CLASS NOTES Updates on Medical School alumni

1970s the study of the disease-causing mechanisms and Alumni: Jo Ivey Boufford (M.D. 1971) treatment of HIV infection. Lane is pictured here Update your classmates! was elected president of the with colleague, friend and fellow Medical School Send class notes to: New York Academy of Medicine alumnus Major General Eric B. Schoomaker Medicine at , 301 E. Liberty St., in October 2006. Boufford, a (M.D. 1975, Ph.D. 1979), commanding general of Suite 400, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2251; professor of health policy and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel [email protected]; or submit online at management and former dean Command at in Maryland, and chief www.medicineatmichigan.org/classnotes at the Robert F. Wagner Grad- of the Medical Corps. The two have known one uate School of Public Service another since their undergraduate days at at New York University, was Michigan, and still share their love of the maize president of the New York City Health and and blue. 1960s Hospitals Corporation under Mayor Ed Koch and Glenn W. Geelhoed (M.D. served under President Bill Clinton as principal 1980s 1968), professor of surgery, deputy and acting assistant secretary for health Gilbert J. Grant (M.D. 1982) international medicine, and in the U.S. Department of Health and Human published Enjoy Your Labor: A microbiology and tropical med- Services. A trustee since 2004 and a fellow since New Approach to Pain Relief for icine at George Washington 1988, Boufford’s term as academy president Childbirth with Russell Hastings University Medical Center in began February 1. Press in 2005. The book Washington, D.C., received an explains pain management Honorary Doctor of Science Cliff Lane (M.D. 1976, Residency 1979) has options for expectant mothers. degree from the University of been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the Grant has been director of Toledo in December 2006. The degree was National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest obstetric anesthesia at the New awarded in recognition of Geelhoed’s work as a honors in the fields of medicine and health. Lane York University Medical Center scholar and medical missionary. is clinical director at the National Institute of in Manhattan, New York, since Allergy and Infectious Diseases — one of the 1992, and is associate profes- Carl C. Hug Jr. (Ph.D. 1963, M.D. 1967) received National Institutes of Health — and a pioneer in sor and vice chairman for aca- the 2006 Distinguished Service Award from the demic affairs in the Department American Society of Anesthesiologists in October of Anesthesiology at the NYU 2006 at the organization’s annual meeting in San School of Medicine. He lives Francisco, California. The award is given in recog- with his wife and three daugh- nition of meritorious service in clinical practice, ters in White Plains, New York. research and teaching. Hug was a faculty member at the Medical School from 1963-71, then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where 1990s he served as professor of anesthesiology and crit- Ronald B. Kuppersmith (M.D. 1993) is secretary- ical care at the Emory University Medical School. treasurer of the American Academy of Otolaryn- In 2002, he retired from clinical practice, though gology-Head and Neck Surgery and its foundation, Eric Schoomaker and Cliff Lane he continues to teach.

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member of the Texas A&M p h Health Science Center. He looks y forward to serving as a guest examiner for the For a gift of $100, you can pro- American Board of Otolaryngology oral examina- vide a member of the incoming tion this year. Medical School Class of 2011 with their first white coat, a John Sandin (M.D. 1993) finished a fellowship in symbol of the beginning of med- spinal surgery at the University of Alabama in ical education at Michigan. 2001 and practiced in Marquette, Michigan, for two years. He relocated to the University of For more information, contact Theresa Dumais at (734) 998-7584 or Wisconsin after undergoing emergency treatment [email protected], or visit www.medicineatmichigan.org/whitecoat/sponsor. for a brain tumor. A second craniotomy three years later for a remote lesion led to his retire- ment. Sandin lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife and son, and can be reached at [email protected].

Kreton Mavromatis (M.D. 1994) is an assistant professor in the departments of medicine and Kenneth VandenBerg (M.D. Program at Decatur Memorial Hospital. He was a cardiology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. 1945) of Delray Beach, Florida, member of the American Board of Anesthesiology, His current research focuses on why a diminishing died December 26, 2006, at the National Board of Medical Examiners, the circulating stem cell response to angioplasty is the age of 85. Originally from American Society of Anesthesiologists and the seen with aging. Holland, Michigan, VandenBerg Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists. received his undergraduate degree from Hope College Lives Lived before attending the U-M Albert C. Svoboda Jr., M.D. Medical School, and served (Residency 1963), died Sep- three years as a lieutenant junior grade in the tember 14, 2006, in Santa Navy. He lived most of his life in Bloomfield Hills, Barbara, California, of metasta- Michigan, and practiced general surgery at St. tic prostate cancer. He was 75. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac and was chief of Svoboda received his medical surgery and chief of staff at Pontiac General degree at the University of Hospital. He was a member of national and state Chicago School of Medicine medical organizations, and an avid fisherman, before performing his residency golfer and U-M sports enthusiast. VandenBerg in internal medicine and a fellowship in gastroen- was preceded in death by his wife, Jean, and is terology at the U-M. He practiced in both fields at survived by a daughter and two grandchildren. Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California, and at the Sansum Medical Clinic Robert F. Waldvogel Jr. (M.D. 1990), 40, died in Santa Barbara. Svoboda served as principal September 17, 2006. Born in Illinois, he attended In the next investigator of the International Comparative the U-M for his undergraduate and medical Study of Intestinal Metaplasia/Dysplasia, an degrees, performed an anesthesiology residency ISSUE international clinical research study. He served in at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and local, national and international medical organi- served a fellowship at the Gloucester Royal of Medicine at Michigan: clinical simula- zations and was a master of the American College Hospital in Gloucester, England. In 1999, tion’s role in learning medicine ... what of Gastroenterology and a fellow of the American Waldvogel moved back to Illinois to join happens to muscles as we age ... manag- Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Svoboda Associated Anesthesiologists of Decatur. In addi- ing a world-class hospital and its health enjoyed traveling with his wife, Sandra, and main- tion to his practice, he was a faculty member at centers tained interests in orchids, music, fine arts, history the Graduate School of Nursing at Bradley and culinary arts. University and taught in the Nurse Anesthesia

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