Class Notes

School of Medicine and Dentistry

1967
Jerry Gans (MD) writes that he was named teacher of the year by the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital third-year psychiatry residents, Class of 2003. He also notes that he and his wife, Nancy, are expecting their first grandchild.

1975
Warren Johnston (MD) is serving as vice chairman of St. Joseph Hospital’s board of directors in Orange, Calif. His appointment lasts two years.

1976
Orthopedic surgeon Gary Woods (Res), was elected president of the New Hampshire Medical Society in February.

1980
Polly Thomas (Res), assistant commissioner for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, has helped establish the World Trade Center Health Registry, to track the health of people who were in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001.

1982
Roseanne Leipzig (Res) (see ’72RC undergraduate).

1988
Steven Duff (Res) was the top cardiovascular surgeon recommended by his fellow doctors in the Columbus, Ohio, area. The survey, conducted by the Columbus Dispatch and WBNS-TV, asked more than 4,500 doctors where they would turn if they or a family member needed medical treatment. . . . Robert Poole (Res) is chief medical officer of Hypnion, a neuroscience drug company.

1990
Alex Macario (MD) (see ’86RC undergraduate). . . . Jeanne Putinas Spencer (MD) (see ’86RC undergraduate).

1992
Rachel Roper (PhD) is an assistant professor at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, in the microbiology and immunology department. Her areas of expertise are virology, immunology, and bioinformatics.

1995
Lisa Feulner (PhD) (MD) has joined the surgery department of the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center’s ophthalmology division in Baltimore.

2003
Cara Kaupp (Res) has joined Private Healthcare Systems. She is the company’s 400,000th provider.