Awards, Progress Notes and Obituaries

Awards & Honors

David A. Asch, MD, MBA’89, GME’87, executive director of the Center for Health Care Innovation, the John Morgan Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics & Health Policy, and a professor of Health Care Management and Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School, was awarded the Distinguished Investigator Award for Translation into Public Benefit and Policy by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science. This award recognizes a senior researcher who has successfully applied translational research findings into effective public policies that promote health or implementation and dissemination of translational solutions.

Justin E. Bekelman, MD, chief of Genitourinary Oncology Service, an associate professor of Radiation Oncology and Medical Ethics & Health Policy, and a senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, was named the winner of the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Control Award. This annual award recognizes major and unique contributions to cancer control. The Philadelphia Market of the American Cancer Society described Bekelman as “one of the most consequential cancer health services researchers in the United States who has achieved international distinction for his path-breaking scientific leadership in cancer comparative effectiveness and delivery system reform research.”

Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, the F.M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology, received the Sanford Foundation Lorraine Cross Award. The award honors someone who has pioneered a medical breakthrough, innovation, or treatment to transform global health, such as Bennett’s work to cure an inherited form of blindness. The Sanford Foundation notes, “It starts with a $1 million prize, and it continues with a life-changing impact for us all.”

Dan Constantino, chief Information Security officer, Gary Davidson, senior vice president and chief information officer of Lancaster General Health, Seth Fogie, director of Information Security, Dwight Hobbs, senior security engineer, and Andrea Thomas-Lloyd, MBA, CISSP, CHPS, director of Information Assurance, were honored at the IDG Communications, Inc., CSO50 Awards for their “Just in Time Awareness Project.” The awards recognize organizations that are raising the bar for innovation in security projects and initiatives.

Barry Fuchs, MD, a professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine and medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, Intermediate Medical Care Unit, and Respiratory Care Service, was awarded a Digital Edge 50 Award by IDG Communications, Inc. in recognition of his team’s work on the Awakening Breathing Coordination Program. The award highlights an organization at the forefront of digital transformation and innovation.

Gregory G. Ginsberg, MD, director of Endoscopic Services and a professor of Surgery and Medicine, was granted the Rudolf V. Schindler Award. The highest honor of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, this award is granted to a member whose accomplishments in endoscopic research, education, and service exemplify the standards and traditions of the award’s namesake.

Frederick S. Kaplan, MD, chief of Molecular Orthopaedic Medicine and the Isaac and Rose Nassau Professor of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine in Orthopaedic Surgery, earned the Grand Hamdan International Award on Musculoskeletal Disorders. This honor recognizes dedication to the alleviation of the suffering through exemplary research and service. Kaplan’s work investigating the rare diseases fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva and progressive osseous heteroplasia were described as having “challenged existing dogma far outside the usual realm of musculoskeletal medicine.”

Maureen G. Maguire, PhD, the Carolyn F. Jones Professor of Ophthalmology, received the Macula Society Lawrence J. Singerman Medal. This annual award is given to one outstanding society member for their contributions to the advancement of science through retinal clinical trials. Maguire was recognized for her work as the principal investigator of the coordinating center for several multi-site clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of age-related macular degeneration.

Virgina Man-Yee Lee, PhD, MBA’84, the John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer’s Research, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, and co-director of the Marian S. Ware Center for Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Program, won the Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research. Conferred by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the prize honors researchers who make exceptional contributions to Parkinson’s research and demonstrate a commitment to mentoring the next generation of Parkinson’s scientists. Lee is the first woman to be selected for the Pritzker Prize.

Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, an associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Genetics, won the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Federation for Medical Research. This award is presented annually to an AFMR member who has demonstrated intellectual and scientific independence and whose investigative biomedical research has provided innovative insight and had significant impact on a major scientific or clinical problem. Musunuru was also awarded the American Philosophical Society’s Judson Daland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Investigation in recognition of his work discovering and therapeutically targeting cardiovascular disease genes.

Maria A. Oquendo, MD, PhD, chair of Psychiatry and the Ruth Meltzer Professor of Psychiatry, was honored by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology with the Delores Shockley Minority Mentoring Award. The award recognizes a member of the ACNP whose passion and success in mentoring young scientists from underrepresented groups in the field have fostered a diverse medical and academic workforce.

