This new and growing area of cancer research is called “targeted therapy.”

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treatment, the goal is to create drugs that reduce cancer to a chronic disease —not a fatal disease. The research appeared in the Cancer Cell.

Fels researchers have also developed a new drug that could potentially treat all forms of Gleevec-resistant chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Their research was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gleevec is the most successful treatment for CML to date, but patients with advanced CML typically develop resistance. While two recent experimental drugs were effective in circumventing some forms of Gleevec resistance, Dr. Reddy and team sought to circumvent all forms. They developed ON012380, which induced cell death of all of the known Gleevec-resistant mutants and caused regression of leukemias in human tumor cells and in animal models.

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Temple Named Gamma Knife Center of Excellence

In a study that debuted in the Annals of Internal Medicine and was picked up by media outlets worldwide, Temple reported that people on lowcarb regimens, such as the Atkins diet, spontaneously reduced their calories by 30 percent despite being offered unlimited helpings of protein-rich, high-fat foods. On average, they cut out 1,000 calories a day.

With a more than $10 million investment in technology, Temple now offers the most advanced treatment for cancerous tumors of the brain and body in the world, with three new linear accelerators; a computed tomography simulator designed for high-precision, laser-guided radiation therapy treatment planning; and the Elekta Leksell Gamma Knife 4C—one of only fifteen in the United States.

“The carbohydrates were clearly stimulating their excessive appetites,” said Guenther Boden, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology at Temple, the study’s lead author.

Funded by NIH and the American Diabetes Association, the study is the only trial of the Atkins diet ever conducted in a hospital setting where every calorie was measured. The study patients, Type II diabetics, ate their normal fare the first week, averaging 3,111 calories a day. They then followed the Atkins approach, limiting carbs to 20 grams a day. Patients did not compensate by eating more protein or fat. Their calories dropped to an average of 2,164 a day, and each lost on average four pounds over two weeks. In addition, they showed improved glucose levels and insulin sensitivity as well as lower triglycerides and cholesterol.

With this level of accuracy, explains Christopher Loftus, MD, Chair and Professor of Neurosurgery, targeted cells are destroyed and healthy tissue is spared large-volume exposure to radiation. Most patients go home the same day or spend just one night in the hospital.

“These tools allow us to provide image-guided radiation therapy, delivered with pinpoint accuracy anywhere in the body,” said Curtis Miyamoto, MD, Chair and Professor of Radiation Oncology.

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Rao to Head Hematology and Thrombosis Research mechanisms and tissue factors in arterial diseases, diabetes mellitus, sickle cell anemia, and cardiopulmonary bypass. His findings have been published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, and he has received numerous honors, including the Investigator Recognition Award of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (1997) and a Temple University Faculty Research Award (2001). He is Principal Editor of Platelets, and has served as guest editor and/or editorial board member of publications such as Hematology/Oncology Today.

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Robert W. Colman, MD, who has led the Section and Center since 1979, has stepped down from the post, but will stay on to continue his research.

Under his leadership, Temple became one of the premier thrombosis research centers in the world.

A. Koneti Rao, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, has been named head of Hematology and the Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center.

Dr. Rao has been a faculty member at Temple since 1979, having most recently served as head of Temple’s MD-PhD program. As noted on page 19, he has been replaced in that capacity by Dianne Soprano, PhD. Dr. Rao is interested in the molecular mechanisms of inherited defects in platelet function. He’s also studying alterations in blood coagulation

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Temple is one of only ten Elekta Centers of Excellence in the world.

St. Luke’s Becomes Second Clinical Campus

“Our drug can be combined with Gleevec to create synergy, and when patients become resistant to Gleevec, our drug kills 100 percent of the cancer cells,” Dr. Reddy said.

FDA approval to proceed with clinical trials is being sought.

Temple’s gamma knife is capable of integrating images from CT scan, MRI, and angiography—advanced imaging techniques that locate the target. Then Cobalt-60 creates more than 201 beams of radiation that intersect, forming a single, high-dose focus of radiation. Irradiating deep inside the brain or body, the “knife” delivers radiation with pinpoint precision— without a single incision.

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Metabolic changes, water loss, and other theories have been posed about how the Atkins-type approach really works, but Dr. Boden and team concluded it is due to cutting calories.

St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem, PA, has become the first clinical campus of Temple University School of Medicine in northeastern Pennsylvania and the second in the state, following Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh. The clinical campus designation means that 32 Temple medical students can elect to complete their third and fourth years onsite in their entirety. Temple’s students have rotated at St. Luke’s since 1977. Dr. Joel Rosenfeld, the hospital’s medical education director, will serve as Associate Dean.

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Temple Named To National COPD Network Temple has been chosen as one of ten sites nationwide—and the only in Philadelphia—for the National Institutes of Health’s chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Clinical Research Network, which will investigate new treatments for moderate to severe COPD, the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States.

Renowned for its comprehensive lung program, Temple is a prolific lung research center, with numerous studies underway, including leadership of a statewide effort to determine why some groups, such as African Americans and rural residents, are at greater risk for COPD. The three-year, $1.6 million grant will be led by Gerard Criner, MD ’79, Professor of Medicine, Chief of Pulmonary Medicine, and Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. The network also includes UCLA, Brigham and Women’s

Hospital in Boston, and the University of Pittsburgh.

As noted in the last Temple Medicine, Temple was also recently awarded a $4.7 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health to head a Center for Excellence research consortium for COPD that includes Lancaster General Hospital, Philadelphia Osteopathic Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh and the Western Pennsylvania Hospital and Harvard. The focus of this study is to uncover what factors underpin the greater acuity of cases among select urban and rural populations, perhaps determining if specific genotypes from these two disparate groups may influence the severity of the disease.

COPD is the fourth-largest killer in the United States; in 2000 alone it resulted in 1.5 million emergency room visits, 726,000 hospitalizations and 119,000 deaths.

Arm Nerve Damage During Surgery Preventable According to a Temple study, while certain standard surgical positions can increase the risk of nerve injury in the arms, monitoring nerve response during surgery with somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) can help identify and reverse impending damage. When changes indicate potential for damage, anesthesiologists can intervene and change the arm position.

“This is the first study to analyze nerve injury prevention in more than one surgical position,” said Ihab Kamel, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Temple and study leader.

Dr. Kamel and team analyzed data on 996 spinal surgery patients who had been placed in one of five different surgical positions. Most changes in nerve response occurred in two positions: lying on the side with arms extended, and lying face down with arms extended above the head, the “Superman position.” In the patients studied, all of the changes were reversed, and none developed postoperative nerve injury. Peripheral nerve injury accounts for 15 percent of anesthesiology malpractice cases.

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Pilot Study For Cholesterol Control In HIV/AIDS Mary Van den Berg-Wolf, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, and a team of researchers including Ellen Tedaldi, MD, Professor of Medicine, developed a pilot study to investigate the safety and efficacy of combining ezetimibe and statin in HIV patients on protease inhibitor therapy who have high cholesterol that hasn’t responded to statin alone. Once the study is complete, a multi-center trial will be conducted to confirm results in a larger population.

Statins are very effective in non-HIVinfected patients, but because they use the same breakdown pathway in the liver as protease inhibitors, increasing the dose can lead to dangerous side effects—and lower doses are often ineffective in lowering cholesterol to recommended levels.

In non HIV patients, adding ezetimibe (Zetia) to the statin proved more effective than doubling the statin dose, yet it had not been tested in HIVinfected patients. Abbott Laboratories, which manufactures the protease inhibitor lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra), is sponsoring the pilot.

High cholesterol and metabolic syndrome are part of a host of health issues that previously were not a concern for HIV/AIDS patients, but “HIV has become a treatable, manageable disease, and we have to think about long-term health.” says Dr. Van den Berg-Wolf.

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Recent Dean’s Staff Appointments Barrie Ashby, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, has been appointed Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the School of Medicine, following the retirement of Laurie Paavola, PhD, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, from the post. Dr. Ashby initially joined our Thrombosis Research Center as a postdoctoral fellow, and was appointed to the faculty shortly thereafter. He steadily progressed through the academic ranks, becoming a full Professor in 1995.

Joanne Orth, PhD ’78, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, has been named Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. A long-time faculty member, Dr. Orth has served as medical histology co-course director for many years and will direct Body Systems II in the new curriculum. Dr. Orth has had a longstanding research program regarding male fertility.

Melinda Somasekhar, PhD, has been named Director of Continuing Medical Education at Temple, succeeding Robert Smedley, EdD, who retired, having served many years in the post. In addition to an extensive background in continuing medical education and pharmaceutical marketing, Dr. Somasekhar brings substantial teaching and research experience to the role, having served as a geneticist and biochemist in both university and industry settings. Most recently, she was Senior Manager and Associate Director of Professional Education Support at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in Collegeville, PA. Dianne Soprano, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, has been named Associate Dean for Temple’s MD/PhD Program, succeeding A. Koneti Rao, MD, who stepped down from the post to assume new responsibilities. A faculty member since 1987, Dr. Soprano has been active in School, University, and professional affairs. In addition to teaching graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, she has served on a number of graduate student advisory committees and is a productive investigator whose work has been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry and Oncogene. She’s served on several NIH study sections and has been a reviewer and panelist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

James B. McClurken, MD ’76, Professor of Surgery, has been named Director of Cardiothoracic Surgical Perioperative Care and Quality Improvement/Quality Assurance and Vice Chair for Surgical Subspecialties in the Department of Surgery at Temple.

A faculty member of long standing, Dr. McClurken was on the team of surgeons who performed the region’s first heart transplant at Temple University Hospital in 1984. He has been Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Abington Memorial Hospital since 1985 and has played a leadership role in developing clinical, educational, and academic programs in surgery at both institutions.

Keenly interested in cardiothoracic surgical quality improvement, Dr. McClurken serves on the Steering Committee for the Delaware Valley Society of Thoracic Surgery Quality Improvement Initiative. He is Vice President of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Association of Thoracic Surgeons, and serves as a consultant for the American Board of Surgery qualifying examination.

Women’s Health Research Center Established Temple has established an Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence on Women’s Health Research, Leadership and Advocacy—uniting several established centers and institutes throughout the University, including faculty in the School of Medicine and the College of Health Professions. The Center will sponsor a seminar series, annual lectureship, and public conferences on women’s health, leadership and advocacy, as well as a range of initiatives to foster career advancement for women in science, medicine and related disciplines.

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Portable mp3 Players Help Students Learn Heart Sounds In a recent study published in the American Journal of Medicine, Michael Barrett, MD, Professor of Cardiology at Temple, reported that portable mp3 players help students learn heart murmur heart sounds—by heart—after repeated listening.

The traditional method is for professors to use phrases like “lub-dub” for a normal heartbeat and “harsh” or “crescendo-decrescendo” to describe the five main murmurs.

“As a cardiologist who has taught for 20 years, I knew we weren’t doing a good job, but didn't know why,” said Dr. Barrett, referencing a 1997 study that found that only 20 percent of medical students were able to accurately identify heart murmurs.

Professors sometimes play audio tapes of heart sounds in class, but that didn’t seem to help, Dr. Barrett said. What did, he discovered, was repetition. In 2002, he created a CD-ROM file of 10 different heart sounds and conducted a study to find out how many repetitions it took for them to become embedded in the memory of a small group of students. The answer: 500 times.

In 2003, Dr. Barrett repeated the study with a larger group of students (88). At the beginning, 30 percent could identify 10 different heart sounds. After a month of listening, they scored 80 percent.

