Class of 1970 Commemorative Biographical Book

50 th REUNION

Class of 1970 50 th REUNION Commemorative Biographical Book

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Class of 1970

Artwork By: Jeffrey Marsh

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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S

Tradition and Innovation at Johns Hopkins Medicine..........4

Class of 1970 Matriculation Photos. ....................................... 8

Biographies............................................................................... 12

In Memoriam............................................................................ 79

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Tr ad i t i on and Innova t i on a t Johns Hopk i ns Med i c i ne

Progressive Medical Education Begins Philanthropist Mary Elizabeth Garrett (1854-1915) leads a nationwide fundraising campaign to establish the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Neurosurgery and Endocrinology Become Specialties Performing the first brain

surgery in the United States, Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) becomes known as the founder of neurosurgery. He introduces the use of X-rays before surgery, monitors blood pressure

Herself the largest single contributor, she requires that the school set rigorous academic standards and admit women on an equal basis with men.

during surgery, discovers the function of the pituitary gland and also founds the specialty of endocrinology. 1931

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1951

Modern Heart Surgery Arrives Taking an idea proposed to him by pediatric cardiologist

Osler Medical Clinic and Halsted Surgical Clinic To meet the growing need for inpatient beds and operating space, the Osler Medical

HeLa Cells George Gey, director of the Department

of Surgery’s tissue culture laboratory, establishes the world’s first continuously multiplying human cell culture—HeLa—with cervical cancer cells obtained from Henrietta Lacks. Gey distributes the HeLa cells for free to scientific researchers worldwide. Over the next 60 years, they prove instrumental in development of the polio vaccine, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, chemotherapy breakthroughs, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization and landmark research on HIV and tuberculosis.

Helen Taussig, surgery director Alfred Blalock and surgical technician Vivien Thomas devise a way to correct the deadly heart defect called tetralogy of Fallot. Their “blue baby” operation not only saves thousands of lives, it proves that surgery involving the heart is possible.

Clinic and the Halsted Surgical Clinic are added to The Johns Hopkins Hospital. They are named for William Osler, Hopkins’ first professor of medicine, and for William Halsted, Hopkins’ first professor of surgery.

1963 Blalock Clinical Science Building

At its completion the tallest building in East Baltimore, this 15-story structure is the first American hospital building to include an internal pneumatic tube system. The building, added to the hospital to provide new operating rooms as well as modern outpatient and emergency room space, is named for surgeon Alfred Blalock, who helped devise and was the first to perform the blue baby operation.

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1977 A. McGehee Harvey Teaching Tower and Russell A. Nelson Patient Tower Providing much-needed new space for laboratories and clinical care, these additions to The Johns Hopkins Hospital are named for “Mac” Harvey, who headed the

1980

Discovery of Restriction Enzymes Microbiologist Hamilton O. Smith discovers restriction enzymes, the proteins that can cut DNA

Lifesaving Heart-Device Surgery Begins Performing the first implantation of the automatic

at precise points in its genetic sequence. Microbiologist Daniel Nathans uses the discovery to analyze the DNA of a virus that causes cancer in animals, achieving the first practical application of restriction enzymes. These accomplishments, along with Swiss microbiologist Werner Arber’s initial theorizing on the existence of restriction enzymes, would earn the trio the 1978 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

defibrillator in a human being, heart surgeon Levi Watkins introduces a surgical procedure that will save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who have a sudden interruption in the natural rhythm of their heartbeat.

Department of Medicine from 1946 to 1973, and for Russell Nelson, the hospital’s president from 1952 to 1972.

2009 Medical Education Takes Another Quantum Leap The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine launches a revolutionary curriculum called Genes to Society.

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HPV Is Linked to Head and Neck Cancer

Oncologist Maura Gillison, virologist Keerti V. Shah and colleagues show that human papilloma virus, already known to be a

2009 Anne and Mike Armstrong Medical Education Building The school of medicine’s first new medical education center in 25 years, the Armstrong Building provides innovative classrooms, lecture halls and learning studios, as well as the latest digital communications technology, virtual reality simulations and other 21st- century reference tools. It is named for a former chairman of the Johns Hopkins Medicine board of trustees and his wife.

Reframing the entire idea of health and illness, the new approach teaches students to take into account not only each patient’s biology, but the unique effects of environment, family life and genetic inheritance.

cause of cervical cancer, is also strongly associated with cancers that develop in the throat at the base of the tongue and tonsils.

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2014 The Johns Hopkins Hospital Turns 125 John Shaw Billings’ words in 1889 prove prophetic. As the intellectual architect of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, he says at its opening, “Let us hope . . . that it will be a hospital which shall compare favorably . . . with any other institution of like character in existence.”

The Johns Hopkins Hospital Opens its New Front Door After years of planning and construction, the Sheikh Zayed Tower and The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center welcome patients to

the latest chapter in Johns Hopkins medical care. The buildings are designed top to bottom to support Johns Hopkins’ ongoing mission: patient-centered care and education grounded firmly in research.

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1911 Medical Illustration Comes Into Its Own

Research Moves Into Clinical Departments By creating three research divisions within the Department of Medicine,

Johns Hopkins Medical Education Sets the Standard The Carnegie Foundation educator Abraham Flexner (1866-1959) to survey the 150 medical schools in the United States and Canada. In what later is

The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine—the nation’s first—is founded under German artist Max Brödel (1870-1941), whose mastery of medical illustration at Hopkins since 1894 had made him world- renowned. His illustrations are pivotal to the advancement of medical education.

