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Why BU’s postdocs
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Message From The Dean
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DEAR FRIENDS,
Medicine Dr. Neil Ganem, who was named
a prestigious Searle Scholar—the first BU
researcher to earn this recognition. You
will also read about other generous foundation support that enriches our scientific
enterprise.
We thank you for supporting our ultimate goal of making BUSM the best place
to learn, teach, and discover. All of your
contributions highlighted in the donor report
included in this issue illustrate your commitment to our future.
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administration, thank you for your generosity.
Best regards,
Provost, Medical Campus
Dean, School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine
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FRANK CURRAN
Karen Antman, MD
RANDY GROSS
The concerns facing research at schools of
medicine in the US are complex, from the
pressure on clinician faculty to see more
patients in less time—thus crowding out
time for research and teaching—to the
growing numbers of PhDs in laboratories
struggling to compete for declining federal
research support for biomedical science.
This issue of Boston University Medicine
examines the careers of graduate students
and postdocs and showcases how a novel
BU program is helping to reengineer the
careers of biomedical PhDs by exploring job
opportunities outside of academia such as
in science policy and journalism, the pharmaceutical industry, or even investing in
new drugs and devices on Wall Street.
The central focus of this issue, though,
is you, our readers: alumni, friends, foundations, corporations, faculty, and staff
who have helped us advance the School of
Medicine this past year through your generous financial support.
Also during the past year, almost 100
faculty members received local and national
recognition for their research, clinical expertise, contributions to the profession, and
community service.
On the following pages, you will read
about three faculty members who have
received named professorships and another,
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and
DEPARTMENTS
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TOO LITTLE FUNDING.
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CAMPUS
News
BUSM
ON THE
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(far left) Assistant Dean of Students John Polk, MD,
helps a student put on her white coat for the first
time.
(left) BUSM Early Medical School Selection Program
(EMSSP) students celebrate receiving their white
coats after the ceremony.
(below left) First-year medical students line up for
the White Coat Ceremony procession.
(below right) Hatim Mustaly participates in a photo
shoot for a social media photo collage showcasing
the geographic diversity of the first-year class.
Members of the Class of 2019
Receive Their White Coats
O
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n August 3, 180 first-year medical students received
their white coats, symbolic of their first steps on the
road to becoming physicians.
Boston University School of Medicine
Surrounded by their families and friends
beneath a billowing white tent on Talbot
Green, the students participated in the
annual White Coat Ceremony, a medical
tradition during which they don their white
coats for the first time and recite the Hippocratic Oath.
Angela Jackson, MD, associate dean for
student affairs, kicked off the ceremony; she
was followed by Robert Witzburg, MD, associate dean for admissions, who shared some
statistics regarding members of the 167th
entering class of BUSM.
FRANK CURRAN
White Coat 2015
“Academically you are among the most
accomplished class we have ever had, and
you are also a very diverse group,” said Witzburg. “Thirty-six of the 50 states in America
are represented in your class and your places
of birth include 17 countries. Eighty-two percent of you are bilingual and, as a group, you
speak a total of 27 different languages.”
Karen Antman, MD, BUSM dean and
provost of the Boston University Medical
Campus, candidly shared her insight about
the inevitable challenges and situations that
likely could arise for the new students, such
as passing out during their first anatomy
class or retaking their licensing exams. “That
doesn’t mean you won’t be good physicians,”
she said.
“You’re about to embark on a great adventure with a steep learning curve.”
Ravin Davidoff, MB, BCh, BUSM professor of medicine and senior vice president for
medical affairs and chief medical officer at
Boston Medical Center, delivered the keynote address.
After explaining the history and significance of the white coat to the new students,
he emphasized that practicing medicine is a
collaboration as well as a privilege.
“Medicine is a team sport. There is far
too much for any of us to know to ever feel
complacent. Each of you, as you move along
the lifelong journey of learning and caring for
patients, will face the complex dilemma of
clinical decision-making,” said Davidoff. “It
is truly a glorious journey but it is challenging and daunting. From my perspective, the
key to succeeding in this space is to always
appreciate the privilege you have been
granted to treat patients.”
Douglas Hughes, MD, associate dean
for academic affairs, read out student
names—promising that his pronunciation
of them would improve before graduation
in four years—as assistant and associate
deans helped the students put on their
white coats.
After the coating, students recited the Hippocratic Oath for the first time, signifying the
beginning of their journey into the profession
of medicine. They will recite it again at their
May 2019 Commencement, signifying their
entrance into the practice of medicine. n
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CAMPUS NEWS
Klings Named Director of Sickle Cell Disease Center
Dean Karen Antman, MD, traveled
to northern and southern California
over the summer to meet with alumni,
parents, and students prior to the
start of the school year. Terry Miller
(MED’75) and Meredith Halks-Miller
(MED’75) and Stacy Weiss, MD, and
Pedram Salimpour (MED’00) graciously hosted luncheon receptions
at their homes, giving attendees a
wonderful opportunity to connect
with each other and meet current
and incoming medical students. n
PHOTO BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL MEDIA
Dean Antman
Visits BUSM’s
California
Community
Hosts Terry Miller (MED’75) and Meredith Halks-Miller (MED’75) hosted Bruce Blumberg, MD,
director of Graduate Medical Education for Northern California Kaiser Permanente, and Dean Karen
Antman, MD, at their home in Woodside, California, where alumni, parents, and current and
incoming students gathered for a luncheon.
Elizabeth Klings, MD
Elizabeth Klings, MD, BUSM associate
professor in the Department of Medicine
and attending physician in Boston Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit and on
the Pulmonary Consultation Service, has
been named director of the Center of
Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
at BUSM and BMC. The center supports
the highest quality patient care and
promotes interactive basic and clinical
research and patient and professional
educational activities. It also coordinates teaching for fellows, house staff,
and medical students. Klings is medical
director of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Program and has a clinic in the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at BMC, where
she is involved in the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of patients with pulmonary hypertension and has a special
interest in the management of patients
with chronic dyspnea.
A leader in the care and treatment of
patients with sickle cell disease and pulmonary hypertension, Klings chaired a committee of 25 hematologists, pulmonologists,
and cardiologists to develop clinical guidelines sponsored by the American Thoracic
Society for the care and treatment of these
patients, which were published in 2014.
Klings’ research focus is the pathogenesis of pulmonary vascular complications of
SCD. She is a National Institutes of Healthfunded principal investigator in the Pulmonary Center, collaborating with the Boston
Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Sickle
Cell Genetics Research Group, and the Cardiovascular Proteomics Center at Boston
University. She has phenotypically screened
close to 200 sickle cell patients at BMC for
the presence of pulmonary hypertension
and has begun to study the role that genetic
polymorphisms play in the pathogenesis of
this disease process. n
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Boston University School of Medicine
PHOTO COURTESY SUZANNE MASELLI
Dean Karen Antman, MD, and host Pedram Salimpour (MED’00), third from left, are joined by incoming first-year and current students during a
luncheon in Pacific Palisades, California.
PHOTOS BY KATE DEFOREST
Suzanne Maselli Named Assistant Dean of Development
Suzanne Maselli has been appointed
BUSM assistant dean of development.
A development professional with 24
years of experience in the field, Maselli
served as senior advancement officer,
principal gifts, for Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, New York, where she was
responsible for cultivating transformational gifts for the institute, focusing on its
schools of science and engineering as well
as interdisciplinary research in the health
care arena. Previously, she was director of
distinguished events and major gifts at the
American Cancer Society for the Capital
Region and Hudson Valley of New York.
Maselli also has held positions at
WMHT Educational Telecommunications
in Schenectady, New York; Lifetime Television in Astoria, New York; Group W Cable
in New York, New York; and the Muscular
Dystrophy Association in Troy, New York.
“Suzanne’s experience in higher education, especially in the areas of science and
interdisciplinary research, as well as her
passion and high energy will be an asset to
BUSM as we continue to broaden philanthropic support of our research programs,
student scholarships, and enhancing the
quality of academic life for our students,
faculty and staff,” said Karen Antman,
MD, BUSM dean and BU Medical Campus
provost.
Maselli received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Binghamton University in New York,
and a Master of Science in TV/Radio Production from Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New
York. She is a member of the Association of
Fundraising Professionals and the Council for
the Advancement and Support of Education.
“I am so pleased to be joining Boston
University’s School of Medicine, and look
forward to working with Dean Antman and
Suzanne Maselli
the development team to build philanthropic
support for the top-tier medical education
and lifesaving research work BUSM provides,”
Maselli said. n
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CAMPUS NEWS
IN Memoriam
Faculty Honors & Awards
Bill Adams, MD, BUSM professor of medicine and a pediatrician at
Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been named a Center for Disease
Control Childhood Immunization Champion for his outstanding efforts
to promote childhood immunization in Massachusetts. Adams was
recognized for his dedication to improving the way immunization data
is used within Electronic Medical Records and the development of a
high-quality, statewide immunization registry.
Michael Charness, MD, professor of neurology and associate provost
of veterans affairs at BUSM and chief of staff of the VA Boston Health
Care System, has been selected by the Rosett Committee of the Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Study Group as the 2015 recipient of
the Henry Rosett Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders field.
Carine Lenders, MD, MS, ScD, associate professor of pediatrics;
medical director, BMC Nutrition and Fitness for Life (pediatric obesity) program; director, BMC Pediatric Nutrition Support Services
and project director, the Abbott Fund Institute of Nutrition Sciences
(AFINS) in Hanoi, Vietnam, has been awarded the commemorative
medal “For the People’s Health” from Vietnam’s Ministry of Health,
conferred periodically “on people, including employees inside and
outside the health service and foreigners, who make contributions
to the cause of building and development of Vietnam’s health service.” The BUSM-based AFINS project is a multidisciplinary initiative to advance clinical nutrition in Vietnam hospitals. Between 2009
and 2014, Carine worked with leadership at the Ministry of Health,
research institutes, medical universities, and hospitals to implement
educational, research, and clinical services activities. AFINS is part
of a 15-year, ongoing partnership of the BU Family Medicine Global
Health Collaborative with Vietnam’s health care leaders to improve
the nation’s health care system.
David Salant, MD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and
chief, Section of Nephrology at BMC, was awarded the 2015 Donald
W. Seldin Award of the National Kidney Foundation, which recognizes
excellence in clinical nephrology in the tradition of one of the foremost
teachers and researchers in the field, Dr. Donald W. Seldin. Supported
by grants from the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Salant has conducted extensive research on immune disorders of the kidneys. His
work has led to breakthroughs in identifying and treating membranous
nephropathy—specifically, he helped to identify a protein called PLA2R
that is crucial to understanding the development of the disease. n
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Boston University School of Medicine
Dick A.J. Brown, MD, on May 19, 2015, at the
age of 82. For decades, Dr. Brown was a beloved
professor and colleague in the Department of
Obstetrics & Gynecology. As the department’s
director of medical student education from 1985
to 2005, he taught second-year students the
pathophysiology of the female reproductive system. During his illustrious career, he educated
more than 3,000 students in the reproduction
issues of medicine and mentored a significant
proportion of every graduating class. He also
received numerous teaching awards, among
them the 1996 Metcalf Award, the University’s
highest teaching honor.
In recognition of his many outstanding years
of service to BUSM, in 2006 the School established the Dick A.J. Brown Endowment Fund for
Medical Education to support the teaching and
professional development of OB/GYN faculty.
Dr. Brown received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern
University and completed two years of general
surgery training at Chicago’s Wesley Memorial
Hospital and Malden Hospital in Massachusetts.
He completed his training in obstetrics and
gynecology at the Boston Lying-In Hospital,
now known as Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Following eight years as an assistant in OB/GYN,
he became an instructor at Harvard Medical
School and remained associated with the school
from 1970 to 1995, rising to the position of clinical professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and
Reproductive Biology.
Throughout his career, he published numerous articles related to the declining maternal
mortality in Massachusetts, while earning a
reputation as a respected clinician, educator,
and role model for students and faculty alike.
He will be greatly missed.
Dr. Brown leaves his wife of nearly 60 years,
Roma Jean, two daughters, one son, 11 grandchildren, one great-granddaughter, and a brother.
To make a donation in memory of Dr. Brown,
please contact the BUSM Development Office at
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Three Faculty Members Receive
Named Professorships
of epidemiology and biostatistics at BU School
of Public Health. Since 1998 he has been director of BU’s Molecular Genetics Core Facility.
Mark B. Moss, PhD, has been named the
Waterhouse Professor of Anatomy and
Chair of the Department of Anatomy and
Neurobiology at BUSM. The Waterhouse
Professorship began in 1857, when the widow
of Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, a professor
in the department of medicine at Harvard
University, generously started an endowment fund for the chair of anatomy of the
New England Female Medical College with
a $1,000 gift. In 1864, by a bequest in her
will, the endowment was raised to $10,000.
Richard Myers, PhD, has been named the
Milunsky Chair in Human Genetics, established by Dr. Aubrey Milunsky, the former
director of the Center for Human Genetics
at BUSM. Dr. Myers has been a professor of neurology since 1994 and also holds
appointments as professor of bioinformatics in the College of Engineering; professor
of biomedical genetics in the Department
of Medicine at BUSM; and professor of biostatistics and epidemiology in the School of
Public Health. n
Hers was the first professional endowment
fund to be established by a woman for the
medical education of women. Appointed in
1881, Caroline Hastings, PhD, was the first
Waterhouse professor.
Lindsay A. Farrer, PhD, has been named
the BU Distinguished Professor of Genetics.
Dr. Farrer also is professor and chief of the
Biomedical Genetics Section in the department
of Medicine and professor of neurology and
ophthalmology at BUSM, as well as professor
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CAMPUS NEWS
Young Investigators Gather for Inaugural Genetic
Epidemiology and Functional Genomics Workshop
IN Memoriam
PHOTO BY AMY GOREL
D
Young investigators from nine states and five countries gathered on the Medical Campus for the inaugural Genetic Epidemiology and Functional Genomic Workshop.
T
hirty-five young investigators gathered
on the BU Medical Campus in July for
the inaugural Genetic Epidemiology and
Functional Genomics Workshop hosted by
the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), the
and access the FHS data. The group also
attended a series of working lunches led
by BUSM’s Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM,
on professional development topics.
Program Director Vasan S. Ramachan-
writing tips, and training to access and analyze Framingham Heart Study data,’” said
Ramachandran.
“The meeting was organized as part of
a broader series of initiatives to equip fac-
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Boston University School of Medicine
dran, MD, DM, FACC, FAHA, professor of
medicine and epidemiology, chief of the
Section of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, and FHS principal investigator,
developed the program due to the burgeoning availability of data from cohort studies,
including genomic data, and the urgency of
training the next generation of translational
scientists with a focus on early-stage investigators. “We are excited that we were able
to highlight cutting­-edge talks on genomic
research, career development and grant
ulty and fellows to interrogate large human
cohort studies to better understand human
disease,” said David L. Coleman, MD, Wade
Professor and chairman of the Department
of Medicine. “In so doing, we hope to expand
the capacity of our research community to
use the power of extraordinary biomic information in well-phenotyped cohort studies to
answer clinically important questions.”
Please contact Dr. Ramachandran at
[email protected] with any inquiries or questions regarding the program. n
PHOTO BY BU PHOTOGRAPHY
“We are excited that we were able to highlight cutting-edge talks on genomic research, career development and
grant writing tips, and training to access and analyze Framingham Heart Study data,” said Ramachandran.
Center for Translational Epidemiology and
Comparative Effectiveness Research, and
Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at BU School of Medicine (BUSM).
Attendees from nine states and five
countries heard, among other speakers,
faculty and staff from the FHS, BUSM,
Harvard Medical School, and University
of Massachusetts Medical School present on how they have utilized FHS data to
answer career-building questions as well
as specific instruction on how to analyze
David Seldin, MD, PhD
known for his kindness to staff, patients, and colleagues.
avid Seldin, Wesley
“David was a compassionate physician, an accomplished
and Charlotte Skinner
researcher and mentor, and a wonderful person,” said Kate
Professor for Research
Walsh, BMC president and CEO. “His leadership and advocacy
in Amyloidosis, professor of
in the area of amyloidosis research and treatment are known
medicine and microbiology, and
across the country and the world, and he will be greatly missed
chief of the section of hematolby all his colleagues and patients at BMC.”
ogy-oncology at Boston MediMartha Skinner, Amyloidosis Center interim director, said
cal Center (BMC) and BUSM,
that Seldin was not only a brilliant scientist and clinician, but
died of prostate cancer June 27
took pleasure in working with those just beginning their careers
at age 58.
in medicine. “His special love was students and young scienA
beloved,
caring
teacher
David Seldin
tists; he had an amazing ability to critique their work respectand clinician, he was a worldfully and encourage them to strive for the best,” she said.
renowned expert on amyloidosis, a rare disease caused by
Seldin and his colleagues developed a publicly available amyabnormal protein buildup in blood and other tissues that is linked
loidogenic protein database as well as an amyloidosis model used
to many progressive illnesses, including cancer and Alzheimer’s
to test novel therapies. He devoted a large portion of his time to
disease, and can lead to fatal organ failure. Seldin became directraining and mentoring a generation of physicians and
tor of the BU Amyloidosis Center in 2007, and
postdoctoral and predoctoral fellows in the conduct of
chief of hematology-oncology the following year.
“Boston University
clinical, laboratory, and translational research.
“Boston University School of Medicine has
School of
“David will be remembered by our community as
lost a distinguished professor, a brilliant investia
beacon
of hope for his patients, inspiration for his
gator, an exceptional teacher, and a friend,” said
Medicine has lost
trainees, and with admiration by his colleagues,” said
Karen Antman, BUSM dean and provost of the
a distinguished
David Coleman, Wade Professor and chair of the
Medical Campus. “David had a marvelous dry
professor, a brilliant Department of Medicine and chief of the BMC Diviwit and was a master of irony, which he delivsion of Medicine. Among his many honors, Seldin
ered with just a hint of a smile as he waited for
investigator, an
appointed to the Wesley and Charlotte Skinner
others to get the joke. He loved good, freewheelexceptional teacher, was
Professorship for Research in Amyloidosis in 2014.
ing critical science discussions, and coached,
and a friend,” said
He had been a member of an NIH study section and
supported, and mentored students and junior
faculty. David’s patients loved him. He provided
Karen Antman, BUSM grant and program review panels for Canada, Greece,
United Kingdom, and Singapore. He was the first
expertise based on his extensive experience
dean and provost of the
director of the graduate program in molecular mediwith amyloidosis, a disease that other physicians
the Medical Campus. cine in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, and
saw perhaps once in their careers. He treated
established graduate courses in cancer biology. He
patients with warmth and caring, while his
appeared on a variety of “Best Doctors” lists. He served on the
research results provided hope. We will all miss him.”
scientific advisory board of the Amyloidosis Foundation and on
A 1978 graduate of Harvard College, Seldin graduated from
the board of the International Society of Amyloidosis and was an
Harvard Medical School in 1986 with a medical degree as well
associate editor of Amyloid, Journal of Protein Folding Disorders.
as a PhD in immunology. He arrived at BUSM in 1994 as an
Amyloidosis Center colleague Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD,
assistant professor of medicine and went on to teach in a range
professor of medicine, summed up Seldin’s legacy with these
of departments. His work as a researcher and clinician earned
words: “David Seldin—where brilliance met kindness.”
him many fellowships and grants and has been supported by
Seldin is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Hohmann, an infecthe American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Howard Hughes
tious diseases specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital;
Medical Institute, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the
three daughters, Stephanie, 26, Maggie, 23, and Diana, 21; his
Avon Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the NIH.
sister, Judi; and his parents, Florence and Ira Seldin.
Seldin’s colleagues remember him as a passionate RenaisTo make a gift in memory of David Seldin, call the School
sance man who loved to spend time outdoors hiking, skiing, and
of Medicine Development Office at 617-638-4570 or email
at the beach with his family. He also was an avid scuba diver for
[email protected]. Donations will support an endowed professormany years, a wine connoisseur with his own wine cellar, and
ship in Seldin’s name in the BUSM Department of Medicine.—
an LP record collector and audiophile who built his own stereo
Story courtesy of BU Today n
system. But he will be remembered best as a generous mentor
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COVER STORY l INNOVATIONS
TOO MANY
POSTDOCS?
TOO LITTLE FUNDING.
Why BU’s postdocs
are still getting ahead.
By Sara Rimer
C
helsea Epler, the high-achieving
daughter of a Midwestern farmer
and a special education teacher,
spent the summer between junior
and senior years of college falling
in love. Working in a microbiology
lab at the University of Iowa—an opportunity she won
through the National Science Foundation (NSF)—she
became besotted by science. She loved staying late to
purify proteins and culture bacteria to grow overnight.
She loved coming back to the lab at 7:30 a.m., when
she would inhale the earthy aroma of bacteria and
know the experiment was working. “I was totally sold
on science,” she says.
Epler made up her mind to pursue a career as an academic biomedical research scientist. “In my idealistic, 21-year-old view of
things,” she recalls, “I thought if I could put a mark on science, I
could help millions of people.”
Fast forward nine years and one PhD in microbiology later,
to 2014. Epler was on her second postdoc, in biophysics, at the
School of Medicine, spending 13- and 14-hour days in the lab,
earning $42,000 a year, and in despair over her future. She was
doing all the right things. She had published two journal articles
with her mentor, Esther Bullitt, a BUSM associate professor of
physiology and biophysics, who had told her she had the chops to
become an outstanding independent researcher.
But with Congress constricting federal research funding,
Epler realized that she had spent over a decade preparing for an
academic job she was unlikely to get anytime soon, if ever. The
scarcity of federal resources had left too many bright, highly
trained postdocs competing for too few faculty positions.
“Today too many people are chasing too
little money to support increasingly
expensive research.”
—Harold Varmus, former National Cancer Institute Director
“I called my mother every night, saying, ‘What am I going to do
with the rest of my life?’” Epler recalls.
Many promising young scientists have been asking themselves
the same question. Epler had committed herself to science in an
era when government money was flowing to the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), which funds the majority of the nation’s public
biomedical research through grants to university labs. Between
1998 and 2003, Congress doubled appropriations to the NIH. The
biomedical research enterprise—labs, faculty positions, numbers of
graduate students and postdocs—expanded accordingly. But when
the funding leveled off, so did the opportunities for junior scientists,
and Epler was no longer sure where she fit.
“Today too many people are chasing too little money to support
increasingly expensive research,” former National Cancer Institute director and Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus and three other
prominent scientists wrote in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article last April. The result is “a hypercompetitive
atmosphere,” the scientists warned, in which “promising careers
are threatened.”
