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Dear Readers, At a Glance 2 Few fields have undergone change as Swallowing disorders and thcY2K bug are among the items making news at the quickly and as drastically as health care Medical College of Georgia. in the past few years. Biomedical break- throughs, the explosion of the field of Student Roundtable: 'I Can Handle Anything' 4 genetics, distance-learning, new forms MCG students contemplate health care in the 21st century. of health care delivery, an unprecedent-

a Positive . . 7 ed shift to outpatient care, managed care Faculty Roundtable: 'We've Seen Lot of Changes'. MCG faculty weigh in on past and future changes in health care. and a host of other factors have com- bined to virtually transform the field. Alumni Roundtable: Will the progress—and headaches—of 'We Have the Best Health Care System in the World' 11 health care continue unabated into the A1CG alumni discuss their careers and the evolution of health care. 21st century? Will we finally conquer problems, such as skyrocketing costs and Alum News 16 disproportionate access to care, that have News from MCG's fire alumni associations. vexed our society for so long? Who better to weigh in on these Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics issues than those who will serve on the Annual Report 28 front lines of health care in the 2 1 st century? Medical College of Georgia Today Plan Your Giving 33 editor Christine Hurley Deriso asked Leave a legacy. several MCG students, residents, faculty and alumni about their thoughts on Thank You, Donors 35 health care in the next millennium.

Their responses—forthright, impassioned and reflective—are featured inside. This edition of MCG Today also rec- ognizes those whose generous support MCG President: Francis Tedesco, M.D. Editor: Christine Hurley Deriso has advanced the research, educational J. Executive Editor: fames B. Osborne, Ed.D. Art Director: Breiii D. Burch and clinical missions of MCG. The list Director of Marketing Photographer: Philjones gets bigger every year. Your support is and Public Relations: Dale Crail overwhelming, and we are more grate- ©1999, Medical College of Georgia. The Medical College of Georgia is the health sciences university of ful than we can say. We embark on a the University System of Georgia. Focusing on health-care education, research and patient care, the new millennium knowing our dreams Augusta-based institution consists of MCG Hospital, more than 811 support clinics, statewide outreach are within reach. With your support, programs and the Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry. Graduate Studies. Medicine and Nursing. Medical College of Georgia Today is sponsored by grants from MCG Foundation, Inc. and the MCG there's no limit to what we can do. School of Medicine Alumni Association. It is produced by the Division of Institutional Relations; Sincerely, Medical College of Georgia; Augusta, Georgia 3091 2. Advertising inquiries should be directed to

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Hard to Swallow When Dr. Mercado-Deane joined the CMC in 1993, she suspected that children with chronic res- piratory problems might not completely close off

2 months old, Julianna Badke cooed, their airway when swallowing. The result is chronic Atsmiled, sucked her fingers, rolled over in her coughing—or worse, desensitization to the dis- crib In short, she did everything a baby comfort of swallowing into the airway. Children

is supposed to do. Everything except eat. who become desensitized may fail to cough, which

"She would scream and chew her knuckles can result in problems s-uch as pneumonia or chok- when I tried to feed her," her mother, Ann, ing. Some children with swallowing difficulty go recalled. "It took one and a half hours for her to to the other extreme; rather than ignoring the dis- finish a bottle. She was so miserable that eventually comfort, they avoid it altogether by refusing to eat. she stopped eating completely." She was also Dr. Mercado-Deane suspected that Julianna fit into chronically congested, compounding her misery. the latter category.

Julianna w as referred to Dr. Maria-Gisela Despite the potential of swallowing problems to

Mercado-Deane, a pediatric radiologist at the create such havoc, children with such difficulty

Medical College of Georgia Children's Medical often surfer for years before the problem is uncov-

Center. Based on her studies of more than 2,000 ered. Yet the disorder is diagnosable and treatable, children with similar symptoms, Dr. Mercado- assuming radiologists know what to look for. Deane immediately suspected the cause of Children with respiratory problems are often Julianna's problem. referred to radiologists for X-rays of their upper- gastrointestinal functioning. Radiologists are have no effect on the endometrium, the lining of trained to look for signs of reflux—stomach con- the uterus, although, as with tamoxifen, an tents flowing back to the esophagus, which is a increased risk of clots in the large veins and lungs common cause of respiratory problems. Dr. was noted. Mercado-Deane decided to seize the opportunity The raloxifene studies were limited to post- to also check the child's swallowing function. menopausal women who were not necessarily at

"I thought it was important when doing these high risk for breast cancer. The FDA approved X-rays to pay more attention to the swallowing raloxifene to prevent osteoporosis in post- mechanism," she said. "I think swallowing, along menopausal women in December 1997. with reflux, contributes to respiratory symptoms, The new study will compare the efficacy and so we're trying to diagnose and treat them togeth- safety of these two similar anti-estrogens in post- er. It only adds an extra minute or two to the pro- menopausal women age 35 and older who are at cedure," she said. increased risk of developing invasive breast cancer As suspected, Dr. Mercado-Deane found that over the next five years, Dr. Dalton said. Julianna was swallowing into her lungs rather than esophagus. "As babies grow, their oral-motor skills will The Countdown's On improve, but in the meantime, they may need thicker food," said CMC speech language patholo- gist Andrea Glover. Dwain Shaw's voice mail and you'll get

Mrs. Badke was instructed to thicken Julianna's Callthe gist of his preoccupation: "This is formula with rice cereal, a consistency she could Dwain Shaw," his voice intones. "There are much easier tolerate. Julianna immediately redis- 128 days remaining until the year 2000." covered her appetite. "It was so simple—all we did Why the countdown? Mr. Shaw, Medical was thicken her food and lift her head higher College of Georgia director of Information when she ate—but it made all the difference," Mrs. Services and Year 2000 project director, is in charge

Badke said. "She's 100 percent better." of ensuring that Jan. 1, 2000 is as smooth-running and uneventful on campus as the day before. The

trick is to make sure every piece of computerized Breast Cancer Study equipment that recognizes the date is Y2K-compli- ant—modified to recognize the year 2000. This is a

monumental task, but MCG is in excellent shape. Whether raloxifene can match or beat About three years ago, MCG began moderniz- tamoxifen's ability to reduce the risk of ing its mainframe applications, controlling func-

breast cancer in high-risk women is tions such as the payroll and budget. Dale being studied at the Medical College Chernich, MCG's chief information officer, had of Georgia. the foresight to say, "While we're at it, let's make Both anti-estrogens appear to bind to estrogen sure we're Y2K-compliant." receptors in early breast cancer cells and essentially "Our good fortune is we've had people with destroy the cells. Tamoxifen has been shown to vision, like Dale, and we've had excellent adminis- halve the risk of invasive and non-invasive breast trative support," Mr. Shaw said. in cancer high-risk women, but has side effects MCG President Francis J. Tedesco has appointed including an increased incidence of endometrial a Year 2000 Task Force with representatives cancer, blood clots and possibly stroke. MCG is throughout the campus to work with Information participating in a study supported by the National Services toward Y2K compliance. The task force is Cancer Institute that will follow 22,000 post- going building by building, checking and modify- menopausal women over five years to determine if ing, if necessary, every piece of relevant equipment. raloxifene matches tamoxifen's effectiveness with The division wants no surprises. The first prior- fewer side effects. ity is the safety of every patient, student, employee

A clinical trial of raloxifene's ability to prevent and visitor on campus. The second priority is the osteoporosis in post-menopausal women indicated continued smooth functioning of all affected a decrease in breast cancer incidence, said Dr. Rory devices in all areas of campus.

R. Dalton, chief of MCG's surgical oncology ser- The staff will work through the night on Dec. vice and principal investigator on the new study. In 31, 1999, but the vast majority of their job of ensur- the osteoporosis study, raloxifene worked like ing an uneventful New Year's Day is already done. estrogen to help keep bones strong. It appeared to Their goal? A gloriously boring New Year's Eve.

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT impression on me; I want to have that

kind of effect on people's lives.

Mr. Graham: Health care is gearing toward the computer age. A lot of hos-

pitals and health care facilities are still technologically antiquated,

and I hope to play a big role in changing that. medio

'I Can Ms. Ellis: I've always been ^redith interested in science. When Sd">o/ofjV Ursir Handle Mom cut the Thanksgiving

turkey, I wanted to hold Anything' the heart and gizzard. But although I wanted to

study science, I knew I

didn't want to sit behind

a desk all day. I saw

nursing as a field with

lots of opportunities for growth and different areas for advance- ment.

Dr. Stephens: Growing up, I saw a lot Panelists: Lauren of people who couldn't afford health

Britt, an undergraduate care. I wanted to make a difference in student in the their lives. I want to go back to my School of Nursing; hometown and give them the care they

Andy Clark, a grad- deserve. uate student in the Department of Ms. Britt: My grandmother was sick

Physiology and when I was in middle school, and ever

Endocrinology; Tim since then, I've known I wanted to

Crouch, a School of work in health care. There are so many

Medicine resident; different areas; if I get bored, I can

Dan Deuter, a gradu- move to a new one. ate student in the Department of Medical Technology;

Meredith Ellis, an Why undergraduate student did you choose a in the School of Nursing; Robert health care career, Graham, an undergraduate student in particularly in the Department of Health Information light of the many Management; Jerry Guillot, a graduate uncertainties fac- student in the Department of Medical ing the field?

Illustration; Knox Hubard, a graduate student in the Department of Medical Ms. Thornton:

Illustration; Minn Owen, a graduate stu- I'm a people person. I've dent in the Department of Radiologic always liked to help others. That's my Why

Sciences; Belinda Stephens, a resident in goal and I want to carry it out. did you choose to the School of Medicine; and Belinda study at the Medical College of Thornton, an undergraduate student in Dr. Crouch: My grandfather was a Georgia? the Department of Occupational surgeon. He made house calls and called

Therapy. all his patients friends. That made a big Mr. Clark: When I visited other

4 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY schools, the faculty would spend maybe conditions. Before choosing a school, 1 needs. I was trained as a nuclear medi-

a few minutes with me. When I came asked a hospital CEO what he thought. cine technologist and have an under-

to MCG, a faculty member set aside an He said, 'MCG is the best program." graduate degree in education. The

entire day for me. He introduced me to school is very conducive to non-tradi-

the faculty, showed me the labs and Mr. Guillot: MCG is incredibly afford tional students re-entering the work

facilities and talked to me about his able. It has an force.

research. I knew that day that MCG is extremely casual, MEDICAL where I wanted to go. laid-back environ- COLLEGE OF GEORGIA ment which I think Lauren E. Britt L£6E Ms. Britt: is conducive to OF School of Nursing GEORGIA I'd never learning. Augusta's student heard of very beautiful and MCG until the people are my brother friendly. started dental school here, Do you feel the Medical College OF GEORGIA MEDICAL COLLEGE of Georgia is prepar- Robert W.Graham ing you well for your Mr. Hubard: MCG has one of five Management student future? medical illustration programs in the Health Information country, and one of the best. MCG's

Ms. Thornton: MCG is faculty is quite distinguished and holds a one of the best institutions lot of weight. The education in both art

for those interested in health and science is incredible here.

care. The training is top-

Mr. Graham: Our education is very MEDICAL COLLEGE comprehensive; MCG doesn't leave any OF GEORGIA stones unturned.

but as soon as I Mr. Clark: My MCG education has

learned about it, it taught me how to define a problem and

became my num- go about solving it, which I can apply

ber-one choice. I to anything. I'm given the liberty to sit

researched different in a lab and, if a problem arises, to solve

schools and felt it. That broad perspective has prepared

this was the best. me for a lot of things. Originally, I wanted to teach, but now I'm consider- Mr. Graham: ing going into the private sector or

The institution working as a forensic scientist.

has a fine reputation and is very afford- notch. able. [MCG health information man- MCG trains us to be professional and

agement] graduates always rank among deal with all kinds OF GEORGIA the top nationwide in the field's creden- of people in health MEDICAL COLLEGE tialing exam. care. I wouldn't trade my experience Knox Hubard C student Mr. Hubard: When I first visited here for anything. ra«e M*aimuStraUon S MCG, I was very pleased with the atmosphere. There's a very down-home Ms. Owen: My

feel. I feel very comfortable here. program is sort of a drive-your-own pro-

Ms. Ellis: MCG is very affordable and gram. I'm allowed to has such a good and reputable nursing pursue my interests program. The teaching hospital offers so and design the pro- much exposure to different kinds of gram to meet my

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 19W / ANNUAL REPORT 5 Mr. Deuter: I'm a major in the Ms. Thornton: A major goal of the Army and plan to run a clinical 21st century will be to make MEDICAL COLLEGE lab in an Army hospital. I feel OF GEORGIA health care more cost-effective, very well-prepared to do that. and technology such as Gerard M. Guillot My program has a low student- telemedicine will help achieve Medical Illustration graduate mstructor ratio, so there's time student that. to get to know each other and get involved in the develop- Mr. Graham: Technology will ment and implementation of play a big role in maximizing projects. MCG has a lot of health care while still allowing computer resources and is up practitioners to make a profit. on technological advances. Software being developed now

is more efficient at coding, for Ms. Britt: MCG has definite- instance, which will help hospi- ly met my expectations. I've learned Ms. Ellis: tals get reimbursed more effi- many, many aspects of nursing: treating With the move toward managed care, ciently from insurance companies and the elderly, treating children, working in nurses have more opportunities. As government. a community setting, working in a hos- health care gets more pital — the whole gamut. expensive, nurses offer COLLEGE OF GEORGIA a less-expensive alter- MEDICAL How do you envision your field native, especially when Owen changing in the 21st century? treating the elderly, the Mimi A. graduate student fastest-growing seg- Radiologic Sciences

Ms. Britt: I think computers will really ment of the popula- take off in nursing. Patient notes and all tion. the other writing nurses have to do will be done on computers. Technology will How can health care be more complex. We'll constantly be providers balance having to learn new things involving patients' best interests equipment, medication and new tech- with cost-efficiency? niques. What aspect of the

Ms. Owen: Health care is more health care field business-oriented than ever before. I makes you most think computers and distance-learning apprehensive? will be used more extensively than ne*nol»»Sra ever to keep the both the educational Me4ira Ms. Britt: The legal and clinical aspects of the field cost- aspects. So many nurs- effective. es are getting sued. Nurses have to con- Mr. Graham: Computerized patient stantly worry about records will make a big difference in my documenting every field. A lot of our pro- decision. gram is based on what will happen in the MEDICAL COLLEGE Ms. Ellis: I'm apprehensive about future. It differs so OF GEORGIA striking a balance with licensed practi- much from how many cal nurses. [When I begin my career] I Andrew D. Clark hospitals operate today. think I'll have more expertise than Physiology and Endocrinology graduate MCG is already mov- student them in some areas, but not nearly as ing toward fully elec- much experience. tronic patient records, but many hospitals still Ms. Thornton: I'm not apprehensive. rely on pen and paper. I've had so much clinical training that I

Computers are where know what's out there. I think I can everything will be handle just about anything. happening.

6 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY pital. Teaching hospitals are now being

asked to be as efficient as private hospi-

tals that don't have teaching and research missions. That can't work.

Dr. Comer: We have many more options for the health and well-being of 'We've Seen a our patients than before. Dentistry's pre- vention measures are paying off. The

emphasis now is on improving function Lot of Positive and aesthetics. We've also become more aware of how dental problems affect Changes' systemic problems, and vice versa.

Dr. Hanes: Dentists used to see chil-

dren beginning around age 3; now, we

recommend seeing them on their first

birthday. We're getting an earlier start on spotting and heading off problems.

Ms. George-Gay: Today, there's signifi- cant specializa- Panelists: Dr. How has health tion in health

Jerry J. Buccafusco, profes- care changed most care. We're sor in the Department of Pharmacology substantially during your meeting the and Toxicology; Marie A. Collins, assis- career? challenge. tant professor in the Department of We're treating Associated Dental Sciences; Dr. Robert Dr. Buccafusco: The most anything and

W. Comer, associate dean for patient substantial change I've noted is everything, services at the MCG School of the recognition that for teaching finding cures Dentistry and chair- hospitals to for everything. man of the be excel- But to meet all Marie A. Collins Department of Oral lent, they the needs, we Diagnosis and have to must specialize.

Patient Services; Dr. have a prominent It's a lot more

Beverly George-Gay, research program at difficult to

assistant professor in a clinical and basic- maintain a the School of science level. MCG recog- generalist perspective. Maintaining a

Nursing; Richard E. nized the importance of a critically ill AIDS patient, for instance, is

Haas, assistant profes- research component sever- a specialized area. I think there is a need

sor in the Nursing al years ago, for generalists in specific areas, such as

Anesthesia Program; Jerry J. Buccafusco and we've rural areas that otherwise have no health Dr. Carole M. seen a lot of care. These generalists can refer the

Hanes, professor in positive changes because patients to specialists in urban areas

the Department of of it. MCG has added pro- when necessary. Pediatric Dentistry; grams and resources that

Winston H. Hunt, clinical director and have dramatically enhanced our national Mr. Hunt: Since I started in 1974, the

instructor in the Department of stature. physician assistant field has changed

Physician Assistant; Dr. George A. quite a bit. I see physician assistants Mensah, chief of Cadiovascular Care; Dr. Mensah: There's tremendous com- growing in subspecialties. We have resi-

Judith S. Salzer, assistant professor in the petition today for every health care dol- dency programs in fields such as emer-

Department of Parent-Child Nursing. lar. You can't turn on the television gency medicine and pediatrics. This will

without seeing a commercial for a hos- open doors for advanced training.

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 7 How has technology affected your Mr. Hunt: There's more overlap in our alternative risks and possible compro- field? roles, but there's enough work for mises in their expectations. everybodv.

