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COLLEGE OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 35 YEARS Lifeline Vol. 15 • No. 1 • Fall 2006
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE UNIVERSIT Y OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA- CHAMPAIGN
35 YEARS
Lifeline Vol. 15 • No. 1 • Fall 2006
Dean’s Letter
35 Years of Making a DifferenceThe success of the College for over 35 years, which is best exemplified by the outstanding quality of our graduates, is truly the result of the support of individuals who have been dedicated to promoting the College of Medicine and its mission.
Human health has emerged as one of the top priorities of the University of Illinois’s strategic plan and the College has been given a leadership role in building human biomedical capabilities across campus.
As a result, we are now embarking on a new era—one that will transform how human health is studied on this campus. To do this, we will capitalize on our unique interdisciplinary approach to education and research to create a nexus for opportunity. Through this approach, we can make significant contributions in the most critical areas of research in human health and biomedical education. Without a doubt, this transformation can happen only through the support of our community partners, our friends and alumni, and our colleagues at this great institution.
We thank you for your support over the years, we deeply appreciate your loyalty and strength and we hope you will join us in making this transformation. The College of Medicine on the campus of the University of Illinois has a brilliant future ahead—together we can make it happen!
Sincerely,
Bradford S. Schwartz Regional Dean
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ContentsA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Members of the First Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Charter Members of the Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Medical Sciences Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6The Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
FIRST GRADUATING CLASS AND MEDICAL SCHOLARS PROGRAM ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8First Graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8The Medical Scholars Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM ESTABLISHED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
STRENGTHENING CAMPUS CONNECTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
GROWING IN NATIONAL PROMINENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
ESTABLISHING A HOME FOR THE CLINICAL PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
UNLOCKING OUR FUTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Vision 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28The Promise of Friends and Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Preparing the Next Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
COLLEGE NEWS AND VIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36Match Day 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Convocation 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Length of Service Awards Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Community Medical School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Celebrating 35 Years! Homecoming 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Alumni News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Introducing Our New Faculty Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Department Heads, Administration and Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Martha Sweeney
Dr. Nelson and friend
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I1971–1976I
A COLLEGE OF MEDICINE FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS
n the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a growing concern of the part of the Illinois legislature that there were
many areas across the state that did not have an adequate number of physicians. As Richard Gumport, an inaugural
faculty member, recalls the legislators believed “that there was a need to develop family practice physicians and that physicians would be most likely to practice in the state where they were educated” so they looked at opening up more medical sites across the state.
Former Dean Daniel Bloomfield described the founding of the medical school in Urbana-Champaign as originally “a response to a short-lived wave of enthusiastic public funding designed to relive a ‘doctor shortage’ in the state.” And according to him, it was this “short-lived . . . public funding” that later created challenges for the College, when during the 1980s, finan-cial and other pressures led to discussions of closing the Urbana medical school campus.
However, with the support of the University of Illinois campus, the local medical community, the leadership of Dr. Bloomfield, and the establish-ment of the Medical Scholars Program the College’s future was ensured. “The M.D./Ph.D. program was integral to the College’s survival,” says Dr. Gumport. “It gave us a genuine mission on this campus, allowing us to have a full program here and turn out scholars in medicine.”
The rest is history.
Members of the First ClassFall 1971
Kenneth A. Batko
David L. Bowten
Steven C. Delheimer
J. Gregg Fozard
David L. Ginsburg
Thomas H. Hoskins
Patrick J. Marmion
Allen L. Neese
Michael J. O’Donoghue
James J. Rusthoven
Ronald Walter Schultz
Gale G. Sidler
Gregory V. Stiegmann
Keith D. Vrhel
Mary Alice Westrick
Mitchell J. Ziarko, Jr.
“The seeds for the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Urbana-Champaign were planted in the Flexner Report of 1910. The report recommended an expansion of medical education facilities throughout the state, specifically indicating a medical school at Urbana-Champaign. The recommendation lay dormant until 1964, when the State Board of Higher Education was established and became concerned with health education in Illinois. In 1969 the decision was made to accept a class of 25 students in a pilot program and to expand to a class of 100 as soon as possible. In addition to this educational commitment, affiliations with area hospitals were also recommended.”
JOHN D. ANDERSON, PH.D., ASSOCIATE DEAN OF THE SCHOOL
OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES, IN REMARKS AT THE 1975
DEDICATION OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING
1971
Bloomfield House and f irst-year students
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Charter Members of the Faculty John Anderson Detlef Bieger
Daniel BloomfieldWilliam DanielE. Richard EnsrudMichael GabridgeThomas GambleRichard GumportLowell Hager
Michael HarmsJanet Harris
Charles HockmanGeorge HodyBenita KatzenellenbogenAulikki Kokko-CunninghamJordan Konisky
George OrdalJohn Pollard
Dwayne SavageMelvin SchoenbergGrover SeitzingerWilliam Slater
William SorlieBenjamin Williams
FIRST DIRECTOR
John D. Anderson, Ph.D.After earning a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford University in 1949, John Anderson joined the Department of Physiology at the University of Illinois. Little did he know at the time that he would be in a position to set direction for the education of generations of future medical students.
But that’s just what happened as he was instru-mental in guiding plans for the establishment of the school and construction of its facilities. In the 1960s Dr. Anderson was named to an informal planning group to study the possibility of such an endeavor, and in 1969 when the plan was set in motion he served as the liaison between the Urbana-Champaign campus and the College of Medicine in Chicago. A year later Dr. Anderson was named associate dean of the school. He held this position until his retirement in 1977.
Dean Daniel Bloomfield, in his remarks at the dedication of the Medical Sciences Building in 1975 praised Dr. Anderson for his vision and commitment: “One individual, more than any other, has nurtured this building from its incep-tion to its completion. He is Associate Dean John Anderson, who spent countless hours planning, designing, studying changes and making special arrangements to meet specific faculty needs and without whose steady hand this building would be far less functional. Always cheerful and incredibly skilled at meeting countless conflicting demands, Dean Anderson guided this building with unparalleled experience and skill.”
In 1989 Dr. Anderson was recognized for his longtime support and loyalty to the College when he was presented with the Special Recognition Award.
Founding Faculty
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GRADUATE
Keith VrhelMany students in the first class and many of the faculty members that first year would agree with Keith Vrhel, who describes the experience of being in on the groudn floor of the medical school as “sometimes making it up as we went along.” Anything new often requires such a strat-egy of being ready to adapt to changing circum-stances, and Dr. Vrhel experienced that again later in his career while on the forefront of another medical challenge.
After completing his residency in internal medicine at the University of Missouri, he began working in San Diego in 1981. “I diagnosed one of the first AIDS patients back at a time when we didn’t know what we were dealing with,” Dr. Vrhel recalls. “Since then I’ve been at the fore-front of HIV/AIDS in treatment, research, and teaching.”
Currently the medical director for Park Center for Health, the largest gay and HIV-positive practice in San Diego, Dr. Vrhel appreciates the experience he had at Illinois and “the dedicated and hard-working staff and students.”
GRADUATE
Mary Alice WestrickFor the only woman in the first class of 16 medical students, Mary Alice Westrick remembers “adapting to my role as ‘one of the guys.’” She enjoyed the camaraderie with her classmates and the time spent at “the old house,” the College’s first home on California Street, which had admin-istrative offices downstairs and a “medical library” and study facilities upstairs. She says the students often “rotated between the old house and Treno’s,” a campus bar, to study.
“Life was fairly intense” in that year in Cham-paign-Urbana, Dr. Westrick recalls, but she enjoyed the respite from the urban environments of St. Louis, where she completed her under-graduate work in 1971, and Chicago, where she continued her medical school education in 1972.
Dr. Westrick is board certified in internal medi-cine, hematology, and medical oncology. She conducted research and was a faculty member at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and earned an MBA from the University of Dallas. Initially, a health system’s marketing research and medical management consultant, Dr. Westrick is currently a business management consultant for a marketing firm in Jacksonville, Florida.
FACULTY
Richard GumportRichard Gumport describes his tenure as a biochemistry professor and an inaugural member of the College of Medicine faculty as “a great adventure that the first class of M1 students and I entered into together in the fall of 1971.”
Dr. Gumport came to the University of Illinois to pursue a research career in biochemistry, but for the first several years much of his time and effort went into developing the curriculum for the medical school and teaching and mentoring the students. Thirty-five years later, his career is marked by success as a researcher and an author, with his Student Companion to Accompany Bio-chemistry now in its sixth edition. He has also made his mark as a faculty member who is com-mitted to exploring the best methods of educating medical students—not only in his early role as teacher but also in his current role as the associate dean for academic affairs for the College, where he has responsibilities for curriculum develop-ment.
“Medical education is always in a state of curricu-lum churning,” says Dr. Gumport. “We are con-tinually trying new things, but we’re not always sure what will actually work. Most of the faculty members here are research scientists who are good citizens and are willing to put a lot of time and effort into their instruction while still trying to focus on their research. Our medical school has succeeded because of these faculty members.”
For the past 35 years, Dr. Gumport has been an excellent example of just that kind of faculty dedication.
1972 1973 1974 1975 1976
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Medical Sciences BuildingThe first home for what was then called the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Urbana-Champaign was an old gray frame building at 1205 W. California. According to Richard Gumport, who was an original member of the School’s faculty as well as a biochemistry professor, “We would all sit around a table in an upstairs room of that old building to conduct a class.”
But that all changed in 1975 when the Medical Sciences Building opened. At the time, it was touted as “the best modern archi-tecture has to offer for education and labora-tory research.” Complete with a library and multimedia center, an auditorium, laboratory animal quarters, and a tissue culture center, it was considered state-of-the-art.
It was also a sign of the commitment of the State to its mandate of doubling the output of physicians by 1980—from 200 to 400 annu-ally—by providing a home and equipment to accomplish that task.
But as John Anderson, then associate dean of the school, remarked at the building’s dedication: “Although space and equipment are nice and necessary, space and equipment do not make a program. Faculty, with staff support, interacting with students generates, maintains, and improves program.” For the past 35 years, that has been the College’s focus.
FACULTY
Allan LevyIt’s difficult to envision a College of Medicine campus without computers, but when Allan Levy, M.D., joined the faculty in 1975 that was the case. The Medical Sciences Building had just been completed, and Dean Daniel Bloomfield had recruited Dr. Levy from Baylor College of Medicine, which had one of the first computer research centers, to head the College’s Medical PLATO project.
“The goal was to convert much of the basic science curriculum to computer,” says Dr. Levy. “PLATO was a very important step in computer-based education. Not only did we develop many lessons for our students, but we cooperated with 5 to 10 other medical schools who agreed to join the Health Sciences Network. It was pioneering work.”
More than 30 years later, microcomputers and web-based learning make that early work seem cumbersome and inefficient, but it was ground-breaking at the time. And because of Dr. Bloom-field’s vision and Dr. Levy’s expertise, it put our College and our students in a position to be at the forefront of important technological develop-ments.
Dr. Levy takes great pride in the fact that over the years he played a part in developing an environ-ment “where the training of physician-scholars is first rate.” Now retired from the College, he continues to be involved in the bioinformatics field as a consultant and is an active volunteer with CASA, Court-Appointed Special Advocates, where he serves as an advocate for abused and neglected children.
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The Curriculum The inaugural class of students at what was then called the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Urbana was introduced to the study of medicine through independent study. According to Richard Gumport, one of the school’s first faculty members, “this self-directed approach was the hot, new way of teaching medical students at the time.”
Ken Batko, one of the students in that first class who went on to become an ophthalmologist and glaucoma specialist, remembers “enjoying reading through the textbooks at my own pace and in my own place. It gave me confidence that I could learn even the most technical information on my own. That confidence stayed with me throughout my career,” he says.
Dr. Gumport explains that at the time the curriculum consisted of “written learning objectives and self-tests that were to be taken by the students on the computer at their own pace.” But it wasn’t an instruc-tional strategy that worked for most students, and so a more formal curriculum of lectures and textbooks began to take shape even before the end of the first year.
There was little classroom contact, but when such sessions were orga-nized they were held in the School’s first home in an upstairs room of a converted private home that stood at 1205 W. California Street, just southeast of the present south entrance of the Medical Sciences Building.
“PLATO was a very important step in computer-based education. Not only did we develop many lessons for our students, but we cooperated with 5 to 10 other medical schools who agreed to join the Health Sciences Network. It was pioneering work.”
ALLAN LEVY, M.D.
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GRADUATE
Diana GrayAs a member of the inaugural clinical class at the College, Diana Gray, M.D., a 1981 graduate, was among the first students to complete clinical work in Champaign-Urbana. It was a groundbreaking endeavor. “There were no residents, fellows, or more senior students to mentor us, which in some ways made it difficult,” says Dr. Gray. “But we got a lot of firsthand experience with procedures and had a lot of direct interaction with the faculty.”
Since then, Dr. Gray has found herself to be in on the ground floor of other exciting developments in the field of medicine. As a resident and fellow in obstetrics/gynecology ultrasound and medical genetics at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish/St. Louis Children’s Hospitals in the early 1980s, her choice of specialty couldn’t have been more well-timed. “The discipline of prenatal diagnosis had been around for only about a decade or so when I began my medical studies,” she says. “And what spurred the development of the field was ultrasound and amniocentesis. These tools revolu-tionized the practice of OB/GYN.”
Dr. Gray continues her work with patients but now has added the role of professor of OB/GYN and of radiology as well as associate dean for faculty affairs in the School of Medicine at Wash-ington University. “It wasn’t a role I saw myself in, but it’s a challenge that I really enjoy and an opportunity to be a strong voice for affecting change,” she says.
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FIRST GRADUATING CLASS AND MEDICAL SCHOLARS PROGRAM ESTABLISHED
GRADUATE
James ShoemakerJames Shoemaker is someone who often is in the right place at the right time. While a medical student in Urbana in the late 1970s, Dr. Shoe-maker had the opportunity to deliver a baby in the same room in Burnham Hospital where he had been born decades before. And then in 1984, in another instance of good timing, he had the distinction of becom-ing the College’s first M.D./Ph.D. graduate.