Between 1979 and 2009, the number of life sciences PhD students ballooned from 30,000 to more than 56,000, according to the
NIH. No one has accurate data on postdoctoral trainees—there has
been a large influx of young scientists from Europe and Asia—but
their ranks soared as well, and the NIH estimates their number
at between 37,000 and 68,000. Although unemployment among
people holding biomedical PhDs is extremely low, most of those
postdocs will find jobs not in academia, but in industry, law, science
policy, government, education, and other fields. The NIH, among
others, is concerned that the long training time and the declining
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CHELSEA EPLER
“In my idealistic, 21-year-old view of things, I thought if
I could put a mark on science, I could help millions of
people.”
ESTHER BULLITT
numbers of PhD graduates who are getting independent academic
research positions will make biomedical research a less appealing
career and that the United States could lose a generation of the best
and brightest scientists. There is a striking disconnect, meanwhile,
between the evolving biomedical workforce and graduate training,
which continues to focus almost exclusively on preparing people for
traditional academic research positions, according to a 2012 NIH
Biomedical Workforce Working Group report.
Hence, Epler’s life crisis, at age 30. “We all have these rosecolored glasses on when we start,” she says. “We know only 15 or
10 percent of our class will end up getting jobs in academia, but we
think we’re going to be in that 10 percent.”
NIH and universities the machine, trainees the engine
The NIH and NSF define a postdoctoral trainee as someone
with a doctoral degree who “is engaged in a temporary and defined
period of mentored advanced training to enhance the professional
skills and research independence needed to pursue his or her
chosen career path.” That is the ideal, but it’s not how the training
always works in practice.
The vast majority of postdocs in the United States are supported on a combination of NIH training grants, fellowships, and
research project grants, most notably the NIH R01, the $1.25 million
grant that’s the workhorse of biomedical research. Their training
is supervised by principal investigators, or PIs, who act as mentors.
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PIs rely heavily on trainees to carry out most of their lab’s hands-on
work, running experiments and collecting the data needed to publish studies and write the next grant application.
If the NIH and universities like BU are the machine of research,
says Linda E. Hyman, associate provost for BUSM’s Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, then trainees are the engine. “They’re the
ones driving or performing the work,” Hyman says. “They’re often
underpaid. They’re in these positions for a long time. Their mentors
are the ones who decide when they’re ready to move on, and they
provide the letters of recommendation they need to succeed.”
The postdoctoral training period has been traditionally seen
as a three- to five-year apprenticeship, the final step to becoming an independent researcher. Things work differently in some
departments, such as BUSM’s pharmacology and experimental
therapeutics department, which has had a long partnership with
the pharmaceutical industry. Many of its graduates and postdocs
pursue successful careers in that industry, as well as in academia
and government, according to department chair David H. Farb, a
BUSM professor of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics.
Farb says he sees postdocs in other biomedical research fields getting stuck in the pipeline; they’re not moving up in academia or on
to something else. “You finally get your PhD and now you go into a
postdoc,” he says. “Then let’s say it’s another five years, and you’re
just at the beginning of being able to do your own work. After years
of virtual poverty, you’re 31 years old, you haven’t had a real job, and
there are few academic jobs to go around, except for those working
in the ‘hot fields’ of research at the moment. You’ve committed your
life to science—what do you do?”
Luis Olmos earned a PhD in cellular biology in his native
Spain and came to the United States in 2007 to do his first postdoc, at Children’s Hospital in Washington, DC. He is now in the
fourth year of his second postdoc, in Tarik Haydar’s neural development and intellectual disorders lab at BUSM. Haydar, a BUSM
PHOTOS BY JACKIE RICCIARDI
“She would have been a great PI, but I want her to be
happy, too . . . Learning how to think scientifically is
perfect for lots of jobs. People go into banking, patent
law, all sorts of things that need high-level skills.
I totally respect other choices.”
LUIS OLMOS
TARIK HAYDAR
Olmos says his mentor, Tarik Haydar, a
BUSM associate professor, has given him
invaluable opportunities to grow as a
scientist: “He’s very supportive.”
“They (Olmos and Tyler) are both superior postdocs.
These are two scientists who in the right universe
should be running their own labs and starting on their
own independent careers, but the playing field is very
difficult for everybody.”
associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology, recruited him
and has given him invaluable opportunities to grow as a scientist,
including a stint at Harvard Medical School’s NeuroDiscovery
Center to learn methods to measure cognitive function in mice.
“He’s very supportive,” Olmos says.
Haydar has been trying to arrange a faculty position at BUSM
for Olmos and for Bill Tyler, the second postdoc in his lab, but amid
all the uncertainty over money, Olmos still worries. He is 39 and he
and his wife, who is a lab manager at BU, have three kids under age 7.
Haydar pays both his postdocs well above the NIH recommended guidelines, he says, which start at $42,840 a year and go
up to $56,376 after seven years. “They are both superior postdocs,”
he says. “These are two scientists who in the right universe should
be running their own labs and starting on their own independent
careers, but the playing field is very, very difficult for everybody.”
Haydar says he would commit to supporting Olmos and Tyler
as independent researchers for a brief period until they win funding
on their own. “This can hopefully get them through the door,” he
says. “My lab’s research would be greatly augmented by having them
as independent neighbors and colleagues. I am willing to take on my
part of that risk and my department has always been willing to provide support for deserving members of the junior ranks.”
Haydar did his own postdoc at Yale in the late 1990s. “There’s
this career progression,” he says. “You get a PhD, you do a postdoc,
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LINDA HYMAN
JOSEPH MIZGERD
“We just want people to know what they’re getting
into and to open their eyes about options. The
problem with the old system is that you weren’t
given the opportunity to think about anything
outside of academia.”
“It’s a joy to do what we do . . . I think our students
and postdocs don’t hear the plus sides from us
enough. The obstacles and anxieties are obvious,
and deservedly get emphasis from their mentors. But
we should also be telling them more often about the
wonderful sides of academic research . . . It’s a really
hard and difficult path and you might not make it, but
you are guaranteed not to make it if you don’t try.”
you look for an academic job, you become an assistant professor.
You scrabble around for funding, you get a grant, you have success
for one day. Then you start scrabbling around again—what’s your
second grant going to be? That’s the traditional track. That track
is nonfunctional now.”
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that’s not their plan, they need to spend time figuring out what the
plan is. Learning how to think scientifically is perfect for lots of
jobs. People go into banking, patent law, all sorts of things that need
high-level skills. I totally respect other choices.”
The support of Bullitt and other faculty notwithstanding,
Hyman views BEST’s biggest challenge as changing the traditional
academic culture. “We were all trained by our mentors to be like
them,” she says. “I think most PIs are really excited about their jobs.
It’s like having a kid. You want the best for your kid and you think
being a PI is the best.”
PHOTO BY CYDNEY SCOTT
to clearly communicate science, are part of learning to be a bench
scientist and should carry over into jobs outside of academia,
Hyman says.
“What you learn in graduate school and as a postdoc provides you
with transferable skills for a variety of careers, including researchintense and research-related ones,” she says. “That doesn’t mean that
everyone is going to get their first choice jobs—you still have to be
competent and competitive and trained—but the jobs are there.”
The grant includes a position for program manager. With
Bullitt’s support, Chelsea Epler applied for, and got, the job. After
considerable soul searching, she had decided that even if she could
eventually land a faculty job somewhere, the current realities of academic research—the constant anxiety over funding, the hours spent
writing grants that might well not be accepted—were not for her.
“She would have been a great PI,” Bullitt says, “but I want her to
be happy, too.”
Epler says she was elated to start the new job with BEST in February. “I want to help other people not have the crisis I was having,”
she says.
Bullitt commends BEST’s efforts to provide more guidance and
professional development for trainees. “I feel like I have to help
them be the best independent scientists they can be,” she says. “If
PHOTO BY DAN AGUIRRE
The broken pipeline
After years of reports documenting “the broken pipeline” in
biomedical research, and with postdocs themselves speaking
up more, there are signs that things are beginning to change.
Last fall Boston postdocs organized a Future of Research symposium at BUSM to call attention to the problem and propose
reforms. And now, with the NIH recommending that graduate
students and postdocs be better prepared for “a broad-based
and evolving research and research-related economy”—in
other words, for jobs outside of academia—a growing number
of universities, including BU, are stepping up their efforts to
recognize and help postdocs.
BUSM opened the Office of Professional Development and
Postdoctoral Affairs four years ago, under Hyman. The office
expanded to the Charles River Campus in February with the
appointment of Sarah Chobot Hokanson (CAS’05), who has a
PhD in biochemistry and biophysics and did a postdoc fellowship
in chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell, as program director.
The office offers all graduate students and postdocs professional
guidance that includes nonresearch-related training, such as workshops led by Lauren Celano (Questrom’10), who runs the Boston
area life sciences search and career development firm Propel and
helps trainees connect with opportunities outside of academia.
There are 525 postdocs across the University and about two thirds
of them are in biomedical research on the Medical Campus.
Last fall, BUSM won a five-year, $1.25 million NIH Broadening
Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) grant—one of 17 given
to universities across the country. The grant is enabling BUSM to
implement a novel program that will reengineer the biomedical
training pipeline by preparing postdocs and graduate students
for science careers both in and outside of traditional academic
research. Hyman is a principal investigator on the BEST team,
along with Director of Graduate Studies Barbara M. Schreiber.
They are working closely with industry partners to identify available biomedical research and research-related jobs and to make
sure trainees are prepared for those jobs. Some skills, such as critical thinking, problem solving, working in a team, and the ability
Always changing, always new, always exciting
Not surprisingly, some BUSM faculty are skeptical about
trainees who are being paid out of federal research grants, taking
extended time away from the lab for nonresearch-related workshops and other activities.
“Many of us were trained in the culture of being in the lab 24/7,”
says Andrew Henderson, a BUSM associate professor of medicine
and microbiology and assistant dean of student affairs for the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, explaining this view. “You were
expected to be an academic, and you do not understand why anyone
would want to be anything else.
“I do think the culture is changing,” Henderson adds. “Most of
us have peers who have left the academic track. Of the people that I
trained with during my postdoc at Columbia—from 1991 to 1997—
several no longer do bench science.” They are working in venture
capital, business development, intellectual property law, consulting,
journalism, and for executive search firms, he says.
For all the reports of biomedical research graduate students and
postdocs finding happiness and fulfillment outside of academia, there
are concerns that the current academic research atmosphere may
discourage the best scientists in the rising generation of researchers.
“It’s a joy to do what we do,” says Joseph Mizgerd, a BUSM professor of medicine, microbiology, and biochemistry and director of the
Pulmonary Center. “I love trying to understand the biology. It’s always
changing, it’s always new, it’s always exciting. We’re really privileged.
I think our students and postdocs don’t hear the plus sides from us
enough. The obstacles and anxieties are obvious, and deservedly get
emphasis from their mentors. But we should also be telling them
more often about the wonderful sides of academic research and what
a fulfilling and meaningful career it can be. It’s a really hard and difficult path and you might not make it, but you are guaranteed not to
make it if you don’t try. The potential rewards are great.”
Hyman agrees. “BU’s BEST is not saying that academia isn’t a
good career,” she says. “We just want people to know what they’re
getting into and to open their eyes about options. The problem with
the old system is that you weren’t given the opportunity to think
about anything outside of academia.”
Sarah Mazzilli, who has a PhD in cancer pharmacology and
experimental therapeutics, says she loves the research she is
engaged in as a postdoc in the pulmonary research lab of Avrum
Spira (ENG’02), a BUSM professor of medicine, pathology and laboratory medicine, and bioinformatics. She also says that she is well
aware of how hard the academic path is and that she is determined
to try. “I have a lot of freedom here, a lot of support,” Mazzilli says.
“Will I have this perfect tenure position at some high-ranking university? I don’t know that. I have papers to publish; I have to prove
myself. You have so many years to get an RO1 and if you don’t do
that—then what? It’s terrifying. I try to stay as optimistic as I can.
I’m going to keep working as hard as I can.” n
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A single cancer cell (shown in various
colors) undergoing multipolar cell division. This type of abnormal cell division
promotes chromosome missegregation
and aneuploidy.
Neil Ganem with
the members of his
lab (from left) Allison
Matthews, Amanda
Bolgioni (MED’17), Ganem,
Sanghee Lim (MED’19),
Elizabeth Shenk (ENG’16)
and Hatim Mustaly
(MED’19)
Biologist is first BU researcher to earn the award
N
eil J. Ganem, an assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine at the Boston University School
of Medicine (BUSM), has won the prestigious Searle
Scholar award for his research on genomic instability in
cancer cells. His innovative work increases the understanding of cancer cell division, potentially leading to
new avenues of treatment.
G
anem is the first person from BU to receive the Searle
award and one of only 15 winners nationwide in 2015. The
award is given to assistant professors judged to be among the
country’s most promising young researchers in the chemical
and biological sciences. Ganem and the other winners will each
receive $300,000 in flexible funding over three years.
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“The Searle award validates our view that Dr. Ganem’s
research will continue to make great contributions to the area
of cancer biology and, most importantly, to understanding the
basic mechanisms of the disease,” says David H. Farb, who is
chair of BUSM’s department of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics and who recruited Ganem to the School of
Medicine in 2013. “Every so often there’s a person who has a
unique approach to the problem. Neil is one such person.”
The Searle Scholars were chosen by a panel of senior scientists from a pool of 186 finalists nominated by 126 universities
and research institutions. “We are delighted that Dr. Ganem
has been named a Searle Scholar, one of the most prestigious
and competitive new investigator awards,” says Karen Antman, dean of the School of Medicine and provost of the Medical Campus. “We thank the Searle Scholars Program for this
award, which will further support Dr. Ganem’s research on
how cancer cells adapt to abnormal chromosomal content.”
“I’m a bit shocked, but also very proud,” says Ganem,
who received his PhD from the Geisel School of Medicine at
Dartmouth College and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dana
Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School under David
PHOTO BY CYDNEY SCOTT
By Sara Rimer
Pellman. “I know and admire the work of so many Searle
Scholars. It is truly an honor to be a part of that group.”
Ganem uses a combination of high-resolution microscopy,
genome-wide RNA screening, and bioinformatics to study the
consequences of genomic instability in human cancer. His lab
seeks to understand the tumor suppression mechanisms that
limit the proliferation of aneuploid cells—cells that have the
wrong number of chromosomes and are found in virtually all
tumors—and to identify the common genetic adaptations made
by cancer cells to overcome these growth barriers.
He says he will use part of his Searle award to upgrade the
$150,000 microscope that his lab uses for live cell imaging. As a
postdoctoral fellow, Ganem’s expertise in imaging helped him
uncover a mechanism leading to chromosome missegregation
and the generation of aneuploid cancer cells. This discovery
was Nature’s cover article in July 2009 and has been widely
cited since publication. During summer 2014, Ganem published a follow-up study in Cell describing how some cancer
cells adapt to tolerate this abnormal number of chromosomes.
The Searle was Ganem’s sixth foundation grant in
five months and brings his private foundation funding to
A high-resolution image of a cancer cell
undergoing mitosis. A single chromosome (shown in white) is highlighted.
During normal cell division, chromosomes are equally partitioned to two
cells by a cellular machine called the
mitotic spindle (shown in green). The
mitotic spindle captures chromosomes
by binding to structures termed kinetochores (shown in red). In cancer cells,
this chromosome-capture mechanism
is commonly defective.
$936,000. “It’s unparalleled,” Farb says of Ganem’s funding
streak.
The other awards include: the Smith Family Foundation
Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research ($300,000);
the Skin Cancer Foundation’s Todd Nagel Memorial Award
($25,000); the Melanoma Research Alliance’s Jackie King
Young Investigator Award ($225,000); the Karin Grunebaum
Cancer Research Scholar Award ($36,000); and the Alexander
Burdo Research Award ($50,000), given through the Sarcoma
Foundation of America.
Ganem says that these awards, named for cancer patients
or survivors, offer him inspiration and a sense of purpose. For
instance, Jackie King was 19 when she discovered a mole on
her back and was diagnosed with melanoma. She died in September 2014 at age 22. “Jackie was a remarkable young woman
who fought courageously for three years,” Ganem says. “She
advocated tirelessly for the Sunscreen Innovation Act, which
was passed by Congress in 2014, and she became an active
member of the Melanoma Research Alliance. Her personal
motto, ‘It’s cancer’s turn to be afraid,’ is a powerful and motivating message that I will never forget.” n
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IMAGE COURTESY OF NEIL GANEM
Professor Neil Ganem
Named Searle Scholar
BUSM
Research
■ Being Fit at 40 May Keep Your Brain Sharp
at 60
People with poor physical fitness in their 40s may have
lower brain volumes by the time they hit 60, an indicator
of accelerated brain aging, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association EPI/Lifestyle
2015 meeting. “Many people don’t start worrying about
their brain health until later in life, but this study provides
more evidence that certain behaviors and risk factors in
midlife may have consequences for brain aging later on,”
said Nicole L. Spartano, PhD, lead author and a post-­
doctoral fellow at BUSM.
In individuals with low fitness levels, the blood pressure and heart rate responses to low levels of exercise
are often much higher than in individuals with better fitness. “Small blood vessels in the brain are vulnerable to
changes in blood pressure and can be damaged by these
fluctuations,” Spartano said. “Vascular damage in the
brain can contribute to structural changes in the brain
and cognitive losses. In our investigation we wanted to
determine whether exaggerated blood pressure fluctuations during exercise were related to later structural
changes in the brain.”
A review in the
journal Milbank
Memorial
Quarterly has
now found that
race/ethnicity
is not consistently associated with
the overuse
of medical
care (unnecessary care
that does not
improve patient
outcomes).
thus contribute to the underuse among minorities, further exacerbating disparities in care. “Problems with
the fairness of both systems and practitioners must be
identified and corrected, and minority patients’ distrust
of physicians and health systems and their more pessimistic expectations of the outcomes of treatment must
be addressed. It is vital that any corrections do not lead
to more inappropriate care among minority patients
but instead encourage appropriate care,” said Kressin.
■ Study of Veterans Finds Family Support
During Deployment Reduces Suicidal
Thoughts
Health Sciences Division, National Center for PTSD at
the VA Boston Healthcare System. According to the
researchers, this study provides fresh evidence for the
role of deployment family factors in post-deployment
suicidal ideation and further highlights the potential of
treating mental health symptoms as a means of preventing suicidal thoughts among veterans.
This work was supported by the Department of Veterans
Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service
grant: “Validation of Modified DRRI Scales in a National
Sample of OEF/OIF Veterans.”
■ Potassium Improved Blood Pressure in Teen
Girls; Salt Had No Adverse Effect
Eating 3,000 mg per day of salt or more appears to have
no adverse effect on blood pressure (BP) in adolescent
girls, while those girls who consumed 2,400 mg per day
or more of potassium had lower blood pressure at the
end of adolescence, according to an article published
online by the Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA) Pediatrics.
■ Race/Ethnicity Sometimes Associated with
Overuse of Medical Care
Racial and ethnic disparities in the receipt of health care
(typically referring to minorities not receiving needed care)
are well known. A review in the journal Milbank Memorial
Quarterly has now found that race/ethnicity is not consistently associated with the overuse of medical care (unnecessary care that does not improve patient outcomes).
However, when overuse occurs, a substantial proportion
occurs among white patients. These findings may lead
to a better understanding of how and why race/ethnicity
might be associated with overuse and may result in ways
to reduce it from occurring.
“We found no clear patterns regarding race and
overuse by clinical area, type of treatment, category of
findings, or the study’s risk of bias, although the quality
of data was markedly poorer in those studies finding no
race differences, and poorer-quality data analyses were
most often evident in studies finding more overuse
among minorities relative to whites,” explained lead
author Nancy Kressin, PhD, director of the Healthcare
Disparities Research Program in the BUSM Department
of Medicine, member of the Section of General Internal
Medicine at Boston Medical Center and research
career scientist at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
According to the researchers, overuse of care among
whites may consume scarce health care resources and
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Family support during
deployment
is an important protective
factor against
post-deployment suicidal ideation,
which includes
thoughts that
can range from
fleeting consideration of
suicide to the
development
of a specific
plan for killing
oneself.
According to a new study in the journal Anxiety, Stress
and Coping, family support during deployment is an
important protective factor against post-deployment
suicidal ideation, which includes thoughts that can range
from fleeting consideration of suicide to the development
of a specific plan for killing oneself. Research on suicidal
ideation in veterans who served in support of Operation
Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi
Freedom in Iraq has revealed a number of important predictors of suicidal ideation, including potentially traumatic
deployment experiences such as combat and sexual
assault; mental health symptoms and diagnoses such as
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression; and
lack of social support. Despite advances in understanding
suicidal ideation among veterans, family factors during
deployment remain relatively unexplored as predictors of
suicidal ideation in this population.
“We found that both family stress and lack of family
support during deployment were associated with suicidal ideation; however, these associations occur primarily through mental health symptomatology, consistent
with findings observed for other deployment factors,”
explained Dawne S. Vogt, PhD, BUSM associate professor of psychiatry and epidemiologist in the Women’s
Lynn L. Moore, DSc, MPH, BUSM associate professor of medicine, and coauthors examined the long-term
effects of dietary sodium and potassium on blood pressure at the end of adolescence. The authors used data
from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s
Growth and Health Study; participants included 2,185
black and white girls (ages 9 to 10) who were followed
for up to 10 years.
The authors found no evidence that higher sodium
intakes had an adverse effect on adolescent blood pressure. Some analysis showed that those girls consuming
3,500 mg per day or more of salt had generally lower diastolic blood pressures than girls who consumed less than
2,500 mg per day. Food consumption was based on selfreports and blood pressure was measured annually.
The findings, which
appear online
in the Annals
of Clinical and
Translational
Neurology,
are the first
to show a
relationship
between fitness and
brain structure in older
adults, but
not younger
adults.
“This prospective study showed that black and white
adolescent girls who consumed more dietary potassium
had lower BPs in later adolescence. In contrast, the data
indicated no overall effect of sodium intake alone on BP,
and thus do not support the call for a global reduction in
sodium intake among children and adolescents. This study
emphasizes the need to develop methods for estimating
salt sensitivity to be used in future studies of high-risk populations and points to the potential health risks associated
with the existing low dietary potassium intakes among US
children and adolescents,” the study concluded.
This work was supported by grants from the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the
National Dairy Council, and the Dairy Council of California.
■ Study Finds Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Contributes to Successful Brain Aging
Cardiorespiratory fitness may positively impact the
structure of white matter in the brains of older adults.
These results suggest that exercise could be prescribed
to lessen age-related declines in brain structure. The
findings, which appear online in the Annals of Clinical
and Translational Neurology, are the first to show a relationship between fitness and brain structure in older
adults, but not younger adults.
