Inside: NIH Grant to Transform Clinical Research | 5 UIC Cancer Center Unites Researchers | 28 New Understanding of Neurological Disorders | 32 Leadership in Patient Safety | 34 UIC MEDICINE

A Publication for Alumni and Friends of the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the University of Illinois Medical Center Volume 13, No. 1 Fall 2009

Insights andSoundings

The University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary — 1858–Present

Fall 2009 UICMedicine x The Prescription: Rx Make a Gift Inside to the 2009–2010 Volume 13, Number 1 Fall 2009 FEATURES AND HIGHLIGHTS MEDICINE College of Medicine College of Medicine Administration Joseph A. Flaherty ’68, MD ’71, Res ’75 UIC Dean Insights and Soundings | 20 Annual Fund Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PhD Vice Dean The Departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology Advance Leslie J. Sandlow ’56, MD a 150-Year Legacy Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs Larry Tobacman, MD Senior Associate Dean for Research and Education Sara L. Rusch, MD, Res ’81, FACP Regional Dean, Peoria Common Cause | 28 Martin Lipsky, MD Cancer Center Director Gary Kruh Aims to Unite UIC’s Cancer Research Regional Dean, Rockford Bradford S. Schwartz ’74, MD Regional Dean, Urbana-Champaign L. Keith Todd Chief Development Officer for Medicine Associate Dean for Advancement Engineering Excellence | 30 Vice President, University of Illinois Foundation Mark Gonzalez, Head of Orthopaedic Surgery, Is Building Better Joints and Doctors UIC Medicine Editorial Staff Kimberly Gosell, CFRE Executive Director of Development Programs, Publisher Kevin McKeough Steadying Nerves 32 Editor | Kathleen Kopitke Anatomy and Cell Biology Head Scott Brady Leads the Quest Copy Editor to Understand Neurological Disorders Jim Burwitz, Kevin Davis, Jeanne Galatzer- Levy, Sherri McGinnis Gonzaléz, Cynthia Hall, Lisa Haufschild, Steve Hendershot, Pat Kampert, Dan Liberty, Chris Martin, Lynne Olson, Susan Reich, Terri Yablonsky Stat Contributing Writers Schooled in Safety | 34 Michael D. Bailie, MD, PhD Patient Safety Now Integrated Into Medicine Curriculum Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PhD Leslie J. Sandlow ’56, MD UIC Medicine Editorial Board

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New Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares Plans to Medicine is forever changing, as research and technological breakthroughs yield new understand- Build on College of Medicine’s Strengths ings of and treatments for illness and injury. Like all medical schools, the University of Illinois College of Medicine faces the exciting by Kevin McKeough MEDICINE and daunting task of adapting to these rapid changes as we prepare the clinicians and researchers of the future. These changes extend to this publication. As you’ve probably noticed, it’s been a while since the last issue of UIC Medicine, a

UIC gap that reflects both changes in the magazine’s creative team and publication schedule. We now are publishing one issue of UIC Medicine each year to make room for the College of Medicine’s annual report and donor honor roll, which many of our alumni aula Allen-Meares, MSW ’71, University of Illinois President B. Joseph received this past spring. PhD ’75, became the sixth chan- White. There also have been major changes in the leadership of both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the College of Medicine’s P cellor of the University of Illinois Allen-Meares led Michigan’s School development office. As you’ll read on the following page, Paula Allen-Meares became the new chancellor of the university at the start at Chicago in January. of Social Work to a consistent ranking of of the year. A highly accomplished administrator and scholar, she also brings to her position a background in mental health that gives “I am very excited and enthusiastic No. 1 in the nation, improving its research her particular appreciation of the role of the College of Medicine and the university’s other health science colleges. about the opportunity to lead this great profile with externally funded interdisci- This past July, L. Keith Todd joined UIC as the new chief development officer for medicine, institution,” Allen-Meares says. “To- plinary research awards totaling more than vice president of the University of Illinois Foundation and associate dean for development in the day’s world needs UIC’s knowledge and $100 million. Under her leadership, the College of Medicine. Keith comes to UIC from Ohio State University, where he served as associate expertise. The university has taken and school established interdisciplinary degree vice president for university development at the university’s medical center since 2005. He also will continue to take a leadership role in programs that included law, public policy, has held senior development positions at the Medical College of Georgia, the University of North solving pressing societal needs, particularly psychology, sociology, anthropology and Carolina–Chapel Hill and the Medical University of South Carolina. Please join me in welcoming in the realm of healthcare.” economics and set up partnerships with Allen-Meares took other agencies, institutes him to the College of Medicine and wishing him well in his endeavors on its behalf. UIC Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares, MSW, PhD The College of Medicine and UIC as a whole also are changing the way research is conduct- over from Eric Gislason, and communities. ed, fostering greater collaborations across disciplines and even across colleges and emphasizing interim chancellor, who “Today’s world At Michigan, she chancellor was the opportunity to work the translation of basic science research into clinical applications. This effort received the highest served since the retire- needs UIC’s was principal investiga- with Joseph Flaherty to build on the level of affirmation and support in July, when the National Institutes of Health awarded UIC’s ment of Sylvia Manning, tor of the Global excellence of the College of Medicine,” knowledge and Center for Clinical and Translational Science a five-year, $20 million grant, the largest in the uni- former chancellor, in Program on Youth, an Allen-Meares says. “I’m very impressed Joseph A. Flaherty, MD versity’s history. You can read more about this breathtaking development on page five, and you can learn more about the cutting-edge December 2007. She expertise. The initiative sponsored by by the breadth and ambitiousness of the research and treatments that College of Medicine faculty are pioneering in the feature stories that begin on page 20. is the sixth chancellor university has taken the W.K. Kellogg research taking place in the college, its since the 1982 merger of Foundation, and the ability to attract top faculty to provide These advances, of course, build on decades and even centuries of scientific and medical progress, as can be seen in the Univer- and will continue sity of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, which celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. As you can read in the cover story beginning on the university’s former National Institute of outstanding medical education to future to take a leadership page 20, the departments of ophthalmology and otolaryngology–head and neck surgery are building on this history with cutting-edge Chicago Circle and Medi- Mental Health’s Social physicians, and the faculty’s commitment new research and treatments. cal Center campuses role in solving Work Research Center to providing high-quality healthcare to all, That such exciting developments are taking place in such difficult economic times is a testament to the generous support of the created the University pressing societal on Poverty, Risk and particularly the underserved. college’s alumni and other friends. We gratefully acknowledge a few of our donors beginning on page 38. of Illinois at Chicago. Mental Health. She was “My intent in this quickly evolving

needs, particularly News I also personally want to acknowledge the untimely passing of Theresa S. Falcoln-Cullinan, MD, who died in late August after a She was selected from a principal investigator climate of higher education is to sustain long and courageous battle with cancer. She and her husband, Stephen Cullinan, MD ’72, generously endowed three professorships field of more than 100 in the realm of of the Skillman Good and strengthen what the university does at the College of Medicine, including one in obstetrics and gynecology named after Theresa, which is commemorated on page 10. On candidates. healthcare.” Neighbors Grant. She best. UIC progresses toward its goal to be- behalf of the entire College of Medicine, I offer our sympathy to Stephen Cullinan and his family. “We were look- is a member of the come the nation’s premier urban public I am deeply grateful to everyone who has provided the college with support in any form, from financial contributions to assisting ing for an exemplary Institute of Medicine research university by providing access academic leader and in Paula A llen -M eares , of the National and opportunity to a diverse community our students to sharing your enthusiasm for the college with others. Change what may, I have no doubt the College of Medicine and MSW, PhD its bond with our alumni only will grow stronger. Dr. Allen-Meares—a Academies and a of students and faculty. We reach beyond graduate of the Univer- trustee of the New our classrooms and laboratories through Sincerely, sity of Illinois and a former member of our York Academy of Medicine. our Great Cities Commitment, as well community, a highly successful dean and a “Given my long professional involve- as our promotion of healthy societies, in member of the Institute of Medicine of the ment in health and mental health, one of order to bring a mission of public service National Academies—we found her,” says the most attractive aspects of becoming to our home community and the world.”

Joseph A. Flaherty ’68, MD ’71, Res ’75 Dean, University of Illinois College of Medicine Campus

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Medical Center Receives High Marks $20 Million NIH Grant to in Nationwide Patient Survey, Transform Clinical Research at UIC

Named Again to List of Most Wired Hospitals by Jeanne Galatzer-Levy

by Sherri McGinnis Gonzaléz The National Institutes of Health has awarded UIC’s Center for

about medicines, In August, Hospitals Clinical and Translational Science a five-year, $20 million grant, discharge information and and Health Networks, the the largest in the university’s history. quietness of the hospital. “These scores journal of the American Eighty-three Hospital Association, Translational research—turning new, basic science improving cancer care for reaffirm the percent of UIMC patients named the medical knowledge into useful applications for health and rural residents. surveyed reported that center among the top 100 importance of medicine—is “an urgent need and a continuing chal- “The CCTS draws their doctors “always” “Most Wired Hospitals” communicated well. being a patient- nationwide for the third lenge,” says R. Michael Tanner, PhD, UIC provost and upon the rich intellectual Improved communication centered hospital consecutive year. The vice chancellor for academic affairs. “Insights from basic breadth of the UIC campus list recognizes hospitals with patients is a research need much development and further study to and adds to the portfolio significant factor in that is sensitive for using information improving care, as technology to streamline create beneficial clinical practices, and the NIH is funding of excellent research that demonstrated by patient to the needs of business and clinical us to accelerate the process.” is under way here,” says satisfaction on important patients and practices, reduce medical The NIH launched the Clinical Translational Science Paula Allen-Meares, MSW, issues such as reducing errors and improve clinical John DeNardo, Award program in 2006 to fund a national consortium PhD, UIC chancellor. MS, MPH, CEO, patients’ pain and their families.” outcomes. In a nationwide U.S. Department of medical research institutions that now includes 39 “The center will capi- UIC Healthcare improving their knowledge “This recognition Theodore Mazzone, MD, of Health and Human Services System about the medications reflects our commitment leading centers in 23 states. When the program is fully talize on mature conceptual and technological resources at Director, UIC Center for Clinical survey, University of Illinois and Translational Science I they take, observes to the role of information implemented, about 60 centers will be connected with an UIC to foster collaboration and innovation,” says Theodore Medical Center patients rated their William Chamberlin, MD J ohn D e N ardo , technology to sustain the annual budget of $500 million. Mazzone, MD, professor of medicine and director of the hospital experience more highly ’74, chief medical officer. MS, MPH, CEO highest levels of patient than patients at other Chicago-area Sixty-nine percent care and safety,” DeNardo The UIC center was established in 2007 to create center. “Our goal is to facilitate the work of translational academic medical centers in five out of UIMC patients said says. “We believe that new collaborations and support the movement of knowl- investigators, to make it easier and more attractive for them everyone at the medical center—patients, “The center of 10 categories. More than 3,700 hospitals the risks and benefits of medications edge from the lab bench into the community. The center to think beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.” submitted data for the survey, the largest of were “always” explained to them, a physicians, nurses and staff—are will capitalize its kind. The results were released in March. score significantly higher than the state positively affected by the technology we’ve provides a Web-based as well as a geographic single point “This grant enables UIC to enhance its collaborative “We are very proud of the highly and national averages. Nurses at the implemented to support our missions of of access for investigators—including a match-making research in the health sciences, from basic science to com- on mature dedicated staff at our medical center and of medical center make a point to explain patient care, research and teaching.” service to identify potential new collaborations. munity engagement, bringing in virtually all the colleges at the excellent care they provide,” says John basic drug information in order to better The medical center’s electronic conceptual and To provide support for research, the center offers UIC as well as great collaborations with the Urbana-Cham- DeNardo ’71, MS ’74, MPH, CEO of the UIC educate patients and families about new medical records system securely links technological Healthcare System. “These scores reaffirm medications, even if the medication is as medical data on more than 2 million six core services: statistical design and analysis, clinical paign campus and the medical campuses at Peoria and the importance of being a patient-centered common as Tylenol. patients throughout the hospital, outpatient interface, biomedical informatics, regulatory support and Rockford,” says Joseph Flaherty, MD, dean of the College of resources at hospital that is sensitive to the needs of Technology also plays a vital role in centers, satellite facilities, academic offices advocacy, community engagement and research, and Medicine. UIC to foster patients and their families.” caring for patients at the medical center. and laboratories. This integration provides translational technologies and resources. In addition, the The scope of the collaborations makes the UIC center The survey evaluated the quality of care For example, the hospital’s electronic clinicians in a variety of locations access to collaboration and in hospitals from patients’ perspectives, asking medical record automatically triggers a the same information simultaneously, which center includes educational programs for pre- and post- “unique as a statewide translational science program,” 27 questions about various aspects of their consultation with a clinical pharmacist if supports best practices in clinical care. doctoral trainees and faculty researchers to train the next Flaherty says. innovation.” the patient is taking multiple medications. The system provides an automated hospital stay, from responsiveness of staff to generation of translational researchers. “This is an important award for UIC,” adds Larry cleanliness. Patients were selected randomly President Obama’s healthcare process for all aspects of medication The center also includes researchers at Advocate Danziger ’73, ’76, PharmD, UIC interim vice chancellor for the survey, with the goal of at least 300 proposal calls for the implementation reconciliation and aids work flow with a T heodore M a z z one , M D completed surveys per hospital. The survey of electronic medical records systems wide range of clinical information, such Health Care and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. for research and professor of pharmacy practice. “We are was taken after patients left the hospital. in every hospital in the country. The as vital signs and the charting of drug Some projects already funded by the center include de- excited about the ways in which this award will facilitate The medical center rated higher than medical center long has been a national doses. The system also includes a suite of veloping a collaborative research program in asthma and increased collaborations among our basic science and clini- Rush, Northwestern, University of Chicago leader in this area, having implemented applications to better manage patient visits. and Loyola hospitals in communication with its electronic medical records system in allergic diseases; exploring a promising immunotherapy cal researchers on campus, our local community partners, doctors, pain management, communication 1997. to treat severe infections in patients with compromised and our national peers to move basic science findings more immune systems; and a multidisciplinary approach to quickly into clinical trial and community settings.”

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UIC Leads Nationwide Study to Robotic Surgery Program Achieves Breakthroughs Evaluate Blood Flow and Stroke Risk in Liver Transplant, Thyroid Surgery

by Sherri McGinnis González by Chris Martin and Sherri McGinnis Gonzaléz

IC researchers have been awarded a five-year, Patients will receive standard brain imaging with MRI or The robotic surgery program at the transplant would have been unsuccessful. $2.1 million grant from the National Institute CT, imaging of the blood vessels and possible medication therapy, Charles, who works in shipping for a Rockford-area company, University of Illinois Medical Center U of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to lead a which might include aspirin, anti-cholesterol medication or blood discovered that as a blood-type match for his half-brother, he could multicenter study to assess the relationship between blood flow in pressure-lowering medication. continues to pioneer new procedures donate a portion of his liver to him and potentially save his life. the back of the brain and stroke risk. As part of the study, patients will additionally undergo mag- Both brothers are doing well after their procedures. that are improving patient outcomes and shaping the future of “There’s been a lot of emphasis in prior medical research netic resonance perfusion and quantitative magnetic resonance In October, the robotic surgery team achieved another first surgery. The program’s latest advances include the world’s first on the type of stroke that affects the anterior circulation, or blood angiography that measures blood flow using NOVA technology when they performed a procedure that removed a patient’s parathy- minimally invasive robotic liver resection for living-donor trans- developed by Fady Charbel, MD, Res ’93, professor and head of roid glands without making an incision in or leaving a scar on his plant and the first robotic parathyroidectomy in the United States. neurological surgery at UIC. The Noninvasive Optimal Vessel neck. During robotic surgery, physicians guide robotic arms— Analysis measures the volume and direction of blood flow and pro- Bilal Akbar suffered from hyperparathyroidism caused by which allow for greater steadiness and precision than human vides a four-dimensional view of the shape and form of blood flow. chronic kidney failure. His overactive parathyroid glands produced hands—in order to perform extremely delicate, minimally inva- Patients will be imaged when they are first enrolled in the too much parathyroid hormone, which caused dangerously high sive procedures. study and six and 12 months later. They will be monitored monthly calcium levels in the blood. In April 2008, Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, MD, chief of for any recurrent symptoms that would suggest a stroke. “I’m so glad they didn’t have to cut my neck,” says Akbar, the general surgery and Lloyd M. Nyhus Professor of Surgery, and After following the participants for a minimum of one year, first person in the United States or Europe to undergo a robotic his colleague Fabio Sbrana, MD, surgery attending, removed 60 researchers will compare the blood flow of patients who had a parathyroidectomy. He was released from the hospital one day percent of Charles Tongue’s healthy liver in order to replace the stroke since their initial symptoms with those patients who did not after surgery. diseased liver of Gary Tongue, Charles’ half-brother. have a stroke. Most people have four tiny parathyroid glands In a typical adult living-donor liver procurement procedure, “We hypothesize that patients who have better blood flow to behind or near the thyroid gland. Traditional a long incision covering the entire upper abdomen is made to their brains are going to be the ones that don’t have new strokes, surgery to remove the parathyroid glands, or the remove the right lobe of the liver. The UIC surgical team used a and those that have low blood flow on their brain scans will be at larger thyroid gland, involves making a four-inch minimally invasive approach, aided by the da Vinci Robotic Sys- higher risk of having strokes,” says Amin-Hanjani. incision in the lower neck, leaving a noticeable tem, to complete the procedure through four small incisions. The Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, supply to the major lobes in the front of the brain,” says Sepideh If this correlation is demonstrated, then patients with low scar after surgery. surgeons then removed the lobe through a three-inch incision in MD (front), with her Amin-Hanjani, MD, assistant professor of neurological surgery blood flow to their brain—even when they first have stroke symp- Instead, Giulianotti and his team made one team (left to right) the lower abdomen to minimize postoperative pain. and principal investigator of the study. “But there’s another set of toms—may be candidates for intervention such as stenting or small incision under the patient’s right arm and Linda Rose-Finnell, Charles’ liver then was transplanted into Gary by Enrico MPA, Karriem Watson, arteries that supply the back part of the brain, including the brain angioplasty to increase blood flow, Amin-Hanjani says. At the same another tiny incision in the chest, through which MD, MS, CCRC, and Benedetti, MD, Res ’93, Warren H. Cole Chair and head of stem, which is a smaller but in some ways a much more function- time, people who have stroke symptoms but normal blood flow they threaded robotic arms and a powerful endo- Nada Mlinarevich, surgery, and José Oberholzer, MD, chief of the division of MPH ’03, MS ally important part of the brain with a lot of important real estate.” could be reassured that their risk of stroke on medication therapy scopic camera, enabling them to locate and remove transplantation and professor of surgery, endocrinology and Even a very small stroke in this area of the brain can have is low, and there may be no need for further intervention exposing the hard-to-find glands. bioengineering. very devastating consequences, Amin-Hanjani adds. them to unnecessary risk. The robotics team also has been using robotic “This transplant could be a turning point event heralding a Ischemic strokes—the type caused by blockages in the blood “If we know who is at highest risk, we may be able to figure techniques to remove the thyroid gland with- new era in living-donor liver transplantation,” says Giulianotti. vessels to the brain—account for 80 percent of all strokes and out who is going to benefit the most from interventional treat- out leaving a scar. “For these patients, “The possibility of offering to the donor a perfect minimally represent a major source of death and disability. The study will ment,” says Amin-Hanjani. “Given that treatment such as stenting the cosmetic and psychological invasive operation, increasing the accuracy of the resection while enroll 80 patients who have first-time stroke symptoms caused by is not entirely risk-free, it would be important to know that you’re benefits of this kind of surgery minimizing operative risk and blood loss, is a major step forward.” 50 percent or greater blockage of the arteries leading to the back of treating the highest-risk population and offering them a benefit, are immediately evident,” Gary, who runs a siding business in Rockford, was diagnosed the brain. Study patients will be enrolled at UIC, Mercy Hospital rather than treating patients who may not need it.” Giulianotti says. with hepatitis C in 2007 and subsequently developed a cancerous in Chicago, Columbia University in New York, Washington Uni- For more information about the study, visit http://veritas.neur.uic.edu or tumor on his liver, necessitating a transplant. A wait for a cadaver versity in St. Louis and the University of California, Los Angeles. www.clinicaltrials.gov or call (312) 355-2050. Pier Cristoforo donor might have led to his tumor growing to the point that a Giulianotti, MD

6 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine 7 Colbeth Clinic Gala Campus News | Chicago The 2009 Colbeth Clinic Charity Gala took place in April at the Trump Save the Date! International Hotel and Tower. Among those in attendance were (left to The Walter Payton right): Mani Pavuluri, associate Center Guild will Best Docs Events Celebrate Excellence professor of psychiatry and founding hold its 10th director of the Pediatric Mood anniversary annual of UIC Physicians and Staff by Kevin McKeough Disorders Clinic and Pediatric Bipolar gala and honor Research Program in the UIC Institute the legacy and for Juvenile Research; Lucas Regan and his mother, Joanne Regan; and Doug and memory of Margey Colbeth, who helped establish the Colbeth Clinic. During the event, the Regans The College of Medicine recently celebrated the excellence tion between physicians and the staff Walter Payton on received the Speaking Out Award for their courage in the fight to battle mental illness. that makes our job possible. There is Saturday, Nov. 7, at of its faculty with a pair of June 11 events in honor of the no great doctor without a great staff,” the United Club at Soldier Field. The UIC physicians included in this year’s print editions of Enrico Benedetti, MD, Warren H. Cole Young Alumni Networking Reception ® ® Chair and head of surgery, told the event will raise funds The Best Doctors in America and America’s Top Doctors . gathering, recounting how a transplant The College of Medicine held a Young Alumni Networking to support gastroin- In all, 123 members of the Col- accompanied by their spouses and health needs. “The physicians here team assembled on only a few hours’ Reception in May in the College of Medicine Faculty Alumni testinal and liver lege of Medicine and University other family members, the group don’t forget the cardinal rule: It’s notice to assist him in performing a Lounge. Among the recent graduates in attendance were Ashlee disease treatment and of Illinois Medical Center faculty also included UIC Chancellor Paula not just what you do, it’s how you transplant on a Sunday morning when Goldsmith, MD ’09, and Don Arnold, MD ’05. research at UIC, home were chosen by their peers for Allen-Meares, MSW, PhD, and listen,” said Joseph Flaherty, MD, We try to help the patient address a donor organ suddenly became of the Walter Payton inclusion in these two well- Rhonda Thomas, JD, chair of the dean of the College of Medicine. their medical problem in every aspect available. Liver Center. For more respected guides. Many of them UIC Medical Advancement Council. Michael J. Blend, PhD, of their lives.” “We help the doctors focus on African-American information, please were on hand for the Best Docs Thomas spoke glowingly of DO, professor of radiology and “One of the benefits of academic patient care because we take care of Scholarship Reception call (312) 996-5178 breakfast at the medical center her own personal experience re- nuclear medicine, observed that medicine is that I can see fewer pa- all these other issues,” reflected Ellyn On May 28, African-American alumni or e-mail wpcguild@ and the Best Docs reception that ceiving care at the University of Illi- UIC physicians seek to under- tients that are more complicated; you Jacobs, division coordinator in the de- from the classes of 1954 to 2009 uic.edu. evening at Student Center West nois Medical Center. “I’m so proud, stand the backgrounds of their get to know them better and spend partment of obstetrics and gynecology. came back to the UIC campus to Enrico Benedetti, on the UIC campus. so fortunate to have received care patients—many of whom have more time with them,” observed Rus- “We help the doctors be ef- network with one another and meet MD, Warren H. Cole “People choose us for at UIC,” said Thomas, who has multiple, interconnected health Chair and head of sell Brown, MD, associate professor ficient,” added Diane Ruiz, administra- current African-American scholarship surgery (left), and healthcare because of you. received both wellness care and problems—so they can address of medicine in the section of digestive tive and financial director, obstetrics recipients. Javette Orgain ’72, John DeNardo, People come to us for our top- treatment for injuries after an ac- unhealthy behaviors and other disease and nutrition. “Communica- and gynecology, who switched her MD ’81, MPH ’05, assistant dean, MS, MPH, CEO of ranked doctors. Thank you for cident. “This is a wonderful place to issues underlying these illnesses. tion with the patient is key. It’s a ques- ob/gyn care to UIC three years ago Urban Health Program, and associate the UIC Healthcare making us what we are,” John be taken care of.” “We’re very holistic in our ap- tion of setting aside the time to make after seeing the same doctor for 30 professor of clinical family medicine, visited with John Bolden, MS ’93, MD ’99. System (right), DeNardo, MS, MPH, CEO of Many of the remarks and con- proach,” Blend said. “When a the phone calls.” years. “They work to explain things to at the Best Docs the UIC Healthcare System, told versations during the evening had a patient comes through our doors, Because no physician works you. Even though it’s a large hospital, breakfast the honorees at the reception. common theme—that care at UIC we don’t see a liver problem or a alone, the Best Docs breakfast rec- we maintain an intimate setting like a Graham Clinical In addition to the doctors being is characterized by personalized at- heart problem, we see a person ognized the support staff who assist private practice so you don’t feel like a Performance Center recognized, many of whom were tention to patients and their overall with a liver or cardiac problem. with patient care. “It’s the collabora- number.” The College of Medicine dedicated the Dr. Allan L. and Mary L. Graham Clinical 1 2 3 4 Performance Center this past January. Named in honor of the Grahams in recognition of their generous gift to the college, the center provides simulated patient encounters to help educate and train medical students. Left to right: William Chamberlin, MD ’74, chief medical officer; Rachel Yudkowsky, MHPE ’00, assistant professor of medical education; Joseph Flaherty ’68, MD ’71, Res ’75, dean of the College of Town Medicine; Paula Allen-Meares, MSW ’71, PhD ’75, UIC chancellor; Mary L. Graham ’57 and Allan L. Graham, DVM ’54, ’58, MD ’60, Res ’65; R. Michael Tanner, PhD, UIC provost; and Leslie Sandlow ’56, MD, senior associate dean for educational affairs. 1 The crowd at the Best Docs breakfast. 2 Rhonda Thomas, JD, a member of the UIC Medical Advancement Council, speaks at the Best Docs reception. 3 (Left to right:) neurological surgery; Russell Brown, Joseph Flaherty, MD, dean of the College of Medicine, with Nathalie P. Azar, MD, associate professor of clinical ophthalmology; Lisa Hartemayer, MBA, orthoptist, department of MD, associate professor of medicine in ophthalmology and visual science; and Geri S. Fox, MD, MHPE, professor of clinical psychiatry, at the reception. 4 Fady Charbel, MD, Res ’93, professor and head of neurological the section of digestive disease and Olga Jonasson Symposium surgery (left), and Renaud Gueret, MD (right), who spoke at the reception. 5 (Left to right:) Christopher Olusola Olopade, MD, MPH ’05, professor of medicine in the section of nutrition; and Arlene F. Norsym ’67, pulmonary, critical care, sleep and allergy; Mary E. Schraufnagel, MD; and Dean E. Schraufnagel, MD, professor of medicine in the section of pulmonary, critical care, sleep and allergy, at MBA ’85, UIC vice president and The department of surgery hosted the second annual Olga the reception. 6 (Left to right:) Elizabeth Wiley, MD, director of surgical pathology; Marguerite Lyon, compliance coordinator, surgical pathology; Beverly Tousana, program associate chancellor, alumni relations, at Jonasson Symposium in June at the University Club of coordinator, anatomic pathology. 7 (Left to right:) Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, MD, assistant professor of neurological surgery; Konstantin Slavin, MD, Res ’01, assistant professor of the reception. Chicago. The event honors the late founder of the division of 5 6 7 transplantation at UIC, a College of Medicine alumnus (MD ’58, Res ’64). The Warren H. Cole Society First Scientific Meeting also was held in conjunction with the symposium. The society promotes medical education and is named for the first head of the department of surgery at UIC. Left to right: Mimis Cohen, MD, professor and chief, division of plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgery at UIC and Warren H. Cole Society president, with Olga Jonasson Alumni Award recipients Richard Kagan, MD, Res ’80, and Charles Stolar, MD, Res ’80. Around

