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1940s
Arnall Patz, 45M, received the Leslie
Dana Gold Medal for the Prevention of Blindness from the St. Louis Society
for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Luther
Clements, 47M, received the first Gold Medal Award of
the Georgia Radiological Society in June 2005. A former Emory faculty
member for 43 years, Clements was honored with an annual named lecture,
now in its 14th year at Emory.
Marguerite Ballard, 48M, and her husband, Speights, received
the Margaret Jones Award for Outstanding Preservation Stewardship from
the Monticello Historical Preservation Commission for preservation of
their family’s antebellum home.
1950s
Charles
Skelton, 51M, the official poet laureate of Barrow County, GA,
published his first two books in 2005, a volume of poetry and of short
stories. In the story collection, Dirty Laundry Don’t Take No
Doctor’s Orders, he draws on anecdotes from 40 years of practicing
family medicine. For the past decade, he has contributed a column, ”Random
Rants in Rhyme” to the Barrow County News.
Jean Stewart Staton, 53M, received the 2005 Physicians
Distinguished Service Award from the Medical Association of Georgia.
Harold
Schulman, 55M, published a book on living, Tipping the Scales,
in 2005.
1960s
Gerald
Fletcher, 61M, former chair of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory,
is a professor at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, where he does NIH-supported
research in wellness and health, preventive cardiology exercise, and heart
failure.
Douglas D. Glover, 61M, a retired professor of OB/GYN
at West Virginia University School of Medicine, led a team that provided
medical care at Camp Dawson, a National Guard post in West Virginia, for
327 evacuees from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
Of more than 50 patients whom Glover personally treated, none had previously
been out of Louisiana or flown.
Cecil Wilson, 61M, has been elected chairman of the board
of trustees of the AMA.
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The
class of 1961 has undertaken a group effort to endow a scholarship
for Emory medical students. Contributions to the Class of 1961 Scholarship
Fund establish a base that will grow annually and fill a vital need,
helping recruit the very best students, giving relief to students
in need, and opening wide the doors for students to enter any field
of medicine without restrictions. This year, the fund honors deceased
classmates Elliott Ackerman, Evan Boddy, George Ezzard, Fred Greiner,
Wayne Lowe, Frank Miller, Frank Peacock, Robert Pierce, Ed Sammons,
and John Wilson. As the class planned its 45th reunion in May 2006,
contributions were approaching its $100,000 goal. For more information
about contributing to this fund or creating a similar fund for your
class, please contact Heather Pharris, 404-727-5932, hpharri@emory.edu. |
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1970s
Richard
Arnold, 72M, was honored for making a significant impact on cardiovascular
health by the American Heart Association in Daytona Beach, FL, in May 2005.
Among other efforts, he helped raise awareness of the need for automated
external defibrillators in the local community.
Jon
Kolkin, 77M, a hand orthopedic surgeon in private practice in Raleigh,
NC, has trained surgeons in Vietnam and other international locales. He
currently serves on the board of the American Orthopedic Society that oversees
international mission projects, and he recently took a team to Moldova to
work in an underserved area where his ancestors once lived.
1980s
C. Thomas Hopkins Jr., 80M, is the 2005-2006 president of the
Georgia Orthopaedic Society.
Steven Peskin, 82M, is executive vice president and chief
medical officer of MediMedia USA, a health care communications company.
Robert Winter, 83M, works at Florida Hospital Orlando
in a vascular center that emphasizes coordination of radiology, vascular,
and cardiology specialties.
Lewis Weiner, 86M, has established a concierge medicine practice
in Providence, RI, to deliver a high level of personalized health care
that emphasizes prevention and early detection. His practice is affiliated
with MDVIP.
Ed Brock, 87M, is chief of emergency medicine at Haywood
Regional Medical Center in North Carolina. He, wife Shannon, and daughter
Anna live in Waynesville.
David Cutler, 88M, is a general cardiologist at the Heart
Group in Akron, OH. He and his wife Robyn have four children and still
find time to run together between their children’s baseball and
soccer games.