The researchers compared younger adults (age 18–31)
to older adults (age 55–82). All participants had MRIs
taken of their brains and their cardiorespiratory (heart
and lung) fitness was measured while they exercised on
a treadmill. “We found that higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness were associated with enhanced brain
structure in older adults,” explained corresponding author
Scott Hayes, PhD, BUSM assistant professor of psychiatry
and the associate director of the Neuroimaging Research
for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
“We found that physical activities that enhance cardio­
respiratory fitness, such as walking, are inexpensive,
accessible, and could potentially improve quality of life
by delaying cognitive decline and prolonging independent function.” The researchers caution that additional
research is needed to track changes in fitness and brain
structure over time, as well as clarify the impact of
specific exercise programs (such as strength, aerobic,
or combined training) or dose of exercise (frequency,
intensity, duration) on white matter microstructure.
This work was supported by the Department of Veterans
Affairs, Rehabilitation Research & Development Service, the
Department of Veterans Affairs, Clinical Science Research &
Development Service, and the National Institute on Aging.
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Giving 2015
bu.edu/supportingbusm
DAB Welcomes New Members
Impact by
the Numbers
An update on the progress of
the seven-year, $200 million
Campaign for BUSM
New Dean’s
Advisory Board
members Leslie
K. Serchuck
(MED’90), MA,
MBE, and Wayne
J. Riley, MD, MPH,
MBA
as a member of both the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the
Executive IRB Committee of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
and as a pediatric ad hoc member of the Data Safety Monitoring Board
for a large multicenter, international study conducted by a pharmaceutical company. Since 2012, Dr. Serchuck has been on the board of
directors and the scientific advisory board of the nonprofit Foundation
for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR), serving as the FSR research representative to the Global Rare Diseases Registry and Repository at the Office
of Rare Diseases in the National Center for Advancing Translational
Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the principal investigator and developer of the FSR Online Patient Registry, which will
serve as a key resource for partnered initiatives with academic investigators and the pharmaceutical industry to bring new therapies to
patients with sarcoidosis.
Serchuck received her undergraduate degree in psychology from
Hamilton College and her Master’s in Counseling Psychology from
Lesley University. She completed her internship, residency, and fellowship in Pediatrics/Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the former Boston
City Hospital, now Boston Medical Center. She received her Master’s
in Biomedical Ethics from the University of Pennsylvania. n
Rachel
Fearns
FRANK CURRAN, STEPHEN BRIDGES
Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, and Leslie K. Serchuck (MED’90),
MA, MBE, have been named members of the BUSM Dean’s Advisory
Board (DAB). Members serve three-year renewable terms and actively
participate in School planning and external relations activities.
DAB members are leaders in medicine, business, technology, and
many other sectors of society. They share a passion for basic science, clinical research, and supporting BUSM. Board members are
uniquely positioned to help advance the School and its students,
scientists, and clinicians.
Riley is president-elect of the American College of Physicians,
the largest medical specialty organization and the second-largest
physician group in the United States. Riley served with distinction as the 10th president and chief executive officer of Meharry
Medical College from January 2007 to June 2013. He also held
academic appointments as a tenured professor of internal medicine
and a senior health policy associate in the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry, which he founded.
Currently, Riley is a clinical professor of medicine at Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine and an adjunct professor of health
care management and “Health Care Executive in Residence” at
Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, where he
teaches health care leadership and advises and mentors emerging
health care MBA executives and MD/MBA students.
Riley received his BA in Anthropology from Yale University and
his MPH in Health Systems Management from the Tulane University
School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. He earned his MD from
the Morehouse School of Medicine. He also holds an MBA from Rice
University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management.
Serchuck is a pediatric infectious diseases physician and bioethicist
with specific expertise in the development, administration, and conduct of clinical trials and translational research. She currently serves
$144.1M Raised
$120.0M Permanently Restricted
$24.0M Current Use
23 Months Remain in the Campaign
More than $15.3M Raised for Student Scholarships
Figures are as of August 1, 2015.
Campaign concludes July 1, 2017.
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Boston University School of Medicine
2,157 Alumni Participating in Campaign
$100.9M Raised from Corporations and Foundations
CYDNEY SCOTT
$3.27M in School of Medicine Annual Fund Support
RACHEL FEARNS RECEIVES
HARTWELL BIOMEDICAL
RESEARCH AWARD
Rachel Fearns, PhD, BUSM
associate professor of microbiology, has received a 2014
Hartwell Individual Biomedical
Research Award supporting
innovative research with the
potential to benefit children
in the United States. One of
12 scientists nationwide to
be recognized as a Hartwell
Investigator, Fearns will receive
$300,000 over three years
to study respiratory syncytial
virus (RSV), a severe respiratory disease in infants and
young children and the leading cause of viral death in
children. In spite of decades
of RSV research, there is currently no vaccine or effective
treatment for it. The goal of
Fearns’ Hartwell Foundationsupported project is to determine if particular protein
activities are essential to the
virus. If so, these activities
could pave the way toward a
major scientific breakthrough:
the development of a drug
to combat this common, lifethreatening disease.
The Hartwell Award is
designed to fund innovative, cutting-edge research in
its formative stages; projects that, as such, are unlikely
to initially be supported by
traditional funders such as
the NIH. Beyond supporting
Fearns’ research, the Hartwell
Foundation will provide an
additional $100,000 to a
postdoctoral fellow training
in pediatric research.
MASS LIFE SCIENCES CENTER
AWARDS $1.92M TO BU, BMC
The Massachusetts Life
Sciences Center (MLSC), an
investment agency that supports life sciences innovation,
research, development, and
commercialization, awarded
Boston University and Boston
Medical Center $1,740,000
to launch an expansive
Lung Regeneration Initiative
(LRI) as part of the Center
for Regenerative Medicine
(CReM). The LRI’s goal is the
clinical application of recent
BU-led discoveries in stem cell
research, such as the treatment
of lung diseases with personalized therapeutics, as well as the
ultimate reconstitution of diseased lung epithelia in patients
with emphysema. The LRI also
aims to define and launch treatments for pulmonary fibrosis,
pulmonary hypertension, cystic
fibrosis, and acute lung injury
from inhaled pathogens.
MLSC also awarded BU’s
Biomedical Laboratory
and Clinical Sciences
(BLCS) Program, offered by
Metropolitan College in collaboration with the School of
Medicine, $180,000 in funding
to enhance the quality of the
training and add to the competencies of the students.
“We are delighted that both
the Center for Regenerative
Medicine and the Biomedical
Laboratory and Clinical
Sciences Program have
received this honor from the
Massachusetts Life Science
Center,” said Karen Antman,
MD, dean of Boston University
School of Medicine and provost
of Boston University Medical
Campus. “Their investments
in these programs will help
patients with pulmonary hypertension, cystic fibrosis, and
acute lung injury as well as provide students with the necessary equipment as they train
for careers in the biotechnology
field.”
BUSM RECEIVES $405,000
FROM SUSAN G. KOMEN
Susan G. Komen has awarded
Boston University School of
Medicine $405,000 to train
underrepresented minority graduate students at the
Boston University School of
Public Health on breast cancer disparities experienced
by low-income patients.
Led by Associate Professor
Tracy Battaglia, MD, the BU
Mentorship and Training in
Cancer Health Disparities
(MATCH) Graduate Training
in Disparities Research program will expand on activities
previously funded by Susan
G. Komen. Through this new
three-year grant, participants
will develop research skills
focused on disparities in cancer
care and treatment. Funding
will support training in research
methods, mentorship by senior
investigators, exposure to
patient care and research, and
engagement with community
organizations.
This work is a natural extension of Dr. Battaglia’s expertise
in minority health issues, the
School’s deep commitment
to urban health and underserved populations, and its
affiliation with Boston Medical
Center, the city’s recognized
safety-net hospital and a rich
environment for current and
future health care professionals dedicated to advancing
the health and well-being of
all individuals and communities. The MATCH program
also addresses the Institute of
Medicine’s 2013 recommendation that the health care community, including researchers,
work together to equitably
improve the quality of life and
outcomes for all patients with
cancer. n
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Giving
DONOR REPORT
DONOR REPORT
Thank you, donors
The Chester S. Keefer, MD Society • The Chester S. Keefer, MD Society was established as a means of recognizing
individuals whose personal philanthropy has helped advance the dual research and education missions of Boston University
School of Medicine. The Society is named in honor of Dr. Chester S. Keefer, whose foresight and determination in roles as
chairman of the Department of Medicine, dean of Boston University School of Medicine, and director of the Medical Center,
were responsible for laying the foundation for the Boston University Medical Center. In memory of his spirit, we honor those
donors whose total contributions have reached $50,000 or more at the School of Medicine. Names in bold are new members.
GIVING LEVELS:
$50,000–$99,999
Mercury members
• Invitation to the spring Chester
S. Keefer, MD Society Dinner
• Honorary plaque
$100,000–$249,999
Bronze members
• All of the previously listed
benefits
• Invitation to and preferred
seating, when available, at
select BU/BUSM events
throughout the year
Department of Medicine Creates New Professorships
T
he Department of Medicine proudly celebrates four new
endowed professorships honoring and immortalizing iconic
faculty members.
The David C. Seldin, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine will honor
the late Dr. Seldin, who led the Amyloidosis Center, HematologyOncology Section, and Graduate Program in Molecular Medicine.
An accomplished investigator, clinician, and teacher, he was a beacon
of hope for his patients, a source of inspiration for his trainees, and
greatly admired by his colleagues.
The Joseph A. Vita, MD, Professorship will honor the late Dr.
Vita, associate chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine and
a member of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute. A renowned
and passionate physician investigator and clinician in cardiovascular
medicine, he was a generous, award-winning mentor for generations
of residents, fellows, and junior faculty.
The Norman G. Levinsky, MD, Professorship in Nephrology will
honor the late Dr. Levinsky, chief of the Section of Nephrology (1967–
8, 1971–87), chair of the Department of Medicine (1972–97), and
associate provost of the Medical Campus (1997–2003). The quintessential physician investigator who devoted his distinguished career
to discovery, education, clinical care, and administration, he is widely
credited with building an extraordinary Department of Medicine.
The John Noble, MD, Professorship in General Internal Medicine
will honor Dr. Noble, who recently retired from the department after
serving for nearly 30 years. Chief of General Internal Medicine and
director of the Primary Care Center at Boston City Hospital (1978–97),
he was an insightful clinician and prescient leader who foresaw the
importance of primary care in modern health care systems and led the
development of a large and successful academic primary care practice.
Working with the leadership of BUSM, the Department of
Medicine will appoint outstanding faculty leaders to these endowed
professorships. In so doing, the department will further fortify its
academic future while honoring the legacies of Drs. Seldin, Vita,
Levinsky, and Noble. If you wish to support any of these funds,
please contact the BUSM Development Office at 617-638-4570
or [email protected]. n
$250,000–$499,999
Silver members
• All of the previously listed
benefits
• Personalized tour of research/
clinical area of your choice at
BU Medical Campus
$500,000–$999,999
Gold members
• All of the previously listed
benefits
• Direct communication with the
recipients of your generosity
(students, faculty, researchers)
$1,000,000+
Platinum members
• All of the previously listed
benefits
• Private lunch with the Dean
and other leadership of the
School of Medicine
IN Memoriam
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Boston University School of Medicine
of the Armenian Medical Fund
and the Aram V. Chobanian,
MD, Scholarship Fund. Dr.
Ghassemian spent more than
30 years in private practice as
an internist and cardiologist in
Methuen, Massachusetts.
Robert Schiesske (MET’78,
GSM’82), a BUSM Dean’s
Advisory Board member, on
October 23 at the age of 69.
Mr. Schiesske established
an endowed scholarship in
2012. He received his appreciation of education from his
parents, who demonstrated
a strong work ethic and resilience throughout their lives,
despite facing many health
challenges. Mr. Schiesske was
equally devoted to lifelong
learning—while working in
the IT field, he earned a master of applied science from
BU’s Metropolitan College
as well as a master of business administration from
BU’s Graduate School of
Management.
Bold—New Member
KALMAN ZABARSKY
Albert Ghassemian, MD, a
BUSM Dean’s Advisory Board
member, on April 2 at the age
of 76. Dr. Ghassemian established an endowed scholarship in 2013 with his late wife,
Virginia, for worthy undergraduate students at Boston
University and the School of
Medicine. The Ghassemians
were also generous supporters
■ FY15 Donors
■ Deceased
PL ATI N UM
Joel J. Alpert, MD ■
and Barbara W. Alpert (SPH’79)
Merwyn Bagan, MD, MPH (MED’62,
SPH’95) and Carol J. Bagan ■
Nancy L. R. Bucher, MD
Howard D. Buzzee ■
Shamim A. Dahod, MD (MED’87, CGS’76,
CAS’78) and Ashraf M. Dahod ■
Richard H. Egdahl, MD
and Cynthia Egdahl (GRS’77)
Alan Gerry and Sandra Gerry
Albert M. Ghassemian, MD ■
Audrey & Martin Gruss Foundation ■
Lewis Heafitz and Ina B. Heafitz
Stephen R. Karp (CAS’63)
and Jill E. Karp ■
Sarkis J. Kechejian, MD (MED’63)
and Ida Kechejian
Sherry M. Leventhal
and Alan M. Leventhal ■
Inez Lopez ■
Frank J. Miselis, MD (MED’45) ■
and Theodora T. Miselis
Jerome S. Serchuck and Joan S. Serchuck ■
Wesley R. Skinner ■
and Charlotte A. Skinner ■
Jack N. Spivack ■
Helen L. Tarlow
and Sherwood J. Tarlow (LAW’47) ■
Diane Tauber and Laszlo N. Tauber, MD ■
GOLD
Anita B. Barkan (CAS’46) ■ and Donald
B. Barkan, MD (CAS’43, MED’45) ■
George A. Finley III and Phyllis A. Finley ■
John L. Hall II (CAS’65) and Ann T. Hall
Paul F. Nace, Jr.
Paul Rothbaum and Jean Rothbaum ■ ■
Elayne Russek
Thomas J. Ryan, MD and Nancy T. Ryan
S I LV ER
Norman W. Alpert and Jane Alpert ■
William Y. W. Au, MD (MED’55, CAS’51)
and Beverly N. Au ■ ■
Douglas E. Barnard, MD (MED’65) and
Donna R. Barnard, MD (MED’65) ■
Gerald Besson, MD (MED’50)
and Eleanore S. Besson ■
Helen L. Burr ■ and George Burr ■
Lin Castre and Abraham D. Gosman ■
Ann C. Cea, MD (MED’67)
and Anthony Tedeschi ■
Aram V. Chobanian, MD
and Jasmine Chobanian ■ ■
Mary Lou Cohn
and Arthur B. Wein, MD (MED’39) ■
Andrew B. Crummy, Jr., MD (MED’55)
and Elsa E. Crummy ■
Robert C. Green, MD
and Sally E. McNagny, MD
Hideo H. Itabashi, MD (MED’54,
CAS’49) ■ and Yoko O. Itabashi ■
Stanley H. Konefal, MD (MED’47) ■
and Elaine Foster
Lenore Larkin and Harold S. Larkin ■
Susan E. Leeman, PhD ■
Douglas N. MacInnis, MD (MED’46) ■
Barry M. Manuel, MD (MED’58, CAS’54)
and Patricia D. Manuel, PhD (SON’78,
SED’86) ■
Rita Z. Mehos ■
John H. Nichols, Jr. ■
Carl A. Olsson, MD (MED’63)
and Mary D. Olsson ■
Peter E. Pochi, MD (MED’55) ■
Alexander M. Rodger ■
Lee B. Silver, MD (MED’82, CAS’82)
and Rachelle L. Silver ■
Mary U. Taylor ■
A. Raymond Tye (Questrom’47) ■
Joseph M. Wikler ■
and Madeline Wikler ■
Amber Wong
Arnold Wong, Jr.
B RO N Z E
Anonymous (3) ■
Carmela R. Abraham, PhD
and Menachem E. Abraham ■
Gerhard R. Andlinger
and Jeanne D. Andlinger
Dean Karen Antman, MD
and Elliott Antman, MD ■
John T. Avellino and R. Ellen Avellino ■
Ruth M. Batson (SED’76) ■
Melvin R. Berlin and Randy L. Berlin ■
Jag Bhawan, MD
and Pratibha G. Bhawan, MD
David G. Bradley
and Katherine B. Bradley
Yi-Chuan Ching, MD (MED’58)
and Helen Yu-Ching ■ ■
Michael J. Critelli and Joyce M. Critelli
Elizabeth C. Dooling, MD (MED’65) ■
Paul R. Dooling and Sandra A. Danussi
Joseph S. Fastow, MD (MED’70)
and Ellen K. Fastow ■
Joseph T. Ferrucci, MD and Brenda Ferrucci
Charlotte K. Forster and Philip Forster ■
Frederick L. Fox, MD (MED’68)
and Gail P. Fox ■
Charles N. Freed and Marlene Freed
Jack C. Guden ■
Ian Highet and Lea Highet
Michael F. Holick, MD, PhD
and Sally A. Holick
Jeffrey R. Jay, MD (MED’83, CAS’83)
and Mary Ellen A. Jay ■
Donald M. Kaplan, MD (MED’73)
and Edna E. Kaplan (COM’88) ■
Earl G. Kendrick, Jr. and Randy Kendrick
The Kessler Family ■
Nasir A. Khan, MD ■
and Kay S. Khan (SON’65, SON’81)
Elaine B. Kirshenbaum (CAS’71, SED’72,
SPH’79) and Howard D.
Kirshenbaum, MD ■ ■
Lewis F. Kornfeld, Jr. ■
and Rose Ann Kornfeld
Lawrence E. Langsam (Questrom’57)
and Hannah S. Langsam ■
Estella I. Leach ■
Richard S. Leghorn
Ruth R. Levine, PhD ■
and Martin Levine (DGE’49) ■
Henry Lew, MD (MED’62)
and Winifred Lew ■
James H. Lowell II and Susan W. Lowell ■
Rocco S. Marino, MD (MED’42) ■
JoAnn McGrath ■
Robert B. Melikian (CGS’60, CAS’62)
Steven A. Miller, MD (MED’70, CAS’70)
and Jacqueline H. Miller, PhD
(CAS’70) ■
Joseph B. Mizgerd, MD
and Ann F. Mizgerd, MD ■
Charles Mosesian ■
Peter J. Mozden, MD (MED’53) ■
Carolann S. Najarian, MD (MED’80)
and George Najarian ■
Wilson Nolen
Paul I. Ossen, MD (MED’43) ■
Simon C. Parisier, MD (MED’61)
and Elaine Parisier ■
William Patty and Eliot Patty
Louise E. Penta
and P. A. Penta, MD (MED’51) ■
M. Douglass Poirier, MD (MED’76,
CAS’73) and Jeffrey D. Tripp ■
Theodore Polos, MD (MED’47)
and Jean Polos
Joelyn Rohman and Michael Rohman,
MD (MED’50) ■ ■
Elihu Rose, PhD and Susan W. Rose
Doris M. Russell and Robert F. Russell,
MD (MED’46) ■
Robert E. Schiesske (MET’78,
Questrom’82) ■
Charles L. Schwager (Questrom’66) and
Evelyn C. Schwager (Questrom’66)
Richard D. Scott, MD
and Mary D. Scott, MD ■
Muriel Shapiro and Arnold Shapiro ■
John R. Silber, PhD ■
and Kathryn U. Silber ■
Charles W. Smith
and Hazel Smith (MET’83)
Gordon L. Snider, MD ■
Edward Spindell, MD (MED’53) ■
and Judith K. Spindell ■
Eliot Stewart and John M. Stewart ■
Christine E. Stiefel
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DONOR REPORT
Louis W. Sullivan, MD (MED’58)
and Eva G. Sullivan ■
Elliott H. Sweetser, MD (MED’43) ■
and Aileen B. Sweetser ■
Nevart Talanian ■
Gloria P. Talis
and George J. Talis, MD (MED’50) ■
Alfred I. Tauber, MD
and Paula Fredriksen, PhD
Yolande Tsampalieros
and Gabriel Tsampalieros ■
Deborah W. Vaughan, PhD (GRS’72) ■
Martin L. Vogel, MD (MED’53)
and Phyllis M. Vogel ■
Henry R. Wolfe, MD (MED’45)
and Grace A. Wolfe ■ ■
Herbert H. Wotiz, PhD ■
Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD (MED’64)
and Julie Yannuzzi
Jeremiah O. Young, MD (MED’62)
and Beverly A. Young ■
Lily Moo Young, MD (MED’65)
and John G. Johansson ■
M E RCU RY
Anonymous
Lawrence D. Ackman
and Ronnie Ackman
Noubar B. Afeyan, PhD and Anna Afeyan
Gerald Ajemian and Lucille Ajemian ■
Dwight M. Akers, MD (MED’53) ■
and Beverly R. Akers ■
Winston D. Alt, MD (MED’80)
and Deborah Gribbon ■
Max M. April, MD (CAS’81, MED’85)
and Pamela T. April (Questrom’83)
Michael L. J. Apuzzo, MD (MED’65)
and Helene Apuzzo ■
Jeanne F. Arnold, MD (MED’61)
and Peter F. Jeffries, MD (MED’60) ■
Edward Avedisian (CFA’59, CFA’61)
and Pamela W. Avedisian, DDH ■
Richard K. Babayan, MD and
Sonya Nersessian, Esq. (LAW’85) ■
Shirley Baker and Steven Baker ■
Elizabeth Day Barnett, MD (MED’85) and
Suleiman N. Mustafa-Kutana, MD ■
Paul C. Barsam, MD (STH’52)
and Joyce L. Barsam, PhD ■
Howard C. Beane, MD (MED’57)
and Shirley T. Beane ■
John H. Bechtel, MD (MED’50)
and Shirley F. Bechtel ■
Franklyn D. Berry, MD (MED’41) ■
Betty E. Bishop
and David W. Bishop, MD (MED’46) ■
Elsa C. Bodon, MD (MED’41) ■
James F. Bopp, Jr. ■
S. Arthur Boruchoff, MD (MED’51) ■
and Anna Silverman-Boruchoff, MD
(MED’49) ■
Yvonne K. Brockman and Stanley K.
