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For more information, please contact [email protected]. AlumniAlumni Association, School of Medicine of Loma Linda University JournalSeptember-December 2013 Science and Compassion Two Alums Offer Families Fertility Solutions also inside: Graduation 2013: Keeping the Ball Rolling • Restoring Sight in Zambia: Dr. Janie Yoo ‘06 Pioneers Eye Health TABLE OF CONTENTS Alumni Journal September-December 2013 Volume 84, Number 2 Editor Mickey Ask ’79-A Managing Editor 8 Nicole M. Batten, MA Design & Layout Kristina Benfield 32 Staff Writer & Advertising Emily Star Wilkens Circulation When fully endowed, this A.T. Tuot scholarship fund will guarantee that all 26 12 The Alumni Journal is published deserving students, regardless of financial three times a year by the Features News situation, will be admitted to the Alumni Association, 12 Graduation 2013: 4 School of Medicine News School of Medicine of Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Keeping the Ball Rolling 42 Alumni in the News 11245 Anderson Street, Suite 200 The Class of 2013 celebrates the end of 43 In Memoriam Loma Linda, CA 92354 a chapter they will never forget, carrying a spirit of service and innovation into Editorial Phone: 909.558.4633. the future. 2 An Institution Unlike Any Other Fax: 909.558.4638. Email: [email protected] THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT 26 Science and Compassion: Two Alums C . Offer Families Fertility Solutions From the Dean Printed by Color Press, The serendipitous meeting of Charles 6 The Cost of Innovation in Medical Walla Walla, Wash. Sims ’60 and Cappy Rothman ‘75-R leads Education to the creation of one of the leading sperm banks and cryogenic laboratories Interview in the world. 8 The Physician’s Physician: An Interview 32 Restoring Sight in Zambia: Janie Yoo ‘06 with Dr. Ted Hamilton ’73-A Pioneers Eye Health Alumna ophthalmologist and corneal Historical Snapshot Find us online: specialist, works to improve eye health 48 Class of 1944-B’s Balancing Act www.llusmaa.org care in Zambia and pioneers the road to Facebook.com/llusmaa organ transplants in the country. What’s Up, Doc? LinkedIn Group: Alumni Association 49 Dr. John Michael Hay ’75 School of Medicine of Loma Linda 38 AIMS Special Report University The Association of International Medical Instagram.com/llumedicalalumni Services, a group of LLU alumni dedicat- ed to overseas mission work reports on THE CENTENNIAL TUITION ENDOWMENT FUND their activities. On the cover: Business partners Dr. Charles Sims ‘60 and Cappy Rothman ‘75-R stand out front of the California Cryobank. EDITORIAL THIS and THAT An Institution Unlike Any Other Additional Names for Alumni Regional Events 2013-2016 Board Member ver the past six months we have hosted alumni hen I was a young man I was wracked with angst kind of students we attract and recruit—a student with a Positions Oregional events in Boise, ID; Orlando, FL; Wbecause I thought that given the length of human penchant for whole person care. Asheville, NC; and Kailua, HI. /ank you to all those history everything had already been said or done. I didn’t ach year a nominating committee solicits names and who came out and joined us, and special thanks to our think I had any hope of being unique. So why try? Until Unique Teachers Eselects new alumni members to fill vacant positions event host couples for their help in hosting these events: one day it occurred to me that no single individual could LLUSM has been able to take students with GPA/ on the board of directors of the Alumni Association, Jon Kattenhorn ’74 and Jeanette Kattenhorn; Loran likely have crafted and created a mix of observations, MCAT scores slightly below the mean who fit with our SMLLU. Typically new board members are nominated Hauck ’76-A and Loretta Hauck; Harold Schutte ’62 reflections, insights, expressions and accomplishments in mission and see them not only pass their boards, but prior to the Annual Postgraduate Convention and start and Margie Schutte; and Dennis Watkins ’78 and the same fashion as I, which meant I was unique after all! graduate. /is ability to mold students and see them excel their terms in March. Listed below are the final two Elaine Yamashiro Watkins ’78. If you are interested /is gave me a new zest and purpose in life. is a credit to our unique faculty who care enough to take names for the 2013-2016 board