Alumnus named dean at SUNY Upstate

Steven J. Scheinman, M.D. ’77, HS ’80, FW ’84, professor of medicine and pharmacology and chief of nephrology at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, has been named executive vice president and dean of the College of Medicine.

Scheinman’s research on the genetics of kidney disease, with a focus on kidney stones, has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1985. He has been listed in Best Doctors in America and Who’s Who in America. Scheinman, who joined the faculty at the upstate medical school in 1984, is the school’s 21st dean since its founding in 1834 as Geneva Medical College.

Brother and sister honored by Bridgeport Hospital

Two Yale alumni were among six individuals honored for their support of Bridgeport Hospital at a recent celebration of its 125th anniversary. Throughout his career Nicholas P.R. Spinelli, M.D. ’44, has improved the lives of thousands as a physician in private practice, on staff and later as director of medical education at Bridgeport Hospital, and as director of the School of Medicine’s alumni affairs office. His sister, Viola J. Spinelli, M.P.H. ’65, began as a research assistant at Yale, went on to manage her brother’s medical practice and became an associate administrator, senior vice president and chief operating officer of Bridgeport Hospital.


Steven Scheinman		Nicholas Spinelli and Viola Spinelli


			Originally published in Yale Medicine, Summer 2004. Copyright © 2004 Yale University School of Medicine. All rights reserved.