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2 From the Dean 3 College News A Match A new name for Fletcher Allen; leadership changes at the University, College, and department levels; a scholarship milestone; Made in a perfect match, and more. Vermont features Scholarship Support 14 22 26 Makes It Possible

From the Vermont Integrated Curriculum to “Dr. Moo,” our rst-year medical students this fall will nd UVM to be the perfect match for their dreams of becoming physicians. Your help makes those dreams come true. By giving a nancial leg up to today’s talented, motivated, and diverse students, generous donors like you carry on the legacy Branching Out The Greatest Good Ideas with a Future of giving that characterizes UVM and help ensure that today’s students get the same Being a Vermont medical student means A sharp mind and a love of learning brought Discoveries at the College of high quality education you received with less engaging with a diverse population — Robert Larner, M.D.’42, from the Old Medicine don’t just stay at the College. With debt than they would otherwise incur. clinical experiences that happen not just in North End to UVM, and opened the way careful cultivation and guidance through the Green Mountain State, but at affiliates to a successful practice across the continent. the complicated patent and fundraising To encourage even more scholarship across the Eastern U.S., including Danbury In his own words, Dr. Larner tells of his process, new technologies are transferred to support, the Medical Alumni Association Hospital and the Western Connecticut upbringing and the birth of the loan and the wider world to improve health care and will provide a 50 percent match for new gis Health Network. scholarship fund that bears his name. spark new businesses. of $50,000 to $100,000 that support endowed scholarships. Now that’s a match! By Erin Post By Edward Neuert By Jennifer Nachbur For more information about how you can support medical students today, contact: Hall A WebXtras in this issue: 31 UVM Medical Development • 2014 UVM Research Report • New student Schweitzer 32 President’s Corner & Alumni Relations Oce Fellows projects • The Given Building 50 years ago Class Notes (802) 656-4014 • Larner Legacy video 33 [email protected] • Full Match Day coverage • Dallas Boushey in his Development News • Graduation 2014 own words 35 Go to: uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine 46 Obituaries Class of 2017 medical students meet CORRECTION: The name of Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology “Dr. Moo” during J. Christian Abajian, M.D.’69 was spelled incorrectly in the The College of Medicine is on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 2013 Year-in-Review issue of Vermont Medicine. In March orientation week Check in to see what’s happening today! 2013, Dr. Abajian was given the Robert M. Smith Award by the in August 2013. American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. Dr. Abajian began joined the faculty in 1974 after completing a residency in London and a fellowship in Toronto.

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SUMMER 2014 PUBLISHED JULY 2014 Fletcher Allen Health Care to Change Name this Fall FROM THE DEAN Fletcher Allen Partners and The University of Vermont announced June 19 that Fletcher Allen Partners is changing its name to The University of Vermont Health Network, with the names of the Seeing alumni of the College of Medicine return to Editor & Creative Director affiliated hospital organizations also changing. Fletcher Allen Health campus for medical reunion is always enjoyable, but I Edward Neuert Care will be renamed The University of Vermont Medical Center. must say that this summer’s reunion seemed to me to hit Assistant Dean for Plattsburgh, N.Y.’s CVPH Medical Center will adopt the name a high point for enthusiasm for the seven reunions I’ve Communications “Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital” and will use that name Carole Whitaker been fortunate to attend. Something about the mix of together with “The University of Vermont Health Network” in all Contributing Writers people from across six decades made for a wonderful Jennifer Nachbur communications to express its participation in the Network. Barre, weekend of memories and learning about the state of the College today. Erin Post Vt.-based Central Vermont Medical Center and Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital will use their names with “The That feeling was underscored for me by a message sent by 50th anniversary reunion Assistant Hana Place University of Vermont Health Network” in the same manner to attendee John Gould, M.D.’64, a few days after he returned home. Dr. Gould wrote Art Director express their affiliation in all communications. about how meaningful it was to catch up with his old friends and classmates, and also to Fletcher Allen Health Care, shown here, will be renamed The University of Vermont Steve Wetherby, Wetherby Design This change — planned to take effect this fall — aims to Medical Center in October. meet and interact with today’s medical students and see first hand how the physicians of Contributing Photographers clearly signal to people in the region that the hospitals are part of an the 21st century are being educated. “Boy, would I like to go to medical school here, and Raj Chawla, Jeff Clarke, Alec Jacobson, academic health network, aligned with one of the top ten academic “This collective decision will enhance the local, regional and now,” Dr. Gould wrote. I think that is a feeling many of our alumni had as they walked Sally McCay, Mario Morgado medical centers in the country. national reputations and quality of all of the entities that will the halls of their alma mater. “This new name reflects our teamwork — today and for the bear The University of Vermont name, and makes more visible months and years to come,” says John Brumsted, M.D., president to the general public and to patients the important work that Reunion was the culmination of what was a truly successful year for the College in so University of Vermont and chief executive officer, Fletcher Allen Partners and Fletcher the University and these hospitals are doing together,” said UVM many ways. Our Class of 2014 scored a perfect 100 percent success rate in the match College of Medicine Allen Health Care. President Tom Sullivan. for their residencies. Our researchers secured an impressive amount of funding in an Dean increasingly competitive environment. And our faculty continue to refine and improve Frederick C. Morin III, M.D. the education of our students; the latest evidence of this will be seen this fall in the new Senior Associate Dean for Larner Classroom, where active learning by groups large and small will better prepare Medical Education Norotsky Appointed Physician Radiology Leadership students for the clinical teams they join in clerkships. William Jeffries, Ph.D. Interim Senior Associate Dean Leader and Chair of Surgery Transition Announced This issue of Vermont Medicine showcases several of our students in their clerkships at our for Research Russell Tracy, Ph.D. clinical affiliate in Danbury, Conn. Over the last few years, we have developed educative Longtime faculty member and College of Dean Frederick Morin, M.D., and Fletcher relationships with clinical sites across the eastern U.S. in order to offer our students access Senior Associate Dean Medicine alumnus Mitchell Norotsky, M.D.’89, Allen CEO John Brumsted, M.D., to the broadly diverse patient populations they need to become effective physicians. for Clinical Affairs Steven Braff, Claude Deschamps, M.D. interim chair of the Department of Surgery, announced in mid-June that was appointed health care service leader and M.D., was stepping down from his role as Of course, our longest and primary clinical partnership is with our academic medical Senior Associate Dean for chair of the Department of Surgery. Dean UVM chair of radiology and as leader of the center partner. I’m pleased that, later this fall, the strength of that affiliation and shared Finance & Administration Rick Morin and Fletcher Allen President and Radiology Health Care Service at Fletcher mission will be recognized with the renaming of Fletcher Allen Health Care as the Brian L. Cote, M.B.A. CEO John R. Brumsted, M.D., announced Allen. Kristen DeStigter, M.D., the John P. University of Vermont Medical Center, and the rechristening of Fletcher Allen Partners the appointment in mid-July. and Kathryn H. Tampas Green and Gold as the University of Vermont Health Network. Send Us Your Stories Norotsky is an associate professor of Mitchell Norotsky, M.D.’89 Professor and vice chair of radiology at Kristen DeStigter, M.D. If you have an idea for something that surgery who has served as interim chair of UVM/Fletcher Allen, has agreed to serve as Finally, the greatest measure of our success this year has been the support we have should be covered in Vermont Medicine, received from the alumni and friends of the College. As this issue goes to press, the please email: [email protected] the department since March 2014. After receiving his medical the department’s interim chair and physician leader. UVM Foundation has announced a record year in philanthropic support, including nearly degree he completed his residency in general surgery at the former Braff served as chair and physician leader of radiology since 2004. $22 million in giving to the College of Medicine. None of the important work we do on Visit Vermont Medicine Online Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, followed by a fellowship in DeStigter joined the UVM/Fletcher Allen faculty in 2001 as Find full current and past issues cardiothoracic surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Before joining assistant professor and attending radiologist and was named vice this campus would succeed without this support, and we are deeply grateful for it. and exclusive webXtras at: www.uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine the faculty at UVM/Fletcher Allen in October 1997, he held a chair in 2004 and promoted to full professor in 2013. Inducted as position on the medical staff at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in a fellow in the American College of Radiology (ACR) in 2013, she New York. He served as president of the Fletcher Allen Medical has served as president of the Vermont Chapter of the ACR, serves Staff and was associate vice president of operations for the UVM on the ACR Council Steering Committee, and is co-founder of Medical Group from 2007 to 2011. He also served on the Board Imaging the World, a nonprofit organization that developed and of Directors for Vermont Managed Care. uses a new sustainable model for ultrasound imaging, making basic Frederick C. Morin III, M.D. “Dr. Norotsky is an exemplary teacher of medical students life-saving diagnosis accessible in the poorest regions of the world. Dean, University of Vermont College of Medicine and residents and we are grateful for his willingness to serve in this She holds a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University important role at our academic medical center,” says Morin. A national School of Medicine and completed a residency in diagnostic Vermont Medicine is published by the University search for physician leader and chair will begin in approximately radiology and a body imaging fellowship at University Hospitals of Vermont College of Medicine. Articles may be reprinted with permission of the editor. Please send 18 months. Norotsky will serve until that search is completed. of Cleveland, Ohio. address changes, alumni class notes, letters to the editor, and other correspondence by visiting: 2 VERMONT MEDICINE www.uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine COM Design & Photography SUMMER 2014 3 COLLEGE NEWS Notables COLLEGE NEWS College of Medicine Faculty Levine Appointed Associate Dean for Bates Named Graduate Medical Education Journal Tapped for Leadership Roles This March, Mark A. Levine, M.D., professor of was honored with the Deputy Editor medicine, was appointed associate dean for Jason Bates, Ph.D., In mid-May, Cynthia Forehand, Ph.D., professor of neurological E.L. Amidon Award for graduate medical education at the College and D.Sc., professor of sciences at the College of Medicine, was appointed dean of the Teaching Excellence designated institutional official at Fletcher medicine and interim University’s Graduate College. A member of the faculty since 1987, in the Department Allen Health Care. Levine has served as director director of the School of Forehand served for the past year as the Graduate College’s interim of Medicine for the of the Internal Medicine Residency Program second time, and in Engineering, was named dean, and served as its associate dean from 2010 until 2013. UVM Mark A. Levine, M.D. Jason Bates, Ph.D., D.Sc. since 1992 and is also associate chair for Deputy Editor of the President Tom Sullivan and Provost David Rosowsky noted that 2003 was named education in the Department of Medicine. Journal of Applied Physiology this spring. Bates, Forehand has taken significant steps to improve and streamline Clinical Teacher of the Year and was also He succeeds David Adams, M.D., professor who is a member of the Vermont Lung Center, policies and procedures related to graduate education and support in elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor and interim chair of anesthesiology. During has a secondary appointment in molecular her role as interim dean. She has also been an advocate for ensuring Society. A graduate of the University of Cynthia Forehand, Ph.D. Richard Galbraith, M.D., Ph.D. his tenure at UVM/Fletcher Allen, Levine has physiology and biophysics. He has served on the interdisciplinary graduate programs and other student opportunities Rochester (N.Y.) School of Medicine, Levine played a leadership role in transforming the editorial board and as an associate editor for the under the University’s new Incentive Based Budgeting model. completed a residency in internal medicine internal medicine residency into a curriculum- Journal of Applied Physiology for several years. In Forehand completed her Ph.D. in neurobiology at the University of biophysics and former dean of at UVM/Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, driven competency-focused training program, addition, he is an elected fellow of the American North Carolina Chapel Hill, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship the College of Medicine, who where he was chief resident from 1982 to instituting a research component into Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. served as interim vice president 1983. Prior to joining the UVM/Fletcher Allen residency, and creating a competency-based and an elected senior member of the Institute of In June, Richard Galbraith, M.D., Ph.D., was appointed vice for research since August 2013, faculty in 1992, he was as a clinician-educator required Acting Internship in Medicine course Electrical and Electronics Engineers. president for research at UVM. Galbraith was most recently senior and who retired June 30. at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa., for fourth-year medical students. In 2010, he associate dean for research and professor of medicine at the College Russell Tracy, Ph.D., and Thomas Jefferson Medical College. of Medicine. Galbraith, who joined the UVM/Fletcher Allen faculty professor of pathology and in 1995 as professor of medicine, program director of the General biochemistry and director of Clinical Research Center, and associate dean for patient-oriented the Laboratory for Clinical King Receives Clark Award research, has served as director of the Center for Clinical and Biochemistry Research, has Associate Professor Annual Meeting in Denver, Colo., in April. The Translational Science at UVM since 2007. In 2012, he was named taken on the senior associate of Medicine Patricia award recognizes outstanding and exemplary associate dean for research at the College, and was officially appointed dean for research position on King, M.D.’96, leadership, commitment and contributions senior associate dean for research in February 2014. Galbraith an interim basis. Tracy served Ph.D., received the in advancing the public good at the state received his M.D. and completed training as an internist at King’s as the inaugural senior associate Russell Tracy, Ph.D. John H. Clark, M.D. medical board level. King has been a member College, London. He received a multidisciplinary Ph.D. in molecular dean for research from 2001 Leadership Award of the Vermont Medical Practice Board since and cellular biology from the Medical University of South Carolina to 2009, when he stepped down to focus exclusively on his science. at the Federation of 2003, and has served as chair of the board and served on its faculty prior to relocating to Rockefeller University He currently serves as vice chair for research in the department of From left to right: Beverly Colston, ALANA Student Center Patricia King, M.D.’96, Ph.D. State Medical Boards since 2010. in New York. There he served as the director of the General Clinical pathology, as director of translational technologies for the Center Director; Margaret Tandoh, M.D.; Elizabeth Bonney, M.D.; Research Center and Rockefeller University Hospital. Galbraith for Clinical and Translational Sciences, and as chair of the Faculty Tiffany Delaney, MA.Ed replaces John N. Evans, Ph.D., professor of molecular physiology and Strategic Planning Committee. ATS Recognizes Stapleton’s Research UVM ALANA Recognizes Pre-Medical Work Renee Stapleton, M.D., Ph.D., assistant in the intensive care professor of medicine in the division of unit and her related Three faculty and staff members were honored Gift Establishes Professorship and First Full-Tuition Scholarship pulmonary and critical care medicine and a publications in at the University’s ALANA Spring Banquet for critical care specialist at Fletcher Allen Health prominent national their work promoting racial and ethnic justice, Virginia Donaldson, M.D.’51 was who was particularly known for her Association (MAA), and in 2006 Care, received the Jo Rae Wright Award for medical journals, inclusion and equity. Elizabeth Bonney, M.D., a pioneer woman in medicine, and work in identifying a key, inherited she was awarded the A. Bradley Outstanding Science at the American Thoracic including the New Tiffany Delaney, MA.Ed., and Margaret Tandoh, her groundbreaking contributuions deficiency involved in the cause of Soule Award, the MAA’s highest Society’s (ATS) annual meeting in San Diego, England Journal of M.D., received the Outstanding Club Advisor continue even after her 2013 death hereditary angioneurotic edema honor. Calif., in May. The award recognized Stapleton’s Medicine. Award from the UVM ALANA Center, a campus- with her bequest to the College of — a potentially fatal disease that In the 1990s, Dr. Donaldson wide organization dedicated to supporting “the role as a leading researcher in clinical studies Renee Stapleton, M.D., Ph.D. Medicine that establishes the first causes swelling of the face and created an endowment at the holistic development of African, Latino(a), Asian, full-tuition scholarship at the school, airways. At the time of her death she College to promote the impact of Native American and bi or multiracial students.” as well as a new professorship in was professor emerita of pediatrics the biological sciences on clinical Bonney, a professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology New Change for Pathology Department her name. and medicine at the University of medicine. Her bequest leaves and Reproductive Sciences, serves as the Dr. Donaldson was one of only Cincinnati College of Medicine. $1.75 million to fund a full-tuition In late June, the University approved a request Debra G.B. Leonard, M.D., Ph.D. “We now have faculty advisor for the UVM Minority Association three female graduates in her medical In 1981, she received scholarship, and an additional to change the name of the Department of one name for our department across all our of Premedical Students group. Tandoh is an school class. She went on to a the Distinguished Academic amount to endow a professorship Pathology at the College of Medicine to the locations,” noted Leonard. “This name change assistant professor of surgery and assistant distinguished career as a prolific and Achievement award from the at the College. Department of Pathology and Laboratory was one of the steps planned for our strategic dean for diversity and inclusion at the College; Virginia Donaldson, M.D.’51 accomplished pediatric hematologist College of Medicine’s Medical Alumni Medicine. The change was announced to goal of moving toward one Department.” Delaney is the director of the College’s Office of the College community by department chair Diversity and Inclusion.

