The Bulletin of The Medical Alumni Association of Bassett Medical Center Summer 2019 THE CUPOLACooperstown, New York Vol. XXIII No. 2 Bassett by the Numbers by Marianne Bez Returning alumni, especially those from more distant decades, medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry and radiology. Eighteen are often amazed at the growth of the Bassett campus in residents were here in training. In addition to services on-site, Cooperstown and the network that it developed in this region. Bassett staff provided 1,226 physicals to students in the Those who have attended a presentation by John S. Davis, M.D. Cooperstown schools during the first week of classes and on the evolution of Bassett or those who read his illuminating made an additional 475 visits during the school year. Home text on its history will know that it’s come a long way from nursing visits numbered 1,398. the community-based hospital of its origins. Among the interesting items enumerated in the 1958 Annual Past articles in The Cupola have touched upon changes Report, the number of tests performed in the laboratory was and growth. Topics such as school-based health, work of the 133,300 including microbiologic tests on human specimens Research Institute, and new programs have been featured. and sanitation tests on dairy products, water and sewage, and To more fully comprehend Bassett’s development since you other liquids. The average length of stay reported as 7.8 days may have served as a resident or an attending, here are some in 1958 was considerably lower than the previous year’s comparative data in 20-year increments to provide a measure 10.2 days. The hospital’s leadership bemoaned that “a decline of where it’s been and where it is today. in clinical visits in 1957 and 1958 resulted in an operating deficit When Davis, a retired attending and former director of in 1958 of the rather staggering figure of $350,469.” Medical Education, was an internal medicine resident in 1956-58, Two decades later, Bassett was in a very different stage of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital had an inpatient unit of its lifecycle. In the spring of 1970, inpatient services moved into approximately 90 beds, clinical space, as well as offices and a new hospital with 183-beds. It was a time of re-organization laboratories in the fieldstone building. In this decade, a wing as well as growth in many areas: staffing, research, medical had been added to provide dedicated research facilities. The education, patient volume and regionalization. The first off-site nearby Bassett Hall was converted to a residence primarily for primary care clinic was opened in Edmeston in 1972, and in nurses. Additionally, a canine facility with kennels, operating 1978, Bassett partnered in the establishment of the Community rooms and research labs was located a few miles from the Health Center in Cherry Valley. hospital. It housed the beagles used in transplantation research The attending staff numbered 65, including four women, conducted by E. Donnall Thomas, M.D. and his colleagues, the house officers numbered 40 residents, and by year-end, the including Blumenstock, M.D., working on lung transplants total number of employees reached 909. The administration and Rodman Carter, M.D., who worked on renal transplants. reported an expected deficit of $200,000, which “represented By 1958, Bassett had begun to broaden its patient base a considerable improvement,” but further stated that drawing over 44 percent of inpatients from beyond Otsego “continuing deficits should not be acceptable.” County. There were 31 professional staff, including two female (Additional statistics appear on page 5.) physicians, in six services: surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, Numbers to page 5

Message from the President of the Medical Alumni Board of Directors I don’t know about you, but things have changed excellence in patient care. This spills over into Bassett’s since I was at Bassett, back in the almost-dark ages. other missions of medical education and research. Like many other medical systems, Bassett’s theme The wonderful honor accorded to Walter Franck, has been growth, growth, and growth. M.D., described elsewhere in this edition, really fits The lead article in this edition of The Cupola into any discussion of teaching here at Bassett. details this expansion and provides good evidence Walt was one of the best teachers I ever had, and of its many benefits. My practice, too, has grown, but the recognition of his contribution by Columbia is we’ve tried to keep each physician ‘small’ within the well-deserved. bigger system so that she or he can interact with I encourage you to also read the other articles each patient as if that individual