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at to live or live to eat? For VOLUME 40, ISSUE 2 2014 many of us here in New Senior Vice President and Dean E Orleans, the latter is usually L. Lee Hamm, MD true. With the ever present epidemic Contributors of obesity and the growing list of Will Arvin diet-related disease, Tulane University Carlos Avrard School of Medicine realized that if we Keith Brannon were going to continue our mission Barri Bronston of educating the next generation of Melanie Cross physicians and providing excellent Kirby Messinger patient care, we were going to have to get creative. Arthur Nead Ryan Rivet Tulane is now showing the community, students, alumni and fellow physicians Fran Simon that food isn’t just what we eat, but it’s also our prescription for a healthier future. Zack Weaver Photography In September, Tulane University School of Medicine celebrated the opening Sally Asher and dedication of the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane Paula Burch-Celentano University. This unique and first-of-its-kind medical school teaching kitchen is Guillermo Cabrera-Rojo pioneering how physicians think about food. The program arms doctors with Pat Garin the ingredients to succeed not just in the clinic but in the kitchen. Through Ryan Rivet our collaboration with Johnson & Wales University College of Culinary Arts, Editing and Design we have developed a world-class curriculum that is being adopted by medical Zehno Cross Media schools across the country. Communications “ This unique and first-of-its-kind medical school President of the University teaching kitchen is pioneering how physicians Michael A. Fitts Vice President for University think about food.” Communications and Marketing Deborah L. Grant In this issue, you will learn more about the Goldring Center for Culinary Vice President for School of Medicine and the programs we have created to teach, train and educate. The Medicine Development center is also part of a larger project to bring healthy eating throughout the New David W. Kinahan Orleans area. With our training programs, classes and recipes, members of the Tulane Medicine magazine New Orleans community that are afflicted with diabetes, heart conditions or is published semiannually obesity can learn—in a fun, interactive environment—the easy steps they can for Tulane University School of Medicine alumni, faculty, take to live a healthier life. residents, students, staff and friends. But the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine, along with the other exciting Letters and comments should be sent to: programs, research projects and educational initiatives we are undertaking, Tulane Medicine magazine would not be possible without the generosity and support of our donors. I hope c/o Tulane University Public Relations 215 Gibson Hall you will join me in celebrating our Medicine Annual Fund donors who are listed 6823 St. Charles Ave. on page 20. These alumni and friends believe in our important work and have New Orleans, LA 70118 answered the call to be leaders of our institution. Please join me in giving them a Phone: 504-865-5210 Fax: 504-862-8777 round of applause. Email: [email protected] Website: tulane.edu/som

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DEPARTMENTS FEATURES 2 8 NEWS INGREDIENTS Study: Light and Breast Cancer Therapy FOR BETTER HEALTH n Stroke Experts Launch Telemedicine Network The Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine n Kidney Cancer in 3D n HIV-Positive Children and Drug Resistance n Study: Salt-sensitive High Blood Pressure n Medical Missions in Haiti n White Coat Day n Students Speak Out Against Tanning n Ask Rudy: Golden Years n Fund Supports Student Research n Using History to Teach Diagnostic Skills n Fifty Years of Research: Tulane National Primate Research Center 14 RUNNING TOWARD THE DANGER 18 INVESTING IN THE FUTURE The world combats an Ebola epidemic n Dr. Kantor invests in the next generation

20 1834 SOCIETY n Building the future of Tulane Medicine

24 NOTES n Honoring Dr. Paul T. Finger (A&S ’78, M ’82) and Dr. Charles O’Brien (A&S ’61, M ’64, G ’64, G ’55, F ’68)

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TULANE STROKE EXPERTS LAUNCH TELEMEDICINE NETWORK

ulane neurologists and neurosurgeons have launched T the Tulane Medical Center TeleStroke Network to improve stroke outcomes in communities without access to specialized stroke care programs. Using an advanced video conferencing system, the telemedicine network allows Tulane stroke experts to get “in the room” with ER teams across Southeast Louisiana and Mississippi to evaluate patients and Principal investigators and co-leaders of Tulane’s Circadian Cancer Biology Group, Dr. Steven Hill (left) and Dr. David Blask (right), and team members Dr. Robert Dauchy and Dr. Shulin Xiang. consult on diagnosis and treatment. “The process is similar to TULANE STUDY: TOTAL DARKNESS DURING THE NIGHT IS communicating via a web cam,” says Dr. A KEY TO SUCCESS OF BREAST CANCER THERAPY Aaron Dumont, neurosurgery department chairman. “We are able to see and interact xposure to light at night, which night (melatonin levels are suppressed), with the patients and their families and shuts off nighttime production roughly equivalent to faint light coming they are able to see us.” Eof the hormone melatonin, under a door.” When it comes to treating patients renders breast cancer completely resistant Melatonin by itself delayed the suffering a stroke, each second counts as to tamoxifen, a widely used breast formation of tumors and significantly doctors have a narrow time window to cancer drug, says a new study by Tulane slowed their growth but tamoxifen caused offer treatment to improve outcomes and University School of Medicine cancer a dramatic regression of tumors in animals prevent permanent brain damage, says researchers. The study, “Circadian and with either high nighttime levels of Dr. Sheryl Martin-Schild, director of the Melatonin Disruption by Exposure to melatonin during complete darkness or Tulane Stroke Program. Light at Night Drives Intrinsic Resistance those receiving melatonin supplementation “In Louisiana, we have 10 to Tamoxifen Therapy in Breast Cancer,” during dim light exposure at night. primary stroke centers (PSC) and two published in the journal Cancer Research, These findings have potentially comprehensive stroke centers (CSC) is the first to show that melatonin is vital enormous implications for women being and only about half of the residents have to the success of tamoxifen in treating treated with tamoxifen who are also access to one of these centers within a breast cancer. regularly exposed to light at night, whether 60-mile radius,” Martin-Schild says. Principal investigators and co-leaders from sleep problems, working night shifts “Acute stroke-ready hospitals outnumber of the Tulane University Circadian Cancer or exposure to light from computer and PSCs and CSCs four to one but need Biology Group, Drs. Steven Hill and TV screens. access to stroke expertise in order to David Blask, along with team members “High melatonin levels at night put make emergency treatment decisions. Drs. Robert Dauchy and Shulin Xiang, breast cancer cells to ‘sleep’ by turning off Telemedicine provides immediate access to investigated the role of melatonin on the key growth mechanisms. These cells are stroke experts for patients with suspected effectiveness of tamoxifen in combating vulnerable to tamoxifen. But when the stroke who present to acute stroke-ready human breast cancer cells implanted in rats. lights are on and melatonin is suppressed, hospitals and has been proven to increase “In the first phase of the study, we kept breast cancer cells ‘wake up’ and ignore the number of patients who receive animals in a daily light/dark cycle of 12 tamoxifen,” Blask says. the clot-busting medication for stroke. hours of light followed by 12 hours of total The study could make light at night a Telemedicine also facilitates identification darkness (melatonin is elevated during the new and serious risk factor for developing of patients who should be transferred for dark phase) for several weeks,” says Hill. resistance to tamoxifen and other anticancer further advanced services.” “In the second study, we exposed them to drugs and make the use of melatonin in The TeleStroke network will begin with the same daily light/dark cycle; however, combination with tamoxifen, administered five hospitals and plans to expand to 10 during the 12 hour dark phase, animals at the optimal time of day or night, standard within a year, Dumont says. were exposed to extremely dim light at treatment for breast cancer patients.

2 TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 tulane.edu/som INNOVATION UNDERSTANDING KIDNEY CANCER IN 3D

ost patients rely on their doctors to decipher the black, white and gray images on their CT scans. But what if Ma patient could instead hold a 3D model made from the CT image? Suddenly, the picture becomes clearer. So far, six patients receiving care from the Tulane University Department of Urology have viewed 3D replicas of their kidney cancers prior to surgery. Ultraviolet lasers are used to print the models in layers using a resin material, similar to plastic. Normal kidney tissue is printed in a clear translucent resin with the tumors in red. “We can show patients where their tumor is located, how deeply it extends into the kidney tissue, and how we plan to Dr. Jonathan Silberstein holds a replica of a patient’s kidney that was remove it,” says Dr. Jonathan Silberstein, chief of the section of made using a 3D printer. urologic oncology. Until the early 1990s, the standard of care for kidney cancer In addition to the immediate improvement of patient patients was to remove the entire kidney. Today, many patients comprehension and assistance in medical trainee education, the have the option of kidney-sparing surgery, in which the tumor is models will improve patient outcomes, Silberstein believes. removed but the healthy portion of the kidney is preserved. He says the technology also may be useful for treating other Such organ-sparing surgery may prevent the potential need solid-organ cancers, such as liver, lung and prostate cancer. He for dialysis in the future, as well as other issues that could is applying for a grant to purchase a 3D printer so that the next accompany kidney loss. generation of models can be manufactured in-house.

HIV-POSITIVE CHILDREN MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP DRUG RESISTANCE

hildren born with HIV are resistance to all HIV drugs and only far more likely to develop 18 percent had resistance to one drug C resistance to antiretroviral drugs from each of the three primary classes than adults, according to a new Tulane of HIV medications. University School of Medicine study. The study emphasizes the importance Researchers following almost 450 of drug adherence for children and children enrolled in the Pediatric HIV/ adolescents with HIV who typically take AIDS Cohort Study, one of the largest multiple medications daily to manage studies of HIV-positive children in the Dr. Russell Van Dyke, principal investigator of the disease. Once daily, single-pill HIV United States, found that 74 percent had the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. medications for adults are not yet available developed resistance to at least one form for children, Van Dyke says. of drug treatment and 30 percent were that once you develop it, it never goes “The best way to prevent resistance resistant to at least two classes of HIV away,” says principal investigator from developing is to take your medicine treatment drugs. By comparison, nearly Dr. Russell Van Dyke, professor of and suppress your viral load,” Van Dyke 36 percent of adults with HIV have pediatric infectious diseases. “Some says. “You develop resistance when you resistance to one form of drug treatment patients with very resistant virus have take some of your medications but not all. and only 12 percent have resistance to no effective treatment options. Resistant Then you’ve got virus that is replicating two or more classes. virus is the major reason for death among in the face of taking your medication. The study, which tracks patients at youth with perinatal HIV.” Lack of adherence is the major reason 14 sites across the country, followed Fortunately, most adolescents with resistance develops.” participants from seven to 16 years of age resistant HIV remain sensitive to newer The study abstract was presented at enrollment. agents from all classes, allowing salvage recently at the Conference on Retroviruses “The problem with drug resistance is therapy. Just one child in the study had and Opportunistic Infections.

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GLOBAL HEALTH SALT-SENSITIVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE TARGETED BY TULANE STUDY

r. Jing Chen, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Dthe Tulane University School of Medicine, recently received a grant of $2.09 million from the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute (NHBLI) of the National Institutes of Health to study urinary biomarkers for salt-sensitive hypertension. Dr. Jing Chen, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Tulane University Chen and her team will analyze samples from more School of Medicine than 2,000 study subjects who participated in the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Salt Sensitivity (GenSalt) study, a The Tulane team will identify biomarkers such as urinary large dietary study sponsored by the NHBLI that was conducted angiotensinogen, kallikrein, dopamine, norepinephrine and among participants living in rural China. albumin in samples from the GenSalt study that indicate The study recruited families with at least one hypertensive blood pressure responses to the dietary sodium and potassium member and obtained medical histories and lifestyle risk factors interventions and signal the risk of hypertension. for each participating family. Based on a family feeding design, “The findings from this study may provide novel insights the study included a series of dietary interventions: a seven- into the underlying biological mechanisms of salt-sensitivity day low-sodium feeding, a seven-day high-sodium feeding and potassium-sensitivity; identify novel biomarkers for salt- and a seven-day high-sodium feeding with an oral potassium sensitivity, potassium-sensitivity and risk of hypertension; and supplement. Blood pressure readings, weight, blood and urine lead to the development of new pharmaceutical treatments for specimens were collected at the start and during follow-up visits. salt-sensitive hypertension,” says Chen.

