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For 500 alumni and their guests, a return to New Haven Congress Avenue Building, brain research, admissions process are the focus of 2001 reunion. At this year’s reunion, alumni donned hard hats for a tour of the Congress Avenue Building and put on their thinking caps for a seminar on admissions that asked them to decide the fate of a hypothetical medical school applicant. More than 500 alumni and their guests attended reunion, which started Friday, June 1, with a discussion of the admissions process, a welcome from Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., and the traditional evening clambake. Across town, at the New Haven Lawn Club, alumni in public health were honored for their service to their communities. The admissions discussion Friday afternoon in the Jane Ellen Hope Building included an interactive exercise that offered the audience a chance to review the qualifications of various applicants and make their own selections. The next day discussion turned to “The Last Frontier: Understanding the Brain, Curing its Disorders,” with a panel that comprised Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D., professor of pediatrics and neurology and in the Child Study Center; Patricia Goldman-Rakic, M.D., the Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry and Neurology; Jeffery D. Kocsis, Ph.D., professor of neurology and neurobiology; Dennis D. Spencer, M.D., chair and the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery; and Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D., chair and professor of neurology. Topics ranged from dyslexia, including discussion of such famous dyslexics as Harvey Cushing, M.D., to memory loss and epilepsy. At the alumni meeting that followed the brain symposium, Jocelyn S. Malkin, M.D. ’51, received the Distinguished Alumni Service Award for her contributions as a teacher of students and residents, her advancement of the field of psychoanalysis and her commitment to the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine. Vincent T. Marchesi, M.D. ’63, Ph.D., director of the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, also received the Distinguished Alumni Service Award, for his commitment to Yale and his research into the proteins of the red cell membrane, discoveries that are featured in student textbooks. Following the alumni meeting, Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., led alumni on a tour of the Congress Avenue Building, still under construction. Alumni climbed stairways to floors strewn with piping and wiring, while Kessler and John H. Bollier, executive director of facilities development and operations at the medical school, outlined the building’s progress. On Friday, the School of Public Health observed the Yale Tercentennial by honoring 50 outstanding alumni who have had exemplary careers in government or community organizations. The 50 were named to the EPH Alumni Public Service Honor Roll at a luncheon at the Lawn Club in New Haven. This year’s Distinguished Alumni Award went to James Hadler, M.D., M.P.H. ’82, director of the Connecticut Department of Public Health’s Infectious Disease division for almost 20 years. “I have one of the best jobs in the world,” Hadler said in his address to alumni. Although he acknowledged the “dark side” of working in government—the politics that sometimes interfere with programs—he said his work gives him “the ultimate reward, the feeling that what I do makes a difference to society.” |
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1941 I would like to thank the
members of the Class of 1959 for their kind invitation to socialize with
their group at the clambake, which I greatly appreciated.
Our guest of honor was Levin Water’s widow, Priscilla Norton, who with Howard Spiro is writing a biography of Milton Winternitz, former dean of the medical school and promulgator of the Yale System. Vivid memories were evoked of “Winter” and his pathology course, and for some—Bill Banfield, Eli Wing, and Bill and Molly Albrink—Winter’s influence extended beyond our graduation. Our memories of the World War II years were further sparked by a recording of our ASTP marching song, MacNamara’s Band, which we received via Don Shedd from the Nevilles. The vocalist couldn’t compare with our maestro, Tom Whelan, but perhaps no one could! Don Shedd polled the group to see how many of us wore hearing aids and, of those, how many were satisfied with them. The results would dismay the manufacturers of those gadgets! I was able to give our family pediatrician, Bert Filer, a favorable, 45-year follow-up on our four kids, who were among his earliest patients. Those sending regrets due
to illness or conflicting commitments were Frank Behrle, Linus
Cave, George Cusick, Greg Flynn, Mary Judd, Muriel Murphy,
Jack and Laura Neville, Vince Pepe and Bob Wagner.