is the only patient Kenneth Wilkins, here. One of my favorite sections is the Family of the day. M.D., President, Album. Please let us hear from you so we can At Bassett, we can see the same commitment to Board of Directors include your latest doings in the next issue. I The Cupola is the newsletter of the Medical Alumni Association of Bassett E. Donnall Thomas Research Day at Bassett Medical Center. The Association was founded to provide support and recommendations to Bassett’s Medical Education Department; to assist in recruiting medical students, house staff and attending staff; and to provide financial support to develop and enhance medical education at Bassett. The Medical Alumni Association of Bassett Medical Center Internal Medical resident Nancy Buthuel, M.D. (R) (L-R) Omid Shah, M.B., Ch.B. (Internal Medicine Officers shared her research project in poster format with resident PGY-1), Kristin Baker, M.D. (Internal President John May, M.D., Research Scientist for the Research Medicine resident PGY-2), with her poster project, Kenneth W. Wilkins, Jr., M.D. Institute and NYCAMH, and other staff members on “ICU Liberation: Practical Application of a Great New Bern, N.C. the 2019 E. Donnall Thomas Research Day. She was Idea in the Real World,” and Erik Riesenfeld, M.D. President-Elect one of seven residents who participated. (Attending physician pulmonary/critical care) James Murray, D.O. Rochester, N.Y. Executive Vice President Anush Patel, M.D. 2019 Streck Fellowships Awarded to Bassett Staff Cooperstown, N.Y. The William F. Streck Fellowship in Health assistant regional director of primary care in Board of Directors Policy and Management has been awarded to the network’s western region. Madiha Alvi, M.B., B.S. two individuals this year: Sierra Meads, R.N., who “I believe that this course will expand on Jacqueline A. Bello, M.D. works at Bassett Healthcare Network’s Gender the quality improvement work in which I now Wendy Bergman, M.D. Wellness Center, and Jennifer O’Reilly, M.D., who participate, and it will strengthen my management John L. Chamberlain, M.D. is a primary care physician and assistant regional skills as I look towards a long future in Bassett’s Steven S.T. Ching, M.D. director of primary care for Bassett Network’s primary care department,” states O’Reilly. James T. Dalton, M.D. health centers in Norwich, Greene, Sidney, Nurse Meads has an John S. Davis, M.D. and Unadilla. undergraduate degree in Merideth S. Davis, M.D. The fellowship was established in 2014 to nursing from Hartwick College Douglas M. DeLong, M.D. John Dier, M.D. honor then retiring Bassett president and CEO in Oneonta, N.Y., and has been Nathaniel Doro, D.O. William F. Streck, M.D., to enable one or two working with the Gender Michael Foltzer, M.D. clinical or administrative leaders to pursue Wellness Center since 2018. Erin Gillaspie, M.D. relevant educational opportunities that enlarge Her position involves a blend of Peter R. Gray, M.D. their views on health-care management and patient care, care coordination, Keonna D. Johnson, M.D. policy. Fellows travel to conferences and/or and work on special initiatives Alan J. Kozak, M.D engage in projects that allow them to return Sierra Meads, relating to such projects as Jing Luan, M.D. with insights and ideas that they can share with R.N. staff training and developing Erin McKay, D.O. colleagues and use to advance health care in patient-education materials. She will use her Bruce L. McClennan, M.D. David E. Newman, M.D. the rural populations they serve. award to travel to the Human Rights Campaign Stephanie S. Oceguera, M.D. O’Reilly, who has been at headquarters in Washington, D.C., to gain a M. Ricketts, M.D. Bassett since 2011, specializes better knowledge of health policies, legal issues, Eric Rubin, M.D. in internal medicine and family and advocacy initiatives related to LGBTQ+ G. Theodore Ruckert IV, M.D. medicine. Her medical degree health care. She hopes to return with resources Timothy Whitaker, M.D. is from State University of and knowledge that will advance and enhance Zehr, M.D. New York Upstate Medical the level of interdisciplinary care offered Ex Officio University, Syracuse, N.Y., and through the center. William F. Streck, M.D. she completed a residency “This opportunity will position the Gender Chief Executive Officer at the University of Wellness Center and Bassett Healthcare Network The Cupola is published Massachusetts/Worcester to serve as regional and national champions for three times a year. Please Jennifer O’Reilly, send comments and news, M.D. Family Medicine Residency this diversity-related cause, and it will further the including change of address Program, Worcester, Mass. She will use the excellence in care that we provide at our