Mr. Haas: When I started Mr. Haas: There is no substitute for giving anesthesia in 1983, How has the spending time with patients—talking to we had a quaint concept: relationship them, easing their fears... canceling surgery because between patients but we're driven to treat X number of the patient was too sick. and practitioners patients in X amount of time. Patients That never happens any- changed? used to routinely be admitted to the more. We have more and hospital the day before surgery, and more technology to ensure Ms. Collins: [those administering anesthesia] had a patient's well-being. Patients are coming time to prepare them and get to know

When 1 tell my students in better-informed them and answer their questions. Now,

[how I used to administer than they used to we don't see them until the morning of anesthesia be. They're asking their surgery. Patients feel like they're without Dr. Robert W. Comer questions and being pushed through the system. much of demanding quality. Consider a woman having a breast the technology available biopsy. It's a routine procedure, but one today], they can't believe it. Dr. Comer: that causes great fear and anxiety. I wish

I don't think technology is a bad thing Patients' knowledge base has definitely we could take just a little more unless it's used as a substitute for taking changed. They want to know options, time—slow things down and not drive so care of people. A good craftsman can prognoses, risks They used hard. But I don't build a house with good tools or crude to say, 'Whatever you think is know what the tools, but good tools make the job a best, Doc' Now, they're a part answer is, and I heck of a lot easier. There's a temptation of the decision-making process. don't see it to let technology be the answer rather changing any than simply a tool. I love teaching tech- Dr. Hanes: Parents are better time soon. nology, but 1 love even more teaching informed, too, so those of us students how to care for sick people. who treat children spend more Ms. Salzer: and more time with parents. Nurse practi-

Dr. Comer: Dentistry is looking at the That's a trend that's not going tioners have felt use of lasers, digital radiography away. In this infor- a major change

Technology is changing the field vastly. mation age, they Richard E. Haas with the push want information for numbers for How has the relationship among reimbursement. health care providers changed? Ms. Salzer: ...and they're get- Initially, it was

ting half of it from the well-accepted Ms. Salzer: Internet that nurses did nursing care, not medical

When I was nurs- care, and that nursing care takes more ing in the 1960s, Dr. Hanes: ...and a lot of time. For instance, we devoted a lot of everybody stood that is ////.".-information. time to patient education. But now up when a doctor we're being pushed to work within a walked in the How has the national medical model, and that's very frustrat- room. Now, a emphasis on cost efficien- ing. much more col- cy affected health care? laborative rela- Dr. Buccafusco: Doctors [at health tionship has Dr. Comer: sciences universities] are being increas- developed among Beverly George-Gay The public- ingly pressed to see more patients with health care expects three an eye toward the bottom line, which providers, which is things of us: high quality, doesn't leave them enough time to con- necessary in light high speed and low cost. We duct research. Clinicians must have time

of information can provide any two of to contribute to research efforts. I think

overload. It takes a those, but we cannot provide through no fault of its own, MCG may

team to keep all three simultaneously in a be losing its edge in clinical research, track of everything going on teaching environment. Therefore, which also hinders the efforts of basic- patients and doctors must entertain science researchers, since the two groups

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY work collaboratively. Academic clini So you consider managed care students, who can treat a wide variety

cians also play an important role in detrimental? of patients in a centralized location, but developing new ther- you have to wonder how many people

apeutic approaches to Dr. Mensah: I don't are going untreated. Our students now

disease. I believe that think most physicians see treat more patients with more disease,

it is important for managed care as just a and there isn't enough care available. We

teaching hospitals to problem; there have been have a population that is often very

continue to partici- benefits, such as reduced unmanageable in a dental setting. pate in clinical trials, costs and shortened hospi-

since this is where tal stays. But there have Dr. Comer: Our economy is boom-

the expertise resides. been unintended ing, yet we're

Without this compo- consequences. cutting costs.

nent MCG is pick- Dr. Carole M. Hanes of How has dimin- ing up more our country's drug ished govern- and more discovery effort, new ment funding uncompensated and vital disease- for indigent care, yet our fighting agents may health care state appropria- be delayed in their approval for general affected the landscape? tions are being use, or they may not receive adequate reduced. We're testing. The state of Georgia must ask if Dr. Mensah: MCG Dr. George A. Mensah in a capitalist it wants MCG to continue to be a delivers a huge society; we major clinical research facility, or amount of uncompensated care cannot become whether it wants its hospital simply to which forces physicians to do totally altruistic

focus on giving care. The answer to this more patient care and not be and give every-

question is of vital interest to the health compensated for it. It also thing away to

of our citizens. means the physicians don't have ade- everybody. If the state, county or federal quate time to teach and conduct government wants to provide support,

Dr. Mensah: I couldn't agree more. In research. Our future will be on shaky it's fine, but we cannot be expected to

10 years, we've seen remarkable ground if we don't resolve the issue of do it without compensation from either

advances in the understanding of uncompensated care. Every sector of public or private funds. It's a big human disease. We've had tremendous society must work dilemma.

strides in research, more so in the toward a solution - United States than in any other country the federal govern- What changes do you

in the world. But we risk losing that ment, states, commu- foresee in the 21st cen-

edge if the sole consideration is the nities We must tury? bottom line. seize every

Educational opportu- Ms. Collins: There's a efforts will suffer, nity to trend toward more multi-

too. When I was a explain to disciplinary interaction in

resident, my legislators education and clinical

attending physi- what it is training,

cian spent most like to Judith S. Salzer which is of his time teach- deliver i^fe very pro-

ing me. Now, health care ductive. It results in more attending physi- day in and *Alf. comprehensive care.

cians spend most day out. It

of their time underlies the future of teach- Mr. Hunt: I see telemedicine playing a doing ing hospitals. big role in the 21st century, particularly paper Winston H. Hunt to treat underserved populations such as

work Dr. Hanes: When I arrived those in rural areas. MCG's physician and duplicating here 13 years ago, there were assistants are already serving Georgia's

the efforts of several pediatric clinics in the prison population [via telemedicine].

residents, which is an unintended area to treat those who could not pay. I've heard no negatives about the care.

consequence of managed care. Now, MCG is where virtually all that There is some talk that people will be

care is provided. That's good for our able to use TVs and computers to "dial

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a doc" in the near future. People seem has the real advantage of reaching med- Are you optimistic or apprehensive to want their health care like a ham- ically underserved people. about the future of health care? burger: quick and convenient. Mr. Haas: To follow through with the Ms. Salzer: All of the above.

Dr. Mensah: On the other hand, fast-food analogy: Sometimes I want a

MCG is very responsible, and I don't hamburger, and sometimes I want a Dr. Mensah: Cautiously optimistic. think visits to the doctor's office will gourmet meal. If I have a cold, then fast become a thing of the past. It will still and efficient care is fine. If I think I If you had it to do over again, be far more convenient for people in might have multiple sclerosis, I want would you make the same career the Augusta area to come to MCG doctors to take their time with me. A choice? rather than get their health care through little TLC goes a long way. Also, if a telemedicine [or other electronic patient has a bad experience at a hospi- Unanimous: Absolutely. means]. Some aspects of clinical care tal, he'll go elsewhere the next time he must remain the same, but telemedicine needs one.

10 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY instance, nursing-home patients have

oral health needs. I can't serve those

needs unless a dentist is on the premis-

es, due to legislative laws governing my

practice acts.

Mr. Harrison: The biggest change in

medical illustration is the innovations in

technology, particularly in the past eight

to 10 years. Also, when I graduated in 'We Have the 1970, probably less than 5 percent of medical illustrators were self-employed Best Health or free-lancers. Now, probably a third are. There's more entrepreneurship and Care System there are more career opportunities. in the World'

Panelists: Dr. Green: Jim Condon During the past (Health Information 25 years, general inter- Management, '97), section nal medicine has shifted more manager, Medical College of Georgia toward an ambulatory form of practice. Health Information Management The number of hospitalized patients has

Services; Dr. Charles G. Green Jr. dropped significantly with the large (Medicine, '74), internal medicine flow of subspecialists coming into Jim Condon physician in Augusta; Steven J. Harrison the practice. There has also been a (Medical Illustration, '70), chairman of significant decrease in the amount r the MCG Department of Medical of general internal medicine work in Illustration; Linda Jobe (Dental intensive care units. Hygiene, '90), a dental hygienist in

Augusta; Deborah E. Sibley (Nursing, Dr. Torch: My perspective is a bit dif- Ms. Sibley: Twenty-five years ago, '77), an MCG faculty member in the ferent than that of many non-physician nurses were well-educated, but the edu- Department of Parent-Child Nursing; health care professionals or physicians in cation process was predominantly train- Dr. Evan M. Torch (Medicine, 77), an academia. Managed care has changed ing. We were trained to respond to a Atlanta psychiatrist; and Dr. John W. literally everything in the private prac- given situation with precision with

Vollenweider (Dentistry, '78), a dentist tice of psychiatry. Inpatient psychiatry is some general understanding of the in LaGrange, Ga. almost a thing of the past, but both the underlying rationale. Today, nurses are

legal system and the public still hold taught not only to respond to given sit- How has your field changed most psychiatrists responsible with the expec- uations, but also to master problem- substantially during your career? tation that the same clinical result can solving skills, to wisely utilize resources be achieved in one-tenth the time we and to understand why. Nurses today are

Dr. Vollenweider: It has always been used even five years ago. much more accountable for their true, but maybe no more so than today, actions and observations. A team is no that a dentist must commit himself to a Ms. Jobe: My field is trying to change. longer just the nurse, physician and lifetime of study and being a perpetual Preventing oral disease is a team effort their patients. The team now collabo- student. I would almost guarantee that between the dentist, dental hygienist rates with many specialties and disci-

there is not a single procedure I do that and patient. I hope to see changes that plines. Not only does the team collabo- is exactly the same as it was in 1978. will allow better access to care. For rate within the facility, but also with

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 1 1 agencies outside the traditional confines including office management and expect continued flow of enhanced tech- of patient care settings. And certainly patient education. Today, for instance, we nology into the hands of all primary care today, all members of the team are use ceramic and porcelain materials to physicians. This will allow them to move equally accountable for the results of produce some of the most natural-look- into some subspecialty areas, especially as their work. non-invasive coronary imaging

comes on line in the next few How has the nation- years. This will allow general al emphasis on cost internal medicine physicians to efficiency affected make cardiology-level deci- health care? sions without a cardiac

catheterization. It will, howev-

Dr. Torch: er, open up the entire field of

Psychotherapy may asymptomatic coronary dis- become economically ease. In other subspecialties of less viable, with far too internal medicine, similar much reliance on events will take place. pharmacology. There is still no substitute for Green Jr. Mr. Harrison: getting to know Technology will contin- patients as people ue to expand. Computers will rather than simply be increasingly used for med- writing prescriptions; for me, this is the ing crowns, mimicking nature so closely ical illustration, and computers will rewarding aspect of psychiatry. that they defy detection. Patients love become increasingly user-friendly. Also,

what we can do for them, and so do I. I think we'll see more and more med-

Dr. Vollenweider: As a general rule, ical problems arising from technology— dentistry remains one of the true bar- Mr. Condon: Even in the short time for instance, eye strain from staring at a gains in health care. Partially because of I've been in the field, the technology computer screen all day. But technology the low limits offered by third-party has improved and increased. MCG is is obviously here to stay, and it's very reimbursement plans over the past 20 gradually converting to electronic med- beneficial to what we do. years, dentistry has fortunately not ical records, and up to 150 people at developed as strong a dependency on once can access those records. I think Ms. Sibley: Communication will revo- third-part reimbursement as perhaps the field is demanding people who are lutionize our jobs and lives. Enhanced other areas of medicine have. The influ- technologically oriented. communication can provide access to ence of managed care cannot be patient his- ignored, however. Again, fortunately, tories, dentistry wisely has been slow to move regardless of into that area and now we are seeing such things what many of us suspected: legislation as logistics to require third-party plans that set lim- and language its on patient treatment to be responsi- barriers, and ble for the consequences. We are seeing can enhance patients rebel at the idea of networking having someone choose whom Steven to resolve their doctor will be and what clinical their treatment will be. People should issues. Other never give up their freedom to choose aspects of their doctor or their treatment. technology will develop, How has technology changed your but not field, and how do you expect tech- without nology to change your field in the Dr. Green: The constant improvement considering the cost vs. benefit.

21st century? in technology has empowered the gener-

al internal medicine physician to do What other changes do you

Dr. Vollenweider: Technological more and more in his office. For exam- anticipate?

advances have improved almost every ple, now we can provide intravenous flu-

aspect of a modern dental practice, ids and diagnostic studies in the office. I Ms. Sibley: Evidence [of a treatment's

12 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY efficacy] will be the driving force for tion of illustrators' images. Now, it ties. Traditionally, we've been limited to

practice. seems anybody can pull an image off a working in acute-care institutions. Now,

computer screen and misappropriate it. we work for insurance companies, Some successful litigation will probably health management organizations, con- be necessary to solve the problem. I'm sulting firms Our options are really sure there will be some headaches along growing. the way.

Dr. Vollenweider: I am extremely

Ms. Sibley: Oh, yes, I'm optimistic. As optimistic. I honestly don't feel there

a nurse and member of the health care has ever been a more exciting time to

team, prevention is not as intellectual or be a dentist. Dentists of the future must

adrenalin-producing as Advanced be able to provide more complex and

Cardiac Life Support logarithms. But if comprehensive care, including aesthetic we can prevent the need for initiating procedures, implants, periodontal proce- the ACLS protocols, we can be dures and advanced crown and bridge more cost-effective and improve our procedures. The dentist who prepares,

outcomes. enjoys being a constant student and is

willing to work will have a bright Ms. Jobe: Absolutely, I'm optimistic. future. MCG gave me a terrific education heavily based in sciences and technical Are you optimistic about the

skills to prepare me. I feel the profes- future of health care in general? sions of dentistry and dental hygiene

complement each other well. I hope Ms. Jobe: Yes. We're living longer, stay- laws will be changed to allow dental ing healthier and taking better care of

Mr. Condon: I think the state of hygienists expanded duties, such as ourselves. health care will become more and more administer-

competitive. A hospital, at least to some ing local

degree, is a business, and hospitals will anesthesia or need more information to make crucial placing spe-

business decisions. Health information cial antibiotic

managers will be asked to collect and fibers for provide more data, and the information periodontal

will be more valuable—a tool to make therapy. sure hospitals are going in the right direction. Dr. Green: Technology

Dr. Vollenweider: I believe there will will be more dentists practicing in groups, empower Deborah E. Si either as individuals under one roof or not only

as a true partnership. There are many the pri- advantages of a well-organized group, mary care including sharing space and personnel, physician,

having immediate second opinions, but the nurse practitioner or physician Dr. Green: I am optimistic from the

reducing overhead expenses and sharing assistant. In the future, they will provide standpoint of technological advances,

emergency call. a level of care equivalent to today's which will empower our future genera- internal medicine physicians. Because of tion of physicians. Many of the incur- Are you optimistic about the technological advances, [the provider's able diseases we have dealt with in our

future of your field? education and expertise] may be less generation will be curable or at least important and there may be some risk treatable in the near future. One key to

Mr. Harrison: I am in many ways. The to the primary-care physician because advancing health care is capitalism. job market for recent graduates has of this. Certainly, drug companies need to be

never been better, and a lot of new jobs rewarded to continue to provide us are being created around technology. An Mr. Condon: I'm optimistic, because with a constant flow of drugs as they

area of concern in medical illustration is health information managers have an have in the past several decades. The

ethics—tor instance, the misappropria- increasing number of career opportuni- same is true of physicians. We cannot

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 13 ment organizations]. Only then will You'll be glad health care in general have a bright future. We need to teach health care

to hear personnel to be patient-oriented first, about our new but not forget that they need to be business-minded as well to prevent callable CD them from making poor decisions that will eventually make them dependent on or responsible to Dr. Evan M. Torch someone other than 7.67% their patients.

Annual Percentage Dr. Torch: I believe the public will Yield (APY)* Callable either seize control of health care rationing from the corporate/insurance Certificates of Deposit industry consortium or we will deterio-

rate into a Canadian kind of officially • FDIC insured to $100,000 per sanctioned limits. depositor, per institution**

• Interest paid semi-annually If you had it to do over again, - • Final Maturity in 1 year 5 would you follow the same career 08/19/14 expect the best and brightest to give up path? • Non-callable for 2 years the decade between age 20 and 30 to • Callable thereafter @ 100 par go into medicine if they are not Mr. Harrison: If I couldn't drive a

rewarded both with professional respect race car, yes. I've been very fortunate to

Call and earning that compensates them for work in many venues in the field. I've

Jerry Rogers, 2nd VP Investments this prolonged period of training. These had a lot of variety. I'm happy with

or basic items will determine the future of what I do. Rick Cundey, 2nd VP Investments health care in America. 706-724-2601 • 1-800-241-2401 Mr. Harrison: Basically, I'm optimistic.

I still think we have the best health care Robinson-Humphrey system in the world. I'm not as con-

A Subsidiary of Salomon Smith Barney cerned about quality of care as I am

about delivery of care. I think change

One Tenth Street has to come from within the field, not Augusta, GA 30901 from the government.

The CD is non-callable for the first two years, Mr. Condon: I'm optimistic. The and then can be called every six months there- changes we're seeing now [in the busi- after by the issuing bank. The final stated ness of health care] are probably long maturity is 08/19/14, Minimum deposit overdue. Competition is increasing for $1 ,000, Subject to change and availability. every health care dollar, and when Although we are not required to do so, we

endeavor to provide a secondary market so everything is said and done, we'll be

that the principal amount invested. (APY as of better off. But not every health care 08/19/14). institution is going to survive. I think *APY interest cannot remain on deposit in the when we strike the balance same CD; Interest will be paid semi-annually. Dr. W. Vollenweider between good care and John **FDIC insurance covers a maximum amount of $100,000 per depositor, per institution economical care, we'll be (including principal and inrerest combined) in on the right path. each insurable capacity.

Saloman Smith Barney is a service mark Dr. Vollenweider: Yes, I'm optimistic, Ms. Sibley: I would not change a single Saloman Smith Barney Inc. of if we can ensure that doctors are thing. Over the years, I've learned a lot

1999 Smith Barney Inc. Member SIPC allowed to make decisions for their from my teammates, especially my

patients based on the patients' needs patients. My job now is to learn at least A Member of Citii rather than guidelines of [reimburse- one new thing every day and pass it along.

14 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY Dr. Torch: I have been paid to do some- thing I love to do and I think I have Our health care team members don't just save lives. made a small difference in a lot of lives. I lives. don't think I would be able to repeat a They have lot of this now unless I opted out of all current reimbursement systems.

Mr. Condon: I would, and I encourage others who are interested to take an

MCG Closer Look tour. That's how I found out about the field. This is a sec- ond career for me; I retired from the military, and I found this was a field where I could apply the leadership and Currently management skills I learned in the Army. recruiting I enrolled at MCG at age 39, and I was for eager and ready to learn. I have two all Health speeds: off and on. I give all I've got. Professions

I it Dr. Green: If had to do at my The Navy Medical Corps is more than a practice, it's a way of life. You can find personal and original starting point, 25 years ago, I professional fulfillment - enjoying precious family time with free evenings and weekends, and 30 days certainly would choose the same career of vacation with pay earned every year. And take your career places working at renowned hospitals in

the U.S. or overseas locations such as Spain or Italy ... or performing cutting-edge research with path. However, at this point, with all the leading Navy professionals. For more information, call: change in technology, I would look very carefully to select a medical career 1-800-622-1404 path that I felt was not encroachable by NAVY Visit our website: non-physician providers and unlikely to LET THE JOURNEY BEGIN. w w w . N A V Y T E A M . c o m be significantly affected by changes in technology. __J.tr-, ADAPTIVE HANDICAPPED Ms. Jobe: Yes and no. Yes, because I love what I do. Every day is a challenge EQUIPMENT, INC and I try to find new ways to motivate • my patients. I am fortunate to work for 51 19 WRIGHTSBORO RD GROYETOWN, GA 30813 two dentists (both MCG graduates) 706-860-1061 who share these goals. The entire staff is terrific. But I never expected my profes- The CSRA's Only Full Range Vehicle Accessibility and Mobility Dealer! sion to have so little respect. Sometimes •Wheelchair Lifts • New & Used Vans I feel invisible. • Hand Controls in Stock

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Dr. Kluger and creating a readily accessi- ble database of MCG Named researchers and their clinical Dean research expertise. "The president seems very willing and eager to encour-

Matthew J. Kluger age the growth of research Dr.has been named vice operations, and that's refresh- president of research ing," Dr. Kluger said. "And he and dean of the School of seems willing to back that up Graduate Studies at the with a significant amount of Medical College of Georgia. resources."

