Temple Medicine, Summer 2006

MedicineT E M P L E

A PUBLIC ATION OF THE TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SUMMER 2006

THE SCHOOL

OF MEDICINE

UNVEILS

A NEW

CURRICULUM

ALSO INSIDE: TEMPLE ALUMNI LEADERS IN SPORTS MEDICINE

TEACHING NEW MEDICINETHE TEMPLE WAY

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FeaturesCOVER STORYNew Medicine Taught the Temple Way2

Celebrating the Art and Science of Surgery:The Babcock Surgical Society’s Centennial8

25+ Year Faculty Club10

In the Game:Temple Alumni Leaders in Sports Medicine12

MedicineT E M P L E

A PUBLIC ATION OF THE TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SUMMER 2006

Contents

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DepartmentsNews Notes15

Alumni and Faculty Honors and Awards22

Class Notes30

Match Day40

Philanthropy Notes42

In Memoriam45

EDITOR/PR INCIPAL WRITERGiselle ZayonDirector, Alumni Affairs

ART DIRECTOR/DES IGNERJacqueline SpadaroTemple University Office of Publications [322-0506]

EDITORIAL ASS I STANCE Kenneth R. Cundy, PhDBeth GalinskyJannine MedranaBarbara Rubin

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PHOTOGRAPHERS Joe LabolitoMark Stehle

DEANJohn M. Daly, MD ’73

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PRES IDENT,ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONPaul Hermany, MD ’82

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Medicine is changing. Therefore what we teachmust change.

Education itself is changing. We know morethan ever about how people learn. Thereforehow we teach must change.

The entire landscape of medical science ischanging. Advances in technology are changingit, shifting demographics are changing it,and new care delivery and financing models are changing it. Therefore, the way we preparephysicians to work in the new milieu mustchange, too.

It’s a tall order, but Temple is not alone in itsquest to redefine what should be in the medicalschool curriculum, how it should be taught,

and in what context, setting, and order. Morethan 80 percent of medical schools in the UnitedStates are revising their approaches to medicaleducation, as are many schools throughoutEurope and Southeast Asia.

After three years of intensive planning andresearch, Temple introduced an exciting newcurriculum this past September. The Class of 2009 will be the first to negotiate all four years of it.

While radically changed in some respects, thenew curriculum retains the special qualities andvalues that say Temple.

“It’s the new Temple way of teaching medicine,”says John Daly, MD ’73, Dean.

NEW MEDICINE TAUGHTTHE TEMPLE WAY

NAMESAKES OF OUR SIX COLLEGESW. Wayne Babcock, MD (1872–1963), surgical innovator, educator, and author,became Chair of Surgery in 1903 and taught at Temple for 45 years. He earned world-wide recognition for pioneering the usage of spinal anesthesia and stainless steelsutures; for developing the abdominoperipheral proctosigmoidectomy and other procedures; and for inventing such surgical instruments as Babcock’s viscera forcepsand Babcock’s sump drain. Babcock’s Principles and Practice of Surgery remained theauthoritative text in surgery through the 1950s.

Waldo E. Nelson, MD (1898–1997), a giant in the field of pediatrics, came to Templein 1940 and chaired the Department of Pediatrics for 24 years. He also served as Director of Philadelphia’s St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, bringing it to prominence as a regional referral center. In addition to developing renown in tuberculosis, juvenile diabetes, and convalescent care for children, Dr. Nelson gainedworld-wide fame as the longtime editor of the “green bible,” the Nelson Textbook ofPediatrics, which was published through numerous editions and translated into dozensof languages.

William N. Parkinson MD (1886–1971), a graduate of the School of Medicine’sclass of 1911, served as Associate Dean at Temple 1921 to 1924, left to continue hisstudies, then returned in 1929 as Medical Director and Dean—a post he held for 30 years. In the Conwellian tradition, Dr. Parkinson was known for making medicaleducation accessible to talented students from all backgrounds and for recruiting faculty of national and international renown. Deeply involved in all aspects of theschool’s life, it often seemed he ran the operation single-handedly, managing strategicdecisions and minute details.

Sol Sherry, MD (1916–1993), a pioneer in the field of thrombosis, served as Chairof Medicine at Temple 1968 to 1984, founded the Thrombosis Research Center whichnow bears his name, and was Dean of the School of Medicine from1984 to 1986.Dr. Sherry revolutionized the treatment of acute MI through his pioneering work inthrombolytic therapy and trained many of the leaders in the field of thrombosis andhemostasis today. He founded the Council on Thrombosis of the American HeartAssociation and the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

Thomas Durant,MD (1905–1977), the consummate diagnostician, joined the Templefaculty in 1936 and served as Chair of Medicine from 1956 to 1966.With his method-ical approach to history and physical exam, he culled findings at the bedside that wouldlater be confirmed through laboratory analysis—enthralling students, residents, andcolleagues alike. He also made notable contributions in electrocardiography, contrastvisualization, and the dynamics of circulation and respiration. Dr. Durant was Chair ofthe American Board of Internal Medicine and President of both the AmericanFederation for Clinical Research and the American College of Physicians.

Dawn B. Marks, PhD (1937–2000), beloved for her devotion to students and love ofteaching, joined the Biochemistry faculty at Temple in 1968 and served as AssistantDean of Graduate Studies from 1984 to 1998. She developed innovative teaching techniques in biochemistry and molecular biology, always grounding concepts in clinical medicine. Her text, Review of Biochemistry (1990), has been translated into five languages and became the basis for a USMLE biochemistry board review book.She also wrote Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach (1996), and developed computer-based teaching programs. She was honored with numerous teaching awardsthroughout her career.

The Medical School’s new curriculum groups students into six colleges named for legendary faculty: Drs. Parkinson,Sherry, Durant, Marks, Nelson, and Babcock (biographies on facing page).

TO MOVE FORWARD,LOOK BACK “In medicine, as in all disciplines, new modelsdo not necessarily replace the old; rather, theytake the best of, refine, and move ahead,” saysGerry Sterling, PhD, Associate Dean forMedical Student Education, who played a keyrole in the curriculum renewal process.

“That’s why we pay homage to Temple’s greatpast with the introduction of six “colleges” as an organizational tool for our new curriculum,”adds Ellie Kelepouris, MD, Professor ofMedicine, who also played a key role in the effort.

Named for legendary Temple faculty: Babcock,Durant, Marks, Nelson, Parkinson, and Sherry,each college enrolls 30 students, follows an identical track, and has a college master (a senior member of the clinical faculty) andeight core faculty (seven clinical and one basicscience) who each serve as preceptors to threestudents. Each college also has two faculty advisors representing the basic sciences.Subspecialists serve all colleges to provide special training in their areas of expertise.

The students in each college travel togetherthrough a system of interdisciplinary “blocks”rather than discipline-specific courses. The path they take is outlined on page 4.

THE FIRST AND SECOND YEARSYears One and Two have thematic designs. YearOne covers normal body structure and function.Year Two covers disease processes—the causes,diagnosis and management of disease.

Year One is divided into seven blocks coveringbasic science concepts, plus a longitudinalcourse spanning the entire year. This course,Doctoring, provides students with opportunitiesto apply information in the clinical setting.

“We are teaching students to think like clinicians from day one,” says the Dean. Forinstance, they might learn about the anatomy,physiology and biochemistry of the heart in themorning, then listen to heart sounds that after-noon. It’s all about interweaving didactics withtheir clinical correlates.

THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNVEILSA NEW CURRICULUM

MEDICAL EDUCATION MODELSTHROUGH HISTORY

Apprenticeship Model 1760’sDiscipline-Based 1870’sOrgan System Model 1950’sProblem-Based Model 1970’sClinical Presentation Model 1990’sCompetency-Based Model Today



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The Year-One Doctoring course, “Introduction tothe Culture and Practice of Medicine,” acquaintsstudents with the skills that are fundamental tothe practice of clinical medicine: performing acomplete history and conducting a physical exam;gathering and documenting data for the medicalrecord; demonstrating a working knowledge ofmedical ethics, professional behavior, and anunderstanding of the factors impacting healthand healthcare delivery.

“It’s the foundation of clinical problem solving,”notes Dr. Kelepouris, who serves as Course Director.

Year Two contains 10 blocks that are systems-based, again featuring both basic and clinicaltopics, and again, with the year-long Doctoringcourse collating information and experience intoa practical, clinical whole. The focus of the Year-Two Doctoring course is on more advancedinterviewing and physical examination skills andphysical diagnosis. Students see patients in thehospital as well as in ambulatory and communitypractice settings and submit write-ups of completepatient evaluations. Preceptors guide students ontheir presentation skills and begin introducingconcepts of clinical reasoning.

YEARS THREE AND FOURYears Three and Four consist of rotations inanesthesiology and critical care, family medicine,internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pedi-atrics, psychiatry, surgery, emergency medicine,neurosciences, radiology, sub-internships inmedicine, family medicine, obstetrics/gynecology,pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery, plus 16 weeksof electives. Throughout, using an evidence-based approach, students are expected to delveinto the clinical literature to support their clinical decisions.

During Year Three, the Doctoring sequence culminates with an observed history and physical examination. Further, preceptors beginadvising students on course selection and post-graduate plans.

While the concept of clerkships itself is not new,the School of Medicine has substantially broadened the variety of settings in which therotations are offered in order to expose studentsto diverse settings and locales for delivery of care—rural, urban, hospital-based, privateoffice-based, primary, specialty, etc.

“Having had a head start in terms of clinicalexposure in the new curriculum, our studentsare going to get more out of their rotations than ever before,” says the Dean.

THE NEW MODEL:COMPETENCYAs outlined in the chart of medical educationmodels on page 3, various themes have organizedthe approach to medical education through the years. The newest approach is a focus oncompetencies—competencies pertaining toeverything doctoring entails: a knowledge basein basic and clinical science, well-developedclinical skills, and professionalism.

“Remember, it’s possible to be ‘good’ at all theindividual components, yet still not be compe-tent,” cautions the Dean. “That’s why the abilityto integrate and synthesize skills and knowledgeis the real secret to the art of medicine.”

TIME SUBJECTS COVERED

INTRO Intro to Medical Practice 1 week Orientation; Intro to Medical Ethics; Intro to the Patient

BLOCK 1 Structural Anatomy 2 weeks Integrated Systems in Gross Anatomy

BLOCK 2 Elements of Bioscience 11 weeksBasics of Genetics; Molecular Biology; Basic Cell and Tissue Structure and Function; Cellular Physiology, Signalling and Metabolism; Biochemistry of Nutrients

BLOCK 3 Body Systems I 8 weeksDevelopment, structure, physiology and biochemistry of the Cardiovascular,Pulmonary, Urinary and Gastrointestinal Systems

BLOCK 4 Body Systems II 4 weeks Development, structure , physiology, and biochemistry of the Integument,the Musculoskeletal System, Endocrine and Reproductive Systems

BLOCK 5 Body Systems III 5 weeksConcepts in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology; basics of psychological development and behavior

BLOCK 6Basic Principles ofImmunology, Pathology and Pharmacology

4.5 weeks Intro to Pathology and Pharmacology; Immunology and Inflammation

TIME SUBJECTS COVERED

BLOCK 1 Microbiology andInfectious Diseases 7 weeks

Microbiology; Virology; Parasitology; Infectious Diseases;Antimicrobial Drugs

BLOCK 2 Cardiovascular System 3 weeks Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Cardiovascular Disease

BLOCK 3 Respiratory System 3 weeks Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Respiratory Disease

BLOCK 4 Musculoskeletal System 2 weeksPathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Diseases of the Skin and Musculoskeletal System

BLOCK 5 Gastrointestinal System 3 weeks Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Gastrointestinal Disease

BLOCK 6 Central Nervous System 3.5 weeksPathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Neurologic and PsychiatricDisease; Behavioral Medicine; Neuropharmacology

BLOCK 7 Renal System 2 weeks Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Renal Disease

BLOCK 8 Endocrine andReproductive Medicine 3.5 weeks

Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Endocrine and Reproductive Disease

BLOCK 9 Hematology andOncology 3 weeks Pathology, Pathophysiology and Drug Therapy of Diseases of Blood

BLOCK 10 Special Topics 2 weeks Case-based Learning Module

YEAR TWO

YEAR ONE

GROUP B

GROUPS A +B

GROUP A 8 weeks

Internal Medicine

May June July August September October November December January February March April

Doctoring 301 Evidence-Based Medicine and FCC301 Professionalism, Medical Decision-Making Throughout the Year

Ambulatory InternalMedicine and Neurology Surgery

8 WEEKS EACH

Distribution throughout the year by Group

Ob/Gyn Family Medicine Psychiatry Pediatrics

8 weeks 8 weeks 6 weeks 6 weeks 6 weeks 6 weeks

6 weeks 6 weeks 6 weeks 6 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks 8 weeks

Required Core Clinical Clerkships

YEAR THREE

6 WEEKS EACH

SurgicalSubspecialties

Intensive Careand Radiology Anesthesiology Emergency

Medicine Subinternship* Subinternship*

*Subinternships: Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Family Medicine, Ob/Gyn

Elective Elective Elective Elective Vacation Vacation

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Required Core Clinical Clerkships




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By teaching the basic sciences in relationship to clinical medicine, we are teaching in a mannerconsistent with the way physicians actually practice medicine,” he says.

“In real life, we would never approach a patientstrictly from a biochemistry perspective and thenswitch to physiology. Developing the ability tothink in an integrated fashion is essential for thephysician,” he says, “and our new curriculum isdesigned to teach just that.”

Moreover, the new curriculum tackles the topics of professionalism, medical ethics andcommunication head on—not like in the “olddays” when such matters were left to students to develop on their own.

“Do students automatically know how to interactwith patients—or give bad news to families—ordeal confidently with ethical issues?” poses theDean. “No,” he asserts. “We now place muchmore focus on these important matters and buildin opportunities for observation and practice.”

SIMULATION AND STANDARDIZATIONTreating people is clearly the ultimate point—but starting with “standardized” and “simulated”ones is a very safe and effective approach.

Last fall, the School of Medicine opened a newInstitute for Clinical Simulation and PatientSafety, the most sophisticated venue of its typein Philadelphia—and the only in the country tocombine two of the hottest teaching tools inmedicine: Simulation and standardization.

With 7,000 square-feet of flexible, modern space,the Simulation Center of the Institute housesprogrammable, anatomically detailed and physi-ologically functional mannequins and task train-ers that are used to teach clinical skills.And right next door is a Patient Skills Center,a suite designed like a private physician’s office,which accommodates the School’s standardizedpatient program. This program employs actorstrained to present symptoms of various illnesses,helping students learn to take histories, conductphysical exams, make diagnoses, and relate topatients as professionals.

“It’s preparation for working with real patients,but not a replacement,” says Andrew Herlich,MD, DMD, Medical Director of the SimulationCenter and Professor of Anesthesiology,Otolaryngology and Pediatrics. “Working withstandardized patients helps students get overtheir jitters, practice basic techniques, and gain valuable experience in dealing with ethical dilemmas.”

Standardized patient programs have been aroundfor many years, but now examining standardizedpatients is required for licensure. In the makingfor a decade, the clinical-skills component of theU.S. Medical Licensing Exam was introduced in 2003. The test is a day-long event for Fourth-Year students who see 12 standardized patients forabout 15 minutes each, recording medical histo-ries, and suggesting diagnoses and management.

The exam measures how well students communicate with patients, how sensitive theyare to patients’ emotions and cultural preferences.Do they communicate clearly, without medicaljargon? Do they make good eye contact? As theypalpate the body or listen to the heart, do they explain what they are doing and why?

Like standardized patient programs, clinical sim-ulation has also been around for years. Earlysimulators were called “partial task trainers”—models of arms or organ systems. Today’s models are sophisticated and physiologicallyfunctional: full-sized adults and children thatcan talk and breathe and produce heart soundsand pulses. Amazing in their complexity, theyhave vasculature with replaceable fluids;bronchial trees that are anatomically accurate(even for fiberoptic bronchoscopy); ECG librariesof more than 2,500 rhythm variants; bilateralcarotid, brachial, radial and femoral pulses thatcan be synchronized with blood pressure andanatomical position; and much more.

With simulators, students get a chance to practice taking vital signs, suturing, startingintravenous lines, placing catheters, conductingbreast and pelvic exams—and more complexprocedures, such as management of lung collapse. Student interventions and errors can beallowed to reach their conclusions, all for thepurpose of learning—at no risk to real patientsand no worries of medical malpractice.

The simulators can be programmed to present a wide range of conditions, playing out potentially thousands of different scenarios of illness and injury. They can even be prepro-grammed to speak with prerecorded phrases,such as “I’m having trouble breathing.”

Faculty can join students at the treatment tableor watch from an adjoining room. As the Centerhouses projectors, cameras, and retractablescreens, the events and interventions can bevideotaped and played back, enabling studentsto learn from their errors.

“Simulators have a profound effect on the skill level—and confidence—of students,”saysthe Dean. “They enable us to plan lifelike medical events and students to ‘practice’without fear of real-life complications or consequences—a great way to hone clinicaljudgment and technical skills.”

SUM OF THE PARTSTemple’s new curriculum immerses students inbasic sciences combined with clinical sciencesright from the start, along with experience withsimulated, standardized and real patients.

“Medicine continues to evolve. As the populationages, as models of healthcare delivery and medicaleducation evolve, we will continue to evolve ourcurricula,” says Dean Daly. “We are engaging students in a more comprehensive fashion thanat any time in history.”

Truly a case of the whole being greater than thesum of its parts.

Charles D. Crigger, MD ’80, listens to Sim Man’s chest during the alumni tour ofthe new facility during class reunion weekend

THE NEW CURRICULUM AT A GLANCE ■ Six colleges of 30 students each, named after Babock, Durant, Marks, Nelson, Parkinson,

and Sherry

■ The teaching of basic science and clinical medicine is interwoven, just as medicine is practiced

■ Emphasis on physician competencies: knowledge, clinical skills, professionalism, humanism,behavior, cultural competencies

■ Incorporation of outcomes-, evidence-, problem-based and mentoring teaching models,with promotion of longitudinal relationships between faculty and students

■ Increased emphasis on changing demographics (examples: geriatrics, alternative and complementary medicine)

■ Use of simulation and standardized patients in clinical training

■ Geared toward adult learning styles, not rote memorization of facts, with emphasis on lifelong learning, identification of knowledge gaps, critical appraisal of information

■ Training in interdisciplinary, inter-professional teams, again reflecting realistic scenarios of actual practice


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The Art and Science of a LegendA hallmark of Temple—and of surgery, medical education,research, and humanism—is W. Wayne Babcock, MD,Professor and Chair of Surgery from 1903 to 1948. Now 100 years old and named in his honor, the Babcock SurgicalSociety, is Temple’s oldest student organization. Alumniworldwide take great pride in its traditions.

