Alumni
A doctor’s passion for medical storytelling
For a Yale alumna, the patient history and physical takes on a new narrative life in The New York Times.
Lisa Sanders, M.D. ’97, HS ’01, loves a good story and has built her career around her narrative skills, beginning with her early days in television and continuing through her subsequent decade in medicine. The form her tales have taken, however, has changed over the years.A few years ago, when an editor friend asked Sanders what she thought doctors could write about, her answer was that they write one thing and they write it every day: the history and physical. Her belief in the storytelling power of the H-and-P led to “Diagnosis,” a monthly column in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, about cases that stump doctors and how they are...
A gastroenterologist moves around the country and into a top job at UCSD
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Michele Simon, M.P.H. ’90, J.D., is incensed that businesses spend $36 billion annually “on...
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The Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Standardized Patient Program invites alumni, their families and other interested members of the medical school community to participate as standardized patients in clinical teaching programs for medical students. Standardized patients simulate real patients as they are interviewed and examined by medical students who are observed and supervised by physicians. Scripts for patient role playing and ample training will be provided. One- to two-hour teaching sessions are held on campus on certain weekdays. It is recommended that standardized patients participate in at least 10 sessions per year. A stipend is provided to cover such costs as parking and travel. If you are interested in contributing to the YSM educational program as a standardized patient, please contact the director, Frederick Haeseler, M.D., FW ’76, associate clinical professor, at frederick.haeseler@yale.edu.
B. Herold Griffith, M.D. ’48, HS ’50, presented a paper at a meeting of the Chicago Society of Medical History in December on “Johns Hopkins and the Revolution in American Medicine.” Griffith is professor emeritus of surgery and chief emeritus of plastic surgery at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago.
F. Carter Pannill Jr., M.D. ’45, was honored in October with the naming of the F. Carter Pannill Jr. M.D. Chair in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. Pannill was the founding dean of the medical school in 1965.
On November 17 Samuel Ritvo, M.D. ’42, celebrated his 90th birthday at a gala at the New Haven Lawn Club co-sponsored by the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, which he helped found in 1954, and the Yale Child Study Center, where he has served on the faculty since 1950.
Guthrie S. Birkhead, M.D. ’79, deputy commissioner of the Office of Public Health for the New York State Department of Health, received in March one of the 2008 Dr. Nathan Davis Awards for Outstanding Government Service from the American Medical Association (AMA). These national awards, named for the founder of the AMA, are presented to local, state and federal career and elected government...
Guthrie S. Birkhead, M.D. ’79, deputy commissioner of the Office of Public Health for the New York State Department of Health, received in March one of the 2008 Dr. Nathan Davis Awards for Outstanding Government Service from the American Medical Association (AMA). These national awards, named for the founder of the AMA, are presented to local, state and federal career and elected government officials in seven categories of public service. Birkhead’s award is in the category of “Career Public Servant at the State or Local Level.” He is the chief public health physician in the state health department, overseeing four public health centers and two public health offices.
Robert L. Goldenberg, M.D., HS ’74, was appointed professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology by the University of Alabama (UAB) Board of Trustees on November 9. The board recognized Goldenberg for his 30 years of service. Since joining the faculty in 1976, Goldenberg has held a number of positions, including director of the Center for Women’s Reproductive Health, director of the Center for...
Robert L. Goldenberg, M.D., HS ’74, was appointed professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology by the University of Alabama (UAB) Board of Trustees on November 9. The board recognized Goldenberg for his 30 years of service. Since joining the faculty in 1976, Goldenberg has held a number of positions, including director of the Center for Women’s Reproductive Health, director of the Center for Obstetric Research, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Charles E. Flowers Endowed Professorship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Harry S. Romanowitz, M.D. ’73, has established the first freestanding independent pediatric urgent care center in Fairfield County, Conn., Firefly After Hours Pediatrics. Romanowitz is the medical director of the new facility, which is located in Stamford. He served more than 20 years as chair of pediatrics and pediatrician in chief at Stamford Hospital.