Christoph Thaiss, PhD, an assistant professor of Microbiology, earned the Science & SciLife Lab Grand Prize for Young Scientists. This global prize rewards outstanding scientists at an early stage of their careers in translational medicine, genomics and proteomics, ecology and environment, or cell and molecular biology. The Grand Prize winner receives $30,000 and is published in Science Magazine.

Progress Notes

1970s

Robert J. Spiegel, MD’75 has been appointed to the board of directors of Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines based on cancer biology. He currently serves on the board of directors of Geron Corporation and Edge Therapeutics, Inc. He is the chairman of Vidac Pharma and former executive chairman of NexImmune, Inc., the president of Spiegel Consulting LLC, and an assistant professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also a senior advisor to the private equity firm Warburg Pincus and an advisor to the Israel Biotech Fund.

Robert E. Wenger, MD, BA’67, GME’75 has been named the head of mental health services at Life of Purpose Addiction Treatment Centers. In his distinguished professional career, he has pioneered and excelled in treating clients and their families suffering from mental health and behavioral health disorders, while in private practice as well as working with renowned addiction treatment centers, several located in the greater Philadelphia area. He holds several faculty appointments with University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, as well as Drexel University.

James (“Terry”) J. Ferguson, FACC, FAHA, MD’79 has been named the chief medical officer of Matinas BioPharma Holdings, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. He is a well-recognized, industry leading academic and clinical expert with over 25 years of experience in cardiovascular medicine.

Kevin H. Mosser, BA’75, MD’79 has been named senior medical consultant at the Lancaster-based law firm Saxton & Stump. Previously, he was the president and CEO of Wellspan Health, which consists of eight hospitals, 19,000 employees, and more than 170 patient-care sites.

1980s

James Beck, MD’84, GME’87, Lynn M. Schnapp, MD’86, GME’89, and Marc Moss, MD’87, GME’90 are currently in the executive committee at the American Thoracic Society, the world’s leading medical association dedicated to advancing pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Beck is the ATS president-elect and chief of medicine for the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, and professor and vice-chair for Veterans Affairs in the University of Colorado’s Department of Medicine. Schnapp is the ATS secretary-treasurer (ATS president 2021-22) and professor and division chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. Moss is the ATS immediate past president, and professor, interim chief, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine and vice chair for Clinical Research at the University of Colorado Department of Medicine.

Alan T. Wright, MD’82 has joined the board of directors of the Society for Women’s Health Research, a national medical and policy research nonprofit. He is currently the chief medical officer at Roche Diagnostics Corp., where he serves as a clinical spokesperson and medical advisor. Until 2005, he was the chairman and CEO of Star Pharmaceuticals, a firm he founded to serve the needs of urological patients.

Gene Z. Salkind, MD, BA’74, GME’85 has joined the board of directors of Mobiquity Technologies, a developer of mobile-based software-as-a-service platforms for advertising and data storage. He is a neurosurgeon and co-founder of his own practice, Bruno and Salkind, MD. He is heavily involved in biotechnology investment, having invested in two firms later sold to Johnson & Johnson and Abbvie. He is currently the chief of Neurosurgery at Holy Redeemer Hospital.

Helen Mary Kane Kuroki, MD’88, GME’91 has been named the chief medical officer at Women’s Care Florida, a network of experts in several women’s health specialties operating in sixty locations across central Florida. She comes to Women’s Care Florida from the Catholic Health Initiatives Memorial Healthcare System in Chattanooga, Tennessee where she served as chief medical officer.

1990s

Adam C. Husney, MD’90 has been named chief executive officer of Healthwise, a leader in evidence-based health education, technology, and services. He was named chief medical officer in 2016 and will continue to serve in that role. A board-certified family medicine physician, he completed his residency training at the University of Michigan He practiced at the Hitchcock Clinic in Concord, N.H., before moving to Idaho to work as an urgent-care physician. He joined Healthwise in 2000 as an associate medical director and later served as medical director.

Marc Jackson, MD, GME’91 has been appointed vice president of education at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). A graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, he completed his residency at the University of Texas in San Antonio and his maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

David Lawrence Nathan, MD’94 has been appointed chief medical advisor at 4Front Holdings, LLC, a leading retail and brand development company in the U.S. cannabis sector. He will serve as a liaison to the advisory board for Mission, 4Front's branded network of medical marijuana dispensaries, to ensure professional medical expertise remains central to 4Front's overall operations.

