Ramon Olene Parrish Jr., 77C, 81M, has joined the faculty at the Family Practice Residency at Floyd Medical Center in Rome, Ga. He is currently a Career MPH student at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory, concentrating in management. His professional interests include OB ultrasound in Hispanic women, medical informatics, and integrative therapy of cancer patients. His sons, Christopher and Matthew, will attend the University of Georgia in the fall of 2004.

Douglas Brandt, 82M, completed a Master of Medical Management program in 2003. The program––developed in partnership with the American College of Physician Executives––enables busy physicians to hone management skills for running solo practices as well as the nation's largest healthcare organizations. He is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a certified physician executive (designated by the Certifying Commission in Medical Management).

Laura Brooks Kezar, 81C, 85M, is associate professor and residency director in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Alabama––Birmingham. Her husband, Edwin Kezar, 77C, 84M, is in private practice as an anesthesiologist. Both served in the US Navy after medical school and were stationed in Portsmouth, Vir., at various times. They have many family connections to Emory. Laura's mother, Carolyn Campbell was one of the first women to graduate from Emory's Goizueta School of Business, and her brother, William Brooks, received his undergraduate degree from Emory. Ed's brother, Hollis Kezar, has a PhD in chemistry from Emory. All told, the family has an Emory legacy totaling 30 years.

N. Berkeley Powell Jr. (surgery) is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine as well as vice-president of the Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons. A clinical assistant professor at Baylor, he is in his 24th year of private practice in Houston. In August 2002, he and his wife, Kimberly, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. They have two teenagers, Claire and Colin.

Scott Wottrich (radiology) spent the month of November 2002 at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi, Tanzania, funded by the Emory University Teaching Fund. There he learned how to practice medicine with limited resources and treated patients with a range of complaints from lion attacks and alligator bits to broken hips caused by chase by an elephant and skull fractures from the traditional Masai club.

D.M. Segrest, 30M, of Port Gibson, Miss., in July 2000.

Lamar F. Glass, 45M, of Marietta, Ga., on Jan. 13, 2004.

George S. Roach, 42C, 45M, of Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 19, 2004. He died of respiratory failure at age 82.
    A respected Atlanta otolaryngologist, Roach retired in 1990 to St. Simons Island, a favorite vacation spot. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn, three daughters, seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and a sister. Roach's father was the dean of Oxford College in 1930.

Rodney D. Anderson (radiology) of Beaumont, Tex., on Jan. 2, 2004. He was chief resident in radiology from 1987–1988 and a fellow in neuroradiology from 1998–1990.
    He worked at Nashville Memorial Hospital for a year before relocating to Beaumont, where he became a member of the board of directors of Jefferson County Medical Society.
    He is survived by his wife Tenna McGee-Anderson, five sons, two daughters, his parents, two brothers, and one sister.

Madhu Bhalla (OB/GYN) of Augusta, Ga., on Dec. 7, 2001.

C. Stafford Clay (surgery) of Nashville, Tenn., on June 10, 2001.

Euta Colvin (surgery) of Spartanburg, SC, on Oct. 16, 2000.

Lewis Corum (pediatrics) of Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 10, 2003. He served in the US Army Medical Corps from 1942–1946. He entered private practice in Tampa in 1946 and continued there until 1970. He also was a civilian pediatrician at MacDill Air Force Base from 1970–1984. He is survived by a son, a daughter, two granddaughters, and two great-grandchildren.

Catherine Foster (OB/GYN) of Spring Hill, Fla., on Nov. 11, 2003. She was an OB/GYN resident from 1953–1955 at Crawford Long Hospital and at St. Joseph's Infirmary from 1955–1956.

Frank DeWald Kilgo, 50C, (surgery) of Macclenny, Fla., on Dec. 25, 2003.