Brockman, MD (MED’55) ■ ■
Robert A. Cameron ■
Felizardo S. Camilon, Jr., MD
and Althea B. Molarte, MD
Robert J. Carey, MD (MED’54) ■
and Mary E. Carey (SED’55)
Richard J. Cavell, MD (MED’61)
and Bonnie Cavell
Edmond E. Charrette, MD (MED’62)
and Maria T. Charrette
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Harold N. Chefitz (COM’55, CGS’53)
and Charlotte M. Chefitz ■
Jeremy Chess, MD (MED’70, CAS’70)
David J. Chronley, MD (MED’74)
and Marianne J. Chronley ■
Frank Citrone, Jr. and Carol Citrone
John F. Cogan, Jr.
and Mary L. Cornille (GRS’87)
Alan S. Cohen, MD (MED’52)
and Joan P. Cohen
Marian M. Cook
Sidney Covich ■
Brit d’Arbeloff
and Alexander V. d’Arbeloff ■
Paul E. Dixon, Jr. and Rebecca K. Dixon ■
Hilda Ratner Dressler, MD (MED’34) ■
Carol A. Dyer
and Gene Gordon, MD (MED’46) ■
Alan M. Edelstein, Esq. (Questrom’47,
LAW’49) and Sybil Edelstein ■
Mary Jane R. England, MD (MED’64) ■
Michael J. Esposito, MD (MED’49) ■
Judith N. Feldman
Idea S. Fiering ■
Bertha Offenbach Fineberg, MD
(MED’36) ■ and Nathan L. Fineberg,
MD (MED’30) ■
Samuel Finkielsztein and Gala Finkielsztein
Nicholas J. Fiumara, MD (MED’39) ■
Beverly R. Franklin (CAS’44) and
William E. Franklin, MD (MED’46) ■
Carl Franzblau, PhD
and Myrna Franzblau (SED’73) ■
Patricia L. Freysinger (SON’82) ■
Monte Friedkin and Skeets Friedkin
Ralph G. Ganick, MD (MED’67, CAS’67)
and Lois B. Ganick ■
Ray A. Garver and Donna L. Garver
Marion L. Gendron (PAL’26) ■
Jonathan P. Gertler, MD (Questrom’99)
and Jane Rogers Clark, MD ■
George E. Ghareeb, MD (MED’62)
and Nancy B. Ghareeb ■
Arnold Goldenberg, MD (MED’54)
and Bernice Goldenberg
Gloria Goldenberg ■ and
Philip T. Goldenberg, MD (MED’46) ■
Burton P. Golub, MD (MED’65)
and Lee Golub ■
Malcolm Gordon, MD (MED’48)
and Nan Miller ■
Dorothy A. Gottlieb (CAS’76)
and Leonard S. Gottlieb, MD ■
Doris Grabosky and Jack Grabosky
Ellen R. Grass ■
Morton S. Grossman (MET’42) ■
and Sylvia Grossman ■
Kenneth M. Grundfast, MD
and Ruthanne Grundfast ■
Fritz Grunebaum ■
Kamlyn R. Haynes, MD (MED’97, CAS’89)
and Joe Parse ■
Juan De J. Hernandez Batista and
Maria A. Tavarez-De Hernandez ■
Arnold S. Hiatt
Ann S. Hintlian and Deran Hintlian
Arline Housman ■ and
Herbert E. Housman (Questrom’42) ■
Charles Housman
Edward L. Housman (Questrom’42)
and Charlotte Housman
Bernard L. Huang, MD (MED’62, CAS’57)
and Ann M. Huang
Richard E. Hunter, MD (MED’44)
and Minta Hunter
David Ingall, MD (MED’57, CAS’52,
GRS’53) and Carol Ingall ■
Patricia K. Issarescu, MD (MED’61)
Joseph A. Izzi, Sr., MD and Barbara A. Izzi
Esther B. Kahn (SED’55) ■
Charlotte A. Kaitz and
Louis L. Kaitz (MET’78, Questrom’47) ■
Honorable Damon J. Keith ■
Burton I. Korelitz, MD (MED’51)
and Ann Z. Korelitz ■
Conan Kornetsky, PhD
Edward E. Krukonis, MD (MED’63)
and Priscilla J. Krukonis ■
Charna C. Larkin and Alan B. Larkin ■ ■
Robert E. Leach, MD and Laurine Leach
Brigitte Lonner and Joseph J. Lonner ■
Rita E. Loos ■
Thomas A. MacLean, MD (MED’64)
and Colleen K. MacLean
William I. Malamud, MD (MED’54)
and Camille C. Malamud
Jules N. Manger, MD (CGS’66)
and Janis G. Manger ■
William M. Manger, MD, PhD
and Lynn S. Manger ■
Richard C. Marcus
Stella C. Martin, PhD and Clive R. Martin
Ronald P. McCaffrey
and Maureen McCaffrey
John F. McCahan, MD
and Kathleen B. McCahan ■
Jean E. McPhail (SED’63)
Robert F. Meenan, MD (MED’72,
Questrom’89) ■
Jordan Monocandilos
Rodney A. Montag and Sally A. Montag
Sanford R. Montag and Nancy L. Montag
Merel G. Mountain
Michael F. Mullarkey, MD (MED’70)
and Dawn Mullarkey (CAS’68)
G. Vijaya Naidu, MD
John Noble, MD
and Ewa Kuligowska, MD ■
Dawn B. Norcia and David J. Norcia
N. Stephen Ober, MD (MED’86, CAS’82)
Anne W. O’Connor
and John F. O’Connor, MD (MED’57) ■
Hytho H. Pantazelos, MD (MED’63)
and Peter G. Pantazelos
Dianne M. Parrotte, MD (MED’79,
CAS’79)
Jordan C. Paul and Valerie J. Paul ■
Lita Perkins and
John S. Perkins (Questrom’36) ■
Jona A. Perlmutter, MD
and Donna Perlmutter
Astrid O. Peterson, MD (MED’77,
CAS’74) ■
N. N. Pike, Esq. (LAW’37) ■
Carol C. Pohl, MD (MED’67)
and Alan L. Pohl, MD ■
John I. Polk, MD (SED’13, MED’74) and
Mary C. Nugent Polk (SON’76,
SON’77) ■
Helen S. Ratner and Frank Ratner, MD
(MED’47) ■ ■
Iver S. Ravin, MD (MED’40) ■ ■
Nancy E. Rice, MD (MED’65)
and Millard J. Hyland, MD ■
Bessie Rosenfield ■ and Louis I.
Rosenfield ■
Gerald L. Ross ■
Melanie Rothbaum and
David Rothbaum, MD (MED’82) ■
Richard A. Rudders, MD
Stephen W. Russell, MD (MED’55)
and Gail D. Russell ■
Hannah E. Sandson
and John I. Sandson, MD ■
Francis P. Saunders, MD (MED’58)
and Lydia M. Saunders
Frank J. Schaberg, Jr., MD (MED’68,
CAS’68) and Monica J. Schaberg, MD
(MED’68, CAS’68) ■
Alan L. Schechter, MD (MED’78)
and Genevieve Schechter ■
Rocco Schelzi ■
The Schulze Family ■
Herman Selinsky, MD (MED’24) ■
Jane L. Shapiro (CAS’69)
Richard J. Shemin, MD (MED’74, CAS’72)
and Susan H. Shemin
Norton L. Sherman and Claire Sherman
The Shooshan Family ■
Stuart E. Siegel, MD (MED’67, CAS’67)
and Barbara Siegel ■
Lois N. Talis ■
Sanford W. Udis, MD (MED’44) ■
Franz Waldeck, MD, PhD ■
Carl W. Walter, MD ■
and Margaret H. Walter ■
Murray Weinstock, MD (MED’65)
and Gloria Weinstock
Sue Rosenwasser Weiss
and Seymour Rosenwasser, MD ■
Anthony Weldon
Peter S. Wellington
and Judith F. Wellington
Jerrold A. Wexler and Joan Wexler
Robert H. Wexler ■
and Joanna B. Wexler ■
Burton White, MD (MED’61)
and June S. White ■
Marcelle M. Willock, MD (Questrom’89) ■
Alan Winters and Hope Winters
Peak Woo, MD (MED’78, CAS’78)
and Celia T. Chung-Woo ■
Earle G. Woodman, MD (MED’58) ■
Moshe Yanai and Rachel Yanai
Frances W. Young ■
Larry C. Young ■
Marion L. Young
and Charles R. Young, PhD ■
Barry Zuckerman, MD
and Pamela Zuckerman, MD
HONORARY MEMB ER S
Dorothy C. Keefer (PAL’46, ’48) ■
Carl Lyle ■ and Ishbel K. Lyle
GIFTS FROM THE DEAN’S ADVISORY BOARD, ALUMNI, FACULTY AND STAFF, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS
Boston University School of Medicine is proud to recognize the generosity of members of the Dean’s Advisory Board,
alumni, parents, faculty, staff, corporations, foundations, organizations, and friends this past year. Their support has helped
the School of Medicine establish new programs and projects that enhance the living and learning environment for our
students and advance our research. We thank our donors for their vision and philanthropy. Additionally, we are pleased to
recognize the generous University-wide support of our BUSM alumni. While space constraints prevent us from listing the
many donors who gave gifts under $250, we sincerely appreciate their support.
■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Three-year Consecutive Giving | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased
DEAN’S ADVISORY BOARD
Menachem Abraham ■
Gerald Ajemian ■
Max M. April, MD (CAS’81, MED’85)
John T. Avellino ■
Merwyn Bagan, MD, MPH (MED’62, SPH’95) ■
Lawrence C. Cancro (CAS’77)
Ann C. Cea, MD (MED’67) ■
Harold N. Chefitz (CGS’53, COM’55) ■
Michael J. Critelli
Suzanne Cutler, PhD (Questrom’61) ■
Shamim A. Dahod, MD (MED’87, CGS’76, CAS’78) ■
Alan M. Edelstein (Questrom’47, LAW’49) ■
Mary Jane R. England, MD (MED’64, Hon.’98) ■
Joseph S. Fastow, MD (MED’70) ■
Jonathan P. Gertler, MD (Questrom’99) ■
Albert M. Ghassemian, MD ■
Shahram S. Gholami, MD (MED’96) ■
Burton P. Golub, MD (MED’65) ■
Lewis Heafitz
Christine Spitaels Hunter, MD (MED’80,
CAS’80) ■
Jeffrey R. Jay, MD (CAS’83, MED’83) ■
Sarkis J. Kechejian, MD (MED’63)
Elaine B. Kirshenbaum (CAS’71, SED’72,
SPH’79) ■
Michael J. Kussman, MD (MED’68, CAS’68) ■
Sherry M. Leventhal ■
William Muir Manger, MD ■
JoAnn McGrath ■
Rita Z. Mehos ■
Edward T. Moore
N. Stephen Ober, MD (CAS’82, MED’86)
Simon C. Parisier, MD (MED’61) ■
Terry R. Peel
John I. Polk, MD (MED’74, SED’13) ■
Deborah B. Prothrow-Stith, MD
Wayne J. Riley, MD
Paul Rothbaum ■
Pedram Salimpour, MD (MED’96, ‘00)
Robert Earl Schiesske (MET’78, Questrom’82) ■
Jerome S. Serchuck ■
Leslie K. Serchuck, MD (MED’90) ■
Sarah-Ann Shaw
Lee Silver, MD (MED’82, CAS’82) ■
Rachelle L. Silver ■
Jack N. Spivack ■
Louis W. Sullivan, MD (MED’58) ■
■ FY15 Donors
$ 1 M – $ 4 .9 M
Ashraf M. Dahod
and Shamim A. Dahod, MD
(MED’87, CGS’76, CAS’78) ■ ■
Jack N. Spivack ■
$ 50 0,0 0 0 – $ 9 9 9,9 9 9
Stephen R. Karp (CAS’63) ■
$ 1 0 0,0 0 0 – $ 249,9 9 9
Anonymous (2) ■ ■
Karen H. Antman, MD
and Elliott Antman, MD ■ ■ ■
Merwyn Bagan, MD (MED’62,
SPH’95) and Carol J. Bagan ■ ■
The Estate of Marie H. Chiarenza ■
The Estate of Richard O. Elliott ■
E. Elaine Erbey (SED’72)
and William C. Erbey ■
Henry T. Lew, MD (MED’62)
and Winifred Lew ■
Joseph B. Mizgerd
and Ann F. Mizgerd ■ ■
Edward Spindell, MD (MED’53) ■ ■
Judith K. Spindell ■
The Estate of Donald O. Ward ■
Joseph M. Wikler ■
and Madeline Wikler ■ ■
$ 50,0 0 0 – $ 9 9,9 9 9
Melvin R. Berlin
and Randy L. Berlin ■ ■
Shahram S. Gholami, MD (MED’96)
and Neda Gholami
Theodora T. Miselis ■
John Noble, MD
and Ewa Kuligowska, MD ■
Joelyn L. Rohman
$ 25,0 0 0 – $ 49,9 9 9
Norman W. Alpert
and Jane D. Alpert ■ ■
The Estate of Robert Beattie ■
Robert S. Chernack and Neda Zovic ■
John P. Howe III, MD (MED’69)
and Tyrrell E. Flawn ■ ■
Alan Leventhal (Hon.’09)
and Sherry Leventhal ■ ■ ■
Rita Z. Mehos ■ ■ ■
Carol C. Pohl, MD (MED’67)
and Alan L. Pohl ■ ■
Norma A. Schulze ■ ■
Robert W. Schulze, MD (CAS’86,
GRS’88, MED’92)
and Dee S. Santilli ■ ■ ■ ■
Richard Seeborg ■
Leon N. Shapiro, MD (MED’48)
and Laurie A. Rosenblatt ■
Lee Silver, MD (MED’82, CAS’82)
and Rachelle Silver ■ ■ ■
Pam R. Taub, MD (MED’03, CAS’98)
and Jonathan Taub ■
Martin L. Vogel, MD (MED’53)
and Phyllis M. Vogel ■ ■
Trust of Mary D. Wells ■
$ 1 0,0 0 0 – $ 24 ,9 9 9
Anonymous
Menachem E. Abraham and
Carmela R. Abraham, PhD ■ ■ ■ ■
Winston D. Alt, MD (MED’80)
and Deborah A. Gribbon ■
The Estate of Helen Altman ■ ■
Michael L. J. Apuzzo, MD (MED’65)
and Helene Apuzzo ■
William Y. W. Au, MD (MED’55,
CAS’51) ■ ■
John T. Avellino
and R. Ellen Avellino ■ ■ ■
Douglas E. Barnard, MD (MED’65)
and Donna R. Barnard, MD
(MED’65) ■ ■
Emelia J. Benjamin, MD
and David M. Pollak ■ ■
Gerald Besson, MD (MED’50)
and Eleanore S. Besson ■
George J. Brown, MD (MED’73)
and Barbara Y. Brown
Ann C. Cea, MD (MED’67)
and Anthony Tedeschi ■ ■
Harold N. Chefitz (COM’55, CGS’53)
and Charlotte M. Chefitz ■
Aram V. Chobanian, MD ■ ■ ■
Andrew B. Crummy, Jr., MD (MED’55)
and Elsa E. Crummy ■
Suzanne Cutler (Questrom’61) ■ ■
Thomas J. Dowling, Jr., MD (MED’81,
CAS’81) and Rosemary
Dowling ■ ■ ■
Maurice R. Ferre, MD (MED’92,
CGS’81, SPH’92) and
Maria D. Ferre ■
Patricia L. Freysinger (SON’82) ■ ■
Ann C. Galligan (SON’70, ’88)
and Thomas J. Galligan, III ■
Burton P. Golub, MD (MED’65)
and Lee H. Golub ■
James L. Hall II and Ali L. Hall, Esq. ■ ■
Kamlyn R. Haynes, MD (MED’97,
CAS’89) and Joe Parse ■ ■
Juan D. Hernandez Batista and
Maria A. Tavarez-De
Hernandez ■ ■
James B. Howell, MD (MED’65)
and Marlene A. Howell ■
Jeffrey R. Jay, MD (MED’83, CAS’83)
and Mary Ellen A. Jay ■
Denise S. Katsaros (SED’69)
and Arthur T. Katsaros ■
The Estate of John F. Kelly ■ ■
Shirley P. Klein, MD (MED’68,
CAS’68) ■ ■
Deborah P. Maine ■ ■ ■
Barry M. Manuel, MD (MED’58,
CAS’54) and Patricia D. Manuel,
PhD (SON’78, SED’86) ■ ■ ■
Steven Miller, MD (MED’70,
CAS’70) and Jacqueline Miller
(CAS’70) ■ ■
Sunit Mukherjee, MD (MED’89,
CAS’89) and Sumeeta Mukherjee ■
Carl A. Olsson, MD (MED’63)
and Mary D. Olsson ■ ■
Simon C. Parisier, MD (MED’61)
and Elaine S. Parisier ■
Edward F. Parsons, MD (MED’65) ■ ■
M. Douglass Poirier, MD (MED’76,
CAS’73) and Jeffrey D. Tripp ■
Ronald L. Ragland, MD (MED’82) ■
Richard D. Scott, MD
and Mary Scott, MD ■ ■
Leslie K. Serchuck, MD (MED’90) ■ ■
Stuart E. Siegel, MD (MED’67,
CAS’67) ■ ■
Josene M. Steinberg
Louis Wade Sullivan, MD (MED’58)
and Eva G. Sullivan ■ ■
Kathy M. Young-Ragland ■
$5 ,0 0 0 –$9,9 9 9
Anonymous ■ ■ ■
Elizabeth Day Barnett, MD (MED’85)
and Suleiman Kutana ■ ■ ■ ■
James B. Bassett, Jr., MD (MED’80)
and Lily L. Bassett (Questrom’79) ■
Robert M. Beazley, MD ■ ■ ■
John H. Bechtel, MD (MED’50)
and Shirley F. Bechtel ■ ■
Ann B. Bennett ■ ■
Laurel Beverley, MD (MED’97,
SPH’97) ■
James F. Bopp, Jr.
and Phyllis Bopp ■ ■ ■
Yvonne K. Brockman
William A. Christmas, MD (MED’65)
and Polly Raye ■ ■
Patricia A. Connolly, MD (MED’84) ■ ■
Benedict D. Daly, Jr., MD (MED’65,
’65) and Joan M. Daly ■ ■
Anne L. d’Avenas, MD (MED’80)
and Jerome S. Brody, MD ■ ■
Ineke M. Dikland ■ ■
Elizabeth C. Dooling, MD (MED’65) ■
Charles Eddy ■ ■
Frederick L. Fox, MD (MED’68)
and Gail P. Fox ■
Howard A. Green, MD (MED’85)
and Joanne C. Green, DDS ■ ■
RoxAnn J. Haynes (SED’56)
and Frederick M. Haynes ■ ■ ■
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DONOR REPORT
GIFTS FROM THE DEAN’S ADVISORY BOARD, ALUMNI, FACULTY AND STAFF, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS (CONTINUED)
Michael G. Hirsh, MD (MED’63)
and Carol N. Hirsh ■ ■
Patricia E. Hume, MD (MED’01)
and Carl Jacobs ■ ■
Christine S. Hunter, MD (MED’80,
CAS’80) and Robert H. Hunter ■ ■
Clinton W. Josey and C. W. Josey ■
Joseph H. Kahn, MD
and Nancy H. Kahn, MD ■ ■ ■
F. James Knittle and Gloria G. Knittle ■ ■
Suzanne Lehmann ■ ■
Dimitri Lorenzon and Laura A. Huizi ■ ■
Jules N. Manger, MD (CGS’66)
and Janis G. Manger ■
Margaret McGrath ■ ■
Joseph McNelis, MD
Robert F. Meenan, MD (MED’72,
Questrom’89) ■ ■ ■ ■
Peter T. Paul (Questrom’71) ■ ■
Jean Z. Perkins and Elinor C. Perkins ■
Susan E. Pursell, MD (CAS’84, MED’90)
and Michael A. Wack ■ ■
Hal Rothbaum and Susan Rothbaum
Michael L. Rothman, MD (MED’72)
and Karen E. Rothman ■
The Estate of Jordan S. Ruboy ■ ■
Stephen W. Russell, MD (MED’55)
and Gail D. Russell ■ ■
Robert L. Ryan and
Sharon Goode Ryan (SAR’70) ■ ■ ■
Harold S. Schell, MD (MED’70)
and Antonia Schell ■ ■
Alyssa Shooshan ■ ■
John G. Shooshan
and Marcia Shooshan ■
Richard L. Simmons, MD (MED’59)
and Roberta G. Simmons ■ ■
Diane Stewart ■
Sandra Stewart ■
Sumner Stone, MD (MED’58)
and Martha Skinner, MD ■ ■ ■
David P. Tracy, MD (MED’90)
and Lori S. Tracy ■
Stephen M. Tringale, MD (MED’90,
CAS’80, GRS’86) ■ ■ ■
Thomas E. Vita and Paula A. Eliaschev ■
The Estate of Guenther Walk ■
David Wong ■ ■
Peak Woo, MD (MED’78, CAS’78)
and Celia T. Chung-Woo ■ ■
Larry C. Young ■
Melinda Ziegenhagen ■ ■
$ 2,5 0 0 – $4 ,9 9 9
Robert G. Alexander, MD (MED’74,
CAS’67) and Teresa D. Alexander ■ ■
Amin Ashrafzadeh, MD (MED’97,
CAS’93) and H. Christine Ashrafzadeh
(Questrom’96, CAS’92) ■ ■
Jeanne F. Arnold, MD (MED’61) and
Peter F. Jeffries, MD (MED’60) ■ ■ ■
Gary Balady and Rosemary Mehl ■ ■ ■
Howard C. Bauchner, MD (MED’79)
and Christine M. McElroy, PhD
(GRS’81, ’84) ■ ■ ■ ■
Howard C. Beane, MD (MED’57)
and Shirley T. Beane ■ ■ ■
Abraham I. Bennett ■
Darrell W. Bott ■ ■
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Ben R. Bronstein, MD (CGS’70, CAS’72,
MED’76, Questrom’89)
and Magda S. Bronstein, MD ■
Brian L. Cameron, MD (MED’87)
and Doris R. Cameron, MD (MED’87)
Jean B. Charles, MD (MED’85, CAS’81)
and Maureen A. Alphonse-Charles
(CAS’85) ■ ■
Hsi Pin Chen, MD (MED’96,’96; CAS’89;
SPH’91) and Kenneth E. Hancock
(ENG’92, ’01) ■ ■
David J. Chronley, MD (MED’74)
and Marianne K. Chronley ■ ■
John P. Cloherty, MD (MED’62)
and Ann M. Cloherty ■ ■
Michael G. Connolly, Jr., MD (MED’86)
and Susan P. Wilkens ■ ■
Ronald B. Corley, PhD
and Janice Corley ■ ■ ■ ■
David P. DiChiara, MD (MED’84,
CAS’80) and Maria J. DiChiara ■ ■
Nicolas P. DiCiaccio
and Marguerite Shepard-DiCiaccio ■
Bill and Kay Dixon ■ ■
Mary A. Drinkwater, MD (MED’81)
and William F. Bayers ■ ■
Alan M. Edelstein, Esq. (Questrom’47,
LAW’49) and Sybil Edelstein ■ ■
Mary Jane England, MD
(MED’64) ■ ■ ■ ■
Joseph S. Fastow, MD (MED’70)
and Ellen K. Fastow ■ ■
Gail P. Feldman (SED’78) ■
Larry Field and Barbara Field ■ ■
Richard K. Forster, MD (MED’63)
and Janet F. Forster ■
Ralph G. Ganick, MD (MED’67, CAS’67)
and Lois B. Ganick ■ ■ ■
Jonathan Gertler, MD (Questrom’99)
and Jane Clark, MD ■ ■
George E. Ghareeb, MD (MED’62)
and Nancy B. Ghareeb ■
Harold M. Ginzburg, MD (MED’68,
CAS’68) and Mhairi M. Ginzburg ■ ■ ■
Malcolm Gordon, MD (MED’48)
and Nan Miller ■
Robert W. Healy, MD (MED’67)
and Bonnie M. Healy ■ ■ ■
Rodney F. Hochman, MD (MED’79,
CAS’79) and Nancy J. Hochman
(SAR’77, ’83) ■
Betsy E. Horen ■ ■
David Ingall, MD (MED’57, CAS’52,
GRS’53) and Carol K. Ingall ■
Donald M. Kaplan, MD (MED’73)
and Edna E. Kaplan (COM’88) ■ ■
M. David Kelleher, MD (MED’65) ■ ■ ■
Timothy R. Kelliher, MD (MED’90,
CAS’86) and Sanford F. Kelliher ■
Peter C. Kelly, MD (MED’65) ■ ■
Abdul Khalique and Farhat N. Khalique ■
Mark A. Lewis ■
James H. Lowell II and Susan W. Lowell ■ ■
Kevin T. Maguire ■ ■
Bill Maloney ■ ■
Edward J. McDonald, Jr.
