In memoriam

Jane Donohue Battaglia, M.D. ’57, HS ’60, died in Denver on March 5 after a protracted illness. She was 80. Born in New York City, Battaglia graduated from Barnard College in 1953. After receiving her M.D. she interned in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and completed a residency in anesthesiology at Yale and at Johns Hopkins. She remained on the anesthesiology faculty at Hopkins until moving to Denver in 1965. She lived at various times in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy while raising her family and practicing medicine. Battaglia lectured in several languages while in Europe, including Chinese, French, and Italian. In 1987, she received her master’s degree in theology from St. Thomas Seminary in Denver after leaving medical practice. She continued to serve on the clinical faculty of the University of Colorado, teaching ethics and the humanities. (Published October 2013.)

E. Edward Bittar, M.D. ’55, died on April 25 in Madison, Wis. He was 84. Born in Jaffa, Israel, Bittar came to the United States in 1947 to attend Colby College before entering the School of Medicine, where he was awarded the William Osler Medal in the History of Medicine. After medical school Bittar served for two years in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant commander; then completed his training in nephrology at the District of Columbia General Hospital, where he developed an interest in research. His career took him from the National Institutes of Health to Damascus, Syria, in 1963 on a Fulbright professorship, then to the University of Bristol in England, where he did pioneering work on single cells. It was at Bristol that Bittar acquired and further developed the techniques of cannulation and microinjection of single fibers, a technique he would later use extensively. His first discoveries concerned the functioning of the sodium pump in the cell membrane. He spent the next three years as a Wellcome Trust Fellow at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, where he continued to investigate the mechanisms of sodium pumping in single living cells. His pioneering work was soon recognized; in 1968, he returned to the United States to become an associate professor of physiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After two years he was promoted to full professor. Bittar was a mentor to generations of students as well as visiting scientists over his career of more than 29 years. A major focus of his career was his instruction of graduate students in renal and cell membrane physiology. He wrote or edited over 100 books, including the six-volume Biological Basis of Medicine. (Published October 2013.)

Max Bloom, M.D. ’52, died on June 13 in Providence, R.I. He was 88. Bloom, a cardiologist in private practice in Cranston, R.I., was affiliated with several hospitals in the area and retired in 1987. Bloom served in the European Theater in World War II as a medic. He was a graduate of Brown University and the School of Medicine, and was a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He developed and instituted the first hospital intensive care unit in Rhode Island. He also helped develop and remained an important contributor to the cardiac care program at the Miriam Hospital in Providence. (Published October 2013.)

Richard J. Bouchard, M.D. ’54, a retired cardiologist who played an instrumental role in the establishment of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on May 18 in Timonium, Md. He was 89. (Published October 2013.)

Michael Laird Bramley, M.D. ’73, died after a battle with pancreatic cancer on August 24 at his home in Stokesdale, N.C. He was 66. Bramley attended Washington and Lee University, where he graduated with honors in chemistry in 1969. He completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1976, Bramley became a partner of Greenville Pediatric Services in Greenville. He was one of the first pediatricians to care for infants in the fledgling neonatal intensive care program at Easter Carolina University (ECU), eliminating the need to transfer severely ill children to the University of North Carolina or Duke. Bramley practiced pediatrics for 32 years in Greenville, treating the children and sometimes even grandchildren of former patients. He was an assistant clinical professor at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU and served on the board of Atlantic Integrated Health, the Regional Credential Committee of CIGNA, the Medical Executive Committee of Pitt County Memorial Hospital, and the Physician Advisory Group of Blue Cross Blue Shield. He served for many years as an FAA medical examiner. In 2008, he moved to Forsyth Pediatrics in Oak Ridge and Kernersville, where he continued his service to others as an active and beloved pediatrician until his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer in May. (Published October 2013.)

Marvin B. Brooks, M.D., HS ’68, M.B.A., died on June 30 at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 75. Born in Chicago, Brooks was studying chemical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology when he felt a calling during his senior year to become a physician. He graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1963. Brooks completed residencies in general surgery at UCLA-VA Medical Center in 1965 and in urology at the School of Medicine in 1968. In 1996, he earned an M.B.A. in health administration from the University of Colorado. Following his Yale residency Brooks served in the U.S. Air Force as a major and chief of urology at the U.S. Air Force Academy Hospital near Colorado Springs. Brooks began his professional career as an attending urologist and eventually became chief of surgery at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif. There he was one of five physicians invited to serve on a planning committee prior to the construction of the new Eisenhower Medical Center. He became a founding physician of the center in 1971 and worked as a senior attending physician, including two years as president of the medical staff. He was given emeritus status in 2011. Brooks served on the medical center’s board of trustees from 1971 until his death. He held academic medical appointments as instructor in urology at Yale and as assistant clinical professor of urology at the University of California, San Diego. He was a clinical investigator for several trials involving pharmaceutical and medical devices to treat impotence.(Published October 2013.)

William R. Chaffee, M.D. ‘53, died on October 14 in Marlborough, Mass., of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 86. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he attended the School of Medicine, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. After his graduation he performed a rotating internship at the University of Rochester followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He started a private practice in Orange, Conn., before returning to upstate New York to serve on the faculty at SUNY Upstate and the Syracuse VA. In 1966, Chaffee joined Lawrence Smith and Joseph Rowley in Auburn, New York, to form Internal Medicine Associates. He was a member of the practice for 35 years until his retirement in 2001. (Published October 2013.)

Elena Citkowitz, M.D. ’83, Ph.D., died on June 25 after a struggle with cancer. She was 74. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., she graduated from Cornell University before entering the School of Medicine. Citkowitz was a board-certified internist and lipidologist, a member of the Department of Medicine at the Hospital of Saint Raphael, and a clinical professor of medicine at the School of Medicine. She was an inveterate environmentalist, passionate about conservation and the preservation of animal life. (Published October 2013.)

