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On the coverWakendaTyler, M.D., M.P.H., and hermentor, Regis O’Keefe, M.D., Ph.D.,discuss a proceedure.

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Mark B. Taubman, M.D.Dean of the School of Medicineand Dentistry, Vice Presidentfor Health Sciences

Those of us who have been fortunate enough to find even one good mentorknow how critical that can be to our individual success. Good mentors helpus discover who we really are, and how we can best use our unique skill sets,talents, and passion. Most important, good mentors empower us to makea positive difference in the world. We think of our mentors with enduringsentiment, and we consider them to be cornerstones of our own achievement.Without our mentors, we would not be where we are today.

However, many people fail to recognize thatgood mentors do more than help individu-als succeed. They are critical to the successof entire organizations, including theUniversity of Rochester Medical Center.Good mentors are effective leaders, and theyunderstand the importance of investing inhuman capital. They set high standards, anddevelop others to uphold these standards foryears to come. They attract the best and thebrightest protégés, bringing enormous tal-ent into our classrooms, clinical settings,and research labs. Without the mentors inour midst, URMC would not be the leadinginnovator that it is.

For instance, in The Makings of a GoodMentor, you’ll meet Supriya Mohile, M.D.,M.S., who is breaking ground as one of thenation’s top geriatric oncologists. It is anemerging specialty, so mentors are hard tofind. But she found them here. She has nowbecome a mentor herself and she is attract-ing new talent, helping URMC become anearly standout in this growing field.

LIVE with Regis and Wakenda also high-lights the power of a good mentor to attractrising stars. Every year, we receive nearly500 applications for seven residency spotsin Orthopaedic Surgery. That’s in large partbecause Regis J. O’Keefe, M.D., Ph.D., has

For the most part, leaders in health care have been self-selecting. Theydecided they wanted to be leaders and they went for it, emulating othersto rise to the top of their profession. They run their domain — whetherit is a department or division, operating room, or clinic. They provide thevision, organization, and motivation, and others follow them. However,our increasingly complex and changeable world is demanding something new.

As we move toward team-based medicineand new accountability measures, everymedical student, resident, and fellow wesend out into the world must possess leader-ship skills. Each one should be prepared towork effectively in an interprofessionalgroup of providers; the group members willmake interrelated decisions that are essentialto producing high quality results at the low-est possible cost. This is a different kind ofleadership, and not one any of our futureclinicians can opt out of.

It’s also not something that comes natu-rally to everyone, so it cannot be left tochance. This type of leadership must, atleast to some degree, be taught. I’m thrilledURMC’s Institute for Innovative Education(IIE) is beginning to develop a leadershipcurriculum, which will formalize leadershiptraining and provide our learners with

necessary skills.This is very exciting and innovative,

but there’s a caveat. A leadership curriculum,in and of itself, will never produce greatleaders. To do that, we also need mentors.

As you’ll find in this issue of RochesterMedicine, mentors are not a new-fanglednotion. In The Makings of a Good Mentor wetrace mentoring back thousands of years. InGirls Don’t Do That, we profile Carol Coop-erman Nadelson (MD ’61), who has beenmentoring women in medicine for decades.And Tradition: A Noble Guide explores theways our school’s founding dean left a lastingimpact on the lives of his students.

It’s refreshing to see at least one old-fash-ioned idea remains relevant in this era ofrapid change. And while we cannot possiblyhighlight every great mentor we have at theUniversity of Rochester, we salute them all.

such a strong, national reputation asa mentor for residents and junior faculty.Wakenda Tyler, M.D., M.P.H., who is devel-oping an outstanding research programat URMC, can attest to this. Despite somevery attractive offers from other institutions,she came here from Johns Hopkins to bementored by Dr. O’Keefe.

Good mentors lead by example, soI’m happy to share my own experiencesas a mentor in Global Reach. As CEO, I amspending a lot of time mentoring faculty aswe adapt to the new environment in healthcare and academic medicine. But over theyears, I have mentored dozens of youngscientists and watched them excel in waysthey never imagined. Along the way, they’vechallenged me too — asking me questionsI didn’t know the answers to, and inspiringme to keep learning and embrace change.And this symbiotic relationship is perhapsthe most important reason to recognize,support, and expand great mentoringrelationships within URMC. Change isinevitable, and often daunting. But whenour leaders and learners come togetherin unselfish pursuit of professional andpersonal excellence, URMC continues toreach new heights.

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4 e Makings of a Good MentorDefining a successful mentoring relationship

10 LIVE with Regis and WakendaQ&A with Regis J. O’Keefe, M.D., Ph.D., andWakenda Tyler, M.D., M.P.H.

14 Global ReachBradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D., influencing scientific discoveryaround the world

18 Seven Years with Dr. DailorAnesthesiology resident Falan Mouton, M.D.,writes about her mentor

20 Girls Don’t Do atCarol C. Nadelson, M.D., breaks barriers for women in medicine

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Strategic PlanunveiledAs the nation’s 123 academic medicalcenters grapple with dramatic changes inhealth care, the University of RochesterMedical Center is positioning itself forsuccess with a comprehensive, newstrategic plan called i-QUEST.“We’re in a unique moment,” says

CEO Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D. “Wehave to change the way we think abouthow we deliver health care and how wemeasure its outcomes.”The strategic plan outlines six

initiatives related to clinical care,research, and education. These include:

Expand andTransformURMC is establishing relationships withphysicians and hospitals between Buffaloand Syracuse, and south to the Penn-sylvania border, to provide a full continuumof care to a broader base of patients.

Create an Integrated CultureURMC is aligning the goals and incentivesof all its many components,to increase efficiency and consistency.

Develop Platforms for InnovationURMC is developing educational modelsand investing in new tools to continuebeing a national leader in academicmedicine.

Develop Programs of ExcellenceURMC is identifying areas that helpdistinguish the Medical Center fromits peers and competitors.

Build EnablingTechnologiesURMC is investing in facilities, tech-nologies, and people to prepare for thefuture.

Financial SustainabilityURMC is developing financial models thatinclude strategic investments, a height-ened emphasis on financial sustainability,and the removal of excess costs.

NPR, the BBC, and NBC are among themany national and international newsoutlets reporting on a recent study led byUniversity of Rochester researcherMaiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc.Her team’s investigation showed a

recently discovered system that flusheswaste from the brain is primarily activeduring sleep.This revelation couldtransform scientists’ understanding of thebiological purpose of sleep, and point to

Strong Memorial Hospital’s KesslerTrauma Center is among the first in NewYork State to receive Level Oneverification from the American College ofSurgeons (ACS) Committee onTrauma.“This shows Kessler is prepared to

handle even the toughest cases,” saysMark Gestring, M.D., trauma medicaldirector. “We have a fantastic team andfacility, available around the clock.”More than 1,900 injured patients are

admitted to the Kessler Trauma Centerevery year. The multidisciplinary traumateam consists of doctors, nurses, andtechnicians who specialize in traumacare. Hospital facilities include a helipad,a large emergency department, adedicated 16-bed trauma intensive careunit, well-equipped operating rooms,and modern rehabilitation facilities.In addition to the clinical mission, theKessler Trauma Center is activelyengaged in injury prevention, regionaloutreach, trauma provider education,and trauma system leadership.

KesslerTrauma CenterreceivesACS verification

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new ways to treat neurological disorders.“This study shows that the brain has

different functional states when asleepand when awake,” says Nedergaard, co-director of the URMC Center forTranslational Neuromedicine. “In fact, therestorative nature of sleep appears to bethe result of the active clearance of theby-products of neural activity thataccumulate during wakefulness.”The study, which was published in the

A clean sleep: Sleep drives metabolite cleansing

Media BonusTo find media coverage of this study,go to RochesterMedicine.urmc.edu

For complete details, along with ani-QUEST video featuring interviewswith leaders of the Medical Center,go to RochesterMedicine.urmc.edu

journal Science, revealed that the brain’sunique method of waste removal –dubbed the glymphatic system – is highlyactive during sleep, clearing away toxinscontributing to Alzheimer’s disease andother neurological disorders. Further-more, the researchers found the brain’scells reduce in size during sleep, allowingwaste to be removed more effectively.


UR Medicine pulls clinical services together

Wilmot Cancer Center, 5th FloorWilmot Cancer Center’s newly renovatedfifth floor opened its door to patients inMarch.The 27,000-square-foot space boasts28 private rooms, the latest in medicaltechnology, and such comforts as sleepersofas, large windows, spacious familywaiting areas, and a solarium.Wilmotsought input from patients and familieswhen designing the space, whichcompletes a vertical expansion of theCancer Center and pulls all cancer-relatedclinical services from across the Universityto a central location.

Hospital CEO SteveGoldstein amongsmartest in health care”

Becker’s Hospital Review has namedSteve Goldstein, CEO of Strong Memorialand Highland Hospitals, one of the40 Smartest People in Health Care.”The list denotes individuals who areuniquely qualified to lead the way inhealth care reform. Goldstein alsoteaches public health science at theSchool of Medicine and Dentistry.

Golisano Children’s HospitalThe exterior is nearly complete on theUniversity’s Golisano Children’s Hospital,which will provide children and familiesin the region with the best possibleenvironment for healing. Among themost exciting features of the new,245,000-square-foot building are the manyunique spaces planned for gathering,playing, and finding respite.When the$145 million building opens in 2015, it willbe attached to the Medical Center andStrong Memorial Hospital and will haveeight floors.

CollegeTownCollegeTown is a mixed-usedevelopment rising on 16 acres ofUniversity-owned land adjacent to theMedical Center. The first phase ofconstruction, to be completed in October,consists of a Barnes & Noble bookstore,a 136-room hotel and conference center,a grocery store, restaurants, andboutiques, with office space andresidential units on the upper floors.At full development, the $90 millionproject will create a pedestrian-scaleddistrict that will serve as a gateway tothe University and the Medical Center.

Update on construction and renovation at the Medical Center

In an effort to bring clarity, consistency,and visibility to its growing network ofhealth care providers, the University ofRochester is introducing a new brandwithin the Greater Rochester region.UR Medicine describes all of the clinicalsites affiliated with the University,including hospitals, labs, physicianpractices, nursing homes, and outpatienttreatment centers. Previously, theselocations were simply referred to as partof the University of Rochester MedicalCenter, or URMC.“But consumer research shows area

residents considered URMC ‘a place’rather than a network delivering carein dozens of locations throughout the

region,” says Karl Withers, chiefmarketing officer. “UR Medicine speaksto the care patients experience, ratherthan the location where they receive it.”The distinctive UR Medicine logo helps

patients easily identify services connectedto the University and its high standard ofpatient and family care.The new brandwas unveiled in local television spotsduring half-time of Super Bowl XLVIII.The commercials featured real physiciansand patients, as well as music composedand performed by faculty members fromthe Eastman School of Music.

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While diverse and difficult to define,successful mentoring relationshipsare easy to recognize at the School ofMedicine andDentistry. They are symbioticin nature, having a powerful impact onboth the mentor andmentee. And theyhelp the organization grow.

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n Homer’s classic tale, The Odyssey, the character namedMentor appears most often as a god in disguise rather thana mere mortal. By all outwardly appearances, mentors at theUniversity of Rochester are human, but some of their protégésmight occasionally wonder if there is a vein of truth to the

ancient Greek legend. Drawing profound reverence and gratitude,a good mentor is often considered sacred to one’s professional, andsometimes even personal, development.

Beyond the hallowed nature of these pairings, however, theworldly characteristics of a fruitful mentoring relationship are impos-sible to describe in succinct fashion. Gary R. Morrow, Ph.D., M.S.,who has been nationally recognized for his mentoring abilities, sayseach relationship develops a life of its own, so a single definitionwon’t suffice.

“Mentoring is not a follow the rules, check the boxes, cookiecutter sort of thing,” says Morrow, Dean’s Professor of Oncology,professor of Surgery, and principal investigator on eight cancercontrol grants totaling more than $40 million. “It’s more of a philo-sophic approach to showing you genuinely care about someone else’swell-being.”

Vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity VivianLewis, M.D., supports mentoring efforts in all six schools at theUniversity of Rochester, and she’s on the Mentoring Development

committee at the University’s Clinical and Translational ScienceInstitute (CTSI). Funded by the National Institutes of Health, Lewisis in the midst of analyzing data from a mentoring study involving11 universities and colleges. But even she doesn’t offer a concise inter-pretation.

“The word ‘mentoring’ has many meanings,” says Lewis, who isalso an Obstetrics and Gynecology professor in the School of Medi-cine and Dentistry. “As a school, we haven’t tried to define it. It variesbetween departments and according to what the needs are.”

Because needs change during the lifespan of a career, Lewis says itis unlikely one person can fulfill all of the mentoring roles that stimu-late academic and professional growth. People who discover thevalue of a mentor rarely stop at just one. Mentors become like rungson an extension ladder, providing ongoing assistance for the climb.

“These aren’t just good teachers,” says Mark B. Taubman, M.D.,dean of School of Medicine and Dentistry. “A lot more goes intobecoming a good mentor.”

A 2,000 Year-Old PrototypeNicholas Gresens, Ph.D., lecturer in Classics on the RiverCampus, easily ticks off the parts played by Homer’s Mentor.He encourages Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, yet he is also comfortablecriticizing him. He offers him advice, and helps him form plans.

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Mentoring involves two of the most importantwords in the English language: Follow me.”Gary R. Morrow, Ph.D., M.S.

Gary Morrow, Ph.D., M.S., (left) withSupriya Mohile, M.D., M.S. (right)

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He coaxes and guides. He provides a connection to the past,and he’s a parental figure while Odysseus is away,” Gresens says, paus-ing briefly before launching in again. “At the end, Mentor is the onewho tells Odysseus and Telemachus to stop fighting, so he mediatesbetween various parties. He’s the calm one, far enough removed fromthe current state of affairs to look at it in a more rational way.”