Alison knew she would be needed. “I arrived there 96 hours after the earthquake and stayed for two weeks.” Soon after, Smith spearheaded the creation of a nonprofit organization, Sante Total, Haitian Creole for “Total Health,” to fund further medical missions. Every three to four months since the earthquake, Smith has led doctors, medical students and residents to Haiti, where she is known as “Dokte Alison.” The volunteers fly into Port-au-Prince and drive to the isolated town of Jacsonville on the island’s central plateau, where they provide much-needed primary health care and medicine. “Jacsonville is very remote, so people there don’t have many healthcare options,” says Smith. “There is one hospital in the area

EVAN SANDERS EVAN that charges too much money, so they either go to a voodoo priest Alison Smith, executive director of Sante Total: Healthcare for Haiti’s Poor, or they just die at home.” speaks with a patient on one of her medical missions to Haiti. The long-term plan is to build a healthcare system there. “We are sending a young guy to medical school who will be MEDICAL MISSIONS INSPIRE GRAD the community’s first permanent doctor, and we are building a community healthcare clinic.” r. Alison Smith, who earned her MD and PhD degrees Her PhD is in biomedical sciences, and her dissertation at Tulane University Commencement this May, has focused on healing chronic wounds. Smith continues in general Dbeen participating in medical missions to Haiti since surgery residency training at Tulane, and has received an award for she was an undergraduate at Virginia Tech. excellence in surgery at the School of Medicine’s Ivy Day ceremony. “I first went to Haiti when I was in my senior year of college,” “Sante Total is different in that all the money that people Smith says. “It was a spring break trip that was supposed to be a donate goes directly to helping the community. We are always one-time thing, but it kept going!” looking for volunteers—medical, non-medical, anybody who is When the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, interested in going.”

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WHITE COAT DAY

he members of the Tulane ASK University School of Medicine RUDY T Class of 2018 received their first doctor’s white jackets at the school’s annual White Coat Ceremony at McAlister Auditorium in August on the uptown campus. “White Coat Day is when medical Medical students look at their new stethoscopes students begin their medical career, and at the annual white coat ceremony. we welcome them to what is really a wonderful profession,” says Dr. Marc and a stethoscope, a gift from the Tulane Kahn, senior associate dean of admissions Medical Alumni Association, as well as a and student affairs. pin from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Kahn urged the 186 new students for Humanism in Medicine and a Tulane Dr. Charles C. Bass, Dean of Tulane to summarize in one word what University coat badge. School of Medicine, 1922-40 brought them to study medicine at Thirty-one U.S. states and four other Tulane. “Sacrifices,” “passion,” “caring,” countries—Canada, Vietnam, China and Dear Rudy, I’ve heard someone refer to “family,” “community,” “discovery,” Burma—are represented in this class. Tulane School of Medicine’s “determination” and “heart” were among California sends 37 students to Tulane “Golden Years.” Can you tell the many words offered. and Louisiana contributes 21, while 14 are me a little bit more about that? Students each received a white coat from Florida and 11 are from New York. –Will A.

Will, The Golden Years were thought to be the time period between the two world MEDICAL STUDENTS SPEAK OUT AGAINST TANNING wars, 1922-40, when Dr. Charles C. anning may seem harmless to teenagers, but scientific studies show an increase Bass served as dean of the medical school. During this period the School in the occurrence of melanoma in adolescents and young adults. Tulane of Medicine experienced rapid growth. T University dermatology resident Dr. Amy Metzger Ananth is addressing this The number of specialties multiplied, issue through the implementation of the Sun Protection Outreach Teaching by Students which led to an increase in the number (SPOTS) program, which educates teens on the warning signs of skin cancer. of departments. It was during this Ananth, who started the program at Tulane as a first-year resident, is now chief time that the Hutchinson Building resident in dermatology and continues to lead volunteer medical students during their was built; it was considered one of the outreach to local middle and high schools. most up-to-date buildings of its time. By virtue of its existence and design, it Since the program began, Ananth says Tulane medical students have discussed the brought a radical change in teaching dangers of tanning at Metairie Park Country Day School, the Academy of the Sacred methods to the School of Medicine. Heart and Ursuline Academy. They have reached approximately 200 students. The medical school also boasted “The program is geared toward both young men and women, but because young outstanding faculty members during women have especially strong social pressures to tan, we have made an effort to teach this period—including Bass in tropical at local girls’ schools,” says Ananth. disease, Rudolph Matas in surgery and SPOTS was originally created by a group of medical students and dermatology John Taylor Halsey in pharmacology— faculty at St. Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis, where Ananth as well as distinguished scientists such as Ernest Caroll Faust in parasitology, attended medical school. The plan is for the New Orleans chapter to include both Aldo Castellani in tropical medicine Tulane and LSU medical students. and John Herr Musser in medicine. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a bill this year to ban minors from using tanning beds. Previously, minors could access tanning facilities as young as 14 with written Rudy, our resident “know-it-all,” is named permission from a parent. for Dr. Rudolph Matas, the legendary faculty “Tanning beds give off two to 12 times as much ultraviolet radiation as the noonday member whose “encyclopedic mind” was more useful than any library. Email your questions summer sun,” says Ananth. “There is a 75 percent increased risk of developing melanoma, to [email protected]. the deadliest form of skin cancer, if tanning beds are used before the age of 35.” tulane.edu/som TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 5 MEDICINE NEWS

FUND SUPPORTS STUDENT RESEARCH

tudent research is integral to the mission of Tulane University School of Medicine. Such research can be transformative Sfor society as budding scientists work to make revolutionary discoveries. And it can also be life-changing for the young scholars who are getting an early taste of a career in science. Alumnus Dr. Warren R. Bourgeois III (E ’78, M ’82, R ’87) and his wife Dr. Usha Ramadhyani Bourgeois are ensuring that research will remain a part of the student experience in the Department of Physiology. Drs. Warren and Usha Bourgeois The Drs. Bourgeois have established the Warren R. Bourgeois III, M.D. and Usha Ramadhyani Bourgeois, M.D. Student “Camille is so excited to enter medical school,” says Usha Research Endowed Fund. These endowed funds will support Bourgeois. “She is very passionate about the city and wants to students endeavoring to uncover medical breakthroughs. serve the medical needs of the people of New Orleans.” Warren and Usha Bourgeois were inspired to make a gift to Giving back and supporting their community has been the Department of Physiology because of their daughter Camille’s important to the entire Bourgeois family. When Warren and Usha experience as a student researcher following her completion of a were looking for a way to give back, the opportunity to support master of science degree from the medical school in 2013. student research within the School of Medicine seemed like an “We feel like the Department of Physiology helped her grow as ideal avenue. a young scientist,” says Warren Bourgeois. “We were inspired by “Now it is more important than ever for alumni to support how much the department encouraged her.” the medical school because of the loss of government funding,” Camille is now preparing to enter the School of Medicine’s says Warren Bourgeois. “Unless you live in New Orleans or went Class of 2018, and her parents feel that her research experience through Katrina it can be easy to forget where you came from; within the Department of Physiology helped her become a but it’s important to remember that Tulane is a part of who you competitive candidate. are today.”

EDUCATOR USES HISTORY TO TEACH DIAGNOSTIC SKILLS “ have the best students in the world be.” The course incorporates such varied “I hope I taught the and that makes my job very easy,” says elements as learning to examine patients, students to observe more I Dr. Elma I. LeDoux, a professor of gaining in-depth knowledge about human medicine and a 1981 graduate of Tulane organ systems and learning the value keenly not just what is University School of Medicine. of interpersonal relationships between seen, but the unseen.” “Dr. LeDoux is the consummate physician and patient. clinician educator and scholar,” says But to make a fascinating subject –DR. ELMA I. LEDOUX Jennifer Gibson, director of the Office of even more challenging, LeDoux finds Medical Education. “She is able to share ways to integrate art and history into the school’s Teaching Scholar Award. The her enthusiasm for medicine in ways that curriculum. In one instance, LeDoux Owl Club, a medical student organization inspire and motivate students. She truly showed her class a photograph with dedicated to academic excellence, also cares about student learning and student a secret. The photograph showed a honored her with the Leon A. Weisberg success not only in medical school but also young soldier from World War I. Close Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award, in life in general.” observation of his posture revealed he was and she was named professor of the year by LeDoux is particularly enthusiastic an amputee. He was able to disguise his second-year medical students. about the clinical diagnosis course, a condition by placing all his weight on one She fulfills many roles within the second-year course that she directs. leg—his good one. medical school in addition to teaching, “Clinical Diagnosis is amazingly “I hope I taught the students to observe serving as the faculty adviser for both the interesting,” says LeDoux, “It is the more keenly not just what is seen, but Tulane chapter of the Gold Humanism course that encompasses everything a the unseen,” says LeDoux. LeDoux was Honor Society and the Tulane History of student might imagine medical school to chosen as the 2014 recipient of the medical Medicine Society.

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Q & A Fifty years of life-saving research: Dr. Andrew A. Lackner, Director, Tulane National Primate Research Center

November 1, 2014, marks 50 years since Beyond research on human diseases, are the founding in 1964 of the Delta Regional other types of research being conducted 1964: Delta Regional Primate Research Primate Research Center, the forerunner at the Center? Yes, investigators also Center (DRPRC) dedicated Nov. 1—one of of the Tulane National Primate Research conduct basic research to better understand seven NIH funded National Primate Centers. Center (TNPRC), in Louisiana. Why was the biology and health needs of non- Dr. Arthur J. Riopelle, appointed director. the center founded? The Center was human primates. The Center is engaged 1975: Urology Department formed at established to carry out basic and applied in providing educational opportunities DRPRC. Dr. James Robert receives NIH biomedical research on human health for undergraduates, graduate students, funding to study kidney infections. Other problems that require the use of non-human postdoctoral fellows, veterinarians and studies include the cause of prostate enlargement, effectiveness of lithotripsy primates. visiting scientists. for elimination of kidney stones and assisted reproductive technology in Where is the TNPRC, and how large a What scientific breakthroughs have been monkeys and humans. facility is it? The Primate Center occupies made through research at the Center? 500 acres of land near Covington, Louisiana, Researchers discovered key facts about 1984: AIDS-like virus discovered in rhesus monkeys just as HIV was identified in on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain. malaria, provided new information on humans. Use of the rhesus model for AIDS In 1964, the center began with four the origin of AIDS and tested promising (using Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) buildings. Today the campus has expanded treatments for the disease, developed new reveals important information for responding to 12 primary buildings and a dozen support approaches to treating tuberculosis and to HIV. structures. Currently, the TNPRC has Lyme disease, and much more. See: tulane. 1998: Tulane Regional Primate Research 37 faculty and a total of 50 doctoral level edu/tnprc/news/discoveries. Center (TRPRC, renamed in 1991) enters scientists including postdoctoral fellows. into agreement with Dr. David Ho, of the The faculty members at the TNPRC Who provides the funds that support Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, generate an average of 100 peer reviewed research at the Primate Center? resulting in millions of dollars in NIH funding. Later expands to multi-year grants with the scientific publications each year. The Center Competitive grants from the National Population Council of Rockefeller University. employs approximately 300 people who Institutes of Health (NIH), the United generate $70.1 million in economic activity States Public Health Service and the 2001: Dr. Andrew Lackner appointed in the region. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Director of the TRPRC. The Center rapidly Fund made the founding of the Primate expands with a fourfold increase in NIH funding and over $60 million in construction. What diseases have been and are being Center possible. The Center has received Renamed Tulane National Primate Research researched at the TNPRC? The major $315 million in funding for research for the Center (TNPRC) the next year. research focus of the TNPRC has been and past 10 years. This funding has primarily continues to be on infectious diseases, but been from NIH grants and contracts, with 2005: The TNPRC is significantly affected by Hurricane Katrina, but lost no animals, we also research regenerative medicine and lesser amounts from other branches of the people or biological samples. Relying on immune mediated diseases such as Celiac federal government, private foundations and generator power, the Center maintains all disease. The Center has previously been other private entities. research functions. involved in research on rheumatoid arthritis and the development of LASIK eye surgery. Are there other centers in the country 2008: TNPRC opens the Regional Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, the first level 3 laboratory The infectious disease program is diverse, doing similar research? Tulane’s Primate at a national primate center focusing on involving serious diseases such as AIDS, Center is one of eight research centers in the vaccine development, therapeutics and tuberculosis, malaria, Lyme disease and nation that make up the National Primate diagnostics to protect against bio-threat emerging infectious diseases such as those Research Center Program funded by the agents and toxins. caused by West Nile virus, Dengue virus NIH. Among all primate research centers, 2013: The TNPRC received a 7-year, and Chikingunya virus. Common to all Tulane’s is the only one with a Regional multi-million dollar grant as one of three infectious disease research is understanding Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory. institutions in the Simian Vaccine Evaluation how the agents cause disease and using Unit program, positioning the Center to be a that knowledge to help develop vaccines, leader in HIV vaccine development. diagnostics and therapeutics. tulane.edu/som TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 7 CHEF LEAH SARRIS, Program Director of the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine

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BY KEITH BRANNON PHOTOGRAPHS BY HEALTH MARIANNA MASSEY Tulane’s groundbreaking culinary medicine program is taking off. With a newly opened 4,600-square-foot teaching kitchen—the nation’s first at a medical school— and eight medical schools across the country licensing its nutrition curriculum, the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine is starting a revolution in preventive medicine, one plate at a time. elicious, healthful food can sometimes many as 20 students per class, and a larger, be the best medicine. fully outfitted chef’s presentation area for That’s the idea behind the newest lecture-based classes. William Goldring and classroom at Tulane University 1st the Woldenberg Foundation funded the School of Medicine—a gleaming Teaching kitchen new facility. D 4,600-square-foot industrial-sized at a medical school “It’s like going from working in a food kitchen packed with enough stainless steel truck to a full restaurant kitchen,” says Leah cooking equipment, exhaust hoods, ranges Sarris, Goldring executive chef and program and refrigerators that it could easily pass for an director. “We have been planning for this expansive hotel kitchen or the back house of a and talking about it for years. To actually five-star restaurant. physically see the space for the first time and But this high-profile space, which is work in it is pretty unreal. I have so much spotlighted behind a wall of windows inside more space for medical students to work a bustling New Orleans fresh food retail alongside me and help run the classes.” development, isn’t designed to feed the masses. The new kitchen means more room for It’s the new home of the Goldring Center instruction, community programming and for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University, a 4,600 nutrition research. Roughly 130 medical pioneering program to teach medical students square-foot students have taken the center’s core and doctors culinary skills so they can help industrial-sized culinary nutrition elective since the program kitchen patients make practical dietary changes to started almost three years ago. Now it can improve their health. accommodate almost 200 per year. It will The new teaching kitchen—the nation’s also offer more CME courses for practicing first affiliated with a medical school—will physicians and expand its free community teach healthful cooking techniques to medical classes, which Sarris had been conducting on- students, residents, doctors, chefs and members the-go in cultural centers, libraries and pop-up of the community. The center will also provide kitchens across the city. programming about the significant role food Sarris is no stranger to teaching. When plays in preventing and managing obesity and Tulane started its culinary medicine program associated diseases. The Center can in 2012 with Johnson & Wales University “Physicians talk about nutrition and diet all accommodate College of Culinary Arts in Rhode Island, the time, but they don’t talk about it in a way 200 she was a culinary nutrition instructor on the that communicates change to their patients,” medical students Johnson & Wales faculty. “Chef Leah is the first per year says Dr. Timothy Harlan, Goldring Center for chef to join the faculty of a medical school,” Culinary Medicine executive director. “Our Harlan says. “Her unique expertise and positive goal is to teach medical students and residents attitude have been essential to the partnership how to cook and translate the information between Tulane and Johnson & Wales.” that they learn in the first two years of medical Tulane’s culinary medicine initiative—the school—the pre-clinical basic sciences—into first joint program by a medical school and the conversations they are going to have with a major culinary institute—includes shared their patients about food.” internship programs. Chefs-in-training spend The new facility is more than five times 11 weeks helping run classes in New Orleans, bigger than the center’s former home in the 1st while fourth-year medical students spend a Murphy Building, where the school had been and only medical school portion of their clinical rotation in culinary running classes out of a former cafeteria using with a chef as a full-time nutrition training in Rhode Island. hot plates and ad hoc equipment. The old instructor “As chefs, we need to take more ownership kitchen could accommodate only eight students of things that we put into people’s bodies,” at a time; the new space has eight professional says Karl Guggenmos, Johnson & Wales dean cooking stations, which can accommodate as emeritus of culinary education. “It is not a

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one-sided solution to our health they need to make, rather than talking nutrition instruction recommended problems in this country. Doctors about, ‘Oh, eat some more complex by the National Academy of Sciences, need to understand it. Chefs need to carbohydrates.’ Patients don’t know according to a 2010 University of understand it, and the public needs to what complex carbohydrates are.” North Carolina study. understand it.” Engaging patients about nutrition Third-year medical student Dennis A goal of the Goldring Center is is critical when more than two-thirds Ren says the problem is systemic. He to get doctors so comfortable in the of the population is either overweight recalled studying for board exams where kitchen that they can easily rattle off or obese. The typical American diet the nutrition material only covered real-world advice to their patients competes with smoking as a leading illnesses related to vitamin deficiencies. about foods they should eat or avoid. cause of early death and disease, yet “Most of the review resources will That means speaking less about most doctors aren’t comfortable giving tell me that if I am deficient in vitamin polyunsaturated fats, carbohydrates and patients practical advice about changing D, it can result in rickets. It can result in sodium, and more about actual foods. their eating habits. rachitic rosary. At the same time, what “Our patients don’t go to the grocery Fewer than one in eight medical are those sources of vitamin D? I don’t store with a grocery list that says one visits include any nutrition counseling, have any practical way of saying, ‘Maybe bottle of monounsaturated fat, one according to a recent survey by the here are potential food groups that you pound lean protein and one box of nonprofit Bipartisan Policy Center. can supplement in your diet that will complex carbohydrates. They go and It also found that more than 75 give you this vitamin.’ That’s not a big they buy a bottle of olive oil, some great percent of physicians feel they didn’t focus,” Ren says. “I think we are very halibut and some whole-wheat pasta,” get adequate training in medical well-versed when it comes to discussing Harlan says. “So the groundbreaking school to talk to patients about diet. pharmacological treatments or any other thing, the revolution here, is that we are They’re likely right. More than 70 treatments, but when it comes to daily going to talk about food in a way that percent of medical schools don’t lifestyle modification—especially things our patients can understand the changes meet the minimum 25 hours of like diet—I think it’s hard to be specific tulane.edu/som TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 11 and offer practical advice when can either dump this off and scoot it to the you don’t have the right kind of wayside and have somebody else take care of background for it.” it, or give drugs for it, or we can utilize every At Goldring students take little opportunity as a teaching moment.” the basic science lessons on Those small, regular interventions can have lipids and then learn how a big impact on a patient’s help, Harlan says. diet interventions can affect “It is difficult for me to prove that cholesterol levels and which downstream piece, but that is our goal within specific foods can have an the next five years—to show that a medical impact. They carry that even student, a resident or a practicing physician further by learning different engages with us in our programming and then recipes that incorporate those their patient population gets better,” Harlan principles and how patients can says. “We are working on those randomized adapt traditional recipes so they trials right now.” are more heart healthy. Other medical schools are taking notice. Ren says the course has Eight have licensed Tulane’s culinary improved his own dietary medicine curriculum to start their own habits. He’s much more likely programs, including University of Illinois at to forego fast food by adapting Chicago, University of Texas Southwestern, the quick healthy tips he’s University of Texas at San Antonio, North learned in class. He’s also more Texas University, University of California confident about dispensing at Los Angeles, Rutgers University, Western food advice that he follows himself. University of Health Sciences and University “Regardless of whatever specialty a medical of Colorado at Denver. Two health centers, student will go into, all of us at some point are Moncrief Cancer Institute in Fort Worth, going to encounter a patient with diabetes. We Texas, and Arnot Health in Elmira, New York, are going to encounter a patient who is obese have also licensed programming. or whose lipid panels are crazy,” Ren says. “We Harlan expects many more to sign up later this year. He’s also working with private companies on employee wellness “Our patients don’t go to the grocery store interventions. The center has a pilot program with Laitram LLC to offer cooking courses for with a grocery list that says one bottle of its 1,200 employees. monounsaturated fat, one pound lean protein “We believe that over the course of the and one box of complex carbohydrates. They next five years we will have a tremendous impact just by the sheer volume of go and they buy a bottle of olive oil, some programming that we are doing,” Harlan great halibut and some whole-wheat pasta.” says. “That becomes a force multiplier. If I train 192 medical students, that’s Dr. Timothy S. Harlan a tremendous impact on the potential Executive Director of the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine community later: a much larger impact, potentially, than teaching 192 community members. They are both important, but that’s where the physicians, the medical students and our residents become the force multiplier for this. And the other medical schools become the real force multiplier because now you have hundreds and hundreds of medical students and physicians whose attitudes are changed and who do begin to believe that food is medicine.”

12 TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 tulane.edu/som The Goldring Center’s philosophy follows the Mediterranean diet, which research has shown is best for the heart and overall health. Here’s a typical recipe—spicy braised chicken with black-eyed peas. This recipe can be found on the Center’s website: www.culinarymedicine.org

BEAN COUNTERS: LEAN PROTEIN: Taking the skin off Using legumes an affordable cut of meat like chicken adds fiber and thighs reduces saturated fat. protein, helping dieters feel full with fewer calories.

LOW-SALT: White wine and red pepper flakes boost the flavor without relying on salt.

DOUBLE THE VEGGIES: Substituting half the meat in a recipe for more vegetables cuts costs while raising the nutritional value and fiber content. DR. SUSAN MCLELLAN prepares to say goodbye to two patients who tested negative for Ebola outside Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. RUNNING TOWARD THE DANGER TULANE DOCTORS LEAD THE WORLD’S FIGHT AGAINST EBOLA.

As an outbreak becomes an epidemic, Tulane doctors are among the leading figures fighting Ebola in West Africa. They work to improve tests, develop antibody treatments and increase survival rates for one of the world’s deadliest diseases.