Dr. Barrett plans to apply this methodology to other teaching objectives and will be work with the Temple Lung Center on lung sounds in the coming months.

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In Brief The School of Medicine, the Temple University Health System, and the Fox Chase Cancer Center have entered into a new academic and clinical affiliation agreement that will enable the institutions to continue coordinating the training of students and residents, the clinical care of oncology patients, and clinical trials through 2007. Under the new agreement, the Fox Chase Temple Cancer Center at the Health Sciences Center will now be known as the Temple Cancer Center.

Alan Maurer, MD ’75, Professor of Diagnostic Imaging and Director of Nuclear Medicine, addressed state and federal legislators at the National Symposium on Fusion Imaging and Modalities about the increasing clinical use of positron-emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT). Maurer is director of the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s PET Learning Center programs and chairs its committee on education.

Allan D. Marks, MD ’62, Professor of Endocrinology, has published the second edition of Marks’ Basic Medical Biochemistry. This book is among the most widely used biochemistry textbooks in all U.S. medical schools. The first edition of the book was written with Marks’ late wife Dawn, a member of the School of Medicine’s department of Biochemistry.

Jack Mydlo, MD, Chair of Urology, and Raul DeLa Cadena, MD, Associate Professor of Physiology, Thrombosis, and Hemostasis, will collaborate on a new $250,000 NIH grant to explore obesity and health issues in men and women.

A luncheon was recently held in honor of James E. Clark, MD (far right),Temple’s Associate Dean at Crozer Chester Medical Center, who is retiring from his posts. Dr. Clark, who was Chair of Medicine at Crozer from 1968–99 and Director of Medical Education, was instrumental in establishing the academic affiliation between Crozer and Temple. He will be succeeded by Susan L.Williams, MD, a nephrologist and Vice Chair and Residency Program Director of Internal Medicine at Crozer. Pictured with Dr. Clark L to R: Assistant Dean for Affiliations Stephen Permut, MD ’72; Dean Daly; Assistant Dean for Affiliation and Liaison Activities William Schulze; Susan L.Williams, MD; Senior Associate Dean Richard J. Kozera, MD.

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Denise Salerno, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, has been named Director of Temple’s new Pediatric Weight Management Clinic.

With more than 9 million children in the U.S. over the age of six now seriously overweight, pediatric obesity is a critical public health threat. “The complications associated with being overweight that were experienced typically by adults—such as Type II diabetes, sleep apnea and high blood pressure—are now being seen in children,” says Dr. Salerno. “We have to address these problems early on to prevent them from becoming major issues in adulthood,” she says.

Robert Swenson, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases, has retired after 36 years at Temple. He was recruited by Sol Sherry as Temple’s first Chief of Infectious Diseases and made important contributions to our understanding of the role of anaerobic bacteria in human disease. He became actively involved in the AIDS epidemic from the very start and wrote an important paper, “AIDS, Plagues and History.”

He was invited to Washington to testify before Congress as a result. He also played a major role Philadelphia FIGHT, a community-based AIDS research organization.

Bennett Lorber, MD, Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases, was invited to present the infectious diseases update at the recent annual meeting of the American College of Physicians. A nationally known authority, Dr. Lorber spoke about SARS, West Nile virus, new treatments for HIV and hepatitis B, patterns of antibiotic use in physicians’ offices, and the impact of a daily multivitamin on infections in diabetics.

The School of Medicine figured prominently in the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation meeting, held in Philadelphia this past spring. Vincent Armenti, MD, Professor of Surgery in the abdominal organ transplant program and principal investigator of the National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry, delivered the symposium, “Pregnancy Post-Transplant.” Arun Singhal, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, moderated the session “Extending the Donor Heart.” The nearly two dozen other faculty presentors and moderators included Carol Fisher, MD ’72; Satoshi Furukawa, MD; Bruce Goldman, MD; James McClurken, MD ’76; Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70, Professor and Chair of Cardiology; and Michael Autieri, PhD. Amitabha Mitra, MD, Professor of Surgery and Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, has created a device that “cranks” chronic wounds closed from the inside out. The stainless-steel Wound Bullet Closure Device provides traction inside the wound to encourage faster healing.

According to Dr. Mitra, several devices have been designed to help close difficult wounds, but often result in lacerations, the need for repeated skin grafts, and scarring. Dr. Mitra reports excellent results with the new device, which is adjusted or turned every other day until the wound is closed. Manufactured by Boehringer Laboratories, Inc., Dr. Mitra’s device may soon be available in disposable plastic.

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Temple is comparing the effectiveness of the Bio-probe, a new tool used to diagnose cervical cancer, and its precursors, the Pap test, pelvic exam, and biopsy. According to study leader, Enrique Hernandez, MD, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Gynecologic Oncology, the tampon-sized Bio-probe is inserted for a few seconds to measure the electrical impedance of the cervical tissue.

Normal tissue has greater impedance.

Resistance decreases as the degree of cellular abnormality increases. The ultimate advantage of the Bio-probe is its potential at-home use. Patients can transmit data via phone, internet, or by mailing the micro chip.

Temple is one of seven sites across the nation testing the SmartPill ACT-I Capsule and SmartPill GI Monitoring System, a pill-sized data receiver that will aid in the diagnosis and management of GI motility disorders, such as gastroparesis and dyspepsia.

Henry Parkman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Gastroenterology Motility Laboratory, is leading the study.

Developed by the New York-based SmartPill Corporation, the SmartPill provides gastroenterologists with measurements from within the entire GI tract, recording time-stamped peristaltic pressure, pH levels, temperature, and other data. Within a day or two, the capsule safely passes out of the patient.

Marisa Rose, MD, has joined the faculty of the Department of Obstetrics/ Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences as Assistant Professor. She completed both her medical degree and residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 2000 was recipient of the Bertha Dagan Berman Award in Women’s Health.

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Honors and Awards Reunion Award Winners During the 2005 Class Reunion Banquet at the Westin Hotel in Philadelphia on October 29, the achievements of four individuals were honored by the Medical School and its Alumni Association.

ALUMNA OF THE YEAR: SHIRLEY TILGHMAN, PHD ’75 The highest honor the School confers upon its graduates is the Henry Laughlin Alumnus of the Year Award. This honor is given to a graduate whose contributions to medicine are truly distinguished and exemplary.

One of the foremost scientists of our generation, world-renowned scholar and educational leader, Shirley Tilghman, PhD ’75, a graduate of Temple’s doctoral program in biochemistry, has crafted an exceptional and distinguished career.

She made groundbreaking discoveries as part of the team that cloned the first mammalian gene at the NIH, served on the National Research Council committee that designed the roadmap for the Human Genome Project, and taught and conducted research at a number of leading institutions before joining Princeton’s faculty in 1986.

She founded Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, served as the Howard Prior Professor of the Life Sciences, and continued to elucidate the mysteries of genetic imprinting as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Then, in 2001, she became Princeton’s 19th president.

Hers is a very large, very public career, yielding a remarkable portfolio of awards and honors for teaching and leadership, for pioneering research and for advocacy of education and of science. She serves as a trustee of numerous high-profile foundations and organizations.

“We applaud you, Dr. Tilghman,” said Paul Hermany, MD ’82, President of the Alumni Association, “for your passion for research, teaching, and learning; for the voice of reason you bring to moralistic debates about science; and for your commitment to improving access to education for talented students, regardless of financial wherewithall. To rise to the level that you have is a rare achievement,” he said, “And we are proud to have contributed to your development as a young scientist.”

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ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD: ALBERT J. FINESTONE, MD ’45 The Alumni Service Award is given to an alumnus whose contributions of service and/or philanthropy to the School stand as an example for others to follow.

Though he defies labeling, Albert J. Finestone, MD ’45, has held many different Temple titles over the years: professor, associate dean, director, consultant, principal investigator—and with the Alumni Service Award, Temple honors Dr. Finestone for his roles as volunteer, generous contributor, and friend.

Aside from a fellowship in pathology at Georgetown University, Dr. Finestone is entirely Temple-educated, and he has devoted his entire career of 60 years to Temple—and is still going strong.

Dr. Finestone has contributed to Temple in many ways. In 1960, he founded Temple’s Office of Continuing Medical Education, and served as its Associate Dean for 30 years, bringing the program to national stature. A few years ago, the University renamed the CME office in his honor.

Dr. Finestone also helped found Temple’s Institute on Aging, and brought it to the fore, recognizing the need for research and planning in geriatrics. He still serves as its Director today.

Moreover, Dr. Finestone has devoted decades of volunteer leadership to our Medical School Alumni Association, rising to the rank of president, and representing the Medical School on the University’s Alumni Board.

Dr. Finestone has earned many honors over the years. In 1976 he was named the School of Medicine’s Alumnus of the Year.

Said Alumni Association President Paul Hermany, MD ’82, “We are pleased to present you with the 2005 Alumni Service Award, to thank you for your lifetime of commitment to Temple as a teacher, researcher, benefactor and friend.”

ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: SANDRA BLOOM, MD ’75 The Alumni Achievement Award is given to a graduate whose contributions to clinical practice, research, teaching, and/or service have reached national or international stature.

The career of Sandra Bloom, MD ’75, is one that spans the individual and collective, the personal and the political.

A psychiatrist and traumatologist, Dr. Bloom is an internationally recognized expert on the impact of trauma on individuals, families, organizations, and cultures.

She is a sought-after lecturer and consultant, both stateside and abroad, and a consultant to the Dart Center of the University of Washington, a global resource for journalists who cover disasters, violence, and tragedies. When nearly 700 therapists and social workers gathered in New York City shortly after September 11th, it was Dr. Bloom they called upon for direction and grounding. Two years later, the National Association of Social Workers gave her its Public Citizen Award.

During her tenure as President of the Philadelphia chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Bloom developed award-winning domestic violence training programs. Later she chaired the Task Force on Family Violence of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

She served as President of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies and received its Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence. She is also author of two books: Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, and Rearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility.

Today she is CEO of CommunityWorks, a consulting firm focused on reducing conflict and violence, and she continues to gain recognition for a program that she and colleagues developed. It’s called the Sanctuary, and it is motivating many to re-examine the dynamics not just of psychotherapy, but of education, business, and beyond. It is a model of therapeutic social construction that can transform both facilitator and client, and is being replicated across the nation by schools, businesses, and treatment centers with impressive results.

Said a client and colleague: “Dr. Bloom is a compassionate innovator, a recognized leader in the trauma field, whose work can bring about the transformation of mental health services and help us all work toward a nonviolent society.”

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HONORED PROFESSOR AWARD: BENNETT LORBER, MD The Honored Professor Award is given to a professor whose impact has been profound— a professor whose teaching style and character exemplify the knowledge and values that Temple strives to instill.

Bennett Lorber, MD, the Thomas Durant Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases, is internationally recognized for his expertise on listeriosis, anaerobic infection, and clostridial disease. His abililty to make difficult diagnoses is the stuff of legends.

He’s contributed to every edition of Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, the authoritative text in his field, and has written a number of landmark papers. His 1996 article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, “Are All Diseases Infectious?” has become a classic, promoting the growing proof that a number of conditions previously classified otherwise are infectious, indeed. And after 30 years of teaching, practicing, writing. and traveling, he, too, has become a classic.

Dr. Lorber came to Temple for his residency and fellowship in the early 60s and joined the faculty in 1968, during the great Sol Sherry era. Since that time he has impressed thousands of students, residents, fellows, and colleagues with his zeal for medicine, art, and life.