While it’s uncertain if the word “mentor” originated fromThe Odyssey or a later French text, Homer’s character exemplifies anumber of the roles mentors take on today, more than 2,000 yearsafter the poem was believed to have been composed. Every mentor issome combination of role model, teacher, counselor, advisor, spon-sor, advocate, ally, collaborator, motivator, challenger, and/orconfidant. While some mentoring can be accomplished in a meetingor two, many of the University’s mentors devote hours to their pro-tégés every week.

“There’s a reason I don’t have a wall,” Morrow says, pointing tothe floor-to-ceiling window that fronts his office in the CTSI.It is hard not to draw a comparison between his workspace andthe giant fish tank humming out in the hallway.

“I don’t put anything on the glass. I’m right here. The door isalways open.”

Will You Be My Mentor?Supriya G. Mohile, M.D., M.S., associate professor of Hematology/Oncology, laughs when she recalls the first time she walked throughMorrow’s open door in 2007. She showed up without an appoint-ment, and announced she wanted him to be her mentor. Morrowpolitely declined, saying he knew almost nothing about geriatriconcology, her area of interest. But Mohile had heard that before.

“It was a new field. Even now, there are very few people nationallywho do what I do,” explains Mohile, who directs the SpecializedOncology Care and Research for the Elderly (SOCARE) clinic, sup-ported by U of R’s Wilmot Cancer Institute and Highland Hospital.

While at the University of Chicago, completing her post-doctoraltraining and separate residencies in internal medicine, geriatrics, andoncology, she doggedly pieced together an assortment of mentors.None were geriatric oncologists. Some had expertise in cancer, othersin aging. But when she moved to New York City for her first job,Mohile failed to find even one person who could serve as a guideon her singular quest. In this case, the absence of a geriatric oncologymentor was a career-shaping experience, reinforcing the need formore specialists like her.

“When I was interviewing for jobs, a very famous prostate cancerresearcher told me he was a geriatric oncologist because most of hispatients were older,” Mohile shakes her head at the misnomer. “I sawleading oncologists neglect to address pharmacology, comorbidity,and all of the other things I learned about treating geriatric patients.You can’t just say ‘I’m going to treat their cancer,” and then not thinkabout how their age, health, and life circumstances play into that.”

After her husband, U of R neuro-oncologist Nimish A. Mohile,M.D., finished his fellowship, the Rochester-area native quicklypacked her boxes and headed back home. She was excited by theU of R’s strength in geriatric oncology, and easily lined up geriatricspecialist William J. Hall, M.D., and medical hemotology oncologistsJohn M. Bennett, M.D., and Deepak M. Sahasrabudhe, M.B.B.S.,to mentor her.

Then I found Gary Morrow,” she smiles.She was persistent,” says Morrow.

You will probably have more than one mentorin your life, so it’s not like asking somebodyto get married ’til death do us part.” Vivian Lewis, M.D.

Vivian Lewis, M.D. (right)

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Despite his initial refusal, Morrow signed on to becomeMohile’s mentor as she was dipping her toes into grant writing andclinical research. He remains her mentor today, even though she’sbecome a decorated swimmer in the grant pool. Her latest feat:winning a $2 million award from the Patient-Centered OutcomesResearch Institute (PCORI).

“I would not be where I am now with my grants if it weren’t forGary Morrow,” Mohile emphatically states.

She is beginning to gather data and map out practical approachesthat will lead to better cancer treatment nationwide for patients overthe age of 75. She also helps lead the national Cancer and AgingResearch Group, a fledgling band of geriatric oncology researchersthat holds bi-weekly conference calls, publishes the internationalJournal of Geriatric Oncology (Mohile is deputy editor), and providesmentors for those struggling to find their own.

“Watching her become aware of her capabilities and talentshas been a joy, a real joy,” Morrow says. “Mentoring has helped memaintain some of that childlike wonder that got me into the researchbusiness in the first place.”

Passing It OnIt is a few minutes before 5 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, and Mohileand Allison Magnuson, D.O., are on their cell phones, calmly makinglast-minute childcare arrangements. With several patients still wait-ing to be seen at the SOCARE clinic, neither physician will make ithome on time. Both of their spouses are also doctors, so busy daysand broken schedules are commonplace.

“Seeing how she handles it really helps,” says Magnuson,who is Mohile’s first primary mentee. “That’s the most unrecognized

element of a mentor. For me, it is arguably the most important.If your home life is chaotic, your work life is too.”

To an outsider, the clinic looks like a breeding ground for bedlam.A half-dozen providers, including the team coordinator, therapists,a nurse, and social worker, weave in and out of exam rooms, perform-ing various patient assessments. They circle through the office,arbitrarily dropping their reports in piles and calling out salientdetails. Their sporadic motion is charted in Expo marker on a smallwhiteboard. Somehow, it all works.

While Mohile and Magnuson have their differences (Mohilemunches on McDonald’s fries for lunch, Magnuson picks at a greensalad from home), both of them approach cases with a similar blendof compassion and frankness. It results in a nearly instantaneous trustbetween caregiver and elderly patient. The shared approach is not acoincidence. Magnuson says her mentor helped her learn to projectgreater confidence and be more proactive with her patients, attrib-utes that significantly increase her effectiveness and job satisfaction.

“Mentoring is really helping people figure out what will makethem happy and what will make them want to come into work eachday,” Mohile observes.

After three years as a fellow, Magnuson is being promoted tojunior faculty at SMD and second attending at the SOCARE clinic.Under Mohile’s mentorship, she was awarded a Wilmot Fellowshipto continue developing her research skills.

“There’s only one other place in the country with two, full-timegeriatric oncologists,” says Mohile. “Mentoring is helping advancewhat we do.”

Your success is really influenced by whetheror not you have a good mentor, and so is yourhappiness.” Allison Magnuson, D.O.

Allison Magnuson, D.O., (left) withSupriya Mohile, M.D., M.S. (right)

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Mentoring is trying to figure out what makesthe mentee really want to come into workeach day.” Supriya Mohile, M.D., M.S.

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A mentor understands the hopes, needs, and desires of hismentees, so he can mentor them in directions they want to go.”Regis J. O’Keefe, M.D., Ph.D.

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Inorthopaediconcologyresearch,Regis J. O’Keefe, M.D., Ph.D.,

is a celebrity andWakendaTyler, M.D., M.P.H.,

is a rising star.The pair is ashining example of howtopnotch mentoring can attracttopnotch talent, ensuringsuccess for an entire program.Rochester Medicine sat downand talked with them abouttheir mentoring relationship.

Rochester Medicine: Rumor has it, you came to the University ofRochester because you could be mentored by Regis O’Keefe.WakendaTyler: Regis has a very strong reputation across the coun-try, if not the world, as one of the leading orthopaedic researchers, soI was excited about meeting him. But I’m from Philadelphia, I wentto medical school in Baltimore, and then lived in New York City forseven years of residency and fellowship training. I’ve been a big citygirl for most of my life. No way was I going to move to Rochester.But when I got here, I saw what a good department chair he was andhow concerned he was about building a successful research facilityand supporting young faculty. I realized I needed to rethink my strat-egy. Personal growth became more important than glitz and glamorand lights. You are often thrown in the lion’s den and left to fend foryourself in those bigger places. I knew I could count on Regis as amentor, so that was a big push for me to come here.

RM: Do you remember your first meeting?Regis O’Keefe: I think the most compelling thing when you meetWakenda is her energy, her enthusiasm. I think people who accom-plish a lot tend to be optimistic and very resourceful. She believes shecan do it, and so she finds a way to do it.WT: One of the first things he said was, “What do you need to bea successful surgeon and orthopaedic oncologist?” I think he askedme that during my first interview, and it stuck in my mind becauseit was such a good question.RO: We enable people to pursue personal and professional goals,and we give them the tools to achieve excellence. As her mentor,I have to make sure Wakenda receives the right resources and, moreimportantly, access to the right people and insight. When she camehere, we didn’t have a laboratory startup package for her. As I metwith her over time, it became apparent that basic and translationalscience was a strong area of interest for her and potentially a greatstrength of hers. A year or so after she arrived, we developed a labora-tory package for her. At that point, I positioned her with people whocould successfully carry out a research program.WT: He introduced me to Eddie Schwarz (URMC professor ofOrthopaedics and assistant director of the Center for Musculoskele-tal Research) and some others, and told me I was going to work withthem on some projects. It was the right group of people and theright environment for me to learn how to be a good researcher.He must have known, when he was putting the pieces together,it was going to be a good mix.

A mentor’s like a fairygodmother.” WakendaTyler, M.D., M.P.H.

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RM: It’s been 4½ years. How are things working out?RO: Wakenda has done a remarkable job. She’s built a program inunderstanding the way kidney cancer affects bone and bone loss. Shereceived a KL2 award through the Clinical & Translational ScienceInstitute. She received an award from the Orthopaedic Research andEducation Foundation, and she is submitting a K08 award application.WT: I wouldn’t be where I am in my career without Regis. The grantsI’ve received, the research I’ve done, the papers I’ve written, he hasbeen an integral part of all of that. Either directly, like writing lettersof support or making phone calls, or indirectly, by setting me up withthe right people so things are done the way they are supposed to be.He’s like a fairy godmother.

RM: She says you’re like her fairy godmother.RO: (looking mildly embarrassed) Well, that’s kind. I didn’t knowshe felt that way, but that’s nice to know.

RM: Do you think you are transitioning out of a mentoring relation-ship to the point where you simply regard each other as colleagues?WT: He far exceeds me in research, but it’s getting there in our clinicalpractice. Our approaches are different. I sometimes have a bit of a cow-boy approach to things. I’ll take on anything, try to figure it out, andwrestle the bull down at any cost. Regis is a little more cautious.

RM: He’s not a bullfighter?WT: (laughing) No, not a bullfighter. He’s a quiet genius. I’m curioushow he’ll describe my approach. He’ll probably say I’m more spiritedthan he is.RO: I think she’s very confident, an outstanding surgeon. We workas a team and discuss difficult cases among ourselves, which is reallyhelpful. We have different approaches, but we understand what thosedifferences are and respect them. The goal is to find the best possiblecare for the patient.

RM: Good mentors receive as well as give.RO: One of the most rewarding aspects is to see the impact she hason our residents. When we first bring residents in, our programdirector and I give presentations. We now ask Wakenda to give onetoo, because she connects so well with residents. She is an example ofwhat we want trainees to be like. They see her as a very positive rolemodel, especially for the women in our program. It’s very unusualfor young faculty to win the department’s teaching award. But out ofmore than 40 clinical faculty, she was selected by the residents lastyear. I am proud to see that somebody I mentored, after gainingexperience, is now impacting so many other lives in such a real way.


RM: You and Wakenda are not the only ones benefiting from thismentoring relationship, it’s benefiting —RO: The program, the institution, the patients. That’s right.

RM: Do you have a personal relationship as well?WT: We have a lot in common, even on social issues. Both of us havea dedication to social inequalities and providing health care tounderserved communities. We both came from underserved neigh-borhoods. I grew up in Philadelphia and was the first in my family toreceive a bachelor’s degree.RO: I grew up in a lower-middle class area of Pittsburgh. My fatherdied when I was five, so my mother raised my two brothers and mealone. But I was able to go to Yale for college and Harvard for med-ical school. Honestly, so many enabling people were part of theprocess, and I developed skills and talents I can share with othersnow. Giving back is also important to Wakenda, and she is particu-larly interested in mentoring high school students from the innercity. I’ve been happy to help her with that and support her when she’sreceived various awards for it.

RM: You both like to run.WT: We’re both runners and athletes and definitely bond in thatrespect. We are probably both out there running at 4 a.m.RO: (smiling) I can’t run with her. She runs too hard.WT: I haven’t done a marathon in a year and a half. I just did a halfmarathon.

RM: Closing thoughts?WT: I have received so much support here for my career. I have noregrets about turning down other offers. You hear how people aredealing in those glitz and glamor jobs, and there is just no compari-son. I couldn’t ask for more.RO: Young faculty members are our resources for the future. As theycome in, we make them full partners right away and take an activerole in the success of their careers. Mentoring is part of our depart-ment culture, our philosophy. If you have outstanding people andyou enable them, programs will always do well.

O’Keefe is associate dean for Clinical Affairs – department ofDean's Office, chair – department of Orthopaedics, andMarjorie Strong Wehle Professor in Orthopaedics.Tyler is assistant professor – department of Orthopaedics.


GLOBALREACHYou won’t find it on a worldmap, but Bradford C.Berk’slab is a sought-afterdestination for promisingyoung scientists fromaround the globe.

RESEARCH

It’s Tuesday afternoon, and Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D., isheading down a long, sterile corridor, adorned with precise rows ofsnowy white lab coats and industrial-size shower heads. A metal flag,imprinted with a name and room number, juts out above each dooralong the hallway. He stops in front of the flag marked “Berk Lab,B207.” This banner won’t be found flying outside the UnitedNations, but it is an international symbol of sorts.

Over the past 25 years, up-and-coming scientists from 15 countrieshave found their way to the Berk lab, now located inside the nearly100,000-square-foot Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI),about six miles down the Genesee River from URMC. The youngresearchers’ homelands are dotted across five continents; their cities areas foreign as Wuhan, and as familiar as Detroit. They have ascendedfrom more than 50 universities and spoken a dozen languages.

But these men and women — about 80 altogether — are drawnto this place for one reason: to be mentored by Berk.

“It’s word of mouth, so a lot of them seek me,” says Berk, who hasalso scrutinized poster sessions at international meetings to handpickthe most promising scholars. The students he selects are highly moti-vated. “Science is all about passion. You don’t do science to makemoney. You do it because you are driven.”

That quality is essential when you enter Berk territory. He isthe founder and first director of CVRI, where his cardiovascular

research laboratory is one of 14. It is a powerhouse. Berk has been pri-mary or co-primary investigator on $36.� million worth of grant-fundedprojects since 1��8; in the last five years, the National Institutes ofHealth (NIH) has awarded $10.4 million in supportof research led, at least in part, by Berk. While he has significantlyreduced his time in the lab since becoming CEO, he and his team havevastly expanded our understanding of how cells in the vascular wallrespond to biomechanical forces such as blood flow and hormones,and how that relates to atherosclerosis, hypertension, and stroke.It’s a large lab, but there is not an inch of room for idlers here.