and Catherine A. McDonald ■ ■
Thomas J. Moore, MD
and Mary C. Moore ■ ■ ■ ■
Alan S. Multz, MD (MED’85, CAS’81)
and Michelle A. Multz ■ ■
Taro Nagai and Emiko Nagai ■ ■
Benjamin A. Newman ■
Thomas F. O’Leary, MD (MED’56) ■ ■
Scott D. Pendergast, MD (MED’91)
and Judy T. Pendergast ■ ■
Donald R. Pettit, MD (MED’64) ■ ■
Neil Pinsky and Karen Pinsky ■ ■
Peter E. Pochi, MD (MED’55) ■ ■
Jondavid Pollock, MD (MED’92, GRS’92)
and Marjorie S. Moolten, PhD
(GRS’91, CAS’86) ■ ■
Richard M. Pryor ■
B. Andre Quamina, MD (MED’66, ’66;
GRS’65) and Dorothy Quamina ■
Joel A. Roffman, MD (MED’75, CAS’72)
and Nancy C. Roffman ■ ■
Scott M. Ross, MD (MED’82) and
Angela V. Ross, DDS (SDM’84, ’86) ■
Alan L. Schechter, MD (MED’78)
and Genevieve Schechter ■ ■
David C. Seldin, MD, PhD ■
and Elizabeth L. Hohmann, MD ■ ■
Kenneth B. Simons, MD (MED’80)
and Wendy A. Simons ■
George Walcott, MD (MED’62)
and Elizabeth W. Walcott ■
Diane J. Weiss, MD (MED’84)
and Antonio Villalobos ■ ■
Glenn H. Weissman, MD
and Christine Weissman
Eugene P. Whittier (MED’52) ■ ■
Robert A. Witzburg, MD (MED’77) and
Lorraine G. Witzburg (SED’06) ■ ■
Lily M. Young, MD (MED’65)
and John G. Johansson ■
$1 ,000–$2,499
Anonymous (4) ■ ■ ■
Heidi Abdelhady, MD (MED’98)
and N. Mehdy Rahman ■ ■
Gerald Ajemian and Lucille Ajemian ■ ■
Morris S. Albert, MD (MED’60)
and Barbara D. Albert ■ ■
L. Alexander-Guerra, MD (MED’83) ■
Stephen Algeo ■
Elizabeth A. Allardice ■ ■
Irving M. Allen, MD (MED’65)
and Betty N. Allen ■
Parag M. Amin, MD (MED’03, CAS’99)
and Vandana Madhavan ■
Carol E. Anderson, MD (MED’72)
Philip J. Andrew, MD (MED’61)
and Cecilia Andrews ■ ■
James E. Andrews, MD (MED’78)
and Deborah L. Andrews ■ ■
Edmund F. Armstrong ■ ■
Carola A. Arndt, MD (MED’78, CAS’78)
and Richard S. Buckanin ■ ■
Janis L. Baccari, MD (MED’95, CAS’91) ■ ■
David A. Bailen, MD (MED’67)
and Helene R. Bailen (CAS’63) ■
Barbara J. Baker, MD (MED’70) ■ ■
David A. Bakst, Esq. (LAW’65)
and Rhona F. Bakst
Thomas W. Barber ■ ■
Paul C. Barsam, MD (STH’52)
and Joyce L. Barsam, PhD ■ ■
John F. Batter and Lisa H. Batter ■ ■
Luis A. Bauzo, MD (MED’84, CAS’79)
and Jill V. Read ■ ■
A. Robert Bellows, MD (MED’63)
and Jean F. Bellows ■ ■
Barbara W. Berman ■ ■
Leonard D. Berman, MD
and Audrey B. Berman ■ ■ ■ ■
Peter David Berman, MD (MED’85)
and Holly Berman ■ ■
Frederick B. Berrien, MD (MED’68)
and Virginia C. Berrien (SON’80) ■ ■
Richard T. Bilinsky ■
Barbara H. Bjornson, MD (MED’75,
CAS’71) ■ ■
Stewart A. Blanchard
and Shelley A. Blanchard ■
Richard D. Bland, MD (MED’66)
and Marlene Rabinovitch, MD ■ ■
Laura T. Bookman, MD (MED’84)
and Lawrence A. Bookman ■
Susan E. Bradford, MD (MED’67, CAS’67) ■
Lenore J. Brancato, MD (MED’84,
CAS’84) and Louis Potters, MD ■ ■
Bruce N. Brent, MD (MED’75, CAS’72)
and Christine S. Brent ■ ■
Donald C. Brody, MD (MED’56)
and Lucy L. Brody ■
Karen T. Brown, MD (MED’79)
and Peter Suchy ■ ■
Robert H. Brown, MD (MED’65)
and Joyce W. Brown ■ ■
Scott E. Brown, MD and Lisa R. Brown ■ ■
John Buckley and Barbara Buckley ■ ■
Walter F. Bugden ■ ■
William C. Burgy and Jennifer Burgy ■ ■
Mary C. Burke, MD (MED’83)
and Nancy Mayo ■ ■
Christine L. Campbell-Reardon, MD
(MED’88) and Michael J.
Reardon ■ ■ ■ ■
Russell and Gerri Carney ■
Arthur P. Carriere, MD (MED’62,
CAS’58) ■ ■
Nina M. Carroll ■ ■
Alan C. Carver, MD (MED’95)
and Deborah C. Carver, MD ■ ■
Michael J. Cassidy, MD (MED’73)
and Andrea W. Cassidy ■
Richard J. Catrambone, MD (MED’92)
and Sophia Catrambone ■ ■
David M. Center, MD (MED’72, CAS’72)
and Patricia Rabbett ■ ■ ■
Charson Chang, MD (MED’86, CAS’86) ■ ■
Barry R. Chernack and Ellen Chernack ■ ■
Frederick H. Chicos
Yi-Chuan Ching, MD (MED’58) ■ ■ ■
John V. Chobanian, MD (MED’81)
and Stephanie M. Pawlowski ■
Michael C. Choo, MD (MED’87, CAS’87)
and Sheryl L. Choo ■
Christopher Christensen
and Sylvia Reifler ■
Stephen P. Christiansen, MD, PhD
and Karen C. Christiansen ■ ■ ■
David P. Cistola, MD, PhD (MED’85,
GRS’85) and Christie Cistola ■
Marc A. Clachko, MD (MED’71)
and Gayle W. Clachko ■ ■
■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Three-year Consecutive Giving | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased
David Cohen, MD (MED’91, CAS’91)
and Jane S. Cohen, MD (MED’91,
CAS’91) ■ ■ ■
David L. Cohen
and Deborah L. Cohen, MD ■ ■
David L. Coleman, MD ■ ■ ■
Ronald Collman, MD (MED’81, CAS’81) ■ ■
Mark H. Cooley, MD (MED’60) ■
Andres F. Costas-Centivany, MD (MED’84)
and Barbara Robinson-Costas, JD ■
R. Scott Cowan, MD (MED’88) and
Janine H. Idelson, Esq. (LAW’86) ■ ■
Joan H. Craw ■ ■
Jeffrey G. Cribbs and Leanne L. Cribbs ■ ■
Diane W. Crocker, MD (MED’52) ■
John R. Curran, MD (MED’80)
and Teresa G. Curran ■
Christopher A. Danby, MD (MED’86)
and Lisa M. Dimarzo ■
Leah A. Darak, MD (MED’91, CAS’91)
and Harold Darak ■
Joel R. Daven, MD (MED’75)
and Jennifer Daven ■ ■
Lilibeth K. Denham, MD (MED’97)
and Kristin L. Dardano ■ ■
Lester S. Dewis, MD (MED’61, CAS’57)
and Susan C. Dewis (SAR’62) ■ ■
James C. Ding, MD (MED’89, CAS’89)
and Marcia Ding ■
Michael S. Drucker, MD (MED’69)
and Deirdre D. Drucker ■ ■
David A. Druckman, MD (MED’91,
CAS’91) and Beth Druckman ■ ■
Thomas Dugdale and Tina Dugdale ■ ■ ■
Margaret M. Duggan, MD (MED’90,
CAS’86) and Joseph A. Karbowski ■
John P. Dutton, MD (MED’97, MED’96)
and Sharon C. Dutton ■ ■
Sunil K. Dwivedi and Prabha Dwivedi ■ ■ ■
David R. Edelstein, MD (MED’80)
and Eve L. Edelstein ■ ■
Karen A. Engelbourg and
Donald B. Stewart (Questrom’98) ■ ■ ■
Michael J. Esposito, MD (MED’49)
and Dina M. Esposito ■
Harriette C. Evans
Jack T. Evjy, MD (MED’61)
and Sheila A. Evjy, RN (SON’82) ■ ■
Holly B. Falzone (Questrom’03)
and Rick Falzone ■ ■
Francis A. Farraye, MD
and Renee Remily ■ ■ ■ ■
Peter A. Fauci, MD (MED’57)
and Linda E. Kelly Fauci ■
Edward B. Feinberg, MD
and Ruth Feinberg ■ ■
Geraldine L. Feldman, MD (MED’69,
CAS’69) ■ ■ ■
David T. Felson, MD (SPH’84)
and Elaine R. Landes, MD ■ ■ ■ ■
Justus J. Fiechtner, MD (MED’72)
and Karlene J. Gehler ■ ■
I. Howard Fine, MD (MED’66)
and Victoria Fine ■ ■
George A. Finley III and Phyllis A. Finley
Robert F. Fishman, MD (MED’85)
and Susan B. Eysmann, MD ■
Loring S. Flint, Jr., MD (MED’76, CAS’73)
and Nancy S. Flint (SON’77, ’81) ■ ■
David W. Fontaine, MD (MED’90)
and Laurie Fontaine ■
Joseph M. Fonte, MD (MED’97, CAS’92)
and Lina Fonte
Edward W. Forbes, MD (MED’69,
CAS’69) and Ellen G. Forbes ■ ■
Harold W. Forbes and Carol S. Forbes ■ ■
Richard H. Forrest and Lee A. Forrest ■
Anne M. Frasca ■
Mark S. Freshwater
and Deborah L. Freshwater ■ ■
Dagmar B. Friedman ■
Ronald S. Gabriel, MD (MED’63)
and Idalia Gabriel ■
George Edward Garcia, MD (MED’61)
and Nancy A. Garcia ■
David F. Garvin, MD (MED’65)
and Jacqueline T. Garvin ■ ■
Ronald C. Gay and Rose A. Gay ■
Frederick A. Godley III, MD (MED’83)
and Kathleen Carney ■ ■ ■
Jeffry A. Goldes, MD (MED’79)
and Elizabeth Goldes ■
Gerald D. Goldman, MD (MED’77) and
Margery S. Goldman (SED’74, ’77) ■ ■
Donald J. Grande, MD (MED’73)
and Elena M. Grande ■ ■
Edward V. Grayson, MD, JD (MED’67,
CAS’67) and Barbara K. Grayson
(CAS’71) ■
Dorothy M. Green ■ ■
Leonard A. Greene, MD (MED’60,
CAS’52) and Joan E. Greene ■ ■
Gene A. Grindlinger, MD (MED’70,
CAS’70) and Jeanne Grindlinger ■ ■ ■
Judyth Groner ■ ■
Kenneth M. Grundfast, MD
and Ruthanne Grundfast ■ ■ ■
Xiaozhe Han (MED’04; SDM’04, ’08)
and Li Wang (SDM’04, ’06) ■ ■
Beth A. Hanrahan, MD (MED’88)
and Harold E. Smart ■ ■
Stephen U. Harris, MD (MED’89,
CAS’89) and Tracy L. Harris ■ ■
George A. Hasiotis, MD (MED’65)
and Eugenia J. Hasiotis ■ ■
David G. Heller, MD (MED’68, CAS’68)
and Nancy R. Heller (SED’65) ■
John A. Hermos, MD (MED’65) and
Rosalie J. Hermos (SPH’91) ■ ■ ■
Stephen W. Hildreth ■ ■
George L. Hines, MD (MED’69, CAS’69)
and Helene A. Hines (SAR’69) ■ ■ ■
Brian J. Hines, MD (MED’96)
and Tracy Shevell ■ ■
Therese M. Hollingworth ■ ■
Ruth A. Homan ■ ■
Mary C. Hopkins
and Kenneth Hopkins PsyD ■ ■ ■
Douglas H. Hughes, MD
and Terence M. Keane, PhD ■ ■ ■
Jeffrey P. Hurley (MED’84) ■ ■
John Huston ■
Jeffrey W. Hutter ■ ■ ■
Harry M. Iannotti, MD (MED’66)
and Judith A. Iannotti ■ ■
Kathleen L. Irwin, MD (MED’83) and
Richard W. Steketee ■
Charles F. Jacobs and Elizabeth G. Jacobs ■ ■
Joseph O. Jacobson, MD (MED’79,
CAS’75) and Margaret J. Seton ■ ■
Hernan J. Jara, PhD ■ ■ ■
John Jaufmann and Doreen Keane ■ ■
Malcolm N. Joseph III, MD (MED’76)
and Pamela M. Joseph ■
Warren Kantrowitz, MD (MED’60)
and Harriet A. Kantrowitz ■ ■
Ronald L. Katz (MED’56) ■ ■
Paul Kaufman, MD (MED’55)
and Mary F. Kaufman ■ ■
Hon. Damon J. Keith ■
Robert F. Kenerson, MD (MED’65)
and Ruth E. Kenerson ■
Fatemeh Khosroshahi ■
Glenn P. Kimball, Jr., MD (MED’83) and
Joan H. Kimball, DMD (SDM’82) ■
Elaine B. Kirshenbaum (CAS’71, SED’72,
SPH’79) ■ ■ ■
Pamela Klainer ■ ■ ■
Joel D. Klein ■ ■ ■
Baroukh E. Kodsi and Marie E. Kodsi ■ ■
Darrell N. Kotton, MD
and Camille N. Kotton ■ ■
Gail K. Kraft, MD (MED’70)
and Arnold A. Kraft ■ ■
Sonia Y. Kragh, MD (MED’87)
and Sriram Narsipur, MD ■
Fred M. Krainin, MD (MED’81, CAS’81)
and Mary S. Krainin ■
Bernard E. Kreger ■ ■ ■
Edward E. Krukonis, MD (MED’63)
and Priscilla J. Krukonis ■ ■
Jonathann C. Kuo, MD (MED’04,
CAS’01) ■ ■
Michael J. Kussman, MD (MED’68,
CAS’68) and Virginia D. Kussman ■
Christopher Kutteruf, MD (MED’72)
and Anita Robinson ■ ■
Sanjay Lalla, MD (MED’91, CAS’91)
and Gina Lalla
Albert L. Lamp, Jr., MD (MED’48)
and Mary T. Lamp ■
Cecelia Lance ■
Alan R. Langille ■
Charna C. Larkin
Dennis R. LaRock, MD (MED’90,
CAS’86) and Jeanne LaRock
Howard M. Ledewitz, MD (MED’65)
and Carolyn Ledewitz ■ ■ ■
Grace J. Lee, MD (MED’92)
and Joon S. Lee ■
Frank S. Lee, MD (MED’88, CAS’88)
and Sally S. Lee ■ ■
Richard P. Lenz, MD
and Jean H. Tibbetts ■ ■
Jack P. Leventhal, MD (MED’73)
and Mary A. Leventhal ■ ■
Paul A. Levine, MD (MED’68, CAS’68) ■ ■
Richard Lindblom ■ ■
George I. Litman, MD (MED’64)
and Judith Litman, RN ■
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
and Anita B. Loscalzo
Hamilton Lott, Jr. and Barbara H. Lott ■ ■
Dennis A. Lowenthal, MD (MED’79)
and Sharon E. Selinger
William P. Luke, MD (MED’55)
and Joan S. Luke ■
Judith P. Lytle, MD (MED’98)
and Robert A. Lytle ■ ■ ■ ■
George D. Malkasian, Jr., MD (MED’54)
and Mary E. Malkasian ■ ■
William B. Maloney
and Evelyn L. Maloney ■
Neal Mandell, MD (MED’86)
and Amy L. Mandell ■ ■
H. George Mann
and Roberta G. Mann ■ ■ ■
Frank I. Marcus, MD (MED’53)
and Janet Marcus ■ ■
Rebecca A. Massey ■ ■
William H. Maxwell, MD (MED’66)
and Sally H. Maxwell ■ ■
David B. McAneny, MD
and Deborah L. McAneny ■ ■
John F. McCahan, MD
and Kathleen B. McCahan ■ ■ ■
John S. McCleary
and Linda W. McCleary ■ ■
H. Wayne McDonald and Ann S.
McDonald ■
Mark J. Mcgillem, MD (MED’93) ■
JoAnn McGrath and Family ■
Brian H. McPhillips
and Janice B. McPhillips
Sean B. McSweeney
and Patricia M. McSweeney ■ ■
Ilona Melstrads ■ ■
Kory Merkey and Catherine Fitzpatrick ■ ■
Fredric B. Meyer, MD (MED’81)
and Irene Meyer ■ ■
Mark S. Michelman, MD (MED’67)
and Susan F. Michelman
Danica V. Mijovic-Prelec (GRS’90)
and Drazen Prelec ■
Hugh Miller, MD (MED’55)
and Frances H. Miller (LAW’65) ■ ■
Heather H. Miselis, MD (MED’00,
SPH’00, MED’04)
and Nathan R. Miselis (GRS’95) ■ ■
Daniel E. Moalli, MD (MED’61)
and Glenna M. Moalli ■ ■
Jean I. Montagu and Kyra L. Montagu ■
David W. Moore, MD (MED’65)
and Jaye Moore ■ ■ ■
Elizabeth A. Moran, MD (MED’94) ■
Harvey L. Moskowitz
and Lorraine F. Moskowitz ■ ■
Joseph T. Mullen, MD (MED’55) ■ ■
Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD (MED’95,
CAS’95) and Valli P. Mummaneni, MD
Jerry Murphy, MD (MED’79) ■
Richard Myers, PhD and
Carol Myers (SAR’82) ■ ■ ■ ■
Roger W. Neal and Roberta A. Neal ■
Kishwer S. Nehal (MED’92, CAS’92) ■
Ralph A. Nelson, MD (MED’65)
and Anne E. Nelson ■ ■
Michael J. Newman
and Suzanne Newman ■
Daniel J. Oates, MD (MED’00, CAS’00,
SPH’05) ■ ■
John F. O’Brien, MD (MED’59) ■
Richard J. Oeser, MD (MED’01) ■
Stephen T. Olin, MD (MED’73)
and Laura S. Olin ■ ■
Walter L. Olsen, MD and Zdenka Fronek ■
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DONOR REPORT
GIFTS FROM THE DEAN’S ADVISORY BOARD, ALUMNI, FACULTY AND STAFF, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS (CONTINUED)
■ President’s Society (AFLGS) Member | ■ Young Alumni Giving Society Member | ■ Faculty/Staff Member | ■ Parent | ■ Three-year Consecutive Giving | ■ First-time Donor | ■ Deceased
Harold L. Osher, MD (MED’47)
and Peggy L. Osher ■ ■
Henry T. Oyama, MD (MED’57, CAS’53)
and Joan M. Oyama ■ ■ ■
Christine Parsons ■ ■
Jordan C. Paul and Valerie J. Paul ■ ■
Michele C. Perillo, MD (MED’84) ■ ■
Burt M. Perlmutter, MD (MED’63)
and Roberta Perlmutter ■ ■ ■
Astrid O. Peterson (MED’77, CAS’74) ■
Michael P. Platt (ENG’13) ■ ■
James J. Pomposelli, MD (MED’90,
GRS’90) and Elizabeth A. Pomfret,
MD, PhD (MED’90, GRS’90) ■
Myrna J. Pool ■ ■
Robert W. Potter ■
Timothy E. Powers and Elaine S. Powers ■ ■
Lura S. Provost (SED’63) ■ ■
John J. Przygoda, MD (MED’77)
and Janet C. Przygoda ■ ■
Albert Quintiliani, Jr., MD (MED’58)
and Ann Quintiliani ■ ■
Leroy E. Rabbani ■
Jean E. Ramsey, MD (MED’90, SPH’08)
and David T. Ramsey ■ ■ ■
Helen S. Ratner ■ ■ ■
Iver S. Ravin, MD (MED’40) ■ ■ ■
Daniel G. Remick, MD ■ ■
Kenneth L. Renkens, MD (MED’82,
CAS’76) and Debra Lay-Renkens
(CAS’73) ■ ■
Fletcher A. Reynolds, MD (MED’96,
CAS’91, GRS’92) and Frances S.