health information to: Editor, award to participate in the International center,” shared Meads. She intends to use her The Cupola, Office of Medical Education, Bassett Leadership Development Program for Physicians new knowledge to build a comprehensive legal Medical Center, One Atwell held at the Harvard School of Public Health in advocacy discipline within the Gender Wellness Road, Cooperstown, NY Boston. This program prepares physicians to Center. She welcomes members of the Bassett 13326 or e-mail [email protected]. direct change within their organizations and community to contact her with any questions provides training in critical executive skills and they may have on gender wellness. Alan J. Kozak, M.D. Editor leadership practices, which are not typically The Streck Fellowship is an annual award Marianne Bez part of physician education. O’Reilly expects funded through the generosity of donors. Assistant Editor this opportunity will improve her management Applicants are reviewed by a committee, and FLAT Graphics abilities and especially help in her role as the process is competitive. I Design and Production

2 THE CUPOLA Summer 2019 Another Graduation for Columbia-Bassett Program Awards Announced The 2019 Golden awards were announced at year-end celebrations of the Departments of Medicine and Surgery. As this year’s recipients of the Golden Apples, the Internal Medicine residents selected Edward Bischof, M.D., attending hospitalist. Surgical residents chose Jeffrey Neitzel, D.O., attending general surgeon, and Eric Mooney, M.D., attending plastic surgeon. Golden Stethoscope awards, given by medical students and residents to a senior resident for excellence in teaching, were presented to Dao, M.D. (Internal Medicine) and Muhammad (L-R) Andrew Tuck, Alexis Fogel, Caleb Edmonds, Michelle Couret, Robert King, Idrees, M.B., B.S. (Internal Medicine) and Emily Nuss, Christopher Clayton, Meaghan Jain, and Karel-Bart Celie. Each received Andrew Powers, M.D. (Surgery). I their own commemorative engraved baseball bat as a graduation gift. On May 19, Medical School; Director of Ethics & preceding the Palliative Care Program, Boston’s Beth Columbia-Bassett formal ceremony Israel Deaconess Medical Center. at Columbia Each year the graduating class Students Present Awards Students of the Columbia-Bassett University in recognizes one faculty member who Medical School presented the Cupola New York City, most exemplifies the traits that students Award for the C-B Resident of the Year there was a hope to embody in the future. These in recognition of the residents who graduation traits might include dedication to best exemplify dedication to teaching celebration in teaching, patient care, scholarliness, mentorship and patient care. Selected Cooperstown for and probity. The 2019 recipient of the by the Class of 2019, the residents the 2019 class of Cupola Award to the Columbia-Bassett recognized are Du Nguyen, M.D. the Columbia- Teacher of the Year was Brian Barlow, (Surgery resident) and Ahmad Nawaz, Lachlan Forrow, M.D. Bassett Medical M.D., attending physician in Emergency M.B., B.S. (Internal Medicine resident). I School. Held at The Farmers’ Museum, & Trauma Services. this event was attended by faculty On May 22, the Columbia-Bassett See our latest news and updates members and family. This year’s guest Class of 2019 medical students attended at Bassett Medical Alumni speaker was Lachlan Forrow, M.D., their graduation in New York City. I Association Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard

Franck Recognized by Columbia Bassett trustee, Walter Franck, M.D., retired physician-in-chief and former senior associate dean for the Columbia-Bassett Medical School was awarded a Distinguished Service Award by Columbia University at their graduation ceremony in New York City. This award recognizes individuals who have served the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons (VP&S) with the greatest distinction, bringing honor to the institution, to its alumni, and to the profession itself. Franck received a B.A. in English from Yale University and an M.D. degree from VP&S in 1964. He completed his training in internal medicine and rheumatology at the University of Michigan and Harvard/ Mass General. In 1973, he accepted a position Bassett Hospital as a rheumatologist. For the next 41 years he held several leadership positions including physician-in-chief, director of medical education, and chief academic officer for Bassett Medical Center. He consecutively also served as senior asso - ciate dean for Basset Healthcare and co-director of the Columbia-Basset Medical School Program at VP&S. At the graduation ceremony, Franck was lauded by Dean (L-R) Columbia University Trustee Justice Rolando Acosta with Lee Goldman, M.D., as “an extraordinary and compassionate Walter Franck, M.D., and Dean Lee Goldman, M.D. clinician, revered teacher of medical students and residents, and influential chief of medicine.” I