Campbell Patterson, 89M, was named chief of the division
of cardiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School
of Medicine in July 2005 and has served as director of the Carolina Cardiovascular
Biology Center for the past six years. He and his wife, Kristine
Patterson, 93M, an assistant professor of infectious dieseases
at Chapel Hill and medical director of the Wake County HIV clinic, have
two children, Celia, 4, and Anna, born on Halloween 2004.
1990s
Married: David Fiellin, 91M, and Lynn Sullivan in September
2005 in South Salem, NY. They met at Yale, where they are both faculty
members. They also are physician-scientists at the National Institute
on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, MD.
Margaret Williamson, 93M, an infectious disease physician,
and her husband, Jose Navarette, 00MR, returned to Atlanta in September
2005 after working for several years in Ecuador. Navarette practices at
Emory Crawford Long Hospital.
Married: Allyson Brown, 94M, and Ken Griffin in 2005
in Newton, MA. She is an instructor in OB/GYN at Thomas Jefferson University
in Philadelphia.
Married: Thomas Connolly, 95M, and Mequel Schoen on April
2, 2005, in New Orleans. A pediatrician in Jacksonville, FL, Connolly
is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
After completing a fellowship in infectious diseases at Emory, Bernard
Comins, 97M, accepted a position in 2004 as an instructor of
medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO.
He is conducting clinical research at Barnes-Jewish Hospital to reduce
morbidity and mortality from hospital-acquired infections.
Married: Melissa Schiffman, 97M, and Tom McLaughlin on
August 3, 2005, at Lake Willoughby, VT. She is an internist in private
practice in Philadelphia.
Born: To Stephen
Small, 97M, and his wife, Franny, a boy, Ellis, on March 24,
2005. Ellis has an older sister, Emma. Small completed his residency in
emergency medicine in the summer of 2005 and now works as an ER doctor
at Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medicine Associates in Charlottesville, VA.
2000s
Born: To Sunit
Bissinger, 00M, and her husband, Zachary, a son, Anand Singh,
on January 18, 2004. Sunit is a pediatrician, and Zachary teaches high
school mathematics near Denver.
Married: Clay Chappell, 04M, and Tresa Allen,
04M, on April 9, 2005, in Jacksonville Beach, FL. Clay is a resident
in internal medicine and Tresa in pediatrics, both at Vanderbilt.
Residency
Notes
Aashish Desai (medicine) is a cardiology fellow at the
University of Florida.
Bruce Bodner (ophthalmology) received the Distinguished
Humanitarian Award from the Lions of Virginia Foundation. He is medical
director of the Lions Medical Eye Bank and Research Center of Eastern
Virginia.
Married: Carlos Diaz (ophthalmology) and Alma Vasquez
on June 11, 2005. Diaz is a partner at Thurmond Eye
Associates in Weslaco, TX.
Steven Dunton (pediatric hematology/oncology and pathology)
has resigned as chief medical examiner of Gwinnett County, GA, and will
begin the Master of Divinity program at Emory’s Candler School of
Theology in fall 2006. In February, he began working part-time at the
DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office.
David Jones (pediatrics) practices pediatrics in Tallahassee,
FL, and is president of a nonprofit HMO. He and his wife of 25 years,
Dottie, have twins—Kelly who just started medical school, and Scott,
who is pursuing a master’s degree in biology.
William Medd (medicine) practices internal medicine in
Maine and serves as chair of the board of Medical Mutual Insurance Company
of Maine, a doctor-owned malpractice insurance company and the major insurer
of physicians and hospitals in northern New England.
John Olsson (pediatrics) is a member of the pediatrics
faculty at the University of East Carolina in Greenville, NC.
Deaths
1920s
Sidney Kennedy Jr., 29M, of Florida, on March 29, 2005.
He was 100. His Emory legacy includes son Sidney Kennedy III, 57C, William
Kennedy, 65M, daughter Eleanor Kennedy, 75C, and grandson Warren Kennedy
Abel, currently a freshman.
1930s
Franklin Eldridge, 34M, of Valdosta, GA, on May 30, 2005.