Reynolds ■
Nancy E. Rice, MD (MED’65)
and Millard J. Hyland ■ ■
Arnold Robbins, MD ■ ■
Gregory K. Robbins, MD (MED’90)
and Elizabeth O. Robbins ■ ■
Grant V. Rodkey, MD
and Suzanne G. Rodkey ■ ■ ■
William Rose and Marissa Vetrone ■ ■
Michael S. Rosenblatt, MD (SPH’89,
Questrom’97) and Patricia L. Roberts,
MD (MED’81, CAS’81) ■
George Rosenthal, MD ■ ■
Paul Rothbaum ■
Alan Rothman, MD (MED’83, ’83;
CAS’83) ■
Herbert L. Rothman, MD (MED’66)
and Carol Milchenski Rothman, MD
(MED’66, CAS’62) ■ ■ ■
David J. Rullo, MD (MED’87, CAS’83)
and Sandra L. Rullo ■ ■
Shelley J. Russek-Farb, PhD (MED’94)
and David H. Farb ■ ■ ■
Ralph L. Sacco, MD (MED’83)
and Scott Dutcher ■
Shahriar Sadri and Soheila Sadri ■ ■ ■
Osamu Sakai, MD, PhD,
and Mariko Sakai ■ ■ ■
David J. Salant, MD and Anne Salant ■ ■ ■
Richard J. Samaha, MD (MED’66,
GRS’66) and Christine Samaha ■ ■
Mark S. Samberg, MD (MED’74, CAS’72)
and Marcee Samberg ■ ■
Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MPH (SPH’92)
and Michele S. Marram ■ ■ ■
Sheelu Samuel (Questrom’01, MED’01) ■ ■
Vicki A. Chavin, MD (MED’91, CAS’87)
and Jeffrey M. Chavin ■
Agnes H. Chen, MD (MED’01)
and Bernard Chen ■
David J. Chun, MD (MED’95, CAS’91)
and Susie S. Lee-Chun (CAS’91) ■
Chan K. Chung ■
Michael S. Cohen, MD (MED’89, CAS’89)
and Ilona Ginsberg-Cohen, MD
Wayne R. Cohen, MD (MED’71)
and Sharon R. Cohen
Tod D. Cooperman, MD (MED’87,
CAS’87) and Sharon Cooperman
William W. Cruikshank, PhD
(GRS’89) ■ ■
Thomas M. Daley
and Helen W. Daley ■ ■ ■
Abdulrasul A. Damji (ENG’85, ENG’90)
and Amina A. Damji ■ ■ ■
Stephen J. Davis and Kathryn M. Davis ■
Robert J. Dell Angelo, MD (MED’59)
and Gracemarie Dell Angelo
George Dermksian, MD (MED’54)
and Tamara Dermksian ■
Timothy F. Desmond
and Donna M. Desmond ■
Jeffrey Dickson and Denise Dickson
Kimberly A. Dodd, MD (MED’02,
CAS’92, SPH’10) ■
Mark E. Dovey ■ ■
Donald S. Dworken, MD (MED’55)
and Nancy L. Dworken ■
Robert T. Eberhardt, MD
and Margaret M. Eberhardt ■ ■ ■
Alvin N. Eden, MD (MED’52)
and Elaine R. Eden ■
Lars M. Ellison, MD (MED’95)
and Ingrid Ellison ■
Roger M. Epstein, MD (MED’82)
John R. Evans, Jr. ■
Deborah Felton
Stuart R. Ferguson, MD (MED’79) and
Carolyn H. Welsh, MD (MED’79) ■
Shawn M. Ferullo, MD (MED’01, CAS’97)
and Karen Ferullo ■ ■
Timothy J. Fitzgerald ■ ■
John F. Folley ■
Benjamin S. Frank, MD (MED’03, ’03)
and Jennifer Frank, MD (MED’99,
CAS’95)
Richard D. Frary, MD (MED’56)
and Joan S. Frary ■
Balz B. Frei ■
Fayne L. Frey, MD (MED’87, CAS’83)
and Roger J. Frey, MD ■
Robert I. Friedman, MD (MED’72)
and Donna A. Friedman (CAS’72) ■
Fredric D. Frigoletto, Jr., MD (MED’62, ’62;
GRS’55) and Martha M. Frigoletto,
MD (MED’66) ■
Joseph R. Gaeta, Sr., MD (MED’58)
and Carol A. Gaeta ■
Richard K. Gaines, MD (MED’81)
Charles A. Garabedian, MD (MED’88,
CAS’81, GRS’84) ■
John Garner ■
Betty J. Gaver ■
Charles M. Geller, MD (MED’87,
CAS’87) and Kim A. Feldinger Geller
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Amardeep S. Sandhu ■ ■
David S. Saperstein, MD (MED’92,
CAS’88) and Francine N. Saperstein ■
Dennis J. Sargent, MD (MED’77, CAS’77)
and Katherine Forte Sargent, MD
(MED’77, CAS’77) ■ ■
Frank J. Schaberg, MD (MED’68, CAS’68)
and Monica J. Schaberg, MD
(MED’68, CAS’68) ■ ■
Rolf G. Scherman, MD (MED’56)
and Charlotte J. Scherman ■ ■
Jerry M. Schreibstein, MD (MED’89,
CAS’89) and Harlene Ginsberg, Esq.
(LAW’88)
David B. Schulman
and Carol L. Schulman ■ ■
David N. Schwartz, MD (SDM’79, MED’82)
and Debora B. Schwartz (CAS’78) ■
Steven B. Schwartz, MD (MED’77, CAS’73)
and Paula A. Leonard-Schwartz, MD
(MED’77, CAS’77) ■ ■
Jordan E. Scott, MD (MED’00)
and Rebecca Scott ■
Ira L. Seldin and Florence Seldin ■ ■
Jerome S. Serchuck
and Joan S. Serchuck ■ ■
Kathryn N. Shands, MD (MED’77)
and Joseph Mulinare, MD ■ ■ ■
Edward J. Sherwood, MD (MED’75,
CAS’72) and Shirley Y. Sherwood ■ ■
Ethan M. Shevach, MD (MED’67,
CAS’67) and Ruth S. Shevach ■ ■
William F. Shields, MD (GRS’90, MED’94) ■
Barry E. Sieger, MD (MED’68)
and Margarete Sieger ■ ■ ■
Leslie M. Silverstein, MD
Jonathan G. Smith and Megan Smith ■ ■
Rebecca E. Snider, MD (MED’84)
and Jack B. Beard ■ ■
Robert A. Snyder, MD (MED’77)
and April Snyder ■
Thomas Spann ■ ■
Sally L. Speer ■ ■
Craig J. Stanley and Carol A. Stanley ■
Gary L. Stanton, MD (MED’77) and
Rebecca H. Stanton, Esq. (LAW’89) ■ ■
Susan M. Strahosky, MD (MED’80, SED’72,
CAS’80) and James H. Roberts ■ ■
Cyrille D. Straus ■
M. Stuart Strong, MD
and Sybil D. Strong ■ ■ ■
Manuel A. Suarez-Barcelo, MD (MED’90)
and Yelitza Rocha-Suarez ■
Miltos K. Sugiultzoglu, MD (MED’98,
ENG’89, GRS’91) and Eleni Litina, MD ■
Burton G. Surick, MD (MED’86, CAS’86)
and Ilona W. Surick, MD (MED’86,
CAS’86) ■ ■
Mubin I. Syed, MD (MED’89, CAS’89)
and Afshan Syed ■
Ramin R. Tabaddor, MD (MED’01,
CAS’96) ■ ■
Frankie A. Tester ■
Arthur C. Theodore, MD (MED’79)
and Dawn M. Theodore ■ ■ ■ ■
Charles B. Treasure ■
Barbara R. Trotter ■
Ruth Tuomala, MD (MED’74, CAS’72)
and Ernest G. Cravalho ■ ■
Randall H. Vagelos ■
Daniel M. Veltre and Mary Veltre ■ ■ ■
Robert A. Vigersky, MD (MED’70,
CAS’70) and Karen J. Fitzgerald ■ ■
Marian A. Vita ■
Emil Von Arx, III, MD (MED’67)
and Anna D. Von Arx ■ ■
Mary J. Wagner, MD (MED’88, CAS’88)
and Karl D. Bihn ■ ■
Janice D. Walker (Questrom’84)
and Jeffrey S. Berman, MD ■ ■
Michael D. Walker, MD (MED’60)
and Katherine Walker ■
Peter F. Walker, MD (MED’69)
and Susan Walker ■
David J. Wallace ■
David L. Walton, MD (MED’83)
and Machiko Nakatani ■ ■
George A. Waters, MD (MED’94)
and Sarah B. Waters ■
Jeffrey D. Wayne, MD (MED’92)
and Diane B. Wayne ■ ■
Annetta K. Weaver, MD (MED’68)
and Thomas G. Weaver ■ ■
Norman Weinstein, MD (MED’53)
and Marilyn S. Weinstein ■ ■
Andrew M. Wexler, MD (MED’80)
and Geri S. Wexler (SAR’76)
Thomas V. Whalen, Jr., MD (MED’76,
CAS’73) and Elaine W. Whalen ■ ■ ■
Burton White, MD (MED’61)
and June S. White ■ ■
Lancelot L. Williams, MD (MED’88)
Patricia J. Williams, MD (MED’89, CAS’84)
Marcelle M. Willock, MD
(Questrom’89) ■ ■
Gary J. Wolf, MD (MED’74) and Lynn Wolf
Henry R. Wolfe, MD (MED’45) ■ ■
Earle G. Woodman, MD (MED’58) ■ ■
David Wu, MD and Bernadine E. Wu ■
Joshua Wynne, MD (MED’71, CAS’71)
and Susan I. Farkas ■
Michelle R. Yagoda, MD (MED’89,
CAS’89) and David S. Hochstim ■
Kevin Yu, MD (MED’06, CAS’02) ■ ■
Thomas J. Zaccheo, MD (MED’62)
and Janice Zaccheo ■
Deborah E. Zuckerman, MD (MED’82)
and David S. Gendelman ■ ■
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Richard Aber ■
Ashley D. Ackerman, MD (MED’00)
and Sean F. Rynne
Elizabeth P. Akoma, MD (MED’00) ■
Rhoda M. Alani, MD and Philip A. Cole ■ ■
John Allardice and Susan Allardice ■
Caroline S. Alpert, MD (MED’00, ’01;
UNI’95) ■
Rahul S. Anand, MD (MED’01, CAS’97)
and Meredith Anand ■
Ilbret Andrade ■
Albert A. Apshaga, MD (MED’49)
and Dorothy M. Apshaga ■ ■
Gerald Argabright ■
Jacob Asher, MD (MED’82)
and Nancy Hosay ■
Helder Assuncao and Maria P. Assuncao
David Atkinson, PhD
and Francine Atkinson ■
Nina K. Auerbach, MD (MED’63)
Edward Avedisian (CFA’59, CFA’61)
and Pamela W. Avedisian, DDH
Debra A. Babcock, MD (MED’80)
and Mark R. Rosekind, PhD
David S. Babin, MD (MED’62)
and Nancy C. Babin
Thomas C. Bagnoli, MD (MED’64)
and Ann G. Bagnoli ■
Robert Baker and Katherine E. Rowan, PhD
Blanche K. Baler, MD (MED’54 , GRS’48,
GRS’51) ■
Gari A. Banks
Judith F. Bardack
Philip S. Barie, MD (MED’77, ’77; CAS’77)
and Elaine D. Barie ■
Jeffery L. Barker, MD (MED’68)
and Marion M. Barker ■
David L. Barrasso, MD (MED’74)
and Sibylle C. Barrasso
G. Curtis Barry, MD (MED’63)
and Pauline T. Barry ■ ■
Kiran N. Batheja (CAS’90, CGS’88) and
Jenny C. So, MD (MED’94, CAS’94) ■
G. Jerome Beers, MD (MED’76)
and Mary A. ONeal, MD ■
Elizabeth C. Behringer, MD (MED’84)
Steven J. Bellin, MD (MED’78, CAS’78)
and Renee R. Bellin (SAR’76) ■
Marvin D. Berman, MD (MED’74, CAS’72)
and Ronna D. Finer-Berman (SED’73)
Sheilah A. Bernard, MD ■ ■
Jan K. Bixler
Matthew H. Blomquist, MD (MED’91)
and Ashley M. Blomquist ■
Jacklin Bodaghi
Carl J. Boland, MD (MED’88) and
Jennifer A. Clark, MD (MED’88) ■
Louis Bonaiuto and Maria Bonaiuto ■
Ronald L. Boucek ■
Francis H. Boudreau, MD (MED’62) ■ ■ ■
Laura M. Boudreau ■ ■
Marc A. Pfeffer and Marianne Bowler ■
Louis J. Bresnick, MD (MED’97, GRS’93)
Howard S. Britt, MD (MED’70, CAS’70)
and Gail L. Britt ■
Gwendolyn E. Brobbey, MD
Christopher D. Brown, MD (MED’96)
and Patricia S. Brown ■
James S. Brust, MD (MED’68, CAS’68)
and Kris G. Brust ■
John E. Burke, MD (MED’79)
and Christine Burke
Michael J. Burns and Linda L. Burns
Samuel A. Burstein, MD (MED’72)
and Cheryl N. Boyd
Deborah W. Callard
Robert T. Carbone ■
Edward M. Carll
John W. Carpenter (CAS’65)
and Ellen S. Carpenter ■
Brett N. Catlin (Questrom’01) and Sarah
B. Catlin, MD (MED’07, CAS’02) ■
Bartolome R. Celli and Doris L. Celli
Alison Chang ■
John R. Charpie, MD (MED’90, GRS’90)
and Kathryn C. Charpie ■
Casimiro Giampaolo, MD
and Jo Ellen Mistarz
Eleanor R. Gilbert, MD (MED’90)
and Richard M. Gilbert
Nicholas Giosa, MD (MED’52) ■
Jeffrey Glassroth, MD
and Carol H. Glassroth ■
Edward M. Gosselin, MD (MED’90)
and Geri A. Gosselin ■
Praveen Govender, MD
and Karen F. Watters ■
Neal S. Greenstein, MD (MED’81,
CAS’81) and Cindy S. Greenstein ■
Gregg H. Grinspan, MD (MED’79)
and Phyllis Grinspan
Edward S. Gross, MD (MED’68)
and Margaret M. Reid (SON’83) ■
William E. Guptill, MD (MED’92)
and Ruth Guptill
Stephen R. Guy, MD (MED’85, CAS’74)
and Ruth Frank ■
Cynthia A. Hadley (MED’79) ■
Michihiko Hayashida, MD (MED’53,
CAS’49) and Bernice Y. Hayashida ■ ■
Lester K. Henderson, MD (MED’69)
and Eleanor A. Henderson ■
Victor I. Hochberg, MD (MED’63) ■
Marvin J. Hoffman, MD (MED’47)
and Nancy Y. Hoffman
Neal D. Hoffman, MD (MED’87, CAS’87)
and Andrew Ingall
Anna D. Hohler, MD (MED’98; CAS’95,
’98) and David Hohler ■
Helen Hollingsworth, MD
and John I. Reed ■ ■
Alexander Hoyle ■
Luciann L. Hruza, MD (MED’88,
CAS’84) and George Hruza
Linda E. Hyman, PhD
and William H. Baricos ■ ■
Thomas M. Hyndman, Jr. ■
Jack Iliff and Sally Iliff ■
Ramon Isales, MD, JD (MED’50)
and Phoebe Isales ■ ■
Brian Jack, MD and Linda Hickman ■ ■
Scharukh Jalisi, MD (MED’99, ’11;
CAS’96, ’99) ■ ■
Leondard Jasko ■
Linda C. Jones, MD (MED’90)
and Terrence Jones
Joseph L. Jorizzo, MD (MED’75, CAS’71)
and Irene N. Carros ■
Allen E. Joseph, MD (MED’84)
and Polly J. Panitz, MD (MED’84) ■
Robert A. Kaloosdian, Esq. (LAW’57, ’61)
and Marianne Kaloosdian
Ruth Kandel, MD
and Kevan L. Hartshorn, MD ■ ■
Joseph P. Kannam, MD (MED’89,
CAS’85) and Rebecca E. Kannam
Abe Kaplan, MD (MED’53) ■ ■
Sandra S. Kaplan, MD (MED’59)
Hasmeena Kathuria, MD and Karan Singh ■
Michael J. Katz, MD (MED’97)
and Allison Katz ■
Donald S. Kaufman, MD (MED’60)
and Suzanne L. Kaufman ■
James A. Kearney, MD (MED’64)
and Marion R. Kearney
C. Monroe Keeney and Mary L. Keeney ■
Charles E. Keller, Jr., MD (MED’84)
Paul J. Killoran, MD (MED’54)
and Elizabeth E. Killoran ■ ■
Mary D. Kirchner ■
Ethan H. Kisch, MD (MED’76, CAS’73)
and Helene Kisch-Pniewski, MD
(MED’76)
Oskar Klausenstock, MD (MED’53)
and Judy Klausenstock
Jerome O. Klein, MD
and Linda S. Klein ■ ■ ■
Harold J. Kober ■
Joseph Kulas ■
Nancy L. Kuntz, MD (MED’75, CAS’72)
Karen M. Kyle, MD (MED’85, CAS’85) ■
Stephanie J. Larouche, MD (MED’73,
CAS’72)
Louis E. Lataif (Questrom’61)
and Najla K. Lataif ■
Robert G. Layton, MD (MED’72)
and Judith H. Layton
Faye Lee, MD (MED’76)
Paul M. Leiman, MD (MED’74, CAS’72)
and Carol R. Leiman ■ ■
Elliott H. Leitman, MD (MED’92,
CAS’88) and Candace Leitman
Harvey Leonard ■
Mark F. LePore, MD (MED’99;
CAS’96, ’99) ■
James L. Lerner ■
Simmons Lessell, MD
Martin H. Loeffler and Sidsel Loeffler ■
Sanford Loewentheil
and Karen P. Loewentheil ■
Robert H. Lofgren, MD (MED’56) and
Helene J. Lofgren (CAS’64, SED’70) ■
M. Jocelyne Louis-Jacques, MD (MED’78)
Bruce W. Lowney, MD (MED’68) ■ ■
Richard E. Luka, MD (MED’89)
and Amy R. Luka ■
Barry W. Lynn (STH’73)
and D. Joanne Lynn, MD (MED’74) ■
Anne Madden ■
William M. Manger, MD, PhD
and Lynn S. Manger
Phoebe S. Markey ■
Bruce C. Marshall
Gary E. Martilla ■
Katherine E. Mason, MD (MED’02, ’06;
SPH’02)
J. Jay Matloff, MD (MED’43, CAS’41)
and Evelyn B. Matloff ■ ■
Ronald B. Matloff, MD (MED’72)
and Cindy Matloff (SED’70) ■
Brittany E. McClintick ■
Arthur J. McDonald
and Melanie P. McDonald ■
Joseph P. McEvoy, MD (MED’73,
CAS’72) and Shirley A. McEvoy
Mehrdad F. Mehr, MD (MED’94,
CAS’89) ■ ■
Marisa Messore, MD (MED’92) ■
David Miller ■
Sam S. Miller and Mary F. Miller
Rebecca G. Mishuris, MD (MED’08) and
Gary Mishuris ■ ■
Joseph P. Mizgerd, MD ■
Linda M. Monkell ■
Michael M. Monteith ■
Jonathan Moray and Joanne Moray
Patricia G. Morikawa, MD (MED’89) ■
Audrey Morris
Carol D. Morris, MD (MED’94)
Evan E. Mortimer, MD (MED’73)
and Rosemary E. Mortimer (SON’73)
Alfred Munzer ■
Carolann S. Najarian, MD (MED’80)
and K. George Najarian
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and Kristin Kludjian ■
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and Dr. Krishnan Nair
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and Maura Nannery ■
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and Susan O. O’Brien
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Marcia Pardo ■ ■
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and Richard J. Patz ■
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Egle D. Pedini, MD (MED’67, CAS’67)
Adrienne J. Perry, MD (MED’90)
and Matthew Perry
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and Jennifer L. Person
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and Anne Pho ■ ■
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George Pollard ■
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and Laura S. P. Poplack
Joel Potash, MD (MED’62)
and Sandra Hurd
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Richard J. Rihn, MD (MED’51) ■
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and Judith M. Rome ■ ■
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and Anna L. Rosow ■ ■
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CAS’74) and Lia C. Rothstein
(CAS’74, CFA’82)
Daniel Rotrosen, MD (MED’78) ■
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and Teri Salomon ■
Ann L. Schafstedde ■
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and Sarah Schneider ■
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and Suzanne Schwartz
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and Susan S. Shadoff (SED’74) ■
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and Eileen Shiff ■
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and Diana R. Siegel
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GRS’73) and Kathleen A. Silberman ■
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CAS’93) and Judy S. Schwab (CAS’91)
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and Deborah S. Steigman
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and Geraldine A. Sussman ■
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and Beverly A. Young ■
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and Rita L. Zamost
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and Iva Zornow ■
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and David R. Adamson
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and Alexandra Alphas ■ ■
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Michael S. Annunziata, MD (MED’66,
’66) ■
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CAS’72)
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and George Westerman ■
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and Ann A. Avery ■
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and Cecelia Babbott ■
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and Robert A. Barnett ■
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and Amy B. Bedrick ■
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and Yadira C. Berigan ■
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and Joan Berkenwald ■
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and Barbara J. Bertocci ■
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CAS’85) and Sophia Bezirganian ■
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and Aarti Maskeri, MD ■
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and Barbara W. Bliss ■ ■
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CAS’79) and Sandy Blitzer ■
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and Elsa J. Blum ■
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and George Blumental ■
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and Sheila J. Bonacci ■
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and Gillian L. Bouchie ■
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and James D. Levine
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and Joan M. Brodzinski ■
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and Gary J. Breton ■ ■
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CAS’82) and Christine Burchuk ■
Paul R. Burke and Debra F. Burke ■
Craig D. Bustin
William F. Butterfield ■
Michael J. Cahalane, MD (MED’80)
and Nancy L. Cahalane ■
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Jesse A. Caron, MD (MED’03, CAS’99)
and Jessica Alverio-Caron (CAS’00) ■
Lisa B. Caruso (SPH’99) ■ ■
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and Annette M. Casey ■
David F. Casey, MD (MED’62)
and Diane M. Casey ■
Benedict Caterinicchio
and Gladys F. Caterinicchio
Robert W. Chamberlain, Sr., MD (MED’74,
CAS’72) and Patricia A. Chamberlain ■
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Mark D. Chase, MD (MED’83, CAS’78)
and Mary B. Yates ■
Robert D. Clark
Beckey F. Cochran ■
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Cheryl N. Cohen (Questrom’80) ■ ■
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and George Colis ■
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and Ann I. Collet ■
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and Douglas L. Mann ■
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and Kiyo Cooke ■
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and Dorothy J. Corwin (SSW’57) ■ ■
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and Judith A. Coutu ■
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Holly J. Crandall ■
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and Frances Cutting ■
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and Ruth D. Davis ■
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Kate DeForest ■ ■
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and Andrea Dewire
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William G. Dietrich, MD (MED’82, CAS’82)
and Regina M. Bielawski, MD ■
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and Susan G. DiTroia ■
Mark C. Dmohowski
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and Virginia N. Dodge ■
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and Norman Doelling ■
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and Tove Doolittle
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and Carroll Eastman ■ ■
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and Tania J. Phillips, MD ■ ■ ■
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and Diane J. Hanley ■
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Mark J. Eberle ■
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and David Walinski ■
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and Bridget D. Farr ■
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SPH’01) and Joyia E. Fazelat, MD
(MED’05)
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and Rachel Ventura
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and Billie H. Fisch (SED’67) ■
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and Veronica Gomez-Lobo ■
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CAS’86) and Robin Fletcher ■
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and Deborah R. Forman ■
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CAS’82) and Nicole R. Foxman
(COM’81)
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and Ronald L. Francis ■
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and James W. Frederiksen
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Bryan D. Fry and Deedra L. Fry
Robert S. Galen, MD (MED’70, CAS’70)
and Lorilee R. Sandmann ■
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Greg Gartrell and Mary Eichbauer ■
Michael L. Garzone and Denise C. Garzone
Robert J. Geller, MD (MED’79, ’79;
CAS’79) and Janice L. Geller
Louis C. Gerstenfeld (GRS’82)
and Nancy L. Chapin, MD (MED’84,
GRS’80) ■ ■ ■
Jon B. Getz, MD (MED’84, CAS’84)
and Kelly Beach ■
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CAS’63) and Denise T. Kenneally ■
Jeffrey R. Goldbarg, MD (MED’74)
and Laurie H. Goldbarg ■
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and Laurie H. Goldbarg ■
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and Shannon C. Kenney, MD ■
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and Regina Gottlieb ■
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and Beth C. Gross ■
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and Marian M. Haber ■
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David Harris, MD, PhD ■ ■
Jane D. Harrity, MD (MED’90)
and Paul F. Harrity
Bartlett H. Hayes, MD (MED’85)
and Elizabeth B. Hayes
James J. Heffernan, MD (MED’77,
SPH’92) and M. Anita Barry, MD
(SPH’88) ■ ■
Rose E. Heller-Savoy, MD (MED’93,
CAS’93) and Marc R. Savoy
Kathy B. Henry, MD (MED’81)
and George H. Henry
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and Jeffrey C. Herrmann ■
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and Raegan J. Hicks, MD (MED’05)
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and Sharon Siegel, MD
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and Amy L. Huang
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and Mary L. Todd, MD (MED’81) ■
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and Fausat M. Ilupeju, RN ■
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and Stephen J. Imbriglia
Thomas R. Insel, MD (MED’74, CAS’72)
and Deborah J. Insel (SED’71)
Joseph F. Iovino, MD (MED’66, CAS’62)
and Joan M. Iovino
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and Anna L. Romer ■
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and Sterling Jasper, Jr. ■
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GRS’80) and Elizabeth A. Roche
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and Jean M. Joyce-Brady ■
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David S. Kam, MD (MED’85, SDM’82)
and Laura M. Kam ■
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CAS’71) ■
Eve M. Kaplan (CAS’73) ■
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and Teresa Karamitsios ■ ■
Carlos S. Kase, MD
and Rebekah P. Kase ■ ■
Marcia F. Katz, MD (MED’84)
and Asher Aremband
David M. Kaufman, MD (MED’75)
and Harriet B. Kaufman ■
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and Carol G. Kaufman ■
Patricia L. Kavanagh, MD (MED’03,
Questrom’92) ■
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and Debbi McInteer ■
David J. Kerness ■
Bettina B. Kilburn, MD (MED’82)
and Norman W. Kilburn, III
Robert M. Kim, MD (MED’60)
and Bette P. Kim ■
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and Sung-Hou Kim ■
Carolyn L. Kinney, MD (MED’81, CAS’81)
and William Eckhardt, MD ■
Lindsey C. Kiser, MD (MED’75) and
Lester Kobzik
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and Genevieve J. Kline ■
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and Anne C. Klipp ■ ■ ■
D. Knab and Corrine Knab ■
Kennard C. Kobrin, MD
and Nora Kobrin ■ ■
Joel Kolen and Candi Kolen ■
Burton I. Korelitz, MD (MED’51)
and Ann Z. Korelitz ■
Robert P. Kreminski
and Barbara R. Kreminski
Andrew L. Kriegel, MD (MED’80,
CAS’80) and Doreen E. Kriegel
(Questrom’81, SAR’78) ■
Michael W. Kwan, MD (MED’00,
CAS’00) ■
Edward V. Lally, MD (MED’75)
and Mary C. Lally ■
Byron L. Lam, MD (MED’86, CAS’84) ■
Richard S. Lane, MD
and Zarita Araujo-Lane
Gerald N. LaPierre, MD (MED’63)
and Therese LaPierre
Alan A. LaRocque, MD (MED’80,
ENG’72, GRS’79) and Kathleen A.