Marc O. Yoshizumi, M.D. ’70, has retired after 29 years at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a professor of ophthalmology. He also served as director of the Eye Trauma and Emergency Center and of the Jules Stein Eye Institute’s Medical Student Education in Ophthalmology Program.
Eduardo C. Alfonso, M.D. ’80, the Edward W.D. Norton Professor of Ophthalmology, was named interim chair of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, which serves as the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His appointment began on November 1. Alfonso will also serve as director of Bascom Palmer’s patient care facilities. A 1984 graduate of the institute’s...
Eduardo C. Alfonso, M.D. ’80, the Edward W.D. Norton Professor of Ophthalmology, was named interim chair of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, which serves as the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His appointment began on November 1. Alfonso will also serve as director of Bascom Palmer’s patient care facilities. A 1984 graduate of the institute’s residency program, Alfonso has been on the faculty since 1986.
Eduardo C. Alfonso, M.D. ’80, the Edward W.D. Norton Professor of Ophthalmology, was named interim chair of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, which serves as the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His appointment began on November 1. Alfonso will also serve as director of Bascom Palmer’s patient care facilities. A 1984 graduate of the institute’s...
Eduardo C. Alfonso, M.D. ’80, the Edward W.D. Norton Professor of Ophthalmology, was named interim chair of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, which serves as the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His appointment began on November 1. Alfonso will also serve as director of Bascom Palmer’s patient care facilities. A 1984 graduate of the institute’s residency program, Alfonso has been on the faculty since 1986.
Idalia Ramos Sanchez, M.P.H. ’81, was named senior policy advisor of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) in February. The center is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Sanchez will serve as the primary legislative liaison within the Division of Scientific Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, which coordinates the development of NCMHD’s strategic...
Idalia Ramos Sanchez, M.P.H. ’81, was named senior policy advisor of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) in February. The center is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Sanchez will serve as the primary legislative liaison within the Division of Scientific Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, which coordinates the development of NCMHD’s strategic plan and is responsible for assessing and highlighting NIH’s efforts to eliminate health disparities. Sanchez has spent 25 years in public health; she began her career with the Department of Public Health in Hartford.
James A. Talcott, M.D. ’80, M.P.H., and Nancy S. Knox were married on December 1 in New York City. Talcott is the director of the Center for Outcomes Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston. The center researches the effects of cancer and cancer therapy on patients in order to improve care and assess cancer-care technology. Nancy Talcott is a freelance writer and...
James A. Talcott, M.D. ’80, M.P.H., and Nancy S. Knox were married on December 1 in New York City. Talcott is the director of the Center for Outcomes Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston. The center researches the effects of cancer and cancer therapy on patients in order to improve care and assess cancer-care technology. Nancy Talcott is a freelance writer and researcher for magazine articles and documentaries in New York and Boston.
M. Kathleen Figaro, M.D. ’96, an assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been chosen as one of four national fellows in health advocacy by Columbia University’s Center on Medicine as a Profession. As a fellow she will work to improve the quality and accessibility of health insurance for poor Tennesseans after Tenn-Care’s 2005 mass disenrollment. With her...
M. Kathleen Figaro, M.D. ’96, an assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been chosen as one of four national fellows in health advocacy by Columbia University’s Center on Medicine as a Profession. As a fellow she will work to improve the quality and accessibility of health insurance for poor Tennesseans after Tenn-Care’s 2005 mass disenrollment. With her husband, Alan Rice, she welcomed their first child, Victoria, on November 14.
David John, M.D., HS ’90, was named director of emergency services at Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass., in November. John served for the past six years as the medical director of quality risk management and associate chair of the three emergency services departments at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn. He has served as the president of the Connecticut College of Emergency...
David John, M.D., HS ’90, was named director of emergency services at Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass., in November. John served for the past six years as the medical director of quality risk management and associate chair of the three emergency services departments at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn. He has served as the president of the Connecticut College of Emergency Physicians, chair of the Quality Section Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and chair of the Geriatrics Committee of the ACEP.