Michael J. Detke, MA’89, MD’96, PhD’98 has been added to the senior leadership team of Cortexyme Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage developer of therapeutics designed to alter the course of Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative disorders. He will serve as chief medical officer and will oversee both clinical development and regulatory affairs. He has extensive experience in drug development, having recently served as chief medical officer of Embera NeuroTherapeutics and as a senior medical director for the late-stage development of Cymbalta and Prozac.

Natalie R. Sacks, MD’96, GME’02 has been appointed chief medical officer at Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing a new class of T cell engaging therapeutics, and to the board of directors of Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a genome editing company. She most recently served as chief medical officer of Aduro Biotech, a company focused on the advancement of novel immuno-oncology technologies. She was an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and served as volunteer attending physician in Hematology-Oncology at San Francisco General Hospital for more than a decade. She serves as a board member for Zymeworks Inc. and Caribou Biosciences.

Tabassum Salam, MD’97 has been named the vice president for medical education at the American College of Physicians. She will be responsible for designing and implementing clinical education initiatives, representing ACP through external collaborations with medical education organizations, and advancing ACP’s medical education services through business and program management. Board certified in internal medicine, she joins ACP from Christiana Care Health System in Delaware, where she practiced general internal medicine and was medical director of Population Health, Utilization Management and Patient and Family Health Education. She is a current MBA candidate at Wharton (’20).

Tara D. Butler, BS’87, MBA’91, MD’98 has joined the board of directors at Renovia Inc., a company dedicated to discovering and delivering first-line digital therapeutic and diagnostic devices for women with pelvic floor disorders. She is a managing director at Ascension Ventures, which recently acted as a lead investor in Renovia’s Series B financing. She has been a board member or observer at various Ascension Ventures portfolio companies, including Apama Medical, Augmenix, Cardionomic, CHF Solutions, Confluent Surgical, CSA Medical, EBR Systems, EKOS Corporation, HemoSphere, Imperative Care, Instylla, Ivantis, MindFrame, Neurolutions, Ocular Therapeutix, Stereotaxis, and TomoTherapy.

2000s

Lara S. Sullivan, MD’01 has been appointed to the board of directors of Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing targeted therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. She has also been appointed to serve as chair of the newly formed Business Development Committee of the board. She is a founder and previous president of SpringWorks Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm. She previously served as a vice president of Pfizer from 2011 until 2017. In this role she led strategy and portfolio operations for the company’s early-stage products. She previously served as an associate principal in the pharmaceutical and medical products practice at McKinsey & Company.

Jay R. Vankatesan, MD’02, PhD’02 has been appointed president and chief executive officer at Angion Biomedica Corp., a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on kidney diseases and other acute organ injuries. He is also a managing partner at Alpine BioVentures, a biotechnology venture capital fund. Prior to Angion, he served as president of Alpine Immune Sciences and where he remains on its board of directors.

Tapan Nitin Maniar, MD’03, GME’10, GR’11 has been appointed vice president of clinical development at Torque, an immuno-oncology company developing Deep Primed™ T Cell Therapeutics to direct immune power deep within the tumor microenvironment. He was senior director of clinical development at Atara Biotherapeutics, where he led clinical development of several allogeneic T cell therapy programs for oncology and autoimmune diseases.

Anand Prabhakar, MD’04, MBA’16 has been named the chair of Radiology at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Wellesley, Mass. He was previously a staff radiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Division of Emergency Radiology. He is also an assistant professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Before this experience, he was the associate medical director of radiology at Nantucket Cottage Hospital and associate director of the Center for Research in the Emergency Department Operations at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Samuel Hahn, MD’09 has opened the Maryland Center for Facial Plastic Surgery in Hunt Valley, Md. Led by him, the surgical facility will specialize in facial plastic surgery and medical spa treatments for both cosmetic and reconstructive purposes. He is a member of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and is an author of several peer reviewed studies on facial surgery.

2010

Kathrin Bourdeu, MD, PhD, GME’10 has been named chief of anesthesia at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. She earned her medical degree and a PhD in neuro-anatomy from the University of Cologne in Germany. Her clinical training includes internships in France, Canada and the U.S. and residency training in anesthesia at the University of Pennsylvania. At the University of Pennsylvania, she received a Resident of the Year Award and subsequently served on the medical staff for two years, specializing in thoracic anesthesia. She is currently an instructor in anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.