Not just a scientist and physician but also an accomplished musician and painter, Dr. Lorber encourages us to work hard, but to maintain perspective and balance, to make time for ourselves and our families.

During his 30-year teaching career, he has accrued many awards and honors, including the Bristol Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, a career award for major contributions to the field.

“Dr. Lorber, you’ve been a great cheerleader for Temple, praising its faculty, embracing its students, residents and fellows,” said Paul Hermany, MD ’82, Alumni Assocation President. “So many of us have benefited from your mentorship.”

“You truly could have gone anywhere,” said Dr. Hermany. “But instead you made Temple your home. And we’re so much the better for it!”

Said Paul Hermany, MD ’82, Alumni Asociation President, “You came to Temple as a candy striper, Dr. Bloom, and even then began to display the drive, dedication, and wisdom to make the difference you do indeed make today.”

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Thomas Fekete, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases at Temple, has spent two decades teaching in a “one-room schoolhouse” —the euphemism he uses for patient rooms in the hospital—where he engages medical students, residents and fellows in the intricacies of science and the importance of humanism in medicine. His creativity and zeal have earned him a Temple University Great Teacher Award.

Dr. Fekete holds rounds outside on nice days, teaches students to write haikus, and holds candy breaks on Friday afternoons. Little wonder his Infectious Diseases elective is often oversubscribed.

“I help students turn a welter of unconnected facts into a picture,” says Dr. Fekete. “When the light goes on, it’s one of the greatest rewards.”

Dr. Fekete’s breadth of medical and scientific knowledge is equaled by his grasp of current events, world history, music, language, philosophy and almost anything else,” a former student said.

“Those who watch his interactions with patients learn a great deal about compassion and other important qualities that cannot be learned in the classroom,” said another.

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ROSEN NAMED FIRST ELAM SENIOR SCHOLAR

Robert T. Brown, MD ’71, a national expert in pediatrics and adolescent medicine, won the Adele Dellenbaugh Hofmann Award of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, recognizing exemplary achievement in the field of adolescent health.

Dr. Brown is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics/ Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, and Chief of Adolescent Health at Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. From 1986 to 1991, he served as Medical Director of the Ohio Department of Youth Services.

A leader in professional affairs, Dr. Brown has chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Adolescent Health section and served as president of the North American Society for Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology. He was co-founder and inaugural president of the Ohio Valley Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, and now serves as President of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.

DR. THOMAS WINS SQUIRES AWARD

Dr. Fekete, who came to Temple in 1984, has been honored numerous times for his teaching. He received a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1999 and has won the American Medical Student Association’s Golden Apple Award twice.

In addition to his roles in teaching, clinical medicine and research, Dr. Fekete serves as a reviewer for several journals, including the Annals of Internal Medicine, and is Associate Editor of MKSAP (the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program), which most internal medicine residents and many attending physicians across the United States use as their guide for the American Board of Internal Medicine accreditation.

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Sally E. Rosen, MD, Special Assistant, Office of the Provost, and Professor of Pathology at the School of Medicine, has been named the first Senior Scholar of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women. ELAM, part of Drexel University College of Medicine, is the only national program providing in-depth executive training and leadership development for women faculty at U.S. and Canadian medical, dental, and public health schools who want to assume higher levels of responsibility within their institutions and advance to positions of leadership.

The Senior Scholar position was created to help advance research and other initiatives aimed at redressing the paucity of women leaders at the topmost levels of U.S. academic health institutions. This is the first of several initiatives ELAM is launching in its second decade as it continues to provide leadership education while pursuing new initiatives to support women leaders and champion more equitable, inclusive organizational cultures.

Dr. Rosen, who has served Temple for many years as a member of the faculty and the senior management of the School of Medicine, is a longtime advocate for the advancement of women in scientific professions as well as for women’s health research. She is a long-standing member of the Medical School Committee on the Status of Women Faculty and serves as Co-Director of the newly established Center for Women’s Health Research, Leadership and Advocacy (see page 19).

LYONS HONORED

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia awarded Paul E. Lyons, MD, the Exemplar of Humanism in Medicine Award.

Dr. Lyons is Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Clinical Education in the Family and Community Medicine Departments at Temple.

Bernadette Thomas, MD ’05 (center), received the Dr. Leslie Squires Foundation Compassion in Medicine Award for demonstrating outstanding compassion for her patients while a student at Temple. Fred Squires, MD ’91 (left), sponsored the award.With Drs.Thomas and Squires is Mrs.Thomas, Bernadette’s mother.

In addition to his teaching and patient care roles, Dr. Lyons serves as faculty advisor to several student groups, including the Family Medicine Interest Group, the Geriatrics Interest Group, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Temple Cares, the student-run free health clinic. Dr. Lyons is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2004 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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HARMON-WEISS RECEIVES AWARD

Sandra R. Harmon-Weiss, MD ’74, received a 2005 service recognition award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The honor was presented to her for her service to the National Advisory Committee of the Turning Point, which served the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kellogg Foundation in evaluating state and community grant applications, performing site visits, and in reviewing the start-up phase and progress of programs of grant recipients in public health collaborative partnerships at the state and local levels. Dr. Harmon-Weiss is a member of the Temple University Medical School Board of Visitors and a retired health insurance industry executive and family practitioner.

GARMAN HONORED

J. Kent Garman, MD ’65, Half Moon Bay, CA, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and President-Elect of the medical staff at Stanford, has received the Distinguished Service Award of the California Society of Anesthesiologists.

A cardiovascular anesthesiologist who served as chief of cardiovascular anesthesia at Stanford for over a decade, Dr. Garman is widely recognized for his scholarly achievements in the field of cardiovascular anesthesia, his skill and accomplishments in clinical care and teaching, and his ongoing contributions to anesthesiology.

His publication credits include the chapter on cardiovascular anesthesia in Anesthesiologists’ Manual of Surgical Procedures (Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2003) and the chapter on Information Technology in Anesthesiology in Advances in Anesthesia (Lake, 2004). His service includes major roles with the Medical Board of California, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the California Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. Garman is a former Sloan fellow and former chief of staff and medical staff president at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California.

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LIU-CHEN GETS FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD

Joel Richter, MD, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Temple, has been named the Richard and Dorothy Evans Chair in Medicine.

Lee-Yuan Liu-Chen, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology at Temple’s Center for Substance Abuse Research (CSAR), received a Temple University Faculty Research Award. A highly regarded leader in opioid receptor research, she has been a Temple faculty member since 1985.

Dr. Richter, who joined the faculty last August, is currently spearheading new initiatives in the department of medicine to develop and reward current faculty, recruit new section chiefs and faculty, and raise the department’s National Institutes of Health research rankings. He specializes in the diagnosis, management and clinical research of esophageal diseases, including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Barrett’s esophagus, extraesophageal presentation of GERD (asthma, ENT and dental problems), achalasia and other motility disorders, non-cardiac chest pain, dysphagia and the effects of H. pylori on the esophagus.

In addition to helping delineate the structures of opioid receptors, Dr. Liu-Chen has made significant contributions to the understanding of their regulation. In 1993, she achieved a major scientific accomplishment when she cloned one of the three receptor types.

One of Dr. Liu-Chen’s collaborators, Harel Weinstein, Professor and Chair of Physiology and Biophysics at Cornell University, says Dr. Liu-Chen “is representative of a new generation of molecular pharmacologists who combine the power of molecular biology and genetic manipulation to answer heretofore unapproachable questions in their field.”

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Daniel Dempsey, MD, Chair of Surgery at Temple, has been named the George S. Peters, MD, and Louise C. Peters Chair in Surgery, an honor that reflects his many contributions as a clinician, researcher, teacher and scholar.

Having first joined the Temple faculty in 1986, Dr. Dempsey served as chief of Temple’s Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Research and as program director of Temple’s General Surgery Residency.

He is a past president of both the Philadelphia Chapter American College of Surgeons and the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, currently serves as a governor of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), and has served in numerous leadership roles within Temple as well, having been president of both the medical faculty senate and medical staff.

Dr. Dempsey sits on the editorial boards of leading journals, including Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques, and has contributed to numerous texts, including Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (Elsevier, 2002). Dr. Dempsey has been honored with several teaching awards, including the Golden Apple and the Wallace P. Ritchie, Jr., Award for clinical excellence and scientific practice.

The chair was endowed by the late George S. Peters, MD ’33, a great Temple fan and benefactor who had a prolific career in surgery.

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Quick to credit others, Dr. Liu-Chen says it’s the efforts and ingenuity of her colleagues, students, staff and mentors that make her success possible.

Dr. Liu-Chen has hundreds of publications to her credit, including six book chapters. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and sits on numerous NIH research review committees. She is currently principal investigator on two National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) grants, a contributor on several others, and has had continuous NIDA funding for 17 years.

TWO HONORS FOR UKNIS

Audrey Uknis, MD ’87, Associate Dean for Admissions, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Director of Rheumatology Research at Temple, received the Hollander Rheumatologist of the Year Award from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. The award recognizes excellence and achievement in the field of rheumatology. In addition, the American College of Rheumatology has elected her to its Board of Directors.

Dr. Uknis’s clinical and research interests pertain to systemic lupus erythematosis, phospholipid antibody syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis. She is currently finishing her term as President of the Philadelphia Rheumatism Society.

RYAN GETS LINDBACK AWARD

James Ryan, PhD, Associate Chair and Professor of Physiology, received a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

A Temple faculty member since 1975, Dr. Ryan has developed a reputation for embracing students as future colleagues. He believes that when treated as equals, they can more easily transition from memorizing facts to developing a conceptual understanding of a topic—an essential skill in medicine.

“Jim’s devotion is evident in the endless stream of students who come to talk to him about physiology, ethical dilemmas, and personal concerns,” says a colleague.

In addition to spending several hours daily meeting with students, Dr. Ryan checks his e-mail at home every couple of hours until 11 p.m., answering students’ questions. “You have to be available,” he says.

“He teaches with enthusiasm and energy, and I find myself looking forward to his next class,” said a student. “I have never had a teacher with such desire to have his students understand and enjoy the material,” said another.

Since 1999, Dr. Ryan has been the number-one-ranked member of the physiology teaching faculty and has won the American Medical Student Association’s Golden Apple Award twice. He has more than 400 publications to his credit, including the annual physiology national board questionand-answer book he co-authors with Michael Wang, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Physiology.

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HONOR FOR ZERBE

An internationally recognized expert on eating disorders and women’s mental health, Kathryn J. Zerbe, MD ’78, has received the American Psychiatric Association’s Alexandra Symonds Award, acknowledging sustained, high-level contributions and leadership in advancing women's health. Her publication credits feature four books, including the forthcoming Integrated Treatment of Eating Disorders: Beyond the Body Betrayed (W.W. Norton).

Dr. Zerbe holds joint appointments in Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), where she is also Vice Chair for Psychotherapy, Director of Psychiatric Outpatient Services, and Director of Behavioral Medicine in the Center for Women’s Health. She is also a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the San Francisco and Oregon Psychoanalytic Institutes.

Before moving to the Pacific northwest, Dr. Zerbe held a variety of high level posts during her 23-year tenure at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, including that of Dean. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

GILDENBERG GETS TEMPLE’S CERTIFICATE OF HONOR

Philip L. Gildenberg, MS ’59, MD ’59, PhD ’70, received Temple University’s Certificate of Honor for the School of Medicine. An internationally recognized authority on minimally invasive neurosurgery, Dr. Gildenberg founded the stereotactic surgery service at the Cleveland Clinic, served as the first chair of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona, and co-edited the Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. He is a former president of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and received its 2003 Distinguished Service Award.