Surgery is neither art nor science, but a blending of the two.In the 1929 edition of Babcock’s Text-Book of Surgery forStudents and Physicians, Dr. Babcock proclaimed, “The science of surgery is the adaptation of the various medicaland related sciences to the solving of surgical problems.The art of surgery is the practical use of physical or chemicalmeasure in the treatment of disease…The highest art is theprotection of the patient...”

Centennial Celebration of the Babcock Surgical SocietyDr. Babcock’s legacy was echoed at Temple with the centennial celebration of the Babcock Surgical Society.Nearly 200 alumni, faculty, and students gathered with Dean John M. Daly and Frederick Simeone, MD ’60, noted neurosurgeon and keynote speaker. Alumni attending the celebration included Paul Steel, MD ’52, Milton Wohl,MD ’49, John Hall, MD ’41, Morton Kligerman, MD ’41,and many others.

Dean Daly lauded Dr. Babcock’s innovations and 45 years of service to Temple and to surgery. “Dr. Babcock changed the field and put Temple on the map,” Dean Daly affirmed,noting that Dr. Babcock won the 1954 American MedicalAssociation Distinguished Service Gold Medal.

The Birth of the SocietyOne century ago in the old Samaritan Hospital, seven studentsdissected a brachial plexus to understand the fine nerve sur-gery by Dr. Babcock the night before. The idea of honoringthis brilliant surgeon was then conceived—and one monthlater the Babcock Surgical Society was born. Dr. William A.Steele (Dr. Babcock’s assistant) became Charter President and Dr. Babcock named Honorary President.

In 1958, Dean William Parkinson and David Allman, MD,President of the American Medical Association, presided overthe Society’s 50th anniversary.

“The Babcock Surgical Society should be one of our enduring traditions—it is my sincere hope that…its ideals of scholarship and character will be continued,” asserted Dean Parkinson.

Dr. Allman proclaimed Dr. Babcock “the outstanding man in the history of Temple Medical School and one of the finestteachers in the country.” He regarded the Society as “one ofthe most prominent and active in the nation.”

Through the 1970s the Society encouraged presentation ofpapers by members, annually voting on the best each year;pursued contacts with prominent surgeons (Dr. Mayo ofClinic fame, for example); and hosted an annual parent/childbanquet among members.

Today the Society features three shadowing programs:the trauma surgery program where students spend nights on the trauma service with faculty and residents, in theSurgical Skills Lab where students learn surgical proceduresvia simulation, and in orthopedic surgery. These programshave impact. One participant was certain he was going tobecome an ER physician, but now contemplates a career intrauma surgery.

A Keynote and Call to ActionFrederick Simeone, MD ’60, Clinical Director of the SimeoneCenter for Neurosurgery at Pennsylvania Hospital, revealedhow the technology of surgery has evolved as a consequenceof Dr. Babcock.

Surgery was different a century ago. There were no specialties.Surgeons were expected to do all procedures. Techniques ofthe era seem primitive by today’s standards—for example,hand-compression of the abdominal aorta to control bleedingduring leg amputation.

“Babcock was a man who did things first and talked aboutthem afterwards,” once said then-Chair of Surgery, GeorgeRosemond, MD ’34. “He was far ahead of his time. If he got an idea in his head he would not hesitate to try it. But…I dare say, if he were living today, he might be a good candidatefor litigation.”

Dr. Simeone noted how the malpractice epidemic has thwarted the progress of surgery. Babcock couldn’t be thesame research pioneer if he were in surgery today. For medicine to advance, we need to labor against the restrictionsand limitations, expressed Dr. Simeone.

“We must appreciate and honor those who, like Babcock,enable us to practice medicine as we do today,” added Dean Daly.

The Babock Surgical Society is indeed unique to Temple.We must maintain its ideals of scholarship and character.We owe Dr. Babcock this—and so much more.

Frederick Simeone, MD ’60, Clinical Director of the Simeone Center forNeurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, gave the keynote addressat the celebration and was awarded honorary membership. He is wellknown for his integrative approach to research and clinical practice. Hisbook, The Spine, is now in its fifth edition. Dr. Simeone is a member of theTUSM Board of Visitors.

CELEBRATING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SURGERY:The Babcock Surgical Society’s Centennial Celebrationby Jordan Newmark ’07President, Babcock Surgical Society

The Executive Board of the Babcock Surgical Society (L-R): Jordan Newmark’07, President; Michael Ast ’07, Secretary; Mitzi-Ann Davis ’07,Vice President;Dean Daly; David Ni ’07,Webmaster; and Group Advisor, Harsh Grewal, MD,Professor of Surgery. Kathryn Giroux ’07,Treasurer, not pictured.The plaquecommemorates the centennial of the Society and depicts its seal, a caduceusand two crossed scalpels, with a quote from Babcock:“A surgeon will esteemrelief from suffering and disability as his greatest reward.” See more photosfrom the celebration on page 34.

W.Wayne Babcock, MD (1872–1963), surgical innovator, teacher and writer,became Professor and Chair of Surgery at Temple in 1903 and taught here for45 years. He earned worldwide recognition for pioneering usage of spinalanesthesia and stainless steel sutures, for developing the abdominoperipheralproctosigmoidectomy and other procedures, and for inventing surgical instru-ments, including Babcock’s viscera forceps, Babcock’s sump drain and lampchimney sump drain, rib spreader, thoracic trocar, ostal periosteotome, nerveclamp, and vein stripper. Babcock’s Principles and Practice of Surgery remainedthe authoritative text in surgery through the 1950s.

The Babcock Surgical Clinic portrait, painted by Furman J. Finck, a well-known portrait artist on Temple's faculty who also painted portraits ofPresidents Eisenhower and Truman, was commissioned in 1943 to mark Dr. Babcock’s retirement as Temple’s Chair of Surgery.The painting, whichhangs in the lobby of the medical school's Kresge Building, depicts Dr.Babcock, surrounded by ten of his former students, associates, and a nurse.

Visit the Babcock Surgical Society website:www.temple.edu/babcock.


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The School of Medicine has been hiring new faculty in record numbers over the last twoyears. These talented newcomers hail from leading institutions around the nation, bringinga broad diversity of experience that will guideTemple into new frontiers.

“But setting the course toward that frontier,establishing the foundation upon which Templestands, are hundreds of full- and part-time facultywho have served the School of Medicine for thebetter part of their careers,” says Dean Daly.

More than 50 facultymembers, in fact, havebeen teaching here for25 or more years—and an amazing number ofthem are youthful,productive and clearlyat the height of theircareers. Steven Houser,PhD ’78, AssociateDean for Research andProfessor of Physiology,

comes to mind. As do Joe Thoder, MD ’82(Orthopaedics); Ronald N. Rubin, MD ’72(Hematology); Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70(Cardiology); Carson Schneck MD ’59, PhD ’65(Anatomy and Cell Biology), and many others.Interesting that many happen to be alumni!

But you don’t have to be an alum to carry thetorch of Temple tradition—and two primeexamples are Norman Willett, PhD, EmeritusProfessor of Microbiology, and Laurie Paavola,PhD, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology,with nearly 70 years of service between them.

Dr. Willett joined the faculty in 1966. Initiallyhired as an instructor for the School of Pharmacy,Dr. Willett was Chair of Microbiology andImmunology at the School of Dentistry when hewas asked to join the School of Medicine.

Dr. Willett has worked under five differentTemple University presidents and has taughtthousands of students over the years.

“I meet my former students in the strangestplaces,” says Dr. Willett. “Once, I met one onsafari in Africa. He came up to me and said ‘I used to think you were a son of a gun! Now I really appreciate everything you taughtme.’ I guess I was a tough teacher, but the students respect that.”

Although he’s no longer teaching classes,Dr. Willett serves as the faculty advisor for the Temple chapter of “Bridging the Gaps,” anational summer internship for students in medicine and the health professions. As reported in the last Temple Medicine’s storyabout service, seven universities and more than 100 community-based organizations in the Philadelphia region participate.

Does Dr. Willett have any plans to really retire?Not yet. “I’m a guy who likes to be in the middleof things,” he says with a smile.

Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology LauriePaavola, PhD, came to Temple in 1971 as an NIH National Research Service Award Fellow.She had been working on her PhD at StanfordUniversity when her mentor there, A. KentChristensen, PhD, took a position at Temple.Dr. Paavola and her husband agreed to move to Philadelphia so she could finish her programwith Dr. Christensen providing they wouldreturn to California the following year.

“After the fellowship, Temple offered me a teaching position,” Dr. Paavola recalls. “And 34 years later, my husband is still kidding meabout going back to California!”

Dr. Paavola has risen through the ranks to holdseveral academic and administrative positions,including Associate Dean for Graduate Studies.Although she recently stepped down from thepost (see page 20), Dr. Paavola has no plans toretire. She enjoys research and teaching.

“When I came on, we had microscopes—now we do everything on PowerPoint,” she says.

Dr. Willett cites another example of change: “Inthe 40’s and 50’s, we didn’t even have antibiotics—and now many microbes are already resistantto them,” he says.

No doubt the future and the new faculty willbring yet more change.

“But in the fundamental ways,” says Dean Daly,“in the ways that define character and culture,Temple will remain unchanged.”

Dr. Daly calls Drs. Paavola and Willett and their25-year club colleagues “true embodiments” ofthe characteristics for which Temple is known:Collegiality, high standards, and dedication toscience and service.

“Our new faculty are happy to carry on the tradition,” says Dean Daly. “It is part of whatdrew them here, just as it inspires longtime faculty to stay.”

At the 25-year Club dinner for faculty: Front row, L-R: Paul Farber, (Dentistry);Marvin Ziskin, MD ’62;Angelo DiGeorge, MD ’46; Guenther Boden, MD;Paul P. Burke, PhD; Iraj Rezvani, MD. Second row: Ron Rubin, MD ’72; RobertColman, MD; A. Koneti Rao, MD, PhD; Linda Knight, PhD; Ed Resnick, MD ’51;Earl Henderson, PhD.Third row:Al Lamperti, PhD; Marvin Sodicoff, PhD;Leonard Zubryzcki, PhD; Concetta Harakal, PhD ’62; Charles Tourtellotte,MD ’57. Back row: Len Packman, PhD; Jim Daniels, PhD; Prabhakar Lotlikar,Joe Thoder, MD ’82; Ron Pieringer, PhD

Kenneth J. Cundy, PhD,past president of the 25+Year Faculty Club (secondfrom left) with fellow members (left to right)Arthur Miller, MD;Edward Resnick, MD ’51,and Norman Willet, PhD

25+YEARFACULTYCLUB

Martin Adler, PhD, PharmacologyE.Victor Adlin, MD ’56, MedicineDavid Axler, PhD, Microbiology and

ImmunologyPhil Alburger, MD ’69, Orthopaedics Robert Baum, PhD, MicrobiologyMartin Black, MD, Medicine Guenther Boden, MD, EndocrinologyAkbar Bonakdarpour, MS ’58, MD,

Diagnostic ImagingChristine Bastl, MD, NephrologySteven Berney, MD, RheumatologyGuenther Boden, MD, EndocrinologyAlfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70,

CardiologyAllen Cohen, MD, PulmonaryRobert Colman, MD, Oncology Alan Cowan, PhD, PharmacologyAllan Cristol, MD, PsychiatryKenneth Cundy, PhD, Microbiology

and ImmunologyJames Daniels, PhD, PharmacologyJon De Riel, PhD, BiochemistryAngelo DiGeorge, MD ’46, PediatricsJohn Drees, PhD, PhysiologyNahum Duker, MD, Pathology Toby Eisenstein, PhD, Microbiology

and ImmunologyPaul Farber, PhD, Pathology

Albert Finestone, MD ’45, Medicine Concetta Harakal, PhD ’62,

PharmacologyJohn Harding, MD ’73, PsychiatryJames Heckman, PhD, Physiology Earl Henderson, PhD, Microbiology

and ImmunologySteven Houser, PhD ’78, PhysiologyRichard Kendall, MD ’56, UrologyLinda Knight, PhD, RadiologyAl Lamperti, PhD, Anatomy and Cell

BiologyBennett Lorber, MD, Infectious DiseasesPrabhakar Lotliker, PhDLeon Malmud, MD, Diagnostic ImagingThomas Marino, PhD ’78, Anatomy

and Cell BiologyAllan Marks, MD ’62, EndocrinologyLois Martyn, MD ’62, OphthalmologyAlan Maurer, MD ’75, MedicineJames McElligott, PhD, PharmacologyArthur Miller, PhD, AnatomyRay Moyer, MD, Orthopaedics Joanne Orth, PhD ’78, Anatomy Laurie Paavola, PhD, AnatomyLeonard Pakman, PhD, Microbiology

and Immunology Hope Punnett, MD, PediatricsRon Pieringer, PhD, Biochemistry

A. Koneti Rao, MD, PhD, Oncology Ed Resnick, MD ’51, Orthopaedic

SurgeryIraj Rezvani, MD, PediatricsRonald Rubin, MD ’72, OncologyJames Ryan, PhD, PhysiologyThomas Shaffer, PhD, PhysiologyCarson Schneck, MD ’59, PhD ’65,

Anatomy and Cell BiologyCharles Shuman, MD ’43, EndocrinologyMarvin Sodicoff, MD, AnatomyHoward Steele, MD ’45, OrthopaedicsRoy Steinhouse, MD ’68, PsychiatryRobert Suhadolnik, PhD, BiochemistryFrederick Sutliff, MD ’46, OphthalmologyRonald Tallarida, PhD ’67, PharmacologyJoseph Thoder, MD ’82, OrthopaedicsJoseph Torg, MD ’61, OrthopaedicsCharles Tourtellotte, MD ’57,

RheumatologyRonald Tuma, PhD ’75, Physiology Howard Warner, MD ’53, CardiologyMichael Wang, PhD, PhysiologyNorman Willett, PhD, Microbiology

and ImmunologyMarvin Ziskin, MD ’62, Diagnostic

ImagingLeonard Zubrzycki, PhD, Microbiology

and Immunology

THE 25 YEAR CLUBThe following have been teaching at Temple for 25 years or more.

Laurie Paavola, PhD Norman Willett, PhD

on the mezzanine of the Tioga Street garage. Andthe kids called it the ‘sports med garage’ for thelongest time. I love Temple,” he says. “There’s lessego and more practicing excellent orthopaedics.”

Another former student of Dr. Lachman isGlenn Perry, MD ’78, team physician for theCharlotte Bobcats (NBA) and Sting (WNBA).Dr. Perry has practiced orthopaedics in theCharlotte, NC, area for 20 years, and like Dr.Torg, helped found the first sports medicineclinic in his region. He also helped establish the first sports medicine fellowship program in the Charlotte area.

A past President of the NBA Team PhysiciansSociety, Dr. Perry was the head team physicianfor the Charlotte Hornets, served as team physician for the USA Men’s WorldChampionship basketball team in 1998, andworked with the USA Basketball Pre-OlympicTournament of the Americas team in 1999.The following year, he served as team physicianfor the gold medal USA Men’s Senior NationalBasketball team in the Olympic Games inSydney, Australia.

“With Dr. Perry directing our program, we know our players are under excellent supervisionand guidance,” said Ed Tapscott, Bobcats andSting Chief Operating Officer. “He is nationallyrecognized as one of the top.”

“Being a team doctor is thrilling and challenging,with substantial pressure riding on the athlete-patients I treat,” says Dr. Perry. “My training atTemple, as both a medical student and a resident,prepared me well for this career.”

Joel Boyd, MD’94, concurs. He’sa Twin Citiesorthopaedic surgeon who isone of the headphysicians for theMinnesota Lynx(WNBA) and the MinnesotaWild (NHL).

Dr. Boyd didn’tknow much about hockey when he first joined aMinnesota sports medicine practice in 1989, butthe sport’s huge regional following offered himample opportunity to learn. He started workingwith young teams during junior tournamentsand quickly built a reputation. Soon, officials


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In the Game:Temple Alumni Leadersin Sports Medicine

Sports medicine, one of the most popular fieldsof modern medicine, owes a great deal toTemple. In addition to the fact that we openedthe nation’s first university-based sports medi-cine clinic in 1974, many of the world’s athletictrainers, medical advisors, and team doctorstrained at Temple. Temple Owls are in collegiateand professional locker rooms everywhere.

Before there was sports medicine therewas John Lachman, MD ’43. Dr.Lachman came to Temple University asan undergraduate in 1936, stayed forboth medical school and residency inorthopaedics, then joined the facultyunder the late John Royal Moore, MD,an acclaimed orthopaedic surgeon whooriginated the techniques of delayedreduction of fractures. Dr. Lachman, or“Lach,” as he was affectionately called,ultimately succeeded Dr. Moore as Chairof Orthopaedics and earned the respectof legions of trainees and fellow faculty.He also became a household name inorthopaedics as founder of the LachmanTest, commonly considered the most reli-able clinical test for diagnosing ruptureof the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

“Before the MRI, before people understood thesignificance of a torn ACL, Lach taught us thissimple test—and it is 98 percent accurate,” saysJoe Torg, MD ’61, Professor of OrthopedicSurgery at Temple. Dr. Torg also found widely-celebrated success in treating sports-relatedinjuries and is a former team physician for thePhiladelphia Flyers, Eagles, and 76ers.

“Few in sports medicine have had the impact of Joseph Torg,” said William Clancy, formerPresident of the American Orthopaedic Societyfor Sports.

In the 1960s, Dr. Torg pioneered the changesfrom the old style of football cleat to the presentsoccer-type of shoe, saving many athletes fromserious knee injury. He and the late Temple athletic trainer Ted Quedenfeld were alsoresponsible for the rule change to ban “ramming”or “spearing” in both high school and collegiatefootball, saving innumerable athletes from cervicalspine injuries. And perhaps most significantlyfor Temple, he and Ted Quendenfeld co-foundedthe country’s first outreach sports medicine clinic in 1974.

“We opened the clinic to serve the community’sathletes,” Dr. Torg recalls. “It was originally located

Sports mDsAmong the many alumni and faculty with connections toprofessional sports teams are:

Craig Aronchick, MD ’78 • Philadelphia Flyers

Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70 • Philadelphia 76ers

Michael Clancy, MD (former chair, orthopaedics) •Philadelphia 76ers

Mitchell E. Cooper, MD ’93 • Miami Heat

Edward Decter, MD-Res ’76 • NY/NJ MetroStars

William De Long, Jr., MD ’78 • Philadelphia Phantoms and Philadelphia Flyers

Nicholas A. DiNubile, MD ’77 • Philadelphia 76ers and the Pennsylvania Ballet

Harris Gellman MD ’79 • Florida Panthers (NHL)

John B. Jeffers, MD (faculty, ophthalmology) • PhiladelphiaEagles, Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers

Paul Marchetto, MD-Res ’85 (faculty, orthopaedics) •Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Flyers, PhiladelphiaPhantoms

Richard Mason, MD ’87 • Philadelphia Eagles, PhiladelphiaFlyers, and Philadelphia Kixx

John M. McShane MD ’87 • Philadelphia Eagles,Philadelphia Phillies

Robert H. Mills, Jr., MD ’88 • Miami Dolphins and FloridaMarlins

Alexander Sapega, MD ’80 • consultant to NFL

John H. Wolf, MD ’62 • Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia76ers

Do you belong on this list? Contact the Alumni Office [email protected] or 800-331-2839

Joe Torg, MD ’61, Professor of orthopaedic surgery

John Lachman, MD ’43, former Chair of Orthopaedics at Temple—and a great sport

Joel Boyd, MD ’94

from USA Hockey, the sport’s governing body,asked him to get more involved to help broadenthe sport’s appeal. Dr. Boyd’s reputation in hock-ey circles flourished. In 1998, he was asked toserve as a team physician for the USA Olympichockey team in Nagano, Japan. He was also team physician for the 2004 World Hockey Cup team.