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Garavan Study ID’s Predictors for Teen Binge-Drinking Budd Receives LRI Award GIVEN In a study that appeared in the journal Nature A in July, senior author Hugh Garavan, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine UVM associate professor of psychiatry and his Ralph Budd, M.D., has fellow Neuroscientists reported on findings received a 2014 Lupus COMMITMENT that indicated predicting teenage binge- Research Institute (LRI) Fifty years ago this summer, the alumni of the College of Medicine, drinking is possible. Their conclusion is the Award to study a new along with many community members from the Burlington area, were result of the largest longitudinal adolescent potential avenue for Ralph Budd, M.D. engaged in what was the largest fundraising effort in the state up to that brain imaging study to date. First author on the treating inflammation time — the push to complete the Given Medical Complex. The booklet study is Robert Whelan, Ph.D., a former UVM in lupus. He is one of ten investigators from featured below was created to support that drive. An earlier campaign by alumni had provided enough funding to complete the two earliest postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry and current across the country to be recognized with one pieces of the complex — the Medical Alumni Building and a portion lecturer at University College Dublin. The of these grants, which support “high-risk, high- of the northwest side of Given. From 1964 to 1966 an additional researchers find that a number of factors — reward” research that aims to transform lupus $8.7 million (nearly $70 million in today’s dollars) would be raised genetics, brain function and about 40 different treatments and advance patient care. from individuals and foundations. variables — can help scientists predict with about 70 percent accuracy which teens will Lewis R. First, M.D., M.S., F.A.A.P., become binge drinkers. Hugh Garavan, Ph.D. Pierce and First Presented with Top Award Vaccine Greenblatt Study Provides Clearer Picture of Cancer Risk Testing Center in Pediatrics Launch First Marc Greenblatt, M.D., associate professor team of researchers, West Nile The Federation of Pediatric Organizations (FOPO), during the of medicine, Fletcher Allen oncologist, and working through the Virus Vaccine Opening General Session of the Pediatric Academic Societies faculty member at the Vermont Cancer International Society Trial Meeting in Vancouver, Canada in May, presented Lewis R. First, Center’s Familial Cancer Program, has co-led a for Gastrointestinal M.D., M.S., F.A.A.P., professor and chair of pediatrics at the College collaborative global effort to interpret genetic Hereditary Cancers, This summer, the Vaccine Kristen Pierce, M.D.’03 of Medicine and chief of pediatrics at Vermont Children’s Hospital data related to hereditary colon cancer. The pooled the knowledge Testing Center at the at Fletcher Allen Health Care, with the 2014 Joseph W. St. Geme, team’s findings published in Nature Genetics, and collective data University of Vermont is launching a phase one Jr. Leadership Award — considered the highest honor in the field will both allow doctors to access publicly- of more than 45 West Nile Virus vaccine trial, led by UVM/Fletcher of pediatrics. available data to more effectively interpret researchers and Marc Greenblatt, M.D. Allen infectious disease specialists Kristen FOPO, a coalition of the nation’s seven major pediatric risks and give patients a more accurate picture clinicians across Pierce, M.D.’03, assistant professor of medicine, organizations, recognizes one physician per year for broad and of familial risk for colon and other cancers. The the world. and Beth Kirkpatrick M.D., professor of sustained contributions to pediatrics that have had or will have medicine, which aims to determine effectiveness a major impact on child health. Most important, the award of the vaccine in the most vulnerable population recognizes those individuals who have “created a future.” “Dr. — adults aged 50 to 65. The year-long study First is the perfect recipient,” said Theodore Sectish, M.D., Teuscher and Colleagues Identify Lyme Arthritis uses a National Institutes of Health-developed, executive director of FOPO and professor of pediatrics, vice-chair Susceptibility Gene live-attenuated WNV vaccine using recombinant DNA technology. for education and program director of the pediatric residency A genetic “hunt” begun nearly a quarter training program at Boston Children’s Hospital. “He is an century ago by UVM immunogeneticist Cory outstanding educator and clinician, an influential national leader Teuscher, Ph.D., and University of Utah for educational policy and professional certification, editor of the microbiologist Janis Weis, Ph.D., has led to a highest impact pediatric peer-reviewed journal and one of the top- “buried treasure” in the field of Lyme disease selling pediatric textbooks.” research: confirmation that a hypomorphic Editor-in-chief of the journal Pediatrics since 2009 (the peer- allele of the beta-glucuronidase gene (Gusbh) reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics) First is independently responsible for more severe is currently in his second term as chair of the executive board forms of Lyme arthritis in a mouse model. Read more of the National Board of Medical Examiners, also serving as These findings were published in December about the chair of the Education Committee of the Association of Medical in the online-first edition of the Journal of work of UVM School Pediatric Department Chairs, and is co-editor of the 22nd Clinical Investigation and are also featured researchers Edition of Rudolph’s Textbook of Pediatrics. In addition, for more in the January 2014 issue of JCI Impact. The in the 2014 Research than 17 years, he has offered medical and developmental advice to researchers found that six different genetic Cory Teuscher, Ph.D. Report at: Browse the whole booklet at: parents through his “First with Kids” weekly radio and television regions were linked to disease severity, and uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine segments and Vermont community newspaper columns. First, through an iterative process of physical identify the principal gene responsible for UVM.EDU/DISCOVERY who joined UVM/Fletcher Allen in 1994, is currently one of the mapping using congenic mice, proceeded to more severe arthritis in their model. longest-standing pediatric department chairs in the U.S.

6 VERMONT MEDICINE COM Design & Photography SUMMER 2014 7 RESIDENCY MATCHES FOR THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE CLASS OF 2014 PERFECTLY MATCHED ANESTHESIOLOGY INTERNAL MEDICINE PATHOLOGY Bryan Chow Univ. of Southern California Alison Alpert Cambridge Health Alliance Agnes Balla UVM/Fletcher Allen Joseph Foley Beth Israel Deaconess Irina Arkhipova- Oregon Health & Science John DeWitt Massachusetts General After months of interviews with different Med. Center 2014 Jenkins University Hospital residency programs and more than a few Paige Georgiadis Brigham & Womens Hospital Amanda Boutrus Tufts Medical Center Sara Higgins Beth Israel Deaconess overnight and cross-country trips, the energy 100% Xingfu Liang SUNY Upstate Medical Bethany Collins Madigan Army Med. Center Med. Center University Anees Daud Univ. of Utah Affiliated Alison Krywanczyk UVM/Fletcher Allen and anxiety expended during the residency Hayk Minasyan UCLA Medical Center Hospitals application process came to an end for the106 One hundred percent Lauren Powlovich University of Virginia Albert Emery Univ. of Michigan Hospitals— PEDIATRICS members of the Class of 2014 on March 21 — of the Class of 2014 Anurag Shukla Univ. of Michigan Hospitals— Ann Arbor Katherine Anderson UVM/Fletcher Allen matched to one of Ann Arbor Hannah Foote Univ. of North Carolina Leah Carr Univ. of Washington Match Day. Beginning at noon, each student William Tharp UVM/Fletcher Allen Hospitals opened the white envelope containing the their choices this Affilliated Hospitals Laura Frischer Kaiser Permanente— Anne Coleman Univ. of Washington name of the residency program with which year — a significant CHILD NEUROLOGY Los Angeles Affilliated Hospitals he or she was paired through a sophisticated achievement in Andrew Ng UC San Diego Med. Center Duong Hua Harbor-UCLA Med. Center Peter Cooch UC San Francisco Justine Hum Oregon Health & Science computer algorithm at the National Resident an increasingly Katelyn Cushanick Jefferson Med College/ DERMATOLOGY University duPont Childrens Matching Program. competitive Rola Khedraki UC Irvine Med. Center Karina Eastman UCLA Medical Center David Drimmer Kaiser Permanente— Daniel Liebowitz Univ. of Maryland Med. Center residency landscape. Los Angeles Daniel Edberg Univ. of Southern California Iwan Nyotowidjojo Univ. of Arizona Affiliated Kelly Gardner Massachusetts General Hospitals DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY Hospital Jennifer Pons California Pacific Med. Center Nazia Kabani Univ. of Alabama Med. Center Caitlin Baran Oregon Health & Science Laura Rabideau Tufts Medical Center David Larsen Univ. of Utah Affiliated University Jane Roberts Beth Israel Deaconess Hospitals Aaron Maxwell Rhode Island Hospital/ Med. Center Heather Lutton Duke University Med. Center Brown Univ. Katherine Scovner Rhode Island Hospital/ Sarah Marsh SUNY Upstate Medical Brown Univ. University EMERGENCY MEDICINE Matthew Thomas Naval Med. Center Bhanu Muniyappa Univ. of Utah Affiliated Ashley Atiyeh Allegheny General Hospital Benjamin Ware Providence Portland Hospitals Laura Caldwell Yale-New Haven Hospital Med. Center Matthew Saia Medical University of James Corbett-Detig UC San Diego Med. Center Bianca Yoo Univ. of North Carolina South Carolina Eric Kalivoda St. John Hospital Hospitals Sara Staples Eastern Virginia Med. School Vincent Kan Univ. of Massachusetts Maramawit Wubeshet Childrens Hospital Oakland Med. School NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY Nicholas Koch Maimonides Med. Center Larry Bodden Univ.of Wisconsin Hospital PSYCHIATRY Jerry Lee Duke University Med. Center and Clinics George Vana Rhode Island Hospital/ Michael Mollo Carolinas Med Center Brown Univ. Patrick Ng SAUSHEC Emergency NEUROLOGY Conor Carpenter Brown University Medicine Jonathan Galli Univ. of Utah Affilliated Bridget Collins Icahn SOM St. Luke’s— Prabu Selvam Wright-Patterson Med. Center Hospitals Roosevelt Jordan Smith Texas A&M—Scott & White Nicholas Phillips UVM/Fletcher Allen Elisabeth Kispert Maine Medical Center Timothy Snow Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai Christopher Taicher Einstein/Montefiore Molly Rovin UVM/Fletcher Allen Nicholas Wilkie Univ.of Wisconsin Hospital Med. Center Anjali Varigonda UVM/Fletcher Allen and Clinics Karan Verma Boston University Bailey Zhao Univ. of Nevada Affilliated OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY Med. Center Hospitals Margaret Gordon- Univ. of Cincinnati Med. Nicole Benson Massachusetts General Hospital FAMILY MEDICINE Fogelson Center Alyson Guillet Oregon Health & Science Jocelyn Hu Darnall Army Med. Center University RADIOATION ONCOLOGY John Malcolm Concord Hospital Jenna Pariseau UVM/Fletcher Allen William Arscott Hospital of the Univ. of Vanessa Patten Univ. of Utah Affilliated Elizabeth Robison University of Colorado SOM Pennsylvania Hospitals Denver Stanislav Lazarev Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai Maia Pinsky Family Medicine Residency of Idaho OPTHALMOLOGY UROLOGY Autumn Polidor Oregon Health & Science University Dane Slentz George Washington Michael Lam Oregon Health & Science David Reisman UVM/Fletcher Allen University University GENERAL SURGERY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY VASCULAR SURGERY Hany Abdallah Baystate Med Center Jacob Azurdia University of Toledo Gabriel Crowl Case Western/Univ Hosps Adam Ackerman Maine Medical Center Ashley Miller Univ. of Cincinnati Case Med Ctr Francesca Boulos Abington Memorial Hospital Med. Center Katelynn Ferranti Hershey Med. Center/ Vanessa Franz Arrowhead Regional Med. Ctr. Penn State Chelsea Harris Univ. of Maryland Med. Center OTOLARYNGOLOGY Kevin Kuruvilla Rhode Island Hospital/ Elizabeth Blasberg Univ. of New Mexico SOM Brown Univ. View a video of the Match Day Nathan Louras St. Elizabeth’s Med. Center Ashley Russo Univ. of Massachusetts Celebration at: Med. School uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine Richard Tan Wright-Patterson Med. Center

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COLLEGE NEWS Student Notes COLLEGE NEWS New MPH Program Announced Bodden Receives USPHS Award Just a few days before his graduation, Larry at University of A new Master of Public Health program, a collaborative graduate program between the Bodden, M.D. from the Class of 2014 received Wisconsin Hospital College of Medicine, the Graduate College at UVM, and Continuing and Distance this year’s Excellence in Public Health Award and Clinics. He Education, was announced this spring. The new 42-credit online master’s degree program, from the United States Public Health Service received the award the first graduate public health program in Vermont, was approved by the UVM Board of for his advocacy for the UVM Tobacco-Free at the UVM Tobacco Trustees in February. Campus initiative. The award was given to Free Campus Steering “UVM’s leadership in interdisciplinary and health care education, along with our 50 medical students nationwide. Bodden Committee meeting begins a neurosurgery residency this summer on May 5. Larry Bodden, M.D.’14 From left: H. James Wallace III, M.D.’88, Charles Hackett ’15, close affiliation with Fletcher Allen Health Care, make the University a strong choice for Emily Schloff ’15, Dean Rick Morin. public health students,” said Jan K. Carney, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean for public health at the College of Medicine and program director for public health graduate programs. “Our First Robert Larner, M.D.’42 faculty have depth of knowledge and experience in public Peel Coauthors Article Student Awards Presented health, and this new graduate program offered online will appeal to a diverse cohort of public health students Katia Chavez ’16 (above, right) at work in the Amanda Peel ’15 was significantly lower in recently treated breast At Medical Reunion in June, two members of from around the globe — including medical and nursing Clinical Simulation Laboratory. first author on an cancer patients, potentially making them the Class of 2015 were presented with a newly students, researchers and health care professionals.” article in the Journal more susceptible to cardiovascular risk. inaugurated yearly award, named in honor of Graduate students accepted into the program, Class of 2016’s Chavez of the American Among the study’s co-authors were Susan alumnus Robert Larner, M.D.’42, which recognizes which starts this fall, can complete the degree requirements Honored with AMA Heart Association Lakoski, M.D., M.S., UVM assistant professor current students for their outstanding leadership within two years as a full-time student, and five years Foundation Minority this January medicine and director of the Cardiovascular and loyalty to the College. Recognized with the as a part-time student. The program is designed for Scholars Award that found that Prevention Program for Cancer Patients, and award were: cardiorespiratory Kim Dittus, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor Associate Dean for Public Health Jan medical and graduate students, health professionals in The American Medical Association (AMA) Emily A. Schloff ’15 Amanda Peel ’15 fitness was of medicine. Carney, M.D., M.P.H., directs public all disciplines, public health professionals, researchers, Foundation honored College of Medicine Emily is one of many in her family to attend health graduate programs at UVM, and others who wish to increase their knowledge in the University of Vermont and has a strong including the new online M.P.H. program. student Katia Chavez with a Minority public health. Scholars Award at the AMA’s Annual sense of loyalty to the College. She received Meeting in Chicago, Ill., on June 7. Chavez, 2014–15 Schweitzer Fellows Announced her undergraduate degree in Nutrition and Food Science from UVM, graduating cum laude in 2010. a member of the College’s Class of 2016, Eleven members of the College’s Class of a demonstrable impact on that need. The She is one of four class members who serve on was one of only ten medical students in the 2017 have been named 2014–15 Fellows projects address not only clinical issues, but Paradiso to Receive Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award the Student Education group, a liaison between country selected to receive this award.The of the New Hampshire/Vermont Schweitzer also the social determinants of health. the administration and the student body on AMA Minority Scholars Award recognizes Fellows Program. As Schweitzer Fellows, The 2014–15 Schweitzer Fellows “teams” matters regarding the curriculum. Emily was The UVM Medical Alumni Association’s and respiratory viral academic achievement and commitment students usually work in teams of two, are: Leah Cipri and Matthew Shear, Jia Xin also selected to serve on the Medical Student Graduate Alumni Awards Committee has vaccines. He has to the elimination of health care disparities. and work in partnership with community- “Jessica” Huang and Alejandro Velez; Mary Executive Board, the highest student leadership selected Peter R. Paradiso, Ph.D.’77 to receive been involved in the Scholars receive a $10,000 scholarship. based organizations to identify an unmet Ledoux and Laura Leonard; Christopher committee that meets with the Dean of the College the 2014 UVM Medical Alumni Association’s development and the Chavez, who is originally from Lima, health need and then carry out a year-long, Mayhew and Carl Nunziato; Erin Pichiotino; and other administrators. She is also a leader of Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award. This global registration Peru, received her bachelor’s degree in 200-hour service project designed to have Amy Schumer and Syed “Samin” Shehab. award is presented to alumni from the College of many major biology with honors distinction from Nova UVM’s Chapter of the American Medical Women’s of Medicine’s Ph.D. or M.S. programs who have vaccines. Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Association. demonstrated outstanding achievement in Dr. Paradiso Fla. After college, she earned a master’s Charles S. Hackett ’15 basic, clinical or applied research; education; served as a member Peter R. Paradiso, Ph.D.’77 degree in public health (MPH) with a focus Excerpts from Charles’s clinical evaluations describe industry; public service/humanitarianism; of the National on epidemiology at Florida International him as “an excellent advocate for his patients and and/or outstanding commitment to the College Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) and is University. As an MPH student, she organized has an outstanding bedside manner.” He received of Medicine community. currently a member of the Advisory Council on two epidemiological field studies that sought his undergraduate degree in Biology from the Dr. Paradiso recently retired as Vice Immunization for New York State and a liaison to improve health services for a native UVM in 2011, was a Vermont Scholar, a Pizzagalli President, new business and scientific affairs member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Quechua-speaking community in Cusco, Vermont Scholar, and graduated summa cum laude for Pfizer Vaccines, a Division of Pfizer, Inc. In Immunization Practices. He has also served Peru. While in medical school, Chavez as an Honors College Scholar. He also received the this position, he was responsible for global as an advisor to the WHO’s Strategic Advisory became one of the leaders of the Pediatric George Perkins Marsh Award in Biology. In addition scientific affairs and strategic planning within Group of Experts on vaccines and to the GAVI Student Interest Group and was awarded to his academic accomplishments, he served the vaccine research and development group Task Force on Research and Development. a 2013 Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, the College of Medicine as a Peer Tutor, providing and for commercial oversight of products in Prior to his graduate degree, he earned a conducting a project focused on improving one-on-one tutoring to other medical students development. He has worked in the field of B.S. in chemistry from St. Lawrence University. health services delivered to migrant Hispanic experiencing academic difficulty. He has also been vaccine development for the past 28 years. Dr. Paradiso will formally receive his dairy farm workers. a mentor in the UVM Premedical Enhancement Dr. Paradiso has published broadly in the field award at a ceremony Oct. 2 in conjunction The AMA Foundation’s Minority Scholars Learn more about each of the Program, a formalized mentoring program for UVM of pediatric vaccines, especially in the areas with the annual Graduate Student Research Awards are given in partnership with the AMA 2014–2015 Schweitzer Fellows projects undergraduate students co-sponsored by the UVM of glycoconjugates, combination vaccines day at the College. Minority Affairs Section, with support from at: uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine Honors College and College of Medicine Office of Pfizer, Inc. Primary Care.

10 VERMONT MEDICINE COM Design & Photography SUMMER 2014 11 GRADUATION NOTES 2014 Though he is now a physician, beginning a demanding surgery residency this summer, ADAM ACKERMAN, M.D.14, had neither surgery nor science as a part of his professional repertoire less than a decade ago. A jazz and classical composer trained at Boston’s Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, Ackerman composed a special processional March which replaced the traditional “Pomp and Circumstance,” at the start of the College of Medicine Class of 2014’s Commencement Ceremony on May 18 in Ira Allen Chapel. A total of 109 STUDENTS, received medical degrees this year. The new doctors, who have headed into over 20 specialties (see the Match List on page 9), selected LEWIS FIRST, M.D., UVM professor and chair of pediatrics, Vermont Children’s Hospital chief, and editor-in-chief of the Journal Pediatrics, as their Commencement speaker.