It’s an opportunity he’s made the most of, with an 18-year career as the founder and director of the metabolic screening lab at the St. Louis University School of Medicine. Each year, his lab is responsible for processing more than 1,500 urine samples from children across the Western hemisphere in order to detect inborn errors of metabolism. A review of thousands of recent samples from seriously ill infants and children has shown that clinically relevant nutritional meta-bolic abnormalities outnumber genetic metabolic abnormalities by about 10 to 1. His current research includes the evaluation of special nutri-tional needs in children with Down’s syndrome and the diagnosis of vitamin deficiency by quan-tification of urinary metabolites after an oral dose of amino acids and other food constituents.
More than 100 children have been diagnosed with very rare metabolic diseases using the method invented by Dr. Shoemaker—a method that has roots in the translational research he conducted while a graduate student in the lab of Willard Visek, M.D., Ph.D.
First Graduates of COM-UCClass of 1981
Barbara J. Albertson
Lance B. Becker
Annis Wakelee Bledsoe
Diana L. Gray
Michael C. McVeigh
Kathleen E. O’Hare
David A. Shewmon
James D. Shoemaker
Judith A. Suess
David J. Svetich
Wayne B. Wheeler
1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
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The Medical Scholars ProgramIn 1978, the College of Medicine began a joint venture with the Graduate College at the University of Illinois that set the stage for new levels of interdisciplinary research. The Medical Scholars Program (MSP) was unique in its ability to offer dual degrees in not only the biomedical sciences but in the humanities, social and behav-ioral sciences, engineering and physical sciences.
Nearly three decades later, the MSP is one of the largest, most diverse, and highly regarded training programs for physician-scholars in the country. According to Diane Gottheil, former associate director of the MSP, the program “is unlike any other combined degree program in medicine” because of the diversity of scholarly interests, the rigorous academic standards, and the degree combina-tions offered.
The reputation of the program and its students is apparent in the steady stream of National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellow-ships and other highly competitive awards that MSP students receive each year as well as their success as physician-scientists and scholars. And that’s just what was envisioned when the MSP was established. Daniel Bloomfield, who was dean of the College at the time, predicted in 1991, during the College’s 20th anniver-sary, that the future of the College “lies in the success of its graduates. We’re looking forward to the accomplishments of our medical schol-ars, which I think will begin to have an impact in the next five to ten years.”
Fifteen years later, his prediction certainly rings true.
Dr. Ralph Nelson
Dr. David Webb
Dr. Ivens Siegel
1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
“The Medical Scholars Program is unlike any other combined degree program in medicine.”
DIANE GOTTHEIL,
FORMER ASSOCIATE
DIRECTOR OF THE MSP
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FACULTY
Willard Visek, M.D., Ph.D.As one of the first two clinical professors associ-ated with the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Visek used his expertise to develop the clinical nutrition curriculum. His work established the College as having the first required clinical clerkship in nutrition in a U.S. medical school.
Over the years, Dr. Visek has used that training to educate students about the important roles that nutrition and metabolism play in disease prevention. “It seems obvious to people now that diet impacts your health, says Dr. Visek. “In fact, everyone really thinks they’re an expert on nutri-tion. But back then it was a fairly new idea.”
Dr. Visek’s graduate students, including the College’s very first M.D./Ph.D. student, James Shoemaker, benefited from his expertise and mentorship. “I knew that Illinois was one of the best places to pursue a Ph.D. in nutrition because of Dr. Visek,” says Dr. Shoemaker. “The experi-ments I conducted in his lab led directly to my work today.”
The College honored Dr. Visek for his work by recognizing him as a recipient of the 2006 Special Recognition Award.
FACULTY
Byron KemperByron Kemper has spent nearly three decades as a member of the College of Medicine faculty teaching pharmacology and studying how genes in cells are “turned on” and how proteins that are made in the cells get to the right cellular location. For the last 25 years, the focus of his lab has been on genes that produce drug-metabolizing enzymes that usually inactivate drugs and toxins that are ingested. In humans, a single enzyme is respon-sible for metabolizing about half of all thera-peutic drugs and many of these drugs “induce” or increase the activity of the enzyme, which, of course, affects the action of a second drug that is metabolized by the enzyme. The study of the mechanism of induction and the normal cellular physiology of this important class of enzymes
has been a sometimes frustrating, but usually rewarding, experience.
But for Dr. Kemper, the most rewarding experience has been working with many talented students and watching their intellec-tual growth. “Because medical students need
to learn so many facts in so short a time there is always a tension in balancing the facts with the underlying experimental basis, not to mention providing clinical relevance,” says Dr. Kemper. “After 30 years, I still am not satisfied that I have it right. However, in both research and teaching, not being satisfied and striving to learn more or to make it right is both important and keeps life interesting.”
FACULTY
Bill DanielWhen Bill Daniel arrived on the University of Illinois campus in 1972, the College was in its infancy. With 16 students housed in a white frame building, the program was small but ready to grow.
For 30 years, Dr. Daniel contributed to that growth by guiding students in his roles as teacher, researcher, and mentor. As a medical geneticist, he also used his expertise to develop the College’s medical genetics curriculum and to establish a genetic counseling program, both of which were relatively new concepts when he began his work on campus.
Dr. Daniel’s work as a medical geneticist led to his being named a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics, and his reputation as a teacher earned him recognition as a five-time Golden Apple winner in the College of Medicine.
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F irst graduating class, 1981
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1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
GRADUATE
Michael KellyThings are constantly changing in the field of medicine, and Michael Kelly, M.D., certainly can vouch for that. A 1984 graduate of the College of Medicine and a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Miami Plastic Surgery, he says “there’s always a new pro-cedure, new equipment, and new techniques to perfect” in his field. “The challenge is to balance the desire to be first in performing a technique with the need to be sure it has been tested enough to work for the patient.”
Being in on the ground floor of something new is familiar territory for Dr. Kelly, who was an undergraduate at Illinois in the early years of the medical school. “When I was at Illinois, there was a sense that it was a new campus for medicine. And when I was a medical student, the clinical program was still being developed, which was a fun and exciting thing to be a part of. There was flexibility as far as rotations, so I had an oppor-tunity to go to older programs across the country and bring that experience back.”
Today, he continues to share his experience not only with his patients, but with the adults and children he helps each year as part of Operation Smile, an organization that coordinates health care teams to provide cleft lip and palate repair around the world.
Earl EnsrudAs plans began to take shape to establish a School of Clinical Medicine to go along with the existing School of Basic Medical Sciences, Daniel Bloomfield enlisted the help of MD Advisors—that is, local physicians who volunteered to serve as clinical associates, working with students and recruiting other volunteer physicians.
E. Richard Ensrud, M.D., a Carle gastroenterologist since 1957, was one of the first MD Advisors. His work with the College extended far beyond this role, however, when he agreed to help organize a formal Internal Medicine Residency Program in Urbana-Champaign. Along with a dozen other local physicians from Carle Foundation Hospital, Mercy Hospital, and the Dan-ville VA Hospital, Dr. Ensrud and the other committee members submitted an application for this program to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The proposal received provisional approval in 1983, and Dr. Ensrud agreed to serve as the program director.
“We had about 15 residents in the program in that first year,” he says. “With the help of the associate program directors Robert Kirby from Carle Foundation Hospital, Lewis Winter at the Danville VA Hospital, and James Cowan from Mercy Hospital, who was later replaced by Bill Marshall, we started from scratch and built it into a very fine program. Three or four years after our provisional approval was given, we received full approval.”
Dr. Ensrud retired from his position as program director in 1991, but recalls fondly the time spent working with young physicians and the oppor-tunity to help them gain a unique perspective. “The three-hospital association that our program is based on makes it special because residents get the perspective of the large private practice group from Carle Clinic, the individual and group
experience at Christie Clinic and Provena (Mercy Hospital), and the public institution experience at the VA Hospital,” Dr. Ensrud says. “The size of the program means the directors get to know the residents better, plus it allows for more personal guidance and support—all of which create a successful program and successful residents.”
Class of ’86
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INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM ESTABLISHED
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GRADUATE
Mary Burke DukeWhen Mary Burke Duke, M.D., was searching for physician-educator role models as a medical student in the 1980s, she didn’t have to go far. In fact, she found them in people like Dr. Robert Parker, Dr. Terry Hatch, and Dr. Kathleen Buetow, mentors who she met during her clinical training in Urbana-Champaign. “These people were consummate professionals,” says Dr. Duke. “They were the caliber of physician that attracted me to internal medicine and pediatrics,” and to the clinician educator role that has been her focus for more than 20 years.
As an associate professor at the University of Ken-tucky College of Medicine, Dr. Duke has been responsible for directing the combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency program. She also recently was elected to a four-year term as gov-ernor of the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Physicians, the world’s largest medical specialty society.
The governorship is a challenge she welcomes, and the organization’s philosophy about patient care and physician education is one that meshes with her own. “I have been an ACP member since I became a physician, and it has always felt like my professional home,” Dr. Duke says. “The people I have come to know in the organization are among the most high-minded people I have met in medicine. They remind me of my mentors at the UI.”
GRADUATE
Michael BishopWhen Michael Bishop came to Urbana-Cham-paign to interview for the Medical Scholars Program, he recalls that his plan to examine HMOs and PPOs was met with many quizzi-cal looks. “I came from Minnesota, and in 1981 HMOs and PPOs were already very much a part of the state’s health care system,” he says. “But they hadn’t taken off throughout much of the rest of the United States yet.”
And this country’s system wasn’t the only one he had a chance to study while working toward his M.D./M.B.A. As the winner of the Richardson Award in 1986, Dr. Bishop spent four months working at King’s College Hospital in London learning about the British health care system and completing his pediatrics rotation. It was this and the clinical and educational opportunities of the MSP that inspired his career as a pediatrician and a clinical instructor at Baylor University and the University of Texas.
“I view my years at the University of Illinois as a period of personal and professional growth and challenge,” says Dr. Bishop. “There were so many memories to recall: the first and only medical school float entered into the Homecoming Parade; the late nights in the cadaver lab; anxious anticipation on Match Day; and the Hooding Ceremony and recitation of the Hippocratic Oath on Graduation Day. Undoubtedly, the friendships I built while at Illinois will last a lifetime, and the education, clinical training, and other opportuni-ties provided were instrumental to my success and prepared me well for my chosen field.”
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Ivens A. Siegel, Ph.D.When Ivens Siegel, Ph.D., retired from the College in 1999, his tenure as a dedicated faculty member, a scientist of the first order, and an outstanding administrator was marked by another important distinction. In his 20 years as a profes-sor, he was recognized 10 different times as the winner of the Raymond B. Allen Instructorship Award, establishing a record for the Urbana campus.
Certainly that means he inspired hundreds of medical students, and to hear students and col-leagues tell it, he made a real difference.
Members of the Class of 1999 chose to honor Dr. Siegel’s work by selecting him as the recipient of their Special Tribute Award citing the kindness, generosity, quick wit, and sense of humor that he shared with medical students over the years. And as Byron Kemper, Ph.D., head of the Department of Pharmacology, said upon learning of Dr. Siegel’s selection as the College’s Special Recognition Award winner in 2001: “What makes him exceptional is his dedica-tion to his students. He suffers with them when they struggle and celebrates with them when they do well.”
STAFF
Kathy CarlsonKathy Carlson began her work in the College of Medicine in 1980 as the staff secretary for the Medical Scholars Program. The MSP had only been in exis-tence for two years at the time, so Kathy has had the opportunity to see a fledgling program grow into a model for excellence in physician-scholar education.
Now the secretary to Dean of Students Jenny Bloom, Kathy works directly with MSP and traditional students to assist them with clerkship schedules and residency applications—a process that has changed significantly in her 26-year tenure. “When I first came we made hundreds and hundreds of copies of residency applications, all of which had to be individually signed and mailed,” she says. “It was a very time-consuming administrative task. But about 10 years ago we started using the Electronic Residency Applica-tion Service (ERAS) program, and it has really streamlined the process because it is now all done on computer, both the application submission and the matching.”
And that’s been good for the students as well as the staff. “Our job is to make things easier for the students,” Kathy says. “They are the lifeblood of the College, and I feel so fortunate to be in a position to help them and to get to know them personally,” she says. “They are an absolutely amazing group of people that you come to care for as your own. It’s always a sad day for me when they graduate and move on.”
Founding Director Dr. Anderson, f irst Dean Dr. Daniel Bloomfield, and second Dean Dr. Charles C.C. O’Morchoe
Gwen Gaynor robing Dr. David Webb
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Ralph Nelson Ralph Nelson describes coming to the College of Medicine and Carle in 1979 as the best thing he ever did—a sentiment shared by his medical
students and colleagues alike.
An M.D./Ph.D. student himself and the first NIH Fellow at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Nelson knows the rigors and the rewards of the physician-sci-entist career path. For more than 23 years,
he brought that perspective to his work with the College, helping to create an atmosphere of excel-lence for our M.D./Ph.D. program. His worked earned him recognition as one of the College’s Special Recognition Award winners in 2006.
A professor of nutrition and internal medicine, and later head of the Department of Internal Medicine, until his retirement in 2002, Dr. Nelson also served as director of research for Carle Foundation Hospital, work he continues to pursue today.
Much of his groundbreaking research has focused on black bears and how what we know about their metabolism can improve the health of humans. This biodiversity research has made important contributions to the treatment of osteoporosis and kidney disease.
“This is an excellent atmosphere for an M.D./Ph.D,” says Dr. Nelson. And certainly his contri-butions have helped make it so.
College of Medicine faculty and staff
Drs. Elizabeth Trupin, Lew Trupin, and Suzanne Trupin Campbell
“The Internal Medicine training program has a quality reputation, and we work to continue that reputation by providing the best teaching and all the resources the students need.”
SARITA PRADHUDESAI,
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STRENGTHENING CAMPUS CONNECTIONS
s the second regional dean in the College’s history, Charles C.C. O’Morchoe, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., definitely had a full plate. Not only did he have the admin-
istrative responsibilities of the college, but he also taught anatomy, histology, and pathology and had an active research program. “It could be quite a balancing act,” he
says, “but one of the many advantages of balancing three jobs is that if one isn’t going as well as you like, you have two others to bring you joy.”