Our 50th reunion began on a bittersweet note as we mourned and fondly remembered eight classmates who had died since our 45th reunion, which many of them attended. They were Frank Allen, Muriel Bagshaw, Eleanor Clay Bigley, Sidney Furst, Sumner Goldenthal, Carrold Iverson, Alfred Owre Jr. and John Sullivan, who, as our secretary since graduation, best embodied the spirit of our class. Our condolences and best wishes go to their families. Any classmate returning to Yale for the first time since 1951 must have felt like Rip van Winkle awakening! The growth of the physical facilities and the size, diversity and excellence of the faculty are awesome. Yale is well positioned to move the frontiers of research and patient care forward in the new millennium. Our major activities during our reunion were renewing old friendships, reminiscing, sharing news of classmates unable to attend and listening to the excellent neurological sciences symposium and informative alumni association meeting. We applauded the award given to Jocelyn Malkin for her contributions as a medical school alumni representative to the parent AYA and enjoyed meeting her mother and children, who were present. Classmates and spouses at the reunion were Tom and Barbara Amatruda, Paul and Polly Bruch, John Filley, Lowell and Ione Goodman, Bob and Sonia Hamburger, Al and Cecelia Katz, Bill and Emily Kiekhofer, Jocelyn Malkin, Wally Morgan, Al and Donna Mowlem, Jim and Jan Riley, and Andy and Irene Wong. The medical school administration and alumni association treated us like VIPs. We were their guests at both the spectacular clambake and the elegant reunion dinner. John Groel, Bob and Dawn Adams, John and Ruth Berg, Larry Harris, John and Mary Lou Haxo, and Brad and Ruth Straatsma could not attend and expressed their regrets. Brad was invited to be the opening-day speaker at an international congress of ophthalmology in Istanbul on the same date. We agree with his choice and send congratulations for the honor he received. We left Yale Medical School
with a renewed and increased respect for our school and the friendships
we formed more than 50 years ago. Finally, on behalf of the class I would
like to thank Lowell Goodman for his efforts over many years as
our class agent for the annual alumni fund drive and Art Pava for
chairing the 50th reunion gift fund. It is an always difficult and often
thankless job to solicit money, no matter how important and wonderful
the cause.
Saturday, the school’s activities were capped by a formal banquet at the Quinnipiack Club. With most of the class in retirement, numerous addresses and invitations for visits were exchanged. The class wishes to thank Dean Kessler and the staff of the alumni office for their effort to make us feel welcome and have things run so smoothly. Attendees included Levon
and Gloria Boyajian, Rosalie Burns, Edwin and Barbara
Child, James and Tina Collias, Don and Leanne
(MacDoughall) Dalessio, Steve and Helen Downing,
Mitchell and Janet Edson, Gilbert and Rona Eisner,
Tom and Carol Ferris, John and Arne Gardner,
Sumner and Shayna Gochberg, Robert Groves, Charles
and Joan Hopper, Mary Louise and Ken Johnson, Jerome
and Linda Klein, William and Gloria Lewit, Preston
and Jane Manning, Dwight and Carol Miller, Donald
and Anna Marie Nalebuff, Frederick North, David and
Eleanor Page, Robert Scheig, James and Ruth Scheuer,
and Stanley and Anne (Falk) Simbonis. Last-minute regrets
were sent by Bob and Joan Hill, Gary and Karen Fry,
Joe and Pattie Cerny, and Bill and Jane O’Brien.
Ellen Levy presented to Yale the funds to endow a professorship, the Robert Levy Chair in Preventive Cardiology. This substantial gift had been raised from family, friends and supportive companies. Eight other classmates spent much time writing suggestions for a class seminar entitled “If You Had to Go to Medical School again, What Changes in the Curriculum Would You Recommend?” Their efforts culminated in a 22-page handout. Our alumni suggestions may help expand the horizons of the Educational Policy Curriculum Committee (EPCC) of the medical school. The committee consists nearly entirely of in-house academics. The four student representatives to the EPCC cannot be expected to be familiar with practice problems either. Since most Yale graduates eventually enter private practice, alumni advice is quite relevant. Vincent Marchesi hosted
the class meeting at the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine on Saturday.
It was noted that research and clinical practice have grown so much at
Yale that support for teaching, although strong, has fallen behind. How
to encourage good teachers became the topic around some class dinner tables
at the Quinnipiack Club, and at Sunday breakfast, Lois and Frank Top
suggested that our class contribute funds to reward excellence in teaching.
Others pointed out that identifying a single best teacher of the year
can be difficult and that a student survey may turn into a popularity
contest. Vincent suggested that alumni arranging to take a medical
school class to dinner with their best teachers would provide more widespread
recognition for the dedicated faculty. Bill Rogoway, our class
reunion gift chairman, indicated to Roland that alumni could designate
their donations also for the above-mentioned purposes.