member term. in hosting an alumni gathering at your home, contact In my new role as Alumni Association president, I have a personal interest in each student. Our faculty aren’t Board members serve staggered terms of three Nicole Batten at [email protected]. found this to be true as well. Our alma mater, Loma Linda here for the money, rather they are here because of their years each so that no more than one third of the board University School of Medicine (LLUSM), gave birth to commitment to LLUSM’s mission. members roll off each year. Only dues-paying members our careers, which gave us a sense of accomplishment, an may serve on the board. /e names and photos of the actualization of a meaningful purpose towards others, and Unique Graduates nominated individuals are being printed here to give the a means to not only ensure a comfortable life for ourselves /is year we have 20 graduates who are serving as deferred wider membership a chance to approve or disapprove but to improve the lives of others and even to pass along mission appointees in the mission field. It is good to see the names. that ability to other nascent learners. /is is what impels these numbers trending upward again, partly due to the Please send any objections to the names listed here to us as alumni to organize as an association—to facilitate work of Dr. William McGhee ‘72 and Dr. Richard Hart [email protected] or mail to 11245 Anderson Street, new progeny of our alma mater. ‘70. During the past 100 plus years of our history, more Suite 200, Loma Linda, CA 92354. /e deadline for Although there may be medical schools with larger than 1,000 LLUSM graduates have served overseas— response is September 15, 2013. research budgets and greater accomplishments more than any other medical school in the United States. than us, there are none quite like Loma /is is a great testament to the sense of mission and self- Dr. Roger ’74 and Donna Hadley with recent graduate Linda University School of Medicine. We are sacrifice our graduates have. We see this same spirit in the Dr. Kyra Eddy Piñango ‘12 in Orlando, Florida. unique and no other medical school combines graduates who are assisting the underserved populations everything in exactly the same way as across the United States as well. LLUSM. We have: /is note from Jonathan Martin ’13 (after he Debbie Chung Carritte ‘86 attended the 2013 APC Gala in March) sums it up well: Anesthesiology Unique Students “Hearing the stories of past graduates who were honored Redlands, CA For many years LLUSM students have that evening and seeing the quality of people who were consistently performed near or at the honored was inspiring, and in some ways comforting…It top in patient care skills testing given has renewed my belief that this school has been making a to all California medical students. difference, and can continue to do so, and have provided Other schools want to know how we role-models to our graduating class of what is possible for Alumni from the class of 1965 reunite in Asheville, do it. Although we do have a good a LLUSM graduate.” North Carolina clinical skills education center and Please join with me this year with a new (or continued) consistency of teaching, the Dean’s zest and purpose in supporting our unique School Office believes it is mostly due to the of Medicine. Naveen Solomon ‘03 Surgery Redlands, CA Mickey Ask ‘79-A Alumni Association President Phyllis Ching and husband Dr. Marshall “Bob” Ching ’70 in Kailua, Hawaii 2 Alumni Journal August-December 2013 3 SCHOOL of MEDICINE NEWS LLUSM Class of 2017 Developing Partnerships to Matriculates Provide GME n /ursday, August 1, the class of 2017 began their ver the past decade, there has been a substantial Ofirst day of medical school orientation. /at evening, Orise in the number of medical and osteopathic in keeping with LLUSM tradition, the new freshmen school positions, both within the United States and received their white coats and first took the LLUSM internationally. /e American Association of Medical Physician’s Oath at a White Coat Ceremony held in the Colleges (AAMC) encouraged this increase when University Church. Dr. Kathleen Clem ‘89, chair of the physician shortages were predicted. However, the number Department of Emergency Medicine, gave the address, of resident positions covered by federal reimbursement in which she discussed the importance of the third has been capped since 1996.