Philip Gildenberg, MS ’59, MD ’59, PhD ’70 (second from right) with (L to R) Louis X. Santore, MD ’80, immediate past president of the Medical School Alumni Association; Christopher Loftus, MD, Chair of Neurosurgery at Temple; and Richard J. Kozera, MD, Senior Associate Dean

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HONORS FOR TWO NEPHROLOGISTS: GOLDBERG AND MARTINEZ-MALDONADO Dean Daly presents Brian Rosenfeld, MD ’80 with a plaque from the University’s General Alumni Association that designates him an Alumnus Fellow of the University

ROSENFELD’S UNIQUE INTENSIVE CARE MODEL

Brian A. Rosenfeld, MD ’80, an intensivist and entrepreneur, was invited to the School of Medicine as a Distinguished Alumni Lecturer. An audience of medical students, faculty and area alumni listened intently as he presented “Technology & Teamwork: 21st Century Medicine.” In addition to his background in clinical care, teaching and research, Dr. Rosenfeld is co-creator, Executive Vice President, and Chief Medical Officer of a company called VISICU, purveyor of the eICU® system.

As its name implies, VISICU is about making the intensive care unit (ICU) “visible,” even from remote locations, in impressive detail. It’s a system that harnesses the power of teamwork between onsite ICU personnel and members of a remote, offsite care team, with innovative technology bridging the gap.

“Technology-enabled care knows no geographic barriers,” said Dr. Rosenfeld.

Prior to venturing into the business world, Dr. Rosenfeld was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins. During those years he and colleagues struggled with how to solve a problem that plagues our nation’s healthcare system: the shortage of intensive care physicians. There are only about 6,000 for the 5 million patients who need ICU care each year.

Over time, Dr. Rosenfeld began to develop a vision for a new model of intensive care, an approach that improves ICU care processes while leveraging scarce intensivist resources: the patented eICU system.

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situations. Multiple screens depict real-time data, care plans, diagnostic results, and treatment histories.

Functioning much like an air traffic control center, the remote eICU is staffed around the clock with physicians and critical care nurses who are networked to multiple ICU patients via voice, video, and physiological data via realtime monitoring. Patient data is continuously electronically analyzed for thresholds and trends. When a patient strays “out of bounds,” alerts prompt physician intervention— often precluding adverse events. The eICU team executes predefined plans or intervenes in emergencies when attendings are not in the ICU. Clinicians have on-line access to online decision support software that supports algorithm-driven interventions for diagnosis and treatment. The system also features outcomestracking and a relational database that organizes the shared responsibilities between ICU and eICU care providers.

Dr. Rosenfeld’s critical care delivery model is in place in over 150 hospitals in two dozen states across the U.S. today— with impressive results. Studies that have proven the system effective at reducing mortality by more than 25 percent.

Sentara Healthcare, a six-hospital system in Norfolk, VA, that installed the eICU in 2000 documented these results (as published in Critical Care Medicine, 2004): a 27 percent reduction in severity-adjusted hospital mortality for ICU patients; a 17 percent reduction in ICU length of stay; and savings of $2,150 per patient or 3 million dollars above program costs.

It’s a paradigm shift, “from crisis intervention to crisis prevention,” said Dr. Rosenfeld, reminding us that “clinical transformation is one of the most difficult things to achieve.”

For more information about the company, visit its website at visicu.com.

Martin Goldberg, MD ’55, a former Dean at Temple and Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Physiology, and Manuel Martínez-Maldonado, MD ’61, Dean of Ponce School of Medicine, have each been named Master of the American College of Physicians. The highest level achievable in the College, Master recognizes outstanding career accomplishments.

Dr. Goldberg is an expert in clinical nephrology, electrolyte and acid-base disorders, computer-assisted diagnosis and teaching, and renal physiology, pharmacology and pathophysiology. Prior to joining Temple’s faculty, he served as Chief of the Renal-Electrolyte Section at the University of Pennsylvania and was Chair of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He has also been an officer and/or governing council member of such organizations as the International Society of Nephrology and the American Federation for Clinical Research. He served as principal investigator of one of the first NIH Renal Training Grants and is recipient of an NIH Research Career Development Award. He has authored or co-authored over 150 publications and has trained more than 100 renal fellows.

Another nephrologist, Manuel Martínez-Maldonado, MD ’61, Dean of Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico, was also honored with the designation of Mastership. A worldrenowned educator, administrator, clinician and investigator, Dr. Martinez has served in a series of clinical leadership positions. He has held professorships at Baylor, the University of Puerto Rico, Emory (where he also served as Vice Chair of Medicine), and Oregon Health Sciences University (where he also served as vice president for research). He has also taught at Harvard and Vanderbilt, chaired the Department of Physiology at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, and from 1975 to 1990 he chaired the department of medicine at the San Juan Veterans Administration Center.

He has served on numerous NIH committees, has received several international research awards, and has more than 250 publications to his credit. His research interests include renal physiology, prevention, detection, and treatment of renal diseases, the effect of nutrition on kidney function and body fluid composition, and the effects of hypertension on kidney function.

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Christopher Loftus, MD, Chair of Neurosurgery at Temple, (left) was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) by the Pavel Josef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia, in March. Dr. Loftus is pictured here with the University’s former chief of Neurosurgery, Professor Igor Sulla, who nominated him for the honor.

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Each year, two alumni are chosen to represent the School of Medicine in Temple University’s Gallery of Success, a unique gallery of alumni portraits and biographies viewed by thousands of students, applicants, faculty and visitors who pass through it in Mitten Hall. Representing the School of Medicine this year are David Greenwald, MD ’70, and Ruth E. Perry, MD ’82.

Often referred to as northeastern Pennsylvania’s most veteran oncologist, David Greenwald, MD ’70, is senior partner and founder of Medical Oncology Associates, a fullservice Kingston, PA-based practice with a 30-year history.

The practice is associated with the Wyoming Valley Health Care System, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, and Penn State Cancer Institute— the latter a network of comprehensive outpatient cancer services for patients in rural areas.

A leader not only in oncology but in regional medical affairs, Dr. Greenwald is also President of the medical staff of the Wyoming Valley Health Care System, northeastern Pennsylvania’s largest health system, and serves as Chair of the System’s Medical Executive Committee, Credentialing and Cancer Committees. In addition to having served as head of Hematology/Oncology for the System, he is former Medical Director of Valley Crest Luzerne County Nursing Home and an American College of Surgeons Cancer Program Medical Liaison. Dr. Greenwald is a Diplomate of the American College of Physicians.

Committed to human service and philanthropy in the region, Dr. Greenwald is a trustee of the Wyoming Seminary and the local Jewish Community Center and United Way chapter. He played a vital role in establishing a charitable fund that provides prescription assistance to cancer patients in need, the Medical Oncology Patient Prescription Fund.

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He’s been recognized numerous times for his advocacy of welfare in the region and is recipient of a 2005 B’nai Brith Community Service Award.

Alumna and former Temple faculty member Ruth E. Perry, MD ’82, Moorestown, NJ, has crafted a unique career.

She is currently Director of Global Product Integrity for Rohm & Haas’ Company and played a pivotal role in making sustainable development a strategic direction for the company.

She is Rohm & Haas’ Liaison and Delegate to the World Business Council on Sustainable Development and served as a panelist for the World Environment Conference’s Gold Medal Colloquium and the Conference Board’s Business and Sustainability Conference. In addition, she is a member of the Advisory Council for the Global Strategy Institute of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

A Diplomate of the American College of Physicians and Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Dr. Perry is a former Director of Occupational Health and Attending in Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and was Associate Professor on Temple’s faculty.

Reflecting her passion for science and art, Dr. Perry is a classical pianist, a member of the choir of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Trenton, NJ, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia.

She is also a new member of Temple University School of Medicine’s Board of Visitors.

David A. Axler, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Immunology at the School of Medicine, has been elected President of the Eastern Pennsylvania branch of the American Society for Microbiology.

Charles L. Miller, MD ’63, received a Physician Recognition Award from Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, NJ, where he’s practiced cardiology for 25 years, having served in such leadership positions as medical staff president.

David Baron, DO, Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Temple, received the Daniel Blaine Award of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, presented to a psychiatrist with distinguished commitment and contributions to Philadelphia psychiatry. Edward Volkman, MD, Associate Professor, received the Educator of the Year Award, which is presented to a psychiatrist who has made significant and substantial contributions to the education of psychiatrists in the Philadelphia area.

Eugene N. Myers, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has been named a Distinguished Professor of the University, acknowledging his international leadership in otolaryngology during the last 30 years. Dr. Myers also received the Allegheny County (PA) Medical Society’s 2005 Ralph C. Wilde Award, given to a physician who exemplifies the personal and professional characteristics of the late Medical Society president for whom the award is named.

Randal R. Betz, MD ’77, Professor of Surgery, Chief of Staff and Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Injury unit at Shriners Hospitals for Children, Philadelphia, was recently elected President of the Scoliosis Research Society. Dr. Betz has an active practice in pediatric spinal surgery, and his research interests focus on pediatric spinal deformity and spinal cord injury. He is the author of The Child with Spinal Cord Injury (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery) and has contributed 21 chapters to medical texts.

Henry Parkman, MD, Professor of Medicine at Temple (Gastroenterology), has been inducted as President of the American Motility Society.

Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70, Chief of Cardiology at Temple, received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University.

Bert Channick, MD, Professor of Medicine at Temple (Endocrinology), sat on the committee to select nominees for the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology.

Angela N. Haas, MD ’93, Williamsport, PA, received the Physician IT Leadership Award of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, presented to an individual who has demonstrated significant leadership in applying information technology to the needs of physicians and serving both the Society and industry as a whole. Dr. Haas is Vice President, Physician Resources and Chief Medical Information Officer at Susquehanna (PA) Health System.

Sean Harbison, MD ’86, Associate Professor of Surgery, has been inducted as President of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.

Ronald Rubin, MD ’72, Professor of Medicine at Temple (Hematology), was named the Department of Medicine’s Outstanding Teacher and gave the keynote remarks at the 2005 Alpha Omega Alpha awards and induction ceremony dinner at Temple.

Leukemia researcher Tomasz Skorski, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Temple, has been awarded the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Stohlman Scholar Award, in recognition of his “outstanding contributions to the advancement of blood cancer research.”

The Award is given annually to four or five researchers worldwide. Dr. Skorski investigates the molecular mechanisms that cause the chronic myelogenous leukemia cell to become resistant to treatment, with an eye toward developing approaches to stop mutagenesis in these cells. His research is funded by the NIH, the Department of Defense, the American Cancer Society and Novartis.

Temple’s Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) swept the awards at the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians’ conference. It was named FMIG of the Year for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and won the award for the greatest growth in membership.

Ellie Kelepouris, MD, Professor of Medicine at Temple (Nephrology), received a 2005 Distinguished Service Award from the National Kidney Foundation.

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Vincent A. Fulginiti, MD ’57, Tucson, AZ, former Chancellor of the University of Colorado Health Science Center, will be honored, along with his wife, with the building of the Vincent A. and Shirley Fulginiti Ethics Pavilion at the University of CO. Dr. Fulginiti is credited with initiating the move of the University’s Health Science Center from Denver to Aurora, CO, expanding its acreage from 14 to 215. In addition, Dr. Fulginiti is CoChair of the Board of the newly formed Arizona Arts, Science and Technology Academy and Co-Founder of the Medical Reserve Corps of Southern Arizona.