Medical school tuition is now $30K per year, $50K with expenses. Wow! In nominal dollars my class got the whole package for what would buy a few months today. … Did we live in the golden age, or what? Friday night, under holding sky, there was a clambake on the Harkness dorm lawn. Very pleasant. Lots of raw oysters and clams on the half shell. They must be medically safe. Overcooked steaks and perfect steamed lobster followed. As I was slurping half-shell critters, I felt a hand on my arm. I glanced right. It took 200 milliseconds. Someone I had not seen in 35 years. I proclaimed, “Mary Alice, you haven’t changed a bit!” Wryly smiling, Mary Alice Bernet Houghton replied, “Neither have you!” Saturday morning there were impressive presentations on neuroscience. From the behavioral to cellular to genetic level. Gee-whiz computer graphics. I recall how legendary Professor of Pathology Liebow had chalk and a blackboard, and a stick pointer as tall as himself to flail feckless interns who dropped the slides. Probably a good thing he didn’t have a laser. Saturday evening the class dinner was held at an Italian restaurant on the outskirts of New Haven’s Little Italy, in the shadow of Interstate 91, unpretentiously named Adriana’s Restaurant. It turned out to be very nice. Mythic thirteen sat at table. During the early part of dinner, who should show up but Dean Kessler accompanied by two keepers, ladies from the alumni office. It reminded me of our beloved president, also with a Yale connection, making the rounds of inaugural balls. The members of the class of ’66 (Latin, sextiest-sex), no shrinking violets, offered opinions and observations. The dean was reminded that he was going to have to feed that really big building. And, was he doing the new graduates and the world any favor by sending the newbies out on graduation day $100K negative? At dinner, and before, various class members briefly recited their current status. As I heard it: Rey Spector, after a distinguished (Rey is modest; this is my estimate) career including the University of Iowa and Merck, is now semi-retired with several medical school appointments. He is building a dream house in Colt’s Neck, N.J. He and wife Michiko are currently having a memorable motel stay while getting a hard-knocks course in contractor delays and cost overruns. If anyone has a magic answer, Rey is having cervical and lumbar disc problems and getting fed up with conservative therapy. John and Marian Matheke Melish, in from Honolulu, report that everything is not heavenly in paradise. Even though Hawaii has a unique health care funding system, gaps abound, and it sounds like they work pretty hard. When I mentioned to John some roof leaks I had this past winter, I was told Hawaii has industrial-strength termites that specialize in eating roofs. Marian also reports football linesman cockroaches play soccer with full size ball in kitchen late at night. Mary Alice Bernet Houghton and husband Bill (M.D. ’64) are both still practicing psychiatry in Milwaukee. I understand psychic insight is little help in raising children, and traditional methods (scream and kickass) were used. Arne Youngberg, senior radiologist in his group in Waterbury, is the group mammographer. He expects to hang it up in the near future. He was especially looking forward to a fishing trip in Patagonia. Peter Gibbons, with wife Christina, was here. He is a radiologist in Brattleboro, Vt. He noted radiology, long somnolent after sunset, has become increasingly 24-hour, a significant burden. Jim Brown, in medical
oncology, from Middletown, also dropped in with wife Pat for the last
night’s dinner. He looks five years older than he did in 1966. Still
going strong.
Barbara Kinder graciously
invited us to her lovely Branford home for a delicious brunch. Alice
O’Neill was lovingly remembered and an initiative for an annual
lecture in her honor was discussed. Joan Menden-Reese, a Brown/
Pembroke classmate, will share this idea with Alice’s family. David
Lippman, unable to attend the Saturday dinner because of his daughter’s
graduation, gave yet more puzzles to ponder. The solution to the puzzle—what
do the words pact, vandal, floral, calamari, Coca-Cola, etc., have in
common?—is that they are composed exclusively of the two-letter state
abbreviations, e.g., pact = Pennsylvania (PA) + Connecticut (CT). An unanswered
query is what common medication can also be so composed. The answer will
be given at the 35th reunion. See you there.
