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SUMMER 2019 BULLETINof the ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION VOL. 84 NO. 2

IN THIS ISSUE: Alumnus named CEO | Awards | Commencement | 2018 Contributors Report | Reunion Please Consider a Bequest in Support of Albany Medical College

Avid sports enthusiasts the Graneys enjoy a family ski vacation in Colorado.

Sheela Graney, MD ’94 and her husband Tim made a scholarship bequest

Members of the ALBANY “ As a medical student I was honored to receive MEDICAL COLLEGE a scholarship. I was grateful for the financial PILLARS SOCIETY have created relief, and found being a scholar reinforced lasting legacies using their bequests, the fact that people really believed in me. My life income gifts and retirement plans. gratitude developed into our commitment to pay the generosity forward. We decided to celebrate my 25th Albany Med Reunion by

Learn more, contact Laura O’Brien way of actively encouraging future generations of Assistant Vice President physicians to launch their careers knowing their Gift Planning and Principal Gifts Albany Medical College training has provided (518) 262-6835 | [email protected] them with the expertise, skill and passion to amc.PlanMyGift.org deliver the highest quality care to their patients. Tim and I hope other alumni will join us to create their own scholarship bequest.”

Sheela Graney, MD ’94 Pediatrician, Latham, NY Please Consider a Bequest in Support of Albany Medical College BULLETINof the ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SUMMER 2019

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS President Evan Vosburgh, MD ’82

President-Elect David M. Jones, MD ’97

Immediate Past President Kevin W. Roberts, MD ’77

Secretary Nancy C. Sapio, MD ’85 8 Treasurer Peter Manes, MD ’04

Historian Jeffrey D. Hubbard, MD ’68

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS Mitchell H. Bamberger, MD ’82 Anthony C. Campagna, MD ’85 Christopher L. Campese, MD ’90, MS ’15 Avid sports Jodi Della Rocca, CRNA, MS ’02, PhD enthusiasts Clifford A. Erickson, MD ’99 the Graneys Janet E. Gargiulo, MD ’79 enjoy a family Robert J. Hedderman, MD ’82 ski vacation in Kathryn A. Hogan, MD ’04 Colorado. Ursula A. Matulonis, MD ’87 Dennis P. McKenna, MD ’92 20 4 NEW ALBANY MED LEADERSHIP: Fassil B. Mesfin, MS ’00, PhD ’01, MD ’05 Sheela Graney, MD ’94 and her husband Tim made a scholarship bequest Michael M. Mueller, MS, PA-C ’17 Dennis McKenna, MD ’92 Michael T. Mulligan, MD ’03 5 President’s Message Phillip S. Paty, MD ’86 Donna M. Pietrocola, MD ’75 6 Meet Your New Officers Mary E. Rappazzo, MD ’76 Gary L. Sutter, MD ’76 7 Dean’s Message Peter A. Vincent, PhD ’89 8 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS: Ferdinand J. Venditti, Jr., MD, Honorary ’15 Members of the ALBANY “ As a medical student I was honored to receive Anthony Ritaccio, MD ’84 Ex-Officio MEDICAL COLLEGE a scholarship. I was grateful for the financial Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84 10 2019 Alumni Association

PILLARS SOCIETY have created relief, and found being a scholar reinforced Ex-Officio Award Recipients lasting legacies using their bequests, the fact that people really believed in me. My 24 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION STAFF 14 Reunion Weekend 2019 life income gifts and retirement plans. gratitude developed into our commitment to Sandy DiNoto, Executive Director 20 Commencement pay the generosity forward. We decided to Christine Horigan, Associate Director th Alison Lester, Program Manager 24 2019 Alumni Association celebrate my 25 Albany Med Reunion by Jessica Watson, Archivist Student Award Recipients Design: Tessa Cochetti Design Learn more, contact Laura O’Brien way of actively encouraging future generations of 25 College News & Events Assistant Vice President physicians to launch their careers knowing their [email protected] or (518) 262-5033 28 Archives Corner Gift Planning and Principal Gifts Albany Medical College training has provided 30 PILLARS PROFILE: (518) 262-6835 | [email protected] them with the expertise, skill and passion to A copy of the Albany Medical Center Foundation’s most Anthony Zangara, MD Honors His amc.PlanMyGift.org deliver the highest quality care to their patients. recently filed financial report is available from the Charities 30 Wife Joan Kelsch Zangara, MD ’57 Tim and I hope other alumni will join us to Bureau Registry on the New York State Attorney General’s website (www.charitiesnys.com) or, upon request, 31 2018 Contributors Report create their own scholarship bequest.” by contacting the New York State Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005, or us at 43 Class Notes 43 New Scotland Avenue-Mail Code 119, Albany, New Sheela Graney, MD ’94 York 12208. You also may obtain information on charitable 46 In Memoriam organizations from the New York State Office of the Attorney Pediatrician, Latham, NY General at www.charitiesnys.com or (212) 416-8401. ALUMNI.AMC.EDU/EVENTS

DR. DENNIS MCKENNA ’92 TO LEAD ALBANY MED

Dennis P. McKenna, MD ’92, has been named the next SAVE THE DATE 20 president and CEO of Albany Med. He will begin the position on March 31, 2020, succeeding James J. Alumni Association - Barba who is retiring after 25 years in the role.

Dr. McKenna is an Emergency Department physician Regional and currently serves Albany Med as executive vice Events president, president of the Faculty Practice, (more than 500 physicians), and senior associate dean THURSDAY, for Clinical Affairs. Previously, he was medical SEPTEMBER 12 director of the hospital and medical director of the Capital Region Emergency Department. Alumni Reception Schuyler Meadows Dr. McKenna completed his medical residency at Albany Med and spent five Country Club, years in service to the United States on active duty as a medical officer, including Loudonville a deployment as a battalion surgeon for the Marines to Somalia. He joined the 2019 Reserves in 1997 and was mobilized to active duty three times after 9/11, including SUNDAY, two tours with the Marines to Iraq. He retired as a Navy captain. OCTOBER 27

“It is a proud day for Albany Medical College, and we look forward to working San Francisco with Dr. McKenna who is a committed partner and advocate of the College. Regional He brings proven leadership skills, clinical expertise, and a passion for all of Alumni Brunch Location to be announced Albany Med’s missions,” said Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84, The Lynne and Mark Groban, MD ’67 Distinguished Dean. Watch for updates on events in Boston and Dr. McKenna has served as a member of the Alumni Association board of directors. New York City

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REUNION View current and archived issues of the Bulletin. Join the online alumni directory. Get updates on events and programs. Share news about yourself. 2WEEKEND 20 Connect with the Archives. FRIDAY, APRIL 3 – SATURDAY, APRIL 4 facebook.com/ AMCAlumniAssociation

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- Fellow Alumni:

I AM PLEASED AND EXCITED TO SERVE AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE Alumni Association. I would like to thank Kevin Roberts, MD ’77 for his leadership the past two years. He has been an enthusiastic supporter of students, faculty, alumni, and Albany Med, and is the only Alumni Association president to serve as chief of the Albany Med medical staff.

Nearly 300 gathered in Albany for Reunion in April for a weekend of festivities, lectures, and academic programs. I think you will enjoy event photos featured in this issue.

As a third-generation Albany Med graduate, I respect and have benefited from the opportunity presented to me by family and the College. I have worked to share this legacy for the benefit of others. However, what I observed at Commencement in May was humbling and inspirational. Attention was given to first-generation 2019 college graduates, and a simple black and gold honor cord accented their gowns. No medical student has it easy, but these graduates represent an evolving Albany Med legacy of which we can be proud.

During my tenure as president, I will focus on supporting the Dean, the College, the Alumni Association, and the Medical Center Foundation to enhance the College endowment. An increase in scholarships and reduction of student debt is a clear road to broadening the diversity that will benefit research, education and care. Your participation in these efforts makes a difference.

We hope to hear from you and do not hesitate to reach out if I can be of assistance. Email: [email protected]

I look forward to serving you.

Sincerely, Evan Vosburgh, MD ’82

President

MORE ABOUT YOUR NEW PRESIDENT:

Dr. Vosburgh is a board-certified hematologist and Dr. Vosburgh is the third person in his family to graduate oncologist, completing his internal medicine residency and from Albany Medical College. His father, Lee Vosburgh, MD, View current and archived chief residency at Albany Medical Center and fellowship at graduated in 1948 and his grandfather, Frederick Vosburgh, issues of the Bulletin. Boston City Hospital. He was on the faculty of the Boston MD, was a member of the Class of 1915. Dr. Vosburgh and his Join the online alumni directory. University School of Medicine for a decade and then joined family established the Lee Vosburgh, MD, Albany Med Class Bayer Biologics clinical research. He has served as executive of ’48 Endowed Scholarship Fund to support Albany Med Get updates on events director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation, students pursuing a graduate degree in Medical Ethics. and programs. overseeing philanthropic support of a broad range of Dr. Vosburgh is a member of the American Association Share news about yourself. scientific and biomedical programs, and recently stepped of Cancer Research, American Society of Clinical Oncology down from this role. Connect with the Archives. and the American Society of Hematology and was a judge He is currently an associate clinical professor at the Yale for Albany Med’s Medical Student Investigation Day in facebook.com/ University School of Medicine where he serves as an 2018. He serves on the board of the Harlem Lacrosse & AMCAlumniAssociation attending physician at the West Haven Veterans Hospital. Leadership Foundation, the CT Challenge/Mission and Swim Across America. SUMMER 2019 | 5 Meet Your New Officers

PRESIDENT-ELECT SECRETARY TREASURER HISTORIAN David M. Jones, Nancy C. Sapio, Peter Manes, Jeffrey D. Hubbard, MD ’97 MD ’85 MD ’04, FACS MD ’68 Dr. Jones most recently served Dr. Sapio has served as Secretary Dr. Manes is an Associate Dr. Hubbard has been a member as treasurer of the Alumni since 2014 and is a long-time Professor of Surgery at the of the Alumni Association Association, on the Executive board member of the Alumni Yale School of Medicine. Board since 1986 and has Finance Committee, and as chair Association. Board certified He completed a residency in served as Historian since of the Scholarship Committee. in Family Medicine, Dr. Sapio otolaryngology-head and neck 2008. He trained in pathology He is associate professor of is a primary care doctor with surgery at Georgetown University at Boston City and New England Pathology at Albany Medical Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, Hospital and a fellowship Deaconess Hospitals in Boston, College and vice chairman of the N.Y. She completed her in rhinology and endoscopic skull interrupted by a two year department of Pathology and residency at St. Clare’s Hospital base surgery at the University hitch at the National Cancer Laboratory Medicine at Albany (now part of Ellis Medicine) and of Texas Southwestern Medical Institute. Before returning to Med. He is board certified with is a faculty member with the Center. He is a board-certified Albany, he was on the faculty of the American Board of Pathology Family Medicine residency surgeon with clinical interests in the University of Pittsburgh, (Anatomic and Clinical Pathology program at Ellis. Her interests allergic rhinitis, nasal obstruction, principally at Children’s Hospital. and Dermatopathology). are geriatrics and addiction chronic sinusitis, cerebrospinal At Albany Medical College, he medicine, and she coordinates fluid leaks, nasal and sinus tumors, is a veteran of the Institutional He completed his residency in geriatric education for the Ellis nasal manifestations of systemic Review Board and Admissions Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency program. disease and endoscopic man- Committee. He practices forensic at Albany Med and his fellow- agement of lacrimal obstruction and pediatric pathology, serves ship training in pathology at the Dr. Sapio serves on the New York and Graves’ orbitopathy. His as an expert witness, and lectures University of Texas MD Anderson State Board for Medicine. research focuses on evaluation of on death investigation and Cancer Center in Houston. She was featured on the cover emerging technologies and novel the interfaces between law and His research is widely published, of Latino New York magazine, methods for the management of medicine at Albany Law School. and Dr. Jones is the recipient with an accompanying article chronic rhinosinusitis. of multiple honors and awards. highlighting her career He is active on committees He was elected into the SOSA achievements and mentorship with the American Academy of Academy of Medical Sciences of Family Medicine residents. Otolaryngology-Head and Neck in 2008 and received the Frank Surgery and has received many Blumenstock Teacher of the professional awards. While at Year for second-year students Albany Medical College, on two separate occasions. Dr. Manes served as class Additionally, Dr. Jones has been president and received the awarded more than 14 Golden 2004 Frank C. Maxon, Jr., MD Apples for teaching excellence Alumni Award. at Albany Medical College.

New Physician Assistant Representative Joins Alumni Board

Michael M. Mueller MS, PA-C ’17, FAAPA, was elected to the Alumni Association Board in April. He is a 2017 graduate of the Albany Medical College Center for Physician Assistant Studies and received his BS from SUNY Oneonta in 2014. Mr. Mueller is lead PA in the Department of Neurosciences at Ellis Medicine in Schenectady.

While at Albany Med, Mr. Mueller received the Red Ribbon Award for his research poster presentation, the Frietag Award for Exemplary Professionalism and was inducted into the Pi Alpha Honor Society. He served on the Albany Med Curriculum Development and HAZMAT committees.

Mr. Mueller is a fellow of the New York State Society of Physician Assistants and American Academy of Physician Assistants. He is a clinical preceptor for PA students at Albany Med.

6 | alumni.amc.edu DEAN’S MESSAGE

REUNION 2019 WAS ESPECIALLY SIGNIFICANT AS THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION honored my classmate Anthony Ritaccio, MD ’84 with the Distinguished Alumnus Award, and our class enjoyed reconnecting and celebrating his achievements.

When I graduated from Albany Med 35 years ago, there was no internet as we know it today and patients did not arrive for care after reading volumes online about their potential condition. Prescription drug ads targeted to patients were new, controversial and beginning to air on television. Medical records were on paper. Federal researchers had discovered the virus causing AIDS. Managed care was an evolving concept.

Albany Med’s newest graduates who recently earned MD, PhD, CRNA, MS and PA degrees are entering an entirely different environment for practicing medicine and conducting research. Our mission at Albany Medical College continues: to provide excellent medical education and improve health through patient care, education and research. We are proud of our students and how they are learning to adapt and succeed through change. Change cannot be avoided. It is necessary. It gives us hope for new discoveries and treatments which cure conditions and extend or save lives.

We are successful in many areas because of you—our alumni who remain engaged and share generous support which has made a difference for many of our recent graduates. Your giving through scholarship, the Annual Fund and other programs is crucial to our mission.

We congratulate our newest graduates and we look forward to hearing about their success.

Best Wishes, Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84

The Lynne and Mark Groban, MD ’67 Distinguished Dean

New Physician Assistant Representative Joins Alumni Board

SUMMER 2019 | 7 Anthony L. Ritaccio, MD ’84 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS

ANTHONY RITACCIO, MD ’84 DOES NOT BELIEVE IN FATE. BUT HE DOES ACKNOWLEDGE

THE UNUSUAL COINCIDENCES ON HIS PATH TO BECOMING A NEUROLOGIST.

A pioneer in early neuromodulatory treatments He later became the J. Spencer Standish Professor “The reason I’m for epilepsy and brain mapping technology, his first of Neurology and Neurosurgery and vice chairman here is because of experience with epilepsy was in the late 1970s when of the Department of Neurology at Albany he took a summer job caring for a 12-year-old Med, also directing the Epilepsy and Human the people I wanted boy who had a malignant form of epilepsy. Brain Mapping Program and the Clinical to imitate.” Neurophysiology Lab. “It was a disease I had no concept about,” said Dr. Ritaccio, who had spent previous summers He is currently professor of Neurology and surfing near his home on Long Island. “My job senior associate consultant at the Mayo Clinic in was just to get him to the beach, get him in the Jacksonville, Florida, where he alternates his time water and be contiguous with him at all times so between the operating room, his inpatient epilepsy he wouldn’t fall.” monitoring unit, and his consultant’s room where he continues to care for complex epilepsy patients. That autumn at Brown University, where he was majoring in Classical Studies, he translated In April, Dr. Ritaccio returned to Albany for the Hippocratic Corpus from ancient Greek. Reunion Weekend and was presented with the It included “On the Sacred Disease,” a treatise on Albany Medical College Alumni Association epilepsy. “So there I was, translating a document 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Award for his from the fifth century B.C. on epilepsy after I’d groundbreaking contributions to the field of just spent the summer taking care of a child with epilepsy treatment and brain mapping. epilepsy,” said Dr. Ritaccio. While on campus, he gave the Distinguished More than two decades later, while an associate Alumnus Lecture, Finding Function and professor of clinical neurology at NYU School Eloquence: An Exploration Across Three of Medicine, Dr. Ritaccio was the neurologist Centuries, in which he discussed the history of and presiding over the epilepsy surgery of the young most recent research related to high-frequency boy he had cared for. “His father had brought him electrocorticographic brain mapping. to NYU for evaluation for epilepsy surgery without He also remarked on the power of mentorship, knowing I was there,” he recalled. crediting his mentors as among the primary gifts After receiving his medical degree, Dr. Ritaccio he has received from Albany Med. “The reason completed his residency and chief residency at I’m here,” he said, “is because of the people I Albany Medical Center, as well as a fellowship in wanted to imitate.” epilepsy and neurophysiology at the University of Pittsburgh Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.

8 | alumni.amc.edu One of his early influences in medical school was software, known as brain-computer interface “…If you’re Dr. Kevin Barron, then chair of the Department (BCI) technology, that aims to allow disabled interested in of Neurology. “Before I ever even wanted to be people the ability to communicate through making unions a neurologist, I just wanted to become Kevin computers using only their thoughts. Barron,” said Dr. Ritaccio. “I wanted to become between brains He is also passionate about decoding brain what he embodied, his knowledge, the casual and computers, functions and mapping the brain. Continuing depth of information he had about the brain research that he initiated at Albany Med, he is mapping is the and its workings.” first step.” currently working with his research partners, Dr. Ritaccio went on to specialize in the including Gerwin Schalk, Ph.D., associate medical management of complex epilepsy and professor of neurology at Albany Medical the surgical management of drug-resistant College and a research scientist at the Wadsworth epilepsy, pioneering early neuromodulatory Center, on a patented, highly statistically complex treatments for epilepsy, including vagus nerve software program that passively records brain stimulation, at Albany Med. waves. It then decodes them, creating a “library” of electrical brain signals in real time. Championing Albany Med as a destination for epilepsy patients, Dr. Ritaccio was instrumental The clinical implications, says Dr. Ritaccio, are in building a team of epileptologists and growing significant. “You can map important areas of the epilepsy monitoring unit. He was also the the brain for movements, sensation, receptive driving force behind the Epilepsy and Human language, expressive language,” he said. “And you Brain Mapping Program’s designation as a Level can map these areas out within seconds, without 4 center, the highest level, from the prestigious having to do anything or without having to apply National Association of Epilepsy Centers. electrical current to the surface of the brain.” “The one thing I’ve held to with extraordinary “Developing this mapping tool is important to purpose and laser beam intent is that there should me clinically and experimentally,” he said. “But be no reason why anyone would have to go to separately, if you’re interested in making unions New York City or Boston to have any kind of between brains and computers, mapping is the advanced neurological or neurosurgical procedure, first step.” like brain mapping or epilepsy surgery,” he said. Dr. Ritaccio and his wife, fellow classmate “This should be the last stop.” Catherine Bartholomew, MD ’84, have two Dr. Ritaccio is also recognized for his work grown daughters, Gabrielle Ritaccio, MD on merging human intention with computer and Madeline Ritaccio.