THE CUPOLA Summer 2019 3 THE BASSETT FAMILY ALBUM — ALUMNI NEWS

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1970s that this information will worked with multiple Bassett from Savannah, Ga., where Douglas McKibbin, M.D. bring us closer to closing the grads including Charlie he and his family are doing (Surgery resident 1977-82; circle of discovery of cause Stackhouse, M.D (General well. His wife Debbie created attending 1982-83) Since and cure for large vessel Surgery resident 1979-84, and ran a farmer's market retirement, he continues vasculitis.” This research was Kitima Boonvisudhi, M.D. locally. Their two daughters teaching surgical residents published in the Journal of (General Surgery resident are both at universities, at University of Virginia in Pathogens and Immunity 1994-2000), and Paul one pursuing a master’s in fundamental surgical skills, earlier in 2019. In addition, Heasley, M.D. (Internal social work and the other endoscopy, colonoscopy, he and Diane are enjoying Medicine resident 1983-87). majoring in chemistry and manages a surgical themselves. She is playing undergraduate. He reports lots of tennis, working on R. Sellers, M.D. that he is a hospitalist at St. scenario curriculum in their (Attending in Internal Medical Simulation Center. her Spanish fluency and Joseph's/Candler Healthcare volunteering at the Medicine 1989-present) was and current president of the Gary Hoffman, M.D. Cleveland Clinic. He’s trying recently elected to serve as Medical Staff. He writes, “I (Attending in Rheumatology to improve his guitar and Vice President of the routinely have third-year 1977-85) is retired and singing efforts. Medical Society of the State Medical College of Georgia enjoying Emeritus status of New York. Board-certified students on rotation with and is still involved with the 1980s in internal medicine and me and I tout Bassett with vasculitis research program Lewis Zulick, M.D. (Surgery pediatrics, Sellers is the a loud trumpet. I fondly at the Cleveland Clinic. He resident 1984-89) reports that eastern region medical reminisce about our time writes, “I am pleased to after working for many years director for Bassett in training there.” report that after many years, as a general surgeon in the Healthcare Network. He we have established that Finger Lakes in Canandaigua, has participated in medical Damon Korb, M.D. neither aortas nor temporal Clifton Springs and Newark missions in Haiti and Kenya. (Attending arteries (TA) are sterile, but N.Y., now he is also working As a volunteer physician in Pediatrics each contains a microbiome part time in the north country with the Boy Scouts of 1997-98) is that is distinctly different in at the Carthage Area Hospital America he will provide the author non-infectious-disease states in Carthage, N.Y. This new medical care at the 2019 of a new compared to normal or location allows him to spend World Scouting Jamboree. book, non-inflammatory conditions more time at their family Raising an (e.g. giant cell arteritis/GCA cottage on Wellesley Island. 1990s Organized and clinically isolated Cheryl spends the summer Richard McIncrow, D.O. Child: 5 Damon Korb, Steps to aortitis/ CIA vs. normal TA or there and has a growing real (Internal Medicine resident M.D. non-inflammatory aortic estate business going. He 1997-2000; chief resident Boost aneurysms). We are hopeful states, “Over the years I have 2000-01) sends greetings Independence, Ease Frustration, and Promote Confidence due out in June 2019 and published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Bassett Healthcare Network 2010s Service Area Map Karn Wijarnpreecha, M.D. (Internal Medicine resident 2015-18) received the academic ranking of assistant Karn professor Wijarnpreecha, of Medicine M.D. from Mayo Clinic. He writes, “I enjoyed my GI fellowship training at Mayo Clinic Florida and will be back to visit Cooperstown when I have an opportunity.” I

4 THE CUPOLA Summer 2019 Numbers from page 1 Bassett Year-End Results: Comparative Data 1958-2018 1958 1978 1998 2018 Admissions 3,416 5,161 8,378 10,657 No. of patient days 28,184 51,868 39,993 50,336 Average length of stay 7.8 9.4 4.6 4.7 Births 323 331 587 1,072 Total outpatient visits 36,105 111,231 603,239 1,257,579 Total operating expenses $1,578,587 $20,016,000 $148,045,317 $548,811,048

Statistics reported in the Annual Reports of The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital 1958, 1978. 1998. 2018 data provided by Business Analytics, Bassett Healthcare Network and published financial statements.