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Lewellys Barker (1867- 1943) starts a movement

that changes the character of university clinics in the United States. Barker, who had trained in the basic sciences, helps to create the scientific basis of modern medical practice.

called simply the Flexner Report, he hails Johns Hopkins as the model, saying “the influence of this new foundation can hardly be overstated.”

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1917 AWoman Scales the Ladder to Full Professor

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William H. Welch Medical Library

Postoperative Intensive Care Unit

The Nation’s First Full-Time Department of Pediatrics Is Born Known as “the father of American pediatrics,” pediatrician in chief John Howland (1873-1926) stresses the importance of the clinician scientist. Howland’s own research, in collaboration with other Johns Hopkins colleagues, results in new ways to treat and prevent rickets.

Named after the first dean and one of the “Founding Four”

Neurosurgeon Walter Dandy establishes what is considered the forerunner of today’s

Florence R. Sabin (1871-1953) receives her M.D. in 1900 at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and in 1902 becomes the first woman to join the faculty. Her discoveries about the lymph system and other research lead to her becoming the school’s first woman named a full professor.

physicians of the school of medicine, the Welch Medical Library provides a foundation for the education of physicians, nurses,

intensive care units. He creates a 24- hour, specialized nursing unit where critically ill neurosurgical patients receive specialty care and recover after surgery.

public health experts and medical scientists. Welch and other planners also launch the Institute of the History of Medicine, the oldest such department in the United States. 1982

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Modern Prostate Surgery Begins Before urologist Patrick Walsh defines prostate anatomy, nearly all men undergoing surgery for prostate cancer are

Twins Joined at the Back of the Head Are Separated Pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson becomes the first surgeon to successfully separate twins joined at the back of the head. Involving more than 70 people, five months of preparation and numerous rehearsals, the 22- hour operation

Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research

1993 The Immune System As Medicine Scientists at Johns Hopkins find that mistakes in so-called mismatch repair genes, first identified by scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere two decades before, may accurately predict who will respond to certain immunotherapy drugs known as PD-1 inhibitors. Such drugs aim to disarm systems developed by cancer cells to evade detection and destruction by immune system cells. In 2017, a drug was FDA-approved for cancer treatment when genetic testing reveals defects in mismatch repair genes.

A collaboration between Johns Hopkins’ schools of medicine and public health, the Welch Center conducts research on diseases and conditions that impose a substantial

left impotent. Walsh shows that the prostate’s nerves are outside the gland and devises an operation to remove a diseased prostate without injuring nearby blood vessels and nerves.

uses circulatory bypass to spare brain tissue during the

burden on the health and resources of the public. Among the center’s goals are to promote the health of the public by generating the knowledge required to prevent disease and its consequences.

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Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences Launched with a $30 million gift, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences promotes the fundamental research that drives advances in medicine. It brings together experts from nine basic science departments to study metabolism and obesity, pain, autism and mental illness, sensory loss and other medical

The Operation for Pancreas Cancer is Improved Dramatically

Surgeon John Cameron develops a new way to perform the enormous operation known as the Whipple, used to treat people with cancer of the pancreas. Before his discovery, the mortality rate from the Whipple is nearly 30 percent. Cameron’s approach reduces the mortality rate at Johns Hopkins to less than 2 percent.

conditions in new and innovative ways. 2018 The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Turns 125 Since the late 19th century, our community of physicians, researchers, alumni and students has helped us build a premier learning institution that rewards hard

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Gregg Semenza accepts Nobel Prize Johns Hopkins physician-scientist Gregg L. Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., is awarded the Nobel Prize. Dr. Semenza’s work has far- reaching implications for the understanding and treatment of a variety of illnesses and diseases.

work, inquiry and collaboration. After 125 years, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Continued to set the standard of excellence in patient care, research and education in the United States and beyond.

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T H E J OH N S HO P K I N S U N I V E R S I T Y S C HO O L O F M E D I C I N E Class of 1970

* Deceased

Robert A. Adler

Knute S. Alfredson

Herbert B. Allen Demetrius Bagley Virginia R. Bailey Ronald J. Barr

Mary G. Beale James C. Bobrow

John W. Brantigan

Charles H. Caplan Patrick F. Carone* Howard A. Carter, Jr.

Jean B. Case

Franklin Chu* Ronald L. Collins

Robert A. Colyer

A. Lee Dellon Peter Densen

Paul J. Eisenbarth*

Dianne S. Elfenbein

Gerald J. Elfenbein

Jerrold J. Ellner Henry J. Farkas

Evan R. Farmer

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Edward J. Feinglass

A. Mark Glickstein Douglas A. Greene

Gunduz Gucer*

David T. Harrison Russell P. Harris, Jr.

Frederic L. Henderson

Paul Hinkes

Henry N. Hulter

Douglas L. Hurley*

S. Robert Hurwitz

W. Jackson Iliff

Stephen Karas, Jr.