He began July 1

Dr. Kluger, previously direc- Dr. Matthew J. Kluger tor and senior scientist of the Dr. Pathophysiology Division of Jones Lovelace Respiratory Research members] not to be wearing Honored for Institute in Albuquerque, their own departmental or N.M., has a doctorate in zool- center or institute hats, but Academic ogy from the University of thinking about the bigger pic- Performance Illinois and a master of busi- ture," he said. ness administration degree Dr. Kluger is creating a from the University of New new position to direct tech- Jennifer Richardson Mexico's Anderson Schools of nology transfer, focusing on Dr.Jones was the Medical Management. He completed marketability when helping College of Georgia postdoctoral training at Yale decide whether to pursue a 1999 student representative

University School of patent. He also will expand for Academic Recognition Day

Medicine's John B. Pierce the duties of the director of May 3.

Foundation Laboratory. the Office of Clinical Trials Academic Recognition Day

"Dr. Kluger's sustained suc- Compliance to include navi- was begun in 1986 to cele- cess as a researcher and an gating research regulations brate individual academic administrator will enable him to quickly and successfully assume management of MCG President Francis J. Tedesco congratulates research initiatives and to Dr. Jennifer Jones build this important aspect of our mission as Georgia's health sciences university," said MCG President Francis J. Tedesco.

Dr. Kluger's plans include enhancing collaboration among MCG researchers and fostering an environment that rewards creativity. "I have my own explicit goals," he said.

"I will be very disappointed if our extramural support for research is not doubled within five years."

He will create a Biomedical Research Council, comprised of faculty from each MCG school, to advise him on the direction of research at MCG.

"I am going to ask [council

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY Association. He married Caren achievement and recognition Deadline for submitting information for publication in Brooks April 3. within the University System the winter issue of AlumNews is October 23, 1999. of Georgia. School of Dentistry Alumni! Let us know what's new with you by taking a Dr. Jones earned a medical Dr. Denise Attaway C92) prac- moment to fill out this form. Also, please send us your cur- degree from MCG May 8. She tices dentistry in Prospect, Ky. riculum vitae so we can keep your files up-to-date. maintained a perfect 4.0 Male Female grade point average through- School of Graduate Studies Today's date out medical school. She and Dr. William D. Davenport Jr. her husband, John, live in (Anatomy, 76) has been appoint- Name Stone Mountain, Ga. Dr. ed by the American Dental Darrell G. Kirch, dean of the Association's Joint Commission on Telephone number MCG School of Medicine, National Board Examinations to nominated Dr. Jones for the serve on the Dental Hygiene Part School graduated from honor. B National Board Test Construction Committee. Dr.

Davenport is a member of the Degree Class year Anatomic Sciences Test Construction Committee, which Distinguished Street address Check if new address composes the Part l-Anatomical Sciences portion of the Dental Chair City State Zip National Board Examination. He Established also served on the committee from 1977 to 1982. In 1983, he Present specialty and place of training served on an ad hoc committee Georgia Academy of appointed by the ADA Joint TheFamily Physicians' Commission on National Board Joseph W. Tollison, Examinations to study the oral

M.D., Chair has been desig- biology content on Dental Professional news (attach additional page if needed) nated a Distinguished Chair National Boards. He is an associ- by the University System of ate professor of oral pathology and associate professor of cell Georgia Board of Regents. biology and anatomy at Louisiana More than $1.1 million is State University School of Personal news (photos welcome) in the endowment, qualifying Dentistry in New Orleans. He also it to renamed a be is coordinator of support tech- Distinguished Chair. nologies and director of the Please send to: Christine Hurley Deriso; Fl- 1 042; Medical The chair, honoring Dr. research histology laboratory. College of Georgia; Augusta, GA 30912; fax to (706) 721- Tollison, deputy executive 6723 or e-mail to [email protected]. School of Medicine director of the American

Board of Family Practice, was Dr. Jeffrey Peden Harris ( 72), a tice with Cardiology Associates of Dr. Richard J. Harp ('98), Cherry established in September Winchester, Va., internist and Savannah and is board certified in Hill, N.J., is a surgical resident at subspecialist in nephrology, is 1997. He retired from MCG in internal medicine, cardiovascular the Hospital of the University of serving a four-year term as gover- 1997 as chairman of the disease and nuclear cardiology. Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His nor of the Virginia Chapter of the Department of Family His wife, Susan Aeger Su, was on son, Ryan Christopher, was born American College of Physicians- Medicine. He joined the the faculty of the MCG School of April 15. He weighed 8 lbs. and MCG American Society of Internal Nursing. They have three children: 1 5 oz. and was 21 inches long. faculty in 1976. Medicine. Laura, 10, Catherine, 8; and He was welcomed home by

Dr. James K. Elsey ( 79) practices Ryan, 3. brother Cole, 2.

general and vascular surgery in Dr. Thomas Sachy ('95) has Thomaston, Ga., and is a county School of Nursing Class completed a fellowship in behav- Notes commissioner. He was recently ioral neurology and a psychiatry Jane Caskey Wilson ('82) has elected president of the Emory School of Allied Health residency at the Medical worked at Emory University Association of Vascular Surgery Sciences University of South Carolina in Hospital since 1985 and was (1999-2001) of the Emory Charleston and is completing a named director of the cardiac Terry L. Trundle (P.T.A., 78), University School of Medicine. He fellowship in forensic psychiatry at catheterization lab three years Acworth, Ga., practices progres- was one of 50 state recipients of Emory University in Atlanta. His ago. She has been married 13 sive sports medicine and physical the Building a Better Georgia wife, Melissa Sims (M.D., '94) years to Brian Wilson, a pilot for therapy in Atlanta. He is vice pres- Award presented by insurance has also just completed a pathol- Atlantic Southeast Airlines. They ident of the National Assembly of commissioner John Oxendine. ogy residency at MUSC and is have a 2-and-a-half-year-old Physical Therapist Assistants of Dr. Claude T. Su ('86), Savannah, doing a fellowship in forensic daughter, Kathryn. the American Physical Therapy Ga., has a private cardiology prac- pathology

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 17 O.T. tance learning is that the per- master's degree in manage- sonal side of the educational ment from the University of

Program experience may be missed," Redlands in California and her

Dr. Bradley said. doctorate in business adminis- Spanning To help alleviate that prob- tration from Nova the State lem in the new program, Dr. Southeastern University. She Bradley taught the opening joined the MCG faculty in class from Columbus so she 1984.

Sally L. Sim kins could personally meet the "The faculty in our depart-

students. "This way, I feel I ment is superb," Dr. Campbell Eleven Medical College of know them and can call them said. "I consider it an honor Georgia students began by name," she said. "Other to represent them as chair-

earning their bachelor's faculty, too, will travel periodi- man." degrees in occupational thera- cally to personally meet with Bachelor-degree students py this May on the Columbus students." enter the two-year program

State University campus in The MCG-based classes are after completing their first

Columbus, Ga. conducted via the Georgia two years of undergraduate

The program is coordinat- Statewide Academic and school at an accredited insti- ed through the College of Medical System distance- tution. A six-week clinical

Sciences at Columbus State. learning network and through practicum is part of the cur-

"One of the goals of the computerized teaching, in riculum of the senior year. The program is to help place which course contents, lecture MCG School of Graduate health care professionals in text and videos are accessible Studies offers master of sci- underserved areas of on the program's website. ence and master of health

Georgia," said Dr. Kathy This way, students may review education degrees in the field.

Bradley, chairman of the MCG portions of a lecture for clari- Health information man- Department of Occupational fication or to refresh them- agers secure, analyze, manage Therapy. With an MCG physi- selves on the topic. The facul- and integrate medical records cal therapy distance-learning ty underwent intensive web and other health information. program at Albany State training while converting Health care providers use this College, MCG's programs coursework to the new information to make health now span the western section semester format. care decisions, and health of the state. "We're looking at what is care facilities and organiza-

MCG occupational therapy included in course content tions use it to make business students begin the program and what technology is best decisions. Health information after completing two years of to deliver the content," said managers work in most core prerequisites at an Dr. Bradley. health care settings as well as accredited liberal arts college. in insurance companies, law "Even though we accept stu- firms and information systems dents as juniors, 50 percent of companies. Many become our students already have Dr. independent consultants. their four-year baccalaureate Campbell degrees," Dr. Bradley said. Dr. Carol Campbell Entering students receive their Named course base in occupational Chairman therapy during the first year at MCG. During their second year, they complete course Sally L. Simkins work and intensive clinical experience through intern- Carol Campbell, act- ships in health care settings Dr.ing chairman of the throughout the state. Medical College of Occupational therapy fac- Georgia Department of Health ulty at both campuses share Information Management, has in teaching responsibilities. been named chairman.

"One first impression of dis- Dr. Campbell received her

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY Up to 20 students are and a Ph.D. in adult educa- therapy, Nancy D. Brian Edward Fnx, Amanda accepted each year in the tion from the University of Prendergast Award and Sue Montabon, Elizabeth bachelor-degree program. Georgia. She was named the MCG Senior Occupational Ashley Neal, Cynthia Ann

"Our applicant pool is a little 1997 AARC Education Therapy Student Smith, David Daniel Stanley down this year, as it is in Practitioner of the Year and Scholarship. and Tammy Michelle other programs in the coun- received the School of Allied • Sarah Ashmore, Dr. Ricardo Williams, graduate student try," Dr. Campbell said. "It is Health Sciences Outstanding C. Carrasco Award for initiation into Alpha Eta still a virtually unknown pro- Faculty Award. Second Career Occupational Society. fession. We don't have the Therapy Students. •Sarah Elizabeth Ashmore, problem of having too many • Frank D. Clements, Christine Marie Bernier, Julie applicants." Allied Outstanding Physician Ann Blakeley, Amanda Dr. Campbell said the fac- Assistant Student Award. Sheryl Frazier, Danielle ulty is exploring the possibility Health • Jennifer Bryson, Outstanding Givens, Tami Lynn Grimm, of combining a health infor- Student in Nuclear Medicine Robin Jones, Stacey W. mation management degree Students Technology. Lawhon, Scott Alan Leggio, with a business or computer •Corey Jones, Radiologic Jennifer Lori Manry, Julie track. "We also are looking at Honored Sciences Alumni Award. Leigh McCandless, Connie new and innovative ways of • Zella Renee Lovell, Ray Meeks, Catherine Rox offering our programs via dis- The Medical College of Respiratory Therapy Chair's Patty, Kimberly Dale Reed, tance learning," she said. "A Georgia School of Allied Award. Johnna Wren Ruffin, Henna web-based graduate program Health Sciences recog- • Robert Jason Hunter, Zella Shaheen Sheikh, Wendy over the Internet is in the nized outstanding students Renee Lovell and Robert Lynn Sinclair, Nancy early stage of consideration." during its Honors Day cere- Brent Murray, initiation into Elizabeth Strickland, Rhonda

mony last spring. Lambda Beta Society, Thomas Tucker and Michelle Recipients and their national honor society for Ann Wolfe, undergraduate Dr. Mishoe awards were: respiratory therapy. student initiation into Alpha •Wilmarie Negron, dental •Wendy Sinclair, medical Eta Society. Named hygiene, MCG Faculty and technology, Dr. Walter L. Spouse Club Scholarship Shepeard Achievement AARC Award. Award and Dr. C. Robert School of Fellow • Bonnie Lynn Barsh, occupa- Baisden Student Laboratory tional therapy, Raymond C. Management Award. Allied Health Bard Scholarship Award. •Naomi Nahr-Martey, medical Shelley Mishoe, pro- • Courtney A. Hearn, technology, CSRA Society of Sciences Dr.fessor and chairman of Associated Dental Sciences Medical Laboratory the Department of Chairman's Award. Personnel Student Alumni Respiratory Therapy in the • Miranda L. Moffitt, Professionalism Award. Association Medical College of Georgia Associated Dental Sciences • JoLynn Evans, Lisa Ivy and School of Allied Health Best Clinician Award. Cassandra Richardson, Officers, Sciences, has been named a •Amanda D. Burruss and National Committee for 1999-2000 fellow in the American Asso- Rachel H. Yeargan, Clinical Laboratory ciation for Respiratory Care. Associated Dental Sciences Standards Honored

AARC fellowships recog- Preventive Dentistry Award. Graduates. Rick Hall, President nize excellence in respiratory •Amanda D. Burruss, Julie A. •Wendy Storm Buckner, Lynn (706) 860-9692 care education, achievement Darnell and Christine E. E. Jaffe, Douglas R. Keskula, of advance credentials and Hess, initiation into Sigma Lori Prince, Carol Johnson Robin Hughes-Blackburn, initiatives in research, publica- Phi Alpha, national honor Reimche and Elizabeth Thais Vice President tions and clinical care. society for dental hygiene. Wark, faculty initiation into (803) 278-1451

Dr. Mishoe earned a bach- •Chnsti Ledig, health infor- Alpha Eta Society, national elor's degree in respiratory mation management, scholarship society in allied Linda Jobe, Secretary therapy from Syracuse Charlotte Johnson Memorial health. (706) 868-5781 University of New York Health Scholarship and Augusta • Amy Kay Hill-Ambrose, John Sciences Center, a master's Area Health Information Andrew Carzoli, Michelle Steve Harrison, Treasurer degree in education and Management Association Jean Ciamillo, Danny R. (706) 733-2189 health services administration Scholarship Award. Deuter, Christopher George from Augusta State University • Kimberly Reed, occupational Fisher, Toni Leigh Fisher,

1') VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT Student her children and family." "I'd like to see the organi- Kimberly's mom also zation become more cohesive Works to taught her the importance of insofar as local chapters being Interest professional affiliations in involved and establish some dentistry. Kimberly, immediate initiatives that programs are Minorities past president of the MCG involved in," she said, citing chapter of the Student the MCG chapter's Impres- in Dentistry National Dental Association, sions Program, which works

was named president of the to draw minorities to the field

Deborah G. Steele national chapter in August by introducing them to

during the organization's minorities in practice and in When she was a annual meeting in Atlanta. dental school. youngster, "I ran for president-elect "Another goal is also mak-

Kimberly Edwards [last] year and am working ing [minorities] aware that would play in her mother's with the current president to [dentistry] is a viable option to

pediatric dental office while make sure I understand the medicine and nursing and the her mother worked. As she roles and responsibilities of rewards of the profession,"

got older, she held summer president," she said. "I will be said Kimberly. "Everybody jobs at the practice and when responsible for organizing the pretty much is aware of den-

it was time to make a career national convention for 1999- tistry, but many don't think

choice, dentistry was imbed- 2000 and for representing the about it as a profession."

ded in her mind and heart. organization at various meet- ^Kimberly is anxious to

"I saw the flexibility Mom ings of our parent organiza- make her mark in the asso-

had," said Kimberly, a Medical tion, the National Dental ciation. "I was very apprecia-

College of Georgia School of Association." tive that they felt I did a good

Dentistry senior. "I think [den- The Student National job as corresponding secretary

tistry] is a really good field for Dental Association's focus is [a position she held in 1 997-

women because it doesn't on increasing the number of 98] and that I had the

have the emergent care that minorities in the dental pro- potential and could run the

presents itself in medicine and fession and stressing the organization."

it's flexible enough to allow a importance of dental care woman to spend time with among minority communities. Kimberly Edwards SNJA S7V£>£#T NATIONAL 0E\TAL ASSOCIATE

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY The Student National "It will take a student "I see this as revolutioniz- mia, where salaries are typi-

Dental Association has approx- about six to 12 hours to go ing the way we teach den- cally much lower, according to

imately 700 members, while through an entire case," said tistry and give continuing Dr. Frank Caughman, chair-

the MCG chapter has around Dr. Caughman. "[Students] education credits," Dr. man of the MCG Department

1 1 . One of Kimberly's goals is will diagnosis the treatment Caughman said. of Oral Rehabilitation. to increase those numbers. plan and perform the treat- "We want to continue to

"I want to do some inter- ment plan in graphic detail." bring the credibility and nal marketing to bring on According to Dr. Faculty experiences gained in private other minority students," she Caughman, the first case is practice into the academic said. "Many students don't staged as "futuristic dentistry Honored environment," said Dr. know about SNDA or the to make the learning experi- Caughman. "And it is the benefits of being a member." ence more fun. You are an Medical College of private practitioners who are Those benefits include expert at a space station and Georgia School of successful in their practices

social interaction with other the treatment is performed by Dentistry faculty we want to put in front of

dental students and profes- this robotic thing." Each case Joseph L. Konzelman Jr. and our students. The contribution

sional interaction with minori- will be independent of the Brad J. Potter were presented made by the Hinman Society

ty dentists. ones before it, and each will the Judson C. Hickey allows MCG to use non-state

present a problem-based Outstanding Teacher Award moneys to aid in a one-time learning experience. by members of the 1999 offer to prospective faculty." CD-Rom MCG alumnus Tom graduating class. Dr. George Schuette, chair- McDonald, in private practice The award, named in man of the Hinman Society's Refines in Athens, Ga., will author the honor of the school's found- Board of Trustees, agreed that next project, which will ing dean and presented each recruiting dentists in private

Students' involve anterior aesthetics and year by the senior class, is practice should significantly Skills occlusion. given to the faculty deemed enhance students' education. The advantage for students most helpful to the class. Drs. "The contribution a dentist in

is that they will be working Konzelman and Potter are private practice can make to a

Deborah G. Steele on very complex cases, some- past recipients of the award dental student's education is

thing they don't readily and served as class marshals immeasurable," he said. Practicing complicated encounter until after gradua- at the annual hooding cere- "These private practitioners

dental procedures is tion, Dr. Caughman said. mony on graduation day. know how to balance dental

going to be a little easi- "One of the problems we Drs. Konzelman and Potter techniques and capabilities

er when a new CD-Rom pro- have in dental school is the are associate professors of oral with the demands of running ject hits the market this fall. really complex cases are too diagnosis and patient services. a practice—information which Dental Interactive much for students," said Dr. can greatly enhance the stu-

Simulations Corporation, a Caughman. "I see [the CD- dent's education." non-profit organization com- Rom program] giving our stu- Hinman Gift prised of dental organizations, dents a lot of exposure to has been charged with devel- complex situations. This has Targets oping an interactive CD-Rom the capability of bridging School of for use in dental teaching, some of those gaps [we see in Recruitment Dentistry testing and continuing educa- dental schools]."

tion. This first, due out this The interactive learning Christine Hurley Deriso Alumni fall, will enable students to projects can be subject- Association practice comprehensively treat- specific and may eventually The Hinman Dental ing a patient and asking the become an integral part of Society of Atlanta has Officers simulated patient questions. dental schools' curricula. They contributed $30,000 to

Dr. Frank Caughman, may also be used for national the Medical College of Dr. David W. Perry, President chairman of oral rehabilitation board testing. Georgia to help attract den- (706) 863-4212

at the Medical College of In each case, a consultant tists in private practice to

Georgia School of Dentistry, is team is assigned to represent academia. Dr. Celia Dunn, Vice President

primary author of the first the expert side of the dental The money will be used as (706) 650-9700

CD-Rom, which focuses on a profession. A periodontist, a salary supplement, helping

senior oral medicine case. An endodontist, general dentist offset the growing disparity Dr. John Blalock,

actual case was used as back- and dental hygienist comprise between salaries in private Secretary/Treasurer

ground for the project. the team. dentistry and those in acade- (706) 737-5720

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 21 Researchers Unravel Mysteries of Bone Growth

Toni Baker

elements that cause Keythe skull to grow in response to pressure have been found by

researchers at the Medical Dr Jack Yu (third from right) with members of the College of Georgia. craniofacial team This information helps

explain how a healthy baby's that it is incompatible with tions, bridges between cells skull grows in response to his life," Dr. Yu said. After brain that are so small that most

increasing brain size and why growth ceases, the skull even- cellular components can't a hydrocephalic baby's skull tually becomes a solid, protec- travel across.

grows dramatically in tive mass of bone. But calcium and sub-

response to abnormally high In the laboratory, the MCG stances called second messen- pressures inside. researchers have documented gers can travel across gap

"It is known that pressure that bone cells closest to the junctions, communicate to the applied to the skull affects sutures stretch and become adjoining cell that stretching skull shape," said Dr. James L. permeable when placed is taking place and signal the

Borke, MCG physiologist. under tension. Fibroblast cells to respond by growing.