Daniel P. Coffey, PA-C ’78, M.B.A., died on April 17 in Puyallup, Wash. He was 65. Born in Chewelah, Wash., Coffey graduated from Washington State University and served for 33 years as an active-duty military officer, including a combat tour in Vietnam, and later in the Army Reserves and the Washington National Guard. He retired from the Army in 2003 as a brigadier general from his assignment as commander of the 66th Aviation Brigade, Washington Army National Guard. Among Coffey’s many Army awards and decorations are the Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, three awards of the Meritorious Service Medal, and four awards of the Army Commendation Medal. He earned Senior Army Aviator Wings and was awarded two Air Medals and the Vietnam Service Medal. Among his many National Guard awards is the governor’s highest award, the State Distinguished Service Medal. Coffey worked as a physician assistant at Pacific Lutheran University Student Health, Puget Sound Spine Institute, and Franciscan Medical Group, all in Tacoma. (Published October 2013.)

Martin Colodzin, M.D. ’59, a noted physicist, psychiatrist, and lifelong scholar, died on February 12, 2013. He completed an internship at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md., and had a psychiatry practice for many years in Rockville, Md. (Published October 2013.)

Pasquale J. Costa, Ph.D. ’51, M.D. ’55, died on February 14 at his home in Wallingford, Conn. He was 91. Costa was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 3. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II and attended Texas A&M University and Boston University prior to his studies at Yale, where he received a medical degree and a degree in pharmacology. Costa taught at various teaching hospitals before practicing internal medicine for 40 years in Norwich, Conn. (Published October 2013.)

David R. Cox, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’76, of Belmont, Calif., died on January 21 of heart disease. He was 66. Cox was a geneticist, pediatrician, technology pioneer, and entrepreneur. He graduated from Brown University; received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington; completed his pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital; and took a fellowship in genetics and pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). After holding faculty positions at UCSF, Cox accepted a position as professor of genetics and pediatrics at Stanford and was also named co-director of the Stanford Genome Center. He was an integral participant in the mapping and sequencing work of the Human Genome Project. In 2000, he left Stanford to co-found Perlegen Sciences as its chief scientific officer. Perlegen, which closed in 2009, became a leader in analyzing genetic variation, discovering diagnostic markers for disease risk as well as adverse drug effects. Cox was recruited by Pfizer in 2008 to serve as chief scientific officer of its Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovation Center in the Mission Bay district of San Francisco. (Published October 2013.)

Arthur C. Crovatto, M.D. ’54, HS ’61, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in York, Penn., on October 4 in the company of his wife, Janet, and his four children. He was 85. Crovatto began college at Columbia University in New York and was in Times Square for the spontaneous VJ Day celebration in August 1945. He served as a dental technician in the Army and was stationed in the Philippines and Okinawa. After his discharge, he returned to Columbia to earn his bachelor’s degree before beginning his medical studies at Yale. He married a Yale nursing student from Pennsylvania, Janet Herrold. They married in York and returned to New Haven to continue his training. He interned at Grace-New Haven (now Yale-New Haven) Hospital in surgery, and completed residencies in surgery and urology at Grace-New Haven. He taught urology at the School of Medicine in the last year of his residency. In 1961, the family moved to York, where he began a solo urology practice, which grew to a three-doctor partnership, then a five-doctor practice. He was board-certified in urology. He was vice president and then president of the medical staff at York Hospital and chief of the departments of Urology and Surgery. Crovatto was president of the York County Medical Society and a diplomate to the National Board of Medical Examiners and to the American Board of Urology. He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Connecticut State Medical Society, the New Haven County Medical Association, and the Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Urological Association. One of his proudest achievements was founding the York County Medical Society Scholarship Fund, which provides aid for York County residents. He was chair of its scholarship committee for 29 years and president of the Violet Hill School PTA. He retired from medical practice in 1989. The School of Medicine soon appointed him director of alumni affairs, a position he held from 1990 to 1996. He was also appointed a lecturer in surgery (anatomy), from which he retired in 2003. He returned to York but remained connected to Yale as a member of the executive board of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine. He served as secretary for his medical school class for the past 15 years and was famous for greeting every member of the class with a letter from the class (and from himself) on the member’s birthday. He received the Peter Parker Medal in 1996 for service to the school and was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Service Award, its highest alumni honor, in 2004.(Published October 2013.)

Louis R.M. Del Guercio, M.D. ’53, of Larchmont, N.Y., died on March 8 of complications from a brain tumor. He was 84. A thoracic surgeon and pioneer in his field, Del Guercio was also an artist, inventor, public servant, mentor, and entrepreneur. Born in Larchmont, he graduated from Fordham College in 1948, attended the School of Medicine, and received his postgraduate training in surgery at Columbia/Presbyterian Medical Center, Saint Vincent’s Medical Center, and Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. He progressed from instructor of surgery to professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1960 to 1971. He then served as chief of surgery at the Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey until 1976, when he was appointed chair of surgery at New York Medical College and chief of surgery at Westchester Medical Center. Del Guercio was the author of three textbooks and 320 surgical articles. A volunteer in the first Gulf War, he was commissioned a full colonel, put in charge of the 320th Evacuation Hospital, and awarded the U.S. Army Commendation Medal in 1991. After his retirement he walked with his sons on a 500-mile pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He also served on the executive committee of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine. (Published October 2013.)

Herbert W. Diefendorf, M.D. ’41,died on August 18 at Jenner’s Pond Retirement Community in West Grove, Pa. He was 97. Before moving to Jenner’s Pond in 2007, Diefendorf, who spent most of his life in Summit, N.J., practiced medicine at the Summit Medical Group and at Overlook Hospital for 38 years, from 1947 until his retirement in 1985. He received his bachelor’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.) in 1937 and his M.D. degree from Yale in 1941. Diefendorf completed his internship and residency at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, rising to the rank of captain. In 1947, his family moved to Summit, N.J., where he joined the staff of the Summit Medical Group as an internist and allergist. During his 38 years of practice, he was known for his genuine concern for patients as human beings. (Published October 2013.)

Merrill I. Feldman, M.D., D.M.D., HS ’56, died on April 27 in Swampscott, Mass. He was 88. Born in Dorchester, Mass., he graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. A decorated veteran of World War II, Feldman was a radiation oncologist and cancer researcher who practiced medicine in Massachusetts for more than 61 years. He taught at Boston University School of Medicine from 1972 to 1989, and chaired the department of radiology. (Published October 2013.)