Frederic I. Kass Donald K. King Richard M. Klein Lawrence J. Koep

David Scott Kreuz*

Thomas W. Kuebler*

Roger W. Kula

Vincent J. Lamparella, Jr.*

Robert J. Lerer Lai-Sung E. Leung

Frederick R. Levin

Robert J. Levy

Carl P. Lewis*

Carl W. Lindquist

Hugh L. Lipton*

Jeffrey L. Marsh

Mark Noel Martz*

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David O. Mazur

George W. McLean

John A. Messenheimer, Jr.

Stephen T. Miller Joseph O. Moore

Ralph M. Moskowitz

Lucille A. Mostello Joseph B. Nadol, Jr.

John P. Nilson* Ronald S. Oser

John S. O’Shea Patricia Allen O’Shea*

Winifred B. Parker Alan Pestronk

Victor L. Randolph*

Richard A. Reisman

Allen M. Rossman III

Ivor Royston

Steven Edward Rubin

Joseph H. Sack

David J. Scheff Malcolm S. Schoen

Jerome M. Shalf Charles S. Shaver

Thomas R. Shepler

Ladd L. Sievenpiper

Ralph J. W. Small

Elizabeth Spencer-Smith

J. Rodger Steeper

Philip D. Stieg

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Merton Suzuki

Gregory J. Szal Richard L. Taw, Jr.

Trexler M. Topping

Donald L. Trump

Joel M. Vavich*

Barbara C. Waller

Steven A. Wartman

Abby L. Wasserman

Peter C. Weber

H. Stephen Williams

Barry W. Wolcott

Lawrence S. Zawatzky

Peter J. Zuromskis

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B O B A D L E R

Address: 86 West Square Drive, Richmond, VA 23238 Email: raadler1@comcast.net ● Phone: H: 804-784-5722 ● C: 804-338-8192

Alma mater: Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1967

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Internal Medicine: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1970-72 Endocrinology Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, 1972-73 Endocrinology Fellowship: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 1973-74 Board Certified: Internal Medicine (1974), Endocrinology and Metabolism (1975) Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine Irby-James Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, 2004 International Society for Clinical Densitometry Clinician of the Year, 2012 Fellow, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2019 Current Employment: Chief, Endocrinology and Metabolism, McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center Professor of Internal Medicine and of Epidemiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition:

Spouse or Partner’s Name: Anne K. Adler

Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Children: Joel S. Adler, Andrew E. Adler Grandchildren: Mollie B. Adler, William R. Adler

Narrative: What was your most memorable moment from medical school? It was all memorable. What highlights have you experienced since graduating in 1970? I have had a great career in academic medicine, remaining a dinosaur teaching, seeing patients, and doing research. How have you changed since medical school? Thankfully, I am still a student and always will be. If so inclined, please feel free to share your passions, family stories, life experiences or even simple words of wisdom. Today’s dogma is tomorrow’s dog poop.

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D E M E T R I U S B A G L E Y Address: 506 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Email: dhbagley@gmail.com ● demetrius.bagley@jefferson.edu ● Phone: C: 215-205-2591

ureteroscopies. I worked with him and Jeff Huffman for the next few years. It was fun because everything we did was new. After four years, we moved back east to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The location was good. It was east and approximately midway between my in-laws in New York State and my family in Washington, D.C. I have remained here since 1983. It has been a good run with many new developments in urologic endoscopy. I have had the great privilege to travel widely for lectures, clinics and courses going to over 35 different countries. I had a very active clinical practice and was considering slowing down when I suddenly changed roles from provider to patient. In 2011, I was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma. It was treated with ablative chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant. I had planned to go to a medical school reunion that year, but had to cancel it. I called Ron Oser to tell him that I would not be coming and asked him to thank Ivor Royston for Rituxan. Ron said that Ivor was in the car with him and passed him the phone. What was the chance of that? After that health episode, I stopped clinical practice but have continued teaching and research. I still run a yearly urology symposium which has now been going for 26 years. My role as patient has been reinforced over the last 1 1/2 year with a synovial sarcoma of the leg (radiation and surgery with wound revision x 2) and then a sebaceous carcinoma of the neck (surgery, radiation and chemo) I was surprised how much time it takes to be a patient. I have also added a slide to appropriate lectures stating “the worst day as a provider is better than the best day as a patient.” It is easy to recognize and to say that the days of medical school and years of training were worth it.

Alma mater: Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1966

Postgraduate Training/Certification: General Surgery Residency, Yale New Haven Hospital, 1970-72 Clinical Associate, Surgery Branch, NCI, Bethesda, MD, 1972-75 Urology Residency, Yale New Haven Hospital, 1975-79 Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Storz Lifetime Achievement Award, Endourology Society, 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, American Urological Association, 2014

Current Employment: Nathan Lewis Hatfield Professor of Urology Professor of Radiology Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Spouse or Partner’s Name: Jacqueline Bagley

Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Jacques Bagley

Narrative: Is it really 50-54 years since medical school? I remember the work but I also remember the people – the other students at breakfast in Reed Hall, the lab partners, and particularly the attendings who really were models. Of course, I knew the students with last names beginning with letters early in the alphabet. Immediately after graduation, I drove to Poughkeepsie, New York to get married to Jacqueline on May 30. A month later, I started internship at Yale New Haven Hospital in surgery. My son was born 1 ½ years later and in July we left for Bethesda, Maryland to the surgery branch of NCI. The planned two-year stay grew to three when the opportunity and the bonus payment system arose. It was during that time that I made a final career choice, rejecting obstetrics and plastic surgery to prefer urology. Back to New Haven for four years. Great faculty and great training. The next step was to get a real job. I wanted an academic position and went to the University of Chicago. Although I initially visited shortly after a major snowstorm, it took a few more years to learn what cold weather really is. I was very fortunate there because Ed Lyon had just done his earliest