He was 99. The first practicing radiologist in Valdosta, he founded Radiology
Associates and served seven regional hospitals for 14 years. He retired
from practice in 1975, having served as president of the Medical Association
of Georgia, as an active member of the AMA, and 18 years as chair of the
Valdosta City Board of Education. He is survived by two sons.
John Gifford, 39M, of Gainesville, GA, on November 21,
2005. After completing an internship and residency at the University of
Florida Shands Hospital and service in WWII, he opened an obstetrics and
pediatrics practice in Vero Beach, FL, in 1945. During his career, he
delivered some 2,500 babies. He retired in 1973 and moved to Gainesville,
remaining active with the Alachua County Medical Society. He is survived
by his wife of 34 years, Michele, three sons, two grandchildren, and one
great-grandchild.
Maurice Rich, 39M, of Miami, on June 28, 2005. He was
89. A cardio-pulmonary physician, he helped found the University of Miami
Medical School and Cedars Hospital, where he served as president of the
medical staff. An avid art agent and collector, he was a dedicated supporter
of the arts. He is survived by six children.
1940s
James Dunn, 40M, of Opp, AL, on June 22, 2005. He opened
a medical practice in 1946 in Opp, practicing for the next 40 years. He
was active in the community, serving on the board of Mizell Memorial Hospital,
Colonial Bank, the Opp Board of Education, Covington County Medical Association,
and Blakely Peanut Company. He was also active at First United Methodist
Church. He is survived by two daughters, two granddaughters, three great-grandchildren,
a sister, and a brother.
Charles Harris, 40M, of West Palm Beach, FL, on October
19, 2005. He was 88.
He completed his internship and residency
in surgery at Grady. After service in the U.S. Army in WWII, he opened
a private practice in West Palm Beach and was the first surgeon in the
county to be certified as a diplomate by the American Board of Surgery.
He also was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
During his career, he helped found many
county clinics. He was responsible for the first intern program at Good
Samaritan Hospital, and he was president of the Palm Beach County Medical
Society, president of the Florida branch of the American Cancer Society,
and a founding director of the Southern Bank.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years,
Margaret, one son, one daughter, and three grandsons.
John Godwin, 41M, of Atlanta, GA, on February 1, 2006,
of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 88.
Internationally recognized for his contributions
to cytology and radiation treatment, he had a career that spanned more
than 60 years and four continents. After service in the U.S. Navy, he
joined Memorial Hospital Sloan Kettering Institute as a pathologist and
the Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he was involved in research
in the use of radiation for the treatment of brain tumors. In the mid-1950s,
he became the first full-time pathologist and director of labs at St.
Joseph’s Infirmary, where he served until 1979. He was chair of
the Department of Pathology at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research
Center in Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s, and while serving there for
five years, he traveled to many countries, met numerous heads of state,
and enjoyed owning a racing camel.
Author of more than 100 research papers
and a member of the editorial board of several medical journals, Godwin
identified a benign tumor-like mass in the parotid gland, which now bears
his name. He belonged to more than a dozen medical and scientific societies.
He was clinical assistant professor at Emory, where he and his wife supported
a medical scholarship, and an adjunct professor of allied health at Georgia
State.
He is survived by his wife, Sara, a son,
two daughters, six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, two brothers,
and one sister.
Edwin Turner, 41M, of Valdosta, GA, and Nelson County,
VA, on December 14, 2005, of cancer. He was 89.
Turner received a scholarship to attend
Emory, where he changed bedpans in the nursing home, drove an ambulance,
and became head waiter in the university dining hall. After completing
college and medical school, he served in WWII, then began a successful
medical practice in Georgia. He was the first physician in his part of
Atlanta to refuse to maintain separate waiting rooms for black and white
patients.
During the Korean War, he was recalled into
the U.S. Air Force, serving tours of duty at NATO, Strategic Air Command
in Massachusetts and Indiana, the Air Force reference hospital in England,
and the Fifth Air Force, where he was the senior Air Force physician in
the Far East at the height of the Vietnam War. He returned to private
medical practice in 1974.
Turner was one of the first members of the
American Academy of General Practice, a diplomat of the American Board
of Family Medicine, and co-founder of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians.