“He is a very easygoing person if you are a hardworking trainee,”says Gadiparthi N. Rao, Ph.D., a graduate of Gujurat Universityin the Indian city of Ahmedabad and one of Berk’s first mentees.

That was back in 1�8�, when Rao was a postdoc. Berk encouragedhim to apply for his own funding. Today, Rao holds the highestnumber of grants awarded to an individual at the University ofTennessee Health Science Center — including a total of $6 millionfrom NIH for his studies of vascular disease.

“I had never thought of becoming an independent investigator.It was Dr. Berk who inspired me,” Rao says.

Rao remains very fond of his mentor, whose advice does notalways pertain to the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system,endothelial cells, or oxidative stress. Berk, who took less than one


Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester MedicalCenter and UR Medicine CEO and senior vice president forHealth Sciences, and his family are giving $1.5 million to theUniversity of Rochester. In combination with a $500,000 giftfrom URMC’s Department of Medicine, the Berk contributionestablishes a distinguished professorship in support of theUniversity’s cardiovascular care, research, and educationalefforts.

“This is an extraordinary gift, reflecting Brad’s loyaltyand commitment to the University where his career reachedits pinnacle,” said University of Rochester President JoelSeligman. “Brad, who has already devoted so much of histalent to the University, is nowmaking a gift that will supportcutting-edge cardiovascular research for decades to come.”

The gift establishes the Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D.,Distinguished Professorship in cardiovascular research, andwill be used to recruit high-caliber scientists to the School ofMedicine and Dentistry or retain exemplary faculty alreadyworking within the Cardiology division. Arthur J. Moss, M.D.,will be the first to hold the endowed professorship.“It is very important that the first person set the standard, andDr. Moss is establishing a very high bar,” said Berk. “He is thekind of individual I would always like to have in this position.”

Moss, who has been with URMC for more than 50 years,is a world-renowned expert on electrical disturbances of theheart. He has made some of the most important and long-lasting discoveries in the treatment and prevention of cardiacarrhythmias, particularly Long QT syndrome, and suddencardiac death. Recently, Moss’s research team discovered asimple programming change that makes defibrillators saferand more effective.Within a week, physicians across thecountry were resetting the devices, which are implanted inabout 200,000 U.S. patients every year.

“Dr. Moss has made a difference in the lives of so manypeople,” said Berk. “I admire him enormously, and I am soglad his significant contributions are being recognized.”

Bradford C. Berk gives $1.5 Millionto University of RochesterGift helps establish a distinguishedprofessorship


year off as CEO after a life-altering bicycling accident in 200�, doesn’treserve his indefatigable ambition for the lab. He tackles many otherprofessional and personal commitments with equal zeal, and hepointedly counseled Rao to do the same.

“By nature, I’m a very hard-working person and I was spending mostof my time in the lab. But I had three children at home,” Rao remem-bers. “One time, Dr. Berk asked me not to come in. He told me to takemy family on vacation to the Smoky Mountains instead.”

“It was a unique experience,” Pam Lucchesi, Ph.D., says.She arrived in Berk’s lab in 1��2, and spent a year learning to trans-late basic science to the bedside. “His lab was a perfect fit. He couldread a clinical EKG while simultaneously discussing the finer details

of cell-signaling cascades.”Berk continued to mentor Lucchesi long after she departed.

He recommended her as a grant reviewer for the NIH and AmericanHeart Association, and appointed her to the editorial boards ofseveral high-impact journals. She continued developing a projectbased on research started in Rochester.

“He actually held back his own data for publication until mywork was funded and published,” Lucchesi says. “That kind ofextended mentorship is rare in this field.”

Lucchesi is now director of the Center for Cardiovascular andPulmonary Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Colum-bus, Ohio. She’s a principal investigator there, and at the hospital’s

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Heart Center. She too has become a prolific mentor, influencing thefutures of more than 50 students and fellows.

“Whatever they end up doing, I take enormous satisfaction in thesuccess of the people I mentor,” says Berk, who equates success withinnovation and significance. “If you are spending your life doingsomething you’re passionate about, you should be doing somethingthat makes a difference.”

Some of his mentees are accomplished scientists; others are physi-cians, business leaders, and school teachers. Many of those who passthrough Berk’s lab eventually return to their native land, carryinga bit of his knowledge and inspiration with them. Jing Wang, M.D.,worked with Berk from 2005 until 200�. The People’s Republic of

China recently rewarded her through its 1,000 Talents Program,which honors the nation’s most brilliant ex-pats.

“It’s similar to receiving a MacArthur Fellowship,” Berk explains,noting Wang will receive the equivalent of $500,000 to set up her ownlab at Peking Union Medical College, one of China’s most selectivemedical schools. “It’s a terrific opportunity for her.”

Undoubtedly, Wang’s lab will, in some fundamental way, reflectthe many hours she spent in B207. The same is happening in count-less other labs, from Rochester to Milan to Osaka. Bradford C. Berk,M.D., PhD., who very much belongs to Rochester, is deeply rooted inscientific discovery around the world.

Ultimately, mentoring is helping people realize what theyare best at, so they can fully utilize their skills, talents,and passion to build a successful career. Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D.

IN CLASS


When I matriculated as a medical student in 2005, I knew I wantedan aspect of my career to address health care disparities abroad.In developing nations, treatable disease claims the lives of millions ofpeople every year due to limitations in resources and personnel.

By my second year of medical school, I had identified anesthesia asmy specialty of choice, and this raised the question: Is it even possibleto be an anesthesiologist in an under-resourced country? After a quicksearch, I discovered anesthesia-related mortality rates can be 1,000 timesgreater in developing nations compared to the United States. I alsolearned there is a small, but dedicated, contingent of anesthesiologistslaboring hard to make anesthesia safe and accessible in poor countries.

My next step was to find a mentor. When I reached out to theAnesthesiology department in 2008, I was promptly connected withEllen Marie Dailor, M.D., and thus was the beginning of our mentor-ing relationship. During our first meeting, she mentioned that,as a relatively new attending, she rarely found herself as a mentor,and I reassured her that she would be perfect. Like me, her faith hadled her to a deep concern for the poor. Like me, she had traveledextensively to pursue her passion. Like me, she was female and shewas interested in anesthesia. As I saw it, our biggest difference was,unlike me, she was an expert in the field. Currently, she is both anassociate professor and division chief of Cardiac Anesthesiology.

Dr. Dailor’s first international medical mission trip was toEcuador as a resident. She subsequently worked in Mexico,Honduras, and Cameroon. She regularly chisels out weeks of timeto volunteer abroad, and she prefers to return to the same locationsbecause “it becomes easier to understand the needs of a locationwhen you have relationships there.”

Over the past seven years, we have met in offices, restaurants,homes, and operating rooms. We have discussed the weather and theheart bypass machine. We have debated American politics and causesof African poverty. In October 2013, Dr. Dailor returned to Africa,and I had the unique opportunity to work with her for four weeks inShisong, Cameroon.

Cameroon is a modest central African country with a populationof 20 million, but less than 30 physician anesthesiologists.St. Elizabeth’s Catholic General Hospital has a cardiac center,the only facility of its kind in the region. Patients travel from as far asEthiopia, a distance of more than 3,000 miles. Last year, largely withthe assistance of international surgical teams, more than 100 cardiacsurgeries were performed in the facility.

Dr. Dailor is the only anesthesiologist to have worked in Shisongcontinuously for six months, developing protocol and teaching staffin the intensive care unit. She has dealt with outdated and brokenequipment, partially functioning monitors, a lack of supplies, andinterruptions in water and electric service. While we were in theoperating room, she would speak of methods to maintain safety pro-tocols when facing these challenges. She never failed to emphasizediligence and a commitment to excellence.

Dr. Dailor is true to her convictions, and her commitment to thepoor and underserved is a reminder of how to tailor my career to mypassion. We may not always regard issues in the same light, but wemaintain a mutual respect that permits honest discussion and,ultimately, growth. Dr. Dailor’s expertise in anesthesia, internationalhealth, education, and safety make her an asset not only in patient careworldwide, but to medical students and residents here in Rochester.

Mouton (MD ’10, RES ’14) is continuing her training with a Pediatricfellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Falan Mouton, M.D.Seven years withDoctor Dailor

Falan Mouton, M.D., (left) with Ellen Marie Dailor, M.D., (right)

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Above:The Cameroon countryside. Wayfinding signage at the hospital.

Below:The Cameroon team. Above: Post-op recovery. Below: Dr. Dailor with one of the sisters. Above: a Juju shaman.

In 1900, leading women’s rights activistand Rochester resident Susan B.Anthony persuaded the University ofRochester to admit women. One ofSMD’s early female graduates has beenkeeping Anthony’s legacy alive. Notonly did Carol Cooperman Nadelson(md ’61) overcome barriers to becomea remarkably successful physician andleader in her field, she has helpedcountless other women do the same.

When Carol Cooperman Nadelson (MD ’61) was a 12-year-oldgirl growing up in Brooklyn during the 1�40s, she had a favoritespot to go after school. She would drop off her books at her fam-ily’s Flatbush home and follow the sidewalk to her grandfather’shouse. She spent hours beside him, reading aloud and talking.But her grandfather had cancer and, as months passed, shesaw his pain increase and watched his body weaken.Finally, though her parents were of a generationthat did not openly discuss death and dyingwith children, she knew the afternoon visitswere over.

“That’s when I decided I was going to bea doctor, even though girls didn’t do that,”Nadelson says.

In the beginning, Nadelson’s parents casu-ally dismissed her unorthodox plan. Whiletoday’s Gallup polls show Americans thinkbeing a doctor” is one of the best careerchoices a woman can make, virtually no onein the country recommended it for womenin a 1�53 poll. Like most other girls,she faced a fairly predictable future asa nurse, teacher, or secretary. Yet Nadel-son, with a well-worn biography ofMarie Curie on her bookshelf andan open-minded uncle standing behindher, persevered. Upon graduation fromhigh school, she enrolled as a pre medstudent at Brooklyn College.

While she would occasionally spotanother woman on campus, Nadelsonwas usually the only female student inher advanced-level courses. She wouldslide into the back row of lecture halls,but some professors would still findher. They questioned her more oftenthan her classmates, or worse, theysexually harassed her.

“There wasn’t a word for it then,and I never told my parents,” Nadel-son says. “It was not a comfortableexperience.”

Even so, Nadelson excelled, becoming

the first woman president of the college’s Bio-Med Society. Afterbeing inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and graduating magna cumlaude, she sent applications to two dozen medical schools, includingthe Uof R. It was during a time when medical schools were “experi-menting” with the notion of admitting women; usually only ahandful of women were allowed into each class.

At first, not a single school accepted her.But as women’s suffragist Susan B. Anthony — one of Rochester’s

most famous residents — once said, “Failure is impossible.”Anthony, who was instrumental in opening the U of R to women,

would undoubtedly have been pleased when

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Carola Eisenberg, M.D., (left) withCarol Cooperman Nadelson (right)as she receives the 2009 Alma DeaMorani, M.D., RenaissanceWomanAward fromThe Foundation for theHistory ofWomen in Medicine.


a determined Nadelson persuaded one school to take her the follow-ing year. Fittingly, it was Rochester.

“There was still prejudice, but I also found many supportive peo-ple who were apologetic,” Nadelson recalls. “I had an incredibly goodexperience there.”

That experience included two mentors whose names, even today, areoften spoken as if preceded by a silent “Sir”: the late John Romano, M.D.,and George Engel, M.D. (Their international contributions to the fieldsof psychiatry and medical education would surely have earned themknighthood had they come from across the pond.) As they were helpingshape modern psychiatry, Nadelson’s future came into focus too.

“All through medical school, I didn’t think I was going to go intopsychiatry, but those two were persistent,” says Nadelson, who —after being the only woman intern at Strong Memorial Hospital —ended up completing residencies in Psychiatry at MassachusettsMental Health Center and Beth Israel Hospital. While there, sheinformally introduced the biopsychosocial model to her colleagues.That theory was born in Rochester, and it was a new idea whenI got to Boston.”

After beginning to establish herself in academic medicine at Har-vard University, Nadelson started another line of work: advocate andmentor for women in medicine. This became a 50-year commitmentto chairing admissions, diversity, and harassment policy committees;leading women’s mentoring projects; and participating in countlesswomen’s leadership and career advancement activities. In 1�85, theAmerican Medical Women’s Association awarded her the ElizabethBlackwell Medal, recognizing her outstanding contributions to womenin medicine. In 1��8, she was recruited as director of the PartnersOffice for Women’s Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, anddeveloped a formal mentoring program for women and minorities thatwas adopted by several Harvard Medical School affiliates.

As she devoted herself to aiding other women, her own careerflourished. She became the first woman elected president of theAmerican Psychiatric Association. The first woman editor-in-chiefof the American Psychiatric Press. A founding member and presidentof the Association for Academic Psychiatry. She co-editedThe Woman Patient: Medical and Psychiatric Interfaces, landmarkvolumes that introduced the field of women’s mental health.Her clinical work and research changed the way victims of abuse andrape are treated. In 2003, when the National Library of Medicinepresented Changing the Face of Medicine, a traveling exhibit honoringfemale pioneers, Nadelson’s extraordinary story was told at universi-ties and public libraries across the nation.

Nadelson remains a full professor at Harvard, and continuesto devote much of her time to mentoring residents, fellows, and jun-ior faculty. She even sees a few patients. But today, she is at her son’shome in New Jersey, getting ready to construct a house out of blockswith her grandchildren, ages one and two and a half. They are theyoungest of Nadelson’s four grandchildren, who are growing up ina very different world for women in medicine, a world their grand-mother helped build.

“It is incredibly gratifying to look back and see how much haschanged since I went to medical school,” Nadelson says.

Between 1�32 and 1�60, SMD admitted an average of fewer thanfour women into each class. This year, more than half of Rochester’sfirst-year medical students were women.

For a link to Nadelson’s biography in Changing the Face ofMedicine, go to RochesterMedicine.urmc.edu

Right: Carol Cooperman Nadelsonc. 1970s.