Charles D. Tourtellotte, MD ’57, Res ’61, Haddonfield, NJ, Emeritus Professor of Medicine in the Section of Rheumatology at Temple and former President of the Alumni Association, has been named Surgeon General of the National Huguenot Society, which honors those of French Protestant ancestry. He is a Board Member of the Lupus Foundation of America, Inc., South Jersey Chapter, and is active in the Haddonfield, NJ, area, having served as president of the Haddonfield Board of Education and chaired the local environmental commission.

AT THE HAWAII ALUMNI DINNER:

AT THE AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY ALUMNI RECEPTION IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA:

AT THE ALUMNI RECEPTION IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA:

Walter Y. M. Chang, MD ’54, Dean Daly, and Wayne Y. H. Lum, MD ’74 taking in the Hawaii sun

Professor of Medicine Gerard J. Criner, MD ’79 (center) with former residents, faculty and friends

David M. Essayan, MD, Res ’89, Associate Dean Uknis and Gene Blumfield, MD ’47

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Eugene N. Myers, MD ’60, Pittsburgh, PA, Chair of Otolaryngology and Eye and Ear Foundation Chair at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, continues to travel and lecture extensively. Among his many recent engagements were the keynote at the recent European Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in Greece, and lectures, presentations, and visiting professorships stateside as well as in China, Guatemala and Venezuela.

Joseph F. Brazel, MD ’66, Carlisle, PA, who practiced internal medicine and hematology for 33 years in Carlisle, PA, retired on August 31, 2005.

Martin Grabois, MD ’66, Houston, TX, Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine, is

President of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Foundation. As such he chaired its national meeting, plus sponsored (with the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Association of Academic Physiatrists) the recent “Building Research Capacity” summit in Washington, DC. He is also Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at The Methodist Hospital.

Charles I. Shubin, MD ’66, Baltimore, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and Director of Children’s Health at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, is an expert lecturer and advocate for underserved and abused children.

Rachel Schonberger, MD ’68, Atlanta, GA, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at

James G. Murphy, MD ’71, Joseph H.Wood, MD ’56 and Elizabeth H.Wood

Emory and Director of Community Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, where she spearheaded a Grady Health System initiative to establish a Community Health Center in Roswell, GA to address the needs of the growing minority patient populations.

Dr. Schonberger has also served on the American Medical Women’s Association Board of Directors.

Stephen M. Solomon, MD ’69, Silver Spring, MD, announces that his son Jonathan Solomon, MD ’00, has joined him in the practice of ophthalmology at Solomon Eye Associates, with offices in Bowie and Greenbelt, Maryland.

Jonathan’s mother is also a medical school graduate: Phyllis Barson, MD ’70.

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Bruce D. Jorgenson, MD ’70, Mesa, AZ, a pediatrician, is cofounder of ChartLogic Voice Driven, which brought to market a paperless charting system called ChartLogic™. The pediatric practice he created in Utah, Wee Care Pediatrics, sees an average of 400 patients per day. He is also a former board Chair and founding investor of GumTech International, a publicly traded healthcare company.

Ray Bracis, MD ’71, Portland, OR, was named a “top doc” in Infectious Diseases in Portland Monthly magazine.

He practices at Emanuel Hospital in Portland.

Stephen Permut, MD ’72, JD, Wilmington, DE, Associate Dean of Academic Affiliations and Chair of Family and Community Medicine at Temple, has been elected to several positions at the

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American Medical Association: Chair of the southeastern delegation, Vice Chair of the Council on Legislation, and the Board of Trustees’ Task Force on Patient Safety.

Douglas A. Howell, MD ’73, Cape Elizabeth, ME, a master endoscopist with special interest in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He directs the Pancreaticobiliary Center and gastroenterology fellowship program there, one of the few advanced interventional fellowship programs in the country.

Walter D. Rosenfeld, MD ’75, Randolph, NJ, is Director of the Adolescent/Young Adult Center for Health and Vice Chair of Pediatrics at Goryeb Children’s Hospital (Atlantic Health System) based in Morristown, NJ.

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Jing Tao ’09, Albert J. Finestone, MD ’45, Alexander Madonis ’09, Nathan Schnall, MD ’47 and Evan Watkins ’09

Kathy Buckley, Jonathan Buckley ’09 and Ronald J. Buckley, MD ’77

Anne Pletcher Close ’09 and Richard Alan Close, MD ’72

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Milton Wohl, MD ’49, sharing his stories of Dr. Babcock at the luncheon

Paul H. Steel, MD ’52, sharing recollections of Dr. Babcock

M. Richard Katz, MD, Gustavo Ramos, MD ’76, David F. Jiminez, MD ’85,William F.Young, MD ’92 and Jack I. Jallo, MD, Res ’91

Richard J. Meagher, MD, Res ’97, and Philip Gildenberg, MD ’59, PhD ’70

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Sanford Guttler, MD ’76, Hickory, NC, was recently elected Chair of Frye Regional Medical Center, located in Hickory. Dr. Guttler is a partner of Crown Health Care, the largest independently owned primary care practice in the region. He would love to know how his classmates are doing and can be reached at Mogulfreek@Charter.net.

James Peipon, MD ’77, Kiev, Ukraine, is Medical Director of International Health Services, a church-related organization that provides medical and humanitarian aid in the Ukraine.

Francis S. Speidel, MBA, MD ’77, West Chester, PA, is Vice President for Medical Affairs at Centre Community Hospital in State College, PA, a newly created position that supports medical staff functions and provides consultation to the president/ CEO and executive team regarding medical affairs, medical staff functions, quality of care, accreditation, medical education, and strategic issues impacting medical care.

Alan Dayno, MD ’78, Northampton, MA, Medical Director of the Community Substance Abuse Center of West Springfield, MA, has been involved in medical projects in Nicaragua and Jamaica, where he’s working to develop outpatient clinics to improve access to care.

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AT THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS RECEPTION IN NEW ORLEANS:

AT THE BABCOCK CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION:

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Last year, Dr. Dayno accompanied Richard Albertson, MD ’63, and Robert W. Ford, MD ’63, on a medical mission to Jos, Nigeria, where he worked with patients with HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, onchocerciasis, and polio. His son, Matt Dayno, is a Temple medical student who is active in the school’s International Health Organization.

David I. Hoffman, MD ’78, Pompano Beach, FL, an obstetrician/gynecologist with a private practice focusing on fertility, is Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology at the University of Miami and past president of both the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Fort Lauderdale Obstetrics/ Gynecology Society. He is a founding member of the Southeastern Reproductive Medicine Association.

Bernard L. Remakus, MD ’78, Hallstead, PA, delivered the keynote address, “Medicine From The Heart,” at the 9th annual Geriatrics Teaching Day in Binghamton, NY, this past summer, sponsored by the State University of New York, Columbia University and New York University.

Michael Kalson, MD ’79, Atlanta, GA, practices orthopedic surgery, specializing in the lumbar spine.

He has fond memories from Temple, especially of emeritus orthopaedics chair John Lachman, MD ’43.

Samuel Klein MD ’79, Clayton, MO, is the Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science and Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis.

He also serves as Associate Director of the University’s General Clinical Research Center and is Medical Director of the Washington University Weight Management Center and Barnes-Jewish Hospital nutritional support service.

A faculty member since 1994, Dr. Klein has developed several research programs aimed at the prevention and treatment of nutritionrelated disease and is Principal Investigator on a large NIH grant to establish a nutrition research center at the University.

Edward Rabbitt, MD ’79, Alexandria, VA, is an orthopedic surgeon with five offices in the metro Washington, DC, region, who also serves as Assistant Clinical Professor at Georgetown University. He is particularly interested in minimal-incision and computer-assisted joint replacement and arthroscopy.

He remains in contact with several classmates, including Frank R. Ebert, John Magill, and Joe Nejman.

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Mark F. Obenrader MD ’80, Horsham, PA, a family practicioner with a private practice in Wyndmoor, PA, WyndMark Medical Associates, has joined Temple Physicians Inc., Temple’s network of community-based primary care physicians.

He writes and lectures on the biology of aging.

Kathleen Reilly Bell, MD ’81, Seattle, WA, is Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine, where she also serves as Medical Director of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program and directs the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Model System program. She’s conducting research on telephone-mediated counseling to enhance community reintegration after TBI.

Barry B. Moore, MD ’67, and Philip Gildenberg, MD ’59, PhD ’70

Patrick J. Brennan, MD ’82, Havertown, PA, an infectious diseases expert, has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), where he has served as Chief of Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety for the last four years. In the new role he will be responsible for monitoring and overseeing the quality of care at System hospitals and related clinical practices. Dr. Brennan chairs the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and is one of 14 infectious diseases experts who advise the Centers for Disease Control and the Secretary of HHS regarding infection control in United States healthcare facilities.

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Mahender Macha, MD with Pediatric Surgery Section Chief Harsh Grewal, MD and Daniel T. Dempsey, MD, Professor and Chair of Surgery

Tom Miller, MD, ’75 with David Mercer, MD, Res ’93

Anthony J. Comerota, MD ’74, and Barbara Hawk, RN ’70

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Class of 1948 Scholarship recipient Felix Chapkovsy, MD ’05

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Aaron Fletcher, MD ’06 and keynote speaker and co-founder of the Alley Scholarship, Albert A. Alley, MD ’64

Emma Weiss Scholarship recipient Steven Busselen, MD ’05 with founders Sandra Harmon-Weiss, MD ’74, and Richard C.Weiss, DMD, with Charles Scholarship recipient Bernadette Thomas, MD ’05

Scholarship donors Marc DiNardo, Elizabeth Drum, MD ’86, and Dean Daly

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James L. Gajewski, MD ’83, Washington, DC, has been recruited by Georgetown University to serve as Professor of Medicine and direct Georgetown University Hospital’s blood and marrow transplant program. A nationally renowned transplant physician and researcher, Dr. Gajewski was Deputy Chair of the program at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, TX, one of the nation’s largest. He’s active as an advocate on BMT public policy and payment issues and has served on the National Marrow Donor Board of Directors. He’s received numerous awards and honors.

Corrine Lowe Leach, PhD ’82, MD ’83, Orchard Park, NY, is Associate Professor of Neonatology and Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy at the State University of New York and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. Her research interests include the effect of low doses of hydrocortisone on bronchopulmonary dysplasia in premature infants and the effect of ultra violet light treatment of HVAC systems on NICU nosocomial infection rates.

Hildegard K. Toth, MD ’83, New York, NY, is Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology and Acting Director of the Breast Imaging Center at New York University Medical Center.

She’s an active lecturer and has numerous publications to her credit.

David F. Jimenez, MD ’85, San Antonio, TX, is Director of the Center for Neurosurgical Sciences, and Chair of Neurosurgical Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He also directs the Neurosurgical Residency program and has an extensive research program, both basic and clinical. Prior to moving to Texas, he was Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of MissouriColumbia. His areas of expertise include pediatric neurosurgery, craniofacial surgery, minimally invasive endoscopic neurosurgery, and brain tumors.

Joseph M. Woods, IV, MD ’85, Atlanta, GA, practices reconstructive and cosmetic plastic surgery.

Sharon M. Tomaski, MD ’86, Littleton, CO, a pediatric otolaryngologist, was named one of the 250 top docs in Denver’s 5280 Magazine, a list voted on by the 7,000 practicing physicians in Colorado.

She also serves on the Board of Directors of The Children’s Hospital of Denver.