"What is not known is how growth factor 2 is one of the "The suture may respond to

pressure is transferred to bone first escapees through the stretching by communicating growth." newfound permeability and it with the first bone cells on

To answer that question, triggers the series of events either side, then those bone

Dr. Borke and Dr. Jack Yu, that allows the host cells as cells are connected by gap craniofacial surgeon at the well as neighboring bone cells junctions to other nearby

MCG Children's Medical to grow, Dr. Yu said. bone cells so they can form

Center, have focused on the The researchers also have this multi-cellular response," suture sites in the still- identified two proteins that Dr. Borke said. "The whole growing skull of newborn play a role in bone's growth [cellular] neighborhood can

rats. A baby has many of response to tension. Alpha respond to the stretch." these sutures, which are sites smooth muscle actin tells the "Form follows function," of bone growth between solid cell's internal mechanisms that explained Dr. Yu. "Wherever pieces of skull; a baby's 'soft the cell membrane has been cells gets stretched the most, spots' are where sutures stretched, Dr. Borke said. they leak more of the things meet. Alpha smooth muscle actin that make them grow. It's just

Growth of the skull in the functions as part of the cell's a perfect, beautifully self-sta- first few years of life is crucial skeleton, so when the cell is bilizing model." Drs. Borke to normal development and stretched, the skeleton moves, and Yu have shown in the even survival. In the first six activating chemical reactions laboratory that when tension months of life, brain growth is responsible for communicat- is put on a suture, the two rapid and continues at a ing the stretch, he said. A sec- structural proteins and fibro- decelerating pace until about ond protein, connexin 43, blast growth factor 2 increase age 3. "If you don't allow the helps nearby cells, which in number after bone cells are volume [of the skull] to go up, aren't directly stretched, learn stretched. Dr. Borke noted the pressure inside the head is what's going on around them. that the three substances nor- going to shoot up so high Connexin 43 forms gap junc- mally are present and play a

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY role in bone growth. It's only four-year research project by development of calcium-han- heart rate. Drugs used to treat when pressure is abnormal, cell biologists at the Medical dling mechanisms in the heart arrhythmias affect the heart's such as in hydrocephaly-when College of Georgia. on a beat-by-beat basis," said ability to regulate calcium. too much cerebrospinal fluid Researchers know that cal- Dr. Creazzo. "We will apply "This is a very vital accumulates in the skull-that cium is needed to regulate this knowledge of normal process," said Dr. Creazzo. "It abnormal bone growth heartbeat—the contraction development toward the is anticipated that these stud- results. and dilation cycle of the heart understanding of detrimental ies will increase our knowledge

Conversely, if there is muscle—and heart rate—the changes in calcium handling and aid in the treatment of decreased pressure inside the number of beats per minute. which appear to occur in con- congenital heart disease as skull, the skull may not grow But they hope to learn how genital heart disease." well as enhance understanding big enough. For example, if a the contraction and relaxation MCG researchers are inter- of normal heart development." shunt placed in a hydro- of the heart cells, called exci- ested in applying the informa- cephalic baby to reduce tation-contraction coupling, tion to their model of neural excessive intracranial pressure increases as the normal heart crest-associated heart defects. School of removes too much fluid, the develops in utero. They will Neural crest cells migrate from skull may not grow large study the development of the outer edges of the embry- Graduate enough for the fully devel- specific molecular compo- onic spinal cord and give rise oped brain. Premature fusion nents that regulate calcium. to a variety of structures, Studies seems to occur spontaneously Each cell has a storage area including several essential to Alumni in other children, resulting in for calcium, and when the cell normal cardiovascular devel- problems ranging from a mis- is stimulated, calcium is opment. Calcium-handling Association shapen head to a life-threat- released from the storage area mechanisms appear to be ening condition. Dr. Yu, direc- and into the main part of the defective in fetal and new- Officers tor of the Craniofacial Center cell to prompt a heartbeat, born hearts with neural crest- at the MCG Children's according to Dr. Tony Creazzo, associated anomalies. Geraldine Rinker, President

Medical Center, regularly MCG cell biologist who The mechanisms that regu- Wanda Mundy, Past President reshapes the skulls of these received a four-year, $1.1 mil- late calcium in a heart cell are children in the operating lion grant from the National intertwined with all aspects of John Black, President-Elect room. Institutes of Health for the cardiac function. The most Mary Chambers, Now he and Dr. Borke study. To relax the cell, calcium direct effect, as researchers Secretary/Treasurer have information about how has to quickly be taken back have discovered, is on the force growth occurs and are work- into the storage area. of the heartbeat as well as the ing to fine-tune their model "We need to understand and identify all the steps the normal embryological Dr. Tony Creazzo involved. They hope that by understanding the science of how growth occurs, doctors can better intervene when the growth goes awry.

Study Probes Calcium's Role in Heart Development

Deborah G. Steele

study of how the A heart uses calcium and how that calcium use relates to congenital heart disease will be the focus of a

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 23 (now MCG), Dr. Ellison com- member of the Richmond pleted an internship and sur- County Medical Society and gical residency at MCG and the Medical Association of

Bellevue Hospital in New York. Georgia since 1949. He also is He then joined the MCG fac- a member of the American

ulty, establishing the first ded- College of Surgeons, the icated cardiopulmonary and American College of

catheterization laboratory. Dr. Cardiology, American College

Ellison also spearheaded of Chest Physicians, American

MCG's open-heart surgery Thoracic Society, Augusta

program and opened its first Area Tuberculosis Association,

surgical intensive care unit, Georgia Heart Association,

the Cardiothoracic Surgical Georgia Surgical Society,

Intensive Care Unit. Georgia Tuberculosis

Dr. Ellison has been a Association, Southern

MCG medical students Carta Cunningham and Dr. Ellison Joseph Wilds (top) and Jared Friedman and Beth Shapiro react to news that they were among the 86 Receives percent of MCG School of Medicine seniors who got Hardman one of their top three choices of residency sites. Match Day is held nationwide each spring to match Cup medical school seniors with residency sites.

Christine Hurley Deriso

Robert G. Ellison, Dr.Charbonnier Professor of Surgery Emeritus at the Medical College of

Georgia, has received a Medical Association of Georgia Hardman Cup, the association's most prestigious award. The association has pre- sented 39 Hardman Cups since the award's inception in 1931 to individuals whose contributions to public health or whose surgical or medical discoveries have advanced the science of medicine. The award was established by Dr.

Lamartine Griffin Hardman Sr., an 1876 MCG graduate and governor of Georgia from 1927 to 1931. The award was presented to Dr. Ellison May

1 5 at the association's annual meeting in Savannah, Ga.

After graduating in 1943 (March) from the University of Georgia School of Medicine

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Thoracic Surgical Association, Association, the Medical Georgia Chapter and was Center, he was tenured in the American Board of Thoracic Association of Georgia, the president of the Georgia Department of Biomedical

Surgery and the Society of Georgia Academy of Family Chapter from 1990-1993. Communications and an assis-

Thoracic Surgeons. Physicians and the Southern At MCG, he is a professor tant dean in the College of

Dr. Ellison's wife of more Medical Association. of pediatrics, associate dean Associated Health Professions than 50 years, Dr. Lois Taylor in the School of Medicine and at the University of Illinois

Ellison, is associate vice presi- chief of staff for MCG Medical Center at Urbana- dent for planning (hospital Hospital and Clinics. He also is Champaign. He enjoyed golf, and clinics) at MCG. They project director for the tennis watercolor painting have five children, three of Children and Youth Project. and woodworking. whom are physicians. After graduating from Survivors include his wife,

MCG, he completed his pedi- Colette, and their son,

atrics residency at Bennett. Fitzsimmons General Hospital Health and Colorado General Complex Hospital in Denver before School of returning to MCG for a fel- Named for lowship in pediatric allergy Medicine Dr. Blissit and respiratory disease. He joined the MCG faculty in Alumni 1969. Association Anew health complex Dr. Linder is a reviewer for in Henry County, the Journal of Pediatrics, Officers Georgia has been American Journal of Diseases

J. Daniel Hanks Jr., M.D. named in honor of Dr. Joseph Dr. Linder for Children, Journal of A. Blissit, a 1956 graduate of Adolescent Health, The President the Medical College of Physician and Sports Named to David M. Cohen, M.D. Georgia School of Medicine. Medicine, the Physician Board President-Elect The Joseph A. Blissit Health Executive Journal of Complex includes Henry Management and Patient John W. Darden, M.D. County's physical and mental Toni Baker Care (Medical Economics). First Vice President health department. Mark F. Ellison, M.D Dr. Blissit, who was named Charles W. Linder, Second Vice President Henry County's Citizen of the Dr.director of the Section Dr. Year this year by the Chamber of General Pediatrics Eppinger Peter M. Payne, M.D. of Commerce, has been a and Adolescent Medicine at Dies at 52 Secretary/Treasurer family practitioner in the Medical College of John T. Collins, M.D. McDonough, Ga., since 1959. Georgia and a 1963 School of Mark Eppinger (72), General Director He also has served as the Medicine graduate, has been Dr.president of the county physician and medical elected to the Board of Annenberg Center for Cynthia K. Fernandez, M.D. examiner since 1960. He was Directors of the American Health Sciences at Eisenhower General Director chairman of the Henry County Academy of Pediatrics. Medical Center in Rancho Melvin L. Haysman, M.D. Board of Health from 1 960 to Dr. Linder will serve a Mirage, Calif., died Feb. 21 General Director 1994. three-year term as the He joined the Annenberg

Charles F. Hobby, M.D. Dr. Blissit has served as Southeastern United States' Center when it was founded General Director chief of staff of Henry General representative on the 10- in 1981, helping develop it

Hospital and is on the hospi- member academy board. The into a premier facility for pro- Clarence Joe, M.D. tal's Board of Trustees. He is academy represents 55,000 viding health care education General Director the medical director of board-certified pediatricians. to consumers, medical practi- Alan R. Kaplan, M.D. Westbury Nursing Home. He Dr. Linder is a member of tioners and other health care Director is certified by the American the academy's Committee on providers worldwide. General

Board of Family Practice and is Government Affairs and chair- Dr. Eppinger was a board- a fellow of the American man of its Southeastern dis- certified medical illustrator

Academy of Family Physicians. trict. He is a member of the and a fellow in the Associa-

Dr. Blissit is a member of Child Health Care Finance tion of Medical Illustrators. the American Medical Committee of the academy's Before joining the Annenberg

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 25 Ms. Hiscox Medical College of Georgia researcher hopes that shed- Named ding light on such behavior Association will ease the plight of both demented patients and their President care-givers. Dementia, or mental deteri- oration, affects as many as 50 Deborah G. Steele percent of those age 85 and

older. Dementia is the fourth- Medical College of leading cause of death among Georgia School of the elderly, and more than half

Nursing student of those in nursing homes

Kristen Hiscox has been elect- have a form of dementia, such ed president of the National as Alzheimer's disease.

Student Nurses' Association. Dr. Ann Kolanowski, chair-

She is the first NSNA presi- man and professor of adult dent from the state of nursing at the Medical Kristen Hiscox Georgia. College of Georgia, has

Ms. Hiscox is a junior at received a grant from the the MCG School of Nursing in ing the changes that will National Institute of Nursing

Athens and first vice president come forth due to her leader- Research to help understand of the Georgia Association of ship on the national level." why those with dementia Nursing Students. She ran for MCG School of Nursing behave the way they do. She vice president of the NSNA Dean Vickie Lambert said, will work with colleagues at and was elected to that posi- "We are all very proud of Ms. the University of Michigan tion. She also was elected to Hiscox and her strong leader- and the University of Arkansas the presidency as a write-in ship. She will do an excellent to probe behavioral symptoms candidate. job representing the state of of dementia such as physical

"It's truly an honor Georgia." aggression, wandering and

because I didn't run for presi- Ms. Hiscox, a dean's list disruptive vocalizations like dent," said the 20-year-old student and part-time screaming. from Martinez. "To think all employee at Athens Regional "All of us are interested in of the voting members at the Medical Center, is the daugh- some of the behavioral prob- convention got behind me [is ter of Donald and Kelly lems that occur with a good amazing]." Zahaba of Martinez. deal of frequency in demented

As president, Ms. Hiscox elders," Dr. Kolanowski said. spoke during the June con- They will develop a model vention of the National to help determine which

League of Nursing and at the Researchers factors are the root cause of June meeting of the American Study the behaviors of demented Nursing Association. She also patients. The group hopes attended a celebration of the Behavioral to develop intervention nursing profession in London Symptoms techniques to help people this summer. respond to those behaviors "We are very excited for of Dementia appropriately. Kristen Hiscox and know that "It might mean the patient she will do a fabulous job for doesn't understand verbal the nursing students of Deborah G. Steele communication," she said. Georgia and others across the "We may need to gesture; we nation," said Jason Ellis, presi- ne of the most vexing may need to lower the noise dent of the Georgia and heartbreaking in the environment; we may Association of Nursing aspects of dementia need to make sure the light-

Students. "The GANS Board is is disruptive behavior, such as ing is sufficient so demented extremely proud of Kristen 's screaming or hitting, that people aren't responding to work and is anxiously await- seems to defy explanation. A shadows. There are lots of dif-

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ferent interventions that can screaming, kicking, hitting, be developed based on this wandering—and the behavior

model." is one of the main reasons,

The model is a paper she says, that people are insti- description of the behaviors tutionalized. A new level exhibited by those with "Families can usually han- dementia that should prove dle memory problems, but it of banking. useful to the research group gets very difficult to handle

as they look at background someone who is hitting or As a physician your financial needs factors-areas of the brain kicking you every time you affected by dementia, cogni- bathe or dress them," she have likely changed since you tive difficulties resulting from said. deposited your first paycheck. the disease, past personality Dr. Kolanowski hopes the That's of Premier of the individual—and proxi- findings will improve the qual- why Bank America mal factors— lighting, noise ity of life for dementia Banking provides you with personal levels, social environment, patients and their families. service beyond what a traditional interaction with and facial "This is probably going to expressions of caretakers-that be the disease of the next banking relationship offers. To learn they believe have a high century," she said. "That's a about the privileges of Premier potential for explaining some problem, and how do you of the behaviors. respond to it?" Banking, please call 706.849.0667.