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R O N A L D J . ( R O N ) B A R R

Address: 19 Camino Lienzo, San Clemente, CA 92673 Email: ronaldbarr@gmail.com ● Phone: H: 949-240-7099 ● C: 949-533-1533

Alma mater: Johns Hopkins University, 1967

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Internship and pathology residency, UC San Diego Dermatology residency and dermatopathology fellowship, UC Irvine Board certification: anatomic pathology, dermatology, and dermatopathology Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Founders Award, American Society of Dermatopathology Nickel’s Award for Teaching, American Society or Dermatopathology Current Employment: Barr Dermatopathology, a division of Newport Harbor Pathology Medical Group, Inc. Professor Emeritus, Dermatology and Pathology, University of California, Irvine. Narrative: What was your most memorable moment from medical school? Peter Zuromskis’ surgical grand rounds presentation. Dean Rogers’ Blaze of Glory graduation party. What highlights have you experienced since graduating in 1970? Two years as a general medical officer assigned to USS Repose and Long Beach California Naval Regional Medical Center; past member and president of the American Board of Dermatology, Chairman Residency Review Committee for Dermatology and also for Dermatopathology. Training dermatology residents and dermatopathology fellows. After completing both pathology and dermatology training and military service, I became full-time faculty in the Department of Dermatology, University of California Irvine. With the exception of 1986-7 when I became chairman of dermatology at the University of California, Davis (an expensive sabbatical !!), I remained at Irvine for 30 years Spouse or Partner’s Name: Ulla E. Barr Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Children: Anna Barr, Jessica Barr, Sara Bert Grandchildren: Henrik Bert

“graduating” in 2006 as full professor now emeritus. In 2006, I joined three of my dermatopathology residents and two others in private practice limited to dermatopathology. During my university years, I primarily focused on dermatopathology but also had adult and pediatric clinics and ward consultations. I also was heavily involved in numerous organizations, boards, etc. I now have cut back to three days a week primarily doing consults and second opinions on selected cases. Up until this past October, we were located at a small hospital in Laguna Beach and are now in a self-standing office in Irvine. I married Ulla in 1973 who I had met during my six months in Sweden on a Commonwealth Scholarship during my junior-senior year at Hopkins. Ulla was a school teacher in Sweden, but went on to get a B.A. in the arts at UC Irvine and a masters in fine arts at Cal State Long Beach. We have three daughters and a grandson. We have lived in Huntington Beach, Laguna Niguel, Davis, and San Clemente recently moving to a 55-plus community (single- story, no stairs) also in San Clemente. I still enjoy bird hunting, our desert get-away home, working with a hunting dog, travel, and spending time with the family. Scary, how fast the time has flown. 50 years since graduation!! Just doesn’t seem that long ago.

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J A M E S C . B O B R OW

Address: 50 Kingsbury Place, Saint Louis, MO 63112 ● Office Address: 121 Hunter Avenue, Suite 102, Clayton, MO 63124 Email: jcb@jbobrow.com ● Phone: H: 314-361-5567 ● C: 314-614-2861

for the first time, describing the anatomy of the vertebrate retina. By the time he finished his lecture, I was convinced that I wanted to spend my life in ophthalmology. I went up to him after the lecture and asked to work in his laboratory during elective periods. I worked for a total of 11 months during medical school and during summers. It determined the course of my professional life for 53 years. What highlights have you experienced since graduating in 1970? First and most important, the love and devotion of my wife of 53 years. She has endured medical school, internship, a year stint in the Army, residency, and the vicissitudes of the past 40 years of practice. I could not have accomplished any of my goals without dragging her through our adventures. She is the foundation of my life. Next, the birth of our two children. They have been the source of great pride and love for 47 and 45 years, respectively. The remainder of my accomplishments pale by comparison, but I am proud to be a professor of clinical ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University in Saint Louis. I have committed time and energy to multiple organizations: 1. Cared for the ophthalmologic needs of my patient population for more than 40 years 2. Traveled to five continents, teaching ophthalmological surgery and glaucoma 3. Committed time and energy to the Administration of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, including being President of the Medical Staff Association for two terms and a member of the Board of the Hospital for four years 4. Acted as program chair of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting for five years 5. Edited the Cataract Volume of the Basic Clinical Science Course of the American Academy of Ophthalmology for ten years, five of which as chair 6. Elected to the American Ophthalmological Society, an elite organization in ophthalmology that requires a thesis to be admitted 7. Written or edited multiple articles, books, and journals and delivered presentations

Alma mater: Yale University

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Internship: The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Osler Service), 1970-71 Residency: Washington University Department of Ophthalmology, 1974-77 Fellowship: The Glaucoma Center, Washington University, 1977-78 Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Fellow, the Seeing Eye Foundation, 1969-70 Fellow, the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation, 1977-78 Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1999 Secretariat Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2002 Best Doctors in St. Louis, 2002-present Best Doctors in America, 2003-present Who’s Who in America – Life Member, 2008 Senior Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2009 Alumni-Faculty Award, Washington University, 2010 Distinguished Service Award, Department of Ophthalmology, 2013 Current Employment: Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine Honorary Professor of Ophthalmology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Children: Adam F. Bobrow, J.D., M.A., Emily A. Bobrow, Ph.D., M.P.H. Grandchildren: Leila J. Bobrow, Abigail Bobrow, Reuben Thirumurthy, Mira Thirumurthy Narrative: What was your most memorable moment from medical school? I was sitting in physiology class during my second year in medical school, and I listened to John Dowling, Ph.D., Spouse or Partner’s Name: Nanci A. Bobrow, Ph.D.

