Notes

1930s

Albert W. Diddle, M.D. ’36, is professor emeritus and was the original chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Memorial Research Center and Hospital at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The author or co-author of 131 publications on anatomy, obstetrics and gynecology and the history of medicine, he has also privately published his memoirs for his family, U.S. Naval Duty During World War II: Key West, Florida; Guadalcanal; Okinawa; Guam; and Tientsin, China.

1940s

B. Herold Griffith, M.D. ’48, was elected an honorary member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. Griffith, who retired in 1996, is professor emeritus of surgery and chief emeritus of plastic surgery at Northwestern University School of Medicine.

Edward Wasserman, M.D. ’45, has been named Physician of the Year 2005 by the Greater Bridgeport (Conn.) Medical Association for his volunteer work at an AmeriCares Free Clinic.

1960s

Stephen M. Krant, M.D. ’69, HS ’76, has been in private practice in plastic surgery in La Jolla, Calif., for 29 years, specializing in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. He and his wife, Lyn, have established the SK Institute, a nonprofit which sponsors a monthly Breast Cancer Nite, where breast cancer survivors listen to speakers, enjoy food and beverages and receive free spa treatments at the SK Sanctuary, which is affiliated with Krant’s practice. The institute also holds melanoma, prostate and ovarian/uterine cancer nights.

1970s

Lloyd N. Friedman, M.D. ’79, clinical professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, received a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to study new gamma interferon assays in the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis. In April he received the David Lyman Russell Award from the Connecticut chapter of the American Lung Association for contributions to the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis. Friedman is the vice president of medical affairs and the medical director of Intensive Care and Respiratory Therapy at Milford (Conn.) Hospital.

Robert H. Posteraro, M.D. ’73, HS ’78, FW ’79, a radiologist with Lubbock Diagnostic Radiology in Texas, graduated from Oregon Health & Science University with a master of biomedical informatics degree in June.

Eddie Reed, M.D. ’79, has been named the director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He started his new position in June. Reed previously worked at the National Cancer Institute and at The Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University.

1980s

Alan B. Astrow, M.D. ’80, has been appointed director of the division of hematology/oncology at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Astrow moved from St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan, where he was associate medical director of the cancer center. “We open a 50,000-square-foot state-of-the-art cancer center this fall,” he writes. He is joined at Maimonides by classmate Carl F. Schiff, M.D. ’80, who is director of rheumatology.

Robert Hartman, M.D., HS ’86, writes to say that he is a clinical associate professor of dermatology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. In October 2004 he passed a new board exam in pediatric dermatology. For four months each year he heads a pediatric dermatology clinic at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles.

Reginald J. Sanders, M.D. ’85, HS ’86, chief of the retinal service at the Georgetown University/Washington National Eye Center, was named one of the top physicians in the Washington, D.C., metro area by Washingtonian magazine in July. Sanders also serves on the board of the American Society of Retina Specialists.

Krystn R. Wagner, Ph.D. ’89, M.D. ’96, assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases/AIDS program) at the School of Medicine, and José F. Salvana, M.D., an infectious disease specialist, were married in May in Baltimore. Wagner is the medical director of the Nathan Smith HIV clinic at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Salvana is the HIV clinical director at the Hill Health Center, a community clinic in New Haven.

1990s

Alison L. Days, M.D. ’99, and Sergio Rico Jr., M.B.A., were married in Cancún, Mexico, in February. Days is a pediatrician at Texas Tech University in El Paso, and her husband is a maintenance supervisor at Penske Truck Leasing.

Mauricio J. Garrido, M.D. ’98, a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, and Louisa Terry, an executive director of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, a nonprofit agency in New York, were married on April 9 in Miami.

Steven M. Kawut, M.D. ’95, the Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Epidemiology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Elizabeth S. Platzker, a senior designer at Liz Claiborne, the clothing and accessories company, were married on May 29 in Los Angeles. Kawut teaches and conducts research on pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation.

Andrea Pernack, M.P.H. ’98, a program officer at the Institute of Medicine, and Dean Anason were married on May 1, 2004, in Warren, Mich. Pernack, now Pernack-Anason, has worked on studies involving the national smallpox vaccination program and data sharing for a vaccine safety research database.

Lynn E. Sullivan, M.D. ’96, HS ’00, was married to David A. Fiellin, M.D., HS ’95, FW ’97, in September in South Salem, N.Y. Sullivan is an assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, where Fiellin is an associate professor of medicine.

2000s

Cristina Baseggio, M.D. ’05, was married in May to Seth Alexander, a director of investments in the office of the Yale Endowment. Baseggio began a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in June.

Jonathan Solomon Erulkar, M.D. ’01, and Deirdre “Dede” Holden Carroll, M.S.N. ’00, A.P.R.N., were married on August 1, 2004, in Lake Forest, Ill. Fellow Yale Medicine grads who attended included John Abraham, M.D. ’00, and Badri Rengarajan, M.D. ’99. Erulkar is in his fifth year and a chief resident in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation at Yale. Carroll, a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and adult nurse practitioner, is a third-year Ph.D. student at Boston College. Previously she spent several years as a co-investigator in the Clinical Trials Program at the Yale Child Study Center and on the clinical faculty of the Yale School of Nursing. Since their honeymoon on Anguilla, the newlyweds have settled into married life in Branford, Conn. In 2006, however, they will be moving to Boston, where Jonathan has accepted a spine surgery fellowship at the New England Baptist Hospital and a clinical faculty appointment with Tufts University School of Medicine.

Zimra J. Gordon, M.P.H. ’02, D.V.M., and Steven J. Danzer, Ph.D., were married on April 17. Gordon is a veterinarian at the Rippowam Animal Hospital in Stamford, Conn., and a research associate with the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program. Danzer is an environmental planner for the town of Stratford, Conn.

Elizabeth W. Holt, M.P.H. ’05, and Matthew J. Delfino Jr., M.B.A., were married in June in Greenville, S.C. After their honeymoon, the couple moved to Boston, where Delfino is employed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Anita Karne, M.D. ’02, and Mehul A. Dalal, M.D., M.Sc., were married in July in Knoxville, Tenn. Karne is chief resident in primary care at New York University School of Medicine. Dalal is an attending physician in medicine at N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center.

Matthew P. Kronman, M.D. ’03, was married in September to Evelyn K. Hsu, M.D., in Seattle. They met at Children’s Hospital in Seattle, where both were residents in pediatrics.

D. Scott McBride Jr., M.D., HS ’05, completed a residency in anesthesiology in June and is now a staff anesthesiologist with the U.S. Air Force at Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska. He’s scheduled to be deployed to Iraq in May 2006 to serve in a field hospital.

James Moore, M.P.H. ’03, is one of 10 fellows selected to participate in the newly established Association of Schools of Public Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) International Global AIDS Fellowship Program. The program is part of CDC’s Global AIDS Program, which is part of President Bush’s five-year initiative to channel $15 billion into HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in 12 African countries and Guyana and Haiti.

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