Class Notes

School of Medicine and Dentistry

1949
More than 35 donors who were inspired and mentored by Alejandro Zaffaroni (PhD), ’51 (Flw), ’72 (Honorary) established a financial aid program for Latin American students in his name at Stanford University.

1950
Victor Tofany (MD) was inducted into the St. Bonaventure University Seneca Battalion Army ROTC Hall of Fame last March. Victor received his undergraduate degree from St. Bonaventure.

1962
Donald Gordon (Mas) is the author of the novel Uncle Harold. . . . Walter Sy (MD) (see ’58RC undergraduate).

1965
Robert Nesbit (MD), ’74 (Res), professor of surgery emeritus at the Medical College of Georgia, has been elected chair of the Surgery Clerkship Directors Committee of the Association for Surgical Education. He is also president of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science and the Atlanta Vascular Society.

1970
Philip Pizzo (MD) was reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of Stanford Medical School. He is also the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professor for the Dean of the School of Medicine and a professor of pediatrics and of microbiology and immunology.

1971
Joseph Martin (PhD), ’96 (Honorary) was appointed chair of the New England Healthcare Institute’s board of directors. Joseph is dean of the medical faculty at Harvard University.

1973
Frank Eismont (MD) (see ’69RC undergraduate).

1974
Robert Nesbit (Res) (see ’65).

1975
Christopher Bever (MD) is associate chief of staff for the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System.

1978
Holly Atkinson (MD), ’79 (Res) is contract director of business development for BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics in New York City. . . . Karen Blumberg (MD) writes, “Tina Rogers Kurland and I reunited after many years, at the American College of Radiology Convocation in Washington, D.C., where fortuitously we were being inducted as fellows, an honor given to about 10 percent of radiologists.”

1980
Gary Falk (MD) (see ’76RC undergraduate). . . . Allen Power (MD), ’83 (Res) (see ’76RC undergraduate).

1981
Deborah Geer (MD) is a surgeon at Auburn (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital. Previously, she was chief resident at the Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.

1982
Harold Paz (MD) (see ’77RC undergraduate). . . . Richard Schreiber (Flw), ’83 (Res) is chief medical informatics officer at Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, Pa.

1983
Kevin Skerrett (Mas) is a member of the regulatory compliance group of The Wercs, a material safety data sheet software company. Previously, Kevin was a chemical regulations specialist at Kodak.

1991
Ming Ge (MS), a former information technology consultant, is the owner of Teaposy, a business that sells flowering tea bulbs in clear teapots.

1996
Stephanie Wragg (PhD) writes, “I am the director of medical education and faculty development at the regional campus of the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine in Boca Raton.”

2004
Neil Shull (PhD) is attending law school at George Washington University.

2006
Mary (Carrie) Yager (MD) (see ’96RC undergraduate).