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2019 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 2019 EXEMPLARY ALUMNI SUPPORT AWARD DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS John R. Warkentin, MD ’74, FCCP Anthony L. Ritaccio, MD ’84, The Alumni Association is proud to recognize Dr. John Warkentin with the FAAN, FANA, FAES 2019 Exemplary Support Award for his extraordinary philanthropic support of Albany Medical College. Dr. Warkentin is a member of the Class of 1974 and board certified in pulmonary medicine. He completed a residency at the Medical Professor of Neurology Research interests include: College of Virginia and a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at and senior associate George Washington University Hospital and Washington Veterans High frequency Administration Hospital. consultant, Mayo Clinic in electrocorticographic Jacksonville, Fla. brain mapping Motivated by his compassion for students who might not otherwise be able to afford medical school and an understanding of the valuable Previously J. Spencer  Brain-computer interface role scholarships play in attracting exceptional students, Dr. Warkentin Standish Professor of Neu- technology rology and Neurosurgery made a transformational gift to Albany Medical College to create and Vice Chairman of the Epilepsy surgery The John R. Warkentin Scholarship Endowment. Department of Neurology, Experimental He feels passionate that people of modest financial means should Albany Medical College anticonvulsant trials have the opportunity to accomplish their dreams and his support Residency and chief Reflex epilepsy syndromes was motivated by the desire to help eliminate financial stresses which residency in Neurology, interfere with students reaching those dreams. “I want to prevent our Research has been funded Albany Medical Center medical students from leaving their training with enormous debt,” by the U.S. Department says Dr. Warkentin. Epilepsy Fellowship, of Defense, the European University of Pittsburgh Union Scientific Develop- Dr. Warkentin’s gift reflects his appreciation for the experiences he ment Fund, and the National had while at Albany Med. “I am profoundly grateful to Albany and Fellowships: Institutes of Health all the College helped me accomplish. I recall a strong sense of community, engaged faculty mentors and the amazing education American Academy of Academic partnership I received. The rigorous training set me up for success. It provided Neurology (FAAN) with the University of a solid foundation which helped me get on the right path to a  Rome and funded by the American Neurologic fulfilling career in medicine and grounded me in the basic skills to Republic of Italy Association (FANA) excel professionally. This training prepared me for my roles as the American Epilepsy Society Faculty with the NIH director of Critical Care Services and chairman of the board of (FAES) funded National Center for directors at the inner-city hospital where I practiced.” Adaptive Neurotechnologies Member, Alpha Omega Dean Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84 expresses his gratitude to (NCAN) Alpha (AOA) Dr. Warkentin. “Dr. Warkentin’s meaningful support helps to Course director for the Founding member, lessen the financial burden our students face. Albany Medical International Workshop The Brain Computer College opens doors, and generous gifts from alumni are on Advances in Interface Society important investments.” Electrocorticography Fulbright Scholar, 2015

Please see Dr. Ritaccio’s full profile on page 8.

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2019 HUMANITARIAN AWARD 2019 HUMANITARIAN AWARD

Harold R. Goldberg, MD ’77, FACC Stephanie Van Dyke, MD ’09 (Posthumously)

Harold R. “Hal” Goldberg, MD ’77 is Stephanie Van Dyke, MD ’09 had difficulty board certified in cardiovascular diseases ignoring the extent of people in need. and cardiac electrophysiology. He completed It was what drove her to enroll in medical a Cardiology fellowship at Harbor UCLA school following time spent in rural Uganda Medical Center and an Internal Medicine teaching English. residency at UCLA/Sepulveda Veterans When she was finishing her first year at Administration Medical Center. He practices Albany Medical College, Dr. Van Dyke in the state of Washington at Providence was notified of an inheritance from her Spokane Cardiology and Providence grandmother’s estate. She thought about Heart & Vascular Services. paying down school debt with the $35,000, In 2008, Dr. Goldberg and his wife, Sandy, founded Healing Hearts but the lack of basic medical care available to villagers where she had Northwest, a Spokane-based nonprofit which raises funds for medical been in Uganda, Africa, still troubled her. As a medical student, supplies and to support a team of medical professionals who for two she ambitiously decided to use the funds to develop a health center, weeks each year provide life-saving open-heart surgery to individuals Engeye Health Clinic, a facility which now serves more than 13,000 with rheumatic heart disease in Kigali, Rwanda. Ugandan villagers annually. Dr. Goldberg first came to Rwanda in 2008 on an exploratory trip. In November 2009, she joined a panel of distinguished health care While there he met Dr. Joseph Mucumbitsi, the only cardiologist in professionals at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco, the country at the time. Dr. Mucumbitsi had returned to Rwanda after California, for a discussion on the trials and triumphs of providing the 1994 genocide that devastated the country’s educated class. It is health care in Africa. estimated that more than 70 percent of physicians had been killed or While completing her medical residency she discovered a need fled the country. Many never returned. Mucumbitsi could not stay much closer to home and obtained her MPH from Johns Hopkins away and brought his entire family with him to help with the process University. She co-founded The Sky Lakes Wellness Center in Klamath of rebuilding the country’s health care system. Falls, Ore., and completed a residency at Oregon Health Science In addition to providing 15-20 surgeries annually, visiting surgeons University’s Cascades East Family Practice. She became board certified provide physicians, medical students and nurses with educational by the American Board of Obesity Medicine. In Klamath Falls, she training and support, and are working toward the creation of an worked with the Wellness team and was integral to establishing the independent and sustainable Rwandan cardiac surgery program. Blue Zones Project to Klamath Falls, the Sugarman’s Corner pocket park to downtown, and move the Oregon Avenue Protected Bike Lane Dr. Goldberg is also the founder and co-chair of the advisory board Project forward. These efforts were motivated by her desire to improve of Step UP and Go. The organization’s mission is to engage Inland the wellness and quality of life for all in her community. Northwest residents in daily physical activity and healthier eating using community mobilization, education and collaboration. Her life was tragically cut short in 2017 as the result of a sledding accident in Klamath Falls, Ore., where she served as medical director Dr. Goldberg established the Harold R. Goldberg, MD ’77 Endowment for the Sky Lakes Wellness Center. She was only 39, but her passion for for the Recognition of Teaching Excellence at Albany Medical College. making the world a better and healthier place drove her to accomplish He is active professionally and a member of the American College of exceptional endeavors at a young age. Cardiology, American Medical Association, Washington State Medical Dr. Van Dyke’s legacy endures as the Albany Medical College Family Association and Spokane County Medical Association. Medicine Residency program maintains a relationship with the Engeye Dr. Goldberg and Sandy are the proud parents of two sons who are Health Clinic through faculty, alumni and resident mission trips. Albany Medical College graduates—Daniel Goldberg, MD ’17 and Joshua Goldberg, MD ’18.

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2019 HONORARY MEMBER OF 2019 HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Richard J. Blinkhorn, Jr., MD Alan D. Miller, MD, MPH

Until May 2019, Dr. Blinkhorn served as Dr. Miller served as associate dean for Student the Richard T. Beebe Chair of Medicine Affairs at Albany Medical College (1977-1986) and Chief of Service for Medicine at and was integral, with Edward LaRow, PhD, Albany Medical College. He also served in establishing the Science, Humanities and as Medical Director of the Biomedical Medicine joint degree program with Siena Accelerator and Commercialization Center College and Albany Medical College. In addition (BACC) at the College. Board certified to core science classes, students study ethics, in infectious disease, Dr. Blinkhorn has metaphysics, morals and medicine, medical a particular interest in tuberculosis (TB) sociology, and health care communication skills. and mycobacterial diseases. Through the combination of coursework, interaction with faculty, and personal experiences, students learn that every medical issue has an ethical Since joining Albany Med in 2009, Dr. Blinkhorn was active in dimension requiring a broadly educated physician. An important element transforming undergraduate and graduate medical education and of the eight-year program is the requirement of two summers of service in fellowship training programs. He enhanced the first and second underserved areas, either domestically or abroad. Nearly 300 students have year subspecialty themes with new faculty leaders and transitioned participated in the program since its founding in 1986. classroom instruction to online learning, case based instruction and simulation. He revamped the internal medicine student clerkship Dr. Miller received his degree from the NYU School of Medicine, and experiences and introduced formal faculty mentoring programs a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg throughout the Medical College. School of Public Health. He earned his BA from Amherst College. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Davidson College, He spent 20 years working for the United States Public Health Service and earned his medical degree from Bowman Gray (Wake Forest and held professorships at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of University) School of Medicine. He served as chief resident in Public Health, the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the medicine at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, where New York School of Psychiatry. he also completed a fellowship in infectious disease. Prior to joining Albany Medical College, Dr. Miller served from A recipient of numerous research grants, Dr. Blinkhorn has been 1964-1966 in the Nelson Rockefeller administration as associate widely published, including in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology commissioner for Community Mental Health Services and as and the Archives of Internal Medicine. He is a member of numerous commissioner of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene professional organizations including the American College from 1966-1975. After that appointment, he led the Whitney M. Young, of Physicians and the Association of Program Directors of Jr. Community Health Center as its director. Internal Medicine. Dr. Miller has been active professionally, published widely and is the His outstanding teaching has been recognized four times with recipient of numerous awards. He has held many leadership roles with the Golden Apple Award and two teaching awards have been community and nonprofit organizations. established in his honor. Former Alumni Association board president, Anthony Campagna, MD While at Albany Med, Dr. Blinkhorn provided well-received ’85, recalls Dr. Miller’s close connections with students while at Albany presentations during Reunion Weekend highlighting Dr. Beebe’s Med. “He got to know each one of us personally, and his office was a extraordinary legacy and the College’s continued commitment to popular meeting place for students.” “Dr. Miller had a very humanistic excellence in medical education. approach to medicine and medical education,” says Karen Wood, MD ’85. “He embraced these values through discussions, teaching and relationships Dr. Blinkhorn currently serves as the Charles H. Rammelkamp, Jr., with students.” She notes that for the musicians at the College, Dr. Miller Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of was known as the “chair of the unofficial music department.” Medicine and chairman of the Department of Medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. In his retirement, music continues to play an important part of Dr. Miller’s life. He regularly plays viola with chamber musicians in the Capital Region.

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2019 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 2019 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FRANK C. MAXON, JR., MD ALUMNI AWARD GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD Zachary A. Abelson, MD ’19 Corinne S. Wilson, PhD Candidate

Zachary Abelson grew up in Southern Corinne is a fourth year PhD student in the California and was encouraged by his father Department of Neuroscience & Experimental to share his love for jazz by playing the Therapeutics. She received a BS in saxophone at hospitals and nursing centers. Biomolecular Sciences at Clarkson His interactions with patients and residents University and spent a semester abroad at had a lasting effect. Zachary shares, “Music Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. opened the door of service to me, through While at Albany Medical College, her which I discovered my passion for medicine.” research has focused on the molecular biology A graduate of the University of California, and biochemistry of neurodegenerative Berkeley, Zachary brought his resolute commitment to leadership and diseases, the role of glia in CNS disease and pathology, and advocacy to Albany Medical College and the surrounding community. mechanisms of injury and development of new therapeutics in In his first year of medical school, Zachary received the Richard O. ischemic stroke. Her thesis explores how the metabolic state of the Shapiro, MD ’79 Prize, which recognizes a student making the most brain controls the mechanisms of pathological glutamate release in meaningful contribution to the well-being of the class. ischemic tissue. She has authored several published articles and poster presentations and presented her research at national conferences. Zachary served as class president for four consecutive years and, in 2017, was elected Executive Council president. In this role, he At Albany Med, Corinne has received the Richard H. Edmonds represented the entire student body and was an important student Alumni Award for Student Leadership, and in 2017 and 2018, she liaison and ambassador to College administration and faculty. was recognized with the Graduate Studies Alumni Research Award. He also served on several committees involving curriculum review, Corinne has been an active student leader and mentor. She is chair student finances and campus security. During the College’s most of the Brain Bee Outreach Committee, president of the Biomedical recent LCME accreditation process, Zachary was appointed Science Club, Alumni Relations Chair and is a member of the Graduate Student Leader and—with a group of students—was responsible Education Committee, Graduate Student Organization, and Student for the implementation and review of the Independent Student Council. She has dedicated time as a small group discussion leader Analysis (ISA). for first year medical students and mentored several graduate and During his time in Albany, Zachary expanded his involvement in undergraduate summer students in the lab. the community by participating in several important projects. He Corinne has worked in laboratory positions at Siena College and founded Her Health, a student-run community education initiative with clinical drug manufacturing at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and providing weekly health and wellness education to women in low she is active professionally as a member of the American Society socioeconomic neighborhoods. In 2017, he was the lead organizer for Neurochemistry, Graduate Women in Science, and New York for a peaceful student demonstration, “March on the Capitol,” Academy of Sciences. bringing together area community leaders, medical, law and pharmacy faculty and students to raise awareness about political efforts to repeal In the next few years, Corinne plans to build on her current the Affordable Care Act. Through Project SOAR, he mentored local research and investigate possible new therapeutic targets for stroke elementary students struggling with schoolwork because of unstable intervention. In the future, she would like to be involved in home environments. clinical trial development for new pharmaceutical therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. Zachary is deeply honored to be the recipient of the Frank C. Maxon, Jr., MD Alumni Award, and is most grateful for the opportunity, love, and respect he received from Albany Medical College these past four years. He also wishes to acknowledge his parents Kira and Bob Abelson and brother Josh, and his partner Lana Vasiljevic, Albany Medical College Class of 2020.

SUMMER 2019 | 13 REUNION EVENTS 2019 SCHOLARSHIP CELEBRATION

Elena M. Insley, ’20 Dean Verdile welcomed more than 90 students, and Stephane faculty, alumni benefactors, and guests to this Owusu-Sarpong, year’s Scholarship Celebration at the Hilton MD ’19 served as the CLASS 2019 Scholarship Garden Inn, Albany Medical Center on April 11. Celebration student speakers. PHOTOS

ALBANY BASE HOSPITAL NO. 33 SOCIETY

(From left): Captain Thomas L. Snyder, MD ’69, Jennifer Park, ’22, and Jeffrey D. Hubbard, MD ’68, Alumni Association Historian, at the Albany Base Hospital No. 33 Society Reception.

by Albany Hospital physicians, nurses and enlisted personnel. It covered from stateside preparation to deployments in North Africa, Rome and northern Italy, to disbandment in September 1945. In 22 months, open for business at three locations, 756 personnel cared for 32,914 patients. Finally, post-war follow-up of some veterans who were prominent in Albany medicine was presented. Kevin C. Kiley, MD, Honorary ’14, emeritus chair The Albany Base Hospital No. 33 Society reception of obstetrics and gynecology, retired 41st Surgeon was chaired by Thomas L. Snyder, MD ’69, Captain, General, U.S. Army, and Society faculty advisor Medical Corps, U.S. Navy (Ret.) on Saturday, 13 April, emeritus, gave a brief and heartily welcomed address on during Reunion Weekend, and hosted by the Alumni the progress of battlefield medicine from the Second Association. The Keytones, Albany Med’s student a World War to the present. An illustrated timeline of capella group, performed several songs, including the Albany Medical College military history, prepared by National Anthem and the Alma Mater, for alumni, archivist, Mrs. Watson, was also on display. students and guests who gathered to share their military The Mission of the Albany Base Hospital No. 33 Society experiences with one another. is to honor Albany Medical College alumni who served Alumni Association Historian and Board member, or are serving in the uniformed services of the United Jeffrey D. Hubbard, MD ’68, presented a talk, “Albany States or other nations; foster a sense of camaraderie Hospital Goes to War: General Hospital No. 33 among Albany Med staff, students and alumni with 1940-1945.” Based on research in Albany Med uniformed service; support and mentor Albany Med Archives with Jessica Watson, MSIS, Center Archivist, students with present or potential military affiliation; and it recounts the life of the 33d General Hospital, staffed instill a culture of philanthropy for the College.

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1954

CLASS PHOTOS

David Beck, MD (left) ALBANY BASE HOSPITAL NO. 33 SOCIETY and Dewey Robbiano, MD.

1964

ROW 1 (SEATED): Michael Herman, MD, Price Chenault, MD, G. Timothy Johnson, MD, William Montano, MD, William Johnston, MD. ROW 2 (STANDING): Peter Ewing, MD, Fred Schwartz, MD, Tom Snyder, MD, John Olichney, MD, Ronald Burkman, MD, William Barry, MD, John Wheeler, DMD, MD, William Rosen, MD.

1969

ROW 1 (SEATED): C. Wendell Wickersham, III, MD and R. Janet Hall, MD. ROW 2 (STANDING): David Chittenden, MD, Tom McHugh, MD, Marty Symansky, MD.

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CLASS PHOTOS

ROW 1 (SEATED): Janice Lee, MD, Eloise Aguirregoitia, MD, Edwarda Buda-Okreglak, MD, Mark Goldberg, MD. ROW 2 (STANDING): Frank Bellino, MD, Geoffrey McCarthy, MD, Andrew Sullivan, Jr., MD, Craig Schaefer, MD.