Janet Haas, MD, GME’10 has joined the National Audubon Society Board of Directors. In addition to her work with the foundation, she practices palliative medicine at the Abramson Cancer Center of Pennsylvania Hospital. She also serves as Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, Morris Arboretum and the Free Library of Philadelphia, and is on the board of advisors for Audubon’s newest nature center in Philadelphia, the Discovery Center.

Obituaries

1940s

Mark J. Ciccantelli, MD’45, a physician; Jan. 1. He served the Milwaukee area as a physician for over four decades. He served in the US Army Medical Corps and was discharged as a captain in 1948. He started his medical career as a general practitioner in East Troy, Wisc. He did a residency in internal medicine at Milwaukee VA Medical Center, and in 1957, joined the Clinic of Internal Medicine in Wauwatosa. He was affiliated during his career with a number of area hospitals, including St. Luke’s, West Allis Memorial and St. Mary’s, where he was Director of Medical Education from 1959 to 1972 and spent one year as chief of Medicine at the VA Butler (Pa.) Healthcare. In 1976, he became director of the family practice residency program at Deaconess & Good Samaritan Hospitals. He returned to private practice in the 1980s and finished his career with the Clinic of Internal Medicine.

Arthur M. Coddington, MD’46, a pediatrician; Dec. 29. He graduated from Princeton University in 1943 majoring in biology in preparation for medical school. After medical school, he completed an internship at Robert Packer Hospital. He then served as a U.S. Army Captain during peacetime in Japan and Korea as a medic. Afterwards, he completed two residencies, one in pathology at Robert Packer and another in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. In 1952, he established a private practice in pediatrics in Johnson City. He opened Tier Acne Clinics in 1990. At various points in time, he was physician for Johnson City and Binghamton school districts, worked overnights in the ER at Wilson UHS, and part-time at the Binghamton University Health Services Center.

Milton M. Yarmy, MD, GME’46, a physician; Dec. 11. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. He obtained his medical degree from Wayne State School of Medicine in Detroit. He completed his graduate work in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He was certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He was on the staff of Northside Hospital and served on its board for many years. He was a member of the Mahoning County Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and a life member of the American College of Physicians.

Wiley Kemp Livingston, Sr., MD’47, GME’51, an ophthalmologist; Feb. 13. He attended Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Michigan, where he received his A.B. degree. He attended the University of Alabama Medical School in Tuscaloosa for basic medical sciences and received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he was a member of Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity. He interned at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and served his ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute at John Hopkins Hospital. He was certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and elected a fellow in the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and later a life member and a fellow in the American College of Surgeons. During the Korean conflict he served as chief (captain), Eye Section, U.S. Army Hospital, Fort Campbell, Ky. Following this, he returned to Birmingham where he practiced ophthalmology until his retirement in 1987.

Burton Tabakin, BA’43, MD’47, GME’49, a retired professor of Medicine in cardiology; Sept. 2. He earned his bachelor's and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Following completion of his residency training in internal medicine and fellowship in Physiology at the University of Vermont in 1952, he spent two years as a medical officer in the US Air Force Hospital Thoracic Center in San Antonio, Texas. In 1954 he returned to Vermont where he became a member of the Mary Fletcher Hospital staff. Apart from two sabbaticals—one in 1970-71 as visiting professor at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the second in 1980-81 as visiting professor at Harvard's Boston Children's Hospital—he spent his entire career at UVM-Mary Fletcher-MCHV-Fletcher Allen Health Center.

Marian Bosien, MD’48, an anesthesiologist; Oct. 11. She graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1944 and from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1948. After her internship at St Luke's Hospital in Cleveland, she completed her residency in anesthesiology at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, N.H. She served on faculty of Dartmouth Medical School. In 1954, she moved to Tryon, N.C. where she began her medical practice and established Tryon Medical Associates to meet the health care needs of Polk County. She practiced anesthesiology until retirement in 1986. She also served on the St. Luke’s Hospital governing board of trustees from 1984 to1992.

Faith Cramer Walsh, MD’48, a neurologist; Sept. 26. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1948 and started her medical practice as a neurologist in 1955. After spending her time doctoring in Morristown and Woodbury N.J., she retired to the Jersey Shore in 1991.

