Alumni

Maxine F. Singer, Ph.D. ’57, retired from a 14-year tenure as president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and in January 2003 was named chair of the board of directors of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass. Singer, who previously served as a member of the board, has earned a strong reputation in science public policy for her studies of risks from...

David C. Law, M.D. ’66, wrote to say that in 1998 he and his wife Doris, “at the ripe old age of 58,” adopted two girls from the Ukraine, Anna, 4, and Ekaterina, 3. A year and a half later, they adopted Natalia, 2. The girls are now 9, 8 and 5 and the family is doing quite well. He adds that this may be of interest to members of the class, as well as to others who might be considering adoption or...

Ghulam Rauf Roashan, M.D., M.P.H. ’67, who is semiretired and teaching and living in Fremont, Calif., was head of health planning and international health in the Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan in the 1970s and served on the executive board of the World Health Organization. He has also worked as a journalist. Roashan now directs the online Institute for Afghan Studies and is an advisor...

Barry S. Solof, M.D. ’74, is national chair of the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s committee on Geriatric Alcoholism and Substance Use and physician-in-charge of addiction medicine for Southern California Permanente Medical Group in West Covina, Calif. Previously, Solof served as medical director of adult and adolescent chemical dependency treatment programs at Edgemont Hospital in Los...

David E. Mandelbaum, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’82, former chief of the division of child neurology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, was appointed chief of the division of pediatric neurology at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, R.I. Mandelbaum is also professor of clinical neurosciences and pediatrics at Brown Medical School. His teaching and research have focused on childhood epilepsy...

Eduardo Marbán, M.D. ’80, Ph.D. ’81, chief of cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, is the director of The Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center at Johns Hopkins, established under a four-year, $24 million grant in May 2003. The multidisciplinary center will use novel biological therapies and modern imaging techniques to try to reduce the rate of sudden cardiac death....

Lisa F. Price, M.D. ’98, a second-year child psychiatry fellow in the department of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital in Boston, received the 2003 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Presidential Scholars Award for research. Price will explore the parent-child relationship in couples who have conceived their child with the aid of ...

Joshua M. Rosenow, M.D. ’96, has completed his fellowship in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and works as director of functional neurosurgery at Northwestern University and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. His practice focuses on surgery for movement disorders, epilepsy and pain. His research interests include outcomes from surgery for...

Chrysalyne D. Schmults, M.D. ’98, was appointed assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in July. Her initial research will examine the efficacy and safety of topical, nonsurgical treatments for basal and squamous cell carcinomas. Her clinical responsibilities include Mohs surgery, an advanced surgical procedure used for recurrent skin cancers. Schmults...

H. Steven Sims, M.D. ’94, HS ’00, was recently named director of the Chicago Institute for Voice Care, a treatment center dedicated to the care of voice and airway disorders. Sims, who completed a research fellowship in neurolaryngology at the National Institutes of Health and a research fellowship in the care of the professional voice at Vanderbilt, relocated to Chicago after serving on the...

Elizabeth V. Harrold Ratchford, M.D. ’00, and Jack Ratchford, M.Sc. ’98, were married in Atlanta on May 3. She is an instructor in clinical medicine and on the faculty in the division of cardiology at Columbia Presbyterian. He graduated in May from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and will serve a preliminary year in internal medicine followed by a neurology residency at...