Lower right: two of Carol CoopermanNadelson’s grandchildren.

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PHILANTHROPY


More than 50,000 donors have given to URMC,making it a driving force in The Meliora Challenge:The Campaign for the University of Rochester.URMC has a goal of $650 million, of which morethan $530 million has been raised toward theUniversity’s overall campaign goal of $1 billion.Among its key priorities are programs andresearch that strive to creatively and aggressivelyfind breakthrough treatments and cures,transform interprofessional medical education,and become models of excellent patient care.

The University’s campaign is moving toward its June 30, 2016completion with momentum, having surpassed the historic$1 billion mark. The University now joins a group of 29 privateU.S. colleges and universities to exceed $1 billion. The ultimateobjective for the largest comprehensive fundraising campaignin the University’s history is to surpass $1.2 billion.You can read about some of the latest gifts to make an

impact at URMC and the generosity of alumni and friends whosupport our faculty, students, and staff in the pages that follow.Thanks to all of you who have supported our efforts to date,and to those who will in the future.

Thanks to the generosity of TheWegman FamilyCharitable Foundation (WFCF), the campaignto build a new Golisano Children’s Hospitalreceived a major boost—a $7 million gift.

In addition to a $10 million lead gift to the University’s Institutefor Data Science, the WFCF’s contributions to the University’scomprehensive campaign totals $20 million. The WFCF giftrepresents the fourth largest contribution to the Campaign,and the second largest gift to the Children’s Hospital.DannyWegman, president and board chair of the Foundation,

a University trustee, and honorary chair of the Medical Centercampaign, announced both gifts at an April 1 news conference.“The new children’s hospital will move health care for our

region’s children and their families into a whole newenvironment designed around children’s needs,” saysWegman.What could be more important or gratifying than ensuring thehealth of our children?”The $145 million children’s hospital features 52 private patient

rooms, a greatly expanded neonatal intensive care unit, andvarious spaces designed specifically to meet the needs ofchildren and their families. Some of the new spaces families willbe able to enjoy include healing gardens, family lounges, anda hospitality suite where parents can shower, prepare and eathome-cooked meals as a family, or even run a load of laundry.The hospital, which is the largest capital project in the Uni-

versity’s history, is slated to open in the summer of 2015.To date,the community and donors, such as the WFCF and B.ThomasGolisano, have generously supported the hospital construction,giving $45 million of the $60 million that must be raised for thebuilding.Wegman hopes the gift will inspire others to contribute toclose the $15 million fundraising gap needed for the new building.

Giving to URMC drives campaign successTheWegman Foundation supports the Golisano Children’s Hospital

Above: Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D., CEO, URMC andUR Medicine, and DannyWegman, president and board chair,TheWegman Foundation, after the Golisano Children’s Hospitalgift announcement.

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Wewant to thank everyone who has supported the MedicalCenter campaign.There is still a long way to go and a lot ofwork to be done, but it’s important to remember that yourgenerosity is an investment in improving the lives of peoplein our community.” RichardT. Aab (left) and E. PhilipSaunders (right), co-chairs, URMC Campaign.

DannyWegman, president and board chair,TheWegmanFoundation, during news conference announcing giftsfor the new Golisano Children’s Hospital and the University’sInstitute for Data Science.

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Orthopaedics research will benefit froma gift of $750,000 from Eva K. Pressman,M.D., chair of the Department ofObstetrics and Gynecology and theHenry A. Thiede Professor of Obstetricsand Gynecology, and Seth M. Zeidman,M.D., a neurosurgeon who is a memberof Highland Hospital’s medical staff.The couple, who joined the University

in 1999, is committed to supporting thepioneering work being done by the

James Aquavella, M.D., has made acommitment of more than $4 million tosupport two endowed professorships atthe School of Medicine and Dentistry:the Catherine E. Aquavella DistinguishedProfessorship in Ophthalmology and theJames V. Aquavella, M.D. Professorship inOphthalmology.The longtime David and Ilene Flaum

Eye Institute ophthalmologist made thegift in memory of his late wife,Kay, a nurse, educator, and administratorwho helped build the foundation for theEye Institute. It was Dr. Aquavella’s giftthat pushed the University’s campaignpast the historic $1 billion mark.Aquavella is known worldwide for his

research and clinical work with artificialcorneal implants for infants and children,which have restored sight to patients asyoung as a few weeks old. Until recently,Aquavella was the only ophthalmicsurgeon in the world performing infant

artificial corneal transplants, and he hastrained corneal surgeons all over the worldin this type of corneal transplantation. Nowthere are three other centers in the U.S.offering this procedure.A professor of Ophthalmology,

Aquavella was the first fellowship-trainedcorneal surgeon in the United States whenhe established a Rochester practice in themid-1960s, as a specialist in cornea andexternal eye disease. He continues to bea leader in clinical practice, surgery,education, and research.A past president of the Contact Lens

Association of Ophthalmologists,Aquavella is well known for his work inthe development of the therapeuticcontact lens and the collagen shield.His research interests include the ocularsurface tear film, cornea wound healing,and keratoprosthesis (artificial corneatransplantation).

Department of Orthopaedics andRehabilitation’s Center for Musculo-skeletal Research (CMSR); their ultimategoal is to fund the department’s StephenL. Kates Professorship in Orthopaedics.The gift is meant to inspire additional

gifts that, when added to thecommitment from Pressman andZeidman, would ultimately total at least$1.5 million, the amount required tocreate an endowed professorship

in Kates’ honor. Until then, it will supporta full-time faculty member in ortho-paedics to conduct research thatadvances the care and treatment ofmusculoskeletal diseases.Several years ago, Zeidman had a

serious bicycle accident. In addition toa broken arm and significant blood loss,he suffered a heart attack. Zeidmancredits Kates, the HansjörgWyssProfessor in the Department ofOrthopaedics and Rehabilitation, whocared for him that day, with discoveringthe heart attack and saving his life, aswell as helping him regain the mobilityhe needed to continue his career as asurgeon.The CMSR houses approximately

70 physicians and scientists, graduatestudents, and post-doctoral students inorthopaedics. They conduct studies thatapply cutting-edge science to some ofthe most common problems in healthcare—such as infections, obesity, andjoint degeneration. The CMSR researchersare developing a vaccine to prevent life-threatening methicillin-resistantstaphylococcus aureus infectionsfollowing bone and joint surgery, forexample, and identifying drugs that mightact on bone stem cells to enhancefracture healing. The CMSR is rankedsecond in the nation in National Institutesof Health funding, ahead of JohnsHopkins and University of Pennsylvania.

Pressman/Zeidman give $750K gift to Orthopaedics

Aquavella gives over $4 millionfor endowed professorships

Seth M. Zeidman, M.D., and Eva K. Pressman, M.D.

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Cancer research and clinical programs atUR Medicine will be strengthened thanksto a new cancer institute, a $30 millionresearch campaign, and a $4 millioncornerstone gift from theWilmot familyand the James P.Wilmot Foundation —a commitment to cancer research thatspans three generations of familymembers. The three majorannouncements were made in May.TheWilmot Cancer Institute has been

created as a new organizational structurefor all clinical and research programs incancer.With theWilmot Cancer Center onthe Medical Center campus as its hub, theInstitute now encompasses a growingnetwork of seven satellite cancertreatment facilities throughout the region.TheWilmot Cancer Institute’s goal is toprovide the highest level of precisioncancer care to individuals in Rochester andthroughout western NewYork, by makingthe Institute’s expertise and capabilitiesavailable to patients closer to home.“Cancer care is so complex these

days. It starts with a diagnostic processthat often involves sophisticated testsand specialized skills, and continuesthrough treatment decisions, follow-upcare, and survivorship needs,” saysWilmot Cancer Institute DirectorJonathanW. Friedberg, M.D., M.M.Sc.Our Institute brings that level ofcomprehensive and smart service everystep of the way.”Research is a major element that

separatesWilmot from other cancerproviders in the area. In support of thateffort, theWilmot Cancer Institute islaunching a $30 million research-focusedfundraising campaign.“Thanks to cancer research, patients

have so many advantages that didn’texist in years past,” says HartmutHucky” Land, Ph.D., co-director of theInstitute, director of Research, andRobert and Dorothy Markin Professor.

This new campaign will provide thesupport to keep the momentum goingand leverage opportunities to bringprecision medicine to patients morequickly.”The commitment from theWilmot

family andWilmot Foundation will fundthe recruitment of a senior researcher incancer genomics—a relatively newdiscipline that is transforming the studyof cancer. It involves the use of vastcomputing power to analyze every genein a cancer cell— its genome—andidentify the mechanisms that drive eachcancer’s growth. That work is the firststep toward designing new “targetedtherapies”—drugs that act on the precisetrouble spots in a cancer cell.A portion of theWilmot gift will be

placed into an endowment that will fundtheWilmot Distinguished Professorshipin Cancer Genomics.TheWilmot family’s philanthropic

commitment to cancer research beganin 1981 when the James P.WilmotFoundation funded theWilmot FellowshipProgram, which provides funding to trainphysicians in cancer research. Since then,more than 100Wilmot fellows havetrained in cancer research at the U of Rand gone on to pursue careers in cancerresearch. Since the fellowship programwas established, theWilmot Foundationand theWilmot family have donatedmore than $50 million to the University tosupport cancer research and treatment.Alumni and friends can support key

areas of need for the $30 million researchcampaign. Areas include: endowedprofessorships, multidisciplinary cancerresearch programs, and funding for“seed” grants to allow researchers toexplore new avenues of research.For more on the Institute, cancer

research campaign andWilmot gifts visitwww.urmc.rochester.edu/giving/

Wilmot Cancer Institute launched at Discovery BallWilmot $4 million gift kicks off $30 million research campaign

Pictured from left: Michael Linehan and Kevin and JimmyWilmot—threegrandsons of James P.Wilmot—display their sparklers during the 15th annualDiscovery Ball May 10 to support theWilmot Cancer Institute.They asked guests—patients, faculty, staff, board members, and donors—to join their family in thefight against cancer and fund “seed” grants to launch innovative pilot projectsin cancer research.

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James P.WilmotFrom left: JudyWilmot Linehan,William B.Wilmot, andThomas C.Wilmot, Sr.

PHILANTHROPY


EndowedProfessorshipsSix new professorships have been announced in the School ofMedicine and Dentistry. Endowed professorships are among thegreatest honors bestowed upon distinguished faculty, and area powerful way to strengthen the institution’s mission.

� William and Sheila Konar Endowed ProfessorAnton P. Porsteinsson, M.D.(R ’93), (far right) director of theAlzheimer’s Disease Care, Research and Education Program,was installed as theWilliam and Sheila Konar EndowedProfessor. Porsteinsson is an internationally renowned clinicalresearcher and a leading expert in Alzheimer’s disease anddementia. The Konars’ gift is believed to be the largest giftdevoted to the support of clinical research for Alzheimer’sdisease that the University has ever received. Pictured withPorsteinsson are Sheila Konar and her son, Howard.

� Joseph M. Lobozzo II ProfessorPictured from left: Walter Pegoli, Jr., M.D., Medical Center CEOBradford Berk M.D., Ph.D., (MD ’81, PhD ’81), and Joseph M.Lobozzo II. Pegoli, director of Pediatric Trauma at GolisanoChildren’s Hospital, has demonstrated excellence in every facetof his work, which has led to him becoming a beloved surgeonand the inaugural Joseph M. Lobozzo II Professor in pediatricsurgery. Pegoli was recruited to be chief of Pediatric Surgery in1997, after which a department was essentially built around him.Pegoli’s primary focus for the future: establish a fellowship inPediatric Surgery, ensuring there will always be an exceptionalpediatric surgeon serving the Rochester community.

� Adeline Lutz Distinguished Professor in OphthalmologyCorneal surgeon Steven S.T. Ching (MD ’74, Res ’81) (right) withSteven E. Feldon, M.D., director of the David and Ilene FlaumEye Institute, was named the inaugural Adeline LutzDistinguished Professor in Ophthalmology. Adeline (Lynn) beganhaving vision problems in 1987. For the next two decades, shewould undergo 13 operations, including two corneal transplants,performed by Ching. Over that time they became close friends.The professorship is just one outcome of the Lutzes giving theInstitute most of their life savings—$6 million—in support ofpatient care and research. It was one of the largest gifts theInstitute has ever received, and it was instrumental in helpingto position the Institute as one of the top vision centers in thenation.

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� RichardT. Bell Endowed ProfessorRichard Bell (right) credits Yuhchyau Chen, M.D., Ph.D.,for saving his life from stage IV throat cancer. Chen, chair of theDepartment of Radiation Oncology in the School of Medicineand Dentistry, was installed as the RichardT. Bell EndowedProfessor. Over the last eight cancer-free years, the parts ofBell’s treatment that have stayed with him—and given him alifelong friend—were Chen’s constant encouragement and herwillingness to go the extra mile to ensure his comfort. Chen hasbeen part of the oncology team at theWilmot Cancer Institutefor nearly 20 years.

� Frederick A. Horner, M.D. Endowed Professorshipin Pediatric NeurologyFrederick Horner was a pioneer in pediatric neurology at theUniversity of Rochester and is remembered as having a tirelesswork ethic and being a thorough and devoted clinician, as well asan ideal teacher and mentor. JonathanW. Mink, M.D., Ph.D.(far right)—who fully exemplifies these same qualities—was chosen to be the inaugural holder of the Frederick A.Horner, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Pediatric Neurology.The professorship was established by Marjorie T. Horner inmemory of her husband, who died in 2010 at the age of 90.Specializing in movement disorders starting in childhood,Mink cares for children with a variety of conditions that impairvoluntary movements, cause involuntary movements, or both.Pictured with Mink, from left: Dean Mark Taubman, M.D., andMedical Center CEO Bradford Berk M.D., Ph.D., (MD ’81, PhD ’81).