When professional hockey returned to Minnesotawith the debut of the Minnesota Lynx in 1997,Dr. Boyd was already known as the area’s


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News Notes

With new treatments for Alzheimer’sdisease, depression, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis—and with rapidlyadvancing stem cell and gene therapytechnologies—neuroscience hasemerged as one of medicine’s mostrapidly developing fields. The numberof patients with neurological complaints is expected to exceed 73million in the next decade.Recognizing such, Temple University’sBoard of Trustees recently approvedthe creation a new department at theSchool of Medicine: The Departmentof Neuroscience. “Its establishmentunderscores the growing importanceof this area of scientific research,patient care and medical education,”says Dean Daly.

The Department will bring togetherfaculty from various parts of theUniversity and School of Medicinewithin a single interdisciplinary center for education and research.The core group will transfer to theSchool of Medicine from the Centerfor Neurovirology and Cancer Biology,which previously fell under the auspices of the College of Science and Technology.

Kamel Khalili, PhD, Director of theCenter for Neurovirology at Temple,has been named Chair of the newdepartment. Internationally recog-nized as a pioneer in neurovirology,Dr. Khalili is Editor in Chief of theJournal of Neurovirology and helpedfound the International Society ofNeurovirology. A former FogartyScholar at the National Cancer Institute(NCI), he served on the faculties atThomas Jefferson University andMCP-Hahnemann University beforejoining Temple in 1999.

Several programs are underway at theDepartment with regard to the nervous system’s interactions withviruses, as well as viral-induced neuraltumors. Additional programs will bedeveloped in signal transduction anddifferentiation, neural cell regeneration,neural cell plasticity, Alzheimer’s,Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis.

NeuroAIDS will continue to be a focalpoint, as the Department has just beenawarded a $6.1 million NIH grant forNeuroAIDS research. The five-yeargrant will support 23 researchers andstaff for three projects, continuing the

Department’s ongoing investigationinto the molecular biology and genetics of the interaction betweenviruses and host cells in the centralnervous system.

“We will be looking at HIV’s effect onthe nervous system to discern themolecular basis for the developmentand progression of neurological diseasesthat occur in some AIDS patients,”notes Dr. Khalili, noting that HIV cantrigger the JC virus, which causes thefatal demyelinating disease, ProgressiveMultifocal Leukoencephalopathy(PML). The JC virus infects more than90 percent of the population worldwideduring early childhood but remainslatent throughout most people’s lives.However, in the immunosuppressed,the JC virus can become active again.Dr. Khalili and team will investigate the molecular mechanisms that cause reactivation, including how the JC virus affects the integrity of the DNA by disregulating the host cell’s DNArepair machinery.

“I am very pleased to accept the position as chair of the Department of Neuroscience,” said Dr. Khalili.

“hockey doc,” as well as a physician who caredfor many Timberwolves (NBA) players and area high school athletes. This reputation led tohis link with the Lynx, and the rest, as they say,is history.

There have been dozens of Temple alumni andfaculty with professional sports teams ties overthe years—for instance, Stanley Lorber, MD,former chair of Gastroenterology, who was teamphysician for the Philadelphia 76ers for 25 years.He had the pleasure of seeing the team win twoNBA championships (1967 and 1983).

The late James Klint, MD ’68, who served asteam physician for the San Francisco 49ers from1979 to 2003, is one of the few team doctorswith five Super Bowl rings. And, true to Templecharacter, Dr. Klint didn’t just serve as teamphysician; he helped create the well-respectedtesting, counseling and treatment programs theNFL has used since 1993.

An internationally renowned name in sportsmedicine is John Bergfeld, MD ’64, Director of Community Medical Affairs at the ClevelandClinic, Sports Health. Dr. Bergfeld has been teamphysician for the Cleveland Browns since 1976and Cleveland Cavaliers since 1982, gaining widerespect as an expert in musculoskeletal problemsof the athlete as well as arthritic conditions ofthe knee (especially with regard to ligament andarticular cartilage injuries). He is currentlynational President of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and OrthopedicSports Medicine and has served as President of both the American Orthopaedic Society forSports Medicine and the American College of

Sports Medicine. He has also served on theBoard of Directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, was a Carl BergResearch Fellow of the Orthopaedic Researchand Education Foundation, and received theGeorge Rovere Award for Excellence in Teachingof the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

Joseph Thoder, MD ’82, Chair of Orthopedics at Temple, says many alumni and faculty havemade contributions to orthopedics and thesports medicine fields. For example, Dr. Torgand Helene Pavlov, MD ’72, are known for theTorg-Pavlov Ratio—a measurement dividing the width of the vertebral body on the lateral C-spine radiograph into the correspondingspace encompassing the cord. In 2004, the twoearned the Elizabeth Winston Lanier KappaDelta Award of the Orthopaedic ResearchSociety/American Academy of OrthopaedicSurgeons for their substantial body of work.

“In addition to its strong academic orientationand research base, Temple orthopaedics has just the right balance of the collegial and thecompetitive. Maybe that’s why so many of ouralumni have gone into sports medicine,” says Dr. Thoder.

Orthopaedics is a strong department. In additionto sports medicine, the Department features sections of arthritis and joint replacement, footand ankle, hand surgery, pediatric orthopaedics,scoliosis and spine surgery, and trauma. Theprinciples that characterized Dr. Lachman’s era—integrity, dedication to patient care, and excellencein teaching— still characterize Temple today.

Neuroscience Department Created, Khalili Named Chair

Kamel Khalili, PhD

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A team of researchers at Temple led byPrem Reddy, PhD, Professor ofBiochemistry and Director of the FelsInstitute for Cancer Research, hasdeveloped a new drug that halts cancercell division, instigating tumor death.The drug, which works by interferingwith the activity of a gene called Plk1,is now in phase I clinical trials at JohnsHopkins and Mt. Sinai Medical Center.Plk1 is one of several molecules thatplay a critical role in the spread ofcancer. When Plk1 activity is blocked,cancer cells cannot divide. The newdrug, ON01910, blocks tumor cellinvasion of normal cells, blocks angio-genesis, and induces tumor cell death.The drug was tested on 94 differentcancers in animals, often inducingcomplete tumor regression.

“Someday it might work either as asingle drug or in combination withother drugs,” says Dr. Reddy. “It alsoappears to be very safe,” he says. “It can be given in very high doses withlittle or no side effects. And it workswith several existing cancer drugs,often inducing complete regression of tumors.”

This new and growing area of cancerresearch is called “targeted therapy.”With this new approach in cancer

treatment, the goal is to create drugsthat reduce cancer to a chronic disease—not a fatal disease. The researchappeared in the Cancer Cell.

Fels researchers have also developed a new drug that could potentially treatall forms of Gleevec-resistant chronicmyelogenous leukemia (CML). Theirresearch was recently published inProceedings of the National Academyof Sciences.

Gleevec is the most successful treatmentfor CML to date, but patients withadvanced CML typically develop resist-ance. While two recent experimentaldrugs were effective in circumventingsome forms of Gleevec resistance, Dr.Reddy and team sought to circumventall forms. They developed ON012380,which induced cell death of all of theknown Gleevec-resistant mutants andcaused regression of leukemias in humantumor cells and in animal models.

“Our drug can be combined withGleevec to create synergy, and whenpatients become resistant to Gleevec,our drug kills 100 percent of the cancer cells,” Dr. Reddy said.

FDA approval to proceed with clinicaltrials is being sought.

A. Koneti Rao, MD, Professor ofMedicine and Pharmacology, has beennamed head of Hematology and theSol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center.

Dr. Rao has been a faculty member atTemple since 1979, having most recently served as head of Temple’sMD-PhD program. As noted on page19, he has been replaced in that capacity by Dianne Soprano, PhD.

Dr. Rao is interested in the molecularmechanisms of inherited defects inplatelet function. He’s also studyingalterations in blood coagulation

mechanisms and tissue factors in arterial diseases, diabetes mellitus,sickle cell anemia, and cardiopul-monary bypass. His findings have been published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine,and he has received numerous honors,including the Investigator RecognitionAward of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (1997)and a Temple University FacultyResearch Award (2001). He is PrincipalEditor of Platelets, and has served as guest editor and/or editorial boardmember of publications such asHematology/Oncology Today.

Robert W. Colman, MD, who has ledthe Section and Center since 1979,has stepped down from the post, butwill stay on to continue his research.Under his leadership, Temple becameone of the premier thrombosisresearch centers in the world.

Fels Drugs Show Promise In Cancer, Leukemia

Rao to Head Hematology and Thrombosis ResearchTemple Study Reveals“Secret” To Atkins DietIn a study that debuted in the Annalsof Internal Medicine and was picked up by media outlets worldwide,Temple reported that people on low-carb regimens, such as the Atkins diet,spontaneously reduced their caloriesby 30 percent despite being offeredunlimited helpings of protein-rich,high-fat foods. On average, they cutout 1,000 calories a day.

“The carbohydrates were clearly stimulating their excessive appetites,”said Guenther Boden, MD, Professor ofMedicine and Chief of Endocrinologyat Temple, the study’s lead author.

Funded by NIH and the AmericanDiabetes Association, the study is theonly trial of the Atkins diet ever conducted in a hospital setting whereevery calorie was measured. The studypatients, Type II diabetics, ate theirnormal fare the first week, averaging3,111 calories a day. They then followed the Atkins approach, limitingcarbs to 20 grams a day. Patients didnot compensate by eating more protein or fat. Their calories droppedto an average of 2,164 a day, and eachlost on average four pounds over twoweeks. In addition, they showedimproved glucose levels and insulinsensitivity as well as lower triglyceridesand cholesterol.

Metabolic changes, water loss, andother theories have been posed abouthow the Atkins-type approach reallyworks, but Dr. Boden and team concluded it is due to cutting calories.

Robert Colman, MD

Temple Named GammaKnife Center of ExcellenceWith a more than $10 million investment in technology, Temple nowoffers the most advanced treatment for cancerous tumors of the brain and body in the world, with three new linear accelerators; a computed tomography simulator designed forhigh-precision, laser-guided radiationtherapy treatment planning; and theElekta Leksell Gamma Knife 4C—oneof only fifteen in the United States.

Temple’s gamma knife is capable ofintegrating images from CT scan,MRI, and angiography—advancedimaging techniques that locate the target. Then Cobalt-60 creates morethan 201 beams of radiation that inter-sect, forming a single, high-dose focusof radiation. Irradiating deep insidethe brain or body, the “knife” delivers radiation with pinpoint precision—without a single incision.

With this level of accuracy, explainsChristopher Loftus, MD, Chair andProfessor of Neurosurgery, targetedcells are destroyed and healthy tissue is spared large-volume exposure toradiation. Most patients go home thesame day or spend just one night inthe hospital.

“These tools allow us to provideimage-guided radiation therapy,delivered with pinpoint accuracy anywhere in the body,” said CurtisMiyamoto, MD, Chair and Professor of Radiation Oncology.

Temple is one of only ten ElektaCenters of Excellence in the world.

A. Koneti Rao, MD

St. Luke’s Becomes Second Clinical CampusSt. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem, PA, has become the first clinical campus ofTemple University School of Medicine in northeastern Pennsylvania and the second in the state, following Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh. Theclinical campus designation means that 32 Temple medical students can elect tocomplete their third and fourth years onsite in their entirety. Temple’s studentshave rotated at St. Luke’s since 1977. Dr. Joel Rosenfeld, the hospital’s medical education director, will serve as Associate Dean.



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Pilot Study ForCholesterol Control InHIV/AIDSMary Van den Berg-Wolf, MD,Associate Professor of Medicine, and a team of researchers including EllenTedaldi, MD, Professor of Medicine,developed a pilot study to investigatethe safety and efficacy of combiningezetimibe and statin in HIV patientson protease inhibitor therapy whohave high cholesterol that hasn’tresponded to statin alone. Once thestudy is complete, a multi-center trialwill be conducted to confirm results in a larger population.

Statins are very effective in non-HIV-infected patients, but because they usethe same breakdown pathway in theliver as protease inhibitors, increasingthe dose can lead to dangerous sideeffects—and lower doses are oftenineffective in lowering cholesterol torecommended levels.

In non HIV patients, adding ezetimibe(Zetia) to the statin proved more effective than doubling the statin dose,yet it had not been tested in HIV-infected patients. Abbott Laboratories,which manufactures the proteaseinhibitor lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra),is sponsoring the pilot.

High cholesterol and metabolic syndrome are part of a host of healthissues that previously were not a concern for HIV/AIDS patients, but“HIV has become a treatable,manageable disease, and we have tothink about long-term health.” says Dr. Van den Berg-Wolf.

Arm Nerve Damage During Surgery Preventable According to a Temple study, while certain standard surgical positions can increasethe risk of nerve injury in the arms, monitoring nerve response during surgerywith somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) can help identify and reverseimpending damage. When changes indicate potential for damage, anesthesiologistscan intervene and change the arm position.

“This is the first study to analyze nerve injury prevention in more than one surgicalposition,” said Ihab Kamel, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Templeand study leader.

Dr. Kamel and team analyzed data on 996 spinal surgery patients who had beenplaced in one of five different surgical positions. Most changes in nerve responseoccurred in two positions: lying on the side with arms extended, and lying facedown with arms extended above the head, the “Superman position.” In the patientsstudied, all of the changes were reversed, and none developed postoperative nerve injury. Peripheral nerve injury accounts for 15 percent of anesthesiologymalpractice cases.

Temple has been chosen as one of tensites nationwide—and the only inPhiladelphia—for the NationalInstitutes of Health’s chronic obstructivepulmonary disease (COPD) ClinicalResearch Network, which will investigatenew treatments for moderate to severeCOPD, the fourth-leading cause of deathin the United States.

Renowned for its comprehensive lungprogram, Temple is a prolific lungresearch center, with numerous studiesunderway, including leadership ofa statewide effort to determine why somegroups, such as African Americans andrural residents, are at greater risk forCOPD. The three-year, $1.6 milliongrant will be led by Gerard Criner, MD’79, Professor of Medicine, Chief ofPulmonary Medicine, and Director of Pulmonary and Critical CareMedicine. The network also includesUCLA, Brigham and Women’s

Hospital in Boston, and the Universityof Pittsburgh.

As noted in the last Temple Medicine,Temple was also recently awarded a $4.7 million grant from the PennsylvaniaDepartment of Health to head a Centerfor Excellence research consortium forCOPD that includes Lancaster GeneralHospital, Philadelphia OsteopathicMedicine, the University of Pittsburghand the Western Pennsylvania Hospitaland Harvard. The focus of this study isto uncover what factors underpin thegreater acuity of cases among selecturban and rural populations, perhapsdetermining if specific genotypes fromthese two disparate groups may influ-ence the severity of the disease.

COPD is the fourth-largest killer in the United States; in 2000 alone itresulted in 1.5 million emergency room visits, 726,000 hospitalizationsand 119,000 deaths.

Recent Dean’s Staff AppointmentsBarrie Ashby, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, has been appointed AssociateDean for Graduate Studies at the School of Medicine, following the retirement ofLaurie Paavola, PhD, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, from the post. Dr.Ashby initially joined our Thrombosis Research Center as a postdoctoral fellow,and was appointed to the faculty shortly thereafter. He steadily progressed throughthe academic ranks, becoming a full Professor in 1995.

Joanne Orth, PhD ’78, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, has been namedAssociate Dean for Faculty Affairs. A long-time faculty member, Dr. Orth hasserved as medical histology co-course director for many years and will direct Body Systems II in the new curriculum. Dr. Orth has had a longstanding researchprogram regarding male fertility.

Melinda Somasekhar, PhD, has been named Director of Continuing MedicalEducation at Temple, succeeding Robert Smedley, EdD, who retired, having servedmany years in the post. In addition to an extensive background in continuing medical education and pharmaceutical marketing, Dr. Somasekhar brings substan-tial teaching and research experience to the role, having served as a geneticist andbiochemist in both university and industry settings. Most recently, she was SeniorManager and Associate Director of Professional Education Support at WyethPharmaceuticals in Collegeville, PA.

Dianne Soprano, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, has been named Associate Deanfor Temple’s MD/PhD Program, succeeding A. Koneti Rao, MD, who stepped downfrom the post to assume new responsibilities. A faculty member since 1987, Dr.Soprano has been active in School, University, and professional affairs. In additionto teaching graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, she has served on a number of graduate student advisory committees and is a productive investigatorwhose work has been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the Journalof Cellular Biochemistry and Oncogene. She’s served on several NIH study sectionsand has been a reviewer and panelist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Temple Named To National COPD Network

Women’s Health Research Center EstablishedTemple has established an Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence on Women’sHealth Research, Leadership and Advocacy—uniting several established centersand institutes throughout the University, including faculty in the School ofMedicine and the College of Health Professions. The Center will sponsor a seminarseries, annual lectureship, and public conferences on women’s health, leadershipand advocacy, as well as a range of initiatives to foster career advancement forwomen in science, medicine and related disciplines.

New Role for McClurkenJames B. McClurken, MD ’76,Professor of Surgery, has been namedDirector of Cardiothoracic SurgicalPerioperative Care and QualityImprovement/Quality Assurance and Vice Chair for SurgicalSubspecialties in the Department of Surgery at Temple.

A faculty member of long standing,Dr. McClurken was on the team ofsurgeons who performed the region’sfirst heart transplant at TempleUniversity Hospital in 1984. He hasbeen Chief of Thoracic Surgery atAbington Memorial Hospital since1985 and has played a leadership rolein developing clinical, educational,and academic programs in surgery at both institutions.

Keenly interested in cardiothoracicsurgical quality improvement, Dr.McClurken serves on the SteeringCommittee for the Delaware ValleySociety of Thoracic Surgery QualityImprovement Initiative. He is VicePresident of the Philadelphia Academyof Surgery, Secretary of thePennsylvania Association of ThoracicSurgeons, and serves as a consultantfor the American Board of Surgeryqualifying examination.