BY BARRI BRONSTON

tulane.edu/som TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 15 IT HAD BEEN A WHILE since Dr. Susan He died on Oct. 8. With the number of cases rising daily, the agency says by the end of January McLellan, an infectious disease and tropical EBOLA CASES medicine specialist at Tulane University, had as of November 5 the virus could potentially infect 1.4 million traveled overseas to deliver care to the poor. And people in Liberia and Sierra Leone alone. she was getting the itch. Ebola spreads through contact with bodily “Do you think they need me?” she asked Liberia fluids of people infected with or who have died her friends and Tulane colleagues, Drs. John 6,525 cases from the virus. Patients typically exhibit sudden 2,413 deaths Schieffelin and Daniel Bausch. onset of symptoms, progressing in some cases to both internal and external bleeding. There is The two infectious disease specialists were Sierra Leone no cure, and about 70 percent of victims die. consulting for the World Health Organization 4,759 cases (WHO), which had just announced it was scaling 1,070 deaths Surviving Ebola often depends on how quickly up efforts and sending more people to battle patients seek care, especially IV fluids and Ebola in West Africa. Schieffelin himself had just Guinea nutrients crucial to warding off the virus. begun a three-week stint in Kenema, Sierra Leone, 1,731 cases “This is a deadly scary disease, and we 1,041 deaths where townspeople were dying daily of the ghastly haven’t really seen the full impact of it yet,” says disease. Dr. Robert Garry, a professor of microbiology Nigeria and immunology at the Tulane School of Initially, the answer was no. So McLellan and 20 cases her family headed to Highlands, North Carolina, 8 deaths Medicine. “It’s a battle that is going to be very for an already-scheduled summer vacation. A day difficult to win.” after they arrived, she learned through an email United States Garry is the principal investigator of the from WHO—the United Nations agency charged 4 cases Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, which 1 death with responding to international health crises— is based in Kenema. Since 2004, he and a team that her services were needed after all. from Tulane, Harvard University, Kenema Mali Government Hospital and several other research “My first response was, ‘What have I done?’” 1 case groups have been immersed in the study of Lassa she says. But declining the invitation was not an 1 death option. Deaths from Ebola were on the rise, and fever, which has striking similarities to Ebola, Schieffelin had just one other physician working Senegal though not as deadly. with him at Kenema Government Hospital, a 1 case From Tulane, the team includes Schieffelin modest healthcare facility she knew well from 0 deaths as clinical director, Bausch, an associate professor Tulane’s ongoing efforts to treat and prevent Lassa, of tropical medicine in the Tulane School of Spain a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola. Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Lina 1 case Moses, the field sites manager for the Tulane Lassa With the resigned blessing of her husband and 0 deaths two teenage children—they knew this is just what fever program. Source: Centers for she does—she returned home to New Orleans and Disease Control When the first cases of Ebola began showing made all the necessary arrangements, among them up in Guinea, Garry feared Sierra Leone could a mandatory physical and an online security exam. + be next, given the relatively close proximity WHO found her a flight that would get her to Supporting Our between Kenema Government Hospital and Sierra Leone in the next couple of days, and before Researchers some parts of neighboring Guinea. she knew it she was smack in the middle of the Please help Dr. Robert “The outbreak got pretty bad in Guinea and Garry, professor of eventually spread to Liberia,” Garry says. “But in worst Ebola outbreak to hit West Africa since the microbiology and disease was first identified in 1976. immunology and principal April, it looked like things were slowing down.” investigator of the Viral Then, on May 25, an ailing pregnant woman A DEADLY SCARY DISEASE Hemorrhagic Fever showed up at the Kenema hospital and later Consortium, and his As of Nov. 5, the numbers told the story of a team of researchers as tested positive for Ebola. The woman, Garry disease on the brink of spiraling out of control, they work on vaccines says, had attended the funeral of a traditional and medicines to help with the Centers for Disease Control reporting stop Ebola and other healer who succumbed to the disease after more than 13,000 cases and more than 4,800 hemorrhagic fevers. treating Ebola victims in Guinea. Ultimately, deaths in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, To learn more, 14 people who attended the funeral became contact Dave Kinahan Mali, Senegal and Spain. The United States at 504-314-7635 or infected with Ebola, with many making their reported the first case of four cases in September, [email protected]. way to Kenema for treatment. Within a week, an African man traveling from Liberia to Texas. Sierra Leone had a full-fledged outbreak on its

16 TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 tulane.edu/som hands. And many dying of the disease were the very healthcare workers who had been working vigilantly to save their patients. “What I feared and what I thought would happen—that it would start to spread to Sierra Leone—indeed happened,’’ Garry says.

ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE FIGHT Worried about his colleagues, both from Tulane and the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, Garry traveled to Kenema to fortify the laboratory response, deliver additional supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) and continue fielding media requests from around the world. Tulane doctors, working on the WHO team, rotated in and out Dr. John Schieffelin, second from left, and Dr. Susan McLellan, both of Kenema, providing direct care but jeopardizing their own health infectious disease specialists at Tulane School of Medicine, stand outside Kenema Government Hospital with Drs. Ian Crozier and Shevin Jacob. and safety in the process. Crozier is an infectious disease specialist from the University of Washington, “It was always a concern, even though we were wearing the and Crozier is an infectious disease specialist from Nashville, Tennessee. protective equipment,” says Schieffelin. “But once in a while there would be some sort of wardrobe malfunction—something not no one will dare touch you or hold you. No one touched that connected right, a tear in a glove—which meant that the integrity little girl.” of your protection was broken and you needed to leave [the patient The Tulane team was especially saddened by the loss of wards] immediately.” healthcare workers well known to them from their work in the Schieffelin stayed for about three weeks, shuffling between a Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium. They included Dr. Sheik ward for patients suspected of having the disease and a ward for Humarr Khan, considered a national hero in the fight against those who tested positive. “I saw some amazingly mild cases, and Ebola, and chief nurse Mbalu Fonnie. I saw some cases where people came in healthy and deteriorated “I was the one who recruited Dr. Khan to work with the Lassa rapidly over 12 hours. We would get entire families, as many as fever project,” says Bausch. “These weren’t just random healthcare 12 people, in the ward at one time,” he says. workers who died. These were doctors and nurses who we had When patients recovered and emerged from isolation, an worked with for 10 years or more. We do our part flying in and out outreach team would go to their homes and burn all of their to help but they are the real heroes.” possessions, which were considered contaminated by Ebola. In fact, Khan, Fonnie and three other healthcare workers “They’d be given clothes, food and money to get them started, were among 50 co-authors of an important Ebola study but they were basically starting from scratch,” Schieffelin says. “It’s published in the journal Science in late August after they had hard, and family members often don’t want to have anything to do already died. In the study, a collaboration among scientists at with them.” Tulane, Harvard University, Kenema Government Hospital and other research groups, scientists were able to sequence 99 Ebola LOSSES MOUNT virus genomes using blood samples from 78 patients to show More often than not, patients died. “I remember on the second day how rapidly the virus mutated as the outbreak spread. Garry, one I was admitting people and there was this young man, who had of the lead authors, says the results can help in the development hiccups, a puffy face and just looked shaky,” McLellan says. “It was of antibody-based treatments as well as improve the accuracy of a gut feeling, but I knew he had it.” diagnostic tests. Tests confirmed that the man, about 28 years old, did indeed In the meantime, Tulane doctors anticipate that they will be have the Ebola virus, and with each passing day, his condition returning to Kenema in the coming weeks or months. McLellan, deteriorated. “He’d tell me every day that he was fine, but he’d be for one, says her last trip was a rewarding yet heartbreaking one, going to the bathroom all the time, his eyes were getting redder and and if needed, will strongly consider another stint. he was bleeding from the lips. Then one morning he didn’t know “I felt right doing it,” she says of her earlier trip. “I hope that where he was; he was just agitated and terrified. He ripped his IV because I got fluids going or an IV in that one or two people out and wouldn’t let anyone touch him. For our own safety we recovered—people who otherwise would have died.” couldn’t do anything to help him. He died about a half hour later, Bausch, too, expects to return but is devoting much of his time five days after he came in.” to consulting with WHO on strategies that he hopes will bring Nothing hit her more than the 6-year-old girl who lost both of Ebola under control for good. her parents to Ebola and succumbed to the disease herself. “I just “We want to see how we can move things along with watched her get weaker and weaker, and then she died, alone in her experimental therapies and vaccines,” he says. “The alarm bells are bed. It’s a profoundly comfortless disease from which to die because ringing. But we’re still so far from the end of this.” tulane.edu/som TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 17 18 TULANE | MEDICINE SPRING 2014 tulane.edu/som INVESTING IN THE FUTURE Dr. George Kantor honors those who invested in him by investing over $10 million in the next generation of Tulane doctors.

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MUCH OF THE FOUNDATION of The A. M. Wolff Scholarship Fund Mary Kathryn Orsulak, the Dr. George Kantor’s (A&S ’71, M ’77) benefits students such as Mary Kathryn recipient of success as a world-class orthopaedist Orsulak, a second year medical student the A. M. Wolff derives from his time as an undergraduate from Shreveport, Louisiana. Mary Scholarship Fund. and medical student at Tulane University. Kathryn is passionate about medicine, Tulane is where Kantor found his passion life-long learning and giving back to the for learning and medicine. But it was the community. She says she feels privileged scholarship he received as an undergraduate to attend Tulane and fulfill her dream of that made it possible for him to pursue his having a career in medicine. dream of becoming a physician. “I am so grateful for this scholarship,” “Tulane opened up a lot of doors for says Mary Kathryn. “It allows me to pursue me,” says Kantor. “The university was a masters in public health in addition to pivotal to my success.” my medical degree as well as volunteer of which will endow the A. M. Wolff As a first-generation college student, at clinics throughout the New Orleans Scholarship, in honor of his uncle. The getting an education from a prestigious community. Dr. Kantor is an amazing other half will fund a capital project for institution such as Tulane wasn’t a certainty. and generous guy, and it’s been a pleasure the School of Medicine in honor of his But Kantor’s family members helped pave getting to know him and all that he does father. In addition, Dr. Kantor made a the way for him to succeed. Both his father, for the medical school.” commitment to give $50,000 a year to Stephen Pip Kantor, and his uncle Adolph Kantor is one of Tulane’s biggest the A. M. Wolff Scholarship Fund at M. Wolff, made life-long impressions on supporters and not just through his the School of Medicine. These gifts were George that shaped the man and physician philanthropic support, but also through his presented to honor his family and in he has become. In particular his uncle, volunteer work. He passionately supports appreciation for all that Tulane University Adolph M. Wolff, was instrumental in the Tulane Inter-Clinic Council, a student has done to make his education and helping him succeed in the fast-paced and run organization of leaders from the four medical career possible. challenging medical-school environment. student-led health clinics. In addition, “When you look back at the pivotal That life-changing scholarship and Kantor is an active member of the Tulane moments in your life,” says Kantor. “You the guidance and mentorship that Kantor School of Medicine Board of Governors have to look at who and what allowed you received from his uncle inspired him to and an avid Tulane Athletics fan. to fulfill your dreams. Tulane helped me create the A. M. Wolff Scholarship Fund to “George is what makes Tulane a great succeed.” benefit promising medical students. place,” says Dr. Marc Kahn, senior associate Kantor hopes his generous bequest “There are so many individuals at dean at Tulane School of Medicine. “He intention will spur other alumni and this institution who encouraged me and generously gives back to the institution that friends to consider supporting worthy fostered my growth,” says Kantor. “It is my helped make him the great person that he causes within the medical school. To learn way of giving back. With the rising cost in is today.” more about charitable bequest intentions medical education, scholarships have been Kantor has recently signed a charitable and giving to the school of medicine visit one of my priorities.” bequest intention of $10 million, half tulane.givingplan.net. tulane.edu/som TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 19 DONOR HONOR ROLL