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8. Shared with my spouse our commitment to our community by expending time, energy, and treasure to support organizations in our community who need our help, especially those concerned with visual loss and child welfare How have you changed since medical school? I hope I have added wisdom and compassion to intelligence in my dealings with others. I have tried to be aware of the world around me and to try to leave each encounter and situation better than when I encountered it. These goals I am still trying to achieve. If so inclined, please feel free to share your passions, family stories, life experiences or even simple words of wisdom. I will leave you with this short verse: Looking backward, I’ve decided that my choices were astute, Though deliberations indicate that most of them were moot. I prefer my present practice to just sitting home at rest. I enjoy when I am working; I am really at my best. We were easy-going parents whose two children have done well. Each has found a life-long partner whose ambitions parallel. We are blessed with four grandchildren who are growing smart and strong. To enjoy their maturation, we are hoping to live long.

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J O H N W. B R A N T I G A N

Address: 2526 Neck Point Road, P.O. Box 106, Shaw Island, WA 98286 Email: jbrantigan@rockisland.com ● Phone: 360-468-4379

the worldwide experience with the implants. I endowed the Brantigan Clinical Research Fund at Johns Hopkins to provide financial support to medical students who wished to gain experience in research as part of their medical education. A widely sought lecturer and presenter, I taught spine surgical techniques in England, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada and published just under a hundred technical papers. I was given the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2009 for this work. Retired in the San Juan Islands northwest of Seattle, I represented Shaw Island on the Washington State Ferry Advisory Committee for ten years. I am a member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Seattle’s Museum of Flight, serving as chairman of the Space Flight Committee for over a decade. My wife Carolyn and I both fly our Bell 407 helicopter, based at a private airfield on Shaw Island, and a Cessna Citation CJ2 airplane, based on the mainland. We enjoy taking our boat up the Inside Passage to Alaska and salmon fishing in the ocean west of Sitka. Photo caption: At Seattle’s Museum of Flight, John and Carolyn Brantigan stand by the Curtiss Robin C-1 airplane named the Newsboy. This airplane was used in the 1930’s to air drop bundles of the McCook Gazette to neighboring towns in Nebraska. John and Carolyn are at the controls of the Space Shuttle FFT at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Alma mater: Cornell University

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Internship: University of Minnesota Department of Surgery Residency: University of Washington Board certification: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

Spouse or Partner’s Name: Carolyn Brooks Brantigan

Narrative: After my surgical internship, I served as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force from 1971 to 1973. It was during this time that I began my life-long interest in aviation, eventually earning the Airline Transport Pilot rating in 1991. After orthopaedic residency, I began medical practice in Omaha, Nebraska. There I developed a particular interest in the clinical problem of the failed discectomy and designed a new implant that allowed reconstruction of the intervertebral joint broken by a disc rupture. I performed animal studies to validate a new material, carbon fiber reinforced polymer, an aerospace material never before used in human implants. As chief of reconstructive spinal surgery at Creighton University, I completed a multi-centered clinical study of the implant, achieving full FDA approval in 1999, substantially improving patient outcomes. This led to the design of similar implants for the entire spine. These implants are now widely used and widely copied throughout the world in treatment of spinal trauma, tumors, and degenerative conditions. I wrote and edited a textbook, Intervertebral Fusion Using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Implants, compiling

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C H U C K C A P L A N

Address: 51 Skagit Key, Bellevue, WA 98006 Email: mccaplan@comcast.net ● chuckcaplan@me.com ● Phone: H: 425-644-1118 ● C: 206-251-1118

Alma mater: Johns Hopkins University, 1967

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Surgical Internship: University of Washington (UW), 1970-71 Surgical Resident: Swedish Hospital Med Center, 1971-72 Neurology Resident: UW, 1972-73

Otolaryngology Resident: UW, 1973-76 Board certification: Otolaryngology, 1976

Current Employment: Retired from private practice of Otolaryngology and Head

and Neck Surgery, Renton, WA, 1976-2015 Clinical Associate Professor of Oto-HNS, UW.

heard that I had played violin and was all over me to get my parents to send my instrument. So, after a seven-year hiatus, I played string quartets with other medical students. Then there was another seven-year hiatus until after residency, when I picked it up again and played with two buddies as a piano trio for the next twenty years, mostly for our own enjoyment but with a few gigs along the way. An additional musical adventure at the John was to sing catches (i.e., rounds with attitude) with Paul Hinkes and Paul Eisenbarth. More recently, I’ve been singing in a barbershop chorus (same four parts as a BBS quartet, just more people) for the past fifteen years. Last year, we placed twelfth in our international-championship contest. My other singing “job” is to lead the morning service (Shacharit) in our synagogue on the High Holidays each year. Our beloved cantor emeritus had been doing so but had decided he no longer wanted to continue, and I was asked to learn it. It’s been my honor to be able to serve in that role, now for more than thirty years. Along the way, I’ve served on the boards and chaired committees for the Seattle Jewish Federation and for our Jewish Day School. I’m now happily retired. Being able to read the whole newspaper in the morning is a treat. We’ve been traveling a lot, just to see/do/learn, and (not often enough) to see the grandkids. Marilyn and I enjoy good health and stay physically active. We’ve been riding a tandem bike for almost thirty years and have taken a number of trips with it, most notably to Provence and to the Canadian Rockies. Gotta admit we’re not riding as far as we used to, nor skiing as aggressively as in days gone by. Along with physical exertion, we exercise mentally at the bridge table with friends.