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College of Medicine Installs Faculty Members J. Usha Raj Becomes in Endowed Chairs and Professorships New Head of Pediatrics

by Kevin McKeough

Endowed chairs and professorships breakthroughs in research and clinical care and impart their Turi Josefsen Chair in Colon-Rectal Surgery. Funded by Leon Hirsch, . Usha Raj, MD, knowledge to the next generation of physicians. Such support is became the new head provide the College of Medicine with the founder and former CEO of United States Surgical Corporation, crucial to the college’s ability to retain and recruit the highest quality the chair was created to honor Josefsen, the former executive vice Jof the UIC department a permanent financial foundation faculty. president of USSC. of pediatrics in March 2008. for its endeavors, creating legacies Thanks to the generosity of its supporters, since the beginning “These endowed positions recognize the excellence of our faculty She previously was professor of of 2008 the College of Medicine has installed faculty members in and the generosity of our donors. We are far from done, as we have pediatrics at the David Geffen that span generations. two new endowed chairs and three new endowed professorships— a wealth of talent and want to shine the light on it,” says Joseph A. School of Medicine at UCLA Endowed funds are held permanently as principal, the most of any college at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Flaherty, MD, dean of the College of Medicine. “I congratulate my and chief of neonatology and while the interest income they generate enables the college to In addition, this August the college installed Leela M. Prasad, colleagues on these well-deserved honors, and give my deepest thanks vice chairman of research in the provide faculty members with the support they need to pursue MD, clinical professor of surgery, as the second recipient of the to the supporters who made it possible.” department of pediatrics at Harbor- UCLA Medical Center. Raj is a graduate of Seth G.S. Medical College, University of Bombay, India, and completed her residency in pediatrics at J. Usha Raj, MD B.J. Wadia Children’s Hospital in Bombay. She then completed a clinical fellowship in neonatology at Tulane University Medical Center before moving to California to become a research fellow at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco. Raj has focused much of her research on pulmo- 1 2 3 4 5 nary vascular function in the fetus and newborn in an 1 In April of 2008, Enrico 2 In August of 2008, 3 Last October, Philip B. 4 This past November, Sarah health services for the inmates of 1999. The professorship was effort to understand why some babies develop problems Benedetti, MD, Res ’93, Lawrence S. Chan, MD, Gorelick, MD, MPH ’88, Kilpatrick, MD, PhD, vice correctional facilities. She was a made possible by gifts from related to the lung blood vessels while others do not. head of surgery, was installed head of dermatology (right), head of neurology and reha- dean of the College of Medicine clinical assistant professor at the Edward Abraham, MD, Res ’75, Her studies have been funded continuously by the Na- as the Warren H. Cole Chair of was made the Dr. Orville J. bilitation, became the Dr. John and head of obstetrics and gyne- College of Medicine at Peoria, Barmada’s successor as head Surgery. Named for the late first Stone Professor of Dermatol- S. Garvin Chair of Neurology. cology (left), was installed as the as is Stephen Cullinan. of orthopaedics; and Barmada’s tional Institutes of Health for 25 years. She is currently News head of surgery at UIC, who ogy. The late Orville J. Stone John S. Garvin ’42, ’43, MD ’44, Dr. Theresa S. Falcon-Cullinan former residents, particularly the the principal investigator on three separate research served for 30 years, the chair ’53, ’54, MD ’56, served on joined the neurology department Professor of Obstetrics and Gy- 5 This past April, Mark generosity of Steve Irwin, MD grants funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood was made possible by contribu- the faculty of the University at UIC in 1951 and served as necology. The professorship was Gonzalez ’76, MD, Res ’77, Res ’82, and his wife, Kathy Institute, a division of the NIH. tions from Cole and his late wife, of Texas Medical School at department head from 1972 to made possible by a $500,000 ’85, MEng ’04, head of Irwin. Left to right: Irwin, Richard “We are thrilled to have spirited Usha Raj from Clara, and Cole’s colleagues, Galveston and the University 1988. The fund in his honor was gift from its namesake, Theresa orthopaedics, assumed the Dr. B. Ressman ’65, MD ’68, a UCLA,” says Joe Flaherty, dean of the College of Medi- friends and former residents. Left of California Irvine College of made possible by generous gifts Falcon-Cullinan, MD (right), who Riad Barmada Professorship in donor to the Barmada Professor- to right: Benedetti, Joseph A. Medicine. Stone’s oldest son, from Garvin’s sisters, Eleanor passed away in late August. She Orthopaedics. After completing ship endowment, Gonzalez and cine. “It speaks to the college’s success that we are able Flaherty, MD, dean of the College Gregory Stone, PhD (left), Garvin Skinner and the late Mary was the retired founder and CEO a residency at the University of Il- Barmada. to attract such a high-caliber leader who could have basi- of Medicine, and Eric A. Gislason, represented his father at the Ann Garvin Coleman ’35, MS of the Falcon Center for Women, linois Hospital in 1965, Barmada cally gone anywhere.” PhD, former interim chancellor investiture. The professorship ’41. During the dinner after his a women’s healthcare practice in joined the College of Medicine “My goal is to make the department of pediatrics of UIC. was made possible by a gift investiture, Gorelick (standing) Peoria. With her husband, Ste- in 1967 and served as depart- an outstanding academic department, with strong from an anonymous donor in presented a framed copy of his phen Cullinan, MD ’72, she also ment head from 1984 until his programs in education, clinical service and research Stone’s honor. investiture medallion to (left to co-founded Health Profession- retirement at the beginning of right) Skinner, Garvin and his als, Ltd., a practice that provides and with the ability to provide outstanding care to the wife, Suzanne Garvin. children of Chicago,” Raj says. Campus

10 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine 11 Campus Rounds | University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria Campus Rounds | University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford

College Plans New Psychiatry Residency, MERIT Program Helps Identify and Study Space Renovation Respond to Child Abuse

by Kevin McKeough by Cynthia Hall

o enhance the medical education it provides, the Student Learning Enhancement Project In 2008, the College of Medicine at Rockford Thompson says. College of Medicine at Peoria will be adding a psychiatry Will Reconfigure Medical Education partnered with a local nonprofit service agency Abuse is a severe national health residency and upgrading its facilities to provide new problem. One in 66 children is abused, T The study areas used by the college’s 150 medical students have in a program that evaluates children who may be study and learning spaces. “The college is committed to excel- compared with one in 30,000 with not been changed significantly since the College of Medicine at lence in medical education, and that commitment includes both victims of sexual or physical abuse and neglect. acute leukemia, says Mary Clyde Pierce, Peoria building first opened in 1976. The college plans to reno- the programs we provide and the The goal of the Medical Evaluation Response Initiative Team MD, associate professor of pediatrics vate these facilities thoroughly in order to provide students with facilities in which these programs program is to ensure that such children receive an appropriate and medical director, University of comfortable, modern study areas equipped with the technology take place,” says Sara Rusch, MD, Res and timely physical evaluation by qualified medical experts as part Louisville. “Eighty percent of fatal abuse that contemporary medical education requires. ’81, regional dean. “These new initia- of a thorough and collaborative investigation into every allegation victims were known to a professional Ray Davis, MD (left), “We need to transform our existing space into a technology- and David Deutsch, MD tives will enable the college to serve of child abuse and neglect. who did not act,” Pierce adds. In Illinois, reports of abuse have rich, student-friendly learning center,” Rusch says. “We believe (right), confer about a our students and residents better and Winnebago County, which includes Rockford, coordinates nearly doubled from 51,674 in 1981 to 111,742 in 2007, according MERIT patient case. that in order to educate students for the future, we need to move also to benefit the greater Peoria com- medical evaluations of children who may be victims of abuse to DCFS. to a greater emphasis on small-group teaching and learning. We munity where many of our trainees through the Carrie Lynn Children’s Center. However, significant When abuse is suspected, MERIT receives a request for want to give our students the benefit of enhanced educational practice.” Ryan Finkenbine, MD, barriers existed that prevented suspected victims of physical child evaluation from DCFS, law enforcement, emergency department technology.” The college has recruited a new Chair, Department of Psychiatry abuse and neglect from receiving these evaluations, causing physicians and/or primary care providers. The MERIT case coordi- and Behavioral Medicine Dubbed the Student Learning Enhancement Project, the chair of the department of psychiatry problems in the investigation process and making it more difficult nator arranges for consultations and second opinions from other renovation will create multipurpose rooms that can be used both and behavioral medicine, Ryan Finkenbine, MD, who joined the for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to child advocacy centers or DCFS investigators in the Northwest for individual study and student collaboration. Plans for the proj- faculty last January. He previously served as program director of intervene effectively. Illinois region. Each case is assigned to one of the providers, who ect also include a learning lab to facilitate educating both students the psychiatry residency and forensic fellowship at West Virginia “Many providers do not have the knowledge of injury science collaborates with investigative and medical personnel as needed. and faculty on how to teach and learn using new educational University School of Medicine. to determine whether the history and injury are consistent. They Medical services include comprehensive expert medical eval- technologies. Finkenbine has been charged with collaborating with frequently operate under assumptions and biases that lead them uation and diagnosis, case coordination of each child’s identified “Medical students, especially second-year students, spend UICOMP-affiliated Methodist Medical Center of Illinois to de- to underestimate the significance of the findings and fail to act,” health needs, appropriate and timely follow-up of targeted medical most of their day at the College of Medicine for lectures and then velop the new psychiatry residency program. He also will develop says David Deutsch ’85, MD ’89, chair of pediatrics at the College services, documentation of findings and recommendations for have very large amounts of information to study afterwards,” says a forensic psychiatry practice and support the clinical, educational of Medicine at Rockford. “We can address these problems by follow-up to a referral source, data tracking, parent education and recent College of Medicine at Peoria graduate Ingrid Kraus, MD and research efforts of the department. providing an evidence-based, expertly trained referral source.” support, and court testimony. ’09. “Sometimes it’s hard to find a place in the school to study. The psychiatric residency program is being established in In partnership with the Carrie Lynn Children’s Center and In addition to evaluating patients, the MERIT program Modern study areas would definitely make the medical school a order to provide greater educational opportunities for the college’s with DCFS grant funding and support from the three Rockford is helping train medical personnel and other professionals to Rounds more inviting and enjoyable place to study.” students and meet the mental health needs of the Peoria region. hospitals, the college now provides the medical team that con- recognize and report child abuse and to perform quality evalua- So far, about $260,000 of the project’s $450,000 budget The college’s plans call for the program to begin training its first ducts evaluations in suspected physical abuse cases. The MERIT tions. The department of pediatrics at the College of Medicine at has been raised due to the generosity of alumni, faculty and the group of residents in July of 2011. team includes Ray Davis, MD ’84, a Rockford pediatrician with Rockford is establishing a rotation in the evaluation of child abuse community. “An investment in the Student Learning Enhance- “Peoria is a relatively large city with a wide regional catch- extensive training and experience in treating and evaluating child for both medical students and family medicine residents. ment Project is an investment in the future of medical education ment area of individuals who could benefit from the greater abuse; Lori Thompson, NP, MS ’05; Tammy Dunkel, RN, pediat- “Just as all doctors should know something about heart at- and healthcare,” observes Susan Dunnan, director of develop- availability of mental health care for everything from depression ric sexual assault nurse examiner; and CeCe Powell, coordinator. tacks, they should all have a fundamental understanding of abuse. ment for the College of Medicine at Peoria. and simple anxiety all the way through to alcohol and drug prob- Abuse evaluations are handled by MERIT in the hospitals’ MERIT will work with our students to assure that everyone who Work on the project is scheduled to begin during the winter lems, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia,” Finkenbine observes. emergency rooms or at Rockford Health Physicians, the clinic graduates from Rockford has the knowledge and skill to tackle this break at the end of this year. “When the students return, they will “Starting in 2011 we’ll immediately add four new caregivers, and where Davis is in practice. Staff at Carrie Lynn coordinate the issue,” says Martin Lipsky, MD, dean of the College of Medicine at find renovated and updated learning spaces that will be well- by 2014, we’ll have 16 new providers participating in the residency evaluations and the reporting back to DCFS and the court system, Rockford. “I am excited by the opportunity to educate our students suited for interactive learning,” Rusch says. here in Peoria. That probably doubles the number of psychiatrists and prepare for court cases when child abuse charges are filed. to identify and refer children for help, and as a result, prevent in the area.” “In MERIT’s first five months, we saw 98 children,” more harm to this most vulnerable group.” Campus

12 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine 13 Campus Rounds | University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign Medical Alumni Council | News

Lighting the Way to Imaging Breakthroughs New Chair Stresses Advocacy, Help in All Forms

by Dan Liberty by Kevin McKeough

Stephen Boppart, MD, Raman scattering microscopy for generat- When John C. Mason Jr. ’53, opportunities PhD, has developed ing images based on molecular composi- MD ’55, Res ’59, assumed the to network with tion, not just structure. Optomechanical alumni. He novel ways to use light methods can determine the biomechanical leadership of the Medical Alumni envisions using to generate high-resolution, real-time, properties of tissues and cells, and novel Council in the spring of 2008, social network- noninvasive images of biological tissue at types of molecular imaging agents are be- one of his top priorities was to increase involvement by College of ing to connect the cellular and molecular levels. His goal ing developed for enhancing contrast and Medicine alumni in the University of Illinois’ advocacy efforts. students and is to radically improve the tools physicians delivering therapy. “Because the College of Medicine is a state-supported institu- alumni in the use to treat and diagnose disease. Once developed, these advanced tion, it’s important that legislators and other government officials clinical and “Why should the final decision on the methods are then applied across many hear from our alumni about issues that affect the college,” Mason geographic presence of diseased tissue take place in areas of biology, medicine and surgery. says. “It’s a case of the squeaky wheel getting the grease. We need areas that the laboratory, on excised tissue, days after An Illinois native, Boppart received to make certain that our message is heard among the many voices interest them. surgery?” Boppart asks. “Why not create his PhD in electrical and medical engineer- who are lobbying for legislation and state funding.” He’d also like the tools to make those decisions right at Stephen Boppart, MD, PhD ing from MIT in 1998 and his MD from Of course, if doctors had wanted to be lobbyists, they would students to be John C. Mason Jr., MD the bedside without removing the tissue?” Harvard Medical School in 2000. After have gone to law school, not medical school, but the Illinois Con- able to interact with A professor of electrical and com- OCT is being used to provide Harvard, he chose the University of Illinois nection program makes it easy for College of Medicine alumni to alumni who work in the clinical programs where they’re consider- puter engineering and bioengineering surgeons with a real-time “optical biopsy” as his academic home because of the cross- provide advocacy support. A program of the University of Illinois ing doing their residency. who also is affiliated with the department of diseased tissue. Although surgeons disciplinary research opportunities at the Alumni Association, Illinois Connection keeps alumni informed Mason also is recruiting alumni to be Essentials of Clinical of internal medicine in the College of make every effort with currently available Beckman Institute, which brings together about state and federal government activities that matter to the Medicine tutors. “Who better to represent the college and help Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Boppart technology to remove all of a patient’s more than 600 researchers from 40 UIUC University of Illinois and involves alumni in activities to increase students with such issues as ethics, teamwork, leadership and pro- heads the Biophotonics Imaging Labora- tumor without damaging healthy tissue, departments. support for the university. fessionalism in medicine than its own graduates?” Mason asks. tory at the university’s Beckman Insti- they often do not know how successful If imaging science and technology “Depending on the members’ wishes, they can take part in Born and raised in downstate Rossville, where his father, tute. The central focus of his research is they have been until after they’ve closed evolve as Boppart envisions, principles of anything from e-mail campaigns to meetings with legislators,” John Mason Sr., MD ’27, was a family doctor, Mason helped es- integrative imaging, which brings together up the patient and read the pathology integrative imaging soon will be central says Mason, a retired obstetrician in Danville. Via the Illinois tablish the Medical Alumni Council along with its founding chair, the principles of imaging science and new report. OCT allows the surgeon to see to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Connection Web site, www.supportuillinois.org, participants in Milt Kramer, MD ’54. “I realized that with the decreases in state technologies to create the next genera- images of the tumor, down to the cellular One day, he believes, doctors will swipe a the program can identify their legislators, find the latest news re- funding, the university was going to depend on its alumni more Rounds tion of imaging instruments. Boppart has and molecular level, while the operation finger across a screen to call up images of garding important issues related to the university such as the state and more, both for financial support and assistance with teaching

published more than 165 papers and book is in process. The goal is to achieve what diseased tissue, display biological analyses budget, and access a wealth of resources to help them when con- and providing preceptorships. We needed someone to reach out to Connections chapters related to optical imaging, and surgeons call 100% clear margins: all of of the tissue in numerical and visual tacting legislators. These advocacy tools include comprehensive the college’s graduates, and I was enthusiastic about doing it. holds seven patents with more than a the diseased tissue removed, none of the formats and compare the data observed to information about the university and detailed guidelines about “Without the university I’d never be a doctor,” Mason contin- dozen patents pending. healthy tissue damaged. patterns of disease origin, progression or how to communicate with legislators, whether by letter, phone or ues. “I’m grateful for what they gave me, and I feel I should give One of the emerging imaging tech- Boppart’s Biophotonics Imaging recovery in medical data banks. e-mail, or in face-to-face conversations. back in turn. It’s been fun, too. I’ve enjoyed coming back to the niques Boppart is developing is optical Laboratory has a large and highly interdis- “We have millions of images of tissue “Illinois Connection makes it as easy as possible to contact university and being in contact with the alumni.” coherence tomography. The optical equiva- ciplinary team of researchers developing that have already been diagnosed, tissue in legislators and share your views with them,” Mason says. “It’s For more information about Medical Alumni Council volun- lent of ultrasound, OCT uses near-infrared and translating many other optical imaging all states of health, disease or treatment,” another way our alumni can give to the College of Medicine. We teer opportunities, please visit www.medicine.uic.edu or contact light to produce high-resolution images of and diagnostic technologies. Advanced mi- Boppart says, “All that’s needed is to bet- welcome all kinds of gifts, whether it’s financial support, or men- Elizabeth Skinner at (312) 996-1511 or [email protected]. the subsurface of biological tissue. Several croscopy techniques include multiphoton ter manage, integrate and comprehend toring students or advocacy.” To join Illinois Connection, please call (800) 524-1420 or applications of this technology currently microscopy for visualizing fluorescent mol- the information available to us across the With that idea in mind, Mason is trying to help the college’s (217) 333-9826, e-mail [email protected], or visit are undergoing clinical trials. ecules and label-free coherent anti-Stokes imaging modalities.” students select their clinical specialty by providing them with www.supportuillinois.org. Campus Alumni

14 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine 15 Student News Faculty News

New Loan Repayment Regulations Add New Challenge for Students Leaders in Medicine by Pat Kampert

mitta Patel ’98, students—were “When I first Repayment Plan that began Philip B. Gorelick, MD, MPH, John S. counselor. She was recognized by the AGA held in October in Atlanta and is expected to MPH ’02, MD ’09, allowed to defer started medi- July 1. The plan caps medical Garvin Professor and head of neurology and Foundation in 2008 as one of 24 outstanding draw 8,000 participants. S graduated from repayment of their cal school, I was school loan repayment at rehabilitation at women scientists who have made exemplary the College of Medicine this federally subsi- counting on the 15 percent of the student’s UIC, made a presen- contributions to digestive disease science. J. Usha Raj, MD, past May looking forward to dized loans during deferment,” Patel available income (defined tation on vascular professor and head The average College of her psychiatry residency at residency without says. “That is what as 15 percent of whatever cognitive impair- Linda J. Kenney, of pediatrics, re- Medicine student has Johns Hopkins Hospital in accruing interest. we were all think- a student earns above 150 ment at the Tiantan PhD, professor of ceived the American amassed more than $150,000 in loans Baltimore, but another aspect Instead, the gov- ing as students. percent of the poverty line) International Stroke microbiology and Thoracic Society’s by the time he or of her post-medical school ernment made the Smitta Patel, MPH, MD Things have really and provides an alternative for Conference, held immunology, recently 2008 Recognition she graduates. life was less appealing. In ad- interest payments changed. It’s kind students who will no longer this past June in Bei- was elected to a four- Award for Scientific Philip B. Gorelick, MD, MPH dition to her medical degree, for them. of a shocker.” qualify for the economic jing. Gorelick was year term as treasurer Accomplishment. The J. Usha Raj, MD ? Patel and most of her fellow The average College of Kathleen Kashima, hardship deferment. part of a contingent of the Biophysical international society’s College of Medicine gradu- Medicine student has amassed PhD, senior associate dean of Still, the change is daunt- of distinguished scientists representing the Society. The society highest scientific award, Linda J. Kenney, PhD About Student ates got something else they more than $150,000 in loans by students at the College of Medi- ing for students like Patel, American Heart Association who were invited promotes knowledge it is given in recognition of a body of work Activities weren’t expecting: changes the time he or she graduates. Al- cine, agrees. “This is a disap- who says she has seen friends to the conference to discuss state-of-the-art in biophysics, which studies the workings of toward the understanding of lung diseases. Please contact the Office of Student in the federal rules regarding though students still may elect pointing change in federal loans seriously consider abandoning treatments for stroke and worldwide expan- biological systems using a combination of She also received the 2008 American Medical Affairs, College of deferment of medical student to defer their loan repayment, for our students, because they medical careers for profes- sion of stroke knowledge. physics, chemistry, mathematical analysis and Association’s 2008 Women Physicians Con- Medicine West, Room the change in the rules means 112, at (312) 996-2450, loans that will prevent most will either have to start repaying sions that are more lucrative. computer modeling. gress Mentoring Award, given to outstanding or online at www.uic. residents from qualifying. they now either will have to their loans while in residency or “At a time when most people Gail Hecht, MD, professor of medicine mentors to medical students, residents and edu/depts/mcam/osa/. Previously, students begin paying off their debt with will have their total educational are buying homes and starting and chief of digestive disease and nutrition, Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PhD, vice dean fellows. In 2008, Raj was invited to serve on who met the government’s their modest resident salaries or loan debt increase.” families, we’re going to be just is president of the AGA Institute, which and Theresa S. the editorial board of the American Journal of economic hardship criteria— face the sticker shock of accrued One piece of good news coming out of residency with conducts education, practice and research pro- Falcon-Cullinan Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology and was which includes the major- interest charges at the end of on the financial aid front is all this debt,” she says. “It’s grams for the American Gastroenterological Professor and head elected to the council of the American ity of College of Medicine their residency. the new federal Income Based scary.” Association. She began her term as president of obstetrics and Physiological Society. June 2 during Digestive Disease Week, the gynecology, is the largest international conference devoted to 2009 president of the Terry Unterman, College Opens New Student Lounge the science and practice of gastroenterology. Society of Maternal- MD, professor of Hecht is only the second woman to be named Fetal Medicine, the medicine, section by Pat Kampert president in the 112-year history of the AGA, Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, major academic of endocrinology, PhD one of the oldest Students passing through the Clinical Science North Building in the society for maternal- diabetes and metabo- medical specialty fall may find a few new reasons to linger there. A renovation is under way fetal medicine specialists, with approximately lism, and professor societies in the to create a new student lounge in the first floor hallway that will include a coffee 2,000 members. of physiology and country. An active biophysics, has been kiosk and wireless Internet access. Terry Unterman, MD member of the AGA Efficiency walls and partitions will help to reduce noise, and power outlets Craig Niederberger, MD, professor and appointed to the for nearly 20 years, will aid students who want to bring their laptops to study at the lounge. The kiosk head of urology and executive advisory Hecht has served will offer sandwiches, pastries, yogurt and—perhaps most importantly for sleep- professor of bioengi- council of the Central Society for Clinical In- on committees neering, is the general vestigation, one of the oldest and largest aca- deprived medical students—a wide array of Starbucks coffee drinks. Gail Hecht, MD focused on research The lounge is the latest move by the college to create new areas for student program chair for the demic medical societies in the Midwest. He and education, and access and follows a renovation of the Edelstone Lounge, the addition of a study annual meeting of the also serves on a National Institute of Diabetes was elected to the AGA Council as chair of the annex and the opening of meeting rooms in the Medical Research building for Carrie Nieman, M4, president of the Chicago Medical Student Council American Society of and Digestive and Kidney Diseases special Intestinal Disorders Section and to the AGA student use. In addition, the hours of the library were extended in response to stu- Reproductive Medi- emphasis panel on diabetes, endocrinology Institute Governing Board as a basic science cine, which will be and metabolic disease training fellowships. dent requests, and the Medical Alumni Lounge will become a secure study area for students when it’s not being used for other functions and activities. Craig Niederberger, MD “I think it’s a great thing to have,” says Carrie Nieman, M4, president of the Chicago Medical Student Council. “Facilities are always a top priority for students. Whatever we can do to create a space for students to gather is terrific.”

16 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine 17 Alumni Reunion

Save the Date! Reunion2009 Reunion2008 The College of Medicine’s 2009 Reunion will take place October 15 and 16. by Kevin McKeough Members of the classes of 1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994 and 1999 are encouraged to attend. For more information or to register, The College of Medicine please visit www.medicine.uic.edu/ welcomed back alumni Reunion2009. Or call Connie Cochran Toole, director of special events and alumni during the 2008 reunion relations, at (312) 996-1640. weekend in September. Thursday evening, alumni mingled during the welcome recep- 1 tion. “I wanted to see everybody, see how they’ve aged, how 2 they’re doing,” said Gerald Gronert ’56, MD ’58, a retired anesthesiologist who lives in Albuquerque. “I’ll be interested in seeing the changes in the school as well as the changes in the folks,” said William Winkler ’56, MD ’58, a former major general in the U.S. Army and deputy assistant secretary of defense for health officers who later served as executive director of the Kentucky Opera in Louisville, where he lives. A campus bus tour on Friday provided Winkler and his fellow alumni with the opportunity to take in new and old sights alike. During the day, the alums also listened to talks from faculty members and 3 4 5 6 attended the Dean’s Luncheon. That evening, the alumni 7 gathered at the UIC Forum, a new event facility on the 1 Georges C. Benjamin (right), MD ’78, the UIC East Campus, for a reception and dinner dance. receives the College of Medicine Distinguished During dinner, the college’s Distinguished Alumnus Award Alumnus Award from Joseph A. Flaherty (left), MD, dean of the College of Medicine. was presented to Georges C. Benjamin, MD ’78, the executive director of the American Public Health Associa- 2 A couple dances after the reunion dinner tion, and James C. Pritchard ’54, MD ’58, Res ’63, a Saturday. retired pathologist. 3 Alumni listen to a presentation during the James C. In addition, the Alumni Association Loyalty Award was presented to John C. Dean’s Luncheon. Pritchard, MD Mason ’53, MD ’55, Res ’59, a retired obstetrician and the president of the College who received the of Medicine’s Medical Alumni Council; David B. Mayer ’78, MD ’82, Res ’04, asso- 4 Alumni and current medical students alike listen College of Medicine ciate dean of curriculum at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and during one of the reunion seminars. Distinguished director of cardiothoracic anesthesiology at the University of Illinois Medical Center; and Alumnus Award William H. Kaufman ’49, MD ’51, a retired surgeon in Dearborn, Mich. 5 Alumni attend a presentation about robotic at reunion, with “I fell in love with emergency medicine as a medical student and hung out in the surgery by Enrico Benedetti, MD, Res ’93, his wife, Bonnie emergency room,” Benjamin recalled. “I learned a lot about managing complex medical Warren H. Cole Chair of Surgery (far left), during their Pritchard reunion tour. projects and how to think on my feet.” “I think the medical education here is par excellence. It can hold up to anything in 6 Alumni aboard the bus during the campus tour. the country,” Pritchard enthused. “It’s exhilarating to see my classmates, quite a few of whom I haven’t seen in 50 years. When we’re together for a while, the memories come 7 Members of the Class of 1958 celebrate their back and it seems like it was yesterday.” 50th anniversary at the reunion.