Michael A. Joseph, M.P.H. ’96, Ph.D., and Lauretta Adwoa Larbi Ansah, M.P.H.,were married on November 9 in Brooklyn, N.Y. The ceremony was held at the Bedford Central Presbyterian Church, where Joseph and Ansah lead the HIV/AIDS ministry. The bride is a program analyst in the office of the inspector general at the Environmental Protection Agency’s program evaluation office in Manhattan. Joseph is...
Michael A. Joseph, M.P.H. ’96, Ph.D., and Lauretta Adwoa Larbi Ansah, M.P.H.,were married on November 9 in Brooklyn, N.Y. The ceremony was held at the Bedford Central Presbyterian Church, where Joseph and Ansah lead the HIV/AIDS ministry. The bride is a program analyst in the office of the inspector general at the Environmental Protection Agency’s program evaluation office in Manhattan. Joseph is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and a founder of the Black Young Professionals’ Public Health Network, an organization that works to increase opportunities for minority students in the field of public health.
Samuel S. Myers, M.D. ’92, M.P.H., was elected in October to the board of directors of the Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research organization. Myers is an instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical School, where he recently completed a research fellowship in general internal medicine funded by the National Institutes of Health. For his fellowship he researched the role of patients’...
Samuel S. Myers, M.D. ’92, M.P.H., was elected in October to the board of directors of the Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research organization. Myers is an instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical School, where he recently completed a research fellowship in general internal medicine funded by the National Institutes of Health. For his fellowship he researched the role of patients’ expectations for improvement in their clinical outcomes. Myers was also senior director of the Healthy Communities Initiative at Conservation International, which addresses health, family planning and development needs of villagers living in priority conservation areas in the tropics.
Scot Phelps, M.P.H. ’95, has joined Southern Connecticut State University as an associate professor of emergency management to create the first graduate-level emergency management program in the state. He recently helped Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand to assess a similar program. He will be speaking at the World Conference on Disaster Management this June in Toronto. He can be...
Scot Phelps, M.P.H. ’95, has joined Southern Connecticut State University as an associate professor of emergency management to create the first graduate-level emergency management program in the state. He recently helped Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand to assess a similar program. He will be speaking at the World Conference on Disaster Management this June in Toronto. He can be reached at phelpss1@Southernct.edu.
Jonathan Erulkar, M.D. ’01, and Deirdre Carroll Erulkar, M.S.N. ’00, announced the birth of their second son, Benjamin Holder Erulkar, on May 18, 2007, in Boston. After completing a spine surgery fellowship there, Jonathan and family moved to Lake Forest, Ill., where Jonathan is a partner in the Bannockburn office of the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute.
Katherine Van Loon, M.D., M.P.H. ’02, and Jonathan G. Steitz, J.D. ’07,were married on November 3 in Sea Island, Ga. Van Loon, who received her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia, is a second-year resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Steitz is the son of Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Thomas A. Steitz,...
Katherine Van Loon, M.D., M.P.H. ’02, and Jonathan G. Steitz, J.D. ’07,were married on November 3 in Sea Island, Ga. Van Loon, who received her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia, is a second-year resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Steitz is the son of Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and professor of chemistry. Steitz was drafted in 2001 by the Milwaukee Brewers as a pitcher, but his baseball career was ended by rotator cuff tendonitis in his right shoulder. He is now a consultant in Boston for McKinsey & Company, the management consultants.
Christina Yuan, M.P.H. ’05, and Ali Kemal Ozturk, M.D. ’06, were married in Villanova, Penn., on November 3. Yuan is a research associate at the School of Public Health, and Ozturk is a resident in neurosurgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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Howard K. Koh, M.D. ’77, M.P.H., is another Yale medical alumnus who has won a major battle in the tobacco wars as a...
Spring 2004
Roaming the world’s hot spots, ensuring that care reaches those who need it
Almost two decades after completing his residency in internal medicine at Yale, Michael V. Viola, M.D., HS ’66, was...