See a video of the 2014 ceremony, and view a slideshow from Commencement featuring the special musical composition at: uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine

12 VERMONT MEDICINE COM Design & Photography SUMMER 2014 13 CLERKSHIP STUDENTS FIND A ROBUST AND DIVERSE LEARNING EXPERIENCE AT CLINICAL AFFILIATE DANBURY HOSPITAL *

n any given day at clinical affiliate Danbury Hospital, clerkship students from the UVM College of Medicine generally agree: It can sometimes feel like the United Nations. When David Harari ’15 ticks offO the number of different nationalities represented by his internal medicine team, he needs two hands to do it. “India, Jamaica, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Sweden: It’s definitely an eclectic group around here,” he says. “There’s a freshness to the place; it’s nice to have that diversity.” This cultural mix also leads to impromptu teaching moments, says Laurel Wickberg ’15. One day as she chatted with another student about malaria and sleuthed out sources for more information, a resident sitting nearby chimed in with first-hand information about symptoms and treatment options. The resident explained that she was from Nigeria and had battled the disease herself, as did members of her family. “Malaria is a huge problem in many parts of the world,” Wickberg says. “We were able to learn more from someone who has seen it.” The diverse Danbury community is one of four locations where College of Medicine students expand their experience practicing medicine — and interacting with patients. After completing the Foundations level of the Vermont Integrated Curriculum, students enter the clinical clerkship level, comprising a series of six or seven-week long rotations at the clinical sites: Family Medicine, Inpatient Internal

UVM medical student Michael Ma ’15 listens to a patient by Erin Post | photographs by Mario Morgado at Seifert & Ford Family Community Health Center in BRANCHINGDanbury during his outpatient medicine clerkship. With BRANCHINGhim is Assistant Professor of Medicine Dino Messina, M.D. 14 VERMONT MEDICINE OUSUMMER T2014 15 GREATER DANBURY… IS AN EXTRAORDINARY PLACE“ TO LIVE, WORK, AND LEARN MEDICINE. — John M. Murphy, M.D., President and CEO ” of Western Connecticut Health Network

“Greater Danbury is a melting pot on Medical Education (LCME), but the of many cultures and socio-economic process is moving forward. backgrounds,” says John M. Murphy, M.D., An 8,000-square-foot clinical president and CEO of the WCHN. “As a simulation lab — designed by the same result, it is an extraordinary place to live, architect who created the UVM/Fletcher work and learn medicine. Our relationship Allen sim lab, opened this spring at with the University of Vermont promotes a Danbury. The hospital is also creating prolific learning environment for students a standardized patient program, again DANBURY and clinical staff that will continue to serve modeled after the UVM on-campus the diverse needs of our community in program that has been part of the medical FAST FACTS Above, Medical students Kevin Pelletier ’15 (at left) and Laurel Wickberg ’15 (at right) on rounds with resident Jared important and innovative ways.” curriculum for the last decade. Wasser, M.D. At right, students Emily Rosen ’15, Sarah Gardner ’15, and David Harari ’15 teleconference with a faculty “UVM is a top-notch medical school,” The goal is a “seamless transfer of member back on the Burlington, Vt., campus. Bottom right, Dr. Wasser, Pelletier, and Wickberg confer in a patient room. says Ramin Ahmadi, M.D., M.P.H., chair the educational experience,” Ahmadi says. 81,057 69.9% WHITE of the Department of Medical Education The global health program, spearheaded POPULATION % BLACK OR and Research at Danbury Hospital/ by Majid Sadigh, M.D., site director and 7.1 AFRICAN Medicine, Neurology/Outpatient Internal century. Two much newer relationships WCHN, noting in particular the “quality an infectious disease specialist and director AMERICAN Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, with St. Mary’s Medical Center in West % ASIAN of the curriculum and quality of students,” of global health at Danbury Hospital/ 6.2 Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Surgery. In Palm Beach, Fla.; and Eastern Maine as well as the College’s commitment to WCHN, brings the two institutions into HISPANIC OR LATINO between clerkships are Bridge Weeks, Medical Center in Bangor allow for % (OF ANY RACE) primary care and leading-edge research. even closer collaboration. 24.7 where students return to Vermont for skills clerkship training as well. Designation of a branch campus involves At the foundation of all of these assessments and for sessions that focus on The 371-bed Danbury Hospital layers of careful planning and review and developments are the experiences students topics including nutrition, pharmacology, was established as a clinical affiliate in MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME accreditation by the Liaison Committee have while studying and working in Danbury. $66,281 palliative care, and health care finance. 2010. Danbury Hospital, together with The clerkship year is a transitional New Milford Hospital and Norwalk % OF PEOPLE LIVING BELOW time for students, says Tania Bertsch, Hospital, form the Western Connecticut 10.1% THE POVERTY LINE M.D., associate dean for clinical education Health Network (WCHN), the third at the College of Medicine. “Students largest hospital network in the state. % OF CIVILIAN POPULATION WITH NO work in small teams, and they continue College of Medicine students doing 19.4% HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE to develop their professional identity,” she a clerkship in Danbury get a sense of says. “They have the opportunity to see what it’s like to practice medicine in a % % OF THE POPULATION FIVE YEARS different practice styles and specialties,” more urban setting, about a two-hour 57.9 OF AGE AND OVER SPEAKS ONLY ENGLISH AT HOME with one goal for the year being the train ride to New York City. The city’s narrowing down of a specialty selection. roughly 80,000 residents reflect both % OF THE POPULATION (FIVE YEARS After clerkships, residency interviews socioeconomic and ethnic diversity. 42.1% AND OLDER) SPEAKS A LANGUAGE begin, culminating in Match Day, when About 25 percent of the population OTHER THAN ENGLISH, INCLUDING SPANISH OR SPANISH CREOLE medical students across the country find is Hispanic, with just over seven percent (21.7%) OR OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN out where they will be headed for the next identified as Black or African American LANGUAGES (15.2%) AT HOME phase of their medical education. and six percent as Asian, according to the OF THE POPULATION (FIVE YEARS AND OLDER) All students perform clerkships at the recent census data. Forty-two languages are WHO SPEAK A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH College’s academic medical center partner spoken in Danbury public schools. About 10 AT HOME, 46.4% REPORT SPEAKING ENGLISH “VERY WELL.” 53.6% REPORT SPEAKING ENGLISH Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, percent of residents live below the poverty “LESS THAN ‘VERY WELL.’” which has had a teaching relationship with line, and 25 percent of the population has UVM stretching back to the founding of public health insurance. Nineteen percent of SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, 2008–2012 AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY John Murphy, M.D., (center) president and CEO of Western Connecticut Health Network, with Senior Associate Dean for the Mary Fletcher Hospital in the 19th residents have no insurance at all. Medical Education William Jeffries, Ph.D., and Associate Dean for Clinical Education Tania Bertsch, M.D.

16 VERMONT MEDICINE COM Design & Photography SUMMER 2014 17 compete with a mall built on the outskirts For Laurel Wickberg ’15, her “It’s giving me insight into what of town in the 1980s. clerkship year has provided a chance to I want from a program,” she says. Here, at the Main Street clinic, experience how different hospitals are “What does it look like when residents students see patients who speak Spanish managed. She’s spent several rotations are happy?” or Portuguese as a first language. Many in Danbury — including neurology/ Some insights may be less lofty, but are also under- or uninsured. During his outpatient, internal medicine and surgery equally useful. Soon after starting his time at the outpatient clinic at Danbury, — and through this extended time there internal medicine clerkship in Danbury, UVM medical student Michael Ma has gotten to know more about the values David Harari ’15 came to appreciate the ’15 found the importance of cultural inherent to the institution. This has been importance of comfortable shoes. He competency was reinforced over and helpful as she starts to consider residency often starts his day around 7 a.m., with his over. Some of the residents can speak a programs for pediatrics. first task to check in on the two to three second or third language, and they are patients he is assigned. After Morning all “well-versed in cultural differences.” Report, he meets up with his team to Medical interpreters are regular visitors start patient rounds, which may take to the clinic. anywhere from a few hours to the bulk of Working with a diverse patient the day. The comfortable shoes become population like the one in Danbury important here as the team — which “changes the way you see medicine,” he includes several medical students, interns, says, in part because the complexity of and an attending physician — does patients’ lives is brought into such stark much of its consulting walking down the relief. Culture, religion, financial resources: hallway or gathered around the bed in a GLOBAL HEALTH Laurel Wickberg ’15 in the corridor at the Seifert & Ford They all contribute to a person’s health patient’s room. But it’s during this time & FUTURE Family Community Health Center in Danbury. and well-being. Clinics devoted to specific that academic knowledge coalesces with COLLABORATIONS topics — including rheumatology, HIV, clinical cases. During a recent global health presentation dermatology and emergency medicine — “Everything is team-based,” he says. at Danbury Hospital, Tamar Goldberg A DAY IN THE LIFE are also part of the outpatient experience “There are many ‘on-the-job’ teaching ’15 had the chance to meet her future The Seifert and Ford Family Community and give students exposure to a variety of moments.” “family.” Visiting from Uganda were Health Clinic at 70 Main Street sits across specialties. Sometimes this means looking Sam Luboga, M.Med., Ph.D., and his the street from the Fairfield County In addition to outpatient/neurology, up information, chiming in to answer wife, Christine, host family and mentors Courthouse and next to the Old Fairfield Ma completed his family medicine questions, or presenting his patients to UVM med students who visit there County Jail (an 1870s era building now clerkship at Brookfield Family Medicine, a to the team. And then there are other for a global health elective. Goldberg, in used for senior housing and a small practice affiliated with Danbury Hospital opportunities for learning, including Danbury at the time for the obstetrics- museum) in the heart of Danbury’s located in a nearby town. EKG sessions, virtual conferences with gynecology clerkship, will be heading to downtown. Once a thriving industrial area “We saw pretty much everything,” UVM faculty in Burlington, and many Kampala, Uganda, during the 2014–15 spurred by the railroad and over 30 hat he says. “It was the front lines.” other conferences and activities. His team Top: Tamar Goldberg ’15 (at center) met her Ugandan academic year for a six-week elective. host family members Christine and Sam Luboga, M.Med., factories, earning Danbury the nickname Ma was also at the forefront of is on call every fifth day, which means a Ph.D. Above, Majid Sadigh, M.D., heads the global health Majid Sadigh, M.D., introduced the three- “Hat Capital of the World” in the 1880s, meeting local public health needs: Every longer day and admitting privileges. The program at Danbury. some at a break in the session. the city went through tough times after Family Medicine clerkship student pace for the six-week clerkship is brisk, “She is going to be your new daughter,” World War II, when the railroad lost completes a community project in but rewarding. Sadigh laughed as the couple chatted with accommodations are paid for by prominence and the hat-making industry collaboration with a local agency or non- “The amount of teaching built Top: Michael Ma ’15 (at left) reviews patient data Goldberg at the front of the room. the program. began to decline. Revitalization efforts profit. Ma worked on a project focused on with assistant professor Cornelius Ferreira, M.D., and into the program is intensive,” he says, Goldberg and seven other College The opportunities literally span and a growing immigrant community smoking cessation. Other students have Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Robert Mascia, “and it magnifies what we do when we M.D. Above: Clinical Instructor of Neurological Sciences of Medicine students will be studying in the globe: Sadigh has been building have brought more life to the downtown worked on childhood obesity initiatives, Neil Culligan, M.D., left meets with Laurel Wickberg ’15, see our patients. There’s a smooth Russia or Uganda in 2014–2015 through partnerships with sites including the in recent years, although retailers still diabetes education, and other outreach. Kevin Pelletier ’15, and resident Jared Wasser, M.D. transition between didactic and clinical.” the global health program. Student interest Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala; And residents at Danbury are exceptional has been high: 23 applications were Kazan State Medical University in Kazan, teachers and a welcoming presence, received for the eight available student Russia; Zimbabwe University College of adds Wickberg. slots. First-year students are eligible for a Health Sciences in Harare, Zimbabwe, “[Danbury residents] really accept us THE AMOUNT OF TEACHING BUILT INTO THE PROGRAM IS INTENSIVE,” HE SAYS, summer research elective, while fourth- and Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh as part of the team and they make us feel “ “AND IT MAGNIFIES WHAT WE DO WHEN WE SEE OUR PATIENTS. year students complete a six-week or longer City in Vietnam. A partnership with at home,” she says. “That makes all the elective that combines clinical work with Hospital PAP in Paraiso, Dominican THERE’S A SMOOTH TRANSITION BETWEEN DIDACTIC AND CLINICAL. difference in the world.” optional research. Two slots are offered Republic, is also in the works. Several — David Harari ’15 ” to faculty. Plane tickets, tuition, and medical students and one UVM faculty

18 VERMONT MEDICINE SUMMER 2014 19 member have already studied in Uganda, In addition to an extensive orientation two students in Zimbabwe and one fourth- at the start of clerkship, and ongoing year student went to Vietnam this past fall. support from several key staff members, Sadigh has stressed that the objective the living and learning environments are is to create long-lasting partnerships that integrated in several ways. not only help to shape students’ medical The students’ apartment complex education, but also benefit practitioners is just minutes away from Danbury and students at the various global health Hospital, and even closer to one of the sites. Eventually, one goal is to have clinic sites where students work. In the students and physicians from the sites also warmer months, the complex offers an train and study in Vermont, something outdoor swimming pool and a barbecue that is already happening in Danbury. The popular for evening and weekend get- host family concept is also important — togethers. Wickberg and one of her by staying with a family students become roommates, Avanti Golikeri ’15, make it immersed in the culture in ways that are STUDENTS WORK THE NUMBERS a habit at the end of the day to visit the hard to replicate. They learn how their Greenknoll branch of the YMCA — work as doctors fits into the larger whole, WITH THE REGIONAL where all College of Medicine students and come back with a new perspective on YMCA receive a free membership, to run on the health and healthcare. Many College of Medicine students doing Enter the College of Medicine students. track or treadmill and play a game of “We become better humans,” says their family medicine clerkship in Danbury The first wave to partner with the YMCA racquetball. This same YMCA is a partner Sadigh regarding the impact of global have become familiar with four numbers: and the Coalition for Healthy Kids in 2011 for a current student community health meals in Danbury ended up either being health work. “We become more sensitive 5, 2, 1, 0. These digits are at the core of a became the conduit to primary care improvement project (see sidebar). prepared by my friends at Stew Leonard’s to the needs of the underserved.” campaign to combat childhood obesity, physicians and pediatricians, not only Dinner together at home is also or consisted of fresh salmon or lobster one that students have played a key role in distributing the brochures, but helping to usually part of the evening for the two meat. I was not exactly roughing it!”  sharing with parents, kids, and the medical educate physicians about the message. To women; conversation can turn from ideas  As Danbury Hospital and the establishment in Danbury. date, over 4,000 brochures have gone out to for future knitting projects to debriefing UVM College of Medicine move toward The goal of the community health pediatricians and family practice offices in on difficult parts of the day. Although The goal for the Danbury clerkship is improvement project — a requirement of the the greater Danbury area. It has also been branch campus designation, this spirit time outside of the hospital or the clinic to give students an experience that is family medicine clerkship — is to immerse translated into Spanish and Portuguese. of collaboration is set to grow. Danbury is at a premium, Danbury’s proximity to challenging and supportive. students in some aspect of the local Students have conducted surveys to gauge and UVM will be working together to community while giving them experience the effectiveness of the message, while New York City makes it easy to hop on a “Students need a warm and accepting train and integrate clinical faculty and on the front lines of public health. In the others have helped out with additional train, says Ma, who grew up in New York community,” Ahmadi says. “We want administrative leaders — including a last few years about a dozen students have childhood obesity-related programs. and appreciates the opportunities to visit. them to feel at home.” Above: Laurel Wickberg ’15 (left) and her roommate campus dean, dean of students, financial For groceries and the odd diversion there’s As the connections between the two Avanti Golikeri ’15 relax in their Danbury apartment a worked with the Regional YMCA of Western In the fall of 2013, Hunk Ng ’15 short distance away from the hospital. A typical evening aid officers and other key personnel — Connecticut for their community health presented information about the Y5210 always Stew Leonard’s, a Connecticut institutions continue to grow, Bertsch finds them studying, knitting, and, while the kettle boils, into the Danbury organization. project, says Maureen Farrell, director of message at a physicians’ conference, landmark that’s just a short drive from the says the partnership is proving to be a hula-hooping. Facing page: the students play racquetball at the nearby YMCA. Among other benefits, branch campus community wellness, bringing energy and participated in a fitness assessment at apartments. Deemed the “Disneyland” of chance to evolve in positive ways for designation and the new simulation lab enthusiasm to the cause. area schools, and talked to parents about grocery stores, shoppers combine picking both the UVM College of Medicine and will give Danbury the ability to administer The message at the heart of the the 5210 message. He says he learned first- up food and other staples with stopping to Danbury Hospital. And for students, it’s an opportunity nationwide Y5210 campaign is simple: five hand how complex the childhood obesity student assessments — now students must watch animatronic characters. “We’re better because of them and to be part of a clerkship partnership servings of fruits and vegetables, two hours issue is, especially when parents are dealing complete these requirements in Burlington “They have amazing prepared meals, they’re better because of us,” she says. imbued with energy and enthusiasm. or less of screen time, one hour or more of with so many competing demands. at the end of each clerkship. It would a great cheese department, and a ton of “We bring structure to the teaching exercise, and zero sugar-sweetened drinks. As a medical student, Ng says he “It’s interesting to be involved at the also allow students to stay in Danbury The Coalition for Healthy Kids, a group was able to share his perspective on seafood,” says Sarah Gardner’15 “It was a program. They’ve brought to us the global beginning of something,” Wickberg says. longer; the number of clerkships any one of 19 organizations in the Danbury area the important of physical activity, using dangerous place to be when I was starving health program and a diversity of clinical “[The partnership] is so young — I’ll be student can do at affiliate sites is capped at working on childhood obesity, adopted this examples from his own life that show how after a long day at work. Most of my experiences for our students.” excited to see what it brings.” vm three. This option to stay in Danbury for message for their community, organizing being active actually helps his concentration additional clerkships may be attractive for physical fitness and education activities, as and focus. students in the New York City area, says well as creating a brochure with the Y5210 “We conveyed to [parents] that Bertsch, the College’s associate dean for guidelines. Parents and caregivers looking homework is important, but so is eating WE’RE BETTER BECAUSE OF THEM AND THEY’RE BETTER BECAUSE OF US. clinical education. It may also lead to more for action items were one audience, Farrell healthy and staying fit,” he says, a message WE BRING“ STRUCTURE TO THE TEACHING PROGRAM. THEY’VE BROUGHT TO US THE GLOBAL students choosing to return to Danbury for says, but the coalition also wanted the that future College of Medicine students their residencies, creating a situation where “medical community to buy into this too.” will likely continue to share with the HEALTH PROGRAM AND A DIVERSITY OF CLINICAL EXPERIENCES FOR OUR STUDENTS. “Many families get health information Danbury community through the former College of Medicine students play an — Tania Bertsch, M.D., UVM Associate Dean for Clinical Education ” from their doctors,” she says. “And we felt community health project. important role in teaching current students. that the message needs to be face-to-face.”

20 VERMONT MEDICINE SUMMER 2014 21 VERMONT MEDICINE: You grew up in what was the Jewish neighborhood of Burlington. Where did your family come from originally?

