Class of 1970 Commemorative Biographical Book

V INCENT J . L AMPARELL A , J R .

Vincent J. Lamparella, MD, died of accidental drowning while on vacation at Ocracoke, Island, NC. He was in private practice in psychiatry and also served on the psychiatric staff at Veterans Administration Medical Center. He was 57. Dr. Lamparella was a Syracuse-area native and lived the last 29 years in Baldwinsville. He entered Christian Brothers Academy on a scholarship, graduating in 1962, and in 1966 graduated from LeMoyne College, Cum Laude. He earned his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1970. After completing his internship in general medicine at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu in 1971 and serving as an emergency room physician at that city’s Kuakini Hospital, he was drafted into the US Air Force as a captain. Stationed at Travis AFB in Fairfield, CA, he provided emergency services for Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Vallejo, CA and served as chief physician at the family-practice clinic at the airbase. After returning to central NY in 1973, Dr. Lamparella served as a family practice physician at Chestnut Ridge Health Center in Baldwinsville, the first primary health center of PHP, the region’s first HMO. In 1975, he became chief medical officer of Syracuse University’s Student Health Center, a position he held until 1990. During this time he developed the medical care program at the Carrier Dome and helped establish the emergency care protocol for the NYS Empire Games for which he provided emergency care for

many years. Dr. Lamparella entered the psychiatry residency program at the former SUNY Health Science Center (now Upstate Medical University) in 1991, completing the residency 3 years later. He then joined the staff of St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center and served as acting medical director of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program. In 1994, he became associate medical director of Upstate’s psychiatric impatient unit advancing to medical director. He was also an assistant professor at Upstate, and served as an advisor to both Upstate’s psychiatric residents and the nurse practitioner students at LeMoyne College. In 1998, he became medical director of Benjamin Rush Center in Syracuse and in 2000 joined the psychiatric staff at Veterans Administration Medical Center. He had run a private practice since 1994. Among other official positions, Dr. Lamparella served as a president of New York State College Health Association, the Onondaga Council on Alcoholism and Addiction and the local chapter of the American Psychiatric Association. He also served on the public health committee of the Onondaga County Medical Society for many years. He is survived by his parents Vincent Sr. and Lucy of Syracuse, two sisters Theresa Pierce of Cicero and Patricia Lamparella of San Diego; his wife, the former Sharon E. Hartjen; two sons, Alan M. of Plainsboro, N.J., and David A. of North Attleboro, MA; a daughter Gina R. Lamparella Grose of NYC and three grandchildren.

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Carl P Lewis was born on June 18, 1934. He died on February 6, 2005 at age 70. Carl had been residing in Henderson, Clark County, Nevada.

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