1953 1959 Herbert S. Bell, M.D. and Marilyn Robert L. Hewitt, M.D. P. Bell Rodney F. Holcomb, M.D. and Edwin E. Buckner, M.D. and Carroll Holcomb Aurora Buckner Minor Lewis Huck, M.D. and William E. Carlisle, M.D. and C’leste Killian Huck Mary Jackson Carlisle Howard N. Kandell, M.D. and Cornelius G. Whitley, M.D. and Trudy L. Kandell Dorothy A. Whitley James O. Manning, M.D. and Sudie McCool Manning 1954 Alan S. Rapperport, M.D. and Wade W. Burnside Jr., M.D. Sue Heimovics Rapperport James P. Spell, M.D. and Markie William P. Stallworth, M.D. and Spell Norene J. Stallworth 1834 Charles B. Wilson, M.D. and Palmer J. Texada, M.D. and Society Frances Petrocelli Constance G. Texada Drs. Claude S. Williams III and 1955 Cornelia A. Williams James M. Brakefield, M.D. and he Tulane University School of Medicine expresses Carolyn R. Brakefield 1960 its deepest gratitude to the members of the 1834 George R. Cary Jr., M.D. and Charles M. Boyd, M.D. and Anne Elizabeth Stocker Cary Society, those who give $1,500 or more to the Ponder Boyd Herbert R. Dyer Jr., M.D. and School of Medicine each year. Named for the Norman D. Fry, M.D. and Sara Camille Dyer G. Fry year the Medical College of Louisiana opened its doors, T Ray G. Hooper, M.D. and White E. Gibson III, M.D. and the 1834 Society is made up of those individuals who have Kathryn O. Hooper Mary Lee Gibson demonstrated their deep love of Tulane through generous Howard I. Maibach, M.D. and Everett S. Havard Jr., M.D. and F. giving. These gifts help provide an exceptional academic Siesel Wile Maibach Dianne Havard experience for medical students by supporting scholarships Frank J. Malta, M.D. and Ruth J. Delmas A. Jackson Jr., M.D. and and allowing the school to provide the latest in technology Malta Virginia Jackson and facilities. The following list recognizes all alumni and Joseph F. Newhall Jr., M.D. and John M. McCuskey Jr., M.D. and friends who gave at the 1834 Society level between July 1, Sue M. Newhall Sarah McCuskey 2013 and June 30, 2014. Andrew Orestano, M.D. Henry C. Pitot III, M.D., Ph.D. and 1961 Mrs. Julie Sybil Pitot Richard Dale, M.D. and Mrs. Frank P. Tagliarini, M.D.* Lucy Dale 1938 1949 Mitsuo Tottori, M.D. and Jane H. Thomas A. Graves, M.D. and Tottori Tricia Graves J. Dudley Talbot, M.D. Nancy C. Flowers, M.D. and Leo G. Horan, M.D. Arthur E. Lewis, M.D. and Diana 1956 S. Lewis 1943 George W. Beddingfield, M.D. James T. McIlwain, M.D. and Jack R. Hays, M.D.* 1950 Robert W. Brown, M.D. Paul R. Winder, M.D. and Myra Susan G McIlwain Winder John F. Moffett, M.D. and 1944 Eleanor G. Moffett David S. Light, M.D.* 1951 George E. Bennett, M.D. and 1957 Joseph H. Smith, M.D. and Ruth Samuel F. Boushy, M.D. and Barra Smith 1945 Inagene M. Bennett Mrs. Luceil Bauer Boushy Janice Deas Stratton, M.D. Gerald S. Berenson, M.D. and Harry C. Frye Jr., M.D. and Helen Joan S. Berenson McGehee Frye Carolyn M. Clawson, M.D. Drs. Cornelia A. Williams and Claude S. Williams III Robert C. Lancaster, M.D. James B. Moss Jr., M.D. and Julius L. Levy Jr., M.D. and Elaine Kambur Moss Donna Levy Charles Pinkoson, M.D. and Rainer Nicholls Pinkoson William G. Odom, M.D. and Richard A. D. Morton, M.D. and 1962 Joyce Elaine Odom Elizabeth Anthony, Ph.D. James S. Eaton Jr., M.D. Sam A. Threefoot, M.D. Leonard J. Rolfes, M.D. Stanley R. Payne, M.D. Dean Baker Ellithorpe, M.D.* 1946 George A. Pankey, M.D. and Robert P. Goldfarb, M.D. and Mrs. Lesley Gail Goldfarb John R. Black, M.D. and Dorothy 1952 Patricia Ann Pankey Todd Black Bernard T. Hickman, M.D.* Everett A. Schneider, M.D. and Gary C. Morchower, M.D. and Lester N. Ploss, M.D. and Elizabeth S. Schneider Bette Deneberg Morchower 1947 Deborah Ploss Joe S. Wheeler, M.D. Howard A. Nelson Jr., M.D. and Frank J. Morgan Jr., M.D. Glenn B. Ruffin, M.D. and Harriet Hurley Nelson Patricia Graham Ruffin 1958 Victor W. H. Tsang, M.D. and 1948 Gilbert H. Walker, M.D. and Edmond Allen Lamperez, M.D. Marie Tsang J. Carter Denton, M.D. Joyce Mulberg Walker and Judy Lamperez Jerome L. Heard, M.D. and Lucille Heard

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1963 Nelson S. Brewer, M.D. and Howard M. Sheridan, M.D. and William S. LaCorte, M.D. and Ronald J. French, M.D. and Flora Karol Kuersteiner Brewer Brenda B. Sheridan Mrs. Karen L. LaCorte Fenner French C. Hal Brunt, M.D. Benjamin T. Stafford, M.D. and Michael W. McDonald, M.D. and Robert M. Gay Sr., M.D. and John R. Clifford, M.D. and Paula Robin Childs Stafford Rebecca Goodwin Betty Ann Gay King Clifford Drs. Michael P. Stevens and Larry A. Osborn, M.D. and Paula Robert L. Jones Jr., M.D. and David N. Davis, M.D. and Mrs. Patricia P. Stevens J. Dorris-Osborn Bettina B. Jones Pat Porter Davis James R. Veal Jr., M.D. and Belle Paul D. Pace, M.D. and Peggy Wesley W. Lake Jr., M.D. and Richard DeJong, M.D. and Vera T. Veal Sullivan Pace Melissa Bowman Lake DeJong Carol A. Phillips, M.D. and Calvin Masaru Miura, M.D. and Ralph G. Greenlee Jr., M.D. and 1970 Randall K. Cross Beth Miura Stirling Greenlee Robert J. Corcoran, M.D. and Candice M. Rohr, M.D. Toxey M. Morris, M.D. and T. David Hayes, M.D. and Lynda Jane R. Corcoran, CPA Clay R. Skinner, M.D. and Donna Virginia Wicke Morris Wood Carl B. Rountree, M.D. and Skinner Donald J. Palmisano, M.D. and Howard I. Hurtig, M.D. and Mary Barbara Rountree Robin Spencer Palmisano Wolf Hurtig John M. Snodsmith, M.D. and 1975 Myung S. Park-Sonoda, M.D. Robert N. Jones, M.D. and Diana Lynda Lee Snodsmith Jonathan Y. C. Ching, M.D.* Robert M. Patton, M.D. and R. Jones Drs. Patricia P. Stevens and Martin D. Claiborne III, M.D. and Linda Lee Patton Stephen I. Katz, M.D. and Linda Michael P. Stevens Mrs. Barbara Aline Claiborne Jay I. Rozen, M.D. and Sandra Rochkind Katz, Ph.D. Michael A. Teague, M.D. and Robert T. Grissom, M.D. Cindy J. Teague Kay Rozen Kenneth C. Lafleur, M.D. and Allen E. Saxon, M.D. and Vicki John C. Scharfenberg, M.D. and Patricia Lone Lafleur Victor J. Weinstein, M.D. and Saxon Vicki Jan Weinstein Ann L. Scharfenberg George W. Meyer Jr., M.D. and Dr. Pamela Parra Beadle and Mr. Roger C. Suttle Jr., M.D. Carolyn E. Garrett Meyer Garrett Beadle 1971 Robert E. Treuting, M.D. and Lee T. Nesbitt Jr., M.D.* A. David Simkin, M.D. James S. Bonnet Jr., M.D. Carolyn D. W. Treuting Philip Sullivan, M.D. and Martha Peter M. Goldman, M.D. John T. Wilson III, M.D. Hatten Sullivan, Ph.D. 1976 Robert M. Tafel, M.D. and Drs. James D. Knoepp and Ulla Dr. Justus Baird and Dr. Salpi 1964 Camille Tafel Ule Adrouny George E. Barnes, M.D. and C. Mark Whitehead Jr., M.D. and Rafael William Blanco, M.D. and Barbara P. Barnes Kathy Whitehead 1972 Maruchi Azorin Stephen G. Abshire, M.D. and B. Eugene Berry, M.D. and Jolie Mary M. Cadieux, M.D. and Martha M. Abshire Berry 1967 Robert D. Cadieux Patti Jayne Ross, M.D. James B. Edwards III, M.D. and David R. Arrowsmith, M.D. and Friedrichs H. Harris Jr., M.D. and Joyce T. Edwards Judy Arrowsmith Philip L. Smith II, M.D. and Lynn Kathleen Stull Harris K. Smith Walter L. Johnson, M.D. and Thomas M. Beck, M.D. and Roger E. Kelley Jr., M.D. and Shelba Johnson Marilyn B. Beck Susan E. Kelley Peter J. Long, M.D. and Elaine L. Maximilian Buja, M.D. and 1973 Charles M. Stedman, M.D. and C. Long Donna Kinney Buja Joel S. Cohen, M.D. and Louise Dianne M. Stedman Lepie James P. Marra, M.D. and Linda Charles H. Campbell, M.D. and Richard M. Sugar, M.D. and Marra Mrs. Mary Mortimer Campbell Glenn Francis Libby, M.D. and Leslie R. Sugar Gael R. Libby Chuck P. O’Brien, M.D., Ph.D. and Michael K. Stephens, M.D. and Drs. Rand M. Voorhies and Barbara Earnest O’Brien Louanne W. Stephens James A. Nunley II, M.D. and Theresa Marks Voorhies Elise Canepa Nunley Betty Jo Powell-Klimock, M.D. and Mr. Gregory Klimock 1968 Charles S. O’Mara, M.D. and 1977 Susan O’Mara Marvin I. Schwarz, M.D. Karen J. Cove, M.D. David R. Hicks, M.D. and Janet Drs. Philip G. Leone Jr. and John G. Simmons, M.D. and McBride Hicks David H. Sewell, M.D. and Mary Rene Simmons M. Sewell Cheryl Leone Steven I. Hightower, M.D. and Drs. Ulla Ule and James D. Christine G. Hightower John C. Shaffer, M.D. and Knoepp Dorothy Lorraine Shaffer 1969 George S. Kantor, M.D. Philip J. Fagan Jr., M.D. and Drs. Theresa Marks Voorhies and Jerome S. Wilkenfeld, M.D. and Michael K. Pinnolis, M.D. and Devona Bastiaans-Fagan Rand M. Voorhies Sylvia Wilkenfeld Ms. Miriam Newman Ralph C. Frates Jr., M.D. and Michael J. Rooney, M.D. and 1974 1965 Sarah Burnett Frates, Ph.D. Candace B. Rooney Stephen E. Hellman, M.D. and Kirk F. Bellard, M.D. and Ann M. Luben Atzeff, M.D. and Astrid Van Vrancken Bellard William L. Wells, M.D. and Atzeff Alexis L. Hellman Fontaine S. Wells Grant B. Hieshima, M.D. and Robert J. Card, M.D. and Karol C. Plowden Bridges, M.D. Kreymer Wayne C. Zwick, M.D. and Faith Donna Marie Hieshima B. Zwick Donald R. Rankin, M.D. and John J. Eick, M.D. and Eve Eick Patricia Rankin Kenneth L. Janson, M.D. and Vandy Janson Jeffrey F. Griffin, M.D. and Mrs. 1978 Barbara Griffin 1966 Drs. Cheryl Leone and Philip G. A. Richard Adrouny, M.D. and John P. Hess III, M.D. and Robert O. Begtrup, M.D. and Leone Jr. Karen Alyce Adrouny Cynthia Ann Hess Barbara G. Begtrup Dexter Louie, M.D. and Patricia Paul Michael Benson, M.D. and Robert G. Jeffers, M.D. and Patrick C. Breaux, M.D. Louie Betty Jean Benson Theresa Walker Jeffers tulane.edu/som TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 21 DONOR HONOR ROLL