ROBERT LARNER: From Russia. My father came from Brest-Litovsk on the The border with Poland. He was very active in the Jewish community — especially in the Scholarships earned by being a state-champion debater enabled Robert Likovsky to attend UVM, where he graduated in old Ohavi Zedek synagogue. The family 1939. Before going on to join the Class of 1942 at the College of Medicine, he, like many other family members, adopted name was Likovsky — like many people in the Larner surname. my family I changed it to Larner in my 20s. Greatest We lived on the poor side of town: North I went to grammar school on Winooski and Union Street, near Archibald Archibald Street. I always was more Street. My father bought that brick house adept at science and math than I on the corner and we grew up there, my six was at writing. When I got into siblings and I. I was the seventh child. UVM I didn’t really know what to My father originally came to concentrate on so I signed up for Burlington through his connection with general science course, because that his family; he had an uncle who lived seemed to come naturally for me. ROBERT LARNER, M.D.’42, Goohen wasd born in Burlington’s in Burlington and was also a roofer. His Then after a year or so I focused on Old North End in 1918, the road ahead was anything uncle had a job with Blodgett’s roofing medicine — pre-med. I had a lot of business, and got my father a job there. but a sure thing for this seventh child of a roofer. Ten incentive, I can tell you. After W He worked there for years, until they laid all those years roofing my father was Prospect. It was the whole medical school decades, and thousands of patients later, Dr. Larner stands as everyone off in the Depression, and then making something like 32 dollars a for four years — that’s all there was. You one of the most dedicated and generous alumni of the University he did roofing on his own. When I was week and bringing up seven of us on had pathology in the basement, and the in high school I remember working in the and its College of Medicine. ALONG WITH HIS WIFE, HELEN, he has that. I could see that I’d better do classrooms in the first and second floors, summer with him on the roofs, and that’s something, because I certainly couldn’t and that was the whole school. They assisted hundreds of medical students over the last 25 years through when we both decided this wasn’t going to be a roofer, and I’d starve. Fortunately devoted the first two years to the basic the Larner Scholars Program, and has help to foster the “culture of be my career, and that I’d better go find I liked studying and learning. sciences. By the third year you started to something else! see patients — not a whole lot. Through it giving back” among his fellow alumni with the idea that grateful VM: Was going to UVM a natural step all I lived at home with my family. recipients would give to the fund when they became successful in for you? their own professional lives. This past year the Larners committed VM: Where did you head for residency? RL: I was the only one in my family to go $1 million to build an innovative Team-Based Learning Classroom to college. They couldn’t afford anything RL: I had to take my internship first in the Larner Medical Education Center, which was named for Dr. — haircuts, or a nickel for the movies! — at Maine General in Portland. There Larner in 2013. The Larners also contributed $300,000 in 2012 So I got into college by virtue of winning were six of us — two or three of us from some scholarships. I had a year-and-a- Burlington in the one-year program. We to purchase five cardiopulmonary “Harvey” simulators for the half of scholarships for winning the state worked every day and every other night UVM/Fletcher Allen Clinical Simulation Laboratory. Dr. Larner’s championship in debating one year, and for 24 hours. Did our own laboratory being runner-up the next. Then I entered, work, our own slides, our own blood work. Far from the Old North End: Robert Larner, M.D.’42, and his wife, generosity has significantly advanced UVM’s educational mission, Helen, in their home in suburban Los Angeles with UVM President and surprisingly, won an essay contest It was a lot of free labor. They paid us Tom Sullivan and Dean Rick Morin. Dr. Larner practiced internal which was recognized with the 2013 UVM Lifetime Achievement and that gave me another one-semester zero — they did give us a room and some medicine in the San Fernando Valley for more than 40 years. in Philanthropy Award, and an Honorary Doctor of Science scholarship. I finished my undergraduate meals. That was it. I had an interesting studies in three years. experience near the end of that time. After degree that was awarded at the 2014 Commencement Ceremonies. a few months I didn’t have any money, Vermont Medicine sat down with Dr. Larner to hear from him VM: Do you remember your first day and several of the other interns came about his youth in Burlington, his early years as a physician in of medical school? from families who also had little. We got The brick house on North Winooski Ave., across from together and decided we would ask the wartime and the California of the 1940s, and the fateful morning’s the intersection of Union Street in Burlington’s Old North RL: I remember that building, the old administration for some small income. End, where Robert Larner, M.D.’42 and his six siblings swim that gave birth to the Larner Scholars Program. were raised. College of Medicine building at Pearl and A group of us six interns took a vote and

22 VERMONT MEDICINE Ginger Lubkowitz Ed Neuert; COM Design & Photography SUMMER 2014 23 VM: And you had a successful practice I wanted to start a fund that would going to get patients for the students to for 40 years. Now let’s fast-forward a few keep growing. I figured if you help see? The Harvey simulator can make 30 decades: what, in the mid-1980s, brought students when they need it they will different heart sounds, and you can use about the founding of the Larner Fund? pay it back and it can go to others in a it at any time to refresh your knowledge. continuum. I climbed out of the pool And the residents at the medical center RL: We had been doing some investing and it was all plotted out… I started with and the nursing school and first responders and were successful. I was thinking during $50,000. We took a chance and offered it can all use them too. I’m also excited about one swim in my backyard pool — the as a matching fund program, and really the new classroom. I like to help build whole thing came out in one swim, this didn’t know if anyone would give. To my things that last for years and can help a lot whole scenario — that I’d been very amazement right from the first year there of people learn. I expect to continue this fortunate to come from nothing, just a was a big response from my fellow alumni. program of putting in seed money where it small-town kid, and it was time to start will help improve the medical school, and thinking about giving back. I wanted to VM: What excites you about what is particularly have an impact on the medical do the greatest good, and I wanted it to be going on now at the College of Medicine? students. My preference has always been to done in a way that would be lasting and support medical education and whatever permanent and grow indefinitely. I thought RL: I’ve discussed priorities with Dean improves it. vm to myself: but for the College of Medicine Morin and we talked about where I could I wouldn’t be in this position, so I decided do the most good. The Harvey simulators seemed like an eminently good idea for to concentrate my efforts where I could See a video about Robert Larner’s make a dent. I wanted to help other medical medical education. When you want to life and philanthropic work at: students have the kind of stimulating, teach, say, on Wednesday morning on uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine gratifying practice of medicine that I’d had. rheumatic heart disease, where are you

Above: Workers install new signage in the Given Courtyard last year as the educational facilities at the College of Medcine were renamed in honor of Robert Larner, M.D.’42. At left: Dr. Larner in his home office with a photo montage of the first 100 Larner Scholars that hangs over his desk.

second year on Okinawa. Saw a lot of VM: What was it about Los Angeles that battle injuries on Guadalcanal, as the appealed to you? fighting was going on there. I could stand in the natural caves on Guadalcanal RL: It was like a small town at that and watch as the Kamikaze planes came time — like a larger Burlington. There swooping down on our battleships in were no freeways. It was clean, friendly the harbor. It was quite an experience. — you’d stop at a light and you’d get in Okinawa was tame after that. It was a a conversation with the person in the car made me the spokesman. The faculty had year after the fighting, and it was secure. sittng next to you. It had that atmosphere, a meeting once a month, and we asked for which I liked, and it had three medical permission to appear. I went there with VM: When did postwar life begin for you? schools, so I thought there’d be good hat in hand and said “would you please professional stimulus. be good enough to consider giving us a RL: I got out in ’46, and I went to When I started here, there really stipend of $15 a month?” It took them Baltimore. I was cast out into the world in wasn’t any San Fernando Valley about five seconds to answer, and issue an June, when all the residencies had already community — it was an agricultural area. Larner Classroom invitation to never come back to any more been filled for the next year, so it was At that time Wilshire Boulevard started meetings. That was the end of that subject. rough finding an opening. I was accepted downtown, but went only to Beverly to a residency in Baltimore in internal Takes Shape Hills, which was a small town with only VM: But you weren’t there for long… medicine. I was there for a couple of years eight or ten doctors. The Valley had no The Dana Medical Library will be the site of the new Larner Classroom, This project coincides with an initiative for the transformation of the as a resident in internal medicine, then I doctors. But this was a young, growing accommodating 120 students with flexibility for both small and large group Dana Medical Library into a Health Sciences Learning Commons, providing RL: Shortly thereafter I was in uniform. stayed another year doing a residency in area where I could fit in and grow. I felt functions. Funded by a generous donation from alumnus Robert Larner, a unique opportunity to partner on a multi-phased approach to support a I spent nine months down in Carolina at radiology. Then I went out into the world comfortable here. You could set yourself M.D.’42, and his wife, Helen, also the benefactors of the Larner Medical dynamic, integrated learning environment. To support this initiative, the a station hospital and then shipped of self-employment, and looked around the up and make a place for yourself. And the Education Center, the $1.25 million renovation will feature advanced classroom is being constructed this summer in the southwest portion of overseas to a station hospital and spent country and picked out a place to live, and weather, of course, was always delightful. educational technology including large display monitors, audience response the library. Work began in mid-May with anticipated completion for use the first year on Guadalcanal and the came to Los Angeles. system, advanced video and sound system and capacity to interface with beginning this fall. existing learning management systems.

24 VERMONT MEDICINE COM Design & Photography; Ed Neuert SUMMER 2014 25 n the center of the laptop screen lies the main attraction: an image of the human heart that rotates as Icolored waves of blue, green, yellow and red flow over it. Added to the neon display — pinpricks of light illuminate different regions. Across a segment of the right side of the screen run the familiar peaks and valleys of EKG lines. Guided by the computer’s trackpad, a bright blue “wand” appears at the left of the screen, emitting a water ripple of color from each Above, left: Professor of Medicine Mercedes Rincon, Ph.D., holds a patent relating to a protein that can help predict a cancer cell’s responsiveness to chemotherapy. Above, right: Professor of Psychiatry Thomas Simpatico, M.D., at left, with Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan. Simpatico's web-based tools are being tested in a program to reduce recidivism. location on the heart that it touches. This is a representation of the heart, not the real, three-quarters-of-a-pound of muscle Electrophysiology, others are still in the six years later, it was granted in January and Human Services’ Substance Abuse that beats relentlessly, one hopes, within testing stages, or are transforming into 2013. Rincon opted to license the patent and Mental Service Administration — your chest; but this image behaves exactly new and expanded inventions. to Burlington, Vt.-based biomarker facilitated MHISSION’s evolution to a like the real thing. Over the past several years, Vermont development company BioMosaics to system targeting the veteran population, With laptop open, cardiologist has gained national recognition for its market the antibody for use in testing focusing particularly on veteran jail Peter Spector, M.D., demonstrates this innovative pursuits. An October 2012 breast and ovarian cancer patients. diversion, in addition to other criminal new interactive teaching tool, a three- CNN Money article listed Vermont among Rincon’s work has evolved from that justice-related populations. dimensional computational model called ten states with the most patent activity, initial discovery to broader applications Sometimes, Farewell says, “The Visible EP (for “electrophysiology”), with 3.5 patents per thousand residents. that are drawing a lot of excitement. technology is so new that licensing to a which he co-developed with Professor In early 2013, a Brookings Institute report “There seems to be a connection between startup company is the most desirable of Medicine and engineer Jason Bates, ranked Burlington number two in the metabolism and cancer, and maybe MCJ way to bring the invention to the market.” Ph.D. Their collaboration was a fortuitous nation among the “20 most innovative is the missing link,” says Rincon. Such was the case with MHISSION. mixture of knowledge and skillsets. cities in the U.S.” With the OTC’s support, Simpatico “Jason didn’t know what he was Often, the innovation first occurs in Streamlining systems established MHISSION Translational programming and I didn’t know how to the lab, where a research discovery takes to link disadvantaged Systems (MTS) in 2012. “Having program what we needed to make it do,” place. At that point, explains Corine populations to a spinoff allows us to be more says Spector. He likens their working Farewell, director of the OTC, the appropriate care agile in responding to the relationship to two people riding on a inventor, be they one person or a group, Individuals suffering needs of a growing array unicycle, with one — Bates — blindfolded completes an Invention Disclosure Form from substance abuse of clients, while still and pedaling, while the other — Spector and consults with the OTC on intellectual and mental health maintaining a connection — perched on the pedaler’s shoulders, property (IP) strategies. challenges often end up to UVM,” says Simpatico. telling him which way to go. “Our goal is to steward the in the criminal justice Hailed by Vermont A number of College of Medicine technology through the necessary system without ever having Governor Peter Shumlin as IDEAS WITH faculty have cultivated discoveries like intellectual property channels to make the accessed the treatment that “a model for a more effective Spector’s, each at a different point along product or service available for the public might have prevented their entry and humane approach to the road to commercialization. Growing good,” Farewell says. in the first place. That issue is at drug-related crime,” Simpatico’s support for these promising innovations Professor of Medicine Mercedes the heart of a novel web-based most active current project is a — through the University’s Office of Rincon, Ph.D., has been on the OTC system, called MHISSION pilot program with Chittenden A FUTURE Technology Commercialization (OTC) radar — and in their offices in the Given (Mental Health Intergovernmental County’s Rapid Intervention Projects by College of Medicine faculty and efforts including the Department of building — many times over the past Service System Interactive On-Line Community Court (RICC). Developed Medicine’s SPARKVT program — are seven years. She holds one patent and two Network) that Professor of Psychiatry in partnership with Chittenden County members show how new discoveries bringing more and more faculty members’ licenses related to her work with MCJ, a Thomas Simpatico, M.D., a former Metro State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan, RICC’s discoveries to light in the commercial protein that can help predict a cancer cell’s Chicago Bureau Chief for the Illinois State original aim was to reduce recidivism; at UVM can bring about improved marketplace. While some products now sit responsiveness to chemotherapy. Mental Health Authority, brought to UVM with MHISSION’s support, offenders treatments, techniques, and jobs. in spinoff companies like Spector’s Visible Rincon and former graduate student and Vermont in 2004. with untreated addiction or mental Wendy Neveu, M.D.’11, Ph.D.’10, A number of funding streams — illness get help, eliminating the need for At left: Professor of Medicine Peter Spector, M.D., who isolated an antibody that recognizes including grants from the Vermont incarceration. worked with Professor of Medicine Jason Bates, Ph.D., to by Jennifer Nachbur develop a computerized map of the electrical activity of the MCJ, and filed for the first patent for this Department of Health, the Veteran’s “The MHISSION system effectively heart that can be used as a diagnostic and teaching tool. diagnostic tool in February 2007. Nearly Administration (VA), and the U.S. Health links populations to a wide array of

26 VERMONT MEDICINE Jeff Clarke Mario Morgado; Ed Neuert SUMMER 2014 27 services,” Simpatico says. “That can apply professor of surgery and Health Care, Peter Spector wears all the arrhythmia research team consists of three co-leads the program’s organizing to the homeless population, persons with director of global health hats available at an academic medical biomedical engineering doctoral students committee, said the panel members, mental illness and/or substance abuse, economics in the College center — patient care provider, teacher and and a postdoctoral M.D. research fellow. who participated both in-person and via veterans, etc. Providing a connection with of Medicine’s Center for researcher. To this he has added another Using their computer model, combined videoconferencing, expressed enthusiastic health care and human service delivery is Clinical and Translational title: founder and director at his spinoff with studies of the real human heart, the continued support for his project. really the essence of what it does.” Science (CCTS). company, Visible Electrophysiology, LLC. arrhythmia research team has proposed a “The follow-up presentation was really According to Donovan, the time is “Take the example of a “What makes this all workable is the new approach to analyzing an individual helpful,” says Meyer. “You get to deal with ripe for criminal justice system reform, patient with an unruptured fact that these are all faces of the same patient’s electrical activity and to using people who have a completely different and a web-based technological tool like aortic aneurysm,” says thing: trying to deeply understand how this information to guide a new type of background and they have very good ideas. MHISSION is just the ticket to facilitate Jones, who is collaborating the heart works,” Spector admits. “We’ve ablation. The group has developed a new It’s simple — you get an answer right away.” that change. “We have traditionally looked with vascular surgeon incorporated the things that we’ve learned catheter, signal processing algorithms and Meyer’s idea for the monitor grew out to address substance abuse and mental Andrew Stanley, M.D., on in the clinical space and in the research a mapping approach for treatment of AF. of an observation — and frustration — in illness issues through the lens of public developing the ForMyOdds arena into Visible EP.” This work has been sponsored by a grant his clinical practice. safety with a focus on punishment,” algorithm for that condition. The software technology that he and from the Evslin Foundation and has led to “This device would basically make he says. “In the partnership I have “Relying on data we’ve Bates co-developed is remarkable in what the submission of eight patent applications. things much less expensive and faster,” he developed with Dr. Simpatico, we believe analyzed, we can tell a it does — modeling the electrical behavior says. “Instead of waiting a few hours for we can enhance our public safety by patient — to a very granular of the human heart — and the minute Supporting innovation results, you would see an immediate result, addressing these issues through the lens level of detail — the most detailing it brings to that modeling. through SPARKVT at a fraction of the cost.” of public health.” efficient and most optimized “We’ve made, essentially, a living, The SPARKvt pilot grant program was With idea in hand, he met with the pathway for their unique breathing, interactive human heart,” launched in 2012 by Department of OTC staff, who drafted patent protection Improving outcomes through circumstances.” Spector marvels. “It will sit there and Medicine Chair Polly Parsons, M.D., to for the monitor, and then moved to the personalized care pathways ForMyOdds uses data beat in what would be the equivalent of a examine proposals for innovative and novel next step — research — and building a The process of choosing a disease from patients and published normal rhythm; you can induce every sort project ideas ripe for rapid advancement to team of co-investigators. Martin LeWinter, treatment option can often overwhelm a study results — including of abnormal heart rhythm that you can the bedside. Parsons invited investigators M.D., professor of medicine, serves as the patient already dealing with the shock of individual circumstances, imagine that a patient could have, and it’s in her department to submit a wide range team’s scientific advisor, assisting with a diagnosis. Having to consider length of diagnoses, treatments, and all happening on a computer screen.” of discoveries. Five were accepted for grant proposals; Stephen Bell, a senior hospital stay, invasiveness and recovery outcomes — and applies a Also notable is the model’s capacity presentation in May 2013 to SPARKVT’s researcher in the cardiovascular research time, along with potential risks and cost variety of mathematically- for providing unpredictable responses, a consultant panel — a collection of laboratory, is chief technician/engineer; issues, can be overwhelming. based analytical techniques phenomenon called emergent behavior. business leaders with extensive experience Bradley Palmer, Ph.D., assistant professor Health economist Christopher Jones, that feed into each While the parts of the heart and the rules in the pharmaceutical, business, legal, and of molecular physiology and biophysics, Ph.D., says his methodology — called patient’s optimal pathway of interaction have been programmed into commercialization sector. focuses on data analysis and software. ForMyOdds — gives patients a helping determination. Top: Christopher Jones, Ph.D., with his ForMyOdds program, accessible by the system, the computational heart model’s Markus Meyer, M.D., a cardiologist “Without the SPARK program, it hand in determining which treatment is “We take great care to IPad, or even Google Glass. Above: Markus Meyer, M.D. presents at a recent reaction is entirely emergent, says Spector. and assistant professor of medicine, wouldn’t be where it is right now,” Meyer SPARKVT pilot grant program. best for their personal circumstances. scour the literature and test And that feature makes Visible EP an had met with the OTC regarding the says. “That allowed us to further develop “ForMyOdds is all about predictive our models,” says Jones, who attractive tool for medical education, as well patentability of his concept for a simple, the idea.” analytics, improving outcomes, reducing has several collaborators on the project a major effort over the next five years as research applications. Because it can’t handheld heart costs, and creating personalized care at UVM. will be incentivizing patients using the be readily seen, electrophysiology has been function monitor. pathways,” says Jones, an assistant Insurance plans are Jones’ target ForMyOdds platform. regarded as a particularly difficult specialty The device was market. He envisions a ForMyOdds “Now that we know what the to teach; the field was waiting for just such among the ten “package” for physicians and patients optimal care pathways will be, how can a teaching tool as Visible EP. Spector and projects presented that insurance companies pay for on a we incentivize those patients to, for Bates were recognized with an award for and one of two “Our goal is to steward per-member, per-month basis. In a take- example, give up smoking around the time licensing Visible EP at the 2013 Vermont faculty projects the technology through home-friendly portable form — think of surgery?” asks Jones, who aims to build Invention to Venture conference, an annual selected to the necessary intellectual iPad, laptop or even Google Glass — a in an algorithm that identifies not only day-long event co-organized by the OTC. receive one of property channels to patient could engage via a portal to test the optimal incentive for a given patient The model wasn’t originally developed SPARKVT’s make the product or for what Jones calls “alterna-quences” to stop smoking, but the best means to to be a teaching tool. Bates and Spector initial $50,000 service available for the — alternatives based on consequences alert that patient regarding their receipt created it in an attempt to figure out how seed grants. This public good.” — for their particular medical treatment of the incentive or, even, he considers, a to cure the most common abnormal heart past February, circumstances. dis-incentive. rhythm, atrial fibrillation (AF). Despite the Meyer delivered — Corine Farewell, Director of the As one of several investigators large number of patients afflicted with AF a project progress University’s Office of Technology funded through the Vermont Center Teach One, See One, Do One — more than five million in the U.S. alone report to the Commercialization (OTC). on Behavior and Health’s Center of As a professor of medicine and director — treatment has been less than adequate. consultant panel. From left: Sanchit Maruti, M.D., William Cats-Baril, Ph.D., Isabelle Desjardins, M.D., and Robert Biomedical Research Excellence award, of electrophysiology at Fletcher Allen In addition to Spector and Bates, the Rincon, who Althoff, M.D., worked together on the creation of a suicide risk assessment tool for hospitals.