Class of 1943 scholarship recipient Melissa Ross ’06, Barnhart scholarship recipient Jennifer Sorrell, MD ’05, and Aaron Fletcher, MD ’06

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Emad S. Alnemri, PhD ’91, Philadelphia, PA, is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center, where he conducts research on cell apoptosis and intracellular apoptosis regulating complexes.

Mark C. Cullen, MD ’91, Duluth, GA, is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in pediatric and adult sports medicine at Gwinnett Health System.

Ellen Deibert MD ’93, Res ’94, Richmond Heights, MO, is Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.

Her clinical responsibilities focus on acute stroke management and neurorehabilitation. One of her research projects pertains to the use of Troponin I as an indicator for cardiac dysfunction in subarachnoid hemorrhages.

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AT THE CONWELL BASKETBALL GAME RECEPTION:

AT THE MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING:

Ralph S. Sando, MD ’73, Joyce Sando, and classmate Dean Daly

President Paul Hermany, MD ’82, presents immediate Past President Louis X. Santore, MD ’80, with a plaque recognizing his tenure as association president

Hoangmai H. Pham, MD ’95, MPH, Washington, DC, is Senior Physician Health Researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change, a nonpartisan policy research organization based in Washington, DC. A Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Dr. Pham’s areas of expertise include managed care and quality of care models and medical training for the management of chronic conditions.

Deborah Horwitz, MD ’96, New York, NY, is a member of hospitalist staff in the Department of Medicine at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

Tom F. Miller, PhD ’96, MBA, Warrington, PA, is Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Discovery Laboratories, a respiratory critical care biotech company.

His team is responsible for the global launch of Surfaxin, the first completely synthetic protein containing surfactant therapy for the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome in pre-term infants— technology that stems from his doctoral work at Temple in the laboratories of Drs. Marla Wolfson and Tom Shaffer in the early 1990s.

Jeffrey B. King, MD ’99, Dallas, TX, a family practitioner, is Associate Medical Director of a chain of urgent care centers operated by Care Now, Inc. in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

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Sam Johnson, MD ’02, Atlanta, GA, is completing his residency in internal medicine at Emory and plans to relocate to San Diego in 2007.

Mark Kudes, MD ’01, and Diana Barnett Kudes, MD ’01, Rochester, NY, announce the birth of their son Sean Patrick Kudes (6/28/05).

Mark just completed the first year of his cardiology fellowship at University of Rochester, and Diana just completed a chief residency in pediatrics at University of Rochester, where she now serves as a part-time faculty member. She will be going into private practice as well.

Please give us your news: templemed@temple.edu

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Poliner Scholarship recipient Lizeth Romero, MD ’06,AKK Phi Chi, Fisher and Class of 1946 Scholarship recipient Alice Choe, MD ’05,Weinberger Scholarship recipient Stephanie Lueckel, MD ’05, Dean Daly, Dean’s Scholarship recipients Stephen Nalbach ’07, Christine Herb ’07, Jason Catanzaro ’08 and Ken Hsin ’08

Lizeth Romero, MD ’06, Stephanie Lueckel, MD ’05, Dr. Kenneth and Mrs. Elsie Cundy, and Alice Choe, MD ’05

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The Class of 1985: Front (L-R): Rinchen-Tzo Emgushov; Darilyn Moyer; Joan Warrenski; Mary Callahan; Carrie Donvito Delone; Back (L-R): Oleh Wasyl Hnatiuk; Scott Rosenberg; John Coppes; and Bret Delone

The Class of 1995: Front (L-R): Mary Jackson Mosley; Steven Fassler; Brad Pontz; David Kaplan; and Cynthia Amitin. Back (L-R): Michael Bertocchi; Damali Campbell Oparaji; Rajeev Prasad; Kalyan Poruri; Jonas Karlsson; and Gregory Schwartzman

Last October, the Class of 2009 was welcomed to the profession of medicine at Temple with a beautiful ceremony in which firstyear students receive their white coats from alumni and faculty.

Paul Hermany, MD ’82, President of the Alumni Association, joined Dean Daly in welcoming the class. John Stone, MD, Emeritus Professor of Cardiology at Emory University, author of On Doctoring, gave the keynote address. More than 700 family members of the students were present.

John Holten and Joan Hoshauer Madison of the Class of 1955 during the campus tour

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Saying hello again: John Holten and Takashi Hattori of the Class of 1955

Harris Nagler and Jon Jaffe of the Class of 1975, get reacquainted after 30 years

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The alumni and faculty who joined Drs. Daly and Hermany as “cloakers” in the ceremony were Robert Berish, MD ’65; Paul Casey, MD ’75; Kenneth Cundy, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Microbiology and Immunology; Alvin Kaplan, MD ’55; Lawrence Kaplan, MD ’86, Associate Professor of Medicine; Ellie Kelepouris, MD, Professor, Nephrology; Helen Pearson, PhD, Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology; John Siberski, MD ’75; Frederick Simeone, MD ’60; Ronald Tuma, PhD ’75, Chair, Physiology; and Gary Weiss, MD ’60.

A special “cloaking” was reserved for medical students whose parents are alumni or faculty: Ronald Buckley, MD ’77; Richard Close, MD ’72; Joseph DeFranco, MD ’77; Vincent Markovchick, MD ’70; Timothy Pagana, MD ’75; Roseanne Paz, MD ’84; Bernard Remakus, MD ’78; Michael Romash, MD ’74; and Wei Zhang, PhD ’00, Associate Professor, Thrombosis Research.

Philip O. Geib, MD ’45, dressed to the nines

Philip Roberts, Jr., Philip Hunter, Gerald Pifer, and William Fearn of the Class of 1965 enjoy a CME course given by Fred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70

Picture perfect: Chinyere I. Ogbonna ’09, Schiavone Cruz ’09, Hien Hanh Nguyen ’09 and Tuyet-Trinh Truong ’09

(l to r): Dean Daly with author of On Doctoring and keynote speaker John Stone, MD, and Kenneth Cundy, PhD

Reciting the Hippocratic Oath (l to r): Aileen Andreu ’09, Sarah S. Asch ’09, Laura K. Austin ’09,Veronica Baca ’09 and Abin Bandyopadhyay ’09

Class reunion for alumni who graduated in years ending in 0 and 5 began the next day. Many of the nearly 400 “reunioners” were local, but dozens flew in from California, Puerto Rico, and other distant locales. The event began with a breakfast, followed by a welcome from the Alumni Association President and an update from the Dean. Next, alumni visited the School’s new clinical simulation center, trying their hands at laproscopic simulators, task trainers, and robotic mannequins with fluctuating blood pressures and heart rhythms, fluid-filled vasculature, and palpable organs. It was an experience that impressed and amazed.

Afterward, half went to an estate and gift planning seminar, while the remainder took a CME class about the impact of the internet on medical practice, led by Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70, Professor & Chief of Cardiology. Next was lunch, followed by a campus tour that brought back lots of memories.

Alexander Madonis ’09 getting ‘coated’ by Gary Weiss, MD ’60

Paul R. Casey, MD ’75, with his wife Kathleen

Miriam K. Kaplan, BS ’54, with her husband Alvin I. Kaplan, MD ’55

Virginia Close, Anne Close ’09, and Richard Close, MD ’72

That evening, everyone gathered at the Westin Hotel in Philadelphia for cocktails, class photos, and a dinner program that featured the presentation of awards, as detailed on page 22.

“It was a great opportunity to catch up with classmates,” said Herbert Lee, MD ’80 of Long Beach, CA. Concluded Amaury Capella, MD ’55, of Guaynabo, PR, “It was a wonderful and unforgettable weekend.”

Reunion for classes ending in 1 and 6 is set for October 28, 2006.

Call the Alumni Office for details: 800-331-2839 or 215-707-4850.

Alan Sandler, MD ’70, with Virgie and Jim Huehnergarth, MD ’70

Seated: John R. Siberski, MD ’75, Mary Daly, Frederick A. Simeone, MD ’60 and Chris D.Tzarnas, MD. Standing: John Stone, MD, Dean Daly, Gary Weiss, MD ’60 and Ellie Kelepouris, MD

Nadia S. Markovchick ’09 with her father Vincent Markovchick, MD ’70

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When Dr. Saltzman matched in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she couldn’t have been happier. “It was my first choice. I was ecstatic,” she says.

Graduates Not seeking Residencies

“After working so hard for four years, you finally know where you’re going,” she says.

“To realize, wow, I really am going to be a pediatrician. Amazing.”

Dr. Saltzman credits Temple with earning her a spot in CHOP’s residency—a popular and competitive program, whose applicants far exceed available spots.

Holding Residency Positions Temple and Affiliates

Moments before the clock struck noon, Darilyn Moyer, MD ’86, Associate Professor of Medicine, (right) distributed envelopes containing the results of the 2006 Match

“Temple’s clinical education was the best,” she says. “They put what they teach in the classroom into real-life practice, making us part of the team treating patients.”

And the patients who appealed most to Dr. Saltzman were the youngest.

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“When I did my pediatrics rotation, I knew it was my calling,” she says.

A member of Temple MedScholars Program, Dr. Saltzman was granted admission to Temple University School of Medicine at the same time she was

It’s 11:59 am on a sunny morning in March. A growing hum fills the medical school conference center on North Broad Street. When the clock strikes noon, there’s the distinct sound of nearly 200 envelopes tearing open at once. It’s match day at Temple, and at every other medical school in the United States, when seniors learn their fates for residency. Next a roar of city, state and school names fills the air.

There are hugs, handshakes, and high fives all around.

Tampa? Temple! Michigan? Brown! You’ll be in Texas too? Students on cell phones shout destinations to loved ones waiting at home: Mom? I’m going to Pittsburgh.

Can you hear me? Pittsburgh!

Established in 1952, the National Resident Matching Program, “the Match,” was established to provide a fair and impartial transition to graduate medical education. More than 25,000 applicants participate yearly.

“The Match gives you the option to shoot for the moon,” says Rushani Weerasooriya Saltzman, MD ’05. “You can apply to as many places as you want.”

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PG2 Year

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Internal Medicine Categorical

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Primary

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Preliminary: PG2 not chosen

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Pediatrics

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accepted into Temple’s undergraduate program—right out of high school. In addition to providing a conditional guarantee of a seat in Medical School (certain standards must be maintained as an undergraduate), the MedScholars program enables talented young people to pursue a diverse course of study. They are not obligated to follow the traditional pre-med track.

4 (2%)

Other Philadelphia or PA Programs

Obstetrics/Gynecology

Happily matched, Dr. Sakima Smith (left) is going to BarnesJewish Hospital in Missouri for internal medicine, Dr. Michael Adenaike (center) is going to Drexel University for internal medicine, and Dr. Che Ward (right) is going to SUNY-Brooklyn for emergency medicine

192 (100%)

3 (2%) 111 (58%)

Peds/Psych

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Orthopedics

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Surgery Categorical

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Preliminary: PG2 chosen **

2 (10%)

Preliminary: PG2 not chosen

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Transitional PG2 Chosen ***

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PG2 Not Chosen

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Dermatology

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Emergency Medicine

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ENT

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“I liked the idea of having a spot waiting for me at med school, but wanted a more well-rounded education than the traditional pre-med major offers, so I minored in French and took dance, economics and religion in addition to physics and biology,” Dr. Saltzman explains.

Neurology

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Neurosurgery

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Another thing that turned out well is that Dr. Saltzman and her husband, a new graduate of another medical school, were part of the “couples match”: seniors who ask to be matched in the same city as a partner. They were both granted their first choices so they could remain together in Philadelphia. It’s all turning out to be a perfect match!