And Dr. O’Morchoe found lots of joy in his time with the College. “I loved being on this impres-sive campus with its wonderful academicians,” he says. “I enjoyed the students enormously. I had the chance to get to know them because we didn’t have huge classes. In addition, they were on campus for many years, and I had the good fortune to teach them. I still keep in touch with many of them.”
Even when the threat of closure hung over the College and administrative responsibilities were at their most challenging, there was still a silver lining for Dr. O’Morchoe. “To our great joy, there was an outpouring of support from across campus that actually changed the president’s mind regarding closure of the College,” Dr. O’Morchoe recalls. “The MSP had a great deal to do with this because faculty from various disciplines saw the advantages of having these truly outstanding students on campus. They recognized the MSP as a quality program that helped them to attract the best students to their depart-ments as well as to the College of Medicine.”
In 1984, Dr. O’Morchoe left his position the Department Head of Anatomy at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in 1984 to take over the leadership of the College. “The MSP was in its infancy, but it had already established a name for itself,” he notes. “There wasn’t anything like it around the country during my tenure. No other program had the breadth of disciplines that ours did and still does.”
Much of the MSP’s success and the College’s reputation for excellence is a result of Dr. O’Morchoe’s visionary leadership. He was committed to building strong administrative and faculty relationships across campus, to developing collaborative relationships with the community healthcare institutions, and to strengthening the academic excellence of the program in every way possible.
When he and his wife, Jean, professor of pathology and cell and structural biology, retired from the College in 1998, they left satisfied that their goals of building a stronger stable program had been achieved. Colleagues, students, and staff could not agree more.
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Carmen KoubicekThere was a real learning curve for Carmen Koubicek, M.D., when she made the transition from working as a pediatrician at Carle Clinic in Danville to setting up a solo practice in Louisi-ana—one that had little to do with medicine or location but had everything to do with business.
“At Carle, all my necessities were taken care of,” she says. “All I needed to do was provide medical care to my patients. Now in private practice, all the business and administrative duties are my responsibility. It has been challenging and at times frustrating, but it’s also very rewarding to see the fruits of my labor.”
That labor began at the College of Medicine, where she was a student from 1986 to 1990. It continued with a pediatric residency at the University of Florida at Jacksonville, where she received extensive training in neonatal medi-cine and management in addition to pediatrics, and then with her five years as a Carle pediatri-cian. For the past six years, that labor has meant caring for children at Doc 4 Kids, Dr. Koubicek’s practice in Opelousas, a town of 25,000 in south central Louisiana that saw its share of displaced individuals from the New Orleans area after Hur-ricane Katrina. “Unlike what we see in the media, the people and patients I have run across affected by this storm have shown not only determination but a resilience that is very admirable,” she says.
While at the College of Medicine, Dr. Koubicek was grateful for the many instructors who helped her pursue her goal of becoming a physician. “My special appreciation goes out to Dr. Richard Mintel for his unique style of teaching fueled by his love for biochemistry (the Kreb Cycle still haunts me), and of course his patience with me,” she says.
“21st century physician leaders need extraordinary opportunities to develop extraordinary skills.”
DR. CHARLES C.C.
O’MORCHOE
DEAN EMERITUS
Charles C.C. O’Morchoe
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Scott EnochsScott Enochs’ original plan was to complete his M.D./Ph.D. and pursue a career in aerospace medical research with the Air Force. There wasn’t a defined pathway for him to take, but he made contacts and felt confident that he would be able to combine his medical interests with lab work in biophysics. Unfortunately, personnel changes and a shift by the Air Force to outsourcing these research activities altered his plans. And yet his journey has come full circle.
Currently a radiologist at Bryn Mawr Hospital (reportedly home to the nation’s first radiology resi-dency) in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, Dr. Enochs completed a diagnostic radiology residency and neuroradiology fellowship, both at the Massa-chusetts General Hospital in Boston. During the fellow-ship, he saw an ad for the Air Force Reserves and decided to tackle both jobs at once, hardly a stretch for someone used to balancing the demands of the Medical Scholars Program. Over the next eight years, he held an academic position in neuroradiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and practiced as a general medical officer, later training as a flight surgeon, with the 913th Airlift Wing, Willow Grove Air Reserve Station north of Philadelphia.
So now in addition to his work in private practice and training radiology residents, Dr. Enochs is a flight surgeon and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. That means devoting one weekend a month and two weeks a year to his Reserve duties. “It’s not the research path I had originally envisioned, but the work is important and I enjoy it very much,” says Dr. Enochs. “You function much like a family practitioner but utilize specialized occupational and preventive medicine training as well. And you’re one of the flight crew. Combining this work with my radiology practice and teaching role has been a great opportunity.”
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Kirk MobergThere are graduates of the College of Medicine practicing their specialties across the country and across the world. And there are some, like Kirk Moberg, M.D., Ph.D., who continue to make their difference right here in Champaign-Urbana.
With a Ph.D. in genetics and a master’s degree in health policy and administration to go along with his medical degree, Dr. Moberg completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Illinois and started working as an internist at the Carle Clinic in 1994. A year later he began a combination practice of critical care and addiction medicine. He began his career in administrative medicine in 2000 and currently serves as senior vice-president and chief medical officer of the Carle Clinic Association and medical director of Carle’s Addiction Recovery Center.
Seeing a need for today’s medical students to be exposed to the problems of addiction, Dr. Moberg has developed an addictions curriculum for the M2 students that has been instituted for the 2006-2007 academic year. “Addic-tion is a major public health problem,” he says. “There is practically no specialty in which a physician won’t have some interaction with someone struggling with addiction, yet it often goes unnoticed in our profession. Adding it to the curriculum heightens awareness and provides students with
a knowledge base so that when they graduate they are better prepared.”
His work on behalf of the College and the students earned him recognition as the 2006 winner of the Art of Medicine Alumni Award, presented to an exemplary physician who is committed to the ideas of life-long learning and humanistic patient care; an outstanding teacher involved in educating peers, resi-dents, students and allied health professional; and an involved physician who understands the role medicine plays in various cultures and communities throughout the nation and the world.
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Lisa GouldLisa Gould, M.D., ’90, Ph.D., ’89, and now an associate professor of surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), recalls the rigors of the Medical Scholars Program.
“It was a very demanding program,” she says. “So we were especially grateful for people like Diane Gottheil who provided strong leadership and helped steer us in the right direction when we were struggling. But it was those demands and the training and discipline that go along with them that have been the most helpful in practice. The program taught me how to concep-tualize, organize and complete a project, which are extremely important and valuable skills.”
They were skills she used first in her work at the Medical College of Wis-consin, where she had an academic practice in plastic surgery and hand and microsurgery as well as a research practice that centered on wound healing. In 2001, she left the cold Wisconsin winters for sunny Texas and the oppor-tunity to move her wound healing research forward. “The UTMB Surgery Department is extremely well known for research and the support and resources provided to carry it out,” she says. “Plus, I’ve been able to develop the microsurgery program here and am doing very complex cases. In addi-tion, I work with medical students both in the lab and when they’re rotating through geriatrics. One of my recent summer undergraduate students is now an M.D./PhD student at UTMB.”
Dr. Gould has recently reconnected with former MSP Director Hal Swartz. “I’ve developed a research collaboration with him that focuses on oxygen and wound healing,” she says. “It certainly was unexpected, but chance favors the prepared mind.” And preparation is certainly something that the MSP delivered for Dr. Gould.
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Kathleen BuetowFor more than 40 years, Kathleen Buetow, M.D., Dr.P.H., has been caring for the littlest patients in east central Illinois as a pediatrician at Carle Clinic Association. During much of that time, she’s also been responsible for nurturing the development of the College’s clinical program in pediatrics. Improving the situation for each student—and each child—has been the focus of her work as a faculty member and a physician.
Dr. Buetow has established a reputation not only as a fine physician but also as an expert in the evaluation of children for possible abuse and neglect. She has worked tirelessly leading the Child Protection Team at Carle and serving on local and state teams that review records of all child accidental deaths for ways to institute prevention.
In the College, Dr. Buetow has served as the head of pediatrics since the clinical program began and has also been involved with curriculum develop-ment since the early 1970s. “Over the years I’ve seen the structure and organization of the College take shape, and I’ve been grateful to be a part of it,” she says. “It’s been important to me that we always look for ways to expand the opportunities available to our students.”
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Benita KatzenellenbogenIn 1970, Benita Katzenellenbogen, Ph.D., came to the University of Illinois to work with Jack Gorski, professor of physiology and biochemis-try, whose University lab was at the forefront of important endocrinology research. More than 35 years later, Dr. Katzenellenbogen is herself an internationally recognized endocrinologist and cancer researcher, and now it is her work that often brings talented students from across the country to the University and the College of Medicine.
A founding member of the faculty in the College, Dr. Katzenellenbogen’s tenure is one of distin-guished achievement. A former president of The Endocrine Society and the winner of the Jill Rose Award for outstanding research from The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Dr. Katzenel-lenbogen has contributed significantly to her field and to the education of M.D./Ph.D. students.
“It’s very gratifying to see students move on to establish distinguished careers in academia, gov-ernmental agencies, and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries,” she says. “I’m proud of the legacy of trainees and associates who are making important contributions of their own.”
For many of them, it’s an opportunity that would not have been possible without the guidance of professors and mentors like Dr. Katzenellenbogen.
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Abigail SalyersAbigail Salyers is someone who is as comfortable answering a congressional leader’s question about antibiotic resistance as she is answering a medical student’s question about microbiology. And her experience, knowledge, and commitment to edu-cation are all qualities that have served the public and the College well over her 26-year career at Illinois.
Dr. Salyers’ research on antibiotic resistance has earned her international recognition and made her a sought-after speaker and resource for the scientific community. She has authored textbooks, developed curriculum for M1 and M2 micro-biology courses, and has served as president of the American Society for Microbiology. She has received several campus awards for excellence in teaching, was the recipient of the Illinois Society for Microbiology’s Pasteur Award for Research and Teaching, and was named the 2002 Faculty Member of the Year for the four campuses that comprise the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
Educating the public is a responsibility that Dr. Salyers takes seriously. She is proud to be asso-ciated with colleagues who feel the same. “It’s gratifying to work in an environment where there are so many high-quality faculty members who are dedicated to educating both students and the public,” she says.
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GROWING IN NATIONAL PROMINENCE
en years after the establishment of the Medical Scholars Program in 1978, plans began to take
shape for the College to host the first National Conference on the
Education of Physician-Scholars in 1989. Diane Gottheil, Ph.D., associate director of the MSP at the time, organized the conference along with Harold M. Swartz, M.D., Ph.D., then MSP director. It drew directors of elite dual-degree programs from across the country as well as representatives from the National Institutes
of Health, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and major private foundations involved in funding medical education.
“The conference was an excellent opportunity for the College to showcase our program and our students, and it allowed the University to showcase the Beckman Institute, which was brand new in 1989, and its commit-ment to interdisciplinary research,” Dr. Gottheil says. “It was a big under-taking, but certainly a big accomplishment as everyone was very pleased with the conference and came away impressed by our
school.” And it was the beginning of growing national exposure for the
MSP in the early 1990s.
The 1989 conference was the impetus for a book entitled The Education of Physician-Scholars: Preparing for Leadership in the Healthcare System, which was published in 1993. Several chapters were written by conference attendees, with the remainder of the book written and edited by Drs. Gottheil and Swartz. “I heard from program directors that the book became their bible in developing and carrying out their programs,” says Dr. Gottheil. “It was gratifying to have our College seen as being on the forefront of sharing this unique educational process with other pro-grams.”
Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the reputa-tion of the MSP continued to grow as students attended national conferences for M.D./Ph.D. programs in the humanities and social sciences. “Our students were so impressive at these confer-ences, and it became clear that we were the most serious program in the country,” remembers Dr. Gottheil. This reputation continues today thanks to the vision of those who founded the College’s MSP. “Those who first conceived this program were incredibly imaginative and understood that medicine and society were going to increasingly interact,” Dr. Gottheil says. “We attract and educate students who want to understand social issues in a scholarly way and also understand the constraints of the clinical environment. The tal-ented students in our program bring that perspec-tive to their research and demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary work.”
Dr. William Greenough in his lab.
“Our students were so impressive at these conferences, and it became clear that we were the most serious program in the country.”
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Tom FranzenTom Franzen, M.D., had been a pre-med/biology major at Eastern Illinois University, but he had a change of heart after his junior year in college and decided to pursue a vastly different career. So he switched course and began taking classes that would allow him to graduate with a teach-ing certificate in elementary education. For four years, he taught students, until deciding to return to school himself to pursue his original interest in biology—this time as a medical student.
Because Dr. Franzen grew up in Royal, Illinois, the College of Medicine was a logical and close choice. “I got a very well-rounded education at Illinois,” says the 1993 graduate. “The rotations we did in the third and fourth years were espe-cially good because we had the chance to work with attendings, which is a real benefit.”
Now a family practice physician at the Carle Clinic location in Rantoul, Dr. Franzen still is close to home. Though he completed an intern-ship in obstetrics and gynecology at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, he decided to return to Carle to complete a family practice residency. He enjoys the opportunity he now has to work with residents in the same program he participated in during the mid-1990s.
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Alan Marumoto“I used to joke with Diane Gottheil that getting the M.D. and Ph.D. took so long that I’d prob-ably see the fall of communism before I’d finish, or maybe I’d see the Cubs win the World Series,” remembers Alan Marumoto, a 1996 graduate of the College of Medicine. He did witness one of those historical moments, but he’s still waiting to see the Cubs win it all.
It may have taken nearly a decade to complete the require-ments for his M.D. and Ph.D. in chemis-try, but according to Dr. Marumoto it was worth every minute. Now an adjunct assis-tant clinical professor of interventional radiology at UCLA and the clinical director of University Center Imaging in Melbourne, Florida, Dr. Marumoto has had an interesting academic and professional journey.
“I’ve had the good fortune to stumble into some great opportunities,” he says—opportunities that have included tangential working associations with five different Nobel Prize winners from 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2005. And he’s taken advantage of the opportunities to obtain and develop a coast-to-coast research and clini-cal career that is personally and professionally rewarding.
Dr. Marumoto also “stumbled” into another role while on the UI campus, making a name for himself as the “Point Illinois Guy” at women’s volleyball games. “It was an exciting time to be a volleyball fan and a great distraction from the rigors of the MSP,” he says.