Spouse or Partner’s Name: Marilyn Caplan

Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Children: Rob and Adam Caplan Grandchildren: Halley (15), Malea (12), Aveen (3) who unfortunately don’t live here! Narrative: I had been a chem major at the UW, and in my last year there, would have been studying such topics as “Enthalpy of the Vaporization Reaction Below Absolute Zero.” As much as that might have been enlightening, it was indeed more valuable and enjoyable to be at Johns Hopkins University as a Year I, where I could take courses on Shakespeare, American History, etc. Marilyn joined me between Years I and II, and we lived in the Compound before moving to Sarril-Relcrest along with lots of classmates. Rob arrived the summer before Year V. Once he was crawling, he would make his way across the landing to visit Bob Adler and Paul Hinkes. I’m not sure who entertained whom more. We returned to Seattle for internship and residency and have been here ever since. I enjoyed practicing in a large-ish community hospital, comfortably close to academic centers with the most- sophisticated tertiary support. My special interest was sinus surgery. In 1986, JHU put on a course on the then-new-since- then-standard method of using endoscopes, and three of us fromWashington attended. The following year, the chief at UW put on a course locally and invited me to help proctor the lab sessions. This was an annual event for many years. During Year V, Dr. Bueding of anti-helminthic fame somehow

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The timing was fortunate since David had left his tenured position at Cornell Medical College and with friends from Columbia P & S established New York Physicians (NYP), a multispecialty private practice group on the East side of Manhattan. This was the first time that David and I had worked together since I was a third-year student and he was an intern at Hopkins. While at NYP, I mainly did internal medicine and preventive care for 13 years. I retired in 2014 at the age of 70. After 50 years of marriage now, we have two sons, Thayer and Nelson, each of whom is happily married and grandchildren Azalea, now 14 and Oliver, 4. After living in NYC and Tuxedo Park initially, we moved to Bronxville, NY where we lived for 33 years. Eight years ago, we moved to The Saint Andrews Club in Hastings-on-Hudson. We are fortunate to have traveled extensively over the years and continue even now. We spend our time skiing (we have a place in Vail), playing golf, biking, kayaking, and the opera. Recently, I am beginning training to become a backstage tour guide at The Metropolitan Opera. David has enjoyed a successful career and now is busy as a fine artist and serving on several boards including the HealthCare Chaplaincy.

Narrative: I am really looking forward to our reunion and seeing so many classmates whom I have not seen in so many years. Both David and I have retired now for several years but keep fairly busy with other activities. After graduation, I did my medical internship and residency at St Luke’s Hospital/Columbia University in New York and then a fellowship in rheumatology at the University of Washington in Seattle while David served in the military out there. We returned to New York City and I began a private practice of internal medicine and rheumatology and had our first son. The opportunity to move to occupational medicine with Exxon Corporation was very attractive and allowed better family time. I became the first woman medical director of Exxon’s Bayway refinery and chemical plant. From there, I was recruited to Merck and Company in Rahway as associate medical director for five years. From there, I was recruited to be worldwide medical director of Union Carbide (now Dow) having responsibility for the health and wellness of employees worldwide. I also took the boards in Occupational and Preventive Medicine. My job involved extensive travel to Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. At that time, David was off the travel circuit and was home with the boys. When Union Carbide/Dow planned to move their head offices to Michigan, I planned my transition back into practice, just after 9/11/2001.

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Address: 102 Cotswold Road, Baltimore, MD 21210 ● 22 Via Tiberius, Henderson, NV 89011 Email: aldellon@dellon.com ● Phone: C: 410-299-6927

Alma mater: Johns Hopkins University, B.S., 1966

Postgraduate Training/Certification: General Surgery: Columbia Presbyterian Hospital , 1970-1972 Clinical Associate: NIH, National Cancer Institute, Surgery Br. ,1972-1974, Plastic and Hand Surgery Fellowships: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1974-1978 Ph.D., Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2007 Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Radium Society Award, 1974 Cleft Palate Research Award, 1977 Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, 20 awards from 1974-2008 President of the American Society of Peripheral Nerve, 1992-1993 Emanuel Kaplan Award, New York State Hand Surgery Society, 1985 & 2012 A. Lee Dellon M.D., Ph.D., Annual Lectureship in Peripheral Nerve Surgery, University of Michigan, Plastic Surgery, begun 2015 A. Lee Dellon M.D., Ph.D., Annual Lectureship in Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Plastic Surgery, begun 2015 Current Employment: Professor of Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Evan Dellon, M.D., M.P.H., married to Elisabeth Potts Dellon, M.D., M.P.H. Each Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Hannah (12) and Vivian (9) (see photo) Glenn Dellon, M.A., married to Hillary Belzer Dellon Dellon Design Inc, Graphic Design company, Baltimore, Maryland Brian Dellon, Ph.D., married to Emily Ryan Dellon, Ph.D., Mech. Engineers Brian is a Senior Robotics Engineer at Boston Dynamics Emily teaches Mechanical Engineering at Boston University Fletcher (5) and Mabel (3) (see photo) Spouse or Partner’s Name: Luiann Olivia Greer (see photo), married 5/15/04