1979

ROW 1: Steve Mitchell, MD, Steven Gardner, MD, John Wales, MD, Mitchell Collman, MD, Margaret Grogan, MD, Michael Marmulstein, MD, Richard Schreiber, MD, 1984 Robert Warner, MD, Gary Schnur, MD, Janet Gargiulo, MD, Stuart Schnitt, MD, Jim Horn, MD, Steven Frisch, MD, David Abraham, MD. ROW 2: David Semenoff, MD, Christopher Kearney, MD, Ronald Musto, MD, Gary Kolanchick, MD, Paul Chalmers, MD, Daniel Mackenzie, MD, Richard Greene, MD, Zach Gerbarg, MD. 1989

ROW 1 (SEATED): Lee Ratner, MD, James Provenzale, MD ’83, Dawn Provenzale, MD, Cynthia Pegler, MD, Lew Schon, MD, John O’Reilly, MD, Anthony Ritaccio, MD. ROW 2 (STANDING): Randall Beatty, MD, Duncan Winter, MD, Paul Sklarew, MD, Amy Bloom, MD, Bruce Jaufmann, MD, Paul Klosterman, MD, Philip Seibel, MD, Vince Verdile, MD.

ROW 1 (SEATED): Sandra Marwill, MD, Karen Tan, MD, Debra Sherman, MD, Sharon Tietgens, MD, Raymond Schultz, MD, Marjorie Curran, MD, Hilary Kern, MD, Edward Escott, MD. ROW 2 (STANDING): Susan Littman, MD, Steven Schwartz, MD, Samuel Kao, MD, Mark McDade, MD, Sam Hakim, MD, Michael Zwicklbauer, MD, Gerardus Jameson, MD, Steven Schulman, MD, Lorraine Schratz, MD.

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ROW 1 (SEATED): Raymond Tan, MD, Gregory Heeb, MD, Maria Boulos, MD, Maria Vergara Barbe, MD, Sheela Graney, MD, Emily Etzkorn, MD, Alan Boulos, MD. ROW 2 (STANDING): Catherine Chiu Tan, MD, Joseph Paskowski, MD, Elizabeth Paskowski, MD, Christopher Maendel, MD, Mohsin Cheema, MD.

1999

ROW 1 (SEATED): Rollin Wright, MD, Lynn Hickey, MD, Wendy Lavezzi, MD. ROW 2 (STANDING): Frederic Hellwitz, MD, Kathryn Egly, MD, Rachel Egler, MD, Cliff Erickson, MD, Michael Rosenblum, MD, Alexandra Clark, MD, Siobhan Kuhar, PhD ’90, MD.

2004

ROW 1 (SEATED): Kristina Lahtinen-Aley, MD, Ingrid Li, MD, Marie Matthews, MD, Joseph Picca, MD, Lindsay Gennari, MD, Annette Grajny, MD, Adrianna Hekiert, MD, Kate Hogan, MD. ROW 2 (STANDING): Todd Gregory, MD, Chad Lamoreaux, MD, Steve Enrich, MD, Gregory Pyne, MD, Peter Manes, MD, Deborah Myers, MD, Nirupa Beckham, MD, Gerald Beckham, MD, Amy Perlmutter, MD, Marc Gordon, MD.

2009

Megan Applewhite, MD, Alana Nagle, MD, Heather Prunty, MD, Hector Aguilar, MD, Melissa Leber, MD, Danielle Rooney, MD.

SUMMER 2019 | 17 50TH REUNIONReflections

MAYBE IT IS A SIGN OF OLD AGE— I TURNED 83 IN JULY—BUT THERE IS A NEW FRAMED PICTURE ON OUR MANTEL THAT ALMOST BRINGS ME TO TEARS EVERY TIME I LOOK AT IT.

It is a group picture of 13 men (plus 10 spouses) taken at our 50th medical school class reunion this year. Our class of 1969 was one of the last of the small classes—only 71 of us, including just five women. (Class sizes would double because of government subsidies to increase the number of doctors in this country). That meant we had a chance to get to know each other quite well during the course of those four sometimes turbulent years that led to an MD degree in the spring of 1969.

And then, of course, we went our separate ways—internship and residency all over the country. Specialties ranging from brain surgery to being a doctor on TV. Marriages and children and triumphs and disappointments. But all of our lives being dramatically changed because we had made it through those four years and become doctors.

Out of that group I have remained close to only one over the years, but I have never forgotten all the others. When we have gathered every five years for reunions, the bond wrought by those four years has been instantly rekindled. Despite the fact that we are mostly so very different in terms of backgrounds and life experiences, we are also so very alike in one of the most important parts of our lives: somehow we made it together through that grueling experience called medical school. Somehow we all survived the terrifying tests in biochemistry, the stink of the cadaver room, the first exposures to dying patients, the all-night ward duties. Somehow we all walked the stage at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in June of 1969 to grab the diploma that literally gave us license to lead a very different life than would otherwise have been possible.

So when I look at this photo of my “band of brothers” I want to weep with gratitude that we are still here, that we can still remember those days together even as we realize the days we have left are far less than we once had. And I want to say thank you to the fates or guiding hand that made it possible.

—G. Timothy Johnson, MD ’69

Members of the Class of 1969 and spouses.

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THE REUNION 2019 GIVING PROGRAM WAS A SUCCESS!

WE TRULY APPRECIATE THE GENEROSITY OF OUR ALUMNI CLASSES ENDING IN ”4” AND ”9” FOR HELPING TO MAKE OUR REUNION 2019 GIVING PROGRAM A SUCCESS. YOUR GIFTS HAVE A FAR-REACHING IMPACT THAT WILL PROVIDE A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDENTS OF TODAY AND TOMORROW.

2019 Reunion Become a Class Volunteer Committee Volunteers for your upcoming Reunion!

The Alumni Association and the Albany Med Foundation Albany Medical College alumni volunteers are vital to would like to extend a special thank you to our dedicated the overall success of our annual Reunion Celebration. class volunteers who graciously supported our Reunion In addition to fostering a spirit of camaraderie and Celebration through their dedication of time and resources participation for Reunion Weekend, alumni volunteers to Albany Medical College. provide essential support for our reunion giving program and philanthropic success. Class of 1954 Class of 1984 With plans already underway for Reunion 2020, David Beck, MD Vincent P. Verdile, MD any alumni in classes that end in a “0” or “5” who Duncan Winter, MD Class of 1964 are interested in learning more about serving as a C. Wendell Wickersham, MD Class of 1989 Class Volunteer please contact: Thomas F. Burke, MD Class of 1969 Amy Damiani, MD Cristina Hayden G. Timothy Johnson, MD Sharon Tietgens, MD Director of Alumni Annual Programs Thomas L. Snyder, MD PHONE: (518) 262-3722 John C. Wheeler, MD Class of 1994 E-MAIL: [email protected] Catherine Chiu Tan, MD Class of 1974 Raymond Tan, MD Edwarda M. Buda-Okreglak, MD John R. Warkentin, MD Class of 1999 Clifford A. Erickson, MD Class of 1979 Janet E. Gargiulo, MD Class of 2004 Margaret Grogan, MD Kathryn A. Hogan, MD Zachary Gerbarg, MD Peter Manes, MD Steven M. Frisch, MD SAVE THE DATE Class of 2009 James F. Horn, MD for Melissa D. Leber, MD David Semenoff, MD REUNION 2020! FRIDAY, APRIL 3 – SATURDAY, APRIL 4

Reunion Weekend is a wonderful way for alumni to engage with WE LOOK FORWARD TO the College, reconnect with classmates and friends, meet new SEEING YOU IN 2020! people and experience today’s campus revitalization first-hand.

SUMMER 2019 | 19 Commencement2019 Albany Medical College celebrated its 181st Commencement on Thursday, May 23, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, awarding 228 degrees, including Doctor of Medicine, Master of Science degrees in Nurse Anesthesiology and Physician Assistant Studies, and Master of Science and doctoral degrees in Biomedical Science and Bioethics.

This year’s keynote speaker was Griffin Rodgers, MD, MACP, director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), who is recognized for his advocacy in addressing health disparities and some of the most serious public health issues. Dr. Rodgers was awarded an honorary degree. The College also awarded an honorary degree to Sue Goldie, MD ’88, MPH, a physician, decision analyst, and public health scientist known for her efforts to improve the health of vulnerable populations across the globe. Dr. Goldie is the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health, Director of both the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University and the Center for Health Decision Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Also addressing the graduates were Vincent Verdile, MD ’84, The Lynne and Mark Groban, MD ’67, Distinguished Dean at Albany Medical College, and Robert T. Cushing, chairman of the Board of Directors of Albany Med. Zachary Abelson, MD ’19 and Alicia Soucy, PhD ’19, elected student representatives from the Medical College and Graduate Studies Program, respectively, spoke at the ceremony.

Sue J. Goldie, MD ’88, MPH Dr. Goldie’s professional agenda includes improving women’s health in all parts of the world, using evidence-based policy to reduce global health inequities, building bridges between disciplines to tackle critical public health challenges, and fostering innovation in education.

Internationally recognized for mathematical disease modeling and analyses to guide public health decision making, Dr. Goldie’s research has focused on viruses of global health importance, cancer prevention, reproductive health, and maternal mortality. She has published 200 research papers, chapters, and technical reports and served as the principal investigator on awards from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She was granted the prestigious MacArthur award “for genius and creativity” in applying the tools of decision science to public health and in 2009 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

TOP: Griffin Rodgers, MD, MACP, Commencement keynote speaker and honorary degree recipient.CENTER LEFT: Alicia Soucy, PhD ’19, student speaker for the Graduate Studies Program. CENTER RIGHT: Oladapo Adaramola, MD ’19 (left) and Alex Ramirez, MD ’19. ABOVE: Dean Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84 and Robert Cushing, chairmain of the Board of Directors at Albany Medical Center, awarding Sue Goldie, MD ’88, MPH with an honorary degree.

LEGE ICAL COL MED ALBANY

2019 GOLDEN APPLE RECIPIENTS 2019 The late Kate and Robert D. Wickham, Commencement Eve MD ’52 generously established the Golden Apple Award to honor the College’s commitment to excellence in The Commencement Eve Reception, in conjunction teaching. The award, stewarded by the Alumni Association, allows graduating with the Medical Student Awards Day, was held at medical students the opportunity the New York State Museum in Albany on May 22. to recognize the outstanding educators they encountered during their time at the College. This year, the Class of 2019 recognized the following faculty members:

OUTSTANDING CLINICAL GOLDEN APPLE AWARD Alicia Wiczulis, MD Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Assistant Dean for Student Affairs

OUTSTANDING PRECLINICAL GOLDEN APPLE AWARD David M. Jones, MD ’97 Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Pathology Education, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine DR. JONES IS PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

OUTSTANDING OUTPATIENT PRECEPTOR GOLDEN APPLE AWARD Danielle P. Wales, MD ’10 Assistant Professor Internal Medicine and Pediatrics

OUTSTANDING RESIDENT GOLDEN APPLE AWARD Jessica L. Martinolich, MD ’14 Chief Resident, General Surgery

TOP: Griffin Rodgers, MD, MACP, Commencement keynote speaker and honorary degree recipient.CENTER LEFT: Alicia Soucy, PhD ’19, student speaker for the Graduate Studies Program. CENTER RIGHT: Oladapo Adaramola, MD ’19 (left) and Alex Ramirez, MD ’19. ABOVE: Dean Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84 and Robert Cushing, chairmain of the Board of Directors at Albany Medical Center, awarding Sue Goldie, MD ’88, MPH with an honorary degree. RECEPTION HOSTED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SUMMER 2019 | 21 Commencement2019

GOLD HUMANISM 2019 SOSA ACADEMY OF MEDICINE SCHOLARS AWARD RECIPIENTS

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation The Sosa Academy of Medicine provides advocacy and support for faculty advances humanism in medicine, educators, stimulates curriculum development and reform across the continuum perpetuating the tradition of the of medical education—offering a variety of faculty development activities, caring doctor. Through innovative emphasizing the patient—doctor relationship; encouraging extramural funding medical education, the Foundation for educational activities, and promoting educational scholarship in the form promotes and affirms more of presentations and publications. compassionate medical care The following Sosa Academy awards were presented to faculty at the College’s and caregivers. 181st Commencement: The Alumni Association acknowledges recent inductees from the Class of 2019 to the Gold Humanism Honor FACULTY TEACHING SCHOLAR AWARD Society (GHHS). The Society honors Recognizes teaching effectiveness based on feedback from learners, house medical students, residents, fellows, officers, fellow and/or peers. role-model physician teachers and other exemplars recognized for Howard Snyder, MD “demonstrating excellence in Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine humanistic clinical care, leadership, compassion and dedication to service.” The following graduates were OUTSTANDING MENTOR AWARD recognized in April by the GHHS Recognizes evidence of a track record of graduates who achieve success with Thomas and Nancy O’Connor Chapter the demonstration of the passion, energy and commitment to learners. of Albany Medical College: Russell Ferland, PhD Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics CLASS OF 2019 and Department of Neurology

Zachary Abelson, MD Jacob Bloom, MD NEW TEACHER AWARD Telly Cheung, MD Recognizes a faculty member who has been at Albany Medical College for five John Choi, MD years or less who has demonstrated evidence of teaching effectiveness based on Andres Crane, MD feedback from learners, house officers, fellows and/or peers. I. Lane Curran, MD Meaghan Flatley, MD Jackcy Jacob, MD Ashwini Javlekar, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Ethan Litman, MD Emma Rose Miller-Bedell, MD Ranjani Natarajan, MD Chetna Prasad, MD Christina Rudolph, MD Asha Thomas, MD Michelle Urman, MD Cameron Waldman, MD Priyan Wickremesinghe, MD Lauren Winter, MD

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of office were given to those serving under the Continental Army, beginning in 1775, and while the ceremony and words have changed, its purpose remains the same: a solemn and sacred pledge to serve our nation. I have had the privilege, over the last quarter-century, of participating in and witnessing dozens of promotion ceremonies. Some have taken place on the drill field. Some have taken place on the battlefield. Every time, I am reminded of the words of a Marine Corps general who told us that in the military, we promote people not because of what they have done, but rather what we know they are capable of doing. And what we are asking these two young doctors to do is among the most important things a country can ask of anyone. It is, to care for its most precious resource: its people, the men and women of the armed services, along with the remarkable and brave families that support them. It may be in a clinic, a hospital, or, lest we forget as we enter this Memorial Day weekend, wherever they are deployed: on land, on sea or in the air, in times of peace or in a combat zone. We are and will be forever Beginning with the 1847 Army enlistment of grateful for their service. John Campbell, MD, Class of 1843, Albany Medical You are welcome to join me in welcoming to the stage Dr. Garrett College graduates have served the nation’s armed Evans, Captain, United States Army, and Dr. Meaghan Flatley, Captain, United States Army. services. An average of five medical students in each Please raise your right hands and repeat after me: class are commissioned officers in one of the services, I, [state your full name], having been appointed an officer in the and they will enter on active service in a military United States Army in the rank of Captain, do solemnly swear that residency on graduation. I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith The 2019 new physician graduates were promoted and commissioned and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without in the Medical Corps, United States Army, during the 23 May Com- any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and mencement. The oath was administered by Dennis P. McKenna, MD faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about ’92, Captain (Ret.) MC USN, professor of emergency medicine and to enter. executive vice president. CAPT McKenna began his Navy service at So help me God. National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda. He served five years on active duty and as a reservist for 20 years, principally as battalion surgeon, Congratulations!” U.S. Marine Corps. (Marine surgeons and chaplains are U. S. Navy Mr. Jeffrey Halstead, music teacher at Saratoga Springs High School, officers.) He was deployed twice to Iraq and once to Somalia. took the podium. The new medical officers faced the Colors and Captain McKenna addressed the assembly: saluted, and Mr. Halstead sang the National Anthem.

“Twenty-seven years ago, after walking across this same stage, four Captains Evans and Flatley turned and left the stage, to begin their of us from the graduating class of Albany Medical College, 1992, service as medical officers. They follow in the footsteps of gathered outside the Hall of Springs with our families and friends John Campbell, MD, Class of 1843, who retired as Colonel, USA, for our own private promotion ceremony, the same ceremony you in 1886, after distinguished service in the Mexican and Civil Wars, are about to see, right here, right now. I want to thank Dr. Verdile for and in several actions on the American frontier. encouraging this magnificent and important ceremony to take place in a manner that allows all of you to bear witness. The first oaths —Jeffrey D. Hubbard, MD ’68, Historian

We thank Captain McKenna for sharing his text and for continuing the tradition of the public promotion ceremony begun in 2012 by Kevin Kiley, MD, retired Surgeon General, U. S. Army, retired Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Albany Medical College, and Honorary Member of the Albany Medical College Alumni Association. Archivist Jessica Watson, MSIS, discovered the information on Dr. Campbell.

ABOVE (LEFT): Meaghan Flatley, MD ’19, Captain, United States Army, and Garrett Evans, MD ’19, Captain, United States Army, during the Commissioning ceremony. (RIGHT) Dennis P. McKenna, MD ’92 addressing the assembly at Commencement. SUMMER 2019 | 23 2019 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS

Robert J. Scagnelli, MD ’19 (right) received the Bradley Prize at Medical Student Awards Day on May 22. Pictured with Dr. Scagnelli are Dr. William Bradley and his mother, Mrs. Barbara Bradley.