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Bradley KatzAs an assistant professor of ophthalmology and neurology at the University of Utah, Bradley Katz, M.D., Ph.D., has the career he began thinking about as an undergraduate more than 20 years ago. After earning his bachelor’s degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in 1986, he was looking for a dual-degree program that would prepare him for a career in academic medicine. He found it at Illinois.
“I was impressed with the number of research opportunities that were available as part of the Medical Scholars Program,” Dr. Katz says. “The variety of scholarly interests and the breadth of graduate programs that were part of the MSP made me feel that it would be a stimulating envi-ronment. And that certainly proved to be true.”
No doubt, Dr. Katz’s commitment to academic medicine provides a similar environment for the students and colleagues he works with. In his clinical and research practice, he focuses on understanding the genetic basis of optic nerve disease, including optic nerve drusen, and evaluat-ing treatments for blepharospasm. Dr. Katz is also currently developing an instrument to measure critical flicker fusion frequency, which is especially relevant for patients with multiple sclerosis and optic neuritis.
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Diane GottheilIn the nearly 20 years that Diane Gottheil, Ph.D., served the College of Medicine as part of the Medical Scholars administrative team, it was not unusual for medical students to turn to her for advice. And when their questions focused on how to take on a new challenge, Dr. Gottheil could offer advice from experience.
That’s because prior to joining the College as coordinator of the MSP in 1984, Dr. Gottheil had spent her entire career studying, teaching, and working in political science, international relations, and criminal justice. “I was fully immersed in that career when Dr. Bloomfield approached me about this position,” she says. “It was an intriguing challenge and one that really made me understand from a personal standpoint that you can always make things work and that all the skills you learn have relevance, even in a field that’s completely different.”
That personal phi-losophy, along with an unwavering commit-ment to the personal and professional success of each student, has earned Dr. Got-theil the praise of students and colleagues alike. She was honored by MSP students in 1999 with a scholarship they established in her name, and in 2002 she was a recipient of the Special Recogni-tion Award for her outstanding contributions and service to the College.
“It has been a privilege to work with this remark-able group of students, to get to know them well, and to call them friends,” says Dr. Gottheil.
STAFF
Jim HallDuring the 23 years that Jim Hall, Ed.D., has been a member of the College of Medicine staff, he has served as a consistent and vocal advocate for student concerns. With responsibilities that began in the financial aid area and expanded to include admissions, advising, career development, and everything in between, Dr. Hall is someone students have sought out for his patience, knowl-edge, and problem-solving abilities.
Now the assistant dean for student affairs and the Medical Scholars Program, Dr. Hall meets with students for most any reason. “I work with them on everything from financial aid issues to difficulties in the classroom to negotiating the multi-campus system,” he says. “I enjoy the administrative part of the work, but it is the energy and enthusiasm that our students bring to the study of medicine that is most infectious. I would be lost without the interaction with the students.”
And to hear the students tell it, they would be lost without Dr. Hall’s guidance. Named the Special Tribute recipient in 2000, the graduat-ing class praised his ability to help them navigate “the complex financial aspects of undergraduate medical education” as well as his commitment to being “a firm supporter of student rights and needs.”
Dr. Dixie Whitt
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Terry HatchTo Terry Hatch, M.D., much of the success of the College can be attributed to “the small size and unique mission of the school, the atmosphere of openness, pragmatism, and flexibility, and the willingness of talented people to share their gifts.” To those who have learned from and worked with him over the past 32 years, Dr. Hatch has played a large part in fostering that mission and atmosphere and is one of those talented people.
Dr. Hatch grew up in Champaign-Urbana and graduated from Indiana Uni-versity School of Medicine. After completing his internship and residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins in 1973, he joined Carle Clinic and began his affiliation with what was then the School of Basic Medical Sciences. In 1976, he began a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology, which at the time was a new discipline. When Dr. Hatch returned to Carle at the completion of the fellowship, he assumed additional responsibilities as both the director of medical education for Carle Foundation Hospital and clinical education center director for the College, which offered him a chance to help develop the College’s curriculum.
In addition to his pediatric gastroenterology practice, his responsibilities as the associate vice president of educational services at Carle, his direct work with students, and his work in the division of nutritional sciences (ACES at UIUC), Dr. Hatch has been committed to serving the profession as well. He has been involved in medical mission work, has held numerous positions with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Illinois chapter, has served as chair of the accreditation committee for the Illinois State Medical Society, and has been the international program chair for the Alliance for Continu-ing Medical Education.
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ESTABLISHING A HOME FOR THE CLINICAL PROGRAM
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Jill BensonAfter graduating from the College of Medicine in 1997, Jill Benson completed a residency in emer-gency medicine and then a fellowship in hyper-baric medicine, both supervised by Dr. Cheryl
Adkinson at Henne-pin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Her research on hyper-baric oxygen therapy of iatrogenic cerebral arterial gas embolisms (CAGE) examined the effectiveness of such treatment on patients over a 12-year period.
Now practicing emergency medicine with Wake Emergency Physicians Professional Association in Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina, Dr. Benson is also board certified in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and hopes to continue her research in that field. “The demands of emergency medicine keep me extremely busy right now, but I found the fellowship work I did to be very interesting, so I’m hoping to explore it further in the near future.”
Dr. Benson credits her parents, Paul and Sheryl, and her medical school advisor, the late P.J. O’Morchoe, M.D., former head of the Department of Pathology, with providing the support she needed during medical school. “Dr. O’Morchoe helped me through the angst of medical school and made some suggestions for rotations that helped me in deciding my specialty. She went out of her way to assist me, even though emergency medicine wasn’t her area.”
n 1999 the Carle Forum opened its doors. For the local community, that meant access to a state-of-the-art health
education and resource center. For the College of Medicine, it meant that and much more. For the first time, the clinical
program would have a “home.”
“One of my proudest achievements was persuading Carle and the University to pursue this partnership to build the Forum and then working to raise the money to make it happen,” says Charles C.C. O’Morchoe, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the College from 1984-1998. “It was very important to establish a physical center for our clinical program.”
Now it’s hard to imagine how the students and the clinical staff managed without it. With 10,000 of the Forum’s 43,000 square feet leased by the College, the facility provides state-of-the-art resources for students and faculty and serves as the College’s center for clinical education.
Ron Brewer, Ph.D., associate director of clinical affairs, oversees the pro-gramming for students at the Forum. “This facility is the gold standard in clinical teaching,” he says. “The Pollard Auditorium provides high-tech, functional lecture space, and the accessibility of the Forum allows students the opportunity to work shoulder to shoulder with experienced physicians. It’s an arrangement that gives students the tools to be successful.”
Second-year students, in particular, have benefited from the availability of the Forum. Prior to its opening, M2s were on campus all year. Now they have the opportunity to be in a clinical environment while they make the transition from the basic science curriculum. According to Tim Barber, who coordinates the activities for M2s, “moving the second-year students to the Forum has greatly enhanced our ability to assist them. Plus, in this environment students are in close proximity to the physicians, which aids in mentoring and modeling for the students.”
Terry Hatch, M.D., associate vice president of educational services at Carle, agrees. “We have an especially strong second-year program that is unique in transitioning students. The small group learning, the opportunity to work directly with attendings, and the interaction of the more senior students with the more junior students, provide our graduates with a truly unique experience that prepares them well for residency.”
The Forum provides the physical space, resources, and opportunities to help make that happen.
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Jason and Carol RockhillIn 1998, Jason Rockhill, M.D., Ph.D., was named the first recipient of the Patricia J. and Charles C.C. O’Morchoe Leadership Award, an honor pre-sented to a student in the Medical Scholars Program (MSP) who has dem-onstrated outstanding leadership on campus. Nearly 10 years later, Jason, along with his wife Carol, also an MSP graduate, is again being honored. The Rockhills are the first recipients of the Contributions to the College of Medicine Award for their work in supporting and promoting the College.
An assistant professor of radiation oncology and neurological surgery at the University of Washington, Dr. Rockhill’s research and clinical practice focuses on brain tumors. After earning his M.D. and his Ph.D. in biochem-istry, Dr. Rockhill stayed in Champaign-Urbana to complete his residency in internal medicine and to do post-doc work in Richard Gumport’s lab. The Rockhills then moved to Seattle, where Jason completed his residency in radiation oncology and Carol completed fellowships in child and adult psychology. She continues her research work while pursuing her M.P.H.
The Rockhills’ commitment to the College stems from the perspective they gained while MSP students. “The Ph.D. students in the nontra-ditional areas of the humanities and physical sciences bring a valuable perspective to everyone’s work,” says Jason. “They don’t look at medicine from strictly the cellular or molecular point of view—and that adds a dimen-sion that makes the MSP unique from other combined degree programs. This perspective is a tradition I’ve tried to carry forward in my work at the University of Washington.”
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Andrew KrivoshikAndrew Krivoshik, M.D., Ph.D., hasn’t moonlighted as an engineer since he was a graduate student, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t using that engineer-ing background every day. As an associate medical director of the oncology group at Abbott Labs, Dr. Krivoshik is responsible for providing the medical support for early drug development for pediatric and adult cancers. It’s a task where his training in biophysics and computational biology comes in handy.
“What I do now often relates to trying to quantitate model simulations and to translate predictions of different things we would observe clinically and preclinically,” Dr. Krivoshik says. “My engineering background is a real benefit in this regard because it provides the framework for how to bring a large-scale project with multiple collaborators together to achieve a goal.”
Such a multidisciplinary approach was something Dr. Krivoshik saw first-hand as an MSP student. “The research lab environment I was in fostered the development of true independent investigators,” he says. “You got the direction you needed to attack a specific problem and you were encouraged to pursue it.”
Dr. Krivoshik believes the same was true for his clinical experience in Urbana-Champaign. “One of the things I came to appreciate as a resident and then as a fellow was the level of experience our clinical training allowed. There seemed to be a belief that if you take good students and challenge them they will do good things. The physicians that mentored us would assess our ability and often would give us more responsibility in patient care than we might otherwise have gotten in a larger environment. This practical expe-rience was a true help during internship and residency.”
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William MarshallWhen Bill Marshall began his association with the College of Medicine as a clinical instructor 25 years ago, he remembers “going over to the Medical Sciences Building at night with Bob Kirby to work on the curriculum for the endocrine program. We would put together case reports and lectures for the second-year students in our off hours.”
Today, dedicated faculty members like Dr. Marshall and Dr. Kirby and scores of others continue to give of their time in order to serve the College and provide the best education for the students. “The clinicians at all three hospitals spend a great deal of time teaching medical students and residents,” says Dr. Marshall. “In these days when there are so many demands on the physician’s time, we are fortunate to have so many amazingly dedicated people who have done this for years and years.”
As the former head of the Department of Internal Medicine for the College and a former associ-ate director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Dr. Marshall knows firsthand the importance of the volunteer clinicians to ensuring a successful program. “The students get an excellent education, in part, because of the high level of expertise and the commit-ment of our volunteer faculty members,” he says.
At the same time, the presence of the residency program and the students are a real plus for the local hospitals and physicians. “The residency program and the medical school allow us to have a teaching atmosphere in our hospitals and help us to recruit physicians who want to be a part of this atmosphere,” says Dr. Marshall, who is now the deputy chief of staff at the VA Hospital in Danville. Plus, it’s personally rewarding. “For me, and I would guess for many of my colleagues, the time that I enjoy the most is the time when I’m with the students and the residents. I look forward to it, and I get a lot out of it.”
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Paul GoldPaul Gold had accepted a position as a professor in the Department of Psychology at the Uni-versity of Illinois and was visiting Champaign-Urbana to look for a home when he received a call from Dean Brad Schwartz requesting a meeting as soon as possible. Ten minutes later, Dr. Gold found himself in the Dean’s office learning about the College of Medicine and the Medical Scholars Program. By the end of the meeting, he had been offered the position of interim director of the MSP, but Dr. Gold, unsure of how those responsibilities would mesh with setting up his research lab, did not accept the position at first.
A visit to the MSP website changed his mind. “I fell in love with the program as I spent time reading the descriptions of students’ dissertations,” Dr. Gold recalls. “The diversity of the research profile was extraordinary, with stu-dents pursuing topics that were well outside the traditional biological research that I had assumed would be the case with an M.D./Ph.D. program.”
During his two years as MSP director from 2000 to 2002, Dr. Gold enjoyed helping the students balance the enormous demands on their time and took pride in the establishment of the Bench to Bedside series of mini-symposia covering one topic from basic science, clinical, and societal per-spectives. Currently, Dr. Gold is focusing on his research work in neuroscience, but he also serves on various campus committees where he contin-ues as an advocate for the College and the MSP. “These are hidden jewels,” he says, “so different from any other medical school or M.D/Ph.D. program across the country.”
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Robert K irby, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. Since 1975, Dr. K irby has been a leading force at the College of Medicine.
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or 35 years, the College has been providing the highest quality medical
education and clinical training for promis-ing students. The efforts of those who first
conceived of the College, who took on the challenge of teaching and learning here, and who ushered it through the first three decades set high standards and a successful course. “The outstand-ing work of our graduates and the dedicated efforts of our faculty and staff have created an environment of educational and clinical excel-lence and established a highly regarded national reputation for our College,” says Brad Schwartz, M.D., dean of the College of Medicine.
As the College prepares for the future, there is excitement about the challenges and opportu-nities that lie ahead and a vision for ensuring success. The key components of that vision are:
• To become a globally recognized center for cross-disciplinary scholarship that brings innovative clinical opportunities in human biology and the human condition to all scholars on campus
• To be a leader in innovative medical educa-tion and a source of the nation’s top physi-cian-scientists and physician leaders
• To develop private-public partnerships that significantly impact the greater good of society in areas of human health
The groundwork for achieving these objectives was laid in 1978 when the College established the Medical Scholars Program (MSP) to complement the four-year traditional medical education. This joint venture between the College of Medicine
and the Graduate College at the University of Illi-nois set the stage for interdisciplinary research and the growing national prominence of the College.
