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It’sback in their DNA Seven alums who have touched BUMC with their time, expertise, and hearts.

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Kenneth Simons David Bailen Mary Jane England Gilbert Norwood Anna DePold Hohler David DiChiara Donald Grande (MED‘80) (MED‘67) (MED‘64) (CAS‘53, MED‘57) (CAS‘98, MED‘98) (CAS’80, MED‘84) (MED‘73) Message From The Dean

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Members of the Class of 2017 prepare to recite the Hippocratic Oath after Contents receiving their white coats. by Frank Curran of disease outbreaks that can rapidly identify In meetings with local members of our illness-causing pathogens. Such scientific community and friends and family around investigation with potentially life-saving and the country, I meet many of the wonder- public health consequences is constantly ful people who support this School. They under way on the Medical Campus. confirm a strong connection to BUSM that The research enterprise is being threat- illustrates the strength and enduring legacy ened by National Institutes of Health (NIH) of this institution. budget cuts, jeopardizing current and future The alumni featured in this issue are scientific discovery and the development of a small but representative sample of the the next generation of scientists. The iconic dedicated support BUSM has to develop Framingham Heart Study lost 40 percent resources, enhance the student experi- of its funding. In a recent survey of 3,700 ence, and ensure a vital future for the scientists, 64 percent were having difficulty School of Medicine. securing grant funding, 64 percent said that The faculty, staff, and students of the their funding had been reduced, and 80 per- School of Medicine are grateful for your con- cent report increased time spent on writing tinued support. On days like matriculation, grant applications. residency matching, and graduation all of NIH cutbacks are of concern to all of us, the effort and support was clearly worth it. and especially to our community of scien- Dear Friends, tists and clinicians and those who support Our researchers have developed a way to their work. We continue to make the case in Best regards, create an unlimited number of human red Washington, DC, for reversing the rollback of blood cells and platelets in vitro, which may national support for research. reduce the need for blood donations; they While public support for our mission is have created a computer model that can map vital, so too is the outstanding generosity the thousands of molecular interactions in of our donors who are listed in the annual Karen Antman, MD tuberculosis (TB) bacteria, potential targets report of gifts to BUSM in this issue of the Provost, Medical Campus for novel therapeutics; and they have devel- magazine. Your continued philanthropy Dean, School of Medicine oped a statistical algorithm for early detection makes so many of our efforts possible. Professor of Medicine

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you, and best of all, they will be there when you Admissions Robert Witzburg, MD ’77, in for- during the course of their transition from Class of 2017 Embarks on Medical Education Journey take off the coat and leave the hospital. And I mally presenting the class. student to physician.” say ‘best of all’ because this is the goal of medi- In accepting the Class of 2017 to the While Associate Dean for Academic White Coat Ceremony Highlights Transformative Process cal education: to transform you from the college School of Medicine, Dean Antman noted that Affairs Douglas Hughes, MD, read off their graduate you are today into a physician.” there would be bumps in the road during their names, class members climbed the stage and Drawn from a pool of 11,780 candidates medical education, but reassured them that received assistance donning the white coat from six entry pathways and 82 undergradu- those who have gone before them faced the from Associate Dean for Student Affairs Angela ate institutions, the Class of 2017 comprises same hurdles. She cited the example of one Jackson, MD; Assistant Deans of Student 52 percent women and 15 percent underrep- of her own classmates who fainted numerous Affairs Kenneth Grundfast, MD, and John Polk resented minorities; 20 percent hold at least times during anatomy class only to become a (MED’74); Assistant Dean for Diversity & one graduate degree. Most members of this distinguished professor of psychiatry. Multicultural Affairs Samantha Kaplan, MD; and highly accomplished class have participated “You are about to embark on a great Professor Emeritus of Surgery Robert Beazley, in research and many have published sci- adventure with a steep learning curve,” said MD. Led by Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs entific papers. Some have volunteered with Antman. “Students talk about the process Jean Ramsey (MED’90, SPH’08), the class AmeriCorps, Teach For America, and the Peace of learning medicine as ‘drinking from a fire recited the Hippocratic Oath for the first time. Corps, while others have worked in high tech, hose.’ Nevertheless, you will be supported by “Beneath that white coat, carry your taught elementary school, or started a business. more than 2,000 faculty, upperclass students, uniqueness proudly and with great awareness The class is diverse in many ways; mem- residents, and dedicated staff.” of the contributions each one of you can make bers come from 27 US states and were born She congratulated the parents of the in the open environment we have created in 25 countries. One hundred forty-three class and explained, “Becoming a physician for your education and professional develop- speak more than one language and as a group, will change your daughter or son. Not all of ment,” said Associate Dean for Diversity & speak a total of 25. “In cultural, social, eco- the transition to being a physician is aca- Multicultural Affairs Rafael Ortega, MD, in his nomic, racial, ethnic, educational, and linguis- demic, and having issues with adapting to closing remarks. “Let these white coats collec- tic terms—and in your life experiences—you being a physician is normal. In fact, we worry tively represent a large canvas on which you define the pluralism that we so value in if students don’t have difficulty dealing with will, with great inspiration, paint the master- our society,” said Associate Dean for some of the injuries and illnesses they see pieces of your careers.”

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eld on Talbot Green on August 5, the 2013 White Coat Ceremony marked the begin- ning of a transformative process that will take the 165 members of the BUSM Class H of 2017 from their current life experiences to the role of healer. 3. 4. 5. Keynote speaker Robert Lowe, MD, BUSM associate professor of medicine, told the class that the white coat is a symbol of intelligence, trust, and responsibility, and is a visible sign to others. “Right now, at the start of medical school, the coat is for you, too, because you’re just starting on this journey. So put it on, take some pictures, and wear it proudly when we have you see patients this year. Soon, it is just going to be a coat, with pockets full of books and tools, impossible to keep clean, with a space-age design that is boiling hot in the summer yet ice-cold in the winter. “That’s what’s supposed to happen. You are going to internalize the knowledge, the skills, and the values of medicine—they will be in you, not on

above: Members of the Class of 2017 ready to put on their white coats. opposite page: 1. Class of 2017 member Daniel Choi and his family. 2. Adam Johnson proudly wears his white coat. 3. Speaker Robert Lowe, MD, addressing the Class of 2017 and their guests. 4. Brent Silver and his parents, Rachelle Silver and Lee Silver (MED’82) enjoying the reception with Dean Karen Antman, MD, following the White Coat Ceremony. 5. Sharing the White Coat Ceremony with Hippocrates are Matthew Luchette and his parents. Fran k C u rran

2 Campus & Alumni News | BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine Winter 2013 | www.bumc.bu.edu 3 Campus News BUSM Development Office News Karen Ann Engelbourg, previously associate dean for development, GMS Welcomes New Graduate Students is now senior associate vice presi­ Class of 2017 Parents dent, working with the Schools of Medicine, Law, and Management, On September 3, the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences (GMS) welcomed new students to its and the Global Leadership team. Hosted at Reception many programs with a lively barbecue in the Hiebert Lounge cosponsored by the BUSM Alumni Association. Students enjoyed a great meal and met faculty and staff to help ease their transition Lawrence Crimmins, previously a On August 5, the School of Medicine held a to graduate studies. GMS Associate Provost Linda Hyman, PhD, helped serve the meal with Tim senior member of the School’s fund­ welcome reception prior to the White Coat Fitzgerald, assistant director of the BUSM Alumni Association. raising team, has been promoted Ceremony for parents and guests of the BUSM to assistant dean for development. An experienced relationship-builder Class of 2017. Dean Karen Antman, MD, spoke and fundraiser at BUSM, Boston of how important family support is for first-year Children’s Hospital, and Brigham and medical students, and how the new Medical Women’s Hospital, Lawrence will Student Residence (MSR) not only provides lead the School’s development team. safe and affordable housing on campus, but also Kate DeForest, previously senior helps foster collegiality and friendship among leadership gift officer, will serve as students. She also highlighted the recently director of advancement. Kate will constructed “field of dreams” behind the draw on her relationship-building and MSR, an outdoor athletic and gardening space operations management experience generously donated by a BUSM graduate. at BUSM, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Boston Latin School Association to advance the mission of the Development office.

The development team looks for­ ward to our continued collaboration with the BUSM community to raise critical support for the School’s Hee-Young Park, PhD, GMS assis- New to the Medical Campus, GMS students enjoy the barbecue and get to fundraising campaign and philan­ tant dean and dermatology and know each other. thropic priorities. biochemistry faculty member, with Tim Fitzgerald, assistant director of the BUSM Alumni Association.

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Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Assistant Deans for Clinical Affairs Anna DePold Hohler, MD, FAAN (MED’88), N. Joseph Espat, MD, chair of the has been named assistant dean for aca- Department of Surgery and chief of surgi- demic affairs. In her new role, she will focus cal oncology at Roger Williams Medical on clinical site development for medical stu- Center (RWMC), is responsible for provid- dents and faculty development. ing clinical and academic leadership to the Dr. Hohler is an associate professor of Department of Surgery with an emphasis neurology at BUSM. A 1998 graduate of on sustaining quality; directing physician the BUSM Seven-Year Accelerated Medical recruitment; identifying needed improve- Program, she completed her neurology ments in technology; and stimulating residency with the US Army at the Madigan growth in academic presence, medical edu- Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA. After cation, and research. He was named profes- attaining the rank of major, she completed sor of surgery at BUSM in 2007. a movement disorders fellowship at Boston Dr. Espat has authored more than 250 Medical Center and subsequently was recruited as staff. articles, chapters, and abstracts. He is on She serves as the director of neurology medical student education and the editorial board of four journals and was is a course director for the second-year preclinical Neurology Module of the an invited reviewer on 22 others. He com- Disease and Therapy course and the third-year neurology clerkship direc- pleted a surgical oncology/hepatobiliary tor. She also serves as the faculty advisor to the student interest group in fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering neurology and as a field-specific advisor for students interested in a career Cancer Center in New York and is a gradu- in neurology. ate of the University of Florida College of Dr. Hohler has been recognized with two American Academy of Medicine, where he served as chief resident Neurology Teacher Recognition Awards. She also received the BUSM in general surgery. Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012. She is the current president of the Massachusetts Neurological Steven Sepe, MD (MED’82, GRS’83), chair Association and serves as cochair of the Patient Safety Subcommittee of the of the Department of Medicine at RWMC, American Academy of Neurology. is responsible for leading the Department Dr. Hohler joined the Academic Affairs office as assistant dean on July 1. of Medicine, including overseeing clinical affairs, quality, and program development. Fran k C u rran

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He has more than 20 years of experience in clinical care, research, and teach- Boston. She was an attending obstetrician-gynecologist at Brigham and pediatric resident training in primary care ing and has also held a number of leadership positions in a variety of health Women’s Hospital from 1994 until she was recruited to Boston Medical Joel Alpert, MD, care settings. He was named clinical professor of medicine at BUSM in 2011. Center in 2003. From 2003 until 2007, she served as the vice chair for for health centers was among the first in the Dr. Sepe is a 1982 cum laude graduate of BUSM, where he also received obstetrics and in 2007 was named vice chair for clinical affairs for the Joins Dean’s United States. his PhD in Immunopathology. Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In 2004, she was appointed Advisory Board Dr. Alpert served as president of the program director of the Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency Training American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Barbara A. Gilchrest Professor of Program at BMC and became medical director of the BMC OB/GYN Joel Alpert, MD, former professor and chair of where he received the AAP Job Lewis Smith Dermatology ambulatory practice in 2006. Vincent Falanga, MD, has been appointed Dr. Lee-Parritz is a fellow of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the BUSM Department of Pediatrics and cur- Award in Community Pediatrics in 1994. He the Barbara A. Gilchrest Professor of of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is cur- rent assistant dean for student affairs, is the also served as president of the Ambulatory Dermatology as well as the director and rently serving as president of the Obstetrical Society of Boston. newest member of the BUSM Dean’s Advisory Pediatric Association (APA) and received vice chair of research in the Department Deeply committed to mentoring residents and junior faculty, she Board (DAB). the APA George Armstrong Award in 1992, of Dermatology. He is a professor of has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching, including the DAB members serve three-year, renew- the APA Lifetime Career Achievement biochemistry and the director of the 2011 American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists District 1 Dermatology Residency Program and Mentor of the Year Award and the 2011 Council on Resident Education able terms actively participating in medical Award in 2000, and the APA Public Policy an attending dermatologist at BMC. in Obstetrics and Gynecology National Faculty Teaching Award. She school strategic planning and external rela- and Advocacy Award in 2002. In 1992, the After completing his undergraduate is also committed to excellence and leadership throughout BMC and tions initiatives. They are leaders in medicine, Massachusetts Poison Control System pre- degree in chemistry at the College of the BUSM. She chairs the BUSM Discipline Oversight Committee and technology, business, and other sectors of sented Dr. Alpert with a Lifetime Achievement Holy Cross, he earned his medical degree serves on the BMC Faculty Practice Foundation Clinical Operations society. They share a passion for basic sci- Award and in 1998, he received the presti- from Harvard Medical School. He com- Committee as well as the BMC Graduate Medical Education pleted his residency in internal medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital Committee. ence, clinical research, and supporting BUSM. gious Pew Foundation Award for Achievement at the University of Miami and is board-certified in internal medicine. Her research interests include diabetes in pregnancy, cervical incom- Board members are uniquely positioned to in Primary Care—Education. He also completed a residency in dermatology at the University of petence, and maternal complications in pregnancy. She currently runs a help advance the School and its students, sci- support of the Alpert family, the Department Pennsylvania, where he was clinical research chief resident. In 2005, multidisciplinary program for diabetes in pregnancy in conjunction with the entists, and clinicians. of Pediatrics, and their colleagues and friends. Falanga completed his dermatopathology fellowship at RWMC. Division of Endocrinology at BMC. An author of numerous peer-reviewed “The Dean’s Advisory Board offers those “My 42 years at BUSM The professorship is held by the chair of the Dr. Falanga has been a professor of dermatology and biochemistry articles, chapters, and abstracts, she is also a member of the Boston Public at BUSM for 15 years. He also served as the assistant dean of clinical and Health Commission’s Task Force on Improved Perinatal Clinical Care and the of us who have a long-standing relationship have been both a joy Department of Pediatrics. The first incumbent faculty affairs for RWMC and director of their Boston University Medical Massachusetts Department of Public Health Work Group on Gestational with Boston University School of Medicine was Barry Zuckerman, MD, from 2000 to 2013. Students Ambulatory Medical Clerkship. His previous research involved the Diabetes Guidelines. the opportunity to provide Dean Antman with and a privilege. I trust Robert Vinci, MD, was installed as the second first-ever use of a recombinant growth factor in human chronic wounds and advice on issues of importance to the School,” that my experience and Alpert Professor in June. (See page 8.) gaining Food and Drug Administration approval of living bioengineered skin Vice Chair of Surgery says Alpert. “My 42 years at BUSM have been The Alperts also established the Children for venous and diabetic ulcers. David McAneny, MD, associate professor knowledge, especially He will direct BUSM’s Good Manufacturing Practice facility (currently of surgery at BUSM and associate chair for both a joy and a privilege. I trust that my expe- of pediatrics, will allow of the City Fund at Boston Medical Center under construction), where he will oversee groundbreaking research and clinical quality and safety at BMC, has been rience and knowledge, especially of pediatrics, in 2000 to support early-career pediatric develop treatments that harness the power of stem cells to treat patients named vice chair of the department of sur- will allow me to continue to be a valuable con- me to continue to be a researchers who study issues of importance with chronic wounds—particularly in the lower extremities—caused by dis- gery at BUSM and BMC. In this role, he will tributor to our medical school community. to inner-city children served by the hospital. orders such as diabetes, autoimmune disease, infection, or other types of serve as division chief of general surgery and valuable contributor “I have enormous admiration for what The more than $800,000 disbursed by the vascular insufficiencies. section chief of surgical oncology. to our medical school In his new role, Dr. Falanga will also coordinate many of the research A graduate of Georgetown University the School of Medicine represents histori- fund has supported 127 projects, which Alpert activities related to tissue injury and repair in the department of dermatol- School of Medicine, Dr. McAneny completed cally including, from its inception, the admis- community.” believes has resulted in more than $20 million ogy. He spearheaded the effort to deliver bone marrow-derived autolo- his residency at Boston City Hospital, now sion of women and minorities, as well as the of additional research funding to help children. gous mesenchymal stem cells to human chronic wounds, and developed a BMC, and a fellowship in gastrointestinal School’s outstanding educational program A member of the Institute of Medicine of A graduate of Connecticut College, special fibrin spray delivery system that his team may have been the first (GI) surgery at the Lahey Hospital & Medical that prepares students for careers in private the National Academy of Sciences (IOM), Barbara Alpert received her MPH in the first in the world to use. Center. He has received numerous honors, including being named one of the His research interests include surgical oncology and endocrine and gen- practice and academic medicine. The School’s Dr. Alpert served on the IOM Governing graduating class of the BU School of Public “Best Doctors in America” and “Top 12 Authors Cited in Dermatology.” He eral surgery; he specializes in GI surgery. His surgical expertise is in tumors excellence today is evident in the wonderfully Council and was the pediatric clinician on the Health. For more than 20 years, she was the has been involved in a number of professional and scientific societies and and other diseases of the endocrine organs, GI tract, pancreas, hepatobiliary diverse student body and outstanding fac- IOM Task Force on the Future of Primary Care. coordinator for the Boston City Hospital, now committees focused on dermatology, including serving as president of the system, and spleen. He is experienced in laparoscopic surgery for gallblad- ulty under the incredible leadership of Dean He is a member of the Society for Pediatric BMC, Department of Medicine’s continu- Wound Healing Society. The author of more than 350 publications and 70 der disease, splenectomy, adrenalectomy, bowel resection, gastroesopha- Antman and the people around her.” Research, Alpha Omega Alpha (Boston ing medical education programs and medical books and book chapters, Dr. Falanga has received more than $35 million in geal diseases, and tumor staging. National Institutes of Health grants since 1990. Dr. McAneny received the 2005 Grant V. Rodkey Award from the A graduate of Yale College and Harvard University), and the American Pediatric student teaching program. The Alperts have Massachusetts Medical Society for outstanding contributions to medical Medical School, Dr. Alpert completed his Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal three children including son Mark, who is on Chair of OB/GYN education and medical students. He is the 2008 Boston University faculty residency at Boston Children's Hospital and College of Paediatrics and Child Health staff in the BUMC facilities department, and Aviva Lee-Parritz, MD, has been appointed selection for Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), as well as the Councilor of the joined the Harvard faculty in 1961. He became (London, UK). eight grandchildren. chair of the BUSM Department of AOA chapter at BUSM. He received the 2008–2009 Erwin F. Hirsch, MD, professor and chair of the Department of He has authored numerous publications, “Dr. Alpert’s distinguished career as a Obstetrics & Gynecology and chief of Teaching Award from the graduating surgery chief residents, the 2010 obstetrics and gynecology at BMC. Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2013 Educator Pediatrics at Boston University School of including The Education of Physicians for Primary leader in the field of pediatrics and his experi- Dr. Lee-Parritz received a BS in of the Year Award in Clinical Sciences. Medicine and Boston City Hospital in 1972. Care (1974), which included the definition of ence in academic medicine at the School of Nursing from Columbia University and He is a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Under his leadership, the department thrived. primary care adopted by the Bureau of Health Medicine is a tremendous resource that as a an MD from Tufts University School of Surgeons and an active member of the American Association of Endocrine He pioneered pediatric primary care training, Professions for Title VII training in general member of the Dean’s Advisory Board will help Medicine. She completed a residency Surgeons, the Society of Surgical Oncology, the New England Surgical including continuity clinic sites at commu- medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics. advance the School’s goals and initiatives,” says in obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts Society, and the Boston Surgical Society. Dr. McAneny served as past presi- University Affiliated Hospitals, Boston, dent of the medical-dental staff at BMC and the Massachusetts Chapter of nity health centers and the development of In 2000, Dr. Alpert and his wife Barbara Dean Karen Antman, MD. “We are exceedingly and a fellowship in maternal-fetal medi- the American College of Surgeons and was the former Massachusetts state a curriculum that emphasized child develop- established the Joel and Barbara Alpert pleased that he has joined the board offering cine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in chairman of the Commission on Cancer. ment, advocacy, and community care. BUSM’s Professorship in Pediatrics at BUSM with the the opportunity to further utilize his expertise.”

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Robert Vinci Installed as Alpert Professor of Pediatrics Biomedical Forensic working on developing a biosensor that uses a gold disk electrode for the quantification On June 12, the School of Medicine installed An innovative leader in medical residency Sciences’s of DNA,” says Rowan. “Quantifying DNA is Robert Vinci, MD, as the incumbent Joel and education throughout his career, he founded a necessary step before analysis can occur. Barbara Alpert Professor of Pediatrics in a the fellowship program in Pediatric Emergency Kayleigh Rowan Current practice, using a method called ceremony attended by more than 200 people. Medicine on the Medical Campus in 1988 and quantitative PCR, has a high error rate asso- Speakers included Dean Karen Antman, MD, has directed pediatric residency training at Receives National ciated with it, which can affect downstream Dr. Barbara Philipp, Dr. Frederick H. Lovejoy, BMC since 1989. In 1996, along with Frederick Scholarship Award processes. The biosensor would eliminate Mrs. Barbara Alpert, and Dr. Joel Alpert. H. Lovejoy, MD, Vinci established the Boston the need for PCR at this step, decreasing For the past 20 years, Vinci served as vice Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics The J. Edgar Hoover Foundation’s inaugural error. Additionally, the biosensor would be Debra and Robert Vinci with chair and clinical chief of the Department of at BMC and Boston Children’s Hospital, one Joel and Barbara Alpert Cartha “Deke” DeLoach Forensic Scholarship able to provide information about the qual- Pediatrics, providing leadership for the signifi- of the nation’s leading pediatric residency was awarded to Kayleigh Rowan, a student ity of the DNA, namely if it is degraded. This cant expansion of pediatric clinical services. programs. He has also championed research is extremely well prepared to lead the depart- in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences can assist an analyst in making decisions His central role in a number of initiatives activities, global health training, and flexible ment at a challenging time. He is an inspira- Biomedical Forensic Sciences program. The about how to process a sample.” reflects his commitment to the community training opportunities for pediatric residents. tional leader, a motivator of others, and well $5,000 scholarship was established in memory Kayleigh Rowan receives the Cartha “Deke” According to Grgicak, Rowan’s work and patients. He cofounded the Kids Fund Vinci received his medical degree from respected and admired both within our BUSM of Cartha DeLoach, chairman emeritus of the DeLoach Forensic Scholarship from William is fundamental to understanding the error Branon, chairman of the board and director of the at Boston Medical Center (BMC), which the College of Medicine and Dentistry-Rutgers community and nationally. He is especially Hoover Foundation, which offers scholarships to J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, in a ceremony at the associated with everyday processing of DNA provides assistance to meet children’s most Medical School, now known as the Robert Wood skilled at developing partnerships with other students studying criminal justice or forensics. School of Medicine on August 30. samples. “Eventually, what we as a group basic needs and gives them a foundation for a Johnson Medical School. He completed his institutions at a time when collaboration with The foundation selects institutions with accred- want to do is to develop a method to cal- healthy and bright future. He also led the cam- pediatric residency at Boston City Hospital (now others is as important as ever. ited forensic science programs for scholarship DNA analysis. A graduate of Northeastern culate or determine the probability that a paign to establish a window-fall prevention BMC), serving as chief resident in 1983. He has “I am confident that the Vinci-led pediat- consideration; once the School is selected, its fac- University with a bachelor’s degree in chemis- certain number of contributors are part of a program for Boston children. In partnership authored more than 60 peer-reviewed papers ric department will continue its groundbreak- ulty nominates a student to apply for the award. try and minors in criminal justice and biology, biological stain,” explains Grgicak. “Currently, with the Massachusetts Department of Public and book chapters on the topics of pediatric ing teaching of medical students, pediatric “The Biomedical Forensic Sciences pro- she plans on a career in a crime laboratory. it is very difficult to make that assessment. Health, he established the Massachusetts emergency medicine and pediatric education. residents, and fellows with its emphasis on gram is proud that Kayleigh has received this Her research focuses on understanding Kayleigh has been able to help us pinpoint Emergency Medical Services Program for “Barbara and I are very proud that our advocacy and primary care and the support national award, which will enable her to further the uncertainty in analytical measurement where we need to focus our energies in order Children, which created training protocols former student, present colleague, and friend of a committed and creative pediatric faculty develop novel forensic DNA methodologies,” associated with forensic DNA processing; to minimize that error.” and guidelines for children in the statewide Bob Vinci is now the Joel and Barbara Alpert carrying out research and delivering services says Catherine Grgicak, PhD, BUSM assistant she is studying which factor(s) contribute “I chose BU because of opportuni- Emergency Medical Services system. Professor of Pediatrics,” says Dr. Alpert. “Bob which directly benefit our BMC community.” professor of biomedical forensic sciences. “She most to the variation observed between ties available to me through the Biomedical is one of the best students I have ever worked different DNA samples. The results will Forensic Sciences program and Boston is a with. Her abilities are excellent and her research be used to provide instructions on how to great city,” says Rowan, who hails from outside BUSM on the Road Dean Antman also attended School of Medicine events hosted data is spectacular. Most students take 8 to 10 calibrate and utilize software being devel- Philadelphia. “I have had great experiences by graduates and parents around the country. Regional gather- months to finish a master’s-level project; she oped in collaboration with MIT and Rutgers and my professors are excellent. This past year was a busy one for Dean Karen Antman, MD, who ings are opportunities for alumni and parents to connect with finished one project in four months, is now fin- University to assist in complex, low-level “I am very honored to have been both was the featured speaker at Boston University events in Dallas, TX, each other and strengthen their relationships with the School of ishing a second project, and has volunteered to DNA mixture interpretation. nominated by my professors and selected by Scottsdale, AZ, and Chicago, IL, where her talk, “Routine Checkup: Medicine. Thank you to the alumni and parents who graciously do a third. Her dedication to forensic research “I am also developing a computer model the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation to receive the What to Expect in US Healthcare in 2013” sparked conversations hosted us this past year. We look forward to holding more of these is amazing.” of the forensic DNA process to identify and Cartha ‘Deke’ DeLoach Forensic Scholarship. among graduates from BU’s 16 schools and colleges. events in the future. Currently in her second year of the foren- characterize sources of error focusing on This award will support my coursework and sics program, Rowan is concentrating in sample preparation methods, as well as research as I complete my master’s degree.” Physician Assistant Program the fastest growing professions, with a 30 percent expected increase in PA Receives Accreditation positions during this decade. There are nearly 84,000 physician assistants practicing in the United States with an average salary of $92,460. The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician The Boston University School of Medicine Physician Assistant Assistant Inc. has approved the BU School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program will train physician assistants in a novel interprofessional Program for provisional accreditation, which is granted to programs that education and practice model. In this first year, up to 28 highly quali- have not yet enrolled students but have demonstrated preparedness to ini- fied candidates will be accepted; in the following years the program tiate a program in accordance with accreditation standards. will expand to a class of 36 students. The 28-month (seven-semester) The Physician Assistant (PA) profession began in 1965 at Duke program, housed in the BUSM Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, University and was developed to address the primary care shortage in includes 12 months of traditional lectures and seminar sessions in medi- rural and underserved areas. Physician assistants practice medicine with cal sciences and pathophysiology; the second 16 months provide clinical From left: Guy Mintz (CAS’80, MED’84), Ilsa Mintz, Dean Karen Antman, MD, physician supervision. The profession now includes medical providers in a education in hospitals and clinics with two months dedicated to the the- Thomas Dowling Jr. MED’81), George Hines (MED’69), Jean Ramsey (MED’90, SPH’08), Nancy Roberson Jasper (MED’84), David DiChiara (CAS’80, From left: Kathy Cohen, Dean Karen Antman, MD, Ryan Cohen (MED’16), variety of health care delivery settings and in virtually all medical and surgi- sis proposal. Graduates will receive a Master of Science degree. MED’84), and Lenore Brancato (MED’84). John Cohen, Jason Cohen, and Debi Cohen. cal specialties. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is among For more information, visit www.bu.edu/paprogram.