He also founded the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians. While
living in Valdosta, he was clinical professor of family medicine at Mercer
University.
He is survived by his second wife, Sarah,
a son, three grandchildren, and a brother. (His first wife of 37 years,
Martha, predeceased him in 1978.)
Oliver Bush, 42M, of Fort Collins, CO, on March 31, 2005,
at 86.
After completing an internship at Metropolitan
Hospital in New York City in 1943, he served in the Army Air Corps and
established a general medicine practice in Menard, TX, after the war.
He completed a residency in anesthesiology at Charity Hospital in New
Orleans in 1951, going on to serve as
director of anesthesia at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas and as clinical
assistant professor of anesthesiology at Southwestern Medical School.
He was the first president of the Dallas County Anesthesiology Society
and was elected to the Academy of Anesthesiology in 1965.
He moved to Colorado after surviving a heart
attack in 1972 and resumed practice in Gunnison, where he became chief
of staff at the county hospital. He is survived by his wife, Madelaine,
six children, 16 grandchildren, and three brothers.
Charles Burge, 43M, of Atlanta, GA, on February 26, 2005,
of complications from heart disease. With undergraduate and medical degrees
and a residency in internal medicine from Emory, he practiced internal
medicine in Atlanta for many years. He was prominent in influencing changes
for racial tolerance in his church communities and his professional medical
associations. He married Mary Reins in 1943, and they enjoyed traveling
together until her death in 2000. Burge built two sailboats in his garage,
was a passionate advocate of classical music and the Atlanta Symphony,
read voraciously, and was an indulgent and proud grandfather. He is survived
by two children and three grandchildren.
Howard Trimpi, 43M, of Macungie, PA,
on January 15, 2005, of pneumonia.
Peritz Scheinberg, 44M, of Miami Beach, on July 19, 2005,
of complications of lymphoma and bone marrow dysplasia. He was 85.
After service in WWII, he returned to his
native Miami to establish the Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism Research
Lab at the University of Miami Medical Research Unit, which some two years
later, when the medical school began classes, evolved into the Division
of Neurology and eventually the Department of Neurology, of which he served
as chair until 1990. His leadership of the department produced nine chairs
of neurology around the country, and he trained hundreds of residents.
He is survived by his wife, Chantal, two
sons, a daughter, and nine grandchildren.
David Funk, 46M, of Iowa City, IA, on March 13, 2005.
Luther Pararo, 46M, of Tallahassee, FL, on January 5,
2005.
Patrick Roche Jr., 47M, of Dublin, GA, on August 8, 2005,
after an extended illness. He was a founding member of Dublin Internal
Medicine, retiring in 1988. He was an active member of the community,
serving as bank director, on the Dublin City Council, and as a member
of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. In 1999, he was named Senior
Citizen of the year. He is survived by five children and 12 grandchildren.
His son, W. Patrick Roche III, 83M, also graduated from Emory.
David Hein, 49M, of Atlanta, on June 16, 2005. He was
82 and had lived with Crohn’s disease for almost 70 years.
He completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at Cincinnati General Hospital
and was a resident at Grady Memorial Hospital from 1952 to 1954. A fellow
of the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College
of Gastroenterology, he was associate clinical professor at Emory, clinical
assistant professor at the Medical College of Georgia, and an attending
physician at Grady. An active staff member at St. Joseph’s Hospital
and a founder of Northside Hospital, he was a member of the American Society
of Internal Medicine, president of the Georgia Society of Internal Medicine,
and a founder and president of the Georgia G.I. Society.
After retirement, he continued to serve
as preceptor of sophomore med students at Emory as well as serving on
the internal review board and continuing medical education committees
of Northside and St. Joseph’s. He is survived by his wife of 58
years, Virginia, two daughters, and one grandson.
1950s
Walter Shehee, 52M, of College Park, GA, on August 29,
2005. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen, three sons, three grandchildren,
and two brothers.
Earl Walker, 52M, of Delaware, on November 3, 2005.
Freerk Wouters, 53M, of Cary, NC, on December 2, 2005.