28 VERMONT MEDICINE Jeff Clarke; Raj Chawla, Paul Reynolds, COM Design & Photography David Seaver SUMMER 2014 29 Replicating the expert The information gathered during Translational Science, have provided decision-making process this process was distilled into a list of the enormous support to Maruti The field of psychiatry contends with tool’s primary features: questions, levels and Desjardins. a highly regulated environment that of risk, and levels of intervention. The In the past year and a half, the team can shift attention from patient care process would be directed by an electronic conducted research to measure how well to paperwork. One requirement in algorithm similar to the one Jones employs their algorithm simulates the psychiatrist’s particular — The Joint Commission- in his ForMyOdds model, and accessed on cognitive process, and examined the mandated suicide risk assessment for an electronic platform — an iPad. feasibility of using the tool in a clinical hospital-based patients — provided an Fletcher Allen’s Jeffords Institute for setting. Freeman has led testing with excellent opportunity for a research Quality and Operational Effectiveness more than 250 patients in the emergency project to determine a solution to a department in conjunction with his UVM system severely lacking in uniformity. undergraduate Emergency Medicine Fourth-year psychiatry resident Sanchit Research Associate Program. Local Maruti, M.D.’10, and his mentor Isabelle psychiatry faculty, like Althoff and others, “What drives us is that Desjardins, M.D., associate professor of conduct comparative evaluations of the it’s ultimately about psychiatry, launched the project in 2011. cognitive process of the system. the patient … if there’s “There are 800 suicides in hospitals “We are at the very early stages, but a process that can help in the U.S. each year,” says Maruti. “This it’s promising,” says Desjardins. improve the care of the requirement came out of a necessity to Maruti and Desjardins are also patients, address an address an issue,” adds Desjardins. considering applications outside of the unmet need, anything He and Desjardins discussed the hospital in such institutional environments that can have a positive issue with experts in the field, reviewed as prisons, in the Veterans Administration, effect on their health, literature and though they found a number and in colleges and universities, which could that’s our goal.” of tools that are utilized, none of them also benefit from the new tool. could replicate the “gold standard” for — Sanchit Maruti, M.D.’10, This spirit of sharing new knowledge suicide risk assessment — the psychiatrist’s Fourth-year psychiatry resident speaks to the role and mission of an evaluation of the patient. institution of higher learning. It’s no However, says Maruti, “The resources surprise that the latest innovations just do not exist to make that possible.” generated by UVM College of Medicine Desjardins describes the psychiatrist’s provided them with $20,000 in faculty have a strong public health and critical thinking process as multidimensional. funding to develop the system in 2011 health system improvement bent — Suicide risk assessments, she says, evaluate risk and following a demonstration of the these inventions, whether laboratory-, hall in different timeframes — from immediate, prototype, Desjardins received a $50,000 computer-, or device-based, share a In 1905, when the College of Medicine completed its third home at the corner of Prospect and Pearl Streets in President’s Corner 32 to a few days out, to over a lifetime. She Investigator-Initiated Research Award common objective to improve health Burlington, the main lecture room was named Hall A. For the next 63 years, students (such as the members of a and Maruti more closely surveyed the from the UVM Medical Group in late among the population as a whole. class in the 1950s shown below) learned the science of medicine while perched on those rows of steeply-raked Class Notes 33 wooden seats. When the College moved to the top of the hill in 1968, the designation of Hall A moved too: to a literature on the cognitive process that leads 2012. Maruti sums up what could be the slightly more comfortable assemblage of orange-upholstered seats on the second floor of the Given Building. Development News a psychiatrist to determine a patient’s level Collaborators have been guiding ethic of all College of 35 of risk, but nothing had been published. key to shuttling the project Medicine faculty seeking Today’s learning environment fits today’s medical curriculum. Students take in lectures as a class in the Sullivan Class Agent Directory 42 Aiming to co-develop a tool that along to its current status. to commercialize their Classroom, and they work in small group environments and in UVM’s cutting-edge Clinical Simulation Laboratory. The settings have changed, but the mission remains the same: inspiring a lifetime of learning in the service could replicate expert decision-making, In addition to partners innovations. “What Reunion ’14 of patients. This section of Vermont Medicine, named in honor of that storied hall, serves as a meeting place in 44 be clinically beneficial, meet regulatory in Fletcher Allen’s drives us is that it’s print for all former students of the College of Medicine. Obituaries requirements, and could interface with PRISM electronic ultimately about the 46 the electronic medical record, Maruti and health record office, patient,” he says. “If Desjardins reached out to a wide range faculty members Robert there’s a process that of experts for advice, helped by William Althoff, M.D., associate can help improve the Cats-Baril, Ph.D., of UVM’s School of professor of psychiatry, care of the patients, Business Administration. and Kalev Freeman, M.D., address an unmet need, Among the questions considered, Ph.D., assistant professor anything that can have a says Desjardins, were “What is really of surgery and emergency positive effect on their health, happening in your minds when you are medicine physician, as well that’s our goal.” vm evaluating suicide risk? How do you weigh as Diantha Howard, M.S., these factors? What do you take into biomedical informatics specialist s s consideration?” in the Center for Clinical and 1950 1980

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Stevens writes: “I am October 2, 2014 Vermont Cancer Center 1940s ’52 ’55 president of the UVM Medical Alumni Association. writes: “Hardy congratulations still doing office practice one day Graduate Student Research Day, Manon O’Connor REUNION 2015: 1945 to Marty Koplewitz for the prestigious a week, just to keep the old geezers featuring 2014 Distinguished First and foremost, I would like to thank my predecessor, Director of Major Gifts Community Award. Well deserved! Sad happy. Also serve as a trustee on the Graduate Alumni Awardee Rev J. Perry Hooker is Mark Pasanen, M.D.’92, for his leadership over the past Meredyth Armitage news: Ray Koval died in the summer Board of Molokai Health Foundation.” Peter Paradiso, Ph.D.’77 ’47 “celebrating 45th year of two years. Mark has been at the forefront of the effort to Ruth Henry of 2013. He had a distinguished career UVM Campus Consecration as Anglican Bishop and Valery Worth Yandow reports: bring the MAA even closer to its members by sponsoring Director of Annual Giving for in Orthopedics at NYU Hospital for ’56 conducting one or two services a “I continue to be a case manager October 10–12, 2014 more events outside of Vermont, and has also been a tireless advocate for aiding current Health Sciences (Academic) Joint Diseases. Ted Goldberg has month (on call) in my 91st year.” for the health promotion committee UVM Homecoming & Family students — two focuses that I can assure you will continue. Allison Searson recently retired from a prestigious of the (VPHP) VT Physician Health cardiac group which he founded in Weekend Director, Medical Alumni Relations Program. I have very limited mobility UVM Campus As I think about the future of the MAA and the College, I cannot help but also reflect Cristin Gildea 1950s Westwood, N.J. He reverse commutes so I am not out and about very much on our past. Like Mark, I have a personal legacy with the College: both our fathers from Manhattan to Hackensack — can we do an email reunion?” October 11, 2014 Director, Administration REUNION 2015: 1950 + 1955 hospital in N.J. to teach clinical are physicians who also graduated from this school. And in just the past few weeks, Fall Medical Alumni Association Ginger Lubkowitz cardiology. Bill Eddy recently retired Donald N. Zehl writes: “Sue and we have lost some true “giants” in the history of this College. Closest to me personally Charles F. Miller writes: “Mary ’57 Executive Committee Meeting Assistant Director, Annual and Major ’50 from an active radiology career. Arthur I are near 84 years of age, but UVM Campus was Dallas Boushey, who passed away at his Burlington home on July 6. Dallas had the Gifts and I miss our classmates and Kunin is continuing his amazing, can still appreciate the blue sky of close friends, Janviers, Parkers, and kind of life story you can only imagine happening at our medical school. Anywhere else James Gilbert adventurous life story. Did any of you North Carolina and occasional contact October 11, 2014 Jerrys, with whom we spent many he’d probably have remained an industrious laboratory caretaker. Here, his prodigious Assistants know that he was an Eagle Scout from with our children, grandchildren and Alumni reception in conjunction great times together up until them talent for anatomical information and his eye for innovative modeling were recognized Erica Corliss Brooklyn? That was the foundation of great grandchildren. Who would have with the American Academy of passing. It all started on the cadaver.” anticipated that back in 1957?” by the faculty and encouraged, and he was given increasing teaching responsibilities. Megan Dodge his love of the outdoors. And I am Pediatrics National Conference, Edward W. Jenkins writes: continuing my work with the Charlotte (October 11–14, 2014) He wound up instructing medical students from the 1940s to the 1990s, even after ’51 Michael W. Abdalla and his University of Vermont “My wife of 61 years, Mary Fund — a fund at the Vermont Cancer ’58 wife, Jean, were named 2014 San Diego, Calif. his retirement and honorary degree from the University. I was privileged to learn (All local alumni & friends welcome.) Medical Alumni Association Jane, suffered a severe CVA with left Center for research and education.” Community Champions by the anatomy at the side of this quiet, kind man, and I’m sure there are hundreds of my hemiparesis. She is in the skilled Lucien J. Cote reports: “I am Community Foundation of Orange, October 27, 2014 fellow alumni who feel the same. ALUMNI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE nursing center associated with ’54 still seeing patients five days California. They were cited for the Alumni reception in conjunction Inverness Village, a retirement center Officers (Two-Year Terms) a week!” thousands of hours they have with the American College of We’ve also lost, as you’ll see in the obituary pages, our two oldest alumni — in which we reside.” President volunteered in their local community, Surgeons — Annual Clinical Roger Mann, M.D., and Burnett Rawson, M.D., both from the Class of 1939. H. James Wallace, M.D.’88 (2014–2016) as well as their global philanthropic Congress (October 27–30, 2014) Both these men had long, productive careers as physicians, and both were involved in work through the medical clinic they Vice-President San Francisco, Calif. established in El Salvador, which (All local alumni & friends welcome.) service to the community long after their formal careers had ended. That’s the Vermont Frederick Mandell, M.D.’64 (2014–2016) way, and I encourage you to continue that legacy by getting involved in the MAA’s provides prosthetic limbs free of Secretary charge to those in need. November 14, 2014 efforts to assist today’s students as they prepare to become tomorrow’s physicians. Betsy L. Sussman, M.D.’81 (2014–2016) White Coat Ceremony Jay Selcow reports: “Gayle and Treasurer 2:00 p.m. ’59 I are moving to Savannah, Paul B. Stanilonis, M.D.’65 (2014–2016) Ira Allen Chapel Georgia on Oct 16. We do plan to UVM Campus Executive Secretary spend the summer months in John Tampas, M.D.’54 (Ongoing) Connecticut. New Address: 116 Peters December 2, 2014 Members-at-Large (Six-Year Terms) Quay, Savannah GA, 31410.” Alumni reception in conjunction Ernest Bove, M.D.’81 (2012–2018) with the Radiological Society H. James Wallace III, M.D.’88 Mary Cushman, M.D.’89 (2012–2018) North America Associate Professor, Radiation-Oncology Mark Allegretta, Ph.D.’90 (2012–2016) 1960s (November 30–December 5) Suzanne R. Parker, M.D.’73 (2012–2016) REUNION 2015: 1960 + 1965 McCormick Place, Chicago, Ill. Omar Khan, M.D.’03 (2012–2016) (All local alumni & friends welcome.) Ellen Andrews, M.D.’75 (2012–2016) Mel Wolk reported that the 31st Don P. Chan, M.D.’77 (2012–2015) ’60 May 17, 2015 Annual Asthma Ski Day was Graduation Leslie S. Kerzner, M.D.’95 (2012–2015) held on Jan. 26, 2014, at Montage Ski Norman J. Snow, M.D.’70 (2014–2016) 2:30 p.m. Resort in Scranton, Penn. Dr. Wolk is Ira Allen Chapel Ex Officio Members The Seeler Simbulance Debuts the Founder of the program. He writes: UVM Campus Dean Frederick C. Morin III, M.D. “The Asthma Ski Day is a great way to There are few alumni as committed to their medical alma mater as is Ruth Seeler, Kevin McAteer encourage children with Asthma to June 12–14, 2015 M.D.’62, former president of the Medical Alumni Association and A. Bradley Soule enjoy winter sports. With medical and JUNE 12–14, 2015 Award recipient. Dr. Seeler has always had a particular interest in improving the Medical Reunion Weekend 2015 educational experience of current medical students; an interest that drove her respiratory personnel on hand, the UVM Campus latest gift to the College that funded the new mobile Clinical Simulation Laboratory children can participate in a winter 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005 For updates on events see: unit. The “Seeler Simbulance” made its official debut on campus during medical activity with more confidence. Thanks 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 reunion in June. to Geisinger-Community Medical www.uvm.edu/medicine/alumni Send Us Your Stories Center who supported the event.” If you have an idea for something that should be covered in Vermont Medicine, 32 VERMONT MEDICINE pleasePhotographer email: [email protected]. Name, Photographer Name COM Design & Photography SUMMER 2014 33 HALL A | M.D. CLASS NOTES Development News HALL A