8 Campus & Alumni News | BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine Winter 2013 | www.bumc.bu.edu 9 left behind. Fellows are recognized as distin- guished figures in their fields who work with staff on special projects that help accomplish the organization’s priorities. faculty News Thomas Perls, MD, MPH, professor of medi- cine and a geriatrician at BMC, was honored with the Ewald W. Busse Research Award. Faculty Honors and Awards One of the most prestigious in the field of Thomas Perls, MD, MPH Benjamin Wolozin, MD, PhD David Harris, MD, PhD Mikel Garcia-Marcos, PhD Anurag Singh, PhD Lee Wetzler, MD gerontological research, the award is given appointed deputy editor of the journal every four years in conjunction with the World Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and several others. (G proteins) via a novel and unconventional found in patients with a history of cigarette Honors Radiology editorial board by the Radiological Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics and Wolozin is developing compounds that inhibit mechanism. His goal is to dissect how this smoking. Singh is a researcher in the BU/ Society of North America (RSNA). Guermazi recognizes the achievements of late junior or aggregation and toxicity caused by TDP-43, a mechanism is regulated at the molecular level Boston Medical Center Cancer Center and the Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, (MED’92), BUSM is the first faculty member from either insti- mid-career scientists, encouraging their con- protein that forms aggregates in Alzheimer’s to control the fate of tumor cells and cancer Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology. associate professor of medicine and program tution appointed to this role and will also tinued contributions to aging research. as well as other diseases, such as amyotrophic progression toward metastasis. director for the Addiction Medicine Fellowship, serve as a member of the Margulis Award for lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Lee Wetzler, MD, associate program director has been elected president of the Association for Scientific Excellence Nominating Committee. Benjamin Wolozin, MD, PhD, profes- He is known for his Alzheimer’s research, which Anurag Singh, PhD, assistant professor of for research in the section of infectious dis- Medical Education and Research in Substance Radiology is a leading peer-reviewed journal sor of pharmacology and neurology, was focuses on the role of cholesterol and investigat- pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, eases and an attending physician in the sec- Abuse (AMERSA), a multidisciplinary organiza- devoted to clinical radiology and allied sci- named chair of the National Institutes of ing mechanisms in which statins may impact the has received an American Lung Association tion of infectious diseases in the Department tion of health care professionals dedicated to ences published by the RSNA. Health Cellular and Molecular Biology of pathophysiology of the disease. (ALA) Lung Cancer Discovery Grant of of Medicine at BMC, was awarded a four- improving education in the care of individuals Neurodegeneration Study Section. Wolozin Comprised of six pharmaceutical compa- $100,000 per year for up to two years to year, $2.35 million grant from the National with substance abuse problems. His two-year Terence M. Keane, PhD, professor of psy- also serves as principal investigator of the nies that have joined together to identify new expand his research on targeted therapies for Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the devel- term started in November 2013. Alford is assis- chiatry and assistant dean for research at Laboratory of Neurodegeneration at BUSM targets in neuroscience, MNC funds research drug-resistant cancers. The grant is the largest opment of a gonococcal vaccine. The goal of tant dean for Continuing Medical Education BUSM, received the Distinguished Scientific and is affiliated with Boston University’s of an array of diseases to bring patients and amount the ALA provides and is only given to this work, which is being done in collaboration and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Contributions to Clinical Psychology Award Alzheimer’s Disease Center, as well as the their families closer to a cure for certain neu- two recipients annually. The highly competi- with Scott Gray-Owen, PhD, at the University Prescribing Education Program at BUSM, and from the American Psychological Association Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders rodegenerative diseases. tive award recognizes investigators focused of Toronto, is to develop a new model for medical director of the Office-Based Opioid presented at the annual conference of the Center. He is also a member of several on developing innovative medical treatments, gonococcal vaccine evaluation and prioritize Treatment Program at BMC. Society for Clinical Psychology, the largest Department of Medicine affinity research Mikel Garcia-Marcos, PhD, assistant profes- advancing current treatment options, or find- the feasibility of vaccine candidates to guide group of clinical psychologists in the world. groups including calcium, mitochondria, and sor of biochemistry, has received a four-year, ing a cure for lung cancer through clinical, future research. Wetzler is a professor of med- Alik Farber, MD, BUSM associate profes- The award recognizes his lifetime theoreti- protein trafficking. $650,000 Research Scholar Award from the laboratory, epidemiological, or other kinds of icine and associate professor of microbiol- sor of surgery and radiology and chief of the cal and empirical contributions to the field of American Cancer Society to fund his research research. Singh’s lab studies global mecha- ogy at BUSM. Increasing antibiotic resistance Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery clinical psychology. Keane is associate chief on molecular mechanisms and validation of a nisms that contribute to oncogene-driven has made the development of a vaccine for at BMC, was elected a distinguished fellow of of staff for research and development at AV AWARDS new target in cancer. Garcia-Marcos has found cancer progression, focusing mainly on lung, this disease vital and the Centers for Disease the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS). Farber Boston Healthcare System and director of a protein called GIV/Girdin which is aber- pancreatic, and colorectal cancers. The lab Control now recommends only one class of is medical director of the Catheterization & the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress David Harris, MD, PhD, professor and chair rantly overexpressed in aggressive cancers; is particularly focused on the KRAS onco- antibiotics to treat gonorrhea due to antibiotic Angiography Laboratories and codirector of the Disorder’s Behavioral Science Division. of biochemistry and Benjamin Wolozin, MD, he believes that this overexpression results in gene, which is mutated in one-third of lung resistance in the previous alternative treat- Vascular Noninvasive Laboratory at BMC, and PhD, professor of pharmacology and neurol- hyperamplification of signaling cascades that cancers. He will use the grant for research on ment options. Wetzler and his team investi- director of a fourth-year medical school elec- Robert Sege, MD, PhD, BUSM professor of ogy, have received Massachusetts Neuroscience promote metastasis. Specifically, GIV/Girdin strategies to clinically manage drug-resistant gate innate and adaptive immunity primarily tive designed for medical students preparing to pediatrics and chief of the Division of Family Consortium (MNC) Awards totaling $500,000 activates a critical group of signaling molecules KRAS-mutant lung cancers, which are often in regard to vaccine development. focus on surgery for their internships. SVS is a & Child Advocacy and medical director of to support research exploring new therapeutic not-for-profit professional medical society that the Child Protection Team at BMC, has been targets for Alzheimer’s disease. Harris is develop- seeks to advance excellence and innovation in named a senior fellow of the Center for the ing a novel approach to the therapy of the disease In Memoriam medicine at the recruited to BUSM and University Hospital, vascular health through education, advocacy, Study of Social Policy (CSSP), which works based on targeting a newly recognized molecular Hospital of the now BMC, in 1972. research, and public awareness. with state and federal policy makers and pathway responsible for neurodegeneration. His Lewis Weintraub, MD, a hematologist/ University of Dr. Weintraub authored more than communities across the country focusing on BUSM laboratory investigates the molecular and oncologist at Boston Medical Center Pennsylvania 75 papers and reviews covering topics Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, professor of public policy, research, and technical assis- cellular mechanisms underlying two classes of (BMC) and professor of medicine at Boston and the including hemochromatosis, myelofibrosis, radiology, director of the Quantitative tance. CSSP promotes policies that improve human neurodegenerative disorders: prion dis- University School of Medicine (BUSM), on University anemia, and thrombocytopenia. He was a Imaging Center at BUSM, and section chief the lives of children and their families and eases and Alzheimer’s, which are part of a larger August 18, at the West Roxbury VA Medical of Michigan, member of the Evans Medical Foundation of musculoskeletal imaging at BMC, was works to achieve equity for those too often group of neurodegenerative disorders including Center in the company of his wife Joan and and then in Board and the Cancer Care, Transfusion, sons Dan and Jon. hematology at and Pharmacy Committees at BMC. He was The recipient of the 2011 Jerome Klein Mount Sinai the first director of the BUSM II Biology of Award for Physician Excellence at BMC, Hospital. In Disease course in hematology. Dr. Weintraub was a BUSM faculty member the 1960s, he The Jerome Klein Award for Physician and BMC attending hematologist for more served as assis- Excellence was presented to Dr. Weintraub than 40 years. He served as chief of hema- tant chief of hematology at Walter Reed Army in recognition of his clinical and research tology from 1977 until 2003, continuing Hospital in Washington, DC, where he carried excellence, leadership, and commitment on the faculty as leading hematologist and out research on iron metabolism. He returned to education and mentoring. His dedica- hematology teacher. to Boston in 1965 as a member of the hema- tion to his patients and his contributions to He attended Dartmouth College and tology faculty at Tufts Medical School and generations of trainees in hematology were Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH Alik Farber, MD Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD Terence M. Keane, PhD Robert Sege, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, and trained in New England Medical Center until he was unparalleled.

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Mary Jane England (MED’64) Giving: Member, Dean’s Advisory Board Alumni Share Time, Expertise, and Commitment ary Jane England loves BU. “I am BU all from 1990 to 2001, bringing informed perspective to bear on the way, from my medical education to health care reform. “Boston University School of Medicine has given me so much more than I have ever given the School, but that doesn’t my residency to my current work with As president of Regis College in Weston, MA (which stop me from trying so that other young men and women can have the same experience and great training I had, which will the School of Public Health,” she says. is also her alma mater; she graduated in 1959), she over- A nationally recognized leader in saw the college’s transformation to coeducation, built its prompt them to give back to the School and to their communities.” health policy, mental health, and substance use, England, a graduate programs, and developed curricula to serve the —Kenneth Simons (MED’80) M graduate of the BUSM Class of 1964, has been a member of needs of diverse student populations through interdisci- BUSM’s Dean’s Advisory Board (DAB) since 1989, when it was plinary pathways leading to both graduate and undergrad- the Board of Visitors. A child psychiatrist, she is professor and uate degrees. f life is a series of connections, Boston University School of chair ad interim of the Department of Community Health England credits the support of strong female role models Medicine alumni are living the engaged life. The School’s alumni are not only Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. at BUSM with influencing her choice to become a psychia- With her leadership roles in public social and mental trist, and the deep bonds among a cohort of her female class- committed physicians and scientists, they universally and strongly believe in health service, education administration, and private health mates for her strong feelings for the School. the concept of giving back to the communities, institutions, and people who insurance and employer and employee benefits, England has She considers BUSM to be one of the best medical schools proven to be an important and valued voice on the DAB since in the country, with a mission that reflects her values. “The have had an impact on them and on the medical profession. n Their giving she was asked to join by Aram Chobanian, MD, then dean School is great and remains committed to women and minor- of the School of Medicine. “I have always been interested in ities as well as to the public sector through its affiliation with back includes generous financial support for the School, from endowing access to health care, and I was honored to join the board,” Boston Medical Center,” she explains. “So many medical professorships and scholarships to capital projects such as the Medical Student says England. schools don’t have that kind of connection.” “It isn’t simply the financing of health care; it is the She was especially keen to work with Dean Karen Residence. Just as beneficial to BUSM is the commitment many alumni make delivery system that has added to the need for reform. We Antman, MD, on initiatives to mitigate the high cost of a need to find ways to train our physicians to practice medi- medical education. “I said one of the things that would make to share their time, effort, and expertise with the School’s leadership, faculty, cine more efficiently and in teams. The challenge with health a big difference was housing, so she put me on a committee and students. n The seven graduates featured here represent a tradition that care changing is fitting our medical education to meet these to develop plans for living space for students,” she says. changes. We don’t want to dump our medical students into a “When I was a student here we could get cheap housing. goes back to 1874, when alumni organized an association to advance the broken system.” I lived in Worcester Square and then in the south block with England served as the first commissioner of the the nursing students drawing blood for room and board. But School’s mission. Each subsequent generation has demonstrated great loyalty Department of Social Services in Massachusetts and associate now that’s not possible, so our students have been forced and devotion to BUSM’s future physicians. Today’s students and recent dean and director of the Lucius N. Littauer Master in Public to live farther away and waste so much time commuting. Administration Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Dr. Antman deserves great credit for the push to build the graduates have an outstanding legacy to uphold. Government at Harvard University from 1983 to 1987. She Medical Student Residence. My major thrust now on the was vice president of Prudential Insurance Company and board is getting another residence built to house more served as CEO of the Washington Business Group on Health students.” I12 Campus & Alumni News | BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine Winter 2013 | www.bumc.bu.edu 13 feature ith more than 50 years of experience as a physician, Gilbert Norwood has a lot to teach medical students. He believes that practicing medicine is fun and learning to be a physician should also Volunteer Facilitators for BUsm Courses—Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM) beW fun. A 1953 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of BU and 1957 graduate of and Integrated Problems (IP) BUSM, Norwood is a retired pediatrician who had a private practice in ICM and IP are required courses for first- and second-year medical students. ICM teaches the components of physical examination and how Beverly, MA, and served as chief of pediatrics at Beverly Hospital. to do a complete history and physical exam. The IP course focuses on integrating basic science material with clinical application. Clinical “I had a great experience in medical school,” says Norwood. case presentation offers students the opportunity to develop hypotheses and research aspects of the cases. The courses are taught by “Many of our professors were doctors who had written the volunteer faculty, many of whom are alumni of the School of Medicine. important medical texts of the time. We had so many of the giants in medicine like Chester Keefer, Louis Weinstein, Robert Anna DePold Hohler (CAS‘98, MED‘98) Wilkins, Arnold Relman, and Stanley Robbins, to name a few. This Associate Professor of Neurology, an impact on the practice of medicine and he explains. “This is another reason why is a great field that has opened so many doors for me, and I enjoy Field Advisor, Faculty Advisor demonstrate his gratitude to BUSM. I feel I owe BU.” being a part of making this happen for today’s medical students.” “I was in academic medicine for Grande hosts first- and second-year While in practice, Norwood taught ICM to BUSM medical s a BUSM associate professor of neurology with a research a long time, so teaching is somewhat students in his practice in both the fall students in his office; he is currently an IP facilitator meeting program and assistant dean for academic affairs and director second nature to me. I love what I do, and and spring semesters, giving them the with students for eight weeks each spring and fall to share his of clinical development, Anna DePold Hohler (CAS’98, I couldn’t do it if I didn’t get my education chance to attend patient appointments expertise and perspective on the practice of medicine. As a MED’98) has a pretty busy schedule. But that doesn’t here,” he says. “I have this notion that you and surgical procedures. “We try to give volunteer teacher, he provides what he calls a “safe haven” in his stop her from spending as much time as she can working with students need to give something back.” them as many opportunities as possible class, and to the great delight of the students, brings chocolate A in a variety of capacities. “Having been involved in helping to revamp A retired colonel in the US Air Force to have hands-on experience with chip cookies to each of their meetings. the neurology clerkship curriculum, I looked for other opportunities to who as a reservist regularly volunteered patients, and our physician’s assistant is “Students today have all kinds of technology but my question to interact with students,” notes Hohler. “I volunteer teach for the ICM at clinics for military members and their wonderful with the students. While we them is, ‘What are you going to say when you meet your patients?’” course and typically have one or two students who work with me in Donald Grande (MED’73) families, Grande credits Peter Pochi, don’t palpate abdomens in dermatology, says Norwood. “I give them examples of what it is like in practice and the neurology clinic learning how to perform a neurological exam and Clinical Faculty, Dermatology MD ’55 and the former BUSM Herbert very often we do get melanoma patients generally helping with patients.” Mescon Professor of Dermatology, and who need a workup. The patient In additional to having several students working with her on her cademic medicine is familiar Barry Manuel, MD ’58, associate dean for population I have is very receptive to research, she is an academic advisor-at-large and a field-specific advisor turf to Donald Grande, a continuing medical education and former having students in the room.” who guides students interested in going into neurology. For the past three dermatologist in private executive director of the BUSM Alumni Grande also finds it extremely years she has been the faculty advisor to the student interest group in practice and Class of 1973 Association, for a good portion of his strong satisfying when one of the students neurology, helping to organize seminars and providing career guidance. BUSMA graduate. A clinical faculty member connection to the School. He has served becomes interested in dermatology She is now the neurology clerkship director at BMC. in the Department of Dermatology, as BUSM alumni phonathon director for and eventually succeeds in acquiring a A graduate of the Seven-Year Accelerated Medical Program, Grande has taught at Tufts Medical Center 15 years, encouraging his fellow alumni to residency in the field. I“ had a wonderful Hohler’s first choice for residency was BU and BMC, however, she had in Boston and Lahey Hospital & Medical support the School and as a past president student, Dan Philipedes, a genuine committed to the US Army. “When I completed my neurology residency Center in Burlington, MA. An expert in of the BUSM Alumni Association. hardworking guy who came as a first-year at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington and fulfilled my Mohs micrographic surgery, he has had Grande’s son found a fulfilling and student then came back as a second. additional four years of service to the military, my first impulse was to a steady stream of BUSM dermatology successful career as an officer and We stayed in touch and now he is in a Gilbert Norwood (CAS‘53, MED‘57) come back here,” she says. “Fortunately, I was able to do a fellowship surgical fellows train in his practice. medical administrator with the US Navy dermatology residency at Dartmouth- Retired Pediatrician in movement disorders, working with my former BUSM mentors Volunteering his time to teach BUSM through his BU School of Public Health Hitchcock. To see a kid like Dan come Samuel Elias and Marie St. Hillaire, and was recruited to the neurology medical students ICM and IP courses degree. “My son got great training at BU through and go all the way and get a department when I finished it. offers him another opportunity to have and his degree put him on the right path,” coveted spot is tremendous.” what they have to consider in taking care of patients. I worry about “Volunteering benefits everyone,” she says. “Students get a richer the current focus on computers and emphasize that they really have early clinical experience through the ICM course. When I take on to look at their patients and listen carefully to them.” medical students interested in research and teach them how to do IRB the past 25 years, he has probably attended nearly every alumni He works at getting the students to relax and open up about (internal review board) work, write papers, and submit them, it gives David Bailen (MED’67) FPO phonathon to raise funds for the School, but his most rewarding what they like to do outside of class. “One of my students was an them greater confidence. Retired Clinical Faculty, Internal Medicine BUSM volunteer activity is as an IP facilitator. artist, and I made sure he brought some of his work into class. I “I think when we engage in these kinds of activities with students “I volunteer to teach IP because it allows me the opportunity emphasize that they need to take care of themselves and get to know we offer a valuable gift, and I feel very rewarded when they say they olunteering gives to pass some of my medical knowledge to a new generation each other because doctors now have to work in teams.” He shares are really enjoying medical school or want to become a neurologist. me a means of of students,” he says. “I can serve as a role model for them the joys of being a pediatrician and reinforces the importance of “BUSM students today are interested in more than academic expressing my and keep my medical knowledge up to date. I enjoy getting being connected to patients. pursuits. They have a great social and cultural awareness and are gratitude to the to know them, and I have been impressed by how much more “I don’t have huge amounts of money to give the School,” inspiring in that way. They want to be well rounded and give back medical school,” David Bailen explains. “I remain loyal to self-directed they are; by how they have been taught to use says Norwood. “I try to give of myself, and as long as I am able to the community. They have been such an inspiration to me and my “V to I want to keep the connection. BU gave me a lot. And teaching BU today because I was provided the tools to have a lifetime differential diagnosis more extensively and to be more intuitive. colleagues that in the Department of Neurology we are developing a career in internal medicine that was stimulating, enjoyable, Also, the abundance of knowledge available to them through the students keeps me active; on my toes. It keeps my mind in health care delivery program in Haiti.” and rewarding.” technology and the online resources of the Alumni Medical medicine. It is such a pleasure when a student I had in their first Hohler credits the Neurology Department chair, Carlos Kase, MD, Now retired, Bailen was a clinical associate professor of Library is striking.” or second year stops me in the hall and tells me what he or she is for allowing her and others in the department the flexibility to give time medicine at BUSM and an internist on staff at BMC. He has Bailen strives to infuse students with an enthusiasm for doing and their plans for residency.” to students. “It is great that chairs have this understanding. Considering been an active alumnus who served as president of the BUSM medicine, caring for patients, and the medical school. He also Norwood ends each course by giving each student a gift the challenges of the changes in health care delivery, we need to step Alumni Association at the time of his 25th reunion and was a hopes his interactions with students encourages them to become certificate to Barnes & Noble, a suggested reading list, and a back a bit and take the time with our students now to secure the future faculty advisor to the BUSM chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha. In loyal future alumni. photo of the group. of our specialty and of medicine.”