Ophthalmology

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PM&R

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Pathology

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Psychiatry

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Radiation Oncology

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Radiology

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Urology

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Deferred

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PHILANTHROPY NOTES* Since the publication of the last Temple Medicine, alumni, faculty and friends have made dozens of leadership gifts ranging between $25,000 and $1.5 million to the School of Medicine for scholarships, educational programs, professorships, research and building funds. Three are profiled here: * Frank Baldino, Jr., PhD ’80, and Cephalon, Inc. Their records of giving were already exemplary—and now Frank Baldino, Jr., PhD ’80, and his company, Cephalon, Inc., the international biopharmaceutical firm, have made two additional significant gifts that will benefit the School of Medicine for years to come.

The personal gift that Dr. Baldino and his wife Sandra made is in support of two priorities at the School of Medicine: the new building fund and graduate student education. The Cephalon corporate donation funds a research floor in the new School of Medicine building.

In addition to serving as founder and CEO of Cephalon, Inc., one of the most successful biotech companies in the world with more than 2,000 employees in 14 countries and over $1 billion in annual sales, Dr. Baldino serves in volunteer leadership positions to promote science-related commerce in the Philadelphia region. Temple is a key recipient of his time and expertise. He is a trustee of Temple University and chairs the Board of Visitors of the School of Medicine. He hopes to see Temple become a catalyst for cooperation among the incredible array of medical institutions in Philadelphia.

What’s behind Dr. Baldino’s spirit of giving? “When visionary leaders like Dean Daly ask you to help, you do it just to be associated with them,” says Dr. Baldino. Plus, “It’s time for me to give something back.”

Dr. Baldino founded Cephalon in 1987 and grew it from a privately held company to one of the largest publicly traded biotechnology companies in the United States. Its key products are Provigil, the only FDA-approved prescription medicine for treatment of excessive sleepiness associated with obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome and shift-work sleep disorder; Actiq, the only prescription medicine approved for treatment of breakthrough pain in opioid-tolerant cancer patients; Gabitril, the only FDA-approved selective GABA-reuptake inhibitor, an adjunct therapy for treatment of partial seizures associated with epilepsy; and Trisenox, therapy for first and subsequent relapse in acute promyelocytic leukemia.

In addition to his roles at Temple, Dr. Baldino is Chair of the Board of the BioAdvance Biotechnology Greenhouse Corporation, a member of the Executive Council of the Harvard Division of Sleep Medicine, a Trustee of The Franklin Institute, and serves on numerous boards of directors, including the Eastern Technology Council. He also holds several adjunct academic appointments, including one at Temple.

He’s been a benefactor of the School of Medicine and University for a long time, supporting numerous funds, such as the Class of 1963 Endowed Scholarship Fund, and now, Daniel T. Nesi, MD ’63, an otolaryngologist with offices in Colmar and Doylestown, PA, has made a significant gift in support of the School of Medicine’s new building project.

He has funded a classroom to honor the memory of a son he lost several years ago.

Daniel A. Nesi, MD ’63

Not one to sit on the sidelines, Dr. Nesi believes in taking action, in making an investment in the things and people important to us.

Dr. Nesi has a unique charm and a big heart. When the Dean invited him to participate as a cloaker in the School’s White Coat Ceremony to welcome new medical students last year, Dr. Nesi enjoyed it thoroughly, reinvigorated by the celebration of what’s truly at the heart of medicine.

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* Other Recent Gifts and Pledges $25,000 to $49,999 Rodger Barnette, MD ’79, to the Rodger Barnette, MD ’79, Private Study Room in the new medical school building Daniel Bethem, MD ’70, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund for the new medical school building Leonard Brody, MD ’79, and Robert Mannherz, MD ’79, to the new medical school building fund John Chogich MD ’53, and Anne Chogich, to the Class of 1953 Endowed Scholarship Fund via charitable gift annuity

Dr. Baldino attributes much of his success to “the strong education” he received at Temple. “There are a lot of role models at Temple,” he says, citing his mentor, Pharmacology Professor Martin Adler, PhD, Director of Temple’s Center for Substance Abuse Research. “He’s an academic, but he’s an entrepreneur,” says Dr. Baldino. “He was always well funded.

That was a real motivating factor for a guy like me.”

* Daniel A. Nesi, MD ’63

Frank Baldino, Jr., PhD ’80

As all practicing physicians know, the pressures and realities of the business of medicine can deplete not only one’s enthusiasm but also one’s resources. To this end, Dr. Nesi stays active in PAPA, the Politically Active Physicians Association, which promotes medical liability reform.

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Gerard Criner, MD ’79, to the new medical school building fund Daniel Dempsey, MD, to the Dr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Dempsey Private Study Room in the new medical school building Edward Donahue, MD ’79, to the Edward Donahue, MD, FACS, Study Room in the new medical school building Elizabeth Drum, MD ’86, to the new medical school building fund Amy Goldberg, MD, to the Amy J. Goldberg, MD (Surg Res ’92) and Ray and Ellen Goldberg Study Room in the new medical school building Raymond and Ellen Goldberg to the Amy J. Goldberg, MD, and Ray and Ellen Goldberg Study Room of the new medical school building

*The Mings Beloved emeritus professors Si-Chun Ming, MD, and Pen-Ming Lee Ming, MD, who taught and practiced pathology at Temple for more than 30 years, have made a very generous gift to establish the Drs. Si-Chun and Pen-Ming Lee Ming Endowed Scholarship Fund.

Si-Chun Ming, MD, came to Temple in 1971, served as Acting Chair of Pathology from 1978 to 1980, then as Deputy Chair from 1980 to 1986. He’s renowned for his contributions to GI pathology. He has lectured all over the world. In the mid 1970’s, he wrote the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology fascicle on tumors of the esophagus and stomach, and later contributed to the World Health Organization’s classification of intestinal tumors. He also co-authored a book that became a seminal work in GI pathology: Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract (WB Saunders; 1992 and 1998).

Michael Gratch, MD ’76, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund in the new medical school building Sanford Greenberg, MD ’60, to the new medical school building fund The Margaret Hayes Foundation to the Merrill Bemis Hayes, MD ’34, Endowed Scholarship Fund Michael Kalson, MD ’79, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund in the new medical school building William Kehrli, MD ’65, to the Henry Kehrli, MD ’36, and William Kehrli, MD ’65, Study Room in the new medical school building Richard Kozera, MD, to the new medical school building fund Robert McNamara, MD, to the Dr. and Mrs. Robert McNamara Private Study Room in the new medical school building Geraldine Mantell, MD ’63, to the Geraldine Mantell Endowed Scholarship Fund Alan Maurer, MD ’75, to the new medical school building fund

Boarded in both anatomic pathology and medical genetics, Pen-Ming Lee Ming, MD, ran the cytogenetics laboratory for 26 years (1972 to 1998) and was an essential member of the laboratory team at Temple. Deeply committed to teaching and service, she was honored with two Golden Apple teaching awards (1988 and 1992) and received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1994.

Their generous scholarship gift is a wonderful gesture of appreciation to Temple, grateful as they are to the School for providing the platform for their fruitful, meaningful careers.

James McClurken, MD ’76, to the new medical school building fund Michael Miller to the Dr. Lewis Richard, Jr., and Sidney G. Miller Study Room in the new medical school building The Catherine Nelson, MD, Foundation to the Catherine Hayes Nelson, MD ’35, Memorial Scholarship Fund Joseph H. Nejman, MD ’79, and Michelle Nejman to the Nejman Family Study Room in the new medical school building Stephen Permut, MD ’72, to the Harvey Watts, MD, Memorial Room in the new medical school building Chris Platsoucas, PhD, and Emelia Oleszak, PhD, to the new medical school building fund Joel Richter, MD, to the new medical school building fund

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John Roland, Jr., MD ’83, to the J. Thomas Roland, Jr., MD ’83, Study Room of the new medical school building David Rovner, MD ’55, to the Margaret and David Rovner, MD ’55, Study Room of the new medical school building Anthony Salem, MD ’62, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund in the new medical school building William Shellenberger, MD ’51, to the William and Barbara Shellenberger charitable gift annuity that will ultimately benefit the Carson Schneck Gross Anatomy Laboratory in the new medical school building Carson Schneck, MD ’59, PhD ’65, to the Carson Schneck Gross Anatomy Laboratory Fund in the new medical school building Joseph Scornavacchi, MD ’73, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund in the new medical school building In Sook Seo, MD, to the Harvey Watts, MD, Memorial Room in the new medical school building Robert Suhadolnik, PhD, to the chronic fatigue syndrome research fund Roy Swingle, MD ’45, to the Class of 1945 Room in the new medical school building Joseph Torg, MD ’61, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund in the new medical school building Sandra Harmon-Weiss, MD ’74, and Richard Weiss, DMD, to the new medical school building fund Steven Wolf, MD ’84, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund in the new medical school building $50,000 to $99,999 Iftikhar Chaudry, MD, to name the Drs. Iftikhar and Aisha Chaudry Dining Room in the new medical school building Richard Close, MD ’72, to name the Richard A. Close, MD ’72, and Ann P. Close (MD ’09) study room in the new medical school building John M. Daly MD ’73, to the John and Mary Daly Fund for the new medical school building Abraham Frumin, MD ’42, to establish the Abraham Frumin, MD ’42, Endowed Lecture in Hematology via a testamentary pledge David Greenwald, MD ’70, to the David W. Greenwald, MD ’70, Meeting Room in the new medical school building The Estate of Dorothy Kriebel, MD ’43, to the Dorothy Kriebel Endowed Scholarship Fund Daniel Polett to the Daniel H. Polett Fund for the New Medical School Building Frederick Sutliff, MD ’46, to the Fred Sutliff Meeting Room in the new medical school building $100,000 to $199,999 Robert Bedrossian, MD ’47, and Carolyn Bedrossian to the Robert Bedrossian charitable gift annuity that will ultimately benefit the new building fund Robert F. Berish, MD ’65, to the Robert F. Berish, MD ’65, and Barbara Berish Brown, Esq., Classroom in the new medical school building 44

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William Crigger, MD ’50, to the William D. Crigger, MD ’50, and Charles D. Crigger, MD ’80, Endowed Scholarship Fund, via a testamentary pledge

In Memoriam

Kenneth Cundy, PhD, and Elsie Cundy, RN, to the Kenneth and Elsie Cundy Classroom in the new medical school building Howard Ginsburg, MD ’71, to the Howard H. Ginsburg, MD, New Medical School Building Room Estate of Francis Shea, MD, to the Herbert M. Stauffer Chair Fund in Diagnostic Imaging $200,000 to $499,999 Albert Alley, MD ’64, to the Cynthia Alley, MD ’00, and Albert Alley, MD ’64, Scholarship Fund Colonel Mary Surtees Carlson, MD ’47, to the Class of 1947 Endowed Scholarship Fund via charitable remainder trust Richard Laylord and Dorothy L. Evans Trust to establish the Evans Foundation Junior Faculty Research Award of the Department of Medicine Margaret Griffel MD, Res ’55, to a charitable gift annuity that will ultimately benefit the Margaret Griffel Scholarship fund Drs. Wilma and Edwin Kellerman to the Edwin and Wilma Kellerman charitable gift annuity that will ultimately be used to name a significant space in the new medical school building Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63, and the E. Ronald Salvitti Family Foundation, to the E. Ronald Salvitti Room Fund in the new medical school building $1 million + Kenneth Cundy, PhD, and Elsie Cundy, RN, via testamentary pledge, to name the Development and Alumni Relations Suite in the new medical school building and to the Kenneth and Elsie Cundy Scholarship Fund Estate of Stella Moore to the Matthew T. Moore Chair in Neurology Anonymous to the new medical school building fund The Estate of Maurice Stone, MD ’36, to name the Maurice Stone Atrium in the new medical school building Foundation Grants of $50,000 to $500,000 Benjamin & Mary Siddons AstraZeneca, LP Measey Foundation American Cancer Society Merck & Co. American Diabetes Association Elsa U. Pardee Foundation American Heart Association Pew Charitable Trusts Broad Foundation Pfizer, Inc. Eli & Edythe L. Broad W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Foundation Synthes, USA DePuy Orthopaedics Vanguard Charitable Distance Learning Center Endowment Richard Laylord & Dorothy L. Evans Foundation

E. Howard Bedrossian, MD ’45, Drexel Hill, PA, died on January 15, 2006, at the age of 84.

A member of the School of Medicine’s Alumni Board since 1974 and President from 1989 to 1991, Dr. Bedrossian was extremely active in alumni affairs at Temple University School of Medicine. He was also one of the School’s most generous benefactors. In 2000 he received the School’s Alumni Service Award for his generosity, and in 1982 was named its Alumnus of the Year, to honor his distinguished professional accomplishments.