He was 77. A native of Atlanta, he returned to his family home in the
Netherlands when he was three, coming back to the United States 12 years
later when Germany occupied the Netherlands. A fellow of the American
Psychiatry Society and a former officer in the U.S. Navy, he practiced
psychiatry and devoted his career to public mental health. He is survived
by his wife, Barbara, and five sons.
Earl Ginn, 57M, of Nashville, TN, on May 17, 2004. A
pioneer in the treatment of kidney failure by hemodialysis, he required
this treatment during the last two years of his life.
After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps in
Korea, Ginn joined Vanderbilt as head of a new renal department, a position
he filled until 1980. In addition to pursuing clinical research and practice,
he was a founder of the Middle Tennessee Kidney Foundation, which paid
tribute to him at its annual major fundraiser in 2004.
In 1980, Ginn became the personal nephrologist
for the king of Saudia Arabia’s wife, who suffered kidney failure.
Following her transplant, he became chair of the medical department at
King Faisal Research Hospital until 1989. While there, he started an organ
transplant program and was instrumental in establishing a national law
requiring the addition of vitamin D to milk.
He returned to Nashville, serving as chief
medical officer of REN Corporation for four years, as medical director
of the transplant program at Centenial Medical Center for several years,
and as a consultant with Nashville Nephrology Associates until retirement
in 1997.
He is survived by his wife, Judy, two children,
four grandchildren, and two brothers.
1960s
James Gray, 60M, of Winder, GA, on January 25, 2006,
following an extended illness. He was 72. With residencies from Vanderbilt
and Grady in pediatrics, he was an instructor at Emory School of Medicine
and a primary care physician in Dunwoody for 20 years. A passionate lover
of animals, he bred Whippets and was owner of the world famous Italian
greyhound, Earl.
Harold Hurlbut, 63M, on February 22, 2005. He was 69.
Charles Gendel, 66M, of Franklin, TN, on May 1, 2005, after heart surgery.
He is survived by his sister.
Eugene ”Buzzy” McNatt, 70M, of Marietta,
GA, on July 23, 2005, following cardiac arrest. He was 60. A pathologist
at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, he practiced pathology in Dublin, GA,
after medical school. He was a deacon at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church
and served on numerous mission trips. He is survived by his wife of 25
years, Pam, four children, a sister, and two brothers.
1980s
Brian Ling, 82M, of Asheville, NC, on March 10, 2006,
of gunshot wounds. He was 50. The man who allegedly shot and killed Ling
was the father of a former patient.
After medical school, Ling completed a residency
at Emory, joining the faculty in the medicine department from 1989 to
1997. He moved with his family to Asheville to enter private practice
and became a partner at Mountain Kidney Associates.
He is survived by his ex-wife, Lauren, and
a daughter.
Roger Blasberg, 85M, of Miami, FL, on October 6, 2005.
He was 48. He completed a surgical residency at Grady Memorial Hospital,
a radiology residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and fellowships
in New York and Florida. Board-certified in diagnostic radiology with
specialty certification in vascular radiology, he practiced radiology
in South Florida. He is survived by his mother, Norma, a sister, and a
brother.
Residency
Deaths
Robert Awe (medicine) of Baylor, TX, on October 13, 2002.
He served his internship at Grady and completed a residency in internal
medicine and a pulmonary fellowship at Baylor, where he joined the faculty
in 1973. He was chief of medicine and pulmonary medicine at Harris County
Hospital, and he co-founded Omega House, a residential hospice for AIDS
patients, serving as its volunteer medical director for 17 years. In 1998,
the Texas Department of Health recognized him for his contribution toward
the elimination of tuberculosis.
William Bruns (medicine) of Trenton, SC, on December
26, 2005. A graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina, he completed
an internship at Grady and a residency in OB/GYN at the Medical College
of Georgia. He joined OB/GYN Associates of Augusta, practicing for 30
years until retirement in 1997. He was a diplomat of the American Board
of Obstetrics and Gynecologists. He is survived by his wife, Barbara,
two daughters, and one grandson.