Robert Heal, MD’49, a physician; Sept. 25. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII, and attended Drexel Institute, Illinois Tech., and University of Minnesota. He graduated from the University of South Dakota School of Medicine with a BS degree in Medicine in 1947 and a MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1949. After graduation, he interned at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Indianapolis and had a general practice residency at Chester Hospital in Pennsylvania. He practiced family medicine there for 35 years, retiring in 1989.

1950s

Claude B. Henderson, MD’50, a psychiatrist; Oct. 11. He entered the Navy V12 program at Franklin and Marshall College, graduating with a BA. He went to medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. Following internship and residency, he served as a Navy medical officer (MD) for several years. Leaving active duty, he worked as a psychiatrist, first for the state of Florida in private practice, and later with the Veteran’s Administration. Additionally, he served from time to time in the Navy Reserve, Army Reserve, and Florida National Guard, retiring from there as a Colonel.

Elizabeth Bishop Connell, BA’47, MD’51, a professor emeritus; Aug. 20. She was a researcher with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She helped open a women’s health clinic in East Harlem in the 1960s that is still active today as part of New York City’s public hospital system, and she argued in favor of legalizing abortion well before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. She also raised concerns about the risks of breast implants when she led a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s medical college in 1951. She began her medical career as a general practitioner. After training in surgery, she specialized in obstetrics and gynecology. In 1960, she moved to New York to complete a residency at Mount Sinai Hospital. She also joined the faculty at Columbia. In 1981, she joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Emory University. She earned emeritus status in 2008.

Philip E. Duffy, MD, GME’52, a neuropathology professor; Sept. 21. He was a longtime professor at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and the discoverer of the mystery of ballet dancer George Balanchine's death. A graduate of Columbia College, and then of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, he interned at the Long Island Division of King's County Hospital, and served a residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a veteran of World War II, and served as captain during the Korean conflict. He was a professor, and later Director of the Division of Neuropathology at Columbia Medical School.

Joseph T. Michels, MD’52, an obstetrician/gynecologist; Aug. 30. He attended Mount St. Mary's College in Emmmitsburg, Md., and earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He chose OB/GYN as his specialty, for which he trained at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore. He continued to practice there for over 40 years and participated in many hospital committees. He served as chief of staff at Mercy Hospital and president of the Maryland OB/GYN Society. He also served as a U.S. Air Force doctor from 1955 to 1956 in Tacoma, Wash.

Philip “Rapid” Walling Brown, Jr., MD’53, PhD, a physician; Sept. 19. After two years at Dartmouth Medical School, he completed his last two years at the University of Pennsylvania, before interning at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital. Two more years of active duty followed, before he began his residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic in 1956. Four years later, he was invited to join the staff. Research completed during this period led to his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1966. For more than 35 years, he practiced medicine and gastroenterology.

Joseph Smith Bennett IV, MD’54, GME’60, a physician; Feb. 3. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut in 1950. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and earned his medical degree in 1954. He held various positions including a rotating internship at Abington Memorial Hospital, internal medicine residencies at Pennsylvania Hospital and the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital, and a gastroenterology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps. He was the president of the medical staff at Paoli Memorial Hospital. In 1958, he founded his private practice which he grew until his retirement in 1997.

Edward Robert Dickstein, BS’50, MD’54, a physician; Dec. 3. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He was a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps from 1954 to 1957, making 18 round trips from the United States to Germany as medical officer onboard. After his discharge from the Navy, he held residencies in internal medicine at the VA Hospital in Philadelphia, and at Philadelphia General Hospital, where he was awarded a fellowship from the American Heart Association. He was board certified in internal medicine with a sub-specialty in cardiology, and practiced medicine in Los Angeles for 55 years.

E. Ralph Heinz, MD’55, a pediatric neuroradiologist; Nov. 11. He attended West Virginia University. He was elected class president at University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and became chief resident in Medicine at Philadelphia General Hospital. He then became one of the first group of neuroradiology trainees in the U.S. at Columbia University. He went on to become the Chief of Special Procedures at Emory University, Chief of Neuroradiology at Yale University and ultimately, chair of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh. He moved to Duke University to head the Neuroradiology division in 1978.