LaRocque (CAS’74) ■
Jonathan H. Lass, MD (MED’73, CAS’72)
and Leah S. Lass (CFA’71) ■
Ruth M. Lawrence (MED’64) ■
Andrea S. Lederfine ■
Hyunjoo J. Lee, MD (MED’08, ’08) ■
Brian J. Leonard and Sidney Leonard
Lori B. Lerner ■
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and Patricia M. Levy ■
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and Gareth W. Levy
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and Steven D. Levy
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and Kathy L’Heureux ■
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and Claudia L. Ordonez ■ ■
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and Elizabeth H. Loew
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and Suzanne G. Lopez ■ ■
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and Nisha K. Lulla ■
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CAS’76) ■
Joshua M. Mammen, MD (MED’99;
CAS’96, ’99) and Julie Mammen ■
Gordon S. Manning, MD (MED’80,
CAS’80) and Karen F. Rothman, MD
(MED’81, CAS’81) ■
John R. Marcaccio, MD (MED’64)
and Patricia H. Marcaccio ■
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CAS’64) and Marjorie M. Margolis ■
Gad A. Marshall, MD (MED’00,
CAS’00) ■
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CAS’85, GRS’87)
J. Peter Maselli, MD (MED’60)
and Maryann Maselli ■ ■
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and Vivian Mason ■
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and Barbara R. Mazzarella ■
Mary Ellen McCann, MD (MED’81,
CAS’81) and Mark E. Steiner
Melody T. McCloud, MD (MED’81, CAS’77)
Francis H. McGourty
and Eleanor H. McGourty ■ ■
Brian J. McKinnon, MD (MED’90)
and Caroline R. McKinnon ■
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and Yesugey Oktay ■
Lillian E. McMahon ■ ■
Bennett Miller, MD (MED’51)
and Elaine G. Miller
Jeffrey M. Milunsky, MD (MED’92,
CAS’88) and Kiran L. Milunsky
(SSW’96) ■
David Mischoulon, MD (MED’94, ’94)
and Alisabet J. Clain ■
James F. Mitchell, Jr., MD (MED’80) ■
Gary Moebus ■
Peter J. Mogayzel, MD, PhD (MED’90,
GRS’90) and Cyndra R. Mogayzel
Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD ■
Peter H. Moyer, MD (SPH’03)
and Gricel G. Moyer ■
Julius H. Mueller, MD (MED’59)
Myron I. Murdock (CAS’64)
and Rose A. Murdock
Arthur L. Naddell, MD (MED’62)
and Janet Naddell ■
Janice Nadelhaft ■
Doris B. Nagel Baker, MD (MED’64)
and Norman H. Baker, PhD ■
Tracey Nautel ■
Rebecca Reetz Neal, MD (MED’85) ■
Leslie B. Neustadt
Larry S. Nichter, MD (MED’78, CGS’71,
CAS’73)
Betty M. Nobel ■
Gilbert A. Norwood, MD (MED’57,
CAS’53) ■ ■
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and Diane V. Norwood
Ned R. Novsam, MD (MED’79, CAS’74)
and Patricia J. Novsam ■
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Forrest W. O’Brien and Jeanne O’Brien ■
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CAS’79) and Rosemary A.
O’Connell, MD ■
Brian F. O’Donnell, MD (MED’87)
and Olga S. O’Donnell ■
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Daniel J. Osborne, MD (MED’03)
Bruce L. Paisner and Nicole Paisner ■
Jamin Pandana and Christine K. Chang ■
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CAS’80) and Lucy C. Paniszyn, MD
(MED’81, CAS’81) ■
Jai G. Parekh, MD (MED’93, CAS’89)
and Swati J. Parekh (CAS’90) ■
Steven W. Paskal, MD (MED’80)
Robert S. Pastan, MD (MED’73)
and Cathy Pastan ■
James E. Penders and Joan C. Penders ■
Cynthia Peters ■
Alan S. Peterson, MD (MED’72, CAS’68)
Alexandra I. Pinkerson, MD (MED’96)
and Robert O. Leaver
Herbert S. Plovnick, MD (MED’71,
CAS’67) and Kathleen R. Plovnick
(ENG’89, CAS’68) ■
William E. Poplack, MD (MED’63) and
Barbara Z. Poplack (CAS’59) ■ ■
Eric L. Putnoi, MD (MED’01)
and Deborah Polansky
L. Terry Rabinowitz, MD (MED’67,
CAS’67) and Lesley Wilson ■
Joel S. Rankin, MD (MED’57)
and Verna B. Rankin ■ ■ ■
Roger D. Reville, MD (MED’62)
and Mary Beth Reville ■
Stephen M. Rich, MD (MED’78)
and Esther Rich ■
Marc W. Richman, MD (MED’63)
and Anna Richman ■
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and Barry A. Richman ■
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Nancy L. Ricks (SED’67, ’74) ■
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Ian R. Rifkin, MD, PhD ■ ■
Kenneth J. Ritter, MD (MED’58)
and Lola Ritter ■
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Michael T. Rosenbaum, MD (MED’78)
and Julie A. Arnow ■
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Carol L. Rosenberg, MD (MED’82)
and Alan Fine, MD ■ ■
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Mark L. Russell (Questrom’02) and
Marion P. Russell, MD (MED’03, ’98)
Selma H. Rutenburg, MD (MED’49,
CAS’46) ■
Phillip Rzasa and Geraldine A. Rzasa ■
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Edward H. Saeks ■
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and Rachel Barbanel-Fried ■ ■
Mark J. Samuelson, MD (MED’97, ’94) ■ ■
Abhay Sanan, MD (MED’91, CAS’91)
and Priya T. Sanan
Jose M. Santiago, MD (MED’73)
and Janice E. Catt ■
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and Priscilla J. Slanetz ■
John W. Scanlon, MD (MED’65) ■ ■
Kathleen B. Scanlon (SON’68) ■
Lawrence A. Schissel, MD (MED’85)
and Mary D. Schissel
Todd E. Schlegel and Julia J. Schlegel
Victor C. Schlitzer
Stephen H. Schneider, MD (MED’72,
CAS’72) and Carole R. Schneider ■
Jeff Schwartz and Jamie Schwartz ■
Peter S. Schwedock
and Roberta M. Schwedock
Carol A. Seftel (SED’81) and Allen D. Seftel
Mark P. Shampain, MD (MED’72,
CAS’72) and Lynne F. Shampain
Jeffrey A. Shane, MD, JD (MED’68,
CAS’68) and Roberta H. Shane ■
Bruce K. Shapiro, MD (MED’72, CAS’72)
and Elizabeth B. Shapiro (SON’72) ■
Daniel L. Shaw ■
Betty F. Shoemaker ■
William J. Sholes and Janet D. Sholes ■
Corrine E. Shurte ■
Alyse B. Sicklick, MD (MED’88, CAS’84)
and Jay E. Sicklick
Benjamin S. Siegel, MD (CAS’63)
and Jane R. Siegel ■ ■
Rebecca A. Silliman, MD, PhD ■ ■
Michael L. Silverman ■
Marie Sisley
Frederick A. Slack
Kirby Slack ■
Adrianne G. Smith
Peter P. Smokowski, Jr. and
Kathleen Dawley-Smokowski ■ ■ ■
Edith E. Sorrentino ■
William A. Spehr and Tricia Spehr ■
Glenn C. Staub (Questrom’87) ■
Robert J. Stein and Joan L. Stein ■
Thomas Steinmetz ■
Jamie Still ■
Susan C. Stoddard ■
Charlton E. Stucken, MD (MED’07) and
Carrie D. Stucken, MD (MED’07) ■ ■
Diane M. Sullivan
Charles Talanian and Nevart Talanian
Paul Tannenbaum
and Marcey Tannenbaum
Oscar Traber and Maret Traber ■
Joel M. Trugman, MD (MED’79, CAS’76)
and Razel E. Solow
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Joseph R. Tucci, MD (MED’59)
and Marjorie Tucci ■ ■
Lauren Upham ■
John H. Valentine, Jr. ■
A. R. Van Doren and M. A. Van Doren ■
Zhi Wang ■ ■
Rodney H. Wasserstrom
and Donna Wasserstrom
J. Brooks Watt, MD (MED’74)
and Karen M. King ■
Herbert N. Weber, MD (MED’56)
and Donna A. Weber
Diane C. Webster
Brooks S. White, MD (MED’51) ■
Greggory K. Whiteman
and Margaret V. Whiteman ■
William D. Whitney and Jean Whitney ■
Allison Paige Whittle, MD (MED’86,
CAS’86) ■
Ronald Williamson ■
Maryann R. Wyner ■
Henry M. Yager, MD (MED’66)
and Felice B. Yager ■
Alice L. Zacarian, MD (MED’96)
and Andrew A. Guzelian ■
Stephen J. Zimniski, PhD (GRS’82) and
Suzanne Gagnon, MD (MED’85) ■
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Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
National Football League
National Institutes of Health
Pfizer, Inc.
$500,000–$999,999
Abbott Fund
American Heart Association
The Nooril-Iman Charitable
Foundation, Inc.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals North
America, Inc.
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$100,000–$249,999
Alpha-1 Foundation
American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society/Mass Division
American College of Rheumatology
Research and Education Foundation
American Lung Association
American Parkinson Disease Association
BrightFocus Foundation
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Chaikin-Wile Foundation
Cure Alzheimer’s Now
Dairy Management, Inc.
DeGregorio Family Foundation
Ellison Foundation
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
The Hartwell Foundation
J. T. Tai & Co. Foundation, Inc.
Laboratory Corporation
of America Holdings
Mass Lions Eye Research Fund
The Medical Foundation
Melanoma Research Alliance
Melanoma Research Foundation
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
National Parkinson Foundation
Ontario Institute for Cancer Reserch
Richard and Susan Smith
Family Foundation
Scleroderma Foundation
Searle Scholars Program
The Sports Legacy Institute, Inc.
St. Baldrick’s Foundation
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Welch Foods, Inc.
Wildflower Foundation
The William Wood Foundation
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals,
a Pfizer, Inc. Company
$50,000–$99,999
Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Alios Biopharma, Inc.
Allergan Sales, Inc.
The Alpert Family Foundation
American Academy of Allergy,
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Boston VA Research Institute
Bournewood Hospital
Center for Integration of Medicine
& Innovative Technology
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Conlit, LLC
CURE
Dairy Research Institute
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Duke University
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Carpenter Foundation
Egg Nutrition Center
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Landreth Family Foundation
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MPN Research Foundation
Muscular Dystrophy Association
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National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
Palatin Technologies
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Peter F. McManus Trust
Sarcoma Foundation of America
$25,000–$49,999
American Friends of The Hebrew
University, Inc.
Association Francaise Contre
les Myopathies
CJ Foundation for S.I.D.S.
George T. Wilkinson, Inc.
Hershey Foods Corporation
Inception Sciences
Jefferson et al Qualified Settlement Fund
L’Oreal USA
$10,000–$24,999
Abraham Kaplan Charitable Foundation
American Plumbing & Heating
Corporation
Austin Service & Sales Co., Inc.
CGL Electronic Security, Inc.
The Continued Fight, LLC
David Ingall Trust
Gordon Foundation, Inc.
The Irving T. Bush Foundation, Inc.
Jones Lang LaSalle Construction
The Julia & Seymour Gross Foundation, Inc.
KNC Mechanical, Contractor
Lupus Foundation of America, Inc.
New York Academy of Medicine
Peter C. Kelly Trust
Woodin & Company Store Fixtures, Inc.
$5,000–$9,999
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Michael Rohman, MD,
Class of 1950 Scholarship
Scholarship donor Joelyn
Rohman and 2015 Rohman
Scholar Veeshal Patel (MED’15)
Alzheimer’s Association
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma,
and Immunology
American Diabetes Association
Arthritis Foundation
AstraZeneca
Atlantic Philanthropies, Inc.
Boston University Orthopaedics
Surgical Associates, Inc.
Crown Family Foundation
Faculty Practice Foundation, Inc.
Massachusetts Neuroscience
Consortium
McNeil Consumer Pharmaceuticals
Ortho-McNeil Janssen Pharmaceutical, Inc.
RespiVert Ltd.
The Louis E. Wolfson Foundation
Lundbeck, LLC
Nassau Wings Motor Cycle Club, Inc.
Oppenheimer Funds, Inc.
Partners Healthcare
Stephen M. Russell Trust
Tracy Foundation
Universal Printing Company, LLC
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Washington University St. Louis
Anonymous
6Degrees Group
AcademyHealth
American Association of
Endodontists Foundation
American Foundation For
Suicide Prevention
American Health Assistance Foundation
The Ayco Charitable Foundation
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Biogen
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Combined Jewish Philanthropies
Cure Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Cyprotex US, LLC
Dominick & Rose Ciampa Foundation, Inc.
F. M. Kirby Foundation
Foundation for Neurologic Diseases
Jerome Lejeune Foundation
Katsaros Family Foundation
Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living
Lee & Rachelle Silver Family Trust
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Lupus Research Institute
Moors & Cabot, Inc.
National Marfan Foundation
Phoenicia Biosciences, Inc.
PhRMA Foundation
Potts Memorial Foundation
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Foundation
Rally Foundation for Childhood
Cancer Research
Senior Living Residences, LLC
Steven & Jacqueline Miller Family
Foundation
Sullivan Family Foundation, Inc.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Thallion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
GIFTS FROM CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, COMPANIES, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
$250,000–$499,999
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mayo Foundation
Merck & Co., Inc.
NE Corneal Transplant Fund
Schwab Charitable Fund
Sherry and Alan Leventhal
Family Foundation
Skin Cancer Foundation
University of Massachusetts,
Worcester
Anonymous
Albert B. Kahn Foundation
Arlington Community Foundation
Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Atrium Medical Corporation
Best Automatic Sprinkler Corporation
The Community Foundation of
Harrisonburg and Rockingham County
David Joyce Charitable Trust
Edward Taylor Coombs Foundation
Haynes Family Foundation
Jean Rothbaum Trust
Karin Grunebaum Cancer
Research Foundation
Leigh Realty of Massachusetts, LLC
$2,500–$4,999
$1,000–$2,499
Anonymous (2)
All-Star Pest Services, LLC
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor
Medical Society
The American Society for Cell Biology
Annetta K. Weaver Living Trust
Arnold Robbins Revocable Trust
Brown Eye Care Associates M.D., P.A.
Bugden & Isaacson, LLC
Cargill
Dugan, Babij and Tolley
East Tennessee Foundation
Fight For Sight
Hausfeld, LLP
Helen S. Ratner Trust
Herff Jones, LLC
Inland Northwest Community Foundation
Innovative Emergency Managment, Inc.
Langer Research Associates, LLC
Maine Community Foundation
Orthopedic Specialists of SW Florida
Otis Elevator Co.
Patient-Centered Outcomes
Research Institute
The Progress Family Foundation, Inc.
Quintiliani Family Trust
Rich’s Carpet and Flooring
Ronald L. Katz Family Foundation
The Scherman Family Foundation
Strunk Foundation
The T. Rowe Price Program For
Charitable Giving
Tree Technology & Landscape Co., Inc.
Walk For An Angel Fund
$500–$999
Anonymous
The Albert A. Apshaga Trust
ALNYLAM US, Inc.
The Barry R. Chernack Revocable
Living Trust
Chung Family Foundation
Friends of the Framingham Heart Study
iMedia Technology
Institute for Neurodegenerative
Disorders
Kemco Floors
Massachusetts Medical Society
Milton Fuller Housing Corporation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding
Trust, Inc.
The Nolan Family Trust
Oskar & Judith Klausenstock Trust
Proteostasis Therapeutics
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Rochester Area Community Foundation
Roger M. Epstein Revocable Trust
Saint Michael’s Church
Snap-on Power Tools, Inc.
Stamford Hospital
Tufts University
United Charitable Programs
MATCHING GIFT
CORPORATIONS,
FOUNDATIONS,
COMPANIES, AND OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS
Bank of America, N.A.
Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
Citizens Banking Corporation
Con Edison, Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline
Google, Inc.
Hospira
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
IBM
Johnson & Johnson
MasterCard International,
Inc.
Northeast Utilities
Pfizer, Inc.
Procter & Gamble
Prudential Financial, Inc.
State Street Corporation
Verizon Communications
United Way Of Central New Mexico
University of Pittsburgh
Victor I. Hochberg Living Trust
Whitney Place at Natick
The WMY Fund
The Women’s Group of the Greens, Inc.
$250–$499
ADB-1 Properties, LLC
Friends of the Needham
Public Library
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Lillian E. C. McMahon Revocable
Trust
Lyons Enterprises, Inc.
Mehos Foundation
Northbridge Laurelwood Assisted Living,
LLC
Precise Publications, LLC
Reit Management & Research, LLC
Steven B. Rupp Living Trust
Tutor Perini Corporation
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FOR 2014–2015
DEAN’S CLUB
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($10,000 to $24,999)
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($5,000 to $9,999)
Membership
($1,500 to $4,999)
ANNIVERSARY CLUB
Membership
($1,000 to $1,499)
CENTURY CLUB
Patron
($500 to $999)
Membership
($250 to $499)
YOUNG PHYSICIAN’S CLUB
Membership graduates of less
than 5 years
($100 to $249)
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gratitude to all of our donors
at all levels who have seen
fit to support our educational
and medical mission. Matching
gifts count toward an
individual’s Leadership
Gift Club Membership.
