Notes

1940s

Aaron T. Beck, M.D. ’46, received a 2006 Distinguished Investigator Award this spring from NARSAD: the Mental Health Research Association. The one-year $100,000 award supports experienced investigators conducting neurobiological research. Beck also received the Adolf Meyer Award from the American Psychiatric Association in April.

1950s

Leonard Cook, Ph.D. ’51, who directed central nervous system research at DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. starting in 1983, was the winner of the 2006 P.B. Dews Lifetime Achievement Award in Behavioral Pharmacology. The award was presented in April in San Francisco. Cook is recognized as a pioneer in behavioral pharmacology who has contributed substantially to the discovery and evaluation of psychotherapeutics.

Milton W. Hamilt, M.P.H. ’54, writes to say that he has been retired since 1989 and that he and his wife live in a retirement community in Pennsylvania. After his graduation from Yale he spent two years as an administrative resident at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, spending his last year as the first administrator of the Yale Psychiatric Institute. In 1969 he became a professor at Temple University, where he taught hospital administration.

1960s

John A. Parrish, M.D. ’65, professor, chair and chief of the Department of Dermatology and director of the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology at Harvard Medical School, has been elected to the board of directors for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). NSBRI, funded by NASA, is a consortium of institutions, including Harvard, that study the health risks related to long-duration space flight.

Dennis J. Rudzinski, M.D. ’69, assumed a part-time position at Commonwealth Anesthesia Associates in January. A former partner in the Richmond, Va., group, he works every other week. During his weeks off, he enjoys gardening and cruising the Chesapeake Bay.

Augustus A. White III, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’66, received the 2006 Diversity Award in March at the 73rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Chicago. The award recognizes fellows of the academy who have significantly contributed to advancing diversity in orthopaedics through recruiting, mentoring, leadership and treating diverse populations.

1970s

Richard D’Aquila, M.P.H. ’79, has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO) at Yale-New Haven Hospital and executive vice president of Yale New Haven Health System. D’Aquila previously served as senior vice president and COO of New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and executive vice president and coo of St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn.

Allen I. Goldberg, M.D., HS ’70, has spent his career focused on home health, mobile health and telemedicine/eHealth. In the 1990s, as president of the American College of Chest Physicians, Goldberg invited former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D., to help begin a series of dialogues about improving health care.

Lee Goldman, M.D. ’73, M.P.H. ’73, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, was named in May as Columbia University’s new executive vice president for Health and Biomedical Sciences and dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine. Goldman, who assumed his post at Columbia in late June, also has appointments as the Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor of the University, professor of medicine in the College of Physicians & Surgeons and professor of epidemiology in Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.

David H. Lippman, M.D. ’71, writes to say that his 15-year-old son Daniel appeared in the Talk of the Town section of The New Yorker last October. Daniel visits Ask the White House, a forum on the White House website, to ask questions of Bush Administration bureaucrats. The exchanges are posted on the site. Daniel’s father is medical director of River Valley Counseling Center in Holyoke, Mass.

Robert J. Schechter, M.D. ’74, received in May the Department of Ophthalmology Senior Honor Award of the Jules Stein Eye Institute of the UCLA School of Medicine for “distinguished service” and “contributions extending over many years.” Schechter is a clinical professor of ophthalmology at UCLA.

1980s

Peter Diffley, Ph.D., FW ’80, an associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Notre Dame, became the first full-time dean of graduate studies at the University of Hartford on July 1. Diffley is an executive committee member, past chair and current treasurer of the Association of Graduate Schools in Catholic Colleges and Universities. He is also an executive committee member and past chair of the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools. He received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Massachusetts and was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Medicine before joining the faculty at the University of Notre Dame in 1984.

William N. Hait, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’82, FW ’83, director of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, became president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research, effective April 3, at the group’s 97th annual meeting in Washington in April. The president, president-elect and past president serve terms of one year. Hait’s research interests include breast cancer, drug development, calcium-mediated signal transduction, multidrug resistance, translational research and clinical pharmacology.