Spring 2004
Three Yale alumni elected to Institute of Medicine
Three Yale alumni were among 65 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine in October. They are John D. Baxter,...
Winter 2004
A surgeon takes aim at bias in health care
If you log onto MEDLINE and search for papers by Augustus A. White III, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’66, most citations will be...
Winter 2004
For NASA veteran, alumni post offers chance to help students reach their goals
When Howard A. Minners, M.D. ’57, M.P.H., was a boy growing up in Garden City, N.Y., his parents hoped he’d aspire to...
Winter 2004
Working on a broad canvas, physician-artist finds perfection amid life’s many flaws
It is 5:30 a.m., and the sun hasn’t yet risen on this fall day in Providence, R.I. On the third floor of an old house...
Winter 2004
Online CME site, voted best of the Web, reflects the curiosity of its creator
In the mid-1990s, just as the Internet was starting to take off, Harry A. Levy, M.D., M.P.H. ’82, looked at the...
Winter 2004
New leadership for the alumni association
Hospitals horrified Donald E. Moore, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’81, beginning the day he visited his dying father.“I was able to...
Autumn 2003
A new mash for a new millennium
Intensive training for handling wounds prepared Air Force Major John C. Lundell, M.D. ’94, for the casualties he might...
Autumn 2003
Medicine and society have changed—but not conditions for residents
When Ruth Potee’s father started his medical residency at Boston City Hospital in 1949, the system was pretty simple:...
Autumn 2003
From Brooklyn to the vineyards: how a surgeon became a country doctor
Alexander Zuckerbraun, Ph.D., M.D. ’55, often finds fresh fruits and vegetables in the back of his pickup truck—in late...
Autumn 2003
On the front lines of the battle to provide affordable care
New Britain General Hospital was the eighth-largest employer in town two decades ago. Now it’s number one. That may...
Autumn 2003
2003-2004 Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine
The Executive Committee of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine directs association activities, links the School...
Autumn 2003
Wanted: early copies of Yale Medicine
Calling all alumni who may be contemplating an attic-cleaning: we’d like your back issues of Yale Medicine. Of...
Autumn 2003
Lycurgus “Bill” Davey receives the Peter Parker Medal
In a ceremony in the Beaumont Room on May 27, Lycurgus M. Davey, M.D. ’43, HS ’52, was honored with the Peter Parker...
Summer 2003
Back to school with Colombia’s top doctor
Although he believes that Colombia already has too many medical schools, José Félix Patiño, M.D. ’52, HS ’58, is...
Summer 2003
In Lost in America, a Yale surgeon opens up memories of his father
The latest and most personal book by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. ’55, HS ’61, Lost in America: A Journey With My Father,...
Summer 2003
A dinner guest inspires a mission to help former slaves
The night her husband brought a Sudanese guest home for dinner, Cynthia Hymes Bell, M.P.H. ’84, heard a story that...
Summer 2003
Ten lines a day, for 78 years
Albert Doty Spicer, M.D. ’37, D.M.D., was 13 when he wrote the first entry in his diary—and every day since, for 78...
Summer 2003
2003-2004 Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine
The Executive Committee of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine directs association activities, links the School...
Summer 2003
Wanted: early copies of Yale Medicine
Calling all alumni who may be contemplating an attic-cleaning: we’d like your back issues of Yale Medicine. Of...
Spring 2003
Hunting down the “hostile” gene
The tools that Redford B. Williams, M.D. ’67, HS ’69, FW ’70, is using to “try to save the world” have changed, but his...
Spring 2003
Private practice on an island paradise, of sorts
Practicing medicine on Martha’s Vineyard introduces an extra variable in decision making for Karen Casper, M.D., HS...
Spring 2003
In retirement, surgeon cuts a new swath as globetrotter, volunteer
Minimally invasive surgery has been something of a mixed blessing for thoracic surgeon Louis R.M. Del Guercio, M.D....
Spring 2003
From the tables down at Mory’s, six degrees of separation
Another bit of mystery surfaced at a dinner for New Haven-area alumni leaders late last summer following the White...