James Crawford (GYN/OB) of Decatur, GA, on June 14, 2005.
Robert Dodd (radiology) of Lakeland, FL, on October 5,
2005, of colon cancer. He received his MD from the University of Virginia
in 1958, followed by an internship in internal medicine at the University
of Texas in Galveston and a residency in internal medicine and radiology
at Grady. (Baseball legend Ty Cobb was among his patients at Grady.) He
worked as a staff radiologist at Lakeland Regional Medical Center and
also at Dade City Hospital and East Pasco Medical Center in Zephyrhills.
In 1999, he received the Triumph Medal from the Joslin Diabetes Center
for having lived for more than 40 years with diabetes. He is survived
by three children and two sisters.
Marshall Dougherty (medicine) of Paris, TX, on December
20, 2005. A native of Palestine, he completed an internship at Grady and
a residency in pathology at Baylor. A captain in the U.S. Army Medical
Corps, he served as chief of pathology at the U.S. Darnall Army Hospital
in Ft. Hood, TX. In 1968, he opened a private practice in Paris, serving
for the next 30 years. In the early days of organ and tissue transplantation,
he made many presentations to encourage organ donation, which became quite
real to him in later years when heart failure required his own heart transplant.
He is survived by his wife, Barrillon Felder, four children, and eight
grandchildren.
Marion Dressler (medicine) of Bridgewater, NJ, on June
22, 2005. She served as assistant director for the DeKalb County, GA,
Health Department for more than 20 years and then practiced psychiatry
until retirement in 1982. A member of the AMA and the American Psychiatric
Association, she was a founding member of First Moravian Church of Georgia.
She is survived by three children, two grandchildren, and two sisters.
Thomas Greene III (medicine) of Detroit, MI, on June
1, 2005, of a heart attack. He was a cardiovascular anesthesiology assistant
professor at Baylor, retiring from medicine in 1997 after a heart attack
and stroke. He is survived by his mother, Yvonne Fowler.
Theophilos Kipreos (medicine) of Richmond, VA, on April
21, 2005. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, he was
a faculty member at the University of Athens.
Margaret Lambino (cardiology) of Tucker, GA, on December
19, 2005, of cancer. A cardiologist and geriatrician, she received her
MD at the University of Santo Tomas. She is survived by her parents and
six brothers.
Julian Lentz (medicine) of NC on October 26, 2002, of
a heart attack. He is survived by his wife.
Thomas Luckey (medicine) on June 14, 2005, of pancreatic
cancer. He practiced internal medicine for 20 years and was affiliated
with the DeKalb Medical Center in Decatur, GA. He is survived by three
sons, two grandchildren, one brother, and two sisters.
Arthur Madden (medicine) of Myrtle Beach, SC, on May
23, 2005. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins in 1959 and completed
postdoctoral training at Emory and Grady. After serving in the U.S. Navy
for two years, he entered private practice in gastroenterology and internal
medicine with his father. He was an associate professor at the Medical
University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina Medical
School, retiring in 1992. He is survived by his spouse, Brandon, four
children, and two grandchildren.
Ronald Masden (cardiology) of Louisville, KY, on December
2, 2004. He received his MD from the University of Louisville Medical
School and completed an internship at Washington University’s Barnes
Hospital in St. Louis and internal medicine and cardiology residencies
at Emory.
He was the senior assistant surgeon at the
CDC with the U.S. Public Health Service and a commander in the U.S. Navy.
A professor and interventional cardiologist at Louisville, he helped build
the cardiology program there and was the first to perform seven different
cardiac procedures in the region, including the first balloon angioplasty
in 1981. During his career, he performed more than 12,000 cardiac catheterizations
and 7,000 coronary angioplasties and trained more than 200 cardiology
fellows.
In the 1990s, he helped establish a cardiology
practice and cardiac cath lab in St. Petersburg, Russia. He founded Anchor-International
Foundation in 1997 to fund training of Russian health care workers in
cardiology and to check the quality of managed care programs in Russia.
At the time of his death, he was the director of the cardiac cath lab
at the Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Institute.