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Antman describe what BUSM is today I grassroots effort to get the word out and was very proud.” get alumni back into the fold.” Today, DiChiara, a director on the A magna cum laude graduate of BU, Executive Committee of the BUSM Alumni DiChiara was a Modular Medical Integrated A Conversation with Associate Dean for Alumni Association and phonathon volunteer, is Curriculum (MMEDIC) student. The helping to prepare his class for their 30th MMEDIC pathway allows BU students to Affairs Jean Ramsey (MED’90, SPH’08) reunion. An obstetrician-gynecologist, be admitted to the School of Medicine after he is chief of obstetrics and gynecology their second year of undergraduate work, at Beverly Hospital in Beverly, MA, and allowing them to take medical school classes What was your experience like as a student here? medical director of Essex County OB/ during the last two years of undergraduate I felt a lot of support from my fellow students, the faculty, and GYN Associates. He also serves as clinical education. “I was very fortunate to have gone administration. I remember being amazed at what incredible director of a satellite third-year OB/GYN to BUSM and to have been an MMEDIC teachers there were at BUSM. I specifically remember Drs. Hoyt student,” he says. “I got into medical and McNary. Dr. Hoyt did a demonstration with balloons to help school at a time when many of my premed us understand complicated interwoven human embryology. I David DiChiara (CAS’80, MED‘84) BUSM OB/GYN Third-Year Clerkship classmates did not. I had a great education imagine now such a demonstration can be be done digitally, but he Director, BUSM Alumni Association, Reunion Organizer and a foundation in giving back to the was creative and this demonstration reflected his commitment to community because of the mission at BUSM. teaching and to the students, which continues to this day. t wasn’t until the approach of his 25th rotation for medical students. In 2012, he I feel that is something that has molded my Dr. McNary told us that we would have to work hard, but that reunion that David DiChiara became received a teaching award from BUSM for career and my life. we also needed to take time for ourselves; he called that “lollipops.” nostalgic about BUSM. “I was not the his work with third-year medical students. “I love feeling connected to BUSM. I I remember we celebrated his birthday in the Hiebert Lounge. In class representative, nor did I know “I feel that I would like to contribute love hearing what the new class is like and recognition of his commitment to the students, I wrote a song to the a lotI of people in my class, but for some to the School by raising awareness of what what the issues are on the horizon. I love tune of Oklahoma! and a group of us sang it at the piano. reason, after 25 years, and realizing what a great place BUSM is today. Touring the the opportunity to lend my experience a great education I received, I became campus, seeing the new student residence, to the table. I guess that I feel it’s time to You were active in volunteering as a student. Why did you very interested in getting other alumni and hearing about all the research that give something back to the institution and volunteer given all of the work involved in being a medical from my class together,” he recalls. “I is going on has inspired me to get the program that launched my career. I have a student? care arena. I felt so connected and grateful to BUSM. A position that had also attended a few Dean’s Club word out to other alums who have not very soft spot in my heart for BUSM and the I participated in our student organization, the Student Committee would allow me to develop opportunities for other alums to reconnect receptions, and when I listened to Dr. been involved in the past. I think it takes a experience that I had.” on Medical School Affairs (SCOMSA), along with other activities. I and engage with BUSM was the perfect job for me. It was another have always felt like I needed to give back to try to improve things opportunity to unabashedly give back, and I was so fortunate to be in for those who came after me. My mother used to stress this; that the right place at the right time. I am grateful to Dean Antman and to we had a responsibility to leave things a little better for those who Dr. Manuel for providing me with this opportunity. hen Ken Simons graduated from BUSM in two years,” recalls Simons. “The faculty and administra- would come after us. Working in student organizations helped me 1980, he received the Alumni Association tive leadership at the time were just some amazing people accomplish this at that time. If you could summarize them in a few sentences, how would Student Service Award for his volunteer who had a great impact on all of our lives. They had time for you describe the alumni of BUSM? And please describe current efforts during his student years—and he ­students—not just those with problems—which fostered a Why did you join the BUSM faculty? students at BUSM. Whasn’t stopped volunteering yet. A past president of the BUSM kind of family atmosphere.” I was working as a Harvard faculty member when I was recruited Our alumni are busy taking care of patients and making a difference Alumni Association, he is currently a director of the group and An ophthalmologist, Simons is keenly aware of how to BUSM by the Department of Ophthalmology. When I arrived in the world. They are in leadership positions around the country; continues his efforts as the key reunion organizer and class important alumni support is to medical education. He is on campus for the interview, I was quickly reminded that Boston they are the best and most dedicated of the private practitioners. fundraiser. currently interim senior associate dean for academic affairs University School of Medicine and BMC were unlike the other For the alums I have met, it is not a job, but a profession. They “Alumni phonathons and reunions keep me involved,” he at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) as well as asso- institutions where I had worked. The informational brochures remember vividly the professors and clinicians who changed their says. “When I was a student phonathon volunteer, I realized ciate dean for graduate medical education and accreditation on the tables in the waiting room and the leaflets on the bulletin lives and they are extremely grateful to BUSM for helping them that often, after a phone call updating alumni on what’s going and executive director of affiliated hospitals at MCW. A pro- boards that I perused while waiting for my interview were related become the physicians they are today. on at the School, they would donate. I said, fessor of ophthalmology, he serves as director to serving the underserved and addressing inequities in our health As for the current students, I always reassure alumni colleagues ‘wow, this really works.’ ” of ophthalmic pathology and chief of compre- care system. This resonated with me, as this was the primary that, “We are in good hands!” The alums would be proud of the As a student, he also knew someone in the hensive ophthalmology at the Eye Institute of reason I went into medicine. I felt like BUSM was where I belonged. current students. They are bright and talented—some would say class ahead of him whom he believes was the the MCW. At my previous job, many would applaud me for my work in the brighter and more talented than we were. They go beyond the first in the history of the School to owe more “Academic institutions last longer than any public health arena. While I appreciated this support, clearly I was lectures, the exams, and the graded expectations. They care about than $50,000 in education debt. He and other one leadership team, and I believe that what a fish out of water. Coming back to BUSM I had many colleagues the world and want to make things better. They spend time with concerned classmates spearheaded a fundrais- alumni give is their passion for the institution throughout the institution dedicated to serving the underserved, the homeless to better understand their situations and their needs. ing campaign that established a scholarship where they trained,” says Simons. “Alumni committed to the mission of “Exceptional Care Without Exception.” They are interested in improving end-of-life care. fund in honor of their 40th reunion. carry on the institution’s tradition. A good edu- I felt like I had come home! The BUSM Alumni Association supports many of the student “We were a very close-knit class and unfor- cational experience, and we had an outstand- organizations on campus. Through this relationship, I have the tunately two of our classmates died in the first ing one, makes you want to help keep that When the position of associate dean for alumni affairs became privilege of talking with the student leaders of these organizations. tradition going.” available, why did you decide to apply for it? I am amazed and impressed with their commitment to medicine Kenneth Simons (MED‘80) BUSM Alumni Association Past President, I felt like I owed so much to BUSM. I was thrilled to be back on campus, and to the health care of the population, which is why I know that BUSM Alumni Association Director, Reunion Organizer taking care of patients, and working in the broader public health we are in good hands.

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Roberta Apfel (MED’62) Class Spirit and a Suite Remembrance

Alumna’s planned gift will help her class endow a suite in the School of Medicine’s new Medical Student Residence in honor of their 50th reunion. Doing What Dr. Roberta Apfel remembers most from her time at the That Which Has Boston University School of Medicine are the supportive, close relationships—everyone from the dean to the janitor was invested Roberta Apfel, MD ’62 and her husband Bennett Simon, MD, at her Never Been Done in the lives of students. “It was a comfortable and supportive place 50th reunion. that was very focused on patients and the craft of medicine,” says Dr. Apfel, “and that was very important to me.” that.” Dr. Apfel herself could be considered a pioneer—she was To be sure, a supportive environment didn’t mean an easy one: the first woman to graduate Brandeis University who went on to “We worked so hard as medical students that we finally staged a medical school. M. Stuart Strong and Charles W. Vaughan, strike to get a 40-hour weekend, because we were working straight She and her husband Dr. Bennett Simon had been giving to through from Friday morning to Sunday night,” she recalls. “I spent BUSM steadily over the years, but as her 50th reunion drew closer, Pioneering Surgeons the whole winter of my fourth year in the tunnels underneath they thought more seriously about a planned gift. “We retired in Boston City Hospital. I hardly saw daylight.” 2008, timing things exquisitely so that our savings completely Those vivid memories and fond feelings for her medical school plummeted,” says Dr. Apfel with a chuckle. “A charitable gift annuity days have not dimmed. In fact, they’ve become even sharper over seemed like a win-win situation. We could give a gift and still receive the past decades as Dr. Apfel volunteered, donated, and rekindled some additional income.” relationships with her classmates. Since her 15th reunion, she At the same time, the 50th reunion planning committee began has been fundraising for BUSM through annual phonathons. “I discussing the mark they would leave on their alma mater. They appreciate the chance to meet current students, stay in touch with decided that their class gift would endow a suite in the new Medical my classmates, watch this cohort of peers move through time, and Student Residence. help BU raise money for the School.” “I think this new dormitory is a big, big step for BUSM, When she became class president for her 25th class reunion, something that I and a lot of my classmates see the need for,” Dr. Apfel built the reunion program around the subject of women explains Dr. Apfel. Funds from their charitable gift annuity will also in medicine—a particularly fitting theme for BUSM, as the School go to housing for medical students. “It will provide housing that’s ne is a woodworker, crafting fine furniture for family and originated from one of the country’s first medical schools for safe, reasonably affordable, and adds to group cohesiveness. These women, the New England Female Medical College. “BU tends to values are emblematic of our positive memories of medical school,” friends. The other is an artist with a penchant for pioneer,” she says, “even though it doesn’t get enough credit for she says. “And that’s something worth supporting.” painting portraits. Both are masters of head and neck surgery who share a deep and abiding commitment to caring for patients. n Alumna Shamim Dahod Named to BU Board of Trustees M. Stuart Strong and Charles W. Vaughan are world-renowned otolaryngologists who have Shamim Dahod (CGS’76, CAS’78, MED’87) is one of four new members of the Boston University Board of Trustees. Dahod is a primary care physician and board-certified internist in private practice graced the halls, laboratories, and operating in Chelmsford, MA. A Lowell General Hospital staff member since 1995, she also serves as a rooms of Boston University School of member of the Board of Governors there. Medicine and its teaching hospitals for Dahod has been a member of the School of Medicine Dean’s Advisory Board since 2004 and the University’s Board of Overseers since 2008; she was elected chair in September 2011. more than half a century. n Each in his In 2008, she and her husband Ashraf pledged $10.5 million to the School of Medicine to establish own right is a consummate physician and the Shamim and Ashraf Dahod Breast Cancer Research Center. The gift also funds assistant professor and international scholar positions at the center and helped support the construction of the School of gifted teacher. Together, they created the most Medicine’s student residence. advanced program for treating patients with A member of the Dawoodi Bohra, a Shiite Muslim sect, Dahod discussed the role of women in conditions of the head and neck and for training Muslim society in a U.S. News & World Report article titled “Muslim Mainstream.” With her husband, she has cosponsored philanthropic projects, including a state-of-the-art succeeding generations of outstanding patient- building at Lowell General Hospital; the construction of mosques in Massachusetts and New Jersey; a centered surgeons. 280-bed hospital in Mumbai, India; and a medical clinic in Yemen, where physicians from the United States provide pro bono specialty services on a two-week rotating basis. 18 Campus & Alumni News | BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine O Winter 2013 | www.bumc.bu.edu 19 I want to honor Drs. Strong and Vaughan

by establishing an endowed professorship in their names. The majority of departments of otolaryngology in the US now have endowed professorships, and this is important. An endowed While Strong, professor of otolaryngology, and Vaughan, enabling utilization of instruments as well as increasing the professorship will add to the prestige of our Otolaryngology associate professor of otolaryngology, are retired from clinical accuracy of diagnosis of malignancies, the size of tumors, and Department here at BUSM and will make the department more enticing to candidates when the time comes to recruit practice, their wisdom and visionary work in groundbreaking their effective removal. They were the first to publish research on the next chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and surgical interventions and treatments are evident in otolaryngology microsurgery of the larynx. Neck Surgery. care around the world. Together, they pioneered the use of the By 1968, Jako had joined Vaughan and Strong at BU. “Geza was For the past decade I have had a vision in my mind of carbon dioxide laser in otolaryngology surgery as well as the a dreamer and suggested that we take a look at a CO laser his friend being on a podium with Drs. Strong and Vaughan and saying to 2 them in front of their family, friends, former residents, and col- development and utilization of instruments for microsurgery of the Dr. Thomas Polanyi had developed,” says Strong. “He suggested we leagues that in appreciation of so much that you have given to larynx and ear. Charles W. Vaughan, MD, left, and M. Stuart Strong, MD. could use it as a cutting tool. We used the laryngoscope that Geza so many people over so many years, your names will be linked “Drs. Strong and Vaughan were very innovative,” says Kenneth Painting by Dr. Vaughan had designed to see the vocal chords of an animal model through a in perpetuity with the Department of Otolaryngology-Head Grundfast, MD, BUSM professor and chair of otolaryngology and narrow tube three-fourths of an inch in diameter. The laser could and Neck Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine a former resident of the two doctors. “When I came here to train, appeal at that time,” says Vaughan. “Antibiotics were curing most of vaporize tissue while significantly reducing bleeding, always a by the establishment of the Strong-Vaughan Professorship in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. I have made my own the laser was new. There were people coming from all over the US the indicators for ENT surgery, except for tonsillectomy, and who problem in the surgical field. I thought just maybe the laser might significant financial contribution to help establish the Strong- and other countries to learn how to use it. Their work inspired great wanted to do nothing but T&A’s [tonsils and adenoids] for the rest of have a place in microsurgery. Vaughan Professorship, but now I really do need the help of advances in our field. one’s life? And yet Dr. Strong’s enthusiasm was infectious. He was a “Being able to use the laser allowed us to do things in tight others to make it a reality. “Training with them was really a joy because they were so superb role model.” quarters we couldn’t do before. We started with small cancers of the dedicated to educating the next generation of otolaryngologists. Strong recalls Vaughan asking for more training in the specialty. vocal chords and then we did major cancers with the laser without Kenneth Grundfast, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology-Head “We didn’t have a residency training program. Charlie (Vaughan) They set high standards. Their energy and time was not used to doing a tracheotomy. This was a huge step forward.” and Neck Surgery advance their own reputations; they were totally committed to their said, ‘Why don’t we start one? ’ and so we did,” remembers Strong. “We were very quiet about our research,” recalls Vaughan. patients, residents, and medical students, and that is why we are “I knew a year with me would be more than enough, but there were “Before any public disclosure, we spent many hours, days, and months For more information on the M. Stuart Strong and Charles W. Vaughan working to establish an endowed professorship in their names.” several great surgeons at Beth Israel and a magnificent teacher at the discovering what we anatomically could and could not do with the laser, Professorship in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery or to make a Born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College and University VA Medical Center that he could train with as well. We put our plan and its effects, both histologically and clinically, on dogs and humans. gift, please contact Lawrence Crimmins, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, L219, Boston, MA 02218, crimmins@ College Dublin School of Physics, Strong came to BUSM in 1952 after for an otolaryngology residency together and it was approved with “My Triological Society candidate’s thesis detailed more bu.edu, P 617-638-5676, F 617-638-4139, C 857-600-6659, completing residencies at the Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital in Charlie as the first resident.” than a year of this work. Dr. Strong’s first laryngeal surgery was www.bu.edu/supportingbusm. Dublin, the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, and the Lahey Hospital Vaughan explains that he “discovered that otolaryngology or performed on a patient with cancer on the edge of his larynx that & Medical Center in Boston. By 1956 he was named chair of the head and neck surgery, its present name—is really general practice— required laryngectomy. This surgical experience was videoed and Department of Otolaryngology and chief of the Otolaryngology medicine, surgery, orthopedics, neurology, neurosurgery, cosmetics, the histologic evidence documented. Meticulous recording and

Service at University Hospital (now Boston Medical Center) psychiatry, psychology, magic, etc., in all age groups and genders. documentation of our experiences with the CO2 laser continued “As for Dr. Strong, I believe his greatest contribution is his and served in both positions until 1985. He became director of Although confined to a limited anatomic area, it is an area of great throughout our careers.” constant concern for the welfare of others and his contagious otolaryngology at Boston City Hospital in 1968, joining the BUSM interest to us all because it is concerned with the systems we use Vaughan assesses their pioneering work: “In laryngeal and other enthusiasm for the open mind.” program with the Tufts program led by Dr. Werner Chasin. Together, to establish and maintain relationships. And it is relationships head and neck cancer, the combination of the CO2 laser and the Dr. Grundfast says he continues to be in awe of the monumental they formed the Boston Training Program in Otolaryngology, which that provide the fun and pleasure of living. Indeed, they are the surgical microscope provides a superb Mohs surgery milieu wherein contributions to otolaryngology and general medicine made by his lasted for 25 years. Strong was named otolaryngologist-in-chief at fundamental reason, relating with patients, that most of us chose the only tissue that is removed is that which needs to be removed. mentors. “Once the utility of the laser was demonstrated here in Boston Children’s Hospital in 1976, where he served for two years. to become doctors.” Equally important, the same attributes allow very accurate Boston, it was rapidly accepted throughout the US, then in Europe Strong grew up on a farm in Kells, Ireland, the youngest of six Like Strong, Vaughan had good hand-eye coordination which he diagnosis of extent of disease, vastly improving treatment planning.” and other countries. There have been many innovations in technology children. “Because I was dyslexic, my homeschool teacher—my developed by drawing, modeling, and painting; at age eight he began When asked why he has stayed at BU for more than half a since their early work, including the cochlear implant, robotic aunt—thought I was uneducable, but I had a photographic memory. piano lessons. “The gestalt of surgery was first learned in my father’s century, he replies, “It has been and continues to be great fun. And surgery, and many microsurgery advances, but the use of the laser in I was very good with my hands and could fix anything, and that was factory, a large food processing facility with lots of machinery,” he perhaps the best of all, the great privilege of working with students, the larynx and in medicine in general was a big leap forward.” helpful on a farm. says. “Starting at age 14, I worked summers in the maintenance who, like our former resident and now Department Chair Ken “We did some good things that have stood the test of time,” Strong “While at Dublin University, I was in a student group run department and learned carpentry, plumbing, metal-working, Grundfast, continue to think that the student life is wonderful and says. “But I am most proud of having been part of the education and by faculty member Tom Wilson, a magical person and brilliant electrical wiring, painting, and the importance of keeping a food refuse to leave.” training of so many young people who have gone on to do things surgeon,” recalls Strong. “I was planning on being a general surgeon plant clean and sanitary just like an OR (operating room) and fixing we couldn’t have done. Today, Dr. Grundfast is leading a wonderful like my older brother, but Wilson was a very handsome man with things and keeping them that way. Just like surgery.” program. The training is excellent and he carries on what we believed curly hair; funny; and a yachtsman and painter who wrote the first Strong notes that he had been teaching BU medical students for to be important: being caring physicians and surgeons. He has book on pediatric otolaryngology. I wanted to be like him. He liked years when the residency program was formalized in 1957, so there recruited brilliant people with the ethics with which we started.” a paper that I did, so he suggested I go to the US to finish off my began a steady stream of BUSM graduates who came to train with At 89, Strong is still good with his hands. Currently, he’s making training before returning to work with him, which I never did.” him after doing their two-year surgical residencies. When Boston a coffee table for his oldest grandson who is getting married in the When Strong came to BU in 1952, he was the only City Hospital (BCH) became affiliated with BU, the program served spring, and he flies radio-controlled airplanes. otolaryngologist on staff and there was no residency program in the Massachusetts Memorial, BCH, and Boston VA. Dr. Vaughan continues his painting. He teaches at grand specialty at the School’s affiliated hospital, Massachusetts Memorial It was also in the late 1950s that Strong and Vaughan rounds for the residents as well as for first-year medical students Hospital (later University Hospital), so the surgical residents helped began collaborating with Geza Jako, an otolaryngologist at in their ICM. He has developed a series of videos that demonstrate care for his patients. the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary who was designing a aspects of professionalism and ethics through interviews with Vaughan, a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School laryngoscope and other instruments to advance microsurgical some of the most prominent otolaryngologists in the US as of Medicine, was in his second year of surgical residency in 1956 at techniques for otolaryngology surgery. The visualization provided well as residents, family members, and clergy who can help Left photo: Dr. Strong using the CO laser. Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, assigned to what was then called by a laryngoscope that could be suspended in position and the 2 residents better understand the importance of interpersonal and Right photo: From left: Drs. Charles W. Vaughan, Geza Jako, Thomas Polanyi, an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) rotation. “ENT did not have much magnification provided by the microscope were revolutionary, and M. Stuart Strong. communication skills.

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stress, and competition from other students to provide new avenues for combating this disease,” Novel Approach to Create Red Blood Cells, succeed, resulting in burnout and a decreased abil- he adds. ity to connect with patients.” The work was the result of an international “Research has shown that mindfulness medita- consortium of researchers led by Galagan and Platelets In Vitro Identified tion and yoga may increase psychological well-being, Gary Schoolnik at Stanford University, and included which is why we looked at how a course based on scientists from the Seattle Biomedical Research A study led by BUSM researchers has identified a these principles could impact medical students,” says Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Metabolon novel approach to create an unlimited number of Bond. “Our study provides compelling evidence that Inc., Caprion Proteomics Inc., and the Max Planck human red blood cells and platelets in vitro. In collab- mind-body approaches have benefits for medical stu- Institute for Infection Biology. oration with the School of Public Health (BUSPH) and dents and could have a positive impact on their inter- This research was funded by the National Boston Medical Center (BMC), the researchers dif- action with peers and patients.” Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the ferentiated induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into AhR plays National Institutes of Health, Department of Health these cell types, which are typically obtained through an important and Human Services, the Paul G. Allen Family blood donations. This finding could potentially reduce role in normal ■ Molecular Circuitry that Helps Foundation, the National Science Foundation Pre- the need for blood donations to treat patients requir- blood cell Researchers Tuberculosis Survive for Decades doctoral Fellowship Program, and the Burroughs ing blood transfusions and could help researchers development. have generated Identified Wellcome Fund Award for Translational Research. examine novel therapeutic targets to treat a variety of a map of Researchers from BU’s National Emerging Infectious conditions, including sickle cell disease. the cellular Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) have generated a map Published online in the journal Blood, the study circuitry of of the cellular circuitry of Mycobacterium tuberculo- ■ Method to Rapidly Identify Specific was led by George J. Murphy, PhD, assistant pro- Mycobacterium sis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis (TB). Strains of Illness Created fessor of medicine and codirector of the Center for NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health tuberculosis. This information, published online as an Advanced Researchers from Boston University School of Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at BU and BMC, and Sciences under grant award numbers P01-ES11624 Online Publication in the journal Nature, sheds new Medicine (BUSM) and George Washington performed in collaboration with David Sherr, PhD, pro- and P42ES007381; and the Art beCAUSE Breast light on the bacterium’s ability to survive inactive in University (GWU) have developed a method to rap- fessor of environmental health at BUSM and BUSPH. Cancer Foundation. the human body for decades, resist treatment, and idly identify pathogenic species and strains causing Using this new approach, the team added com- cause disease. illnesses, such as pneumonia, that could help lead to pounds that modulate the aryl hydrocarbon recep- “We have generated the first large-scale experi- earlier detection of disease outbreaks and pinpoint tor (AhR) pathway; previous research has shown this ■ Study Shows Mind-Body Course has mental map of thousands of molecular interactions in effective treatments more quickly. The findings are pathway to be involved in the promotion of cancer Positive Impact on Well-Being of Medical the bacterium that enable it to cause disease,” says featured online in the journal Genome Research. cell development via its interactions with environ- Students lead author James Galagan, PhD, associate direc- mental toxins. In this study, the team noted an expo- A BUSM study shows a mind-body class elective for “Our method can nential increase in the production of functional red medical students helps increase their self-compassion blood cells and platelets in a short period of time, and ability to manage thoughts and tasks more characterize a biological suggesting that AhR plays an important role in nor- effectively. The study, published in Medical Education Mycobacterium sample faster, more mal blood cell development. Online, also discusses how this innovative course tuberculosis, “This finding has enabled us to overcome a major may help medical students better manage stress the causative accurately, and in a more hurdle in terms of being able to produce enough of and feel more empowered to use mind-body skills This innovative agent of human automated fashion than these cells to have a potential therapeutic impact with their patients. course may tuberculosis any other approach both in the lab and, down the line, in patients,” says Allison Bond, MA, a third-year medical student help medical Murphy. “Additionally, our work suggests that AhR at BUSM, served as the paper’s first author. The students better out there.” has a very important biological function in how blood course was designed and taught by coauthor Heather manage stress. cells form in the body.” Mason, MA, founder and director of the Minded tor of Systems Biology at the NEIDL and associate Principal investigator Evan Johnson, PhD, BUSM Funding for this study was provided in part by Institute. professor of biomedical engineering, bioinformat- assistant professor of medicine, and Keith Crandall, the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National “An effective career in medicine requires tech- ics, and microbiology at BU. “Based on this map, we PhD, director of the Computational Biology Institute Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under nical competence and expertise, but just as impor- have developed the first computer models that will at GWU, have created a statistical framework called grant award number U01 HL107443-01; a Scholar tant is the ability to empathize and connect with ultimately enable us to more easily study this chal- Pathoscope to identify pathogenic genetic sequences Award from the American Society of Hematology; others, including patients,” says Robert Saper, MD, lenging infectious organism and develop new drugs, from infected tissue samples. an Affinity Research Collaborative award from MPH, associate professor of family medicine and therapeutics, and diagnostics. “Pathoscope is like completing a complex jigsaw the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Research director of integrative medicine at BUSM and BMC. “We pinpointed many molecules, interactions, puzzle,” says Johnson. “Instead of manually assem- at BU; a training grant from the NIH’s NHLBI “However, according to studies, medical students and responses that appear important for the bacte- bling the puzzle, which can take days or weeks of under award number 5T32HL007501-30; the experience tremendous demands from workload, rium but that had been previously overlooked. These tedious effort, we use a statistical algorithm that can

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determine how the picture should look without actu- “Critically ill bomb-blast patients needed quick assess- The researchers found UV exposure triggers ally putting it together. Our method can characterize a ments of their injuries, which had the most devastating MC1R wild-type protein, but not the RHC-associated biological sample faster, more accurately, and in a more effects to the lower limbs.” The majority of the mutants that interact and protect the tumor-­ automated fashion than any other approach out there.” As a result of the bombings, there were 3 fatali- athletes had played suppressor protein PTEN. Specially, MC1R protects This sequencing method will be relevant in a ties and 264 injured, with the most severe injuries UV-induced PTEN inactivation by PTEN phosphory- broad range of scenarios. For example, in hospitals, involving the lower extremities of those located clos- amateur or professional lation, PTEN oxidation, and WWP2 medicated PTEN Injuries it will allow for rapid screening of thousands of infec- est to the blasts. Shrapnel dispersed by the bombs degradation. resulting football, with the rest tious pathogens simultaneously, while being sensitive included pieces of metal, nails, and ball bearings. “Our research establishes that the MC1R-PTEN from the enough to monitor disease outbreaks caused by spe- Injuries resulting from the Marathon bombings are participating in hockey, axis is a central regulator for melanocytes in response Marathon cific pathogenic strains. Veterinarians can even apply relevant to the fields of rheumatology, rehabilitation, to UV exposure and reveals the molecular basis bombings are wrestling, or boxing. the method in their practices. This research is also orthopedics, and musculoskeletal imaging. underlying the association between MC1R vari- relevant to applicable outside of clinical settings, allowing offi- Boston Marathon bombing victims were subject ants and melanomagenesis,” explains correspond- the fields of cials to quickly identify agents of bioterrorism (e.g., to blast waves and blast wind resulting in soft tis- ing author Rutao Cui, MD, PhD, a BUSM associate rheumatology, in a tainted letter) and harmful pathogens on hard sue damage, limb fractures, and amputations. The injuries including concussions and subconcussive professor of dermatology as well as director of the rehabilitation, surfaces, soil, water, or in food products. study demonstrates the systematic need to examine trauma. Pigment Cell Biology Program. orthopedics, each extremity for musculoskeletal, neurological, and “This is the largest study to date of the clinical Funding for this study was provided by the and musculo­ vascular damage. In accordance with previous evi- presentation and course of CTE in autopsy-confirmed National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer skeletal ■ Marathon Bombing Victims Aided by dence, X-rays and CT scans should be used liberally cases of the disease,” says study author Robert A. Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the Harry imaging. Rapid Response, Imaging of Injuries to detect foreign objects, to define basic penetration Stern, PhD, BUSM professor of neurology and neuro- J. Lloyd Charitable Trust. ■ The Boston Marathon bombings brought interna- patterns, and to assess bony and soft tissue injuries. surgery. “However, the overall number of cases in the tional attention to the devastating effects of ter- study is still small and there may be more variations Melanoma with rorism. There were numerous victims with severe in CTE than described here.” a diameter that injuries that needed immediate attention. A novel ■ Disease Caused by Repeat Brain For the study, scientists examined the brains of had changed study in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal pub- Trauma in Athletes May AffectM emory, 36 male athletes ages 17 to 98 diagnosed with CTE in size. Image lished by Wiley on behalf of the American College Mood, Behavior CTE has after death who had no other brain disease, such courtesy of the of Rheumatology, presents cases from Boston-area been found in as Alzheimer’s. The majority of the athletes had National Cancer hospitals where victims were treated, examining the amateur and played amateur or professional football, with the Institute medical response and imaging technologies used to professional rest participating in hockey, wrestling, or boxing. save lives and limbs. athletes, A total of 22 had behavior and mood problems as members of their first symptoms of CTE, while 11 first experi- the military, enced memory and thinking problems. Three of the Boston Marathon and others who athletes did not show any symptoms of CTE at the “Our research experienced time of death. establishes that the bombing victims were repeated The study was supported by the National subject to blast waves head injuries Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans MC1R-PTEN axis is a including Affairs, the National Operating Committee on central regulator for and blast wind resulting concussions Standards for Athletic Equipment, the Sports Legacy in soft tissue damage, and Institute, the National Football League, and the melanocytes in subconcussive Andlinger Foundation. response to UV limb fractures, and New research suggests that chronic traumatic trauma. amputations. encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease associated exposure and with repeat brain trauma including concussions in ■ MC1R is a Potent Regulator of PTEN athletes, may initially impact people in two major Why are red-haired individuals so prone to devel- reveals the molecular “In an era of terrorism, even clinicians serving ways: by affecting behavior or mood or memory, oping melanoma? BUSM researchers have discov- basis underlying the nonmilitary patients need to understand the spectrum and cognitive abilities. The study appeared in ered that MC1R, one of the key genes that regulate of injuries caused by bomb explosions,” explains lead the August 21, 2013, online issue of Neurology, a person’s hair and skin color, protects against association between author Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, BUSM professor of radi- the medical journal of the American Academy of ultraviolet (UV) damage by direct interaction with MC1R variants and ology and BMC chief of the Section of Musculoskeletal Neurology. CTE has been found in amateur and PTEN, a well-known tumor-suppressor protein. Imaging in the Department of Radiology, one of the professional athletes, members of the military, These findings appeared in the August 22 issue of melanomagenesis.” many specialists who treated bombing victims at BMC. and others who experienced repeated head Molecular Cell.