18 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 T he U niversity of I llinois E ye and E ar I nfirmary — 1 8 5 8 – P resent by susan reich Insights and Soundings Having Celebrated the 150th Anniversary of Their Origin, the Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Continue Pursuing New Advances

hen ophthalmologist Edward Lorenzo celebrate as it marked its 150th anniversary in 2008. The future Holmes opened a charitable eye and ear is sure to bring more innovation and more life-enhancing medi- cal breakthroughs as the infirmary’s physicians, researchers and infirmary in Chicago in 1858—nearly three staff continue Holmes’ founding mission “to prevent blindness years before the start of the Civil War—more W and deafness… and avert the misery which must always attend than half of Chicago’s 91,000 residents were struggling for Clinics and Services them.” in the Department of sustenance in the midst of a nationwide economic depression. Ophthalmology and Holmes’ one-room infirmary began providing free care for the Strong Vision Visual Sciences city’s indigent before its inpatient areas were even furnished—the • General Eye Clinic Ophthalmology Leadership first overnight patient slept on a blanket on the floor. • Glaucoma Service More than 150 years after its founding, that humble infir- True to its humanitarian roots, the University of Illinois at • Oculoplastic Surgery • Pediatric J. Regan Thomas, MD, mary has become one of the world’s foremost centers for patient Chicago department of ophthalmology and visual sciences Ophthalmology and FACS, Francis Lederer care, physician training, innovation and discovery. Today, the continues to serve those with the greatest need, from low-income Adult Strabismus Professor and head of University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary stands at the forefront and Medicaid patients to individuals whose complex, difficult Services otolaryngology–head and • Cornea, Refractive of advances in medicine inconceivable in Holmes’ day. The cases require the highly specialized care that the department’s neck surgery (left) and Surgery and Contact infirmary’s founder undoubtedly would be amazed, and proud, to physicians and surgeons provide. The department treats more Lens Services Dimitri T. Azar, MD, learn that physicians in the department of otolaryngology–head than 55,000 patients each year, most of whom are referred by • Retina, B.A. Field Chair of Electrophysiology and neck surgery performed the first auditory brain stem implant physicians from across Illinois and beyond. Ophthalmologic and Uveitis Services in Chicago this past year, or that the department of ophthalmolo- The arrival of Dimitri T. Azar, MD, as B.A. Field Chair of Research, professor and head of ophthalmology gy and visual sciences has embarked on cutting-edge research that Opthalmologic Research, professor and head of ophthalmology and visual sciences may one day make it possible to perform total eye transplantation and visual sciences in March 2006 ushered in an exciting new (right) are adding to the to restore vision. chapter in ophthalmology at UIC. An internationally acclaimed more than 150-year As the accomplishments and advances described on the cornea and refractive surgeon, Azar brought more than 17 years legacy of the University following pages show, the Eye and Ear Infirmary had much to of experience to his new role, including four years at the Wilmer of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary.

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Many new programs and initiatives have come to fruition, paving outreach program to educate Chicago-area residents about the way for important advances in ophthalmological medicine. macular degeneration and other retinal diseases. “These are all components of a great critical care retina Forward-Looking center,” Lim says. The Retina Service Broad View The recruitment of Jennifer I. Lim, MD, Res ’90, as professor of The Cornea and Refractive ophthalmology and director of the department’s retina service in Surgery Service July 2007 is part of a multifaceted initiative to build on the depart- Jennifer Lim, MD, Charlotte Joslin, OD, The department also boasts an accomplished and dynamic cornea is developing a Ophthalmologic Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine ment’s expertise by developing a center for innovation in retina thamoeba keratitis can afflict contact lens wearers—especially PhD, and Elmer Tu, center for innovation care. and refractive surgery service. “We have six nationally and inter- MD, collaborated on a in retina care. and a decade at the Harvard Medical School, where he was a ten- those who used a particular brand of lens solution, swim in lake research study of a par- Having directed more than 25 clinical trials over the past de- nationally known cornea specialists on staff who have expertise in ured professor and chief of cornea and refractive surgery at the water, shower while wearing contact lenses or use tap water to asitic eye infection that every aspect of cornea and external disease—including specialists Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Azar is cade, Lim brings significant experience in retinal research to the rinse their lenses or lens storage cases. can afflict people who in dry eye, limbal stem cells, artificial corneas, infectious disease wear contact lenses. also an established research scientist who has served as principal department. Under her leadership, the retina service already has The results of the study, in which Tu was a co-investigator, and dystrophies,” observes Elmer Tu, MD, director of the service. investigator of a National Eye Institute-funded investigation of launched eight new clinical trials involving macular degeneration, were shared with the Illinois Department of Public Health and “This team is an incredible resource that enables us to treat and corneal wound healing for 16 years. diabetic retinopathy and other retinal vascular diseases. the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leading research virtually any disease that affects the cornea.” “I came to UIC because I was excited about the challenge “We are at the leading edge of innovation in developing new to a worldwide recall of certain contact lens care products. The The service expanded its reach in 2007 with the opening of leading one of the great departments of ophthalmology,” treatments for these illnesses,” Lim says. “Our extensive clinical Acanthamoeba researchers also have discovered potential links of the state-of-the-art Millennium Park Eye Center on Michigan says Azar, who also holds the department’s B.A. Field Chair of trials are advancing our understanding of retinal disease. We can between the infection and local water distribution and national Avenue in downtown Chicago. In addition to LASIK procedures, Ophthalmologic Research. “I only need to help others see what translate what we learn in the lab directly to patient care, while water treatment standards. If proved, this correlation would have the center offers a variety of nonlaser treatments, including is clear to me: that our faculty of clinical and research scien- giving our patients access to the newest drugs and therapies being significant implications for the safety of the nation’s water supply. conductive keratoplasty, intracorneal ring segments, phakic and tists is more of a powerhouse overall than any other group in tested.” refractive intraocular lenses and cataract surgery. ophthalmology. We are building on the tradition of excellence The retina service’s physical space underwent a renovation Fresh Eyes and expansion in 2008 to support the growth of the faculty and Tu also was involved in a research study that had global and innovation that has characterized the Illinois Eye and Ear Research impact. In 2006, Charlotte E. Joslin, OD, PhD ’09, assistant Infirmary to further enhance our work in eye research, clinical accommodate a patient load that continues to increase as the professor of ophthalmology in the contact lens service, received a care and education.” population ages. Seven new exam rooms were added, and the The Acanthamoeba study is just one of more than 30 research Prevent Blindness America Investigator Award to study a statisti- Under Azar’s leadership, 10 new full-time faculty members space was reconfigured to improve patient flow. projects under way in the department, with support from more cally significant rise in the number of Acanthamoeba keratitis have joined the department, and 17 of the department’s Other signs of growth include the purchase of state-of-the- than $1.5 million in National Institutes of Health grants. The cases diagnosed at the Eye and Ear Infirmary. A parasitic eye physicians and surgeons were included in the physician guides art equipment that enables doctors to employ minimally invasive research endeavors focus on age-related macular degeneration, infection that can cause corneal scarring and blindness, Acan- America’s Top Doctors® and The Best Doctors in America® in 2009. surgical techniques and the development of a new community glaucoma, corneal disease, the development of diagnostic instru- 1850 > 1860 > 1870 >

Over the course of the past 150 years, 1858 1861 1864 1867 1870 1871 the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary was reduced to ashes in the Edward Lorenzo Holmes The infirmary moves to larger The infirmary The Illinois The infirmary’s In response, Illinois Much of Great Chicago Fire, transitioned from a private charity to a public institution, (left), a Harvard-educated MD, quarters at 28 N. Clark St. to moves to a Industrial funding is legislators designate the the city is recruits a group of physicians accommodate a fivefold increase location on East University, the threatened infirmary as a state- destroyed in operated in six different locations, held four different names and gained an and philanthropists to found the in patients. The Civil War begins. Pearson Street. predecessor of when the funded institution the Great international reputation for groundbreaking patient care, education Chicago Charitable Eye and Ear Holmes appropriates a large attic the University new Illinois and change its name Chicago Infirmary at 60 N. Clark St. in a building close to of Illinois, is Constitution bans to the Illinois Charitable Fire. The infirmary staff saves every patient, and research. The following timeline notes some of the milestones in the the infirmary to house chartered in appropriations Eye and Ear Infirmary, but the Pearson building is reduced to rubble. history of the nation’s oldest, continuously operated eye and ear hospital: the overwhelming influx Champaign- to nonstate which later is shortened The infirmary moves to temporary quarters of sick and wounded Urbana. institutions. to the Illinois Eye and Ear at 137 N. Morgan St. soldiers. Infirmary.

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new resident education programs, including online publication Sound Foundation of grand rounds presentations and a mini-course for residents that is conducted as part of the department’s continuing medical Otolaryngology Leadership education courses. The University of Illinois at Chicago department of otolaryngol- Today, the ophthalmology residency program is one of the ogy–head and neck surgery also continues to build on the Eye most sought-after in the nation, with more than 600 applicants and Ear Infirmary’s legacy of invention, education and excellent vying each year for six residency openings. The department has patient care. The department provides a range of services for the become one of the premier teaching centers for practicing physi- treatment of diseases of the ear, nose and throat—including an (Left to right:) Bryan cians as well, with six new continuing education courses and a full audiology division for the treatment of hearing problems, a divi- Thomas Haberkamp, Kim, MD, assistant MD, leads the only ments, improving diagnostics for low-vision patients and reading complement of CME courses in every subspecialty. The depart- sion of speech pathology, and services devoted to the treatment of Best Doctors in America® numerous times. The center specializes director, ocular trauma, active auditory brain ment’s faculty members also teach at the American Academy of confers with residents rehabilitation. Research topics range from the regeneration of ear, nose and throat disorders in children. in rhinoplasty (cosmetic surgery of the nose)—with an emphasis stem implant program Neema Nayeb- damaged retinal cells to the impact of vision loss on quality of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive “As the oldest department of otolaryngology in the country, on correction of noses damaged by previous surgeries— in Chicago. Hashemi, MD, and Surgeons and at major ophthalmology conferences around the Shivani Gupta, MD. life. we have a long history of innovation,” reflects J. Regan Thomas, blepharoplasty (cosmetic surgery of the eyelids), facelift and The department also has embarked on an ambitious globe. MD, FACS, Francis Lederer Professor and head of otolaryngol- brow lift. whole-eye transplantation project that involves multidisciplinary Each March for the past two years, the department has ogy–head and neck surgery. “Some of the founding aspects of the “Dr. Toriumi and I, following in the footsteps of Dr. Gene research on tissue regeneration, muscular and neural issues and hosted the Illinois Eye Review program, which annually draws specialty came out of the infirmary as it evolved over the course of Tardy [professor emeritus of otolaryngology], have worked hard other factors involved in replacing the entire eye. Azar is leading more than 300 residents, fellows and practicing clinicians. A com- the past 150 years—from the popularization of intubation as an to insure that we are not only a leading center for facial plastic the project, assembling an interdisciplinary team of leading prehensive, intensive review of ophthalmology facts and advanced alternative to tracheotomy for patients with diphtheria in 1885 to surgery, but also to provide a premier educational experience experts in neuroscience, vascular biology, nanotechnology, im- concepts across all ophthalmic subspecialties, this program will the development of the first successful endoscopic camera in the in facial plastic surgery for our fellows and residents,” Thomas munology, biomedical engineering and surgery from across the continue to foster excellence in the field by combining the knowl- mid-20th century.” says. country. edge of the department’s experienced clinicians and teachers with Frequently invited to speak at medical conferences and teach the expertise of leading ophthalmic educators from around the at continuing education seminars around the globe, Thomas Head Start Enlightened Pupils world. has authored more than 120 scientific papers and publications, “As a leader in eye care and research, we have a responsi- including three textbooks on facial plastic surgery. His tenure as Auditory Brain Stem Implant Education and Skull Base Surgery bility to share what we’ve learned to enable other physicians to head of the department since 2001 has coincided with the expan- As the department’s researchers seek new knowledge that will provide better care,” Azar observes. “The department of ophthal- sion of the facial plastic surgery center, which opened a satellite The department is growing in other areas as well. The arrival enhance the lives of their patients, they also are ensuring that mology and visual sciences as it exists today is the result of more location on Michigan Avenue in 2001 and in the western Chicago of neurotologist Thomas Haberkamp, MD—who came to the next generation of clinicians and scientists is equipped with than 150 years of cumulative effort by the clinicians and research- suburb of Elmhurst. UIC in January 2008 from the neighboring Rush University superb ophthalmologic training and encouraged to engage in ers who came before us, and we are preparing today’s physicians Thomas leads the center along with Dean M. Toriumi, MD, Medical Center—paved the way for the only currently active ongoing scientific inquiry. Since his arrival, Azar has established to continue our mission into the future.” who both have been included in the physicians resource directory auditory brain stem implant program in the city of Chicago. The > 1880 > 1890 > 1900 > > > > 1930 > 1940 > 1887 1897 1874 1933 1939 1941 1943 1945 1882 The infirmary’s The College The infirmary first resident of Physicians Ophthalmologist Harry The infirmary With the onset of The infirmary The university reopens in a The College of training and Surgeons Gradle, MD (left), takes establishes one World War II, the officially becomes launches its fireproof, four- Physicians and program is affiliates with over as director of the of the first infirmary resumes its a part of the first full-time story building Surgeons of established. the University of infirmary, begins a major glaucoma partnership with University of postgraduate at Adams and Chicago opens; Illinois College of recruitment drive for clinics in the Chicago-area VA Illinois. Faculty course in Peoria streets, it eventually will Medicine. nationally renowned nation. hospitals to treat sick members now can ophthalmology. where it will become the attending physicians, and injured soldiers. provide state-of-the- remain for University of launches extensive The infirmary enters art care for patients 91 years. Illinois College of research and education programs and into an academic while training resident Medicine. divides ophthalmology and otolaryngology affiliation with the physicians. into separate departments. University of Illinois. 24 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine 25 T he U niversity of I llinois E ye and E ar I nfirmary — 1 8 5 8 – P resent

work together in a more formal, explicit manner. The big ben- the annual Midwest Voice Conference, where participants have to train using cadavers, in addition to the standard practice of efit here is that there are types of disorders and, in particular, learned how the voice works and preventative techniques for observing patient surgeries. types of tumors. There is a lot of potential here for improved voice preservation. (This year’s conference will be held in Octo- “Sinus surgery has become quite complicated,” Thomas patient outcomes.” ber.) “My main mission with this conference is public education observes. “Learning the anatomy as well as gaining skill in and outreach, with the ultimate goal of reducing the incidence using the instruments is a challenge for every young physician. or severity of these diseases,” Sims says. This lab will allow us to teach them those skills with greater Specialty Areas Strong Voices in the Department of ease. We are proud to be one of the only departments in the The Chicago Institute for Voice Care Otolaryngology–Head Nosing Around country with this type of laboratory facility and anticipate that and Neck Surgery H. Steven Sims, MD, For people who depend on their voice to make a living—such The Nikhil J. Bhatt Surgical it will serve as a model for how other similar departments will • Torok Vestibular Laboratory for the treats the voices of every- procedure entails implanting a device that transmits electrical as singers, actors, broadcasters, voice-over artists and teach- Training Center begin to teach modern techniques in sinus surgery.” one from schoolteachers treatment of to opera singers. signals directly to the hearing nucleus of the brain stem to restore ers—vocal problems brought on by illness or overuse can be dizziness, vertigo Even as it pioneers new advances in patient care, the department hearing in patients with agenesis of the auditory nerve or auditory a catastrophe. For those people, H. Steven Sims, MD—a UIC A Common Sense and imbalance of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery remains committed to • Division of Head nerves that have been destroyed by tumors or trauma. board-certified otolaryngologist who subspecializes in profes- its leadership role in training the physicians of the future. Its su- For both Azar and Thomas, the 150th anniversary of the and Neck Surgery, “This is a leading-edge surgical treatment for hearing resto- sional voice care—is a godsend. specializing in perb faculty attract and train an elite pool of four new residents University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary was an occasion to ration,” says Haberkamp, the director of the department’s otology The director of the Chicago Institute for Voice Care, Sims treating cancers of each year from more than 350 applicants to the department’s appreciate how far medicine has come over the past century and the oral cavity, and neurotology program and one of only about 20 physicians in provides treatment for the care of the voice and airway disor- pharynx, larynx, five-year residency program, while the university and its gener- a half, and to look forward with excitement at the transformative the U.S. who have received approval to develop an auditory brain ders. From vocal fatigue to reflux disease, the institute treats a nose, sinuses ous benefactors continue to invest in state-of-the-art teaching advances that the future promises. and neck stem implant program. “It gives us the most complete implant range of disorders that affect the voice—including paralyzed tools to prepare them for distinguished careers as leading physi- “For more than 150 years, our department has led the way • Chicago Institute program in the city, enabling us to perform everything from pe- vocal folds, chronic hoarseness, spasmodic dysphonia and for Voice Care cians and researchers. in improving the diagnosis, treatment and management of diatric cochlear implants to auditory brain stem implants. We are laryngeal papillomas from HPV. A professional baritone singer, • Sinus and Nasal The Nikhil J. Bhatt Surgical Training Center, dedicated blinding eye diseases,” Azar reflects. “I inherited this extraor- one of the few centers in the world to be this comprehensive.” Sims brings his knowledge of music and performance to his Allergy Center in 2006, represents one of the department’s latest educational dinary legacy when I joined UIC. My goal is to ensure that Haberkamp also is developing a multidisciplinary skull practice of medicine. • Facial Plastic innovations. The first and only cadaver lab dedicated to sinus breakthroughs in scientific discovery and the development of Surgery Center base surgery team, drawing on practitioners from the disciplines “The institute offers total voice care, from evaluation and dissection in the Chicago area and one of a limited number new treatments continue unabated.” of otolaryngology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, craniofacial diagnosis to surgical management and rehabilitative speech nationally, the Bhatt Center offers state-of-the-art facilities for re- “The department of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery surgery and endocrinology. Because skull base surgery involves therapy,” Sims says. “I’ve treated everyone from Lyric Opera search, teaching and hands-on surgical training. Stephanie Joe, is profoundly proud of its prestigious history of innovation and complex pathologies located in the most intricate part of the hu- singers and cast members from Hairspray to pastors and aero- MD, associate professor of otolaryngology, oversees the center. contribution to our specialty,” Thomas says. “That tradition of man body, it often crosses disciplinary lines and demands such an bics instructors.” Made possible by a generous gift from Nikhil Bhatt ’68, accomplishment and service guides the department as it contin- integrated approach. Through the institute, Sims also has dedicated himself to MD, Res ’78, an alumnus of the university and a pioneer in en- ues excellence in patient care, leadership in medical education, “The department has always done this informally,” educating voice professionals to help them avoid vocal injury. doscopic sinus laser surgery, the Bhatt Center enables residents and scientific advancement through research. Haberkamp says, “but now we are developing a team that will Each August for the past two years, the institute has hosted 1950 > 1960 > 1970 > 1980 > 1990 > 2000 > 1955 1962 1965 1970 1985 2006

With 100,000 out- Ground is The new, The infirmary The Lions of Illinois Nikhil Bhatt patient visits annu- broken for the 124-bed is fully Eye Research Surgical 2008 Regan and Rhonda ally, the infirmary new University of infirmary integrated into Institute opens to Training Center Thomas (left photo) is now one of the Illinois Eye and Ear at 1855 W. the University of provide additional opens. The UIC and Dimitri Azar with largest eye, ear, Infirmary at the Taylor St. is Illinois hospital research facilities Eye and Ear Joseph Flaherty, dean nose and throat corner of Taylor and dedicated. system. for UIC vision Infirmary of the College of Medicine hospitals in the Wolcott streets. researchers. celebrates (right photo), at a gala country. 150 years of celebration of the 150th excellence. anniversary of the Eye and Ear Infirmary

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Center, Gary Kruh understands what it takes to develop and weekly cancer College College of maintain an academic and clinically oriented cancer center,” says center seminar of Medicine Nursing Joseph Flaherty, MD, dean of the College of Medicine. “He’s that draws on UIC very well-respected, and he knows the scientific community very both cancer Cancer Center well. He has the ability to work with people and bring out their center members research and patient care strengths.” and outside College of Liberal Arts College Secure in job and reputation, Kruh nonetheless was drawn speakers was and of Sciences Pharmacy by the opportunities to head the cancer center. “What I liked launched. about UIC was the significant potential for developing into a In spring more robust cancer enterprise,” Kruh says. “The strength of of 2009, Kruh College School of of Engineering Public having all these health-related colleges with strong, well-funded partnered with the Health laboratories and cancer control research within one university is departments of medicine and considerable.” pediatrics to support a new clinic that Kruh is working to unite the efforts of more than 100 provides long-term follow-up and manage- “The strength of having all laboratory, clinical science and population science researchers ment for survivors of childhood cancer who these health-related colleges who annually receive $25 million in cancer-related, peer-reviewed are more than 18 years old and are free of with strong, well-funded external grant and contract direct funding, including $15 million cancer for at least three years. An estimated laboratories and cancer from the National Cancer Institute and $8.4 million from other 10,000 such adult survivors of childhood control research within one National Institutes of Health. cancer reside in the Chicagoland area. The university is considerable.” “On the clinical side, there is a long tradition of high-quality clinic is linked to members of the cancer cen-

care and an excellent cancer control program,” Kruh adds. He’s ter’s cancer control and population science G ary K ruh , M D , P h D particularly enthusiastic about the medical center’s commitment research program from the colleges of Medicine and Nursing. to bringing care to the underserved, as evidenced by UIC being While Kruh is working diligently to lay the groundwork for one of 13 institutions in the U.S. to be designated a Minority- the cancer center, he realizes that its success ultimately will rely Common Based Community Clinical Oncology Program by the National on the investigators involved. “You can have an infrastructure, Cancer Center Director Gary Kruh Cancer Institute. The grant, competitively renewed in 2007 for but ultimately it’s dependent upon discoveries by curious cancer Aims to Unite UIC in Translating Research five years, demonstrates the medical center’s commitment to researchers,” he says. “The sorts of trials that will be particularly Into Patient Care recruiting and enrolling underserved and minority patients in valuable will be the ones that grow out of our own labs.” Cause high-priority, national cooperative protocols in cancer treatment Fortunately, his colleagues in other UIC colleges share became interested in cancer because of Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences. and cancer control. Kruh’s enthusiasm and his commitment to translational cancer the biology of it is so rich, there are so Kruh came to UIC from Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadel- Kruh also sees room to grow. In the near term, his focus research. At the College of Dentistry, Dean Bruce S. Graham, many questions to be answered and there is so phia, where he was an attending physician, associate professor in the is on establishing core facilities to support the work of cancer DDS, has built a team of nine investigators that studies head, “I much opportunity for helping patients,” says Gary department of medical oncology and acting head of the pharmacol- researchers. Another goal is to foster research that has clinical neck and oral cancers. “It’s more common than melanoma, and Kruh, MD, PhD. ogy department. Much of his research has focused on understand- relevance. “I want to put more focus on the discoveries in the it has not been well-researched or well-addressed,” Graham says. The director of the UIC Cancer Center and the interim chief ing the molecular mechanisms that enable cancer cells to resist laboratory being translated into clinical trials that affect patients, “Dr. Kruh and I have high hopes that this will be a major compo- of the section of hematology and oncology at the University of Il- chemotherapeutic agents. Understanding these resistance mecha- and on clinical trials fueling laboratory studies,” he says. Kruh nent of our cancer center.” linois Medical Center since the fall of 2007, Kruh now is working nisms may lead to improvements in the use of currently available also plans to develop a network of donors and advocates to sup- Kruh’s arrival also has stirred enthusiasm on UIC’s east with researchers from across UIC to help find answers to these anti-cancer agents and the development of improved drugs. port the center. side of campus. “There are many promising new tools and questions. In the process, he’s trying to forge the same synthesis As a clinician, Kruh has focused on treatment of lung cancer After reviewing the university’s cancer research grant technologies that the College of Engineering can bring to cancer of laboratory research and clinical care in the fight against cancer patients. After earning his PhD in biochemistry and then his MD, portfolio and consulting with deans, department heads and research,” says Richard L. Magin, PhD, head of the department of that’s guided his own career for 25 years. both from Baylor College of Medicine, Kruh completed his intern- individual scientists, Kruh reconfigured the cancer center’s bioengineering. “The cancer center is going to provide the avenue His second-floor office in the Medical Center Administra- ship and residency in internal medicine and subspecialty training research programs into programs focusing on cancer for our researchers to make great contributions.” tion Building is at the center of Kruh’s effort to unite researchers, in medical oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He later carried control and population science, carcinogenesis and chemopreven- “We’re extremely fortunate to have someone with his scien- educators and clinicians from all six of UIC’s health sciences col- out postdoctoral training as a medical staff fellow at the National tion, experimental therapeutics and imaging, and tumor cell tific credentials and organizational skills,” says Jerry L. Bauman, leges—Medicine, Applied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Nursing, Institutes of Health. biology. Program leaders were appointed at the end of 2008. At PharmD, dean of the College of Pharmacy, where cancer research Pharmacy and the School of Public Health—as well the colleges “Having worked at the highly respected Fox Chase Cancer the start of 2009, the programs began to meet monthly, and a is a major focus. “If anybody can lead this effort, it will be him.”

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in 1986. In October of last year, he was appointed Riad Barmada to make sure artificial knees are properly fitted by measuring the pres- Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, named for a professor emeritus sure being applied to the knee and leg. and former head of orthopaedic surgery at UIC. “This is a field that used to be somewhat subjective,” Gonzalez “Mark Gonzalez is eminently worthy to hold the Barmada chair says. “Technology is enabling us to be more quantitative, to do better, and to follow Dr. Barmada as department head,” says Joseph Fla- more precise and more reproducible surgeries.” herty, MD, dean of the College of Medicine. “I’m excited to see the Gonzalez also has initiated changes to the residency program, impact that Mark has made with the ideas and energy he’s brought furthering a transition that began in 2002 when Alfonso Mejia, MD, to this role. Mark has the enthusiasm and talent of a gifted surgeon; MPH ’90, Res ’95, became program director for the orthopaedic resi- that combined with his engineering background and entreprenurial dency. Speaking from his own experience, Mejia says UIC orthopaedic spirit will make his department truly extraordinary in the era of residents long have been well-rounded, confident decision-makers translational medicine.” who excel at developing reasonable, structured Gonzalez’s intensified focus on research operation and post-operation plans. within the department reflects not only his On the other hand, he recognized that for- interests in biomechanics and nerve regenera- mal classroom education was less-developed, and tion, but also a belief that even future clinicians Mejia added two weekly classroom sessions to the benefit from time in the lab. Wednesday resident conferences that dramatically “Once students finish medical school and improved the residents’ success on the Ortho- go out and practice, their ongoing contact with paedic In-Training Examination, a standardized the world of orthopaedic research typically is test for orthopaedic residents. In each of the past through journals,” says Gonzalez, who con- four years, UIC residents’ scores have placed the “The next tinues to perform surgeries in addition to his school at or above the 90th percentile of residency generation of academic duties. “By participating in research, programs. prostheses won’t our residents will be better able to tell which of Past graduates of the residency program just come from these studies apply to their patients, and which engineers. These also are responding to the new energy in the studies might be poorly constructed.” ideas are going department. Alumni already have given more than To provide this preparation, Gonzalez and to come from the $800,000 for a planned $3.2 million comprehen- Engineering Excellence his team have increased the amount of research medical side.” sive renovation of each of the department’s four required of residents, involving them in one of floors in the college’s Medical Science Building, F arid A mirouche , PHD Every summer, Mark Gonzalez ’76, MD, Res ’85, MEng ’04, and several ongoing departmental research projects including offices, classrooms and laboratories. and ensuring that each resident has a good Gonzalez is building on this fundraising success, Farid Amirouche, PhD, hang up their lab coats for a few days and head for chance of publication. In fact, residents have and he’s gratified by the response he’s receiving the remote streams of Colorado or Wisconsin to go fly fishing together. The received credit as the co-authors of several faculty papers published from the alumni he’s met. “People really care about this place, and two professors keep talking science while they cast their lines into the water. since the beginning of 2008. they’re thrilled that we’re doing research, advancing and improving The converse idea—that a practitioner’s perspective is helpful didactics,” he says. Perhaps it’s no surprise that their conversation stays focused That multitasking zeal is typical of Gonzalez, who has in the lab—is central to Gonzalez’s collaborative efforts with Ami- As an alumnus of the College of Medicine and the residency on the lab. As the head of the College of Medicine’s department of initiated changes to most aspects of the department, including rouche. “The next generation of prostheses won’t just come from program himself, Gonzalez shares that passion. His fishing buddy orthopaedic surgery, Gonzalez is focusing on integrating biome- research, teaching and facilities, since he became head of ortho- engineers,” Amirouche says. “These ideas are going to come from says that Gonzalez exudes the contagious energy of a visionary leader. chanical engineering with orthopaedics. He believes the next wave paedic surgery in May of 2007. the medical side.” “He’s gotten everyone involved,” Amirouche says. “The faculty, the of advancement in prosthesis design and integration will come “I’ve never seen someone who can do so many things at the Gonzalez’s PhD thesis provides one example of these pos- residents, the engineering students, can see that he will do anything to from doctors and engineers working together. same time,” says Amirouche, who himself has dual appointments sibilities. He’s developing a mathematical modeling system that move things forward. He’s been such a positive force.” Gonzalez isn’t just casting a line in the water in pursuit of as a professor in the departments of bioengineering and mechani- uses CT scans to create a three-dimensional computer model of Innovation can’t be forced any more than a fish can be compelled this idea; he’s wading chest-deep into the river. He keeps an office cal and industrial engineering at UIC. “The level of energy that he a patient’s hip socket. Using this model, surgeons can custom-fit to jump at a lure. But just as success in fishing starts with putting a in the biomechanics lab that Amirouche directs; he has Amir- has is unbelievable. It’s like he can’t see limitations.” artificial hip components before surgery takes place, so that fewer line in the water, orthopaedic researchers and residents at the College ouche lecture his orthopaedics residents; and he is researching a Gonzalez’s career at the College of Medicine began with his fitting adjustments are needed during the actual operation. Other of Medicine know they are pursuing breakthroughs with the sense of thesis project that will earn him a PhD in mechanical engineering. appointment as an assistant professor of clinical orthopaedics research projects in the department include using wireless sensors determination fostered by a leader who thinks anything is possible.

