Fall 2023 E-News About and for Alumni

Student News

• Members of the Class of 2027 were welcomed to VP&S at the August White Coat Ceremony. Read more.

VP&S and CUIMC News

• See a list of full-time faculty who joined VP&S during the first half of calendar 2023.
• Aimee Payne, MD, PhD, a University of Pennsylvania faculty member, will join VP&S as chair of the Department of Dermatology in December. Read more.

Read more news in the CUIMC Newsroom.

A Selection of Class Notes

• Norbert Hirschhorn’62 received the 2023 Michael Pupin Medal. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window) 
• Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus’66 shares his 10 tips for a life in science. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Robert Lefkowitz'66 was honored at a symposium celebrating his 50 years at Duke University. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Phillipa Woodriffe'76 has been included in Marquis Who's Who. Read more.
• Adele J. Wolfson’79 PhD has received the ASBMB Sustained Leadership Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Read about(link is external and opens in a new window) the career of spine surgeon Frank Cammisa Jr.’82.
• Lee Jones’83 received one of the inaugural AAMC ACE Awards(link is external and opens in a new window), for advocacy, collaboration, and education, from the Association of American Medical Colleges. He also was elected chair (link is external and opens in a new window)of the AAMC board of directors for 2023-24.
• Robert Gaiser’88 has been named to the board of directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties. Read more. (link is external and opens in a new window)
• Eric Lazar’89 has joined Valley Health System in New Jersey as chair of surgical services for Valley Medical Group. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Donald Lloyd-Jones’91 will step down as chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine at the end of the academic year. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window) 
• Tom Inglesby’92 was elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Zenobia Brown’97 was recognized by Modern Healthcare publication as one of the Top Innovators 2023. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Jen Ashton’00 has launched a new magazine, Better with Dr. Jen Ashton. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Read about (link is external and opens in a new window)Themistocles Protopsaltis’01, chief of spine surgery at NYU Langone Health. 
• Michelle Au’03, a member of the Georgia State Senate since 2021 and a candidate for the Georgia State House, is mentioned in an op-ed published in the Atlanta Voice newspaper. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window) 
• Yale published a Q&A with Megan Ranney’04, the new dean of the university’s public health school. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Read about(link is external and opens in a new window) E. Jennifer Edelman’05, a faculty member at Yale. 
• Mariza Daras’08 is the new chief of neuro-oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Massey Cancer Center. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window) 
• Daniela Lamas’08 wrote two essays for the New York Times: one about Jimmy Carter(link is external and opens in a new window) and his decision to enter hospice care, the other about the use of AI in medical practice.(link is external and opens in a new window) 
• Gary Linkov’12 authored a My Turn essay in Newsweek. Read more. (link is external and opens in a new window)
• Eric Tang’13 is on the de Beaumont Foundation’s list of 40 Under 40 in Public Health. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Upper Allegheny Health System in Pennsylvania presented an award to Christian Wilson’13. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Spinal neurosurgeon Juan Mejia Munne’16 has joined Cincinnati-based Mayfield Brain & Spine. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Lisa Tian’18 will join the Upper East Side clinical site of ENT and Allergy Associates in New York in August 2024. Read more.(link is external and opens in a new window) 

In Memoriam

• Clifford Tepper’46(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Ellen Zinsser Green’49(link is external and opens in a new window)
• John Gustafson’49(link is external and opens in a new window)
• James M. Garvey’54(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Charles Chastain’56(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Richard A. Anderson’60  (link is external and opens in a new window)
• Rita Weinberg Clark’60(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Peter Dunne’60(link is external and opens in a new window)
• William Klein’62(link is external and opens in a new window)
• John Kovach’62(link is external and opens in a new window)
• George Mauerman’63(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Kenneth Marshall’64(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Patrick Dowling’65(link is external and opens in a new window)
• David Svahn’65(link is external and opens in a new window)
• James Taylor’70(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Shearwood McClelland’74(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Donald Kurth'79(link is external and opens in a new window)
• Lawrence Cheung’98(link is external and opens in a new window)

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