Diana B. Fischer, M.P.H. ’66, Ph.D. ’75, died on March 20, 2013, in Wellesley, Mass. She was 79. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Fischer received her doctorate in biostatistics from Yale. She then taught at the School of Public Health and was a researcher in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology, where she contributed to numerous publications in the advancement of cancer treatment. She later headed Yale Cancer Center’s tumor registry. Fischer was an active member of the Hamden community, serving as president of the East Side Civic Association. In 1998, The State of Connecticut General Assembly presented her with an official citation “in recognition of her outstanding commitment and dedication to the good of her community for her efforts to preserve the environmental quality of the tidal wetlands of the Quinnipiac River.” (Published October 2013.)

Emil Frei III, M.D. ’48, an oncologist whose use of combination chemotherapy helped make pediatric leukemia and certain other cancers curable for the first time, died on April 30 at his home in Oak Park, Ill. He was 89. A veteran of World War II, Frei was sent by the U.S. Navy to Colgate University for premedical studies prior to his admission to the School of Medicine. He returned to serve in the Navy Medical Corps during the Korean War. Combination chemotherapy is now standard treatment for a wide range of cancers, including breast, bone and testicular cancers, and has been credited with saving millions of lives worldwide. A clinician, researcher, and administrator known to friends and colleagues as Tom, Frei held senior leadership positions at the National Cancer Institute, the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. At his death, Frei was director emeritus and physician-in-chief emeritus of Dana-Farber. Among his patients was Edward M. Kennedy Jr., a son of the Massachusetts senator, who lost a leg to osteosarcoma at the age of 12. (Published October 2013.)

Robert Furman, M.D. ’43, HS ’45, died on May 31, 2013, in Green Valley, Ariz. He was 84. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., he graduated from Union College before entering the School of Medicine. After completing residencies at New Haven Hospital and Vanderbilt University Hospital, Furman joined the Navy and was assigned to the USS Yellowstone as senior medical officer in 1945. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War and retired from service in 1957 as a Navy commander. He was appointed to lead the cardiovascular section at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in 1952. Furman spent the next 18 years researching arteriosclerosis. In 1970, the Furmans moved to Indianapolis, where he joined Eli Lilly as executive director of clinical research. He later became vice president for corporate medical affairs. (Published October 2013.)

Louis O. Giesel Jr., M.D., HS ’53, FW ’56, of Louisville, Ky., died on September 27. He was 86. Giesel was a graduate of duPont Manual High School in Louisville and the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He completed a fellowship at the Child Study Center at Yale University and served in the Public Health Service in Oklahoma. He was a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society and served as president of the Louisville Pediatric Society. He was a pediatrician in private practice for more than 30 years. (Published October 2013.)

William M. Glazer, M.D., HS ’78, an active member of the Yale faculty from 1978 to 1994 who rose to the level of associate professor of psychiatry, died on Martha’s Vineyard on June 24 of appendiceal cancer. He was 66. Glazer also served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1994 to 2006, where he was an associate clinical professor of psychiatry and affiliated with the Massachusetts General Hospital. He also established Glazer Medical Solutions, a company that provides continuing education in mental health issues, based in Key West, Fla., and Menemsha, Mass. Born in Newington, Conn., Glazer graduated from Clark University in 1969 and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1973, and completed his training in psychiatry at Yale in 1978. After joining the Yale faculty, he emerged as a nationally renowned expert on the long-term motor side effects of antipsychotic medications. His research informed our current understanding of risk factors and treatments for tardive dyskinesia, a late-occurring and generally persistent movement disorder caused by long-term antipsychotic treatment. His work encompassed the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia, the development and delivery of cost-effective treatments for chronic mental illness, and the ethics and principles of the modern practice of psychiatry. He led a utilization review team for Aetna, providing him with experience that he used to establish the quality assurance program at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. After leaving Yale, he expanded his consulting and educational roles in establishing Glazer Medical Solutions. (Published October 2013.)

John T. Gmelich, M.D., FW ’67; HS ’68, died in Bermuda Dunes, Calif., on December 29. He was 74. Gmelich had an apparent heart attack while sleeping. Born in Chicago, he graduated from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 1964. During a medical career that spanned more than 40 years, he worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he was chief surgical pathology fellow; at veterans’ hospitals in San Francisco and San Diego; and at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. Gmelich was also an associate clinical professor of pathology at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and at the University of California, San Diego. (Published October 2013.)

Sumner H. Gochberg, M.D. ’56, died on July 18 in Tarpon Springs, Fla. He was 82. A retired obstetrician/gynecologist, he practiced in Malden, Mass., for many years. (Published October 2013.)

Jessamine R. Goerner, M.D. ’43, died on June 23 at Middlebury Convalescent Home in Middlebury, Conn. She was 101. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Goerner received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in astronomy and physics from Wellesley College before entering the School of Medicine. Goerner was a pediatrician in Watertown, Conn., for 43 years. (Published October 2013.)

Robert S. Gordon, M.D., HS ’69, of Woodbridge, Conn., died on February 15 after a brief illness on a cruise in the South Pacific. He was 90. Gordon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1943. He received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in only three years, graduating as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. After graduation, he spent one year as an intern in internal medicine at Yale, then entered the U.S. Navy, where he was stationed in the South Pacific and Alaska. He also spent one year at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Md. He returned to Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1949 to finish his residency, which concluded with a final year as chief resident followed by a fellowship in cardiology. Gordon entered private practice in internal medicine in 1953, working as a solo practitioner until he retired in 2004 at the age of 82. (Published October 2013.)