� Hansjörg Wyss ProfessorStephen Kates (Res ’89)—second from left—one of thecountry’s top orthopaedic surgeons, was installed as theinaugural HansjörgWyss Professor.Wyss’ gift will support Kates’activities related to developing and disseminating a program forthe treatment of fractures in geriatric patients. Kates is directorof the Geriatric Fracture Center at Highland Hospital andassociate director of the Department of Orthopaedics andRehabilitation’s Center for Musculoskeletal Research. Picturedwith Kates, from left: President Joel Seligman, HansjörgWyss,Dean Mark Taubman, M.D., and Medical Center CEO BradfordBerk, M.D., Ph.D., (MD ’81, PhD ’81).

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MATCH DAY 2014


OutboundThe SMD Class of 2014 celebrated Match Day in March,and now they are heading out to begin the next step in theirmedical careers. Here’s where these talented new M.D.sare beginning their residencies this summer.

AnesthesiologyMichael Barnes Maine Medical CenterEric Faden URMCCaroline Kan Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterJoanna Olsen Oregon Health & Science UniversityKatsiaryna Pleshankova URMCJustin Roh University Hospitals, CaseWesternMichaelWu UC San Francisco (Research)

Child NeurologyAubrey Duncan URMC

Emergency MedicineFrederick Flo URMCDiana Ladkany Washington Hospital Center

(Georgetown)Sade McKenzie Albany Medical CenterClair Melin University of VirginiaDara Mendelsohn Almeda County Medical Center, OaklandMatthew Merriman URMCDylan Morris Oregon Health & Science UniversityMichael Prucha Rhode Island Hospital/Brown Uni.Jeffrey Reed URMCThomas Segerson University of PittsburghNicholas Zinn Drexel University COM/Hahnemann

U. Hospital

Family MedicineEmily Erikson Brown Medical School/Memorial

HospitalJared Lunkenheimer University of New Mexico SOMAmber Robins Geisinger Health SystemMaryWalsh Brown Medical School/Memorial

Hospital

General SurgeryColin Doyle University of HawaiiSabrina MacDuff Oregon Health & Science UniversityBrooks Rademacher U. ofWisconsin Hospital and ClinicsAshley Slaughter Virginia Commonwealth Uni. Health

Systems

Internal MedicineRamzi Abboud Barnes-Jewish HospitalJessamyn Blau U. ofWashington Affiliated HospitalsJacqueline Brown University of VirginiaMary Cantin URMCAnthony Carnicelli Brigham andWomen’s HospitalStephen Carr Providence Sacred Heart Medical CenterJesse Doran URMCMeena Elanchenny Yale-New Haven HospitalAlexander Fe Winthrop-University HospitalBradley Hunter UC San FranciscoNina Karamooz California Pacific Medical CenterAndrew Klein Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical CenterScott Peslak Hospital of the U. of PennsylvaniaJennifer Post University of Colorado SOMJoshua Reuss University of VirginiaMarabel Schneider URMCKrishna Upadhyaya Yale-New Haven HospitalImran Uraizee University of Chicago Medical CenterEdward Vuong North Shore-LIJ Health SystemClaire Zhang CaseWestern / MetroHealth Medical

Center (Scientist Path)

Medicine – PediatricsSharon Ostfeld-Johns Yale-New Haven Hospital

Medicine – PrimaryNicole Altorelli Yale-New Haven HospitalSusan Nasr Almeda County Medical Center, OaklandMark Sullivan Stony BrookTeaching Hospitals

Medicine – PreliminaryAaron Butler URMC, U. ofWashington Affiliated

HospitalsTatiana Deevney Tulane University SOMShadab Khan Advocate Christ Medical Center,

U. of IllinoisJagger Koerner Albany Medical CenterTyson Olson University of CaliforniaAllison Shatz University of Maryland Medical CenterJarett Thelen URMCScottWalter University of Illinois COM


NeurologyJaclyn Burch NY Presbyterian Hospital –Weill Cornell

Medical CenterBenjamin George URMCLee Gerwitz URMCRoss Hamilton URMCColin Lyness University of Michigan Hospitals

Neurological SurgeryClifford Pierre URMCCoreyWalker St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical CenterEthanWinkler UC San Francisco

Obstetrics/GynecologyOluwateniola Brown Northwester McGaw/NMH/VAConisha Holloman Orlando HealthRebecca Levinn Maine Medical CenterBrett McGowan Madigan Army Medical CenterJoshua Sinkin Maine Medical Center

Orthopaedic SurgeryRyan Koehler Vanderbilt University Medical CenterKevin Laroche University of VirginiaWayne Reizner Icahn SOM, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt

HospitalJason Zlotnicki University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

(Research)

OtolaryngologySam Spinowitz Einstein/Montefiore Medical CenterMichael Topf Thomas Jefferson University

PathologyMargaret Compton Vanderbilt University Medical Center

PediatricsPeter Capucilli Children’s Hospital, PhiladelphiaMykael Garcia St. Christopher’s HospitalJenny Horowitz Children’s Hospital, OaklandTina Jensen Cincinnati Children’s HospitalSabina Khan NewYork University SOMKira Lawton Rutgers-RW Johnson Medical SchoolMillicent Okereke Einstein/Jacobi Medical CenterAndrew Prigge University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Pediatrics – Preliminary/Child NeurologyMelisa Carrasco University of Maryland Medical CenterDanny Rogers University of New Mexico

Plastic SurgeryKatherine Rose U. ofWisconsin Hospital and Clinics

PsychiatryBehdad Bozorgnia Hospital of the U of PennsylvaniaTiffany Chi Advocate Lutheran General HospitalMercedes Szpunar UC San Diego Medical Center (Research

Track)

Radiation OncologySriram Venigalla Hospital of the U. of Pennsylvania

Surgery – Preliminary/UrologyJustin Houman Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterPhillip Rappold URMC

MATCH DAY 2014


Dentistry – AEGDIan Bell University of IowaAdemola Cole Howard UniversityKerri DeVita Medical University of South CarolinaAngel Gabev McGill UniversityAdila Khan McGill UniversityTaeWook Kwon University of TorontoMichelle Li Boston UniversityGregory Mak SUNY UpstateJaved Mannan St. Georges UniversityEmad Rastikerdar McGill UniversityKe Shang McGill UniversityAndriana Shumova University of Montreal

Dentistry – OMFSEric Ringer University of the PacificKyle Siefel University of Maryland

Dentistry – OrthodonticsAnnia-Beatrice Le Goff Columbia UniversityLauren Vitkus SUNY BuffaloTatianaWitte University of California

Dentistry – PediatricSara Ahmed University of PennsylvaniaMorvarid Aletomeh University of British ColumbiaJohn Gibbons University of CaliforniaJorn Hester University of FloridaJeffrey Monaco University of Pennsylvania

Dentistry – PeriodonticsDavid Fraser University of CaliforniaAlexandra Nadeau Laval University

Dentistry – ProsthodonticsJamieYum Temple University

Emergency MedicineVictoria DiMarco SUNY UpstateFrederick Flo University of RochesterJillian Geyer Michigan State UniversityMatthew Hershman Drexel UniversityErik Kvamme University ofWashingtonMandeep Lehil University of CaliforniaMatthew Merriman University of RochesterSteven Nelson University of ToledoJeffrey Reed University of Rochester

InboundThe University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistryis welcoming 224 new residents and fellows this summer.Our 23 residency programs attracted applicants from some ofthe nation’s most highly regarded medical schools.

AnesthesiologyCarmen Cellura American University of the CaribbeanEric Faden University of RochesterCarlos Fernandez-Ortega Thomas Jefferson UniversityYang Gu Georgetown UniversityJason Kanel Virginia Commonwealth UniversityCyrus Kellermier Northeastern Ohio UniversitiesCourtney Kime Ohio State UniversityDuncan McLean Warwick Medical SchoolRoberto Neisa Stanford UniversitySean Philippo Thomas Jefferson UniversityKatsiaryna Pleshankova University of RochesterJoseph Poku Mayo Medical SchoolMax Schober Georgetown UniversityJonathon Schwartz Sackler School of MedicineTuanTran Lake Erie College of Osteopathic

Medicine

Anesthesiology – Adult CardiothoracicRyan Magnuson University of New EnglandTracy Sisk Kansas City University

Anesthesiology – Pain ManagementNganoTakawira University of Zimbabwe

DentistryElias Chatah University of SydneyRobert Chin University of NevadaDavid Coviak University of MichiganJuan Fabrega University of NevadaAndrew Lee Columbia UniversityAdela Planerova Charles UniversityVineela Redla CKSTeja Institute of Dental Sciences

and ResearchAlexandros Reizan University of NevadaKatie Trawick University of Southern CaliforniaShannonWade Howard University


Daniel Saada Georgetown UniversityJoshua Smith University ofWashingtonJason Zeller Drexel University

Emergency Medicine – PEMMinhu-Tu Do R. Franklin University of Medicine and

Science, Chicago Medical School

Family MedicineAmanda Ashcraft Northeastern Ohio UniversitiesAlecia Fields Edward Via College of Osteopathic

MedicineLaura Gomez Pontificia UniversidadAnna Jack Boston UniversityVivian Jiang University of CaliforniaIrene Koplinka-Loehr Ben-Gurion UniversityAngela Kristan University of OklahomaBranko Matich University of CaliforniaMarlon Mitchell SUNY UpstateNavraj Pannu Northeastern Ohio UniversitiesAnna Pfahl University ofWashingtonShaulaWoz University of Massachusetts

Family Medicine – Sports MedicineMaria Karipidis Pouria American University of the Carribbean

Internal MedicineAmy An University of PittsburghOlga Astapova Wayne State UniversityAaron Butler University of RochesterMary Cantin University of RochesterJanice Cheong SUNY Stony BrookJohn Choi SUNY UpstateHannah de Groot University of MarylandNicholas DeNunzio Boston UniversityJesse Doran University of RochesterMatthew Gorgone Lake Erie College of Osteopathic

MedicineJohn Hu University of VirginiaMustafa Husaini Michigan State UniversitySuhayb Kadura American University of AntiguaJoon-Bom Kim Emory UniversityKwaku Kyere University of MichiganSumeet Lall University of VirginiaSarah Mohajeri Moghaddam GeorgeWashington UniversityNadia Orosz SUNY UpstateDhwani Patel SUNY Buffalo

Vikramaditya Reddy Samala Venkata Kakatiya Medical CollegeMarabel Schneider University of RochesterJarett Thelen University of RochesterDaniel Vekhter SUNY BuffaloJaredWalsh Boston UniversityDaniel Whitman University of TexasColinWright SUNY UpstateAyhanYoruk GeorgeWashington University

Internal Medicine – Critical CareJennifer Madeo Touro UniversitySamad Rasul King Edward Medical University

Internal Medicine – EndocrinologyChristina Blog Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie

Carol DavilaKatia Bravo Jaimes Universidad Nacional Mayor de

San MarcosAlan Brooks University of LouisvilleJason Mathis Ohio State UniversityChinenye Usoh Vanderbilt University

Internal Medicine – GastroenterologyNicholas Day SUNY UpstateLaura Frado SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn

College

Internal Medicine – Hematology/Medical OncologySantosh Kumar Chandka Medical CollegeJaime Navarrete-Faubla UniversidadTecnica de Manabi

Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud

Internal Medicine – Hospice & Palliative MedicineChristopher Jons Dartmouth College

Internal Medicine – Infectious DiseaseAllison Maciver University ofWestern OntarioNeil Mendoza Dartmouth College

Internal Medicine – Interventional CardiologyMohamad Alkhouli, Damascus UniversityBryanWaits Ross University

Internal Medicine – NephrologyAna Molovi-Kokovic Medical School of Belgrade

MATCH DAY 2014


Internal Medicine – PediatricsFrancis Coyne SUNY BuffaloParker Hill University of UtahTammy Mai University of North Texas Health Science

CenterBenjamin Meyer University of MinnesotaKatherine Munck University ofWisconsinAjay Tambralli University of AlabamaGuntherWagoner University of Minnesota

Internal Medicine – Pulmonary/CCDaniel Croft Indiana University

NeurologyBenjamin George University of RochesterLee Gerwitz University of RochesterRoss Hamilton University of RochesterPhillip Mongiovi Ohio State UniversityAndreaWasilewski Jagiellonian UniversityCarolyn Zyloney SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn

College

Neurology – Neuromuscular MedicineNeil Pandya University of AlbertaFrancis Panosyan Queen’s University

NeurosurgeryClifford Pierre University of RochesterJamesTowner University of South Alabama

Obstetrics/GynecologyJennifer Black University of ColoradoSheila Flaum West Virginia School of Osteopathic

MedicineJennifer Leone CaseWestern Reserve UniversityJessica Mitchell Brown UniversityLaura Pekman East Carolina UniversityHaley Prittinen University of MinnesotaMary Towner University of South AlabamaFerdous Zannat Yeshiva University

OphthalmologyLynn Hassman University of Virginia

Orthopaedics – Foot and Ankle FellowshipRobert Gurnfeld Pennsylvania State University

Orthopaedics – Orthopaedic Hand FellowshipAnjan Kaushik University of Virginia

Orthopaedics – Orthopaedic Sports Medicine FellowshipRobert Van Gorder SUNY Upstate

Orthopaedics – Orthopaedic SurgeryAlexander Brown University of LouisvilleDavid Ciufo SUNY BuffaloLauren Karbach Baylor College of MedicineAmie Lucia NewYork College of Osteopathic

MedicineZachary McVicker University of ToledoAaron Roberts GeorgeWashington UniversityMark Schreck Union University

OtolaryngologyNadeem Kolia University of PittsburghIsaac Schmale University of Southern California

PathologySoahaib Abu-Farsakh University of JordanRaman Baldzizhar Gomel State Medical InstituteHani Katerji University of Aleppo

Pathology – HematopathologyAbraham Loo SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn

