Alumni-Connection-2020-Vol-2.Pdf
ALUMNI VOLUME XXX, NO. 2 – ISSUE 2, 2020 CONNECTION A PUBLICATION FOR MEDICAL ALUMNI AND FRIENDS For everything you do. We Thank You. –The Alumni Association CLASS OF 2020 CELEBRATES MATCH DAY pg 4 CARDIOLOGY FELLOW RECEIVES MICHENER AWARD pg 7 CLEVELAND CLINIC RESPONDS TO PANDEMIC pg 8 CONTENTS ALUMNI VOLUME XXX, NO. 2 – ISSUE 2, 2020 CONNECTION A PUBLICATION FOR MEDICAL ALUMNI AND FRIENDS A MESSAGE FROM THE ALUMNI BOARD PRESIDENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dear Alumni, Dale Shepard, MD, PhD, FACP I President Welcome to our redesigned Alumni Richard Lang MD, MPH I President Elect Connection! The Alumni Relations Leo Pozuelo, MD I Vice President of Communications team and I hope that you will enjoy Christine Booth, MD I Vice President of Membership the new look, aimed at making the Conrad H. Simpfendorfer, MD, FACS I Immediate Past-President publication easy to navigate. (Please note that some photos, without masks, SPECIALTY DIRECTORS were taken before March 1, 2020.) Tom Abelson, MD Octavian Ioachimescu, MD, PhD In this issue, we highlight Cleveland Rebecca Bagley, MD Jonathan Kaplan, MD Clinic’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and our Alumni Christine Booth, MD Richard Kaplon, MD Adam Brown, MD Alice Kim, MD Awards. We also report on our Lerner College of Medicine Ravi Chittajallu, MD Leonard Krajewski, MD graduates’ highly successful Match Day results. (Please see Kevin El-Hayek, MD Richard Lang, MD, MPH pages 8-11, 7, and 4-6.) Peter Evans, MD, PhD Mark Licht, MD Kaushik Ghosal, PhD Asma Moheet, MD Of course, the news dominating all of our personal and pro- Bradley Gill, MD Lydia Parker, MD fessional lives for many months now concerns the coronavirus Jeffrey Goshe, MD Mauricio Perilla, MD Mark Grove, MD Marc Pohl, MD pandemic.
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