SETTING A STANDARD FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Today, with MSP students in more than 30 graduate programs in 8 of the 10 colleges on campus, the program’s multi-disciplinary approach is evident. And so is its success. “The vast majority of our graduates go on to residencies that are ranked in the top 10 in their fields, places like Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Harvard, and UCLA,” says Madeleine Jaehne, director of public affairs and advancement for the College. “Plus, these high-profile programs repeatedly recruit our graduates, which indicates a high level of satisfac-tion with the education that students obtain in our College.”
In addition, the reputation of the program and its students is apparent in the steady stream of National Institutes of Health fellowships and other highly competitive awards that MSP students receive each year as well as their success as physician-scientists and scholars. As a result, the College has become recognized as a center for medical education and bioscience excellence.
IMPACTING MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
According to Dr. Schwartz, “Medicine has a lot to gain from integration with other disciplines. We know there are mutually beneficial relationships with the physical sciences, chemistry and engi-neering, for instance. But the social sciences have
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It’s a dimension that not only makes the MSP unique, says Dr. Schwartz, but influential. “Our graduates are exceptional clinicians and scholars,” he says. “They have the opportunity to impact healthcare across the country because they prac-tice as physicians and physician-scientists at the most prestigious programs in the United States. They thrive there and then go on to other institu-tions and set up research laboratories. The ripple effect we have is disproportionate because we have a small number of students, but they are making a big impact.”
THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE BEGINS HERE
Building the capacity for collaborative, interdis-ciplinary academic programs is an important part of the College’s vision for the future. According to Dr. Schwartz, it’s integral to the College’s success, but, even more importantly, it’s vital to the future of medicine.
“We are committed to continuing to set the highest standards in collaborating with faculty across campus to deliver the excellence in research, education, and service that the Uni-versity and the College of Medicine are known for,” he says. “This reputation is a product of the unique collaborative environment that we foster here. As we continue to build on that reputation, we will be recognized as a model for how to seam-lessly bridge different disciplines for the benefit of human health at both the individual, and societal, levels.”
Making Things Easier for Studentsost of the medical students who benefit today from the Barbara Houseworth Emergency Loan Fund weren’t even born when the Medical Faculty Wives group
first came up with the idea. Just after the School of Basic Medical Sciences was estab-lished in 1971, the group began to meet, and one of their first priorities was to raise money to provide direct aid to students. The fundraiser came in the form of a used book sale, a suc-
cessful project that the group and the County Medical Auxiliary sponsored for several years.
But even when the groups moved on to other projects, Barbara Houseworth, a founding member of the group and the wife of John Houseworth, M.D., a pulmonologist at Carle Foundation Hospital from 1954 to 1984, continued coordinating the booksales.
“We started collecting donated books, and we stored them in the Bloomfield’s basement,” she says. “Later, I continued to collect books and then set up a space at Sunnycrest Mall where I sold them each month. Everyone knew I was continuing the project, and they were very generous in donating books. I stopped doing the monthly sales in the mid-1980s, but people still came to me with requests for books and with donations, so I continued collecting and selling in a limited capacity until a few years ago.”
From the proceeds of the sales, Mrs. Houseworth would make annual donations to the fund. “We came up with the emergency loan fund because it was a way to help the students when they really needed it,” she says. “Because the fund is administered by the College, the students don’t need to go through the traditional loan channels and wait for approval and disbursement. This makes it easy for them to get some money quickly in emergencies.”
Jim Hall, Ed.D., assistant dean for student affairs and the Medical Scholars Program, has seen just how important the fund has been for students. “For example, when a student’s rent is due and their loan check hasn’t arrived yet, the fund provides the temporary help they need to meet their living expenses,” he says. “It’s a quick answer for students, because we write the check here in the office. Over the years, the fund has been absolutely invaluable for innumerable graduates.”
Barbara Houseworth’s passion for books and her 35-year commitment to the College ensures that the same assistance will be there for tomorrow’s graduates as well.
The possibilities of tomorrow become realities today through your gifts. We thank you! The College of Medicine extends its heartfelt appreciation to its friends, alumni, and partners, without whose support we could not continue our mission of educating tomorrow’s physicians.
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Major Gifts Gifts of $10,000 or moreAmerican Heart AssociationAmerican Institute of NutritionCarle Development FoundationDr. Charles C. C. O’MorchoeOxford University Press, Inc.Provena Covenant Medical Center
Presidents CouncilWe are pleased to recognize the following alumni, faculty, staff, and frequent donors to the College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign who are members of the Presidents Council.
Colonel John and Elinor BarrDr. Donald G. and Suzanne I. Bartlett Dr. Donna T. BeckDr. Carl J. and Carol J. BelberDr. Michael J. and Patricia O. BishopDr. Robert J. and Susan BoucekDrs. Imhotep K.A. Carter and Katrina D. Sheriff-
CarterDr. G. D. and Penny D. CastilloDrs. Marcia K. and David L. ChicoineDr. Timothy L. and Roberta S. ConnellyDr. Robert E. and Barbara J. CranstonDr. Robert B. and Susan H. DanleyDr. Gregory J. and Laura DelostDr. Albert C. England, IIIDr. Roger A. and Edith S. EwaldDr. Lester J. and Anne FarhnerDr. Mark E. and Julie Poulos FaithDr. Harlan J. and Patricia J. FailorDr. Victor F. and Judith S. FeldmanDr. Don A. and Sue Anne FischerDr. Theodore W. and Linda FrankDr. Stanley E. and Charlotte M. GoldsteinDr. Michael S. and Laurie C. GoldwasserDrs. Diane L. and Fred M. GottheilDr. Lawrence V. and Judi M. GratkinsDr. Jeffrey L. and Catherine C. Hallett
Dr. James J. and Ellen Sathre HarmsDr. Terry F. and DiAnne W. HatchDr. Aldred A. and Nina K. Heckman, Jr.Drs. Ellen Jacobsen-Isserman and Andrew Mark
IssermanRichard L. and Madeleine A. JaehneDr. Lawrence L. and Nancy L. JeckelDrs. Ana M. and Jiri JonasDrs. Judith B. and Richard L. KaplanDr. Benita and John A. KatzenellenbogenDr. Scott V. and D. Jane KlineDr. Ronald P. and Suzanne KonchaninDr. Larry R. and Glenda Lee LaneDr. James C. and Robin LeonardDr. Garron Michael and Sharon R. LukasDr. David M. and Christine Coorman MainDr. Charles R. and Karen L. MarisTheresa Klitzing-Martin and Larry L. MartinDr. John C. and Donna J. Mason, Jr.Dr. John Miles and Kristina Anne McClure, IIIDr. James K. and Karen S. McKechnieDrs. Tamara T. and George W. Mitchell, IIIDr. David W. and Nancy F. MorseDr. Mark Scott and Margaret Evans MusselmanDr. Steve NandkumarDr. John L. and Mary NewmanDr. Terry R. and Margaret M. NoonanDr. Charles C. C. O’MorchoeDrs. Soo H. Park and Sunny LeeDr. John A. Peterson and Joanne M. ChesterDrs. Kenneth A. Poirier and Barbara A. KochanowskiDr. John W. and Gwen C. PollardDr. J. Roger PowellDr. Crystal and Karl RadnitzerDrs. Janet Solomon Reis and Wayne C. SolomonDr. Donald and Gay RobertsDr. Sidney and Krista RohrscheibDrs. Dilip V. and Sandhya D. SarwateDr. Richard J. and Susan B. SchimmelDr. John D. and Joyce SchmaleDr. Brad S. Schwartz and Karol L. CastleDr. Deborah Sue and Alan Robert SingletonDr. John F. and Stephanie StollDr. Richard P. and Norma J. TaylorDr. Arthur R. Traugott
Dr. Lewis and Marilyn Elaine TrupinDr. Suzanne Trupin and Stanley R. JohnsonDr. Robert J. and Suzanne R. TwoheyJames E. and Dena J. VermetteDr. Willard J. and Priscilla F. VisekWilliam M. and Rita M. WeisigerDr. David J. and Christina Catanzaro WhippoDrs. Charles L. and Sarah U. Wisseman, IIIDr. Joseph A. and Katheryn R. Zalar, Jr.
Membership in The Presidents Council – a donor recognition program administered by the U of I Foundation – is accorded for cumulative outright gifts at successive requisite giving levels of $25,000; $50,000; $100,000; $500,000; $1 million; $5 million; and $10 million, and for deferred gifts beginning at $50,000. Joint membership is extended to couples at all recognition levels.
Established in 1964 to honor chief executives who have guided the University of Illinois to excellence for more than 135 years, The Presidents Council is the University’s/Foundation’s way of recognizing significant private contributions to the University of Illinois.
Silver Stethoscope SocietyFor over 30 years, the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been committed to the highest standards of academic excellence. Generous donors have assisted the College in meeting its commitment, and the Silver Stethoscope Society exists to recognize that generosity and dedication to excellence.
Members of the Silver Stethoscope Society contributed at one of the following levels between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006:
1. An annual gift or pledge equal to the cost of one week of instruction for one student at the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana ($525).
2. An annual gift equal to the cost of one day of instruction ($105) – this level is open to individuals currently in a residency or fellowship program.
Honor Roll of Donors July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006
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Gifts may be designated to any fund within the College. Unrestricted gifts are designated for student fellowship programs.
For further information about the Silver Stethoscope Society, visit www.med.uiuc.edu, contact the Office of Advancement by phone at 217-333-6524 or via e-mail at [email protected].
Drs. Sari Gilman and Kenneth S. AronsonDr. Susan M. and Art Bane Dr. Harold F. and Gaylene G. BennettDrs. Keith C. Bible and Mary Jo KastenDr. Michael J. and Patricia O. BishopDrs. M. Kathleen and Dennis E. BuetowChampaign County Medical SocietyDr. Richard G. and Nancy ChristiansenDr. George R and Barbara J. CybulskiDr. W. Scott and Connie EnochsDr. E.R. and Nathalie P. EnsrudDr. Joseph P. and Andrea M. GoldbergDr. Stanley E. and Charlotte M. GoldsteinDrs. Diane L. and Fred M. GottheilDrs. Diana L. Gray and Mark E. FerrisDr. Daniel M. Hallam and Cindy K. Bushur-Hallam*Dr. Terry F. and DiAnne W. HatchDr. John W. and Mary M. HendrixDr. John H. and Barbara R. Houseworth Richard L. and Madeleine A. JaehneDrs. Ana M. and Jiri JonasDr. Bradley J. Katz and Tracey E. Conrad-KatzDr. Ralph J. and Jackie M. KehlDr. Susan M. KiesDr. Robert W. and Claudia A. KirbyDrs. James H. and Jean M. LeeDr. Katherine S. LinDrs. Susan W. Lee and Sai-Keung DonDr. Alexander Craig and Jennifer C. MacKinnon, Jr.*Dr. Alan K. MarumotoDr. John C. and Donna J. Mason Jr.Dr. Julia A. and William D. MattsonDrs. Daniel McGee* and Gretchen SoderlundDr. James H. and Genevieve MorrisseyDr. David W. and Nancy F. MorseDr. Mark S. and Margaret C. Musselman
Dr. Nora L. Zorich and Thomas W. FilardoDr. Charles C. C. O’MorchoeDr. John A. Peterson and Joanne M. ChesterDrs. Kenneth A. Poirier and Barbara A. KochanowskiDr. Brad S. Schwartz and Karol L. CastleDr. Stacie Shepherd*Dr. James M. Slauch and Sandra L. RosboroughDrs. William E. Sorlie and Diane L. Essex-SorlieDrs. Harold M. Swartz and Ann Barry FloodDr. Michael Swindle Dr. Kaye Harms ToohillMing-Chi and Fu Mei Wu
*Denotes student or resident membership.
Gifts over $500 from Corporations and FoundationsThe Arnold P. Gold FoundationFidelity Charitable Gift FundIntel FoundationJMW ConsultingThe Procter & Gamble FundThe Wolfe Foundation
Contributors Gifts up to $5243M Foundation Dr. Sarah M. AxelDr. Donald G. and Suzanne I. BartlettDr. Carl J.and Carol J. BelberEugene and Joan R. BernsteinMichael and Shelley BloomfieldNathaniel and Suzanne BloomfieldDr. Richard A. and Betty BloomfieldRuthi BloomfieldJanis Bloomfield and Steven BanDrs. Kathleen M. Bottum and Shelley A. TischkauDr. Linnea R. BoyevDr. Harry L. and Charlene S. BremerDr. Arthur J. BucciDrs. Gordon F Buchanan and Hanna E. StevensLuke L. and Pamela S. Burchard
Dr. Vera J. Burton and Paul T. HarlestonEster CapinKathryn CarlsonDr. Stephanie CemanChampaign County Highway DepartmentDr. Steven E. Chen and Thora G. TamLinda ClemDr. Steven K. and Sandra Kostyk ClintonDr. Rachel A. CoelDr. James B. DayLoretta K. DessenNorman and Patricia DonzeDr. Heidi M. Dunniway and Richard GustafsonDr. E. R. and Nathalie P. EnsrudDrs. Kendrith M. Rowland, Jr. and Nancy E. FayDr. Jamie L. FeldmanDr. Victor F. and Judith S. FeldmanFirst Busey Trust and Investment CompanyDr. Don A. and Sue Anne FischerDrs. Kevin B. and Helen W. GarnerDr. William and Phyllis GingoldJames John and Carole Abel GiordanoDr. Barry H. and Delores Ann GoldbergDr. Lisa J. GouldDrs. Donald A. and Elizabeth H. GreeleyJames W. HallDrs. James J. and Ellen Sathre HarmsDr. Matthew E. HartmanDr. Melvin and Elizabeth HessInternal Medicine AssociatesDr. Maitreyi and Rajalingam JanarthananDr. Timothy E. JessenMarjorie B. Kaplan and Francis J. SweeneyDrs. Benita S. and John A. KatzenellenbogenDr. Brian M. KeefeDr. Michael E. and Ilyse M. KellyDr. Bruce K. and Sandra Watson Kimbel, Jr.Dr. Napolean B. and Pamela KnightDr. Curtis J. and Susan KrockDr. David C. KuoDr. Douglas D. and Stephanie V. LehmannDr. Benjamin Horowitz and Shaun R. LeviDr. Allan H. and Merle L. LevyDrs. Jon C. and Judith S. LiebmanDr. Garron Michael Lukas
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Bryan ChoAt orientation this fall, M-1 students had an opportunity to learn about strategies for success in medical school from someone who has been there. Bryan Cho, M.D., Ph.D., returned to campus to share his experience as a student as well as his work as a clinical instructor of dermatology at University of California at San Francisco.
