Notes

1950s

William H. Hindle, M.D. ’56, was honored in July by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine with the naming of The William H. Hindle, M.D., Breast Diagnostic Center in Women’s and Children’s Hospital at the USC Medical Center-Los Angeles. Hindle founded the clinic and served as director for 12 years before becoming an emeritus professor in 2000.

1960s

Steven Jonas, M.D., M.P.H. ’67, MS, has been named a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. Jonas, a professor of preventive medicine at the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, has focused on preventive medicine, public health and health care delivery systems analysis and has authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited more than 20 books and published more than 135 papers in scientific journals.

1970s

Frederick L. Greene, M.D., HS ’76, a surgical oncologist and chair of surgery at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., was named chair of the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) for 2004 to 2006 at the annual Clinical Congress of the ACS meeting in October in New Orleans. Greene has served for the last four years as the chair of the American Joint Committee on Cancer.

Peter Krause

Peter Krause

Peter J. Krause, M.D., HS ’73, director of infectious disease at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, is one of three authors of a chapter on institutional responses to Lyme disease and companion infections in North America in Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda, published last year.

Judith Rodin, Ph.D., M.A.H. ’79, former president of the University of Pennsylvania and the first woman to lead an Ivy League institution, has been named president of the Rockefeller Foundation. She is the first female president of the foundation, which does community development work on a global scale. Rodin was on the faculty at Yale for 22 years and served as dean of the graduate school and as provost.

Alan B. Silken, M.D. ’74, HS ’78, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and director of pediatric neurology at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass., is the author of “Long-Term Management of Seizure Disorders,” a chapter in Pediatrics, a textbook published last fall by Elsevier Mosby. One of the textbook editors is also a Yale alumnus, Thomas G. DeWitt, M.D., HS ’'80, the Carl Weihl Professor and director of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics and associate chair of education in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

1980s

Guy L. Fish, M.D. ’85, M.P.P.M. ’94, of Cambridge, Mass., a senior consultant and director of Fletcher Spaght, has been elected to the Board of Overseers of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Fish specializes in health care policy, biotechnology and finance issues. Before joining Fletcher Spaght, he served as the vice president of business and international development at Collagenesis.

1990s

Jason R. Klenoff, M.D. ’98, HS ’03, an otolaryngologist at the Ear, Nose, and Throat Center in Stamford, Conn., and Serena Mayeri, J.D. '01, a Samuel I. Golieb fellow in legal history at the New York University School of Law, were married on July 27 in New York City. Klenoff is also a clinical instructor at the Yale School of Medicine and an attending physician at Stamford Hospital.

2000s

Najaf Ahmad, M.P.H. ’02, a researcher and analyst for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Fraz Ahmed Ismat, M.D., were married on June 20 in Princeton, N.J. Ismat is a postdoctoral fellow in cardiology and attending cardiologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and an instructor in pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Megan C. Leaderer, M.P.H. ’02, a manager of outcomes research at Pfizer with a focus on Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, and Cisco Del Valle, M.A., a founding member of Springbok Capital Management, were married on August 21 in Battell Chapel. The couple lives in New York City.

Joyce Oen-Hsiao, M.D. ’02, and her husband, Allen Hsiao, a pediatric emergency medicine physician, welcomed the birth of their first child, Timothy, on May 24. They live in Hamden, Conn., and she is a resident at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven. She writes that they would love to hear from friends (joyce.oen-hsiao@aya.yale.edu).

Ingrid E. Paulson, M.P.H. ’04, and Alexander J. Pugh, a student at Columbia Law School in New York, were married in Pentwater, Mich., on July 24. They met while working in San Francisco and plan to live there after Pugh's graduation.

A 15-minute educational video produced by Ilene Wong, M.D. '04, is being used in multiple sites in South Africa to promote adherence to antiretroviral therapy. The video, which Wong produced while she was a medical student, emphasizes basic drug-taking concepts and advice on improving adherence. It has been translated into Zulu, and may also be used in Botswana and Namibia. It is available online through the Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library (http://ymtdl.med.yale.edu/).

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