Barrie Ashby, PhD Dianne Soprano, PhD Joanne Orth, PhD ’78

Women’s Health Research Center EstablishedTemple has established an Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence on Women’sHealth Research, Leadership and Advocacy—uniting several established centersand institutes throughout the University, including faculty in the School ofMedicine and the College of Health Professions. The Center will sponsor a seminarseries, annual lectureship, and public conferences on women’s health, leadershipand advocacy, as well as a range of initiatives to foster career advancement forwomen in science, medicine and related disciplines.


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Denise Salerno, MD, AssociateProfessor of Pediatrics, has beennamed Director of Temple’s newPediatric Weight Management Clinic.With more than 9 million children inthe U.S. over the age of six now seriously overweight, pediatric obesityis a critical public health threat. “Thecomplications associated with beingoverweight that were experienced typically by adults—such as Type IIdiabetes, sleep apnea and high bloodpressure—are now being seen in children,” says Dr. Salerno. “We have to address these problems early on to prevent them from becoming majorissues in adulthood,” she says.

Robert Swenson, MD, Professor ofMedicine in the Section of InfectiousDiseases, has retired after 36 years atTemple. He was recruited by Sol Sherryas Temple’s first Chief of InfectiousDiseases and made important contributions to our understanding of the role of anaerobic bacteria inhuman disease. He became activelyinvolved in the AIDS epidemic fromthe very start and wrote an importantpaper, “AIDS, Plagues and History.”He was invited to Washington to testify before Congress as a result. Healso played a major role PhiladelphiaFIGHT, a community-based AIDSresearch organization.

Bennett Lorber, MD, Chief of theSection of Infectious Diseases, wasinvited to present the infectious diseases update at the recent annualmeeting of the American College ofPhysicians. A nationally knownauthority, Dr. Lorber spoke aboutSARS, West Nile virus, new treatmentsfor HIV and hepatitis B, patterns ofantibiotic use in physicians’ offices,and the impact of a daily multivitaminon infections in diabetics.

The School of Medicine figured prominently in the International Societyof Heart and Lung Transplantationmeeting, held in Philadelphia this pastspring. Vincent Armenti, MD, Professorof Surgery in the abdominal organtransplant program and principal investigator of the NationalTransplantation Pregnancy Registry,delivered the symposium, “PregnancyPost-Transplant.” Arun Singhal, MD,Assistant Professor of Surgery,moderated the session “Extending theDonor Heart.” The nearly two dozenother faculty presentors and moderatorsincluded Carol Fisher, MD ’72; SatoshiFurukawa, MD; Bruce Goldman,MD; James McClurken, MD ’76; AlfredBove, MD ’66, PhD ’70, Professor and Chair of Cardiology; and MichaelAutieri, PhD.

Amitabha Mitra, MD, Professor ofSurgery and Chief of Plastic andReconstructive Surgery, has created a device that “cranks” chronic woundsclosed from the inside out. The stainless-steel Wound Bullet Closure Device provides traction inside thewound to encourage faster healing.According to Dr. Mitra, several deviceshave been designed to help close difficult wounds, but often result in lacerations, the need for repeated skin grafts, and scarring. Dr. Mitrareports excellent results with the newdevice, which is adjusted or turnedevery other day until the wound isclosed. Manufactured by BoehringerLaboratories, Inc., Dr. Mitra’s device may soon be available in disposable plastic.

Temple is comparing the effectivenessof the Bio-probe, a new tool used todiagnose cervical cancer, and its precursors, the Pap test, pelvic exam,and biopsy. According to study leader,Enrique Hernandez, MD, Chair ofObstetrics and Gynecology andDirector of Gynecologic Oncology, thetampon-sized Bio-probe is inserted fora few seconds to measure the electricalimpedance of the cervical tissue.Normal tissue has greater impedance.Resistance decreases as the degree ofcellular abnormality increases. Theultimate advantage of the Bio-probe isits potential at-home use. Patients cantransmit data via phone, internet, orby mailing the micro chip.

Temple is one of seven sites across thenation testing the SmartPill ACT-ICapsule and SmartPill GI MonitoringSystem, a pill-sized data receiver that will aid in the diagnosis and management of GI motility disorders,such as gastroparesis and dyspepsia.Henry Parkman, MD, AssociateProfessor of Medicine and Director of the Gastroenterology MotilityLaboratory, is leading the study.Developed by the New York-basedSmartPill Corporation, the SmartPillprovides gastroenterologists withmeasurements from within the entireGI tract, recording time-stamped peristaltic pressure, pH levels,temperature, and other data. Within a day or two, the capsule safely passesout of the patient.

Marisa Rose, MD, has joined the facultyof the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences as Assistant Professor. Shecompleted both her medical degreeand residency at the University ofPennsylvania, and in 2000 was recipient of the Bertha Dagan Berman Award in Women’s Health.

A luncheon was recently held in honor of James E. Clark, MD (far right),Temple’s AssociateDean at Crozer Chester Medical Center, who is retiring from his posts. Dr. Clark, who wasChair of Medicine at Crozer from 1968–99 and Director of Medical Education, was instrumentalin establishing the academic affiliation between Crozer and Temple. He will be succeeded bySusan L.Williams, MD, a nephrologist and Vice Chair and Residency Program Director of InternalMedicine at Crozer. Pictured with Dr. Clark L to R: Assistant Dean for Affiliations StephenPermut, MD ’72; Dean Daly; Assistant Dean for Affiliation and Liaison Activities William Schulze;Susan L.Williams, MD; Senior Associate Dean Richard J. Kozera, MD.

In BriefThe School of Medicine, the TempleUniversity Health System, and the FoxChase Cancer Center have entered intoa new academic and clinical affiliationagreement that will enable the institutions to continue coordinatingthe training of students and residents,the clinical care of oncology patients,and clinical trials through 2007. Underthe new agreement, the Fox ChaseTemple Cancer Center at the HealthSciences Center will now be known asthe Temple Cancer Center.

Alan Maurer, MD ’75, Professor ofDiagnostic Imaging and Director of Nuclear Medicine, addressed stateand federal legislators at the NationalSymposium on Fusion Imaging andModalities about the increasing clinicaluse of positron-emission tomography(PET) and computed tomography (CT). Maurer is director of the Societyof Nuclear Medicine’s PET LearningCenter programs and chairs its committee on education.

Allan D. Marks, MD ’62, Professor ofEndocrinology, has published the second edition of Marks’ Basic MedicalBiochemistry. This book is among themost widely used biochemistry text-books in all U.S. medical schools. Thefirst edition of the book was writtenwith Marks’ late wife Dawn, a memberof the School of Medicine’s departmentof Biochemistry.

Jack Mydlo, MD, Chair of Urology,and Raul DeLa Cadena, MD, AssociateProfessor of Physiology, Thrombosis,and Hemostasis, will collaborate on a new $250,000 NIH grant to exploreobesity and health issues in men and women.

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Portable mp3 Players Help Students Learn Heart SoundsIn a recent study published in the American Journal of Medicine, Michael Barrett,MD, Professor of Cardiology at Temple, reported that portable mp3 players helpstudents learn heart murmur heart sounds—by heart—after repeated listening.

The traditional method is for professors to use phrases like “lub-dub” for a normal heartbeat and “harsh” or “crescendo-decrescendo” to describe the five main murmurs.

“As a cardiologist who has taught for 20 years, I knew we weren’t doing a good job,but didn't know why,” said Dr. Barrett, referencing a 1997 study that found that only20 percent of medical students were able to accurately identify heart murmurs.

Professors sometimes play audio tapes of heart sounds in class, but that didn’tseem to help, Dr. Barrett said. What did, he discovered, was repetition. In 2002, hecreated a CD-ROM file of 10 different heart sounds and conducted a study to findout how many repetitions it took for them to become embedded in the memory of a small group of students. The answer: 500 times.

In 2003, Dr. Barrett repeated the study with a larger group of students (88). At thebeginning, 30 percent could identify 10 different heart sounds. After a month oflistening, they scored 80 percent.

Dr. Barrett plans to apply this methodology to other teaching objectives and will be work with the Temple Lung Center on lung sounds in the coming months.


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ALUMNI AND FACULTY

The highest honor the Schoolconfers upon its graduates is theHenry Laughlin Alumnus of theYear Award. This honor is givento a graduate whose contributionsto medicine are truly distinguishedand exemplary.

One of the foremost scientists ofour generation, world-renownedscholar and educational leader,Shirley Tilghman, PhD ’75,

a graduate of Temple’s doctoral program in biochemistry, hascrafted an exceptional and distinguished career.

She made groundbreaking discoveries as part of the team thatcloned the first mammalian gene at the NIH, served on the National Research Council committee that designed theroadmap for the Human Genome Project, and taught and conducted research at a number of leading institutions beforejoining Princeton’s faculty in 1986.

She founded Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for IntegrativeGenomics, served as the Howard Prior Professor of the LifeSciences, and continued to elucidate the mysteries of geneticimprinting as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.Then, in 2001, she became Princeton’s 19th president.

Hers is a very large, very public career, yielding a remarkableportfolio of awards and honors for teaching and leadership,for pioneering research and for advocacy of education and ofscience. She serves as a trustee of numerous high-profile foundations and organizations.

“We applaud you, Dr. Tilghman,” said Paul Hermany, MD ’82,President of the Alumni Association, “for your passion forresearch, teaching, and learning; for the voice of reason youbring to moralistic debates about science; and for your commitment to improving access to education for talented students, regardless of financial wherewithall. To rise to the levelthat you have is a rare achievement,” he said, “And we are proudto have contributed to your development as a young scientist.”

The Alumni Service Award isgiven to an alumnus whose contributions of service and/orphilanthropy to the School standas an example for others to follow.

Though he defies labeling, AlbertJ. Finestone, MD ’45, has heldmany different Temple titles overthe years: professor, associatedean, director, consultant, princi-pal investigator—and with the

Alumni Service Award, Temple honors Dr. Finestone for hisroles as volunteer, generous contributor, and friend.

Aside from a fellowship in pathology at Georgetown University,Dr. Finestone is entirely Temple-educated, and he has devotedhis entire career of 60 years to Temple—and is still going strong.

Dr. Finestone has contributed to Temple in many ways. In 1960,he founded Temple’s Office of Continuing Medical Education,and served as its Associate Dean for 30 years, bringing the program to national stature. A few years ago, the Universityrenamed the CME office in his honor.

Dr. Finestone also helped found Temple’s Institute on Aging,and brought it to the fore, recognizing the need for research andplanning in geriatrics. He still serves as its Director today.

Moreover, Dr. Finestone has devoted decades of volunteer leadership to our Medical School Alumni Association, rising tothe rank of president, and representing the Medical School onthe University’s Alumni Board.

Dr. Finestone has earned many honors over the years. In 1976he was named the School of Medicine’s Alumnus of the Year.

Said Alumni Association President Paul Hermany, MD ’82, “Weare pleased to present you with the 2005 Alumni Service Award,to thank you for your lifetime of commitment to Temple as ateacher, researcher, benefactor and friend.”

The Honored Professor Award is given to a professor whoseimpact has been profound—a professor whose teaching style and character exemplify the knowledge and values thatTemple strives to instill.

Bennett Lorber, MD, the ThomasDurant Professor of Medicine,Professor of Microbiology andImmunology, and Chief of the

Section of Infectious Diseases, is internationally recognized forhis expertise on listeriosis, anaerobic infection, and clostridialdisease. His abililty to make difficult diagnoses is the stuff oflegends.

He’s contributed to every edition of Principles and Practice ofInfectious Diseases, the authoritative text in his field, and haswritten a number of landmark papers. His 1996 article in theAnnals of Internal Medicine, “Are All Diseases Infectious?” hasbecome a classic, promoting the growing proof that a numberof conditions previously classified otherwise are infectious,indeed. And after 30 years of teaching, practicing, writing. andtraveling, he, too, has become a classic.

Dr. Lorber came to Temple for his residency and fellowship inthe early 60s and joined the faculty in 1968, during the great Sol Sherry era. Since that time he has impressed thousands ofstudents, residents, fellows, and colleagues with his zeal formedicine, art, and life.

Not just a scientist and physician but also an accomplishedmusician and painter, Dr. Lorber encourages us to work hard,but to maintain perspective and balance, to make time for ourselves and our families.

During his 30-year teaching career, he has accrued many awardsand honors, including the Bristol Award of the InfectiousDiseases Society of America, a career award for major contribu-tions to the field.

“Dr. Lorber, you’ve been a great cheerleader for Temple, praisingits faculty, embracing its students, residents and fellows,” saidPaul Hermany, MD ’82, Alumni Assocation President. “So manyof us have benefited from your mentorship.”

“You truly could have gone anywhere,” said Dr. Hermany. “Butinstead you made Temple your home. And we’re so much thebetter for it!”

The Alumni Achievement Awardis given to a graduate whose contributions to clinical practice,research, teaching, and/or servicehave reached national or interna-tional stature.

The career of Sandra Bloom,MD ’75, is one that spans theindividual and collective, thepersonal and the political.A psychiatrist and traumatologist,

Dr. Bloom is an internationally recognized expert on the impactof trauma on individuals, families, organizations, and cultures.

She is a sought-after lecturer and consultant, both stateside andabroad, and a consultant to the Dart Center of the University of Washington, a global resource for journalists who cover disasters, violence, and tragedies. When nearly 700 therapistsand social workers gathered in New York City shortly afterSeptember 11th, it was Dr. Bloom they called upon for directionand grounding. Two years later, the National Association ofSocial Workers gave her its Public Citizen Award.

During her tenure as President of the Philadelphia chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Bloom developedaward-winning domestic violence training programs. Later she chaired the Task Force on Family Violence of theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania.

She served as President of the International Society ofTraumatic Stress Studies and received its Sarah Haley Award forClinical Excellence. She is also author of two books: CreatingSanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, and RearingWitness: Violence and Collective Responsibility.

Today she is CEO of CommunityWorks, a consulting firm focusedon reducing conflict and violence, and she continues to gainrecognition for a program that she and colleagues developed. It’scalled the Sanctuary, and it is motivating many to re-examine thedynamics not just of psychotherapy, but of education, business,and beyond. It is a model of therapeutic social construction thatcan transform both facilitator and client, and is being replicatedacross the nation by schools, businesses, and treatment centerswith impressive results.

Said a client and colleague: “Dr. Bloom is a compassionate innovator, a recognized leader in the trauma field, whose workcan bring about the transformation of mental health servicesand help us all work toward a nonviolent society.”

Said Paul Hermany, MD ’82, Alumni Asociation President, “Youcame to Temple as a candy striper, Dr. Bloom, and even thenbegan to display the drive, dedication, and wisdom to make thedifference you do indeed make today.”

Honors and AwardsReunion Award WinnersDuring the 2005 Class Reunion Banquet at the Westin Hotel in Philadelphia on October 29, the

achievements of four individuals were honored by the Medical School and its Alumni Association.

ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:SANDRA BLOOM, MD ’75

HONORED PROFESSOR AWARD:BENNETT LORBER, MD

ALUMNA OF THE YEAR:SHIRLEY TILGHMAN, PHD ’75

ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD:ALBERT J. FINESTONE, MD ’45

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FEKETE GETS GREAT TEACHER AWARD

Thomas Fekete, MD,Professor of Medicine inthe Section of InfectiousDiseases at Temple, hasspent two decades teachingin a “one-room school-house” —the euphemismhe uses for patient roomsin the hospital—where heengages medical students,residents and fellows in the intricacies of scienceand the importance of

humanism in medicine. His creativity and zeal have earnedhim a Temple University Great Teacher Award.

Dr. Fekete holds rounds outside on nice days, teaches students to write haikus, and holds candy breaks on Fridayafternoons. Little wonder his Infectious Diseases elective is often oversubscribed.

“I help students turn a welter of unconnected facts into a picture,” says Dr. Fekete. “When the light goes on, it’s one of the greatest rewards.”

Dr. Fekete’s breadth of medical and scientific knowledge isequaled by his grasp of current events, world history, music,language, philosophy and almost anything else,” a former student said.

“Those who watch his interactions with patients learn agreat deal about compassion and other important qualitiesthat cannot be learned in the classroom,” said another.

Dr. Fekete, who came to Temple in 1984, has been honorednumerous times for his teaching. He received a LindbackAward for Distinguished Teaching in 1999 and has won the American Medical Student Association’s Golden Apple Award twice.

In addition to his roles in teaching, clinical medicine andresearch, Dr. Fekete serves as a reviewer for several journals,including the Annals of Internal Medicine, and is AssociateEditor of MKSAP (the Medical Knowledge Self-AssessmentProgram), which most internal medicine residents and many attending physicians across the United States use as their guide for the American Board of Internal Medicineaccreditation.

LYONS HONORED

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia awarded Paul E.Lyons, MD, the Exemplar of Humanism in Medicine Award.Dr. Lyons is Associate Professor and Associate Chair forClinical Education in the Family and Community MedicineDepartments at Temple.

In addition to his teaching and patient care roles, Dr. Lyonsserves as faculty advisor to several student groups, includingthe Family Medicine Interest Group, the Geriatrics InterestGroup, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and TempleCares, the student-run free health clinic. Dr. Lyons is therecipient of numerous awards, including a 2004 LindbackAward for Distinguished Teaching.

HARMON-WEISS RECEIVES AWARD

Sandra R. Harmon-Weiss, MD’74, received a 2005 servicerecognition award from theRobert Wood JohnsonFoundation. The honor was presented to her for her serviceto the National AdvisoryCommittee of the Turning Point,which served the Robert WoodJohnson Foundation and theKellogg Foundation in evaluatingstate and community grant

applications, performing site visits, and in reviewing thestart-up phase and progress of programs of grant recipientsin public health collaborative partnerships at the state andlocal levels. Dr. Harmon-Weiss is a member of the TempleUniversity Medical School Board of Visitors and a retiredhealth insurance industry executive and family practitioner.

AWARD FOR BROWN

Robert T. Brown, MD ’71,a national expert in pediatrics and adolescentmedicine, won the AdeleDellenbaugh HofmannAward of the Society for Adolescent Medicine,recognizing exemplaryachievement in the field of adolescent health.

Dr. Brown is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics/Obstetrics and Gynecology

at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, and Chiefof Adolescent Health at Children’s Hospital, Columbus,Ohio. From 1986 to 1991, he served as Medical Director ofthe Ohio Department of Youth Services.

A leader in professional affairs, Dr. Brown has chaired theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics’ Adolescent Health sectionand served as president of the North American Society forPediatric & Adolescent Gynecology. He was co-founder andinaugural president of the Ohio Valley Chapter of the Societyfor Adolescent Medicine, and now serves as President of theSociety for Adolescent Medicine.