“The College gave me great training for my resi-dency and internship,” says Dr. Cho. “I want to give back to the College for all it’s given me and coming back to talk with students about how to succeed in medical school and how to make career choices is one way I can do that.”
Dr. Cho’s own career began with a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1997, followed by two years of post-doc work at MIT, and rounded out with the final three years of medical school. After gradu-ating in 2002, he completed his residency in dermatology at UCSF and a post-doc in immu-nology. He is currently running a high-risk skin cancer clinic for transplant recipients, HIV, and other immuno-suppressed patients and conduct-ing research on how immune cells get into the skin as a way to develop new methods of treating skin cancer or skin inflammatory disease.
Dr. Manuel A. MartinezDr. L.E. and Nellie B. MassieDr. James K. and Karen S. McKechnieDr. Patricia Johnston and Jon N. McNussenMeijerJoseph M. and Susan D. MurrayDr. Ralph A. and Rose Maria NelsonJoseph P. and Joan L. NosalJohn E. and Christine L. NeumannJanet K. OdleDr. Nalin M. PatelPekin Prescription Laboratory, Inc.Drs. Richard J. Perrin and Jacqueline E. PaytonDr. Stephan J. QuentzelMarvin and Shirley D. RademacherDr. Nestor A. and Lynda T. RamirezJohn D. and Linda S. RossDr. Edward J. and Marie L. RoyDr. Annette J. and Robert J. SchlueterDr. J. Timothy and Judy A. SehyDr. Joshua S. and Rebecca K. ShimonyDr. Arthur J. and Doris J. SiedlerDr. Robert E. and June R. SostheimState Farm Companies FoundationDr. Samuel E. and Shelley R. SteffenDr. Elizabeth Sweet-FriendT.I.S., Inc.Dr. Richard C. and Nancy G. TrefzgerDr. Suzanne Trupin and Stanley R. JohnsonJames E. and Dena J. VermetteJeanne M. WegnerDr. Richard M. and Ava R. Wolf.Women’s Health Practice LLCDr. John L. WrightDr. Brian and Shirley J YagodaDr. Andrew Z. ZasadaDr. Robert S. and Beth Bandy ZeidersDr. Phil G. and Susan ZimmermanDr. Misbah Zmily
Matching Gift CompaniesAll previous gift levels include credit for corporate matching gifts.
3M Foundation Procter & Gamble FundState Farm Companies Foundation
A Commitment to Public Engagement
The College of Medicine Receives $5 Million National Science Foundation Grant The University of Illinois received a $5 million grant to establish the Institute for Chemistry Literacy and Computational Science. The College of Medicine is one of the primary awardees of the grant that will provide a program to improve achievement in chemical sciences and computational literacy among students in rural Illinois high schools. Ms. Diana Dummitt, in the College’s Office of Advance-ment, is a lead primary investigator for the project.
At the University of Illinois, other units participating in the grant include the Department of Chemistry and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The A-C Central Com-munity Unit School District 262 in Chandlerville, Illinois and the Regional Office of Education in Lincoln, Illinois also will participate in developing the institute.
This is one of the most significant areas that the College, which is committed to public engagement as a key mission, has taken on. As part of a land-grant university, the task of helping to prepare future Illinois scientists and health care leaders is critically important and an essential part of its public service to the citizens of the state.
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Uretz OliphantWhen Uretz Oliphant was in college and consid-ering his career options, he didn’t have to be in a hurry. He had the luxury of taking his time and even changing his mind. But his decision to work in the emergency room changed all that.
After earning his medical degree from the University of Minnesota in 1983, Dr. Oliph-ant completed his residency in general surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago and his fellowship in trauma and critical care at the
Illinois Masonic Medical Center, also in Chicago. It was an experience that brought him face to face with the problems associated with deliver-ing health care in an urban environment.
Now a trauma surgeon at Carle and an assis-
tant professor of clinical surgery, he brings that experience, plus his calm demeanor and his skills as a deliberate decision maker, to his work. And that benefits patients and students alike.
“By its very nature, trauma is not an area of medicine you can sit by and watch,” he says. “It requires immediate involvement and can be very overwhelming. It’s important that students know how to respond.” Dr. Oliphant makes sure they get the opportunity.
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Gregory FreundStudents in our Medical Scholars Program aren’t the only ones who come to the College of Medicine and the University of Illinois because of the opportuni-ties to conduct collaborative research. Some of our faculty members are drawn to Champaign-Urbana for the same reason. Gregory Freund, M.D., is one of those faculty members.
There was an opportunity to join a strong clinical practice, and “there appeared to be a very fertile ground for col-laborative research here,” says Dr. Freund, about his decision to join Carle Clinic and the College of Medicine in 1994. Dr. Freund’s instincts were certainly right regarding these opportunities.
Twelve years later, he is now the director of cytopathology at Carle and the founding director of Carle’s School of Cytotechnology, the first school of its type that provides didactic and clinical teaching at a distance site. In addition, he is the head of the Department of Pathology at the College and a co-founder of the Integrative Immunology and Behavior Program, a col-laborative research endeavor that spans the Colleges of Medicine, Animal Sciences, and Applied Health Sciences. As part of that program, Dr. Freund has an active research lab that explores the immune complication of diabetes and obesity using the research tools of psychoneuroimmunology.
“I’ve had the opportunity to have several MSP students in my lab over the years,” Dr. Freund says. “In fact, my first student, Keith Cengel, is now an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in radiation oncology. I believe we have an excellent environment here for the training of the next generations of physician-scientists.”
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Eric HornEric Horn was a pre-med student at the Univer-sity of Illinois when he had the opportunity to work in a physiology lab doing research. It didn’t take long for him to realize he had a passion for the rigors and discovery potential of research work. And so when the time came to look at medical school programs, the choice for him was obvious—the Medical Scholars Program at Illinois.
In 2000, he received both his M.D. and his Ph.D. in neuroscience and began his residency at the Barrow Neurological Institute, the world’s largest neurological institute, in Phoenix, Arizona. Now the chief resident in neurosurgery, Dr. Horn plans an academic career, practicing clinical neuro-surgery and conducting research on spinal cord injuries.
“The independence that the Medical Scholars Program provided was a great benefit,” he says. “Plus, I had some excellent mentors, including Tony Waldrop, who was influential in supporting my research interests, and Carl Belber, who was invaluable in helping to formulate my growing interest in neurosurgery and who has continued to be supportive throughout my residency.”
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Sarita PradhudesaiSarita Pradhudesai, M.D., joined the staff at the Veterans’ Administration Hospital in Danville 27 years ago, just about the same time that the College was establishing its Internal Medicine Residency program there. “From the begin-ning, we have taken a key role in supporting the residency program,” says Dr. Desai. “It has always been a part of the mission of the VA nationally
to provide training for physicians, nurses, and ancillary services. In fact, the VA supports 70 percent of the residencies across the country.”
After completing her residency at the State University of New York at StoneyBrook,
Dr. Desai joined the VA as a staff psychiatrist. It wasn’t long before she had responsibilities for teaching residents during their psychiatry rota-tion. As the chief of staff for the Danville VA for the past six years, Dr. Desai no longer works directly with students but she continues to advo-cate for the residency program.
“The Internal Medicine training program has a quality reputation, and we work to continue that reputation by providing the best teaching and all the resources the students need,” she says. “At the same time, the presence of a residency program benefits our hospital because it allows us to recruit quality physicians who want to participate in an academic program, and that translates to better outcomes for patients.”
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Varghese ChackoVarghese Chacko has long been in the busi-ness of helping people carry out strategies that take their enterprises to a new level, so when he got a call from Brad Schwartz, dean of the College of Medicine, asking for his leadership and advice as the College implements its vision for the future, he willingly accepted a position on the Dean’s Advisory Board.
As president of the Midwest chapter of the U.S. Pan-Asian Chamber of Commerce, Chacko assists Asian-American entrepreneurs as they develop new businesses and bring existing businesses from “a mom and pop level” to a medium-sized company and beyond. He also has developed a successful direct mail and marketing business, a warehousing and distribution enterprise, and is the founding chairman of the All-American Bank Community bank, an Asian-American-owned financial institution.
The Dean’s Advisory Board is a group that consists of alumni, academicians, and medical and business leaders from across the state and the country. These partners bring their individual expertise to the task of establishing the College as a 21st-century center for medical education and research. “Our role is to provide guidance and support to the Dean on how the College can best implement its vision,” says Chacko. “We also work to market the College’s strengths to the public as a way to engage their support and attract students.”
Welcome to All of Our College Advisory Board MembersFirst Row: Madeleine Jaehne (ex-officio), Andrea Hunt, Diana Gray, M.D., Nora Zorich, M.D., Ph.D., Carol Slough, Varghese Chacko.
Second Row: James Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Alan Marumoto, M.D., Ph.D., Andrew Krivoshik, M.D., Ph.D., P.E., Dean Brad Schwartz (ex-officio), John Forman, Joseph Golbus, M.D.
“Our role is to provide guidance and support to the Dean on how the College can best implement its vision.”
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STUDENT
J.P. YuWhen J.P. Yu was considering M.D./Ph.D. programs as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, he learned about the Medical Scholars Program’s reputation, flexibility, and opportunity. But it wasn’t until he arrived on campus in 2001,
that he found there is something special about the MSP that you don’t read about in the program’s admis-sions literature—and that’s the people.
“The staff in the MSP office are really invaluable in terms of support and steering
us in the right direction, both personally and professionally,” says Yu. “It’s not something you realize when you make the decision to enroll, but it makes a huge difference in your experience.”
For Yu, a second-year medical student who completed his Ph.D. in biophysics last spring, that experience has included an opportunity to conduct research that has implications for the development of a promising antibiotic. “The strength of completing a Ph.D. while studying medicine is that it really illuminates the basic science,” he says. “You appreciate that the medi-cine is rooted in the science and that the science can revolutionize clinical medicine.”
And Yu looks to pursue a career that blends both. “Right now I’m interested in radiology, especially molecular imaging,” he says. “There is great potential to do exciting clinical and research work in this area to bring science and technology to the bedside.”
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Stacey HughesUnlike many medical students who follow the traditional path of studying biology or a pre-med curriculum as an undergraduate, Stacey Hughes earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Illinois State University in 1994. But then she wasn’t planning a career in medicine, so there was no reason to follow the science path.
It wasn’t until she became pregnant, that she began to entertain the possibility of becoming a physician. “I’d worked as a fitness instructor and had always been interested in health and the body,” Hughes says, “but when I became pregnant and spent more time in the doctor’s office myself and then with my children, I became very inter-ested in medicine as a career for me.”
Now in her second year of medical school, Hughes is glad to have the first year behind her. “It has been a continual challenge to balance family and school, but I have tremendous support from my husband Michael,” says the mother of Gabrielle, 10, and Allison, 9. “And the College provides lots of resources for help. Whether you have a personal or academic issue, there are people who will make you feel comfortable and who will give you good advice.”
Although it’s still early in the decision-making process for Hughes, she is very interested in inter-nal medicine, particularly geriatrics, as a career choice. And not surprisingly, given what sparked her passion for medicine in the first place, she is also considering obstetrics and gynecology.
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Convocation 2006 First Row: Amanda Cuevas, M.A. (Assistant Dean, Student Affairs and Medical Scholars Program), Michael Peterson, M.D., Lori Cudone, M.D., Christina Dothager, M.D., Eric Robinson, M.D., Joshua Larson, M.D., Ph.D., Jennifer Bloom, Ed.D. (Associate Dean, Student Affairs and Medical Scholars Program)
Second Row: Roxana Yoonessi, M.D., J.D., Aikiesha Shelby, M.D., Chad Thomas, M.D., Ph.D., Kim Schutterle, M.D., Matthew Hartman, M.D., Ph.D., Matthew Cox, M.D., James Hall, Ed.D. (Assistant Dean, Student Affairs and Medical Scholars Program)
Third Row: Brad Schwartz, M.D. (Regional Dean), Leigh Saint Louis, M.D., Michael Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., Jonathan Weiss, M.D., Clayton Green, M.D., Ph.D., Benjamin Yan, M.D., Ph.D., James Uhles, M.D.
COLLEGE NEWS AND VIEWS
Match Day 2006
Thursday, March 16 was Match Day for graduating medical students across the country.
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Length of Service Awards ReceptionOn October 11, 2006, faculty and staff gathered to recognize the hard work and achievements of their colleagues. Dr. Carol Packard was the recipient of the Academic Professional Employee of the Year Award and Judy Kerr was the recipient of the Staff Employee of the Year Award, presented by Dr. Jim Slauch.
Community Medical SchoolTwice a year the College of Medicine, along with Carle Foundation Hospital, offers a three-part medical series to the public. This series of informative presentations on current medical topics is delivered, by College of Medicine faculty and area physicians, in a manner that can be under-stood by the layperson, as well as, offer new information to the medical professional. With the addition of displays and information from local organizations, this truly is a community event.
• Spring 2006 – The ABCs of Infectious Disease
• Fall 2006 – Obstetrics 101
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Celebrating 35 Years! Homecoming 2006
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Dr. Mark Siegler
Continuing Medical Education Luncheon and Program
The Imhotep Carters and family
Dr. Nora Zorich
Dr. Christine Weaver. Dr. O’Morchoe, Dr. Diane Gottheil
Dr. Jim Shoemaker and friends
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Dr. Jim Shoemaker
Dr. K irk Moberg
Dr. Robert K irby
University of Illinois Chancellor Herman
Awards Dinner and Reception
The Dr. Sid Miceks
The Mobergs
The Drs. Rockhill
Dr. Jennifer MacKinnon
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Dr. Jenny Bloom, Dr. O’Morchoe, Steve Sanderson
Tailgate
Drs. Z orich and Reed
The Michael K elleys
Dean Brad Schwartz, Karol Castle, and the Mortlands
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1981Lance Becker, M.D., was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. This is a major accomplishment and an honor that some have compared with getting into the baseball hall of fame.Diana Gray, M.D., returned to the Urbana campus to speak during the 2006 Convocation ceremony. She also joined the 35th Anniversary celebration, where she spoke on “Prenatal Diagnosis: Past, Present and Future” during a CME program.James Shoemaker, M.D. Ph.D., returned to campus for the 35th Anniver-sary celebration and spoke on “Follow-up of Abnormal Neonatal Screening for Inborn Errors of Metabolism” during a CME program.
