Alumni

Robert W. Frelick, M.D. ’44, of Wilmington, Del., liaison to the National Cancer Advisory Board for the Association of Community Cancer Centers, received the Christiana Care Health System’s annual commendation for excellence in October. The award recognizes a current or former member of the medical-dental staff of Christiana, Delaware’s largest health care provider, for outstanding clinical care...

Robert L. Johnson, M.D., HS ’64, clinical professor of otolaryngology at the University of California, San Francisco, for more than 30 years, writes to say that “almost 40 years have passed since I was an otolaryngology resident at Yale. Married for 42 years to Barbara, a staff pediatric nurse, with three adult children all living in the Bay area. My younger daughter recently received her...

Ian B. Berger, M.D., M.P.H. ’74, is president of Houston-based InFOCUS, a nonprofit organization promoting eye care for all, and director of the InFOCUS Center for Primary Eye Care Development, whose domestic programs in poor and rural areas provide eye care for migrant farm workers, Native Americans and other populations in need. InFOCUS has promoted a new paradigm, the Vision Station, to...

Robert S.D. Higgins, M.D. ’85, the Mary and John Bent Chair of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, was honored as a leader in public health and medicine by the Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network and its African American Task Force at a ceremony in Chicago in November. Higgins was honored for establishing a standard of excellence, improving the...

Antonio F. Vinals, M.D. ’93, writes to say that he and his wife, Liselotte Pieroth-Vinals, M.D., are enjoying living in Manhattan. Vinals is an ophthalmologist at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. He and Pieroth met at Yale in 1992. She was a visiting international medical student and intern at Yale and completed her ophthalmology training at Columbia University and a fellowship in...