Class Notes
School of Medicine and Dentistry
1953
Rebekah Yates Anders (MD) is the coauthor, with her son David, a geriatrician, of Octogenarians Say the Darndest Things! (David Anders).
1955
Mario Sparagana (MD) (see ’51 undergraduate).
1970
Jonathan Samet (MD) has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Jonathan is the Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California’s medical school and director of the school’s Institute for Global Health.
1977
Andrew Scala (PhD) received a 2010 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He teaches general biology, microbiology, and genetics at Duchess Community College in Poughkeepsie. He’s been a member of the faculty there since 1983.
1979
Frank Edwards (MD) has published his first novel, Final Mercy (Zumaya Publications), a medical thriller. Frank is the founder and medical director of Delphi Emergency Physicians and a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
1985
Dennis Kraus (MD) (see ’81 undergraduate).
1986
Stephen Evangelisti (MD), ’92M (Res) (see ’97 undergraduate).
1987
Roger Di Pietro (Pdc) has written a book, The Depression Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Depression (Lulu, 2010), exploring low-level depressive disorders and their symptoms.
1989
Lucinda Martin Hemmick (PhD) (see ’56 Eastman).
1992
Stephen Evangelisti (Res) (see ’97 undergraduate).
1996
Natasha Muckova (Res) (see ’92 undergraduate).
2005
Jonathan Haymore (MD) has joined Inland Eye Center in Spokane, Wash.
2007
Mary DelBalso (MPH) (see ’04 undergraduate). 2011 Jason Salter (PhD) (see ’04 undergraduate).