He is survived by his wife of 30 years, Becki, whom he met at Emory, four
children, three grandchildren, and a brother and sister.
William Olmsted (medicine) of Atlanta on May 29, 2005.
He is survived by his wife, Linda, two children, his mother, two brothers,
and a sister.
Faculty
Deaths
Eugene Stead, 32M (former
dean and professor and chair of Medicine) on June 12, 2005. He was 97.
After receiving his BS and MD degrees from
Emory, he served on the faculty of Harvard. In 1942, he returned to Emory
as the youngest chair ever of the Department of Medicine, and in 1946,
he became dean of the School of Medicine, a position he held for one year.
He next joined Duke as professor and chair of medicine, a position he
held for 20 years.
Stead had a major impact on how medicine
was taught and practiced in the 20th century. His research teams described
the physiologic basis of shock and congestive heart failure, and his pioneering
studies in the 1940s with cardiac catheterization formed the basis of
what is now used in the treatment of heart failure.
In addition to his research innovations,
he was an outstanding medical educator. He produced more chairs of medicine
departments (33 in all) than any other medical educator. In 1966, he spearheaded
a revision of the Duke curriculum to cut in half the required basic sciences
and thereby provide room for a full year of research. He also founded
the physician assistant (PA) profession, starting the first PA education
program at Duke in 1965.
He is survived by a son, two daughters,
and three grandchildren.
Arthur Falek (professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences) in November 2005. A faculty member for more than 40 years, he
was internationally known for his work in human genetics and the effects
of heredity on intelligence and behavior. His work to understand the incidence
and causes of birth defects helped lay the foundation for today’s
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the
CDC. When Jimmy Carter served as governor of Georgia, Falek worked to
decentralize mental health care in favor of community-based care. He also
established the Georgia Huntington’s Disease registry and co-founded
a group that evolved into the Huntington’s Disease Society of America
(HDSA). Because of his work, the HDSA established the first Center for
the Care and Cure of Huntington’s Disease at Emory in 1989.
In addition, he undertook one of the first
NIH studies to understand how drugs affect the ability of addicts with
AIDS to fight HIV and other infections. His work in this field contributed
to the formation of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology and the Journal
of NeuroImmune Pharmacology. His efforts to understand and prevent
fetal alcohol syndrome resulted in formation of the Maternal Substance
Abuse and Child Development Project at Emory and the Fetal Alcohol and
Drug Abuse Clinic at the Marcus Institute. Both projects broadened understanding
and treatment in Georgia and the United States.
Robert Gunn (professor and chair of Physiology) on June
26, 2005 of lymphoma. He was 65.
Gunn came to Emory in 1981 and served
as professor and chair of Physiology for more than 23 years. He directed
the MD/PhD program for 13 years and the Fellowships in Research and Science
Teaching program until his death.
An internationally recognized authority
on the molecular mechanisms of ion transport across cell membranes, he
received the Kenneth Cole Award for his work on anion transport across
red blood cells. Just days before his death, he was awarded the 2006 Distinguished
Service Award by the Biophysical Society.
He is survived by his wife, Sharon, three
daughters, one son, two grandchildren, and three brothers.
Jerome Sutin (professor and former chair of Anatomy)
on July 10, 2005. Joining Emory in 1966, he guided the Department of Anatomy
(later renamed Cell Biology) for more than 30 years to become one of the
strongest in the country. In the course of his academic career, he influenced
the disciplines of neuroscience and cell biology, and in particular, he
made significant contributions to understanding the brain, ranging from
the hypothalamus to the cerebral cortex, and through the use of varied
study techniques such as electrophysiology, fiber degeneration, and pathway
tracing.
His interest in the nervous system led to
co-authorship of the 8th edition of Human Neuroanatomy. He also
served on numerous NIH panels and the editorial boards of five journals.
He received the Henry Gray Award in 1994, the highest honor presented
by the American Association of Anatomists, of which he served as president.
Shortly after his retirement in 1996, the Department of Cell Biology inaugurated
the Jerome Sutin Lecture in his honor.
He is survived by his wife, Avril, two sons,
and three grandchildren.
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