Nicholas Z. Kafoglis, MD’56, a politician; Feb. 9. He earned his BA from Yale University in 1952. After completing medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, he served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps. He established his medical practice in Bowling Green, Ky. In 1971, he ran for and was elected to the Kentucky General Assembly. In 1986, he ran for and won the 32nd District seat in the Kentucky State Senate, representing Warren and Logan counties. He was elected Senate Majority Caucus Chair by his colleagues.

Ruth Addis Marcucci, MD, GME’58, a pediatrician; Sept. 17. She had a private practice in pediatrics from 1962 to 1993. She worked at Meadowbrook Pediatrics from 1994 to 1996. Educated at Temple University, Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania Medical School, she was class president for one year at Penn. She served her residency at Women’s Medical College Hospital of Germantown.

1960s

Joseph Woolwich, BS’49, MD’61, GME’64, an anesthesiologist; Oct. 8. He was a Private First Class in the U.S. Army during WWII. He completed his mechanical engineering degree at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1949. He continued as an Army reservist, from 1948 to 1953, achieving the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and graduated in 1961. He did his internship at Abington Hospital and then completed his residency in anesthesia at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then obtained certifications as a diplomate and then a fellow from the American Board of Anesthesiology and the American College of Anesthesiologists. He worked at the anesthesiology group at Monmouth Medical Center where he practiced anesthesia until his retirement in 1990. He was an assistant clinical professor of Medicine at Hahnemann Medical College from 1982 to 1990.

F. Gene Braun, MD, GME’62, an ophthalmologist; Oct. 28. He was a proud graduate of North Catholic High School. He went to the University of Pittsburgh and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and went on to complete medical school at University of Pittsburgh. He then did his internship at Shadyside Hospital. Following his internship, he proudly served his country in the Public Health Service as the ship’s doctor and then as a doctor at an Indian Reservation in Lawton, Oklahoma. He then completed his ophthalmology residency at Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania. He established his practice in Dallas.

J. Garry Beidler, MD’62, GME’67, a dermatologist; Dec. 30. He graduated from Bucknell University in 1958 and received an MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962. He completed his medical residency while serving in the U.S. Navy. He practiced dermatology in Chambersburg for 30 years.

Nile R. Lestrange, MD’62, an orthopaedic surgeon; Dec. 11. He graduated from Mount Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh, Pa., Bucknell University (magna cum laude), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, served as Captain in the U.S. Army, and completed a residency in orthopaedics at the University of Pittsburgh. He relocated to Fort Lauderdale and practiced Orthopaedics in Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach from 1970 until shortly before his death.

Richard H. Rothman, BA’58, MD’62, PhD, an orthopaedic surgeon; Oct. 21. He was the founder of the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute and one of the first American surgeons to do hip replacements. He went to college and earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and later received a PhD in anatomy at Thomas Jefferson University. In 1969, he traveled to England to train under Sir John Charnley, an early surgical pioneer in performing hip replacements. He served as the editor-in-chief and later emeritus editor of The Journal of Arthroplasty. He developed the Accolade total hip system. He served as vice chairman of the board of trustees at Thomas Jefferson University, and as a former trustee of the College of General Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also on the Board of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Joseph H. Edgar, Jr., MD’63, a physician; Jan. 9. He attended Rutgers University and received BS in Political Science in 1954. After the Army, he returned to Rutgers to earn a pre-med degree. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1963 and served as rotating intern at Philadelphia General Hospital. After three years in Internal Medicine at the VA Hospital in Philadelphia, he trained in cardiology at Maine Medical Center. He had a private practice in internal medicine and cardiology for 30 years in Portland. He served as president of the Maine division of the American Heart Association.

Wade B. Hammer, DDS, GME’63, an oral surgeon; Sept. 2. He served for four years as a naval corpsman, after which he entered the University of Florida majoring in biology. He attended the Emory University School of Dentistry in Atlanta and graduated with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. After practicing dentistry in Orange Park, Florida, he was accepted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine specializing in Oral Surgery. He completed his residency at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and then practiced in Atlanta for several years where he served on staff at several Atlanta hospitals. In the late ‘60s, he was recruited by the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry where he worked for 25 years until he retired in 1993, earning the title of Professor Emeritus of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. During this time he also served in positions at the Augusta VA, the University Hospital and the Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Ft. Gordon. He was a member of the US Army Reserve as an oral surgeon from which he retired in 1993, at the rank of Colonel.