Robert I. Brock, M.D. and Mrs. 1982 Dr. Richard C. Lieurance and Dr. 1990 Pamela Brock Shelly P. Baumann, M.D. and Robin Glotzbach Lieurance Drs. Amalia M. Landa-Galindez Gary S. Hirsch, M.D. and Karen Herbert J. Baumann Jr. Penelope K. Manasco, M.D. and and Orlando A. Galindez Elkind-Hirsch, Ph.D. Drs. David and Gloria Bertucci Ronald D. Manasco Pamela J. Okada, M.D. and Mark Gary P. Jones, M.D. and Elaine Drs. Warren Bourgeois and Charles V. Pollack Jr., M.D. Okada Jones Usha Ramadhyani Bourgeois Drs. Louis E. and Leah D. Drs. Ronnie A. Sheena and Jay Stephen Lupin, M.D. and Paul T. Finger, M.D. and Marci Ridgway Helene Rae Dickson Sheena Judith F. Lupin L Finger Marc A. Seltman, M.D. and Drs. Kenneth Melton and Larry Gandle, M.D. and Carol E Sharon Seltman 1991 Gwenesta B. Melton Gandle B. Todd Sitzman, M.D. and Lisa Paul J. Wotowic, M.D. Robert S. Gold, M.D. and Gail 1985 S. Bartlett-Sitzman Hahn Gold Erin E. Boh, M.D., Ph.D. Drs. Orlando A. Galindez and 1979 Jack A. Pines, M.D. and Leslie Patrick W. Cobb, M.D. and Carla Amalia M. Landa-Galindez Drs. Deborah and Benjamin E. Pines Dawn Cobb John M. Gorup, M.D. and Hallie Bashinski Drs. Oliver Sartor and Sissy Ann E. Farash, M.D. and Colonel Stein Gorup Dr. David M. Black and Dr. Sartor Paul A. Onnink Brent J. Kovacs, M.D. and Kathryn B. Black Joel R. Sheiner, M.D. Drs. Nan V. Heard and Paul A. Kristen Kovacs James R. Burnett, M.D.* Robert G. Sugar, M.D. and Mrs. Krogstad Drs. Helene Rae Dickson Sheena Joseph R. Durham, M.D. and Elizabeth M. Sugar Clifford A. Hendricks III, M.D. and Ronnie A. Sheena Marianne Durham Guy R. Voeller, M.D. and Peggy and Jean Fallon Hendricks N. Robert Elson, M.D. Voeller Creed K. Mamikunian, M.D. and 1992 Drs. Felicitas B. Livaudais and William D. Hardin Jr., M.D. and Janet Mamikunian Gerard F. Livaudais Paula L. Hardin 1983 Scott L. Portnoy, M.D. and Ricardo J. Rodriguez, M.D. and Anne M. Hermida, M.D. Alan J. Appley, M.D. and Susan Lewis Portnoy Theresa Rodriguez Drs. Gwenesta B. Melton and Cynthia Appley Drs. Arline M. Tsuchiya and Richard Michael Wong, M.D. and Kenneth Melton Joseph E. Bavaria, M.D. and Greg S. Buchert Nguyen Vo Thomas E. Niesen, M.D. and Mrs. Kimberly Bavaria Jean Ying-Chang, M.D. and Anne N. Niesen Drs. Greg S. Buchert and Arline 1986 Jimmy Chang Lamar B. Robinson, M.D. M. Tsuchiya Michael J. Davis, M.D. and Steven S. Greenbaum, M.D. and Kathleen Pratt Davis Martha A. Walton, M.D. and 1993 David F. Bowers Bettsie W. Greenbaum Dr. Matthew C. Mitchell and Dr. Mary L. Laville John T. Couvillion, M.D. Mark E. Wilchinsky, M.D. and Bryan J. Hawkins, M.D. and and Mrs. Taryn Elizabeth Drs. Cesar M. Roca Jr. and Victoria Skomal Wilchinsky Laura Hawkins Couvillion Theresa P. Roca Gary M. Wiltz, M.D. and Diane Paul S. Lux, M.D. and Leslie Pick Drs. Michele T. Longo and Mark R. Tucker, M.D. and Mary Wiltz Lux Bradley S. Shore Martha Tucker Carl B. Myers Jr., M.D. and Polly L. Stephens, M.D. and 1980 Susan M. Myers Michael D. Fatsi Jeff B. Eskind, M.D. and Donna Beverly W. Ogden, M.D. and 1987 G. Eskind Charles B. Dickinson Cynthia A. Dolan, M.D. and Mickey A. Hernandez 1994 Mary P. Lupo, M.D. and Robert Drs. John B. Saer and Kathleen Jyoti Arya, M.D. Smith Lupo E. Walsh Chong-Jeh Lo, M.D. and Fen- Hwa R. Lo Dr. David A. Birdsall and Dr. Harry A. Roach, M.D. Richard M. Saroyan, M.D. and Marian R. Birdsall Elizabeth A. Saroyan Gordon P. Marshall, M.D. Joel S. Saal, M.D. and Nancy J. Gregory M. Grant, M.D. Leila Siukola-Thurston, M.D. and Bovee Rouzbeh K. Kordestani, M.D. Brian Edward Thurston 1988 Melissa D. Kern, M.D. and David H. Lee, M.D. 1981 William C. Warner Jr., M.D. and William F. Deegan III Mary Beth Lobrano, M.D. and Bruce P. Bordlee, M.D. and Mary Susan W. Warner Jerry J. Lobrano Frances Bordlee Kimberly J. Yamanouchi, M.D. 1989 Virginia R. Lolley, M.D. and Marilyn N. Carol, M.D. and and James R. Sackett, M.D. Steven L. Chen, M.D. and Joseph Socolof Robert P. Weaver Phuong-Lien T. Chen Drs. G. Edward Newman and Domenick Enzo Cover, M.D. 1984 Deborah Allen Fein, M.D. and Maria B. Newman I. Fred Dale III, M.D. and Carol Paula A. Craigo, M.D. and John Dr. Douglas A. Fein Drs. Bradley S. Shore and Ello Dale C. Lieske, M.D. Drs. Cynthia Moore-Gault and Michele T. Longo Drs. Karen and David Francis James M. Crane, M.D. and Brenda L. Crane Michael J. Gault Clifford M. Gevirtz, M.D. and Drs. Gerard F. Livaudais and 1995 Alison M. Lazarus John D. Dorchak, M.D. and Mrs. Donna Rittiner Dorchak Felicitas B. Livaudais Samuel B. Field, M.D. and Kelly Drs. Sarah and David McLellan Field Christopher S. Ewin, M.D. and Drs. Theresa P. Roca and Cesar Margaret A. Miller, M.D. Kelly Ann Ewin M. Roca Jr. Robert A. Koppel, M.D. and Jennifer B. Koppel Drs. Sissy Sartor and Oliver Carl J. Herring, M.D. Midori A. Yenari, M.D. and Sartor David C. Tong Richard A. Hodin, M.D. and 1996 Donald S. Thornberry, M.D. Laura Hodin Carey E. Winder, M.D. and Carolyn H. Winder Frank J. Fischer III, M.D. Bruce R. Wall, M.D. and Mrs. Drs. Paul A. Krogstad and Nan Rex Hoffman, M.D. Carol Wall V. Heard

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Drs. Kenneth C. Sands and 2012 Mr. Richard Coleman and Mrs. Mrs. Elsa Nichols and Ronald Natasha Sands Noushin S. Khoiny, M.D. Shelley Coleman Lee Nichols, M.D. Mrs. Beverley Brown Dale and Mr. Raymond Nolte and Mrs. 1997 Residents, Interns and Fellows Mr. Lawrence Becker Dale Ilene Nolte Kristopher N. Atzeff, M.D. and James R. Andrews, M.D. and Mr. Leonard A. Davis Mrs. Marsha Dumas O’Connor Anne M. Atzeff Mrs. Martha Janelle Andrews Mrs. Marsha L. DeBakey and Mr. Henry F. O’Connor Jr. Lisa D. Blankenship, M.D. James D. Cash, M.D. and Mrs. Drs. Susan and Kevin Denny Mr. Brian O’Hare and Ms. Sharon Cash Drs. Joy B. Chastain and John R. Mrs. Lois K. Dial and Mr. Charles Kathleen McInerney O’Hare Simpson Frank P. Castro Jr., M.D. E. Dial Mrs. Gillette Piper Mr. Patrick John Dowling, M.D. Ms. Lorrie Drennan Mr. Scott Piper and Mrs. 1998 and Mrs. Elizabeth Brown Mr. Paul E. Duncan Sr. Margaret Tolin Piper Mildred R. Ridgway, M.D. and Dowling Mr. Paul E. Duncan Jr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Pomeranz, M.D. and Stennis Wells Thomas P. Ferlic, M.D. and Mrs. Mrs. Penelope K. Pomeranz Janet Ferlic Lynell Marie Duncan Drs. Natasha Sands and Kenneth Mr. M. Cleland Powell III C. Sands Joseph D. Guillory Jr., M.D. Mr. John W. Eckart and Mrs. Mr. Timothy S. Reily and Mrs. Roberta Atkinson Laurie B. Eckart 1999 Guillory Mrs. Catherine Hagaman Mr. Robert B. Richardson and Mrs. Susan Richardson Dr. Leslie P. Estrada and Dr. Sammy A. Hamway, M.D. and Edwards and Mr. David F. Lance Estrada Mrs. Cathy G. Hamway Edwards Katherine J. Rolfes Caren F. Mikesh, M.D. Matthew R. Hwang, M.D. and Dr. Brian Garriock Firth, Ph.D. Dr. Les B. Rosen, M.D. and Mrs. Ms. Stacia S. Anderson and Mrs. Margaret Mary Lauren Rosen Lucille Firth 2000 Jian Li, M.D. Ray L. Russo, Ph.D. and Mrs. Mr. Walter C. Flower III and Mrs. Sonia A. Russo Colleen P. Begley, M.D. Jaime Palomino, M.D. Ella Montgomery Flower Mr. Christopher A. Sarpy R. Allen Butler II, M.D. Donald R. 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Honoring Dr. Paul T. Finger (A&S ’78, M ’82), Outstanding Alumnus Award, and Dr. Charles O’Brien (A&S ’61, M ’64, G ’64, G ’55, F ’68), Tulane Medical Alumni Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS AWARD of microwave heat and radiation for their metastasis. He showed that PET/CT can Dr. Paul T. Finger choroidal melanomas. be used to stage systemic metastasis to the (A&S ’78, M ’82) is As a young clinician-scientist, Finger eye, reveal oculo-systemic sarcoidosis and the 2014 recipient became a principal investigator for the evaluate tumor response to ophthalmic of the Outstanding 16-year, nation-wide Collaborative Ocular radiation therapy. Separately, recognizing that Alumnus Award. He is Melanoma Study. Meanwhile, highlights of using available small gauge aspiration cutter a clinical professor of his innovative work include the discovery technology would allow for safer, self-sealing, ophthalmology at the of palladium-103 plaque therapy for micro-incisional biopsies of intraocular and New York University intraocular tumors, chemotherapy “eye orbital tumors, Finger improved on fine- School of Medicine and the founding director drops” for conjunctival melanoma as well needle aspiration biopsy of the eye and orbit. of ocular tumor services at the New York as new eye and vision sparing radiation As chair of the American Joint Committee Eye Cancer Center, the New York Eye and methods for cancers located anteriorly in the on Cancer (AJCC) Ophthalmic Oncology Ear Infirmary and the New York University iris or posteriorly around the optic nerve. Task Force, he reached around the world School of Medicine. He is also the scientific In 2007, Finger was the first to report his to join 47 known eye cancer specialists to director of the Eye Cancer Foundation. patented anti-VEGF treatment to suppress create the first universally accepted eye cancer His ophthalmic research activities and radiation retinopathy and optic neuropathy. staging system. Published in 2009, AJCC clinical practices have been focused on the This method is currently used, saving vision staging is now required by most ophthalmic diagnosis and conservative management of around the world. journals and their societies. Finger was asked ocular tumors as well as the development Finger’s groundbreaking work has not to create and chair an ophthalmic oncology of pioneering ophthalmic techniques. In been limited to treatment. His research task force for the American Brachytherapy 1980, as a Tulane medical student, his first includes the use of high, low and 3D Society (ABS). In 2014, only two years such effort was to introduce microwave ultrasound techniques to reveal previously after assembling 46 ophthalmic oncologists, hyperthermia for the treatment of intraocular obscure areas of the eye and orbit. Finger radiation oncologists and medical physicists tumors in rabbits. Then in 1986, he obtained showed that total body PET/CT can be used from 10 countries, the ABS Ophthalmic an investigation device exemption from the to diagnose and stage ocular melanoma, Oncology Task Force published consensus United States Food and Drug Administration orbital lymphoma, sebaceous carcinoma guidelines for radiation plaque therapy of to treat 50 patients with a combination and as a biomarker for choroidal melanoma intraocular melanomas and retinoblastoma.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD an undergraduate degree, medical degree, have to understand the brain and how it World-renowned two graduate degrees and a fellowship in reacts to stimulants. addiction expert Dr. psychiatry. “It’s important to treat the brain in Charles O’Brien (A&S The recipient of numerous awards, he addition to the sociological problems,” ’61, M ’64, G ’64, G recently added the Tulane Medical Alumni says O’Brien. That’s why he says expensive ’55, F ’68) has spent Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award rehabilitation centers or group therapies are his life’s work bringing to his impressive list of credentials. O’Brien not a cure-all. “Unfortunately, you end up hope to those suffering celebrated his 50th reunion from Tulane charging people a lot of money for things that from addiction. University School of Medicine and is just don’t work.” Widely viewed as one of the most still working to help those suffering from One of his major achievements was respected and innovative researchers in the addiction. finding that naltrexone, originally developed world, O’Brien has conducted countless O’Brien became interested in the study to treat heroin addiction, was effective in research projects and dozens of clinical trials, of addiction following the Vietnam War. He treating alcoholism. Approved by the FDA, and authored over 600 papers. His work has found that many of his patients were addicted naltrexone has now become one of the most increased understanding of the clinical aspects to the powerful drug heroin. popular medications used to treat alcoholism. of addictions and the neurobiology of relapse. O’Brien began to study how the brain Currently, he is conducting trials at A New Orleans native, O’Brien jokes reacts to the influence of various substances the University of Pennsylvania on new that he is saturated with Tulane degrees— including alcohol, opioids and cocaine. He medication to treat cocaine addiction. learned that to understand the disease you