1990s

Michael J. Davidson, M.D. ’96, a cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, will be among the first CIMIT-Johnson & Johnson Young Clinician Research Recipients. The funding, made possible through Johnson & Johnson’s Corporate Office of Science and Technology, will allow Davidson to mentor other cardiac surgical trainees and continue his work developing techniques for heart valve repair. CIMIT is a Boston-based research consortium of major teaching hospitals and engineering schools dedicated to advancing the standard of patient care.

Jordan (Sink) Greenbaum, M.D. ’89, and Laurence A. Greenbaum, M.D. ’90, Ph.D. ’94, recently joined Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Jordan joined the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Child Protection Center as its first full-time medical director. Laurence joined the Kidney Transplant, Dialysis and CRI Clinic team and will serve as chief of pediatric nephrology and associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.

Bruce K. Lin, M.P.H. ’97, was married to Kathryn Anne O’Brien, M.P.H., M.B.A.. ’05, in January. Lin is an epidemiologist for the March of Dimes, and O’Brien is an associate with Roche Pharmaceuticals. They live in New York City.

John P. Sanchez, M.P.H. ’98, graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine this spring and started a residency in emergency medicine at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx in June. He was recently featured on the PBS program In the Life for his work addressing the health care needs of minorities and gay and lesbian individuals.

Noah S. Scheinfeld, M.D. ’97, J.D., was married to Jacqueline M. Didier in New York City in December. Scheinfeld is a dermatologist on the staff of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Beth Israel Medical Center, both in New York. Didier is a vice president and lawyer at Lehman Brothers, the New York investment bank.

Elizabeth R. Roth, M.D. ’92, was married in November 2005 to Albert Lafarge in Vineyard Haven, Mass. Roth, a 1984 graduate of Yale College, practices internal medicine in Boston. Lafarge runs an independent literary agency in Boston, where the couple lives.

2000s

Jonathan Erulkar, Deirdre Carroll and Samuel

Jonathan Erulkar, M.D. ’01, and Deirdre Carroll, RN ’00 , welcomed a healthy baby boy named Samuel Jonathan on October 11, 2005. Samuel was 22 inches long and 8 lbs, 13 oz! After nearly 10 years at Yale, Dede, Jonathan and their new little one are moving to Boston.

Barbara (Latunik) Esders, M.M.Sc. ’03, and her husband, Theodore Esders Jr., write to announce the birth of their first child, Ella Victoria, on November 8, 2005. Barbara is a physician assistant in the emergency department at Rochester General Hospital, N.Y.

Gretchen Fredericks, PA ’05, and Michael Myre were married in March in La Crosse, Wis. She is employed at Independent Medical Associates in Bangor, Maine. He is employed by AstraZeneca/PDI in Saddle River, N.J.

Devesh S. Gandhi, M.D. ’02, was married in May to Rinaa S. Punglia, M.D., M.P.H., in San Jose, Calif. Gandhi is the senior health analyst at Sonar Capital, a hedge fund in Boston. Punglia is an assistant professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School and a radiation oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Joseph M. Harburger, M.D. ’04, and Lauren J. Levy, M.S. ’04, were married in March in Old Greenwich, Conn. Harburger is a resident in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Levy is a doctoral candidate in behavioral neuroscience at Yale.

Marion C.W. Henry, M.D., M.P.H. ’05, was married in April to Andrew Joseph Colyer, a portfolio manager and research analyst at Sands Capital Management. Henry is a fifth-year resident in general surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Katherine M. Marshall, M.P.H. ’02, and David Purviance, D.M.D., were married in September in New Hampshire. Marshall is an epidemiologist with the Connecticut Department of Public Health. Purviance is a dental resident in periodontics at the University of Connecticut.

Hilary F. Ryder, M.D. ’04, was married in December 2005 to Matthew J. Henken, J.D. ’04, in New Hampshire. Ryder is a resident in internal medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H. Henken is an associate at Boies, Schiller and Flexner in Hanover.

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