24 Campus & Alumni News | BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine Winter 2013 | www.bumc.bu.edu 25 Albert M. Ghassemian, MD ■ Estella I. Leach ■ Louise E. Penta Gordon L. Snider, MD ■ Arnold Goldenberg, MD (MED‘54) Robert E. Leach, MD and Laurine Leach and P. A. Penta, MD (MED‘51) ■ ■ Ruth Snider ■ and Bernice Goldenberg ■ Susan E. Leeman, PhD ■ Lita Perkins and John S. Perkins (GSM ’36) ■ Edward Spindell, MD (MED‘53) Gloria Goldenberg and Philip T. Richard S. Leghorn Jona A. Perlmutter, MD and Judith K. Spindell ■ Giving Goldenberg, MD (MED‘46) ■ Sherry M. Leventhal and Donna Perlmutter Jack N. Spivack ■ Thank you, donors Burton P. Golub, MD (MED‘65) and Alan M. Leventhal ■ Astrid O. Peterson, MD (MED‘77, CAS’74) ■ Eliot Stewart and John M. Stewart ■ ■ and Lee Golub ■ Martin Levine (DGE’49) ■ N. N. Pike, Esq. (LAW’37) ■ Christine E. Stiefel Malcolm Gordon, MD (MED‘48) Ruth R. Levine, PhD ■ Peter E. Pochi, MD (MED‘55) ■ Louis W. Sullivan, MD (MED‘58) and Nan Miller ■ Brigitte Lonner and Joseph J. Lonner ■ M. Douglass Poirier, MD (MED‘76, CAS’73) and Eva G. Sullivan ■ Abraham D. Gosman and Lin Castre Rita E. Loos ■ and Jeffrey D. Tripp ■ Elliott H. Sweetser, MD (MED‘43) ■ and Dorothy A. Gottlieb (CAS’76) Inez Lopez ■ John I. Polk, MD (SED’13, MED‘74) and Aileen B. Sweetser ■ The Chester S. Keefer, MD Society • The Chester S. Keefer, MD Society was established as a means of recognizing and Leonard S. Gottlieb, MD ■ James H. Lowell II and Susan W. Lowell ■ Mary C. Nugent Polk (SON’76, ’77) Nevart Talanian Doris Grabosky and Jack Grabosky Douglas N. MacInnis, MD (MED‘46) ■ Theodore Polos, MD (MED‘47) Gloria P. Talis and the dedication and loyal support of individuals who have provided major assistance to Boston University School of Medicine. Ellen R. Grass ■ Thomas A. MacLean, MD (MED‘64) and Jean Polos George J. Talis, MD (MED‘50) ■ ■ The Society is named in honor of Dr. Chester S. Keefer, whose foresight and determination in roles as chairman of the Robert C. Green, MD and Sally E. McNagny, MD and Colleen K. MacLean Helen S. Ratner Lois N. Talis ■ Department of Medicine, dean of Boston University School of Medicine, and director of the Medical Center were responsible Morton S. Grossman (MET’42) ■ William I. Malamud, MD (MED‘54) and Frank Ratner, MD (MED‘47) ■ ■ Helen L. Tarlow and and Sylvia Grossman ■ and Camille C. Malamud Iver S. Ravin, MD (MED‘40) ■ Sherwood J. Tarlow (LAW’47) ■ for laying the foundation for the Boston University Medical Center. In memory of his spirit, we honor those donors whose Kenneth M. Grundfast, MD Jules N. Manger, MD (CGS’66) Nancy E. Rice, MD (MED‘65) Alfred I. Tauber, MD total contributions have reached $50,000 or more at the School of Medicine. Names in bold are new members. and Ruthanne Grundfast ■ and Janis G. Manger ■ and Millard J. Hyland, MD ■ and Paula Fredriksen, PhD Fritz Grunebaum ■ William M. Manger, MD, PhD Alexander M. Rodger ■ Diane Tauber Audrey & Martin Gruss Foundation ■ and Lynn S. Manger ■ Joelyn Rohman and Laszlo N. Tauber, MD ■ Jack C. Guden ■ Barry M. Manuel, MD (MED‘58, CAS’54) and Michael Rohman, MD (MED‘50) ■ Mary U. Taylor ■ John L. Hall II (CAS’65) and Ann T. Hall and Patricia D. Manuel, PhD (SON’78, Elihu Rose, PhD and Susan W. Rose Yolande Tsampalieros Kamlyn R. Haynes, MD (MED‘97, CAS’89) SED’86) ■ Bessie Rosenfield and Louis I. Rosenfield ■ and Gabriel Tsampalieros ■ and Joe Parse ■ Richard C. Marcus Sue Rosenwasser A. Raymond Tye (SMG’47) ■ Lewis Heafitz and Ina B. Heafitz ■ Rocco S. Marino, MD (MED‘42) ■ and Seymour Rosenwasser, MD ■ Sanford W. Udis, MD (MED‘44) ■ ■ ■ donor Anonymous Gerald Besson, MD (MED‘50) Sidney Covich ■ Arnold S. Hiatt Stella C. Martin, PhD and Clive R. Martin Gerald L. Ross Martin L. Vogel, MD (MED‘53) ■ ■ Carmela R. Abraham, PhD and Eleanore S. Besson ■ Michael J. Critelli and Joyce M. Critelli ■ Ian Highet and Lea Highet Ronald P. McCaffrey and Maureen McCaffrey Melanie Rothbaum and and Phyllis M. Vogel ■ ■ fy 2013 and Menachem E. Abraham ■ Jag Bhawan, MD Andrew B. Crummy, Jr., MD (MED‘55) and Ann S. Hintlian and Deran Hintlian John F. McCahan, MD David Rothbaum, MD (MED‘82) Franz Waldeck, MD, PhD ■ ■ ■ ■ Lawrence D. Ackman and Pratibha G. Bhawan, MD Elsa E. Crummy ■ Michael F. Holick, MD, PhD and Kathleen B. McCahan Paul Rothbaum and Jean Rothbaum Carl W. Walter, MD ■ ■ ■ report and Ronnie Ackman Betty E. Bishop Shamim A. Dahod, MD (MED‘87, CGS’76, and Sally A. Holick JoAnn McGrath Richard A. Rudders, MD and Margaret H. Walter Noubar B. Afeyan, PhD and Anna Afeyan and David W. Bishop, MD (MED’46) ■ CAS’78) and Ashraf M. Dahod ■ Arline Housman Jean E. McPhail Elayne Russek Murray Weinstock, MD (MED‘65) ■ ■ Gerald Ajemian and Lucille Ajemian■ Elsa C. Bodon, MD (MED‘41) ■ Brit d’Arbeloff and Herbert E. Housman (SMG’42) and Donald T. McPhail (SED’63) Doris M. Russell and and Gloria Weinstock ■ ■ Dwight M. Akers, MD (MED‘53) ■ S. Arthur Boruchoff, MD (MED‘51) ■ and Alexander V. d’Arbeloff ■ Charles Housman Robert F. Meenan, MD (MED‘72, GSM ’89) Robert F. Russell, MD (MED‘46) Anthony Weldon ■ and Beverly R. Akers ■ and Anna Silverman-Boruchoff, MD Paul E. Dixon, Jr. and Rebecca K. Dixon ■ Edward L. Housman (SMG’42) Rita Z. Mehos Stephen W. Russell, MD (MED‘55) Peter S. Wellington ■ ■ Joel J. Alpert (MED’49) ■ Elizabeth C. Dooling, MD (MED‘65) ■ and Charlotte Housman Robert B. Melikian (CGS’60, CAS’62) and Gail D. Russell and Judith F. Wellington and Barbara W. Alpert (SPH’79) ■ David G. Bradley and Katherine B. Bradley Paul R. Dooling and Sandra A. Danussi ■ Bernard L. Huang, MD (MED‘62, CAS’57) Steven A. Miller, MD (MED‘70, CAS’70) and Thomas J. Ryan, MD Jerrold A. Wexler and Joan Wexler ■ ■ ■ Norman W. Alpert and Jane Alpert ■ Yvonne K. Brockman and Hilda Ratner Dressler, MD (MED’34) ■ and Ann M. Huang Jacqueline H. Miller, PhD (CAS’70) and Nancy T. Ryan Robert H. Wexler ■ Winston D. Alt, MD (MED‘80) Stanley K. Brockman, MD (MED‘55) ■ ■ Carol A. Dyer and Gene Gordon, MD Richard E. Hunter, MD (MED‘44) Frank J. Miselis, MD (MED‘45) Hannah E. Sandson and Joanna B. Wexler ■ ■ and Deborah Gribbon ■ Nancy L. R. Bucher, M.D. (MED‘46) ■ and Minta Hunter and Theodora T. Miselis and John I. Sandson, MD Burton White, MD (MED‘61) ■ Gerhard R. Andlinger Helen L. Burr ■ and George Burr ■ Alan M. Edelstein, Esq. (SMG’47, LAW’49) David Ingall, MD (MED‘57, CAS’52, GRS’53) Jordan Monocandilos Francis P. Saunders, MD (MED‘58) and June S. White ■ and Jeanne D. Andlinger ■ Howard D. Buzzee ■ and Sybil Edelstein ■ and Carol Ingall Rodney A. Montag and Sally A. Montag and Lydia M. Saunders Joseph M. Wikler ■ ■ Dean Karen Antman, MD Robert A. Cameron ■ Richard H. Egdahl, MD Patricia K. Issarescu, MD (MED‘61) Sanford R. Montag and Nancy L. Montag Frank J. Schaberg, Jr., MD (MED‘68, and Madeline Wikler ■ ■ and Elliott Antman, MD ■ Felizardo S. Camilon, Jr., MD and Cynthia Egdahl (GRS’77) Hideo H. Itabashi, MD (MED‘54, CAS’49) Charles Mosesian CAS’68) and Monica J. Schaberg, MD Marcelle M. Willock, MD (GSM’89) ■ ■ ■ Max M. April, MD (MED‘85, CAS’81) and Althea B. Molarte, MD Mary Jane R. England, MD (MED‘64) ■ and Yoko O. Itabashi Merel G. Mountain (MED‘68, CAS’68) Alan Winters and Hope Winters ■ and Pamela T. April (SMG’83) Robert J. Carey, MD (MED‘54) Michael J. Esposito, MD (MED‘49) ■ Joseph A. Izzi, Sr., MD and Barbara A. Izzi Peter J. Mozden, MD (MED‘53) Alan L. Schechter, MD (MED‘78) Henry R. Wolfe, MD (MED‘45) ■ ■ Michael L. J. Apuzzo, MD (MED‘65) and Mary E. Carey (SED’55) ■ Joseph S. Fastow, MD (MED‘70) Jeffrey R. Jay, MD (MED‘83, CAS’83) Michael F. Mullarkey, MD (MED‘70) and Genevieve Schechter and Grace A. Wolfe ■ ■ and Helene Apuzzo ■ Richard J. Cavell, MD (MED‘61) and Ellen K. Fastow ■ and Mary Ellen A. Jay and Dawn Mullarkey (CAS’68) Rocco Schelzi Amber Wong ■ ■ Jeanne F. Arnold, MD (MED‘61) and Bonnie Cavell Judith N. Feldman Esther B. Kahn (SED’55) Paul F. Nace, Jr. Robert E. Schiesske Arnold Wong, Jr. ■ and Peter F. Jeffries, MD (MED‘60) ■ Ann C. Cea, MD (MED‘67) Joseph T. Ferrucci, MD and Brenda Ferrucci Charlotte A. Kaitz Gurramkonda Naidu and G. V. Naidu Charles L. Schwager (SMG’66) Peak Woo, MD (MED‘78, CAS’78) ■ ■ William Y. W. Au, MD (MED‘55, CAS’51) and Anthony Tedeschi ■ Idea S. Fiering ■ and Louis L. Kaitz (MET’78, SMG’47) Carolann S. Najarian, MD (MED‘80) and Evelyn C. Schwager (SMG’66) and Celia T. Chung-Woo ■ and Beverly N. Au ■ ■ Edmond E. Charrette, MD (MED‘62) Samuel Finkielsztein and Gala Finkielsztein Donald M. Kaplan, MD (MED‘73) and George Najarian Richard D. Scott, MD Earle G. Woodman, MD (MED‘58) ■ ■ ■ ■ Edward Avedisian (CFA’59, ’61) and Maria T. Charrette George A. Finley III and Phyllis A. Finley and Edna E. Kaplan (COM’88) John H. Nichols, Jr. and Mary D. Scott, MD Herbert H. Wotiz, PhD ■ ■ and Pamela W. Avedisian, DDH Harold N. Chefitz (COM’55, CGS’53) Nicholas J. Fiumara, MD (MED‘39) ■ Sarkis J. Kechejian, MD (MED‘63) Wilson Nolen Herman Selinsky, MD (MED‘24) Moshe Yanai and Rachel Yanai ■ John T. Avellino and R. Ellen Avellino ■ and Charlotte M. Chefitz ■ Charlotte K. Forster and Philip Forster and Ida Kechejian Dawn B. Norcia and David J. Norcia Jerome S. Serchuck Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD (MED‘64) and ■ Richard K. Babayan, MD Jeremy Chess, MD (MED‘70, CAS’70) Frederick L. Fox, MD (MED‘68) Earl G. Kendrick, Jr. and Randy Kendrick N. Stephen Ober, MD (MED’86, CAS’82) and Joan S. Serchuck Julie Yannuzzi ■ ■ and Sonya Nersessian, Esq. (LAW’85) ■ and Joan L. Chess and Gail P. Fox ■ Nasir A. Khan, MD and Faith M. Ober Jane L. Shapiro (CAS’69) Frances W. Young ■ ■ Merwyn Bagan, MD (MED‘62, SPH’95) Yi-Chuan Ching, MD (MED‘58) Beverly R. Franklin (CAS’44) and and Kay S. Khan (SON’65, ’81) Anne W. O’Connor Muriel Shapiro and Arnold Shapiro Jeremiah O. Young, MD (MED‘62) ■ ■ and Carol J. Bagan ■ and Helen Yu-Ching ■ ■ William E. Franklin, MD (MED‘46) ■ Elaine B. Kirshenbaum (CAS’71, SED’72, and John F. O’Connor, MD (MED‘57) Richard J. Shemin, MD (MED‘74, CAS’72) and Beverly A. Young ■ Shirley Baker and Steven Baker ■ Aram V. Chobanian, MD Carl Franzblau, PhD SPH’79) and Howard D. Kirshenbaum, Bertha Offenbach Fineberg, MD (MED‘36) and Susan H. Shemin Larry C. Young ■ ■ Anita B. Barkan (CAS’46) and and Jasmine Chobanian ■ and Myrna Franzblau (SED’73) MD and Nathan L. Fineberg, MD (MED‘30) Norton L. Sherman and Claire Sherman Lily Moo Young, MD (MED‘65) ■ ■ Donald B. Barkan, MD (CAS’43, David J. Chronley, MD (MED‘74) Charles N. Freed and Marlene Freed Catherine M. Konefal Carl A. Olsson, MD (MED‘63) Stuart E. Siegel, MD (MED‘67, CAS’67) and John G. Johansson ■ ■ MED‘45) ■ and Marianne J. Chronley ■ Patricia L. Freysinger (SON’82) ■ Stanley H. Konefal, MD (MED‘47) and Mary D. Olsson and Barbara Siegel Marion L. Young ■ ■ ■ Douglas E. Barnard, MD (MED‘65) Frank Citrone, Jr. and Carol Citrone ■ Monte Friedkin and Skeets Friedkin and Elaine Foster Paul I. Ossen, MD (MED‘43) John R. Silber, PhD and Charles R. Young, PhD ■ and Donna R. Barnard, MD (MED‘65) ■ John F. Cogan, Jr. Ralph G. Ganick, MD (MED‘67, CAS’67) Lewis F. Kornfeld, Jr. and Rose Ann Kornfeld Hytho H. Pantazelos, MD (MED‘63) and Kathryn U. Silber Barry Zuckerman, MD Paul C. Barsam, MD (STH’52) and Mary L. Cornille (GRS’87) and Lois B. Ganick ■ Edward E. Krukonis, MD (MED‘63) and Peter G. Pantazelos Lee B. Silver, MD (MED‘82, CAS’82) and and Pamela Zuckerman, MD and Priscilla J. Krukonis ■ Simon C. Parisier, MD (MED‘61) Rachelle L. Silver ■ and Joyce L. Barsam, PhD ■ Alan S. Cohen, MD (MED‘52) Ray A. Garver and Donna L. Garver ■ Honorary Members Lawrence E. Langsam (SMG’57) and Elaine Parisier ■ Wesley R. Skinner ■ Ruth M. Batson (SED’76) ■ and Joan P. Cohen Marion L. Gendron (PAL’26) ■ Dorothy C. Keefer (PAL’48, ’46) ■ and Hannah S. Langsam Dianne M. Parrotte, MD (MED‘79, CAS’79) and Charlotte A. Skinner ■ Howard C. Beane, MD (MED‘57) Mary Lou Cohn Alan Gerry and Sandra Gerry Carl Lyle and Ishbel K. Lyle ■ ■ and Shirley T. Beane ■ and Arthur B. Wein, MD (MED‘39) ■ George E. Ghareeb, MD (MED‘62) Charna C. Larkin and Alan B. Larkin William Patty and Eliot Patty Charles W. Smith ■ ■ Franklyn D. Berry, MD (MED‘41) ■ Marian M. Cook and Nancy B. Ghareeb Lenore Larkin and Harold S. Larkin Jordan C. Paul and Valerie J. Paul and Hazel Smith (MET’83)