30 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine 31 Feature Anatomy and Microbiology by D an L iberty

nia in 1978. While studying the materials moving through the esis—the production of nerve cells—and Alzheimer’s disease. giant axon of squid during his postdoctoral work at the Marine Hailing from Buenos Aires by way of UCLA and a gene therapy Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and Case Western institute in Milan, Ernesto Bongarzone, PhD, is examining the Reserve University in Cleveland, he discovered kinesins, a kind root causes of neuronal damage in childhood diseases such as of molecular motor involved in axonal transport. Up to nearly one leukodystrophies and adult diseases such as multiple sclerosis. millimeter wide, the giant axon of squid is 1,000 times larger than Gerardo Morfini, PhD, an Argentinean those in most mammals, making it a frequent model for studies who came with Brady from University of of neurological processes. Texas Southwestern Medical Center, is fo- Since then, Brady has focused his research on better under- cusing on how regulatory pathways in the standing the structure, regulation and molecular biology of kine- brain are affected by pathogenic proteins sins in the neuron. He currently is exploring the roles of axonal associated with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, transport and the regulation of molecular motors in Alzheimer’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and other adult-onset neurodegenera- disease) and other diseases. (All three tive diseases. “These processes are important because many of the researchers are assistant professors in neurological diseases once thought to be diseases of cell death are, anatomy and cell biology.) understood more explicitly, diseases of abnormal axonal trans- “One advantage of bringing together port,” Brady reflects. “The thinking goes that if you can restore the multiple research groups that share an transport, you can save the cell and defeat the disease.” His work interest in neurodegenerative diseases is Up to nearly one is supported regularly by the NIH, Muscular Dystrophy Associa- that the whole becomes greater than the millimeter wide, the tion and ALS Association. sum of its parts,” Brady notes. “Each of giant axon of squid He’s equally passionate about supporting his young these recruits to our departmental faculty is 1,000 times larger researchers in their own novel explorations. “Scott loves to see now has collaborations within the depart- than those in most people succeed,” says Mary Jo LaDu, PhD ’91, associate professor ment. The resulting exchange of ideas mammals, making of anatomy and cell biology. and approaches creates an opportunity to it a frequent model Recruited from the ENH Research Institute, the research answer questions that individual laborato- for studies of arm of Northwestern University and Evanston Northwestern ries might not undertake.” neurological Steadying Nerves Healthcare, LaDu is studying the interactions between the protein One example of this interaction is a processes. Anatomy and Cell Biology Head Scott Brady apoE4, the primary genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, recent publication in the Proceedings of the and Abeta peptide, the only known genetic causative factor for the National Academy of Sciences that included Leads the Quest to Understand Neurological Disorders disease. She’s using a variety of techniques to explore how these members of the Brady, LaDu and Morfini proteins can be manipulated to treat the disease. laboratories among its authors. The study received attention ypically microscopic in width but up to Brady is leading this endeavor at a crucial juncture. Because Since the beginning of 2009, LaDu has been directing a nationally because it provided new insights into how the small a meter in length, axons are the part of nerve cells many neurodegenerative diseases are age-related, they are likely five-site, $11.5 million NIH study centered at UIC examining how oligomeric form of the Abeta peptide damages neurons in that carry neurological signals throughout the body, to become more prevalent as the Baby Boomers grow older. On apoE4 modulates the function of nerves in the brain. Alzheimer’s disease patients and identified a promising new set and they’ve fascinated Scott Brady, PhD, throughout the other hand, rapid advancements in molecular science offer the Brady credits LaDu’s work for helping to determine that of therapeutic targets. This career. “I wanted to understand how a neuron that large could promise of a whole new class of therapies. Since coming to the it is not the accumulation of plaques that triggers Alzheimer’s Brady sees the concentration in neuroscience the depart- develop and maintain itself for 75 or 80 years,” says Brady, head College of Medicine from the University of Texas Southwestern disease, as commonly was thought, but rather a component part ment has developed over the six years he’s been at its helm as a of the UIC department of anatomy and cell biology. “It leads to Medical Center in 2003, Brady has built a multinational team of of plaques, small soluble oligomers, that wreak havoc upon the stepping stone to his ultimate goal: establishing a center for the the question of what happens when things go wrong.” young researchers to conduct this cutting-edge work, hiring seven human brain. study of neurodegenerative disease at UIC. “A center would en- Brady has made understanding how neurological processes of the department’s 17 current faculty members. The depart- Other recent recruits reflect Brady’s commitment to both able us to recruit a critical mass of researchers who share ques- go wrong in diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Hun- ment presently is conducting more than a dozen major studies, diversity and innovative research science. Orly Lazarov, PhD, a tions and methods,” he says. “That kind of collaboration would tington’s the focus of the department’s research agenda. “These supported by more than $25 million in funding, including $21.9 native of Israel who had been a research fellow at the Univer- allow us to make progress in our research more quickly than we diseases are major health issues for which there are effectively no million from the National Institutes of Health. sity of Chicago prior to joining the department, is studying the can individually, and speed the development of potential treat- treatments available,” observes Brady. “They have an enormous Brady’s own research builds on a discovery he made shortly molecular mechanisms that are common to both neurogen- ments for these diseases.” cost on both a personal and a societal level.” after completing his PhD at the University of Southern Califor-

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UIC Institute for Patient Safety Excellence is National Leader in practice and appreciate effec- “Those are things you icant challenges working with Patient Safety tive communication skills. really can’t teach from books new regulations and reimburse-

Another group exercise or in traditional classrooms; ment penalties designed to en- n 2004, David Mayer, MD, and Timothy uses a seesaw to stress the you’ve got to practice it,” sure patient safety. “The culture McDonald, MD, JD, saw an opportunity for UIC to take a leading role in the patient impact group actions have Mayer says. change we are experiencing i safety revolution. Innovative research already on patient safety. During the Another first for the pro- right now is fairly significant,” was being conducted throughout the university in many different colleges, and UIC had the exercise, raw eggs representing gram is an elective two-week says Viveka Boddipalli ’02, logistical bonus of being one of only a few patients are placed under both intensive patient safety course, MBA ’04, MD ’09, who has universities that included six health sciences ends of a board balanced on a in which seniors can get a begun his residency in internal colleges, as well as the colleges of Architecture and the Arts and Engineering. cinder block, which represents much deeper understanding medicine at the University of Mayer and McDonald drew a new medical technology. In of full disclosure, quality im- Wisconsin School of Medicine together the expertise of healthcare providers, ethics experts, medical the role of the patients’ clini- provement, electronic records and Public Health. “Starting center administration leadership, patient cal team, groups of a dozen management and other meth- with this generation of doctors, safety researchers and educators, and deans of students each are charged with ods for ensuring and improv- patient safety will be a central curriculum throughout the UIC campus to create the Institute for Patient Safety Excellence. The safely “implementing” the ing patient safety. Students focus of the practice.” institute’s goal is to improve patient safety through medical technology by finding learn that simple changes can Timothy McDonald, MD, education, research and clinical care, and to create an interdisciplinary culture of patient safety within the a way for eight students to make huge differences. JD, associate chief medical university and beyond. stand together on the board for Kristin Donaldson, MD, officer for safety and risk “Through a lot of small wins and small suc- 10 seconds without tipping the MPH, was impressed with management, co-executive cesses, we started building some momentum that’s now turned into some larger successes and a grow- teeter-totter and breaking the a procedure implemented director of the UIC Institute ing international recognition of what UIC is doing in eggs. (The other four students in 2005 at the University of for Patient Safety Excellence patient safety and quality of care,” Mayer says. One of those not-so-small wins is the success on each team act as coaches.) Illinois Medical Center that re- and professor of anesthesiology of the medical center’s internationally recognized Full “It sounds simple, but the duced the chance that surgical and pediatrics, already has seen Disclosure With Rapid Remedy program, a system exercise stresses the impor- instruments would be left in this change taking place among for physicians acknowledging and apologizing for errors implemented in 2006 that was designed by tance of communication, team- patients during surgery. After young doctors at the Univer- McDonald; Nikki Centomani, director, risk manage- work and planning to the stu- surgery, the staff started to sity of Illinois Medical Center. ment; and William Chamberlin, MD ’74, chief medical Schooled in Safety officer. The full disclosure process begins when a dents,” Mayer observes. “Above X-ray patients at high risk for “Residents in our program who Patient Safety Now Integrated Into Medicine Curriculum healthcare provider reports an adverse event. If harm all, it makes them aware of retained objects, such as emer- came from our medical school occurred, there is an immediate investigation to see how vulnerable patients are in gency abdominal and chest are far more likely, when they whether that harm was preventable; if it was, a team is assembled to meet with the patient and family and What do Legos, seesaws and robots have in common? a medical system and the need surgery patients, even if the see an adverse event, to tell the disclose the error, discuss what is known about the to act carefully.” sponge and instrument count people who need to know about error, apologize for the error, and report what is being done to remedy the situation. hey all are part of the College of Medicine’s innovative patient safety now has become an integral part of core classes and During the 2008–09 made after surgery matched it,” he says. “Its impact on patient care as well as our patient safety curriculum, which has become a model for the focus of a growing number of workshops. academic year, third-year the pre-surgery number. In addition, College of healthcare providers has been quite moving,” Mayer medical schools across the country and throughout the Patient safety is taught along with subjects such as ethics, student teams began applying “We’re all human, so Medicine students are spread- says. “The program has directly led to numerous improvements in patient care that have significantly world. informatics and professionalism in the first- and second-year Es- patient safety principles while making sure there are process- ing the word on safety as they reduced adverse event outcomes.” Thanks to these t David Mayer ’78, MD ’82, Res ’04, associate dean of curricu- sentials in Clinical Medicine course. A dozen required workshops improvements, the medical center’s malpractice working with a robotic human es in place to address those venture forth after graduation. insurance costs actually have gone down even as lum, co-executive director of the UIC Institute for Patient Safety held in the first two years of school teach safety-related topics simulator mannequin. If the human errors is important,” “It’s really exciting to see,” physicians have been more forthcoming about errors. Excellence and director of cardiothoracic anesthesiology, began including teamwork, communication, leadership, stress manage- simulator receives the wrong says Donaldson, who currently Mayer says, “because many The institute is working to spread the word to integrate patient safety into classes six years ago in response to ment and error disclosure. medication, it responds the is an emergency medicine of the students who take the about its practices by consulting with other institu- tions worldwide about the full disclosure program and the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 estimate that as many as 98,000 Teams learn to work together and communicate effectively same way a human would. The resident at the University of course head into residency other patient safety initiatives. Mayer and McDonald annual deaths occur due to preventable medical errors. through games, simulation exercises and role-playing using actors exercise is videotaped, results Illinois Medical Center. or professional practice and also lead the annual Telluride [Co.] Invitational Round- table on Designing, Implementing and Assessing With the help of a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Depart- who play patients or caregivers. Students use Lego blocks to build are discussed and improve- After graduation, newly become leaders in patient safety Health Sciences Patient Safety Curricula, now in its ment of Education to develop and implement this curriculum, models of healthcare organizational structures, helping them ments are suggested. minted doctors will face signif- themselves.” fifth year.

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filled tube near the stomach opening. The tube restricts food sity, which is considered by many experts to be a public health consumption and slows its passage through the stomach, creating epidemic, like polio. Defined as 30 pounds over normal weight, a feeling of fullness. The band can be easily tightened or loosened obesity will affect almost 20 percent of youth in the U.S. by 2010, to regulate weight loss, by adding or removing solution from the according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. band. The Office of the Surgeon General reports that the number of “We started the program in 2003, when we began getting obese children has tripled since 1988, and a 2007 report in the requests to do gastric bypass surgery on overweight teens,” says New England Journal of Medicine reported that because of obesity Mark Holterman, MD, PhD, associate professor of surgery and co-founder and medical director of New Hope. “We had reser- vations about using the gastric bypass procedure on teenagers because it permanently reduces the size of the stomach, causes a lifetime of malabsorption and has the potential for serious surgi- cal complications. We thought banding, a 45-minute, minimally invasive surgical procedure, was a much better option, but it wasn’t FDA-approved. We’re trying to change that.” Since his surgery in October 2006, Mac has maintained his weight around 190 to 200 pounds. The program has found that about 20 to 30 percent of kids lose weight when solely using traditional weight loss methods fo- cused on diet, exercise and behavior modification. By comparison, 80 percent of children with a gastric band lose an average of one the average life expectancy in the U.S. has dropped for the first MacGregor Downey (center) with the New to two pounds a week. time ever. Hope team (left to right): “Banding isn’t a magic bullet,” Holterman says. “Kids have According to Holterman, unless something changes, these Mandy Guide, dieti- to change many behaviors, and it takes hard work every day. obese teens are headed to an early death. “High blood pres- cian; Mark Holterman, New Hope MD, medical director; in the Battle Against Childhood Obesity We always conduct a six-month evaluation before approving the sure, heart disease, sleep apnea, diabetes, infertility, menstrual Barb Sherrill, medical procedure. Kids have to show us they have the discipline and com- disorders, liver disease, bone and joint issues, higher cancer risk, assistant; Erin Tobin, LCSW, social worker; mitment required, plus the right parental support.” asthma—many of the kids we see suffer from at least four of Weighing 360 pounds when he was 15 years old, MacGregor Bailet Vaughn, customer Mac had all of these resources, but in the beginning, he these illnesses,” he says. Many of the New Hope patients show services representative; didn’t like the program. Like many kids, he’d burned out on diets rapid resolution of these obesity-related problems within the first and Amy Phipps, nurse Downey never imagined that a year later, he’d be almost half his practitioner (not pictured: and programs. “Thinking back on it, I had lost hope. I was tired year after band placement even after only modest amounts of Christiane Stahl, MD, size— and on The Oprah Winfrey Show talking about it. of failing,” he says. weight loss. assistant professor of pediatrics; and Larry During the program’s monthly three-hour consultations, Holterman and the New Hope team’s research plans include Turner, PsyD, clinical Yet there he was in October of 2007, a fit and banding surgery for teens being conducted at the New Hope Mac spent a half hour with each member of the New Hope team, a study looking for the genetic markers for obesity, trying to psychologist) healthy 190 pounds, speaking to an audience of Project for Pediatric and Adolescent Weight Management at the which included a physical therapist, dietician, social worker, nurse predict which kids will respond to lap millions about the dramatic 170-pound weight loss University of Illinois Medical Center. Jacqueline enrolled Mac practitioner, psychologist and pediatric surgeon. “Everyone was so band. he achieved thanks to an experimental treatment he in the study in April of 2006, and for the next year she traveled understanding and loving,” he says. “They became like family.” After starting college at Bowling Yreceived at the University of Illinois Medical Center. with him as often as twice a month to Chicago from their home In gratitude for Mac’s care, Jacqueline and Robert Downey, Green State University in Bowling This past May, Mac—as he is known to family and friends— in Columbus, Ohio. Mac’s father, have donated more than $30,000 to support New Green, Ohio, Mac will transfer to completed his first year of college, where he participated in and The New Hope Project is one of the only programs nation- Hope. Philanthropy is critical to the program’s success. Johnson and Wales Culinary Institute organized intramural football and basketball games. It’s a dramat- wide treating teens who are typically more than 100 pounds “We’re so grateful for the Downeys’ generous support,” in Miami this fall. He is excited about ic change for a young man who had been overweight since fourth overweight. In April 2004, it launched the first FDA-approved Holterman says. “We want to show the FDA that banding works, learning how to create foods that will lead grade despite many years of diets, fitness camps and weight loss study to test the safety and efficacy of gastric band surgery on then convince the American Academy of Pediatrics to get behind to people having heathier and tastier choices. He

Above: programs. “I have more confidence as a person. It’s like being patients between 14 and 17 years of age. Mac is one of 150 kids it. Until we discover better therapies—and we will—the band is ultimately hopes to become a music producer, a chef with MacGregor reborn,” he says. enrolled in the program, 77 of whom have received gastric band the best bet for these kids.” his own restaurant or a psychologist. The latter goal was Downey and When Mac hit 350 pounds, his mother, Jacqueline Downey, implants so far. Meanwhile, the need for such treatment is increasing. Mac inspired by the people he’s met in the New Hope program. his mother, Jacqueline Downey consulted Mac’s pediatrician, who told her about a study of gastric Gastric banding surgically places a belt lined with a saline- is one of a growing number of children struggling with obe- “I was given a gift,” he says. “I got a second chance.”

36 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine 37 Philanthropy Brilliant Futures Philanthropy Brilliant Futures

Washington Square Health Foundation The Gift Report Support Enables UIC Health Initiatives News and Updates About Charitable Support by Dan Liberty From Alumni and Friends of the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the University of Illinois Medical Center

A free dental clinic for the homeless. through the Chi- Dear Alumni and Friends, Healthcare services for people with mental cago Diabetes Project illnesses. An international research effort greatly increases I am glad to have the opportunity to be a part of the University of Illinois medicine family. I became UIC’s chief development officer for to find a functional cure for diabetes. the likelihood of medicine at the beginning of July, and from the start one of the things that has impressed me the most about the university’s medical These varied endeavors have two things in common: The finding a cure,” says endeavors is the depth of support of its alumni, friends, faculty and staff. The dedicated work and focus of the faculty and staff combined University of Illinois is a major participant in them, and they Nochumson, who with the gifts of time, talent and resources our alumni and friends provide makes for a powerful combination. have received significant financial support from the Washington first conceived of the Clearly, something special happens within the walls of the College of Medicine. Already I have heard over and over again from alumni Square Health Foundation. A nonprofit foundation based in effort and brought about how grateful they are to the college for the opportunity to become physicians. I am proud to know that so many of the college’s Chicago, Washington Square makes grants to help provide access the idea to UIC for graduates feel they received an outstanding medical education that allowed them to match skills with any physician from to adequate healthcare to people of all backgrounds in the greater its researchers to any of the country’s top medical schools, and that it provided the foundation for them to excel as professionals. Chicago area. For nearly two decades, it has looked to UIC to be a develop. Knowing that the college provides this kind of opportunity is very meaningful to me personally. I grew up in rural partner in its efforts. Other College of South Carolina, and my upbringing emphasized the small-town values of charity, helping others and making a positive “UIC is the best kind of healthcare institution to fund, be- Medicine efforts that difference in people’s lives. These values are what led me to my more than 20-year career as a fundraiser in academic cause it is a major player locally and nationally,” says Howard No- have received support medicine. I want to make an impact by helping raise money to continue the University of Illinois’ tradition of offering chumson ’67, MA ’68, the foundation’s director. “Through UIC, from Washington affordable education, finding new treatments for disease and making healthcare more accessible to everyone. Howard Nochumson, MA the foundation can directly fund programs that affect the quality Square include an I know you want to make a similar impact, because philanthropic support has been the bedrock of these efforts. of life for vulnerable populations in Chicago neighborhoods and MRI-based measurement of intracranial pressure, a low-vision Thanks in large part to our alumni and other generous individual, corporate and foundation donors, the College of also cutting-edge research that involves both distinguished scien- reading rehabilitation program and a sickle cell clinic. “The col- Medicine has raised more than $177 million so far during the Brilliant Futures campaign for the University of Illinois. tists at UIC and in renowned laboratories around the world.” lege is very fortunate to have a partner in the Washington Square But this campaign is about so much more than the number we achieve—it’s about what that number represents. UIC’s ability to make an impact clinically and scientifically, Foundation,” says Joseph Flaherty, MD, dean of the college. “I It’s about providing support that led to a new protocol in hepatitis C that gives patients a 50 percent greater chance of locally and internationally, is the reason Washington Square has speak for everyone involved in these endeavors when I say we are recovery. It’s about the eight endowed professorships that the college and medical center use to support and retain such provided more than $1 million in grants to different university very grateful to the foundation for its long-standing support.” physician faculty as Mark Gonzalez, head of orthopaedic surgery, who’s profiled on page 30. It’s about Bob Jones—a programs since 1990. For the past decade, the foundation has Nochumson makes a point to note that the breadth and depth student who now will realize his lifelong dream of becoming a physician and returning to southern Illinois to help the helped fund a collaboration between the College of Nursing’s of Washington Square’s support for UIC would not be possible community that supported him throughout his life. On the following pages, you’ll find stories that offer more examples L. Keith Todd Integrated Health Care program and Thresholds, a mental health without the leadership of the foundation’s president, Angelo P. of the difference charitable giving makes. services agency in Chicago, to provide care for people with mental Creticos, MD, Res ’52. “He always has had an expansive view of I can’t overstate how vital such support is. One of my very top priorities is to strengthen our communications and engagement with illness at multiple sites in the city. Last year, it made a grant to healthcare, even before it was fashionable,” Nochumson says. “We our alumni and donors to let you know how the College of Medicine and the medical center are changing the face of healthcare in our Goldie’s Place, a support center for homeless people located on wouldn’t be the funder we are today without his ability to help the community and beyond. The ways we partner with you are saving lives! Chicago’s Far Northwest Side, to help provide equipment for a nonmedical members of the board understand the connections I look forward to meeting you as opportunity allows. I hope you won’t hesitate to tell me how we are doing in being stewards of your free dental clinic staffed by volunteer professionals and students among medicine, science, public health and social issues.” philanthropy, and how we can work together to build an even better and stronger University of Illinois College of Medicine and University from the UIC College of Dentistry. The ties between the foundation and the college also are part- of Illinois Medical Center—for the health of us all. Numerous College of Medicine initiatives also have received ly personal. During the early years of the foundation, which was Sincerely, crucial support from the foundation. Washington Square provid- established in 1985, Nochumson would put on his academic robe ed the impetus and initial seed funding for the Chicago Diabetes and attend the College of Medicine’s commencement ceremonies. Project, an international research collaboration to find a cure for Nochumson knows the importance of foundation support for uni- diabetes that is headquartered in the College of Medicine (see re- versity scholarships, research and community service programs. L. Keith Todd lated story on the following page). The foundation has continued Alumni kinship alone wouldn’t justify the foundation’s ex- Chief Development Officer for Medicine to make grants to enhance and expand this effort. tensive support, however. “The university has always been a good Associate Dean for Advancement “The foundation feels that bringing researchers together steward of our funds,” Nochumson reports. Vice President, University of Illinois Foundation Philanthropy

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Local Foundations Enable Global Effort by Steve Hendershot

“Local, private developing a means to create islet cells that can be used in trans- Given that it enlists researchers from Project’s plans to a diverse group of area philanthropists. funding is absolutely plantation; and second, finding a way to protect the transplanted across the globe, the Chicago Diabetes Oberholzer’s message hit home with these donors as well. instrumental.” islet cells from the attacks of the body’s immune system. Project may seem misnamed. Yet while the “It’s an amazing opportunity, because the potential impact on Chicago Diabetes Project scientists have made recent prog- scientific collaboration to find a functional cure for diabetes is the world is enormous,” says Pamela Scholl, president of the Dr. J os é O berhol z er , M D ress on both fronts. The team successfully has divided insulin- international in both its scope and its potential impact, the city of Scholl Foundation, which has provided significant grant support producing islet cells and regrown each part into a whole cell. Chicago has earned its billing in the venture’s title. for the Chicago Diabetes Project. “Diabetes is reaching a crisis While the researchers can’t generate these cells in large quantities One reason is that the Chicago Diabetes Project is led by point globally, but Dr. Oberholzer has the brightest minds from yet, this technique still is a significant advance. Previously, the José Oberholzer, MD, chief of the division of transplantation and around the world attacking this from so many disciplines, and islets used in transplantation were only available in limited quan- professor of surgery, endocrinology and bioengineering at UIC. we’re very hopeful.” the wheel, which required pricking a finger each time. She drew tities from donor cadavers. Another critical reason is philanthropy: The financial support the Another donor, the Lake Forest-based Grant Healthcare her blood at least seven times a day, along with giving herself four There have been two advances related to helping the body Chicago Diabetes Project has received comes largely from private Foundation, was drawn to the Chicago Diabetes Project because daily insulin injections. receive transplanted cells. Oberholzer’s team, using immunosup- Midwestern foundations. its initial lack of federal funding meant that the foundation’s gift In 2005, after meeting with Oberholzer, she received an islet pressant drugs, now is able to transplant enough islet cells to That support may be quite a legacy for this regional group would be especially meaningful. The foundation has contributed cell transplant at UIC. Transplantation of the insulin-producing take a patient off insulin after only one procedure. (Prior to this of small and mid-sized foundations, considering that the Chicago $65,000 to date. cells, which reside in the pancreas, is the basis for the Chicago advance, patients often needed two or three transplants to become Diabetes Project’s researchers believe they might develop a func- “Our dollars mean so much there—we really can make an Diabetes Project’s efforts. For Carlson, the effects were dramatic. insulin-independent.) In the long term, though, the team hopes to tional cure for diabetes—a disease that afflicts 197 million people impact,” says Joe Carr, a member of the foundation’s board of Within five weeks of the transplant, she was completely insulin- develop a delivery method that doesn’t require suppression of the worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and will directors. “Because this research could positively affect the many independent. That change meant no more finger pricks and an immune system. Chicago Diabetes Project scientists in Perugia, A Chicago Marathon running affect 300 million by 2025 if the epidemic isn’t contained. millions of people that have diabetes, we have a tremendous end to the 26,000 shots she’d taken to control her diabetes. Al- Italy, and Trondhein, Norway, successfully have transplanted islet team is raising funds amount of satisfaction and pride that we’re part of it.” though Carlson suffered a brief setback in 2008 that necessitated cells without immunosuppression by encapsulating the cells. for the Chicago Making an Impact Diabetes Project. her taking small amounts of insulin, she received another islet That’s welcome news to donors such as Eric Harkna, who A Personal Connection To support the “Local, private funding is absolutely instrumental. Without it, transplant at UIC in November of last year that again has freed chairs the Chicago Diabetes Project’s steering committee. He has runners and our work would be totally unfeasible,” Oberholzer says. Carr has a deeply personal understanding of the Chicago Diabetes her from needing injections. been volunteering on behalf of diabetes researchers for 33 years— the project, please visit www. For one thing, at first the Chicago Diabetes Project’s scope Project’s potential impact on diabetics, because he’s one himself. Carlson has worked at Tellabs, Inc. for more than 20 years— ever since his then-two-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cellmatesontherun. was too broad and its structure too unusual for the initiative to He’s not the only donor with an up-close understanding of the nearly her entire diabetic life. She introduced Oberholzer to the disease. When he retired from the advertising agency BBDO com. apply for federal funding. In addition, though the project is a disease. members of the company’s charitable foundation, which includes Worldwide, where he was a senior vice president until 2008, he worldwide coalition—including researchers in the United States, In fact, the Naperville- healthcare as one of its focus areas. Upon hearing Carlson’s story asked friends and co-workers to donate to the project in lieu of a Canada, Switzerland, France, Israel, Norway and Slovakia—the based Tellabs Foundation, and learning about Oberholzer’s research, supporting the Chicago retirement gift. He raised $50,000. endeavor initially based its private fundraising efforts in Chicago another donor, learned about Diabetes Project was an easy choice, according to Michael Birck, the “The Chicago Diabetes Project has made enormous, remark- (the project now is broadening its fundraising to the national level the Chicago Diabetes Project foundation’s president and chairman of Tellabs’ corporate board. able progress,” says Harkna, noting that based on its successes, and including outreach in the areas where international research- from a longtime employee who The Tellabs Foundation committed $300,000 to the project. the project finally is in line for grants from larger entities like the ers are based). That focus frees the researchers in other parts of the is a diabetic—and one of the For Carlson, it was a chance to give back to a cause that had National Institutes of Health and the Juvenile Diabetes Research world to focus on their work, instead of writing grant proposals. project’s success stories. radically improved her life. “I always hoped a cure would come Foundation, both of which have funded subsidiary projects of the The initiative received seed funding and subsequent con- Kim Carlson learned she during my lifetime. My diabetes was out of control, and I knew initiative. Kim Carlson tinuing support from the Washington Square Health Founda- had diabetes as a high school se- it would get worse,” she says. “It’s turned out wonderfully, like “We’d never have gotten to this stage without personal and tion in Chicago, whose president, Angelo P. Creticos, MD, and nior in 1984, 20 years before she discovered the Chicago Diabetes everything was aligned, that I could help out with funding and foundation grants. A lot of Chicago donors have stepped up to the executive director, Howard Nochumson, MA, had suggested Project. Her illness was always difficult to control, but after her return the favor.” plate,” Harkna continues. “This effort has global implications, but the idea for the project to Oberholzer (see related story on the daughter was born 10 years ago, it got worse. Carlson couldn’t tell its roots are right here in Chicago and at UIC.” Enabling Progress previous page). With introductions to other foundations made by when she was having hypoglycemic episodes and would unexpect- For more information, visit www.chicagodiabetesproject.org. To Achieving a functional cure for all diabetics will require two dis- Washington Square and assistance from the UIC Office of Medi- edly lose consciousness. She was afraid she would pass out while contribute to the Chicago Diabetes Project, please contact Patricia Wager at cal Advancement, Oberholzer presented the Chicago Diabetes driving, so she would test her blood sugar before she got behind tinct breakthroughs by Chicago Diabetes Project researchers: first, (312) 413-9763 or [email protected].