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Year in Review has been reorganized. vices, including pediatric length of stay is two to three

Through it all, high-quality emergency services. weeks, but many babies spend Balanced Budget patient care, a key component The CMC has an overall months in the unit and are The in MCG's overall mission, occupancy rate of 70 percent, often hundreds of miles from Act. . .Diagnosis Related remains paramount. with the 36-bed neonatal home. The NICU installed a Groups. . .health care intensive care unit staying new videoconferencing system reform. . .managed care. . Award-Winning CMC close to capacity at 81 percent. to enable family members to reduced inpatient utilization: The Children's The winter census peak sur- see and hear their infants and All are affecting the health MCG Medical Center, where chil- passed that of previous years communicate with their health care delivery system and par- dren throughout Georgia and and exceeded predictions. care providers they can't ticularly academic medical when receive primary and Fifty-one pediatricians and in centers nationwide. beyond be with them person. The Medical College of specialty care, opened in surgeons, including MCG and Another program to help December. Patients were physicians, have patients' families Georgia Hospital and Clinics community CMC and moved into the award-winning CMC admitting privileges. friends keep in touch is "Get is no exception. Adjusting its facility Dec. 8. The pediatric A helideck on the Well E-mail," made available budget to compensate for CMC intensive care unit and operat- roof was put into service in this year through the these external forces was a MCG ing rooms moved into the April, with adult and pediatric home page on the Internet. major focus throughout fiscal 999 CMC in January, closely fol- patients transferred from other Full implementation of 1 —with one important lowed by other ser- hospitals or flown directly family-centered maternity care stipulation: Patient care and from accident sites to receive continued this year with a sec- patient care services would not be compro- trauma or specialty care at ond grant from the Nathan Foundation. mised. The MCG. Cummings Innovations included work- efforts were Putting Families First shops for perinatal staff successful. mem- The hospi- The NICU treats critically bers; a "Coffee and ill newborns throughout Conversation" evening with tal cut more Georgia, South Carolina and consumers ideas will than $7 million whose parts ot Alabama and Florida. help structure a Perinatal from its $246.5 Advisory Group; and ground- million budget While many parents can, and spend a great deal of time for pairing mothers and through perfor- do, work mance improve- with their hospitalized chil- newborns with a single nurse dren, others are often dis- throughout their hospitaliza- ment efforts, .huTcM""""' „ , teamwork and tanced from their babies by tion. cooperation, circumstances beyond their Service Seniors control. The average for allowing a bal- NICU anced budget by The MCG Center for Senior Health opened in the year's end. July 1998 in west Augusta to offer Next, the proposed comprehensive medical ser- fiscal 201)0 budget vices and consultations to had to be cut by at those age 55 and older. least $1 1 million. Services include primary care, This, too, was accom- a long-term care program plished. Further reductions of offering comprehensive health up to $22.5 million, which and community services for management hopes will result chronically ill adults, an adult largely from an early-retirement day-care center, individual program approved by the counseling and educational University System of Georgia programs. A health fair in June Board of Regents in August, provided free diabetes, vision will be made during the fiscal and blood pressure screenings; year. To further cut costs, the bone density and breast exam- hospital's outpatient pharmacy

28 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY — TAL AND CLINICS ANNUAL REPORT

A Commitment to Excellence ment inventory to ensure Y2K compliance. Contingency The MCG Hospital and planning was completed in Clinics obtained a gamma CENTER/or August to prepare staff for any knife this year to destroy eventuality. For instance, staff Senior Health inoperable brain tumors, members are being trained to malformed blood vessels that perform tasks manually in Medical College ofGeorgia impede blood flow in the areas where automation and brain and areas of the brain technology have replaced man- where seizures originate. ual processes. The Joint Commission on In addition, through the the Accreditation of Health 2000 Project, Care Organizations granted Year MCG Hospital and Clinics is MCG Hospital and Clinics full participating in a Community three-year accreditation this Healthcare Awareness Team year—a testament to the hos- a volunteer collaboration of pital's competence and quality. professionals from area hospi- The American College of Surgeons Commission on tals exploring common Y2K Cancer awarded MCG's concerns, helping develop for problems and Cancer Program four-year solutions identifying challenges that accreditation. An MCG Hospital and require interorganizational decision-making or regional Clinics task lorce has been leadership to resolve. working to ensure that patient care will not be mations; and room and compromised consultation hydrotherapy when the new about concerns room. The state- millennium such as joint of-the-art reha- dawns. Working replacement, dia- bilitation area closely with the betes manage- has separate areas nationally recog- ment and for those just mzed MCG Year fP^ Alzheimer's disease getting back to physical activi- 2000 Project and ty and those further along in department On Top of the Game their recovery. Trainers help managers, the The new MCG Center for runners enhance their form on task force con- Sports Medicine opened in an 8-foot-wide track. ducted an equip-

February to help athletes of all ages and performance levels recover from injuries and con- tinue their sports. The start-including orthopedic sur-

geons, physician assistants,

physical therapists, athletic trainers and a family medicine physician—also provides side- A Team Effort line care for area school teams,

including a 24-hour hotline Hospitals nationwide are for coaches when an injury feeling the effects of a nursing occurs. The building has seven shortage, and hospital adminis- examination rooms, a plaster tration is bolstering its efforts

room, a patient education to recruit experienced nurses.

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 29 The hospital's Education program will be offered soon Job satisfaction continues to throughout the year with a Department offered a refresher for experienced nurses be a high priority at MCG Minority Concerns Task Force course last spring for registered desiring to learn operating Hospital and Clinics. to discuss minority concerns nurses wanting to reinstate room nursing procedures. Employee task forces have and diversity issues. their licenses. Nurses in adult Another pediatric training been working since November Lending a Hand care units were invited to program is being designed for on suggestions for improve- receive pediatric training dur- patient care assistants working ments identified in a 1998 MCG Hospital and Clinics ing low census periods on in other areas of MCG organizational climate survey. also continues to be active in their home units. A training Hospital and Clinics. Hospital management has met community initiatives. More

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Albany, Ga., Albany Pediatric Pulnionology Clinic Athens, Ga., Family Counseling Services of Athens Teleniedicine Site Albany, Ga., Phoebe Putney Hospital Neonatal Nursery Atlanta, Ga., Metro State Prison-Telemedicine Site Teleniedicine Site Atlanta, Ga., Emory University Hospital Teleniedicine Site

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30 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY than 130 MCG faculty and and other diseases. Staff mem- the community. The annual ater show, offering many topics staff w alked in the American bers provided volunteer sup- American Red Cross and and experts to answer health- Cancer Society's Relay for port for sports and boating MCG Community Health Fair related questions. Life; 75 represented MCG in events. offered health screenings and MCG Hospital and Clinics the Alzheimer's Association's MCG Hospital and Clinics health information. MCG also greatly values its relationship Memory Walk. Others walked, also supported the Junior implemented numerous com- with community organizations ran or rode bicycles in events League's Festival ofTrees bene- munity education programs, and its role as a health care to raise awareness and dollars fiting education and philan- including Food Play, a national resource for citizens through- to fight heart disease, diabetes thropic activities throughout award-winning nutriton the- out Georgia and beyond.

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Hinesville, Ga., Liberty Regional Medicine Center Telemedicine Site Thomasville, Ga., Thomasville Pediatric Pulmonology Clinic Jackson, Ga., Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Thomasville, Grt.,John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital Telemedicine Site Telemedicine Site

Jesup, Ga., Wayne Memorial Hospital Telemedicine Site Thomson, Ga., Family Eye Care Associates—Retina Consultation Louisville, Ga., Jefferson Prenatal Center Services

Macon, Ga., Macon Adult Sickle Cell Clinic Tiftou, Ga., Tifton Pediatric Cardiology Clinic Macon, Ga., Macon Pediatric Sickle Cell Clinic Valdosta, Ga., Valdosta Children's Medical Services Pediatric Macon, Ga., Medical Center of Central Georgia Telemedicine Site Cardiology Clinic

Milledgeville, Ga., Central State E.N.T. Clinic Valdosta, Ga., Valdosta Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic

Milledgeville, Ga., Georgia College and State University Telemedicine Site Valdosta, Ga., Valdosta Pediatric Sickle Cell Clinic Moultrie, Ga., Moultrie Pediatric Cardiology Clinic Valdosta, Ga., Valdosta Pediatric Pulmonology Clinic

Moultrie, Ga., Colquitt Regional Medical Center Telemedicine Site Valdosta, Ga., Valdosta Children's Medical Services Orthopaedic Quitman, Ga., Brooks County Hospital Telemedicine Site Clinic

Reidsville, Ga., Georgia State Prison Telemedicine Site Valdosta, Ga., Valdosta State Prison Telemedicine Site Sandersville, Ga., Sandersville Rural Outreach Cardiology Clinic Valdosta, Ga., South Georgia Medical Center Telemedicine Site Sandcrsville, Ga., Sandersville Rural Outreach Hematology/ Warrenton, Ga., Tri-County Family Medicine Clinic Oncology Clinic Warrcnton, Ga., Tri-County Health System Inc. Telemedicine Site Sandersville, Ga., Sandersville Adult Neurology Clinic-Washington Waycross, Ga., Waycross Adult Sickle Cell Clinic Memorial Hospital Waycross, Ga., Waycross Child Neurology Clinic Sandersville, Ga., Sandersville EMG Clinic Waycross, Ga., Waycross Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Clinic Savannah, Ga., Savannah Adult Sickle Cell Clinic Waycross, Ga., Waycross Pediatric Genetics Clinic Savannah, Ga., Savannah Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic Waycross, Ga., Waycross Pediatric Hematology /Oncology Clinic Savannah, Ga., Savannah Pediatric Genetics Clinic Waycross, Ga., Waycross Pediatric Sickle Cell Clinic Savannah, Ga., Savannah Pediatric Pulmonology Clinic Waycross, Ga., Waycross Pediatric Pulmonology Clinic Savannah, Ga., Memorial Health University Medical Center Waycross, Ga., Waycross Pediatric Special Child Clinic Telemedicine Site Waycross, Ga., Waycross Children's Medical Services Neurosurgery Sparta, Ga., Tri-County Family Medicine Clinic Clinic Statesboro, Ga., Bulloch Child Neurology Clinic Waycross, Ga., Waycross Children's Medical Services Orthopaedics Statesboro, Ga., Statesboro Children's Medical Services Child Clinic Neurology Clinic Waycross, Ga., Southeast Heatlh Unit Telemedicine Site

Statesboro, Ga., Statesboro Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Clinic Waycross, Ga., Satilla Regional Medical Center Telemedicine Site

Statesboro, Ga., Bulloch Pediatric Gastroenterology Clinic Wrightsville, Ga., Johnson County Medical Clinic (Primary Care Statesboro, Ga., Statesboro Pediatric Nephrology Clinic Community Health Center) Statesboro, Ga., Statesboro Pediatric Pulmonology Clinic Wrightsville, Ga., Community Health Center Telemedicine Site Statesboro, Ga., Bulloch Pediatric Special Child Clinic Statesboro, Ga., Statesboro Children's Medical Services Orthopaedic Clinic Aiken, S.C., Aiken Pediatric Rehabilitation Swainsboro, Ga., Swainsboro Rural Outreach Cardiology Clinic Anderson, S.C., Anderson Pediatric Rehabilitation Swainsboro, Ga., Emanuel County Medicine Clinic (Primary Care Greenwood, SC., Greenwood Pediatric Rehabilitation Community Health Center)

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 31 SERVICE TO GEORGIANS

uring fiscal year 1998-99, the Medical College of Dade Catoosa Fannin Towns Rabun 18/3 110/110 20/9 Georgia Hospital Clinics 10/5 Union 76/70 and provided more than 1,402 1,108 Murray 44,056 1,164 146,914 Whitfield 45/0 $82 million* of uncompensated care to Georgians. 75/50 D Walker 116/92 Gilmer 0 18/14 175,962 121,574 22/0 White Key 732 Habersham 0 1 54/95 Lumpkin 201/1 59 Stephens 51,827 Top figure: Number of MCG inpatient and out- Gordon 108/68 83,221 273/194 Chatooga 60/60 Pickens Dawson 82,088 299,460 patient visits from that county during fiscal 1998- 25/18 70,888 42/30 46/43 Hart 24,921 Hall Banks Franklin 73,463 28,320 99, followed by the number of uncompensated 274/165 86/82 560/392 442/229 334,256 77,257 113,226 care visits. Floyd Bartow Cherokee Forsyth 323,715 66/53 157/130 187/133 108/62 Jackson Madison Bottom 36,437 502,360 263,524 14,286 Elbert figure: Dollar amount of uncompen- 417/339 542/354 1,326/810 107,938 303,650 sated care provided by MCG Hospital 539,989 Polk Barrow Clarke and Clinics to county residents. 28/0 Cobb Gwinnett 486/269 0 Paulding 963/515 212/160 235/128 81,259 Oglethorpe 84/56 403,240 * 366,491 431,763 323/184 This amount excludes pay- Haralson 88,395 Walton Oconee Wilkes Lincoln DeKalb 67,479 86/77 ments received from the 163/109 562/506 249/102 2,394/1,542 4,210/2,254 175,118 Douglas 264,812 570,672 54,105 1,013,338 975,303 Indigent Rockda , e Care Trust Fund. 233/192 Fulton 195/115 Columbia Carroll 414,035 298/148 Morgan Greene Uncompensated care Clayton 135 894 Newton Taliaferro 43,184/14,294 223/223 220,176 471/355 944/584 195/180 493/431 6 3 0/3 9 5 5,110,492 170,730 includes bad debt, 386,819 Henrv 433,239 326,703 , „ 899,438 255i37 3 McDuffie Fayette 126/113 Warren 9,268/5,593 Richmond indigent and charity Coweta 24/7 213,917 Putnam Jasper 2,307/1,649 2,889,872 159,870/75,986 Heard 9,947 ... care and Medicaid 68/43 e Butts 731/576 Hancock 596 451 25,437,432 21/17 Spalding 110/79 1,712/1,124 49,637 241/195 862,244 Glascock allowances. 17,773 300/294 8,360 1,684,099 73,847 109,129 1,019/585 187,356 Pike Lamar Burke Baldwin Troup Meriwether 45/37 96/71 Jefferson 9,653/5,824 Monroe Jones 1,412/809 77/68 72/72 50,332 18,844 127/66 Washington 8,822/6,300 3,595,034 158/97 432,407 128,163 83,650 78,110 3,897/2,337 3,547,782 128,661 Upson 1,775,348 130/93 Jenkins Wilkinson 65,783 Bibb Screven 234/189 2,220/1,595 Harris 499/339 1,805/1,199 Talbot Crawford 80,625 Johnson 1,078,751 29/18 290,609 Twiggs 724,630 42/40 42/42 1,188/804 7,289 98/50 32,876 31,520 Emanuel n , 438,631 Taylor Peach 58,979 4,519/3,177 196/177 Muscogee 33/16 Laurens 1,825,667 127/93 9,340 195,797 Houston Bleckley 2,071/1,472 Treutlen Candler Bulloch 119,812 679/416 272/203 Effingham Marion Macon 908,338 463/374 823/549 3,762/1,926 286,624 439,343 271/142 Chattahoochee 30/13 160/95 309,165 656,821 908,508 54,779 7/4 3,319 Schley 94,528 Pulaski Montgomery 522 57/35 451/288 Dooly 92/73 Dodge Evans 3,592 Toombs 178,598 629/449 Wheeler 150,874 553/455 Bryan Stewart 118/90 1,896/1,493 273/172 375,317 254/164 Chatham 43/43 Sumter 113,403 410,027 644,007 Webster 374,444 Tattna |, 120,409 856/388 221/140 41,998 Wilcox 971/854 1,326,313 103,755 Telfair 8,162 Crisp 86/62 817,713 624/564 Quitman 194/1 56 39,108 Liberty Pi 26/24 159,724 428,990 530/323 Terrell Randolph Lee Jeff Davis 1,836 Ben Hill Appling Long 907,232 32/28 38/29 119/64 594/509 Turner 292/201 659/439 137/105 r 22,921 129,697 59,587 337,587 93/66 112,811 153,931 Clay 35,277 50,055 16/16 Irwin Bacon Wayne Coffee 49,900 Calhoun Dougherty 157/147 540/449 Worth 108/105 Mcintosh 31/18 357/305 852/574 Tift 60,750 120,399 108,912 167/126 909,402 111/71 883,669 12,023 465/396 56,958 100,641 Pierce Early 1,667,461 Baker Berrien 298/238 35/34 Atkinson 39/19 206/147 187,300 Brantley Glynn 43,643 172/149 55,576 Mitchell 139,007 230/230 547/421 Colquitt 562,039 Ware Miller 134/122 Cook 335,413 572,846 267/0 660/443 60/37 330,235 114/125 0 1 Lanier 370,113 47,172 91,768 79/43 Clinch 85,969 Seminole 109/91 Charlton 30/24 Decatur Grady Thomas Brooks Lowndes 83,780 108/82 8,073 153/143 104/104 150/111 99/83 558/334 36,984 115,680 246,822 123,920 89,915 390,995 Echols 9/5 632 w 32 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY PLAN YOU R G I V I N

Leave a Legacy

| n many areas of our country, a $100 million. These assets provide a

I promotion is under way encourag- more secure financial base for this

I ing peoples of all walks of life to institution.

I establish a provision in their wills These monies are more than just

benefiting a charitable cause. This is indicators of people's belief in MCGs not the type of activity most people future; they represent a love for the would think generates much enthusi- institution, an appreciation for the

asm, but upon self-reflection, we agree education provided, a thank you to a

it is important. caring faculty, a hopeful investment for

The Medical College of Georgia the betterment of health care and a

Foundation is participating in this willingness to share in future genera-

program, known as Leave a Legacy tions. We are not so naive as to ignore Georgia. Leave a Legacy, a statewide the benefits of the tax savings, but our

and nationwide campaign, is a experience is that behind every gift is

collaborative effort between non-profit a well-thought-out desire to build on organizations, financial and estate- the future of MCG. planning professionals and media We ask you to consider the place outlets. The goal of Leave a Legacy the Medical College of Georgia holds

Georgia is to communicate that by in your life, what it has contributed to

creating a personal legacy, each one your life, your role in its future and

of us can make a difference in our your intentions for the assets of your

community. estate. For many people, this process

The Planned Giving Office at the leads them to consider a gift to the Medical College of Georgia has shared Medical College of Georgia in this vision for many years. We are Foundation in their estate plans. very excited to help alumni and For information on planning your friends define the future Medical legacy, please contact Bruce Howerton

College of Georgia through gifts or Troy Breitmann at 800-869-1 1 13.

from their estates. In the 1990s alone, We will be happy to assist you with the assets held in the Medical College ways to include the Medical College

of Georgia Foundation, Inc. have of Georgia Foundation in your overall grown from $10 million to more than financial and estate plans.