1984Mary Burke Duke, M.D., F.A.C.P., was selected as the Governor of the Ken-tucky Chapter, American College of Physicians.Michael Kelly, M.D., along with his family, returned to campus for the 35th Anniversary celebration and spoke on “Third World Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery with ‘Operation Smile’” during a CME program.
1988Melissa Hendrix Olken, M.D., Ph.D., is involved in phase 3 and 4 clinical trials as a sideline from her internal medicine practice affiliated with Borgess Medical Center. She and her husband, Norm, have two boys, Alex and Charlie. Her website is: www.drolken.com.
1989Jane Nosal, M.D., Ph.D., is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. She also conducts kodachrome slide Board Review teaching sessions with the UW dermatology residents.Christine Weaver, M.D., Ph.D., chaired a CME session during the College’s 35th Anniversary cel-ebration.
1990Lisa Gould, M.D., Ph.D., has been promoted to Associate Professor of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galves-ton. She has also been given the title of Director of the Plastic Surgery Research Laboratory. Lisa went to Sri Lanka as a Visiting Educator in Hand Surgery in June of 2006. She returned to campus for the 35th Anniversary celebration and spoke on “Hyperbaric Oxygen and Wound Healing” during a CME program.Kirk Moberg, M.D., Ph.D., was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2005. In October 2006, he chaired a CME session during the College’s 35th Anniversary celebration. He was also selected to receive The Art of Medicine Award, a College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni award, which was presented during the 35th Anniversary celebration.
1993Annette Schlueter, M.D., Ph.D., returned to campus for the 35th Anniversary celebration and spoke on “Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy” during a CME program.
1994Julia Winter Mason M.D. M.S., is participat-ing in the University of Wisconsin Medical School Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship.
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1996Monique Brown, M.D., M.B.A., married Kai Schoenhage on November 5, 2005, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. They are residing in Berlin.
1997John Chen, M.D., Ph.D., completed a fellowship in Neuroradi-ology at Massachusetts
General Hospital, and is now on staff at MGH in Neuroradiology. He has been doing 50% research and 50% clinical for the past year, and has received an NIH K08 grant, which will move him to 80% research and 20% clinical. He is working primarily on molecular imaging of neurodegenerative and neu-rovascular disorders. You can view some information on his research at: http://cmir.mgh.harvard.edu/ .
1998Susan Bane, M.D., Ph.D., is now in her fifth year of practice. This year she developed a corporate wellness program for the 500 employees of Physician’s East.Joe Corey, M.D., Ph.D., has been funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering with a K08 for 5 years. The grant is entitled “Fibrous Templates for Directed Nerve Regeneration” and funds a three-dimensional approach to guiding neuron outgrowth, which he worked on for his Ph.D. dissertation in Bruce Wheeler’s laboratory. Joe was also appointed to Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Michigan, and will eventually have appointments in the Biomedical Engineer-ing Department and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Joe and his wife, Kathy, are happy in Ann Arbor as are their children Carolyn and David.Jason Rockhill, M.D., Ph.D. and Carol Rockhill, M.D., Ph.D. (2000), were presented with the Contributions to the College of Medicine Award, a College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni award, during the 35th Anniversary celebration.
1999Robert Althoff, M.D., Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Genetics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He is researching the genetic and environmental factors involved in common childhood psychopathologies.
2000Peter Bulow, M.D., M.F.A., is now a Research Fellow at New York State Psychiatric Unit at Columbia University Medical Center. His research is in the lab of Dr. Sarah Lisanby, Director of the Columbia Brain Stimulation and Neuromodulation Division. This Division focuses on the use of emerging elec-tromagnetic means of modulating brain function to study and treat psychiatric disorders. These techniques include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), magnetic seizure therapy (MST), deep brain stimulation (DBS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and electro-convulsive therapy (ECT).Eli V. Gelfand, M.D., has finished a residency in Internal Medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a General Cardiology fellow-ship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and is completing an Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship at BIDMC. He accepted a faculty position at Harvard Medical School, and is taking on a busy clinical cardiology practice at BIDMC, where he will be active in the cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, echocardiography, and critical care cardiology. He will also take on duties of the Director of Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory, and the Associate Cardiovascular Fellowship Director at BIDMC, and be on staff in the Coronary Care Unit. Dr. Gelfand has been active in research, particularly in the areas of cardiovascular MRI, valvular disease, and acute coronary syndromes. On the home front, Ellen and Eli Gelfand are proud parents of a 4-year daughter Sonya, and hope to have more children soon. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Vikas Gulani, M.D., Ph.D., will be appointed as an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at Case Western Reserve University. The position is 50% research and 50% clinical. Research will be basic MR, while clinically, Vikas will be expand-ing their body MRI service.Eric Horn, M.D., PhD., has one year left in his neuroscience residency. He is currently working on basic science projects for experimental spinal cord injury. Kevin Sanders, M.D., Ph.D., and Brenda Sanders, M.D., Ph.D. (2003), are the proud parents of Alyssa Kaelin Sanders. Alyssa was born on November 5, 2005. She was 7 lbs, 8 oz and 20 inches long.Todd Zoltan, M.D., J.D., was featured on the December 11, 2005 episode of the TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Todd is the Associate Director of the LA Free Clinic which was selected for a makeover on the holiday edition of the show. Todd manages one of three sites of the LA Free Clinic. It works with the medically underserved and focuses on the homeless, specifically homeless youth. He does about 70% clinical work and 30% administrative work.
2002Sandra Ettema, M.D., Ph.D., had an article published about her titled “Living and Learning” in the January 2006 (vol. 7, no. 1) issue of Today’s Wisconsin Woman of Greater Milwaukee. Sandy talks about her fourth year of residency in the article.
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Scott Irwin, M.D., Ph.D., and his wife Lori, announced the arrival of Sean Aiden Irwin. Sean arrived on December 12, 2005 at 11:27 a.m. He weighed in at 6 lbs, 2 oz and was 19.5 inches long.Daniel Llano, M.D., Ph.D., and family welcomed baby number three, Julian Antonio, in 2006. Hilary Reno, M.D., Ph.D., and her husband, Shaun Reno, are the proud parents of Ian Joseph Reno. Ian was born on March 23, 2006, at 2:58 p.m. He weighed in at 8 lbs, 4 oz and was 22 inches long.Craig Walls, M.D., Ph.D., and his family recently moved to Pacific Grove, California, where he has begun working in the County Emergency Department in Salinas.Aimee Yu, M.D., Ph.D., and her husband Lance Ballard, welcomed their first child, Jason Yu Ballard, on December 24, 2005 at 4:58 p.m. Jason weighed in at 8 lbs, 2 oz and was 21 inches long. Aimee also finished her Internal Medicine residency last June and started a Geriatrics fellowship at Mayo. The first year is clinical work, and then she will be doing an additional 2 years of research, funded by Mayo’s Clinical Investigator track.
2003Arvin Gee, M.D., Ph.D., is in his fourth year of his general surgery residency. Next year he will be involved in a year-long fellowship as one of the Surgical Critical Care Fellows at Oregon Health and Science University. He became engaged this summer and plans to marry in December.Fazal Khan, M.D., J.D., accepted an offer from the University of Georgia Law School and started teaching health law courses there this fall.Stan Leung, M.D., J.D., M.B.A., will be doing a Gastrointestinal & Liver Pathology fellowship at Mayo in 2007.
2004Sheela Konda, M.D., Ph.D., and her husband Raghu Dasari welcomed Vijay Anand Dasari on September 15, 2006 at 12:05 a.m. Vijay weighed in at 6 lbs, 11 oz.Craig Mackinnon, M.D., Ph.D., reported that his residency is going well. Jennifer, Craig’s wife, and College of Medicine IMRP alum, is a staff physician at John Stroger Hospital (AKA Cook County). She works in the adult medicine division. She’s exposed to a completely different patient pool than she saw at Carle. Rick Perrin, M.D., Ph.D., and Jackie Payton, M.D., Ph.D., are the proud parents of Katherine Payton Perrin. Katie was born on May 1, 2006 at 9:25 a.m. She weighed 7 lbs, 13 oz and measure 19 ¾ inches. In July 2005, Jackie began a year of research and Rick began his second and final year of general surgical path at Washington University.
2005Mike Itagaki, M.D., M.B.A., and his wife Els, recently moved to Los Angeles where he began his radiology residency at UCLA Medical Center. In addition, he recently had a paper published in the Journal of Radiology.
Dr. Christine Weaver
Dr. Jim Shoemaker
Dr. Annette Schluter
Dr. Lisa Gould
Regional Alumni GatheringsIn 2006, the College hosted regional alumni gatherings in:
Palm Beach, FL February 2006
Seattle, WA October 2006
Los Angeles, CA November 2006
Would you like to get together with alums in your area, or arrange a regional gathering? If so, contact the Office of Public Affairs and Advancement at 217-333-6524 for assistance with planning and coordination.
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Sari Gilman Aronson, M.D., Head of Psychiatry and Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, received the Educator of the Year Award from Carle Founda-tion Hospital in Spring 2006.
Jonathan S. Bailey, D.M.D., M.D., F.A.C.S., Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, chaired a symposium on Oral Cancer at the annual national meeting of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in October. He also published a chapter on mandibular reconstruction.
James H. Ellis, D.O., Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, was selected by the Class of 2006 to bring the “Remarks from the Faculty” during the 2006 Convocation.
Jeffrey J. Galvan, M.D., Clinical Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received the 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Association of Profes-sors of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
James S. Gregory, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, was the keynote speaker for the 2006 College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Internal Medicine Residency Program resident graduation. Dr. Gregory received the 2006 Illinois College of Emergency Physicians Merito-rious Service Award, as well as, the Champaign Chapter ARC Local Hero Award for Medicine. He is also the principal investigator for a Virtual Reality Technol-ogy project for which he received a grant from the Beckman Center.
C. K. Gunsalus, J.D., Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to the Commission on Professionalism and was invited to present on Ethics, Professionalism and Regu-lation at the Second Annual Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. In addition, she is currently involved in a College of Medicine funded, pilot project with an inter-disciplinary collaborative group on the efficacy of novel approaches to improving communication skills of medical students and professionals. Ms. Gunsalus has spoken at many conferences and seminars, and has published several articles and reviews. Her book, A College Administrator’s Survival Guide, is slated for publica-tion by Harvard University Press this fall.
Jennie C. Hsu-Lumetta, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medi-cine, was selected by the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the 2006 Innovation in Education Award honoree.
Michael G. Jakoby, IV, M.D., M.A., Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, received the Carle Foundation Hospital Medical Staff Award for Advances in Medicine, in Spring 2006.
He also received three grants: from Carle Foundation for the Carle Foundation Hospital Diabetes Care Team Study, as principal investigator, from Sanofi-Aventis Investigator–Sponsored Trial Award for the study of “Basal/bolus Therapy with Insulin Analogs is Superior to Prevalent Methods of Hospital Diabetes Management on the General Medicine Service,” as principal investiga-tor; and from the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Construction Engineers Research Laboratory, Upper Middle Mississippi Valley Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit for a study on “Exploitation of Thyroid Chemistry for Perchlorate Detection,” as co-investigator.
Glenda F. Kaplan, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was selected by the class of 2007 to receive the Raymond B. Allen Instructorship (Golden Apple) Award. She was also selected as the 2006 recipi-ent of the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Excellence in Teaching Award.
Susan M. Kies, Ed.D., Associate Dean for Curriculum Management and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, was invited to speak at the Association of American Medical Colleges Central Group on Educational Affairs, “Leader-ship and Scholarship: Across the Medical Education Continuum.” Along with Joseph Goldberg, M.D., Dr. Kies presented the Undergraduate Medical Edu-cation Invited Session: “Is Admission to Medical School an Automatic MD?”
Robert W. Kirby, M.D., Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, received the college-wide 2005-2006 College of Medicine Faculty of the Year Award, which was presented during the 2006 Convocation. In addition, Dr. Kirby was selected by the Class of 2006 to act as a hooder during the ceremony.
Abraham G. Kocheril, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medi-cine, received the 2006 College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Teaching Appreciation Award.
Kirk D. Moberg, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medi-cine, was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2005. Dr. Moberg was also selected to receive The Art of Medicine Award, a College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni award presented during the 35th Anniversary celebration.
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James H. Morrissey, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Biochemistry, and colleagues reported in a January 2006 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., that a linear polymer known as polyphosphate speeds blood clotting and helps clots last longer. This work, in collaboration with Dr. Roberto Docampo, now at the University of Georgia, capitalized on Docampo’s discovery of polyphosphate granules in human platelets. Polyphosphate was shown to have three important roles - accelerating two parts of the coagulation cascade, and delaying the breakdown of clots, which might otherwise cause renewed bleeding.
The study has the potential to make a big impact in the blood clotting field, and represents a terrific start to Morrissey’s new Center for Hemostasis Research, recently established with a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.
Ralph A. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, was awarded the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Recogni-tion Award during the 2006 Convocation.
Uretz J. Oliphant, M.D., Head of Surgery and Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, was selected by the class of 2006 to receive the Raymond B. Allen Instructorship (Golden Apple) Award.
Mary G. Shultz, M.S., Library of Health Sciences, was selected by the Class of 2006 to receive the Special Tribute Award, presented during the 2006 Convoca-tion.
Frank J. Stephens, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, received the 2006 College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Teaching Appreciation Award.
Martha S. Sweeney, B.S., Lecturer in Medical Cell and Development Biology, was selected by the class of 2008 (during their M-1 year) to receive the Raymond B. Allen Instructorship (Golden Apple) Award.