ROSEN NAMED FIRST ELAM SENIOR SCHOLAR

Sally E. Rosen, MD, SpecialAssistant, Office of theProvost, and Professor ofPathology at the School ofMedicine, has been namedthe first Senior Scholar ofthe Executive Leadership inAcademic Medicine(ELAM) Program forWomen. ELAM, part ofDrexel University College of Medicine, is the onlynational program providingin-depth executive training

and leadership development for women faculty at U.S.and Canadian medical, dental, and public health schools who want to assume higher levels of responsibility withintheir institutions and advance to positions of leadership.The Senior Scholar position was created to help advanceresearch and other initiatives aimed at redressing the paucityof women leaders at the topmost levels of U.S. academichealth institutions. This is the first of several initiativesELAM is launching in its second decade as it continues toprovide leadership education while pursuing new initiativesto support women leaders and champion more equitable,inclusive organizational cultures.

Dr. Rosen, who has served Temple for many years as a member of the faculty and the senior management of theSchool of Medicine, is a longtime advocate for the advancement of women in scientific professions as well as for women’s health research. She is a long-standing memberof the Medical School Committee on the Status of WomenFaculty and serves as Co-Director of the newly establishedCenter for Women’s Health Research, Leadership andAdvocacy (see page 19).

Bernadette Thomas, MD ’05 (center), received the Dr. Leslie SquiresFoundation Compassion in Medicine Award for demonstrating outstandingcompassion for her patients while a student at Temple. Fred Squires, MD ’91(left), sponsored the award.With Drs.Thomas and Squires is Mrs.Thomas,Bernadette’s mother.

DR. THOMAS WINS SQUIRES AWARD

GARMAN HONORED

J. Kent Garman, MD ’65,Half Moon Bay, CA, AssociateProfessor of Anesthesiology and President-Elect of the medical staff at Stanford, hasreceived the DistinguishedService Award of the California Society of Anesthesiologists.A cardiovascular anesthesiologistwho served as chief ofcardiovascular anesthesia at

Stanford for over a decade, Dr. Garman is widely recognizedfor his scholarly achievements in the field of cardiovascularanesthesia, his skill and accomplishments in clinical care andteaching, and his ongoing contributions to anesthesiology.His publication credits include the chapter on cardiovascularanesthesia in Anesthesiologists’ Manual of Surgical Procedures(Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2003) and the chapter onInformation Technology in Anesthesiology in Advances inAnesthesia (Lake, 2004). His service includes major roles withthe Medical Board of California, the American Society ofAnesthesiologists, the California Society of Anesthesiologistsand the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. Garman is a former Sloan fellow and former chief of staff and medical staff president at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California.


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RICHTER AND DEMPSEY NAMED TO CHAIRS

Joel Richter, MD, Chair of the Department of Medicine atTemple, has been named the Richard and Dorothy EvansChair in Medicine.

Dr. Richter, who joined the faculty last August, is currentlyspearheading new initiatives in the department of medicineto develop and reward current faculty, recruit new sectionchiefs and faculty, and raise the department’s NationalInstitutes of Health research rankings. He specializes in thediagnosis, management and clinical research of esophagealdiseases, including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD),Barrett’s esophagus, extraesophageal presentation of GERD(asthma, ENT and dental problems), achalasia and othermotility disorders, non-cardiac chest pain, dysphagia andthe effects of H. pylori on the esophagus.

Daniel Dempsey, MD, Chair of Surgery at Temple, has beennamed the George S. Peters, MD, and Louise C. Peters Chairin Surgery, an honor that reflects his many contributions asa clinician, researcher, teacher and scholar.

Having first joined the Temple faculty in 1986, Dr. Dempseyserved as chief of Temple’s Division of GastrointestinalSurgery and Research and as program director of Temple’sGeneral Surgery Residency.

He is a past president of both the Philadelphia ChapterAmerican College of Surgeons and the Philadelphia Academyof Surgery, currently serves as a governor of the AmericanCollege of Surgeons (ACS), and has served in numerousleadership roles within Temple as well, having been presidentof both the medical faculty senate and medical staff.

Dr. Dempsey sits on the editorial boards of leading journals,including Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques,and has contributed to numerous texts, including Shackelford’sSurgery of the Alimentary Tract (Elsevier, 2002). Dr. Dempseyhas been honored with several teaching awards, including theGolden Apple and the Wallace P. Ritchie, Jr., Award for clinicalexcellence and scientific practice.

The chair was endowed by the late George S. Peters, MD ’33,a great Temple fan and benefactor who had a prolific careerin surgery.

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RYAN GETS LINDBACK AWARD

James Ryan, PhD, AssociateChair and Professor ofPhysiology, received a Lindback Award forDistinguished Teaching.

A Temple faculty member since 1975, Dr. Ryan has developed a reputation forembracing students as futurecolleagues. He believes thatwhen treated as equals, theycan more easily transition

from memorizing facts to developing a conceptual under-standing of a topic—an essential skill in medicine.

“Jim’s devotion is evident in the endless stream of studentswho come to talk to him about physiology, ethical dilemmas,and personal concerns,” says a colleague.

In addition to spending several hours daily meeting with students, Dr. Ryan checks his e-mail at home every couple ofhours until 11 p.m., answering students’ questions. “You haveto be available,” he says.

“He teaches with enthusiasm and energy, and I find myselflooking forward to his next class,” said a student. “I havenever had a teacher with such desire to have his studentsunderstand and enjoy the material,” said another.

Since 1999, Dr. Ryan has been the number-one-ranked member of the physiology teaching faculty and has won theAmerican Medical Student Association’s Golden AppleAward twice. He has more than 400 publications to his credit,including the annual physiology national board question-and-answer book he co-authors with Michael Wang, PhD,Emeritus Professor of Physiology.

HONOR FOR ZERBE

An internationally recognizedexpert on eating disordersand women’s mental health,Kathryn J. Zerbe, MD ’78,has received the AmericanPsychiatric Association’sAlexandra Symonds Award,acknowledging sustained,high-level contributions and leadership in advancingwomen's health. Her publication credits featurefour books, including the

forthcoming Integrated Treatment of Eating Disorders: Beyondthe Body Betrayed (W.W. Norton).

Dr. Zerbe holds joint appointments in Psychiatry andObstetrics and Gynecology at Oregon Health SciencesUniversity (OHSU), where she is also Vice Chair forPsychotherapy, Director of Psychiatric Outpatient Services,and Director of Behavioral Medicine in the Center forWomen’s Health. She is also a Training and SupervisingPsychoanalyst at the San Francisco and OregonPsychoanalytic Institutes.

Before moving to the Pacific northwest, Dr. Zerbe held a variety of high level posts during her 23-year tenure at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka,including that of Dean. She is a Distinguished Fellow ofthe American Psychiatric Association.

Philip L. Gildenberg, MS ’59, MD ’59, PhD ’70, receivedTemple University’s Certificate of Honor for the School ofMedicine. An internationally recognized authority on minimally invasive neurosurgery, Dr. Gildenberg founded the stereotactic surgery service at the Cleveland Clinic,served as the first chair of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona, and co-edited the Textbook of Stereotactic andFunctional Neurosurgery. He is a former president of theWorld Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgeryand received its 2003 Distinguished Service Award.

Philip Gildenberg, MS ’59, MD ’59, PhD ’70 (second from right) with (L to R) Louis X. Santore, MD ’80, immediate past president of the MedicalSchool Alumni Association; Christopher Loftus, MD, Chair of Neurosurgery at Temple; and Richard J. Kozera, MD, Senior Associate Dean

TWO HONORS FOR UKNIS

Audrey Uknis, MD ’87, Associate Dean for Admissions,Associate Professor of Medicine, and Director ofRheumatology Research at Temple, received the HollanderRheumatologist of the Year Award from the SoutheasternPennsylvania Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. The award recognizes excellence and achievement in the field of rheumatology. In addition, the American College ofRheumatology has elected her to its Board of Directors.Dr. Uknis’s clinical and research interests pertain to systemiclupus erythematosis, phospholipid antibody syndrome,and rheumatoid arthritis. She is currently finishing her term as President of the Philadelphia Rheumatism Society.

LIU-CHEN GETS FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD

Lee-Yuan Liu-Chen, PhD,Professor of Pharmacologyat Temple’s Center forSubstance Abuse Research(CSAR), received a TempleUniversity Faculty ResearchAward. A highly regardedleader in opioid receptorresearch, she has been aTemple faculty membersince 1985.

In addition to helping delineate the structures of

opioid receptors, Dr. Liu-Chen has made significant contri-butions to the understanding of their regulation. In 1993,she achieved a major scientific accomplishment when shecloned one of the three receptor types.

One of Dr. Liu-Chen’s collaborators, Harel Weinstein,Professor and Chair of Physiology and Biophysics at CornellUniversity, says Dr. Liu-Chen “is representative of a new generation of molecular pharmacologists who combine thepower of molecular biology and genetic manipulation toanswer heretofore unapproachable questions in their field.”

Quick to credit others, Dr. Liu-Chen says it’s the efforts andingenuity of her colleagues, students, staff and mentors thatmake her success possible.

Dr. Liu-Chen has hundreds of publications to her credit,including six book chapters. She serves on the editorialboards of the Journal of Pharmacology and ExperimentalTherapeutics and sits on numerous NIH research reviewcommittees. She is currently principal investigator on twoNational Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) grants, a contributor on several others, and has had continuous NIDA funding for 17 years.

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ROSENFELD’S UNIQUE INTENSIVE CARE MODEL

Brian A. Rosenfeld, MD ’80, an intensivist and entrepreneur,was invited to the School of Medicine as a DistinguishedAlumni Lecturer. An audience of medical students, facultyand area alumni listened intently as he presented “Technology& Teamwork: 21st Century Medicine.” In addition to hisbackground in clinical care, teaching and research, Dr.Rosenfeld is co-creator, Executive Vice President, and ChiefMedical Officer of a company called VISICU, purveyor of theeICU® system.

As its name implies, VISICU is about making the intensivecare unit (ICU) “visible,” even from remote locations, inimpressive detail. It’s a system that harnesses the power ofteamwork between onsite ICU personnel and members of a remote, offsite care team, with innovative technologybridging the gap.

“Technology-enabled care knows no geographic barriers,”said Dr. Rosenfeld.

Prior to venturing into the business world, Dr. Rosenfeld was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins. During those years heand colleagues struggled with how to solve a problem thatplagues our nation’s healthcare system: the shortage ofintensive care physicians. There are only about 6,000 for the 5 million patients who need ICU care each year.

Over time, Dr. Rosenfeld began to develop a vision for a newmodel of intensive care, an approach that improves ICU careprocesses while leveraging scarce intensivist resources: thepatented eICU system.

The “eICU solution” is a remote monitoring system that supports onsite ICU care, he explained. With video andaudio links to patients’ rooms, as well as a suite of softwareproducts, the system enables healthcare providers to monitorICU patients continuously and intervene earlier in crisis

situations. Multiple screens depict real-time data, care plans,diagnostic results, and treatment histories.

Functioning much like an air traffic control center, theremote eICU is staffed around the clock with physicians and critical care nurses who are networked to multiple ICU patients via voice, video, and physiological data via real-time monitoring. Patient data is continuously electronically analyzed for thresholds and trends. When a patient strays“out of bounds,” alerts prompt physician intervention—often precluding adverse events. The eICU team executespredefined plans or intervenes in emergencies when attendings are not in the ICU.

Clinicians have on-line access to online decision supportsoftware that supports algorithm-driven interventions fordiagnosis and treatment. The system also features outcomes-tracking and a relational database that organizes the sharedresponsibilities between ICU and eICU care providers.

Dr. Rosenfeld’s critical care delivery model is in place in over150 hospitals in two dozen states across the U.S. today—with impressive results. Studies that have proven the system effective at reducing mortality by more than 25 percent.Sentara Healthcare, a six-hospital system in Norfolk, VA,that installed the eICU in 2000 documented these results (as published in Critical Care Medicine, 2004): a 27 percentreduction in severity-adjusted hospital mortality for ICUpatients; a 17 percent reduction in ICU length of stay; andsavings of $2,150 per patient or 3 million dollars above program costs.

It’s a paradigm shift, “from crisis intervention to crisis prevention,” said Dr. Rosenfeld, reminding us that “clinicaltransformation is one of the most difficult things to achieve.”

For more information about the company, visit its website at visicu.com.

Dean Daly presents Brian Rosenfeld,MD ’80 with a plaque from theUniversity’s General AlumniAssociation that designates him anAlumnus Fellow of the University

Christopher Loftus, MD, Chair ofNeurosurgery at Temple, (left) wasawarded an honorary degree (DoctorHonoris Causa) by the Pavel JosefSafarik University in Kosice, Slovakia,in March. Dr. Loftus is pictured herewith the University’s former chief ofNeurosurgery, Professor Igor Sulla,who nominated him for the honor.

LOFTUS AWARDED HONORARY DEGREE

Martin Goldberg, MD ’55, a former Dean at Temple andEmeritus Professor of Medicine and Physiology, and Manuel Martínez-Maldonado, MD ’61, Dean of PonceSchool of Medicine, have each been named Master ofthe American College of Physicians. The highest level achievable in the College, Master recognizes outstandingcareer accomplishments.

Dr. Goldberg is an expert in clinical nephrology, electrolyteand acid-base disorders, computer-assisted diagnosis andteaching, and renal physiology, pharmacology and patho-physiology. Prior to joining Temple’s faculty, he served asChief of the Renal-Electrolyte Section at the University ofPennsylvania and was Chair of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He has also been an officer and/or governingcouncil member of such organizations as the InternationalSociety of Nephrology and the American Federation forClinical Research. He served as principal investigator of oneof the first NIH Renal Training Grants and is recipient of anNIH Research Career Development Award. He has authoredor co-authored over 150 publications and has trained morethan 100 renal fellows.

Another nephrologist, Manuel Martínez-Maldonado, MD’61, Dean of Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico, wasalso honored with the designation of Mastership. A world-renowned educator, administrator, clinician and investigator,Dr. Martinez has served in a series of clinical leadership positions. He has held professorships at Baylor, the Universityof Puerto Rico, Emory (where he also served as Vice Chair ofMedicine), and Oregon Health Sciences University (where he also served as vice president for research). He has alsotaught at Harvard and Vanderbilt, chaired the Department of Physiology at the University of Puerto Rico School ofMedicine, and from 1975 to 1990 he chaired the departmentof medicine at the San Juan Veterans Administration Center.

He has served on numerous NIH committees, has received several international research awards, and has more than250 publications to his credit. His research interests includerenal physiology, prevention, detection, and treatment ofrenal diseases, the effect of nutrition on kidney function andbody fluid composition, and the effects of hypertension onkidney function.

Martin Goldberg, MD ’55 Manuel Martínez Maldonado, MD ’61

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BRIEFLY NOTED

David A. Axler, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Microbiologyand Immunology at the School of Medicine, has been electedPresident of the Eastern Pennsylvania branch of theAmerican Society for Microbiology.

David Baron, DO, Chair of Psychiatry and BehavioralSciences at Temple, received the Daniel Blaine Award of thePhiladelphia Psychiatric Society, presented to a psychiatristwith distinguished commitment and contributions toPhiladelphia psychiatry. Edward Volkman, MD, AssociateProfessor, received the Educator of the Year Award, which ispresented to a psychiatrist who has made significant andsubstantial contributions to the education of psychiatrists inthe Philadelphia area.

Randal R. Betz, MD ’77, Professor of Surgery, Chief of Staffand Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Injury unit atShriners Hospitals for Children, Philadelphia, was recentlyelected President of the Scoliosis Research Society. Dr. Betzhas an active practice in pediatric spinal surgery, and hisresearch interests focus on pediatric spinal deformity andspinal cord injury. He is the author of The Child with SpinalCord Injury (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery)and has contributed 21 chapters to medical texts.

Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70, Chief of Cardiology atTemple, received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering atDrexel University.

Bert Channick, MD, Professor of Medicine at Temple(Endocrinology), sat on the committee to select nomineesfor the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology.

Angela N. Haas, MD ’93, Williamsport, PA, received thePhysician IT Leadership Award of the Healthcare Informationand Management Systems Society, presented to an individualwho has demonstrated significant leadership in applyinginformation technology to the needs of physicians and serving both the Society and industry as a whole. Dr. Haas is Vice President, Physician Resources and Chief MedicalInformation Officer at Susquehanna (PA) Health System.

Sean Harbison, MD ’86, Associate Professor of Surgery, hasbeen inducted as President of the Philadelphia MetropolitanChapter of the American College of Surgeons.

Ellie Kelepouris, MD, Professor of Medicine at Temple(Nephrology), received a 2005 Distinguished Service Awardfrom the National Kidney Foundation.

Charles L. Miller, MD ’63, received a Physician RecognitionAward from Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, NJ,where he’s practiced cardiology for 25 years, having served insuch leadership positions as medical staff president.

Eugene N. Myers, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology at theUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has beennamed a Distinguished Professor of the University,acknowledging his international leadership in otolaryngologyduring the last 30 years. Dr. Myers also received theAllegheny County (PA) Medical Society’s 2005 Ralph C.Wilde Award, given to a physician who exemplifies the personal and professional characteristics of the late MedicalSociety president for whom the award is named.

Henry Parkman, MD, Professor of Medicine at Temple(Gastroenterology), has been inducted as President of theAmerican Motility Society.

Ronald Rubin, MD ’72, Professor of Medicine at Temple(Hematology), was named the Department of Medicine’sOutstanding Teacher and gave the keynote remarks at the2005 Alpha Omega Alpha awards and induction ceremonydinner at Temple.

Leukemia researcher Tomasz Skorski, PhD, AssociateProfessor of Microbiology and Immunology at Temple,has been awarded the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’sStohlman Scholar Award, in recognition of his “outstandingcontributions to the advancement of blood cancer research.”The Award is given annually to four or five researchersworldwide. Dr. Skorski investigates the molecular mechanismsthat cause the chronic myelogenous leukemia cell to becomeresistant to treatment, with an eye toward developingapproaches to stop mutagenesis in these cells. His research is funded by the NIH, the Department of Defense, theAmerican Cancer Society and Novartis.

Temple’s Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) swept the awards at the Pennsylvania Academy of FamilyPhysicians’ conference. It was named FMIG of the Year forthe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and won the award for the greatest growth in membership.

Each year, two alumni are chosen to represent the School of Medicine in Temple University’s Gallery of Success, aunique gallery of alumni portraits and biographies viewedby thousands of students, applicants, faculty and visitorswho pass through it in Mitten Hall. Representing the Schoolof Medicine this year are David Greenwald, MD ’70, andRuth E. Perry, MD ’82.

Often referred to as northeastern Pennsylvania’s most veteran oncologist, David Greenwald, MD ’70, is senior partner and founder of Medical Oncology Associates, a full-service Kingston, PA-based practice with a 30-year history.The practice is associated with the Wyoming Valley HealthCare System, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn StateHershey Medical Center, and Penn State Cancer Institute—the latter a network of comprehensive outpatient cancerservices for patients in rural areas.