Narrative: What was your most memorable moment from medical school? Being permitted to place the cap and gown on my son Evan, in 1999, when he graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. What highlights have you experienced since graduating in 1970? • Founding the American Society for Peripheral Nerve in 1990 (ASPN). It has been my privilege to develop, through research, new strategies to prevent and treat peripheral nerve problems and then witness, their implementation, clinically, to include: surgical techniques to decompress lower extremity nerves in order to prevent ulceration, amputation, and infection, in patients with diabetes, with proven application, also, to leprosy and chemotherapy-induced neuropathy. • Surgical techniques to denervate painful joints • Surgical techniques to treat pelvic pain of neural origin. Publication of textbooks: Evaluation of Sensibility & Re-education of Sensation in the Hand, 1981, Surgery of the Peripheral Nerve, with Susan E. Mackinnon, 1989 (translated into Chinese, 1991, and Japanese, 1992)

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Somatosensory Testing & Rehabilitation, 1997 Pain Solutions, 2007, 3rd edition 2013 (translated into Chinese, 2012, and Spanish, 2019) Joint Denervation, 2019 (translated into Chinese, 2020) Visiting Professorships: 77 Publication of 470 peer reviewed articles (https://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=dellon+al, accessed 1/2/20) Establishment of the first peripheral nerve fellowship to begin July 1, 2020 in the Department of Plastic Surgery, at Johns Hopkins How have you changed since medical school? Gotten older. If so inclined, please feel free to share your passions, family stories, life experiences or even simple words of wisdom. Still caring for patients, teaching new residents, and remain inspired by this work. Love watching my children and grandchildren experience life. Thankful every day for the opportunity to learn at Hopkins. Give thanks every day for my health and ability to care for others.

Finally, I have written my first novel, THE PROSECTOR. Tagline: A pioneering woman surgeon rescues people in pain by uncovering secrets from the dead. The protagonist, a young woman from Munich, enters the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1912, is taught by Halsted, Cushing, and John Staige Davis (the first plastic surgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hospital). It is a story about what appears as truth to a surgeon may appear differently to others, about prejudice against women in medicine in general, and surgery, in particular, and about how anatomy research is still useful in learning how to solve the mysteries of pain. Lots of great medical and Hopkins history. Am in search of a literary agent! Let me know if you want to read a copy.

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Narrative: Professional:

At the stroke of midnight on July 1, 1970, I, along with several other of our classmates, began an internal medicine residency on the Osler Medical Service of our alma mater. Eight years later, residency training was behind me along with a two-year stint as a GMO in the Air Force and three years of fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Virginia. Five years at Boston University led, much to Ellie’s and my amazement, to an unanticipated move to the University of Iowa. Who’d a thunk that would happen to dyed-in-the-wool New Englanders? In Iowa City, where we have now lived for 37 years, I happily pursued all three legs of the metaphorical academic stool – Ellie relishes the effect on others when she says, “the clap put bread on our table.” I prefer the notion of long-term NIH/VA support for investigations of genetic abnormalities involving complement and PMN. Can you guess who gets the laughs? In 1992, somewhat out of the blue, I was invited to lunch with the Dean and emerged as the Dean of Students and Curriculum. A number of you, most notably Bob Adler, Rodger Steeper and Merton Suzuki; wrote to the Dean to question his judgment in placing a fox in charge of the chicken coop – but hey, what more can one ask of loyal classmates but the telling of the truth? Overall, I spent 25+ years in higher medical administration including an extended stint as interim head of internal medicine and another as executive dean for the college. I “retired” at the end of 2018. I’ve received my share of recognition for patient care and research but at Iowa, I’m most associated with novel curriculum change, medical education and faculty and student development. Awards that have meant the most to me are: the Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, The Distinguished Mentor Award, and the Ron Arky Award from the national medical Learning Community Institute – an organization I helped create. Personal: Ellie and I were married in 1968 at the start of our third year. At graduation, like many other spouses, she received her “Doctor of Midwifery” from Henry Seidel (as far as I know, all spousal recipients were women – a reflection of the times).