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Funds Honor and Extend Legacies Goldstein Gift Helps Orthopaedics Research Move Forward

of Truman Anderson and Lloyd Nyhus by Steve Hendershot

by Kevin McKeough

rthopaedics is all about motion: knees and The Goldstein fund’s aim The College of Medicine is honoring two storied members of its faculty hips, shoulders, wrists and ankles, swinging, is broadly defined to encompass bending, straightening, rotating, gliding. But research in biomechanics at and further extending their impact by establishing funds in their names. Wayne Goldstein ’74, MD ’78, Res ’83, didn’t UIC. Biomechanics includes Oexpect that the discipline itself would be a moving target. most of orthopaedics: how ten- The Truman O. Anderson, MD, PhD, Fund for Excellence Medicine and the university. He is a person of impeccable ethics The field has changed dramatically, though, since Goldstein dons, ligaments, muscles and in Medicine will support capital improvements at the University of and judgment,” says former UIC Chancellor (1991–1995) and completed his orthopaedic residency at UIC. Advancements in bones respond to forces like Illinois Medical Center and an award for department of medicine former University of Illinois President (1995–2005) James Stukel, bone and joint replacements—Goldstein’s specialty—have led motion and gravity. Goldstein, residents and fellows, both with the aim of encouraging the de- MS ’63, PhD ’68. “It is our hope that this award will foster the same velopment of physician-researchers that has been a passion for academic excellence that Dr. Anderson has espoused the way. who worked on research proj- focus of Anderson’s long and distinguished career. for more than 50 years.” “Few people today would be happy with the results of a knee ects as a resident, hopes that Since joining the microbiology faculty as an The College of Medicine invites Truman Anderson’s past and present replacement surgery the way we did them 20 years ago,” he ob- the fund not only will lead to instructor in 1955, Anderson has held numerous colleagues and students to submit written tributes for a publication in his serves. “Then, the goal was that a patient could walk without pain. breakthrough research, but also faculty and administrative positions in the College of honor. They may be sent to [email protected]. Medicine, including service as executive dean of the Now, knee replacement patients are golfing and playing with their will provide training opportuni- Linda and Wayne college from 1976 to 1980. His leadership has had a grandchildren.” ties for future clinicians so they can see the value of research and Goldstein, MD, at the profound effect on the college. Lloyd Nyhus, who passed away last January at 85 (see obituary To help further this progress, Goldstein is making an stay engaged with developments in orthopaedics. College of Medicine’s In 1969, Anderson ’50, PhD ’55, MD ’60, on page 57), served for more than 20 years as the Warren H. Cole th investment in innovation: He and his wife, Linda, recently made “The worst thing you can do in medicine is to stop learning,” 150 Anniversary Res ’61, established the James Scholar Program for Professor and head of the department of surgery at the Univer- Gala Independent Study in the College of Medicine, which sity of Illinois Medical Center. When he joined UIC in 1967, Nyhus a gift of $100,000 to UIC to establish an endowment to support he says. “If you don’t learn, you don’t change. Without change, he led from 1966 to 1970 and again from 1996 to followed Cole as the second full-time academic surgeon at the biomechanics research in the department of orthopaedic surgery. we’d be opening people’s knees to remove cartilage instead of this day. The program led to the development of the institution. Under Nyhus, the department grew to include 52 full- Their goal is to encourage new research discoveries, to prepare doing it in 15-minute outpatient surgery. Because of learning and combined MD/PhD programs on both the Chicago time faculty members. One of his legacies is a surgical residency and Urbana campuses. program that trained more future clinicians for a field that will require on-the-job adaptability change, patients have less pain.” In the 1970s, he was instrumental in devel- than 300 graduates during his as new technologies emerge, and to encourage additional giving The Goldstein fund fits perfectly with the renewed research oping the college’s regional campuses in Urbana- tenure. Truman Anderson, MD, PhD by other orthopaedics alumni. focus of the orthopaedics department under department head Champaign, Peoria and Rockford. Later, he led The College of Medicine Combining clinical care and scientific inquiry is important to Mark Gonzalez, MD, MEng [see related story on page 30]. Gonza- For more the campaign to prevent the closing of the University of Illinois established an endowed chair Goldstein, who long has maintained a research interest while run- lez says the fund will act as an incubator for research ideas at UIC. information about Hospital, enabling it to evolve into the major medical and research to honor Nyhus in 2007. Now the Truman O. center that it is today. Even in his ostensible retirement, Anderson the department of surgery is ning a traditional practice. As founder and president of the Illinois “Funds of this nature give us a head start,” Gonzalez says. Anderson, MD, PhD, continues to serve the College of Medicine as special assistant raising funds to establish the Bone and Joint Institute—a practice of more than 100 physicians “They allow us to do basic experimentation and grow our projects Fund for Excellence to the dean, acting as a liaison between the dean’s office and the annual Lloyd M. Nyhus, MD, with 15 locations in Chicago and the northern suburbs—he has to the point where we can apply for larger funding sources such as in Medicine, please three regional campuses. Memorial Lecture in Surgery, call (312) 996-4470 Consistent with Anderson’s personal career, achievements with the hope of hosting the conducted thousands of surgeries and also developed instruments federal grants. I’m very grateful to Wayne and Linda for giving us or e-mail and interests, an emphasis of the fund in his name will be to first lecture this December. used in innovative procedures, such as a total hip replacement the crucial funding to support this kind of first-stage research.” support the career development of trainees interested in aca- “Dr. Nyhus had an enor- TrumanTribute.com. surgery that requires an incision of only four inches. The importance of seed money resonates with Goldstein, demic medicine. Toward this end, the fund in part will support the mous impact on the many renovation of two meeting rooms in the University of Illinois Medical surgeons he trained during Goldstein says that the fund he and his wife established re- particularly in his role as a clinical professor at UIC. “One of the Center to include modern audiovisual and educational equip- his years as department flects his commitment to innovation. “I’ve always been someone problems with research is that you may have a great idea, but ment, accommodate a greater number of computers, and provide head,” says Enrico Bene- Lloyd Nyhus, MD who looks at something that’s successful, tries to understand why, without resources—mechanical equipment, support personnel, or comfortable, appealing space for meetings, rounds, seminars detti, MD, Res ’93, Warren and then sees if I can tweak it and make it better than it was. human tissue to test—you can’t develop it,” Goldstein says. and conferences. The fund also will support an award in Ander- H. Cole Chair of Surgery. “It For more information about son’s name to recruit and retain residents who wish to pursue the seemed appropriate to honor the Lloyd M. Nyhus, MD, Memo- “Now I’m at a stage in life—the latter third of my career— Goldstein remembers that when he was a medical student physician-scientist pathway for their residency and/or fellowship his memory by establishing a rial Lecture in Surgery, please where I’m thinking about the long term,” Goldstein continues. and resident, UIC’s research on scoliosis and arthroscopy couldn’t training. lectureship in his name and contact Stephanie Hilbert at (312) “At some point we’ll all pass on, and I want my legacy to stand for get the funding needed to achieve national recognition. He’s hope- “Over the years, Truman Anderson has provided strong continue his legacy of teach- 996-8769 or [email protected]. promoting creativity, for learning, teaching and launching people ful that his gift will help launch UIC’s orthopaedics research into a leadership when dealing with difficult issues facing the College of ing and training surgeons.” into new projects. By establishing an endowment, I can ensure position of greater national prominence. And why not? It’s a field that these kinds of endeavors will go on forever.” in constant flux—always in motion.

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Hair Today, Gains Tomorrow—St. Baldrick’s Foundation Erdös Prize, Endowment Fund Supports Pediatric Cancer Research Extend Legacy of Breakthrough Research by Lisa Haufschild by Dan Liberty coalition of more than 200 hospitals in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia that work collaboratively to conduct pediatric clinical The advances in medicine that clinicians residency at the University of Illinois trials. bring to the patient bedside would not be Medical Center in 1990.) The foundation also previously made separate grants of After the war, Erdös completed his possible without the bench researchers $50,000 each to Rush and UIC. In addition, the St. Baldrick’s medical studies in Budapest and Mu- Foundation recently made a grant of $100,000 to John O’Bryan, whose diligent labors pave the way for these nich. He began his career in basic medi- PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology at UIC, in support of advances. Ervin Erdös, MD, professor emeritus in the UIC cal research as a postdoctoral fellow at his research in the basic biology of neuroblastoma, a cancer of im- department of pharmacology, dedicated himself to this kind of the University of Munich and contin- mature nerve cells that is the most common cancer in infants. scientific inquiry for more than half a century, to the benefit of the ued on to the Mellon Institute (now “Since 2005, we’ve distributed funds to some of the most in- countless individuals who have received treatments made possible Carnegie Mellon University) and the novative and collaborative researchers in children’s cancers,” says by his research. University of Pittsburgh. After holding Heather Kash, director of corporate relations at the St. Baldrick’s Now two funds in the College of Medicine—one endowed positions at the University of Oklahoma Foundation. “The grants to the UIC/Rush/Stroger team have been by Erdös and his wife, Sara Rabito Erdös, MD, Res ’90, the other and Southwestern Medical Center at the among our largest grants and will allow more children the best named in his honor—will encourage and enable other research- University of Texas, Erdös came to UIC Mary Lou Schmidt, MD hen a young cancer patient of Mary hope of a cure through participation in clinical trials.” ers to pursue scientific inquiries that may lead to further medical in 1985 as a professor in the department (left), shortly after Lou Schmidt, MD, dared her to shave Chicago-area schools became involved in St. Baldrick’s at breakthroughs. of pharmacology and director of the her St. Baldrick’s head shaving, her head as part of a fundraiser, she the urging of Fox News Chicago broadcaster Patrick Elwood, who The Erdöses recently made a gift to the College of Medicine university’s peptide research laboratory. W Ervin Erdös, MD with patient Alicia jokingly told him, “Sure, for a million dollars.” challenged area students to participate. Since 2007, the FOX to fund the annual Ervin G. Erdös, MD, and Sara F. Rabito Erdös, Erdös’ research has resulted in greater Sheridan Schmidt, an associate professor of pediatrics and head of the Schools Challenge has raised more than $2.25 million and brought MD, Prize for Excellence in Basic Sciences Award. The award understanding of agents that affect cardiovascular function, division of pediatric hematology/oncology at UIC, assumed her in National City Bank, now a part of PNC, as a major sponsor of will be given annually to a fourth-year medical student who has including the discovery of several enzymes that are important long locks were safe. the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. excelled in research. The department of pharmacology also has in regulating blood pressure. His research on the angiotensin I But in the spring of 2008, 44 Chicago-area schools joined “I’m immensely grateful to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation and established the Ervin G. Erdös, MD, Pharmacology Endowment converting enzyme (ACE) yielded insights that helped to develop together to raise $1 million for pediatric oncology research as part its supporters for these grants,” says Schmidt, who leads the col- Fund. Once the fund’s $500,000 goal is achieved, it will support ACE inhibitors, which are used in tens of millions of patients of a fundraising event called St. Baldrick’s. That day, Schmidt had laboration among the three Chicago institutions. “They are helping a professorship, named in Erdös’ honor, to continue his legacy in for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart and kidney to face the music, literally—an Irish band was playing as Josh, her make it possible for patients with a wide variety of cancers to research and education. disease. 10-year-old patient, gleefully watched her hair drop to the floor of receive the most sophisticated treatment regimens for their benefit “Professor Erdös is a giant in the field of pharmacology who Modest about his accomplishment—“I got lucky,” he says— the Brother Rice High School gym. Another patient, Regina, 17, and for the benefit of patients in the future.” deserves to be honored, and the department of pharmacology is Erdös offers his experience as a lesson for future medical stu- did the trimming. The collaboration among the three hospitals has increased honored in turn that he and Dr. Sarah Rabito Erdös have chosen dents about the importance of bench research. “Even if you work St. Baldrick’s is the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundrais- the availability of potentially life-saving trials to patients. “The cure to make it the beneficiary of their generous gift,” says Asrar B. with test tubes, if your experiments are well done, sooner or later ing event in support of childhood cancer research. Volunteers rate for pediatric cancers has gone from 30 percent to 81 percent Malik, PhD, distinguished professor and head of the department you might be fortunate enough to see your discoveries applied in agree to have their heads shaved in solidarity with children made in 50 years because of these trials, which take the best knowledge of pharmacology. “The endowed professorship will extend his vivo,” he says. bald by chemotherapy, and solicit contributions for the cause from about cancer care and work to further improve the patients’ chance legacy of scientific studies that lead to advances in medicine, and By encouraging students’ interest in basic research, he their personal and professional networks. Since 2000, more than for cure while minimizing side effects,” Schmidt says. “Kids the Erdös prize will help the department in encouraging medical hopes to help them become better doctors—even if they don’t $66 million has been raised by 100,000 “shavees” in 23 countries. wouldn’t be alive today if hospitals and physicians hadn’t begun students interested in careers as physician-scientists.” make the lifelong commitment to research that he has. “My Since April of last year, the St. Baldrick’s Foundation has collaborating in the late 1950s.” A native of Hungary who survived six months in Sachsen- hope is that by expanding their horizons, the ones who become awarded grants totaling $450,000 to a research team of 55 faculty Schmidt proudly has used her bald head as an entrée to talk hausen, a Nazi concentration camp for political prisoners, at the clinicians will think more about the causes and the effects of members from UIC, Rush University Medical Center and John about St. Baldrick’s and pediatric cancer research to anyone who’s end of World War II, Erdös says the gift is a way for him and his certain biochemical changes and what follows the administration H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County. The three institutions— interested. While she has no plans to shave her head again, thanks wife to express their gratitude for the opportunities they found in of medicines,” he says, “or that the award will encourage them to which are located near each other in Chicago’s West Side Medical to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation and its supporters, the research the U.S. (Sara Rabito Erdös, a retired anesthesiologist, immigrat- stay in basic research and make important contributions to our District—are members of the Children’s Oncology Group, a will continue. ed to the U.S. from Argentina and completed her anesthesiology knowledge that make it possible to treat patients better.” Philanthropy

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Pitesky Endowment Honors Lectureship Honors Brother’s Memory and Achievements Four Fathers’ Ophthalmology Legacy

by Lisa Haufschild by Kevin McKeough

hen Sheldon Pitesky was growing family could afford it. Instead, he worked as a research chemist in It’s a story to warm any parent’s heart: up during the Depression, his hero Peoria, focusing on developing synthetic fuel during the war. He First the sons and daughter of four ophthalmologists followed in W was his brother Isadore, 13 years Sheldon’s senior, then was drafted into the Army Medical Corps as a medic, an expe- their fathers’ footsteps, receiving their education and training at the who set an example of educational attainment and personal rience that further fed his ambition to become a doctor and finally College of Medicine and the UIC department of ophthalmology. aspiration. “Isadore was the first person in our family to attend made it possible after the war. Now they also have endowed a lectureship in their fathers’ honor. college,” recalls Sheldon, a retired schoolteacher in California. “Even today I feel enormous gratitude to the government for The Four Fathers Lecture at the College of Medicine honors Donors to “We all were thrilled.” establishing the GI Bill,” Sheldon Arnold D. Curnyn ’57, MD ’59, Res ’65; the late Harold Q. Kirk, the Four Fathers Devoted to his family and says. “It allowed Isadore to go MD, Res ’53; John H. Panton, MD, Res ’57; and Karl E. Ticho, MD. Lecture include the following members of the driven to succeed, Isadore went to medical school and fulfill his The annual lecture on ophthalmology is made possible by gifts honorees’ families: on to become a physician who dream.” from the doctors’ children and other family members. Kimberlee M. Curnyn, treated the Pitesky brothers’ Inspired by a desire to treat “The department of ophthalmology is proud to see this MD ’89, Fellow ’95 Members of the Curnyn, Kirk, Panton and Ticho families at the Department of own father and an entrepre- his asthmatic father, Isadore decid- legacy of education and care handed down from one generation Ophthalmology’s 150th anniversary gala. Harold Kirk’s widow, neur who took on Sheldon as a ed to become an allergist. When to the next,” says Dimitri Azar, MD, head of ophthalmology. “The Elaine Kirk, and their business partner. These accom- an internship at the Long Beach annual Four Fathers Lecture will continue it further by educating while serving as an ocular pathologist and clinical associate professor children, Kent Kirk ’77, MD, Scott H. Kirk ’75, MD plishments were made possible VA Hospital took Isadore west, the ophthalmologists on the management of the most difficult and in ophthalmology at UIC. Kirk brought his four children with him ’78, and Ann Kirk Williams by Isadore’s education at the Pitesky family soon followed. complicated ophthalmologic cases. It is a fitting tribute to these ac- as he made clinical rounds on Sunday mornings, an experience ’79, MD, and her University of Illinois College After his residency, Isadore complished gentlemen, and I am delighted that their children have they credit for the fact that each of them became ophthalmologists husband, Doug Williams Isadore Pitesky Elva Hiscock Pitesky ’79, MD of Medicine, from which he established a successful asthma/ honored their fathers with their joint gift.” themselves. received his MD in 1948 and a master’s in pharmacology in 1951. allergy practice in California, and saw patients for 50 years. He also “We wanted to honor our fathers’ contributions to their A native of Greece, John H. Panton received his MD from the Peter J. Panton, MD, Res ’86, and Robert W. In gratitude for these opportunities, Sheldon and his wife, founded an innovative medical products company, Creative Scien- profession and to do something that would emphasize education,” National University of Athens Medical School in 1951, then came to Panton, MD, Res ’90 Shirl Lee Pitesky, made a $100,000 gift to the College of Medi- tific, and ran it for many years with Sheldon as vice president of says Benjamin Ticho, who spearheaded the initiative. “It’s a way of Chicago for his internship and residency training. He subsequently Benjamin H. Ticho, MD, cine to establish the Dr. Isadore and Elva Pitesky Pharmacology manufacturing. Isadore held about two dozen patents for medical recognizing both our parents and the whole concept of continuity opened a private practice, which he maintains to this day, joined Res ’91, and Simon Ticho, Research Endowment Fund. devices, some of which still are in use. in medicine in general, and of bringing together a bunch of friends by his sons, Robert and Peter, and his daughter, Elizabeth Panton MD ’93, PhD ’93 “The department of pharmacology is most grateful to the “Isadore was a true Renaissance man, a gifted inventor, chem- who first met when we did our training at UIC.” Karkazis ’86, OD. Piteskys for their generous endowment gift,” says Asrar B. Malik, ist, wood and metal worker, photographer and musician,” Sheldon Ticho notes with pride that the three living fathers all still are Karl Ticho fled his native Czechoslovakia to escape the Holo- PhD, head of pharmacology. “These funds will provide the depart- says. “At UIC, he played bass in the orchestra and sat in on classes practicing ophthalmology, exemplifying the love of the profession caust, which took the lives of his parents and siblings, returning at ment with the resources to remain on the cutting edge of phar- outside his field of study. For his business, he made prototypes they passed on to the next generation. “Having done this work the end of the war only to flee again, this time from communist rule. macological and basic medical research. The Pitesky endowment of all his inventions in his shop, photographed them himself and now for nearly two decades ourselves, it makes us appreciate their He received a medical degree from the University of Innsbruck in both will foster the development and training of young research- made his own brochures.” dedication all the more,” he says. 1952, then immigrated to Chicago for his subsequent training. He ers, and help continue the department’s research advances.” A bachelor most of his life, Isadore married Elva, née Hiscock, After completing his medical training and serving as a captain established a successful private practice on the city’s Southwest Side, Like countless others, the Piteskys struggled and sacrificed in 1970. She was an instructor at the University of Chicago and in the U.S Air Force Medical Corps, Arnold Curnyn became a which he continues in his 90s with Benjamin Ticho. In all, four to make ends meet during the Depression. Sheldon and Isadore’s University of Illinois—Isadore had been one of her students—head clinical associate professor of ophthalmology at UIC, a position of Ticho’s five children became physicians. He also served on the father set aside his aspirations to be a pharmacist and worked dietician at the Long Beach VA Hospital, and a dietary consultant to he held until the early 1990s. He performed medical missions to volunteer staff at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary for four decades, as a house painter to help support his family, which was part of VA hospitals nationwide. Africa, an experience that inspired Kimberlee Curnyn—a medical attending grand rounds and participating in the training of hundreds the Russian-Jewish immigrant community in the Albany Park After Isadore died in 2005, at age 87, and Elva passed away at student at the time—to pursue ophthalmology as a specialty. He of residents. neighborhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Fortunately, Isadore 92 in 2007, Sheldon and Shirl Lee wanted to honor their memory. also maintained a private practice, which he continues to this day “We know that all our fathers were just one piece of the history was a near straight-A student and received an academic scholar- “Making a gift to the College of Medicine and the department with Kimberlee. in ophthalmology at UIC,” Kimberlee Curnyn reflects, “but it shows ship to attend the University of Chicago, graduating with a BS in of pharmacology just made sense,” he explains. “Isadore always Harold Q. Kirk, who passed away in 1994 at age 70, received how one person can have an impact that can last generations, wheth- biochemistry in 1940. spoke glowingly about his days at the University of Illinois medical his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School. er it’s teaching residents that may set examples for other residents He wanted to go on to medical school, but neither he nor the school. It opened up a whole world for him.” After completing his residency, he maintained a private practice for generations, or just setting an example for their own children.” Philanthropy

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I received seven years of quality Attention Must Be Paid “education with a very nominal tuition, so I feel obligated to pay by Terri Yablonsky Stat back the university as best I can. he world of medicine has changed greatly since Howard N. Allen ’58, MD ’60, first became

a physician, but he still holds fast to the time-honored, albeit time-consuming, virtues of H oward N . A llen ’58, MD ’60 T personalized attention to patients and careful consideration of each one’s condition. ” His approach is rooted in compassion years old when his mother died of uterine “It was a very close-knit group,” Allen interns, residents and cardiology fellows. gained from personal experience, which cancer, and he grew up with an older sister says. “Every Saturday morning, we’d meet In addition to the training of fellows in the has guided his successful career in both who was afflicted with polio. These early in the lab to present our data. We’d finish Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory and mak- academic medicine and private practice. experiences taught him the value of com- by noon, and I would often go to Oak ing patient rounds with interns, residents For Allen, a cardiologist with the passion. “I approach each patient as if they Street Beach afterwards. Dr. Busch used to and cardiology fellows, he also made Cardiovascular Medical Group of South- were a family member or myself and treat drop me off there on his way back home to rounds with fourth-year medical students ern California in Beverly Hills, spending them as such,” he says. Evanston.” every Friday morning for 25 years. He two hours with a new patient is standard A graduate of Farragut High School Allen has maintained strong ties with would try to impress on both the students procedure. That’s how long it takes him to (now Farragut Career Academy) on the University of Illinois. In fact, around and house staff that with a careful history question, examine, review his findings and Chicago’s West Side—where he was a Cedars-Sinai he’s known as “Mr. Illinois,” and appropriate physical examination, a counsel a patient, as well as to truly get to top student-athlete, including being class because of his strong support of the uni- doctor could have a pretty good idea of the Howard N. Allen, MD know a patient. “I ask all the questions as I valedictorian, managing editor of the versity and its athletic teams. He regularly patient’s diagnosis and predict the labora- did when I was a medical student,” he says. school newspaper, lettering in basketball attends Illini games when their teams medicine subspecialties before realizing proach that he was exposed to during his tory findings. “I obtain a detailed, face-to-face history.” and football and being voted “the most are competing in Los Angeles, dressed in that he found cardiology most rewarding. St. George’s Hospital fellowship training While Allen relished the cutting-edge Allen also has dedicated himself to outstanding senior”—Allen completed his orange and blue, and has made many trips Because of his mother’s death from left him head and shoulders above most of aspect of academic medicine, eventually instilling his thoroughness in future physi- premed studies at the University of Illinois’ back to Chicago to visit the College of Med- cancer, his original intentions were to his peers in his ability to assess a patient at he realized that he most enjoyed taking cians. He’s program director for Cardiol- Navy Pier campus. He was cited as one of icine. The University of Illinois Alumni specialize in hematology/oncology. How- the bedside. care of patients. In 1988, he transitioned ogy Grand Rounds at Cedars-Sinai Medical the 43 most outstanding students during Association has honored Allen twice for his ever, at the time, “there was only a limited After completing his fellowship train- to a half-time position at Cedars-Sinai and Center in Los Angeles and a clinical profes- the campus’ first 10 years at its Tenth An- dedication to his alma mater, choosing him amount you could offer patients with ing, he joined Cedars-Sinai Medical Center half-time in private practice. In 1996, he sor of medicine at the David Geffen School niversary Convocation in 1956. The proud to receive the UIAA Loyalty Award in 1996 cancer, usually only palliative care,” he as the director of the Cardiac Care Unit, committed to full-time private practice. of Medicine at the University of California, Chicago native then enrolled at the College and the Lou Liay Spirit Award in 2005. reflects, “and I thus felt frustrated in caring the first such unit on the West Coast. He As a cardiologist in Beverly Hills, he’s Los Angeles. of Medicine, where he was elected to Alpha “I received seven years of quality edu- for such patients. On the other hand, many also established and served as the director no stranger to high-profile patients. “Most Allen credits his patient evaluation Omega Alpha Honor Society. cation with a very nominal tuition, so I feel new advances were being introduced into of the Pacemaker Evaluation Center, the of them are very decent, down-to-earth approach to the late Edmund F. Foley, Allen has fond memories of these obligated to pay back the university as best cardiology that resulted in improved qual- first facility of its kind in the greater Los people,” he says. “A few are prima donnas MD, professor of medicine. “He was a days. A recipient of a National Scientific I can to make it possible for other qualified ity of life as well as increased longevity. I Angeles area, and director of the Cardiac who expect special treatment. Some might very astute clinician,” Allen remembers. Foundation grant, he worked one summer students to have the same opportunities felt that cardiology gave me more tools to Noninvasive Laboratory, also the first such be upset if my secretary doesn’t return “He practiced medicine the way I still try in the laboratory of the late famed pharma- I had,” Allen says of his devotion to the help patients.” unit in the greater Los Angeles area. their call as fast as they would like. Once to practice, which is to extract as much cologist Harris Busch ’45, MD ’46, PhD, at university. Allen embraced the emerging possi- “What I liked best is that I would see they can appreciate my level of conscien- information as possible at the bedside and the time a professor in the department of Allen completed his internship at bilities of his chosen specialty wholeheart- the most complex diagnostic or manage- tiousness, compassion and competence, to have a reasonable idea of the patient’s pharmacology. The laboratory was involved the Los Angeles County General Hospital edly, completing cardiology fellowships at ment problems,” he reflects of this time. “I they generally calm down.” condition based on information gained in studying the metabolism of tumor cells and his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with H.J.C. also enjoyed teaching, especially when you Undoubtedly, thousands of patients, from the clinical examination. in rodents and the effect of various drugs, the Los Angeles Veterans Administration Swan, MD, PhD, and at St. George’s have a receptive audience.” both famed and anonymous, have been A career in medicine was a natural part of Busch’s lifetime work elucidating Medical Center. During his residency, Hospital in London, England, with Aubrey Allen has been involved in the train- calmed, comforted and healed thanks to fit for Allen. He was only eight and a half the biochemical structure of cancer cells. Allen rotated through the various internal Leatham, MB. He feels that the patient ap- ing of hundreds of medical students, Allen’s devoted approach to patient care.