A leader not only in oncology but in regional medical affairs,Dr. Greenwald is also President of the medical staff of theWyoming Valley Health Care System, northeasternPennsylvania’s largest health system, and serves as Chair ofthe System’s Medical Executive Committee, Credentialingand Cancer Committees. In addition to having served ashead of Hematology/Oncology for the System, he is formerMedical Director of Valley Crest Luzerne County NursingHome and an American College of Surgeons CancerProgram Medical Liaison. Dr. Greenwald is a Diplomate of the American College of Physicians.

Committed to human service and philanthropy in theregion, Dr. Greenwald is a trustee of the Wyoming Seminaryand the local Jewish Community Center and United Waychapter. He played a vital role in establishing a charitablefund that provides prescription assistance to cancer patientsin need, the Medical Oncology Patient Prescription Fund.

PERRY AND GREENWALD INDUCTED INTO 2005– 06 GALLERY OF SUCCESS

He’s been recognized numerous times for his advocacy ofwelfare in the region and is recipient of a 2005 B’nai BrithCommunity Service Award.

Alumna and former Temple faculty member Ruth E. Perry,MD ’82, Moorestown, NJ, has crafted a unique career.

She is currently Director of Global Product Integrity forRohm & Haas’ Company and played a pivotal role in makingsustainable development a strategic direction for the company.She is Rohm & Haas’ Liaison and Delegate to the WorldBusiness Council on Sustainable Development and served asa panelist for the World Environment Conference’s GoldMedal Colloquium and the Conference Board’s Business andSustainability Conference. In addition, she is a member ofthe Advisory Council for the Global Strategy Institute of theCenter for Strategic and International Studies.

A Diplomate of the American College of Physicians andFellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians,Dr. Perry is a former Director of Occupational Health andAttending in Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein MedicalCenter in Philadelphia and was Associate Professor onTemple’s faculty.

Reflecting her passion for science and art, Dr. Perry is a classical pianist, a member of the choir of Trinity EpiscopalCathedral in Trenton, NJ, and serves on the Board ofDirectors of the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia.

She is also a new member of Temple University School ofMedicine’s Board of Visitors.

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50s Vincent A. Fulginiti, MD ’57,Tucson, AZ, formerChancellor of the Universityof Colorado Health ScienceCenter, will be honored,along with his wife, with thebuilding of the Vincent A.and Shirley Fulginiti EthicsPavilion at the University ofCO. Dr. Fulginiti is creditedwith initiating the move ofthe University’s HealthScience Center from Denverto Aurora, CO, expanding itsacreage from 14 to 215. Inaddition, Dr. Fulginiti is Co-Chair of the Board of thenewly formed Arizona Arts,Science and TechnologyAcademy and Co-Founder ofthe Medical Reserve Corps of Southern Arizona.

Charles D. Tourtellotte, MD’57, Res ’61, Haddonfield, NJ,Emeritus Professor ofMedicine in the Section ofRheumatology at Temple andformer President of theAlumni Association, has beennamed Surgeon General of theNational Huguenot Society,which honors those of FrenchProtestant ancestry. He is aBoard Member of the LupusFoundation of America, Inc.,South Jersey Chapter, and isactive in the Haddonfield, NJ,area, having served as presi-dent of the HaddonfieldBoard of Education andchaired the local environ-mental commission.

60sEugene N. Myers, MD ’60,Pittsburgh, PA, Chair ofOtolaryngology and Eye and Ear Foundation Chair atthe University of PittsburghSchool of Medicine, continuesto travel and lecture extensively. Among his manyrecent engagements were the keynote at the recentEuropean Congress ofOtorhinolaryngology Headand Neck Surgery in Greece,and lectures, presentations,and visiting professorshipsstateside as well as in China,Guatemala and Venezuela.

Joseph F. Brazel, MD ’66,Carlisle, PA, who practicedinternal medicine and hematology for 33 years in Carlisle, PA, retired onAugust 31, 2005.

Martin Grabois, MD ’66,Houston, TX, Chair ofPhysical Medicine andRehabilitation at BaylorCollege of Medicine, is

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President of the AmericanAcademy of PhysicalMedicine and RehabilitationFoundation. As such hechaired its national meeting,plus sponsored (with theAmerican Congress ofRehabilitation Medicine andthe Association of AcademicPhysiatrists) the recent“Building Research Capacity”summit in Washington, DC.He is also Chief of PhysicalMedicine and Rehabilitationat The Methodist Hospital.

Charles I. Shubin, MD ’66,Baltimore, MD, AssociateProfessor of Pediatrics atJohns Hopkins and Directorof Children’s Health at MercyMedical Center in Baltimore,is an expert lecturer andadvocate for underserved and abused children.

Rachel Schonberger, MD ’68,Atlanta, GA, is AssistantProfessor of Medicine at

Emory and Director ofCommunity Medicine atGrady Memorial Hospital inAtlanta, where she spearhead-ed a Grady Health Systeminitiative to establish aCommunity Health Center inRoswell, GA to address theneeds of the growing minority patient populations.Dr. Schonberger has alsoserved on the AmericanMedical Women’s AssociationBoard of Directors.

Stephen M. Solomon, MD’69, Silver Spring, MD,announces that his sonJonathan Solomon, MD ’00,has joined him in the practiceof ophthalmology atSolomon Eye Associates, withoffices in Bowie andGreenbelt, Maryland.Jonathan’s mother is also amedical school graduate:Phyllis Barson, MD ’70.

70sBruce D. Jorgenson, MD ’70,Mesa, AZ, a pediatrician, iscofounder of ChartLogicVoice Driven, which broughtto market a paperless charting system calledChartLogic™. The pediatricpractice he created in Utah,Wee Care Pediatrics, sees an average of 400 patients per day. He is also a formerboard Chair and foundinginvestor of GumTechInternational, a publicly traded healthcare company.

Ray Bracis, MD ’71, Portland,OR, was named a “top doc”in Infectious Diseases inPortland Monthly magazine.He practices at EmanuelHospital in Portland.

Stephen Permut, MD ’72, JD,Wilmington, DE, AssociateDean of Academic Affiliationsand Chair of Family andCommunity Medicine atTemple, has been elected to several positions at the

American Medical Association:Chair of the southeasterndelegation, Vice Chair of theCouncil on Legislation, andthe Board of Trustees’ TaskForce on Patient Safety.

Douglas A. Howell, MD ’73,Cape Elizabeth, ME, a masterendoscopist with special inter-est in endoscopic retrogradecholangiopancreatography, isAssociate Clinical Professorof Medicine at the Universityof Vermont College ofMedicine. He directs thePancreaticobiliary Center andgastroenterology fellowshipprogram there, one of the fewadvanced interventional fellow-ship programs in the country.

Walter D. Rosenfeld, MD ’75,Randolph, NJ, is Director ofthe Adolescent/Young AdultCenter for Health and ViceChair of Pediatrics at GoryebChildren’s Hospital (AtlanticHealth System) based inMorristown, NJ.

Kathy Buckley, Jonathan Buckley ’09 andRonald J. Buckley, MD ’77

Anne Pletcher Close ’09 andRichard Alan Close, MD ’72

Jing Tao ’09,Albert J. Finestone, MD ’45, AlexanderMadonis ’09, Nathan Schnall, MD ’47 and Evan Watkins ’09

Associate Dean Dianne R. Soprano, PhD and Vice PresidentKenneth Soprano, PhD with William Greenfield, MD ’69

Members of the Class of 2009: Jayne Littlejohn,Jessica Lee, Anne Close and Gayatri Chhatre

AT THE WELCOME PARTY FOR THE CLASS OF 2009:

Class Notes Professor of Medicine Gerard J. Criner,MD ’79 (center) with former residents,faculty and friends

James G. Murphy, MD ’71, JosephH.Wood, MD ’56 and ElizabethH.Wood

AT THE AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY ALUMNIRECEPTION IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA:

AT THE ALUMNI RECEPTION IN PASADENA,CALIFORNIA:

David M. Essayan, MD, Res ’89,Associate Dean Uknis andGene Blumfield, MD ’47

Moneim Fadali, MD, Lisa Fadaliand Class of 1948 friend, C.Hilyard Barr

Walter Y. M. Chang, MD ’54, DeanDaly, and Wayne Y. H. Lum, MD ’74taking in the Hawaii sun

AT THE HAWAII ALUMNI DINNER:


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M. Richard Katz, MD, Gustavo Ramos, MD ’76, David F. Jiminez,MD ’85,William F.Young, MD ’92 and Jack I. Jallo, MD, Res ’91

Richard J. Meagher, MD, Res ’97, andPhilip Gildenberg, MD ’59, PhD ’70

Barry B. Moore, MD ’67, and PhilipGildenberg, MD ’59, PhD ’70

AT THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS RECEPTION IN NEW ORLEANS:

Samuel Klein MD ’79,Clayton, MO, is the DanforthProfessor of Medicine andNutritional Science andDirector of the Center forHuman Nutrition atWashington UniversitySchool of Medicine, St Louis.He also serves as AssociateDirector of the University’sGeneral Clinical ResearchCenter and is MedicalDirector of the WashingtonUniversity WeightManagement Center andBarnes-Jewish Hospital nutritional support service.A faculty member since 1994,Dr. Klein has developed several research programsaimed at the prevention and treatment of nutrition-related disease and isPrincipal Investigator on alarge NIH grant to establish a nutrition research center at the University.

Edward Rabbitt, MD ’79,Alexandria, VA, is an ortho-pedic surgeon with fiveoffices in the metroWashington, DC, region,who also serves as AssistantClinical Professor atGeorgetown University. He is particularly interested inminimal-incision and computer-assisted jointreplacement and arthroscopy.He remains in contact withseveral classmates, includingFrank R. Ebert, John Magill,and Joe Nejman.

80sMark F. Obenrader MD ’80,Horsham, PA, a family practicioner with a privatepractice in Wyndmoor, PA,WyndMark MedicalAssociates, has joined TemplePhysicians Inc., Temple’s network of community-basedprimary care physicians.He writes and lectures on thebiology of aging.

Kathleen Reilly Bell, MD ’81,Seattle, WA, is Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of WashingtonSchool of Medicine, whereshe also serves as MedicalDirector of the Brain InjuryRehabilitation Program and directs the TraumaticBrain Injury (TBI) ModelSystem program. She’s conducting research on telephone-mediated counsel-ing to enhance community reintegration after TBI.

Patrick J. Brennan, MD ’82,Havertown, PA, an infectiousdiseases expert, has beenappointed Senior VicePresident and Chief MedicalOfficer of the University ofPennsylvania Health System(UPHS), where he has servedas Chief of HealthcareQuality and Patient Safety forthe last four years. In the newrole he will be responsible formonitoring and overseeingthe quality of care at Systemhospitals and related clinicalpractices. Dr. Brennan chairsthe US Department of Healthand Human Services’Healthcare Infection ControlPractices AdvisoryCommittee and is one of 14infectious diseases expertswho advise the Centers forDisease Control and theSecretary of HHS regardinginfection control in UnitedStates healthcare facilities.

AT THE BABCOCK CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION:

Gene Salkind, MD ’79, Fred Simeone, MD ’60,and Leonard Bruno, MD

Fred Simeone, MD ’60, keynotespeaker and Howard Rosenfeld,MD ’60

Paul H. Steel, MD ’52,sharing recollections ofDr. Babcock

Milton Wohl, MD ’49,sharing his stories of Dr.Babcock at the luncheon

70s (continued)Sanford Guttler, MD ’76,Hickory, NC, was recentlyelected Chair of FryeRegional Medical Center,located in Hickory. Dr.Guttler is a partner of CrownHealth Care, the largest independently owned primary care practice in theregion. He would love toknow how his classmates aredoing and can be reached [email protected].

James Peipon, MD ’77, Kiev,Ukraine, is Medical Directorof International HealthServices, a church-relatedorganization that providesmedical and humanitarianaid in the Ukraine.

Francis S. Speidel, MBA, MD’77, West Chester, PA, is VicePresident for Medical Affairsat Centre CommunityHospital in State College, PA,a newly created position that supports medical stafffunctions and provides consultation to the president/CEO and executive teamregarding medical affairs,medical staff functions,quality of care, accreditation,medical education, andstrategic issues impactingmedical care.

Alan Dayno, MD ’78,Northampton, MA, MedicalDirector of the CommunitySubstance Abuse Center ofWest Springfield, MA, hasbeen involved in medicalprojects in Nicaragua andJamaica, where he’s workingto develop outpatient clinicsto improve access to care.

Last year, Dr. Dayno accom-panied Richard Albertson,MD ’63, and Robert W. Ford,MD ’63, on a medical mis-sion to Jos, Nigeria, where heworked with patients withHIV, tuberculosis, malaria,onchocerciasis, and polio. Hisson, Matt Dayno, is a Templemedical student who is activein the school’s InternationalHealth Organization.

David I. Hoffman, MD ’78,Pompano Beach, FL, an obstetrician/gynecologistwith a private practice focusing on fertility, isAssociate Clinical Professorof Obstetrics/Gynecology at the University of Miamiand past president of boththe Society for AssistedReproductive Technology andthe Fort Lauderdale Obstetrics/Gynecology Society. He is afounding member of theSoutheastern ReproductiveMedicine Association.

Bernard L. Remakus, MD’78, Hallstead, PA, deliveredthe keynote address,“Medicine From The Heart,”at the 9th annual GeriatricsTeaching Day in Binghamton,NY, this past summer,sponsored by the StateUniversity of New York,Columbia University andNew York University.

Michael Kalson, MD ’79,Atlanta, GA, practicesorthopedic surgery, specializ-ing in the lumbar spine.He has fond memories from Temple, especially ofemeritus orthopaedics chairJohn Lachman, MD ’43.

AT THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS CLINICAL CONGRESS IN SAN FRANCISCO:

Program Director for the Department ofSurgery,Amy J. Goldberg, MD, Res’92, withPaul G. Newman, MD, Res ’97

Steven Fassler, MD’95, pictured with Vicki andMichael W. Grabowski, MD’90

Mahender Macha, MD with Pediatric SurgerySection Chief Harsh Grewal, MD and Daniel T.Dempsey, MD, Professor and Chair of Surgery

Tom Miller, MD, ’75 with David Mercer, MD,Res ’93

Anthony J. Comerota, MD ’74, andBarbara Hawk, RN ’70

Dean Daly with Stanley Dudrick, MD, and BarbaraWard, MD ’83



80s (continued)James L. Gajewski, MD ’83,Washington, DC, has beenrecruited by GeorgetownUniversity to serve asProfessor of Medicine anddirect Georgetown UniversityHospital’s blood and marrowtransplant program. Anationally renowned transplant physician andresearcher, Dr. Gajewski wasDeputy Chair of the programat the MD Anderson CancerCenter, in Houston, TX, oneof the nation’s largest. He’sactive as an advocate on BMTpublic policy and paymentissues and has served on theNational Marrow DonorBoard of Directors. He’sreceived numerous awardsand honors.

Corrine Lowe Leach, PhD’82, MD ’83, Orchard Park,NY, is Associate Professor of Neonatology and MedicalDirector of RespiratoryTherapy at the StateUniversity of New York andChildren’s Hospital ofBuffalo. Her research interestsinclude the effect of lowdoses of hydrocortisone onbronchopulmonary dysplasiain premature infants and theeffect of ultra violet lighttreatment of HVAC systemson NICU nosocomial infec-tion rates.

Hildegard K. Toth, MD ’83,New York, NY, is ClinicalAssociate Professor ofRadiology and ActingDirector of the BreastImaging Center at New YorkUniversity Medical Center.She’s an active lecturer andhas numerous publications to her credit.

David F. Jimenez, MD ’85,San Antonio, TX, is Directorof the Center forNeurosurgical Sciences, andChair of NeurosurgicalSciences at the University of Texas Health ScienceCenter at San Antonio. Healso directs the NeurosurgicalResidency program and hasan extensive research pro-gram, both basic and clini-cal. Prior to moving to Texas, he was Professor ofNeurosurgery at theUniversity of Missouri-Columbia. His areas ofexpertise include pediatricneurosurgery, craniofacialsurgery, minimally invasiveendoscopic neurosurgery,and brain tumors.

Joseph M. Woods, IV, MD’85, Atlanta, GA, practicesreconstructive and cosmeticplastic surgery.

Sharon M. Tomaski, MD ’86,Littleton, CO, a pediatric otolaryngologist, was namedone of the 250 top docs inDenver’s 5280 Magazine, a listvoted on by the 7,000 practic-ing physicians in Colorado.She also serves on the Boardof Directors of The Children’sHospital of Denver.

Class of 1948 Scholarshiprecipient Felix Chapkovsy,MD ’05

Aaron Fletcher, MD ’06 andkeynote speaker and co-founderof the Alley Scholarship,Albert A.Alley, MD ’64

Emma Weiss Scholarship recipient Steven Busselen,MD ’05 with founders Sandra Harmon-Weiss, MD’74, and Richard C.Weiss, DMD, with CharlesScholarship recipient Bernadette Thomas, MD ’05

Scholarship donors MarcDiNardo, Elizabeth Drum, MD’86, and Dean Daly

Class of 1943 scholarship recipientMelissa Ross ’06, Barnhart scholarshiprecipient Jennifer Sorrell, MD ’05, andAaron Fletcher, MD ’06

AT THE SCHOLARSHIP RECOGNITION DINNER:

Poliner Scholarship recipient Lizeth Romero, MD ’06,AKK Phi Chi, Fisher and Class of 1946 Scholarshiprecipient Alice Choe, MD ’05,Weinberger Scholarship recipient Stephanie Lueckel, MD ’05, Dean Daly, Dean’sScholarship recipients Stephen Nalbach ’07, Christine Herb ’07, Jason Catanzaro ’08 and Ken Hsin ’08

Lizeth Romero, MD ’06, Stephanie Lueckel, MD ’05, Dr.Kenneth and Mrs. Elsie Cundy, and Alice Choe, MD ’05

Alexis Rosenberg Scholarship recipient SamikBasu, MD ’05 with William Greenfield, MD ’69

Dean Daly with scholarship founder Albert A.Alley, MD ’64 and Alley Scholarship recipientShawn White, MD ’06

AT RECENT LUNCHEONS FOR SCHOLARSHIP DONORS AND RECIPIENTS:

90sEmad S. Alnemri, PhD ’91,Philadelphia, PA, is Professorof Biochemistry and MolecularBiology at Thomas JeffersonUniversity’s Kimmel CancerCenter, where he conductsresearch on cell apoptosisand intracellular apoptosisregulating complexes.

Mark C. Cullen, MD ’91,Duluth, GA, is an orthopedicsurgeon specializing in pedi-atric and adult sports medicineat Gwinnett Health System.