THE FOLLOWING AWARDS WERE GIVEN OUT BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AT THE ANNUAL GRADUATE AND MEDICAL STUDENT AWARDS DAY THIS PAST SPRING:

2019 Medical Student Awards 2019 Graduate Student Awards

The Academic Excellence Award The Dr. David J. Dickerman The Alumni Award for Excellence in the Anatomies Alumni Prize in Bioethics Studies Meghan Hodson, ’21 Zachary Abelson, MD ’19 Aisha Lewis, DPS ’19 The Academic Excellence in The Dr. James Derham The Alumni Award for Excellence in Clinical Freshman Year Award Alumni Award Practice—Center for Nurse Anesthesiology Meghan Hodson, ’21 Samuel Ayo, MD ’19 Elizabeth Stratton, MS ’19 The Academic Excellence in The Frank C. Maxon, Jr., MD The Alumni Award for Excellence in Clinical Sophomore Year Award Alumni Award Practice—Center for Physician’s Assistant Yufan Lin, ’20 Zachary Abelson, MD ’19 Emily Hess, MS, PA ’19 The Academic Achievement The James and Rita Dougherty The Alumni Research Awards Award of the Medical Society Alumni Award Martin Bach, PhD Candidate of the County of Albany Stephane Owusu-Sarpong, MD ’19 Jennifer Howard, PhD Candidate Hadiyah Audil, MD ’19 The Richard H. Edmonds, PhD The Graduate Student Alumni Award The Angelo Pappanikou Award Alumni Leadership Award Corinne Wilson, PhD Candidate Chetna Prasad, MD ’19 Ashwini Javlekar, MD ’19 The Richard H. Edmonds, PhD Alumni The Donald P. Swartz, MD Award The Venona Mae VanOrnam Leadership Award Ashwini Javlekar, MD ’19 Mankes Memorial Award Marisa DiMarzio, PhD Candidate Kerry Cao, MD ’19 The Dr. Bernard F. Brophey The Richard Miller Alumni Awards for the Alumni Memorial Scholarship The W. Brandon Macomber Award Most Outstanding Research Presentation Quincy Brown, MD ’19 Christina Rudolph, MD ’19 FIRST PLACE: Corinne Wilson, PhD Candidate SECOND PLACE: Shanti D’Souza, PhD Candidate THIRD PLACE: Carolina Chiale Ferreira, PhD Candidate

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Physician Assistant Studies Program Leslie Bluman Memorial Lecture Series

Albany Medical College On April 16, Carl Rorie Alexandrov, LMSW, presented a talk titled, “Raising Mental Health inducted 42 students into Awareness for Medical Professionals.” Alexandrov is Director of Behavioral Health at its Physician Assistant Capital District Physicians Health Plan (CDPHP) in Albany. Studies program in January. The Class of 2021, drawn The Leslie G. Bluman Memorial Lecture Series was established by the classmates of Leslie Gale Bluman, from more than 2,500 a member of the Albany Medical College Class of 2006, whose life tragically ended in the summer of 2003. applicants, donned their The Lecture Series seeks to emphasize and honor the importance of personal well-being that is essential white coats and recited to success in medical school and throughout one’s career in medicine. the Physician Assistant Professional Oath. As advanced practice providers, physician assistants play Albany Medical College and The Culinary Institute a vital role in filling a shortage of primary care of America Form Partnership physicians and help to expand the reach in a wide Fifteen medical students visited The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., in range of specialties. April for a two-day intensive healthy cooking course. The pilot program, developed in collaboration by CIA Consulting and Albany Medical College, was designed to teach participants how to choose, prepare, and enjoy a variety of health-promoting foods. The College hopes to incorporate the training into a healthy living curriculum module to 2019 National benefit patients as part of the service learning program. Latino Medical Student Association Conference THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IS PROUD TO SUPPORT STUDENT TRAVEL AND CLUB ACTIVITIES ALONG WITH DR. HENRY POHL, VICE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION.

In January, Class of 2020 medical students John Moon, Arun Chockalingham, Ceyda Bertram and Jack Chan, placed second at the Yale Healthcare Hackathon, a global health care competition of iterative problem-solving with institutions from around the world. The Albany Med team considered telemedicine as a pivotal platform for problem solving and created an application that assists telemedicine providers to better evaluate deep vein thrombosis from remote settings.

In April, nine Albany Med students attended the National Student National Medical Association (SNMA) Annual Medical Education Conference in Philadelphia. Two members of the Class of 2022—Sarah Martinez and Carina Abreu—were Marilyn Huamantla and Fredy elected to serve on the Region IX board of the SNMA—a first for the College. Huertero, members of the Class of 2021, earned first and second place poster presentation awards, respectively, at the 2019 National Latino Medical Student Association Conference in Lubbock, Texas.

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Annual Women in Medicine Panel AOA Student Research Fellowship

Kevin Lau, Class of 2022, has been awarded the 2019 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship from the Alpha Omega Honor Medical Society. Kevin is the 19th Albany Medical College student to receive the award in the past 21 years.

Dr. Applewhite Appointed as AMBI Director

Albany Med surgeon Megan Applewhite, MD ’09 has been appointed director of the Alden American Medical Women’s March Bioethics Institute (AMBI) at Albany Medical College and the John A. Balint, MD, Association (AMWA) Women in Chair of Medical Ethics. Medicine panelists and students. Dr. Applewhite, a fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon and assistant professor of surgery, has served In May, the Albany Medical as the interim director of AMBI for the past year. She will continue to oversee the administration College AMWA chapter of the institute—the graduate studies program, the longitudinal medical school curriculum, and the hosted the annual Women hospital clinical ethics consultation service—in addition to continuing to devote half of her time to in Medicine panel to gain her clinical work and patients. insight and advice from an accomplished group of Additionally, Dr. Applewhite was recently honored as one of the region’s “best and brightest” as a Albany Med women physicians. member of the Albany Business Review’s “40 Under 40.” The panelists included Drs. Melinda Clark ’02, Heidi Cordi, Gina Geis ’05, Capital District Asylum Collaborative MS ’19, Jennifer Lindstrom, Sandra Shin ’96, and Fourth-year medical students Katherine Wagner ’94. (from left): William Calawerts, Megha Dasani, and Sarah Saad with Victoria Balkoski, MD ’83, The evening focused on chair of the Department the professional development of Psychiatry. experiences of the physicians outside of the clinic, which include serving as a depart- ment chair, conducting bioethics research, and participating in international disaster relief training. Many A dedicated group of Albany Medical College students—as part of the Capital District Asylum of the panelists reflected on Collaborative (CDAC)—are partnering with a local nonprofit legal organization to assist victims of their time at Albany Medical persecution, torture and other abuses who are seeking asylum in the U.S. These sanctuary seekers are College and emphasized three times more likely to be granted asylum if they are evaluated by medical professionals and can the importance of medical provide an affidavit in court. The documentation is provided without cost to the sanctuary seekers. students exploring all the opportunities available to CDAC student leaders coordinate clinical evaluations for asylees with an attending physician, them while in school, staying a resident, a translator and two medical students, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists and social engaged in the community, workers when necessary. Ultimately, the medical students draft a medical affidavit, which is reviewed and pursing their passions by the resident and attending physician before being sent to the client’s lawyer. for medicine—in the clinic Founded in 2016, the CDAC receives guidance from the Departments of Family Medicine and and beyond. Psychiatry, the academic deans, and service learning program leaders at the College. —Lisa Teixeira, Class of 2022 Katherine Wagner, MD ’94, associate professor of family medicine and director of the Division of Community Outreach, serves as the faculty liaison. 26 | alumni.amc.edu RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Ingrid Allard, MD, Honorary ’17, associate professor of medical Memorial Trust in support of research entitled, “LRRC8 Anion education, has received a $13,000 one-year grant from Regeneron Channel Proteins as a New Target for Treatment of Glioblastoma Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in support of the Albany Medical Center Multiforme, a Deadly Brain Cancer.” STEP for Seniors program. Xiaochun Long, PhD, associate professor in the Department Scott Beegle, MD ’93, associate professor of Medicine, has of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, has received a $2,330,824 received two amendments, for $43,950 and $3,760, from the four-year grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute University of Pittsburgh in support of research entitled, “Protocol: in support of research entitled, “Function and Regulation of TSPAN2 Study of Clinical Efficacy of Antimicrobial Therapy Strategy Using in Vascular Disease.” Albany Med collaborating investigators are Pragmatic Design in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.” Michael DiPersio, PhD, professor of surgery, and associate professor Margarida Barroso, PhD and professor and chairman Harold Singer, PhD Robert Busch, MD, director of clinical research at Albany , both of the Department of Molecular and Med Endocrinology, was Albany Med’s principal investigator in Cellular Physiology. an international research trial that studied lorcaserin, a weight- management medication that was shown to facilitate sustained Kate MacNamara, PhD, associate professor in the Department weight loss in obese patients without increasing the risk of major of Immunology and Microbial Disease, has received a $2 million, cardiovascular events. The results of the study were recently published five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National in The New England Journal of Medicine. Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research the impact of severe infections on stem cell function. The research titled, Kevin Leyden, senior vice president for business development and “Hematopoietic Stem Cell Dysfunction and Regeneration in strategic partnerships, has received a $250,000 one-year grant from Severe Infection,” seeks to determine how stem cell function is National Grid in support of the Biomedical Acceleration and Com- impacted by serious acute infectious disease and whether their mercialization Center (BACC) to provide direct financial assistance function can be rejuvenated after such an event. Dr. MacNamara to BACC biomedical start-up companies for commercialization and her team will also examine strategies to improve the number and needs and access to experts. function of stem cells after severe, shock-like infections—including sepsis and tick-borne infections. Alexander A. Mongin, PhD, associate professor in the Depart- Julie Pilitsis, MD ’98, PhD ment of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics (DNET), has , chair of the Department of Neuro- received a $2,025,453 five-year grant from the National Institute of science and Experimental Therapeutics, professor of neurosurgery, Neurological Disorders and Stroke in support of research entitled, is the principal investigator in a clinical trial involving the use “Oxidative Stress and Pathological Glutamate Release in Stroke.” of stem cells to improve recovery of stroke survivors. The study, Collaborating investigators from DNET include professor Paul J. called PISCES III, will research if an investigational drug product Feustel, PhD, professor Lauren Jacobsen, PhD, and assistant (DP) made from stem cells will help improve function in stroke professor Kristen Zuloaga, PhD. Separately, Dr. Mongin also survivors with limited movement in their arms and/or legs six to received a $34,000 one-year grant from the Dr. Louis Skarlow 12 months following an ischemic stroke.

2019 Match Day Match Challenge Campaign

We wish to extend our gratitude to our generous alumni donors who participated in our “Match Day Match” Challenge Campaign in March of this year, inspired by the Class of 2019. We are grateful to alumni donors* for your confidence in our mission, our vision and, most importantly, confidence in the Class of 2019—your contribution sends a powerful message of support to our recent graduates and is critical to our continued success.

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ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE WAS PLEASED TO WELCOME BACK THE FOLLOWING ALUMNI IN 2019:

Keer Sun, MS ’04, In advance of Reunion, Alumni PhD ’06 Association Board member, On May 2, in conjunction with Dr. Ursula Matulonis, and the Albany Medical College Humanitarian Award recipient Department of Immunology and Dr. Harold Goldberg, made presentations at the College Microbial Disease Seminar Series, and met with members of the Dr. Sun presented a lecture titled, Albany Med community. “T cell-Aveolar Macrophage Dean Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84 Ursula A. Matulonis, MD ’87 Crosstalk during Influenza and and Gregg S. Meyer, MD ’86. Pneumococcal Co-infection.” She is an associate professor Gregg S. Meyer, Ursula A. Matulonis, MD ’87 of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska MD ’86 On April 12, Dr. Matulonis presented OB/GYN Grand Medical Center. Dr. Meyer was named the Rounds, “New and Emerging Therapies for Gynecologic Cancers.” 2019 Alpha Omega Alpha She also participated in an educational training session with Dr. Sun’s pathbreaking research Visiting Professor and was residents (Topic: “PARP Inhibitors: Exploiting DNA Repair was initiated, while pursuing her warmly received on campus Deficiencies as a Therapeutic Target for Ovarian Cancer”) and had graduate studies, in the College’s for several days in February. a roundtable lunch discussion with medical students. Department of Immunology He presented a talk to the and Microbial Disease under Dr. Matulonis is Chief, Division of Gynecologic Oncology and Albany Med community, the leadership of Dennis W. Susan F. Smith for Women’s Cancers; Brock-Wilson Family “The Evolution of the U.S. Metzger, PhD. Chair, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and professor of Medicine Healthcare Marketplace,” and gave at Harvard Medical School. two additional presentations— ALUMNI FACULTY Surgical Grand Rounds: Harold “Hal” Goldberg, MD ’77 PRESENTATION: “Surgical Outcomes Measures: On April 12, Dr. Goldberg presented an overview—with Codman’s End Results to a special video—to medical students about Healing Hearts John B. Nabagiez, Patient Generated Health Data,” Northwest, a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Goldberg MD ’93 and Medicine Grand Rounds: and his wife Sandy. In addition to providing medical supplies, “Population Health Management On May 16, Dr. Nabagiez, the group organizes a team of medical professionals to and the Volume to Value Transition presented an ethics case discus- perform life-saving open-heart surgery several weeks each in a Digitally Enabled Future.” sion titled, “The Ethics of Placebo year in Rwanda. Surgery.” He is a cardiothoracic Dr. Meyer also hosted a surgeon and associate professor of roundtable discussion with While on campus, Dr. Goldberg also met with Dr. Edward cardiothoracic surgery of Albany medical students about the Philbin, chief of cardiology and interim chair of the Medical College. Dr. Nabagiez future of medicine and other Department of Medicine, and cardiology residents and fellows. received his MS in Bioethics important topics. Dr. Goldberg is a cardiologist affiliated with Providence from Columbia University. Dr. Meyer is chief clinical officer, Spokane Cardiology and Providence Heart & Vascular Partners HealthCare, senior Services in Spokane, Wash. vice president for quality and safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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Donor Spotlight:

Anthony Zangara, MD Honors His Wife Joan Kelsch Zangara, MD ’57

LOVING TRIBUTE HONORS CAREGIVER’S LEGACY

Anthony Zangara, MD established an endowed Joan would go on to study at Boston City Hospital

scholarship in celebration of his wife, the late and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, while Anthony, a Joan Kelsch Zangara, MD ’57. graduate of Tufts University Medical School, stayed A caregiver at heart, Joan Kelsch Zangara, MD ’57, in New Jersey. The two young doctors kept in touch was a pediatric cardiologist, a mother to five and eventually married in 1963. They then moved to and a volunteer at her church. Her husband, Morristown, where Anthony worked as director of Anthony Zangara, MD, knows she would be medical education of Morristown Medical Center. honored to be a “caregiver” of sorts to medical Joan took time away from her practice to be a students, helping them to afford their Albany full-time mom to their five children. All along Medical College education. the way the Zangaras found great pride in their “Joan would be absolutely delighted to have a children’s successes as they went on to pursue careers scholarship fund in her name, but even more, she as a teacher, a financial planner, a gastroenterologist, ALBANY MEDICAL would be happy to know the money is relieving a corporate lawyer and a CPA (the last child and COLLEGE students from some of the financial burden of Joan’s namesake). PILLARS SOCIETY medical school,” he said. Once she resumed practice, Joan served as a pediatric Members of the After a long battle with Alzheimer’s, Joan passed cardiology consultant. She also worked for the Albany Medical College away in 2005. Her loved ones wanted to find a special American Heart Association and was proud to receive Pillars Society have way to celebrate Joan’s many accomplishments and the local Association’s Lifetime Service Award. created lasting legacies all she meant in their lives; scholarship was the When Joan began her struggle with Alzheimer’s, using their bequests, answer. Dr. Zangara made the decision, along with it was Anthony who took time off to care for her. life income gifts the Zangara children, grandchildren and close family Soon after she passed, he began giving to Albany and retirement plans. members from Kingston, New York, to establish the Medical College, something he knew was important They provide inspiration to others Joan Kelsch Zangara, MD ’57 Endowed Scholarship to his wife. Fund at Albany Medical College. Anthony added to do the same. “I established the scholarship endowment with that this scholarship provides a permanent legacy for funds from my IRA. It was a way of making a To learn more, the children and grandchildren as they continue to transformational gift and remaining true to my goals contact Laura O’Brien honor Joan’s memory. “The entire family is part of this for our family. I learned more about all the options loving tribute to Joan,” he said. Assistant Vice President, allowing for IRA distributions to charity and picked Gift Planning “She loved Albany and was proud of the education the one that worked best for me,” he said. and Principal Gifts she received that led her to her career, where she was “Our entire family is proud of this scholarship and 518.262.6835, a pioneer in the field of vector cardiography” said how it will help launch new careers. It’s a good deed. I [email protected] or; Anthony, who met his wife in 1957 when they were encourage all Albany Medical College alumni amc.PlanMyGift.org both pediatric interns in Jersey City, New Jersey. and their loved ones to do the same,” he said.

To learn more about IRA gifts and endowed scholarships, please call the Albany Medical Center Foundation.

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On behalf of Albany Medical College and the Albany Medical College Alumni Association, thank you to the following alumni and friends for their support in 2018 through their philanthropy.