CollegeNisha Patel Philadelphia College of Osteopathic

Medicine

PediatricsRashi Bamzai University of IllinoisRenee Boulware NewYork Medical CollegeKate Cicozi Northeastern Ohio UniversitiesGarrett Coles University of TexasKatrina Cork GeorgeWashington UniversityAbdelaziz Farhat Weill Cornell Medical College in QatarDanielle Fleissig Wright State UniversityMatthew Guerinot University of New EnglandMegan Kazi University of ArkansasRafi Kazi University of ArkansasSucharita Mukherjee Pennsylvania State UniversityOliver Salmon University of New EnglandCarolyn Stwertka SUNY UpstateMaryWood St. Georges UniversityChristinaWu Ohio State University


Radiology – Vascular Interventional RadiologySaba Gilani SUNY Health Science Center at

Brooklyn College

SurgeryCourtney Boodry University of LouisvilleFranceso Cardelli Indiana UniversityAlexander Cranwell Creighton UniversityCarla Justiniano Ohio State UniversityAlison Matich University of CaliforniaLaura Meadows University of KansasPeng Zhao Yeshiva UniversityAndrey Zuskov RobertWood Johnson Medical School

Surgery – Oncology FellowshipEisar Al-Sukhni University ofWestern OntarioEmmanuael Gabriel RobertWood Johnson Medical SchoolAshlee MacDonald Eastern Virginia Medical SchoolKatherine Ostapoff RobertWood Johnson Medical School

Surgery – Plastic (Integrated)Ronald Brown Wright State UniversitySara Neimanis SUNY Buffalo

Surgery –Thoracic (Integrated)KatherineWood, University of Toledo

Surgery – Vascular (Integrated)ZaneYoung University of North Dakota

Pediatrics – CardiologyStephen Labrinos University of Rochester

Pediatrics – Gastroenterology and NutritionKrishnamraju Kosuru Rangaray Medical College

Pediatrics NeonatologyBilal Mammah McGill UniversityJaved Mannan St. Georges University

Physical Medicine & RehabilitationMark Bauerfeind UMDNJ-RW Johnson Medical SchoolFranchesca Konig Toro San Juan Bautista School of MedicineMatthew Kruppenbacher West Virginia School of Osteopathic

Medicine

PsychiatryJessica Ee SUNY UpstateMaura Hanna University of New EnglandRoop Mathur Touro UniversityNatalia Miles SUNY UpstateDevyani Shah NewYork University

Psychiatry – ChildAmy Bissad A.T. Still University of Health SciencesDavid Tatum Touro University

Preventive MedicineMarielena Brown CaseWestern Reserve University

Radiation OncologyMichael Cummings SUNY Upstate

RadiologyWeston Caywood University of Texas

Radiology – DiagnosticCarrie Gomez Touro UniversityKevin He NewYork Medical CollegeZhongxia Hu Mount Sinai School of MedicineAndrew Olsen Midwestern UniversityVijay Pandya Northeastern Ohio UniversitiesAnthony Portanova University of RochesterRamanujam Prativadi SUNY BuffaloLeah Rossett SUNY Upstate

CLASS NOTESCLASS NOTES

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If you see any alumni whom you wouldlike to contact, use the Online Directoryat www.alumniconnections.com/URMCto find address information.Submit class notes to your class agent

or to [email protected].

Note: MD alumni are listed alphabeticallyby class, resident and fellow alumnifollow in alphabetical order, andgraduate alumni are listed separatelyin alphabetical order.

MD Alumni1944Paul R. Schloerb writes, “In a manner ofspeaking, I am thriving as a professor ofSurgery, University of Kansas MedicalSchool.”

1953Robert L. Brent (BA ’48, PhD ’55, HNR ’88)will receive the 2014 Distinguished PublicService Award from the Health PhysicsSociety at the annual meeting on July 15,2014, in Baltimore, Maryland.This award and associatedmemorializations are intended toacknowledge outstanding contributionsto the profession of health physics whilein public service, or service to thegeneral public that significantlycontributes to the relationship betweenthe public and the health physicsprofession. This is one of the mostmeaningful awards given by the HPS andso far only four persons have received it.

1956George Mizner writes, “Most of us inthe class are past having recentaccomplishments, unless still being alivecan be considered as such. At last count,44 of us were still around, and about 10 or11 of us stay in touch by group email.We all live in nice places, are reasonablysecure financially, and still find joy inliving. Only one of us, Dick Pollen, is stillin active practice. Nearly all contend withmajor losses (spouses and children) andlife-threatening medical problems. As weage, what happens to us becomes lessimportant and what happens with ourchildren and grandchildren becomesmore so.We glory in their accomplish-ments and depend upon them for love,caring and emotional nourishment.We have largely given up arguing aboutpolitics because no opinions are changedand it only serves to divide us.When wefeel compelled to recount our pasttriumphs, it is to reassure ourselves thatas we grow old and have little to lookforward to but loss, sorrow and death,we can take some comfort in the feelingthat we have made a contribution: somelives are better because of us, somestudents are wiser because of us, somepatients have lived fuller and healthierlives because of us and, as best wecould, we have continued the noblesttraditions of medicine as we came tounderstand them from our extraordinaryteachers in Rochester.”

In a regular communication with hisclassmates, seven classmates requestedtheir names be appended to this classnote, as it also expresses theirsentiments:Joseph AmdurJohn O. BurrisK. Leo BuxbaumRobert H. Carman (Res ’60)Cynthia (Baldwin) DuttonPaul JaquesClarence M.Virtue Jr.

1957Gerald “Jerry” Gibbons and his brotherRobert Gibbons (MD ’61) both marriednursing students while in medical school(Barbara Coffman Gibbons and MaureenShinock Gibbons). Since then, they’vebeen sending a steady supply of familymembers to Rochester. DaughterJennifer Gibbons (RN ’89) attended theSchool of Nursing and son WallaceWally” Gibbons (MD ’85) attended SMD.Wally met and married nursing studentAnne Mebane (RN ’84).Jerry writes, “We are hoping to send

at least two more.Wally and Anne’soldest, Natalie, is applying to Rochesterfor an advanced nursing degree, and theirson Cody is studying for MCAT and plansto apply to the U of R. I attended my

50th and 55th reunions, and am verypleased with the great strides theMedical Center has made. I wouldlove for some of my grandchildrento experience Rochester. It is anoutstanding institution.”

1962Charles H. Halsted received theUC Davis School of Medicine,Department of Internal Medicine CareerAchievement Research Award in May.

1969Norman P. Spack, pediatricendocrinologist at Boston Children’sHospital, filmed a TEDTalk in November,2013, titled How I Help Transgender TeensBecomeWhoTheyWant To Be.Find a link to watch it at www.rochestermedicine.urmc.edu

Richard J. Davey is currently Director,Division of Blood Components andDevices, at the Food and DrugAdministration in Silver Spring, MD.This division provides regulatory andpolicy oversight of blood centers,transfusion services and relatedindustries in the United States.

1968Stuart B. Bauer received the Victor A.Politano Award from the AmericanUrological Association during its annualmeeting in May for “innovation inneonatal urodynamics in myelo-menigocele and for early recognition ofchildren at risk for myelomenigocele.”

1973Richard A. Aronson (Res ’76) serves asdean and the Health Professions advisorat Amherst College, his undergraduatealma mater. He writes, “It’s a greatopportunity to advise, mentor, teach,and inspire a new generation of healthprofessionals. As the pre med advisor,I strongly encourage my students toapply to my alma mater medical school;Amherst and Rochester have a strongconnection. I value my regular contactwith the admissions office at Rochester.Last June, I received an award from thepresident of Amherst College for myoutstanding contributions to the studentswith whom I work.”

Kenneth Burchard writes, “My wifeMarion and I wish to convey how muchwe enjoyed our 40th reunion visit to themedical school. As a faculty member atthe Geisel School of Medicine atDartmouth, I was especially impressedby the curriculum-related underpinningsof the admissions process, the attentionto follow-up of graduate performance,


and the clear goals and initiatives of themedical school leadership.I also want to alert the Rochester

medical community that the secondedition of my book, The ClinicalHandbook for Surgical Critical Care, waspublished by Informa in August 2012.

1976Jean Ann Hinlicky writes, “Larry and Iare trying hard to commit to ending ourpractices in Baltimore by spring 2015, inhopes of fulfilling our longtime dream ofmoving back to the Southwest.We’ll see— we may become typical ‘old people’snowbirds — hard to believe! Thistransition is a hard one for us — the newbalance is something we’re working on.All suggestions are welcome!“Our biggest news concerns both

kids. Our son Matt and Julia Goldberg aregetting married! This is very exciting forus and we couldn’t be happier to haveJulia become a formal member of thefamily. They are living in DC, but thatcould change when Julia finishes herPh.D. in Public Health in 2015 and the jobsearches begin.“Daughter Sarah moved to San

Francisco last summer after finishing herMaster’s in Public Health — California isawfully far away and we miss the easyvisiting we used to have. She has afellowship based at UCSF, and is tryingto find her niche in the public healthworld. Her longtime boyfriend Davidworks in San Francisco as an electricalengineer, developing a new product in hisown company, so he is firmly entrenchedthere. Seems like theWest is a naturalpart of the Raifman/Hinlicky clan.“The last time the Class Notes came

out, many of you responded to my emails,and it was great reconnecting. I would loveto hear from any and all of you.”

1978Douglas Kamerow (Res ’83) has retiredfrom RTI International and is now SeniorScholar in Residence at the RobertGraham Center for Primary Care PolicyStudies (graham-center.org), and aprofessor of Clinical Family Medicine atGeorgetown University.

Roberta F. Palestine is proud toannounce she is now a grandmotherto a grandson born in early December2013.

1979RobertT. Brodell (Res ’81) is professorand chair of the Department ofDermatology and professor of Pathologyat the University of Mississippi MedicalCenter. He says establishing thedepartment and the first dermatologyresidency training program in the State of

Mississippi has been “an incrediblyexciting adventure.”

James Norman Suojanen’s daughterKrista Suojanen received her M.D. fromColumbia in May and begins an InternalMedicine residency at Vanderbilt in July.

1980John Fauster DiPersio (PhD ’80) washonored to be recognized with the 19thAnnual American Association for CancerResearch Joseph H. Burchenal MemorialAward for Outstanding Achievement inClinical Cancer Research at the AACRAnnual Meeting 2014. This awardrecognizes outstanding achievements inclinical cancer research. It is named forthe late Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal,honorary member and past president ofthe AACR, and a major figure in clinicalcancer research and chemotherapy.DiPersio, chief of the Division of

Oncology and deputy director of theSiteman Cancer Center at Barnes-JewishHospital andWashington UniversitySchool of Medicine in St. Louis, MO,is being recognized for his outstandingachievements in experimentalsequencing of cancer genomes,personalized medicine, and innovationsin stem cell transplantation. DiPersio isinternationally recognized for hisexpertise in T-cell function, stem cellresearch, and acute myelogenousleukemia (AML).

1985The Jewish General Hospital awardrecipient for Excellence in ClinicalResearch is Mark J. Eisenberg, who isbeing recognized for his work incardiology and cardiovascularepidemiology. The award recognizesresearchers whose insights and initiativesin clinical research have resulted inunique and significant contributions topatient treatment and care. Eisenberghas also been elected to Fellowship inthe Canadian Academy of HealthSciences and was inducted at the AnnualGeneral Meeting in Ottawa, Canada, inSeptember. Membership in the Academyis considered one of the highest honorsin the Canadian health sciencescommunity and is based ondemonstrated leadership, creativity,distinctive competencies, andcommitment to advance academic healthsciences.

1988Robert James Cerfolio (BA ’84) iscurrently professor of Surgery and chiefof the Section of Thoracic Surgery at theUniversity of Alabama.Recently he developed and

championed a completely portal four-arm

robotic approachto thoracicsurgery. Thisis used forpulmonaryresections,esophagectomyand mediastinaltumor resections.Approximately200 national andinternational

visitors have come to learn thistechnique.He is a world renowned surgeon and

clinical researcher and has been labeledone of the busiest thoracic surgeons inthe world, in recognition of performingover 1,000 operations each year since2000. He performed 1,154 operations in2006 and 1,240 in 2007. He has given over200 lectures, and presentations at majorinternational and national scientificmeetings and has been selected asa visiting professor in many hospitals inthe US and all over the world, includingmainland China, Hong Kong, England,Germany, Sweden, Amsterdam, Brazil,Taiwan, Spain, Portugal, London, andCanada. He has written over 130 originalpeer-reviewed articles as well as 40 bookchapters and is first author on over95 percent of them. In April 2010, hereceived the James H. Estes Family LungCancer Research Endowed Chair.His main hobbies are sports and

extreme exercise programs with hischildren. He has played in a men’sbaseball and hockey league every year —a few games a week since medicalschool. He has coached over 78 LittleLeague teams for his three boys in manysports including: baseball, basketball,football, hockey, and soccer. He waselected into his high school Athletic Hallof Fame in 1997.

1989Peter S. Hotvedt writes, “I continue towork in a cardiology private practicewhich has grown to 14 doctors plus anumber of mid-level providers in Utica,NY, and surrounding hospitals. I have a19-year-old daughter, who is now asophomore at U of R, studying chemicalengineering. So I have been back tocampus a bit more the last two years.My son is a 16-year-old high schoolsophomore who likes the math andscience but has expressed no interest inmedical fields. I hope to see classmatesat the 25th reunion in fall 2014.”[email protected]

CLASS NOTES


1990Robert C. Babkowski (BA ’86, Res ’95)is president of Stamford Pathology GroupPC in Stamford, CT, and chair of Pathologyand laboratory medical director ofStamford Hospital Health System inStamford, CT. He completed his studiesat USC Marshall School of Business,and received his Master’s in MedicalManagement last May. On January 1,Babkowski also became CEO of Path-ology & Laboratory Services, a largeindependent laboratory in Connecticutservicing multiple hospitals inConnecticut, NewYork andMassachusetts.

1991After completing school at the U of R andInternal Medicine training at Strong,followed by fellowship in Oncology andHematology at Duke, David A. Rizzieri(Res ’94), enjoys being on faculty asprofessor of Medicine and chief of theHematologic Malignancies Section andassociate director for Clinical Research,Division of Hematologic Malignanciesand Cellular Therapy. His practice focuseson phase 1 therapies for leukemia andmismatched allogeneic transplantation forhigh risk diseases.He writes, “My three kids enjoy

sports, Duke basketball, and remindingtheir ‘old man’ that it isn’t the 80sanymore! My oldest, Ashley, is anundergraduate at the U of R and twinboys are just starting the college search.”