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT j 51

Summary Statement of Current Funds Revenues, Expenditures and Other Changes Year Ended June 30, 1999

Unrestricted TOTAL Educational Auxiliary CURRENT and General Enterprises Restricted FUNDS Revenue Educational and General Revenues

Student Tuition and Fees !\ 9,40 1,334.85 $ 9,401,334.85 Federal Appropriations 0.00 State Appropriations 162,952,395.00 162,952,395.00

Equipment/Technology/Construction Trust Fund 582, (l< 10.00 582,000.00 Local Appropriations 0.00 Federal Grants and Contracts 3,025,671.02 14,748,404.23 17,774,075.25 State Grants and Contracts 54,948.75 94,819,097.72 94,874,046.47 Local Grants and Contracts 615,611.58 615,611.58 Private Gifts, Grants and Contracts 574,557.17 40,763,027.24 41,337,584.41 Investment Income

Endowment 73,260. 1 78,260.15 Other 0.00 Sales and Services Educational Activities 4,717,343.96 4,717,343.96 Hosptial and Clinics 209,263,513.89 209,263,513.89 Other Sources 3,321,859.33 3,321,859.33

Total Educational and General Revenues 393,893,623.97 0.00 151,024,400.92 544,91 8,024.89 Sales and Services of Auxiliary Enterprises 5,135,850.68 5.135,850.68 tat at n ri rr\Ti ttc TOTAL REVENUES 393,893,623.97 5,135,850.68 151,024,400.92 550,053,875.57

Expenditures and Mandatory Transfers Educational and General Expenditures

Instruction 1 05.399,620.52 39,453,904.51 144,853,525.03 Research 17,820,445.00 17,820,445.00 Public Service 2.466,430.62 2,466,430.62 Academic Support 10.636,328.00 554,501.1 11,190,829.11

1 777 1f>1 1 777 1A1 u ikk iii oci \ iv.es i , / / / , in i .o 1,// / , 1 O i . O 3 Institutional Support 14,317,852.65 1,560,966.20 15,878,818.85 Operation and Maintenance of Plant 12.744,969.06 12,744,969.06 Scholarships and Fellowships 1,161,750.95 1,240,700.00 2,402,450.95 Hospital and Clinics 244.147.870.93 90,393,884.10 334,541,755.03

1^1 dOA a nn uo Total Educational and General Expenditures .iv_;,(^D 1 ,vn4,jo Auxiliary Enterprises Expenditures 4,371,697.33 4,371,697.33 Mandatory Transfers 0.00

TOTAL EXPENDITURES AND MANDATORY TRANSFERS 392,651,984.38 4,371,697.33 151,024,400.92 548,048,082.63

Other Transfers and Additions/Deductions

Excess Restricted Receipts Over Transfers to Revenues 5,137,189.32 5,137,189.32 Non-Mandatory Transfers (338,954.45) (338,954.45) Adjustments—Prior Year 543,647.61 1,289.28 544,936.89 Lapse ot Surplus— Prior Year To State Treasury—General Funds (335,546.88) (335,546.88) To State Treasury—Lottery Funds/Regular (6,489.06) (6,489.06)

TOTAL OTHER TRANSFERS AND ADDITIONS/DEDUCTIONS 201,611.67 (337,665.17) 5,137,189.32 5,001,135.82

NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN FUND BALANCES $1,443,251.26 $426,488.18 $5,137,189.32 $7,006,928.76

34 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY Thank You, Donors

President's Club Mrs. Milford B. (Marion) Hatcher Dr. and Mrs. Henry G. Mrs. Mildred T. Stevens* Mrs. Grace S. Hawes* Mealing Sr.* Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Still Jr. President's Level Dr. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Goodrich Mr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Moody and Mrs. Francis J. Tedesco Henry* Dr. and Mrs. William B. Mullins (President) Members of the club's President's Dr. and Mrs. Paul F. Holcomb Dr. and Mrs. Harry B. O'Rear Dr. Sandra P.T.Tho Level have made lifetime contri- Dr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Jackson (President Emeritus) Mr. William F.Toole and butions or more and of $50,000 Mr. and Mrs. Duncan N.Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Lynn L. Ogden III Mrs. Bertha Lee Toole have achieved permanent member- Miss Lynne G.Johnson* Dr. Elwyn V. Patrick* Mrs. Vera Cordell Wardlow* ship in this giving club. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Kellett Mr. and Mrs. William Porter Payne Dr. and Mrs. Earl L. Warren* Dr. and Mrs. William T. Langston Dr. and Mrs. B. Lamar Pilcher Mr. George G. Weiss* Mr. and Mrs. Gerry H. Achenbach* Mr. and Mrs. Lansing B. Lee Jr. Mr. James Andrew Pnntup* Dr. and Mrs. C. Mark Dr. and Mrs. Russell A. Acree Sr. Dr. and Mrs.Virendra B. Mahesh Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Pulliam Jr. Whitehead Sr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Clay Adamson Jr. The Carlos and Marguerite Mason Dr. and Mrs. Jerry G. Purvis Dr. and Mrs. Roston M. Dr. and Mrs. Marshall B.Allen Jr. Trust Dr. and Mrs. A. Clark Robinson Williamson Jr. Mr. Oscar H.Allen* Dr. Marion W. Mathews* Dr. and Mrs. Roy Rowland Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Willis Jr. Mr. John B.Amos* J. Mr. and Mrs. William W. Matthies Dr. and Mrs. Milton B. Satcher Mrs. Lucille B.Wmans* Mr. and Mrs. William L.Amos Sr. Mrs. Corrie Ann Maxwell Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd B. Schnuck Jr. Mrs. Rita Goldstein Wolfson Dr. William L.Barton* Mrs. Barbara J. McCrory Dr. and Mrs. George P. Sessions Drs. Charles H. and Betty B. Wray Mrs. Sarah M. Bell Dr. and Mrs. Paul G. McDonough Dr. and Mrs. James S. Simpson III Dr. James W. Bennett Dr. and Mrs.Virgle W. McEverJr. Dr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Steinfeld Mr. and Mrs. Paul Berney Dr. Andrew Thomas McRae Jr. (Former President) *Deceased Mr. J. C.Bible* Dr. Hubert H. Blanchard* to Mrs.W. Herman (Estelle) Brooks The Medical College of Georgia hosts a dinner every fall honor members of the President's Dr. and Mrs. Felix B. Brown* Club. Scenes from the 1998 dinner are featured on the following pages.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Burnam Dr. and Mrs. Clark Case* Mr. W. Roscoe Coleman* Dr. and Mrs. Allen M. Collinsworth* Mrs. James A. (Willie Ewing) Crockett

Dr. and Mrs. James F. Culver Mr. Albert H. Dallas

Dr. and Mrs. H. Gordon Davis Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. H. Gordon Davis III Mr. and Mrs. Calvin B. Driver* Dr. and Mrs. Byron H. Dunn Dr.Taher Abdel M. El Gammal and Dr. Betty Sue Brooks

Drs. Robert G. and Lois T. Ellison Dr. Emile T. Fisher

Mrs. Sammie S. Flaherty Dr. W. Stewart Flanagin Dr. and Mrs. Glen E. Garrison Dr. Marvin C. Goldstein* Miss E. Louise Grant*

Mr. Edward L. Greenblatt Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Greenblatt*

Mr. John C. Hagler III and Dr. Mary Anne Tyler Hagler Dr. Dorothy A. Hahn* Dr. and Mrs. Chenault W. Hailey Dr. and Mrs. Curtis G. Hames Dr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Hanks Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Marion P. Harris Dr. and Mrs. J. Harold Harrison

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 35 Founder's Level Dr. and Mrs. Atwood McGowen Dr. Patricia L. Hartlage Mr. and Mrs. Jack Henry Korn

Freeman Jr. Dr. Melvm L. Haysman and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Korn The following members the of Dr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Freeman Mrs. Roberta Kamine-Haysman Drs. Clinton E. and Vickie A. President's Club at the Founder's Dr. and Mrs. William E. Freeman Dr. and Mrs. Dariush H. Heidary Lambert

Level have made lifetime contri- Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Gadacz Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Henson Jr. Mr. George H. Lane III butions of $10,000 to $49,999. Dr. and Mrs. R. Don Gambrell Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Loy G. Hicks Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James F. Langford

Dr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Gay Mr. and Mrs. James F. Hilliard Dr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Levine Dr. William C.Acton Dr. and Mrs. James William Gay Dr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hobby Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Ronald W Lewis Dr. and Mrs. Henry M. Althisar Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Garnett Giesler Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. Eugene Holley Dr. and Mrs. Joel E. Lightner Sr. Mr. and Mrs. R.Thomas Ambrose J. Dr. and Mrs. Peter G. Gilbert Dr. and Mrs. John E. Horvath Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Linder Dr. and Mrs. W. Jackson Atha Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. Gilner Dr. and Mrs. Jerry W. Howington Dr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Lunn Mrs. Louise S.Atkins* Dr. Donald D. Gold Dr. and Mrs. William D. Hughes Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Lutcher Dr. Minis C. Aultman Dr. and Mrs. Isaac Goodrich Dr. C. M. Hutchinson Dr. and Mrs. H. Gilbert Maddox Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bandy Dr. Samuel M. Goodrich and Mr. and Mrs. Harold C.Jackson Dr. and Mrs. Arlie R. Mansberger Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Bard Mrs. Ellen Schneider Goodrich Dr. and Mrs. Floyd C.Jarrell Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James E. Marlow Dr. and Mrs. James T. Barenie Mrs. Dorothy Royal Gower Mr. and Mrs. R.Wayne Jennings Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Matthew Dr. and Mrs. Fred Donald Bass Dr. and Mrs. Frank B. Graham III Dr. David C. Jerram* Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Matuszak Dr. and Mrs. Estol R. Belflower Dr. Charles R. Green Dr. C. Denton Johnson Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William E. Mayher III Dr. and Mrs.Vidor Bernstien Dr. and Mrs. Lowell M. Greenbaum Dr. and Mrs. Lawson C.Johnson Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Wallace D. Mays Dr. and Mrs. Wayne D. Beveridge Dr. and Mrs. James R. Gregory Dr. and Mrs. John Paul Jones Drs. E.James and Martha S. Dr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Binet Dr. and Mrs. Louie H. Griffin Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William P. Kanto Jr. McCranie Dr. William R. Birdsong* Dr. Marshall A. Guill III and Dr. and Mrs. Terry Vern Kelley Dr. and Mrs. LaMar Scott Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Bissell Jr. Dr. Margaret F. Guill Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Eugene McGinnis Jr. Mr. James A. Blissit Dr. and Mrs. Billy S. Hardman Kennedy Dr. and Mrs. Ray L. McKinney Dr. Joseph A. and Dr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Hardman Dr. and Mrs. Van Cise Knowles Mfs. Linda G. McNealy Rev. Dr. Janice L. Blissit Dr. and Mrs. Sterling A. Harris Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wyck A. Knox Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Sylvester N. McRae Mrs. Lois H. Bohler

Dr. and Mrs. J. Larry Boss Dr. and Mrs.Talmadge A.

Bowden Jr. Dr. Lester L. Bowles*

Dr. and Mrs. Mercer T. Bridges Sr. Mrs. Mary W. Burnett Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Burton Mrs. Sarah Turner Butler

Dr. and Mrs. Cliff L. Cannon Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Nelson S. Carswell Jr. Dr. and Mrs. A. Bleakley

Chandler Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Bryan Chastam Mr. and Mrs. Cassius M. Clay Dr. Gordon Blake Collins Dr. and Mrs. James Emmett Collins Dr. and Mrs. William C. Collins Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Comer Dr. and Mrs. John W. Darden Dr.J.W. Richard Davis Dr. Leila D. Denmark Dr. and Mrs. Howard Clifton

Derrick Jr. Dr. Catherine R. deVries Dr. and Mrs. Jewell B. Duncan

Dr. and Mrs. Wallace S. Edwards

Dr. Linda A. Ellis

Dr. and Mrs. Harold S. Engler

Mrs. J. Lee Etheredge Jr. Dr. Alva H. Faulkner

Dr. Fort F. Felker Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Finer

Dr. and Mrs. James F. Flanders Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Herman F. Flanigin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Fleischer Drs. Murray A. and Sandra N. Freedman

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY Dr. and Mrs. Darshan S. Bhatia Dr. Robert C. Bowman Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Brewton

Dr. and Mrs. William P. Brooks

Drs. Charles F. and Vickie M. Brown

III Dr. Walter J. Brown

Dr. and Mrs. Walter J. Brown Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. William H. Buntin Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Burch Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Burton Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Byrd Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Candler

Dr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Caruana Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Cates Drs. Bashir A. and Tesneem Chaudhary Mr. and Mrs. Dale M. Chernich

Mr. and Mrs. James Russell Clarke III

Mr. James F. Colbourne

Dr. Chappell A. Collins Jr.

Dr. Alfred O. Colquitt Jr. and Dr. Luella Klein Colquitt

Dr. Beverly L. Connelly Colonel and Mrs. John C. Cornelson

Mrs. Kathryn S. Craft Mr. Dale Crail and Mrs. Pam Crail Dr. and Mrs. William B. Dasher Dr. Carol F. Meyer Dr. Samuel F. Rosen and Dr. and Mrs. Biagio J.Vericella Drs. Diane W. and Lawton C. Davis Estelle S. Larkin F. Walker and Dr. Frank J. Miller Mrs. Rosen* Dr. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Day Dr. and Mrs. John C. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. James Salva Dr. Teresa C. De Rojas-Walker Drs. Kenneth D. and Stella Deaton Jr. Mr. Mark Moran and Dr. and Mrs. Beverly B. Sanders Jr. Dr. and Mrs. W. Gamewell Watson Dr. and Mrs. Johnny T. Deen Dr.Jeannie H. Moran Dr. and Mrs. F. Hunt Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Harold Werner Dr. and Mrs. John L. Dekle Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William H. Moretz Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Elwyn A. Saunders Dr. and Mrs. Michael H. Whittle Dr. and Mrs. Ervin Dan DeLoach Dr. and Mrs. Robert T. Morgan Dr. Robert I. Schattner Dr. and Mrs. Leslie L.Wilkes Dr. and Mrs. H. Clark Deriso Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William S. Morris III Dr. and Mrs. Robinson W. Dr. and Mrs. Charles K.Williamson Dr. and Mrs. Don Bernard Ms. Alice G. Muldoon Schilling Dr. and Mrs. A. Calhoun Witham Jr. DeStephano Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Muldoon Mr. and Mrs. Abram Serotta Dr. Roy Witherington J. Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Devoe Dr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Nathan Mr. O. L. Shaffner Drs. Stacey C. and Gary A. Wolanek Dr. and Mrs. William B. Dial Dr. and Mrs.Jule C. Neal Jr. Mrs. Mitzi Shane Mrs. Elaine D.Wong J. Dr. and Mrs. William K. Dolen Dr. and Mrs. John W. Nelson Dr. and Mrs. William C. Shirley Sr. Mr. Gerald W.Woods and Drs. Thomas L. and Kelley B. Dopson Dr. Harvey M. Newman III Dr. William C. Shirley Jr. Dr. Deborah Bates J. Dr. and Mrs. John R. Duttenhaver Dr. FenwickT. Nichols III and Drs. Mark M. and Mrs. Louise M.Wright Dr. DuBose Egleston Jr. Dr. Martha E. Nichols Joyce N. Shoemaker Mr.Weldon Wyatt Dr. and Mrs. Gregory T. Ellison Dr. Fenwick T. Nichols Jr. and Dr. Jerome H. and Beverly Siegel Dr. Thomas J. Yeh Dr. and Mrs. Mark F. Ellison Dr. Caroline Williams Mrs. Joseph Siegel Dr. Neal F. Yeomans* Dr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Dr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Noller Dr. Burton F. Simmons Mrs. Neal F. Yeomans Ellison Jr. Dr. John B. O'Neal III and Dr. Sam A. Singal Dr. and Mrs. George G. Young * Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Erdin Jr. Dr. Phyllis J. O'Neal Dr. Lana S. Skelton Dr. and Mrs. Timothy R.Young Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Fishback Drs. James L. and Dr. Marvin E. Skelton* *Deceased Dr. Margaret H. Fitch Mary Hamby O'Quinn Dr. and Mrs. James H. Smith Ms. Fredericka M. Flynt Dr. and Mrs. James L. Orrington Dr. James W. Stapleton Partner's Level Dr. Lawrence J. Freant Drs. Dennis R. and Dr. and Mrs. Curt M. Steinhart Ms. Octavia Garlington Helen E. Ownby Dr. and Mrs. Frank H. Stelling The following members of the Dr. and Mrs. Barry D. Goldstein Mrs. Nora Pascarella Dr. and Mrs. W. Dean Steward President's Club have attained Dr. and Mrs. Hugh T. Greenway Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Lamar B. Peacock Dr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Stringer Partner's Level membership Dr. and Mrs. Shelley A. Griffin Mrs. Louise Morris Peacock Dr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Sturmer Jr. through their gifts of $1,000 or Dr. and Mrs. Frank D. Guillebeau Mrs. Jane R. Pidcock Dr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Sullivan more during fiscal 1998-99. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Gwinn Dr.Winford H. Pool Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James T. Sutton Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Haas Dr. and Mrs. Stuart H. Prather Jr. Dr. and Mrs.Theo G.Thevaos Mr. Richard A. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. M. Riad Hajmurad Mrs. Florence Pratt Dr. and Mrs. Larry L.Tilley Dr. and Mrs. Jimmy W.Arnold Dr. and Mrs. William Charles Hall Dr. and Mrs. William H. Rhodes Jr. Dr. Joseph W. Tollison Dr. and Mrs. Michael Ash J. Dr. Edward H. Hamilton Jr. Mrs. Minnie M. Rinker Dr. and Mrs. Evan M. Torch Dr. and Mrs. Alan R.Atwood Dr. and Mrs. Wade B. Hammer Dr. and Mrs. John H. Robinson III Dr. and Mrs.T. Barrett Trotter Dr. and Mrs. P. Bates Bailey Dr. and Mrs. Charles I. Hancock Dr. and Mrs. Harvey B. Roddenberry Dr. and Mrs. Render Turner J. Robert Baisden Dr. and Mrs. C. Dr. and Mrs. John A. Hardin Dr. and Mrs. Jim L. Rogers Mrs.Jeanette M.Vallotton

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 37 Dr. and Mrs. John T. Harper Sr. Dr. and Mrs. James B. Osborne American Health Consultants James Brice White Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Mark H. Hassel Dr. and Mrs. David A. Owings American Dairy Queen Corp. Janssen Pharmaceutica

Mr. and Mrs. Milford B. Hatcher Jr. Dr. Jong D.Park American Express Foundation Kicks-99 Dr. and Mrs. Carlton W. Hearn Dr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Parrott Amgen Inc. Knoll Pharmaceutical/BASF Corp. Dr. and Mrs. David G. Helton Dr. and Mrs. Rafael Pablo Pascual Arthur Vining Davis Foundation KOA Care Camps Mrs. Chester E. Hendrich Dr. and Mrs. Peter M. Payne Astra Pharmaceuticals Kroger Dr. and Mrs. Judson C. Hickey Drs. Lamar and Amanda Peacock Augusta Chapter Credit Union LaPetite Academy Dr. Dr. Melody J. Higginbotham and Mrs. David W. Perry Augusta Newsprint Co. Macuch Steel Products Inc. Dr. and Mrs. William H. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Perry B. Braun Medical Inc. Martinez Merchants

Dr. Christopher C. Homeyer Dr.Jeffry J. Peters Barham-Calhoun Memorial Mason (Carlos & Marguerite) Trust Dr. and Mrs.Vendie H. Hooks III Dr. and Mrs. Joel C. Pittard Foundation Medical College of Georgia Dr. Dr. and Mrs. William R. Howard and Mrs. J. Terrell Pope Bayer Corporation Public Safety/Parking Office Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Hyatt Dr. and Mrs. James C. Pope BellSouth Medimmune Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. William G. Irwin Dr. and Mrs. Donald I. Posner Berlex Laboratories Medtronic Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L.Jackson Dr. L. Michael Prisant Bi-Lo Meeting Expectations

Dr. and Mrs. Todd S. Jarrell Dr. and Mrs. Dan Procter Sr. Biogen Inc. Merck & Company Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. Mikell B. Karsten Dr. and Mrs. William H. Pullen Jr. Bob Richards Chevrolet Inc. Merck Dr. Virginia H. Kemp Drs. James B. and Joan C. Puryear Boehringer Ingelheim Merz Pharmaceuticals

Dr. and Mrs. David E. Kent Drs. Nicholas J. and Alice M. Quinif Pharmaceuticals Monsanto Dr. and Mrs. Don W. King Dr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Rakich Books Are Fun, LTD. Mulherin Enterprise Inc./ Dr. Margaret L. Kirby Dr. Raghunatha N. Rao Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Dairy Queen

L. Drs. Darrell G. and Dr. and Mrs. John Reynolds Carl J. Herzog Foundation Inc. Musculoskeletal Transplant Deborah M. Kirch Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Rickman Centeon Management LLC Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Konzelman Jr. Dr. Geraldine Rinker Centocor Inc. Nell Warren & Win. Simpson Elkin

Drs. Walter F. and Sharon C. Kuhn Dr. Linda B. Ritter Childhood Leukemia Foundation " Foundation Drs. Abdullah and Ferdane Kutlar Dr. and Mrs. Michael H. Rivner CIBA Vision Corporation Nephrology Associates

Dr. and Mrs. Michael N. Laslie Dr. Fred D. Rose Clinical Communications Group Inc. Nobel Biocare Dr. and Mrs. Jack Lawler Ms. Bonnie Ruben and Coca Cola USA Novartis Nutrition Corporation

Dr. and Mrs. Gregory P. Lee Mr. Jeff Gorelick Cogh Inc. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.