Attending were Sarah Auchincloss (private practice psychiatry, NYC) and son Andrew; Alfredo Axtmayer (private practice orthopaedics, Wallingford, Conn.), wife Pat and daughter Caitlin; Sharon Bonney (associate director clinical research, Pfizer, New London, Conn.) and husband Jim; Florence Comite (Concentric Medicine, New Haven) and partner Jonathan Goldstein; Dvora Cyrlak (professor of radiology, University of California at Irvine) and husband Neil; Vinnie DiCola (private practice cardiology, New Haven); Ken Dobuler (chair, Department of Medicine, Griffin Hospital, Derby, Conn.) and wife Sue; Todd Estroff (psychiatry, Atlanta); Stephen Goldfinger (psychiatry, New York); Rose Goldman (director of occupational and environmental health, Cambridge Hospital, and associate professor at Harvard) and husband Alan; Randy Hawkins (private practice neurology, San Diego) and wife Penny; Richard Kayne (private practice endocrinology, Cheshire, Conn.) and wife Maria; Norm Kohn (private practice psychiatry, Chicago); Bill Levy (private practice cardiology, Abington, Penn.) and wife Karen (M.D. ’77). Also, Richard Low (CEO, Infor*Med Corp., Buenos Aires and Woodland Hills, Calif.) and wife Isabel; Sid Mandelbaum (ophthalmology, NYC) and wife Diane Oshin; Cindy Mann (private practice pediatrics, Hamden, Conn.); Doug Mann (private practice ENT, Media, Pa.); Rich Pelker (professor of orthopaedics, Yale); Susan Ryu (ophthalmology, Palo Alto, Calif.); Larry Samelson (chief, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, NCI); Richard Schottenfeld (professor of psychiatry, Yale, and the new master of Davenport College); Peter Swanson (family practice, Shelton, Conn.); Charlie Swenson (associate professor of clinical psychiatry, University of Massachusetts); Bob Taylor (oncology, Milwaukee); Peter Ting (anesthesia, Dover, Mass.); John Wiles (private practice dermatology, New London, Conn.) and wife Joan; and Carol Ziminski (associate professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins) and husband Terry. Classmates responding but unable to attend were Bill Bithoney (physician-in-chief and chair of pediatrics, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, Paterson, N.J.); Roger Boshes (assistant professor of psychiatry, Harvard at Fall River, Mass.); Helen Chang (private practice ob/gyn, Poway, Calif.); Joseph Ciabattoni (retired this summer from internal medicine practice, Rhode Island); John Clemens (director, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, and husband of classmate Bonnie Stanton); Candace Corson (lecturer on nutritional medicine, Granger, Ind., and married to George Knowles, M.D. ’75); Mark Cullen (professor of medicine and public health and director of occupational medicine, Yale); John Elefteriades (professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery, Yale); Carol Epstein (co-founder, MediVector Inc., Cambridge, Mass.); Richard Frank (private practice psychiatry, Milwaukee); Ira Gewolb (professor of pediatrics, University of Maryland); Glenn Harder (retired from private practice of plastic surgery in 1992, Weston, Mass.); Pam Herbert Nagami (internal medicine and infectious disease, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Woodland Hills, Calif., and married to Glenn Nagami, M.D. ’78); Clarion Johnson (medical director, Exxon Mobil, Fairfax Va.); David Kawanishi (private practice cardiology, Mission Viejo, Calif.); Richard Kremer (CEO, Forward Associates, consulting in health care claims and negotiating facility fees, Williamsburg, Va.); Carol Lee (professor of radiology, Yale); Dan Rahn (as of June the president of Medical College of Georgia, Augusta); Norm Rizk (professor of medicine, director of medical ICUs and senior associate dean for research, Stanford); Dan Schuster (professor of medicine and radiology and associate dean for clinical research, Washington University); Dirk Sostman (professor and chair of radiology and senior associate dean for clinical affairs, Cornell); Bonnie Stanton (chair of pediatrics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, and married to classmate John Clemens); Jack Tauber (private practice orthopaedics, Beverly Hills); and Jerry Zeldis (chief medical officer, Celgene Corp., Warren, N.J.). Excellent to share the weekend
with so many of you and to see that we are thriving in life and our careers.
Our camaraderie remains great, and I hope that we can keep in contact
and succeed in seeing each other more often. Start planning for the 30th
reunion now! Many thanks to my wife, Maria, who did almost all of the
reunion work for us.