Spring 2003
2001-2002 Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine
The Executive Committee of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine directs association activities, links the School...
Spring 2003
Wanted: early copies of Yale Medicine
Calling all alumni who may be contemplating an attic-cleaning: we’d like your back issues of Yale Medicine. Of...
Winter 2003
Gut feeling
Temperatures hit the 100-degree mark and just kept climbing on the summer day when Juanita Merchant tackled Lava, the...
Winter 2003
For Nobelist educated at Yale, “It’s like winning the lottery”
Almost a century after mass spectrometry was first used to analyze small molecules, a Yale doctoral alumnus and former...
Winter 2003
A long life, steeped in science and medicine
Elizabeth R. Harrison, M.D. ’26, one of the first women to graduate from the School of Medicine and pediatrician to...
Winter 2003
A Yale connection to Thailand—and the King of Siam
When Kanya Suphapeetiporn, M.D., Ph.D. ’02, finishes her pediatrics residency in Brooklyn and heads home to her faculty...
Winter 2003
Cell biologist wins Lasker prize
James E. Rothman, Ph.D. ’71, the Paul A. Marks Chair of the Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics Program and vice chair...
Winter 2003
Wanted: early copies of Yale Medicine
Calling all alumni who may be contemplating an attic-cleaning: we’d like your back issues of Yale Medicine. Of...
Winter 2003
2001-2002 Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine
OfficersFrancis R. Coughlin Jr., M.D. ’52 PresidentDonald E. Moore, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’81 Vice PresidentFrancis M. Lobo,...
Autumn 2002
A bid to fight hunger
Among the more interesting items at the medical school’s annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction have been an evening at...
Autumn 2002
Wanted: early copies of Yale Medicine
Calling all alumni who may be contemplating an attic-cleaning: we’d like your back issues of Yale Medicine. Of...
Autumn 2002
Two honored for service to alumni association
Two alumni who graduated 10 years apart were honored at reunion this year for their service to the School of Medicine....
Autumn 2002
Disasters, natural and other, top the agenda for returning public health alumni
Disaster management was the topic of the day as public health alumni gathered on June 7 for their annual reunion....
Autumn 2002
Spotlight on Surgery
The Yale Surgical Society sponsored a well-attended grand rounds on the Thursday afternoon of reunion weekend, with a...
Autumn 2002
2001-2002 Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine
The Executive Committee of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine directs association activities, links the School...
Summer 2002
2002-2003 Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine
The Executive Committee of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine directs association activities, links the School...
Spring 2002
Spotlight falls on anthrax case
A case of inhalation anthrax discovered in a small Connecticut hospital in November gave Ramin Ahmadi, M.D., M.P.H....
Spring 2002
At “the game”
The latest installment of “The Game” brought almost 400 alumni, faculty, students and their guests to the Yale Bowl on...
Spring 2002
A Boston reunion
Over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, about 50 Boston-area alumni and guests gathered at a reception at the Café Louis on...
Spring 2002
2001-2002 Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine
The Executive Committee of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine directs association activities, links the School...
Winter 2002
From doctor to lawyer—and now the presidency
When Francis R.Coughlin Jr., M.D. ’52, decided to quit surgery at age 58, he reinvented himself as a medical...
Winter 2002
“My vocation is my vacation”
AYAM Vice President Donald E. Moore, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’81, practices family medicine in Brooklyn, N.Y., concentrating...
Winter 2002
New committee members
New members of the executive committee are Cynthia B. Aten, M.D. ’81; Sharon L. Bonney, M.D. ’76; Joseph F.J. Curi,...
Winter 2002
A Yale couple, facing polio, found themselves “called to rise”
“The city streets were deserted at 11:30 p.m. It was a balmy spring night in 1945 when my husband, Larry, and I set out...
Autumn 2001
For 500 alumni and their guests, a return to New Haven
At this year’s reunion, alumni donned hard hats for a tour of the Congress Avenue Building and put on their thinking...
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