Class Notes

School of Medicine and Dentistry

1957

Madeline Goldstein Haft (MS) (see ’50 College).

1967

John McIntyre (MD), ’73 (Res) was recognized by the Rochester Academy of Medicine with the Albert David Kaiser Medal. The medal recognizes distinguished professional and community service. John is the retired chair of the psychiatry and behavioral health department of Unity Health System. A former president of the American Psychiatric Association, John played a significant role in setting national standards for psychiatry as leader of the association’s clinical practice guideline project.

1977

Eric Mazur (Res) was one of two physicians in the Norwalk, Connecticut, area to win Norwalk Hospital’s 2014 William J. Tracey Award for leadership, character, and superior clinical skills. Eric served most recently as the hospital’s vice president and chief medical officer before retiring this year. The hospital cited Eric’s leadership as a key factor in its designation by HealthGrades as a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence. In addition, in his previous role as the hospital’s chair of medicine, he led the development of one of Connecticut’s first hospitalist programs.

1981

Patricia Chapman (Res) and her husband, Jay Chapman ’82 (Res), received Rural Practitioners of the Year Awards from the Rural Health Network of Oswego County in New York. They’ve both been providing care at Oswego County Health Services’s Pulaski Health Center since 1984. They’ve also provided care in rural areas of Kentucky, North Dakota, Idaho, Alaska, and the West Indies. Both perform additional service outside their roles at the Pulaski Health Center. Both are preceptors for medical students in the rural medicine program at Upstate Medical University. They also assist local school-based health centers, chemical dependency services, and Oswego County Hospice.

1982

Jay Chapman (Res) (see ’81).

1983

Wayne Sebastianelli (MD), ’88 (Res) (see ’79 College).

1988

Jim Musser (MD/PhD) presented the 2014 George Hoyt Whipple Lecture in May at the School of Medicine and Dentistry. The title of his talk was “Clinical Microbiology in 2014 and Beyond: High Tech, Low Tech, and Disco Tech.” He’s the Fondren Endowed Distinguished Chair in the pathology and genomic medicine department at Houston Methodist Hospital as well as professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medical School.

1990

Gary Hollenberg has been inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology. Gary is an associate professor of imaging sciences at the Medical Center and at University Medical Imaging, where he also directs the Advanced MRI Fellowship Program.

2006

Joanne Wu (MD), ’10 (Res) (see ’02 College).