David B. Schaffer, MD’63, GME’67, an ophthalmologist; Nov. 4. He was a Major in the U.S. Army Reserve. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine. He was still in his residency when the late Dr. Harold G. Scheie named him the director of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He remained its department chair until his retirement. He was an accomplished medical photographer, co-authoring textbooks that included his medical photos. He was a member of the editorial and executive committees for the 1985 – 1999 Multicenter Trial and Outcome Study of Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity.

Edward Armistead Talman, MD, GME’64, a surgeon; Oct. 31. He was a graduate the University of Virginia where he was Phi Beta Kappa and president of the Student Council. After graduating from UVA Medical School and following an internship in Boston, he served two years as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He subsequently completed a five-year surgical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with Dr Jonathan Rhoads. In 1966, he joined the Surgical Associates of Richmond in the practice of general surgery. He served on the board of Chippenham-Johnston Willis Hospital for 30 years and was chief of Surgery at Johnston Willis for 11 years. He was a member of the Southern Surgical Association and president of the Virginia Surgical Society and the Eastern Surgical Society. Although he gladly accepted his appointment as clinical professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Virginia, VCU, he was a non-academic community surgeon.

Matthew P. Mackay-Smith, GME’65; an equine veterinarian; Dec. 8. He went to Harvard University, where he earned his bachelor of arts degree in 1953. He received his degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Georgia in 1958, and went on to earn a master’s degree in orthopedics and epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. He was the first large animal intern at the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine, where he taught for seven years. In 1967, he founded the Delaware Equine Center. Between 1961 and 2001, Mackay-Smith was the author/co-author of 22 professional papers and lectured widely on a host of equine veterinary subjects. He joined the American Association of Equine Practitioners in 1961 and served on the organization’s Ethics, Racetrack, Education, Prepurchase, and Farrier Liaison committees. In 1977, while maintaining his medical practice, he became medical editor for the newly founded EQUUS magazine.

Michael Weintraub, BS’61, MD’65, a consultant; Aug. 21. After receiving two degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, he moved to Los Angeles for his internship in internal medicine at UCLA. In 1966, he joined the Peace Corps to serve as a physician in West Africa. In 1970, he moved to Rochester, N.Y. for a fellowship in clinical pharmacology. For over twenty years, he practiced clinical pharmacology at Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester. In 1992, he became the director of the FDA's Office of Drug Evaluation. After six years in the Washington, D.C. area, he returned to Rochester, where he worked as a consultant.

Colen C. Heinritz. Sr., MD, GME’66, a gastroenterologist; Dec. 11. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1951 with his first Bachelor of Science in biology. After serving in the army, he went on to receive his Bachelor of Science in pharmacy in 1958 and his Doctor of Medicine in 1962 from the University of Maryland. He completed his fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1966 specializing in gastroenterology. In 1967, he completed his residency in medicine at South Baltimore General Hospital (Harbor Hospital) where he went on to serve as chairman of the Gastroenterology Department, chief of staff, director of Continuing Medical Education, director of Internal Medicine, and director of the Transitional Residency Program.

Paul Harold Arkema, MD’67, a clinical associate professor; June 17, 2018. He graduated from Princeton University (magna cum laude) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He trained in psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center and was a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He graduated from the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute as an analyst, and won its Felix and Helene Deutsch Prize in 1988. He was the resident premedical advisor at Winthrop House, Harvard College, and served in the Navy at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital (1971-1973), attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He practiced adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry at Westwood Lodge Hospital from 1973 until its closure in 2017. He was a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, and was recognized by the American Psychiatric Association with its Roeske Certificate for Excellence in Medical Student Education.

Gerrit J. Blauvelt, MD’67, GME’69, a psychiatrist; Nov. 11. He practiced medicine in San Francisco for nearly 50 years, beginning as an intern at Pacific Presbyterian in 1967. He was a member of the San Francisco and Northern California Psychiatric Societies and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and served as an associate clinical professor at UCSF, where he taught the art of medicine. He was educated at University School, Yale College, and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He continued his education with a psychiatric residency at Langley Porter, UCSF, followed by a fellowship. He served for 20 years as medical director of a geriatric program at the San Francisco Family Service Agency.