After 20-plus years in clinical practice as afamily doctor, Pamela PhelpsTalleyhappily returned to school and completedher MPH in Epidemiology at the ColoradoSchool of Public Health in May. In July,she will start as an Epidemic IntelligenceService Officer with the CDC. It is a two-year fellowship in Applied Epidemiology.“I am thrilled to apply my medical trainingand be able to shift into the world ofpublic health.”

1992Michael H. Kim writes, “After 20 yearsin the Midwest following graduation,I returned to the Northeast in 2012 whereI am professor of Medicine and directorof the Arrhythmia Service and Electro-physiology Fellowship Program at theAlpert Medical School of BrownUniversity in Providence, RI.

1999Bradley R. Berg (MS ’93, PhD ’95) recentlyaccepted the position of medical directorof Pediatrics, Round Rock Region forBaylor, Scott, andWhite Healthcare.He says, “My family and I are lookingforward to getting to know a new region

of the country that we have not exploredbefore.”

2000Jeremy Hogan was recently nameda Fellow of the American Academy ofNeurology.

2003Matthew Joseph Bak and MicheleRenee Roullet and were marriedNovember 23 at the GeorgeWashingtonMasonic National Temple in Alexandria,VA. Roullet, 37, is a hematopathologistwith the Pathology Sciences MedicalGroup, a group practice in HamptonRoads, VA, for which she works at SentaraNorfolk General Hospital. Bak, 36, alsoworks at Sentara Norfolk General, wherehe is an otolaryngologist specializing inreconstruction of the head and neckfollowing cancer treatments. Both areassistant professors at Eastern VirginiaMedical School in Norfolk, from whichRoullet received her medical degree.

2004Erin Martindale Denney-Koelsch (Res’08, Flw ’10) and her husband Matt, andthree-year-old daughter Cora were thrilledto welcome Evan Koelsch to their familyin May 2013. Denney-Koelsch works atthe University of Rochester as a palliativecare physician and director of thePalliative Care Fellowship Program.Loving life up in Rochester, where we areraising 19 chickens and two children.”

2006Tracy Lyn Rabin and husband, JeremySchwartz, are happy to report that theywelcomed the arrival of their son, Noahon March 11, 2014. They are also thrilled

to note that their daughter, Naomi, issimilarly excited about his arrival andenjoying being a big sister.

2007Julie (Yee) Billar joined the Banner MDAnderson Cancer Center in Gilbert, AZ asa surgical oncologist specializing in breastcancer. She joined the group in September2013 after completing a Breast Oncologyfellowship at the JohnWayne CancerInstitute in Santa Monica, CA, and aftercompleting a General Surgery residency atthe Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Rochester General Hospital welcomesJoy Michaelides (Res ’13) to its medicaland dental staff, effective July 2013.Michaelides specializes in urologicalsurgery.

2008Joshua D. Miller (BA ’02, MPH ’04)is happy to share the news that he iscompleting his fellowship inEndocrinology at Columbia early in orderto accept a faculty position at StonyBrook University Medical Center on LongIsland. The position will allow him theopportunity to see patients and teachwhile continuing to pursue his researchinterests in type 1 diabetes.While he andhis wife, Ellen M. Miller, are sad to leaveManhattan, they are grateful for thefive years they’ve had in the amazing cityand will continue to visit quite often.Son Brendan can’t wait to start at his newschool (and get his new“big boy bicycle”).

2010After completing his residency inObstetrics and Gynecology at BrighamandWomen’s Hospital / MassachusettsGeneral Hospital, Romeo R. Galang

Matthew Joseph Bak andMichele Renee Roullet

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(BA ’03) has been accepted into theEpidemic Intelligence Service at theCenters for Disease Control andPrevention in Atlanta, GA.

On September 27, 2013, Ruth B.Schneider and her husband, AdrianMartin, celebrated the birth of their firstchild, Oliver Martin.

2011Sophina Calderon is finishing residencyin Family Medicine at the University ofRochester and has accepted a positionwith the Indian Health Service to work onthe Navajo Nation in Arizona. She and herhusband are also expecting their secondson in June.

Resident& FellowAlumniAlan Armer (MS ’80, PhD ’83, Res ’84) –See Graduate Alumni

Richard A. Aronson (MD ’73, Res ’76) –See Class of 1973

Robert C. Babkowski (BA ’86, MD ‘90,Res ’95) – See Class of 1990

Vlad Bogin (Res ’01) served as thechairman of the board at Medistem, Inc.,a San Diego-based biotechnologycompany that discovered an endometrialregenerative cell, a pluripotent allogeneicadult stem cell. During his time with thecompany, it received an IND approvalfrom the FDA for a phase Ib study incritical limb ischemia, launched a phase2 study in congestive heart failure inMoscow, Russia, and returned to a fullyreporting status on the public markets.In March, the company was acquired byIntrexon Corporation, a leader inmolecular DNA therapeutics.

RobertT. Brodell (MD ’79, Res ’81) –See Class of 1979

Erin Martindale Denney-Koelsch (MD’04, Res ’08, Flw ’10) – See Class of 2004

Jan A. Fawcett (BA ’56, Res ’64) writes,After being chair of Psychiatry for30 years at Rush University Medical Centerin Chicago, I retired to Santa Fe, NM,and have been teaching full-time asprofessor of Psychiatry at the University ofNewMexico in Albuquerque. In 2013,I published my first novel, Living Forever,which is available on Amazon and Barnes& Noble. Having never knowingly written

fiction before (I’ve published many articleson depression and suicide in thepsychiatric literature), I have enjoyedwriting so much that I am writing a sequelto Living Forever. At 80, I still enjoyteaching residents and seeing patients.I often think of my days at the U of R,having transferred from the US NavalAcademy, then going on toYale MedicalSchool. I remember my days at Psi U andall the friendships I had in that relativelyshort time (two years for me) as well asmy third year residency at StrongMemorial with Dr. John Romano and thefriends I made in my short time there.A shout out to anyone who remembersthose years! My greatest memories ofU of R days were my embryology classand reading the King of the Schnorrers inEnglish (which helped me greatly in raisingresearch funds).

Douglas Kamerow (MD ’78, Res ’83) –See Class of 1978

Joy Katherine Michaelides (Res ’13) –See Class of 2007

Elizabeth Murray (Flw ’10) has beennamed a spokesperson for the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics

Henry A. Nasrallah (Res ’75) has recentlymoved from the University of CincinnatiCollege of Medicine, where he served as

associate dean for Faculty Developmentand Mentorship, and joined Saint LouisUniversity School of Medicine as theSydneyW. Souers Endowed Chair, andprofessor and chairman of theDepartment of Neurology and Psychiatry.He welcomes hearing from his oldR-Wing friends at: [email protected]

William A. Petit Jr. (Res ’85) waspresented with the Person of Influenceaward from Safe Haven ofWaterbury CT,one of the state’s Domestic ViolenceShelters. He is seen above with his wifeChristine andWilliam III, April 9, 2014.

Susan Lane (Res ’96) has been appointedvice chair for Education at Stony BrookSchool of Medicine. In her new role,Lane is charged with the development,implementation, and ongoing review ofstrategies to achieve the educational andtraining objectives of the department.Lane has made majorservice contributionsto the school andnational societies,including chair of thePublic PolicyCommittee of theAssociation ofProgram Directors inInternal Medicine(APDIM). She is alsothe recipient of many

William A. Petit Jr.

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Higgins (MD ’77) played President of the United States in thepolitical thriller Persecuted, which was due to open at theatresnationwide in July. TheTulsa cardiologist delivered 38 linesalongside numerous well-known actors such as James Remar,whose lengthy list of credits includes Django Unchained, X-Men,and Dexter. Higgins says it was a lot of fun, but he won’tcontinue seeking Hollywood fame and fortune. He’s got toomany other things left to do before he dies.“I wanted to be in a movie, but there are still 1,259 items

on my list,” says Higgins, who admits it’s a bottomless bucket.I keep adding to it.”He started the list while he was a student in Rochester, and

now rattles off a dizzying inventory of once-in-a-lifetimeexperiences. He recalls dining atWindsor Castle with PrincesCharles, Edward, and Philip, climbing Mt. McKinley, parachutingwith Navy SEALS, catching catfish with his bare hands (a pastimeknown as “noodling” down South), hunting rattlesnakes,becoming certified to fly his ownWestwind jet, piloting anacrobatic airplane, posing for pictures with every president sinceJohn F. Kennedy, hiking the AppalachianTrail, and visiting everyCentral and South American country. He is preparing to climbMt. Kilimanjaro this fall, and hoping to find his way aboard AirForce One. And he would really like to be inside a fighter jet asit’s catapulted off an aircraft carrier.Growing up in rural Wessington Springs, SD, with a 2010

population of 956, Higgins didn’t expect his life to become onebig adventure. The South Dakota State undergrad was the first

This summer, James R. Higginscrossed off the 2,152nd item on what is undoubtedly the world’s mostambitious bucket list. And you can watch him do it.

in his family to go to college. An electrical engineering major andstar athlete, he decided to attend medical school after playingcards with team doctors on the way home from a championshipbasketball game. He says he hitchhiked to all of his admissioninterviews, surprising the bowtie-clad professors at numerousIvy League schools.“They would ask how my flight had been, and when I told

them I hitchhiked, they just about fell off their chairs,” he laughs.I got into every medical school I applied to because I fit thecriteria for being different.”Higgins arrived for his interviews in Rochester on a Friday

night, finding a spot to sleep in HelenWood Hall before hismorning appointments.“They didn’t ask about my grades or MCAT scores, which

were very good. They said they wanted to know if I was the kindof person who should be a doctor,” remembers Higgins. “That’swhy I went to Rochester.”A third-year rotation with Arthur J. Moss, M.D., convinced him

to become a cardiologist.“We would go over to Dr. Moss’ house for dinner every

Wednesday, and he would quiz us on a CPC from the NewEngland Journal of Medicine. He changed my life.”Somehow, Higgins found time to marry Julie, his high school

sweetheart, and raise three sons. The oldest, Christopher J.Higgins, M.D., recently joined his father’s practice, taking overmost of the invasive procedures. Higgins says this gives himmore time to whittle away at the bucket list.

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awards, including the Alpha Omega AlphaMedical Honor Society FacultyMembership and the Award for Out-standingTeaching by Stony Brookmedical students.

David A. Rizzieri (Res ’94) – See Class of1991

GraduateAlumniAlan Armer (MS ’80, PhD ’83, Res ’84)created and was appointed president andCEO for Catholic Health Initiatives’ Institutefor Research and Innovation, a $9 billionhealth care system of more than 80hospitals across 20 states, focused ondelivering newmodels of care delivery tophysicians and patients in theircommunities.

Bradley R. Berg (MS ’93, PhD ’95, MD ’99)– See Class of 1999

John Fauster DiPersio (PhD ’80, MD ’80)– See Class of 1980

The textbook, A Small Dose ofToxicology: The Health Effects ofCommon Chemicals, written by StevenG. Gilbert (BS ’73, MS ’83, PhD ’86),was translated and published in Chinese.A Small Dose of Toxicology is anintroductory textbook that examines thehealth effects of common chemicalagents and places toxicology within theframework of everyday life. Agentscovered include not only obviouscandidates such as lead, mercury, andsolvents, but also familiar compoundssuch as caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine.Additional chapters cover basictoxicology, targets of toxic agents,air pollution, nanotoxicology, riskassessment, history, and ethics.

Joshua D. Miller (BA ’02, MPH ’04, MD ’08)– See Class of 2008

Susanne E.Tanski (Res ’01, MPH ’10)is assistant professor of Pediatrics atDartmouth Medical School and a practicingpediatrician at the Children’s Hospital at

Dartmouth of Dartmouth-HitchcockMedical Center. She is project director inthe American Academy of PediatricsJulius B. Richmond Center of Excellence,a national Center of Excellence funded bythe Flight Attendant Medical ResearchInstitute, dedicated to protecting childrenfrom tobacco. She is also chair of theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics’TobaccoConsortium, a multidisciplinary researchgroup, and co-chair of the PrimaryPreventionWorkgroup for NewHampshire’s Comprehensive CancerCollaborative.Working within the Cancer Risk

Behaviors Group at the Norris CottonCancer Center at Dartmouth, her currentresearch endeavors focus on visual mediainfluences on adolescent smoking anddrinking, and communication betweenpediatric clinicians and parents regardingeliminating second-hand smoke exposureof children and helping parents promotehealthy lifestyles for their children.

�e George Hoyt Whipple Society recognizes donors who support the School of Medicine and Dentistry with an annual gift of $1,500 or more. Gifts like these ensure the School of Medicine and Dentistry can continue to rigorously prepare physicians and scientists in the traditions that are the hallmark of a Rochester education. �e University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is deeply grateful to its leadership donors for their generosity and dedication to educating future medical professionals in the Rochester tradition.

Members of the Whipple Society are recognized annually at the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s signature event, the Whipple Society Dinner, which will be held this year on �ursday, October 16, 2014 at Monroe Golf Club in Pittsford, NY.

For information on joining the Whipple Society, contact the School of Medicine and Dentistry O�ce of Alumni Relations and Advancement at 1-800-333-4428.

Whipple Society Dinner 2013

TRADITION


Personal recollections of Nobel

laureate George Hoyt Whipple, M.D.

(1878 – 1976), show the founding dean

of Rochester’s School of Medicine and

Dentistry was a valued mentor.