’61 Rudolph Keimowitz writes: ’73 Cressy Brazier writes: “Our Trunk Supports John Gould, M.D.’64 Honors “Still practicing full time at the daughter, Shireen G. Brazier, Technological Innovation Father by Establishing University of Minnesota Medical was married in August 2013 to Rogelio Center as palliative care consultant.” Cassol — they reside in Eugene, A champion of technological innovation in its Endowed Lectureship John Mesch writes: “My 81st year has Oregon. Daughter Cristin Brazier many forms, Erving Trunk of Plano, Texas, In honor of his added a bit more to life’s providings moved to a new marine assignment continues his support of leading-edge X-ray 50th reunion in San Diego, and daughter, Cressica, of adventure, fun and interest. The crystallography research at the UVM College of year, and to list included a reconnecting with Don is in her 3rd year of doctoral program in Architecture at M.I.T. I am still Medicine with a recent gift of $200,000. This recognize Morton and Pat Moriarty and one builds on a previous gift of $400,000 to benefit his father with Don and Liz Bicknell at Basin practicing emergency medicine in research by Professor of Microbiology and for his many Harbor, plus a tour of the Vermont Calais. Maine.” sailboat Ceres (constructed near Lee Jacobs retired from Kaiser Molecular Genetics Sylvie Doublie, Ph.D., whose contributions lab in the Given Building is named after Trunk’s Sylvie Doublie, Ph.D. at the William Trunk Memorial to the field of Basin Harbor), which had docked at Permanente after 27 years practicing Laboratory Sheryl and John Gould, M.D.64 father, William Trunk. An “almost alumnus,” Trunk Troy, N.Y. on its maiden voyage down infectious disease. “Now a medical orthopaedics, established a lectureship to honor the Hudson to Manhattan carrying director on the Disney cruise ships as studied medicine at the College in the early John Gould, Nathaniel Gould, M.D.’37 (below). Vermont agricultural products.” well as building a hospital in Haiti,” he 1950s, but left the school after his first year of study that he himself has characterized as not as M.D.’64, has George Reservitz continues a part- writes. “Hi to all my UVM friends!” successful as originally planned. His experience nonetheless helped to shape his future, and led created an endowment time office practice of urology. He is ’78 Michael Hermans writes: “I to a rewarding career as a successful patent attorney. to support the existing also Medical Director of Barron Center have retired from Scott and Nathaniel Gould Foot Donald Evans, M.D.’62 and the participants in the December for Men, which is a free men’s clinic. White Clinic but I am still a part of the and Ankle Lectureship Larner Lecture panel discussion. Urology Residency Program at Central G. Millard Simmons writes: in the Department ’66 “Moved to smaller home in Texas Veterans Medical Center. See ya Stem Cell Research in 2018. Please say hi to all!” of Orthopaedics and Bluffton, S.C. in June 2013 — Sun City, Benefits from Ault Rehabilitation. He has Alumnus Shares Lessons of the AIDS Crisis Hilton Head where we have three golf John Ambrosino reports: “Still active Bequest also established an The Robert Larner, M.D.’42 Lecture in December focused on “Across courses, and too many activities!” in clinical practice of vascular and endovascular surgery. Think of you all Stem cell research at the UVM endowed scholarship for medical students to honor the Decades: Caring for Patients with HIV/AIDS,” and featured several Francis Sacco reports: “Still ’67 frequently. My stepdaughter, Sarah, is College of Medicine is yielding the education steeped in “humanity and ethics” panelists, including College of Medicine Class of 1962 alumnus working, but planning to quit at American University in D.C.” advances in treating heart attack that he and his wife, Sheryl, a 1964 graduate of the Donald T. Evans, M.D., a retired primary care physician and HIV/AIDS soon. Know any OBs who want a nice private practice in California? victims, patients suffering from School of Nursing, received at UVM. patient care pioneer and champion from Sandy Hook, Conn. Twenty-seven degrees here this a.m. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Dr. John Gould has been Professor The panel discussion, which included HIV/AIDS Comprehensive 1980s in Gilroy, Calif. — reminded me of Disease, acute lung injury, and more. of Orthopaedics at the University of Alabama Care Clinic clinicians Christopher Grace, M.D., professor of medicine, and REUNION 2015: 1980 + 1985 Burlington.” A $100,000 bequest from Virginia at Birmingham, and Chair of the Department of Deborah Kutzko, A.P.R.N., and two patients living with HIV, took place on Robert S. Madrell reports that Andrew Weber writes: “We have Ault, M.D.’59, will help to ensure Orthopaedics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. campus in the Sullivan Classroom, and was attended by many medical ’68 Virginia Ault, M.D. sits next to Dean he is married with three ’81 enjoyed the past two years Wolf at her 1959 graduation. Her that progress continues. Among He was also a President of the American students, most of whom were not even born when the AIDS epidemic children and five grandchildren. He is joining Vermont alumni at the U.S. bequest supports efforts such as other things, the funds will support Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. John and started in the U.S. in the early 1980s. retired from the practice of Ob-Gyn. Tennis Open. We look forward to the international Stem Cell education and research activities Sheryl Gould established an endowed medical As a solo family medicine practitioner in Connecticut, Evans’ work returning to Vermont in 2016.” conference at UVM. J.Christian (Chris) Abajian such as an annual international scholarship to recognize their strong belief that with AIDS patients began long before the syndrome was identified. During ’69 writes: “I retired in July of 2012 Ronald D. Blatt reports: “Living Stem Cell and Cell Therapies in “their devotion to medicine stems from…the the discussion, Evans described caring for the first AIDS patient in his as Professor Emeritus, and I was ’82 in New Canaan, Conn., with our Lung Biology conference, which brings leading-edge researchers to campus for several days of humanity and ethics learned in their education state: “I had nothing to rely on, really,” he said. “Nothing but me and my awarded the Robert M. Smith M.D. three children ages five, seven, and presentations. Ault, who was a pediatrician, died on January 9, 2013. Born in November of 1923, at the University of Vermont.” The goal of the head. There were no medications at all then — there was effectively Award by the American Academy of 11. Still working in N.Y.C. Hi to all!” she was a resident of Cockeysville, Maryland. scholarship is to “ease the financial burden so nothing I could do.” Evans also described the stigma patients endured Pediatrics, Section on Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, in March of 2013 for Lisbet Hanson Kenerson was that our professional ‘children’ can continue the in those early days — a stigma that lasted after their deaths, when he contributions to Pediatric Anesthesia. named the 2013 Krueger Foundation mission to serve, to practice, and to teach.” would have to search exhaustively to find a funeral home that would Spend my leisure time doing Physician of the Year for the City John’s father, Nathaniel Gould, M.D.,’37, handle their remains. woodworking, fishing, doing magic for of Virginia Beach; she is the first Improving the Lives of Seniors: Beldock was a pioneer in foot and ankle surgery. A native Evans founded the AIDS Project of Greater Danbury in 1987 and the children in the comfort zone at woman recipient. This is the only time a couple has been recognized UVM’83 Supports UVM Center on Aging Vermonter born in Barre, he was a founder of the was elected as the organization’s president in 2002. This non-profit the hospital, playing with my three as her husband, John Kenerson ’77, As owner and CEO of Bullrock Corporation, Gregg Beldock has already American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society and organization offers many services to the HIV/AIDS community. Evans, grandchildren, going to the gym, and received the award in 2009. Drs. invested in improving the lives of older adults through the construction its third president. He initially practiced in Barnet, who is now retired, was recognized with the UVM College of Medicine of course, frequent visits to doctors’ offices. Follow me on Facebook!” Kenerson’s organization Colleagues in and management of several assisted living facilities in Vermont. His and then St. Johnsbury after serving in the United Alumni Association’s 1996 Service to Medicine & Community Award, Care (CIC) was recognized as top five recent $25,000 gift to the UVM Center on Aging extends that commitment States Army from 1941 to 1945. After over 20 years and has been honored with numerous additional awards for his efforts finalist at the 2013 Computerworld and stands to help seniors for generations to come. Founded in 2008, in private practice in Brockton, Massachusetts, to stem AIDS prejudice, as well as to ensure that the medical and social Honors Laureate program in health, 1970s the center supports collaborative gerontological and geriatric research, Gregg Beldock Nathaniel Gould returned to the College of Medicine needs of people with AIDS get met. which had 750 nominees from 25 REUNION 2015: 1970 + 1975 countries. “Grameen Foundation was and provides educational opportunities in gerontology and geriatrics Department of Orthopaedics in 1976 as a full-time Dr. Evans’ visit also helped inspire fellow alumnus Vito Imbasciani, the final winner,” writes John, “but to students, staff, faculty, the lay community, and health care and human service providers faculty member. He retired in 1986. The Nathaniel M.D.’85 and his spouse, George DiSalvo, to fund the new Imbasciani/ Joe Benedict is still working ’72 since they also won a Nobel Prize, throughout the state. Beldock, who graduated from UVM in 1983 with a bachelor of science in Gould Foot and Ankle Lectureship was created in DiSalvo Endowed LGBT Lecture. full time in pathology at Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, New guess we were in good company for resource economics, manages, through Bullrock Corporation, The Lodge at Shelburne Bay and 1988 with his gift. His son’s gift funds the series our tiny organization.” He continues: London, Conn. He is going to part-time The Lodge at Otter Creek, and is currently developing The Lodge at Quarry Hill. in perpetuity. in January 2014.

34 VERMONT MEDICINE COM Design & Photography PhotographerCOM Design & Name,Photography Photographer Name VOL 49, ISSUESUMMER 2 • 20142012 35 MEDICAL ALUMNI HALL A 2014 ASSOCIATION AWARDS The Medical Alumni Association of the College of Medicine has, for four decades, honored the DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS accomplishments of its members for their work caring for patients, creating new advances in Judith F. Baumhauer, M.D.’89, M.P.H. Neil H. Hyman, M.D.’84 the laboratory, and contributing to their communities. These 2014 awardees received their Associate Chair of Academic Affairs and Professor of Professor of Surgery, University of Vermont; Chief, Division of Orthopedic Surgery with Tenure, Department of Orthopedics, General Surgery, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vt. University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y. honors at the Celebration of Achievements during Reunion 2014 at the College on June 6. Celebrating his 30th reunion, Dr. Hyman is currently Celebrating her 25th reunion, Dr. Judith Ford the Samuel B. and Michelle D. Labow Green and Gold Baumhauer was named the first woman president Professor of Colorectal Surgery and co-director of of both the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle the Digestive Disease Center. He has authored more Society for 2012–2013 and the Board of Directors of A. BRADLEY SOULE AWARD than 170 peer-reviewed original articles or textbook chapters. He serves A. Bradley Soule Award: the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery in 2012. Additionally, she was the on many regional and national committees, and is a member of numerous Presented to an alumnus/a whose first president of the Eastern Orthopedic Association, the largest Regional national organizations and societies. He has been President of the Vermont loyalty and dedication to the Charles B. Howard, M.D.’69 Orthopedic Society, where she served from 2009 to 2010. She has served Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Associate Editor of Diseases College of Medicine most emulate Radiologist (retired); President and CEO, Princeton Radilogy Associates, Princeton, N.J. on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties; Board of the Colon and Rectum, Principle Investigator of the New England and those qualities as found in its first of Directors of the OEF and OREF, the major humanitarian and research fund Vermont Colorectal Cancer Quality Project, and Chairman of the Standards recipient, A. Bradley Soule, M.D.’28. As a student, Dr. Howard was greatly influenced by Dr. A. Bradley Soule, Dr. John Tampas and the UVM Radiology Department. Thus, it was not surprising that after raising organizations in her specialty. Dr. Baumhauer has also been an editor Committee of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. Dr. Hyman an internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he continued on in Radiology at or reviewer for major medical journals including the Journal of Bone and has been the recipient of many teaching awards including three Clinical Walter Reed, where in 1972 he was appointed Chief Resident. In 1974 he was Chief of Joint Surgery and Clinical Orthopedics, and serves on many committees for Teacher of the Year Awards. He received the Jerome S. Abrams Teaching Radiology at Kimbrough Hospital in Odenton, Maryland. In 1976 he joined Princeton the University of Rochester. Her notable honors include: the Distinguished Award in 1992–93, 1993–94 and 1997–98; the Howe Outstanding Surgery Radiology Associates (PRA). In 1980 he was elected President and Managing Partner of PRA, a position he Alumna Award from Springfield College in 2008; the Achievement Award from Faculty Award for 2000–2001, 2004–2005, 2010–2011; and the Humanism Distinguished Academic held until 2009. During his tenure, he transformed PRA from a solely hospital-based practice to a primarily the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in 2010; and the ATHENA in Medicine Award for 2001–02. He was named Teacher of the Year by the Achievement Award: non-hospital based (independent) practice by building some of New Jersey’s largest outpatient facilities, Award of the Rochester Business Alliance’s Women’s Council in 2012. Dr. Chief Surgical Residents in 1991, 2007 and 2009. In 2005, he delivered the Baumhauer also received the Alumni Award for Surgical Excellence from UVM Presented to alumni in recognition providing both diagnostic and therapeutic Radiology services. In the late 80s he built the Princeton’s Commencement Address at the College of Medicine graduation. Dr. Hyman of outstanding scientific or Physician Organization (PO) and Physician Hospital Organization (PHO) and served concurrently on the at her graduation in 1989 and has received multiple research grants and was named Physician of the Year by the Vermont Medical Society in 2011. academic achievement. Board of Directors of both organizations until 2009. He was instrumental in building RADCON (Radiology published widely. She is noted for her superb leadership and her dedication to Consultants), a network of N.J. Radiology Groups. In 1999, he began building RadPharm (Radiology career and family, and is a highly respected researcher and clinician. John A. Persing, M.D.’74 Pharmaceutical Research). After finalizing plans for a proton radiation treatment center in September Chief of Plastic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 2009, a $180 million project which opened in 2011, he retired. Dr. Howard’s commitment and service to Jane E. Hitti, M.D.’89, M.P.H. the UVM College of Medicine includes twelve years as agent for the Class of 1969. In 1998, he earned the New Haven, Conn. Medical Alumni Association’s Service to Medicine & Community Award. From 1994 to 2006 he served on the Professor,Obstetrics/Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Celebrating his 40th reunion, Dr. John Persing is the Service to Medicine and and Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health college’s Medical Alumni Executive Committee (MAEC), becoming President from 2004 to 2006. During his Irving & Silik Polayes Professor of Plastic Surgery Community Award: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington membership on the MAEC, he and his wife created the Charles & Edith Howard Medical Alumni Association at Yale University School of Medicine, where he has Presented to alumni who have Celebrating her 25th reunion year, Dr. Jane Hitti went maintained a high standard of Challenge Scholarship. All four of his children attended either undergraduate and/or medical school at UVM. chaired the Section of Plastic Surgery for over two medical service and who have Since retiring in 2009, he donates his time to: “kitchen table medicine” guiding people through today’s on from the College of Medicine at the University of decades. At Yale he has expanded the Section’s scope and mission while achieved an outstanding record of opaque health care system, operating a farm, repairing autos, and pursuing his passion for music. The Vermont to develop a first-rate career in her chosen traveling the world teaching surgical techniques. He has published widely, community service or assumed Princeton Brass Band in which he plays 1st Baritone is the North American Brass Band Champion, having field of maternal fetal medicine. Her work focuses on infectious disease in and is an international expert in craniosynostosis, a condition in which other significant responsibilities not pregnancy and has been recognized with several prestigious awards. She directly related to medical practice. won first place in the North American Brass Band Association's Championship Division competition in 2013. sutures in the infant skull fuse prematurely. As a plastic and reconstructive is also an adjunct professor of epidemiology and director of the maternal surgeon, Dr. Persing has a long history of involvement with international aid fetal medicine fellowship program. She joined her department in 1998 and organizations that provide cleft lip and reconstructive surgeries in developing is board-certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and the subspecialty areas of the world. He co-founded such an organization, the Virginia Children’s of maternal fetal medicine. “Every woman deserves to have a happy and Connection, in 1989; he became a volunteer provider, trip leader, and later This year, a new MAA award healthy pregnancy, within the context of her own circumstances,” she says. a board of Directors member for the reconstructive surgery organization Early Achievement Award: “I hope to advocate effectively for the health of women and their infants has been created: Interplast. As an advisory board member of Operation Smile, he has overseen Presented to alumni who have 2015 NOMINATIONS... and to encourage my patients to participate actively in their care.” Dr. Hitti’s a DNA study into the genetics of cleft lip/cleft palate. Dr. Persing is past Chair graduated within the past 15 years The Robert Larner M.D.’42 clinical interests include the effects of HIV and other infectious diseases in of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and President of the American in recognition of their outstanding Student Award. Do you know a class member deserving of recognition? community or College service pregnancy; multiple gestation, and prematurity prevention; and ultrasound. Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons and the current President of the American and/or scientific or academic See page 11 for Send in your nominations for the 2015 awards at: Her expertise encompasses high-risk obstetrics, infectious diseases, and Association of Plastic Surgeons. achievement. this year’s winners. www.uvm.edu/medicine/alumni. perinatology.

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SERVICE TO MEDICINE & COMMUNITY AWARD “The hypertension guideline we wrote Vito Imbasciani reports that he January 1, 2014. Currently the for Haiti is being published this month ’85 is running for a seat in the division director of gynecologic 1990s and co-endorsed by American and California State Senate this November. oncology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock REUNION 2015: 1990 + 1995 International Societies of Hypertension and associate professor of obstetrics Martin J. Koplewitz, M.D.’52 Michael Upton, M.D.’94 Ray Petit “continues to be busy Catherine E. Chatal joined as new guideline for management ’87 and gynecology at the Geisel School Associate Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Psychiatrist and Clinical Assistant Professor, practicing pulmonary critical ’92 Mercy Clinic Plastic Surgery in of hypertension in the community, of Medicine, she will serve during UVM College of Medicine, Burlington, Vt. UVM College of Medicine, Burlington, Vt. care and hospice and palliative care Joplin, Missouri, on December 16. She along with a companion article wrote the search and transition to a new in Attleboro, Mass. Keeping busy and completed her plastic surgery on Hypertension in Haiti, and the permanent chair. Dr. Koplewitz graduated from the University of Celebrating his 20th reunion, Dr. Michael Upton enjoying it all.” residency at Albert Einstein College of Vermont College of Medicine cum laude in 1952 and completed his psychiatric residency at Dartmouth and challenge of Best Possible Practice. Our Joe Nasca writes: “It was Leslie R. DeMars has been named Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center was a charter member of the (AOA) Alpha Omega returned to Burlington to begin his psychiatric practice Haiti program and manual will become ’88 rejuvenating to see classmates interim Chair of Obstetrics/ in New York, N.Y., as well as her the World Hypertension League from 25 years ago and hear their Alpha Honor Medical Society. Following a rotating in 1998. A native Vermonter, his family includes four Gynecology at the Geisel School four-year general surgery residency standard translated into French, stories of the good work they are internship at the Beth Israel Hospital in New York he entered military service. generations of UVM College of Medicine graduates dating back to the 1890s. of Medicine at Dartmouth and at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Spanish, and soon Chinese. Presenting doing. It renewed my faith in He served at the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington, for two Currently, Dr. Upton is a CAPS (Counseling and Psychiatry Services) staff the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Cooperstown, N.Y. She completed her as the standard at Athens meeting in medicine, and why we went into it.” years as Officer in Charge of the Surgical Wards and Acting Chief of the Psychiatrist who has worked at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at UVM June. Having impact there, as well as Center. Her appointment began breast reconstruction fellowship at Surgical Service. He subsequently returned to Vermont, where he finished since 2004. His clinical interests include diagnostic evaluation, medication Emergency Medical Obstetrics.” his surgical residency in 1959. After private practice in surgery in St. Albans, management and brief psychotherapy models. He has worked in a number of Gary Berk writes: “I have been Vermont, and in partnership with one of his mentors, Arthur Gladstone, M.D., settings including inpatient psychiatry, substance abuse treatment centers ’83 in a solo family practice in Chief of Surgery at the DeGoesbriand Hospital, he joined the faculty of the and community mental health. For over ten years Dr. Upton has been a faculty Hermon, N.Y. since 1987. I came here University of Vermont in April of 1973 and was rapidly promoted to Associate member on the college’s student wellness committee — a confidential peer on my N.Y.S. Shortage obligation and Professor with tenure. Dr. Koplewitz quickly became an exemplary role support system for medical students. Dr. Upton is a co-faculty advisor of the stayed. I delivered babies for my first nine years in practice and they’re now model for students and residents alike during his more than three decades GSA (gay straight alliance) at the College of Medicine who has been a valued in their 20s. I admitted to Canton of clinical teaching. The compassionate way he cared for his patients and team member helping to guide this group. Pamela Gibson, M.D.’89, Dr. Upton’s Potsdam Hospital until the hospitalist colleagues is considered legendary. co-faculty advisor on the GSA describes Dr. Upton as “a compassionate listener program arrived here a couple of who seeks to improve the visibility and acceptance for all underrepresented years ago and I just go to the hospital in the medical community including students, faculty, staff and patients.” His to help on weekends at this point. I approach, says Gibson, “is thoughtful and inclusive.” have been Department Chair a couple of times and I helped establish primary care clinics in the bigger EARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD towns. I had a PA working for me for 21 years who left this past spring for Read a 2013 interview with Dallas a higher paying job. Now, I work long Boushey in Vermont Medicine at: Rachel J. DiSanto, M.D.’04 Christa M. Zehle, M.D.’99 hours, but the work is rewarding and I uvm.edu/medicine/vtmedicine love the many generations of people I Family Physician, North Country Primary Care, North Country Associate Dean for Students & Associate Professor of Pediatrics have accompanied on their life Health System, Inc., Newport, Vt. at the University of Vermont College of Medicine & Pediatric journeys. I got board certified in Hospitalist At Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vt. Celebrating her 10th reunion, Dr. Rachel DiSanto hospice and palliative medicine after practices family medicine at North Country Primary Celebrating her 15th reunion, Dr. Christa Zehle being approached by our local home The Passing of a Legend: Dallas Boushey (1919–2014) hospice and I will be their director Care in Newport, which is affiliated with North Country successfully launched the Pediatric Hospitalist when the current director retires in a The man who taught anatomy to medical students across six decades, the legendary Dallas Boushey, Program at Fletcher Allen Health Care and continues Hospital in Newport, Vermont. Her practice includes few years. I met my partner Bryan 29 died on July 6, 2014 at the age of 94. Dallas was a modest, dedicated and extraordinary individual. He all ages from newborn to geriatrics, including ICU and nursing home settings. in her clinical role at Vermont Children’s Hospital along years ago, and we got married in worked tirelessly at the College of Medicine for 50 years, initially as a technician in animal care and then The practice is involved in the Vermont Blueprint for Health and has been with her responsibilities as Associate Dean. She is a sought-after mentor Kingston, Ontario about seven years for 47 years as a member of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, where he rose from technician certified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance as a medical home. by medical students and residents, and has received numerous awards ago. We adopted and raised two to Assistant Professor in 1972. He was promoted to that rank even though he had no formal degrees. With children, Isaac and Julia, who are now She is an active preceptor of UVM medical students in the third year clerkship for teaching. Dr. Zehle has been honored twice by residents as Clinical limited formal schooling and mostly through self-teaching, he became one of the most knowledgeable and teaches family medicine residents at her practice. Dr. DiSanto has a Attending of the Year and was nominated for the award five more times, 21 and 17. I live on a 200 acre farm on our own dirt road plowed by the town; anatomists to teach in the College. His anatomical vocabulary was legendary. He was renowned for the strong interest and involvement in global health. For several years she has garnering runner-up honors in her first year at UVM/Fletcher Allen. She has I grow vegetables and raise animals; cross sections and many teaching models that he created over the years — many of which are still used been a physician mentor for the Public Health Projects, the UVM Pre-medical been on the board of the Kenya Children’s Fund and has traveled to Kenya we make maple syrup and have a by students today. He was recognized by his students for his outstanding teaching skill and knowledge, multiple times to provide medical care. She is currently working with KCF to Enhancement Program, the AHEC MedQuest program, and Community U-pick blueberry operation.” receiving the Teacher of the Year Award in 1972. A few years later the gross anatomy teaching laboratory establish a community-based feeding program for malnourished infants and Rounds. A full member of the Admissions Committee since 2007, Dr. Zehle is Thomas Munger is “continuing was renamed in his honor. For years Dallas received more invitations to College of Medicine class co-director for the Pediatric Student Interest Group. She also advises a number children. She traveled to Haiti in 2012 for another medical mission and to ’84 to practice electrophysiology at reunion dinners than any other faculty member. His knowledge of human anatomy was not just Nicaragua in January 2014 to work with women and child victims of human of senior medical students pursuing a career in pediatrics or other specialties, Mayo. Visits to New England are a recognized at the College; many state coroners called on him when they were stumped trafficking in Managua. In her own community, Dr. DiSanto volunteers in her as well as pediatric interns, and informally advises the 18 pediatrics residents. treasured thing!” and needed help to correctly assemble anatomical specimens. In 1990, in recognition of At Vermont Children’s Hospital, she serves on the Residency Education church doing community service with her husband and their two children. Jose Samson has been living and his dedication, significant accomplishments, and contributions to the University, Dallas She is also active at her children’s school with various health and science Committee, the Integrated Quality Program Committee, and is a member working in Tucson Ariz. for the received an honorary Sc.D. degree. At the request of his family, memorial contributions programs. of the Fletcher Allen Child Abuse Task Force. She is a fellow of the American past eight years at Tucson Medical may be sent to the UVM Department of Neurological Sciences, HSRF 426, 149 Beaumont Academy of Pediatrics, a member of the Vermont Chapter of Academic Pediatric Center and is a partner at Old Pueblo Ave. Burlington, VT 05405, attention Joanne Stetson. Association (APA), and was honored as an APA Educational Scholar in 2009, Anesthesia. receiving a grant to pursue a scholarly project in medical education.

