Class Notes

School of Medicine and Dentistry

1945
David Baldwin (MD) (see ’43RC undergraduate).

1953
Gordon Currie (Res) (see ’82RC undergraduate).

1954
Sam Chapin (MD) (see ’50RC undergraduate).

1960
Bert Meisner (MD), Harvey Alter ’56RC, (MD), and Art Pearson (MD) held a minireunion in Naples, Fla., in February. Bert recently retired and moved to Naples. Harvey, who is with the National Institutes of Health, was a guest lecturer at the monthly meeting of the Retired Physicians Association of Collier County (Fla.) He spoke on hepatitis C, which he helped discover. Art founded and was the first president of the Retired Physicians, which now has 230 members.

1962
Walt Sy (MD) (see ’58RC undergraduate).

1964
Robert Kirchner (Mas) has joined the board of directors of Longview Fibre Co. in Longview, Wash.

1966
Julian Earls (Mas) delivered the 14th annual Garnet Baltimore Lecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last April. Julian is director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland.

1969
Karen Hitchcock (PhD) became the principal (the equivalent of the president) of Queen’s University at Kingston in Ontario, Canada, in July. Karen is the cohost of the public radio program The Best of Our Knowledge. She received an honorary degree from St. Lawrence University last May.

1977
Barbara Natkow Schuster (MD), ’80 (Res) received the Dema C. Daley Founder’s award from the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. She is professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio.

1979
Carl Patow (MD) received the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education’s award for innovation in continuing medical education. An associate dean for faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Carl lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Sue, and 10-year-old son, Alex. . . . Steve Phillips (Flw) writes, “My wife, Peggy, and I are relocating from Atlanta to Dallas. I have accepted a position as chief biosafety officer for the Baylor Institute of Immunological Research. The institute’s work involves select agents and biodefense. We are looking forward to returning to Dallas after a three-year absence.”

1980
Barbara Natkow Schuster (Res) (see ’77).

1983
Ines Altemose (Mas) is senior director of clinical operations for Integrium, a contract research organization.

1986
Dolores Bacon (MD) writes, “I was selected to receive the Mid-Atlantic Regional Award for Excellence as a clinician-teacher from the Society of General Internal Medicine.” . . . Rob Levy (Mas) (see ’80RC undergraduate). . . . Joe (Bill) Putnam (Res) is chairman of the newly created department of thoracic surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

1987
Bruce Holm (PhD) was appointed executive director of the newly expanded Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences at the University at Buffalo.

1989
Mary Gavin (MD), ’92 (Res) is the medical editor of www.kidshealth.org and the author of Fit Kids: A Practical Guide to Raising Healthy and Active Children from Birth to Teens.

1992
Joseph Bifano (MD) is Corning (N.Y.) Hospital’s chief of radiology. . . . Mary Gavin (Res) (see ’89).

1996
Cheryl Counsell (MD), a staff physician at the Syracuse Community Health Center, received certification from the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

1998
Jamal Merhy (Res), an internal medicine specialist and endocrinologist, has joined the medical practice of endocrinologist George Borst at Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Russell, Ky.

2000
George Silver (Res) was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. George is a partner at Orthopaedic Associates of Saratoga (N.Y.)

2001
Pattarachai Kiratisin (PhD), a faculty member at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, was the 2004 recipient of the Dade MicroScan Young Investigator award, given by the American Society for Microbiology.