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by Patrick Kampert Frederick R. Rickles, MD, of mothers and infants. the cellular and molecular lev- of Washington, D.C., is chief els has yielded important new Kenneth C. Lindahl, MD, Res scientific officer of Orthera therapeutics. Bristow and the hen U.S. Sen. Edward Kenne- ’69, of Sugar Grove, retired Pharmaceuticals, which other UIAA award recipients W dy, D-Mass., was diagnosed in July 2007 after serving 35 specializes in products for will be honored at the Alumni last year with brain cancer to which he ClassNotes years in internal medicine succumbed in late August, he decided ophthalmology, oncology and Five Awards Dinner on Oct. at Dreyer Medical Clinic in News and Updates From Alumni of the College of Medicine and the University of Illinois Medical Center inflammatory disease. He also 23 on the UIC campus. against radiation and chemotherapy Aurora. is a clinical professor of medi- ______treatments. Instead, Kennedy chose 1971 to undergo a delicate, difficult surgery cine for the George Wash- Morton C. Morris, MD, of Ralph R. Weichselbaum, MD, at the hands of Duke University neuro- ______ington School of Medicine. Delavan, has retired from his of Chicago, serves as Daniel surgeon Allan Friedman, MD ’74. 1944 man ’54, visited the College of and biochemistry at the guest at the Opening General Rickles formerly served as a private medical practice there K. Ludwig Professor of Radia- Friedman says the senator Arthur E. Rikli ’44, MD, of Medicine in 2008, where they University of Pennsylvania. Session of the 2008 Annual Fellow for Noblis, a nonprofit after 21 years of service. A Columbia, Mo., is retired, met with Class of 1955 Memo- Symposium and Congress of healthcare organization, and tion Oncology and chairman received the same care as all of his Robert J. McFerran ’55, MD, former high school chemistry, having held a variety of posts rial Scholarship Recipient the American Society of Cata- as executive director of the of the department of radiation patients: “We don’t have an ‘A’ game of Valley Center, Calif., has a science and algebra teacher, in the public health arena. Dan Novella ’05, MD ’09, and ract and Refractive Surgery. Federation of American So- and cellular oncology at the and a ‘B’ game. The treatment of the family practice and teaches at he initiated EMT classes at Among other positions, he Jennifer Shroff ’04, MD ’08, Considered a leader in the cieties for Experimental Biol- University of Chicago Pritzker patient is not very different at all.” the School of Medicine at the Delavan High School and was director of the Montana a recipient of the Adrienne development of phacoemulsi- ogy, a coalition of life-science School of Medicine. He is After the surgery, Friedman remained Allan Friedman, MD ’74 University of California-San established Delavan’s first Tuberculosis Central Division and Joe Lassman, MD ’55, fication surgical techniques, research organizations. also head of the University of in contact with Kennedy and was kept Diego. ambulance service. From Chicago Center for Radiation apprised of the senator’s continuing therapy in Boston. and director of the National Scholarship. he was an early proponent of 1982 to 1986, he served as a The Chicago Dermatological Therapy and director of the Malignant glioma, Kennedy’s diagnosis, generally is not considered curable. Heart Program in Wash- ______Donald F. Schaller ’47, ’54, small-incision cataract surgery. medical missionary in a clinic 1956 Charles R. Daisy, MD Society has named Carl W. Chicago Tumor Institute. Most treatments serve to prolong life. Sen. Kennedy lived for more than a year ington, D.C. Later, he was MD, of Scottsdale, Ariz., is Along with maintaining a in Zambia, Africa. Elio J. Fornatto, MD, Res ’56, Soderstrom, MD, Practitioner Weichselbaum’s research after his June 2, 2008, operation. Unfortunately, such surgeries are routine for a medical professor at the co-founder of Schaller An- private practice, he served ______attended the department of service and leadership to the of the Year for 2009. He is University of Missouri and derson Inc., a Phoenix-based as clinical professor at the 1970 interests include radiotherapy, Friedman. “I have two scheduled tomorrow,” he says. otolaryngology’s gala celebra- board from 1976 to 2002. He the founder of the Soderstrom coordinator of the Missouri healthcare management and University of Utah and was a Jim Beier, MD, recently ionizing radiation, and head Still, he is excited about advances being made in his specialty. “There is a tion of the 150th anniversary now resides in Naples, Fla., Skin Institute, which serves Regional Medical Program. consulting company. After founding member of ASCRS. retired as medical director of and neck cancer treatments. combination of better technology and newer drugs,” he observes. “We’re benefit- of the Eye and Ear Infirmary with his wife, Donna, and their 75,000 patients a year at six A fountain in Columbia is serving as an Arizona-based He retired in 2007. Wisconsin Physicians Service He is a member of the Medi- ing from molecular biology. with his wife of 48 years, dog, Abby. locations in central Illinois named after Rikli, a supporter family practice physician from ______Insurance Corporation. Prior cal Advisory Board for Trans- “We’re no longer throwing poisons at tumors. Instead, we’re targeting path- ______Mary Elizabeth. Retired from 1963 and eastern Iowa. Soderstrom Molecular, a privately held ways. We are poised to make major changes in five to 10 years.” of the arts. 1958 to 1972, Schaller co- 1962 to his years with WPS, he the Elmhurst Clinic, where he Daniel Gutierrez, MD, of established a free skin cancer was in family practice with biotechnology company. Friedman says his career received a huge boost from being part of the founded the Arizona Health William J. Dawson, MD, of maintained a thriving practice Manhattan, was awarded an screening clinic, which has the Marshfield Clinic in ______James Scholar Program at UIC, which gives students more freedom and options Plan (now known as CIGNA Glenview, has published Fit as for 43 years, Fornatto and his honorary degree from Lewis provided screenings for more Mosinee, Wis. Beier and his 1972 in planning their studies. Health Care of Arizona), one a Fiddle: The Musician’s Guide wife, a registered nurse, have University in 2007. An inter- then 15,000 patients, and wife, Judy, live in Mosinee on Mayer Eisenstein ’67, MD, “I thought the education I had at UIC was just outstanding. It certainly gave of the state’s first managed to Playing Healthy. Dawson traveled to Jamaica with their nal medicine doctor, Gutierrez helped organize the Central the shore of the Wisconsin MPH, JD, of Chicago, has me a great start in medicine,” he remembers. “The clinical experience was good, care plans. Before retiring in is a retired hand surgeon, daughter and son-in-law, both currently serves as chairman Illinois Lupus Society, which River. He welcomes e-mail published a book, Don’t Vacci- and the physicians were so accessible to the medical students. That was terrific.” 1998, he also helped establish president of the Performing dentists, to help in dental of the Silver Cross Hospital now includes more than from his classmates and can nate Before You Educate, which the National Committee for Arts Medicine Association and clinics there. Board of Directors in Joliet. 1,000 members. Soderstrom be reached at jandjbeier@ posits there is no convincing Quality Assurance and the associate professor emeritus of ______is assistant clinical professor yahoo.com. scientific evidence that mass Nicholas A. Kefalides ’54, Good Samaritan Hospital orthopaedic surgery at North- ment for AH. Medak also has 1964 of dermatology at the College inoculations can be credited MD, MS ’56, Res ’63, Fellow Family Practice Residency western University’s Feinberg served as an AH physician Virgil D. Short, MD, of of Medicine at Peoria and is with eliminating any child- ’65, PhD ’65, of Merion Program. School of Medicine. A sym- reviewer and board of trustees Bloomington, retired in 2006 on staff at OSF St. Francis hood disease. He is a graduate Melvin Schwartz, MD ______Station, Penn., is scientific phonic bassoonist, he serves as after serving as an internist member and chair. She was a ______1961 Medical Center and Methodist of the Medical College of mentor and consultant for the a private instrumental teacher in Bloomington-Normal for practicing physician for more 1947 Charles R. Daisy ’59, MD, Medical Center. Wisconsin School of Public University City Science and medical consultant for 35 years. than 20 years. Melvin Schwartz, MD, of Los of Naples, Fla., was honored ______Health and John Marshall Center in Philadelphia. In the International Double Reed ______1968 ______Angeles, is a retired psycho- as a lifetime member of the Law School in Chicago. In 1974 1977, he established the Society and Association of 1967 Ronald L. Ariagno, MD, is analyst. He served in several Greenville Regional Hospital his 33 years in medicine, he Myron B. Stachniw ’69, Cyril M. Chrabot, MD center’s Connective Tissue Concert Bands. Alan McCall, MD, of Glenview, currently senior associate positions with the Southern Board of Directors. A former Jim Beier, MD and his practice have treated MD, Res ’74, MS ’78, is Research Institute. Kefalides has practiced as an orthopaedic chief for academic affairs, California Psychoanalytical family practitioner in Green- more than 75,000 adults and certified colon-rectal surgeon John R. Shepherd, MD, of surgeon in the Chicago area an orthopedic surgeon at also serves as a professor division of neonatal and de- Michael R. Bristow ’66, MD, Institute for more than 40 ville, Daisy was cited for his Las Vegas, was an honored children. Midwest Orthopedic Services in private practice with offices of medicine, for more than 30 years. He velopmental medicine at the years. He also worked for the PhD ’71, has been chosen ______in Chicago and Streamwood. is currently semiretired and in Galesburg, where he has biophysics Stanford University School to receive the University of 1973 state of California as a psychi- He credits the late Olga Jonas- Notes enjoys golfing in his free time. practiced medicine for 30 of Medicine. He is faculty Illinois Alumni Achievement Ruth E. Medak, MD, of atric medical consultant. Prior years. Stachniw also has son ’56, MD ’58, professor of attending neonatologist at Award. The head of cardiology Portland, Ore., is associate to moving to Los Angeles, helped design instruments surgery, as an outstanding Lucile Packard Children’s and co-director of the Cardio- medical director of Acumen- Schwartz practiced in Chicago and components for perform- inspiration for his career in Hospital at Stanford. Ariagno vascular Institute, Univer- tra Health, a Portland-based for five years. ing joint replacements. surgery. He and his wife, Joan Left to right: Dan Novella, MD, has traveled to India, Kenya sity of Colorado, Bristow is a nonprofit healthcare organiza- ______Chrabot ’80, enjoy foreign 1955 Adrienne Lassman, and Tanzania to study the re- researcher and cardiologist tion. She previously served as 1975 films and attend showings of Joe Lassman ’51, ’53, MD, Joe Lassman, MD, and lationship between academic whose groundbreaking senior clinical coordinator of Cyril M. Chrabot, MD, Res the After Hours Film Society Jennifer Shroff, MD and his wife, Adrienne Lass- centers and community care research into cardiac failure at healthcare quality improve- ’80, of Oak Brook, is a board- in the western suburbs. Class

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Nancy Hamming, MD, Res appointed president and chief Wayne M. Goldstein ’74, MD, ment of family and community as a member of the Johnson Nancy Joseph-Ridge, MD, is Oncology Care Program and Central DuPage Health. He ’79, Fellow ’83, is in a group executive officer of the Louisi- Res ’83, of Highland Park, medicine since 1982. Stoner & Johnson Pharmaceutical president of Takeda Global the Lurie Comprehensive Can- received his MPH from Medi- practice with locations in Gur- ana Medical Mutual Insurance is founder and president of has established yearlong fel- Operating Committee at ALZA Research and Development cer Center at Northwestern; cal College of Wisconsin and nee and Lake Forest. In addi- Co. in January 2008. He has the Illinois Bone and Joint lowship programs in geriatric Corp. Center, Inc. The organization and adjunct professor at Duke his MBA from Northwestern tion, she is assistant professor more than 30 years of experi- Institute in Morton Grove. medicine and comprehensive works to develop new product University. University’s Kellogg School ______and section head of pediatric ence in the medical industry. A member of the American women’s healthcare and a 1981 candidates, conduct post- of Management. He can be David Thompson ’81, MD, is ophthalmology at Rush Uni- Most recently, Grimstad served Orthopaedic Association, he practice-based research net- Michelle Grant Ervin, MD, marketing clinical studies and reached at ttedeschi@ a co-creator of SymptomMD, versity and serves on the board as senior vice president of also serves as clinical professor work within the department. MHPE ’95, of Washington, identify and develop innova- thesiberygroup.com. an iPhone application that of directors of the American underwriting at LAMMICO. At of orthopaedics at UIC. Gold- ______D.C., is medical director of tive lifecycle management ap- ______1979 provides users with medical 1988 Board of Ophthalmology. She UIC, he completed an intern- stein is the recipient of the VITAS Innovative Hospice proaches for marketed drugs. Frank E. Witter, MD, of Pen- advice regarding health con- Maria C. Horvat ’83, MD, is married to Edward G. Ham- ship, a residency in internal Annual Writer’s Award from Care of Greater Washington, a Along with colleagues from sacola, Fla., practices internal Dianne F. Ross, MD, with her husband, Roger cerns to help them determine Res ’93, of Charleston, is an ming, MD ’76, an orthopaedic medicine and a fellowship in the Association of Preoperative provider of end-of-life care. She Takeda, she recently visited medicine at West Florida if they need to seek physician obstetrician/gynecologist for surgeon. She can be reached pulmonary disease. Nurses and Scientific First oversees all aspects of patient which include backpacking, one of the top spine physicians the College of Medicine and Internal Medicine and West treatment. Deerpath Medical in Charles- by e-mail at nancyhamming@ Place Award of Excellence care, including direct patient kayaking, music, home brew- and neurosurgeons in his field met with Dean Joseph Fla- James A. Hasbargen, MS ’75, Florida Hospital. He completed ______ton. She and her husband, gmail.com. from the American Academy care and visiting and caring for ing, beekeeping and sports. He by Chicago magazine. Ross’s herty, MD, and Jay Goldstein 1986 MD, of Valparaiso, Ind., is a three-year internal medicine James Kohlmann ’83, MD, Res of Orthopaedic Surgeons. patients in their homes. From can be reached at bcamppuck@ specialties include back, neck ’74, MD ’78, Res ’84, vice William R. Scharf, MD, Res Lee Jampol, MD, Fellow ’75, commanding general, AR- residency from the Pensacola ’92, founded DM in 1995. 1993 to 2003, she served as cox.net. and spinal procedures, as well head for clinical affairs at the ’88, of Pontiac, has served as has been the head of ophthal- MEDCOM, the highest rank Raymond V. Janevicius ’74, Educational Program. Witter chair and residency director as brain cancer surgeries. He University of Illinois Medical a general surgeon with OSF Steven P. Lukancic ’84, MD, mology at Northwestern Uni- achievable in the U.S. Army MD, Res ’79, of Oak Brook, is served as chief medical officer Peter Kerwin, MD, of Wheaton, of emergency medicine at is chairman of the department Center. Joseph-Ridge also Medical Group since 1993. He of Peru, has been appointed versity in Chicago since 1983. Reserves. He served on active a coding editor and member of the Pensacola VA Outpatient was named Good Samaritan Howard University. of surgery at Central DuPage recently was appointed to the helps design and implement to the board of directors of St. He married Erma Tranter in duty for more than 15 years, of the editorial board for the Clinic for 12 years. of the Year by Advocate Good ______Hospital. board of directors of the Il- the firm’s efforts in safety, Margaret’s Hospital in Spring 1999 and has two children assigned to positions such as journal Plastic and Reconstruc- 1982 Samaritan Hospital in recogni- ______linois Biotechnology Industry quality, care management, Valley. Lukancic recently was and three grandchildren. chief of nephrology, chief of tive Surgery. He maintains a 1980 Carolyn J. Hildreth, MD, of tion of his extraordinary work Shawn A. Shianna, MD, Institute. regulatory preparedness and named president of the hos- When not working, he enjoys medicine, chief of professional private practice as a plastic James C. Liang, MD, Res ’80, Chicago, is the Fishbein Fellow on behalf of the Cardiac Alert of Freeport, is launching a public accountability. Since pital’s medical staff. He is a training and participating in services and commander. Has- and reconstructive surgeon a former chief resident and at the Journal of the American program. magazine, The Rewind Button, Charles E. Kahn Jr., MD, has 2003, he has served as chair- radiologist and has been with triathlons and playing blue- bargen has received the Legion in Elmhurst. Janevicius is assistant professor at the Eye Medical Association. As part of focusing on “the joy of grow- been inducted as a Fellow Dianne F. Ross, MD, practiced person of OSF Saint James St. Margaret’s since 1994. grass banjo. He can be reached of Merit, Meritorious Service a member of the American and Ear Infirmary, is now in this fellowship, she will serve ing up in the unique decades in the American College of ophthalmology in New Lenox Patient Safety Committee. at [email protected]. Medal, Army Commendation Medical Association’s Current private practice in Oak Lawn. as a JAMA editor for one year. of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.” Radiology. He is a professor Ronald A. Navarro, MD, of Medal, Army Achievement Procedural Terminology Advi- for 17 years. She also served as of radiology at the Medical ______His specialties are retina and Hildreth authored a book The majority of the maga- 1987 Rolling Hills, Calif., is chief 1976 Medal, National Defense Ser- sory Committee. a volunteer for the Free Clinic College of Wisconsin and vitreous surgery. review that was published in zine’s content will be provided Jan E. Sanders, MD, of of orthopaedic surgery at James T. Frakes ’68, MS ’72, vice Medal and several other in Joliet. She and her husband, staff physician at Froedtert Anita A. Stewart, MD, Res JAMA’s May 2008 issue. by its readers. Granger, Ind., has served as a Kaiser Foundation Hospital MD, of Rockford, received the Robert D. Rondinelli, AM ’74, Roger, are retired. military awards. He completed ______Hospital, both located in in Harbor City, Calif. He also ’80, MPH ’97, of Chicago, is PhD ’77, MD, of Urbandale, pediatrician in Michiana, Ind., Distinguished Service Award his residency in internal medi- Daniel P. Kelly ’78, MD, of Or- 1985 Milwaukee. medical director of the Chil- Matthew Ross, MD, Res ’90, for more than seven years. She serves as assistant to the medi- from the American Society for Iowa, is medical director of lando, Fla., is scientific director cine and a fellowship at Walter Mark H. Fishbein ’81, MD, cal director at Kaiser’s South dren’s Rehabilitation Center, Rehabilitation Services at Iowa of Wheaton, has been ranked Gustavo C. Rodriguez, MD, currently practices at South Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Reed Army Medical Center in at the Lake Nona campus of is on staff at Children’s a Harvey-based pediatric care Res ’89, of Glencoe, has been Bend Clinic in Indiana. Bay Medical Center, where he at the organization’s annual Health in Des Moines. He Burnham Institute for Medical Washington, D.C. Memorial Hospital in Chicago oversees surgical services. facility. In this role, she pro- specializes in rehabilitating named the Matthews Family Crystal Awards Dinner in Research, a nonprofit research Notes ______and an associate professor of Anthony J. Tedeschi, MD, ______vides clinical leadership, sup- patients after strokes, spinal Staff members of Takeda Chair of Gynecologic Oncol- 2007. Frakes, of Rockford 1978 corporation. He directs pediatrics at Northwestern MPH, MBA, of Wheaton, is 1989 port and development of new Global Research and Devel- ogy Research at NorthShore Gastroenterology Associates Richard K. Baer ’74, MD, Res cord injuries or amputation research programs related to opment Center, Inc. and University’s Feinberg School executive vice president and Joan D. Boomsma, MD, Res ’82, of Chicago, is a Chicago initiatives. Stewart served as a and has a background in dis- University HealthSystem Ltd., also is a clinical professor diabetes, obesity, metabolism University of Illinois medical of Medicine. He also currently founding partner of the Sibery ’89, of Chicago, is vice presi- psychotherapist and author resident physician and treated ability services. He is editor of with a $1.5 million endow- of medicine at the College of and heart disease, and recruits leadership (left to right): is directing the feeding disor- Group, LLC, a healthcare dent of medical affairs and CRC patients for five years. the American Medical Associa- ment. Rodriguez is director Medicine at Rockford. of Switching Time (Crown faculty for the campus. Andrew Hull, Natalie ders clinic at Central DuPage consulting firm. Before starting a pulmonary specialist at St. Publishing, 2007), his account tion’s Guides to the Evaluation of gynecologic oncology ______Gregg D. Stoner ’74, MD, is Mirutenko, Jay Goldstein, Hospital in Winfield. After the firm in 2004, he served Francis Hospital and Medical 1977 of treating a female patient of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Marianne Unger Prey, MD, at Evanston Northwestern the recipient of the College MD, Joseph Flaherty, MD, receiving his MD, he com- in a variety of leadership Center in Chicago. She also Stewart Gifford, MD, Res ’78, with 17 different personalities. Edition. of Chesterfield, Mo., is pro- Nancy Joseph-Ridge, MD, Heathcare; associate professor of Medicine at Peoria’s 2009 pleted a pediatric residency capacities at Central DuPage serves as chairwoman-elect is in private surgical practice Chicago magazine profiled prietor of Extra Virgin, a St. Qais Mekki, MD, PhD, and at Northwestern University’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Samuel Saks ’76, MD, of and pediatric gastroenterology Hospital in Winfield from 1993 for the Chicago chapter of the in Green Bay, Wis. He has Baer in 2007. Louis-based olive oil shop. Her David P. Recker, MD Feinberg School of Medicine; A recognized leader in the Burlingame, Calif., is founder fellowship. to 2004. He was president of American Lung Association of great memories of the classes business was profiled in theSt. co-director of the Gynecologic Bernard A. Binder, MD, Res Peoria medical community, and CEO of Jazz Pharmaceu- the hospital and co-CEO of Metropolitan Chicago. and lectures of C. Thomas Louis Post-Dispatch last year. Class ’80, of Aurora, retired as a Stoner is medical director of ticals, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based Bombeck, MD, Res ’70; Lloyd ______surgeon in September 2007. Peoria’s Heartland Com- pharmaceutical company. 1984 Nyhus, MD; and Rolf Winn, After completing his residency munity Health Clinic, which He is a board member of Bradley Campbell, MD, Res MD, and of his fellow surgical at Cook County Hospital in provides accessible and com- Cougar Biotechnology, a Los ’87, lives in Fayetteville, Ark., colleagues during his resi- 1983, he worked for Columbia prehensive primary healthcare Angeles-based biotechnology with his wife, Sarah, and dency in the Metro program. Park Medical Group in services for more than 20,000 company, and of Illypsa Inc., a children, Lydia and Christian. He can be reached at dts1giff@ Fridley, Minn., for six years. underserved patients in central pharmaceutical company. He He is a hospitalist at Wash- aol.com. Binder also practiced at Dreyer Illinois. He also has been a has more than 35 years experi- ington Regional Hospital in Thomas H. Grimstad, MD, Medical Clinic in Aurora for faculty member in the College ence in clinical and academic Fayetteville. He finally has time Res ’77, of Marrero, La., was 18 years. of Medicine at Peoria’s depart- settings. Saks previously served to pursue his many passions,

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______1990 “Leadership Georgia,” a lead- initiatives related to Medicare. be reached at gogonitrojoe@ family and sports medicine, David D. Morimoto, MD, Res ership training program. Haywood received his JD hotmail.com. has served as team physi- ’90, practices at Associated from Northwestern University cian for several educational Todd P. Ginestra ’88, MD, Stanley Kim, MD, of Hins- Ophthalmologists, SC, in School of Law. institutions, including the of Paducah, Ky., is a plastic dale, is an interventional Joliet. He is an active member ______University of California-San surgeon at Plastic Surgery radiologist with Central Du- Got any 1995 Bernardino and Pomona news? of the Chicago Ophthalmolo- Services of Fredericksburg. Kimberly J. Mitchell, MD, of Page Hospital. He specializes Where will you be gy Society. He can be reached (Calif.) College. He also has He is certified by the Ameri- Frankfort, is an emergency in kyphoplasty, a minimally at [email protected]. served as a medical staff can Board of Surgery and invasive spinal surgery Tell us medicine physician for Silver member for numerous sport- American Board of Plastic procedure. Before joining the what Bruce Sumlin, MD, interned Cross Hospital in Joliet. She ing events, including the Los Surgery. hospital in February 2008, you’re at Howard University and completed her emergency Angeles Triathlon, U.S. Na- completed an ophthalmology medicine residency at Butter- Kim served as a radiologist at up to! Thomas G. Hazel, PhD ’92, of tional Wrestling Champion- Delnor Community Hospital, on ? residency at Henry Ford Hos- worth Hospital in Michigan. October 15 Your classmates are Gaithersburg, Md., is execu- ships, NASCAR and the Little curious about what pital. A specialist in refractive ______UCLA Medical Center and tive vice president of research League World Series. you’ve been up to. 1997 West Los Angeles Veterans surgery, he lives in Delaware. ______Please fill them in by for Neuralstem, a stem-cell ______Eric J. Marsh ’90, MD, sees Affairs Hospital. Kim is a 2004 sending your latest research company. He is 1991 patients in his Libertyville der- member of the Radiological Otto K. Lee ’00, MD, of Oak news and accomplish- managing the company’s James T. Callaghan III, matology office. He provides Society of North America. Park, practices family medi- ments to medcomm@ upcoming clinical trial for uic.edu, and we’ll be MD, of Long Beach, Ind., is care for conditions of the skin, ______cine at Central DuPage Physi- Lou Gehrig’s disease and a 1999 sure to include it in president of Saint Anthony hair and nails, and specializes cian Group, an affiliate of the next issue of new compound targeted to Trent D. Proehl ’94, MD, of Memorial in Michigan City, in detection and treatment of Central DuPage Hospital. He UIC Medicine. treat depression. He formerly Pontiac, is a surgeon at OSF Ind. He previously served as malignant and pre-malignant also has clinical interests in served as chief science officer Saint James-John W. Albrecht CEO and vice president of skin conditions. He is a newborn, infant and general for Innovative BioSensors and Medical Center in Pontiac. medical affairs there. member of the American pediatric care, hypertension, senior staff scientist for the He recently became a Fellow ______Society for Mohs Surgery cholesterol, chronic obstruc- 1992 National Institutes of Health. of the American College of and the American Society for tive pulmonary diseases and Stephen A. Chidyllo, MD, Surgeons. Merle S. Rust, MD, of Janes- Dermatologic Surgery. diabetes. A member of the DDS, Res ’92, of Ocean City, ______ville, Wis., is a neurosurgeon American Academy of Family N.J., has been appointed chief Henry Sherman, MD, re- 2000 at Mercy Regional Neurosur- Physicians and American of plastic and reconstructive cently accepted positions as a Johnny L. Lin ’96, MD, of University of Illinois College of gery Center and the Mercy Join Medical Association, Lee surgery with Jersey Shore primary care sports medicine Oak Brook, joined Midwest Institute of Neuroscience in completed his family medi- Medicine Dean Joseph Flaherty for lunch and the latest University Medical and Trau- physician at Carle Clinic in Orthopaedics at Rush in Janesville. He specializes in cine residency at MacNeal news about your alma mater. ma Center in Neptune, N.J. Bloomington and as a team September 2006. A foot and treating spine- and brain-relat- Hospital in Berwyn. He is the first JSUMTC chief physician for Illinois State ankle specialist, he researches ed problems such as cervical ______to be dual-trained in both University in Normal. foot and ankle disorders You won’t want to miss the tour of UIC’s groundbreaking and lumbar degenerative dis- 2005 plastic surgery and dentistry. ______such as tendon and ligament Robotic Surgery labs. eases, brain tumors, complex 1998 Michael P. Klingler ’00, MD, He also has completed fellow- problems, arthritis and foot brain injuries, traumatic spine Juan C. Angelats, MD, of Min- of Noble, joined Flora-based ship training in craniomaxil- deformities. Lin completed a Revisit your old classrooms and discover what’s new at your fractures and brain hemor- neapolis, is an obstetrician/ CCH Medical Clinic in July lofacial surgery. fellowship in foot and ankle rhages and hematomas. Rust 2008 as a pediatrician. old stomping grounds during our College of Medicine alumni gynecologist for Diamond surgery at the University of ______Langston B. Cleveland, MD, formerly served as attending Women’s Center in Min- Tennessee-Campbell Clinic 2008 campus bus tour. of Tifton, Ga., earned a neurosurgeon at Northern neapolis. He completed his department of orthopaedic Vikram Setlur ’03, MD, of doctorate of ministry from Michigan Hospital. residency at the University of surgery. Chicago, and Laura McDaniel Relax with old friends, enjoy dinner and dancing, and ______the Christian Life School of Minnesota Regions Hospital ______1993 ’05, MD, were married on reminisce about your UIC medical school days in style at the Theology in Columbus, Ga., in 2002. 2003 David R. Kopacz ’89, MD, of July 12, 2008, in Palatine. in September 2007. He also Angela M. Reining, MD, Alumni Reception, Dinner and Awards Ceremony. Champaign, is a psychiatrist Benjamin A. Brooks, MD, The bridal party included holds master’s degrees in of St. Charles, Mo., is an who maintains a private Res ’01, has been in private Vineet Dandekar ’03, MD theology, divinity and educa- obstetrician/gynecologist at practice in Champaign. practice for five years in ’07; Sean Conrin, MD ’08; tion. A medical director at Exceptional Healthcare LLC in ______Decatur, after spending three Nicholas Morley ’04, MD ’08; the Tifton-based WorkSmart O’Fallon, Mo. She completed 1994 years in a community clinic Kevin Chen ’04, MD ’08; and Notes Occupational Medicine Clinic, her residency at Washing- Trent T. Haywood, MD, JD, there. He and his wife, Lisa, Gokul Kumar, MD ’09. Laura Cleveland previously served ton University School of of Chicago, is deputy chief have two children, Patrick has begun her internal medi- as director of the Tift Regional Medicine. medical officer at the Centers and Nicholas. Brooks has cine residency and Vikram is Reunion2009 Medical Center’s Summit for Medicare and Medicaid an ophthalmology resident in fond memories of several James Youn, MD, of Charles- Inpatient Rehabilitation Service’s Office of Clinical of his attending physicians, ton, has joined the medical Philadelphia. October 15 and 16 n Chicago, Illinois Unit. From 2006 to 2007, he Standards and Quality. He especially Arthur Frank, MD, staff at Carle Foundation served as a community leader helps direct quality measure- Peter Naronha, MD, and Physicians Mattoon/Charles- and motivational speaker for ment and improvement Larry McClain, MD. He can ton. Youn, who specializes in Don’t miss it. Questions? Please call us at (312) 996-1640 Class or visit www.medicine.uic.edu/Reunion2009. 54 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine x