Edwin Lochridge Jr., 47C (pathology, surgery) of Atlanta, on Nov. 12, 2003. He was 77.
    A third-generation Atlantan, he practiced medicine for more than 40 years, and his patients included a former US President. In 1949, while an intern at Grady, he was pressed into duty as an ambulance driver to assist a woman struck by a car crossing Peachtree St. By tragic coincidence, the woman was Margaret Mitchell, his mother's lifelong friend.
    Lochridge was a talented athlete. He held the Georgia State swimming backstroke record, played basketball in high school, was a highly ranked doubles tennis player as well as avid golfer, huntsman, and dancer.
    He is survived by two sons and five grandchildren.

David Smith McKee (pediatrics) of Marietta, Ga., on May 8, 2004. He received his MD from the University of Virginia in 1945 and completed an internship there. Following service in the US Navy, he completed a residency in pediatrics at Grady, serving as chief resident. A fellow of the American Board of Pediatrics, he practiced in Atlanta for 50 years. He is survived by his wife, Alexandra McAuliffe McKee, three children, eight grandchildren, two sisters, a brother, and two stepdaughters and their children.

Laurence Mendelson (surgery) of Berkeley, Calif., on March 17, 2002.

Robert Pruner (radiology) of Roanoke, Vir., on Aug. 11, 2003. He was 62.
   Born in Lebanon, Va., he was educated at Emory & Henry College, East Tennessee State University and the Medical College of Georgia. After completing his fellowship in radiology at Emory, he served in the United States Medical Corps during the Vietnam War. From 1982 to 1985, he was chief of the Orthopedic Surgery Department at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. He practiced orthopedics for 31 years and prior to death was an orthopedic surgeon at Roanoke Orthopaedic Center. He is survived by his wife, Carol Pruner, and two children.

James S. Strong Jr. (radiology) of Greenville, S.C., on March 24, 2004. He served two years in the US Army before entering the Medical College of South Carolina, where he graduated in 1963. He completed a radiology residency at Emory and went on to private practice. He is survived by his wife of 34 years, Marsha Lurey Strong, and a sister.

Barrie A. Thraser Jr. (ophthalmology) of Atlanta, on Feb. 7, 2003. He was an ophthalmology resident from 1961–1965 and served as president of the Emory Eye Alumni Association in 1991. He is survived by his wife, Dickie McMullan, four children, and four grandchildren.

John Tiliacos (orthopedics) of Marietta, Ga., on March 2, 2004. He was 80.
   Born in Rhodes, Greece, he graduated from the University of Athens School of Medicine in 1952. He came to the United States in 1956 and was naturalized in 1960. After completing a residency in orthopedics at Emory, he served as an orthopedic surgeon for Lockheed Aircraft's medical department. He ran a private practice in Marietta for 26 years.
   He is survived by his wife, Helen Micaelos, two sons, two brothers, one sister, and two grandchildren.

Charles Whisnant Jr. (internal medicine) of Tucker, Ga., on Sept. 17, 2003. During WWII, he served as a medical technician, and after service, he attended medical school at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his MD. During his Emory residency, he was instrumental in the development of the first artificial kidney machine at Grady.
   From 1956–1990, he was in private practice in Atlanta and an attending physician at Crawford Long, St. Joseph's, and Peachtree-Parkwood hospitals. He worked part-time after retirement at the Georgia Mental Health Institute and the DeKalb Addiction Clinic.
   He is survived by one daughter, two granddaughters, and one brother.

Roy Alvin Wood (emergency medicine) of Ft. Myers, Fla., on Jan. 9, 2004. He died in a vehicular accident while serving his country in a special forces unit in Afghanistan. In civilian life, he was an emergency room physician.
    He is survived by his wife, Hana, two children, his parents, one brother, and two sisters.

William Adolphus Wood (internal medicine) of Atlanta on Nov. 7, 2002. He received his MD at the Medical College of Georgia and did postgraduate training at Crawford Long and Georgia Baptist hospitals in Atlanta. From 1960 until his retirement due to illness, he maintained an internal medicine private practice. He also spent two years as a part of the US Public Health Service at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta.
   He is survived by his wife, Marcella DiVenuto Wood, who completed her pediatrics training at Emory in 1956, as well as four children, and three grandchildren.