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Janna Doherty is “still in position was as a Hospitalist at Saint ’96 private practice in Santa Cruz, Vincent Healthcare in Billings. She FLASHBACK CONTINUING Calif., but looking forward to and her husband, Daniel Burson, have MEDICAL EDUCATION transitioning to a laborist position a young daughter, Elena, and expect 2014 soon! Hopefully I’ll be able to spend a second daughter in late May or FALL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE more time with my twins, Kate & early June. Gavin, age four and a half, and lovely Leslie Bradford has been hired wife Naomi.” ’06 Imaging Seminar Neurology for the by UMass Memorial Medical September 19–21, 2014 Non-Neurologist Center. She completed her residency The Essex, Essex, Vt. October 24, 2014 2000s at the University of Wisconsin The Essex, Essex, Vt. Hospital and Clinics and a fellowship Jeffords Quality Care REUNION 2015: 2000 + 2005 in gynecologic oncology at Symposium Bridging the Divide: Massachusetts General Hospital. September 26, 2014 Integrating Primary ’01 Jenny Majersik recently Sheraton Hotel & Conference Care and Pharmacy received funding from the NIH/ ’08 Emily Wesolowski reports: Center, Burlington, Vt. November 6, 2014 NINFD to be P.I. of the Utah regional “My husband and I welcomed The Essex, Essex, Vt. coordinator center in the new NINDS our daughter, Scarlett to the world Breast Cancer Conference stroke trails network. on 11/11/13.” October 10, 2014 Bridging the Divide: Anne Dougherty writes: “I am Sheraton Hotel & Conference Substance Misuse & ’02 Thuan Nguyen writes: “Our ’09 Center, Burlington, Vt. Primary Care children, Reece, four, and on faculty at the UVM College November 7, 2014 Davis, three, keep on growing. We are of Medicine in the Department of Critical Care Conference The Essex, Essex, Vt. enjoying traveling and have been to OB-GYN. Twenty-five percent of my October 16–18, 2014 Mexico, Ohio, and Hawaii (three year is spent working on global health Stoweflake Conference Center, times), among other places over the projects in Uganda and Tanzania. I am Stowe, Vt. past year. My wife, Sarah, works as a also enjoying working with residents and medical students.” Advanced Dermatology for consultant at Dignity Health and I Primary Care have been working in the valley for October 16–19, 2014 FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: eight years. Can’t believe it!” 2010s Hilton Hotel, Burlington, Vt. Christine Staats writes: “Enjoying University of Vermont REUNION 2015: 2010 seeing all the news everyone shares!” Northern New England Continuing Medical Education Neurological Society Annual 128 Lakeside Avenue, Suite 100 Omar Khan writes: “It has been Jillian Brennan has joined Meeting Burlington, VT 05401 ’03 a busy year! Our son is now 12 ’10 Central Vermont Medical October 24, 2014 (802) 656-2292 and in 7th grade. I started as Center’s Hospitalist team. She The Essex, Essex, Vt. www.uvm.edu/medicine/cme associate vice chair of our completed her family medicine department (Family Medicine, at residency at the Ventura County Christiana Care in Delaware), and Medical Center in California. continue to direct the Global Health the Center for Breast and Body from college and is now going to UCLA Residency Track, as well as oversee ’12 The College of American Contouring in Grand Rapids, Mich., and to get his Ph.D. in organic chemistry! our preventive medicine/community Pathologists (CAP) Foundation later joined The Smile Train for cleft lip I just want to tell you how much I health work. My team is managing a presented Joanna Conant with the and palate medical missions in appreciate all the kindness everyone chunk of the ACA implementation in Leadership Development Award at a ? Uganda, Africa. She is board certified in showed to my husband and me Delaware as well, including getting special ceremony October 12, 2013, plastic surgery and is a member of the during school! God bless you all (or uninsured patients into approved at the College’s annual conference, A Courtyard Circle American Society of Plastic Surgeons. now that I live in Virginia y’all), and if health plans. I continue to see CAP ’13 — The Pathologists’ Meeting, in patients as well and perhaps enjoy Orlando, Fla. The award commends her Russell Bradley writes: “2015 there is anything anyone ever needs Not only have the people in this photo undoubtedly gone through And who are these students? Other than a note on its back ’93 please call!” that the most. It was great to see interest in the complex issues facing Greek villa! Come Visit!” many UVMers (alumni/family, staff, the future of pathology, her aspiration some changes over the thirty-something years since it was taken, about Dr. Tormey and the courtyard setting, this photo carries no Eric Mukai reports: “Laurie and I are Deb Bowers reports: “I recently faculty) at the ’13 Reunion!” to influence local and national policies the very setting of this group has undergone radical reshaping. detailed information. It was found in a folder containing old photos ’94 transitioned out of private doing well here in Maine. It is hard that shape the specialty, and her to believe we graduated almost 20 Rachel E. Gaidys recently commitment to keeping patient At the center of this circle of students sits the late David taken for many different yearbooks. Hairstyles indicate the late practice to be an OB hospitalist. Ten 24 ’05 joined Central Vermont Medical hour in-house shifts per month and 20 years ago. I am now in practice with well-being at the core of her clinical Tormey, M.D., who for more than 20 years served as associate 70s or early 80s, as does that prominent pair of classic Adidas classmates Benedict Farino III and Center’s Hospitalist team. Rachel did service. She is an anatomic and clinical days a month as the “mom.” With two her internship and residency at dean for admissions and student affairs at the College of Medicine. running shoes down center. middle school aged daughters, this Tim Degrinney. I couldn’t have better pathology resident at the UVM College partners — best to all.” Montana Family Medicine Residency of Medicine. has been terrific for our family! And I based out of RiverStone Health, the He and the students he is leading in a group discussion are have lots of time to ride my horse.” Brian Levine writes: “Since I Federally Qualified Community Health sitting in the George Wolf Courtyard, the open-air center of the ’95 have become the program DO YOU RECOGNIZE YOURSELF, OR YOUR CLASSMATES IN Donna Gamache writes: “Just thought Center (FQHC) in Montana’s largest director of the emergency medicine Given Building from its completion in 1968 to its enclosure in the class of 1994 would be interested city, Billings. She then spent six THIS PHOTO? SEND IN ANY INFORMATION YOU HAVE TO residency last year at Christiana Care to know that my son who was born months in New Zealand providing 2002 during a major campus expansion (today it is the site of the [email protected], AND WE WILL INCLUDE IT IN in Delaware life has been crazy. Keep first year of med school (lots of you primary care in rural communities sending us your best medical Courtyard at Given buildings and meeting areas). A FUTURE ISSUE OF VERMONT MEDICINE. practiced the newborn exam and through the New Zealand General students!” Babinski on him, LOL) just graduated Practice Network. Her most recent

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Class agents are dedicated alumni who ’81 Bruce Leavitt, 312 Four Sisters Road, South ’97 Julie Smail, 390 Bridge St., South Hamilton, MA ’05 Julie A. Alosi, [email protected] volunteer their time to serve as the voice of Burlington, VT 05403, [email protected] 01982, (978) 468-1943 , [email protected] Richard J. Parent, [email protected] Betsy Sussman, 325 Dorset Heights, South Halleh Akbarnia, 2011 Prairie Street, Glenview, IL William C. Eward, 101 Wood Valley Corner, Durham, their classmates at the College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05403, [email protected] ’98 ’06 60025, (847) 998-0507, [email protected] NC 27713, [email protected] and who work to encourage support of Louis Polish, 11 Vale Drive, South Burlington, VT Deborah Rabinowitz Abrams, the College each year. Agents help deliver 05403, [email protected] Everett Jonathan Lamm, 11 Autumn Lane, ’99 2777 Noll Valley Loop NE, Poulsbo, WA 98370, information to their far-flung friends about Stratham, NH 03885, (603) 580-2666, ’82 Diane Rippa, [email protected] [email protected] the ongoing work of the College, and at [email protected] Deanne Dixon Haag, 4215 Pond Road, Sheldon, VT  Allison Collen Adler, [email protected] the same time help their medical alma ’07 ’83 Diane M. Georgeson, 2 Ravine Parkway, 05483, (802) 524-7528 Scot Millay, [email protected] mater keep abreast of the news and views Oneonta, NY 13820, (607) 433-1620, Anne Coates, [email protected] of their class. If you would like to learn [email protected] ’00 Jay Edmond Allard, Department of OB/GYN, Anne Marie Massucco, 15 Cedar Ledge Road, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Naval Medical ’08 Mark Hunter, 21 Lindenwood Drive, South more about serving as a class agent, Center Portsmouth, 620 John Paul Jones Circle, Burlington, VT 05403, [email protected] Cristin Gildea (802) 656-4014 West Hartford, CT 06107, (860) 521-6120, contact at [email protected] Portsmouth, VA 23708, (757) 953-4371, Alyssa Wittenberg, 1800 N. Normandie Ave. or [email protected]. [email protected] #303, Los Angeles, CA 90027, ’84 Please email [email protected] Michael Jim Lee, 71 Essex Lane, Irvine, CA 92620, [email protected] Class of 1964 Class Agent Tony Belmont, M.D. if you’d like to serve as 1984 class agent. [email protected] Ashley Zucker, 2209 Albany Street, Carleton R. Haines, 88 Mountain View Road, ’43 Naomi R. Leeds, 305 Third St. #204, Cambridge, MA Durham, NC 27705, [email protected] Williston, VT 05495, (802) 878-3115 ’85 Vito Imbasciani, [email protected] Suzy Frisch, [email protected] 02142, [email protected] ’09 Rebecca Brakeley, [email protected] ’44 Wilton W. Covey, 357 Weybridge Street, Jay E. Selcow, 27 Reservoir Road, Bloomfield, CT Raymond Joseph Anton, 1521 General Knox Road, ’59 ’70 Darrell Edward White, 29123 Lincoln Road, Bay Ladan Farhoomand, 7077 Heron Circle, Carlsbad, CA Kate Murray Mitchell, [email protected] Middlebury, VT 05753, (802) 388-1555 06002, (860) 243-1359, [email protected] Russell, MA 01071, (413) 568-8659, ’86  ’01 Village, OH 44140, (440) 892-4681, 92001, (760) 331-7151, [email protected] Campbell Stewart, [email protected] [email protected] H. Gordon Page, 9 East Terrace, South Burlington, VT Marvin A. Nierenberg, 15 West 81st Street, [email protected] Joel W. Keenan, Greenwich Hospital, Five Perryridge ’45 ’60 John F. Beamis, Jr., 121 Romaine Drive, Santa Michael Alavian, [email protected] 05403, (802) 864-7086 New York, NY 10024, (212) 874-6484, Road, Greenwich, CT 06830, [email protected] ’10 Barbara, CA 93105, [email protected] Pei Chen, [email protected] [email protected] ’87 J. Michael Jaeger, Grove Road, Charlottesville, VA JoAn Louise Monaco, 1034 Fifth Avenue, New York, Please email [email protected] 22901, [email protected] Heidi Schumacher, [email protected] ’46 Melvyn H. Wolk, 516 Clinton Street, P.O. Box 772, Wayne E. Pasanen, 117 Osgood Street, NY 10028, (212) 988-7788, [email protected] if you’d like to serve as 1946 class agent. ’71 Jeffrey Rosenblatt, 11 McQuillans Hill Drive, Waverly, PA 18471, (570) 563-2215, North Andover, MA 01845, (978) 681-9393, Carrie Moats, [email protected] Gorham, ME 04038, [email protected] Jonathan Vinh Mai, 504 Gaffney Road, ’11 Edward Crane, MD ’47, P.O. Box 1799, [email protected] [email protected] ’02 Nicholas Aunchman, ’47 Helene Goldsman, 105 Pamunkey Turn, Bristol, TN 37620, (570) 275-4681, Frisco, CO, 80443 Edwin G. Singsen, 439 Indian Avenue, Portsmouth, [email protected] Wilfred L. Fortin, 17 Chapman Street, Nashua, NH Yorktown, VA 23693, [email protected] [email protected] ’61 RI 02871, (401) 849-6482, [email protected] Please email [email protected] 03060, (603) 882-6202, [email protected] Kerry Lee Landry, (919) 732-9876, Melissa Marotta Houser, ’48 H. James Wallace III, 416 Martel Lane, ’12 if you’d like to serve as 1948 class agent. F. Farrell Collins Jr., 205 Page Road, Pinehurst, NC ’88  [email protected] [email protected] Ruth Andrea Seeler, 2431 North Orchard, Chicago, IL ’72 St. George, VT 05495, (802) 872-8533, ’62 28374, (910) 295-2429 Mary O’Leary Ready, [email protected] Auna Leatham, [email protected] Joseph C. Foley, 32 Fairmount Street, Burlington, VT 60614, (773) 472-3432, [email protected] ’49  [email protected] Maureen C. Sarle, [email protected] Meghan Beucher, [email protected] 05401, (802) 862-0040, [email protected] James M. Betts, 715 Harbor Road, Alameda, CA Lawrence I. Wolk, 5724 South Nome Street, John J. Murray, P.O. Box 607, Colchester, VT 05446, ’73 Martha Choate Monson, Edward S. Sherwood, 24 Worthley Road, Topsham, ’63 94502, (510) 523-1920, [email protected] Omar Khan, 33 Clearwater Circle, Shelburne, VT (802) 865-9390, [email protected] Greenwood Village, CO 80111, (303) 771-1289, ’03 [email protected] VT 05076, (802) 439-5816, [email protected] Philip L. Cohen, 483 Lakewood Drive, Winter Park, 05482, (802) 985-1131, [email protected] H. Alan Walker, 229 Champlain Drive, Plattsburgh, NY [email protected] FL 32789, (407) 628-0221, [email protected] Scott Goodrich, 309 Barben Avenue, Watertown, NY Shetal Patel, [email protected] Simon Dorfman, 8256 Nice Way, Sarasota, FL 12901, (518) 561-8991, [email protected] Peter M. Nalin, 13216 Griffin Run, Carmel, IN 46033, ’13 ’50 Suzy Parker, [email protected] ’89 13601, [email protected] Idil Aktan, [email protected] 34238, (941) 926-8126 Anthony P. Belmont, 211 Youngs Point Road, (317) 962-6656, [email protected] Lizzie Anson, [email protected] ’64 Douglas M. Eddy, 5 Tanbark Road, Windham, NH Mary Cushman, [email protected] Jillian S. Sullivan, [email protected] Edward W. Jenkins, 7460 South Pittsburg Ave., Wiscasset, ME 04578, (207) 882-6228, ’74 ’04 ’51 03087, (603) 434-2164, [email protected] Steven D. Lefebvre, [email protected] Peter Cooch, [email protected] Tulsa, OK 74136 , (918) 492-7960, [email protected] Barbara Angelika Dill, 120 Hazel Court, Norwood, NJ ’14 Cajsa Schumacher, 78 Euclid Avenue, Albany, NY ’90  Vanessa Patten, [email protected] [email protected] 07648, (201) 767-7778, [email protected] ’65 George A. Little, 97 Quechee Road, Hartland, VT 12203, [email protected] Arthur Kunin, 226 Windmill Bay Road, Shelburne, VT 05048, (802) 436-2138, John Dewey, 15 Eagle Street, Cooperstown, NY ’52 Ellen Andrews, 195 Midland Road, Pinehurst, NC ’91 05482, (802) 985-5410, [email protected] [email protected] ’75 13326, [email protected] 28374, (910) 295-6464, [email protected] Arthur Perelman, 165 Woodland Ave., Summit, NJ Joseph H. Vargas III, 574 US Route 4 East, Rutland, Mark Eliot Pasanen, 1234 Spear Street, South 07901, (908) 277-6454, [email protected] VT 05701, (802) 775-4671, [email protected] Don P. Chan, Cardiac Associates of New Hampshire, ’92  ’76 Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 865-3281, Suite 103, 246 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH 03301, Please email [email protected] Robert George Sellig, 31 Overlook Drive, [email protected] ’53 ’66 (603) 224-6070, [email protected] if you’d like to serve as 1953 class agent. Queensbury, NY 12804, (518) 793-7914, Joanne Taplin Romeyn, 22 Patterson Lane, Durham, [email protected] James C. Hebert, 583 Stockbridge Road, Charlotte, ’93  John E. Mazuzan Jr., 366 South Cove Road, ’77 CT 06422, (860) 349-6941, [email protected] ’54 G. Millard Simmons, 650 Mystic Point Drive, VT 05445, [email protected] Burlington, VT 05401, (802) 864-5039, Brad Watson, [email protected] Sun City Hilton Head, Bluffton, SC 29909, Mark A. Popovsky, 22 Nauset Road, [email protected] (843) 705-2264, [email protected] Sharon, MA 02067, (781) 784-8824, ’94 Holliday Kane Rayfield, P.O. Box 819, Waitsfield, VT Richard Bailey, 2100 Lambiance Circle, Apt 201, [email protected] ’55 John F. Dick II, P.O. Box 60, Salisbury, VT 05769, 05673, (802) 496-5667, [email protected] Naples, FL 34108, [email protected] ’67 (802) 352-6625 ’78 Paul McLane Costello, Essex Pediatrics, Ltd., ’95 Allyson Miller Bolduc, 252 Autumn Hill Road, Ira H. Gessner, 1306 Northwest 31st Street, 89 Main Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452, (802) ’56 David Jay Keller, 262 Maplewood Common, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 863-4902, Gainesville, FL 32605, (352) 378-1820, ’68 879-6556, [email protected] Moretown, VT 05660, (802) 496-2623, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ’79 Sarah Ann McCarty, [email protected] ’96 Anne Marie Valente, 66 Winchester St., ’57 Larry Coletti, 34 Gulliver Circle, Norwich, CT 06360, Timothy John Terrien, 14 Deerfield Road, South Dennis Plante, [email protected] Apt. 503, Brookline, MA 02446, (860) 887-1450 Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 862-8395 Anne Brewer, [email protected] [email protected] Todd Gladstone, [email protected] Patricia Ann King, 832 South Prospect Street, Peter Ames Goodhue, Stamford Gynecology, P.C., Richard Nicholas Hubbell, 80 Summit Street, ’58 ’80 Burlington, VT 05401, (802) 862-7705, 70 Mill River Street, Stamford, CT 06902, (203) Susan Pitman Lowenthal, 200 Kennedy Drive, Burlington, VT 05401, (802) 862-5551, Two of the three class agents for the Class of 2010, Heidi Schumacher and Michael Alavian. ’69 [email protected] 359-3340 Torrington, CT 06790, (860) 597-8996, [email protected] Not pictured: Pei Chen. 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’64 A few days after his 50th anniversary reunion in June, John Gould, M.D’64, sent a letter to all