Edward T. Flynn, Jr., MD’67, a research associate professor of anesthesia; Feb. 9. He graduated from Farmington High School in 1959 and from Trinity College in Hartford in 1963. He then moved to Philadelphia where he earned his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. Following medical school, he joined the US Navy and embarked on a 27-year active duty career that included internship, and residency training in anesthesiology at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda Md., and fellowship training in respiratory physiology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He retired from active duty in 1994 as the Commanding Officer of the Naval Medical Research and Development Command. He was twice awarded the Legion of Merit. Following retirement, he was appointed a research associate professor of Anesthesia at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Patricia A. Gulbrandsen, MD’67, GME’71, a physician; Dec. 9. She received her BA from Cornell, MD from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and MPH from Johns Hopkins. She did numerous residencies. She spent two years in England at Chelsey Hospital doing research. She was also recognized as a fellow by the Board of Occupational Medicine. She served in the Army as a Lt Col. in the Medical Corp.

1970s

Daniel A. Nesi, MD, GME’72; an otolaryngologist; Sept. 14. He was the former chief of staff at Doylestown Hospital. He served in the U.S. Army as the sole ENT surgeon for 25,000 troops and dependents. He was honored by Temple Medical School for his dedication, generosity and commitment to medicine and the donation of the Robert V. Nesi Student Union at Temple Medical School in honor of his late son and family. He also founded the Ann Silverman Health Clinic of Doylestown.

Sally J. Boyson, MD’79, GME’80,’83,’95, a neurologist; Oct. 2. She was educated at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. She was an assistant professor of Neurology and Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania and later the University of Colorado, and volunteered teaching at the VA Hospital for many years.

1980s

Daniel A. Laurent, MD’81, a urologist; Nov. 27. He was a graduate of The United Nations International School, Brown University, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He did his internship and residency in Washington, D.C., at the Georgetown University Medical Center and the George Washington University Hospital. After completing his residency, he opened his urology practice at Reston Hospital in 1987 where he practiced for 31 years. He served on the Reston Hospital board of trustees for 23 years and was board chair for eight years.

Kenneth Alan Bernhard, MD’82, a cardiologist; Dec. 14. He was a graduate of Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He served his internship and residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital and his fellowship in Cardiology at the University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. He worked as a cardiologist in Pittsburgh at Montefiore Hospital and in Allentown and Bethlehem. He worked at the Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic in Allentown where he was an advocate for the veterans.

Faculty

Sally J. Boyson, MD. See Class of 1979.

Edward T. Flynn, Jr., MD. See Class of 1967.

Robert (Bob) Gelfand, senior investigator and assistant director of core systems at the Institute for Environmental Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine; Aug. 26. He joined the Navy in 1946 and served in the Navy Reserves from 1948 to 1953 while attending Yale University, receiving a bachelor’s in engineering in 1952 and a master’s in electrical engineering in 1954. He joined the team led by undersea and aerospace researcher Christian Lambertsen, MD at the University of Pennsylvania, where he would spend his entire career. He started as an instrument designer appointed through the Moore School of Electrical Engineering (now SEAS) and was appointed assistant instructor, instructor, and associate in the Department of Pharmacology, and engineering supervisor, assistant director for Bioengineering, senior investigator, and assistant director for Core Systems in the Institute for Environmental Medicine. He served as project leader and principal investigator for projects associated with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and was collaborating investigator for U.S. Navy Hyperoxia and NASA Research Projects.

James B. Hoyme, MD, a psychiatrist; Aug. 17. He graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1957 and received his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1959. He completed his psychiatric residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1965. He served as a commander in the US Naval Reserve at Camp Lejeune, N.C. from 1967 to 1969, then taught at the UND School of Medicine from 1970 to 1973 and was instrumental in starting several outpatient satellite psychiatric facilities in N.D. He then moved on to the faculty of the Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston from 1973 to 1984. In 1984, he became the medical director of the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital until 1996 and remained in private practice in Philadelphia through 2015. He was a member of the American Psychiatric Association and a Senior Examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Harold Kolansky, MD, professor of psychiatry; Aug. 23. He practiced and taught psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Philadelphia for more than 65 years. He was most recently the director of the Center for Psychoanalysis at Albert Einstein Medical Center and cinical professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.

Arthur “Drew” William Mellen, IV, MD, an obstetrician/gynecologist; Oct. 27. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy (’72) before matriculating to Harvard College (’76). He then studied medicine at Jefferson Medical College (’80), after which he completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital, where he went on to practice as a physician for 33 years.