■ FY13 Donors | ■ Deceased

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Gifts from THE Dean’s Advisory Board, Alumni, Parents, Faculty and Staff, and Friends • ■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Three-year Consecutive Giving | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased Boston University School of Medicine is proud to recognize the generosity of members of the Dean’s Advisory Board, alumni, parents, faculty, staff, corporations, foundations, organizations, and friends this past year. Their support has helped the School of Louise E. Penta ■ Christine S. Hunter, MD (MED‘80, CAS‘80) Tumika Williams-Wilson, MD (MED‘85) Donald P. Dobson, MD (MED‘50) Medicine establish new programs and projects that enhance the living and learning environment for our students and advance our Jean Z. Perkins and Elinor C. Perkins and Robert H. Hunter ■ ■ and Theodore A. Wilson ■ and Mary Dobson ■ ■ research. We thank our donors for their vision and philanthropy. Additionally, we are pleased to recognize the generous University- Barbara Anne Robinson (SED‘51) ■ ■ David Ingall, MD (MED‘57, CAS‘52, GRS‘53) Robert A. Witzburg, MD (MED‘77) Gerard M. Doherty, MD and Faith Cuenin ■ Paul Rothbaum ■ ■ and Carol K. Ingall ■ ■ and Lorraine G. Witzburg (SED‘06) ■ ■ Elizabeth C. Dooling, MD (MED‘65) ■ wide support of our BUSM alumni. While space constraints prevent us from listing the many donors who gave gifts under $250, Stephen W. Russell, MD (MED‘55) Peter F. Jeffries, MD (MED‘60) Michael S. Drucker, MD (MED‘69) we sincerely appreciate their support. and Gail D. Russell ■ ■ and Jeanne F. Arnold, MD (MED‘61) ■ $1,500–$2,499 and Deirdre D. Drucker ■ ■ Richard D. Scott, MD and Mary Scott, MD ■ ■ Donald M. Kaplan, MD (MED‘73) Anonymous ■ David A. Druckman, MD (MED‘91, CAS‘91) David C. Seldin, MD, PhD and Edna E. Kaplan (COM ‘88) ■ ■ Gerald Ajemian and Lucille Ajemian ■ and Beth Druckman ■ ■ and Elizabeth Hohmann ■ ■ M. David Kelleher, MD (MED‘65) Carola A. Arndt, MD (MED‘78, CAS‘78) David R. Edelstein, MD (MED‘80) Alyssa Shooshan ■ and Elizabeth C. Kelleher ■ ■ ■ and Richard S. Buckanin ■ ■ and Eve L. Edelstein ■ ■ $1M–4.9M Robert W. Schulze, MD (CAS‘86, GRS‘88, Peak Woo, MD (MED‘78, CAS‘78) John G. Shooshan and Marcia Shooshan Peter C. Kelly, MD (MED‘65) Janis L. Baccari, MD (MED‘95, CAS‘91) ■ ■ Dina M. Esposito ■ Ashraf M. Dahod and MED‘92) and Dee S. Santilli ■ ■ ■ and Celia T. Chung-Woo ■ Gordon L. Snider, MD ■ ■ and Suzanne Kelly ■ ■ David A. Bailen, MD (MED‘67) Michael J. Esposito, MD (MED‘49) ■ Dean’s advisory board Shamim A. Dahod, MD (MED‘87, Trust of Mary D. Wells ■ Earle G. Woodman, MD (MED‘58) ■ ■ George H. Stephenson, Esq. (LAW‘65, ‘61) Burton I. Korelitz, MD (MED‘51) and Helene R. Bailen (CAS‘63) ■ ■ ■ John R. Evans, Jr. ■ CGS‘76, CAS‘78) ■ ■ Lily M. Young, MD (MED‘65) and Jane H. Stephenson ■ and Ann Z. Korelitz ■ ■ Paul F. Barresi, MD (MED‘83) Jack T. Evjy, MD (MED‘61) Menachem Abraham ■ Stephen R. Karp (CAS‘63) $10,000–$24,999 and John G. Johansson ■ Diane Stewart ■ Ann Lafyatis ■ and Judy Barresi ■ and Sheila A. Evjy, RN (SON‘82) ■ Gerald Ajemian ■ and Jill E. Karp ■ ■ Anonymous (2) Sandra Stewart ■ Paul A. Levine, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) ■ ■ Paul C. Barsam, MD (STH‘52) Francis A. Farraye, MD ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Joel J. Alpert, MD ■ Jack N. Spivack Menachem E. Abraham and $5,000–$9,999 Jane A. Winchester, MD (MED‘63) James H. Lowell and Susan W. Lowell and Joyce L. Barsam, PhD and Renee Remily Carmela R. Abraham, PhD ■ ■ ■ James B. Bassett, Jr., MD (MED‘80) Larry C. Young ■ William M. Manger, MD, PhD Howard C. Bauchner, MD (MED‘79) Richard Fink and Carol A. Fink Max M. April, MD (CAS’81, MED’85) $250,000–$499,999 Winston D. Alt, MD (MED‘80) and and Lily L. Bassett (GSM‘79) ■ ■ and Lynn S. Manger ■ and Christine M. McElroy, PhD Robert F. Fishman, MD (MED‘85) John T. Avellino ■ Anonymous ■ Deborah A. Gribbon Howard C. Beane, MD (MED‘57) $2,500–$4,999 Stella C. Martin, PhD and Clive R. Martin ■ ■ (GRS‘81, ‘84) ■ ■ ■ ■ and Susan B. Eysmann, MD ■ ■ Merwyn Bagan, MD, MPH (MED’62, The Estate of Patricia M. Aronowitz Michael L. J. Apuzzo, MD (MED‘65) and Shirley T. Beane ■ ■ Robert G. Alexander, MD (MED‘74, CAS‘67) Edward J. McDonald, Jr. Luis A. Bauzo, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘79) Edward W. Forbes, MD (MED‘69, CAS‘69) SPH’95) ■ and Helene Apuzzo ■ Robert M. Beazley, MD ■ ■ and Teresa D. Alexander ■ ■ and Catherine A. McDonald ■ and Jill V. Read ■ and Ellen G. Forbes ■ ■ Lawrence C. Cancro (CAS’77) ■ $100,000–$249,999 William Y. W. Au, MD (MED‘55, Gerald Besson, MD (MED‘50) Gerhard R. Andlinger and Jeanne D. Andlinger Friends of Mary Miliano John H. Bechtel, MD (MED‘50) Dagmar B. Friedman ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Ann C. Cea, MD (MED’67) ■ Anonymous CAS‘51) and Eleanore S. Besson Joseph S. Baler, MD (MED‘86, CAS‘80, Guy L. Mintz, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘80) and Shirley F. Bechtel Ronald S. Gabriel, MD (MED‘63) Barbara W. Alpert (SPH‘79) John T. Avellino James F. Bopp, Jr. ■ ■ ■ GRS‘82) and Mary E. Drislaine ■ ■ and Ilisa Mintz ■ A. Robert Bellows, MD (MED‘63) and Idalia Gabriel ■ Harold N. Chefitz (CGS’53, COM’55) ■ and Joel J. Alpert, MD ■ ■ and R. Ellen Avellino ■ ■ Lawrence C. Cancro (CAS‘77) Elizabeth Day Barnett, MD (MED‘85) Thomas J. Moore, MD and Jean F. Bellows ■ Harold M. Ginzburg, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) Michael J. Critelli ■ Merwyn Bagan, MD (MED‘62, Yvonne K. Brockman and Luise A. Cancro ■ and Suleiman Kutana ■ ■ ■ and Mary C. Moore ■ ■ ■ ■ Steven L. Berk, MD (MED‘75) and Mhairi M. Ginzburg ■ ■ Suzanne Cutler, PhD (SMG’61) ■ SPH‘95) and Carol J. Bagan ■ ■ Harold N. Chefitz (COM‘55, CGS‘53) Charles D. Casat, MD (MED‘63) G. Curtis Barry, MD (MED‘63) Avadhoot Nadkarni and Shirley A. Berk ■ ■ Christopher P. Godek, MD (MED‘94) Shamim A. Dahod, MD Douglas E. Barnard, MD (MED‘65) and Charlotte M. Chefitz ■ and Jeanette Casat ■ ■ and Pauline T. Barry ■ ■ ■ and Mangala A. Nadkarni ■ ■ Leonard D. Berman, MD and Kristen Godek ■ ■ (MED’87, CGS’76, CAS’78) ■ and Donna R. Barnard, MD Aram V. Chobanian, MD Ann C. Cea, MD (MED‘67) Laurel Beverley, MD (MED‘97, SPH‘97) ■ ■ Larry S. Nichter, MD (MED‘78, CGS‘71, and Audrey B. Berman ■ ■ ■ Leonard A. Greene, MD (MED‘60, CAS‘52) ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Alan M. Edelstein (SMG’47, LAW’49) ■ (MED‘65) and Jasmine Chobanian and Anthony Tedeschi Charles M. Bliss, MD (MED‘63) CAS‘73) Richard D. Bland, MD (MED‘66) and Joan E. Greene Ian Highet and Lea Highet ■ Michael J. Critelli and Joyce M. Critelli ■ David J. Chronley, MD (MED‘74) and Barbara W. Bliss ■ ■ ■ ■ N. Stephen Ober, MD (MED‘86, CAS‘82) and Marlene Rabinovitch, MD ■ ■ Michihiko Hayashida, MD (MED‘53, CAS‘49) Mary Jane England, MD (MED’64, Hon.’98) ■ Susan E. Leeman, PhD ■ ■ Andrew B. Crummy, Jr., MD (MED‘55) and Marianne K. Chronley ■ Joan E. Cohen and Bruce Cohen ■ and Faith M. Ober ■ ■ Susan E. Bradford, MD (MED‘67, CAS‘67) ■ ■ and Bernice Y. Hayashida ■ ■ Joseph S. Fastow, MD (MED’70) ■ JoAnn McGrath and Family and Elsa E. Crummy ■ John P. Cloherty, MD (MED‘62) Michael G. Connolly, Jr., MD (MED‘86) Steven Pack and Karen Pack Lewis E. Braverman, MD David G. Heller, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) Jonathan P. Gertler (GSM’99) ■ Carl A. Olsson, MD (MED‘63) Suzanne Cutler, PhD (SMG‘61) ■ and Ann M. Cloherty ■ and Susan P. Wilkens ■ Terry R. Peel and Ann D. Peel ■ and Miriam G. Braverman ■ and Nancy R. Heller (SED‘65) ■ Albert M. Ghassemian, MD ■ and Mary D. Olsson ■ ■ Thomas J. Dowling, Jr., MD (MED‘81, Patricia A. Connolly, MD (MED‘84) ■ ■ Ronald B. Corley, PhD Astrid O. Peterson, MD (MED‘77, Gregory A. Brodek (CGS‘82, CAS‘84) Marcia Edelstein Herrmann (MED‘78) Lewis Heafitz ■ William Patty and Eliot Patty ■ CAS‘81) and Rosemary Dowling ■ ■ ■ Robert M. Davidson and Janice Corley ■ ■ ■ ■ CAS‘74) ■ ■ and Camille M. Brodek and Jeffrey C. Herrmann ■ ■ ■ Jeffrey R. Jay, MD (CAS’83, MED’83) ■ Robert E. Schiesske Joseph S. Fastow, MD (MED‘70) and Janice G. Davidson David P. DiChiara, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘80) Jondavid Pollock, MD (MED‘92, GRS‘92) Lynne Brodsky, MD (MED‘83, SPH‘88) Richard W. Hill, Esq. (LAW‘83) Jerome S. Serchuck and Ellen K. Fastow ■ Nancy Djang ■ ■ ■ and Maria J. DiChiara ■ ■ ■ and Marjorie S. Moolten, PhD (GRS‘91, and Rob Levine ■ ■ and Anne K. Hill, Esq. (LAW‘83) ■ ■ ■ Sarkis J. Kechejian, MD (MED’63) ■ and Joan S. Serchuck ■ ■ Patricia L. Freysinger (SON‘82) ■ Mary Jane England, MD Ineke M. Dikland ■ CAS‘86) ■ ■ Ben R. Bronstein, MD (CGS‘70, CAS‘72, Brian J. Hines, MD (MED‘96) Elaine B. Kirshenbaum Eliot Stewart Clayton W. Frye ■ (MED‘64) ■ ■ ■ ■ Bill and Kay Dixon ■ Laszlo Potyondy and Jane Potyondy ■ MED‘76, GSM‘89) and Tracy Shevell, MD ■ (CAS’71, SED’72, SPH’79) ■ Joseph M. Wikler Burton P. Golub, MD (MED‘65) Richard K. Forster, MD (MED‘63) Gerard M. Doherty, MD Lura S. Provost (SED‘63) ■ ■ and Magda S. Bronstein, MD ■ ■ George L. Hines, MD (MED‘69, CAS‘69) Michael J. Kussman, MD and Madeline Wikler ■ and Lee H. Golub ■ and Janet F. Forster ■ ■ and Faith E. Cuenin ■ ■ Ronald L. Ragland, MD (MED‘82) David A. Bross, MD (MED‘88) ■ and Helene A. Hines (SAR‘69) ■ ■ ■ (CAS’68, MED’68) ■ Julie Hansell ■ Frederick L. Fox, MD (MED‘68) Alan M. Edelstein (SMG ‘47, LAW‘49) and Kathy M. Young-Ragland ■ ■ Karen T. Brown, MD (MED‘79) Victor I. Hochberg, MD (MED‘63) ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Sherry M. Leventhal ■ $50,000–$99,999 Kamlyn R. Haynes, MD (MED‘97, and Gail P. Fox and Sybil Edelstein Bindu Raju, MD (MED‘93, CAS‘93) and Peter Suchy Mary C. Hopkins Anonymous ■ CAS‘89) and Joe Parse ■ ■ Ralph G. Ganick, MD (MED‘67, CAS‘67) Cory M. Edgar, MD (GRS‘99, ‘00; GMS‘06; Joel A. Roffman, MD (MED‘75, CAS‘72) Robert H. Brown, MD (MED‘65) Jeffrey P. Hurley, MD (MED‘84) ■ ■ ■ Adrienne Penta Lissner Patricia K. Issarescu, MD (MED‘61) ■ Juan D. Hernandez Batista and Lois B. Ganick ■ ■ ■ MED‘06) ■ ■ and Nancy C. Roffman ■ ■ and Joyce W. Brown ■ ■ Harry M. Iannotti, MD (MED‘66) Jules N. Manger (CGS’66) ■ Lee Silver, MD (MED‘82, CAS‘82) Kathleen L. Irwin, MD (MED‘83) Ray A. Garver and Donna L. Garver ■ I. Howard Fine, MD (MED‘66) Scott M. Ross, MD (MED‘82) and Peter N. Carbonara, MD (MED‘57) and Judith A. Iannotti ■ ■ William Muir Manger, MD ■ and Rachelle Silver ■ ■ and Richard W. Steketee Howard A. Green, MD (MED‘85) and Victoria Fine Angela V. Ross, DDS (SDM‘84, ‘86) ■ ■ and Jean M. Carbonara, MD ■ ■ Alexander Ingerman, MD (MED‘88) Rita Z. Mehos ■ Jeffrey R. Jay, MD (MED‘83, CAS‘83) and Joanne C. Green, DDS ■ ■ David W. Fontaine, MD (MED‘90) Jordan S. Ruboy, MD (MED‘55, GRS‘51) ■ ■ Russell and Gerri Carney ■ and Sandra R. Weitz, MD (MED‘88) ■ Edward T. Moore ■ $25,000–$49,999 and Mary Ellen A. Jay RoxAnn J. Haynes (SED‘56) and Laurie Fontaine ■ Frank J. Schaberg, Jr., MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) Arthur P. Carriere, MD (MED‘62, CAS‘58) Ruth Kandel and Kevan L. Hartshorn ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ N. Stephen Ober, MD (CAS’82, MED’86) ■ Norman W. Alpert and Jane D. Alpert Conan Kornetsky, PhD and Frederick M. Haynes Joseph M. Fonte, MD (MED‘97, CAS‘92) and Monica J. Schaberg, MD (MED‘68, and Ann K. Carriere Onni C. Kangas, MD (MED‘54, CAS‘50) Karen H. Antman, MD The Estate of Harry J. Krokus ■ John P. Howe III, MD (MED‘69) and Lina Fonte ■ CAS‘68) ■ ■ Michael J. Cassidy, MD (MED‘73) and Joan H. Kangas ■ ■ (MED’61) ■ Simon C. Parisier, MD and Elliott Antman, MD ■ ■ Barry M. Manuel, MD (MED‘58, CAS‘54) and Tyrrell E. Flawn ■ ■ Frederick A. Godley III, MD (MED‘83) Alan L. Schechter, MD (MED‘78) and Andrea W. Cassidy ■ Kenneth P. Kato, MD (MED‘89) Terry R. Peel ■ Melvin R. Berlin and Randy L. Berlin ■ and Patricia D. Manuel, PhD James B. Howell, MD (MED‘65) and Kathleen Godley ■ ■ and Genevieve Schechter ■ ■ David M. Center, MD (MED‘72, CAS‘72) and Nancy A. Nagy ■ ■ John I. Polk, MD (MED’74, SED’13) Jonathan Gertler (GSM‘99) and Jane Clark (SON‘78, SED‘86) ■ ■ ■ and Marlene A. Howell Arnold Goldenberg, MD (MED‘54) Anthony A. Schepsis, MD (CAS‘73, MED‘76) and Patricia Rabbett ■ ■ ■ Ronald L. Katz, MD (MED‘56) ■ ■ Deborah B. Prothrow-Stith, MD Lewis Heafitz and Ina B. Heafitz ■ Rita Z. Mehos ■ ■ Clinton W. Josey and Bernice Goldenberg ■ ■ ■ and Mary E. Schepsis ■ ■ ■ Michael C. Choo, MD (MED‘87, CAS‘87) Donald S. Kaufman, MD (MED‘60) Pedram Salimpour, MD (GMS’96, MED’00) ■ Hideo H. Itabashi, MD (MED‘54, Simon C. Parisier, MD (MED‘61) Christos N. Kapogiannis, MD (MED‘92, Malcolm Gordon, MD (MED‘48) Leslie K. Serchuck, MD (MED‘90) ■ and Sheryl L. Choo ■ and Suzanne L. Kaufman ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Paul Rothbaum ■ CAS‘49) and Elaine S. Parisier CAS‘92) and Amy Kapogiannis and Nan Miller Michael A. Singer, MD (MED‘86, CAS‘86) Marc A. Clachko, MD (MED‘71) Shirley P. Klein, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) Sarkis J. Kechejian, MD (MED‘63) Nancy T. Ryan and Thomas J. Ryan, MD ■ Lawrence G. Kass, MD (MED‘81, Mary Hagarty ■ and Maggie Singer and Gayle W. Clachko ■ ■ and Joel D. Klein, MD ■ ■ ■ Jerome S. Serchuck and Ida Kechejian ■ ■ Debra T. Scheffenacker ■ CAS‘81) and Leng Kass ■ ■ Kenneth E. Hancock (ENG‘92, ‘01) and Edward Spindell, MD (MED‘53) Bernard M. Cooke, Jr., MD (MED‘73) David G. Kornguth, MD (MED‘01) and Sarah-Ann Shaw Kay S. Khan (SON‘65, ‘81) Stuart E. Siegel, MD (MED‘67, CAS‘67) Paul A. Levine, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) ■ ■ Hsi Pin Chen, MD (CAS‘89, SPH‘91, and Judith K. Spindell ■ ■ and Kiyo Cooke ■ Linda W. Kornguth, MD (MED‘01) ■ ■ Lee Silver, MD (MED’82, CAS’82) ■ and Nasir A. Khan, MD ■ and Barbara Siegel ■ ■ Jules N. Manger, MD (CGS‘66) GMS‘96, MED‘96) ■ ■ Stephen M. Tringale, MD (MED‘90, CAS‘80, Andres F. Costas-Centivany, MD (MED‘84) Gail K. Kraft, MD (MED‘70) Rachelle Silver ■ The Estate of Leonard D. Leibowitz Sumner Stone, MD (MED‘58) and Janis G. Manger ■ ■ Robert W. Healy, MD (MED‘67) GRS‘86) ■ ■ ■ and Barbara Robinson-Costas, JD ■ ■ and Arnold A. Kraft ■ ■ Jack N. Spivack ■ Alan Leventhal and Martha Skinner, MD ■ ■ ■ Steven Miller, MD (MED‘70, CAS‘70) and Bonnie M. Healy ■ ■ Daniel M. Veltre and Mary Veltre ■ ■ ■ Anita P. Courcoulas, MD (MED‘88) ■ Michael J. Kussman, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Louis W. Sullivan, MD (MED’58, Hon.’90) ■ and Sherry Leventhal Louis Wade Sullivan, MD (MED‘58) and Jacqueline Miller (CAS‘70) Michael G. Hirsh, MD (MED‘63) George Walcott, MD (MED‘62) R. Scott Cowan, MD (MED‘88) and and Virginia D. Kussman Robert F. Meenan, MD (MED‘72, and Eva G. Sullivan Frank J. Miselis, MD (MED‘45) and Carol N. Hirsh ■ ■ and Elizabeth Walcott ■ Janine H. Idelson, Esq. (LAW‘86) ■ ■ Christopher Kutteruf (MED‘72) Peak Woo, MD (CAS’78, MED’78) ■ GSM‘89) ■ ■ ■ George J. Talis, MD (MED‘50) ■ and Theodora T. Miselis ■ ■ James A. Hull, MD (MED‘63) Charles A. Welch, MD (MED‘72) Lilibeth K. Denham, MD (MED‘97) and Anita Robinson ■ ■ M. Douglass Poirier, MD (MED‘76, and Gloria P. Talis ■ Gurramkonda Naidu and Catherine Hull ■ ■ and Stephanie Berk ■ ■ and Kristin L. Dardano ■ ■ Cecelia Lance ■ ■ FY13 Donors CAS‘73) and Jeffrey D. Tripp ■ Martin L. Vogel, MD (MED‘53) and G. V. Naidu ■ ■ ■ Douglas H. Hughes, MD Andrew M. Wexler, MD (MED‘80) Lester S. Dewis, MD (MED‘61, CAS‘57) Karen W. Landau, MD (MED‘76, CAS‘71) Norma A. Schulze ■ ■ and Phyllis M. Vogel ■ Peter T. Paul (GSM‘71) ■ ■ and Terence M. Keane, PhD ■ ■ and Geri S. Wexler (SAR‘76) ■ and Susan C. Dewis (SAR‘62) ■ ■ and Rodney W. Nichols ■ ■

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gifts from the dean’s advisory board, Alumni, faculty and staff, parents, and friends (continued) ■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Three-year Consecutive Giving | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased