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Dr. Gerald Berenson published by the Nashville Business Journal. Dr. Edward L. Soll is in partial retirement (A&S ’43, M ’45), research Barton and his wife, Lynn, founded Alive and is enjoying spending time with his ’45 professor of epidemiology Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1974. grandchildren and travelling. He is enjoying at the Tulane University School of Public Barton in now retired from his psychiatry one scotch and one cigar each day. Health and Tropical Medicine, was named a practice. Lynn continues to work as a social distinguished master laureate of the American worker therapist in a psychotherapy practice Dr. Robert L. Taylor retired in 2010 Board of Cardiology. Berenson is the founder in the fields of divorce mediation and from the University of North Dakota School of the landmark Bogalusa Heart Study collaborative divorce. of Medicine as the director of psychiatry and has long been an advocate for healthy residency training. He is fully enjoying the lifestyles for children. Dr. S. Rush Bailey did his next third of life and is plowing through an pediatric training at UCLA- extensive reading list, doing carpentry and Dr. William (Doc) W. ’69 Harbor General Hospital before woodworking, making bread and travelling. Richardson celebrated his establishing a pediatric practice in Modesto, He spends the summers in Bethany Beach, ’51 90th birthday on March 4, California, in 1972. He plans to retire at the Delaware, and the winters in Tucson, Arizona. 2014. He was presented with a plaque end of the year. He has one son, Spencer, commemorating Graceville, Florida’s, and one grandson, Sebastian, born in 2004. Dr. Larry Gene Barnes first hospital “Richardson Hospital” and His wife, Elizabeth, is a certified pediatric (I ’75, R ’77) continues to recognizing his years of medical service nurse practitioner. They were married in New ’74 practice internal medicine in to his hometown and the surrounding Orleans just prior to graduation in 1969 and a small community of 12,000, including communities. The plaque hangs on the she still manages to put up with him! hospital and clinic practice. He is married original hospital building where he also had with four children, both daughters recently or his private practice. Dr. J. Peyton Barnes is retired from soon-to-be married. practicing medicine. He is a docent at the Dr. Temistocles Houston Museum of Natural Science and a Dr. William D. Caldwell is still active Malo-Iglesias (A&S ’50) member of the Amateur Radio Emergency in pediatric practice in Austin, Texas, and ’54 resides in the Republic of Service. teaching medical students through University Panama where he retired from medicine of Texas Medical Branch. He is involved in in 1994. Malo-Iglesias practiced as an Dr. Edward M. Gaber (I ‘70, R ‘73) the Texas Medical Association and the Board obstetrician and gynecologist in the Canal is in solo practice in internal medicine in of Ethics. He is also involved in the Texas Zone at both the Coco Solo Hospital on the Mandeville, Louisiana, and is also a full time State Board of Medical Examiners. Atlantic side and Gorgas Hospital on the hospitalist in Mississippi. His daughter was Pacific side. During his career, Malo-Iglesias just accepted into Tulane and will be joining Dr. Robert E. Flandry (A&S ’70) retired also served as Coco Solo Hospital director, Tulane’s tennis team. from the clinical practice of neurosurgery in chief of OB/GYN at Gorgas Hospital and 2008 to take the position of vice president was also the president of the OB/GYN Dr. Wesley King Galen (NC ’65, I ’70, and chief medical officer at Spartanburg Society of Panama. R ’73) has been living and practicing in Regional Medical Center. He retired from Chattanooga, Tennessee, since Hurricane administrative medicine December 31, 2013. Dr. James P. Spell has retired to the Katrina. mountains of western North Carolina from Dr. G. Bruce Healey has been in private Mississippi. Dr. William E. Gotthold is very happily practice in Port Arthur, Texas, first with his retired since the end of 2011 after 39 years as father, Gordon Healey, and now with his son, Dr. Minor Lewis Huck an active emergency physician. Gordon Sean Healey. (A&S ’57) finally retired ’59 January 1, 2014. Dr. Grant B. Hieshima celebrated multiple Dr. F. Brobson Lutz Jr. (PHTM ’75, events at the 2014 spring reunions. Not only R ’77, F ’78) is raising pigeons, chickens, Dr. Dewey H. Lane (I ’60, R ’64) was did he celebrate his 45th reunion, but he and bees and watermelons at an urban “farm” on involved in rebuilding after hurricanes his wife also celebrated their 40th wedding the corner of Religious and St. James streets Katrina and Isaac. He enjoys charitable work anniversary. He has been retired now for 20 close to New Orleans’ Irish Channel area. He and chasing after his grandchildren. years. His father celebrated his 65th reunion is still in full-time practice in order to pay for with the class of 1949. bird food. Dr. Alan S. Rapperport is still practicing plastic surgery but only minor cases with Dr. Kenneth L. Janson (R ’73, R ’77) Dr. P. Michael McFadden (R ’79) is a local anesthesia. Since his two dissecting is retired from the private practice of urology professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the aortic aneurysm surgeries last December, his in the Chicago area and is now practicing age Keck School of Medicine, University of swimming has also slowed down. He is proud management and preventative medicine full Southern California in Los Angeles. to report that all Rapperports are doing well. time in Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. David A. McLain is the course director Dr. David Barton received a Dr. Benjamin Stafford (G ’69) has been for the 30th annual Congress of Clinical Lifetime Achievement Award partially retired since 2012. Rheumatology held annually in Destin, ’62 in “Health Care Heroes,” Florida. Professionals from 43 states, four tulane.edu/som TULANE | MEDICINE FALL 2014 25 MEDICINE NOTES

provinces of Canada and seven countries Dr. Paula M. Verrette is the senior Dr. Carole M. Meyers (NC ’79) retired attend the conference. It is the second largest vice president and chief medical officer at from medicine in the fall and is happily rheumatology meeting in the US. He is the Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California. planning the next phase of her life. proud grandfather of four grandchildren— three boys and one girl. Dr. Mary Lupo has Dr. Marie D. Nassif (R ’88) went on to pioneered the concept of active duty in the Navy after graduation. Dr. Eugene B. Rosenberg practiced ’80 combination therapies to help She went on to perform an ophthalmology pulmonary medicine at West Jefferson her patients achieve a natural, meaningful residency at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from 1979-2001, then improvement in their appearance. She Medical Center. Her daughter Savannah became the full-time physician advisor at is currently offering her patients the is 23. She joined a large practice in Lawnwood Medical Center in Fort Pierce, exclusive Prejuve Energy Facial. Dr. Lupo Green Bay, Wisconsin, practicing general Florida. He retired in 2012 after two years individualizes each treatment so patients ophthalmology, primarily refractive surgery, as medical director for Louisiana and achieve optimal results. before moving to Florida. She loves the warm Tennessee at Coventry Health Care. He weather and is not practicing actively. currently lives in Orlando most of the year. Dr. Rodney Davis was He has a second home near Gatlinburg and selected as chair of the Dr. Karen M. Pendleton is the owner Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, where he spends ’82 Department of Urology at the of the boutique medical concierge practice hurricane season and the holidays. He is University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Pair O’Docs Bio-Rejuvenis in Shreveport, enjoying his retirement. Louisiana. She specializes in ophthalmology Dr. Nathan S. Honda and age management/lifestyle medicine. Dr. Dr. Richard B. Silver has been in private is a pathologist at PIH Pendleton’s passion revolves around health practice in pediatric pulmonology in Dallas ’83 Health Hospital in Whittier, and wellness. Her comprehensive approach since 1983. He is celebrating his 40th California, and serves as the medical director to patient care concentrates on managing anniversary with his wife, Yvonne. They have of the PIH Cancer Program and chairman hormonal imbalances, correcting nutritional three children and two grandchildren. of the PIH Foundation Board. His daughter deficits and tailoring exercise physiology. Michelle Honda recently started medical Dr. Marie A. Delcambre school at Tulane School of Medicine and is a Dr. Ignacio Prats is in independent has been in Kansas City for member of the class of 2018. practice in general surgery. ’79 30 years and is president of Kansas City Internal Medicine, the largest Dr. Melissa T. Barrett is Dr. Steven L. Chen (R ’90) private practice internal medicine group in in private practice internal is in solo private practice in Kansas City. Her personal practice is now ’84 medicine in Louisville, ’89 Phoenix, Arizona, specializing MDVIP-affiliated. She and her husband have Kentucky. in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive six children and (almost) four grandsons. surgery. He and his wife, Lien, just celebrated Dr. Robert P. Fields has been married to their 24th wedding anniversary. They have Dr. Maureen A. Olivier (R ’83) has been Ellen (M ’83) for almost 30 years. They two children. Stephanie is finishing her practicing full-time general dermatology in have two lovely adult daughters. He is a junior year at Tulane and received early Lake Charles, Louisiana, since 1983. She general internist in the Maryland suburbs acceptance to Tulane Medical School. Alexa moved there with her husband, Bill Hard, of Washington, D.C., and his office has an graduated from high school and will attend who practices ophthalmology. Her second awesome Mardi Gras party every year. USC in the fall. career was rearing their four children: Matthew, 32, Mikey, 28, David, 24, and Dr. Paul A. Krogstad (R ’87) is a Dr. Trudi K. Holt has been practicing Emily, 16. To this day, she is thankful that professor of pediatric and molecular and emergency medicine. She relocated back she was part of the Tulane medical school medical pharmacology specializing in “home” to Connecticut for seven years, class of 1979. New Orleans and Tulane will pediatric infectious diseases. He is running but has been in Virginia for the past two always be her home. less and cycling more. years. She is commuting regularly with her husband of ten years, Jur, to his home in Dr. Gwenesta B. Melton has left the US Dr. Martha Peaslee Levine has two the Netherlands, where he has two grown Army and is in private practice at Lafayette fabulous children. David is a sophomore at children and three young granddaughters. Clinic in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as Bowdoin University and Dayna is a junior in That makes her a step-Oma! a rheumatologist. She is teaching family high school. She works in an eating disorder practice residents, physician assistant program and teaches in the department of Dr. Steven M. Krems is still in private students at Methodist University and humanities, focusing on communication. practice with seven other partners in internal medical students at Campbell University of She also writes children’s books. Her next medicine. He just completed his 20th year Osteopathic Medicine. She is ushering in a one, 12 Days in Christmas in PA, will be out as the team doctor for the Los Angeles new wave of young minds. She has recently in October. She also has a blog, “Your Write Clippers basketball team. He recently added stepped down as the president of the North to Health.” a “hybrid concierge” facet to his practice. Carolina Rheumatology Association. He and his wife, Lesley, are very proud that their daughter, Jennifer, will attend Amherst College in Massachusetts in the fall.