Twenty years later, the 1990s were marked by extraordinary The hospital in Cooperstown, now called Bassett Medical growth beginning with the opening of the Bassett Clinic, a Center serves as the hub of the network. In addition to five-story, 136,000-sq.-ft. structure dedicated to outpatient traditional hospital-based care, it provides advanced care, services. It quadrupled the organization’s clinical space in such as open-heart surgery and specialized cancer treatment. Cooperstown and cost $34 million to build. By this time, The Bassett Medical Group has a full-time, salaried staff clinical services were offered at 15 community health centers numbering more than 400 physicians and other advanced beyond Cooperstown. This period saw the introduction of practice clinicians (APC) who provide primary and specialty school-based health care initially in Delhi and then spreading care at Bassett Medical Center, the clinic in Cooperstown, to other school districts. It was the era of Bassett’s first and over two dozen community-based primary care centers affiliations/mergers with smaller community hospitals starting as well as 20 school-based health centers. with O’Connor Hospital in Delhi and Community Hospital of The 2018 statistics reflect changes in the delivery of health Schoharie in Cobleskill. At the Research Institute there was a care across the nation. Outpatient numbers, which include shift to population studies and epidemiology, and a focus on 2,492 telemedicine visits, seem staggering for a rural region farm safety led to the establishment of the New York Center characterized as declining in population. The current count for Agricultural Medicine and Health. In 1994, the organization of FTEs is over 2,800 working directly for Bassett Healthcare adopted a new name, Bassett Healthcare Network, to more Network, excluding those employed at Bassett’s subsidiary accurately reflect the integrated system that it had become. hospitals. The education mission continues to be strong. By 1998, the professional staff had grown to include 171 In 2018, Bassett hosted 62 residents. Over the decades, physicians, pharmacists and medical researchers. The it provided training for medical students from a host of Surgery department was comprised of 31 surgeons, one schools. In 2010, Bassett welcomed its first class of 10 podiatrist, three optometrists and three audiologists, as well medical students of the newly established Columbia-Bassett as 12 physician assistants, who offered specialty services in Medical School with a unique curriculum track. seven communities beyond Cooperstown. The house staff As Merriam-Webster defines the idiom, to come a long now numbered 50. At year-end the workforce was 2,136 way, is “to rise to a much higher level of success: to become employees or a total of 1,899 full-time equivalents (FTEs). very successful.” By many means, Bassett continues to rise The financial performance at year-end was estimated at a and achieve success in the difficult landscape of providing $100,000 gain from operations. health care in rural America. The organization’s progress and The annual reports of this era reflect the broader range of visionary developments reflect a history of transformation in activities required to support the level of services provided. response to the forces at work in the field. While morphing Finance, information services, fund development, marketing, as needed, Bassett and its staff remain committed to the human resources and other departments emerge as critical basic missions of patient care, education and research that functions to sustain the network. By 1998, the Department of were embraced at its founding. I Facilities Management provided maintenance and services to more than 50 structures, including residential and institutional Physician Employment Opportunities in properties comprising 1,100,000 sq. ft. of buildings and the Bassett Healthcare Network 25 acres of parking lots, grounds and landscaping. Today, Bassett Healthcare Network is an integrated Anesthesiology OB/GYN Generalist health care system that provides care to people living in Digestive Diseases Otolaryngology an eight-county region covering 5,600 square miles. The Family Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon— organization includes five corporately affiliated hospitals, as Internal Medicine Shoulder well as skilled nursing facilities, community and school-based Interventional Radiology Plastic Surgery health centers, and health partners in related fields. Alumni Neurology Pediatrics may be surprised to learn that Fox Hospital in Oneonta is Non-invasive Cardiology one of the five hospitals that comprise Bassett Healthcare For more information visit: Network. It formally became a part of the network in 2009 http://recruitment.bassett.org/physician-jobs/ and since then Fox and Bassett have consolidated programs or call the Medical Staff Affairs office at 607-547-6982. and collaborated on meeting the needs of patients.