Ellen Deibert MD ’93, Res’94, Richmond Heights, MO,is Assistant Professor ofNeurology and Neurosurgeryat Washington UniversitySchool of Medicine, St. Louis.Her clinical responsibilitiesfocus on acute stroke man-agement and neurorehabilita-tion. One of her researchprojects pertains to the use ofTroponin I as an indicator forcardiac dysfunction in sub-arachnoid hemorrhages.

Hoangmai H. Pham, MD ’95,MPH, Washington, DC, isSenior Physician HealthResearcher at the Center forStudying Health SystemChange, a nonpartisan policyresearch organization basedin Washington, DC. A RobertWood Johnson ClinicalScholar, Dr. Pham’s areas ofexpertise include managedcare and quality of care models and medical trainingfor the management ofchronic conditions.

Deborah Horwitz, MD ’96,New York, NY, is a memberof hospitalist staff in theDepartment of Medicine at the Long Island JewishMedical Center.

Tom F. Miller, PhD ’96,MBA, Warrington, PA, is Vice President of WorldwideMarketing for DiscoveryLaboratories, a respiratorycritical care biotech company.His team is responsible forthe global launch of Surfaxin,the first completely syntheticprotein containing surfactanttherapy for the treatment ofrespiratory distress syndromein pre-term infants—technology that stems fromhis doctoral work at Templein the laboratories of Drs.Marla Wolfson and TomShaffer in the early 1990s.

Jeffrey B. King, MD ’99,Dallas, TX, a family practi-tioner, is Associate MedicalDirector of a chain of urgentcare centers operated by CareNow, Inc. in the Dallas/FortWorth area.

00sSam Johnson, MD ’02,Atlanta, GA, is completing his residency in internal medicine at Emory and plans to relocate to San Diegoin 2007.

Mark Kudes, MD ’01, andDiana Barnett Kudes, MD’01, Rochester, NY, announcethe birth of their son SeanPatrick Kudes (6/28/05).Mark just completed the firstyear of his cardiology fellow-ship at University ofRochester, and Diana justcompleted a chief residencyin pediatrics at University ofRochester, where she nowserves as a part-time facultymember. She will be goinginto private practice as well.

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AT THE CONWELL BASKETBALLGAME RECEPTION:

Ralph S. Sando, MD ’73, Joyce Sando, and classmateDean Daly

AT THE MEDICAL ALUMNIASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING:

President Paul Hermany, MD ’82, presentsimmediate Past President Louis X. Santore,MD ’80, with a plaque recognizing his tenureas association president


White Coat and Reunion Weekend Revisited

Picture perfect: Chinyere I. Ogbonna’09, Schiavone Cruz ’09, Hien HanhNguyen ’09 and Tuyet-Trinh Truong ’09

Reciting the Hippocratic Oath (l to r):Aileen Andreu’09, Sarah S.Asch ’09, Laura K.Austin ’09,Veronica Baca’09 and Abin Bandyopadhyay ’09

Miriam K. Kaplan, BS ’54, with herhusband Alvin I. Kaplan, MD ’55

(l to r): Dean Daly with author of On Doctoring and keynote speaker John Stone,MD, and Kenneth Cundy, PhD

Seated: John R. Siberski, MD ’75, Mary Daly, Frederick A.Simeone, MD ’60 and Chris D.Tzarnas, MD. Standing:John Stone, MD, Dean Daly, Gary Weiss, MD ’60 andEllie Kelepouris, MD

Paul R. Casey, MD ’75, with hiswife Kathleen

Alexander Madonis ’09 getting‘coated’ by Gary Weiss, MD ’60

Nadia S. Markovchick ’09 with herfather Vincent Markovchick, MD ’70

Virginia Close, Anne Close ’09,and Richard Close, MD ’72

The alumni and faculty who joined Drs. Daly and Hermany as“cloakers” in the ceremony were Robert Berish, MD ’65; PaulCasey, MD ’75; Kenneth Cundy, PhD, Emeritus Professor,Microbiology and Immunology; Alvin Kaplan, MD ’55;Lawrence Kaplan, MD ’86, Associate Professor of Medicine; EllieKelepouris, MD, Professor, Nephrology; Helen Pearson, PhD,Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology; John Siberski, MD ’75;Frederick Simeone, MD ’60; Ronald Tuma, PhD ’75, Chair,Physiology; and Gary Weiss, MD ’60.

A special “cloaking” was reserved for medical students whoseparents are alumni or faculty: Ronald Buckley, MD ’77; RichardClose, MD ’72; Joseph DeFranco, MD ’77; Vincent Markovchick,MD ’70; Timothy Pagana, MD ’75; Roseanne Paz, MD ’84;Bernard Remakus, MD ’78; Michael Romash, MD ’74; and WeiZhang, PhD ’00, Associate Professor, Thrombosis Research.

Class reunion for alumni who graduated in years ending in 0 and5 began the next day. Many of the nearly 400 “reunioners” werelocal, but dozens flew in from California, Puerto Rico, and otherdistant locales. The event began with a breakfast, followed by awelcome from the Alumni Association President and an updatefrom the Dean. Next, alumni visited the School’s new clinical simulation center, trying their hands at laproscopic simulators,task trainers, and robotic mannequins with fluctuating bloodpressures and heart rhythms, fluid-filled vasculature, and palpableorgans. It was an experience that impressed and amazed.

Afterward, half went to an estate and gift planning seminar,while the remainder took a CME class about the impact of theinternet on medical practice, led by Alfred Bove, MD ’66, PhD’70, Professor & Chief of Cardiology. Next was lunch, followedby a campus tour that brought back lots of memories.

That evening, everyone gathered at the Westin Hotel inPhiladelphia for cocktails, class photos, and a dinner programthat featured the presentation of awards, as detailed on page 22.

“It was a great opportunity to catch up with classmates,” saidHerbert Lee, MD ’80 of Long Beach, CA.

Concluded Amaury Capella, MD ’55, of Guaynabo, PR, “It was a wonderful and unforgettable weekend.”

Reunion for classes ending in 1 and 6 is set for October 28, 2006.Call the Alumni Office for details: 800-331-2839 or 215-707-4850.

Last October, the Class of 2009 was welcomed to the professionof medicine at Temple with a beautiful ceremony in which first-year students receive their white coats from alumni and faculty.Paul Hermany, MD ’82, President of the Alumni Association,joined Dean Daly in welcoming the class. John Stone, MD,Emeritus Professor of Cardiology at Emory University, author of On Doctoring, gave the keynote address. More than 700 familymembers of the students were present.

Philip O. Geib, MD ’45, dressed tothe nines

William Walls, MD ’55, andWilliam Schaeffer, Jr., MD ’55,with their wives Natalie Wallsand Kathleen Schaeffer

Philip Roberts, Jr., Philip Hunter, Gerald Pifer, andWilliam Fearn of the Class of 1965 enjoy a CMEcourse given by Fred Bove, MD ’66, PhD ’70

Harris Nagler and Jon Jaffe of the Class of 1975, getreacquainted after 30 years

The Class of 1995: Front (L-R): Mary Jackson Mosley;Steven Fassler; Brad Pontz; David Kaplan; and CynthiaAmitin. Back (L-R): Michael Bertocchi; Damali CampbellOparaji; Rajeev Prasad; Kalyan Poruri; Jonas Karlsson;and Gregory Schwartzman

The Class of 1985: Front (L-R): Rinchen-Tzo Emgushov;Darilyn Moyer; Joan Warrenski; Mary Callahan; CarrieDonvito Delone; Back (L-R): Oleh Wasyl Hnatiuk; ScottRosenberg; John Coppes; and Bret Delone

John Holten and Joan HoshauerMadison of the Class of 1955during the campus tour

Saying hello again: John Holtenand Takashi Hattori of the Classof 1955

Alan Sandler, MD ’70, with Virgie and JimHuehnergarth, MD ’70

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QUICK STATS: RESIDENCIES CLASS OF 2006

Graduates 192 (100%)

Not seeking Residencies 4 (2%)

Holding Residency Positions 188 (98%)

Temple and Affiliates 36 (24%)

Other Philadelphia or PA Programs 52 (28%)

Non-Pennsylvania 88 (46%)

Type of Program PG1 Year PG2 Year

Family Practice 19 (10%)

Internal Medicine

Categorical 49 (26%)

Primary 0

Preliminary: PG2 chosen* 18 (9%)

Preliminary: PG2 not chosen 0

Internal Medicine/Pediatrics 0

Pediatrics 22 (11%)

Obstetrics/Gynecology 3 (2%)

Total Primary Care including Ob/Gyn 111 (58%)

Peds/Psych 1 (1%)

Orthopedics 6 (3%)

Surgery

Categorical 14 (10%)

Preliminary: PG2 chosen** 2 (10%)

Preliminary: PG2 not chosen 9 (10%)

Transitional

PG2 Chosen*** 12 (6%)

PG2 Not Chosen 0

Anesthesiology 0 6

Dermatology 0 0

Emergency Medicine 19 (10%) 0

ENT 0 0

Neurology 4

Neurosurgery 0

Ophthalmology 0 3

PM&R 0 1

Pathology 2 (1%)

Psychiatry 9 (5%)

Radiation Oncology 0 0

Radiology 0 15

Urology 3 (1%) 0

Deferred 4

Total 192 (100%) 29

*Rad-2; Neurol-2;Anesthesiol-5; Ophthal-2; Derm-2; PM&R-4; Rad/Onc-1**Urol-1***Rad-5; Ophth-3;Anesthesiology-4; PM&R-1Derm-1; Emergency-1

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It’s 11:59 am on a sunny morning inMarch. A growing hum fills the medicalschool conference center on North BroadStreet. When the clock strikes noon,there’s the distinct sound of nearly 200envelopes tearing open at once. It’s matchday at Temple, and at every other medicalschool in the United States, when seniorslearn their fates for residency. Next a roarof city, state and school names fills the air.There are hugs, handshakes, and high fivesall around.

Tampa? Temple! Michigan? Brown! You’llbe in Texas too? Students on cell phonesshout destinations to loved ones waitingat home: Mom? I’m going to Pittsburgh.Can you hear me? Pittsburgh!

Established in 1952, the National Resident Matching Program, “the Match,”was established to provide a fair andimpartial transition to graduate medicaleducation. More than 25,000 applicantsparticipate yearly.

“The Match gives you the option to shootfor the moon,” says Rushani WeerasooriyaSaltzman, MD ’05. “You can apply to asmany places as you want.”

TempleStudents

Meet their Match

When Dr. Saltzman matched in pediatricsat Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, shecouldn’t have been happier. “It was myfirst choice. I was ecstatic,” she says.

“After working so hard for four years, youfinally know where you’re going,” she says.“To realize, wow, I really am going to be apediatrician. Amazing.”

Dr. Saltzman credits Temple with earningher a spot in CHOP’s residency—a popular and competitive program, whoseapplicants far exceed available spots.

“Temple’s clinical education was the best,”she says. “They put what they teach in theclassroom into real-life practice, makingus part of the team treating patients.”

And the patients who appealed most toDr. Saltzman were the youngest.

“When I did my pediatrics rotation,I knew it was my calling,” she says.

A member of Temple MedScholarsProgram, Dr. Saltzman was grantedadmission to Temple University School of Medicine at the same time she was

accepted into Temple’s undergraduateprogram—right out of high school. Inaddition to providing a conditional guarantee of a seat in Medical School(certain standards must be maintained asan undergraduate), the MedScholars program enables talented young people topursue a diverse course of study. They arenot obligated to follow the traditional pre-med track.

“I liked the idea of having a spot waitingfor me at med school, but wanted a morewell-rounded education than the tradi-tional pre-med major offers, so I minoredin French and took dance, economics and religion in addition to physics andbiology,” Dr. Saltzman explains.

Another thing that turned out well is thatDr. Saltzman and her husband, a newgraduate of another medical school, werepart of the “couples match”: seniors whoask to be matched in the same city as apartner. They were both granted their firstchoices so they could remain together inPhiladelphia. It’s all turning out to be aperfect match!

Rushani Weerasooriya Saltzman, MD ’05, marked the site of her residencysite on a map that quickly filled with pins

Happily matched, Dr. Sakima Smith (left) is going to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in Missouri for internal medicine, Dr. MichaelAdenaike (center) is going to Drexel University for internal medicine, and Dr. Che Ward (right) is going to SUNY-Brooklynfor emergency medicine

Moments before the clock struck noon, Darilyn Moyer, MD ’86,Associate Professor of Medicine, (right) distributed envelopescontaining the results of the 2006 Match


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As all practicing physicians know, the pressures and realities ofthe business of medicine can deplete not only one’s enthusiasmbut also one’s resources. To this end, Dr. Nesi stays active in PAPA, the Politically Active Physicians Association, whichpromotes medical liability reform.

Not one to sit on the sidelines, Dr. Nesi believes in taking action,in making an investment in the things and people important to us.

The MingsBeloved emeritus professors Si-Chun Ming, MD, and Pen-MingLee Ming, MD, who taught and practiced pathology at Templefor more than 30 years, have made a very generous gift to establish the Drs. Si-Chun and Pen-Ming Lee Ming EndowedScholarship Fund.

Si-Chun Ming, MD, came to Temple in 1971, served as ActingChair of Pathology from 1978 to 1980, then as Deputy Chairfrom 1980 to 1986. He’s renowned for his contributions to GIpathology. He has lectured all over the world. In the mid 1970’s,he wrote the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology fascicle ontumors of the esophagus and stomach, and later contributed to the World Health Organization’s classification of intestinaltumors. He also co-authored a book that became a seminal work in GI pathology: Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract (WB Saunders; 1992 and 1998).

Boarded in both anatomic pathology and medical genetics,Pen-Ming Lee Ming, MD, ran the cytogenetics laboratory for 26 years (1972 to 1998) and was an essential member of the laboratory team at Temple. Deeply committed to teaching andservice, she was honored with two Golden Apple teachingawards (1988 and 1992) and received the Lindback Award forDistinguished Teaching in 1994.

Their generous scholarship gift is a wonderful gesture ofappreciation to Temple, grateful as they are to the School forproviding the platform for their fruitful, meaningful careers.

Other Recent Gifts and Pledges

$25,000 to $49,999 Rodger Barnette, MD ’79, to the Rodger Barnette, MD ’79, PrivateStudy Room in the new medical school building

Daniel Bethem, MD ’70, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund forthe new medical school building

Leonard Brody, MD ’79, and Robert Mannherz, MD ’79, to the newmedical school building fund

John Chogich MD ’53, and Anne Chogich, to the Class of 1953Endowed Scholarship Fund via charitable gift annuity

Gerard Criner, MD ’79, to the new medical school building fund

Daniel Dempsey, MD, to the Dr. and Mrs. Daniel T. DempseyPrivate Study Room in the new medical school building

Edward Donahue, MD ’79, to the Edward Donahue, MD, FACS,Study Room in the new medical school building

Elizabeth Drum, MD ’86, to the new medical school building fund

Amy Goldberg, MD, to the Amy J. Goldberg, MD (Surg Res ’92) andRay and Ellen Goldberg Study Room in the new medical school building

Raymond and Ellen Goldberg to the Amy J. Goldberg, MD, and Rayand Ellen Goldberg Study Room of the new medical school building

Michael Gratch, MD ’76, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund inthe new medical school building

Sanford Greenberg, MD ’60, to the new medical school building fund

The Margaret Hayes Foundation to the Merrill Bemis Hayes,MD ’34, Endowed Scholarship Fund

Michael Kalson, MD ’79, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund inthe new medical school building

William Kehrli, MD ’65, to the Henry Kehrli, MD ’36, and WilliamKehrli, MD ’65, Study Room in the new medical school building

Richard Kozera, MD, to the new medical school building fund

Robert McNamara, MD, to the Dr. and Mrs. Robert McNamaraPrivate Study Room in the new medical school building

Geraldine Mantell, MD ’63, to the Geraldine Mantell EndowedScholarship Fund

Alan Maurer, MD ’75, to the new medical school building fund

James McClurken, MD ’76, to the new medical school building fund

Michael Miller to the Dr. Lewis Richard, Jr., and Sidney G. MillerStudy Room in the new medical school building

The Catherine Nelson, MD, Foundation to the Catherine HayesNelson, MD ’35, Memorial Scholarship Fund

Joseph H. Nejman, MD ’79, and Michelle Nejman to the NejmanFamily Study Room in the new medical school building

Stephen Permut, MD ’72, to the Harvey Watts, MD, MemorialRoom in the new medical school building

Chris Platsoucas, PhD, and Emelia Oleszak, PhD, to the newmedical school building fund

Joel Richter, MD, to the new medical school building fund

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*Since the publication of the last Temple Medicine, alumni, faculty andfriends have made dozens of leadership gifts ranging between $25,000 and$1.5 million to the School of Medicine for scholarships, educational programs,professorships, research and building funds. Three are profiled here:

PHILANTHROPY NOTES

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Frank Baldino, Jr., PhD ’80, and Cephalon, Inc.Their records of giving were already exemplary—and nowFrank Baldino, Jr., PhD ’80, and his company, Cephalon, Inc.,the international biopharmaceutical firm, have made two addi-tional significant gifts that will benefit the School of Medicinefor years to come.

The personal gift that Dr. Baldino and his wife Sandra made is insupport of two priorities at the School of Medicine: the newbuilding fund and graduate student education. The Cephaloncorporate donation funds a research floor in the new School ofMedicine building.

In addition to serving as founder and CEO of Cephalon, Inc.,one of the most successful biotech companies in the world withmore than 2,000 employees in 14 countries and over $1 billionin annual sales, Dr. Baldino serves in volunteer leadership positions to promote science-related commerce in thePhiladelphia region. Temple is a key recipient of his time andexpertise. He is a trustee of Temple University and chairs theBoard of Visitors of the School of Medicine. He hopes to seeTemple become a catalyst for cooperation among the incrediblearray of medical institutions in Philadelphia.

What’s behind Dr. Baldino’s spirit of giving? “When visionaryleaders like Dean Daly ask you to help, you do it just to be associated with them,” says Dr. Baldino. Plus, “It’s time for me to give something back.”

Dr. Baldino attributes much of his success to “the strong education” he received at Temple. “There are a lot of rolemodels at Temple,” he says, citing his mentor, PharmacologyProfessor Martin Adler, PhD, Director of Temple’s Center forSubstance Abuse Research. “He’s an academic, but he’s anentrepreneur,” says Dr. Baldino. “He was always well funded.That was a real motivating factor for a guy like me.”

Dr. Baldino founded Cephalon in 1987 and grew it from a privately held company to one of the largest publicly tradedbiotechnology companies in the United States. Its key productsare Provigil, the only FDA-approved prescription medicine fortreatment of excessive sleepiness associated with obstructivesleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome and shift-work sleep disorder;Actiq, the only prescription medicine approved for treatmentof breakthrough pain in opioid-tolerant cancer patients;Gabitril, the only FDA-approved selective GABA-reuptakeinhibitor, an adjunct therapy for treatment of partial seizuresassociated with epilepsy; and Trisenox, therapy for first andsubsequent relapse in acute promyelocytic leukemia.

