Alumni

Sanford F. Cockerell, M.D. ’45, of Independence, Mo., retired in 2000 from his pediatric practice after 50 years. His son, Charles, and daughter, Michele, took over the practice, which has eight other physicians, two nurse practitioners and offices in two cities. Cockerell says that his activities include racquetball, gardening and duck hunting. For the past 15 years he has served as president of...

John J. Kelly Jr., M.D. ’69, HS ’71, professor and chair of neurology at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., was named to the Brown University Football Team of the Decade for the 1960s. Kelly played varsity football at Brown from 1962 through 1964 as a fullback and linebacker. He also played varsity baseball. He and other teammates were honored in Providence in...

Ross M. Tonkens, M.D. ’74, has been appointed global scientific head of cardiovascular therapeutics for Quintiles Transnational Corp., the world’s largest contract research organization, in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Tonkens was a cardiologist in Beverly Hills before moving to Las Vegas, where he founded his own clinical research site and started a venture capital fund. While in Nevada he also...

Virginia A. Zakian, Ph.D. ’75, the Harry C. Wiess Professor in the Life Sciences and professor of molecular biology at Princeton University, has been named to the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council. Council members, who serve four-year terms, perform the second level of peer review for research and research training grant applications assigned to the National Institute of General...

David Fassler, M.D. ’82, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, testified before the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration in February on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Fassler, a trustee of the APA and vice chair of the Assembly of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent...

David M. Gaba, M.D. ’80, director of the Patient Safety Center of Inquiry at the VA Palo Alto (Calif.) Health Care System and professor of anesthesiology at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2003 David M. Worthen Award for Academic Excellence. This award, the highest given by the Department of Veterans Affairs, recognizes outstanding achievements of national significance in health...

Eric J. Nestler, Ph.D. ’82, M.D. ’83, the Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair in Psychiatric Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, has been named one of 10 recipients of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Freedom To Discover Grant. Nestler will use the unrestricted grant to identify molecular and cellular changes that drugs of abuse produce in the brain, and to...

Edwin Trevathan, M.D., M.P.H., HS ’84, professor of neurology and pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Washington University in St. Louis, has completed, along with his colleagues, studies of clinical data used to diagnose epilepsy and of outcomes of epilepsy surgery among children. Trevathan and his co-investigators are conducting population-based surveillance and...

Brian G. Cole, M.D., M.P.H. ’95, and Yale College alumnus Lucas W. Campos, M.D., have launched Ivy League Pharmaceutical Consultants and Associates in Tyrone, Pa. Their mission is to produce and interpret sound evidence for new pharmaceutical applications. Cole also has practices in Hawaii and New York, and occasionally serves as a cruise ship doctor in North Africa, the Baltics, the...

Jiyon Lee, M.D. ’96, is in private practice at Rye Radiology Associates in Rye Brook, N.Y., after training at Columbia Presbyterian. She and her husband have two children, Serena, 3, and Aaron, 15 months in March. Lee ran the Philadelphia marathon last fall where she saw former classmate Eric A. Gomes, M.D. ’96, an internist in Princeton, N.J. She offers to talk with any medical students or...