Class of 1970 Commemorative Biographical Book

R O N A L D S . ( R O N ) O S E R

Address: 1021 McCeney Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20901 Email: rsomd1@gmail.com ● Phone: H: 301-593-7994 ● C: 240-338-2507

Alma mater: Johns Hopkins

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Board Certified, Ophthalmology

Current Employment: Laurel Eye Physicians

Spouse or Partner’s Name: Donna

Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Child: Sean (wife - Tamara), Granddaughters: Courtney and Jessica Child: Marcie (husband - Scott), Granddaughters: Zoe and Sela Narrative: What was your most memorable moment from medical school? Baltimore riots (1968) as well as just being in the Blaze of Glory Class of 1970 What highlights have you experienced since graduating in 1970? I grew up – and also acquired two new knees, one new shoulder, hardware from L3-5 (and more! —and thank you Hopkins Medicine) Fifty years. Hard to believe, but the calendar doesn’t lie. I’m still working, cutting down so that I can enjoy more time to travel and do other things while still able to do them. Working with my daughter is more than enough reason to keep going into the office. I’ve been very lucky. Aside from meeting (in 1961), falling in love (1963), and marrying Donna in 1967 and having two wonderful children and four wonderful granddaughters, being accepted into the Hopkins School of Medicine’s class of 1970 (in their five-year program no less) was another of those extraordinarily lucky events. Those years at Hopkins were amazing both for the awesome classmates that I met there as well as for being taught by some of the giants of American medicine (if I’d realized how important many of them were, I might have paid more attention!). Since that time, I was smart enough to choose ophthalmology for my career, which actually allowed me to spend time with my family. Visiting many classmates through the years. How have you changed since medical school?

I’ve been lucky enough to maintain relationships with many of our classmates and many of those have become members of our chosen family. I’ve also been lucky enough to have settled close enough to Baltimore that I can relatively easily access Hopkins Medicine, where we may have had too many encounters, but all ending with good outcomes. My daughter Marcie is my partner—it took me thirty years to be willing to have a partner and she’s definitely the best. Her husband Scott is still amazing, still not a physician, and still the other humanist in the family along with Donna. Their two daughters are now 13 and 16. My son Sean and his wife Tamara are now associate professors at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, having moved there in 2019. Their two daughters (fraternal twins) are 17 and off to college next year. All of the granddaughters are, of course, brilliant and gorgeous! I couldn’t ask for a better immediate family. Donna and I are eagerly looking forward to this next reunion, and working on it (mostly Donna) to make it another one to enjoy and remember. I’ve always thought (as has Abby) that the only downside of these is that they don’t last long enough— seeing classmates that we may not have seen in many years has always made me feel as if we’d never been apart.

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