Stephanie J. Larouche, MD (MED‘73, CAS‘72) Kevin E. Schmidt, MD (CAS‘86, MED‘86) Stephen U. Harris, MD (MED‘89, CAS‘89) Elizabeth A. Moran, MD (MED‘94) ■ Annetta K. Weaver, MD (MED‘68) Brett N. Catlin (SMG ‘01) and Frank S. Lee, MD (MED‘88, CAS‘88) and Mary E. King ■ ■ Mrs. Y. C. Chen and the and Tracy L. Harris ■ ■ Jerry M. Mutua, MD and Thomas G. Weaver ■ ■ Sarah B. Catlin, MD (CAS‘02, MED‘07) and Sally S. Lee ■ ■ Carolyn J. Sedor, MD Jeffrey S. Heier, MD (MED‘89) Ralph A. Nelson, MD (MED‘65) Norman Weinstein, MD (MED‘53) John R. Charpie, MD (MED‘90, GRS‘90) Jordan Leff, MD (MED‘81) ■ and Maturin D. Finch ■ Tai Scholarship and Polly Heier ■ ■ and Anne E. Nelson ■ ■ and Marilyn S. Weinstein ■ ■ and Kathryn C. Charpie ■ Steven B. Schwartz, MD (MED‘77, CAS‘73) Leonard A. Sharzer, MD (MED‘67, CAS‘67) Richard J. Hicks, MD (MED‘81, CAS‘81) Walter L. Olsen, MD and Zdenka Fronek ■ Glenn H. Weissman, MD Vicki A. Chavin, MD (MED‘91, CAS‘87) and Paula A. Leonard-Schwartz, MD and Lois Z. Sharzer and Michelle J. Hicks ■ Bashar Omarbasha, MD and Christine Weissman and Jeffrey M. Chavin (MED‘77, CAS‘77) ■ ■ Ashwin J. Shetty, MD (MED‘05, CAS‘01) ■ In June Dean Karen Antman, MD met with Mrs. Y. C. Chen Stephen W. Hildreth ■ and Maisaa Omarbasha ■ Kevin Yu, MD (CAS‘02, MED‘06) ■ ■ ■ Agnes H. Chen, MD (MED‘01) Richard Lindblom ■ Ethan M. Shevach, MD (MED‘67, CAS‘67) of the J. T. Tai and Company Foundation in New York City to Ruth A. Homan ■ Jay D. Orlander, MD (SPH‘92) and Christine N. Zettel and Bernard Chen ■ Adrienne P. Lissner and Daniel N. Lissner ■ and Ruth S. Shevach ■ recognize the foundation’s longtime and generous support of Janel N. Hutchinson Anna J. Mitus, MD (MED‘83, CAS‘83) ■ ■ ■ Deborah E. Zuckerman, MD (MED‘82) Edmund W. Cheung, MD (MED‘93, CAS‘93) Tamiko A. Long, MD (MED‘92) ■ Barry E. Sieger, MD (MED‘68) Joseph O. Jacobson, MD (MED‘79, CAS‘75) Harold J. Osher (DGE ‘67, CAS‘69) ■ and David S. Gendelman ■ and Kathy Tsai Neal Mandell, MD (MED‘86) and Margarete Sieger ■ ■ ■ financial aid for deserving and outstanding students through and Margaret J. Seton, MD ■ ■ Harold L. Osher, MD (MED‘47) Gregory G. Cheung, MD (MED‘72, CAS‘72) and Amy L. Mandell ■ ■ ■ Stacey Rosen Silverman (MED‘85, CAS‘85) the Tai Scholarship. Hernan J. Jara, PhD ■ ■ ■ and Peggy L. Osher ■ ■ ■ $500–$999 and Jan W. Cheung Hugh Miller, MD (MED‘55) and Mark K. Silverman ■ ■ Hal S. Jones and Anne-Lise Auclair-Jones ■ Henry T. Oyama, MD (MED‘57, CAS‘53) Anonymous (2) ■ ■ Michael S. Cohen, MD (MED‘89, CAS‘89) and Frances H. Miller (LAW‘65) ■ ■ David B. Smith, MD (MED‘78) Joseph H. Kahn, MD and Joan M. Oyama ■ ■ ■ Heidi Abdelhady, MD (MED‘98) and Ilona Ginsberg-Cohen, MD ■ Daniel E. Moalli, MD (MED‘61) and Sandra M. Sweetnam, MD ■ and Nancy H. Kahn, MD ■ ■ ■ Stephen I. Pelton ■ ■ and N. Mehdy Rahman ■ Mark H. Cooley, MD (MED‘60) and Glenna M. Moalli Robert F. Trotter and Barbara R. Trotter ■ Michael J. Katz, MD (MED‘97) Peter E. Pochi, MD (MED‘55) ■ Ashley D. Ackerman, MD (MED‘00) J. G. Cosgrove Margo Moskos, MD (MED‘89, SPH‘85) and Ruth Tuomala, MD (MED‘74, CAS‘72) and Allison Katz ■ Joel Potash, MD (MED‘62) and Sean F. Rynne ■ La Vaun C. Cox, PhD ■ David Burns, MD (GRS‘87, MED‘90) ■ and Ernest G. Cravalho ■ Paul Kaufman, MD (MED‘55) and Sandra Hurd ■ ■ Morris S. Albert, MD (MED‘60) Benedict D. Daly, Jr., MD (MED‘65) Harvey L. Moskowitz Robert A. Vigersky, MD (MED‘70, CAS‘70) and Mary F. Kaufman ■ ■ ■ Mary V. Pratt ■ and Barbara D. Albert ■ and Joan M. Daly ■ ■ and Lorraine F. Moskowitz ■ and Karen J. Fitzgerald ■ ■ Damon J. Keith, JD Tim L. Propeck, MD (MED‘94, CAS‘94) Susan J. Alexander, MD (MED‘91) Abdulrasul A. Damji (ENG‘85, ‘90) Alan S. Multz, MD (MED‘85, CAS‘81) Paul A. Vigna, MD (MED‘89, CAS‘85) James P. Kelley and Amie Knox Susan E. Pursell, MD (CAS‘84, MED‘90) Rahul S. Anand, MD (MED‘01, CAS‘97) and Amina A. Damji ■ ■ and Michelle A. Multz ■ ■ and Judith A. Vigna ■ Jerome O. Klein, MD and Linda Klein ■ ■ ■ and Michael A. Wack and Meredith Anand Neil Dashkoff, MD ■ ■ Jerry Murphy, MD (MED‘79) ■ ■ Michael D. Walker, MD (MED‘60) Sonia Y. Kragh, MD (MED‘87) George N. Queeley, MD (MED‘59) ■ Albert A. Apshaga, MD (MED‘49) Susan F. Davis (CAS‘71) and Arthur D. Davis ■ Richard and Carol Myers (SAR‘82) ■ ■ ■ and Katherine Walker ■ ■ and Sriram Narsipur, MD ■ Helen S. Ratner ■ ■ ■ and Dorothy M. Apshaga ■ ■ Stephen A. DeCubellis Eliot Nolen ■ David L. Walton, MD (MED‘83) Fred M. Krainin, MD (MED‘81, CAS‘81) I. Jill Ratner, MD (MED‘81) Jacob Asher, MD (MED‘82) and Frances D. DeCubellis Wilson Nolen and Machiko Nakatani ■ ■ and Mary S. Krainin ■ ■ and Joel E. Rosenberg, CPA ■ ■ and Nancy Hosay Peter A. Merkel, MD Thomas F. O’Leary, MD (MED‘56) Francis E. Wanat, MD (MED‘63) ■ ■ Edward E. Krukonis, MD (MED‘63) Alan L. Rothman, MD (MED‘83, CAS‘83) ■ Stewart F. Babbott, MD (MED‘87) ■ and Laura M. Dember, MD ■ and Joan M. O’Leary ■ ■ Kalman L. Watsky, MD (MED‘83, CAS‘83) and Priscilla J. Krukonis ■ ■ Ann K. Salahuddin, MD (MED‘85, SSW‘74, M. William Backus and Leslie Backus ■ George Dermksian, MD (MED‘54) Jai G. Parekh, MD (MED‘93, CAS‘89) and Deborah Fried ■ Stephen I. Kruskall and Margot S. Kruskall ■ MET‘81) and Syet Z. Salahuddin ■ Thomas C. Bagnoli, MD (MED‘64) and Tamara Dermksian ■ and Swati Parekh, MD ■ Peter S. Wellington and Judith F. Wellington Savina Kumar-Dhaliwal ■ David J. Salant, MD and Anne Salant ■ ■ and Ann G. Bagnoli ■ Edward Devlin and Kathleen Devlin ■ Scott D. Pendergast, MD (MED‘91) Thomas V. Whalen, Jr., MD (MED‘76, CAS‘73) Martin Laker and Renee Martin ■ ■ ■ Richard J. Samaha, MD (MED‘66, GRS‘66) David H. Baker, MD (MED‘51) Robert R. Ditkoff, MD (MED‘73, CAS‘72) and Judy T. Pendergast ■ ■ and Elaine W. Whalen ■ ■ ■ Albert L. Lamp, Jr., MD (MED‘48) and Christine Samaha ■ ■ and Elizabeth H. Baker ■ and Andi Emerson-Ditkoff ■ Burt M. Perlmutter, MD (MED‘63) Burton White, MD (MED‘61) and Mary T. Lamp ■ ■ Dennis J. Sargent (MED‘77, CAS‘77) and G. Robert Baler, MD (MED‘50, CAS‘47) Kimberly A. Dodd, MD (MED‘02, CAS‘92, and Roberta Perlmutter ■ ■ ■ and June S. White ■ ■ Howard M. Leibowitz, MD Katherine Forte Sargent (MED‘77, and Nancy Baler ■ ■ SPH‘10) ■ Carol C. Pohl, MD (MED‘67) Henry O. White, MD (MED‘53) and Ann G. Leibowitz ■ ■ CAS‘77) ■ ■ Philip S. Barie, MD (MED‘77, CAS‘77) Kevin C. Donahue (SPH‘79) and and Alan L. Pohl ■ ■ and Marian R. White ■ ■ Edward J. Lenkin and Roselin Atzwanger ■ David E. Savar, MD (MED‘73) and Elaine D. Barie ■ Patricia A. Donahue, MD (MED‘78) ■ ■ William E. Poplack, MD (MED‘63) Eugene P. Whittier, Jr., MD (MED‘52) ■ Jack P. Leventhal, MD (MED‘73) and Sara L. Savar ■ ■ Kiran N. Batheja (CAS‘90, CGS‘88) and Roger M. Brown and Karen J. Doswell ■ and Barbara Z. Poplack (CAS‘59) ■ ■ ■ Patricia J. Williams, MD (MED‘89, CAS‘84) and Mary A. Leventhal ■ ■ David N. Schwartz (SDM‘79, MED‘82) Jenny C. So, MD (MED‘94, CAS‘94) ■ Mary A. Drinkwater, MD (MED‘81) John J. Przygoda, MD (MED‘77) Marcelle M. Willock, MD ■ Veda Kaufman Levin (CAS‘69) and Debora B. Schwartz (CAS‘78) ■ Scott D. Becker, MD (MED‘83, CAS‘83) and William F. Bayers ■ and Janet C. Przygoda ■ ■ Philip A. Wolf, MD ■ ■ ■ and David S. Levin ■ ■ ■ A. Craig Shealy, MD (MED‘58) ■ ■ and Patricia A. Becker ■ Sunil Dwivedi and Prabha Dwivedi ■ Albert Quintiliani, Jr., MD (MED‘58) Henry R. Wolfe, MD (MED‘45) Andrew R. Levinsky (COM‘83, SED‘87) Leslie M. Sherr ■ Barry J. Benjamin, MD (MED‘72, CAS‘68) and Donald S. Dworken, MD (MED‘55) and Ann Quintiliani ■ ■ and Grace A. Wolfe ■ H. Robb Levinsky ■ Kenneth B. Simons, MD (MED‘80) Susan M. Benjamin (CGS‘67, SED‘69) ■ and Nancy L. Dworken Jean E. Ramsey, MD (MED‘90, SPH‘08) Cathy J. Linn and Joseph L. Linn ■ and Wendy A. Simons Alan B. Berg, MD (MED‘85, CAS‘85) Lars M. Ellison, MD (MED‘95) and David T. Ramsey ■ ■ ■ $1,000–$1,499 Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD Alison F. Sims, MD (CAS‘84, MED‘89) ■ and Melissa L. Berg (CAS‘83) ■ ■ and Ingrid Ellison ■ Iver S. Ravin, MD (MED‘40) ■ ■ Carol E. Anderson, MD (MED‘72) and Anita B. Loscalzo ■ ■ Jackie C. Horne and Keith A. Smith ■ Alan M. Berg, MD (MED‘85, CAS‘85) Mark A. Elson, MD (MED‘80) David J. Reitman, MD (MED‘96) and John R. Hoyer, MD ■ Mary C. Burke, MD (MED‘83) Ronald G. Ebb, MD (MED‘94, ‘99) Hamilton Lott and Barbara H. Lott Jonathan G. Smith and Megan Smith ■ and Sharon G. Wolpert ■ and Mary Lou L. Elson and Christine Wijman ■ ■ James E. Andrews, MD (MED‘78) and Nancy Mayo ■ ■ and Kimberly W. Ebb, MD ■ ■ Lillian A. Luksis, MD (MED‘49) ■ Rebecca E. Snider, MD (MED‘84) Peter David Berman (MED‘85) Robert G. Fante, MD (MED‘88, CAS‘88) Kenneth L. Renkens, MD (MED‘82, CAS‘76) and Deborah L. Andrews ■ ■ David C. Campbell ■ William H. Edington ■ George D. Malkasian, Jr., MD (MED‘54) and Jack B. Beard ■ ■ and Holly Berman ■ and Megan Fante ■ and Debra L. Lay-Renkens (CAS‘73) ■ ■ Oachel Asbury and Marsha R. Asbury John W. Carpenter (CAS‘65) Karen A. Engelbourg and Mary E. Malkasian ■ Sally L. Speer Anthony F. Bonacci, MD (MED‘67) Peter A. Fauci, MD (MED‘57) Laurence M. Rheingold, MD (MED‘68) Amin Ashrafzadeh, MD (MED‘97, CAS‘93) and Ellen S. Carpenter ■ and Donald B. Stewart (GSM‘98) ■ ■ Frank I. Marcus, MD (MED‘53) Craig J. Stanley and Carol A. Stanley ■ and Sheila J. Bonacci ■ and Linda E. Kelly Fauci ■ and Linda C. Rheingold ■ and Christine F. Ashrafzadeh (GSM‘96, Douglas Campbell Chamberlain (GSM‘76, David T. Felson, MD (SPH‘84) and Janet Marcus ■ ■ Barbara B. Steele and Jeffrey L. Steele ■ Francis H. Boudreau, MD (MED‘62) Geraldine L. Feldman, MD (MED‘69, Nancy E. Rice, MD (MED‘65) CAS‘92) ■ MET‘74) and Evelyn Chamberlain ■ ■ ■ and Elaine R. Landes, MD ■ ■ ■ Rebecca A. Massey ■ Stephen G. Stein ■ and Laura M. Boudreau ■ ■ CAS‘69) ■ ■ and Millard J. Hyland, MD ■ ■ Barbara J. Baker, MD (MED‘70) ■ ■ Yi-Chuan Ching, MD (MED‘58) ■ ■ Elliot M. Fiedler ■ Ronald B. Matloff, MD (MED‘72) Sadiqa K. Stelzner, MD (MED‘93) Lenore J. Brancato, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘84) Timothy J. Fitzgerald ■ ■ Arnold Robbins ■ ■ Thomas W. Barber, MD ■ ■ Stephen P. Christiansen, MD, PhD ■ George W. Fink and Sherry Robinson ■ and Cindy Matloff S( ED‘70) and Matthias H. Stelzner ■ and Louis Potters, MD ■ Garry F. Fitzpatrick, MD ■ Grant V. Rodkey, MD Michael J. Barondes, MD (MED‘83, CAS‘83) Domenic A. Ciraulo, MD David A. Fleishman, MD (MED‘69) John F. McCahan, MD M. Stuart Strong, MD Howard S. Britt, MD (MED‘70, CAS‘70) John F. Folley ■ and Suzanne G. Rodkey ■ ■ and Karen Barondes ■ ■ and Ann Marie Ciraulo, RN ■ ■ ■ and Jacqueline G. Fleishman ■ and Kathleen B. McCahan ■ ■ and Sybil D. Strong ■ ■ ■ and Gail L. Britt ■ Paul S. Freedberg, MD (MED‘74) James W. Rosenberg (MED‘68) ■ Emelia J. Benjamin, MD ■ Frank Citrone, Jr. and Carol Citrone Loring S. Flint, MD (MED‘76, CAS‘73) Donald T. McPhail (SED‘63) Burton G. Surick, MD (MED‘86, CAS‘86) and Walter J. Brodzinski, MD (MED‘64) and Maria S. Freedberg ■ Calvin C. Ross, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘64) Abraham I. Bennett David Cohen, MD (MED‘91, CAS‘91) and and Nancy S. Flint (SON‘77, ‘81) ■ ■ and Jean E. McPhail ■ Ilona W. Surick, MD (MED‘86, CAS‘86) ■ ■ and Joan M. Brodzinski ■ Mark S. Freshwater David J. Rullo, MD (MED‘87, CAS‘83) Frederick B. Berrien, MD (MED‘68) Jane S. Cohen, MD (MED‘91, CAS‘91) ■ ■ Harold W. Forbes Eugene M. McQuade Marjorie D. Twombly ■ James S. Brust, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) and Deborah L. Freshwater ■ and Sandra L. Rullo and Virginia C. Berrien (SON‘80) ■ David L. Coleman, MD ■ ■ and Carol S. Forbes ■ and Peggy McQuade Charles W. Vaughan, MD and Kris G. Brust ■ Fayne L. Frey, MD (CAS‘83, MED‘87) Ralph L. Sacco, MD (MED‘83) John Bezirganian, MD (MED‘85, CAS‘85) Ronald Collman (MED‘81, CAS‘81) ■ George Edward Garcia (MED‘61) Sean B. McSweeney and Jo Anne B. Vaughan ■ ■ Millicent Buckner and Roger J. Frey, MD ■ and Scott Dutcher ■ ■ and Sophia Bezirganian ■ ■ Wayne Crandell ■ and Nancy A. Garcia ■ and Patricia M. McSweeney ■ John T. Veale (SDM‘86, SPH‘98) Robert M. Burchuk, MD (MED‘82, CAS‘82) Joseph R. Gaeta, Sr., MD (MED‘58) Osamu Sakai, MD, PhD Eric A. Birken, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) Joan H. Craw ■ Albert M. Ghassemian, MD ■ Paul G. Meade, MD (MED‘86) and Amy K. Veale, MD (MED‘89) ■ and Christine Burchuk ■ and Carol A. Gaeta ■ and Mariko Sakai ■ ■ ■ and Marcia D. Birken ■ Leah A. Darak, MD (MED‘91, CAS‘91) Andrew M. Goldenberg, MD (MED‘83) and Debby V. Meade ■ ■ Robert J. Vinci, MD and Debra L. Vinci ■ ■ ■ Paul R. Burke and Debra F. Burke ■ George H. Gallup ■ Mark S. Samberg, MD (MED‘74, CAS‘72) Lynn Borgatta, MD ■ ■ ■ and Harold Darak ■ and Sharon J. Goldenberg (SMG ‘81) ■ ■ Stanley R. Mescon (SED‘76, DGE‘74, GSM‘81) Emil Von Arx III, MD (MED‘67) Robyn K. Burnside ■ Ronald Ganeles and Joyce K. Ganeles and Marcee Samberg ■ ■ Lori B. Bornstein (ENG‘88) ■ Joel R. Daven, MD (MED‘75) Chariclea Gragoudas and Valori D. Treloar, MD (MED‘85) ■ ■ and Anna D. Von Arx ■ Deborah W. Callard Alberta A. Garbaccio, MD (MED‘68) Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MPH (SPH‘92) Bruce N. Brent, MD (MED‘75, CAS‘72) and Jennifer Daven ■ ■ and Evangelos S. Gragoudas ■ Fredric B. Meyer, MD (MED‘81) Mary J. Wagner, MD (MED‘88, CAS‘88) Dorothy K. Capsolas ■ Betty J. Gaver ■ and Michele S. Marram ■ ■ ■ and Christine S. Brent ■ ■ Ravin Davidoff Dorothy M. Green and Irene Meyer ■ ■ and Karl D. Bihn ■ Alan C. Carver, MD (MED‘95) Nicholas Giosa, MD (MED‘52) ■ Rolf G. Scherman, MD (MED‘56) Donald C. Brody, MD (MED‘56) and Annette Davidoff ■ ■ ■ Kenneth M. Grundfast, MD David W. Moore, MD (MED‘65) Max J. Wallack ■ and Deborah C. Carver Andrew I. Glantz, MD and Harley M. Glantz ■ and Charlotte J. Scherman ■ ■ and Lucy L. Brody ■ ■ Jeffrey Dickson and Denise Dickson ■ and Ruthanne Grundfast ■ and Jaye Moore ■ ■ ■ Adrian Washington ■ Joel G. Caslowitz ■ ■ ■ Jeffrey Glassroth, MD and Carol H. Glassroth

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gifts from the dean’s advisory board, Alumni, faculty and staff, parents, and friends (continued) ■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Three-year Consecutive Giving | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased