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Harold M. Manfredi, MD, Res ’54, authoring or co-authoring more than 100 books. His tees of many professional societies, earning a number of Chicago, died June 20, 2003. He was a faculty works include Mastery of Surgery, an encyclopedic of awards. member at UIC from 1972–1982. Manfredi was a text of surgical procedures considered to be one of InMemoriam the field’s basic texts. A U.S. Naval Reserve Medical , of Mapleton, died Oct. member of numerous psychiatric and neurologic John E. Sheen, MD societies and served as a physician in the U.S. Army. Corps veteran, Nyhus was a faculty member at the 28, 2007. A World War II Navy pharmacist mate and University of Washington in Seattle from 1954 to medic with the U.S. Marines, Sheen began his career Faculty Coye C. Mason, Certif. ’39, MD 1967. He served at various times as chairman of the in general practice in Roanoke from 1954 to 1965. He ’40, a member of the department of pathology American Board of Surgery, president of the Warren then went into private practice as a psychiatrist until faculty for 27 years, died Feb. 6, 2009. He was 97. H. Cole Society and president of the International 1982. From there he served as medical director for the Julius Richmond ’37, and environmental affairs at the A.E. Staley Mfg. Born in Grand Rapids, Mich., Mason came to Chi- Society of Surgery, and held various positions in the Human Service Center until 2004. He was a faculty American College of Surgeons. member of the College of Medicine in Peoria and on MS ’39, MD ’40, Honor. ’79, Company (now Tate & Lyle). He was an active cago in 1931 to study medical illustration at the Art staff at OSF St. Francis Medical Center. A member former U.S. surgeon general, creator of Head member of several professional societies and was Institute of Chicago, which led in turn to his becom- appointed to the Illinois Governor’s Council for ing a physician. He was influential in establishing William Requarth ’35, MD ’38, MS of several professional and civic societies, Sheen was

Start and pioneer in child development and Office News University Mitchell/Harvard Stephanie ’40, of Decatur, died June 2, 2008. A renowned past vice president of the Central Illinois Psychiatric anti-tobacco education, died July 27, 2008. Health and Physical Fitness, where he enjoyed numerous blood banks and was co-founder of the surgeon, he practiced at several Chicago-based hos- Association. After completing his studies at the working on many healthcare issues at the legislative Council of Community Blood Banks, now known as level. Goldberg and his wife, Jeanne Goldberg ’69, America’s Blood Centers. pitals, including Cook County, Veterans Administra- College of Medicine and serving as a flight Memorial Gifts MD, performed medical mission work in Honduras During his career, Mason also served as tion, Henrotin, St. Mary’s and Decatur Memorial. William Gerard Smith, MD, of Fall- surgeon in the U.S. Army Air Forces during To make a memorial and Venezuela and were honored by the Honduras Aurora’s first pathologist and helped establish the He was a member of the U.S. Navy from 1941 to brook, Calif., died Sept. 30, 2006. He was a former World War II, the Chicago native joined gift to the college, 1946. An attending surgeon at the University of professor of psychiatry and was the originating chair the UIC pediatrics faculty at a time when it government for their medical assistance following medical technology program at Aurora College (now please contact the Illinois Hospitals from 1946 to 1969, Requarth also of the department of psychiatry for the University comprised only three physicians. All were— Hurricane Mitch. Aurora University); was the chief pathologist at Office of Medical served as a clinical professor emeritus of surgery of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. Smith as Richmond described them in a campus Grant and Augustana hospitals; and established two Advancement at Robert L. Grissom ’39, MD ’41, MS at the College of Medicine. He received the U of I also served as the director of research for the Illinois visit—very concerned with child welfare issues, particularly the effects of poverty. pathology practices. (312) 996-4470 or ’41, of Omaha, Neb., died March 17, 2009. A for- Alumni Association’s Distinguished Service Award Department of Mental Health in Rockford. A gradu- [email protected]. In 1953, Richmond moved to Syracuse, N.Y., where he joined the faculty of what is now the Upstate mer assistant professor of internal medicine at the in 1972 and the College of Medicine’s Alumnus of ate of St. Joseph’s University and the University of Medical University. In 1965 he worked with President Lyndon Johnson to launch Project Head Start. The Larry W. McDonald, MD, of Elm- College of Medicine, he was recruited to the Uni- the Year Award in 1983. He performed Decatur’s Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Smith completed federal program has helped millions of children through early-childhood care and education. hurst, died May 18, 2009. He joined the College of versity of Nebraska Medical Center in 1953, where first open-heart surgery, wrote medical books and his psychiatric residency at the Pennsylvania Hospital Richmond joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School in 1971, taking time off to serve as U.S. Medicine in 1978 as professor of neuropathology he served for more than 30 years. Grissom was the was a member of numerous professional and civic and served in the Public Health Service in Lexington, surgeon general in the Carter administration. As surgeon general he fought the tobacco industry, and and a physician surgeon. In 1992, he collaborated first full-time chair of internal medicine, professor associations. Requarth held both private and com- Ky. Throughout his 45-year career, he maintained an during the 1990s, he was the first witness in a class-action lawsuit brought by flight attendants who with UIC neurosurgeon Manuel Dujovny on a proj- emeritus of the department of cardiology and one mercial pilot’s licenses and was an acrobatic flier. active clinical practice. His works were published in believed their health was compromised by secondhand smoke. ect to categorize and label a large and well-preserved of four original full-time clinical faculty members. His son, Tim Requarth, wrote a book about his fa- many professional journals. Richmond’s research efforts were wide-ranging and encompassed many disciplines. At one point he collection of specimens from brain injuries and dis- Throughout his career, he held many leadership ther, The Flying Doctor, The Life of William Requarth, carried appointments at Harvard in government, psychiatry, pediatrics and public health. eases. After retiring from full-time work, McDonald positions and received numerous awards, including based on his father’s voluminous diaries. Harold W. Spies, MD, Res ’53, of Fargo, “Dr. Richmond was an outstanding researcher who never waivered in his dedication to children,” remained a part-time neuropathologist, continuing becoming only the second physician in Nebraska to N.D., died Jan. 3, 2009. He served in Korea in the says Joseph Flaherty, MD, dean of the College of Medicine. “When Dr. Richmond returned last year to to teach and mentor medical students until May achieve mastership status in the American College Milton Robin, Certif. ’37, MD U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1947–1949 and was UIC to give a lecture, it was clear that he had not lost his determination to provide solid data rather than 2008. Prior to coming to UIC, he worked for the of Physicians. ’38, Res ’48, of Evanston, died June 13, 2008. medical superintendent of the Municipal Contagious sentiment to inform programs that might better the lives of children.” federal government’s Lawrence Radiation Labora- tory and taught at the University of California Davis A colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II, Disease Hospital in Chicago from 1953–1966. He Robert J. Jensik, Certif. ’38, MS School of Medicine and at Wright State University he had a private dermatology practice in Chicago then worked as health and safety director of American , emeritus professor of ’38, MD ’39, Res ’48 in Dayton, Ohio. and Park Ridge for 63 years. He pioneered research Oil Co. (which became Amoco Corp.), where he Samuel W. Becker Jr., MD ’47, of Gustav W. Giebelhausen, MD thoracic surgery, died March 8, 2008. In the 1940s, and published many articles on the psychoanalytic retired as medical director in 1988. Spies also was a he joined the College of Medicine as a faculty Jacksonville, Fla., died Oct. 16, 2007. A longtime ’43, of Peoria, died March 18, 2008. A faculty Hugh J. McMenamin ’50, MD ’52, of aspects of dermatology. He was a member of the clinical associate professor of preventative medicine at instructor and eventually trained with former head resident of Holmes Beach, Fla., he was a veteran of member at the College of Medicine at Peoria, he Peoria, died Oct. 30, 2007. He was a clinical associ- Noah Worcester Dermatological Society and former the College of Medicine. of surgery Warren H. Cole, earning his board World War II. Prior to entering private practice in taught nurses, interns and residents for many ate professor at the College of Medicine in Peoria president of the Chicago Dermatological Society. He certification in thoracic surgery in 1954. In addition dermatology, he joined the faculty of U of I as an years. Giebelhausen began his private practice and was chief of physical medicine and rehabilita- received many distinguished service awards from Oscar to maintaining his own surgery practice, Jensik instructor in 1953, where he held all academic ranks in 1948. Later he completed further training in tion at the Mennonite Hospital in Bloomington. A the U of I department of dermatology. Sugar, MD, continued to train surgeons on a part-time basis at up to clinical professor in 1973. general surgery and chest surgery, and was active in World War II Navy veteran, his staff appointments PhD, of Charlotte, UIC until 1967. He was the head of the DeKalb surgery at Methodist, St. Francis and Proctor hospi- included consulting with Brokaw Hospital in Robert J. Ryan, MD, of Rochester, Minn., N.C., former head County Chest Clinic and former president of the Vlastimil Capek, MD, of Dalles, Ore., tals. He was a Diplomat of the American College of Normal, Eureka Hospital in Eureka and St. John’s died Oct. 31, 2008. He was a member of UIC’s of neurosurgery at North Shore Medical Society as well as the staff at died June 21, 2008. After immigrating from Surgeons and a veteran of the Army Medical Corps. Hospital in Springfield. faculty for many years before joining Mayo Clinic UIC, died April 7, Czechoslovakia in 1969, Capek joined the faculty Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center. in 1967. At Mayo, Ryan rose through the ranks as 2008. A pioneer in at the University of Illinois Medical Center and Edwin E. Goldberg, MD, of Bonita Lloyd M. Nyhus, MD, of Chicago, a professor and was chairman of two departments. his field, his career achieved the rank of professor before being named Springs, Fla., died April 25, 2009. An Air Force Edwin J. Liebner ’44, MD ’46, Res Warren H. Cole Professor and head of surgery at He trained more than 45 postdoctoral fellows and included a number , of River Forest, died March 4, 2009. He joined chairman of the department of radiology in 1972. veteran, he practiced internal medicine in Decatur ’56 the College of Medicine for more than 20 years, received the Mayo Distinguished Investigator Award of famous cases, the department of radiology faculty in 1956 as an as- He maintained that appointment until 1989, when until 1986. While in Decatur, Goldberg served died Dec. 15, 2008. Joining the UIC department in 1986 and the Mayo Distinguished Alumnus including a 1952 sistant professor and later held positions as director Oscar Sugar, MD he retired from active practice. Capek was admired as clinical professor of medicine at the College of of surgery as the lone full-time surgeon, Nyhus Award in 1994. His work on pituitary gland procedure Sugar of radiological therapy, professor, physician surgeon for his teaching and administrative skills. Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. During this time, built it to include 52 full-time faculty members. hormones earned both national and international led at UIC in which a team of surgeons separated and acting head. he also was appointed vice president of medical He also helped develop the field of gastric surgery, recognition. He served on the boards and commit- twins joined at the tops of their skulls. Esteemed as

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a teacher as well as a clinician, he was honored duty, 15 months of which were spent with Gen. II. He also served during the Korean War and later gery and director of the thoracic surgery section at helped found the Steindler Orthopedic Clinic, with the Golden Apple Award for teaching George Patton. It was during this time Favus earned at the U.S. Naval Training Hospital, retiring in 1953 the University of Chicago. He accomplished many where he served as director from 1959–1984. He neurosurgery at UIC. He received his bachelor’s Alumni five Battle Stars and a Bronze Medal. In 1945,Life with the rank of lieutenant commander. Donelan surgical firsts in Chicago, including the first repair was president and CEO of Towncrest Medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, MD from magazine published an article on Favus’s dedica- helped form the first full-time emergency staff at St. of a defective mitral valve in a child and the first Properties during those years as well. Gelman George Washington University and PhD from the tion beyond the call of duty. Following discharge, John’s Hospital. From 1959–2006, he was medical cardiac pacemaker implantation in an adult. also served as director of Towncrest’s X-ray University of Chicago. he practiced medicine with his brother Leonard. consultant to the Bureau of Disability Determina- department and was an active staff physician at ______George Sharpe, Certif. ’41, MD, of Silver Spring, 1933 During their partnership, they treated more than tion Services, Department of Human Services. Mercy Hospital in Iowa City for many years. He Md., died Nov. 23, 2007. An internist who practiced Lewis W. Tanner, MD ’43, of Danville, Lawrence E. Foulke, MD, of Wauconda, died in 20 percent of Peoria’s population, which numbered was a Navy veteran and a member of numerous Selma K. Dritz ’39, MD, of San Francisco, died in Kensington, Md., Sharpe served during World died April 1, 2008. An Iwo Jima survivor, Tanner November 2007. He was a physician in Wauconda more than 100,000. professional and civic organizations. After his Sept. 3, 2008. As a San Francisco health physician War II as a battalion surgeon in the South Pacific, served with the U.S. Navy. After five years of for 32 years and served as a major in the Army retirement, Gelman began a second career as Aaron Hilkevitch, Certif. ’36, MD, MS ’40, of and infectious disease epidemiologist, she tracked earning four Bronze Stars. In 1989, he published active duty, he became the medal officer for the Medical Corps from 1941–1945. He also was an an artist. He had many exhibitions in Iowa and Chicago, died Oct. 4, 2008. A practicing psychiatrist the city’s earliest cases of AIDS in 1981. Because Brothers Beyond Blood: A Battalion Surgeon in the developing Marine Corps Reserve Infantry Bat- active member of many professional and civic California, where his works are now in private in Chicago for more than 50 years, he was the last of her status with members of San Francisco’s gay South Pacific. After the war, he opened a private talion in Danville. He later held this same position organizations. and institutional collections. surviving Illinois member of the Abraham Lincoln with the Naval Reserve Training Center. Tanner community, she was able to trace their contacts and practice, which he ran for 25 years. He was a former Brigade, the U.S. volunteers who went to Spain Frederick L. Phillips, MD, of Livingston, Texas, served the community as a family physician Leo J. Greenberg, Certif. ’32, MD, of Chicago, counsel them about safe sex. In the movie And the chief of medicine at Suburban Hospital and was to fight the fascists in the 1930s. Hilkevitch was died Oct. 9, 2007. A Medical Corps veteran, with a heavy emphasis on obstetrics and general died in January 2009. A practicing physician for 54 Band Played On, which chronicled the discovery of on staff at Holy Cross Hospital as well as on the a committed leftist and Freudian psychoanalyst he was in private practice in Chicago and later surgery. He maintained a private practice with his years and a World War II veteran, he lived to 100 the AIDS epidemic, Dritz was played by actress Lily faculty of George Washington University School of who treated patients of all walks of life, even those Houston. He served as president of staff at Texas wife, Megan J. Tanner, MD ’43. He was director years old. Tomlin. Medicine. After he retired from his medical practice who couldn’t pay. He also taught and worked with Children’s and Memorial Southeast hospitals. He of the Family Practice Residency Training Center, in the mid-1970s, he worked for the Food and Drug ______Walter Gaines, Certif. ’40, MS ’40, MD, of San residents at the University of Chicago Hospitals for Administration, where he rewrote labels for aspirin was also an associate professor at Baylor College Danville, for 10 years and was professor of family 1934 Francisco, died Jan. 16, 2009. After serving as a many years, and served in the U.S. Army during that warned consumers of the drug’s potential to of Medicine. After Phillips retired from practice practice for the College of Medicine in Urbana- Charles E. Branch, Certif. ’34, MD, of Piper City, flight surgeon in the Pacific Theater during World World War II. cause internal bleeding. in 1981 and moved to Livingston, he served as the Champaign during this time. He was on staff at died April 2, 2009. He celebrated his 100th birthday War II, he practiced radiology until retiring in 1985. only pediatrician in Polk County at UTMB/Liv- Memorial Gifts the two local hospitals, serving as president of in June 2008. A retired physician and surgeon, he Herbert E. Rubin, Certif. ’36, MD, of Gulfport, He was a clinical professor of radiology at UCSF, ______ingston. He volunteered his services to indigent To make a memorial the staff at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital twice. He also practiced medicine in Piper City from 1934 to 1977. Fla., died June 15, 2008. He volunteered for the 1942 teaching for many years, and honored as an elected children in area clinics and volunteered extensive- gift to the college, was secretary-treasurer of the Vermilion County An avid plant breeder, Branch cross-pollinated day Army Medical Corps and served as a psychiatrist. Samuel L. Andelman, MD, of Niles, died May 5, please contact the Fellow of the American College of Radiology. His ly with the VFW. He was named state surgeon for Medical Society for more than 27 years, a member lilies and created more than 300 flower varieties, In 1951, he moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., where he 2009. He was a former health commissioner for the Office of Medical love of philanthropy led him and his wife, Beverly, the VFW Department of Texas from 1983 to 1987 of the Cancer Clinic and its board and a longtime including the Hotensia blend, which earned him practiced medicine until his retirement in 1999. City of Chicago and the first health director for the Advancement at on many medical missions—bringing medicine and in 1990 received the Governor’s Award for (312) 996-4470 or participant in the school health and immunization a Stout Medal from the American Hemerocallis to Cuba and resources to Rufuseniks in the Soviet Village of Skokie. William B. Zelik, Certif. ’36, MD, of St. Louis, Outstanding Volunteer Service. In 1999, Phillips [email protected]. program in the local and county schools. Tanner Society in 1972. Union, and establishing a medical laboratory in died March 22, 2008. He worked as a physician in A. Sherwood Baker, MD, of Mt. Morris, died May was named Polk Countian of the Year in recogni- also served as the primary physician and medical Ethiopia. After his retirement, Gaines founded ______8, 2009. A captain in the U.S. Army Air Force tion of his service to his community. director for the Danville Correctional Center from Chicago until 1942, when he entered the Army as 1935 Samaritan House Free Medical Clinic in San Mateo a battalion surgeon and was sent to North Africa, during World War II, Baker worked as a general its inception through the following years and sat County, Calif., where he and his wife volunteered. ______Marshall L. Fisher, Certif. ’34, MD, LFAPA, of practitioner from 1946 to 1963 and was a member on the boards of many community organizations. Italy and France, where he received a Bronze Star 1943 Charlotte, N.C., died Oct. 8, 2008. He served as a for his medical work. After he returned to the U.S., of the medical staff at Rockford Memorial Hospital. John R. Gordon, Certif. ’41, MD, of West Creek, Peter J. Cotsirilos ’51, MD, of North Chicago, major in the U.S. Army during World War II. After Zelik worked in private practice in Chicago from In 1963, he joined the faculty at the University Colo., died May 26, 2008. A veteran of the U.S. died Nov. 5, 2008. the war, Fisher practiced in Montana, California 1947 to 1988 and became medical staff president of Missouri-Columbia. There, he initiated the Army Medical Corps, he practiced medicine his and Virginia. He moved to Charlotte in the 1950s at Methodist Hospital. He was also on staff at Lu- campaign to establish a family medicine residency Irwin Dritz, MD, of Glenview, died in February entire career with the Veterans Administration, first Staff and established the first psychiatric clinic in North theran Deaconess, Lutheran General and Swedish in Columbia in 1969 and served as MU’s first 2008. He served on the U.S. Navy hospital ship in Chicago and for more than 30 years in Lincoln, Carolina. He stayed with the clinic for a number of Covenant hospitals. director of that residency program. He also served Benevolence. At age 34, he was chief of anesthe- Neb., where he was chief of medicine. years before going into private practice. In 1980, as chair of the department of community health and siology at Cook County Hospital and then head Jeanne Buiter, MFA, MBA, of Oak Park, a se- he retired and moved to New York City. After being ______of the department of anesthesiology for 25 years 1940 Beryl McDonald Makemson, Certif. ’41, MD, of medical practice. Baker retired in 1982 as professor nior academic adviser in the College of Medicine’s certified to practice in New York, he continued to Naples, Fla., died March 23, 2008. emeritus. at St. Anne’s Hospital on Chicago’s West Side. Henry S. Bernet, MD, of Springfield, Mo., died Office of Student Affairs, died Feb. 23, 2008. work until 1994, when he returned to Charlotte. He also practiced anesthesiology for 12 years at Feb. 22, 2008. A veteran of World War II, he was Buiter, who worked in the office for nearly 10 H.T. Merrell ’38, ’40, MD, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Robert J. Brennan, MD, LLB ’55, of Ponte Vedra Gottlieb Hospital. ______a physician in internal medicine until 1981 and a Beach, Fla., died Jan. 11, 2009. A former resident years, also was the former executive director of the 1937 died Feb. 24, 2007. During World War II, he served medical consultant with the Department of Human Barbara Steiner Lipton, MD, Res ’48, of University of Chicago Alumni Association. She as a captain in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps in of Philo, he joined the U.S. Navy in 1941 after Bruno A. Desulis, MD, of Yorkville, died June 15, Services, Rehabilitation Services Division. Bellevue, Wash., died Feb. 1, 2009. Following the European and Pacific theaters. He maintained which he earned his MD and law degrees. Before earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the 2008. A general practitioner and surgeon, he began moving to Florida, he practiced internal medicine in medical school, she was a clinical assistant in the School of the Art Institute and a master’s in busi- Adrian R. Oleck, Certif. ’39, MD, of Park Ridge, a private practice for 27 years before working for a private practice in 1940 in Beardstown. At one department of psychiatry at UIC and in private Southern Illinois University’s Student Health in Champaign and Philo. Brennan was instrumental in ness administration from the University of Chi- time, Desulis also was chief of the medical staff at died in February of 2009. He was a longtime resi- forming the board certification of doctors for allergy, practice as a psychiatrist in Chicago. In 1959, cago. She was an avid gardener, painter, potter, dent and ob/gyn in Park Ridge. Carbondale and the Veterans Administration Hos- Schmidt Memorial Hospital. During his career, he Lipton moved to the University of North Carolina gourmet cook and seamstress, and her passion for pital in Marion, Ala. immunology and internal medicine. While serving delivered more than 1,000 babies. He was a member to serve as a clinical associate professor in the de- the arts made students gravitate to her. Buiter also ______as chief of medicine at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort of many professional and civic organizations and Laurence H. Rubenstein, Certif. ’41, MD, of 1941 Lauderdale, Fla., he received many awards for his partment of psychiatry. She also opened a private was instrumental in starting a chapter of the Gold served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Earl W. Donelan ’41, MD, of Springfield, died Oct. Glencoe, died July 18, 2008. Rubenstein was one practice in psychiatry in Chapel Hill, N.C. She Humanism Honor Society at UIC. dedication and outstanding service. of the first board-certified thoracic surgeons. He Irving Favus, Certif. ’36, MD, of Peoria, died Jan. 31, 2008. After an internship at Cook County Hospi- was a life Fellow of the American Psychiatric As- started one of the first thoracic surgery training Webster B. Gelman ’38, MD, of Iowa City, Iowa, 16, 2006. During World War II, he served in the tal in Chicago, he served with the Third Amphibious sociation and a life member of the North Carolina programs, and eventually became a professor of sur- died Jan. 21, 2008. An orthopaedic surgeon, he U.S. Army Reserves and spent five years on active Corps of the Fleet Marine Force during World War Medical Society.