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CLASS NOTES
1948 Frank L. Pettinga of
Holland, Michigan, writes,
“Residency in internal medicine;
family practice in Muskegon,
Michigan, for 19 years. Became too
busy and took a two-year position
with the Department of State as
an embassy physician that spread
into 13 years with tours of duty in
Afghanistan; Austria; Washington,
DC; MPH-U. Michigan; Egypt;
and the Dominican Republic. My
work took me to 92 countries.
I then became a medical director at Hackley Hospital back in
Muskegon for seven years, where I
had practiced before. I finished my
four years of part-time industrial
medicine. Sue and I now live in a
retirement complex in Holland,
Michigan, where we enjoy our four
children, 10 grandchildren, and 10
great-grandchildren. Thanks BUSM
for a great start to my medical
career.”
1952 Nicholas Giosa of Wethersfield, Connecticut, writes, “At the
tender age of 90, I recently had my
217-page book of collected poems,
This Sliding Light of Day, published
by Antrim House. For more detailed
information on reviews, sample
poems, bio, or a book purchase,
please visit www.antrimhousebooks.
com/giosa.”
1957 Peter A. Fauci of New
Rochelle, New York, writes,
“Retired last year after 50 years of
surgical practice in New Rochelle.
Did general surgery for 35 years,
the last 15 years exclusively breast
surgical oncology. Was chief of
Breast Surgery at Sound Shore
Medical Center. Upon my retirement, Linda and I travel extensively—Australia, New Zealand,
Hong Kong earlier this year; Thailand, Malaysia, and India last year.
Plan to be in Rio for Carnival next
February!”
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1958 Arthur L. Finn of Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, writes, “What
a lucky life I have led! From BUSM
to Duke (two years) to University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (two
years) to NIH (two years) to Yale
(five years) to UNC (30 years) as
a reasonably successful scientist
(never without a grant) and professor, then retirement at age 64 to
my second career as a clocksmith.
And the phenomenally good fortune of being married to Debbie for
almost 59 years, with three children
and five grandchildren. I remain in
good health, still playing squash
two to three times a week and wondering just how long my luck can
last. After all that braggadocio, I
do want to say that aging isn’t fun,
especially as I watch our class size
diminish and the world fall apart. I
still hope that each of us can leave
the world a better place for our
having passed through it, but that is
a really tough chore, and it isn’t getting any easier.”
1959 Richard I. Basch of Sarasota,
Florida, was featured in a October 30,
2014, Ringling College news release:
Ringling College of Art and Design
today announced plans to build an
approximately 20,000-square-foot
Visual Arts Center thanks to a $3 million gift by Ringling College Trustee
Dr. Richard Basch and Sarasota
Museum of Art/SMOA Board Member Barbara Basch.
1960 Peter F. Jeffries and
Jeanne F. Arnold (MED ’61) of Walpole, Massachusetts, have offered
genealogy workshops for the last 10
years to New Hampshire and Rhode
Island communities. They urge
attendees to collect family medical
information and other genealogy
and encourage them to share family
trends with their doctors.
1960 Walter L. McLean of West
Falmouth, Massachusetts, writes,
“I am happily married (56 years)
to Frances; when I first met her she
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was 17 and I was 20. We have six
children, nine grandchildren, and
two great-grandchildren. I had a
27-year military service career, during which I was boarded both in
pediatrics and allergy/immunology.
During the last 10 years in the Navy,
I taught both pediatrics and allergy
and established the first allergy/
immunology program at Bethesda
Naval Hospital. Upon discharge
from the Navy, I began a 21-year
practice of allergy in Falmouth,
Massachusetts; after I retired I provided care to adults at the Falmouth
Free Clinic for the next five years.
I now perform aviation medical
examinations for the Federal Aviation Administration (thanks to my
training at Pensacola, Florida, as a
naval flight surgeon). I am also an
attending physician at the Gosnold
Treatment Center here in Falmouth.
My interests include being a musician (Falmouth Band and Cape Cod
Community Band), sailing our Cape
Dory 25D or Beetle Cat sailboats,
biking, golf, and travel.”
1964 Kenneth W. Vaughn, Jr. of
Albany, Oregon, writes, “Retirement
is wonderful! Linda and I have been
doing a lot of traveling, including
a 30-day cruise this spring out of
San Diego to Hawaii and French
Polynesia. Later this summer, we
will explore Scotland and Wales
before Don Pettit (MED ’64) and
Lura Provost join us on a cruise to
Norway, and we will return to the
US via Iceland. In the meantime,
I will act as a forest ranger in The
Deschutes National Forest for two
weeks before we make our annual
visit to Montana to volunteer for
the Lolo National Forest. Whenever
time permits, I keep busy with my
0.5-acre vegetable garden, cutting
and splitting wood for next winter,
hiking with the local Sierra Club
group, and being involved with the
NW Steelheaders Association. In
the fall, there will be elk and deer
hunting, and whatever else I can
discover. Carpe Diem.”
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1966 David A. D’Alessandro of
Lighthouse Point, Florida, writes, “I
retired from practice in Fort Lauderdale last year and will continue to
live in Lighthouse, which has been
our home for 40 years. We will soon
have two progeny living in Boston,
so we’re anticipating even more
frequent visits to Beantown. I am
pleased to see BU and BUSM taking
renewed initiative to engage alumni.
I think there is considerable benefit
to alumni and the School accruing alumni events, especially in our
home communities. Over the years
we have seen only two classmates
with any regularity, Bill and Sally
Maxwell ‘66, who live in Maine, and
Jerry and Dianne Bergheim ‘66, who
live in Fort Lauderdale. Jerry is retired
from psychiatry. Bill is a retired ENT
surgeon and my practice has been
general and vascular surgery. Our
daughter Lisa McHale resides in
Tampa and is very engaged with
BUSM’s Bob Cantu, Bob Stern, Ann
McKee, and Chris Nowinski. BUSM
is to be commended for its pioneering investigation into the consequences of repetitive brain damage.
Their findings and legal initiatives
will someday be recognized as major
contributors to school and professional sports, where concussive
forces are unavoidable.”
1969 Jack J. Ferlinz of Saginaw,
Michigan, writes, “Internship at
BU’s University Hospital; junior
residency at the Dartmouth Medical Center/Mary Hitchcock, and
senior residency at the University
of Miami/Jackson Memorial hospitals. Following my NIH-sponsored cardiology fellowship at the
Brigham/Harvard, I was director
of one of the cardiac catheterization laboratories at the University
of California-Irvine, and assistant, then associate, professor of
Medicine there. After a decade, I
became chairman of the Division
of Adult Cardiology at the Cook
County Hospital and professor of
Medicine at the Chicago Medical
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School in Chicago. Half a decade
later—and for another half a
decade—I was chairman of the
Department of Internal Medicine
at Providence Hospital and clinical professor of Medicine at the
1969 Marc F. Hirsch of Bowling
Green, Kentucky, writes, “I retired
from hospitalist medicine in 2011. I
published my first detective mystery,
The Case (on Amazon as a paperback and eBook/Kindle), which was
“I now work at a nonprofit community health center
providing care for the underserved. In the short time
I have been there, I have seen health conditions that
I haven’t seen since my pediatric residency; patients
and families are simply grateful that someone is
willing to address their concerns and improve their
health. I encourage my classmates to do volunteer
health care work when you can, whether in your own
communities or overseas.”
—Cindy L. Juster
Wayne State University School of
Medicine in Detroit. I agreed to
be a director of medical research
and medical education at the
Hamad Medical Corporation
while trying to establish a medical school there (in Doha, Qatar)
for a few years. Upon returning
to the USA, I became first chief,
Department of Medicine, then
associate chief of staff for Clinical Medicine at the Aleda E. Lutz
VAMC in Saginaw, Michigan, and
clinical professor of Medicine
at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine;
I remained in that capacity for
almost 15 years. In all these roles,
I have performed extensive cardiovascular research and have
published more than 500 book
chapters, papers, and abstracts.
I am still professor of Medicine
at the Michigan State University,
perform ad hoc cardiac consultations, and serve on the IRB committees of various hospitals as
the cardiology expert.”
republished as a second edition by
a new publisher after some editing in 2014. The second in the Alice
White, Investigator series, titled Hard
Case, was published July 16, 2015.
Set in 1950s New York City, this
romantic detective fiction features
Alice White, a legal assistant and
night law student at NYU Law who
conducts a small Manhattan firm’s
investigations. I got several five-star
reviews for The Case (see Amazon)
and wrote a screenplay of the book,
which will soon be marketed. I think
the second and third books will help
sell the screenplay. Check it out.”
1970 Samwele Y. Shaumba
of Kinshasa, Limete, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, writes,
“Grateful to God that I just celebrated my 72nd birthday in excellent health, as I bike daily and enjoy
working on my memoirs.”
1975 Louis J. Scheinman of
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, writes,
“Still enjoying my work more each
day and have no intention of retiring
as long as I remain healthy. My wife
soon will retire from teaching. Both
our daughters are married; we now
await grandkids. Unbeknownst to
anyone at BU, over the past many
years I’ve mentored some outstanding high school seniors in Toronto
who have applied to the SMED Program at BU—we’ve had good success at getting some accepted and a
few of them have already graduated from BUSM. It has been a very
rewarding experience dealing with
such bright, capable, and motivated
students. Would love to hear from
old friends and classmates; contact
me at [email protected].”
1977 Gary L. Stanton of Cambridge, Massachusetts, writes, “I’m
still in practice full time in neurology
in Concord and remain interested
in acupuncture. Last year I gave a
workshop and plenary session lecture on French auricular acupuncture at the American Academy of
Medical Acupuncture in Denver,
and presented original research on
the human auriculo-cervical reflex
at the 8th International Symposium
on Auriculotherapy in Washington,
DC. I’m on the organizing committee for the next symposium in 2017
(in Singapore). I’ve given lectures
to BUSM students on acupuncture
for two years in a row and have also
given acupuncture-related lectures
for several years at the University of
Paris. It’s an interesting and fun part
of my practice that has given me an
unexpected opportunity to return to
academia (somewhat) after years
of private practice. I’m planning to
begin my own weekend course program in ear acupuncture for physicians in the fall.”
1980 Andrew M. Wexler of
Pacific Palisades, California, writes,
“I remain primarily a maxillofacial
and pediatric craniofacial plastic surgeon, a Los Angeles Kaiser
department chief and clinical
professor at USC. I have had a lot
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of nice national and international
recognition over the years and am
asked to be visiting prof at many
programs across the country and at
international venues. I have served
as president of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, board
member of the American Society
of Plastic Surgeons, and a senior
board examiner. I have also spent
over 20 years leading international
cleft missions with Operation Smile
in Africa, Asia, and South and Central America. I expect to retire from
Kaiser in the next few years so I can
spend more of my time working
internationally, most likely in East
Africa, which I love. My family—my
wife of 35 years, Geri, and my two
adult daughters, Becca and Sarah—
is a great source of joy for me. Life is
full and I can still run a 10KM without too much stress.”
1981 Robert M. Hansen of Palo
Cedro, California, writes, “I am
managing partner of Redding Anesthesia Associates Medical Group,
providing OR anesthesia and pain
management with the Therapeutic
Pain Management Medical Clinic. I
started a blog on nutrition, lifestyle,
and health after adopting a Paleo
Diet and lifestyle (Practical-Evolutionary-Health.com). Enjoying my
34th year in Northern California
with my wife, dog, and empty nest.”
1982 Jacob Asher of Menlo
Park, California, writes, “After six
years as Cigna’s Northern California
market medical executive, I am now
vice president and chief medical
officer of the commercial division of
Anthem Blue Cross, one of the largest plans in California (more than
4.5 million members). I oversee the
medical management and quality
teams as well as medical group and
physician engagement in the very
competitive and exciting California
market.”
1983 Kalman L. Watsky of
Woodbridge, Connecticut, writes,
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“I’ve been in dermatology private practice for 25 years in New
Haven and finally adopted an
electronic medical record; this
year I was elected vice president
of the American Contact Dermatitis Society and remain a clinical
professor at Yale Medical School
teaching medical students and
residents. Our daughter, Rebecca,
is applying to medical school and
our son, Ben, has returned to the
US after a two-year teaching stint
in Jordan. Our 30th wedding anniversary is on the horizon—there
are many tangible markers of the
passage of time.”
1984 Ana-Cristina Vasilescu
of Belmont, Massachusetts, writes,
“I’m still keeping busy doing solo
practice in lovely Winchester. I
traveled to Deer Valley for skiing
this past April and although they
had much less snow then we did, it
was still a skier’s paradise for me.
I introduced my nephew and niece
(10 and 9) to skiing two years ago
and they took to it like fish to water
(must run in the family genes; my
brother Alex skis great, too). My
mom is still as active as ever, only
slowing down once in a while—I still
can’t get her to take a break once
she starts gardening. I am once
again president of the Middlesex
District of the Massachusetts Medical Society and remind all my fellow
physicians in Massachusetts to join
the Mass Medical Society. I will try
to go to some of the fall reunion
events this year. Keep happy and
healthy all.”
1985 Cindy L. Juster of Dunwoody, Georgia, writes, “After
many years in private practice in
Atlanta, I decided several months
ago that it was time to start giving back to my community. I now
work at a nonprofit community
health center providing care for the
underserved. In the short time I
have been there, I have seen health
conditions that I haven’t seen since
my pediatric residency; patients
and families are simply grateful that
someone is willing to address their
concerns and improve their health.
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I encourage my classmates to do
volunteer health care work when
you can, whether in your own communities or overseas.”
1987 Pierre E. Provost V of
Vancouver, Washington, writes,
“My wife and I are about to embark
on a hike of the Appalachian Trail,
starting mid-June and ending early
December—2100 miles! Hopefully we will be done when this is
published!”
1991 Sanjay Lalla of Westfield,
New Jersey, writes, “I am excited!
My nephew Kalyn Reddy is following in my footsteps and starting at
BUSM this fall! He will love it.”
1991 Robert H. Pass of New
York, New York, writes, “It seems we
all have a big anniversary coming up
next year! Amazing how time flies.
I work at The Children’s Hospital at
Montefiore—Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, where I am the director
of the pediatric cardiac catheterization laboratory. I am both a pediatric
interventional cardiologist and a
pediatric electrophysiologist. My
work is rewarding. I send my sincere
best wishes to all my friends from
the class of 1991.”
1991 David F. Penson of Nashville, Tennessee, writes, “I was
named chairman of the Department
of Urologic Surgery here at Vanderbilt in January of this year. I continue
to direct our Center for Surgical
Quality and Outcomes Research and
am active in our Cancer Center as
well. Hope all is well with my BUSM
classmates and friends.”
1992 Elliott H. Leitman of West
Chester, Pennsylvania, writes, “I
joined First State Orthopaedics in
2012, specializing in sports medicine/arthroscopic surgery.”
1993 Jeffery R. Johnson of
Buffalo, New York, writes, “I was
appointed chief of Maternal-Fetal
Medicine at SUNY Buffalo, and
director of the Perinatal Center
of Western New York at Women
& Children’s Hospital of Buffalo.
Recently, established the only fetal
care center in Western New York to
offer quaternary care to anomalous pregnancies. My new book
chapter on high-risk pregnancies
was recently published and I am
lecturing on a national level about
prematurity.”
1993 Edmund Wai-Man Cheung
of Rancho Palos Verdes, California,
writes, “I’m going on 19 years as a
hospitalist at Kaiser Permanente in
Los Angeles. I have finally been able
to use my MPH by also working five
years as co-chief of our Hospitalist
Division and three years as inpatient
quality and utilization management
director. Kaiser health plan, medical group, and facilities are growing
with all the national health care
changes—we are definitely changing
the “face of health care.” On a personal note, I’m enjoying the weather
of sunny Southern California with
my wife and two daughters, ages 8
and 14.”
1994 Diana V. Perry of Sharon,
Massachusetts, writes, “Never
been happier! Same job for 15 plus
years: neonatologist based at Boston Children’s Hospital. Proud mom
of 13-year-old William and 12-yearold Charlotte, as well as our 2-yearold mini Goldendoodle, Dixie. I’ve
been asked to join the board of
trustees of my alma mater, Skidmore College. I just ran the Boston
Marathon (my 14th marathon overall and 8th Boston Marathon) in a
ton of rain—I was lucky to finish!
Bikram yoga keeps me fit and sane.
I’m so proud to be a BUSM alumna.
Life is good!”
1994 Koushik Kumar Shaw of
Austin, Texas, writes, “My wife
Brandi and I are happy to have
welcomed our second child in as
many years, Sebastian Shaw, who
joins his older sister, Anjali. My
practice, Austin Urology Institute,
continues to grow, with nearly
12,000 patients helped since we
started four years ago. We recently
co-authored our second book as a
guide for young doctors entering
the field of medicine. Many thanks
for the great foundation that
BUSM gave me.”
IN Memoriam
1995 Dana L. Sachs of Ann
Arbor, Michigan, writes, “In September 2014 I was promoted to
clinical professor in the Department of Dermatology at the
University of Michigan. I am the
first female in my department’s
history to have achieved this rank
and am grateful for the wonderful
mentoring I’ve received throughout my career!”
1940 • Iver S. Ravin of Auburndale, Massachusetts, formerly of
Chestnut Hill and Waban, Massachusetts, on May 11, 2015, at the
age of 99. Beloved husband of the late Bernice Lewis Ravin. Devoted
father of Richard M. Ravin and his wife Carol Baum, and the late Daniel Ravin. Cherished grandfather of Annalisa Hillis-Ravin and her husband Richard Hillis. Great-grandfather of Zander and Zella Hillis. Fond
brother of the late Florence Dansker.
1962 • Francis H. Boudreau of Dover, Massachusetts, on March
7, 2015. Fran inherited his faith, integrity, and work ethic from his
French-Canadian parents. He graduated from Harvard College in
1956, then served in the navy, where he met his immediate friend,
future love, and wife Laura “Larry” (O’Brien). After graduating from
BUSM and completing his residency at New York’s St. Vincent’s
Hospital, Fran started a 46-year obstetrics-gynecology practice,
working at the Boston Lying-In Hospital, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, and St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. He served as chair of
the Ob-Gyn Department at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center; chair
of the Massachusetts Section of ACOG; president of the Obstetrical Society of Boston; and secretary for the NGO Women’s Health
and Education Organization, Inc. He was a member of the clinical
teaching faculty at both Harvard and Tufts medical schools and
1998 Samuel A. Frank of Wellesley, Massachusetts, writes, “After 11
successful, productive, and valuable
years on the BUSM faculty, I have
decided to pursue an opportunity
at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center starting in September 2015.
I have fond memories of my time
at BU and will be forever grateful
for the advancement opportunities,
learning environment, and collegiality in the Neurology department.”
1998 Michelle Magid of
Austin, Texas, writes, “Jason
Reichenberg and I published a
textbook called Practical Psychodermatology that discusses
the connection between mental
health and skin disease.”
beloved mentor to all students, medical and otherwise. His greatest professional accomplishment was delivering thousands of
babies safely into the world. Fran is loved and survived by Larry,
his nine children, Francis, Laura, Renee, Nicole, Jacques, Jean-Paul,
Micheline, Andre, and Danielle, his 23 grandchildren, and his sister,
Denise Hendrigan.
1985 • Stacey E. Wilk of Edgewater, New Jersey. “Stacey Wilk
was my sister. She was a sweet and wonderful person who offered
specialized medical care and personal comfort to so many people
throughout the course of her all-too-brief time with us. She sacrificed
so much for so many, and always found ways to give of herself even
when she seemed to have nothing left to give. Stacey was brilliant,
beautiful, and bountiful, and she had a sweetness that touched the
lives of everybody whose paths she crossed. She gave far more to
this life than she received, and she left us far too soon. I miss her terribly every day, and I remember her with great fondness and affection. On behalf of the entire Wilk and Schwartz families, thank you
for being a part of our lives and for giving the best to all of us at all
times. I will always love you, and I will always miss you. Rest in peace,
my sister.”
—Joseph Wilk
1947 • Stanley H. Konefal, on July 2, 2015, after a brief illness.
Dr. Konefal was raised in East Berlin, Connecticut, and educated in a four-room schoolhouse before
attending high school. Pursuing his love of surgery, he enrolled at Tufts University as a pre-med
major and matriculated at BUSM in 1942.
2000 Joshua D. Liberman of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, writes,
“I’m currently living in Milwaukee, practicing preventive cardiology and chair of the Section of
Heart and Vascular Medicine at
Columbia-St. Mary’s Hospitals.
If anyone is ever in Milwaukee,
please look me up!”
After completing his surgical residency at Cambridge City Hospital, for the rest of his career
Dr. Konefal practiced general surgery at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital (now part of Hallmark
Healthcare System) and New England Memorial Hospital. He trained in the US Army during medical
school, and served as a Captain, Medical Doctor, in Orleans, France, from 1954 to 1956.
A staunch supporter of BUSM for 40 years, he established the Stanley and Catherine Konefal
Student Revolving Loan Fund in 1991 and the Stanley and Catherine Konefal Student Scholarship
Fund in 1999. At the time of his 50th reunion, he provided the lead gift for the class donation to
the Alumni Medical Library, and also made arrangements to provide scholarship support with an
additional gift of $500,000, which BUSM would realize following his passing.
2003 Sivasanker Bakthavacha-
lam of Dunwoody, Georgia, writes,
“I am a full partner entering my
sixth year as a pediatric otolaryngologist at Pediatric Ear Nose and
Throat of Atlanta. I have a robust
practice and see patients from all
over the state. I have two daughters,
ages 3 and 2.” n
“Stan Konefal served as a role model for so many of us,” said Barry Manuel, (CAS’54, MED’58),
associate dean for Continuing Medical Education from 1980 to 2014, professor of Surgery from 1982
to 2014, and executive director of the BUSM Alumni Association for 35 years. “He was a skilled and
caring surgeon who never forgot his experience at BUSM. He is one of the finest examples of the
outstanding alumni we are so fortunate to have.”
CYDNEY SCOTT
BUSM Alumni
Dr. Konefal donated generously
to BUSM’s Alumni Medical
Library both with his graduating
class and through a legacy gift.
Dr. Konefal was predeceased by his wife of 58 years, Catherine, with whom he enjoyed a happy retirement in Florida for more than 20
years. He leaves three married children, Stanley H. Konefal, Jr., MD (Joan) of Westfield, Massachusetts; Joseph J. Konefal, MD (Karen) of
Norfolk, Virginia; and Catherine A. Murray (Peter) of Centerville, Massachusetts; eight grandchildren; three great grandchildren; and four
sisters and their families, Clara Bakaj, Anna Danko, and Bernice Chausse of Connecticut, and Helen Blois of Maine.
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