50 th R his classmates recapping their experiences on campus. With Dr. Gould’s permission, we

eunion present excerpts from his letter, which sums up the wonderful feeling of the weekend:

“The school and its facilities are beautiful; the faculty impressive: young, bright, energetic, and enthusiastic. I couldn’t help thinking, ‘Boy, would I like to go to medical ’74 school here, and now.’ Of course, we did, and we attended in an era without the electronic wizardry that now exists, 40 th R but we still learned the art and the skills in a benevolent and nurturing atmosphere which made our education

eunion and skills second to none. One could not help but feel proud that UVM was and is a superb medical school. The students we met from all the classes are a diverse group, not only from Vermont and New England, but from around the country, with impressive backgrounds and education. Although their college GPAs may be higher on average than ’84 ours, they were so humble and proud to be at UVM, so

30 th R enthusiastic about medicine and their futures; even we cynical septuagenarians were caught up in their infectious good spirits. They spent time with us in all the venues, eunion including the class picnic and receptions so there was a significant amount of time for one-on-one conversation. Whether it was their elective rotation at a primary care center in Island Pond, Vermont, as one young woman described, or an elective in a surgical center in Florida ’94 discussed by another, it was clear that they were well received and had an excellent experience…” 20 th R

eunion If you’re in a class that ends in 0 or 5, mark your calendar for REUNION 2015: 44 VERMONT MEDICINE June 12–14! COM Design & Photography SUMMER 2014 45 Obituaries HALL A

’39 Roger W. Mann, M.D. the name of their late daughter, was elected vice-president of the Hospital in New Hampshire and Dr. Rosenthal practiced pediatric of New York University-Bellevue at UCLA Medical Center, where Medical Center and a physician in Dr. Mann died at his home Deborah. Over many years, Dr. Academy. In the early 1970s he as Chief Medical Officer Destroyer medicine in Wakefield, Mass., for Medical Center before going on for he became one of the leaders of the southern Maine medical field in Waterville, Vt., on June 30, Rawson was particularly supportive relocated to Cape Elizabeth, Maine Division 12 during the Korean 40 years. residency training in ophthalmology the new science of histochemistry for over 35 years. He also served in 2014. He was 102 years old and of scholarship aid for medical and practiced there for 15 years, War. He was also a member of the at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat of skeletal muscle. In 1970, he the Navy during the Vietnam War. was, at the time of his death, the students in need at the College retiring in 1985. American College of Obstetrics ’68 James A. Frizzell, M.D. Hospital. Dr. Manjoney served as became director of the University College’s oldest living graduate. He of Medicine; an endowed and Gynecology. Dr. Frizzell, of Sanibel, Fla., Ensign in the Naval Reserve during of Southern California Muscle ’72 Robert Henry Ryan, M.D. was born and spent his early years scholarship honoring him and his ’43 Clark Stevens, M.D. died December 15, 2013. He World War II. After the war, he Disorders Clinic and Professor of Dr. Ryan died June 24, 2013 were spent in Waterville, and he daughter will assist students at the Dr. Stevens, of Dubuque, ’58 Roger S. Colton, M.D. was 70. He graduated from the continued in the Naval Reserve, Neurology. In 1975 he became in Norfolk, Virginia, of Lewy graduated from Cambridge High College in perpetuity. Iowa, died December 14, 2013. Dr. Colton died January University of New Hampshire in then as a physician in the Army Chair of the Department of Body Disease. He was 66. Born School in 1929. He received his He was born January 2, 1919 in 2, 2014. Born November 8, 1964, and received his medical Reserve, and was reactivated by Neurology at Tufts-New England Nov. 11, 1946 in Burlington, Vt., undergraduate degree from Eastern ’43 F. Arnold Caccavo, M.D. North Stratford, N.H. He served in 1932. He received his B.A. from degree in 1968. His medical the Army Medical Corps in 1955. Medical Center. He stepped down he graduated from the University Nazarene College in Quincy, Mass., Dr. Caccavo died at his home the medical corps in Japan during Middlebury College in 1954, and internship was at Denver General He served two years at Rodriguez from the chairmanship in 1982 to of Notre Dame and received his before attending the College of in Burlington, Vt., on December World War II, after his internship his M.D. in 1958 from UVM. Hospital, followed by internal Army Hospital at Fort Brooke, in concentrate on ALS research and medical degree from UVM in Medicine. After earning his M.D., 3, 2013. Born in Montpelier, at Beverly Hospital in Beverly After serving as a captain and flight residence at Dartmouth Medical San Juan, Puerto Rico, starting the broader educational interests. A 1972. He completed his internal he taught pathology at the College Vt., on June 23, 1918, he was a Mass., and before his residency in surgeon in the United States Air School. He began his career as a ophthalmology program there. On Professor of Neurology Emeritus medicine residency at George and served on the staff of the Mary graduate of Syracuse University and obstetrics and gynecology at George Force and interning at Lackland gastroenterologist in Frederick, returning to Bridgeport, Conn. at Tufts University School of Washington University. Dr. Ryan Fletcher Hospital while opening his the UVM College of Medicine, Washington University Hospital in Air Force Hospital, Dr. Colton Md., in 1974. In 1988, he built and in 1957, Dr. Manjoney began his Medicine, Dr. Munsat authored practiced primary care medicine own practice in Waterville. In the and practiced general medicine in Washington D.C. Dr. Stevens was was a fellow in internal medicine opened the Frederick Medical and ophthalmology practice that spanned more than 200 scientific articles in rural Vermont and Connecticut early forties, Dr. Mann continued Chelsea and Barre. He moved to a member of the American Medical and rheumatology at the Mayo Surgical Building, which included over 40 years. He served as Chief and books, and received many prior to his involvement in his practice in Jeffersonville and, Burlington in 1950 for a general Association and Iowa Medical Clinic and Foundation from 1961 the Frederick Surgical Center, one of Ophthalmology at St. Vincent’s honors during his long career. managed care. Strongly focused in 1946, established the R. W. surgery residency and practiced Society, and was also a fellow of the to 1964. He received a Masters of the first ambulatory surgical Medical Center for many years. on patient-centered, integrated Mann hospital on Maple Street. surgery until the early sixties when American College of Ob-Gyn, the in Medicine from the University centers in Maryland. He continued ’60 John B. Fenning, M.D. care, Dr. Ryan promoted the Dr. Mann was instrumental in the he became the plant physician at American Fertility Society, and the of Minnesota Graduate School of his practice with his wife, Janet, ’50 Carmen Mary Pallotta, M.D. Dr. Fenning died at home in development and advancement of development of Smuggler’s Notch General Electric. Dr. Caccavo was American College of Surgeons. Dr. Medicine in 1964. He practiced as practice manager, until retiring Dr. Pallotta died at in her Fort Myers, Fla., on Febrauary 18, the electronic medical record as well Ski Ways and the establishment a World War II veteran, retired Stevens helped to deliver more than medicine for over 30 years in St. in 2010. home in Tinton Falls, N.J., on 2014, from complications of cancer. as the development of measures of of Lamoille Union High School as a lieutenant colonel from the 7,000 babies in his 36-year career. Paul, Minn., specializing in internal August 26, 2013. She was 101. A Following graduation he completed quality of care, disease prevention and Green Mountain Technology Vermont National Guard after medicine and rheumatology, while ’47 Thomas M. Holcomb, M.D. graduate of Black River Academy his training in orthopedic surgery at and early intervention. As such, he and Career Center. He served his more than 20 years, and in 2004 ’48 S. James Baum, M.D. maintaining a research, teaching Dr. Holcomb died October in Ludlow, Vt., and Fordham U.S. Naval Hospitals in Chelsea, was a nationally known speaker at community on the Waterville and was appointed a brigadier general in Dr. Baum died October and academic career that garnered 3, 2013. He was 88. Born in University in New York, she Mass., Portsmouth, Va. and Duke major conferences and conventions. Lamoille school boards for a total of the Vermont State Guard. He was 15, 2013. He was 91. Born in many awards and accolades. Portland, Ore., he graduated from received her medical degree in 1950. University. He served his country as Prior to his illness he was Chief 58 years. He was a former President also instrumental in establishing the Bridgeport, Conn., he received St. Michael’s College in 1944, and a surgeon in Vietnam for one year. Medical Officer of the local Bon of the Vermont Medical Society Vermont Heart Association. his medical degree from UVM in ’61 Thomas G. Howrigan, M.D. received his medical degree in 1947. ’54 Eugene "Gene" J. Bluto, M.D. Dr. Fenning was instrumental in Secours medical system. and the Vermont Heart Association, 1948 and served his internship at Dr. Howrigan died He earned a master’s degree from Dr. Bluto, 89, of Camillus, the development of a cement-less and served on the Vermont Board ’43 Lloyd G. Davies, M.D. Bellevue Hospital and his residency December 29, 2013. Born in Johns Hopkins School of Public N.Y., died September 7, 2013. He hip prosthesis. Following discharge ’98 Gretchen Holt Allen, M.D. of Health, and the founding board Dr. Davies, M.D. died on at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Dr. Baum Fletcher, Vt., in 1921, he attended Health in 1970. Dr. Holcomb was was 89. Born and raised in Grand from the navy after 12 years he was Dr. Allen, of West Hartford, of Beacon Investments. Dec. 21, 2013, at his residence in was Chief of Otolaryngology and St. Michael’s College before coming a U.S. Air Force veteran, achieving Isle, Vt., he lived in Camillus since on staff at Lee Memorial Hospital Conn., died November 11, 2013. Portland, Maine. He was 95 years Head and Neck Surgery at Park to the College of Medicine. He the rank of colonel. He had been 1954. He received his medical in Fort Myers for 40 years. Born in Rockland, Maine, she ’39 Burnett S. Rawson, M.D. old. A native of Oneco, Conn., City Hospital from 1954 to 1991 served in the U.S. Army Air Corps the chief of pediatrics at Maxwell degree from the University of received a degree in biology from Dr. Rawson died on May 18, he earned both his bachelor of and served as president of the during World War II in the Pacific Air Force Base in Alabama from Vermont and served his residency at ’63 Thomas M. Hanlon, Jr., M.D. the University of Southern Maine, 2014 at the age of 100. He was born science and medical degrees at Medical Staff from 1972 to 1974. Theater. Dr. Howrigan maintained 1954 to 1958, and retired in 1968 Upstate Medical Center. Dr. Bluto Dr. Hanlon died May and her medical degree from on a farm in Underhill, Vt., After UVM. After his residencies at His private practice was located in a lasting interest in aviation and from Lackland Air Force Base. was an Air Force veteran of World 12, 2013, at Catholic Medical UVM in 1998. She completed high school, a teacher and distant Eastern Maine Medical Center Fairfield, Conn. He served in the served as an accident investigator, He was the department chair of War II. In 1992, he retired after Center (CMC) in Manchester, her residency in obstetrics and relative recognized his potential as a in Bangor and at Worcester City U.S. Navy as the Assistant Chief of aviation medical examiner and pediatrics at Wilford Air Force Base 36 years as a family physician with N.H., following a battle with gynecology at the University of student and asked his family to let Hospital in Worcester, Mass., he ENT at the U.S. Naval Hospital in pilot for the federal Aeronautics in San Antonio from 1959 to 1968. Bluto & Palmer, P.C. in Camillus. heart disease, and in recent years Connecticut School of Medicine her help him attend the University entered military service, joining Bremerton, Washington. Administration. He completed a Alzheimer’s disease. He was 75. before settling in West Hartford. of Vermont, where he received the U.S. Army Medical Corps as rotating internship at the Bishop de ’47 Vincent A. Manjoney, Sr., M.D. ’56 Theodore L. Munsat, M.D. Born in Salem, Mass., he was a both undergraduate and medical a 1st Lieutenant. He served in the ’48 Don A. Guinan, M.D. Goesbriand Hospital in Burlington Dr. Manjoney died October Dr. Munsat died November doctor with the U.S. Air Force degrees. During World War II he American and European Theatres Dr. Guinan, 91, of and a general surgery residency, 4, 2013, at his home in Trumbull, 22, 2013, at his home in Waltham, Medical Corps, retiring as Colonel. The College of Medicine also notes was stationed in the Far East. After of Operation, which included time Manchester, Conn., died January followed by a one year fellowship Conn. He was 91. Born on March Mass. Born in Portland, Maine, the passing of John S. Manuelian, the war, he began an internship in a in Holland, Belgium, France and 27, 2014, at home surrounded by in thoracic surgery, at St. Vincent’s 23, 1922, he was a 1944 graduate in 1930, he moved to Rutland, ’70 Robert Fernandez, M.D. M.D.’56, on October 3, 2013. New York City, and later practiced Germany from 1943 to June 1946. his family. Born in Northampton, Hospital in Worcester, Mass. Dr. of the University of Vermont and Vt. as a child. He received his Dr. Fernandez died of a heart urology in Pearl River, N.Y., where He was discharged as a Major, U.S. Mass., he received his B.S. degree Howrigan served as director of received his medical degree from undergraduate degree from the attack at age 69 on October 12, he challenged policies restricting Army Medical Corps. Following from Brown University in 1945. Kerbs Memorial Hospital and was UVM in 1947. He completed an University of Michigan and his 2013 while doing what he loved to hospital privileges for doctors based the service, Dr. Davies moved to He graduated from the College a member of the Flying Doctors internship at St Vincent’s Hospital M.D. from UVM in 1956. After an do every Columbus Day weekend, on race and religion. He was active Fryeburg, Maine, and established of Medicine in 1948 and was a Association. before working for a year in general internship at Mount Sinai Hospital hiking Mount Washington in in the local peace movements well a solo family practice. He was very member of the Nu Sigma Nu practice and five additional years in in Manhattan, he completed a New Hampshire. He was born in into his nineties. In retirement, active in the American Academy Medical Fraternity. Dr. Guinan was ’59 Murray Rosenthal, M.D. anesthesia at St. Vincent’s. He then neurological residency at Columbia Boston, and attended Boston Latin Dr. Rawson returned to Vermont, of Family Physicians. In 1969, a U.S. Navy veteran having served Dr. Rosenthal, of Peabody, completed a post-graduate master’s Presbyterian Medical Center in and Boston College before coming where the Rawsons had helped fund following a three-year term on the as a Hospital Corpsman during Mass., died December 31, 2013, course in ophthalmology at NYU New York. In 1963, after two years to UVM. He was Chief of the the library in Underhill that bears Board of Directors, Dr. Davies World War II at Portsmouth Naval of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Post-Graduate Medical School in the Navy, he accepted a position Medical Staff at Southern Maine

46 VERMONT MEDICINE SUMMER 2014 47 June 7, 2014 1:50 p.m. UVM medical student Samy Ramadan’17 shares a laugh with alumni from across 60 years at Nostalgia Hour during Reunion 2014. “Listening to their accounts was definitely my favorite part of the weekend,” he says. “and I felt honored to be the newest addition to the College of Medicine family.” photograph by Raj Chawla VERMONT MEDICINE 89 Beaumont Ave. Burlington VT 05405

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If you’re in a class that ends in 0 or 5, RECONNECT mark your calendar for REUNION 2015: FOR REAL! June 12–14! Sure, social media has made keeping up with old friends easier. Still, nothing beats getting back together in person with the classmates with whom you shared some of the most formative experiences of your lives. Medical Reunion is the setting for all kinds of unplanned personal reunions, and it gives you the chance

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EVENTS INCLUDE: Medical Education Today Session • Tours of the College, including the Clinical Simulation Laboratory • Alumni Awards and Reception • Medical Alumni Picnic • Nostalgia Hour • Class Receptions

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