Alumni

Albert W. Diddle, M.D. ’36, is professor emeritus and was the original chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Memorial Research Center and Hospital at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The author or co-author of 131 publications on anatomy, obstetrics and gynecology and the history of medicine, he has also privately published his memoirs for his family, U.S. Naval Duty During World War II:...

Stephen M. Krant, M.D. ’69, HS ’76, has been in private practice in plastic surgery in La Jolla, Calif., for 29 years, specializing in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. He and his wife, Lyn, have established the SK Institute, a nonprofit which sponsors a monthly Breast Cancer Nite, where breast cancer survivors listen to speakers, enjoy food and beverages and receive free spa treatments at...

Alan B. Astrow, M.D. ’80, has been appointed director of the division of hematology/oncology at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Astrow moved from St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan, where he was associate medical director of the cancer center. “We open a 50,000-square-foot state-of-the-art cancer center this fall,” he writes. He is joined at Maimonides by classmate Carl F. Schiff,...

Krystn R. Wagner, Ph.D. ’89, M.D. ’96, assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases/AIDS program) at the School of Medicine, and José F. Salvana, M.D., an infectious disease specialist, were married in May in Baltimore. Wagner is the medical director of the Nathan Smith HIV clinic at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Salvana is the HIV clinical director at the Hill Health Center, a community...