Dave Lebwohl was there the first night for the clambake. He lives with his wife and two children in Connecticut. Dave is working on drugs similar to Tamoxifen for cancer treatments. Erik Fisher, always kind and understanding, runs a county psychiatric clinic in Oregon for the severely mentally ill. He believes that multidisciplinary practice is the best way to treat such patients and he works towards teaching them to live independently. He and his wife live in Eugene and he bicycles to work. David Gendelman, his wife, Deborah Zuckerman, and I are hoping to coordinate our families to meet on a bicycling trail in Lexington, Mass. Dave is an ophthalmologist working at Mass. Eye and Ear and his wife is a dermatologist. They have two boys and a girl (Isaac, Hannah and Jacob) and a very quiet household no doubt. Dovelet Shashou is also an ophthalmologist, specializing in pediatrics at Manhattan Eye and Ear. She drove up from New York with her husband, Jonathan Trambert, who is an interventional radiologist. They have two children—Steven, 11, and Emily, 8. Lisa Babitz and Stewart Greisman work in Manhattan. They took over Stewart’s father’s internal medicine practice after completing their residencies at Yale-New Haven. She specializes in geriatrics and he in rheumatology. Lisa was the second resident at Yale to have children during the residency. Her oldest is Laura, 17, followed by Jill, 13, and Jack, 9. Barbara Roach and Rick Carroll are in practice at Yale-New Haven. Both are rheumatologists. They have two children, Matthew, 13, and Emily, 10. They live in Hamden. Cyndy and Raymond Aten were both in attendance. Cyndy has most recently practiced medicine at Yale and Wesleyan and is opening a private practice in New Haven. They are perhaps the first grandparents in our class. Hopefully we will all have that wonderful experience. David Lu and his wife, Susan, are now living in David’s hometown (and mine), Washington, D.C. David is a cardiologist and has three children, Bobby, 15, Becky, 14, and Matthew, 7. He seemed happy and prosperous. Bill Hunt has not lost his sense of humor. He attended the reunion with his wife, Jan. He is in private practice in neurology at Bridgeport Hospital. They have three children, Diane, 14, Stephen, 12, and Gregory, 10, all with great nicknames. Charles Shana is a gastroenterologist in Newport, R.I., and Fall River, Mass. He has a lovely wife, Miriam, and two children, David, 10, and Philip, 8. Pat Burke is married to Jolin Proffitt and is home with her 8-year-old twin boys. She is an internist and they reside in Downes Grove, Ill. I am still recovering from the fact that I graduated from medical school 20 years ago. I admit the students that I spoke to did look young. I am a surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where I specialize in the treatment of breast cancer. I am married to Randall Kennedy, J.D. ’82. We have three children, Henry, very 6, and Rachel and Thaddeus, both very two and a half. I see and hear about lots
of our classmates from time to time. Troy Brennan, Tom Kupper,
Don Ingber and Joan Bengston all roam the halls at this
institution. I have also heard great things about Ada Adimora,
Juanita Merchant and Jane Asch. I am hoping this letter
will entice them and others to attend our next reunion. Goodbye for now.
Daniel is in NYC focusing
on AIDS research at Mount Sinai. Jeremy continues his work in internal
medicine and health care research at the University of Minnesota. Ophthalmology
was well represented this year. Dae has started his own private
practice in general ophthalmology in Selma, Ala. Eric is in private
practice in Baltimore, specializing in the retina. Betty, our reunion
chair, also specializes in the retina in Redding, Conn. Catharine
is balancing her career in rheumatology with shuttling her kids to various
activities in Guilford, Conn. Rob has the most sane position of
all, serving as medical director for an insurance company in Hartford.
John remains on the faculty at Yale in the endocrine section of
the Department of Medicine. Roberto has returned to the mainland
from Puerto Rico, practicing psychiatry at Columbia The most refreshing conclusions
over the weekend were that none of us has changed a bit in outward appearance—although
inside we are all a lot wiser. The group’s major regret was that
we did not see more classmates in attendance. For 2006, if you are not
here to deny rumors, rumors will turn into truths! Hope to see you all
for the 20th in 2006!
Finally, I must thank the
Office of Alumni Affairs for making the dinner at my house possible and
for arranging catering from the incomparable Adriana’s Restaurant,
one of New Haven’s greatest culinary gems. I think it fair to say
that everyone had a fabulous time at reunion. They seem to be getting
better exponentially. So start thinking now about 15!
