Class Notes

School of Medicine and Dentistry

1975

Andrew (Mac) Greganti (Res) was recognized by the University of Mississippi’s Medical Alumni Chapter Hall of Fame last August. A 1972 graduate of Mississippi’s medical school, he’s a specialist in internal and geriatric medicine and the John Randolph and Helen Barnes Chambliss Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

1976

Louis Siegel (MD), ’79M (Res) has published his first work of fiction, Exam Room Confidential: The Wellborne Files (self-published), a medical mystery novel that serves as a critique of the modern American medical profession and health care system.

1997

Thomas Schneider (D) (see ’90 College).

1998

Jayakrishna (Jay) Ambati (Res) is one of 10 recipients of the 2014 National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award. The award of $3.76 million over five years is granted to scientists proposing exceptionally imaginative approaches to major challenges in biomedical research, which could result in a high payoff for human health. Jay will use the award to support his study of a new type of DNA and its role in ocular and neurological disorders. An expert on age-related macular degeneration, he’s a professor and vice chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky.

2004

Roger Di Pietro (Pdc), a Rochester-area psychotherapist, has published a book, The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety (Lulu).

2005

Mai Le (MD) has been appointed chief medical officer at OncoSec Medical, a San Diego–based company that develops DNA-based intratumoral cancer immunotherapies.