ALUMNI VOLUME XXX, NO. 2 – ISSUE 2, 2020 CONNECTION A PUBLICATION FOR MEDICAL ALUMNI AND FRIENDS For everything you do. We Thank You. –The Alumni Association CLASS OF 2020 CELEBRATES MATCH DAY pg 4 CARDIOLOGY FELLOW RECEIVES MICHENER AWARD pg 7 CLEVELAND CLINIC RESPONDS TO PANDEMIC pg 8 CONTENTS ALUMNI VOLUME XXX, NO. 2 – ISSUE 2, 2020 CONNECTION A PUBLICATION FOR MEDICAL ALUMNI AND FRIENDS A MESSAGE FROM THE ALUMNI BOARD PRESIDENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dear Alumni, Dale Shepard, MD, PhD, FACP I President Welcome to our redesigned Alumni Richard Lang MD, MPH I President Elect Connection! The Alumni Relations Leo Pozuelo, MD I Vice President of Communications team and I hope that you will enjoy Christine Booth, MD I Vice President of Membership the new look, aimed at making the Conrad H. Simpfendorfer, MD, FACS I Immediate Past-President publication easy to navigate. (Please note that some photos, without masks, SPECIALTY DIRECTORS were taken before March 1, 2020.) Tom Abelson, MD Octavian Ioachimescu, MD, PhD In this issue, we highlight Cleveland Rebecca Bagley, MD Jonathan Kaplan, MD Clinic’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and our Alumni Christine Booth, MD Richard Kaplon, MD Adam Brown, MD Alice Kim, MD Awards. We also report on our Lerner College of Medicine Ravi Chittajallu, MD Leonard Krajewski, MD graduates’ highly successful Match Day results. (Please see Kevin El-Hayek, MD Richard Lang, MD, MPH pages 8-11, 7, and 4-6.) Peter Evans, MD, PhD Mark Licht, MD Kaushik Ghosal, PhD Asma Moheet, MD Of course, the news dominating all of our personal and pro- Bradley Gill, MD Lydia Parker, MD fessional lives for many months now concerns the coronavirus Jeffrey Goshe, MD Mauricio Perilla, MD Mark Grove, MD Marc Pohl, MD pandemic. I am proud of, and amazed by, Cleveland Clinic’s Andrew Healy, MD Gina Robinson, MD, FAAP powerful and proactive response, including converting the Darlene Holden, MD Khaldoun Tarakji, MD, MPH atrium of our new Health Education Campus into the 1,000-bed Karen Jacobs, DO Andrew Vassil, MD Adriana Ioachimescu, MD, PhD, FACE Eric Weiss, MD Hope Hospital in only three short weeks, a massive team effort. (Please see page 11.) COMMITTEE MEMBERS Because of the early actions of Ohio’s Governor Mike DeWine, Leonard Calabrese, DO I Centennial Wall Project Director and his collaboration with experts including Cleveland Clinic Gary Dworkin, MD I Philanthropy Committee Chair CEO and President Tom Mihaljevic, MD, we have seen far fewer Khaldoun Tarakji, MD, MPH I Alumni Connect Project Director patients with COVID-19 in our hospital system than originally anticipated. In fact, Cleveland Clinic sent a medical team to assist overwhelmed hospitals in other locations. This, too, Alumni Connection is a publication of the Cleveland Clinic Alumni shows the cooperative spirit of our Cleveland Clinic family. Association, produced in conjunction with Development Communications, for medical alumni and friends by the Philanthropy Institute. (Please see pages 8-9.) Mindy Stroh I Senior Director Our Centennial plans are fluid right now because of the Tara Samstag I Associate Director pandemic. We will update you when we know more. Katie Eurich I Assistant Director And one final note: We, the Alumni Association, could not Elaine DeRosa Lea I Editor, Alumni Connection be prouder of our alumni than we are right now. We honor Orenge Creative Group I Design you for your dedication, skill, compassion, and personal sacrifice during this global pandemic. We teach many things ON THE COVER at Cleveland Clinic, but heroism arises only from within. ALUMNI VOLUME XXX, NO. 2 – ISSUE 2, 2020 CONNECTION Thank you for all that you do, and please stay safe. The Alumni Association thanks each A PUBLICATION FOR MEDICAL ALUMNI AND FRIENDS and every one of you for your service Sincerely, during this global pandemic. Our cover For everything you do. illustration is based on a T-shirt design We Thank You. –The Alumni Association that honors caregivers and expresses our thoughts well: “There is a Hero in All of Us.” (Please see page 6 for Dale Shepard, MD, PhD more details about the shirt.) 