He authored two texts, one called The Eye, and another on the management of strabismus; taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Wills Eye Hospital for more than 40 years, served on the staffs of Wills Eye, Graduate, Delaware County Memorial, and Riddle Memorial hospitals; and attained Fellowship level within numerous professional organizations, including the American College of Surgeons, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and the Aerospace Medicine Society. (Dr. Bedrossian earned his pilot’s license at 19 and served as a flight surgeon in the Air Force in the mid-1940s.)

In 1923, Dr. Bedrossian’s father, Edward, a member of Temple’s early ophthalmology faculty, established a practice in ophthalmology in Drexel Hill, PA, that Dr. Bedrossian assumed in the 1950s and later shared with his son Ned (also a Temple Medical School alumnus, Class of 1978) until retiring in June of 2005.

A major benefactor of the School of Medicine, Dr. Bedrossian and his brother Robert Bedrossian, MD’47, established the Bedrossian Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology and the Bedrossian Scholarship and Loan Funds, and supported dozens of other challenges. In addition, Dr. Bedrossian was a devoted “fan” of the late W. Wayne Babcock, MD, longtime Chair of Surgery at Temple—and credits him with having saved his life when he suffered acute appendicitis as a medical student.

Dr. Bedrossian is survived by his wife, brother, sister, two sons, a daughter, two stepsons, 19 grandchildren and two great-grandsons.

For more information about making a gift to the building or to scholarship or research, please contact Irv Hurwitz, Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Affairs: 215-707-3023 or toll free 800-331-2839, or via email: irv.hurwitz@temple.edu

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J. Bryan Smith, PhD, former chair of Pharmacology at Temple, died on March 24, 2005, at the age of 62. He had held appointments in both Pharmacology and the Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center.

A native of England, Dr. Smith received his PhD from the University of London in 1971, where he was introduced to the platelet, a cell he would investigate for the rest of his career. One of his seminal co-discoveries was that aspirin blocked the ability of platelets to synthesize prostaglandins in response to platelet agonists.

Dr. Smith moved to the United States for a postdoctoral fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University and became a faculty member there. In 1982 Temple recruited him as Co-Director of the Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center, where he quickly became a central figure in platelet studies nationally and abroad. In 1985, he was named Chair of Pharmacology at Temple.

A prolific researcher, he studied the metabolism of arachidonic acid and other lipids in the platelet; the source of liberated arachidonic acid in platelets (i.e., phosphatidylcholine); the crosstalk between neutrophils and platelets; and developed methods to measure inositol trisphosphate in platelets. His later research focused on the signaling mechanisms for platelet collagen. He also discovered a new protein called catrocollastatin.

Dr. Smith was the 103rd most cited scientist for the period of 1973-1984. He was also founder of the Mid Atlantic Pharmacology Society.

Lolita Daneo-Moore, PhD, a member of the Microbiology and Immunology faculty at Temple for 37 years, died on November 23, 2004, after a long illness. She was 75.

Born in France and raised in Italy, Bulgaria and Costa Rica, Dr. Daneo-Moore’s family moved to the United States in 1947. She obtained a BS from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960 and an MS in 1963, and she earned her PhD from Rutgers University in 1966.

A prolific researcher and educator, she joined the faculty in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Temple in 1967 and moved up the ranks to full professorship in 1978.

She retired in 2001, but continued to come to the laboratory for research meetings, having played a key role in the growth and development of the department through the years.

Dr. Daneo-Moore made important contributions to the study of the growth, division, and antibiotic sensitivity of the Streptococci and Enterococci. She had more than 150 scientific publications and authored one cookbook. She loved to teach and discuss research, managing to intertwine the personalities of the scientists involved, her family, and even herb gardening and cooking into her discussions of the science. As such, her stories and commentaries became the stuff of student legend. “She was a wonderful person and a dear friend who could enliven any meeting she attended, from a faculty meeting on up,” said a colleague.

She is survived by her husband, children, and 11 grandchildren.

Kenneth Gordon Jr., MD ’48, Radnor, PA, former president of Temple’s Medical Alumni Association, and a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sculptor and horticulturist, died of complications from multiple myeloma on July 25, 2005.

He was 80.

In addition to seeing patients in the office he established on his farm in Radnor, PA, Dr. Gordon served as psychiatric consultant for local school districts, served on the staffs of Lankenau and Bryn Mawr Hospitals and was clinical professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University. He was a certified psychoanalyst for adults, children, and adolescents.

His sculptures of children were exhibited in local galleries, and his animal topiaries won ribbons at the Philadelphia Flower Show. An avid conservationist, Dr. Gordon and his wife Janice Taylor Gordon, PhD, bird-watched on all seven continents and both polar seas, plus traveled several times to Borneo to participate in research and conservation work with the Orangutan Foundation.

Dr. Gordon was active as an officer and member of the Alumni Association Board at Temple for many years, and was a past chair of the Annual Fund.

In addition to his wife of 54 years, Dr. Gordon is survived by his three daughters, a sister, and two grandchildren.

David S. Ruhe, MD ’41, Newburgh, NY, died on September 6, 2005, at the age of 91.

An accomplished film-maker, painter, and author, Dr. Ruhe began his career as a malaria researcher with the United States Public Health Service during World Warr II. In 1954, he became the first professor of Medical Communications at the University of Kansas, where he introduced the use of optical fibers for endoscopic cinematography, the projection of high-definition images in surgical theaters, and the videotaping of psychiatric sessions for peer review. He made scores of medical films—winning the Golden Reel, Venice Film Festival, and Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain awards for his productions—and for a time was Director of the Medical Film Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

In addition to authoring professional papers and two books regarding medicine and audiovisual communication, Dr. Ruhe wrote two books and produced documentary films about the Baha’i faith. A devoted follower and leader of Baha’i for 60 years, he served on the faith’s supreme governing council for 25 years.

An accomplished painter and illustrator, Dr. Ruhe drew charcoal portraits of each of his classmates for the 1941 Skull.

His charcoal portrait of William N. Parkinson, MD ’11, hangs in the Parkinson Pavilion of Temple University Hospital.

Dr. Ruhe is survived by his wife, and two sons and their families.

He is survived by his wife, two children, and a grandson.

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Diane M. Barton, MD ’84, Cherry Hill, NJ, an internist and geriatrician at Cooper Hospital (Camden, NJ) and a faculty member at RWJ School of Medicine, died on August 4, 2005 at the age of 46 after a long struggle against ovarian cancer.

A colleague at Cooper described her as “a healer, an educator and a world class physician” whose “life towered over her diminutive stature.” A fellow of the American College of Physicians and a leader in the American Medical Women’s Association, Dr. Barton was active in the complementary medicine movement in the Philadelphia area and was recognized numerous times as a “Top Doc” in peer surveys in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She was also named a Top Doc in the United States in 1999 and 2002.

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Nathan Brown, MD ’31 George S. Peters, MD ’33 Albina Bancone Cavan, MD ’36 Henry J. Kehrli, MD ’36 Frederick L. Nelson, MD ’36 Louise Geise, MD ’37 Simon Polan, MD ’37 William E. Adair, Jr., MD ’38 Charles J. Schreader, MD ’38 H. Robert Blank, MD ’39 Isadore Gordon, MD ’39 Harry F. Lenhardt, MD ’39

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Ralph L. Uber, MD ’45 James R. Clarkin, MD ’46 William Ellis LaBarre, MD ’46 Viktoria M. Possoff, MD ’46 Meyer L. Abrams, MD ’47 William J. Champion, MD ’47 William A. Haeberle, MD ’47 Thomas S. Wright, MD ’47 David B. Doyle, MD ’48 Kenneth H. Gordon, MD ’48 Harvey F. Watts, MD ’48 Vernon B. Astler, MD ’49 Wilbur B. Mahon, Jr., MD ’49 William H. Schindel, MD ’49

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Thomas R. Liberta, MD ’60 Ronald H. Scherr, MD ’60 Stephen J. Ellen, MD ’61 David C. Worthington, MD ’61 William H. Knapper, MD ’62 Christopher S. Speer, MD ’62 Alexis O. Fernandez, MD ’64 Joseph C. Greer, MD ’64 David N. Mikhail, MD ’64 John J. Newton, MD ’64 Milton R. Horwitz, MD ’66 John R. Curran, MD ’67 Alan P. Brown, MD ’67 Les S. Wilkinson, MD ’68

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70s, 80s, 90s

Douglas F. Allen, MD ’50 8.21.03 Kenneth K. F. Ing, MD ’50 4.29.03 Howard D. Trimpi, MD ’50 1.5.05 Paul S. Johnson, MD ’51 4.27.05 Warren L. Beeken, MD ’53 6.20.04 John William Edwards, MD ’53 9.21.05 Alfred Freeman, MD ’53 9.27.05 Leah Abel Maitland, MD ’53 1.18.05 Leon N. Branton, MD ’54 9.23.05 Michael J. Connelly, MD ’54 11.10.04 Glen P. Musselman, MD ’54 11.28.03 William R. Faust, MD ’55 7.31.05 Nelson L. Entwistle, MD ’56 1.24.05 Herbert H. Eveloff, MD ’56 10.9.04 Harvey D. Klevit, MD ’56 9.4.05 Charles F. Llenza, MD ’56 4.14.05 Robert B. Hanes, MD ’58 7.29.05 Julius Newman, MD ’58 10.2.05 Richard O. Pelham, MD ’58 3.6.05 Gene M. Sweigart, MD ’59 7.21.05

Louis R. Leo, MD ’75 Diane D. Barton, MD ’84 Margaret M. Laperle, MD ’92 Konnie Landis, MD ’96 RESIDENTS AND FACULTY Francis P. Furgiuele, MD-Res’58 Thomas J. Weyl, II, MD-Res’58 Agustin Sierra, MD-Res’63 Ronald J. Segar, MD-Res’67 Frederick Urbach, MD

11.18.04 7.8.03 2.11.05 7.22.05 4.5.05 3.21.05 7.16.03 3.2.05 3.28.05 8.17.04 3.20.04 12.8.04 6.9.05 10.19.04

1.13.05 8.4.05 10.16.05 6.20.05

4.25.05 6.21.95 8.13.04 4.15.94 7.8.04

as of December 15, 2005

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