Anonymous (20) Class of 1956 Class of 1961 Robert G. Long, MD Charles “Tom” McHugh, MD John H. Bowker, MD Anthony J. Bardinelli, MD Alan D. Megibow, MD Class of 1943 David Corn, MD John P. Carroll, MD James P. O’Brien, MD* David Falk, MD Paul Davidson, MD Anthony J. DeTommasi, MD Donald D. Pollock, MD Kenneth A. Deitcher, MD Morton H. Goldberg, DMD, MD Lewis I. Schainuck, MD Class of 1945 Robert P. Newhouse, MD John J. Gregory, MD Charles P. Shoemaker, Jr., MD William R. Dorrance, MD William A. Petersen, MD Maurice E. Keenan, MD Robert R. Taylor, Jr., MD Fred A. Phillips, Jr., MD Donald L. Price, Sr., MD George F. Walsh, Jr., MD Class of 1946 Richard O. Schultz, MD Clyde W. Turner, MD C. Wendell Wickersham, III, MD Nathaniel S. Lehrman, MD H. P. Wintrich, MD, FACS, CAPT Gerald A. Wagner, MD MC USNR Ret. Class of 1965 Class of 1947 Class of 1962 Albert A. Apicelli, MD Class of 1957 Robert E. Fay, MD Henry E. Wolfe, Jr., MD John Booss, MD Saebert L. Chamikles, MD John R. Furman, MD Warren W. Bovie, MD Class of 1948 John J. Condemi, MD Paul E. Phillips, MD David A. Eppard, MD* Ralph J. Kaplan, MD Donald J. Proferes, MD David L. Sparling, MD Louis M. Fink, MD John I. Larkin, MD Robert M. Rosenblatt, MD Norman Zheutlin, MD F. Forrest Gabriels, MD Kenneth L. Pratt, MD* J. George Russo, MD Ralph A. Giannella, MD Class of 1950 Robert C. Rosan, MD Edwin C. Shuttleworth, Jr., MD Lawrence A. Holfelder, MD Ernest E. Sponzilli, MD Stephen J. Sills, MD Ambrose Alfonsi, MD Edward A. Iannuccilli, MD Joan K. Zangara, MD* Jerry C. Worsham, MD Richard C. Bozian, MD Kaarina M. Kettunen, MD Arthur K. Brelia, MD Class of 1958 Class of 1963 J. Peter Lawler, MD Edward A. Meyers, MD Anthony R. London, MD Pasquale J. Fugazzotto, MD Ronald J. Anderson, MD Patricia Pearce, MD* Gary D. Miller, MD James M. Gavin, MD* Irving N. Bachner, MD David R. Nalin, MD Class of 1951 Terry H. Goff, MD Donald A. Barrett, MD Donald H. Namm, PhD Daniel N. Hertz, MD John M. Cohen, MD Melvin Horwith, MD Malcolm W. Pettit, Jr., MD Neil Lempert, MD Charles T. Fruehan, MD Douglas W. Rainforth, MD Class of 1952 Joseph C. Loffredo, MD Patricia Gehrt London, MD Dennis B. Smith, MD James W. Meade, MD Robert T. Giombetti, MD Lewis E. Patrie, MD Alexander B. Snyder, MD Carl A. Paulsen, MD William B. Henry, MD Warren F. Woodworth, MD Class of 1953 Felix E. Schletter, MD Peter G. Kansas, MD John J. Dapolito, Jr., MD Dean J. Seibert, MD Edward J. Khantzian, Jr., MD Class of 1966 I. Arnold Slowe, MD John A. Klamar, MD Robert W. McDonald, MD James S. Breivis, MD Samuel R. Spitzer, MD Karl R. Meyers, MD John A. Capsavage, MD Class of 1954 Valmore A. Pelletier, Jr., MD George P. Delyanis, MD Class of 1959 Roger F. Robison, MD David Beck, MD William H. Donovan, MD Leonard Antiles, MD Jon E. Rosenblatt, MD Jay V. Dewell, Sr., MD David M. Gottesman, MD Samuel A. Cassell, MD* H. James T. Sears, MD Kenneth A. Linstruth, MD J. Bruce Hagadorn, MD Howard B. Goldstein, MD Clara E. Staunton, MD Richard G. O’Leary, MD Arthur H. Knowlton, MD Peter C. Lombardo, MD Charles Umansky, MD Dewey Robbiano, Jr., MD James E. McClung, MD Arthur J. Wallingford, Jr., MD* Gerald Ross, MD Ron C. Meyer, MD Frederick Wilson, MD John C. Prindle, MD Class of 1955 Class of 1960 Nancy G. Worsham, MD Paul C. Schreiber, MD Anthony J. Arena, MD John G. Bell, MD Class of 1964 Maureen C. Sze, MD Stuart T. Nevins, MD Joseph L. Belsky, MD Robert E. Tank, MD Richard P. Propp, MD* Stephen S. Chan, MD Alfred M. Gomez, MD J. David Valentine, MD Robert M. Schwartz, MD Christopher S. Demtrak, MD* William H. Meyer, Jr., MD Thomas A. Vest, MD Merritt F. Spear, MD John A. Duers, MD Richard A. Wagner, MD Betty R. Vohr, MD Jack Tatirosian, MD Harold R. Hahn, MD Carl R. Wirth, MD James I. Thompson, MD Donald R. Kelly, MD

*deceased

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Class of 1967 David H. Sprague, MD Michael R. Sorrell, MD Steven M. Turbiner, MD John C. Wheeler, DMD, MD John Van Orden, MD John B. Waldman, MD James L. Bernene, MD Neil T. Wolfman, MD Craig J. Youner, MD Matthew A. Farina, MD Class of 1970 Thasia Woodworth, MD Mark D. Groban, MD Edward R. Alexson, MD Class of 1974 F. Robert Jordan, Jr., MD Ann V. Als, MD Class of 1972 Eloise Aguirregoitia, MD James E. Joy, MD Gary E. Barnett, MD Wilfred N. Beaucher, MD Sterling S. Baker, MD Thomas H. Lesnik, MD James P. Barrett, PhD ’68, MD Allan R. Bernstein, MD Francis A. Bellino, MD Richard G. Masson, MD Bonnie B. Baswell, MD Robert Burakoff, MD Alan J. Berrick, MD Robert F. Moseley, III, MD David L. Baswell, MD George E. Burns, MD John J. Botti, MD Robert F. Pickels, MD Paul A. Bilder, MD Margaret M. Craven Edwarda M. Buda-Okreglak, MD A. John J. Popp, MD William M. Boehme, MD Snowden, MD William R. Dooley, MD Richard W. Price, MD Steven J. Burakoff, MD J. Kenneth Davison, MD John T. Fallon, III, MD Lucy A. Sandler, MD Christine L. Burns, MD Mark L. Fruiterman, MD William C. Hall, MD Thomas P. Smith, MD James S. Campbell, MD W. Jarrard Goodwin, Jr., MD Murray Korc, MD D. Billings Wheeler, MD Charles R. Carozza, MD David C. Grenoble, MD Clifford C. Marr, MD Class of 1968 Edward B. Clark, MD Vincent F. Guida, MD Patricia T. Pisciotto, MD Donald E. Craven, MD Lawrence A. Horn, MD Steven M. Silver, MD Joseph Agris, MD Eric C. Disbrow, MD Robert G. Insley, MD Jay D. Sprenger, MD Peter T. Burkart, MD Steven H. Dorfman, MD John R. Kearns, MD Andrew J. Sullivan, Jr., MD Donald J. Capuano, MD Michael R. Fischetti, Jr., MD Randall S. Krakauer, MD John R. Warkentin, MD James K. Condon, MD Frank J. Gaudiano, Jr., MD John J. LaFerla, MD, MPH Charles H. Weissman, MD Edward A. Curran, MD John J. Geren, MD Laurel S. Lipshutz, MD T. Michael White, MD Herbert J. DiMeola, MD Diane J. Henderson, MD Jeffrey Lozman, MD James J. Glynn, MD Steven M. Litinsky, MD Richard T. MacDowell, MD Class of 1975 Ronald A. Goodsite, MD Mary Anne MacCaughelty, MD Michael H. Metzler, III, MD Andrew I. Bressler, MD Arthur S. Hengerer, MD Brian L. Sayer, MD Jeffrey S. Mogelof, MD Andrew R. Burgess, MD Jeffrey D. Hubbard, MD Daniel L. Scharf, MD Arthur E. Orlick, MD George M. Cibik, MD Denis N. Lusignan, MD Edward C. Schmidt, MD Earl P. Robinson, Jr., MD Richard A. Feit, MD John M. Myers, MD Howard D. Shapiro, MD Norman R. Romanoff, MD Albert A. Fiorini, MD Anthony A. Pelosi, MD William P. Schecter, MD Paul A. Forman, MD Lawrence K. Siegel, MD Class of 1971 Peter B. Sherer, MD Martin A. Goldsmith, MD Donald E. Ware, MD Thomas A. Bailey, MD Edward M. Staub, MD Steven J. Goodman, MD Stephen D. Wolfe, MD Harvey L. Baron, MD Barry S. Yoss, MD Richard L. Hurwitz, MD Alfred H. Woodworth, MD Bryan S. Bilfield, MD Edward J. Jacobs, MD Class of 1973 Class of 1969 Michael A. Boxer, MD William R. Kimball, MD Patricia M. Catalano, MD Ken R. Adler, MD Robert J. Levai, MD William Swanson Barry, MD Richard M. Dickerman, MD Frederick P. Ambrose, MD Michael G. Levitzky, PhD William P. Batsford, MD John E. Dooley, MD Edward P. Amento, MD Stanley M. Lewis, MD Ronald T. Burkman, MD Ernst R. Dorsch, MD John F. Assini, MD John C. McPhillips, MD Price M. Chenault, MD Ronald J. Graf, MD Jonathan C. Britell, MD Mark J. Mittenthal, MD Peter W. Engster, MD James R. Hengerer, MD Richard E. Carroll, MD Charles J. Neilson, MD L. Nelson Hopkins, III, MD Richard G. Honig, MD Richard I. Gracer, MD Arthur G. Pettygrove, MD G. Timothy Johnson, MD Sanford L. Klein, MD Harry L. Haroutunian, MD Donna Pietrocola, MD William G. Johnston, Jr., MD Thomas Klepetar, MD Earl L. Horton, MD Steven Pinheiro, MD David B. Lawrence, MD Daniel A. Kramer, MD* David S. Jackson, MD Alfred Saleh, MD William H. Montano, MD Charles W. Lasky, Jr., MD Michael A. Kieserman, MD Joel A. Sender, MD Barbara F. Mufti, MD William Nisbet, MD Helyn M. Lefgren, MD Glenn S. Shear, MD Thomas M. Mulcahy, Jr., MD W. Dale Overfield, DDS, MD Donald K. Lundgren, MD John A. Walsh, MD Dennis P. Norfleet, MD* Matthew P. Rogan, MD J. Bryan Murphy, MD Allen W. Zieker, MD John D. Norton, MD Philip Saccoccia, Jr., MD Harry C. Odabashian, MD William C. Rosen, MD Albina Santilli, MD Winford A. Quick, MD Class of 1976 Harvey D. Scherer, MD William A. Shachtman, MD Robert B. Rockwell, MD Arthur Altbuch, MD Fred S. Schwartz, MD Peter D. Shapiro, MD Charles E. Staunton, MD Catherine E. Bartlett, MD Thomas L. Snyder, MD Alan P. Sitron, MD Peter M. Stevens, MD Debra A. Bell, MD

*deceased

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Margaret Block West, MD Kevin W. Roberts, MD Ronald V. Musto, MD Brenda E. Field, MD Donna Anne Caniano, MD John F. Schenck, MD Laurence A. Primack, MD Kathie L. Hermayer Dawson, Linda L. Civerchia Balent, MD Donald R. Schoch, MD Gary A. Schnur, MD MS, MD Diane I. Cohen, MD Vicki M. Sommer, MD Richard Schreiber, MD James E. Kolb, MD Arthur R. Copeland, MD Toni B. Walzer, MD Roy E. Schwartz, MD David H. Kuehler, MD Douglas B. Coursin, MD David L. Semenoff, MD Arthur W. Perry, MD John J. Cronan, MD Class of 1978 Neil H. Spitalny, MD Jeffrey B. Persons, MD Desmond R. Del Giacco, MD Robert A. Bergamini, MD J. Scott Toder, MD Van J. Ritter, MD Thomas Flotte, MD Bruce R. Blazar, MD Gary A. Weinstock, MD Saverio J. Sava, MD Ivan A. Friedrich, MD Jeffrey D. Blonstein, MD Diane D. Wirz, MD Duncan E. Savage, MD Philip J. Gara, Jr., MD David A. Collins, MD Samuel H. Zwillich, MD Richard J. Seeger, MD Gregory R. Harper, PhD, MD Richard E. Constable, MD Paul Z. Siegel, MD Dorothea M. Hoover, MD Lorraine E. Davis, MD Class of 1980 Michael P. Sonnekalb, MD Robert Josephberg, MD Richard B. Deatsch, MD Suzanne M. Ackley, MD Douglas A. Tebor, MD Kirk R. Kanter, MD Harry J. DePan, MD James W. Biondi, Jr., MD Cindy S. Tobin, MD Ralph L. Kramer, MD Dennis D. Dewey, MD Naomi Bloomfield, MD Herschel Tress, MD Kenneth C. Low, MD Adrian S. Dobs, MD Frederick W. Brandt, III, MD David M. Widlus, MD Scott Maizel, MD John P. Donovan, MD Richard M. Buschatzke, MD Ron K. Wolner, MD Catherine M. Mills, MD Amy D. Dunn, MD Margaret R. Carley, MD Daniel J. O’Connell, MD Leigh G. Durlacher, MD Phyllis Chang, MD Class of 1982 Mary E. Rappazzo, MD Perry L. Fleisher, MD Eileen K. Cutler, MD Mitchell H. Bamberger, MD, MBA Jeffrey S. Schottland, MD Hal J. Freiman, MD Jeffrey S. Daniels, MD Lynn D. Bertram, MD Susan Singer, MD Monte R. Friedman, MD James M. DeMasi, MD Michael L. Burke, MD Gary L. Sutter, MD Jonathan C. Hausheer, MD Mary Ellen Drislane, MD Michael B. Cohen, MD George J. Zambetti, Jr., MD Risa Kagan, MD Robert H. Dropkin, MD Bruce E. Cooper, MD Catherine A. Kiley, MD Stephen A. Hillman, MD Marianne H. Cowley, MD Class of 1977 Charles Kite, MD* Jeffrey A. Hirst, MD Richard H. Dal Col, MD Marino Baselice, MD Ronald L. Lipkowitz, MD Mark M. Hoffman, MD David J. Dickoff, MD Michael B. Clark, MD Janet P. Lord, MD Michael J. Horgan, MD Martin J. Edelman, MD Joseph G. Coroso, MD Arthur V. McDowell, MD Patricia L. Hughes Brandt, MD Vittorio Fiorenza, MD Isabella A. Danel, MD, MS Meryl H. Mendelson, MD Ann Hughes Daniels, MD Bradford S. Germain, MD William F. DeLuca, Jr., MD Bruce Nash, MD Henry J. Katz, MD Mark N. Hadley, MD Steven P. Dunn, MD Kathryn T. O’Keeffe, MD Theodore N. Keltz, MD Robert E. Hawkins, MD Ira Esformes, MD Mark D. Perry, MD Andrew J. Kurman, MD Robert J. Hedderman, MD Carolyn L. Frymoyer, MD Fredric S. Schoen, MD Anne K. Marthy-Noonan, MD Kathleen M. Kelly, MD Paul A. Frymoyer, MD Warren Silverman, MD Stuart J. Miller, Jr., MD E. Michael Kramer, MD James D. Fuchs, MD Gary S. Silverstein, MD Morris M. Milman, MD Andrew D. Mann, MD Harold R. Goldberg, MD Rudolf C. Ulirsch, MD Michael J. Mulvaney, MD Nancy R. Mann, MD William E. Greiner, MD Michael Y. Wong, MD James M. Noonan, MD Brian J. McGrath, MD Marc A. Hirsh, MD Brian R. Port, MD Daniel R. Miller, MD John H. Huntington, MD Class of 1979 Sharon Shapiro, MD Daniel A. Morgenstern, MD Brian J. Izzo, MD* John J. Cambareri, MD John J. Wasenko, MD Patrick G. O’Connor, MD, MPH David E. Kaplan, MD Paul C. Chalmers, MD Jeffrey L. Wisnicki, MD Christopher Ritchlin, MD Alan J. Kivitz, MD Barbara S. Ducatman, MD John R. Zech, MD Doria Ritchlin, MD Paul E. Kross, MD Patricia A. Eretto, MD Arnold M. Rosen, MD Barry S. Lindenberg, MD Steven M. Frisch, MD Class of 1981 Michael P. Scherl, MD Glenn E. Mathisen, MD Steven H. Gardner, MD Richard H. Alfred, MD Philip E. Shapiro, MD Thomas P. Mawhinney, PhD Janet E. Gargiulo, MD David M. Barnert, MD Richard P. Silton, MD John J. Meharg, MD Zachary B. Gerbarg, MD Roger A. Barrowman, MD Edward Skwiersky, MD David S. Mendelson, MD Kim Goldenberg, MD Deborah A. Belchis, MD Marc A. Swerdloff, MD Fred E. Mensch, MD Gary L. Gottlieb, MD David A. Bernstein, MD Debra A. Tristram, MD Marvin S. Packer, MD Margaret M. Grogan, MD Arnold J. Blank, MD Evan Vosburgh, MD Robert J. Panzer, MD Margaret M. Hawn, MD Robert A. Briskin, MD Robert B. Weitzman, MD Mark E. Parker, MD James F. Horn, MD Richard Ciulla, MD Jonathan A. Polikoff, MD Harold B. Luke, MD Robert F. Dunton, MD