Gerald D. Goldman, MD (MED‘77) and Paul M. Leiman, MD (MED‘74, CAS‘72) Elise K. Richman, MD (MED‘83, CAS‘83) Frank S. Wills, MD (MED‘53) Matthew H. Blomquist, MD (MED‘91) Robert T. Cutting, MD (MED‘55) John A. Gillespie, MD (MED‘73) David Kaufman, MD (MED‘47) Margery S. Goldman (SED‘74, ‘77) ■ and Carol R. Leiman ■ ■ and Barry A. Richman ■ and Arthur L. Pike ■ and Ashley M. Blomquist and Frances Cutting ■ and Catherine S. Gillespie ■ and Joan A. Kaufman ■ Ronni L. Goldsmith, MD (MED‘88) James L. Lerner ■ Emma T. Richman and Lee Richman ■ Michael J. Wissner ■ Harold P. Blum, MD (MED‘53) Kushna K. Damallie, MD (MED‘99) ■ Mark Gillie David M. Kaufman, MD (MED‘75) and Joel Goldsmith ■ ■ Burt L. Lesnick, MD (MED‘88, CAS‘88) Vizbulite Ries and Thomas J. Ries ■ Stephen F. Wright (GSM‘81) and Elsa J. Blum ■ Jennifer C. Davis ■ Robert H. Gilman, MD (MED‘74, SDM‘77) and Harriet B. Kaufman ■ Edward M. Gosselin, MD (MED‘90) and Lisa J. Kobrynski, MD Richard J. Rihn, MD (MED‘51) and Christine Y. Wright ■ Mariarita P. Bolanos, MD (GRS‘90, MED‘94) Kate DeForest ■ ■ and Christine F. Gilman ■ ■ John A. Kaufman, MD (MED‘82) and Geri A. Gosselin ■ Irma M. Lessell, MD (MED‘77) Gregory K. Robbins, MD (MED‘90) Herbert M. Wyman, MD (MED‘63) and Byron G. Petrillo-Bolanos ■ Mary L. Del Monte, MD (MED‘67) ■ Edward J. Glinski, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘63) and Catherine H. Kaufman ■ Edward V. Grayson, MD, JD (MED‘67, CAS‘67) and Simmons Lessell, MD ■ and Elizabeth O. Robbins ■ and Audrey S. Wyman ■ Christine A. Bonner ■ ■ Lena Delligatti ■ and Denise T. Kenneally ■ Luann Kazanecki and Barbara K. Grayson (CAS‘71) Richard G. Lesser and Clare E. Lesser ■ Richard S. Rome, MD (SED‘71, MED‘77) Alice L. Zacarian, MD (MED‘96) Ronald L. Boucek ■ Michael A. Diamond, MD (MED‘63) Robert N. Golden, MD (MED‘79) and Eugene V. Kazanecki ■ Karen S. Greenberg, MD (MED‘95) Joseph A. Levine, MD (MED‘87, CAS‘87) and Judith M. Rome ■ and Andrew A. Guzelian ■ Edith E. Braun, MD (MED‘78, CAS‘78) David C. DiFiore (GSM‘88) and Shannon C. Kenney, MD ■ George Keches and Richard D. Rudman ■ and Sandra W. Levine ■ John S. Rose and Rosanne Haroian ■ Barry J. Zamost, MD (MED‘76, CAS‘73) and James D. Levine and Ellen DiFiore ■ Brian S. Goldstein, MD (MED‘90, CAS‘90) Lowell H. Keppel, MD (MED‘78) Steven M. Greenberg, MD (MED‘89, CAS‘89) Harold D. Levy, MD (MED‘59) Margaret A. Rosene (GSM‘90) and Rita L. Zamost ■ Jorge A. Brito, MD (MED‘81) ■ Joseph F. DiTroia, MD (MED‘64) and Aimee H. Goldstein and Betty J. Keppel ■ and Tamela S. Greenberg ■ and Patricia M. Levy ■ and Douglas L. Rosene ■ ■ Stephen J. Zimniski, PhD (GRS‘82) Christopher D. Brown, MD (MED‘96) and Susan G. DiTroia ■ Baizheng Song and Jianlin Gong, MD ■ ■ ■ Joung T. Kim, MD (GRS‘89, MED‘91) Neal S. Greenstein, MD (MED‘81, CAS‘81) Dennis M. Liu, MD and Ellen Y. Wu Kate Rosenthal and Suzanne Gagnon, MD (MED‘85) ■ and Patricia S. Brown Gary Dobbie and Sally Dobbie ■ John R. Gouin ■ Robert M. Kim, MD (MED‘60) and Cindy S. Greenstein ■ Robert H. Lofgren, MD (MED‘56) and N. Paul Rosman, MD ■ ■ David H. Zornow, MD (MED‘66) Scott E. Brown, MD and Lisa R. Scott Jean M. Doelling, MD (MED‘58) Steven A. Gould, MD (MED‘73) ■ and Bette P. Kim ■ William G. Griever, MD (MED‘88) Helene J. Lofgren (CAS‘64, SED‘70) ■ Robert F. Rothman, MD (MED‘93, CAS‘93) and Iva Zornow ■ Samuel A. Burstein, MD (MED‘72) and Norman Doelling Harvey R. Gross, MD (MED‘70) Glenn P. Kimball, Jr., MD (MED‘83) and Susan Griever ■ Stephen R. LoVerme, MD (MED‘73, CAS‘72) and Linda B. Rothman ■ Warren S. Zwecker, MD (MED‘78) and Cheryl N. Boyd Michael F. Dowe, Jr., MD (MED‘93) and Beth C. Gross ■ and Joan H. Kimball, DMD (SDM‘82) ■ Gene A. Grindlinger, MD (MED‘70, CAS‘70) and Donna M. LoVerme ■ Daniel Rotrosen, MD (MED‘78) ■ and Karen L. Zwecker ■ William F. Butterfield ■ and Diane J. Hanley ■ Joshua D. Gutman, MD (MED‘73) Carolyn L. Kinney, MD (MED‘81, CAS‘81) and Jeanne Grindlinger ■ ■ ■ Bruce W. Lowney, MD (MED‘68) ■ Katherine E. Rowan, PhD Michael J. Cahalane, MD (MED‘80) John A. Durkan, MD (MED‘79, CAS‘79) and Eva F. Gutman ■ and William Eckhardt, MD ■ Edward S. Gross, MD (MED‘68) Barry W. Lynn (STH‘73) Kert D. Sabbath, MD (MED‘79) $250–$499 and Nancy L. Cahalane ■ and Marianne Durkan (SON‘78) ■ Alan D. Haber, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘84) Sheila Klein ■ and Margaret M. Reid (SON‘83) ■ and D. Joanne Lynn, MD (MED‘74) and Karen L. Sabbath ■ Robert M. Abrams, MD (MED‘58) Noran J. Camp Robert T. Eberhardt and Marian M. Haber Thornton C. Kline, Jr., MD (MED‘64) Robert D. Gross, MD Judith P. Lytle, MD (MED‘98) Sheelu Samuel (GSM‘01, GMS ‘01) and Frances R. Abrams ■ Christine Campbell-Reardon, MD (MED‘88) and Margaret M. Eberhardt ■ ■ Cynthia A. Hadley, MD (MED‘79) and Genevieve J. Kline ■ Stephen R. Guy, MD (MED‘85, CAS‘74) and Robert A. Lytle ■ ■ ■ Mark J. Samuelson, MD (GMS ‘94, MED‘97) Elizabeth P. Akoma, MD (MED‘00) and Michael J. Reardon ■ ■ Michael S. Elkort, MD (MED‘98, CAS‘91, Paul J. Hancock and Rae E. Hancock ■ Harold J. Kober ■ and Ruth Frank ■ Ethel B. Margolis, MD (MED‘63) ■ Nancy D. Sandberg (SAR‘75) Janet A. Albrecht (GSM‘78) Victoria A. Cargill, MD (MED‘77) GRS‘91) and Stephanie X. Elkort Sanford I. Hansell Kennard C. Kobrin, MD and Nora Kobrin ■ ■ Beth A. Hanrahan, MD (MED‘88) Phoebe S. Markey Robert Sandberg, MD (MED‘73, CAS‘72) Caroline S. Alpert, MD (UNI‘95; MED‘00, ‘01) ■ and Malcolm Williams ■ Michele M. Ellis and Randolph T. Ellis, Jr. ■ and Raina M. Ernstoff Hansell ■ Donald Kreiss and Randi Kreiss ■ and Harold E. Smart ■ Gary E. Martilla ■ Ann L. Schafstedde Stephen J. Alphas, MD (MED‘55) Donald P. Carll and Kathryn M. Carll ■ Mitchell S. Engler, MD (MED‘78, CAS‘78) George S. Harlem and Rosina P. Harlem ■ Andrew L. Kriegel, MD (MED‘80, CAS‘80) Suzanne M. Hearn and Daniel G. Hearn ■ Lawrence S. McAuliffe, MD (MED‘78) N. Paul Schepis, MD (MED‘58) and Alexandria Alphas ■ ■ Jesse A. Caron, MD (MED‘03, CAS‘99) and Wendy E. Engler, Esq. (CAS‘76) David Harris, MD, PhD ■ and Doreen E. Kriegel (SAR’78, GSM‘81) Linda J. Heffner, MD ■ ■ and Suzanne McAuliffe and Carole E. Schepis ■ Matthew Amerlan and Erin E. Amerlan ■ and Jessica Alverio-Caron (CAS‘00) Cynthia C. Espanola, MD (MED‘93) Jay Harris, MD and Nancy L. Harris, MD ■ Holger Krogemann ■ Lester K. Henderson, MD (MED‘69) Arthur J. McDonald and Melanie McDonald ■ Barry Schiro ■ Marcia E. Angell, MD (MED‘67) Christopher H. Casey and David Walinski ■ Lisa Harris ■ David S. Kugler, MD (GMS‘96, MED‘97, and Eleanor A. Henderson ■ John McGrath ■ Jerry M. Schreibstein, MD (MED‘89, CAS‘89) Michael S. Annunziata, MD (MED‘66) and and Annette M. Casey ■ Paul O. Farr, MD (MED‘74) George A. Hasiotis, MD (MED‘65) SPH‘94) and Dorothy Kugler John A. Hermos, MD (MED‘65) Emily C. McPhillips, MD (MED‘88) and Harlene Ginsberg, Esq. (LAW‘88) Anne-Reet I. Annunziata (SAR‘78) ■ David F. Casey, MD (MED‘62) and Bridget D. Farr ■ and Eugenia J. Hasiotis ■ Jonathann C. Kuo, MD (CAS‘01, MED‘04) and Rosalie J. Hermos (SPH‘91) ■ ■ and Edward Moriarty ■ Daniel I. Silvershein, MD (MED‘93, CAS‘93) Nancy E. Anthracite, MD (MED‘73, CAS‘72) and Diane M. Casey ■ Nichole J. Felix ■ Rose E. Heller-Savoy, MD (MED‘93, Michael W. Kwan, MD (MED‘00, CAS‘00) Anna D. Hohler, MD (MED‘98, CAS‘95) Asim Mian ■ and Judy S. Schwab (CAS‘91) ■ Irwin Avery, MD (MED‘66) Daniel P. Cavanaugh (CAS‘07) Howard M. Felt ■ CAS‘93) and Marc R. Savoy Karen M. Kyle, MD (CAS‘85, MED‘85) ■ and David Hohler ■ ■ Herbert L. Rothman (MED‘66) and Peter S. Schwedock and Ann A. Avery ■ Robert W. Chamberlain, Sr., MD (MED‘74, Shawn M. Ferullo, MD (MED‘01, CAS‘97) Andrea C. Henry ■ William H. Lane ■ Therese M. Hollingworth ■ Carol Milchenski Rothman (MED‘66, and Roberta M. Schwedock Richard K. Babayan, MD ■ ■ CAS‘72) and Patricia A. Chamberlain ■ and Karen Ferullo ■ ■ Norman A. Hjelm ■ William Lang, MD (MED‘77) Bruce D. Irish ■ CAS‘62) ■ ■ Domenic A. Screnci, Jr., PhD (SED‘84, ‘92) Linda M. Bacon, MD (MED‘85) ■ Mark D. Chase, MD (MED‘83, CAS‘78) Michael Field, MD (MED‘59) and Linda Seidel James S. Hoffman, MD (MED‘88) and Margaret D. Lang ■ William Isaacson and Sophia McCrocklin ■ Joe Monforton and Maryann C. Calia (COM ‘86) ■ ■ Blanche K. Baler, MD (GRS‘48, ‘51; MED‘54) and Mary B. Yates ■ Muriel Finkel and Stephen Finkel and Jane M. Hoffman ■ Corey J. Langer, MD (MED‘81, CAS‘81) Kamal M. Itani and Gheed A. Itani ■ ■ Linda M. Monkell ■ Neal Shadoff, MD (GRS‘74, MED‘78) Edward M. Ballanco (ENG‘91) Herbert Y. Chinn, MD (MED‘44) Arthur P. Fisch, MD (MED‘69) Marc S. Hoffman, MD (MED‘91) and Mindy R. Langer, MD (MED‘81) Dennie Jagger ■ Joanne M. Moray, MD ■ and Susan S. Shadoff S( ED‘74) ■ and Eileen Ballanco ■ and Una C. Chinn ■ and Billie H. Fisch (SED‘67) ■ and Sharon Siegel, MD ■ Gerald N. LaPierre, MD (MED‘63) Kathryn Jalbuena and Numeriano Jalbuena, Jr. ■ Jonathan Moray ■ Kathryn N. Shands, MD (MED‘77) Carl W. Banks and Gari A. Banks William A. Christmas, MD (MED‘65) Daniel R. Fishbein, MD (MED‘85, CAS‘85) Robert A. Horen and Betsy E. Horen ■ and Therese LaPierre ■ Charlsie K. James Patricia G. Morikawa, MD (MED‘89) ■ and Joseph Mulinare, MD ■ Amy D. Bardack and Jared W. Magnani ■ and Polly Raye ■ and Ilene Schuchman ■ Robin A. Horn, MD (MED‘89) Jonathan H. Lass, MD (MED‘73, CAS‘72) Thea L. James, MD (SPH‘06) ■ ■ Evan E. Mortimer, MD (MED‘73) Arthur D. Shiff, MD (MED‘67, CAS‘67) Jeffery L. Barker, MD (MED‘68) Kwong W. Chu and Linda Chu ■ ■ George G. Fishman, MD (MED‘69, CAS‘69) and Mark F. Mendell ■ and Leah S. Lass (CFA‘71) Nancy Roberson Jasper (MED‘84) and Rosemary E. Mortimer (SON‘73) ■ and Eileen Shiff ■ and Marion M. Barker Richard S. Chung, MD (MED‘73) and Ellen O. Fishman Peter K. Hoshino, MD (MED‘79) Joan L. Lasser, MD (MED‘66) ■ and Sterling Jasper, Jr. Joseph T. Mullen, MD (MED‘55) Allan W. Silberman, MD (GRS‘73, MED‘75) Tamar F. Barlam (SPH‘09) ■ ■ ■ and Linda M. Chung ■ James D. Fletcher, MD (MED‘90, CAS‘86) and Ruth L. Hoshino ■ ■ Ruth M. Lawrence, MD (MED‘64) ■ Allen E. Joseph, MD (MED‘84) W. Mark Nannery, MD (MED‘88) and Kathleen A. Silberman ■ Mary A. Barnhill, MD (MED‘93) Carl J. Boland, MD (MED‘88) and Robin Fletcher Jean Hu ■ Stephen G. Lazoff, MD (MED‘69, CAS‘69) and Polly J. Panitz, MD (MED‘84) ■ and Maura Nannery Rebecca A. Silliman, MD, PhD ■ ■ and R. Barnhill, MD ■ and Jennifer A. Clark, MD (MED‘88) ■ Jonathan S. Forman, MD (MED‘77) Lee W. Huebner and Berna G. Huebner and Deborah M. Lazoff ■ Andrius Jurkunas and Ula Jurkunas ■ Adina Ness ■ Carol J. Singer-Granick, MD (MED‘78) ■ Curtis T. Barry, MD (MED‘03) ■ Robert A. Clark, MD ■ and Deborah R. Forman ■ Christine C. Huth-Thompson ■ Howard M. Ledewitz, MD (MED‘65) Robyn G. Karlstadt, MD (CAS‘72, MED‘74) Philip M. Newhall, MD (MED‘94) Donald M. Small, MD ■ James J. Heffernan, MD (MED‘77, SPH‘92) Thomas F. Clark and Kathy L. Clark ■ Patricia O. Francis, MD (MED‘79) Judith C. Hwang, MD (MED‘89, CAS‘89) and Carolyn Ledewitz ■ ■ and Stephen H. Meyeroff ■ and Janet E. Tuttle-Newhall, MD William L. Smith, MD (MED‘57) and M. Anita Barry, MD (SPH‘88) ■ ■ Mark Clarke and Ronald L. Francis ■ and Yuh Tseng Mark F. LePore, MD (MED‘99, CAS‘96) Joel M. Kaufman, MD (MED‘77, CAS‘73) Helen Riess, MD (MED‘83) and Cathryn E. Smith Marshall S. Bedine, MD (MED‘67) Carol Ann Cobb, MD (MED‘80) David A. Frantz ■ Thomas M. Hyndman, Jr. ■ Raymond M. L’Heureux and Carol G. Kaufman ■ and Norman S. Nishioka, MD Rosemary K. Sokas, MD (MED‘74, CAS‘72) and Joyce R. Bedine Robert C. Cochran, MD (MED‘60) Richard D. Frary, MD (MED‘56) Malcolm G. Idelson, MD (MED‘53) and Kathy L’Heureux ■ C. Monroe Keeney and Mary L. Keeney ■ Charles S. Nordell, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) and Ahmed Achrati Edward L. Bedrick, MD (MED‘79) and Beckey Cochran ■ and Joan S. Frary ■ and Rita R. Idelson, PhD ■ ■ Theresa O. Lim, MD and Ping S. Chua ■ ■ Maureen O’Brien Kennedy and Diane A. Nordell ■ Richard R. Stoyle and Ann D. Stoyle and Amy B. Bedrick ■ Deborah L. Cohen, MD and David Cohen ■ Richard M. Freedman, MD (MED‘75) Joseph F. Iovino, MD (MED‘66, CAS‘62) Holly Lindner ■ ■ Paul J. Killoran, MD (MED‘54) Gilbert A. Norwood, MD (MED‘57, James H. Tarver III, MD (CAS‘88, MED‘88) ■ G. Jerome Beers (MED‘76) Gary R. Cohen, MD (MED‘82) and Nancy T. Freedman ■ and Joan M. Iovino ■ Matthew J. Loew, MD (MED‘99) and Elizabeth E. Killoran ■ ■ CAS‘53) ■ ■ David P. VanZant and Judith L. VanZant and Angela O’Neal, MD ■ and Cheryl N. Cohen (GSM‘80) ■ ■ Deborah S. Friedman ■ Ramon Isales, MD, JD (MED‘50) and Elizabeth H. Loew ■ Cyril K. Kim, MD (MED‘63) Daniel J. Oates, MD (MED‘00, CAS‘00, David H. Walker, MD (MED‘73) Elizabeth C. Behringer, MD (MED‘84) Harry Cohen and Jan Cohen ■ Robert I. Friedman, MD (MED‘72) and Phoebe Isales ■ Kevin Loughlin, MD and Veronica S. Kim ■ SPH‘05) ■ ■ and Margret M. Walker ■ John M. Bennett, MD (MED‘59) Paul B. Cohen, MD (MED‘71) and Donna A. Friedman (CAS‘72) ■ Steven J. Jacobs, MD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) Kenneth R. Lovell and Eleanor V. Lovell ■ Michael J. Corwin John F. O’Brien, MD (MED‘59) ■ George A. Waters, MD (MED‘94) and Carol R. Bennett and Jane G. Cohen ■ William L. Gage, MD (MED‘53) and Pamela G. Jacobs ■ Jennifer K. Lowney, MD (MED‘95) and Melanie Kim, MD ■ Stephen T. Olin, MD (MED‘73) and Sarah B. Waters ■ Alan D. Berkenwald, MD (MED‘78) Lillian E. Cohn, MD (MED‘78) and Irene B. Gage ■ Joseph L. Jorizzo, MD (MED‘75, CAS‘71) Richard E. Luka, MD (MED‘89) Mary D. Kirchner ■ and Laura S. Olin ■ Stuart R. Ferguson, MD (MED‘79) and Joan Berkenwald ■ Minou W. Colis, MD (MED‘81) Robert S. Galen, MD (MED‘70, CAS‘70) and Irene N. Carros ■ and Amy R. Luka ■ James M. Koomey, MD (MED‘95) Rita M. O’Neil and Carolyn H. Welsh, MD (MED‘79) ■ Sheilah A. Bernard, MD ■ ■ and George Colis ■ and Lorilee R. Sandmann David S. Kam, MD (SDM‘82, MED‘85) Andrew S. Malbin, MD (MED‘78, CAS‘76) and Bethania P. Koomey Lorene Osmanski, MD (MED‘89, CAS‘85) Henry S. White, MD (MED‘73) Florencio Berrios Castrodad ■ Brian I. Collet, MD (MED‘80, CAS‘80) Alison Gallup ■ and Laura M. Kam ■ Joshua M. Mammen, MD (MED‘99, CAS‘96) Paulette Korn ■ ■ and James P. Osmanski, II ■ and Barbara G. White Paul V. Bertocci, MD (MED‘70) and Ann I. Collet ■ Charles A. Garabedian, MD (MED‘88, Elizabeth Kantor, MD (MED‘75, DGE‘69, and Julie Mammen ■ Bernard E. Kreger, MD, MPH ■ ■ Vincent J. Patalano, MD (MED‘88) John M. Wiecha, MD and Jean L. Wiecha ■ and Barbara J. Bertocci ■ John T. Collins and Kathleen M. Collins CAS‘81, GRS‘84) ■ CAS‘71) ■ Peter J. Mannon, MD (MED‘83, CAS‘83) Rajlakshmi K. Krishnamurthy, MD (MED‘93, and Donna J. Patalano, JD (COM‘87) ■ Shirvinda A. Wijesekera, MD (MED‘98, Lynne G. Besen, MD (MED‘73, CAS‘72) Patrick H. Collins ■ Sarah Gasperini Susan L. Kantrowitz (COM‘77) and Roslyn B. Mannon, MD ■ CAS‘93) ■ Doreen C. Patry and William J. Patry ■ CAS‘98) and Namita G. Wijesekera, MD Carl J. Bettinger, MD (MED‘82) Wilson S. Colucci, MD (MED‘75) and Haralambos Gavras, MD and Mark R. Halperin ■ ■ John R. Marcaccio, MD (MED‘64) and Joseph Kulas ■ Jordan C. Paul and Valerie J. Paul (MED‘98, CAS‘98) ■ and Marianne Smit-Bettinger ■ Jill Downing (SPH‘07, SON‘74) ■ ■ and Irene M. Gavras, MD ■ ■ ■ Abe Kaplan, MD (MED‘53) Patricia H. Marcaccio ■ Byron L. Lam, MD (MED‘86, CAS‘84) Da Ba Pho (MED‘65) and Anne Pho ■ ■ Richard E. Wilker, MD (MED‘76) Maria Birardi Ronald E. Coutu, MD (MED‘66) Louis M. Geller, MD (MED‘53) Eve M. Kaplan (CAS‘73) ■ Francis G. Martinis, MD (CAS‘92, MED‘92) Arthur M. Lauretano, MD (MED‘88, CAS‘88) Richard W. Pogue ■ and Phyllis B. Wilker (SED‘00) ■ Albert J. Birmingham and Judith A. Coutu ■ and Harmona F. Geller ■ Peter Kaplan ■ and Antonella P. Martinis ■ and Adrienne Lauretano ■ Robert A. Prendergast, MD (MED‘57) ■ Charles T. Williams, MD ■ Charles M. Blitzer, MD (MED‘79, CAS‘79) Jeffrey B. Crandall, MD (MED‘67) Jon B. Getz, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘84) Nicholas Karamitsios, MD (MED‘92) J. Peter Maselli, MD (MED‘60) Faye Lee, MD (MED‘76) ■ Stella A. Renaker ■ Frances E. Williams, MD (MED‘96) ■ and Sandy Blitzer ■ and Holly J. Crandall and Kelly Beach ■ and Teresa Karamitsios ■ and Maryann Maselli ■ ■

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■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Three-year Consecutive Giving | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased Gifts from Corporations, Foundations, Companies, and Other Organizations gifts from the dean’s advisory board, Alumni, faculty and staff, parents, and friends (continued)

Richard T. Mason, MD (MED‘63) Stuart Rhein, MD (MED‘69, CAS‘69) Rosemary Sorrentino, MD (CAS‘45, GRS‘46) ■ Henry M. Yager, MD (MED‘66) $1m–$4.9m $25,000–$49,999 George T. Wilkinson, Inc. Clinical Neuroscience Research and Vivian Mason ■ and Judith K. Rhein (SED‘68) ■ and Louis V. Sorrentino, MD (MED‘47) and Felice B. Yager ■ The Nooril-Iman Charitable Foundation, Inc. The Alpert Family Foundation The Griffin Family Foundation Associates, Inc. J. Jay Matloff, MD (MED‘43, CAS‘41) Mary E. Rhodes ■ Jorge A. Soto, MD ■ John F. Zerner, MD (MED‘64) American Friends of Haynes Family Foundation Combined Jewish Philanthropies and Evelyn B. Matloff ■ ■ Kenneth J. Ritter, MD (MED‘58) Daniel P. Alford, MD (SPH‘86, MED‘92) and Elizabeth S. Zerner ■ ■ $500,000–$999,999 The Hebrew University Inc. Herff Jones, Inc. Frank Citrone Research Fund Kathy L. Matter and John Matter ■ and Lola Ritter ■ and Barbara J. St. Onge ■ ■ Abbott Fund American Thoracic Society Janis G. Manger Revocable Trust The Jeanne & Herbert Hansell Fund Italo C. Mazzarella, MD (MED‘56) John E. Ritzert, Jr. and Sandra J. Ritzert Michael J. Star, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘84) Abbott Products, Inc. Bayer Schering Pharma AG Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Jerry M. Mutua, M.D., LLC and Barbara R. Mazzarella ■ Matthew G. Rivkin, MD ■ and Kate E. Black, MD ■ McNeil Consumer Pharmaceuticals Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Long Island Spine Specialists P.C. Jones Day John M. McIlduff, MD (MED‘75) Stephanie D. Robertson, MD (MED‘96) Glenn C. Staub (SMG ‘87) ■ ■ Gift Society Levels Pfizer Inc. Bournewood Hospital Mushroom Council Kelley Knox Family Foundation ■ and Patricia P. McIlduff Nancy B. Robinson, MD (MED‘81) James D. Stern, MD (MED‘88, CAS‘88) for 2012–2013 The Sports Legacy Institute, Inc. Brown-Forman Corporation Nassau Wings Motor Cycle Club, Inc. Maine Community Foundation Cheryl Mehalovich and Brian Mehalovich ■ and Stephen J. Imbriglia and Barbara L. Stern ■ CHDI, Inc. Peter T. Paul Foundation, Inc. Mary V. Pratt Trust Mehrdad F. Mehr, MD (MED‘94, CAS‘89) ■ Ronda A. Rockett, MD (MED‘98) Kimberly A. Stock, MD (MED‘97) $250,000–$499,999 Cotherix Corp. PlatformQ Health, Inc. The McQuade Family Foundation Steven M. Meixler, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘84) and Sean E. Rockett ■ and Jonathan Stock ■ DEAN’S CLUB Anonymous Dairy Management, Inc. Senior Living Residences, LLC NBCUniversal Media, LLC and Barbara Meixler ■ Andres Rodriguez-Munoz, MD (MED‘86) Susan C. Stoddard ■ Dean’s Executive Club Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Diageo North America, Inc. Starwood Capital Group Management, LLC Northern Trust Charitable Giving Program Darius P. Melisaratos, MD (MED‘87, and Sandra Russo-Rodriguez, PhD ■ Steven Stodghill and Anne Stodghill ■ ($25,000+) American College of Rheumatology Duke University Steven & Jacqueline Miller at the Chicago Community Foundation CAS‘87) ■ Anne Roe ■ Susan M. Strahosky, MD (MED‘80, SED‘72, Dean’s Inner Circle Research and Education Foundation Elliott M.and Karen H. Antman Trust Family Foundation Rich Products Corporation Marc R. Mercier (LAW‘94) Carl E. Rosen, MD (MED‘88) and Bettina Rosen CAS‘80) and James H. Roberts ■ ($10,000 to $24,999) American Diabetes Association GlaxoSmithKline Universitair Medisch Centrum RRC Price CPAS P.C. ■ Marisa Messore, MD (MED‘92) Daniel Rosenberg, MD (MED‘81) Ronald J. Sunog, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘84) Dean’s Council American Heart Association Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation University of Pennsylvania Timmons Team Alzheimer’s Run Bennett Miller, MD (MED‘51) ■ and Melissa B. Sunog ■ Atlantic Philanthropies, Inc. Incyte Corporation Vascular Biology Unit and Deborah B. Gordon, MD ($5,000 to $9,999) and Elaine G. Miller ■ Carl E. Rosow, MD (GRS‘80, MED‘73) Ramin R. Tabaddor, MD (MED‘01, CAS‘96) Edward N. & Della L. Thome The Julia & Seymour Gross Foundation, Inc. $2,500–$4,999

Carol Miller ■ and Anna L. Rosow ■ Paul Tannenbaum and Marcey Membership Memorial Foundation Muscular Dystrophy Association Abraham Kaplan Charitable Foundation $500–$999 James F. Mitchell, Jr., MD (MED‘80) ■ Theresa M. Ruisi Tannenbaum ■ ($1,500 to $4,999) Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund National Football League Players Aid for Cancer Research Amal K. Kurban Revocable Trust Chester H. Mohr, M.D (MED‘83) Steven B. Rupp ■ Gerard Tate ■ The Louis E. Wolfson Foundation Association American Plumbing & Heating Corporation Connecticut Pain & Wellness Center, LLC Michael M. Monteith ■ Dana Lynn Sachs, MD (MED‘95) Andrew L. Taylor, MD (MED‘63) ANNIVERSARY CLUB National Lung Cancer Partnership Artistic Dentistry of Hanover Fante Eye and Face Centre Griffin Morse ■ Burton Sack, MD ■ ■ and Antoinette R. Taylor Membership $100,000–$249,999 Nebraska Medical Center Austin Service & Sales Co., Inc. Fife Family Foundation, Inc. Janet L. Morton and Edward L. Morton ■ Morton E. Salomon, MD (MED‘77) Andrew W. Taylor, PhD ■ ($1,000 to $1,499) Anonymous Onyx Pharmaceuticals CGL Electronic Security, Inc. Harvard Medical School Michael S. Murphy, MD (SAR‘87, MED‘93) and Teri Salomon Arthur C. Theodore, MD (MED‘79) Aetna Foundation, Inc. Phoenicia Biosciences, Inc. David Ingall Trust Marquette Associates, Inc. and Lori A. Farnan, MD (MED‘95) ■ Jose M. Santiago, MD (MED‘73) and Dawn M. Theodore ■ ■ ■ CENTURY CLUB Alpha-1 Foundation Sanofi-Aventis, U.S., LLC Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Maureen O’Brien Kennedy Trust Arthur L. Naddell, MD (MED‘62) and Janice E. Catt Bryan M. Thompson ■ Patron Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Scleroderma Research Foundation Edward Taylor Coombs Foundation Neville Place Assisted Living and Janet Naddell ■ Carol S. Savage, MD (MED‘92) Scott N. Thompson ■ ($500 to $999) American Asthma Foundation Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fitness for You Invitational Pardeeville Area School District Janice Nadelhaft ■ and Steven P. Savage ■ Edmund C. Tramont, MD (MED‘66) Membership American Cancer Society Foundation Gordon Foundation, Inc. Richard and Clare Lesser Family Foundation Doris B. Nagel, MD (MED‘64) Eric J. Sax, MD (MED‘89) and Mary A. Tramont ■ ($250 to $499) American Cancer Society/Mass Division Guy L. Mintz, M.D., PLLC Thurston Community Players and Norman H. Baker, PhD ■ and Julie Sax ■ ■ Shu-Chen Tseng ■ ■ American Health Assistance Foundation $10,000–$24,999 Ineke M. Dikland Revocable Trust United Way of Central New Mexico Robert M. Najarian, MD (MED‘05) ■ John W. Scanlon, MD (MED‘65) Joseph R. Tucci, MD (MED‘59) YOUNG PHYSICIAN’S CLUB American Parkinson Disease Association Alcon Laboratories, Inc. Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders University of Dammam Krishna Narravula and Kathleen B. Scanlon (SON‘68) ■ and Marjorie Tucci ■ Membership includes graduates Arthritis Foundation, Inc. The Ayco Charitable Foundation The Irving T. Bush Foundation, Inc. and Padmavathy Narravula ■ Victor C. Schlitzer Raymond J. Vautour, MD (MED‘86) of less than 5 years New England Region Batter Up For An ALS Cure J. K. Blackstone Construction Corporation $250–$499 Rebecca Reetz Neal (MED‘85) ■ Martyn A. Vickers ■ Burroughs Wellcome Fund Boston VA Research Institute Jewish Community Foundation Greater Alexandria Capital, LLC. Jeffrey I. Schneider, MD ($100 to $249) Clyde A. Niles, MD ■ and Sarah Schneider ■ James D. Villiotte (MED‘63) Chaikin-Wile Foundation Conan Kornetsky Revocable Trust Kansas City Allergy, Asthma, Arthitis & Lung Center Betty M. Nobel ■ Stephen H. Schneider, MD (MED‘72, CAS‘72) and Maureen L. Villiotte ■ Our heartfelt thanks and Dairy Research Institute The Critelli Family Foundation Jones Lang LaSalle Camargo Cadillac Company Ned R. Novsam, MD (MED‘79, CAS‘74) and Carole R. Schneider ■ Murray W. Waksman, MD (MED‘64) gratitude to all of our donors Elsa U. Pardee Foundation Dominick & Rose Ciampa Foundation, Inc. Puzzles To Remember, Inc. Carol S. Savage, M.D. and Patricia J. Novsam Joel R. Schulman, MD (MED‘72) and Sylvia A. Waksman ■ at all levels who have seen Florida Wildflower Foundation Egg Nutrition Center Rubin and Rudman, LLP Children’s Urological Foundation, Inc. Stephen C. O’Connor, MD (MED‘90, and Joan S. Van Berg, Esq. (CAS‘76) Craig Waterfield ■ fit to support our educational Hershey Foods Corporation Fitness For You, Inc. The Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Countryside Nursing Home, Inc. CAS‘85) and Margot S. O‘Connor ■ Michael J. Scollins, MD (MED‘69) Marc C. Watson, MD (MED‘72) and medical mission. Matching J. T. Tai & Co. Foundation, Inc. Kaketsuken Woodin & Company Store Fixtures, Inc. The Dover Fund, Inc. Brian F. O’Donnell, MD (MED‘87) and Mary D. Scollins, MD (MED‘69) ■ Thomas Watson and Gerald Laudato ■ gifts count toward an Laboratory Corporation Karen H. Antman Living Trust 1011995 U/A George & Beatrice Sherman Family and Olga S. O‘Donnell ■ Kenath J. Shamir, MD (MED‘87, CAS‘87) ■ J. Brooks Watt, MD (MED‘74) individual’s Leadership of America Holdings Karyopharm Therapeutics $1,500–$2,499 Charitable Trust J. David Ogilby, MD (MED‘79) Jeffrey A. Shane, MD, JD (MED‘68, CAS‘68) and Karen M. King ■ Gift Club Membership. Mass Lions Eye Research Fund The Kurt Berliner Foundation All-Star Pest Services, LLC Innovative Women’s Health, LLC and Katrina Ogilby ■ and Roberta H. Shane ■ Jeffrey D. Wayne, MD (MED‘92) Melanoma Research Alliance L’Oreal USA Arnold Robbins Revocable Trust John Durkan, M.D. Robert J. Owczarek ■ Bruce K. Shapiro, MD (MED‘72, CAS‘72) and Diane B. Wayne GIFTS FROM Michael J. Fox Foundation Lundbeck, Inc. Build It Construction Jonathann C. Kuo MD PC Arnold I. Pallay, MD (CAS‘83, MED‘83) and Elizabeth B. Shapiro (SON‘72) ■ Catherine J. Wei, MD (MED‘13) ■ ■ COMPANIES Middlesex District Medical Society Marlins Foundation Ephraim Friedman Revocable Trust Kenneth J. Ritter MD PLLC and Robin L. Pallay Reginald Shaw ■ Cindy Weimar and Bruce Weimar ■ MATCHING DONOR Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc. Massachusetts General Hospital Great Island Foundation Laura F. Ras Private Foundation, Inc. Robert S. Pastan, MD (MED‘73) Joseph R. Shea ■ Ellen O. Weinberg, PhD (GRS‘92) GIFTS Scleroderma Foundation Miami Marlins Inland Northwest Community Foundation LSS Data Systems and Cathy Pastan ■ Richard L. Shelling, MD (MED‘56) and James S. Weinberg ■ ■ Abbott Laboratories Susan G. Komen for the Cure Novimmune S A Kaplan, Inc. Lyons Enterprises, Inc. Mary K. Patz, MD (MED‘91) and Judith S. Hahn (CAS‘64) ■ Lawrence Weinstein and Cynthia Weinstein ■ Bank of America, N.A. Welch Foods, Inc. PhRMA Foundation Millennium Running Registration Main Street Optical and Richard J. Patz ■ Brian G. Sherman, MD (MED‘91) Joan S. Weintraub, MD (GRS‘69) Bristow Helicopters Pola Chemical Industries, Inc. Mystic Valley Dermatology Manic NYC, LLC Elayne M. Peloquin (SED‘04) ■ and Dawn M. Sherman (SED‘88) and Lewis R. Weintraub ■ General Electric Company $50,000–$99,999 Schwab Charitable Fund Otis Elevator Co. Marshall S. Bedine, M.D., L.L.C. Daniel J. Pereles and Susan A. Pereles Edward J. Sherwood, MD (MED‘75, CAS‘72) Diane J. Weiss, MD (MED‘84) Google, Inc. Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. Stuart E. Siegel Living Trust Personal Enhancement Center Ophthalmic Associates, APC Alan S. Peterson, MD (MED‘72, CAS‘68) ■ and Shirley Y. Sherwood ■ and Antonio Villalobos ■ Hospira Allen Foundation Sullivan Family Foundation, Inc. Quintiliani Family Trust Primo Painting Contracting Corp Milton C. Pettapiece, MD (MED‘65) Robert C. Shoemaker, MD (MED‘49) Brooks S. White, MD (MED‘51) ■ Houghton Mifflin American Lung Association Washington University St. Louis The Robert H. Wexler Foundation Reit Management & Research, LLC and Susan F. Pettapiece ■ and Betty F. Shoemaker Michael P. White (MET‘04) IBM Concern Foundation The Winokur Family Foundation, Inc. Ronald L. Katz Family Foundation Sea Port Marine Corporation Donald R. Pettit, MD (MED‘64) ■ Sheryl Short ■ and Debra A. White ■ ■ Johnson & Johnson Eli Lilly and Company Save That Stuff, Inc. SFSG Katherine L. Phaneuf, MD (MED‘88) ■ Alyse B. Sicklick, MD (MED‘88, CAS‘84) George P. Whitelaw, Jr., MD (MED‘71) MasterCard International, Inc. Harry J. Lloyd Charitable Trust $5,000–$9,999 Tree Technology & Landscape Co., Inc. Steven B. Rupp Living Trust Herbert S. Plovnick, MD (MED‘71, CAS‘67) and Jay E. Sicklick ■ and Phyllis L. Carr ■ McKesson Corporation The Louis and Rachel Rudin Arlington Community Foundation The Vitale International Foundation for and Kathleen R. Plovnick (ENG‘89, Benjamin S. Siegel (CAS‘63) William D. Whitney and Jean Whitney ■ Microsoft Corporation Foundation, Inc. The Besson Trust Medical Education, Inc. CAS‘68) ■ and Jane R. Siegel ■ ■ Allison Paige Whittle (MED‘86, CAS‘86) ■ NSTAR Electric and Gas March of Dimes National Foundation Best Automatic Sprinkler Corp. Lisa M. Quidileg-Turner and John S. Turner ■ Evan L. Siegel, MD (MED‘84, CAS‘84) William F. Wieting, MD (MED‘63) Pfizer, Inc. Merck & Co., Inc. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center $1,000–$1,499 L. Terry Rabinowitz, MD (MED‘67, CAS‘67) and Diana R. Siegel ■ and Amey P. Wieting Procter & Gamble Merck, Sharp & Dohme Corp. Boston Red Sox Foundation Anonymous and Lesley Wilson ■ Sally W. Simoes ■ John G. Williams, Jr., MD (MED‘67) Rinet Company, LLC Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation CURE Albert B. Kahn Foundation Joel S. Rankin, MD (MED‘57) Artemis P. Simopoulos (MED‘56) ■ and Lucille A. Williams ■ Sandmeyer Steel Company NE Corneal Transplant Fund Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Anaesthesia Associates of Massachusetts and Verna B. Rankin ■ ■ Lee R. Slosberg and Marion Slosberg ■ Robert R. Wolff, MD (MED‘74) Verizon Communications New York Wine & Grape Foundation Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Annetta K. Weaver Living Trust Roger D. Reville, MD (MED‘62) Monica Smiddy, MD (MED‘89) ■ and Susan C. Wolff ■ ■ Wells Fargo Bank Simons Foundation Erving and Joyce Wolf Foundation Assyrian American Association of San Jose and Mary Beth Reville ■ Adrianne G. Smith ■ Maryann R. Wyner Faculty Practice Foundation, Inc. Center for Physical Therapy and Excercise