Dr. and Mrs. John L. Lee Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Hoke C. Segars Colgate-Palmolive Co. Nutrasweet Co.

Mr. Keely O. Lively Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Steve M. Shirley CoMed Communications Olin Corporation Charitable Trust Drs. D. Brad and Laura Smith Lord Dr. and Mrs. G. Michael Shoffner CSRA Federal Credit Union Olympus America Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Dan A. Lott Dr. Lee H. Silverstein CSRA Medical Managers Association Organon/Akzo Nobel

Dr. Rita J. Louard Dr. and Mrs. Allen L. Sisk Cullum Foundation Ortho-Biotech Inc. Dr. Lovett Cathy Corinne Dr. and Mrs. J. Graham Smith Jr. CVS Pharmacies Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Dr. Alfred E. Lupien Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Sodomka Cytrx Corporation Osmond Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. John Gray Madry Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William B. Strong Division of Satilla Health Services Inc. Parke-Davis Dr. Annamma T. Mammen Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Swearingen Dorothy Mustin Buttolph Foundation PCI

Dr. and Mrs. Roger P. Martin Dr. Earle M.Taylor Drew Exposition Pfizer Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. Wayne S. Mathews Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James T. Tippett Elan Pharmaceuticals Pharmacia & Upjohn Co.

Dr. and Mrs. Alva L. Mayes Jr. Dr.Tamela B.Tripp Eli Lilly & Co. Pharmedica Communications Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. John S. McClelland Mr. and Mrs. William A. Trotter III Enterprise Rent-A-Car Phase Five Communications Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Dennis E. McDonnell Drs. Michael C. and Lynn M.Tucker Frigidaire Home Products Pieceful Hearts Quilters

Dr. and Mrs.Virgle W. McEver III Dr. and Mrs. Roy W. Vandiver G.D. Searle Plainsboro Marketing Group

Dr. and Mrs. William P. McKay Dr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Wages Jr. Genentech Inc. Powertel Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Dwight McLaurin Dr. and Mrs. Donald B. Waters Genetics Institute Publix Super Markets Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Larry B. Mellick Dr. and Mrs. John D.Welch Georgia Academy Of General RCI Cantina, LLC Dr. Mrs. Financial and Kenneth J. Mello Dr. and Mrs. Benton M.Wheeler Dentistry Regions Corp.

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Mills Dr. and Mrs. Cecil F. Whitaker Jr. Georgia Association of Pathologists Respironics Dr. and Mrs. David B. Minter Dr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Zeigler Georgia Dental Education Rhone-Poulenc Rorer

Dr. and Mrs. Michael C. Mobley Foundation Inc. Pharmaceutcial Inc. Dr. and Mrs. William C. Mobley Businesses and Foundations Georgia Forestry Association Rich's Mr. and Mrs. Lewis K. Molnar Georgia Power Foundation Inc. Roche Laboratories/ LaRoche

Dr. and Mrs. Larry A. Morris The following businesses and foun- Glaxo Wellcome Inc. Ross Laboratories Dr. and Mrs. David E. Mullins dations have contributed $1,000 or Gracewood Federal Credit Union S & S Vending Inc.

Drs. Anthony L. and Laura L. Mulloy more during fiscal 1998-99. Greene-Sawtell Foundation Samsons Manufacturing Co. Inc.

Dr. and Mrs. David R. Myers Health 1st Foundation Inc. Sander and Ray Epstein Charitable Abbott Laboratories Dr. and Mrs. William L. Nabors Health Care Services Inc./ Foundation ABCOMM Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Nesbit Jr. First Choice Medic Schering Laboratories Accent On Hair Mr. and Mrs.W. Frank Newsome Health Science Communications Inc. Searle/Monsanto AD-Tech Medical Instrument Corp. Dr. and Mrs. William H. Nichols Jr. Herrington & Associates Sercurity's Lending Hand AFLAC Inc. Dr. and Mrs. David P. Nicholson Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc. Foundation Alcon Laboratories Inc. Mr. J. Dexter Nilsson Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. Shriners Hospitals For Crippled Allergan Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Ogburn Jr. Icos Corp. Children

38 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY Silver Bluff High School Corporate Partnership Elliott, Davis & Company, LLP Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. Slack Inc. Program Members Enterprise Mill, LLC Pollock Office Machine Co. Smith & Nephew Richards Inc. First Bank Of Georgia Pratt-Dudley Builders Supply Co. A. D.S.I. Moving Systems SmithKline Beecham Corp. First Union National Bank Pruett, Ford & Associates Inc. Acura of Augusta South Carolina Forestry Association Four Seasons Securities Inc. R.W.Allen & Associates Inc. Southeast Forest Products AFLAC Georgia Bank & Trust Co. Radisson Riverfront Hotel Augusta Alison and Associates Southeastern Tool Georgia Power Co. Regent Security Services Inc. Alltel Mobile Communications Inc. Southern Orthopaedic Association Gold Mech Inc. Rhoden CPA Firm AmeriMove of Georgia, LLC Southern Beverage Packers Inc. Greenfield Industries Richmond County Development Amoco Polymers St.Jude Medical Inc. Gwen Fulcher Young & Associates Authority Augusta Metro Chamber Of Sunrise Health Management Herbert Homes Inc. Sconyers Inc. Commerce SunTrust Bank of Augusta Holiday Inn Express Searle, a Monsanto Co. Augusta Coca-Cola Bottling Co. T-Bonz Huggins & Allen. PC. Serotta, Maddocks, Evans & Co. The Augusta Chronicle Tampa Orlando Pinellas Hull.Towill, Norman, Barrett & Smoaks Bakery & Catering Augusta Sportswear Inc. Jewish Foundation Salley Southeastern Technology Center Inc. Avondale Mills Inc. Tap Pharmaceuticals Inc. Ikon Office Solutions/Ricon South Trust Bank Bagwell Insurance Services The Creel Foundation Imagyn Inc. SunCom Bank of America The Knights Templar Educational John Deere Commercial Products SunTrust Bank of Augusta BellSouth Foundation of Georgia Inc. Inc. The Carpet Shop Inc. Blanchard & Calhoun Co. The New York Community Trust John P. King Mill, Wachovia Bank of Georgia Bourne Toyota The Robert W.Woodruff Division of Spartan Mills WAGT—TV 26 Carraway-Cohen-Channell Ins. Foundation Inc. Jones Intercable Inc. Warlick,Tritt,& Stebbms Agency Tree Of Hope Foundation Kamo Inc. WBBQ Radio Construction Corporation Turner Keyboards CCI Kendall Co. Westinghouse Savannah River Co. Cellular One US Bioscience Kirby, Fahrion & Assoc. Inc. WFXG—TV Fox 54 Charter Hospital ofAugusta W.R. Grace & Co. Knology Of Augusta Windsor Jewelers Warner-Lambert Cherry, Bekaert & Holland Lockwood Greene WRDW FM Radio Comfort Inn-Medical District Company/Parke- Davis MAU WRDWTV Channel 12 Computer Masters Of Augusta Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Meybohm & Assoc. DSM USA Inc. Modern Business Equipment Inc. E-Z Go Textron Osbon & Associates Elliott Sons Funeral Home Partridge Inn

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 39 Loyalty Club Dr. James M. Frix Ms.Jana Mitchell Dr. R. Darryl Tom Dr. Andrea M. Garmon Dr. Edward H. Mohme II Ms. Sue Harris Towhey

Tlie following members the III Dr. of Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. Gilner Dr. Ross G. Moorman Edward J. Truemper Loyalty Club contributed $500 to Mr. Ronald Bo Ginn Dr. Victor A. Morales Dr. T. Dale Twilley

$999 during fiscal 1998-99. Mr. Russ Gladden Julie and David Moretz Dr. Michael O.Vernon

Dr. Cary E. Goldstein Mr. Johnny F. Morris Dr. Jules Victor Jr. Dr. William N.Agostas Dr. Jacob A. Goodrich Dr. Thomas F. Moynahan Dr. David A.Wagner Mrs. Sharon S. Ammann Dr. Robert M. Gray Jr. Dr. Marlon E. Murrell Dr. Carol A.Walker Dr. Bruce E. Ashendorf Dr. Joseph W. Griffin Jr. Dr. R. Daniel Nable Mr.Rhett C.Walker Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ash Dr. Garland K. Gudger Dr. Logan Nalley Jr. Dr. H.Paul Walls Dr. Tonya W. Baker Dr. Joe F. Hair Jr. Dr. Luceil B. North Dr.Jubal R. Watts Dr. E. Baldwin Jon Dr. Hall David R. Dr. Timothy J. O'Shea Dr. Robert L.WaughJr. Dr. Edwin C. Bartlett Dr. Robert M. Harper Ms. Elizabeth J. Ostric Dr. Alison R. Widmann Dr. Barry E. Bennett Dr. Carl R. Hartrampf Jr. Mrs. Bonnie H. Owen Dr. Robert M.Willard Dr. J. Chandler Berg Dr. Aubrey F. Hedrick Jr. Dr. William M. Oxford Mrs. Patricia Williford and Dr. Styles L. Bertrand Dr. John M. Heng Dr. Jimmy R. Patten Mr. Roy Wade Dr. Umesh T. Bhagia Mr. Robert R. Heos, Sr. Dr. Samuel H. Payne Jr. Dr. Cameron M. Wimpy Dr. Wiley S. Black Dr. Wayne W. Herman Dr. Anthony L. Dr. Bruce A. Work Dr. H. Sherman Blalock Dr. Stephen A. Hill Pearson-Shaver Ms. Kathleen R.Wren Dr. Gary F. Bloemer Dr. Stephan F. Holcomb, Sr. Dr. Jonathan B. Pellett Dr. John T.Wright Dr. Olof L. Blomberg Dr. Lindsay D. Holliday Dr. Michael K. Phelan Dr. James J. Wynn Dr. Gerald W. Bohanan Dr. Philip L. Hooton Dr. Douglas R. Phillips Dr. Marion G. Bolin Dr. Thomas R. Howdieshell Dr. Susan N. Pick Dr. Pete N. Bougas Aesculapius Club Jr. Dr. William H. Hudson Dr. Robert T. Pierce Dr. E.Jayni Bradley Dr. Kenneth K. Hutchinson Dr. GailV. Plauka The following members of the Atly and Karen Brasher Dr. Iwinski Dr. L. Pool Henry J. Gary Aesculapius Club have contributed Dr. Jean B. Braun Mr. Caurston Jack Dr. Stanley M. Prince $250 to $499 during fiscal 1998- Dr. Kathy M. Bnttingham Dr. James W. Jackson Dr. Fred N. Pylant Jr. 99. Mrs. Reva S. Broadwater Dr. Martin F.James Dr. Mark J. Quarterman Dr. Thomas M. Browne Dr. Anand P.Jillella Dr. Joel H. Rainer Dr. Neel B. Ackerman Jr. Dr. John Brunette J. Dr. Alonzo E.Jones Dr. Howard Rasmussen Mr. Bryan L. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Joel Bryan Dr. John P. Kendrick Dr. Jeffrey L. Rausch Dr. Robert J. Adams Dr. Russell E. Burgess Dr. Charles C. King, Sr. Dr. Alicia M. Rix Dr. Robert J. Adkins Dr. Roberto A. Calle Mr. and Mrs. Tom E. Kirby Dr. Raleigh M. Robinson Dr. Sohail H. AH Dr. Jack W. Carter Dr. Gilbert S. Klemann Dr. Michael B. Rogers Ms. Ann S. Anderson Dr. Joe S. Chafin Mr. Harold L.Anderson Dr. J. Malcolm Kling Dr. Carl M. Russell Jr. Dr. Dan K. Chalker Dr. Jonathan S. Krauss Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Sampson Dr. Thomas R.Andrus Dr. William L.Clark Jr. Ms. Veronica Jones La Strape Dr. Timothy T. Schmidt Mr. Hub L. Ash Dr. John P. Cole Dr. Carolyn S. Ashworth Dr. Charles C. Lamb Dr. Jayesdrakuma J. Shah Dr. Gordon Blake Collins Dr. John R. Lane Jr. Dr. W. Chris Shells Dr. Cobb R. Barksdale III Dr. James R. Collins Dr. Paul Alan Lavietes Dr. George L. Shoptaw Dr. Grady G. Barnwell Jr. Dr. John T. Collins, Sr. Mr. John W. Lee Dr. Harmder Sidhu Ms. Deborah L. Barshafsky Mrs. Joyce Cook Dr. Fredrick H. Leibach Coroner and Mrs. LeRoy E. Sims Dr. Philip R. Bartholomew Dr.Jeril R. Cooper III Bass Dr. Jack L. Lesher Jr. Dr. Baldev Singh Dr. J. David Dr. R. Scott Corpe Dr. Harvey BeaDJr. Dr. Monroe I. Levine Dr. J. Leon Smith J. Dr. Margaret E. Coryell Dr. Fred A. Levin Dr. Mark D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Beheler Dr. Jorge I. Cue Dr. Richard S. Limbird Jr. Dr. William Valdon Smith Dr. Cindy G. Besson Dr. Robert S. Culvern Dr. A.John Linatoc Mr. John Snell Dr.Jatinder S. Bhatia Mrs. Lacy D. De Camp Dr. H.Jeffrey Lindsey Dr. Diane S. Solursh Mr. Richard R. Bias Dr. Catherine R. deVnes Dr. George B. Mac Master Dr. Jerry D. Spillers Jr. Dr. James C. Blackwell Dr. Robert S. Donner Dr. Michael S. Macfee Dr. Maximilhan E. Stachura Mr. and Mrs. Clayton P. Boardman Jr. Dr. Joseph R. Dromsky Dr. Dale C. Madson Mr. Clayton D. Steadman Dr. Richard A. Bodziner Dr. Roy G. Duncan Dr. Ormonde M. Mahoney Dr. David E. Steflik Dr. Charles E. Bohler Dr. Celia P. Dunn Dr. Roy A. Majors Dr. Leslie C. Stevens Mr. Patrick L. Booton Ms. Barbara H. Edwards Dr. Mac Andrew Bowman Mr. David J. Mascara Dr. Thomas M. Stewart Dr. Charles Eldridge J. Dr. Gilbert Maulsby Dr. Walter E. Stewart Dr. Edwin D. Bransome Jr. Dr. David N. Faircloth Dr. Anne Mazzawi Dr. Karyn L. Stockwell Dr. Frank L.R. Briggs Dr. John H. Fason Dr. Hugh Mazzawi Dr.A.W. Strickland Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Brigham Dr. Thomas C. Field Dr. James M. Mazzawi Dr. Thomas B. Strozier Dr. Carol E. Brock Dr. Ann Marie Flannery Dr. John M. Mazzawi Dr. John C. Stubblefield Dr. Thomas W.Brooks III Dr. Waldo E. Floyd Jr. Dr. Virginia A. Merchant Dr. James I. Suit Dr. J. Dale Browne Dr. Paul D. Forney Dr. Christopher D. Miller Mrs. Kelly Clark Swicegood Dr. Elbert H. Brown Dr. John E. Fowler Dr. William B. Miller Dr. Stephen J.Thompson Dr. James D. Brown Dr. A. Allen French Dr. Craig M. Misch Dr. Martha S.Tingen Mrs. Jessie O. Brown

40 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY Dr. Dr. Lorie G. Brown R.Jonathan Dean Dr. David J. Gaskin Dr. Robert E.Johnson

Dr. Michael F. Brown Dr. Joel S. Dekle Dr. Eleanor R. Glaspy-Benton Dr. Otis W.Jones Jr. Dr. A. DeLaPerriere Dr. B. Pat Dr. Paul J. Bracket Armand Lee Godfrey Mrs. Jones Ms. Sheila M. Bunting Dr. James E. Dennard Dr. Robert D. Golden Dr. Robert T.Jones Dr. Chantrapa Bunyapen Mr. Franklin H. Dennison Dr. Beth G. Goldstein Dr.W. Marion Jordan

Dr. James E. Bush Dr. and Mrs. Joseph T. DiPiro Dr. Charles E. Goodman Jr. Dr. Allan M.Josephson

Dr. Hubert R. Buxton III Dr. Joshua B. Donner Dr. Robert B. Gottschalk Jr. Dr. E. Clyde Kelly III

Dr. R.William Caldwell Dr. Donald Dunagan Dr. Frederick W. Gourdin Mr. Thomas Kelly Jr. Dr. William T.Callahan Dr. George C. Duncan Dr. James D. Grant Dr. Laraine L. Kendall

Mr. George W. Card Dr. Thomas E. Emerson Dr. Charles W. Griffin Mr. Peter J. Kendall Dr. Richard A. Carithers Dr. John G. Etheridge Dr. William C. Griffin Dr. M. Iqbal Khan

Dr. Barbara C. Carlton Mrs. Sharon P. Faircloth Dr. R. Kevin Grigsby Dr. Barbara S. Kiernan Dr. Dr. James W. Carter Dr. Pamela J. Fall Brenda J. Grossman Dr. Thomas W. Kiernan

Dr. Joseph M. Catanzaro Dr. Douglas P. Farman Mr. David G. Haase Dr. Fred J. Right

Dr. William F. Catrett Dr. Michael W. Felz Mr. Robert G. Hall Dr. Charles R. King Dr.W Franklin Caughman Mr. and Mrs. Harold O. Fentross Ms. Cynthia G. Harrell Dr. Steven E. Kitchen Dr. Dr. Daniel H. Clarke Dr. James R. Fick Dr. Thomas J. Hartney William C. Kitchens Jr.