Ellie has been an exceptional life partner whose unyielding support has provided meaning to my life and ensured success in my career. She has been a committed mother who has raised two successful sons, Gregory and Bradley, and a devoted grandmother to four darling granddaughters – finally more women in her life! Together, we share a passion for summers on Mount Desert Island in Maine, made all the more memorable by the raucous laughter of the “girlies” during their visits. And, there we enjoy long walks on the carriage trails, photography, reading and a reflective existence. Looking back – memorable moment. Selecting one moment is akin to being limited to a single dish at a smorgasbord; I refuse the challenge! At the macro level, I am indebted to Hopkins for the medical education it provided. My memory is a curriculum that placed an emphasis on primary data, learning how to think about problems, integrating information, and the importance of being a life-long learner. Yes, we read 2000-page text books in many courses – some running concurrently, but we were given time in the day to do it and every summer was elective. This is a far cry from today’s curricula in which every hour is accounted for, information is provided in power point form and the summer between first and second year is referred to as “the last free summer of your life.” I may be an anachronism but I prefer thinking/retention to the memorization/purge approach. What professors we had; from Barry Wood to Phil Tumulty – to name just two of the many on my personal list. And, what contact we had with them, e.g., once weekly evening discussions at Robbie Robinson’s house as he facilitated our way through surgery and Cope’s “The Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen” – such contact is no longer

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a significant part of the medical student experience. Tradition abounded; how can I forget walking through the hospital and hearing Dr. Klinefelter paged just after Dr. McKusick had described Klinefelter’s Syndrome in a genetics lecture? Speaking of paging, has anyone located Dr. Fybigmi yet? And, there was Turtle Derby. Upperclassmen promised second year would be great but, for me, it was not. While classmates seemed to be thriving, I was sinking – both mentally and academically. In the micro course, I completed the lab component under Barry Wood’s tutelage studying the histo-pathogenesis of pneumococcal pneumonia in mice and focusing on PMNs. I BOMBED the final in shocking fashion; he called me in to see what had happened and was very supportive. I felt I had let down a personal hero (Yes Freud, I over compensated by going into Infectious Diseases). I hated pharmacology and was confident I would fail the final. Around me the world was coming apart: nightly news from Viet Nam, LBJ’s decision not to run followed four days later by MLK’s assassination and the start of the Baltimore Riots on Friday evening April 5th. Sunday, the fates smiled … final exams were cancelled. What cognitive dissonance I bear! At the bulleted memory level: receiving a New Year’s Eve telegram notifying me of admission; living in Reed Hall including late-night study breaks with Bob, Rodger, Mertoni, Russ and Barth; learning from classmates how to approach problems from a different perspective; petitioning the hospital and picketing the café to protest the sale of cigarettes; the Madeira Street Gang, the many pranks and lots of laughs – “You’ve been PHEESHED”! Returning to the fox in charge of the chicken coop and pranks…As dean of students, I dealt with behaviors I would have thought incompatible with being a medical student. Looking back, some of our pranks were almost certainly not as funny or as appropriate as we thought at the time – Densen the dean might have dismissed Densen the student. To those of you on the receiving end, especially the women in our class, I apologize and toast your fortitude, commitment and tolerant good nature. You’ve heard about the tip of the iceberg? That’s what you’ve just read. Ellie and I eagerly look forward to catching up and sharing more remembrances with all of you in just a few months.

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Address: 13034 Mason Estates Court, Saint Louis, MO 63141 Email: d.elfenbein@charter.net ● Phone: H: 314-392-9219 ● C: 314-560-4401

Alma mater: Radcliffe College, Harvard University

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Pediatrics Internship and Residency: The Johns Hopkins Hospital Virology Fellowship: Children’s Hospital of D.C. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins Hospital Board certifications: Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine Marion County School Social Work Service Award Consultant, Children’s Medical Services State of Florida President, Florida Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Medicine Best Doctors in America various years and various cities Current Employment: Retired. Last employed at Saint Louis University School of Medicine as professor of pediatrics and director of adolescent medicine at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Daniel, son, currently professor of Business Economics at Washington University Saint Louis Johanna, daughter, currently assistant professor of bacteriology, University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine Grandsons (via Daniel): Theodore (15), currently freshman in high school and hockey defenseman; Harry, (9), currently in 3rd grade and hockey player Narrative: What was your most memorable moment from medical school? Despite the hard work, I remember finding medical school very interesting and remember my teachers (including professors and residents) and my classmates with great fondness and respect. There was a reverence for the practice of medicine and the search for the right answer that seemed to be everywhere. However, there is one incident during dog surgery that has particularly stuck with me: the supervising professor came around and commented that my suturing was pretty good and that it was probably pretty good because Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Spouse or Partner’s Name: Gerald J. Elfenbein

I had learned sewing as a child (he was right). I turned around, smiled broadly, opened my eyes widely and answered something like: “Oh yes, Dr._____! We call this the blanket stitch and this other stitch a whip stitch….And you must be very useful around the house ‘cause you can use these stitches lots of places…” There was a pause and the professor acknowledged that he had repaired the upholstery in his car using surgical techniques. What highlights have you experienced since graduating in 1970? Probably the biggest highlight of my life since graduating was the birth of our son and realizing that although I had done many things that women of my time had not done, this one thing –that so many other women had been able to do – had given me the most joy I had ever had. How have you changed since medical school? Physically, I am wearing out!! I no longer believe that anyone can know absolute truth. (Not sure if I realized that in college or med school.) I no longer feel guilty if I read fiction!! (Though I still gravitate to non-fiction and still read the NEJM occasionally). I can use a computer and mobile phone and can hardly remember what it was like not to have these. If so inclined, please feel free to share your passions, family stories, life experiences or even simple words of wisdom. Jerry and I moved to several places after graduation, all in academic medicine. Generally, the moves were his career choices. However, I enjoyed moving and learning about new communities and did not mind accommodating to new medical organizations in Florida and Massachusetts. Though I trained in infectious diseases, I did not feel that I

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