34 Campus & Alumni News | BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine www.bu.edu/supportingbusm Winter 2013 | www.bumc.bu.edu 35 Norma B. Hamilton 1969 Stephen H. Schneider David M. Kaufman Harry M. Iannotti Clare L. Dana Joel R. Schulman Edward V. Lally Joseph F. Iovino Michael S. Drucker Bruce K. Shapiro David L. Levy Alumni Joan L. Lasser Geraldine L. Feldman Marc C. Watson Richard A. Lichtenberg Reunion Giving Thank you, donors Jonas R. Leifer Jack J. Ferlinz Charles A. Welch John M. McIlduff Dennis B. Lind Arthur P. Fisch Joel A. Roffman Spotlight Carol A. Milchenski George G. Fishman 1973 Edward J. Sherwood Rothman David A. Fleishman Nancy E. Anthracite Allan W. Silberman To all who contributed to BUSM during our last fiscal year: Thank you! Philanthropic support to the medical school John M. Nigro Edward W. Forbes Michael J. Cassidy John F. Yee increased by 11 percent over the previous fiscal year, and alumni giving totaled more than $2.7 million. Your gift has a profound impact on the School’s continued Herbert L. Rothman Ronald A. Grant Richard S. Chung Robert M. Zelazo growth. It is instrumental in bolstering educational initiatives and enhancing the resources available to our students. BUSM is strong today, in part, because of the Richard J. Samaha Lester K. Henderson Bernard M. Cooke, Jr. Reunion classes traditionally lead the way generosity of alumni participation. Thank you for giving so generously, for leading by example, and for demonstrating your confidence in BUSM’s talented students. Edward L. Schneider George L. Hines Robert R. Ditkoff 1976 when it comes to giving back to the School Martin J. Sheehy III Marc F. Hirsch Michael Feinberg Gilbert J. Beers of Medicine and this year was no exception. Michael D. Sulkin John P. Howe III William J. Georgitis Ben R. Bronstein BUSM is proud to highlight two special Edmund C. Tramont Stephen G. Lazoff John A. Gillespie Loring S. Flint, Jr. Henry M. Yager Robert A. Novelline Steven A. Gould Patricia L. Kauffman gifts that will make the difference for future 1940 Bennett Miller Joseph T. Mullen James L. Thompson 1962 1964 David H. Zornow Stuart Rhein Lynne S. Gradinger Matthew R. Kaufman generations of students. Iver S. Ravin Richard J. Rihn Peter E. Pochi Earle G. Woodman Roberta J. Apfel Edward P. Andersen Peter J. Sapienza Joshua D. Gutman Karen W. Landau Brooks S. White Jordan S. Ruboy Merwyn Bagan Thomas C. Bagnoli 1967 Michael J. Scollins Gerald R. Harpel Faye Lee 1942 Stephen W. Russell 1959 Francis H. Boudreau Putnam P. Breed Mary and Carl A. Olsson, MD (MED’63) Stephen M. Alpert Mary D. Scollins Paul A. Janson M. Douglass Poirier Abraham Kaye 1952 Paul J. Simel Mary W. Ambler Arthur P. Carriere Walter J. Brodzinski Marcia E. Angell Kenneth C. Spengler, Jr. Donald M. Kaplan Anthony A. Schepsis utilized a charitable gift annuity to make Salvatore Vasilel Frank E. Berridge William Thomas, Jr. John M. Bennett David F. Casey Joyce L. Chen David A. Bailen Elihu L. Sussman Robyn G. Karlstadt Robert O. Sternbach a significant commitment of $100,000 in Nicholas Giosa Hilbert Ziskin Charles D. Drummond, Jr. John P. Cloherty John P. Cocchiarella Marshall S. Bedine Stephanie J. Larouche Glenn K. Takei 1943 Marilyn H. McGovern Michael Field Joyce C. Crowell Joseph F. DiTroia honor of Dr. Olsson’s 50th reunion. The Richard J. Blocker 1970 Jonathan H. Lass Thomas V. Whalen, Jr. Jacob J. Matloff Richard E. Noon 1956 James H. Gilmour, Jr. Peter N. DeSanctis Mary Jane R. England Olssons, who are Chester S. Keefer, MD Anthony F. Bonacci Barbara J. Baker Jack P. Leventhal Richard E. Wilker H. Tom Tamaki Malkah T. Notman Donald C. Brody Daniel B. Hovey Norman C. Gaudrault Howard J. Frankel Susan E. Bradford Paul V. Bertocci Stephen R. LoVerme, Jr. Barry J. Zamost Frank L. Pettinga Richard O. Elliott Harold D. Levy Charles W. Gorodetzky Thornton C. Kline, Jr. Ann C. Cea Howard S. Britt Eva R. Mauer 1944 Eugene P. Whittier, Jr. Richard D. Frary Robert L. McAuley Gerald W. Hazard Ruth M. Lawrence Carl A. Olsson, MD Jeffrey B. Crandall Denis P. Byrne Evan E. Mortimer 1977 Albert B. Accettola Ronald L. Katz John F. O’Brien Arthur L. Naddell John R. Marcaccio Mary L. Del Monte Bruce R. Davidson Stephen T. Olin Robert W. Antelman Herbert Y. Chinn 1953 Robert H. Lofgren George N. Queeley Joel Potash Doris B. Nagel Baker Ralph G. Ganick Joseph S. Fastow Robert S. Pastan Philip S. Barie Arthur B. Kern Harold P. Blum Albert H. Marcus Philip S. Reilly Roger D. Reville Donald R. Pettit Edward V. Grayson Robert S. Galen Richard F. Rose Mark J. Berenberg Leona R. Zarsky Nancy A. Durant-Edmonds Italo C. Mazzarella Gerald Rosenblatt Carter B. Tallman Vincent J. Russo Joseph R. Halperin Gene A. Grindlinger Carl E. Rosow Andrew J. Breuder William L. Gage Richard C. Newell Robert H. Savola H. E. Thomas, Jr. Murray W. Waksman Robert W. Healy Harvey R. Gross Robert Sandberg Victoria A. Cargill 1945 Louis M. Geller Thomas F. O’Leary Joseph R. Tucci George Walcott John F. Zerner Howard I. Levy Paul J. Haydu Jose M. Santiago Jonathan S. Forman Frank J. Miselis Michihiko Hayashida Artemis S. Pinkerson Lawrence W. Wood Meyer D. Lifschitz Gail K. Kraft David Savar Gerald D. Goldman Marjorie E. Readdy- Malcolm G. Idelson Rolf G. Scherman 1960 Jeremiah O. Young 1965 Carol C. Pohl Thomas P. Massello Neil I. Stahl James J. Heffernan Sullivan Abe Kaplan Richard L. Shelling George H. Abbot Michael L. Apuzzo L. T. Rabinowitz Steven A. Miller David H. Walker Kathleen S. Jones Henry R. Wolfe Hamer Lacey Herbert N. Weber Morris S. Albert 1963 Donna R. Barnard Leonard A. Sharzer Mike B. Siroky Henry S. White Joel M. Kaufman Frank I. Marcus Frank H. Allen G. C. Barry Douglas E. Barnard Ethan M. Shevach Robert A. Vigersky William Lang 1947 Helen A. Papaioanou 1957 Thomas P. Burton A. R. Bellows Harry W. Bennert, Jr. Arthur D. Shiff 1974 Paula A. Leonard-Schwartz David Kaufman Edward Spindell A. S. Anderson, Jr. William R. Clark, Jr. ■ Charles M. Bliss Robert H. Brown Stuart E. Siegel 1971 Robert G. Alexander Irma M. Lessell Harold L. Osher Martin L. Vogel Howard C. Beane Robert C. Cochran Charles D. Casat William A. Christmas Emil Von Arx III Martin M. Bress James A. Benson Richard J. Lopez Raymond Seltser Norman Weinstein Peter N. Carbonara Robert L. Conrad Richard J. Cea Curtis R. Clayman John G. Williams, Jr. Marc A. Clachko Arnold M. Berman Myron Maron Louis V. Sorrentino Henry O. White Maurice H. Connors Mark H. Cooley Joseph M. Civetta Benedict D. Daly, Jr. Paul B. Cohen Lynne L. Brewer Astrid O. Peterson Frank S. Wills Norman D. Corwin A. E. D’Andrea Charles B. Currier, Jr. Elizabeth C. Dooling 1968 Mark O. Cutler Robert W. Chamberlain, Sr. John J. Przygoda 1948 Peter A. Fauci, Jr. Charles F. Eades Michael A. Diamond David F. Garvin Anonymous John A. Dundas David J. Chronley Michael R. Rifkin Sherman A. Gates 1954 David Ingall Leonard A. Greene Richard K. Forster Burton P. Golub Society members, have been longtime Jeffery L. Barker Richard B. Glaser Paul O. Farr Richard S. Rome Malcolm Gordon Blanche K. Baler Gilbert A. Norwood Arnold M. Illman Ronald S. Gabriel Bennett S. Gurian supporters of BU and BUSM. This gift Frederick B. Berrien Jonathan R. Insel Paul S. Freedberg Steven H. Rosenberg Albert L. Lamp, Jr. Robert J. Carey C. T. O’Connell Peter F. Jeffries Charles A. Gundersen George A. Hasiotis Eric A. Birken Herbert S. Plovnick Robert H. Gilman Morton E. Salomon will augment the Carl and Mary Olsson Julian Mandell George Dermksian Peter Oliver Warren Kantrowitz Michael G. Hirsh John A. Hermos James S. Brust Louis E. Rosenthall Jeffrey R. Goldbarg Dennis J. Sargent Scholarship Fund, established in 2008, James H. Eldredge Henry T. Oyama Donald S. Kaufman Victor I. Hochberg James B. Howell William R. Cranley ■ Peter M. Taft Thomas S. Gould Katherine F. Sargent 1949 Arnold Goldenberg Robert A. Prendergast Robert M. Kim James A. Hull M. D. Kelleher that supports medical students who Frederick L. Fox Jerry R. Wexler Paul M. Leiman Edward P. Schuman Albert A. Apshaga Hideo H. Itabashi Joel S. Rankin Phoebe R. Krey Lanzoni Sarkis J. Kechejian Peter C. Kelly demonstrate financial need. Alberta A. Garbaccio George P. Whitelaw, Jr. D. J. Lynn Steven B. Schwartz John H. Bechtel Onni C. Kangas Donald L. Shapiro Paul H. LaMarche Cyril K. Kim Howard M. Ledewitz Harold M. Ginzburg Stephen F. Osborne Kathryn N. Shands Michael J. Esposito Robert L. Kelley William L. Smith J. P. Maselli Edward E. Krukonis Shirley A. McMahon Edward J. Glinski 1972 Jean J. Panagakos Kathleen F. Thurmond Lillian A. Luksis Paul J. Killoran Julian A. Waller Walter L. McLean Gerald N. LaPierre David W. Moore Frederick A. Godley III, MD (MED’83) has Leon D. Goldman Mark H. Allen Mark S. Samberg Robert A. Witzburg Selma H. Rutenburg George D. Malkasian, Jr. Jason G. Silverman Ethel B. Margolis Ralph A. Nelson Edward S. Gross Carol E. Anderson Rosemary K. Sokas a passion for education and ensuring that Robert C. Shoemaker Paul Solomon 1958 William P. Slover, Jr. Richard T. Mason Edward F. Parsons David G. Heller Barry J. Benjamin Ruth Tuomala 1978 BUSM students are prepared for the next Robert M. Abrams Martin L. Spivack Jeremiah P. McDonald Milton C. Pettapiece, Jr. Steven J. Jacobs Laszlo Boros J. B. Watt James E. Andrews 1950 1955 Yi-Chuan Ching Michael D. Walker Carl A. Olsson Da B. Pho stages of their medical careers. With a gift Michael A. Kane Samuel A. Burstein Robert R. Wolff Carola A. Arndt G. R. Baler Stephen J. Alphas Jean M. Doelling Burt M. Perlmutter Nancy E. Rice of $10,000 in honor of his 30th reunion, Shirley P. Klein David M. Center Steven J. Bellin Gerald Besson William Y. Au Joseph R. Gaeta, Sr. 1961 William E. Poplack John W. Scanlon Michael J. Kussman Gregory G. Cheung 1975 Rita B. Benezra-Obeiter Dr. Godley established a lecture series Donald P. Dobson Saverio Caputi, Jr. Richard N. Kaplan Philip J. Arena Marc W. Richman Lily M. Young Paul A. Levine Edward V. Famiglietti Steven L. Berk Alan D. Berkenwald that will educate medical students on Ramon Isales Andrew B. Crummy, Jr. Leo T. Kelly Jeanne F. Arnold Cynthia P. Rose Bruce W. Lowney Robert I. Friedman Barbara H. Bjornson Johan G. Blickman Edwin C. Meserve Robert T. Cutting Barry M. Manuel Lester S. Dewis Saul J. Rosenstreich 1966 business and political issues that will Charles S. Nordell G. C. Kutteruf Bruce N. Brent Edith E. Braun Marilyn M. Meserve Donald S. Dworken Hart D. Peterson Jack T. Evjy Andrew L. Taylor Michael S. Annunziata influence the practice of medicine. He Laurence M. Rheingold Robert G. Layton Wilson S. Colucci Lillian E. Cohn Henry B. Schoenberger James E. Edwards Albert Quintiliani, Jr. George E. Garcia James D. Villiotte Irwin Avery continues to work with his classmates James W. Rosenberg Steven Lipper Joel R. Daven Frank S. Davis George J. Talis ■ Marion E. Elliott Kenneth J. Ritter Patricia K. Issarescu Alan J. Wabrek Jerome F. Bergheim Calvin C. Ross Ronald B. Matloff Theslee J. DePiero Patricia A. Donahue to raise $100,000 in order to create an James P. Johnson N. P. Schepis Laurence A. LaGattuta Francis E. Wanat Aaron T. Billowitz Frank J. Schaberg, Jr. Robert F. Meenan Richard M. Freedman Mitchell S. Engler endowed lectureship so future generations 1951 Paul Kaufman A. C. Shealy Daniel E. Moalli William F. Wieting Richard D. Bland Monica J. Schaberg Allen E. Ott Howard M. Friedman Fawn Cohen Gottlieb David H. Baker Jeanne D. Keller Sumner Stone Carter G. Mosher Jane A. Winchester Ronald E. Coutu of students will be similarly prepared. Jeffrey A. Shane George A. Parker Linda C. Hemphill Marcia E. Herrmann Donald J. Davis Margaret S. Kosek Louis W. Sullivan Simon C. Parisier Herbert M. Wyman I. H. Fine Barry E. Sieger Alan S. Peterson Joseph L. Jorizzo Janel Jacob Bertram Fleshler Clement E. LaCoste Theodore W. Thoburn Burton White Daniel D. Foote Annetta K. Weaver David R. Rowden Elizabeth Kantor Lowell H. Keppel Burton I. Korelitz Hugh Miller Paul A. Gitman

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David C. Leiman Andrew L. Kriegel Scott D. Becker Pang-Yen Fan R. S. Cowan Leslie K. Serchuck Andrew S. Malbin Alan A. LaRocque Lynne Brodsky Daniel R. Fishbein M. C. Cremens Stephen M. Tringale Brooks Martin Keith J. Lerner Mary C. Burke Robert F. Fishman Paula M. Cullinane William Y. W. Au ‘55 Mary Jane England ‘64 Douglas N. MacInnis ‘46 Frederic F. Primich ‘57 Lawrence S. McAuliffe Lauren L. Lerner Mark D. Chase Suzanne Gagnon Robert G. Fante 1991 Marvin B. Bacaner ‘53 Frederick L. Fox ‘68 Barry M. Manuel ‘58 Jordan S. Ruboy ‘55 Richard C. Mindess Joseph L. Malone III William L. Daley Howard A. Green Charles A. Garabedian Susan J. Alexander Merwyn Bagan ‘62 Richard Gaines ‘81 John R. McCormick ‘65 Leon N. Shapiro ‘48 Larry S. Nichter Gordon S. Manning Alan B. Ettinger Stephen R. Guy Ronni L. Goldsmith Matthew H. Blomquist Arnold M. Baskies ‘75 George E. Ghareeb ‘62 Robert F. Meenan ‘72 Richard J. Shemin ‘74 Elvin R. Ramey James F. Mitchell, Jr. Steven J. Fox David S. Kam William G. Griever Vicki A. Chavin Stephen M. Rich Charles C. Paniszyn Frederick A. Godley III Mark C. Kuperwaser Beth A. Hanrahan David Cohen Arnold L. Berenberg ‘46 Anthony J. Giorgio ‘57 Steven Abbott Miller ‘70 Robert C. Shoemaker ‘49 Daniel Rotrosen Richard S. Pieters, Jr. Andrew M. Goldenberg Karen M. Kyle Howard K. Herman Jane S. Cohen Allen G. Brailey Jr. ‘56 Arnold Goldenberg ‘54 Frank J. Miselis ‘45 Robert J. Szarnicki ‘69 David M. Saltzberg Richard Roseff Kathleen L. Irwin Jeffrey M. Morse James S. Hoffman Leah A. Darak Wilmer B. Buckland ‘37 Marvin J. Hoffman ‘47 N. Stephen Ober ‘86 George J. Talis ‘50 Alan L. Schechter S. J. Saragas Jeffrey R. Jay Alan S. Multz Pei-Li Huang Keryn M. Dias Robert J. Carey ‘54 James B. Howell ‘65 Bertha Offenbach-Fineberg ‘36 Frank R. Toppo ‘80 Ronald E. Schott Kenneth B. Simons Glenn P. Kimball, Jr. Rebecca R. Neal Alexander Ingerman David A. Druckman Ann C. Cea ‘67 Bernard L. Huang ‘62 Carl A. Olsson ‘63 Donald O. Ward ‘47 Sheryl F. Schott Susan M. Strahosky Jeffrey M. Liebmann Elise H. Pyun Robert M. Insoft Marc S. Hoffman Joseph F. Seber Andrew M. Wexler Peter J. Mannon William V. Raszka, Jr. Edith M. Jolin Joung T. Kim Gregory G. Cheung ‘72 David Ingall ‘57 Hytho H. Pantazelos ‘63 Murray Weinstock ‘65 Neal Shadoff Donald K. Marcus Ann K. Salahuddin Arthur M. Lauretano Treyce S. Knee Yi-Chuan Ching ‘58 Hideo H. Itabashi ‘54 Dianne M. Parrotte ‘79 Henry O. White ‘53 Carol J. Singer-Granick 1981 Anna J. Mitus Stacey R. Silverman Frank S. Lee Susan B. Laster Alan S. Cohen ‘52 Sarkis J. Kechejian ‘63 Vincent J. Patalano ‘53 Tumika Williams-Wilson ‘85 David B. Smith Anonymous Chester H. Mohr Valori D. Treloar Burt L. Lesnick Mina W. Ma Andrew B. Crummy ‘55 Jeffrey K. Klingenstein ‘75 Peter E. Pochi ‘55 Lawrence A. Yannuzzi ‘64 Dennis L. Sprecher Nancy P. Andersen Carol A. Murphy Susan L. Tuori Emily C. McPhillips Robert H. Pass Judith M. Strymish Lesley A. Atwood Arnold I. Pallay Tumika Williams-Wilson Martha E. Moss Mary K. Patz Donald P. Dobson ‘50 Stanley H. Konefal ‘47 M. Douglass Poirier ‘76 Richard D. Tanner Sally Browning John M. Parkinson W. M. Nannery Scott D. Pendergast Elizabeth C. Dooling ‘65 Edward E. Krukonis ‘63 Theodore Polos ‘47 Peak Woo Minou Woel Colis Elise K. Richman 1986 Andrew O. Nichols Brian G. Sherman Warren S. Zwecker Ronald G. Collman Helen Riess Joseph S. Baler Vincent J. Patalano II John M. Timmerman Thomas J. Dowling, Jr. Alan L. Rothman Edward F. Caldwell Katherine L. Phaneuf Michael S. Young 1979 Mary A. Drinkwater Ralph L. Sacco Michael G. Connolly, Jr. Christine C. Reardon John J. Adams Neal S. Greenstein Henry E. Simkin Mary L. Delaney Carl E. Rosen 1992 Howard C. Bauchner Richard J. Hicks David L. Walton Byron L. Lam Alyse B. Sicklick Daniel P. Alford Edward L. Bedrick David M. Hollander Kalman L. Watsky Neal Mandell Alison F. Sims Timothy R. Berigan John Ferrante III Allison E. Tonkin Shawn M. Ferullo Kevin Yu Marta N. Flory Steven Hoh Charles M. 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