In addition to his roles at Temple, Dr. Baldino is Chair of theBoard of the BioAdvance Biotechnology GreenhouseCorporation, a member of the Executive Council of the HarvardDivision of Sleep Medicine, a Trustee of The Franklin Institute,and serves on numerous boards of directors, including theEastern Technology Council. He also holds several adjunctacademic appointments, including one at Temple.

Daniel A. Nesi, MD ’63He’s been a benefactor of the School of Medicine andUniversity for a long time, supporting numerous funds,such as the Class of 1963 Endowed Scholarship Fund, andnow, Daniel T. Nesi, MD ’63, an otolaryngologist with officesin Colmar and Doylestown, PA, has made a significant gift in support of the School of Medicine’s new building project.He has funded a classroom to honor the memory of a son he lost several years ago.

Dr. Nesi has a unique charm and a big heart. When the Deaninvited him to participate as a cloaker in the School’s WhiteCoat Ceremony to welcome new medical students last year,Dr. Nesi enjoyed it thoroughly, reinvigorated by the celebra-tion of what’s truly at the heart of medicine.

Frank Baldino, Jr., PhD ’80 Daniel A. Nesi, MD ’63


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John Roland, Jr., MD ’83, to the J. Thomas Roland, Jr., MD ’83,Study Room of the new medical school building

David Rovner, MD ’55, to the Margaret and David Rovner, MD ’55,Study Room of the new medical school building

Anthony Salem, MD ’62, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund inthe new medical school building

William Shellenberger, MD ’51, to the William and BarbaraShellenberger charitable gift annuity that will ultimately benefit theCarson Schneck Gross Anatomy Laboratory in the new medicalschool building

Carson Schneck, MD ’59, PhD ’65, to the Carson Schneck GrossAnatomy Laboratory Fund in the new medical school building

Joseph Scornavacchi, MD ’73, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43,Fund in the new medical school building

In Sook Seo, MD, to the Harvey Watts, MD, Memorial Room in thenew medical school building

Robert Suhadolnik, PhD, to the chronic fatigue syndrome research fund

Roy Swingle, MD ’45, to the Class of 1945 Room in the new medicalschool building

Joseph Torg, MD ’61, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund in thenew medical school building

Sandra Harmon-Weiss, MD ’74, and Richard Weiss, DMD,to the new medical school building fund

Steven Wolf, MD ’84, to the John W. Lachman, MD ’43, Fund in thenew medical school building

$50,000 to $99,999Iftikhar Chaudry, MD, to name the Drs. Iftikhar and AishaChaudry Dining Room in the new medical school building

Richard Close, MD ’72, to name the Richard A. Close, MD ’72, andAnn P. Close (MD ’09) study room in the new medical school building

John M. Daly MD ’73, to the John and Mary Daly Fund for the newmedical school building

Abraham Frumin, MD ’42, to establish the Abraham Frumin, MD’42, Endowed Lecture in Hematology via a testamentary pledge

David Greenwald, MD ’70, to the David W. Greenwald, MD ’70,Meeting Room in the new medical school building

The Estate of Dorothy Kriebel, MD ’43, to the Dorothy KriebelEndowed Scholarship Fund

Daniel Polett to the Daniel H. Polett Fund for the New MedicalSchool Building

Frederick Sutliff, MD ’46, to the Fred Sutliff Meeting Room in thenew medical school building

$100,000 to $199,999Robert Bedrossian, MD ’47, and Carolyn Bedrossian to the RobertBedrossian charitable gift annuity that will ultimately benefit thenew building fund

Robert F. Berish, MD ’65, to the Robert F. Berish, MD ’65,and Barbara Berish Brown, Esq., Classroom in the new medicalschool building

William Crigger, MD ’50, to the William D. Crigger, MD ’50, andCharles D. Crigger, MD ’80, Endowed Scholarship Fund, via a testamentary pledge

Kenneth Cundy, PhD, and Elsie Cundy, RN, to the Kenneth andElsie Cundy Classroom in the new medical school building

Howard Ginsburg, MD ’71, to the Howard H. Ginsburg, MD, NewMedical School Building Room

Estate of Francis Shea, MD, to the Herbert M. Stauffer Chair Fundin Diagnostic Imaging

$200,000 to $499,999Albert Alley, MD ’64, to the Cynthia Alley, MD ’00, and Albert Alley,MD ’64, Scholarship Fund

Colonel Mary Surtees Carlson, MD ’47, to the Class of 1947Endowed Scholarship Fund via charitable remainder trust

Richard Laylord and Dorothy L. Evans Trust to establish the EvansFoundation Junior Faculty Research Award of the Department ofMedicine

Margaret Griffel MD, Res ’55, to a charitable gift annuity that willultimately benefit the Margaret Griffel Scholarship fund

Drs. Wilma and Edwin Kellerman to the Edwin and WilmaKellerman charitable gift annuity that will ultimately be used toname a significant space in the new medical school building

Ronald Salvitti, MD ’63, and the E. Ronald Salvitti FamilyFoundation, to the E. Ronald Salvitti Room Fund in the new medical school building

$1 million + Kenneth Cundy, PhD, and Elsie Cundy, RN, via testamentarypledge, to name the Development and Alumni Relations Suite in thenew medical school building and to the Kenneth and Elsie CundyScholarship Fund

Estate of Stella Moore to the Matthew T. Moore Chair in Neurology

Anonymous to the new medical school building fund

The Estate of Maurice Stone, MD ’36, to name the Maurice StoneAtrium in the new medical school building

Foundation Grants of $50,000 to $500,000

For more information about making a gift to the building or toscholarship or research, please contact Irv Hurwitz, AssistantDean for Development and Alumni Affairs: 215-707-3023 or tollfree 800-331-2839, or via email: [email protected]

In Memoriam

■ P H I L A N T H R O P Y N O T E S 45I N M E M O R I A M ■

E. Howard Bedrossian, MD ’45, Drexel Hill, PA, died onJanuary 15, 2006, at the age of 84.

A member of the School of Medicine’s Alumni Board since1974 and President from 1989 to 1991, Dr. Bedrossian wasextremely active in alumni affairs at Temple UniversitySchool of Medicine. He was also one of the School’s mostgenerous benefactors. In 2000 he received the School’sAlumni Service Award for his generosity, and in 1982 wasnamed its Alumnus of the Year, to honor his distinguishedprofessional accomplishments.

He authored two texts, one called The Eye, and another onthe management of strabismus; taught at the University ofPennsylvania and Wills Eye Hospital for more than 40 years,served on the staffs of Wills Eye, Graduate, Delaware CountyMemorial, and Riddle Memorial hospitals; and attainedFellowship level within numerous professional organizations,including the American College of Surgeons, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the American Academy ofOphthalmology and Otolaryngology, and the AerospaceMedicine Society. (Dr. Bedrossian earned his pilot’s license at 19 and served as a flight surgeon in the Air Force in themid-1940s.)

In 1923, Dr. Bedrossian’s father, Edward, a member ofTemple’s early ophthalmology faculty, established a practicein ophthalmology in Drexel Hill, PA, that Dr. Bedrossianassumed in the 1950s and later shared with his son Ned (also a Temple Medical School alumnus, Class of 1978) untilretiring in June of 2005.

A major benefactor of the School of Medicine, Dr. Bedrossianand his brother Robert Bedrossian, MD’47, established theBedrossian Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology and theBedrossian Scholarship and Loan Funds, and supporteddozens of other challenges. In addition, Dr. Bedrossian was a devoted “fan” of the late W. Wayne Babcock, MD, longtimeChair of Surgery at Temple—and credits him with havingsaved his life when he suffered acute appendicitis as a med-ical student.

Dr. Bedrossian is survived by his wife, brother, sister, twosons, a daughter, two stepsons, 19 grandchildren and twogreat-grandsons.

AstraZeneca, LPAmerican Cancer Society American Diabetes Association American Heart AssociationBroad FoundationEli & Edythe L. Broad

FoundationDePuy Orthopaedics Distance Learning CenterRichard Laylord & Dorothy L.

Evans Foundation

Benjamin & Mary SiddonsMeasey Foundation

Merck & Co.Elsa U. Pardee FoundationPew Charitable TrustsPfizer, Inc.W.W. Smith Charitable TrustSynthes, USAVanguard Charitable

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David S. Ruhe, MD ’41, Newburgh, NY, died on September6, 2005, at the age of 91.

An accomplished film-maker, painter, and author, Dr. Ruhebegan his career as a malaria researcher with the UnitedStates Public Health Service during World Warr II. In 1954,he became the first professor of Medical Communications atthe University of Kansas, where he introduced the use ofoptical fibers for endoscopic cinematography, the projectionof high-definition images in surgical theaters, and the video-taping of psychiatric sessions for peer review. He made scoresof medical films—winning the Golden Reel, Venice FilmFestival, and Royal Photographic Society of Great Britainawards for his productions—and for a time was Director of the Medical Film Institute of the Association of AmericanMedical Colleges.

In addition to authoring professional papers and two books regarding medicine and audiovisual communication,Dr. Ruhe wrote two books and produced documentary films about the Baha’i faith. A devoted follower and leader of Baha’i for 60 years, he served on the faith’s supreme governing council for 25 years.

An accomplished painter and illustrator, Dr. Ruhe drew charcoal portraits of each of his classmates for the 1941 Skull.His charcoal portrait of William N. Parkinson, MD ’11, hangsin the Parkinson Pavilion of Temple University Hospital.

Dr. Ruhe is survived by his wife, and two sons and their families.

Kenneth Gordon Jr., MD ’48, Radnor, PA, former presidentof Temple’s Medical Alumni Association, and a psychiatrist,psychoanalyst, sculptor and horticulturist, died ofcomplications from multiple myeloma on July 25, 2005.He was 80.

In addition to seeing patients in the office he established on his farm in Radnor, PA, Dr. Gordon served as psychiatricconsultant for local school districts, served on the staffs of Lankenau and Bryn Mawr Hospitals and was clinical professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at ThomasJefferson University. He was a certified psychoanalyst foradults, children, and adolescents.

His sculptures of children were exhibited in local galleries,and his animal topiaries won ribbons at the PhiladelphiaFlower Show. An avid conservationist, Dr. Gordon and hiswife Janice Taylor Gordon, PhD, bird-watched on all sevencontinents and both polar seas, plus traveled several times to Borneo to participate in research and conservation workwith the Orangutan Foundation.

Dr. Gordon was active as an officer and member of theAlumni Association Board at Temple for many years, andwas a past chair of the Annual Fund.

In addition to his wife of 54 years, Dr. Gordon is survived by his three daughters, a sister, and two grandchildren.

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J. Bryan Smith, PhD, former chair of Pharmacology atTemple, died on March 24, 2005, at the age of 62. He hadheld appointments in both Pharmacology and the Sol SherryThrombosis Research Center.

A native of England, Dr. Smith received his PhD from theUniversity of London in 1971, where he was introduced tothe platelet, a cell he would investigate for the rest of hiscareer. One of his seminal co-discoveries was that aspirinblocked the ability of platelets to synthesize prostaglandins in response to platelet agonists.

Dr. Smith moved to the United States for a postdoctoral fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University and became a faculty member there. In 1982 Temple recruited him as Co-Director of the Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center,where he quickly became a central figure in platelet studiesnationally and abroad. In 1985, he was named Chair ofPharmacology at Temple.

A prolific researcher, he studied the metabolism ofarachidonic acid and other lipids in the platelet; the sourceof liberated arachidonic acid in platelets (i.e., phosphatidyl-choline); the crosstalk between neutrophils and platelets; anddeveloped methods to measure inositol trisphosphate inplatelets. His later research focused on the signaling mechanisms for platelet collagen. He also discovered a newprotein called catrocollastatin.

Dr. Smith was the 103rd most cited scientist for the period of 1973-1984. He was also founder of the Mid AtlanticPharmacology Society.

He is survived by his wife, two children, and a grandson.

Lolita Daneo-Moore, PhD, a member of the Microbiologyand Immunology faculty at Temple for 37 years, died onNovember 23, 2004, after a long illness. She was 75.

Born in France and raised in Italy, Bulgaria and Costa Rica,Dr. Daneo-Moore’s family moved to the United States in1947. She obtained a BS from the University of Pennsylvaniain 1960 and an MS in 1963, and she earned her PhD fromRutgers University in 1966.

A prolific researcher and educator, she joined the faculty inthe Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Templein 1967 and moved up the ranks to full professorship in 1978.She retired in 2001, but continued to come to the laboratoryfor research meetings, having played a key role in the growthand development of the department through the years.

Dr. Daneo-Moore made important contributions to thestudy of the growth, division, and antibiotic sensitivity ofthe Streptococci and Enterococci. She had more than 150 scientific publications and authored one cookbook. Sheloved to teach and discuss research, managing to intertwinethe personalities of the scientists involved, her family, andeven herb gardening and cooking into her discussions ofthe science. As such, her stories and commentaries becamethe stuff of student legend. “She was a wonderful person anda dear friend who could enliven any meeting she attended,from a faculty meeting on up,” said a colleague.

She is survived by her husband, children, and 11 grandchildren.

In Memoriam continued


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30sNathan Brown, MD ’31 2.19.05George S. Peters, MD ’33 3.16.05Albina Bancone Cavan, MD ’36 5.11.05Henry J. Kehrli, MD ’36 8.29.05Frederick L. Nelson, MD ’36 5.24.05Louise Geise, MD ’37 3.22.04Simon Polan, MD ’37 5.12.05William E. Adair, Jr., MD ’38 9.19.04Charles J. Schreader, MD ’38 3.9.05H. Robert Blank, MD ’39 3.16.05Isadore Gordon, MD ’39 5.27.05Harry F. Lenhardt, MD ’39 12.2.04

40sJoseph G. Haddad, MD ’40 8.6.03George R. Matthews, MD ’40 10.8.05Harold J. Rowe, MD ’40 9.23.05Clarence D. Leiphart, MD ’41 2.6.05John T. Reilly, MD ’41 10.17.05David S. Ruhe, MD ’41 9.6.05Christopher R. Donoho, MD ’42 10.27.04Joseph Rudolph, MD ’42 7.2.03James M. Smith, MD ’42 10.24.04Stuart N. Cahoon, MD ’43 4.15.03Robert D. Gilliam, MD ’43 3.22.05Dorothy E. Kriebel, MD ’43 9.10.05Norman D. MacKenzie, MD ’43 10.10.05John H. Trimmer, Jr., MD ’43 6.20.05Morris L. Yoder, Jr., MD ’43 2.3.05John D. Casey, MD ’44 9.8.05James G. Watson, MD ’44 6.2.05William L. Chapman, MD ’45 8.19.04Robert L. Craig, MD ’45 12.16.03Robert L. Dickey, MD ’45 7.23.03Dominic A. Mauriello, MD ’45 10.8.05Earl P. Myhree, MD ’45 5.5.05

Ralph L. Uber, MD ’45 3.12.05James R. Clarkin, MD ’46 4.25.05William Ellis LaBarre, MD ’46 4.21.05Viktoria M. Possoff, MD ’46 9.3.04Meyer L. Abrams, MD ’47 12.5.04William J. Champion, MD ’47 9.1.03William A. Haeberle, MD ’47 3.19.05Thomas S. Wright, MD ’47 5.29.05David B. Doyle, MD ’48 10.27.04Kenneth H. Gordon, MD ’48 7.25.05Harvey F. Watts, MD ’48 3.31.04Vernon B. Astler, MD ’49 2.15.05Wilbur B. Mahon, Jr., MD ’49 9.22.05William H. Schindel, MD ’49 5.2.05

50sDouglas F. Allen, MD ’50 8.21.03Kenneth K. F. Ing, MD ’50 4.29.03Howard D. Trimpi, MD ’50 1.5.05Paul S. Johnson, MD ’51 4.27.05Warren L. Beeken, MD ’53 6.20.04John William Edwards, MD ’53 9.21.05Alfred Freeman, MD ’53 9.27.05Leah Abel Maitland, MD ’53 1.18.05Leon N. Branton, MD ’54 9.23.05Michael J. Connelly, MD ’54 11.10.04Glen P. Musselman, MD ’54 11.28.03William R. Faust, MD ’55 7.31.05Nelson L. Entwistle, MD ’56 1.24.05Herbert H. Eveloff, MD ’56 10.9.04Harvey D. Klevit, MD ’56 9.4.05Charles F. Llenza, MD ’56 4.14.05Robert B. Hanes, MD ’58 7.29.05Julius Newman, MD ’58 10.2.05Richard O. Pelham, MD ’58 3.6.05Gene M. Sweigart, MD ’59 7.21.05

60sThomas R. Liberta, MD ’60 11.18.04Ronald H. Scherr, MD ’60 7.8.03Stephen J. Ellen, MD ’61 2.11.05David C. Worthington, MD ’61 7.22.05William H. Knapper, MD ’62 4.5.05Christopher S. Speer, MD ’62 3.21.05Alexis O. Fernandez, MD ’64 7.16.03Joseph C. Greer, MD ’64 3.2.05David N. Mikhail, MD ’64 3.28.05John J. Newton, MD ’64 8.17.04Milton R. Horwitz, MD ’66 3.20.04John R. Curran, MD ’67 12.8.04Alan P. Brown, MD ’67 6.9.05Les S. Wilkinson, MD ’68 10.19.04

70s, 80s, 90sLouis R. Leo, MD ’75 1.13.05Diane D. Barton, MD ’84 8.4.05Margaret M. Laperle, MD ’92 10.16.05Konnie Landis, MD ’96 6.20.05

RESIDENTS AND FACULTYFrancis P. Furgiuele, MD-Res’58 4.25.05Thomas J. Weyl, II, MD-Res’58 6.21.95Agustin Sierra, MD-Res’63 8.13.04Ronald J. Segar, MD-Res’67 4.15.94Frederick Urbach, MD 7.8.04

as of December 15, 2005

In Memoriam continued

Diane M. Barton, MD ’84, Cherry Hill, NJ, an internist andgeriatrician at Cooper Hospital (Camden, NJ) and a facultymember at RWJ School of Medicine, died on August 4, 2005at the age of 46 after a long struggle against ovarian cancer.A colleague at Cooper described her as “a healer, an educatorand a world class physician” whose “life towered over herdiminutive stature.” A fellow of the American College ofPhysicians and a leader in the American Medical Women’sAssociation, Dr. Barton was active in the complementarymedicine movement in the Philadelphia area and was recognized numerous times as a “Top Doc” in peer surveys in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She was also named a TopDoc in the United States in 1999 and 2002. From the 1984 Skull

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