2 ALUMNI CONNECTION – ISSUE 2, 2020 CONTENTS Contents Putting Patients First in a Pandemic Cleveland Clinic sent medical teams to other hospitals caring for COVID-19 patients. Learn where they went and the personal experience of one team member, alumnus Pravin George, DO. See how the Health Education Campus’ main building was transformed into Hope Hospital, and read comments by Dr. Mihaljevic on the pandemic. pgs 8-11 Cleveland Clinic Research Features The Center for Global and Emerging Pathogens Research is established; Cleveland Clinic doctors save a patient with a rare immunological disorder; study shows Lerner College of Medicine is achieving its mission, the Anatomy Lab offers the latest digital technology; the BRIDGE study helps and more. pgs 12-18 patients prevent disease. (Photo taken prior to March 1, 2020.) pgs 16-20 DEPARTMENTS AWARDS FROM THE ARCHIVES CONTACTS Cardiology fellow Amit Goyal, MD, PhD, received Where it all began: Cleveland Clinic’s first building Sandra Hong, MD, honored as a Woman the Michener Award, and Kavya Kommaraju, MD, and how it changed through the years. Plus, of Note; Dr. Howarth turns 100, and much Internal Medicine intern, the GL-1 Award. pg 7 Cleveland Clinic’s family ties. pgs 24-27 more. pgs 32-35 NEWS PHILANTHROPY IN MEMORIAM Alumnus featured on the cover of Vogue Thailand; News on the CARES Act. pg 29 Kidney Transplant Pioneer alumni couple weds on the rooftop of Satoru Nakamoto, MD, Dies at 92. pg 39 Cleveland Clinic. pgs 21-22 A publication for Cleveland Clinic medical alumni and friends. – clevelandclinic.org/alumni 3 EDUCATION Cleveland Clinic MATCH DAY: Lerner College of Medicine On March 20, like medical students across the nation, CCLCM students celebrated Match Day, an annual event when graduates learn where they will go for their residencies. This year’s Match Day was unique because of the pandemic. The gathering at the CWRU Tinkham Veale University Center was quieter and calmer. Faculty members spoke from Tinkham Veale or their own homes. Students gathered with their families, in small groups, or waited at their computers for an email revealing their results. However, students and their loved ones still celebrated. Faculty members felt overwhelming pride. People connected. The coronavirus couldn’t take that away. —From Insight/Lerner College of Medicine Class of 2020 Janet Adegboye Lestella Bivens Robert Borden University of University of Chicago Stanford University Maryland-Mercy Medical Center Programs Medical Center PEDIATRICS THORACIC SURGERY INTERNAL MEDICINE Johns Hopkins Hospital ANESTHESIOLOGY William (Alex) Harry Choi Katharina Cantrell Hospital of the Clore-Gronenborn Cleveland Clinic University of PA Children’s National ORTHOPAEDIC INTERNAL MEDICINE Medical Center SURGERY PEDIATRICS Albert Feeny Caroline Franke Suresh Garudadri University of UPMC Medical Stanford University California Education Programs San Francisco PSYCHIATRY INTERNAL MEDICINE INTERNAL MEDICINE 4 ALUMNI CONNECTION – ISSUE 2, 2020 EDUCATION Brittany Goldstein Brett Graham Nikhil Gupta Northwestern Vanderbilt University University of Chicago McGaw/NMH/VA Medical Center Medical Center PSYCHIATRY NEUROLOGY INTERNAL MEDICINE Cameron Severine Kako Kaitlin Keenan Beau Hilton Case Western/ Rush University Vanderbilt University University Hospitals Medical Center Medical Center Cleveland Medical NEUROLOGY INTERNAL Center MEDICINE/ABIM NEUROLOGY RESEARCH PATH Ann Kim Anne Kim Erika Lampert Johns Hopkins Hospital of the Cleveland Clinic Hospital University of PA OBSTETRICS AND INTERNAL MEDICINE OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY GYNECOLOGY Diane Libert John McAfee Appledene Osbourne Stanford University Cleveland Clinic University of Programs PATHOLOGY California Davis PATHOLOGY Medical Center INTERNAL MEDICINE Radhika Rastogi Navin Sabharwal Elizabeth Shay Children’s Hospital - University of Indiana Philadelphia California Irvine University SOM PEDIATRICS UROLOGY OTOLARYNGOLOGY Continued on page 6 A publication for Cleveland Clinic medical alumni and friends. – clevelandclinic.org/alumni 5 EDUCATION Shehryar Christina Snider Robert Unger (Sherry) Sheikh Vanderbilt University Case Western/ Wake Forest Medical Center Metro-Health System Baptist Med Center INTERNAL MEDICINE INTERNAL MEDICINE GENERAL SURGERY Massachusetts General Hospital RADIOLOGY DIAGNOSTIC Lamont Wilkins David Xiong Wenda Ye Johns Hopkins UPMC Medical Vanderbilt University Hospital Education Medical Center UROLOGY INTERNAL MEDICINE OTOLARYNGOLOGY Case Western/ University Hospitals DERMATOLOGY Emily Zhang Jessica Zhang Cleveland Clinic UCLA Medical Center OTOLARYNGOLOGY INTERNAL MEDICINE Congratulations, Class of 2020! Alumni Association Celebrates House Staff Officers, Trainees The Alumni Association showed its appreciation of Cleveland Clinic’s House Staff Association and medical trainees during Resident Appreciation Week in April by giving “There is a Hero in All of Us” T-shirts to the 16 house officers and Panera gift cards to the 1,300 trainees. Half of all proceeds from sales of these shirts, which were created by GV Art and Design, benefit caregiver support funds at both Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals. Cleveland Clinic sponsors one of the nation's largest graduate medical education programs, with 108 training programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and 92 special fellowship programs. ■ 6 ALUMNI CONNECTION