*deceased

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Class of 1983 Class of 1985 Gurvinder S. Uppal, MD Stephen M. Schutz, MD George A. Vassolas, MD Michael S. Severance, MD Devi M. Ananda, MD John B. Bennet, II, MD Robert A. Wolff, MD Michael E. Shivers, MD Victoria I. Balkoski, MD Mark P. Callery, MD Alisa S. Siegfeld, MD Douglas H. Bass, MD Anthony C. Campagna, MD Class of 1987 Scott L. Silliman, MD David E. Baum, MD Daniel S. Casper, MD, PhD Geoffrey W. Bacon, MD John W. Trudel, MD Dominic J. Belmonte, MD Andrew P. Chodos, MD James V. Bono, MD Susan A. Weaver, MD Mitchel A. Campito, MD James L. Darling, MD Russ U. Braun, MD Michael H. Winston, MD Gregory W. Cooper, MD Susan M. Donnelly, MD Brian G. Cuddy, MD Jitka L. Zobal-Ratner, MD Jeffrey M. Feldman, MD Rosalind Hayes, MD Elizabeth Garland, MD, MS Robert T. Grant, MD Ann Hedderman, MD Samuel H. Glassner, MD Class of 1989 Mary E. Hartnett, MD William M. Kufs, MD Samuel E. Green, MD Linda Anderson, MD David G. Heisig, MD Michael S. Lauer, MD Russell W. Hartung, MD Jane P. Balint, MD Carol L. Howe, MD Jeffrey M. Laut, MD Aries Liu Helm, MD Dwayne L. Clay, MD Anne H. Kalter, MD Gregory Leghart, MD Thomas N. Helm, MD Kelly A. Dennin, MD Mitchell E. Kalter, MD James J. Litynski, MD Jerome C. Hill, MD Ian N. Hamilton, Jr., MD Kathleen A. Kennedy, MD Frank Lo Re, MD Lorna F. Honan, MD Thomas Q. Kong, Jr., MD Thomas M. Kennedy, MD David M. Mastrianni, MD Vincent J. Honan, MD Daniella D. Lukashok Plottel, MD Barbara E. Krenzer, MD Mary Ann McDonald, MD Gerard P. Johnson, PhD Sandra L. Marwill, MD Jack S. Krushell, MD Hunter L. McQuistion, MD Ursula A. Matulonis, MD Elaine A. Rosenfeld-Margulis, MD Peter R. Maggiore, MD Joan F. Puglia, MD Eric S. Molho, MD Steven D. Schwartz, MD Louis G. Prevosti, MD John M. Roehmholdt, MD Laura J. Perry, MD Christopher A. Sullivan, MD Edna Anne Pytlak, MD Nancy C. Sapio, MD W. Terence Reilly, MD Karen L. Tan, MD Matthew W. Rowe, MD Robert E. Shangraw, PhD ’81, MD Edward Rydzak, MD Sharon T. Tietgens, MD Gary K. Schwartz, MD Nicholas A. Smyrnios, MD Bradley H. Seely, MD Peter A. Vincent, PhD Glynis Scott, MD Robert Sorrentino, MD Eric T. Waterman, MD Margaret von Mehren, MD Eric S. Seyferth, MD Nirit R. Swerdloff, MD Ian J. Weinstein, MD Carol M. Wadon, MD Darrell J. Triulzi, MD Class of 1988 Thomas G. Ward, MD Robert P. Walker, MD William J. Angelos, MD Class of 1990 Barbara W. Wolner, MD Fran R. Wallach-Stein, MD Hannah L. Brooks, MD Christopher L. Campese, Michelle H. Whiteman, MD Michael E. Brown, MD MD, MS ’15 Class of 1984 Karen Wood, MD James W. Catanese, MD Brian M. Freed, PhD Catherine R. Bartholomew, MD Barry Ziring, MD Joseph S. Cirrone, MD Christopher F. Gabriels, MD Anthony G. Bassanelli, MD Stuart V. Demirs, MD Joseph A. Garvey, MD Amy S. Bloom, MD Class of 1986 Neil A. Fisher, MD Maura C. Kibbey, PhD Peter W. Cohen, MD Michael S. Albert, MD James P. Gaylord, MD Eric S. Knochenhauer, MD Susan T. Crowley, MD Ave I. Bacher, MD Gail A. Herzig, MD Tara A. Lindsley, PhD Bruce P. Jaufmann, MD Charles F. Botti, Jr., MD Theresa Hetzler Denu, MD Ayaz T. Madraswalla, MD Nolan J. Kagetsu, MD Laura A. Carinci, MD Herbert I. Hirsch, MD Kathleen Mantaro, MD Neil S. Kaye, MD William M. Forman, MD James G. Houle, MD Michael C. Mesbah, MD Rhonda J. Myers, PhD, MD Marjorie P. Golden, MD Jin Moon Kang, MD Justine Nghiem, MD William L. Niedrach, MD Katherine M. Hess Tallering, MD Nicole Kenney, MD David I. Shapiro, MD John Papandrea, MD Douglas K. Hiltz, Jr., MD Peter E. Lethin, MD Richard D. Siegel, MD Cynthia R. Pegler, MD Maria N. Kansas Devine, MD Douglas A. MacPherson, MD Anne C. Walsh, PhD Lee M. Ratner, MD Robert D. Lerman, MD Teresa Ning, MD Steven B. Weinfeld, MD Anthony L. Ritaccio, MD Anthony J. Marinello, MD John C. Notaro, MD Susan P. Welgrin, MD Mark P. Slovenkai, MD Martin J. McCaffrey, MD Barry J. Perlman, MD Theodore N. Stein, MD Gregg S. Meyer, MD Gerhard L. Perz, MD Class of 1991 Vincent P. Verdile, MD Gregg E. Moral, MD Daniel A. Picard, MD Kourosh Adhami, MD Paul M. Weidoff, Jr., MD Robert J. Newborn, MD Robert J. Rapoport, MD Cathy J. Berry Lozoponi, MD Duncan F. Winter, III, MD Richard P. Noonan, MD Ronald N. Reis, MD Linda M. Callahan, PhD Kirkham B. Wood, MD William W. O’Connor, MD Iris W. Rotker, MD Diane Cue, MD Thomas A. Wormer, MD Mary M. O’Hare, MD Jonathan D. Rotker, MD Kimberly A. Davis, MD Ronald S. Zelnick, MD Philip K. Paty, MD Alan M. Sanders, MD Josephine Gambardella, MD Peter Zloty, MD Pasquale Petrera, MD Lee G. Schulman, MD Michael W. Graber, MD John-Patrick Python, MD Elaine Schulte, MD John M. Haworth, MD

*deceased

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Suresh G. Kamath, MD Class of 1995 Felicia Chen, MD Lynn Y. Nakamura, MD David Karandy, MD Michael K. Chung, MD John Powell, MD Michael E. Carley, MD Ralph L. Liporace, MD Soume D. Foshee, MD Shaheda A. Quraishi, MD Visoth Chhiap, MD Sandra M. Nagler, MD Michael Henson, MD Ira Shetty, MD Linda C. Emmer, MD Sarah Reed-Esper, MD Jeanette A. Legenza, MD Dan-Thuy Tran, MD Deborah M. Green-LaRoche, MD Misty J. Rydelski, MD Laurie Montano, MD Felix Urman, MD Rena B. Kass, MD Anthony M. Szema, MD Peter Oishi, MD Harpal S. Khanuja, MD Robert S. Yee, MD Priti Patel, MD Class of 2002 Laurie Lambert Nadal, MD Daniel T. Phelan, MD Elliott J. Anderson, MD Hartwell N. Lin, MD Class of 1992 Donna Phelan, MD Jodi M. Della Rocca, CRNA, Mona Magennis-Swanson, Tyrone G. Bristol, MD, MPH Julie G. Pilitsis, MD, PhD MS, PhD CRNA, MS Christine C. Dearth, MD Kinga Pluta, MD Laurene M. Fleischer, MD Nolawi M. Mengesha, MD Cynthia E. Flynn, MD Michael J. Zapor, MD, PhD LouAnne L. Giangreco, MD Craig M. Mines, MD Neal A. Foman, MD Vanessa R. Greenwood, MD Jason Mouzakes, MD Rajesh R. Gandhi, MS ’90, Class of 1999 Kristin H. Lehr Anderson, MD Karen Mrejen-Shakin, MD PhD ’91, MD Tracey J. Browning, MD Anne Lorenson, MD Suzanne I. Pastore, MD Eric M. Horwitz, MD Anthony Chang, MD Michelle Neier, MD Michael A. Piplani, MD Lynne B. Kaplinsky Brown, MD Alexandra M. Clark, MD John S. Novak, MD Valerie M. Sprenz, MD Dennis P. McKenna, MD Clifford A. Erickson, MD Christina Rho, MD William E. Swanson, MD Matthew J. Murnane, MD Robert W. Giering, MD Juan Sheng, CRNA, MS Rita S. Patel, MD Class of 1996 Frederic J. Hellwitz, MD Jennifer L. Stratton, MD John S. Pujals, MD Jacqueline M. Jones, MD Matthew Waxman, MD Victor Alexander, MD Janet L. Scheraga, MD Gordon M. Kaplan, MD George Zanaros, MD Amita A. Bagal, MD Kelly S. Smith Der Cola, MD Suneet Kaur, MD Jennifer K. Bogan, MD Laura E. Staff, MD Anita R. Kohli-Pamnani, MD Class of 2003 Mary E. Chmura, MD Stefan A. Swicker, MD Michael J. Rosenblum, MD Justin M. Ferrara, MD Michelle C. Guevarra-Pena, MD Heather J. Symons, MD Michael J. Fitzpatrick, MD Wayne Hioe, MD Class of 1993 Deborah E. Wentworth Kimberly A. Kilby, MD, MPH Laura M. Lane, CRNA, MS Hedieh Arbabzadeh, MD Fowler, MD Michael T. Mulligan, MD Mary H. Lombardi, MD Matthew J. Ben, MD Rollin Wright, MD Kristina M. Roddy, MD Dan I. Mirski, Sr., MD Bryon A. Dickerson, MD Li Min Yang, MD Thomas J. Mollen, Jr., MD Philip J. Hlavac, MD Class of 2000 David E. Seals, MD Deborah A. Keightley, MD Liva Andrejeva, MD Class of 2004 Sandra J. Shin, MD John C. Lantis, II, MD Gennady Bratslavsky, MD Kelly K. Curtis, MD Nilesh B. Shukla, MD Susan P. McConnell, MD Michael F. Canarie, MD Annette M. Grajny, MD Stephen J. Thomas, MD John P. Nabagiez, MD John P. Gavin, MD Kathryn A. Hogan, MD Irene Y. Tien, MD Bernard T. Ng, MD Donna M. Heffernan, MD Jennifer I. Hughes, MD Scott Weisberg, MD Bidyut K. Pramanik, MD Stacey L. Jeronis, MD Anna Kaltsas, MD Frank J. Wessels, MD Judith M. Van Woert, MD Lyra W. Ng, MD Peter Manes, MD Debra C. Zimring, MD, PhD Dilip B. Viswanath, MD Matthew G. Niemi, MD Nestor B. Nestor, MD Class of 1997 Sacha Z. Niemi, MD Njogu K. Njuguna, MD Class of 1994 Lucio A. Pavone, MD Daniel K. Pauze, MD Pamela K. Adelstein, MD Seema Azam, MD Robert M. Peskin, MD Joseph A. Picca, MD Jess G. Alcid, MD Catherine Chiu Tan, MD Mary Ann Randall, CRNA, MS Elizabeth L. Rose, MD Allison R. DeTommasi, MD Uday Dasika, MD Faeza Rashid Kazmier, MD Christine M. Whitman, MD Manish Jain, MD Emily Etzkorn, MD Vivian Reyes, MD Eric J. Whitman, MD David M. Jones, MD Gregory Heeb, MD Lisa S. Visscher, MD Christopher B. Nicpon, MD Elizabeth Kann, MD, MPH Frederick Y. Wu, MD Class of 2005 Sonya E. Pritchard, MD Sunil K. Khanna, MD Marcin M. Zygawski, MD Michael P. Beckett, MD Dana R. Rausch, MD Shahrzad Mohammadi, MD Robert R. Faust, III, MD Aviva D. Zyskind, MD Class of 2001 Vinisha Patel, MD Gina M. Geis, MD, MS ’19 Raymond Tan, MD Class of 1998 John J. DeStafeno, MD Fassil B. Mesfin, MS ’00, Maria E. Vergara Barbe, MD Mineke E. Etienne, MD PhD ’01, MD Shellie Asher, MD, MS ’10 Jennifer J. Wu, MD Spencer C. Greene, MD Miriam F. Parsa, MD Alexander C. Brand, MD Stephen Krampert, MD Jared T. Roberts, MS ’02, MD Steven R. Brown, MD Allison D. Lupinetti, MD

*deceased

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Class of 2006 Laura D’Entrone, CRNA, MS Class of 2014 Angela M. Desmond, MD Melissa Leber, MD John H. Espey, III, MD Jessica Aiezza, MS, PA Linda M. Breslin, MS Heather Prunty, MD Michael Francke, MD Joanne N. Barlin, MD Andrea Kingsley, CRNA, MS Kimberly Robinson, MD Ashton M. Garbutt, MD Matthew T. Burke, MD Neil V. Mandalaywala, MD Kiley Toder, MD Elizabeth M. Garvey, MD Jonathan F. Cahill, MD Patricia Northrup, MS, PA Arielle J. Gerard, MS ’17, MD Van Fronhofer, II, PhD Ekenesenarienrien C. Class of 2010 Joshua I. Goldberg, MD Michael A. Kubalik, MD Omokaro, MD Stephen A. Antonucci, MD Joseph M. Henain, MD Melchor H. Munoz, MD Marie Kristine N. Panganiban, MD David E. Auringer, MD Kristen A. Island, MD Stacey C. Olney, MD Christopher D. Brook, MD Class of 2015 Ryan D. Johnsen, MD Alexandra L. Chomut, MD Stephanie Jou, MD Class of 2007 Andrew W. Mak, MD Edward D. Gifford, MD Rafael J. Kaplan, MD Trevor J. Bayliss, MD Veronica T. Nguyen, MD Nadia Haqqie, MD Kevork A. Khadarian, MD Erick H. Cheung, MD Ann M. Powelson, MD Adam S. Howe, MD Colleen M. Kilbourne, MD Michael A. Feuerstein, MD Nicholas G. Richardson, MD Melissa D. Kivitz-Krantzow, MD Meghan A. Klawonn, MD Neil R. Gildener-Leapman, MD Adare Yanagihara, MD Wilson Lam, MD Christina M. Kratlian, MD Jackcy Jacob, MD Amy McGinnis, CRNA, MS James H. Lee, MD Peter A. Mancini, MD Class of 2016 Joseph P. Merlone, MD John A. Lopez, MD Ivan M. Ngai, MD Mark B. Chaskes, MD Gregory C. Perry, MD Michael D. Lum, MD Amy Pound, MD Laura S. Chiu, MD Melissa A. Perry, MD Saba Malik, MD Brandy L. Shattuck, MD David F. Gottlieb, MD Derek Wood, CRNA, MS Megan E. McCarty, MD Lisa A. Visentin Haushalter, MD Jillian M. Kazley, MD Molly F. McGuiggan, MD Charles H. Kite, MS, PA Class of 2011 Elvin Mendez, MD Class of 2008 David Levine, MD Thomas J. Barrett, MD Devin H. Midura, MD Kristine Carpenter, MD Julia M. Macina Burns, MD Mark Conroy, MD Linda A. Paniszyn, MD Jamie Chao, MD Liane M. McAuliffe, MD Ganary Dabiri, PhD ’08, MD Justin Pegueros, MD Artur Chernoguz, MD Margot P. Rogers, MD Sean P. Geary, MD Analise F. Peleggi, MD Michael A. DiMeola, MD Carol E. Soteropulos, MD Maximilian Hsia, MD Eric M. Perloff, MD Helen D. Eshed, MD Lauren L. Westover, MD Sarah E. Koch, MD Carolyn T. Phillips, MD Soren Gandhi, MD Jonathan Kurman, MD Joshua K. Potvin, MD David Humphrey, MD Class of 2017 Jacqueline T. Quezada, MD Ryan M. Krampert, MD Class of 2012 Vivek Bose, MD Jake J. Rachiele, MD John M. LaMar, PhD Patrick C. Cheney, MD Kevin A. Cook, MD Jennifer L. Raffaele, MD Melanie A. Loewenthal, MD Daniel D. Lee, MD Sarah R. Daniels, MD Rohini Rau-Murthy, MD Sohail M. Malek, MD Nicole Lostritto, MD Caroline M. Riddle, MD Jeannine Miranne, MD Class of 2018 Patrick G. Marinello, MD Khizer Rizvi, MD Asha Nair, MD John J. O. Accarino, MD Nicole A. Morin, MD Danielle Rizzini, MD Elizabeth Paddock, MD Maxwell C. Alley, MD Jessica A. Riggs, MD Julieta L. Rodriguez, MD Brandi R. Page, MD Laura B. Anderson, MD Aman Shah, MD Michael G. Rosco, MD Nicholas L. Pantaleo, MD Juliana Atallah, MD Destiny M. Roseman, MD Amar Parikh, MD Class of 2013 Tania Aziz, MD Ankur A. Shah, MD M. Lucius Pomerantz, MD Austin G. Bagingito, MD Kayla M. Abitabile, MS Kathleen E. Shanley, MD Sara Raymond, MD Abigail Belasen, MD Meredith A. Chan, MD Robert D. Shaw, MD Ann E. Rutter, MD Anuschka S. Bhatia, MD Akira W. Gillingham, MD Maisa Siddique, MD Nisha Shah, MD Ian D. Brasted, MD Ajay Gupta, MD Cara M. Sprague, MD Peter Socaris, CRNA, MS Matthew J. Bruha, MD Mastoora Nasiri, MD Morgan P. Spurgas, MD Salvatore J. Taliercio, MD Mary E. Canders, MD Alan S. Nyquist, MD Allan E. Stolarski, MD Victoria Varga Huettner, MD Gregory Ceus, MD Alexandra W. Rehfuss, MD Jared S. Supple, MD Annie Chen, MD Class of 2009 Justin Rice, MD Brittany M. Tayler, MD Denaly S. Chen, MD Amar S. Shah, MD Kristine A. Villegas, MD Megan Applewhite, MD Alyssa F. Churchill, MD Jennifer Walia, MD Jonathan Wons, MD James M. Belarmino, MD Lauren M. Conner, MD Philip Yeung, MD Tim Caramore, MD Rebecca A. Coriolan, MD Robert S. Zhang, MD Urania Dagalakis, MD Cara R. Zimmerman, MD Shilpa M. Darivemula, MD

*deceased

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Partners in Leadership are those donors who make gifts totaling $1,000 or more to Albany Medical College in a year. Our Alumni Partners are leaders in helping to secure the future success of the College. Thank you for your generous support.