Charles M. (Charlie) Grossman, MD, HS ’44, died on July 16 in Portland, Ore., after a distinguished career as a doctor, scientist, community organizer and peace activist. He was 98. During his residency at Yale, he was involved in the first successful use of penicillin in the U.S. One of the initial group of doctors at Northern Permanente in Vancouver in 1944, Grossman began private practice in downtown Portland in 1950. He also pursued scientific research funded by the National Institute of Health on a part-time basis. Most recently, he helped document the health effects of radiation released from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation during the 1940s. He published more than 30 scientific articles in his lifetime. Friend and physician to Senator Wayne Morse, Grossman marched against the Vietnam War. He was active with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nobel Peace Prize recipients in 1985. He believed that people-to-people contact promotes cultural understanding and worldwide peace and he led annual tours of Americans to China between 1974 and 2010. The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries designated him “Friendship Ambassador” in 2010, an honor given to only five other Americans since 1949. (Published October 2013.)

Gove Hambidge, M.D. ’45, an early advocate of family therapy, died in his home in Golden Valley, Minn., on January 6. He was 93. Hambidge was trained as a psychoanalyst and worked in family and individual therapy throughout his long career. His military service, which included working with returning World War II veterans, led to a professorship at the University of Minnesota in 1953, where he taught until 1958. He maintained his private practice until he had a stroke in 2012. (Published October 2013.)

Alfred R. Harrington, M.D. ’86, M.P.H. ’86, M.B.A., of Omaha, Neb., died of natural causes on July 28 during a visit to New York City. Harrington had a zeal for knowledge that was evidenced by his ongoing quest to remain up-to-date in his areas of learning by attending countless seminars, workshops, conferences, and professional development courses. With an unwavering and passionate desire to empower individuals and communities to heal themselves, Harrington founded Harrington and Associates, which addressed some of the core issues that affect the health of communities by providing a portfolio of services for nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and government institutions. Harrington served as a clinical instructor at Creighton University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center and as a medical director at Charles Drew Health Center. Harrington served on nearly 20 boards and committees during his career and received numerous awards and recognition for his expertise, leadership, and service. (Published October 2013.)

Jackson Harris, M.D. ’49, died on September 5 in Nashville, Tenn. He was 87. Harris served in the U.S. Navy and Air Force and earned degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and Yale School of Medicine. In 1957, he began his career as a surgeon at Miller Clinic in Nashville. Together with Robert Hardin, M.D., he began the first open heart surgery program at Baptist Hospital in 1969, where he performed heart surgery on more than 2,000 patients during the next 20 years. At Baptist, he served as chief of surgery and president of staff. He held leadership positions in many professional societies, notably as president of the Nashville Cardiovascular Society and president of the Nashville Surgical Society. (Published October 2013.)

Ernest L. Hartmann, M.D., ’58, of Newton Highlands, Mass., died on August 7 in Truro, Mass. He was 79. Hartmann was an internationally known researcher on sleep and dreams. He directed the Sleep Disorders Center at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and was the first editor of the journal Dreaming. On vacation, Hartmann was bicycling to get newspapers and croissants. He was born in Vienna and his father was a psychoalanyst who counted Sigmund Freud as a colleague. When World War II began the family moved to France and Switzerland before settling in New York City. He continued his studies after medical school, including at Harvard, the National Institute of Mental Health, and Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He also served in the U.S. Public Health Service and on the faculty at the Tufts University School of Medicine. (Published October 2013.)

Harry S. Holcomb III, M.D. ’49, died on September 19 at his home in Franktown, Va. He was 83. Holcomb attended The Fessenden School, Milton Academy and graduated from Yale University and Yale School of Medicine. As a young man he embraced service and adventure. He worked at mission hospitals in Ghana and Mexico, and sailed to Quebec and Labrador for the Grenfell Mission, a mission to help the poor with food, clothing and medical care. From 1970 to 1972, he served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, as flight surgeon for Operation Deep Freeze. Holcomb completed his residency training in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Virginia hospital in Charlottesville in 1977, and started his orthopaedic surgery practice on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in that same year. After practicing locally for 20 years, he worked as a traveling locum tenenssurgeon throughout the country, with assignments that included the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. While living on the Eastern Shore of Virginia he immersed himself in learning about the local culture, natural environment, and history. Over the years, he served on the Boards of Shore Memorial Hospital, the Arlington Foundation, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society. He was a founding director of both Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore and the Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust. He also was one of the early volunteers and a former director of the Barrier Islands Center. (Published October 2013.)

Donald H. Holden, M.D. ’44, a resident of Portland, Ore., died on February 1. He was 93. (Published October 2013.)

Barbara Lucas Holman, M.S. ’45, Ph.D. ’55, died on January 4, 2013, in Irvine, Calif. She was 90. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Holman graduated from Bryn Mawr College and the Yale School of Public Health at a time when women were less likely to pursue higher education. She was an Army nurse who cared for quadriplegic soldiers and a researcher at Columbia University before she moved to Stanford, Calif., with her husband, Halsted R. Holman, in 1960. In 1970 she co-authored an article demonstrating that racial discrimination and work stress contribute to racial disparities in mortality, foreshadowing current research on health disparities, occupational health, and stress-related disease. Holman was known for her quiet generosity, adherence to principle in the face of adversity, and her deeply-held belief that all people are equal and deserving of respect, regardless of class, race, ethnicity, religion, or sexuality. She passionately supported the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam war movements. In the 1980s, when HIV was devastating the gay community, she supported gay rights, especially through her love and support for her nephew. (Published October 2013.)

John F. Kelleher Jr., M.D. ’72, died at his home in Madison, Conn., on January 22. He was 66. He graduated from Boston College before entering the School of Medicine. Following his medical training, Kelleher served briefly as an officer in the United States Navy, stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He retired in 2012 after a 40-year career as a pediatric hematologist/oncologist. (Published October 2013.)

James M. Keyes, P.A.-C. ’54, died at his home in Stuart, Fla, on July 5. He was 54. Keyes was a surgical physician assistant at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce, for more than 20 years. He also worked at St. Lucie Medical Center. (Published October 2013.)

Robert F. Kiley, M.D. ’54, HS ’55, died on June 8 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He was 85. Born in Danbury, Conn., Kiley graduated from the College of the Holy Cross before entering the School of Medicine. After his internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Kiley served in the U.S. Air Force as a flight surgeon in North Africa. He completed a residency in radiology at Columbia/Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, and joined the Hartford Radiology Group, which later became Jefferson X-Ray Group. He also served on the staff of Hartford Hospital for 32 years. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Radiology in 1976. (Published October 2013.)