THE CUPOLA Summer 2019 5 Residents Announce Future Plans Members of the house staff have com - Bishoy ElBebawy, M.B., B.Ch. Rupin N. Parikh, M.D. (Transitional pleted their training at Bassett and (Internal Medicine), Cardiology fellow - Year), Ophthalmic Pathology fellowship, moved on to new endeavors. Departing ship, Arnot-Ogden Medical Center, Wilmer Eye Institute/Johns Hopkins residents, their programs at Bassett, and Elmira, N.Y. University, Baltimore, Md. their plans: Brandon J. Garcia, M.D. (Transitional Garrett M. Pool, M.D. (General Nurlan Aliyev, M.D. (Internal Year), Anesthesiology residency, Surgery), General Surgery practice, Medicine), Hospitalist, University of University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Silverton Hospital, Silverton, Ore. Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Neb. Matthew M. Habib, M.D. (General Konika Sharma, M.B., B.S. (Internal Satish K. Boddhula, M.B., B.S. Surgery), Ophthalmology residency, Medicine), Clinical Nutrition fellowship, (Internal Medicine), Hospitalist, Albany Medical Center, Albany, N.Y. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New Grandview Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio Muhammad Idrees, M.B., B.S. York, N.Y. Eugene H. Carragee, M.D. (Internal Medicine), Hospice and Lynn Shi, M.D. (Transitional Year), (Transitional Year), Anesthesiology resi - Palliative Care fellowship, NYU/Winthrop Ophthalmology residency, University of dency, University of California-San Hospital, Mineola, N.Y. California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Francisco, San Francisco, Calif. Victor A. Janmey, M.D., (General Calif. Balpreet Chouhan, M.B., B.S. Surgery), Diagnostic Radiology residen - Sarah E. Smith, M.D. (General (Internal Medicine), Hospitalist, Kaiser cy, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, N.Y. Surgery), Hepatobiliary Surgery fellow - Permanente Modesto Medical Center, Ahmed A. Khan, M.B., B.S. (Internal ship, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, Modesto, Calif. Medicine), Infectious Diseases fellowship, New Zealand Benjamin B. Dao, M.D. (Internal Southern Illinois University, Springfield, Ill. Chhitiz Subedi, M.B., B.S. (Internal Medicine), Cardiology fellowship, Jennifer M. Kramer, M.D. Medicine), Hospitalist, Medical College of Marshall University, Huntington, W. Va. (Transitional Year), Diagnostic Radiology Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis. Connor S. Davenport, M.D. residency, University of Arizona, Tucson, Stephanie A. Sutter, M.D. (Transitional Year), Ophthalmology resi - Ariz. (Transitional Year), Anesthesiology resi - dency, Wake Forest University, Winston- Ahmad Nawaz, M.B., B.S. (Internal dency, University of California-San Salem, N.C. Medicine), Hospitalist, Yale-New Haven Francisco, San Francisco, Calif. Andrew S. Ea, D.O. (Transitional Hospital, New Haven, Conn. Marissa Tan, D.O., M.P.H. (Transitional Year), Interventional Radiology residen - Du Nguyen, M.D. (General Surgery), Year), Preventive Medicine residency, cy, Louisiana State University, New General Surgery practice, Jones Johns Hopkins/Bloomberg School of Orleans, La. Memorial Hospital, Wellsville, N.Y. Public Health, Baltimore, Md. I

E. Donnall Thomas Resident Research Winner Selected detection of diabetic retinopathy in prime care setting?" “The hypothesis behind our study is, in type II diabetic patients without documented retinal pathology, a hand- held non-mydriatic [no dilation required] fundus camera is superior to referred dilated eye exams for screening and detection of diabetic retinopathy,” says Sharma. “The aim is to compare the detection of diabetic retinopathy using the RetinaVue camera when the Konika Sharma, M.B., B.S patient comes for a primary care On May 1, Bassett Medical Center annual health care maintenance visit to residents presented the culmination of a traditional referral-basis dilated eye their research at the Bassett Research exam. The long-term goal is to improve A limited supply of Institute's annual E. Donnall Thomas the detection of diabetic retinopathy in Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, (EDT) Research Day Outstanding our community through better quality New York: 200 Years of Research Presentation. measures of patient compliance and screening in the prime care clinic.” Health Care in Rural America Konika Sharma, M.B., B.S. is this year's by John S. Davis, M.D. Residents who presented research winner of the EDT Resident Research are available in hardcover posters included: Ethan Talbot, M.D.; Poster Presentation for conducting at $39.95 plus shipping. Konika Sharma, M.B., B.S.; Kanjit exceptional research during her residency, For more information Leungsuwan, M.D.; Nancy Bethuel, M.D.; where she addressed the question: contact [email protected]. "Is a hand-held non-mydriatic fundus Smucker, M.D.; Colin Kennedy, MD; I camera superior to the referred dilated Benjamin Dao, M.D. eye exams for the screening and