Anonymous (5) Catherine Britell, MD and Jonathan Britell, MD ’73 Jess Alcid, MD ’97 Edwarda Buda-Okreglak, MD ’74 Victor Alexander, MD ’96 Suzanne and Steven Burakoff, MD ’70 Ellen and Edward Alexson, MD ’70 Patricia and Peter Burkart, MD ’68 Betty and Ambrose Alfonsi, MD ’50 Millie and Ronald Burkman, MD ’69 Kelly and Richard Alfred, MD ’81 Christine Burns, MD ’70 and George Burns, MD ’72 Sandra and Frederick Ambrose, MD ’73 Angela and Mark Callery, MD ’85 Ronald Anderson, MD ’63 Anthony Campagna, MD ’85 Susan and Albert Apicelli, MD ’65 Dianne and James Campbell, MD ’70 Megan Applewhite, MD ’09 Donna A. Caniano, MD ’76 and Richard A. Flores M. Lynn and Thomas A. Bailey, MD ’71 Margaret and Donald Capuano, MD ’68 Cheryl and Sterling Baker, MD ’74 Margaret Carley, MD ’80 and Harry Dunn, MD Jane Balint, MD ’89 and Kenneth Ramsey Daniel S. Casper, MD ’85, PhD Victoria I. Balkoski, MD ’83 and Paul S. Winkeller Patricia Catalano, MD ’71 and Anthony Catalano Edie and Mitchell Bamberger, MD ’82, MBA Alison and James Catanese, MD ’88 Grace and Anthony Bardinelli, MD ’61 Susan and Paul Chalmers, MD ’79 Joanne N. Barlin, MD ’06 Arlein and Saebert Chamikles, MD ’57 David M. Barnert, MD ’81 Brittany and Anthony Chang, MD ’99 Lorraine Schulte Barry and William Swanson Barry, MD ’69 Phyllis Chang, MD ’80 Catherine Bartlett, MD ’76 and Randall Bartlett Visoth Chhiap, MD ’95 Kathy and Marino Baselice, MD ’77 Andrew P. Chodos, MD ’85 Stephanie and Anthony Bassanelli, MD ’84 Karen and Joseph Cirrone, MD ’88 Bonnie Baswell, MD ’70 and David Baswell, MD ’70 Linda L. Civerchia Balent, MD ’76 Joanne and Wilfred Beaucher, MD ’72 Carleen and Edward Clark, MD ’70 Debra Bell, MD ’76 and Thomas Flotte, MD ’76 Susan and Dwayne Clay, MD ’89 Mary and Dominic Belmonte, MD ’83 Bette and John Cohen, MD ’63 Jane and Joseph Belsky, MD ’55 John J. Condemi, MD ’57 Diane and James Bernene, MD ’67 Linda and James Condon, MD ’68 Susan and Allan Bernstein, MD ’72 Barbara and Richard Constable, MD ’78 Lynn Bertram, MD ’82 Laurie and John Cronan, MD ’76 Kathy and Bryan Bilfield, MD ’71 Susan Crowley, MD ’84 and Kevin Crowley, PsyD James W. Biondi, MD ’80 Edward Curran, MD ’68 William M. Boehme, MD ’70 Kelly Curtis, MD ’04 Meg and James V. Bono, MD ’87 Kathleen Ciancetta-Dal Col and Richard Dal Col, MD ’82 Anne McRae Botti and Charles Botti, Jr., MD ’86 Ann Hughes Daniels, MD ’80 and Jeffrey Daniels, MD ’80 Elizabeth and John Botti, MD ’74 Ursula and Paul Davidson, MD ’56 Alice and John Bowker, MD ’56 Kimberly Davis, MD ’91 Arthur Brelia, MD ’50 Maureen and J. Kenneth Davison, MD ’72 Tyrone G. Bristol, MD ’92, MPH, FAAP, CPE Jodi Della Rocca, CRNA, MS ’02, PhD and Tom Della Rocca

*deceased

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Ellen and Harry DePan, MD ’78 Robert T. Grant, MD ’83 David Dickoff, MD ’82 Carol and David Grenoble, MD ’72 Herbert J. DiMeola, MD ’68 Lynne and Mark Groban, MD ’67 Judith and Eric Disbrow, MD ’70 Lori and Mark Hadley, MD ’82 Adrian Dobs, MD ’78 and Martin Auster, MD Judy and J. Bruce Hagadorn, MD ’66 Jo and William Donovan, MD ’66 Diana Timlin and William Hall, MD ’74 Rosemarie Dooley, RN ’69 and John Dooley, MD ’71 Stacey and Ian Hamilton, Jr., MD ’89 Marion Blakey and William Dooley, MD ’74 Nadia Haqqie, MD ’10 Steven Dorfman, MD ’70 Nicolette and Harry Haroutunian, MD ’73 Patricia and Ernst Dorsch, MD ’71 Margaret L. Hayes, MD ’65* Mary Ellen Drislane, MD ’80 and Joseph Baler, MD Rosalind Hayes, MD ’85 and Timothy Hayes Barbara Ducatman, MD ’79 and Alan Ducatman, MD Linda and Robert Hedderman, MD ’82 Victoria and John Duers, MD ’64 Gregory Heeb, MD ’94 Sherri and Martin Edelman, MD ’82 Diane Henderson, MD ’70 Linda Emmer, MD ’95 Arthur Hengerer, MD ’68 Christine and David* Eppard, MD ’65 Judith and James Hengerer, MD ’71 Debbie and Clifford Erickson, MD ’99 Jeffrey A. Hirst, MD ’80 Elynor* and David Falk, MD ’43 Lorna Honan, MD ‘87 and Vincent Honan, MD ’87 Missy and John Fallon, III, MD ’74 Dorothea Hoover, MD ’76 Richard Feit, MD ’75 Ann and L. Nelson Hopkins, III, MD ’69 Debra and Jeffrey Feldman, MD ’83 The Hon. Jaclyn Brilling and Michael Horgan, MD ’80 Cynthia Flynn, MD ’92 and Deirdre Boyle, Esq. Lynn and James Horn, MD ’79 Deborah Wentworth Fowler, MD ’99 and John Fowler Sandra and Earl Horton, MD ’73 Gisele and Brian Freed, PhD ’90 Nancy J. Liu, MD and James G. Houle, MD ’88 Ellen and Hal Freiman, MD ’78 Adam S. Howe, MD ’10 Monte Friedman, MD ’78 Patricia Hughes, MD ‘80 and Frederick Brandt, MD ’80 Dorie and Ivan Friedrich, MD ’76 Diane and Edward Iannuccilli, MD ’65 Phyllis and Steven Frisch, MD ’79 Barbara and Robert Insley, MD ’72 Stacy and Mark Fruiterman, MD ’72 Nancy and G. Timothy Johnson, MD ’69 Carolyn Frymoyer, MD ’77 and Paul Frymoyer, MD ’77 Nancy and William Johnston, Jr., MD ’69 Deborah and Pasquale Fugazzotto, MD ’58 Glory-Anne and David Jones, MD ’97 Christopher Gabriels, MD ’90 F. Robert Jordan, Jr., MD ’67 Josephine Gambardella, MD ’91 and Christopher Roberts Linda and Suresh Kamath, MD ’91 Rajesh Ramesh Gandhi, MS ’90, PhD ’91, MD ’92 Elizabeth Kann, MD ’94, MPH and Uday Dasika, MD ’94 Janet Gargiulo, MD ’79 Josephine and Kirk Kanter, MD ’76 Padma Garvey, MD and Joseph A. Garvey, MD ’90 Kathleen Kelly, MD ’82 and Arnold Rosen, MD ’82 Sheila and Zachary Gerbarg, MD ’79 Matilda Kiesel, RN ’59 and Robert Kiesel, MD ’60 John J. Geren, MD ’70 Catherine Kiley, MD ’78 and Donald Schoch, MD ’77 Beverly and Bradford Germain, MD ’82 Linda and William Kimball, MD ’75 Patricia and Ralph Giannella, MD ’65 James Kolb, MD ’81 Joyce and Terry Goff, MD ’58 Antoinette Korc, MD and Murray Korc, MD ’74 Sandy and Hal Goldberg, MD ’77 Marcia and Randall Krakauer, MD ’72 Maureen and Alfred Gomez, MD ’55 Margaret and E. Michael Kramer, MD ’82 Ronald A. Goodsite, MD ’68 Laura and Daniel* Kramer, MD ’71

*deceased

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John LaMar, PhD ’08 Helen and William Nisbet, MD ‘71 Jane Royal and John Lantis, MD ’93 Doren and Dennis* Norfleet, MD ’69 Margaret* and John Larkin, MD ’57 Patricia Northrup, MS, PA ’14 Margaret and J. Peter Lawler, MD ’65 Robin Pellish and Patrick G. O’Connor, MD ’82 Helyn Lefgren, MD ’73 Kathleen and Harry Odabashian, MD ’73 Judith and Neil Lempert, MD ’58 Kathryn O’Keeffe, MD ’78 and James Fuchs, MD ’77 Andrea and Hartwell Lin, MD ’95 W. Dale Overfield, DDS, MD ’71 and JoAnn R. Overfield Kenneth Linstruth, MD ’54 Vinisha Patel, MD ’94 and Saurabh Shah Laurel Lipshutz, MD ’72 and Robert Lipshutz Jeannette and Lewis Patrie, MD ’52 Peter C. Lombardo, MD ’59 Dawn and Philip Paty, MD ’86 Janet Lord, MD ’78 Joann and Carl Paulsen, MD ’58 Judy and Kenneth C. Low, MD ’76 Patricia* Pearce, MD ’50 and Fred* Pearce Allison Lupinetti, MD ’01 and John Gavin, MD ’00 Leslie and Valmore Pelletier, Jr., MD ’63 Mubashar Mahmood, MD ’94 Anthony A. Pelosi, MD ’68 Peter Mancini, MD ’07 Kathleen and Pasquale Petrera, MD ’86 Jacquelyn Brewer, MD and Peter Manes, MD ’04 Leslie and Arthur Pettygrove, MD ’75 Nancy Reisman Mann, MD ’82 and Andrew Mann, MD ’82 Donna Phelan, MD ’98 and Daniel Phelan, MD ’98 Kathleen Mantaro, MD ’90 Sharon Sullivan and Paul Phillips, MD ’62 Sandra Marwill, MD ’89 and James Jampel Donna Pietrocola, MD ’75 and Steven Pinheiro, MD ’75 Lucille and David Mastrianni, MD ’85 Daniella Lukashok Plottel, MD ’89 and Michael Plottel Ursula Matulonis, MD ’87 and Jane O’Rourke Eleanor and Charles* Poskanzer, MD ’45 Susan McConnell, MD ’93 and John McConnell Betty* and Kenneth* Pratt, MD ’57 Charles “Tom” McHugh, MD ’64 and Anne McHugh Helen and Donald Price, Sr., MD ’61 Karen and Dennis P. McKenna, MD ’92 Edna Anne Pytlak, MD ’83 and Fredrick Pytlak Andrea and Fred Mensch, MD ’77 Joyce and Winford Quick, MD ’73 Natalie and Fassil Mesfin, MS ’00, PhD ’01, MD ’05 Suzanne Rapoport, MD and Robert Rapoport, MD ’88 Cora* and William* Meyer, Jr., MD ’55 June and John* Raymond, Jr., MD ’50 Bonnie and Gregg Meyer, MD ’86 Kelly and Jared Roberts, MD ’05 Bonnie and Stuart Miller, Jr., MD ’80 Judith and Kevin Roberts, MD ’77 Gary Miller, MD ’65 Tiiu and Roger Robison, MD ’63 Morris Milman, MD ’80 Sheliah and John Roehmholdt, MD ’85 The Hon. Stacy Pettit and Eric Molho, MD ’87 Mary and George* Roff, MD ’65 Laurie Montano, MD ’98 Adele and Matthew Rogan, MD ’71 William Montano, MD ’69 Patricia and William Rosen, MD ’69 Moriah Moser and Daniel Morgenstern, MD ’82 Gerald Ross, MD ’54 Mary Anne and Robert Moseley, III, MD ’67 Nancy and Edward Rydzak, MD ’87 Jason Mouzakes, MD ’95 Marlene and Philip Saccoccia, Jr., MD ’71 Christine and Michael Mulligan, MD ’03 Leizbeth and Alan Sanders, MD ’88 Janet and Michael Mulvaney, MD ’80 Albina Santilli, MD ’71 and Thomas Santilli Michele and Ronald Musto, MD ’79 Nancy C. Sapio, MD ’85 and David Taffany Rhonda Myers, PhD, MD ’84 and Klaus Rosebrock Michelle and Lewis Schainuck, MD ’64 David R. Nalin, MD ’65 Miriam and Daniel Scharf, MD ’70 Donald Namm, PhD ’65 Susan Kalia, MD and John Schenck, MD ’77 Andrea and Robert Newborn, MD ’86 Michael Scherl, MD ’82

*deceased

SUMMER 2019 | 39 2018 Contributors Report Alumni Partners

Diane and Richard Schultz, MD ’56 Debra Tristram, MD ’82 and James Tristram Fred S. Schwartz, MD ’69 Irene and Clyde Turner, MD ’61 Constance Young and Gary Schwartz, MD ’83 Trudy and Charles Umansky, MD ’63, FACS Glynis Scott, MD ’83 Jessie Uppal, MD and Gurvinder Uppal, MD ’86 H. James Sears, MD ’63 Gloria and George Vassolas, MD ’86 Ann and Dean Seibert, MD ’58 Lou-Ann and Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84 Catherine and David Semenoff, MD ’79 Betty Vohr, MD ’66 and Thomas Gidley Beverly and William Shachtman, MD ’71 Elizabeth Myers, PhD and Evan Vosburgh, MD ’82 Patricia and Peter Shapiro, MD ’71 Carol Wadon, MD ’83 and Bruce Jaufmann, MD ’84 Sharon Shapiro, MD ’80 and Andrew Kurman, MD ’80 Christine and Thomas Ward, MD ’83 Brandy Shattuck, MD ’07 and Geoffrey Zmyslowski John Warkentin, MD ’74 Michele and Glenn Shear, MD ’75 Roberta and John Wasenko, MD ’80 Sandra Shin, MD ’96 and John Nabagiez, MD ’93 Joan and Paul Weidoff, Jr., MD ’84 Apexa and Nilesh Shukla, MD ’96 Tammy and Steven Weinfeld, MD ’90 Cheryl and Steven Silver, MD ’74 Margaret Block West, MD ’76 and Larry West Mark Slovenkai, MD ’84 Sarah and D. Billings Wheeler, MD ’67 Carol and Alexander Snyder, MD ’65 Lynne* and Frederick Wilson, MD ’63 Gina and Tom Snyder, MD ’69 Delphine and Duncan Winter, III, MD ’84 Vicki Sommer, MD ’77 and Alan Kivitz, MD ’77 Diane Wirz, MD ’79 and William Wirz Rebecca and Robert Sorrentino, MD ’85 Rebecca and Jeffrey Wisnicki, MD ’80 Joan and Merritt Spear, MD ’60 Robert A. Wolff, MD ’86 Clara Staunton, MD ’63 Melissa and Thomas Wormer, MD ’84 Lori Krop and Theodore Stein, MD ’84 Nancy Green Worsham, MD ’63 and Jerry C. Worsham, MD ’62 Susan and Peter Stevens, MD ’73 Jennifer Wu, MD ’94 and Steven Cowgill Danielle and Christopher Sullivan, MD ’89 Vivian* and Barry Yoss, MD ’72 Vera and Gary Sutter, MD ’76 Jolie Patak, MD and Craig Youner, MD ’73 Karen Tan, MD ’89 and Kevin Lau, MD ’93 Eileen Zambetti, MD and George Zambetti, Jr., MD ’76 Stephen J. Thomas, MD ’96 Amy and George Zanaros, MD ’02 Sharon Tietgens, MD ’89 Joan* Zangara, MD ’57 and Anthony Zangara, MD Kiley Toder, MD ’09 Nancy and Allen Zieker, MD ’75 Kim and J. Scott Toder, MD ’79 Marcie and Peter Zloty, MD ’84

*deceased

40 | alumni.amc.edu SPECIAL EDITION 2018 Contributors Report Alumni Pillars Society Members

Members of the Albany Medical College Pillars Society have created a lasting legacy using their wills, life income gifts or retirement plans.

Anonymous (2) Alan Gulick, MD ’78 Ellen and Edward Alexson, MD ’70 Diana Timlin and William Hall, MD ’74 Susan and Albert Apicelli, MD ’65 Arthur Hengerer, MD ’68 Mary Louise and Anthony Arena, MD ’60 Judith and James Hengerer, MD ’71 M. Lynn and Thomas A. Bailey, MD ’71 Elaine Henry, RN ’61 and William Henry, MD ’63 Irmgard and James P. Barrett, PhD ’68, MD ’70 Jeffrey A. Hirst, MD ’80 Lorraine Schulte Barry and William Swanson Barry, MD ’69 Judith and Eugene* Hoenig, MD ’59 Myrna and Arnold* Baskin, MD ’52 Lorna Honan, MD ’87 and Vincent Honan, MD ’87 David Beck, MD ’54 Diana Honet, RN ’58 and Joseph* Honet, MD ’57 Mary* and Levon Bedrosian, MD ’47 Sylvia and Seymour* Horwitz, MD ’39 Jane and Joseph Belsky, MD ’55 Nancy and George Howard, MD ’59 Diane and James Bernene, MD ’67 Elaine* and Julian* Hyman, MD ’47 Lynn Bertram, MD ’82 Barbara and Robert Insley, MD ’72 William M. Boehme, MD ’70 Laura and Edward Jacobs, MD ’75 Diane and John Robert* Bosco, MD ’61 Nancy and G. Timothy Johnson, MD ’69 Alice and John Bowker, MD ’56 Beatrice and Herbert Kaplan, MD ’55 Jacqueline Brown, RN ’64 and Dennis Brown, MD ’66 Cynthia and Maurice Keenan, MD ’61 Millie and Ronald Burkman, MD ’69 Matilda Kiesel, RN ’59 and Robert Kiesel, MD ’60 Christine Burns, MD ’70 and George Burns, MD ’72 Catherine Kiley, MD ’78 and Donald Schoch, MD ’77 Donna A. Caniano, MD ’76 and Richard A. Flores Peggy and Leonard Kirschner, MD ’61 Margaret and Donald Capuano, MD ’68 Ruth and John* Kovaric, MD ’50 Barbara and Donald* Carter, MD ’52 Laura and Daniel* Kramer, MD ’71 Carol and Samuel* Cassell, MD ’59 Nancy Carlson and Ralph Kramer, MD ’76 Visoth Chhiap, MD ’95 John LaFerla, MD ’72 Claudia and David Chittenden, MD ’64 Margaret* and John Larkin, MD ’57 James Cilecek, MD ’80 Irene* and John C.* Lathrop, MD ’55 Jeré* and James Claghorn, MD ’61 Margaret and J. Peter Lawler, MD ’65 Bette and John Cohen, MD ’63 Helyn Lefgren, MD ’73 John J. Condemi, MD ’57 Beverly and Arthur* Lehrman, MD ’58 Ashley DiMeola, MD and Michael DiMeola, MD ’08 Judith and Neil Lempert, MD ’58 Herbert J. DiMeola, MD ’68 Evelyn and Charles Leonhardt, MD ’53 Adrian Dobs, MD ’78 and Martin Auster, MD Leona and Jerome Levy, MD ’58 Linda Dubins, MD ’77 and David Baer, MD Mary Anne MacCaughelty, MD ’70 and Robert MacCaughelty Elynor* and David Falk, MD ’43 Isabelle Maisonneuve, PhD ’92 and Stanley Glick, MD, PhD Nancy and Matthew Farina, MD ’67 Jerilyn Marr and Clifford Marr, MD ’74 Brooke and Michael Freilich, MD ’58 Elizabeth* and Verne Marshall, MD ’47 Deborah and Pasquale Fugazzotto, MD ’58 Juliet and Geoffrey McCarthy, MD ’74 Babette and Herbert* Gade, MD ’46 Charles “Tom” McHugh, MD ’64 and Anne McHugh Janet Gargiulo, MD ’79 Cora* and William* Meyer, Jr., MD ’55 John J. Geren, MD ’70 Catherine Mills, MD ’76 and Jonathan Posin, MD Janet Gissen, MD ’44 William Montano, MD ’69 Ronald A. Goodsite, MD ’68 Moriah Moser and Daniel Morgenstern, MD ’82 Sheela Graney, MD ’94 and Timothy Graney Paula Mroz, RN and Frank* Mroz, MD ’73 Helen* and R. Alvin* Gravelle, MD ’50 John M. Myers, MD ’68 Lynne and Mark Groban, MD ’67 David R. Nalin, MD ’65

*deceased

SUMMER 2019 | 41 2018 Contributors Report 2019 Match Day Match Alumni Pillars Society Members Challenge Campaign Donors