William L. Kissick, M.D. ’57, M.P.H. ’59, Dr. Ph. ’61, died in Denver on June 30. He was 81. Kissick served in the U.S. Public Health Service under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and was one of two physicians who drafted the Medicare Act of 1965. He was the George Seckel Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Kissick was the author of Medicine’s Dilemmas: Infinite Needs versus Finite Resources; an editor of Lessons from the First Twenty Years of Medicare: Research Implications for Public and Private Sector Policy; and the editor of Dimensions and Determinants of Health Policy. He was a lifelong Yale supporter, serving as a Fellow of the Yale Corporation from 1987 to 1993. He was awarded the Yale Medal in 1996 for his distinguished service to the University. Kissick also had lifelong ties to the Wharton School, where a fund has been established in his honor. In the late 1990s a scholarship was formed in his name by the Wharton Healthcare Management Alumni Association. (Published October 2013.)

W. Lance Kollmer, M.D., M.B.A., HS ’80, died on December 27, 2012. He was 64. Born in Baltimore, Kollmer received his bachelor of science degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn. He received postdoctoral training from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Brown University, Yale, and the Mayo Clinic. He was appointed a professor and surgery instructor at Brown University and UMDNJ. Kollmer was the director of Pediatric Plastic Surgery and the Cleft Palate Center and the co-director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of Craniofacial Center at the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey. He opened his own plastic surgery practice at St. Barnabas Hospital in Short Hills, N.J., where he was awarded the Excellence in Caring Award. (Published October 2013.)

Mary Catherine Kornei, M.D. ’80, an internist who still made house calls, died April 30 of complications from lymphoma in Los Altos, Calif. A graduate of Santa Clara University, she was 65. Kornei cared deeply about her patients, visiting them on weekends and sleeping lightly so that she could be there for them at a moment’s notice. She hiked regularly; spoke French fluently; loved her cats; enjoyed cooking, sewing, reading, gardening, and according to husband Tom, even hanging clothes outside on the line to dry. She was often seen bicycling in her white lab coat to and from her office. Kornei retired from her practice in 2009. (Published October 2013.)

Thomas P. Kugelman, M.D. ’60, a Hartford-area dermatologist in private practice for nearly five decades, died on August 18, 2013 at his home in Bloomfield, Conn. He was 78. Kugelman was an avid music lover and noted authority on 18th-century Connecticut furniture. Kugelman attended Fieldston School and graduated from Yale College. After his medical training at the Yale School of Medicine, he completed his internship and residency in dermatology at the University of Michigan. In 1964, he set up a dermatology practice at Hartford Hospital, and retired in 2011. Kugelman served on the medical staff of Hartford Hospital as chief of dermatology and chief of staff. He also supervised physicians and students at Hartford Hospital and Yale School of Medicine, where he was associate clinical professor. During the early 1970s, Dr. Kugelman and his wife began studying 18th-century Connecticut furniture. Over the next 40 years they assembled an important collection of Connecticut River Valley furniture. What began as a hobby grew into a serious scholarly undertaking. Along with Robert Lionetti, they applied the rigor of medical diagnostics to furniture examination, resulting in the publication of their 2005 book Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800. His passion for Connecticut furniture and decorative arts prompted Kugelman’s dedication to the Connecticut Historical Society, where he served as a trustee and chair of the Museum Collections Committee from 1980 until shortly before his death. (Published October 2013.)

Richard V. Lee, M.D. ’64, a physician and educator known for his work with isolated native populations around the world, died on May 7 after he was stricken in his home in Orchard Park, N.Y. He was 75. Born in Islip, N.Y., Lee was a professor of medicine and anthropology at the University at Buffalo (UB) and also maintained a private practice. His paternal grandfather, Li Yan Phou, was one of the first Chinese students to study in the United States—at Yale University, where Lee received degrees in 1960 and 1964. While in college, Lee was awarded the Ferris Prize in anatomy and the Winternitz Pathology Prize, and maintained a lifelong interest in promoting educational exchanges between the United States and China. His work abroad included medical treks with students and other physicians to remote villages in Kashmir and Ladakh, India, and visits to the Amazon jungle, the Andes, and northern Kenya. He also provided health services in Thailand to refugees from Laos and Cambodia. His work with Tibetan refugees in India later led to acquaintance with the Dalai Lama. Early in his career, Lee was a physician with the Indian Health Service at the Fort Peck Reservation in eastern Montana. He moved to upstate New York and began working at UB in 1976. (Published October 2013.)