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Dr. David S. Kushner (A&S ’85) is an associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His son, Grant, In Memoriam 19, is attending the University of Chicago ’40 Dr. Luis La Court ’55 Dr. Lionel Ehrenworth and his daughter, Blake, is 15. Dr. Adrienne Dorothy Dr. Lloyd Edwin Gary McCardell McCoy Dr. Hilton Lamar Gillespie Dr. Gina P. Lagarde (R ’92) has been a Dr. Chester A. McLarty Dr. James Lanier Tucker Jr. pediatrician since completing her residency. In 2003, she earned a Masters of Business ’41 Dr. Walter Brodie Burwell ’56 Dr. Jerry Glyn Bagwell Administration and made a career-changing Dr. Elmer Jacobs Harris Dr. Roger W. English move into public health administration. She Dr. Joseph W. Moore Dr. Harold L. Flatt is currently serving as the regional public ’42 Dr. George Henry Brandau Dr. Robert Lester Hatton health administrator/medical director and Dr. John Richard Glover Dr. Roland D. Jackson chief medical officer to the assistant secretary ’43 Dr. Edwin B. Groner ’57 Dr. George J. Farha of health for the Louisiana Department Dr. Herbert Ichinose of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Dr. James Edward Pridgen Health, Southeast Region 9. She is a full- Dr. Frances U. Simms ’58 Dr. Albert Wayne Beacham time mother of three wonderful children ’44 Dr. William Mims Allums Dr. Donald H. Rockwell who are now young adults and a lifelong Dr. Michael E. Boustany ’59 Dr. Richard Wilson Calhoun resident of Louisiana. Dr. Allen Joseph Ellender Jr. Dr. Edward Franklin Shaver Jr. Dr. John Philip Fischer Dr. John Marion Yarborough Jr. Dr. Wendy Male Latshaw is an Dr. John Alfred King ’60 Dr. Jasper Benoit Becker Jr. OB/GYN in a large group practice in Dr. Charles D. Knight Dr. Paul Dean Ware Connecticut. She has been the vice president Dr. John Laurens II Dr. Richard Gustav Zeperinck of the medical staff at Bristol Hospital, Dr. David Samuel Light chaired the peer review committee and Dr. Verre Simpson Picard ’61 Dr. John Alexander Hart Jr. is currently serving as the chair of the Dr. Fay M. Randall Jr. Dr. A. Barry Henry Jr. department of OB/GYN. She has four Dr. Irvin C. Schneider Dr. Hans Weill daughters who range from 13 to 27. Sara Dr. Arthur Bryan Snowhite ’62 Dr. Dean Baker Ellithorpe is a teacher in Washington, D.C. Kate is Dr. James Alto Ward Jr. graduating with a biology degree and plans ’63 Dr. Aretta J. Rathmell ’45 Dr. Norman M. Dinhofer to attend veterinary school. Megan is a Dr. Rodney C. Jung ’64 Dr. Harvey Barry Rifkin nursing student and Amanda is a seventh Dr. William Whitley McCall grader who plays soccer and the viola. ’65 Dr. Jay B. V. Butler Jr. ’46 Dr. Philip B. Moss II Dr. Hector Himel Henry II Dr. James D. Marshall has been married Dr. Jack Wendel Pou ’66 Dr. Walter Pitts Little Jr. for 24 years and raised two children. He is ’47 Dr. Barnette Everest Adams Jr. Dr. Lee Terrell Nesbitt Jr. practicing full-time in pediatric critical care Dr. George Markham March Dr. Arnold Neil Oldre and also clinical pharmacology in Fort Worth, ’48 Dr. Cortell K. Holsapple ’67 Dr. Joseph Mortimer-Dean Nadell Texas, for Cook Children’s Health Care Dr. Lee Norris Nold System. He still enjoys playing outdoors far ’49 Dr. Ralph Clyde Bailey more than working within them, but those Dr. Richard Jennings Field Jr. ’69 Dr. Steven Davis Crow ailing kids keep drawing him back. He never Dr. Kathryn K. Nix Dr. Dennis Michael Spiers severed his adopted NOLA roots, having ’70 Dr. Robert N. Downer married Miss Louisiana, Susan Picciola. He is ’51 Dr. John E. Pittman Jr. planning to spend more time in and around ’52 Dr. Irvin Clayton ’73 Dr. Michael Arnett Fitzsimmons Lake Pontchartrain as retirement approaches. Dr. Warren Joseph Gadpaille Dr. Nicholas Barrett Self Dr. Robert Morgan Miller Sr. ’77 Dr. Larry L. Redden Dr. Ann Marie Tommey has begun an ’53 Dr. Robert Bernhard Jr. ’79 Dr. James Robert Burnett alternative medicine practice of her OB/GYN Dr. Jack T. Cappel Jr. ’80 Dr. Joseph Dewitt Denman practice. It focuses on balancing hormones. Dr. Jack T. Coleman ’81 Dr. Wolfram H. Enseleit Dr. Kevin R. Ward has two beautiful ’54 Dr. Lewis Martin Wiener children. His oldest daughter will be Dr. Ralph Courtney Wilson ’83 Dr. Kenneth Raymond Hill Jr. graduating this year from high school to ’87 Dr. Rodger Wade Pielet attend Calvin College in the fall. His son is ’94 Dr. Darwin James Liao set to receive an Eagle Scout award. He is currently serving as executive director of the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in

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Critical Care at the University of Michigan. Dr. Amanda Freeman Crow is married College of Physicians, American Association Ward also serves as the innovation chief for with two kids and lives in Raleigh, North of Clinical Endocrinologists and The the University of Michigan Health System. Carolina, where she practices anesthesia. Endocrine Society.

Dr. Rose Sze-Ming Ehret Dr. Michael R. Harrison (R ’07) married Dr. Catherine M. hopes to have a reunion in Terra Nance in September 2007. They have DiGiorgio (G ’03) will ’92 Boston. one daughter, Mary Kathryn, who is 2½ ’09 be starting her last year of years old. In July 2011, he took a position residency this July in dermatology at LSU Dr. Kathryn E. Noles as assistant professor of medicine at Duke, Health Sciences in New Orleans. Garr is double boarded where he is the genitourinary medical ’94 in anesthesiology and pain oncologist and clinical researcher. Dr. Wesley B. Jones finished his medicine. She lives in Seattle with her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology husband and three children doing part-time Dr. Kate Zibilich Holcomb (NC ’98, at Northwestern in June 2013. In July 2013 interventional pain management. She is PHTM ’99) moved back to New Orleans he started a one-year fellowship in surgical enjoying parenthood, outdoor activities and two years ago and is enjoying it immensely. pathology at the University of Illinois at competitive tennis. She recently went on a Living in New Orleans continues to be Chicago. He will be staying at UIC for family trip to the Amazon jungle and has professionally challenging and rewarding another year for a transfusion medicine much more travel planned. and is an exciting place to live with active fellowship. In his free time, he still plays young children. bass and sings with a couple of bands in Dr. Steve E. Goldwasser has a great the Chicago area. He has also gotten into wife and two great little girls. He is having Dr. Sudha Rani Kailas (G ’00, G ’06) recording and production in the past couple fun and working hard! completed her PhD in neuroscience at of years, working out of his home studio. Tulane following graduation. She matched Dr. Virginia R. Lolley is a comprehensive in a pediatrics, adult psychiatry and child Dr. Christopher A. Kroner (PHTM ’09) ophthalmologist in practice at University and adolescent psychiatry residency. After married an absolutely wonderful and loving of Alabama-Birmingham’s Department residency, she moved to Santa Fe, New woman last year. He is now an assistant of Ophthalmology, where she specializes Mexico, completed a health-coaching clinical professor at UC Irvine in family in refractive cataract surgery and is the program through the Institute of Integrative medicine and sports medicine. He is the medical student advisor. Her husband Joe is Nutrition and was introduced to the concepts lead physician for USA Water Polo and is a management/operations consultant. They of functional medicine. She is blessed to serve the assistant medical director for West Coast have an eight-year-old daughter, Eve. the Santa Fe community as an integrative RunDisney events. psychiatrist at Life Transition Therapy. Dr. Debra Houry (PHTM Dr. Kelli Wong Williams (PHTM ’09) ’98) has been selected as Dr. Andrew G. Nanton is doing forensic is enjoying life in D.C. with husband, Dr. ’98 the Director of the National and child/adolescent psychiatry. He moved Conrad Williams. Conrad is the medical Center for Injury Prevention and Control. to Portland, Oregon, and is working at director of the pediatric palliative care team Prior to this position, Houry was an Oregon Health & Science University. at Children’s National Health System and she associate professor within the Department of is in an allergy and immunology fellowship Celebrate Emergency Medicine at Emory University Dr. Brandon Lane Phillips was named as at the National Institutes of Health. They School of Medicine, and an attending distinguished alumnus for 2014 by Louisiana both love their jobs and are trying to figure physician at Emory University Hospital and Tech University College of Engineering and out whether to stay in D.C. or return to the Grady Memorial Hospital. Science. In May, his hometown of Jena, South. They are very excited to welcome Louisiana, held a day in his honor and baby Williams this October. today. Plan for Dr. Kevin L. Turner is presented Phillips with a key to the city. a pediatrician in northeast Phillips is an attending physician in pediatric Dr. Kristen Newsom has ’99 Ohio. His wife, Karen, and cardiology at Driscoll Children’s Hospital joined Reliant Medical Group’s four children live in Avon Lake, Ohio, which and assistant professor of pediatrics at Texas ’11 Department of Family Practice. tomorrow. is 25 miles west of Cleveland. A&M Health Science Center and University After receiving her medical degree from of Texas Medical Branch. 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