The dinner at the Graduate Club, where we were sponsored by the 50th reunion class, was lively and intimate. We sat at two tables and discussed the difficulties of our residencies and our hopes for the future. In a surprise move, Ng Ho, who had been an ER resident, decided to become a Wall Street mogul and is now in the e-health section of drug giant Pfizer. Not so surprisingly, Owen Garrick, who was not there, is also on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs, also in the technology sector. Ng’s husband, actually Class of 1995, came to dinner with us. He is now a chief resident in plastics at Yale. Marty Mayse, a fellow at Yale, also came. Monica Medynski sat glowing next to her new husband, Neil, previously a Yale radiology resident, happy with her choice of radiology. Most of us seemed quite content with our choices in medicine, and many of us look forward to our next reunion when we can see each others’ families growing. People we missed: Although
these people were in New Haven, they did not make the reunion and were
sorely missed. Duane Bryan is currently a physician at Yale Community
Health Clinic, and Basem Jassin is finishing his surgical residency,
as is Tony Pham. David Kim is a radiation oncologist. Dana
Loo is a chief resident of medicine; Javier Davila is also
in medicine at Yale. Most of the New York crowd did not make it: Tim
Johnson is currently finishing up ortho at Hospital for Special Surgery;
Rachel Villanueva and Clara Lee are conquering ob/gyn and
surgical residencies, respectively, at New York Presbyterian. Lillian
Oshva has finished ER at Bellevue, where she is now an attending doing
clinical research. David Lee and Everett Hsu are both married
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1960s Ralph S. Greco, M.D. ’68, HS ’73, was appointed the Johnson & Johnson Distinguished Professor and chief of the Division of General Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is also director of the General Surgery Training Program. After completing his surgical training at Yale, Greco spent two years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Seoul, Korea, and Fort Meade, Md., and then joined the faculty at the former Rutgers Medical School. He became a full professor there in 1983, three years before the school changed its name to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Greco was appointed chief of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in 1996. His clinical interests include pancreatic surgery, surgical oncology and endocrine surgery. He has long pursued research directed at elucidating the response of host cells, namely neutrophils, to nonbiological surfaces utilized in biomedical implants and devices. Greco, his wife, Irene Wapnir, M.D., and their three children moved to Palo Alto, Calif., in August 2000.
Michael L.J. Apuzzo, M.D., HS ’73, received the William Beecher Scoville Prize from the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies at the opening ceremonies of the September 2001 World Congress in Sydney, Australia. The prize is awarded to a neurosurgeon who has made a principal contribution to the art and science of neurosurgery on an international scale. William Scoville was a Yale neurosurgeon who made numerous contributions and innovations in the field while being active in globally organized medicine. Apuzzo was a pupil of Scoville’s and is now the Edwin M. Todd/ Trent H. Wells, Jr., Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He was honored for his work in introducing modern aspects of cellular and molecular biology to the operative armamentarium, as well as for his advocacy of the international exchange of ideas and unified global education. Attilio Vincent Granata, M.D. ’77, an associate clinical professor of medicine at Yale, was elected to the board of directors of the Citizens for Patients’ Rights at the group’s July 19 meeting. Citizens for Patients’ Rights is a grassroots organization dedicated to educating and empowering the public to deal with problems in the health care system. In addition to his academic practice, Granata is a consultant to a number of national and international clients on health care issues, such as strategic planning, cost-effectiveness analysis and quality-of-care planning. He is president and CEO of Health Care Consulting Practice in Orange, Conn. Granata served his residency in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center and also completed an M.B.A. as a Palmer Scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He serves on the Health and Public Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians. In a biographical sketch for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Daniel A. Pollock, M.D. ’79, described a change in his career as follows: “In my work [as an emergency physician], I saw the same injury types again and again and again. As a result, I thought it would be important to learn injury demographics and causes, and to find ways to prevent injuries, instead of continually treating them and trying to limit their effects.” This conviction led him from a position as an instructor of clinical medicine at New York University School of Medicine to a stint in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the CDC in 1984. For two years, he worked on the Agent Orange Projects. He then continued within the CDC to become the team leader of the Acute Care Team within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). Since 1999, he has served as the acting director of the NCIPC’s Division of Acute Care, Rehabilitation Research, and Disability Prevention, which provides national leadership in preventing and minimizing the impact of nonoccupational injuries. His goal is to engineer a shift in the way medicine is taught and researched toward a population orientation that includes prevention and complements the clinical approach of treating one patient at a time.
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