Stephen Malawista, M.D., HS ’63, FW ’66, professor of medicine and former chief of rheumatology, who supervised the group that discovered Lyme disease and whose laboratory research on white blood cells led to seminal discoveries in a variety of inflammatory diseases, died on September 18 at his home in Hamden, Conn., after a five-year battle with metastatic melanoma. He was 79. After completing his medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Malawista began a residency at Yale under Paul Beeson, M.D., an expert in infectious diseases and in the origin of fever. he interrupted his clinical training to spend two years at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases (NIAMD), followed by a special fellowship of the NIAMD at Yale. He joined the Yale faculty in 1966 where, during 21 years as chief of rheumatology, he built what began as a one-man operation into a major, internationally recognized section that fostered the careers of many renowned physician-scientists, including that of his then first-year fellow, Allen Steere, M.D., the co-discoverer of Lyme disease. In the fall of 1975, Steere was four months into his postdoctoral training in rheumatology at Yale when a former colleague, David Snydman, then the acting director of preventable diseases at the Connecticut health department, contacted him about an unusual clustering of “juvenile rheumatoid arthritis” cases in the towns of Lyme, Old Lyme, and East Haddam. Interviews with people living in those Connecticut towns linked arthritis to a skin rash similar to one associated with tick bites in Europe. A year later, Steere and Malawista published the seminal paper reporting the results of their initial investigation and their postulate that the arthritis was due to a tick-transmitted pathogen. Over the next decade, they were at the forefront of research that led to the elucidation of Lyme disease—its natural history, antiquity, epidemiology, pathogenesis, etiology, molecular biology, and diagnosis, treatment, and prevention by vaccination. Malawista was already well known for his research on the motility and function of white blood cells in the context of the inflammatory response. He had studied these inflammatory mechanisms in the context of human disease—especially gout—and he continued this line of work, adding Lyme disease to the panoply of human inflammatory states he studied. His years at Yale were punctuated by multiple sabbaticals in Paris, where he continued studies of neutrophils. Following up on an observation made earlier by other researchers that, after gentle heating, the neutrophil body would simply “walk away” and detach from its nucleus, Malawista showed that this “headless” marauder retained its ability to seek out, eat, and kill bacteria. Decades later, in 2012, similar anucleate soldiers were shown to form in vivo as neutrophils die, producing “nets” capable of continuing a defense until new recruits arrive. Malawista returned to Paris each year for several weeks to continue his studies and published his most recent work in June 2013. Malawista’s achievements were summed up in his citation for the 1994 Distinguished Investigator Award of the American College of Rheumatology: “Malawista is one of the most creative investigators of our time. He thinks in a bright and focused way about problems. He recognizes the kernels of the unknown in them, surrounds them with the known, and searches through this mechanism for insight in how to answer the questions that exist.” Malawista received numerous other honors and awards for his achievements, including the Ciba-Geigy/International League Against Rheumatism Prize (1985), shared with Steere for the discovery and elucidation of Lyme disease; President, American College of Rheumatology (1991-92); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998); Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Paris René Descartes (1998); Master, American College of Rheumatology (1999); the Guggenheim Fellowship (2001); the Paul Klemperer Medal and Lecture of the New York Academy of Medicine (2002); and the Gold Medal (highest award) of the American College of Rheumatology (2003). He served on the Advisory Committee for the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (1989-2003); and was a Founding Fellow of the Biotechnology Study Group at New York University (since 2000). (Published October 2013.)

Edward Martin, M.D. ’40, died on February 7 in Fall River, Mass., after a short illness. He was 98. He was born in New Britain, Conn., to parents who had emigrated from Odessa in what is now Ukraine. At Yale he won the Perkins Prize for excellence in preclinical studies and the Campbell Medal Award for highest academic standing in medical studies. After a residency at New Britain General Hospital, Martin entered military service and was a flight surgeon in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945. After the war, he was awarded a fellowship in hematology at Washington University in St. Louis. Returning to New Britain, Martin joined the then-new Grove Hill Clinic, where he practiced internal medicine and hematology for the next 40 years. He was an instructor in medicine at Washington University, Yale University, and New Britain General Hospital. (Published October 2013.)

John Francis Neville Jr., M.D. ’46, died on October 18 in Wrentham, Mass. He was 90. Neville predeceased his wife of 66 years, Laura (White) Neville, M.D. ’46, by three days. Neville was born in Somerville, Mass., and won a scholarship to Yale, where he played baseball and hockey. After his freshman year, he entered an accelerated wartime degree program, enabling him to finish both his undergraduate and his medical degree in six years. Neville graduated in 1946 as an Army lieutenant, completed his internship and residency in St. Louis and Baltimore, and military basic training in San Antonio. Upon his discharge, he practiced in St. Louis and Pittsburgh before joining the Upstate Medical Center of New York in Syracuse as a thoracic surgeon and professor of surgery. While at Upstate, Neville worked closely with his surgical colleagues in the emerging fields of open-heart and bypass surgery, heart-lung machines, and cardiac pacemakers. His interest in computer technology led him to develop new ways to monitor patient progress during and after surgery. Neville enjoyed working with medical students, using the Socratic method to help them learn to think critically in any situation. After retiring in 1987, Neville and his wife Laura moved to Cotuit, Mass., where he enjoyed golfing, tinkering with his computers, and playing bridge, reaching the rank of Life Master. Jack was also a regular visitor to several area libraries; over the last two decades he had taken up the study of early constitutional history. (Published October 2013.)

Laura White Neville, M.D. ’46, died on October 21 in Attleboro, Mass. She was 90. She was the wife of John F. Neville Jr., M.D. ’46, who preceded her in death by three days. Laura Neville was born in Madurai, India, the daughter of missionaries. She was educated in India and Massachusetts, graduated from Kodaikanal School in India, and took a postgraduate year at the American College in Madurai before attending Oberlin College in Ohio. At the School of Medicine, where she was one of three women, she met John Neville and married him in February 1946, a few months before their graduation. She interned in pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. While her husband finished basic training and his residency in St. Louis, Neville worked at several jobs, including serving as post pediatrician at the Army Chemical Center and as medical director of the St. Louis County Health Department. After moving to Pittsburgh, she was able to devote herself full time to raising their five children. In the 1960s and 70s, Neville returned to work as a pediatric consultant to the Children’s Center Research Project (the precursor of Head Start), the Cleft Palate Evaluation Unit, and a member of the pediatric clinical staff. Neville had also developed an interest in adult health issues and decided to pursue a residency in psychiatry at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate. She opened a private practice as well as serving as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the SUNY until her retirement in 1987. (Published October 2013.)

Margaret Reba Stevens O’Neill, M.D. ’91, died on September 11, 2013, in Chevy Chase, Md. Stevens was born in Seattle, Wash, and raised in Seattle and New Haven, Conn., where she graduated from Hamden High School. She attended Harvard University and Yale School of Medicine. She trained in internal medicine and dermatology at The John’s Hopkins Hospital and began her medical practice in the greater Washington, D.C., area in 1996. Stevens loved cooking, film, her faith, but most of all, her family. (Published October 2013.)

Edgar B. Phillips II, M.D. ‘47, died at his home in Los Angeles on August 23, 2013. He was 90. He graduated from Brown University in 1944 and Yale School of Medicine in 1947. After serving as chief of pediatric service at Camp Pickett, Va., he began private practice in Boston, Mass. He went on to found both the American Child Guidance Foundation and the American Foundation for Children and Youth. (Published October 2013.)