Dr. Henry T. Clay Jr. Dr. Ruth-Marie E. Fincher Dr.Judson L. Hawk Jr. Dr. Olen E. Kitchings III Dr. James R. Clements Dr. Paul G. Firth Dr. Julia E. Hendrich Dr. Philip E. Koch

Dr. Mack H. Clements Dr. Lyle E. Fisher Jr. Mr. Rick Hickman 11 Dr. Anita S. Kulharya

F. Lacharite Dr. Thomas A. Cochran Jr. Dr. James Flanders Jr. Dr. Loy G. Hicks Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Dr. Randall A. Coggins Dr. David B. Flannery Dr. Daniel A. Hodges Dr. John D. Lane

Mr. Tom A. Chrisman Mr. and Mrs. James C. Folk Dr. Edwin P. Homansky Dr. Stuart P. Lane Dr. John T. Crenshaw Mr. Jeffrey Foreman Dr.Valera L. Hudson Ms.Yvette Lane

Mr. George R. Dean Dr. William S. Foshee Dr. Thomas A. Huff Dr. Mark R. Lee

Dr. Verne E. Cutler Ms. Tammy Freeman Dr. Robert P. S. Introna Mr. James W. Leibach Dr. Paul M. Dainer Dr.Varnell Gaines Dr. Billie L.Jackson Dr. Joseph B. LeRoy Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Daitch Dr. Donald G. Gallup Dr. Caesar E.Jackson Dr. Barry A. Levin Dr. Elizabeth H. David Dr.Vadivel Ganapathy Dr. Lewis W. Jackson Dr. Robyn J. Levy Dr. Daniel N. Davidow The Gardinis Mrs. Nancy M.Jackson Dr. Marvin Lewis

Dr. Richard O. Davis Dr. F. Michael Gardner Dr. Ben W. Jernigan Jr. Dr. Mark J. Liang Dr.W. Bruce Davis Dr. Norman P. Gardner Ms. Gloria W.Johnson Dr. Alton L. Lightseyjr.

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 / FALL 1999 / ANNUAL REPORT 41 Dr. Eugene R. Long Dr. Charles A. Ross Dr. Debra M. Williams Mr. Thomas C. Balliet

Dr. Robert N. Lowe Dr. Saul S. Rubin Dr. Timothy R. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Waylon A. Barefoot Dr. Malcolm N. Luxenberg Dr. Frederick A. Rueggeberg Dr. Claude W. Wilson Dr. James E. Barfield

Dr. Steven N. Luxenberg Dr. Floyd R. Sanders Jr. Dr. Frank C. Wilson Dr.WilhamE.Barfield III Marshall Mrs. Marceline Saunders Dr. Robert Dr. Bari Dr. J. Gordon J. Winham Shahnaz

Mr. Tim Martin Mr. Mark A. Sayers Ms. Gail P. Wmkley Dr. H.Wade Barnes Jr.

III Dr. Miles H. Mason Dr. Margaret D. Schaufler Dr. Barry M.Wolk Dr. John J. Barnes

Mr. Paul E. May Jr. Dr. Carl C. Schuessler, Sr. Dr. Stacie L.Wong Dr. Joseph H. Barnes

S. Dr. Dr. Barrett Dr. Thomas J. Mazzuckelli Dr. George Schuster David A.Woodard J. Michael

Ms. Jackie McClure Dr. Teddy A. Scoggins Dr. Kim B.Yancey Dr. John T. Barrett Jr. Dr. Dr. Patricia H. McConnell Dr. James W. Scott John A. Yarbrough Dr. Dara J. Barron

Dr. Harrison R. McDonald Dr. Kapil D Sethi Dr. Karen A.Yeh Dr. Angela J. Barrow

Dr. Olhe O. McGahee Jr. Mrs. Denndia B. Shapiro Dr. Reda W. Bassali Dr. Kathryn S. McLeod Dr. David L. Shaw Century Club Mrs. Kimberly D. Basso Dr. William F. Meadows III Dr. E. Carl Shaw II Dr. Michael R. Bastien Dr. Sherry Dr. George E. Batayias Dr. Cheney M. Meiere Jr. Gregory J. Gifts of $100 to $249 during fiscal Dr. Battles Mr. and Mrs. A. Montague Miller Dr. Stewart A. Shevitz 1998-99 entitle donors to member- W. Jeffrey Dr. Cecil L. Miller Dr. Stephen W. Shiver, Sr. Dr. James E. Baugh ship in the Century Club. Dr. Michael H.Miller Dr. Hollis D. Sigman Mr. Charles S. Baxter Dr. Ata A. Abdel-Latif Dr. Thomas H. Milner III Dr. Thomas E. Sikes Jr. Dr. Suzanne D. Baxter

Mrs. Debbie R. Mobley Dr. Hilton E. Smith Dr. Howard T. Abney Jr. Dr. Sharon P. Beall Dr. Dr. Lewis E. Abram Dr. April Beasley Ms. Elizabeth J. Monti Joseph R. Smith M. Dr. Carl A. Moore Dr. Richard C. Smith Dr. Robert H. Ackerman Dr. Raymond A. Bedgood Dr. Gerald G. Adams Dr. Bertha Morales Dr. Samuel R. Smith Dr. Bruce J. Beeber Dr. S. Dale Adkisson Dr. Robert B. Moss Jr. Ms.Treena H. Smith Df. C.Walker Beeson II Ms. Sally Aenchbacher Dr. Eugene D. Bell Dr. William J. Negha Dr.W.T. Smith Jr. Ms. Lisa D. Newman Dr. Kelly K. Solms Dr. Oscar Aguero Jr. Dr. Eugene D. Bell Sr. Dr. James L. Newsome Mr. Bill Perry Dr. T. Andrew Albntton Dr.JackA.BellJr. Ms. Betty Aldridge Dr. John S. Newton Dr. Claudia B. Spaulding Dr. Jack E.Bell Dr. William A. Nish Mr. Frank T. Speer Dr. James H.Alexander Dr. Lee A. Bell, Sr. Dr. George A. Nixon Dr. Melvin Spira Dr. Calvin F.Allen Jr. Dr. Michael D. Bell Dr. D. Allen Dr. Donald E. O'Rourke Sr. Dr. Oscar S. Spivey Jr. James Dr. John T. Benjamin Dr. E.Allen Dr. Robert E. Oliver Dr. John C. Steele Jr. John Jr. Dr. Gertrude K. Bennett

Dr. Harvey G. Ouzts Dr. L. Todd Stewart Dr. Thomas M.Allen Mr. and Mrs. James W. Bennett Jr.

Dr. R. Glen Owen Sr. Dr. Joseph T. Stubbs III Dr. Virginia R.Allen Dr. David C. Benson Dr. Margaret L. Parrish Mr. and Mrs. Carl Swanson Dr. Andrew R.AUgood Dr. Leonard H. Berger Mr. Cecil M.Anderson Dr. Robert A. Parrish Jr. Dr. A. Laurie Tanner Dr. Elizabeth A. Bernhard Dr. David H. Pashley Dr. David E. Tanner Mr. John Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Berry

Dr. Edna L. Pashley Dr. David C. Tanner Dr. Robert H. Anderson Jr. Dr. William M. Bethea Jr. Dr. Stanley Anderson Dr.Vinod K. Bhalla Dr. J. Warren Patrick Dr. Maurice B. Tanner J. Dr. Benjamin C.Andrews Dr. Harlan S. Patterson Dr. F. Maynard Thames Jr. Jr. Mr. Philip Biancalana

Dr. Hector M. Pedraza Dr. Cephas V.Thomason III Dr. Robert Anthony Mr. Donald E. Biggerstaff Dr. Elizabeth A. Appel Dr. Robert A. Pendergrast Jr. Mrs. G. Alice H.Till Dr. David B. Birnbaum Dr. William VArgo Jr. Dr.Jeffery R. Black Dr. Neville G. Pereyo Dr. Arnold J. Tillinger Dr. Ariail Dr. Guerrant H. Perrow Dr. Jon H.Trueblood Jerry N. Dr. John B. Black Jr. Dr. William G. Phillips Mr. JeffTurner Dr. Murray C. Arkm Mrs. Beverly A. Blakely Dr. Steven R. Plunkett Dr. Joseph M.Turner Dr. Hal N.Arnold Mr. Clarence A. Blalock,III

Mr. Edwin Pollock Ms. Cindy A. Tuttle Dr. Joseph A. Arnold Dr. Clyde P. Blalock

Dr. Edward S. Porubsky Dr. Dzintris Vallis Dr. Deborah A. Ashcraft Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Blalock Dr. Randan L. Ashmore Dr. Paul L. Blanchard Dr. Brad J. Potter Dr. Johnathan P. Vansant Dr. Danny E. Askew Blanchard Mr. J. Kevin Powell Dr. John R. Vender Mr. Thomas M. Jr.

Dr. Lane M. Price Dr. Irving Victor Dr. Fletcher C. Askew Jr. Dr. William W.Bledsoe Jr.

Dr. Jerry N. Pruitt II Dr. Rhonda GVought Dr. W. Kenneth Austin Jr. Ms. Marianne B. Blissit Dr. M. Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau Dr.WilhsJ.WalkerJr. Dr. David B. Avery Dr. Wade B. Blount Dr. Michael T. Rainwater Dr. John D.Walton Dr. Merrill P. Bacon Mrs. Betty E. Boeder Ms. Jacqueline Rapp Dr. DebraJ.Ware Dr. Henry W. Bailey Dr. Donald S. Bohannon Dr. Joseph W. Baker Dr. Bryan L. Redd Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Wells Jr. Dr. Rom J Bollag Dr. Catherine G. Reedy Dr. Donald R.Whaley Dr. Melvin O. Baker Dr. Wendy B. Bollag Mrs. Lynn K. Reyes Dr. William H.Whaley Dr. R. Randall Baker Dr. Gary C. Bond Dr. Don L. Richerson Dr. Christopher B. White Dr. Hak-Sun Bak Dr. Juan M. Bonetti Dr. and Mrs.Toivo E. Rist Dr. Ronald N.Whitmire Dr. Christopher T. Bakke Dr. William H. Bonner Dr. Paul G. Robertie Dr. Michael H. Whittle Dr. H. Brian Balfour Dr. David L. Booker Dr. Antonio Ballagas Dr. Howard G. Rogers Mrs. Jen GWhitworth J. Dr. James B. Boorstin

Dr. Danielle S. Rose Dr. James A. Wilde Dr. David C. Ballard III Dr. Carol C. Borden

42 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY Dr. James L Borke Dr. George R. Carson Mrs. Judy B. Boshears Dr. Jeffrey C. Carstens Augusta Preparatory Mrs. Rose W. Bouhvare Dr. Brian S. Carter

Dr. James H. Bowden Jr. Dr. Paul T. Cato Dr.A'delbert Bowen 111 Dr. Gretchen B. Caughman Day School Mrs. Frances Boyd Mr. Richard F. Chadek Dr. Stephen Boyle Dr. Gerald T. Chambers A Community ofLearners Dr. James D. Bozeman Mrs. Mary M. Chambers

Dr. Harold F.Bradley Dr. Francis W. Chandler Jr.

Dr. Kathy P. Bradley Mr. Mike Chandler

Dr. P. Chandler Dr. Martha J. Bradshaw Jan Dr. Gordon L. Brady Dr. Clifford E. Chapman

Dr. Alfred L. Brannen II Dr. Benjamin H. Cheek

Dr. Cecil B. Bray III Dr. Clarence F. Cheek Jr.

Dr. James H. Braziel III Mr. Eugene Chesser Jr. Dr. James R. Brennan Mrs. Katherme Q. Chester

Dr. Edward W. Brewster Jr. Dr. Bobby R. Childree Dr. David M. Bridges Mr. Steven H. Childs

Dr. William L. Bridges Jr. Dr. Richard B. Christensen • Dr. Dana A. Brockington Dr. Jeffrey I. Clark Safe, nurturing environment with beautiful, new facilities Mr. Marvin Broglin Dr. Joseph H. Clark • 100% College Attendance • received Dr. Betty S. Brooks Dr. Remer Y.Clark 33% of the Class of 1999 Dr. G. Lee Brookshire Dr. Sarah L. Clark National Merit recognition • of eight schools in Georgia selected as a Dr. Alan W. Brown Ms. Vickie H. Clark One Cum Laude School Dr. Benjamin S. Brown Ms. Pam Claxton • Outstanding faculty • Wide-range of athletic opportunities Dr. Carol H. Brown Dr. George Cleland

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Brown Dr. Stephen D. Clements Jr. 3 1/2 years - Grade 12

Dr. Dale F. Brown Dr. Douglas B. Cochran

Dr. Dempsey S. Brown Jr. Dr. Jay S. Coffsky Susan Byus, Director of Admissions Dr. Rodney M. Browne Dr. Bruce E. Cohen 863-1906 www.apds.com Mrs. Faith K. Brown Dr. Howard J. Cohen APDS practices a non-discriminatory admissions policy. Dr. James H. Brown Dr. Morris J. Cohen Mrs.Jeanette S. Brown Dr. Newton Jasper Coker Mrs. Louise Brown Dr. Martha A. Coleman Dr. James W Curtis Jr. Dr. Robert L. Dennison Jr. Dr. Richard A. Brown Dr. Jeffrey M.Collier Dr. Jeffrey L. Curtis Mr. Wayne Densmore

Dr. Samuel Y. Brown Jr. Dr. Cleve B. Collins Dr. Nancy H. Curtis Mrs. Rosella J. Deriso Dr. Vickie M. Brown A.Jack and Nan Connell Dr. Bonnie A. Dadig Dr. Howard C. Derrick Jr. Dr. Keith R. Bruno Mr. and Mrs. D. Hugh Connolly Ms. Connie Damon Dr. Margaret B. DeVore

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Mr. Carl Drennon Dr. Arthur C. Fleischer Dr. Edward J. Green Dr. Noel C. Haskms

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Drenten Dr. Lamar L. Fleming Dr. J. Terry Greene Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hass Mr. John M. Drew Mrs. Diane N. Fletcher Dr. James W. Greene Dr. John C. Hastings III Dr. Wiley L. Drury Dr. Carl E. Flinn Dr. Joe E. Greene Dr. Debra D. Hatmaker

Dr. Lawrence J. Duane Jr. Dr. Thomas E. Flowers Dr. Steven T. Greenhaw Dr. Paul R. Hauser

Dr. Augustus Baldwin Dudley Jr. Ms. Anita Flynt Dr. James F. Green Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin E. Hawes

Dr. Calvin Dudley Mr. John E. Foerster Mr. Johnny S. Green Jr. Dr. Preston P. Hawkins Mr. David A. Duff Ms. Barbara B. Fogg Dr. Margaret O. Green Ms. June D. Hayes

Dr. Asa D. Duggan, Sr. Dr. Morgan T. Fordham Dr. Michael F. Green Mr. William G. Hayes IV

Mr. David A. Dumpe Dr. Peter W. Forgach Dr. Herbert S. Greenwald Jr. Dr. Van B. Haywood

Mr. Richard Dunaway Dr. Weston M. Fortson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Greynolds Dr. William M. Headley Dr. James L. Duncan, Sr. Mr. Kym R. Foss Dr. Jack T. Gnffeth Mrs. Carol E. Healey

Dr. C.Warren Dunn Mr. Craig E. Foster Dr. Louie H. Griffin Jr. Dr. Charles W.Heard Jr.

Dr. Connie T. DuPre Dr. Robert A. Foster Jr. Dr. Thomas Griffin III Dr. David L. Hearin

Dr. John R. DuPre Dr. Scott C. Foster Mr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Griffith Dr. Henry B. Hearn III

Dr. James W. Dye Mr. Peter A. Franklin Jr. Dr. Nathan M. Grossman Dr. Chance M. Hebert

Mrs. Kathy Dyer The Frasers Dr. Robert H. Groves Jr. Dr. Julia A. Heffron

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Dr. John F. Erbland Dr. Raymond L. Gilbert Jr. Mr. Hugh L. Hamilton Mr. Edward A. Hill

Dr. David N. Erchak Dr. Robin Gillard Dr. James G. Hamilton Jr. Dr. Katharine A. Hilliard-Yntema Dr. Marion M. Estes Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Gillisjr. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Hammond Dr. James W. Hill

Dr. Thomas L. Estes Dr. Jack M. Ginsburg Dr. Robert E. Hammonds, Sr. Dr. John S. Hill

Dr. Stanley Etersque Mr. William Girardot Dr. Robert A. Hand Sr. Dr. Ross H. Hill

Dr. William M. Eubanks Jr. Mr. Frank Givens Dr. Carole M. Hanes Mr. William D. Hill II Fair Philip Earl Ms. Donna M. Dr. Wesley C. Glisson Dr. J. Hanes Mr. J. Hilson

Mrs. Bobby Jean Falters Dr. Hugh M. Glosterjr. Dr. Coral D. Hanevold Mr. Lewis J. Hinely Jr. Dr. Beverley A. Farley Ms.Jeanette Goad Dr. Magdi B. Hanna Dr. William A. Hitt

Mr. Roger B. Farley Mrs. Betty M. Golden Dr. Stacy L. Harbin Dr. James S. Hixon

Mrs. Marie Farns Dr. James R. Goldenring Dr. Virgil M. Hardin Dr. Charles A. Hociges Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Carlton T. Faulk Dr. Glenn R. Goldfarb Mrs. Katherine T. Harkness Dr. John T. Hodges Dr. Harry W. Faulkner Dr. Jay C. Gold Dr. Franklin D. Harkrider Dr. Alan L. Hoffman Dr. Marshall L. Fay Dr. Barry M. Goldman Dr. Carl E. Harman Dr. Joseph K. Hogan

Dr. Robert S. Feldman Ms. R.W Goldman Dr. Sandra S. Harmon Dr. Natalie M. Hogan

Dr. Dana E. Mrs. S. Fender Dr. Samuel J. Gold Dr. D. Conrad Harper Col. and John Holeman Jr.

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Dr. Donna M. Fick Dr. Murray R. Gordon Mr. Eugene T. Harrison III Dr. Albert S. Holhngsworth Jr.

Dr. James W. Fields Dr. Robert L. Gordon Dr. Jacob R. Harrison Jr. Mrs. Rebecca S. Hollins

Dr. Michael E. Fincher Dr. James R. Gossage Jr. Ms. Jeanne D. Harrison Charles and Lavenia Holm Dr. Michael H. Fmck Dr. C.Thomas Graham Dr. John R. Harrison Dr. Edward A. Holmes III

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44 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA TODAY Dr. Kerry L. Kline Dr. Donna L. Londmo

Ms. Frances F. Knapp Mrs. Ellen K. Long

Dr. Fred R. Knickerbocker Dr. Stewart M. Long III Mr. Jefferson B.A. Knox Dr. Joseph G. Looper

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Mr. Richard Koenig II Dr. Martha G. Lovell Dr. Russell H. Kramer Ms. Sheila Lovett Dr. Edmund A. Krekorian Dr. Jeffrey W. Lovin

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