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Sidney S. Meyers, MD, of Mequon, Wis., died staffs of numerous hospitals and volunteered as a 2004 when he became an active member of the Hospital in Baltimore, Md. After a year as deputy began his more than 50-year practice and teaching General and Imperial Point medical centers in Ft. Nov. 20, 2007. A World War II veteran, he practiced professor in the departments of family medicine at emeritus staff. chief of surgery at the Public Health Hospital in career in psychiatry in San Francisco. He was Lauderdale, Fla., and North Broward Medical Center obstetrics/gynecology in the greater Detroit area for Rush and Loyola universities. He also volunteered Seattle, he entered private practice in 1958 in Bel- published often and enjoyed acting, art, literature, in Pompano Beach, Fla. Wendel also was an airline ______35 years. He was the former chief of ob/gyn at both extensively in inner-city clinics. He was a pioneer in 1947 levue, Wash. McClinton was on the original staff of music and tennis, which he played until age 87. pilot and owned and operated several of his own Holy Cross Hospital and Macomb Hospital Medical medical hypnotism and delivered hundreds of ba- Newell T. Braatelien, MD, of Moline, died May Overlake Hospital, serving as chief of staff in 1985, aircraft. ______Center. He was a Diplomat of the American Board bies in the 1960s and ’70s using this technique. He and maintained a successful private practice for 30 22, 2008. He was a pathologist with the Quad City 1951 ______of Obstetrics/Gynecology and received a 50th Year and his wife, Sonia, moved to Miami in 1985, and years. He also enjoyed being the team doctor for the 1953 Pathology Group for 41 years. Julius S. Newman, MD, of Aurora, died April 23, Award from the Michigan State Medical Society in he became a member of the Coast Guard Reserve. Bellevue High School football team while watching Takeshi Hayashida ’51, MD, of Torrance, Calif., Sidney M. Goldman ’45, MD, of Santa Fe, N.M., 2009. While serving in the armed forces during 1993 for his contributions to medicine. Later, Green founded the Sonia Green House in his sons play on the team. died Nov. 29, 2008. World War II, he received a Purple Heart and Port Au Prince, Haiti, serving disabled children and died April 23, 2002. Bruce B. Newman ’41, MD, of La Grange Park, Marian D. Tolpin ’47, MD, of Glencoe, died June helped liberate a concentration camp in Poland. John M. Johnston, MD, of Chicago, died Feb. 14, adults. He was a lifelong supporter of social justice Jean P. Karr ’45, MD, of Jackson, Mich., died died March 15, 2009. He served in the Medi- 10, 2008. She practiced and taught psychoanalysis He practiced internal medicine in Aurora until he 2009. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a and community service. Dec. 10, 2007. From 1953 to 1972, Karr practiced cal Corps during World War II, after which he at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago for took an administrative position at Copley Hospital. member of many professional organizations, includ- internal medicine in Jackson, where he specialized completed advanced medical training and practiced ______more than 40 years. As vice president of medical affairs and continuing ing the Chicago Medical Society, the Illinois State in neurology. Afterward, he served as a consultant pediatrics for more than 40 years, the majority of 1945 medical education, he was instrumental in expand- Medical Society, the American Medical Association, ______Joseph G. Fortner ’44, MD, of New York, died Feb. for the Michigan Social Security Disability Deter- ing the Copley community and the building of the them in Hinsdale. In the 1970s, Newman added 1950 the Illinois Surgical Society, the Midwest Surgical 18, 2007. A retired cancer surgeon, he was on staff mination Administration until 1986. Active in his Rush-Copley Medical Center. In semiretirement un- emergency room practice and ended up in general Jerome J. Landy ’48, MD, of Chicago, died March Association and the American College of Surgeons. for 45 years at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer community, Karr was a member of the Arbor Grove til January 2009, he continued his role of managing medicine. He was medical director at the Masonic 7, 2008. A pioneering surgeon and inventor, Landy Center, becoming chief of Gastric and Mixed Tumor Congregational Church and Beth Moser Mental the CME program, which is named in his honor. Otto D. Klassen, MD, of Goshen, Ind., died Jan. Home in La Grange in the 1950s and was head of performed groundbreaking research on antibiotic- Memorial Gifts 31, 2009. pediatrics at La Grange Hospital in the ’60s. Service and director of the General Motors Cancer Health Clinic Board. To make a memorial resistant staph in 1952. He also invented a protective Research Laboratory. He also was a professor of Richard Timpton Sr., MD, of New Orleans, died Thomas A. O’Shea, MD, Res ’53, of Aurora, died gift to the college, Phyllis T. Mrazek Orland ’39, MD, Res ’44, of Lester D. Shook, MD, of Fargo, N.D., died Nov. 23, isolation system to treat severely burned patients surgery at Cornell Medical College and served as May 16, 2008. The first African-American board- March 25, 2008. please contact the Forest Park, died July 1, 2009. A member of Alpha 2007. He worked as a chemist during World War and designed equipment to transport and store president of the General Motors Cancer Research certified radiologist in Louisiana, Timpton was Office of Medical Omega Alpha, she was a pediatrician on staff at II and served in the Army, Navy and Marines. He moon rocks from the Apollo 11 and 12 missions. Jack W. Pearson ’52, MD, of Tucson, Ariz., died Advancement at Foundation. He performed many of the earliest a lieutenant in the Army’s Quartermaster Corps MacNeal Memorial and Oak Park hospitals. She was a physician in Riversdale, N.D., and at Camp April 25, 2009. An ob/gyn, he retired from the (312) 996-4470 or liver transplants, including the first heterotopic liver Marvin K. Levin ’48, MD, of Los Angeles, died during World War II. Following medical school, he retired in 1988. Her husband, Frank J. Orland, DDS Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif. He then served as a Army as a full colonel after 20 years of service. He [email protected]. transplant, and created a new procedure to resect Feb. 10, 2008. A World War II Army veteran, he was assistant chief of radiology at Homer G. Phil- ’41, died in 2000. radiologist at the Fargo Clinic from 1955 to 1967 ended his career as an emeritus professor in the de- cancer of the pancreas, which increased survival had a long and distinguished career as an ob/gyn lips Hospital in St. Louis. He then moved to New and in Jamestown from 1968 to 1969. He returned partment of ob/gyn at Arizona College of Medicine Joseph A. Provenzano, MD, of Toledo, Ohio, died rates. and was affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Orleans in 1962 to be chief of radiology at Flint- to Fargo to finish his career in radiology. He taught in Tucson. March 30, 2009. He was a family practitioner. where he served as chief of obstetrics and gynecol- Goodridge Hospital. He later held that position at Donald G. Lindsay, MD, of Ventura, Calif., died radiology technologists and medical students for ogy for a time. He also did extensive clinic work New Orleans General and St. Claude General hospi- many years and was a Fellow in the American Col- Harold A. Shafter ’51, MD, Res ’58, of Lincoln- , of Danville, died Jan. 16, May 3, 2009. He graduated at the head of his medi- Megan J. Tanner, MD in many areas of Los Angeles. During his years of tals. President John F. Kennedy appointed Timpton wood, died Feb. 23, 2009. A cardiologist, Shafter cal class and was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha lege of Radiology. Shook also was an active member 2009. The first board-certified pediatrician in Dan- practice, Levin was an associate clinical professor at to a national board of doctors to study health issues in many professional and community organizations. was chairman of Advocate Lutheran General Hos- ville, she established a private practice with her hus- Honor Medical Society. He served as a captain in the University of Southern California. affecting minority groups. In the early 1980s, he pital’s department of medicine from 1973 to 1980, band, Lewis W. Tanner, MD. She served in many the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps from 1952 to ______went into private practice and retired in 1998. He and in 1976 established its first residency program capacities on the staffs of St. Elizabeth and Lake 1954, and also served during the Korean War. In Charles A. Linke ’48, MD, died Aug. 21, 2003. 1948 was a former president of the New Orleans Medical in internal medicine. From 1980 to 1988, he was View hospitals and provided untold hours of service 1957, Lindsay co-founded Ventura Dermatology, During his long career, he practiced at the Duluth Bertram Katz ’46, MD, of Hubbard, Ohio, died Association and a member of numerous other the hospital’s medical director. In 1995, Shafter took to the Well Baby Clinic. She also directed the school where he practiced until his retirement in 1994. Clinic in Duluth, Minn., served at the Mt. Selinda Dec. 31, 2007. A longtime area surgeon with a pri- professional societies. over as medical director of the cardiology units. He health and immunization program for Danville and From 1971 until 1995, he was assistant clinical Mission Hospital in (Zimbabwe) Rhodesia, Africa, vate practice in general surgery for nearly 40 years, also maintained a private practice. professor of dermatology at USC Medical School. and joined Strong Memorial Hospital’s urology ______Vermilion County. In 1991, Tanner was presented he was an admired teacher and mentor who trained 1952 ______with the Vermilion County Women of Achievement He also conducted research into the aging process department in Rochester, N.Y. Until his retirement numerous surgical residents. In 1957, Katz led a Robert D. Simpson ’50, MD, of Spring Park, in 1990, Linke also was a professor of urology. 1954 award for outstanding service to the community. and participated as a researcher in projects at the surgical team that performed the first successful Minn., died Dec. 30, 2008. He served in the Army Leroy A. Futterer, MD, of Manistee, Mich., died University of Colorado at Boulder. separation of conjoined (Siamese) twins sharing a ______Anthony J. Lund, MD, of Los Gatos, Calif., died Air Corps during World War II. Simpson then Dec. 7, 2008. Board-certified in internal medicine, vital organ. He was chief of surgery at Youngstown 1944 Gordon F. Wolfe ’44, MD, of Portland, Ore., July 7, 2008. He practiced medicine in Santa Clara opened a private practice as Woodstock’s first board- he opened a private practice in 1960 and served on Hospital Association from 1969–1973, and a veteran Joseph A. Cohen, MD, of Los Altos, Calif., died died Sept. 24, 2008. He served in the Army as a County for 30 years. certified general surgeon. In 1965, he co-founded the medical staff of West Shore Hospital for many of both the U.S. Navy and Army. June 18, 2008. He practiced internal medicine in physician during World War II and was a captain on the Kishwaukee Valley Medical Group, which years. Futterer retired from private practice in 1993 Chicago before going to Stanford University Medical William H. Middleton, MD, Res ’50, of Alton, grew into a multispecialty clinic of board-certified the USS Hope. He then joined the staff of Legacy ______and joined the staff of Munson Medical Center in Iowa, died Jan. 18, 2008. He served in the Army Center in 1962 for a residency in psychiatry. After Emanuel Hospital in Portland. He retired from 1949 physicians and was one of his proudest accom- Traverse City, Mich., where he was instrumental Medical Corps in World War II. After his specialty practicing psychiatry for some years, he returned to private practice as a family physician and allergist Robert L. Marske ’45, MD, Res ’51, of Carmel, plishments. He retired in 1993 and later moved to in developing the hospitalist program. He formally training, Middleton then opened a practice in oph- internal medicine and retired 10 years ago. in 1987. Ind., died Sept. 19, 2008. He served in the U.S. Minnesota to be near his family. retired in 2000. Navy in World War II and as a doctor in the Korean thalmology in Alton in 1951 and served on the staff Jerome G. Green ’42, MD, of Miami, Fla., died A. Paul Wendel, MD, of Brockton, died Sept. 16, Paul O. Kretschmar, MD, of Vancouver, Wash., ______War before practicing pediatrics in Michigan City, of several area hospitals. January 9, 2009. He served in the Pacific during 1946 2007. From 1953 to 1955, he served in the U.S. died April 26, 2008. He was the Vancouver Clinic’s Ind., for 43 years. He retired in 1998. World War II as a ship’s physician and surgeon. Jack Moshein ’44, MD, of Beverly Hills, Calif., Kurt Schlesinger ’41, ’48, MD, of San Francisco, Army as a general medical officer while stationed in longest-serving physician, practicing internal Following the war, Green moved back to Chicago died March 15, 2009. An orthopaedic surgeon, he Leslie Theodore McClinton, MD, died Dec. died July 21, 2007. Following his service during Europe. Wendel initially practiced general medicine medicine for more than 46 years and occupational and began a 40-year career as a family physician and joined the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center staff in 1955 22, 2008. McClinton headed the cancer surgery World War II on liberty ships in the North Atlantic in Altamont, before specializing in radiology in the medicine for his last 10 years. He was also assistant surgeon on the city’s South Side. He served on the and served as the chief of orthopaedic surgery until department for three years at the U.S. Public Health and obtaining his medical degree, Schlesinger Miami area. He had staff appointments at Broward professor of medicine at Oregon Health and Science

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______University. A Navy veteran, Kretschmar was chair- Inglewood, Calif., and Jackson Memorial Hospital of Dade County and the South Florida Psychiatric as professor, chairman of the transplant division ington, died April 4, 2007. After receiving his MD, 1973 man of the board of trustees of the Vancouver Clinic in Miami. Society. He also served as past speaker of the house and associate dean at Northwestern University he completed an internship at Cook County Hospi- J. Eugene Alexander, MD, Res ’73, of Charlotte, during the 1960s and ’70s. and chair of the Joint Commission on Government Feinberg School of Medicine. In 1986, he founded tal. He then served as a flight surgeon for the U.S. N.C., died March 6, 2008. Following his orthopae- David M. Barton ’53, ’54, MD, of Boise, Idaho, Relations of the American Psychiatric Association the Regional Organ Bank of Illinois, now called the Air Force for two years and completed a residency dic residency, he became the first African-American ______died April 5, 2008. A flight surgeon for the U.S. 1955 and delegate to the American Medical Association Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network. He in ophthalmology at Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hos- orthopaedic surgeon in Charlotte. Alexander retired Air Force, he had a long career as an obstetrician/ Howard Gurevitz ’51, MD, died May 19, 2009. In for Psychiatry. continued to play a national role in the field as an pital in Chicago. After moving to Bloomington in in 2005 after 30 years of medical practice. gynecologist in Boise, during which he delivered 1961, he launched his private practice in Burlin- officer of the national network for several years. He 1971, he practiced ophthalmology at the Gaily Eye thousands of babies. He was a clinical professor ______game, Calif. In addition, he held various positions 1959 retired in 2003. Clinic for 33 years. He was a member of the Calvary with the University of Washington department of 1978 with the San Mateo County Department of Health Alexander N. Letko, MD, Res ’59, of Schenectady, United Methodist Church, Lincoln College Board of obstetrics and gynecology, receiving an Excellence ______Gordon Eckerling ’74, MD, Res ’81, of Irvine, and Welfare from 1961–1979. As assistant program N.Y., died May 19, 2008. He practiced ophthalmol- Trustees and Royal Order of Jesters. in Teaching award from the university in 1995. 1963 Calif., died Jan. 17, 2008. chief, he developed and administered San Mateo ogy in his hometown until he retired in 1990. Letko Thomas H. Pinkstaff, MD, of Lexington, Ky., died He also initiated a continuing medical education Franklin Stroud, MD, of Washington, D.C., died Steven M. Moser, MD, Res ’78, of Maui, Hawaii, County’s first comprehensive community mental also served as chief of ophthalmology at St. Clare’s April 12, 2009. A longtime Lexington pediatrician, program in Ada County, Idaho. May 26, 2008. A prominent pediatrician in Wash- died March 13, 2005. A physician and kidney health center, and as program chief, he managed Hospital for many years. He was a U.S. Army he first served with the U.S. Navy as a general ington, Stroud had practiced medicine for more specialist, he was the former chief medical officer at all of San Mateo County’s mental health programs. Keith C. Knapp, MD, Res ’56, of Chicago, died veteran from World War II. medical officer and later as resident and staff than 35 years. Maui Memorial Medical Center and a community Gurevitz maintained his practice until his passing. July 5, 2009. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. pediatrician at the U.S. naval hospitals in Boston David A. Rothstein ’57, MD, MS ’59, of Chicago, activist. He was an active member, consultant and advisor and Great Lakes. Pinkstaff worked in private ______Juan S. Morales, MD, Res ’56, of Springfield, died Jan. 16, 2008. He was a psychiatrist for nearly 1966 for many state and national health organizations, practice for 26 years until 1995, when he was ______Memorial Gifts died Aug. 29, 2008. He served as an anesthesiolo- 50 years in Chicago, active in the medical commu- John A. Kozak, MD, Res ’66, of Elk Grove including the American Medical Association and the named medical director of University Child Health 1979 To make a memorial gist for 35 years at several hospitals, including Holy nity and committed to social justice. Village, died Nov. 1, 2008. He was the founder American Psychiatric Association. He was on faculty Specialists and clinical professor in the department Jerry Wozniak, MD, Res ’85, of Hoffman Estates, gift to the college, Cross Hospital in Chicago. He was inducted into of Northwest Urological Associates of Arlington at San Mateo County Residency Training Program Richard J. Sassetti ’57, MD, died June 22, 2008. of pediatrics at the University of Louisville’s School died June 18, 2008. He was a veteran of the Viet- please contact the the Warren H. Cole Society in 1975. Morales also Heights, past president of the medical and dental Office of Medical as attending psychiatrist. He taught and lectured of Medicine, where he received numerous teaching nam War. ______at the University of California–Berkeley, Hayward had a general practice at Choate Hospital in Anna staff at Alexian Brothers Medical Center and on Advancement at 1960 awards. After retiring in 2001, he continued to ______and McFarland Center in Springfield. staff at Alexian Brothers and Northwest Commu- (312) 996-4470 or State College and the Center of Training in Drug William R. McCabe, MD, Res ’60, of Virginia teach part-time in the medical schools at University 1984 nity hospitals. An Army veteran, Kozak was named [email protected]. Abuse and taught many continuing education and Beach, Va., died May 24, 2008. A founding member of Louisville and University of Kentucky. In 2007, Kenneth L. Piest ’78, MD, of San Antonio, Harold P. Schedl, MD, Res ’56, of Iowa City, in 1974 Doctor of the Year at Alexian Brothers. training programs. died Oct. 5, 2007. An ophthalmic plastic and Iowa, died Jan. 31, 2008. He joined the department of the Infectious Disease Society of America, he was he was named medical director of the Medical Home for Coordinated Pediatrics in Lexington. reconstructive surgeon, he launched a private William X. Halloran ’55, MD, of Arcadia, Calif., of internal medicine faculty of the University of a fellow in infectious diseases at U of I in 1958. It ______During his long career, Pinkstaff was an active 1968 practice in 1995 and served as an ophthalmological died Feb. 19, 2008. A renowned orthopaedic Iowa in 1960 and trained more than 21 fellows was here he made his seminal observations of en- member on a wide range of boards, associations Eugene C. Wittenstrom, MD, Res ’68, of St. consultant for the Neurofibromatosis Group surgeon and medical innovator, he was the first and six graduate students in the gastroenterology dotoxin tolerance in humans and helped devise the and committees. Charles, died Sept. 11, 2008. He began his career in and craniofacial clinics in San Antonio. He also orthopaedic surgeon to establish a practice in Costa division. He was the recipient of both the Lederle classic McCabe–Jackson criteria to predict survival of patients with gram-negative bacteremia based on the U.S. Air Force as chief of orthopaedics at Elgin served as director for ophthalmic care for Facial Mesa, Calif. He helped pioneer the development of Medical Faculty Award and the Guggenheim, Martin W. Schaefer, MD, of Colorado Springs, their underlying disease. McCabe was on the faculty Air Force Base in Ft. Walton Beach, Fla. In 1973, Anomalies Clinic and Extended Services, a nonprofit advanced medical devices and techniques in bone Commonwealth and Macy awards. Schedl was also Colo., died Jan. 5, 2008. A cardiologist, he prac- of Boston University College of Medicine, the Uni- he founded the Fox Valley Orthopaedic associa- organization that helps children with complex fracture treatment, helped found the International an ardent researcher who published more than ticed in Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colo. tions in Elgin and now in Geneva and Naperville. craniofacial disorders. Piest received training in Society for Fracture Repair, was a published author 150 research papers. His most important work versity of New Mexico and Marshall University. He Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic craniofacial and pediatric ophthalmology at the and achieved the rank of captain in the U.S. Air was his seminal research on oral rehydration. This authored 145 publications in peer-reviewed medical ______1964 Surgery, Wittenstrom was a member and chairman Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Force. revolutionary work, published in Nature (1963), journals and was a member of the editorial board of Belisario Arias, MD, Res ’64, of Burr Ridge, died of several committees for the American Academy of provided a significant part of the scientific basis several professional journals. ______Randall L. Mann ’52, MD, of Kankakee, died Nov. Feb. 23, 2009. Orthopaedic Surgeons and served on the Board of for the current-day, life-saving, simple treatment 1985 2, 2008. An internal medicine physician, he was on Janice M. McGowan ’50, ’58, MD, of California, Councilors for six years. of diarrheal diseases such as cholera and infantile Edwin John Landherr, MD, of Greenwood, Ariz., Robert J. Butts, MD, Res ’87, of Alameda, Calif., staff at Provena St. Mary’s Hospital and Riverside died June 7, 2006. diarrhea. died Nov. 11, 2007. He worked as a staff neurosur- ______died July 18, 2008. He was a beloved pediatrician in Medical Center. He was a member of many local Florian F. Sanders ’58, MD, of Santa Ana, Calif., geon at Sparks Regional Medical Center from 1988 1969 Alameda and was voted “Best Physician of Alameda” and state medical associations, and former president Arthur R. Williamson ’54, MD, Res ’61, of Lin- died Sept. 29, 2008. A U.S. Army veteran, he was a until 2002, and as a family care physician at AIR Steven M. Dosick ’65, MD, FACS, of Evanston, by Alameda magazine. of the Kankakee County Health Department board. coln, died Oct. 30, 2008. A veteran of World War medical doctor for 47 years. died Jan. 24, 2008. He practiced vascular surgery Healthcare from 2006–07. During the Vietnam ______He also served in the U.S. Navy. II, Williamson received his surgical training under War, Landherr volunteered and served with the for 35 years in Toledo, Ohio, before retiring in 1996 the renowned Warren H. Cole, MD, chief of sur- ______1961 U.S. Navy. He also went to Sarajevo in 1992 and 2006. He served both nationally and locally in Charles E. Warnell, MD, Res ’99, of Kankakee, 1956 gery at UIC. A Fellow in the American College of many leadership positions, including president of Paul J. Schmidt, MD, Res ’61, of Palos Park, died 1994 to help with supplies and assist in surgery. died July 13, 2008. He worked at Riverside Medical Jack D. Aron ’55, MD, of Miami, Fla., died Dec. Surgeons, he practiced in his hometown of Lincoln the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, medical July 6, 2009. He practiced medicine in his home- Center East Court Clinic in family practice and was 15, 2008. A specialist in orthopaedic surgery, Aron until he retired in 1996. Williamson also served John W. O’Donnell ’60, MD, died in July of director of VeinSolutions, associate director of Jobst town of Palos Park. a staff physician at Provena St. Mary’s Hospital in 2008. He served as a doctor in the U.S. Navy worked in private practice in Hialeah, Fla., and at on several civic organizations and was honored as Vascular Center and president of Toledo Vascular Kankakee. He also served on the board for Hospice during Vietnam. After leaving private practice, many area hospitals, establishing himself as one of Courier Man of the Year in 1971. James S. Wolf, MD, of Charleston, S.C., died Aug. Institute. of Kankakee Valley and was a dedicated champion the leading orthopaedic surgeons in Dade County. 6, 2007. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, he served O’Donnell worked as a psychiatrist for Chicago ______for palliative care medicine. His interests also Public Schools until his retirement. He then con- ______He was part of the ownership group that planned 1957 as chief of surgery at McGuire Veterans Adminis- 1970 included women’s health and pediatrics. While and built Palmetto General Hospital. After retiring tration Medical Center in Richmond, Va. During sulted for Physician’s Management until his death. Ronald Shellow ’55, MD, of Miami, Fla., died Feb. Steven R. Rogosin, MD, of Salem, Ore., died Oct. a student in Chicago, Warnell worked with the from private practice, Aron became a professor and that time, he helped organize the United Network 19, 2004. He was a psychiatrist and Fellow of the ______24, 2007. After serving in the U.S. Army Medical Chicago Area Health and Medical Careers Program, mentor at the University of California San Francisco for Organ Sharing, the first group to coordinate American College of Psychiatrists. Shellow was 1965 Corps during Vietnam, he practiced medicine at the a mentoring program dedicated for high school Medical School, Martin Luther King Hospital in organ donations among hospitals. Wolf then served past president of the Mental Health Association John E. Randolph ’61, MD, Res ’69, of Bloom- Doctors Clinic for 31 years. students pursuing medical careers.

62 UICMedicine Fall 2009 Fall 2009 UICMedicine 63 Collections Medical Photography by J eanne G alat z er -L evy Meet the Class of 2009 by Lisa Haufschild

Maria Ikenberg Lindberg at work and with her husband, Hans Lindberg, and examples of her medical images C hicago P eoria R ockford U rbana

The first in her family to attend When her grandmother died John Plescia ’04, MD ’09, Everything Erik Antonsen ’97, college, Veronica Tirado, in Nigeria of a stroke in 2004, has prepared well for the role of MS ’01, PhD ’04, MD ’09, MD ’09, worked as a hospital the path in medicine was set rural family physician. Out of his accomplishes takes him one research assistant while a for Chiebonam Chigoziem class of 50, Plescia was one of step closer to a childhood dream psychology undergraduate Ezeokoli ’05, MD ’09. “There 15 students in the Rural Medical most only imagine—becoming at the University of Chicago. was no healthcare nearby to Education Program who upon an astronaut. As a member Finding she loved interviewing help her. I want to be a part of completing their residency will of UIUC’s combined MD/PhD and interacting with patients changing that,” she says. locate and practice in rural Illinois Medical Scholars Program, convinced her to pursue medical While earning her bachelor as primary care physicians. he continued the path of his school. of science in community health During his family medicine undergraduate and master’s UIC’s Hispanic Center at UIUC, Ezeokoli volunteered preceptorship in Oregon, Plescia degree studies by earning his of Excellence helped her with in community day care centers conducted a pedometer study doctorate in aeronautical and the application and interview and tutored young children. researching severe obesity and astronautical engineering, literally process. “They worked with During medical school, she led diabetes problems in the area, making him a rocket scientist. me on my personal statement, the Peoria campus chapter of and walked alongside many Antonsen also completed coached me for my interview the Student National Medical of the participants. “I enjoyed NIH-funded HIV research in and connected me to a summer Association, organizing health talking to the patients and Zambia in 2007 as a Fogarty fellowship after my first year,” fairs and blood drives for realized that hearing their stories International Center Clinical Maria Ikenberg Lindberg was a pioneering scientific photographer— Tirado says. This support underserved communities gave me a better sense of what Research Scholar and made a rarity as a woman in her field—who illustrated the hidden secrets of the ear, nose and throat for the department of otolaryngology for more than three inspired her to give back: Tirado around Peoria. She also is active they need medically,” he says. three mission trips to Ecuador decades. spent up to six hours a week in the Nigerian American Public Now a resident in family to volunteer in public hospitals. When she died in 2006 at age 99, she bequeathed $250,000 to the university, in addition to the encyclopedic collection of medical images that are her tutoring a group of three M2 Professionals Association, a medicine at Rockford’s Among his many awards, his legacy. students preparing for the STEP1 group combating HIV/AIDS in SwedishAmerican Hospital, medical school peers selected Some of her bequest supported the organizing and archiving of the department’s historical papers and photos as it celebrated its 150th year. The exam. African and African-American Plescia has a personal affinity him for the Gold Humanism in bequest also will support research and education in new and refurbished laboratories and teaching spaces, including the Bhatt Surgical Training Lab, the Galter Medicine Honor Society. Temporal-Bone Lab and the Torak Vestibular Lab. Tirado discovered a love communities. for his specialty. While he was “The department was deeply honored and touched by this generous gift,” says J. Regan Thomas, Francis L. Lederer Professor and head of of surgery during her clinical Ezeokoli now is a in medical school, he and his Now a resident in otolaryngology. “Maria’s superb visual images brought the department world renown, helping to build and enhance our educational and medical mission.” clerkship and now is a general resident in anesthesiology wife, Trisha (also a 2004 UIUC emergency medicine at Brigham Lindberg, known as Maria Ikenberg during her years at UIC, joined the department in 1939 after emigrating from her native Germany, where she had surgery resident at UIC. “I’m at Northwestern Memorial graduate), had two children. and Women’s Hospital in trained in technical photography at the AGFA and Leitz factories. excited by the hands-on Hospital, and dreams of starting “Having kids in medical school Boston, Antonsen hopes his Photographers of that era needed extensive knowledge of the chemistry and physics of photography, says Chet Childs, the department’s current scientific experience and the chance to a program to recruit medical made me more efficient,” he preparations will distinguish him photographer. At a time when few women had professions, Lindberg augmented mastery of her craft with training in anatomy and histology. problem-solve in a fast-moving students to do mission rotations says. “I didn’t have six hours to from the thousands of astronaut At UIC, she became the assistant to Francis Lederer, MD, the longtime otolaryngology chairman who built the department into a world leader. environment,” she says. in Nigeria. She envisions her own study, so I did it in two or three.” applications NASA receives, and “Otolaryngology is about poking into deep, dark corners,” says Eugene Tardy, MD, Res ’67, professor of clinical otolaryngology. “Lederer built a career in critical or intensive care make him one of the 10 to 20 department that would bring images of the eardrum, the larynx and the lung to light, in the process making UIC the leader in teaching, archiving and publishing somewhere in the U.S.—and mission candidates the space in the science of otolaryngology.” Nigeria. program selects every three to Lindberg worked with otolaryngology colleagues Joseph and James Brubaker and Paul Hollinger to create one of the first successful clinical endoscopic four years. cameras. “It was a huge, very cumbersome camera with a small flexible tube that used enormous flashbulbs to give off enough light,” Tardy recalls. “Maria would spend hours on each image, using filters, colors and all her technical mastery to sharpen and perfect the image and create an ideal teaching tool. She set a standard for excellence that few can measure up to.”

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