Emad Tajkhorshid, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, in a collabora-tion with Klaus Schulten’s group at Illinois and researchers at the University of Arizona, has used molecular dynamics simulations to show how some aquapo-rins, well-known routes for water transport, have a novel ion channel that can be opened and closed by the important cellular effector, cyclic GMP. This gating activity represents a completely new property and is revealed by the experimental studies of Tajkhorshid’s collaborators in Arizona, in the laboratory of Andrea Yool. The gating activity of cGMP, which occurs by interacting with a flexible loop of the aquaporin, greatly extends the significance of this already important class of proteins (the 2003 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Peter Agre for their discovery). The work is published in the September issue of the journal Structure.
Willard J. Visek, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, was awarded the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Recogni-tion Award during the 2006 Convocation.
Dixie D. Whitt, Ph.D., Instructor of Medical Microbiology, was selected by the Class of 2006 to act as a hooder during the 2006 Convocation ceremony.
In MemoriamDr. Hugo Avalos, the first member of the College of Medicine Ambassador Program, passed away on November 16, 2006. Dr. Avalos was a retired surgeon from Morris, Illinois and a lifelong community leader for public service in Grundy County.
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Nadeem Ahmed, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.Dr. Ahmed earned his medical degree in 1992 from Dhaka University in Bangladesh, India. He also received both an M.P.H., in 1996, and a Ph.D., in 2001, at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisi-ana. Dr. Ahmed completed his post-graduate train-ing with the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Tulane University. Currently, he practices at Carle Foundation Hospital and is a Clinical Instruc-tor for the College of Medicine. As a clinical instruc-tor, Dr. Ahmed lectures to medical students during their pediatric core clerkships. His research interests include childhood cancer and infectious diseases. Dr. Ahmed is certified by the American Board of Pedi-atrics, and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association and the American College of Epidemiology.
Kimberly Brockenbrough, M.D.Dr. Brockenbrough received her medical degree in 1977 from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed an internship at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois and a radiology residency at the West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park, Illinois. Currently, Dr. Brockenbrough is a Staff Radiologist at Carle Clinic Association. As a Clinical Instruc-tor for the College of Medicine, her responsibilities include acting as a preceptor for radiology elec-tive clerkships of M-3 and M-4 students, advising students, participating in the Objective Structured Clinical Exam for students and providing noon conference lectures for residents.
Lin-Feng Chen. Ph.D.Dr. Chen earned his masters degree from Peking Union Medical University and his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in Japan. He completed post-grad-uate training at the Gladstone Institute of Immunol-ogy and Virology at the University of California in San Francisco. Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor
of Biochemistry with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the College of Medicine. His research interests include epigenetic regula-tion of NF-κB, the role of NF-κB in apoptosis and cancer, cross talk between NF-κB and other path-ways. He is also interested in the role of post-tran-scriptional modifications of NF-κB and Histones in the regulation of NF-κBsignaling pathway.
Charles R. Davies, M.D., Ph.D.Dr. Davies received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University Graduate Program in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988 and his medical degree in
2000 from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed an internship in internal medicine, a residency in neurology and a fellowship in sleep medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Davies is a Staff Neurologist with Carle Clinic Association and a Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine. His responsibilities with the College include acting as an office based preceptor for M-1 students, participating in the Introduction to Human Disease course for M-1 students, conducting tutorials and history and physi-cal instruction for M-2 students, participating in the Objective Structural Clinical Exam for residents, providing core conference lectures for residents and participating in patient-based work with residents.
Christine Henrichs, M.D.Dr. Henrichs earned her medical degree in 2000 from the College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and completed her post-graduate training at
Spartanburg Regional Medical Center in Spartan-burg, North Carolina, during which she earned the honors of Outstanding First Year Resident in Inter-nal Medicine and the Rubel Award for Outstanding Performance in OB/GYN. Currently, she practices at Carle Clinic in Mahomet and is a Visiting Clini-cal Associate at the College of Medicine. Her duties with the College of Medicine include precepting medical students as they rotate through the Family Medicine core clerkship. Dr. Henrichs is a member of the American Association of Family Practice and Society Teachers of Family Medicine. Her research interests include women’s health and prenatal care.
Richard Jones, M.S., PA-CMr. Jones received his medical science degree, with an emphasis on Rural Primary Care, from Alderson-Broad-dus College in Philippi, West Virginia in 2003. Currently,
he is a Physician Assistant with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Danville. As a Clinical Associ-ate for the College of Medicine, his responsibilities include giving lectures for medical students and residents, participating in the Objective Structured Clinical Exam for residents, serving as a research mentor of residents and participating in patient based work with residents. His research interests focus on diabetes related issues.
Thomas E. Knuth, M.D., M.P.H.Dr. Knuth earned his medical degree in 1984 from the Uniformed Services Univer-sity of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland and an M.P.H. in 1993 from Johns
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Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed a surgical internship at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, a residency in general surgery at Tripler Army Medical Center, and two fellowships at the Maryland Institute of Emergency Medical Services Systems. Dr. Knuth currently practices at Carle Foundation Hospital and Clinic and is a Clini-cal Assistant Professor with the College of Medi-cine. His responsibilities with the College include precepting medical students in general surgery and trauma, as well as, lecturing on shock and trauma in surgery clerkship. Dr. Knuth is a member of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Pan American Trauma Society, the American College of Surgeons, and the Association of Military Surgeons of the USA. His awards and honors include the Expert Field Medical Badge, the Army Achievement Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters, the National Defense service Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Armed Forces Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expedition-ary Medal and the NATO Service Medal.
Batalautundu Lakshminarayanan, M.D.Dr. Lakshminarayanan earned his medical degree from the Thanjavure Medical School, Madras Medical College, University of Madras, India in
1987. His post-graduate training included internal medicine residencies at the Madras Medical College; the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Norwich and James Paget Hospital in Great Yannouth, United Kingdom; and Christ Hospital and Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was Chief Resident. He also completed a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Christ Hospital and Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was Chief Fellow. Currently, Dr. Lakshmi-narayanan is a staff cardiologist at Provena Covenant Medical Center and a Clinical Assistant Professor
for the College of Medicine. As a Clinical Assistant Professor, he facilitates monthly cardiology rounds for students and residents, is a teaching attending for students and residents, acts as a preceptor for elective clerkships for M-3 students and M-4 students, par-ticipates in the Objective Structured Clinical Exam for residents, and provides core conference lectures for residents.
Chao-Hsu John Liu, M.D.Dr. Liu received his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in St. George, Grenada, West Indies in 1966. He completed an internal medicine intern-
ship and a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences center in Oklahoma City. He was an attending at the Okmul-gee Memorial Hospital in Okmulgee, Oklahoma and completed a fellowship in body imaging at the University of Washington in Seattle. Currently, Dr. Liu is a radiologist at Christie Clinic Association and a Clinical Instructor of Radiology for the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign. His duties for the College include acting as an elective clerkship preceptor for M-3 and M-4 medical students, acting as teaching attending for medicine core clerkship students, being a confer-ence lecturer for M-3 and M-4 medical students and advising students.
Anu Mani, M.D.Dr. Mani earned her medical degree in 1989 at the Madras Medical College, University of Madras in India. She was a house officer for the Epilepsy Clinic at the Madras Institute of Neurology in India and a
clinical observer for the Department of Neurology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She completed an internal medicine residency at
Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. Currently, Dr. Mani is a staff physician in geriatrics and extended care service for the Veterans Affair Illiana Health Care System in Danville. Her duties as a Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign include serving as an office-based preceptor for M-1 stu-dents, participating in the Introduction to Human Disease course for M-1 students, providing patho-physiology lectures for M-2 students, tutorials and history and physical instruction for M-2 students, acting as preceptor for elective clerkships for M-3 and M-4 students, providing lectures to M-3 and M-4 students, participating in the Objective Struc-tured Clinical Exam for residents providing noon conference lectures for residents and assisting with patient-based work with residents. Dr. Mani also enjoys serving as a research mentor for the residents.
Maria Louisa Maranon, M.D., F.A.A.PDr. Maranon earned her medical degree in 1986 from the University of Philippines College of Medicine. She completed her post-graduate training at the Manila Doctor’s Hospital and St. Luke’s Roos-evelt Hospital in New York. Currently, Dr. Maranon is a pediatrician at Christie Clinic Association and a Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine, Uni-versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her duties include precepting medical students during their pediatric core clerkships. Dr. Maranon is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a diplomate of the Philippine Pediatric Society. Her research interests include pediatric gastroenterology, nutrition and diarrheal disease.
Shashi Puttaswamy, M.D.Dr. Puttaswamy received her medical degree in 1987 from Indiana University School of Medicine. She completed a pathology residency at Indiana Univer-sity Medical Center in Indianapolis; a transitional residency at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis; and internal medicine residencies at St. Vincent Hospital and the College of Medicine, University
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of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, Dr. Puttaswamy is a staff physician in internal medicine with the Veterans Affairs Illiana Health Care System in Danville. As a Clinical Assistant Professor for the College of Medicine, her duties include history and physical instruction for M-2 students, serving as a core clerkship preceptor for M-3 and M-4 students during their internal medicine core clerkships at the VA, providing general internal medicine lectures to M-3 and M-4 students, providing core conference lectures for residents and assisting residents with patient-based work at the VA.
Emad Tajkhorshid, Ph.D.Dr. Tajkhorshid earned a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the School of Pharmacy at Tehran University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Heidelberg in 2001. He com-pleted his post-graduate training at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Tajkhorshid is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Biophysics. His research focuses on structure function relationship of membrane proteins, in particular membrane channels and transporters, and understanding the mechanism of their function using simulation and computational methodolo-gies. Dr. Tajkhorshid was the winner of the 2004 Visualization Contest organized by Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation. An animation displaying the results of his simulations studies on aquaporin water channels is deposited at the Nobel Museum web site in conjunction to the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Drs. Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon.Dr. Tajkhorshid is on the edi-torial board of the International Journal of Molecu-lar Science; and is a member of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, the American Biophysical Society, the Iranian Medical Council and the Iranian Society of Pharmacists.
Christopher Todd, M.D.Dr. Todd earned his medical degree in 2000 from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He completed his post-graduate training in pediatrics at the Michigan
State University, Grand Rapids Medical Education and Research Center. He is currently a pediatric hos-pitalist at Carle Foundation Hospital and a Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His duties with the College of Medicine include lecturing to medical students during their pediatric core clerkships. Dr. Todd is certified by the American Board of Pedi-atrics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Illinois Medical Society, Champaign County Medical Society and the Christian Medical and Dental Association. His research interest is infectious disease.
Stanley Wu, M.D.Dr. Wu earned his medical degree in 2002 from the College of Medicine, Uni-versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed a Family Practice Residency with Carle Foundation
Hospital. Currently, he is with the Department of Family Medicine at Carle Clinic Association. In 2003, he was honored for giving the Outstand-ing Ground Rounds Presentation, “Small Pox.” As a Clinical Instructor for the College of Medicine, Dr. Wu presents lectures and precepts medical students during their family medicine core clerkships. Dr. Wu is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine.
The College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is proud of the partnerships that enable us to offer or participate in the contin-ued education of physicians through local residency programs. The newest participants in these local residency programs are:
Family Practice Carle Clinic Association & Carle Foundation HospitalUzma Ahmad, M.D.Svitlana Antonova, M.D.Chunling Gong, M.D.Tarek Hadla, M.D.Swarnalatha Jaliparthi, M.D.Vas Naidu, M.D.Hani Ahmed, M.D.
Geriatric Fellowship Carle Clinic Association & Carle Foundation HospitalNazneen Hashmi, M.D.Nallu Reddy, M.D.
Internal Medicine College of MedicineEllaine Alcaraz, M.D.Michael Aref, M.D., Ph.DSahana Channapatna, M.D.Srilakshmi Chavali, M.D.Praveen Cheripalli, M.D.Ravindra Reddy Chuda, M.D.Erich Hanel, M.D.Holly Hare, M.D.Adarsh Hiremath, M.D.Prudhvi Rajan Karumanchi, M.D., M.P.H.Joshua Larson, M.D., Ph.DNeetu Mahendraker, M.D.Susmitha Nimmagadda, M.D.Elisabeth Preson-Hsu, M.D.Mohammad Siddiqui, M.D.Shamant Tippor, M.D.Akshra Verma, M.D.Suneetha Vysetti, M.D.
Surgery – Oral & Maxillofacial Carle Clinic Association & Carle Foundation HospitalSherdon Cordova, D.D.S.Stephen Holm, D.M.D.Julie Lee, D.M.D.Jill Weber, D.D.S.48
Administration and Faculty
CHICAGOJoseph A. Flaherty, M.D. Dean
Sarah J. Kilpatrick, M.D., Ph.D. Vice Dean
Jack H. Kaplan, Ph.D., F.R.S. Interim Senior Associate Dean for Research
Leslie J. Sandlow, M.D. Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education
URBANA-CHAMPAIGNBradford S. Schwartz, M.D. Regional Dean
Richard I. Gumport, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Robert W. Kirby, M.D. Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and GME/CME
Jennifer L. Bloom, Ed.D. Associate Dean for Student Affairs and the Medical Scholars Program
Susan M. Kies, Ed.D. Associate Dean for Curriculum Management
Dedra Williams, Ed.M. Associate Dean for Administration
James M. Slauch, Ph.D. Director, Medical Scholars Program
James W. Hall, Ed.M. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and the Medical Scholars Program
Amanda Cuevas, M.A. Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and the Medical Scholars Program
Richard J. Schimmel, Ed.D. Director, Business and Financial Affairs
Department HeadsSari Gilman Aronson, M.D., Head Department of Psychiatry
Phillip M. Best, Ph.D., Head Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
M. Kathleen Buetow, M.D., Dr.P.H., Head Department of Pediatrics
John E. Cronan, Ph.D, Head Department of Microbiology
Gregory G. Freund, M.D., Head Department of Pathology
Martha U. Gillette, Ph.D., Head Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Ralph J. Kehl, M.D., Head Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Byron W. Kemper, Ph.D., Head Department of Pharmacology
Curtis J. Krock, M.D., Head Department of Internal Medicine
Evan M. Melhado, Ph.D., Head Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program
Uretz J. Oliphant, M.D., Head Department of Surgery
Bruce Schatz, Ph.D., Head Department of Medical Information Sciences
Christian E. Wagner, M.D., Head Department of Family Medicine
Colin A. Wraight, Ph.D., Head Department of Biochemistry
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