6 THE CUPOLA Summer 2019 IN MEMORIAM: BASSETT REMEMBERS

Robert “Bob” H. Ackerman, M.D. Outside Robert “Bob” H. Ackerman, M.D. died in Gloucester, Mass., of medicine, on December 18, 2018 at age 83. He received his B.A. degree Malcolm Page from Brown University in 1957 and his M.D. from the University was an of Rochester School of Medicine in 1964. After a rotating Anglophile with a internship at Bassett (1964-65) he trained in neurology and deep interest in radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. From 1970 Sir Winston to 1971, he was the Massachusetts General Hospital Dalton Churchill and was Scholar at the Neurological Institute in London. His research an avid golfer. through the years was in the fields of stroke imaging and Page was prevention, and in 2013 the Massachusetts General Hospital preceded in renamed the MGH Neurovascular Laboratory the death by his R.H. Ackerman Neurovascular Lab. He was an associate wife Madge professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and a Malcolm Page, M.D. leads bedside rounds in and his daughter 1968. Pictured with him are, (L-R) resident member of their medical school admissions faculty for many Cheryl Lynn Jeffrey Crandall, M.D., James Pinkham, M.D., Goddard. He is years. He was certified by the American Board of Radiology Thomas Ruebel, M.D. and patient. (Diagnostic Radiology) and the American Board of Psychiatry survived by and Neurology (Neurology.) multiple family members including son Malcolm I. Page Jr. In the spirit of a true renaissance man, Ackerman was an avid rower, and was known for his love of creating and Gary A. Weaver, M.D. growing beautiful gardens, writing stories, and playing the Gary A. Weaver, M.D. died in Brunswick, Maine, May 5, 2019 piano. He is survived by his stepbrother Alan Rosenthal after a difficult course with Parkinson’s Disease. Born (Bethesda, Md.) and many other relatives. November 18, 1943 in Kansas City, Kan., he was a graduate of Goshen College and received his M.D. from the University of Larry D. Hull, M.D. Kansas School of Medicine in 1969. After interning at the Larry D. Hull, M.D., age 80, died on April 28, 2018, in Philadelphia General Hospital, he served at Hospital Mennonita San Antonio, Texas. He was born to a large farming family in in Puerto Rico from 1970 to 1972. He came to Bassett to Texas, and after obtaining his B.A. from Northwest Nazarene complete his residency in Medicine (chief resident 1973-4). He College in Idaho, he received his M.D. from the University of then went to the University of Rochester School of Medicine Washington School of Medicine in 1964. He and his wife Aarlie for a Gastroenterology Fellowship and rejoined Bassett in 1976 then came to Bassett for his rotating internship (1964-65) as attending physician. Along with his superb clinical skills he which included the birth of their first child. Larry then served also carried out important research with gastrointestinal flora three years as a medical officer in the U.S. Army followed and their relationship to chronic diseases. Board-certified in by a residency in orthopedics at the University of Washington. Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, in 1996 he moved to His orthopaedic career included founding the Washington Maine for his remaining gastroenterology career. Orthopaedic Center where he worked for 35 years and went Gary was a camper and hiker, especially in the Grand on dozens of overseas missions. He is survived by his wife Canyon where he hiked over the years with family, friends and Aarlie and a large family. solo. Gary and wife Susan’s daughter, Elizabeth, died in 1996 in a tragic accident in Taiwan. He is survived by his son, Christopher Malcolm I. Page, M.D. Weaver of Lamoine, Maine, and many other relatives. Malcolm I. Page, M.D. died in Florida April 11, 2019 at age 88. Page was born in Detroit, Mich. A graduate of Wayne Leonard A. Sauer, M.D., Ph.D. State University, he