Sheldon R. Pinnell, M.D. ’63, a longtime professor at Duke University and internationally eminent scientist, dermatologist, and educator, died on July 4 after battling carcinoid cancer for almost 10 years. He was 76. Pinnell made pivotal discoveries in the understanding of the biology of collagen in the skin, demonstrating the critical role of vitamin C. He was also a pioneer in the discovery and development of topical antioxidants in the prevention of sun damage to skin, and was a founding scientist of Fibrogen, SkinCeuticals, and the Skin Science Institute. Pinnell spent two years as a medical resident at the University of Minnesota, followed by three years at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, where he first began making seminal contributions to the understanding of how human connective tissue is produced and organized. In 1968, he became a resident in dermatology and research associate at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard University School of Medicine. In 1971, after being named a Helen Hay Whitney Fellow and Herzog Fellow of the American Dermatological Association, he studied collagen chemistry at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. In 1973 Pinnell joined the medical school faculty at Duke University, where he remained for his entire academic career. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator from 1973 to 1980. Pinnell developed and implemented strategic initiatives that facilitated the growth and prominence of Duke University’s Division of Dermatology and culminated in the establishment in 2009 of the nationally recognized Department of Dermatology. In 2013, the Duke University Medical Center recognized Pinnell’s distinguished career with the establishment of the Sheldon R. Pinnell Center for Investigative Dermatology. He also became an honorary member of the Society for Investigative Dermatology. (Published October 2013.)

Vicky Lorraine Prager, M.D. ’81, died on August 21 in Mountain View, Calif. She was 59. Prager pursued a career as a physician in adolescent medicine. She lived with Marfan’s Syndrome and was a leader in the Marfan’s Foundation. She survived breast cancer only to succumb to the disease after a long remission. Prager was a staunch advocate for women’s health, Marfan’s patients, and all children who graced her life. She devoted much of her time as a medical consultant to family and friends. A true Renaissance woman, Vicky loved to sketch and play piano. She was an active member of the greater Jewish community, in particular congregations Kol Emeth in Palo Alto and Nishmat Shalom in the East Bay. (Published October 2013.)

Elliot Rogers Reiner, M.D. ’45, known as Tim, died on April 10 after a long illness in his home in Worcester, Mass. He was 93. Born in Portsmouth, N.H., he was educated at Clark University, the University of Alabama, and the School of Medicine. He served in the Navy Marine Corps during World War II and in hospitals in Washington, D.C., and Portsmouth, Va. He returned to Worcester in 1948 to complete his training in psychiatry at Worcester State Hospital. During his years in Worcester, Reiner was director of research at Worcester State Hospital and had a private practice in psychiatry. He worked with the Pastoral Counseling Center and at the Child Guidance Center, and was on the staff at Memorial Hospital. (Published October 2013.)

Joseph L. Renda, M.D. ’68, died on February 14 at his home in Middlebury, Conn., of pancreatic cancer. He was 70. Renda was senior partner in Associated Specialists in Nephrology and Hypertension in Waterbury and an active participant in the Yale Teaching Program at Waterbury Hospital. Born in New York City, he attended New York University, from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1964 with a double major in medieval history and chemistry. From 1970 to 1972, Renda served on the USS George Washington Carver nuclear submarine as chief medical officer and was discharged with the rank of lieutenant commander. He was then chosen to serve as chief resident and clinical associate at Yale. After completing his training, Renda was recruited to Waterbury Hospital to augment the newly formed academic teaching program with Yale. At Waterbury Hospital, Renda distinguished himself as both an outstanding clinician and academician, and received numerous teaching awards, including the Yale University Residency Teaching Award and the Dr. George Thornton Teaching Award. (Published October 2013.)

Charles Rennell, M.D. ’49, a retired radiologist, died on April 30 at his home in Saratoga, N.Y. He was 88. Born in Port Kent, N.Y., he served in the military during World War II. (Published October 2013.)

Phyllis Jane Rivers, M.D. ’48, died on May 26, 2013, at the St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, Ga., after a long illness. She was 87. Born in Tampa, Fla., Rivers graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University at age 17 with a degree in zoology. After medical school she interned for a year at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Fla., followed by a pediatric residency at Bellevue Hospital and Buffalo Children’s Hospital in New York. She met her husband, Walker P. Rivers, M.D., during that time, and they married and moved to Columbus in 1951. She began her career at the Columbus Health Department as resident pediatrician in charge of the Head Start program. In the 1970s, she served the State of Georgia as resident physician at the DIG Clinic and moved from there to head the drug/alcohol ward of West Central Georgia Regional State Hospital. Rivers retired in 2000. (Published October 2013.)

Harry S. Romanowitz, M.D. ’73, died on February 27 of a severe hemorrhagic stroke at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 63. Romanowitz was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the only child of Holocaust survivors. He completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Rochester. After eight years in private practice, he was appointed the first full-time chair and pediatrician-in-chief at Stamford Hospital, a position he held for the next 20 years. Under his leadership, the hospital developed a neonatal intensive care unit and full-service children’s health center, and added multiple pediatric subspecialties. (Published October 2013.)

Benjamin F. Rush Jr., M.D. ’48, died on February 22 at his home in Summit, N.J. He was 89. Rush was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and lived there until going to college in California. He served in the Army during the Korean War as a surgeon in a M.A.S.H. unit. Rush was chairman of surgery for 25 years at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, N.J., and after retiring served as a distinguished professor of surgery. A Summit resident for the past 44 years, he was a member of numerous medical organizations and received many awards for his dedication and research. (Published October 2013.)

R. Andrew Sewell, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry, died on July 21, 2013. He was 41. Sewell was born in West Sussex, England, in 1971 and moved to Ridgefield, Conn., with his family in 1982. He graduated from Cornell University in 1993. In 1998, he graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. In 2004, he completed dual training in neurology and psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts, where he was the first graduate of the combined residency program. He completed a substance abuse research fellowship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School before beginning fellowships in substance abuse research and schizophrenia research at Yale. In 2010 he joined the Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group at Yale and the VA Connecticut Healthcare Center, where he was involved in laboratory studies probing the contributions of the GABA, cannabinoid, κ opioid, and dopaminergic systems to the neurobiology of mental illness. Sewell was the recipient of a Career Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the recipient of a Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavioral Foundation (formerly the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression/NARSAD) for his proposed work on the role of cannabinoids in extinction learning and the application of cannabinoids in the treatment of PTSD. (Published October 2013.)