Donald Namm, PhD ’65 Anthony V. Anderson, MD ’90 Jessica Meir, MD ’04 Mary* and Robert Newhouse, MD ’56 Ronald J. Anderson, MD ’63 Fassil B. Mesfin, MS ’00, PhD ’01, MD ’05 Doren and Dennis* Norfleet, MD ’69 Shellie Asher, MD ’98, MS ’10 Pamela J. Moore, MD ’80 Margaret and Mark Ortelee, MD ’54 Resham Aswani-Wadhwani, MD ’94 Robert P. Newhouse, MD ’56 W. Dale Overfield, DDS, MD ’71 and JoAnn R. Overfield Abigail Belasen, MD ’18 Lyra W. Ng, MD ’00 Joann and Carl Paulsen, MD ’58 Lynn D. Bertram, MD ’82 Patrick G. O’Connor, MD ’82, MPH Albert Peters, MD ’61 Jennifer K. Bogan, MD ’96 Loretta Patton-Greenidge, MD ’78 Norma and Fred Phillips, Jr., MD ’56 James V. Bono, MD ’87 Bidyut K. Pramanik, MD ’93 Sharon Sullivan and Paul Phillips, MD ’62 Daniel S. Casper, MD ’85, PhD John S. Pujals, MD ’92 Donna Pietrocola, MD ‘75 and Steven Pinheiro, MD ’75 Timothy F. Christian, MD ’82 David Z. Rabady, MD ’08 Nancy and Wellington* Pindar, MD ’59 Richard H. Dal Col, MD ’82 William Raible, MD ’12 Eleanor and Charles* Poskanzer, MD ’45 Tejveer S. Dhillon, MD ’10 Vivian Reyes, MD ’00 Betty* and Kenneth* Pratt, MD ’57 Sarah E. Dobrzynski, MD ’14 Kevin W. Roberts, MD ’77 Helen and Matthew Presti, MD ’49 Janet E. Gargiulo, MD ’79 Gary R. Rombough, MD ’76 Vera* and Richard* Propp, MD ’60 Gina M. Geis, MD ’05, MS ’19 Ann E. Rutter, MD ’08 June and John* Raymond, Jr., MD ’50 Catherine Gill, MD ’11 J. Rafe R. Sales, MD ’02 Kathleen Riley, MD ’90 and Mark Reed Michael M. Goldberg, MD ’82 Stephen M. Schutz, MD ’88 Judith and Kevin Roberts, MD ’77 Samuel E. Green, MD ’87 Marjahna C. Segers, MD ’15 Mary and George* Roff, MD ’65 Mark N. Hadley, MD ’82 Edward Skwiersky, MD ’82 Adele and Matthew Rogan, MD ’71 Robert J. Hedderman, MD ’82 Dan-Thuy Tran, MD ’01 Elizabeth Randall, PhD and Corky Rosan, MD ’57 Jennifer I. Hughes, MD ’04 Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84 Nell and Michael Rosco, MD ’60 Christina M. Kratlian, MD ’18 Evan Vosburgh, MD ’82 Sue and Wilbur Rust, MD ’57 Thomas H. Lesnik, MD ’67 Matthew Waxman, MD ’02 Marlene and Philip Saccoccia, Jr., MD ’71 Anne Lorenson, MD ’02 C. Wendell Wickersham, III, MD ’64 Arline and Ronald Scheinzeit, MD ’74 Peter Manes, MD ’04 Duncan F. Winter, III, MD ’84 Susie Burton and Jeffrey Schottland, MD ’76 Anthony J. Marinello, MD ’86 Meghan M. Yi, MD ’18 Suzanne and Martin Schulman, MD ’57 Brian J. McGrath, MD ’82 Craig J. Youner, MD ’73 John Seaman, MD ’56 Mary Pfeifer-Shapiro and David Shapiro, MD ’90 Stephanie and Charles Shoemaker, Jr., MD ’64 Nathaniel Silon, MD ’58 Gina and Tom Snyder, MD ’69 Barbara and David Sparling, MD ’48 Janet and Robert* Steele, MD ’53 Robert J. Sterling, MD ’76 Elizabeth and David* Stewart, MD ’48 Irene and Clyde Turner, MD ’61 Elaine and William* Van Ost, MD ’54 Lou-Ann and Vincent P. Verdile, MD ’84 John Warkentin, MD ’74 Roberta and John Wasenko, MD ’80 John Wheeler, DMD, MD ’69 Lynne* and Frederick Wilson, MD ’63 Marlene Winter, PhD and Jacques Winter, MD ’79 Diane Wirz, MD ’79 and William Wirz Nancy Green Worsham, MD ’63 and Jerry C. Worsham, MD ’62 Joan* Zangara, MD ’57 and Anthony Zangara, MD

*deceased

42 | alumni.amc.edu CLASS NOTES

Notes are edited CLASS OF 1961 to fit available space. Clyde W. Turner, MD ’61 CLASS OF 1977

Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD ’77, PhD

On May 30, Dr. Friedman received the 2019 Wolf Prize in Medicine. He was recognized for his discovery of leptin, a hormone secreted by fat cells that modulates food intake and energy expenditure. The Wolf Prize in Medicine is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. Dr. Friedman is the Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, at The Rockefeller University and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was named the Albany Medical College Distinguished Alumnus in 1996 and is the recipient of other notable awards including the Lasker Award and Shaw Prize. Of another note: Dr. Friedman published an essay in Harper’s Magazine (November 2018) chronicling the academic career of the late biochemist Israel Dr. Turner received a plaque from Kleiner, who in the early 20th century came very close to discovering Columbia University Vagelos a revolutionary treatment for diabetes but failed to bring his findings College of Physicians and Surgeons to fruition. in recognition of his “many Dr. Friedman’s article is a study of the timeless laws that govern the years of service and excellence in very nature of discovery and he describes his research of the biochemist teaching the medical students of as “a personal odyssey to understand the forces that both shaped and Columbia University.” limited Kleiner.” CLASS OF 1970 The essay exposes the hidden costs of war, the dangers of fast-changing science policy, and how personality characteristics can make or break a scientist’s career. The story of Kleiner’s academic exile holds important lessons for today’s society writes Dr. Friedman, especially at a time when the value of open-ended research is often being challenged. It is a much-needed reminder of what Friedman calls “the inestimable value of pursuing knowledge for its own sake.” Please contact the Alumni office for a copy of the article: [email protected]

Ellen and Edward R. Alexson, MD ’70 (left) and Marilyn Winkleby and Michael R. Fischetti, Jr., Richard K. Howard, MD ’77 Arlene Palazzolo, MD ’77 MD ’70 enjoy a visit with one another in Mountain View, Calif. In February 2019, Dr. Howard, Dr. Palazzolo, an internal medicine was named chief of staff at Albany physician, joined the Heart of Stratton VA Medical Center in Florida Physician Group in Albany, N.Y. He had served as acting Davenport, Fla. in February 2019. chief of staff prior to his promotion. Dr. Howard has extensive U.S. Navy experience attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.

SUMMER 2019 | 43 CLASS NOTES PASQUALE PETRERA, MD ’86

CLASS OF 1978 CLASS OF 1984 Dr. Pasquale Petrera ’86 provides critically-needed scholarship Bruce R. Blazar, MD ’78 David M. Jablons, MD ’84 support for future generations of Albany Medical College students. In January 2019, Dr. Blazar, Regents In June 2019, Dr. Jablons and Professor of Pediatrics, Division of his spouse, Tamara Hicks, Blood and Marrow Transplantation PsyD, opened a restaurant, the at the University of Minnesota, Daily Driver, a combination has formed a partnership with creamery and bakery in the BlueRock Therapeutics, LP, an Dogpatch area of San Francisco. engineered cell therapy company to In addition to the restaurant, develop regenerative medicines for they share their time between intractable diseases. Potrero and West Marin, where they run Toluma Farms and Dr. Blazar is the founding director Tomales Farmstead creamery. of the Clinical and Translational Dr. Jablons is chief of Sciences Institute and the founding Thoracic Surgery at UCSF Scholarship support is one of director of the Center for Medical Center. Dean Vincent Verdile, MD ’84’s Translational Medicine at the most pressing funding priorities. Mark Milunski, MD ’84 University of Minnesota. Kathleen and Pasquale Petrera, CLASS OF 1980 In April 2019, Dr. Milunski was MD ’86 have responded to this elected to a two-year term on the important issue by generously James W. Biondi, MD ’80 Federal Cardiology Council of the establishing the Petrera Family American College of Cardiology. Scholarship which pairs a permanent endowment with CLASS OF 1986 immediate outright scholarship support. The Petreras are delighted Maria Kansas Devine, MD ’86 that the Petrera Family Scholarship Dr. Kansas Devine spoke at the provides urgent financial support to current Albany Medical College James W. Biondi, MD ’80 and Dean first regional Multidisciplinary Vincent Verdile, MD ’84 at the 2018 Clinical Care Conference in students and ensures that future

New Haven Regional Alumni Reception. Albany, N.Y., focusing on the generations of medical students needs of patients with intellectual will also benefit. In April 2019, Dr. Biondi graciously and developmental disabilities Dr. Petrera, an orthopaedic surgeon, hosted a regional alumni reception in November 2018. She discussed is director of the Joint Replacement at the New Haven Country Club the challenges in identifying Center at the Peninsula Regional in Connecticut. Dean Verdile and co-occurring conditions in Medical Center in Salisbury, Md. newly-installed Alumni Association people with intellectual and He is an active class volunteer and President, Evan Vosburgh, MD ’82, developmental disabilities. dedicated benefactor of Albany attended the reception with Dr. Kansas Devine is a Family Medical College. area alumni. Physician and chief medical CLASS OF 1982 officer for the Center for Disability Services in Albany. Stephen H. Cohen, MD ’82 CLASS OF 1987

Dr. Cohen was appointed senior Paul F. Miller, PhD ’87 vice president and corporate medical director of Excellus BlueCross In June 2019, Dr. Miller was BlueShield of Rochester, N.Y. appointed chief scientific officer in January 2019. at Artizan Biosciences, Inc., in New Haven, Conn.

44 | alumni.amc.edu PASQUALE CLASS NOTES PETRERA, MD ’86

CLASS OF 1989 CLASS OF 2016 Orthopedics in Albany, Ore. She Bonnie Litvack, MD ’89 completed her residency training in Erin M. Corsini Bayley, MD ’16 orthopedic surgery at Tufts Medical Dr. Litvack was elected President- Center and a fellowship in sports At the March 2019 Multidisciplinary Elect of the Medical Society of the medicine at Tahoe Orthopedics Thoracic Cancers Symposium, State of New York (MSSNY) at its and Sports Medicine. Dr. Hansen Dr. Corsini Bayley presented data 213th annual House of Delegates is board certified by the American on nearly 200 patients treated with (HOD) meeting in Tarrytown on Board of Orthopedic Surgery. local consolidative therapy for April 13, 2019. Dr. Litvack is oligometastatic non-small cell lung CLASS OF 2011 Director of Women’s Imaging at cancer (NSCLC). The retrospective Northern Westchester Hospital, Thomas S. Barrett, MD ’11 analysis found that improved overall which is part of Northwell Health. survival associated with aggressive In June 2019, Dr. Barrett joined consolidative therapy, consisting of CLASS OF 1990 University Orthopedics in radiation therapy or surgery, extended Clifford J. Belden, MD ’90 Providence, R.I. He completed the median survival by six months his residency in Orthopaedics at compared with no such treatment. In May 2019, Dr. Belden was named Albany Med and later completed Dr. Corsini Bayley is a clinical chief medical officer of Columbia a fellowship in adult reconstructive research fellow in thoracic and Memorial Hospital in Hudson, N.Y. orthopedics at the Baylor College cardiovascular surgery at The A former lieutenant colonel in the of Medicine. In 2016, Dr. Barrett University of Texas MD Anderson U.S. Army Reserve, he completed a was named an Emerging Leader Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. fellowship in neuroradiology at Johns in Orthopaedics by the American Hopkins Hospital and is trained in Orthopaedic Association. Alan Sanfilippo, PhD ’16 internal medicine, ophthalmology CLASS OF 2012 In February 2019, Dr. Sanfilippo and diagnostic radiology. received a faculty appointment at CLASS OF 1998 Patrick G. Marinello, MD ’12 the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass. He is Antigoni Woodland, MD ’98 Dr. Marinello, an upper extremity surgeon, has joined the Bone and the assistant director of the Histocompatibility Laboratory in In June, the Massachusetts Joint Center in Albany, N.Y. the Department of Pathology and Commission on the Status of He completed a residency at the Instructor of Pathology at Harvard Women recognized Dr. Woodland Cleveland Clinic and a hand and Medical School. as one of its 2019 Unsung Heroines. upper extremity fellowship at She was honored for her lifelong OrthoCarolina in Charlotte, N.C. advocacy for women’s rights and her CLASS OF 2014 active roles in the community.

CLASS OF 1999 Jessica L. Martinolich, MD ’14

Sudhen B. Desai, MD ’99 Dr. Martinolich was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) In January 2019, Dr. Desai was Honor Medical Society as an named to the Scientific Advisory AOA resident initiate at the Board of the American Society Albany Medical College Ceremony of Pharmacovigilance. held on Thursday, February 14, 2019. Members of the Class of 2016 at the She is completing her residency in Association of Program Directors CLASS OF 2009 in Internal Medicine (APDIM) the Department of Surgery at Meeting in April 2019 (from left): Lauren Hansen, MD ’09 Albany Med. Peter Mattingly, MD, J.T. Anderson, MD, Michael Lavelle, MD, Nayan Patel, MD, In July 2019, Dr. Hansen joined Margaret O’Shea, MD, Aarshi Vipani, MD Samaritan Health Services, as part of Samaritan Mid-Valley SUMMER 2019 | 45 IN MEMORIAM

WE MOURN THE PASSING OF THE FOLLOWING CLASSMATES:

Jeffrey M. Brown, MD ’83 1955 – 2019 A RELENTLESS ZEST FOR LIFE

Dominick Mele, MD ’41 (Last surviving member of the Class of 1941) Richard F. Catalano, MD ’48 Aubrey L. Griffith, MD ’53 Edward Gillie, MD ’54 William M. Pugliese, MD ’54 Bruce R. Mills, MD ’55 John H. Seaman, MD ’56 James M. Gavin, MD ’58 David C. Heyman, MD ’60 Dr. Brown (left) and Dr. O’Connor with their spouses, Meg McCormick and Robin Pellish, Richard P. Propp, MD ’60 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. (Faculty member in the Department of Medicine at Albany Medical College from 1968-1975) Jeffrey MacCollam Brown, MD, MPH a pediatrician and member of the Class of 1983, Errikos P. Constant, MD ’61 died in January at the age of 63. Christopher S. Demtrak, MD ’64 Originally a member of the class of 1982, Jeff took a leave to earn a Master’s in Public Health from Harvard, graduating with the Albany Med Class of 1983. He subsequently went to Gerald J. Doyle, MD ’69 Colorado as a resident and chief resident in pediatrics. After serving for three years at a National Dennis P. Norfleet, MD ’69 Health Service Corps site in Colorado Springs, he returned to Denver where he assumed several important leadership positions including as director of the General Pediatrics Division at Denver Robert M. Kelleher, MD ’72 Health. He also rose to the rank of Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Eugene C. Maso, MD ’74 Medicine. He presented nationally and internationally on critical topics in pediatrics and authored many scholarly publications in his areas of interest. Mitchell K. Karten, MD ’79 A lifelong passionate skier, Jeff eventually got his “dream job” as director of the Pediatric Hospitalist Steven P. Nachtigall, MD ’79 Program at Vail Valley Medical Center located “on campus” at Vail Ski Resort. On my many Judith E. Sandick, MD ’82 visits to Vail, Jeff served as our personal ski concierge – guiding my wife and me through the vast Jeffrey M. Brown, MD ’83 resort including many “insider” routes only known to locals. Jeff had a relentless zest for life. Along with being an avid Denver Broncos fan, his active lifestyle included a passion for skiing, golf, squash, sailing and later biking despite major health challenges, including throat cancer and multiple sclerosis. While these illnesses may have slowed him down from time to time, they never tamed his love for the great outdoors and his love for spending time

46 | alumni.amc.edu IN MEMORIAM

1955 – 2019 with his family and friends. He and his wife, Meg Alice J. Lemieux, 1930 – 2019 McCormick, completed Ride the Rockies, a cross Colorado bicycle tour, seven times, the Register’s Honorary ’93 Great Annual Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBAI) several times, and the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) 150 twice. Among our many trips together was a trek to the top of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming to view the 2017 total eclipse of the sun. After years of cajoling (begging), I eventually convinced Jeff and Meg to come skiing with my wife Robin and me in Vermont in the winter of 2018 – believe it or not, these Rocky Mountain skiers had a great time skiing the East! Jeff cared passionately about his pediatric patients, their parents and families, and about public health. He taught me to “think big” as a physician with a focus on the patient in the context of the surrounding world. He cultivated relationships with physician peers and hospital board members, and was known to stop and converse with custodians and cafeteria workers, often in fluent Spanish. He spoke fondly with other alumni of his time at Albany Med – even attending reunions Alice Lemieux came to work at the Albany Medical College of his original entering class of 1982. Jeff also loved business office in 1971, and in 1977 was appointed nothing better than to make people laugh and shortly Director of Financial Aid by Dean Bondurant. The College before his death had taken a class in stand-up comedy. administration then was minuscule by today’s standards, The “final exam” was a live performance in a comedy and Alice seemed to know everyone. She was a major figure club in Dallas, Texas—he was outstanding! in guiding the Alumni Association Scholarship Committee, Jeff was an exemplary Albany Medical College alumnus which formerly selected recipients of Association-based aid. —an outstanding physician and public health advocate. Her memory was limitless; she knew every student’s situation He was also a wonderful husband, father and sibling, in detail. In 1993, she was elected (exceptionally for a staff and a great friend whom I, and many others, miss very member) an Honorary Member of the Alumni Association, much. I am exceedingly proud to have been his friend and she brought her bright smile and Mr. Lemieux to reunion and classmate at Albany Med. gatherings for some years after her retirement. Her death on January 21, 2019, marked the end of a life of diligence, —PATRICK G. O’CONNOR, MD, MPH kindness and good cheer.

Dr. O’Connor, a member of the Class of 1982, is the —JDH, HISTORIAN Dan Adams and Amanda Adams Professor of General Medicine; Chief, General Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He received the 2015 Albany Medical College Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award.

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