received his M.D. from the University of Leonard A. Sauer, M.D., Ph.D., Bassett Chicago in 1956. He interned at Boston City Hospital and then Research Institute scientist emeritus since joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) retiring in 1996, died at age 88 on April 15, as epidemiologist in the Polio Research Unit, followed by 2019 at his home in Mont. After high school service in Pakistan with the unit studying smallpox, and then a in Schenectady, N.Y., he spent four years in stint in Atlanta as chief of the CDC Diphtheria Division. He was the Army Signal Corps, and in 1956 earned then assigned to Bassett Hospital for three years of residency a B.S. degree from Cornell University. In 1961 training in Internal Medicine (and was chief resident he obtained his M.D. from the University of 1961-62). Following work in Atlanta as assistant chief of Rochester School of Medicine, followed in the Epidemiology branch of the CDC and instructor in Leonard A. Sauer, 1966 by a Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, he rejoined M.D., Ph.D. After several years doing research at Yale, Bassett in 1965 as physician-in-chief. Soon after the new he joined Bassett in 1974 as research physician. For the next hospital opened in 1970, he established a two-bed cardiac 22 years, his seminal bench research focused on pathways monitoring unit on the medical floor, the forerunner of the of energy metabolism in cancer. eventual intensive care unit, and strengthened Bassett as a When Len retired, he started a new life in Montana multi-specialty referral center. In 1972 he left Bassett to and began woodworking and continuing his lifelong love become professor of Medicine at the Medical College of of fly fishing. He is survived by his wife Mimi and an Georgia in Augusta. extended family. I

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Alumni Can Help Secure the Future of Education at Bassett “I believe that it is the obligation of every alumnus to Medical School Scholarship Fund preserve medical education at Bassett by supporting the Education at Bassett has evolved from a fourth-year program for those presently here and others to come.” elective program for a few students to a sophisticated --Douglas DeLong, M.D. joint medical school program with Columbia's College To grow the medical education endowment and the of Physicians and Surgeons. Columbia-Bassett Medical School scholarship fund, the The Columbia-Bassett Medical School Program recruits Friends of Bassett and the Bassett alumni group are asking students with an interest in providing care in underserved those who have benefited from medical education here to rural communities and in learning how to manage health-care help support its viability for the future. systems that promote both quality and cost-effective delivery of care. The program provides a longitudinal curriculum and Medical Education Endowment Fund course of study focused on ethics, evidence-based medicine, The medical education endowment was established health care system management, and leadership for in 1997 through the generous contributions of alumni to 40 exceptional medical students. provide support for enhancements to the medical education Bassett Medical Center underwrites the cost of education program. The endowment currently has $4 million in assets. for the students, providing $30,000 in scholarships per year The goal is to increase that asset base to at least $10 million per student. The scholarship fund supports Bassett’s goal within the next 10 years in order to provide financial of offering financial aid to every student in the Columbia- resources for this critical Bassett mission. Bassett program. A well-funded education program can give Bassett an Your contribution makes an impact advantage in attracting high-caliber students and residents as well as clinicians and medical administrators who serve Make a gift to the medical education endowment or as faculty. A larger endowment will provide the income to the medical school scholarship fund and support the enable Bassett to bring in specialists to help design continuation of education excellence at Bassett. Contact curriculum and to help create objective measurements to the Friends office at (607) 547-3928, or make a gift online demonstrate competencies. Ongoing faculty development at www.friendsofbassett.org. I will ensure that Bassett’s medical education programs will continue to be sophisticated and in-demand.