Paul J. Simel, M.D., HS ’59, an ophthalmologist, died on August 23 in Greensboro, N.C. He was 83. Simel, a Brooklyn native, practiced ophthalmology in Greensboro from 1961 until his retirement in 1999. Simel, who considered it a “privilege” to have a career in medicine and surgery, graduated from Poly Prep School in 1947. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College. his M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine, and did his residency in ophthalmology at Yale where he served as chief resident as well as a member of the faculty. After completing his medical training, Simel served as an Army ophthalmologist in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, from 1959 to 1960. While never serving in a combat role, Simel’s life was colored by World War II and the Holocaust, events that he said shaped his feelings and beliefs throughout his life. During breaks from his busy medical practice, Simel served as a faculty member of Orbis, a nonprofit organization that works in developing countries to prevent and treat blindness through training, public health education, and improved access to quality eye care. In a specially designed and converted DC-10 aircraft - the world’s only airborne ophthalmic training facility – Dr. Simel was responsible for teaching surgical techniques to local doctors in developing countries in Asia, South America and Europe. (Published October 2013.)

Robert G. Sisson, M.D. ’46, a retired general surgeon, died on April 19 in St. Louis, Mo. He was 90. Born in Boston, he completed his residency in surgery at Jewish Hospital in St, Louis after serving in the Army during World War II. (Published October 2013.)

George I. Solish, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’53, lifelong learner and true mensch, died Tuesday, April 9, at his home in Templeton, Calif. He was 93. Born to Polish Jewish immigrants in Woonsocket, R.I., George dreamed of becoming a surgeon. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Providence College and pursued a graduate degree at Brown University in biology. Before he completed his degree, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force and served in the European Theater at the height of World War II. He finished medical school at Tufts University, two internships at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Kings County Hospital, and a residency at the latter. He taught medicine at SUNY Downstate before a stint in Ann Arbor, Mich., to gain a Ph.D. in human genetics. Back in Brooklyn, he taught at Downstate until he was named chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Long Island College Hospital. He was also the chair of the new Human Genetics Department and Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Maimonides Medical Center. (Published October 2013.)

Donald R. Sweeney, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’74, died on September 12 at his home in Acton, Mass. He was 76. He received his bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1958 and went on to receive a Ph.D. in in experimental psychology from Fordham University. He then served as a captain in Armed Forces at the Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. He later received his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and completed a residency in psychiatry at Yale. He was a founder and clinical director of Fair Oaks Hospital in Summit N.J., known for research and treatment of drug addiction. He later entered private practice and retired in the 1990s. He was the author of the well-received book, Ovecomning Insomnia. (Published October 2013.)

Brent W. Tatum, M.D. ’88, died of metastatic sarcoma at his home in Derby, Vt., on March 10. He was 56. Tatum grew up in New Canaan, Conn., and began his undergraduate studies at Bowdoin College in 1974. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease during his first year at Bowdoin, and was treated with vigorous radiation therapy. After graduating from the School of Medicine, Tatum completed a residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital/University of Rochester, N.Y. He began his career as a primary care internist in Newport in July 1991 and opened his own office, Border Health Center, in Derby Line, Vt., in 2000. (Published October 2013.)

Theodore K. L. Tseu, M.D. ’56, died on January 6 at his home in Honolulu. He was 81. Born in Kealia, Kauai, Tseu graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. He served as an Air Force captain for two years in Japan, became an obstetrician/gynecologist, and earned a black belt in judo. Returning to Honolulu, Tseu set up his medical practice. Remembered for his open-door policy, he never turned a patient away, treating many who could not afford medical care. In the early 1970′s, he was a pioneer in the field of gender reassignment, participating with a professional team providing support in a medically challenging field. (Published October 2013.)

Robert Channing Wheeler, M.D., HS ’48, died at Stone Ridge Retirement Community in Mystic, Conn, on March 30. He was 93. Born in Waterbury, Conn., Wheeler was a graduate of the Taft School, Princeton University, and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A veteran of World War II, Wheeler received his postgraduate education at Bellevue Hospital; the Yale Child Study Center; Children’s Hospital, Chicago; and Babies’ Hospital, New York City. A clinical professor of pediatrics, he taught at Columbia for 30 years, practiced pediatrics in Greenwich for 20 years, and served on the staff of the emergency department of Greenwich Hospital for 15 years. As a volunteer physician for Care-Medico, Wheeler reopened the pediatric service in the war-damaged hospital Beni Messous in Algiers, in 1962, and taught emergency medicine in Java, Indonesia, in 1975. (Published October 2013.)

Mary-Agnes (Mag) Wine, M.D. ’49, died on February 17, at Falmouth House at OceanView, a retirement community in Falmouth, Me. She was 90. Wine was raised in Windsor, Conn., and attended the Chaffee School. In 1946 she married Ira Wine of Virginia and moved in 1952 to Portland, where they raised their four daughters. She taught biology at Bowdoin College for 22 years after teaching at the University of Maine. She taught less formally as a naturalist for the Appalachian Mountain Club hut system in the White Mountains and at the club’s Cold River Camp in Chatham, N.H. (Published October 2013.)

Sumner R. Ziegra, M.D. ’47, died on March 12 at his home in Washington Crossing, Pa. He was 90. Born in Deep River, Conn., Ziegra was a graduate of the University of Vermont. After medical school, Ziegra continued his training at Baltimore City Hospital and Bellevue Hospital in New York City. He served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War. His medical career was spent as director of pediatrics at Yale, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Hahnemann Medical College, and Philadelphia General Hospital. The last academic position he held was chair of pediatrics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He spent the last five years of his medical career as an associate director in the pharmaceutical industry at Merck. (Published October 2013.)