Gerald “Jerry” E. Gibbons (MD ’57) thought he was in trouble.It was his first year of medical school, and he was being summoned toGeorge H. Whipple’s office. Whipple, founding dean of the Schoolof Medicine and Dentistry, was a common sight in the hallways.However, Gibbons, like many of his classmates, usually kept arespectful and awe-filled distance from the Nobel Prize-winninggiant of pathology. It was enough to walk in his shadow; being

hauled in for a private meeting was cause for trepidation.But Whipple had something he wanted to discuss with young Jerry,

who was among the last students handpicked by the dean for admissionto Rochester. Gibbons was an outdoorsman who grew up in the farm-lands of eastern Washington’s Columbia River basin. Therefore,he possessed important knowledge the Nobel laureate lacked.

“Dr. Whipple and (Kodak founder) George Eastman had traveledto Mount Rainier together, but he wanted to know what the huntingand fishing are like in eastern Washington. We talked about pheas-ants, and he was interested in the Chinese pheasant we have here,”Gibbons laughs. “His son was working at the Hanford NuclearReservation nearby. I wondered if that was one of the reasons heselected me for the class.”

Now retired from vascular surgery and living in an architecturalgem overlooking Washington’s Wenatchee River valley, Gibbonsvividly recalls the first time Whipple stood before his entire class,more than a half century ago. He told the bright-eyed students they

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Above: Portrait of George HoytWhipple, M.D.


had been painstakingly chosen, so they were all capable of graduatingand becoming doctors. Meanwhile, Gibbons heard from friendsat other medical schools who were being told “look right, look left,one of you will not be here at the end of the year.”

“Rochester was different,” Gibbons says with affection.However, during his second year, Gibbons’ mother secretly wrote

to Whipple expressing concern over her son’s well-being. In additionto studying medicine, he was working a late shift doing lab work ata local hospital.

“I was frazzled, I guess, and somehow my mother got word,”Gibbons says.

Without mentioning the letter, Whipple called Gibbons andasked how he was doing. He then convinced the young man to quithis job so it would not interfere with his sleep and studies. It wasdecades before Gibbons knew the full story. While going through hismother’s belongings, he found Whipple’s response to her:

I always advise them (students) not to do outside work,as their time is too valuable. They can never buy it backand they are selling their priceless time for a song …I urged the boy to give up his job.

Whipple’s genuine interest and magnanimous counsel often came as asurprise to his beneficiaries. In 1�73, after winning the DistinguishedService Award from the American Medical Association, Whipplereceived a handwritten, congratulatory letter from Patricia MenselPerkins (MD ’48). Perkins, who died last year, expressed gratitude for hiscontributions to her professional education:

… also for your understanding when I came to you infear and trembling in 1944 with the news that I waspregnant. I expected that would be the end of my med-ical career. Instead, you asked me how I felt and helpedme work out a flexible schedule so that I graduated withthe Class of 1948.

Above: The George HoytWhipple, M.D., Museum andimage of Gerald E. Gibbons, M.D., from 1957.


While raising her family, Perkins became a school physician andlater worked in research at Strong Memorial Hospital. However,despite the support Perkins received, Whipple was unwilling toaccept married interns in his pathology lab. Responding to acolleague asking for his thoughts on the subject, Whipple wrote:

It is impossible for the young married man to give hisentire attention to his professional training. If he did,his wife would be neglected, and I wouldn’t advise that.

Albert Chang (MD ’68) admits he was looking for a similarly strongopinion when he was a first-year student, confused about the direc-tion he should go. He had summoned enough courage to stop byWhipple’s office for help.

“In my mind, I wanted to ask him ‘What kind of doctor shouldI be?’” Chang remembers. “But I decided to be more circumspect.”

Chang paid tribute to Whipple’s remarkable career as a practi-

tioner, educator, researcher, and administrator, and then asked whichrole gave him the greatest personal satisfaction and made the mostsignificant contribution. He says Whipple’s eyes twinkled as he pro-ceeded to tell Chang the joys of each pursuit.

“At that moment, I didn’t realize what was happening, but hecounseled me well. I think it was his way of making me make thechoice,” reflects Chang, who retired from teaching in 2007 and isnow a pediatric consultant at a California juvenile facility.

At other times, Whipple was a more direct interventionist in thecareers of his protégés. In 1�54, Cornell University Medical College(now Weill Cornell Medical College) was hoping to recruit SMDjunior faculty member Victor M. Emmel (MD ’47) to become headof Anatomy. Whipple quickly penned his thoughts to the professortrying to woo Emmel away:

He would be a real loss to this school and I have a pioushope that we may be able to hold him because he is

Upper left: Gibbons todayLower left: Albert Chang today.

DeanWhipple predictedhe would be mostremembered— not forwinning the Nobel Prize— but for teaching.


a man like myself who loves the country and to himNew York City does not appear under the heading ofparadise. You understand what I mean.

Records suggest Emmel remained in heavenly Rochester, wherehe passed away in 1�84.

While Chang half-jokingly refers to Whipple as a “superhuman,”the dean was not infallible. Whipple was a product of his generation.His counsel was based, in part, on his conservative New Englandupbringing and the prejudices of his time.

Like many physicians and academic medical center administratorsof his generation, Whipple felt threatened by the increasing numberof highly intelligent, well-trained, and ambitious Jews who, post-World War I, were emerging from the top medical schools andbiomedical science programs. Whipple also held then-typical preju-dices against Italians and Catholics, but he did not fully exclude anyof these groups from enrolling or teaching at SMD. At the time,

there was no significant controversy.In a 1�5� autobiographical sketch, Whipple predicted he would

be most remembered— not for winning the Nobel Prize — but forteaching. Others agreed. The late George P. Berry, M.D., (chair ofBacteriology at SMD before becoming dean of Harvard MedicalSchool) was called upon to present the 1�43 Civic Medal ofRochester to Whipple. In his remarks, Berry emphasized the impor-tant role Whipple played in the lives of those who followed:

With the modesty of all great men, he has ever devotedhimself to guiding the steps of aspiring youth.

Watch a video about how George Whipple’s Nobel Prize-winningwork almost disappeared at www.RochesterMedicine.urmc.edu

Above: The George HoytWhipple, M.D., Museum andimage of Albert Chang, M.D., from 1968.

IN MEMORIAM


James A. DeWeese, M.D.

James A. DeWeese (MD ’4�, Res ’56),former chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery andVascular Surgery at URMC, died November14. He was 88 years old.

DeWeese retired in 200�, after servingas an SMD faculty member for more than50 years. A pioneer in his field, he partneredwith Jim Adams, M.D., to develop the Adams-DeWeese clip in 1�66. The plastic clampingdevice secured to the inferior vena cava toprevent life-threatening blood clots withoutunnecessarily impeding blood flow. For aperiod, it was the most commonly used devicefor patients with thromboembolic disease.

“He left a remarkable legacy here, in clin-ical care and the education of tomorrow’sphysicians,” says Jeffrey H. Peters., M.D.,former Seymour I. Schwartz Professor andchair of Surgery. “He was a wonderful man,doctor, and mentor.”

DeWeese served on the boards of theAmerican Heart Association (AHA), Ameri-can Board of Surgery, Thoracic Board ofSurgery, and four editorial boards. He wasa member of the Advisory Council on Cardio-thoracic and Vascular Surgery for theAmerican College of Surgeons, the CardiacAdvisory Committee to the New York StateDepartment of Health, and the NationalBoard of Medical Examiners. His many recog-nitions include Distinguished Service awardsfrom the AHA and the Society for VascularSurgery and a Lifetime Achievement awardfrom the Eastern Vascular Society. An annuallecture at URMC is named in his honor.

An avid golfer and regular patron ofthe Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta,Georgia, DeWeese is survived by his wifePat, children Jim (Elsie), Meg (Pierre),Beth (Eric), Joanne (Fran), Bob (Maura),and Jamie ( John), and 10 grandchildren.

Alastair J. Gillies, M.D.

Alastair J. Gillies, M.D., who established thedepartment of Anesthesiology at SMD andserved as chair for 15 years, died March 22at the age of 8�.

Gillies spent a brief period as an assistantanesthetist at URMC in 1�54 before headingto Yale University for five years. Hereturned to Rochester in 1�5� as professorand chief of the Division of Anesthesiology,which was part of the Department of Sur-gery. The first academic anesthesiologist atthe University, Gillies created the Depart-ment of Anesthesiology in 1�6�. Heemphasized research, education and patientcare outside of the Department of Surgery.

“This was an era when anesthesiologywas just beginning to be recognized as itsown specialty,” says Denham S. Ward, M.D.,Ph.D., professor emeritus of Anesthesiologyand former chair of the department.“Gillies’ passion for research and improvingthe delivery and management of anesthesiais what led to the department’s birth.”

Gillies served on the faculty for threedecades. He was involved in faculty recruit-ment and curriculum development,establishment of the clinical practice, andcreation of a full residency program at theUniversity. He started a basic science andclinical research program.

“We have lost a link to our past,” MichaelP. Eaton, M.D., chair of Anesthesiology, says.But as we look to the future, we are proud tomove forward as a department envisionedand built by Dr. Gillies.”

Gillies enjoyed golfing and was a modeltrain enthusiast. He is survived by his wife,Shirley; his children John, Neil, andDeirdre; Shirley’s children, Huw and Sian;and five grandchildren.

Robert E. Marquis, Ph.D.

Beloved teacher andpast chair of theDepartment ofMicrobiology andImmunology, RobertE. Marquis, Ph.D.,died January 23. Mar-quis was 80 years old.He began his career atURMC in 1�63 andwas continuouslyfunded by theNational Institutes of Health until hisretirement in 2012. During his early years,Marquis studied energy transduction; in the1�70’s, he focused on oral streptococci. Hehad a secondary appointment in the Centerfor Oral Biology, and his work on the effectsof fluoride on cavity-producing bacteriaearned him the 2006 Distinguished ScientistAward for Research in Dental Caries fromthe International Association for DentalResearch.

“He never engaged in self-promotion,instead he passionately promoted theaccomplishments of his many trainees andjunior colleagues,” says Lawrence A. Tabak,D.D.S., Ph.D., principal deputy director atthe National Institutes of Health and for-mer director of the Center for Oral Biologyat the U of R.

Marquis extended his influence to RiverCampus, where he was a founding directorof the program in Biology and Medicine,offering lectures, research lab experience,and seminars to undergraduate students.This led to the creation of a Bachelor’s ofScience degree in Biological Sciences.

He was a fan of the Rochester Philhar-monic Orchestra and a theatre buff,regularly traveling to the Shaw Festival,Stratford Festival, and even London’s WestEnd. He was also a custom brewmaster.Marquis is survived by his wife, DianaMears Marquis; children Linda, Heather,and André; eight grandchildren, and threegreat grandchildren.

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systems for various drugs, died March 2 atthe age of �1.

Born in Uruguay, he received a scholarshipto study biochemistry in the United States.He was accepted by Harvard University andthe U of R, and chose Rochester because hewould have more control over his research.After earning his Ph.D., he remained inRochester until 1�51 to complete a fellowshipfunded by the National Institutes of Health.His research here led to the “Zaffaroni Tech-nique” for isolating steroids, which garneredinternational attention.

After leaving Rochester, he joined a pri-vate company, Syntex, S.A., where heapplied his analysis to the company’s steroidwork. He played a key role in transformingthe firm into a global pharmaceutical corpo-ration, and served as president of SyntexLaboratories and director of research.

In 1�68, he founded ALZA Corp., thefirst of nine companies he built aroundnovel technologies and 130 patentedprocesses. He co-founded DNAX withNobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg, M.D.(MD ’41), in 1�80. Zaffaroni earned numer-ous awards and honors, including theNational Medal of Technology and Innova-tion, bestowed by President Bill Clinton in


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Through the Zaffaroni Foundation,he and his wife, Linda, supported manyhumanitarian causes, medical research,higher education, and scholarships. He issurvived by Linda; children Alejandro andElisa; and two grandchildren.

IN MEMORIAM


Glen H. Kumasaka (MD ’55)Charles Arthur Lankau (MD ’64)Allan R. Law (MD ’55, Res ’59)Kenneth J. Leipper (MD ’71, Res ’73)RayW. Mackey (MD ’54)Ann C. Margolin (Res ’88)John Johnston Miller (MD ’59)Alvin Leonard Morris (PhD ’57)Paul E. Morrow (Ph.D. ’51)Andris Neimanis (MD ’63)Iver C. Nielson (MD ’57)D. Louise Odor (MD ’48, Ph.D. ’50)Robert M. Olson (MD ’57)Ann Martin Pearson (Res ’48)Louis Piro (Flw ’80)Joseph Plukas (Res ’60)Richard E. Raizman (Res ’73)Primitivo D. Roca (Res ’59)James Raymond Stabenau (Res ’61)Donald R. Sweeney (MD ’70)Thomas E. Talley (Res ’70)JauT. Tsau (Res ’73)Paul E. Tyler (MS ’56)William A. Vincent (Res ’55)Gregory Arnold Voit (BS ’83, MD ’87)Douglas G.Wilson (Res ’80)Robert L. Yarrish (Flw ’80)

In Memoriam

David S. Baldwin (BA ’43, MD ’45)JohnW. Bengtson (MD ’48)Harold Scott Bernard (PhD ’73, PDC ’80)CharlesW. Bishop (PhD ’46)Richard S. Blacher (MD ’48)John R. Bosco (MD ’64)Patrick F. Bray (MD ’47)William C. Caccamise (BA ’44, MD ’46)Stephen Cadden (Flw ’82)William R. Chaffee (Res ’55)Calvin C. Chapman (MD ’59)Joseph H. Dashefsky (Res ’54)Barry Jay Davis (PhD ’76)DonW. DeBra (Res ’72)Walter DelGaudio (Res ’88)Jean F. Dickman (Res ’57)Lester P. Eidelhoch (Res ’57)Eugene S. Farley (MD ’54)Marsden E. Fox (Res ’52)Monique Freshman (PhD’65)Andrew Jackson Frishman (MD ’39,

Res ’40, Res ’42)CharlesW. Gardner (Res ’49)Dalia Solky Goldschmidt (PDC ’87, PDC ’99)Roy Greenberg (Res ’97, Flw ’99)David G. Gregor (Res ’60)George B. Kempton (MD ’47)John H. Kennell (BA ’44, MD ’46)Franklin Daniel Krause (MD ’63)

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