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WMAA Class News
Class of 1965
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1935
Ken Seifert explains that the best way to stay healthy is to exercise both the body and the brain. At age 90, he follows his own solid advice by going for brisk walks, working out at a natatorium on alternate days and playing golf—he has just bought a new set of clubs, by the way. Now living in the Village, planned resort community in Hot Springs, AR, he continues to travel with fellows from the American Board of Surgeons and just recently returned from a trip to China. His medical career began with a surgical practice in Madison in 1935, and in 2001, he continues to offer, by example, suggestions for a healthful lifestyle.
1941
Franklin W. Kapke, a retired obstetrician/gynecologist, lives with his wife, Randene, in Venice, Fla. Hobbies include golf, bridge, dancing—albeit slowly, he admits—and spending time with their five children and families. He offers reflection on his life: “Our greatest achievement is our children.”
Donald R. Kindschi, a retired anesthesiologist living in Prairie du Sac, Wis., cultivated a medical career that included five years of service at a hospital in India, four years at the Coal Miners’ Hospital in eastern Kentucky, and 14 years at the Veterans’ Hospital and University Hospital in Madison, Wis. Upon his retirement in 1979, he became active in helping the Nature Conservancy acquire and care for prairies and woodlands, and he also wrote four hard-bound family history books.
Living in Chapel Hill, NC, Clayton E. Wheeler, Jr., remains active as professor and chair emeritus of the dermatology department at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He continues to pursue his lifetime career of academic dermatology: teaching students and residents, seeing a limited number of patients, and occasionally participating in a clinical study. He says, “I can think of no career I would have enjoyed more.”
1942
Reynold M. Nesemann maintains a limited geriatric family practice in Kewaunee, WI, where he is active as a Kewaunee County Physician-Consultant to the county board. He enjoys bird hunting, golf and fishing. He and his wife Jean have four children and six grandchildren.
Retired general practitioner Marvin Wells lives with his wife Jean in Albuquerque, NM. He remains active as a volunteer faculty at the University of New Mexico Medical School teaching third- and fourth-year medical students. He enjoys travel, literature and music. The couple have one child and two grandchildren.
1943
Honored by the Four Lakes Council, Boy Scouts of America, Eugene Nordby received the Distinguished Eagle Scout award for his outstanding public service. He joins such notables as Neil Armstrong, James Brady, and William Westmoreland, who received their Eagle award 25 or more years ago and who have continued to share their talents with communities on a voluntary basis. Nordby, an orthopedic surgeon, has had a distinguished medical career, serving as Meriter Hospital chief of staff and a member of its board of directors and being a vocal spokesman for medicine by leading the State Medical Society of Wisconsin to initiate the first prepaid health insurance program.
1944
On January 9, 2001, the Community Health Center of Lubbock and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center celebrated the grand opening of the John A. Buesseler Eye Clinic, established for its honoree, John A. Buesseler. Also, he was bestowed the Emeritus Distinction Award, naming him the founding dean and vice president for health affairs and health sciences. This award was made on the occasion of Texas Tech Health Sciences University graduating its 2000th physician on May 19, 2000.
William J. Little of Racine, WI, was the 2001 recipient of the Community Service Award for outstanding volunteer service to the Racine community. In 1987 he began as a volunteer with the Health Care Network (HCN), Inc., a non-profit program that provides free or low-cost health care to Racine county residents who have no insurance and limited income. When he retired from private practice in 1992, he assisted in setting up the HCN on-site clinic staffed by retired physicians. Since that time, he has served as volunteer medical director of HCN, overseeing the operation of the on-site clinic. One of his colleagues at HCN respectfully notes about him, "We admire Dr. Little for thinking globally and appreciate his willingness to act locally." Additionally, he serves on the Board of Health for the city of Racine and is founding president of the Racine Area Geriatric Assessment Center.
1947
Jerry Baum lives in Givaat Savyon, Israel, with his wife, Charlotte. There he is active in a chest clinic to advance early detection of TB. He also chairs the Center for Jewish Medical Heritage and is working to establish a museum to advance the center’s enterprise.
Irvin M. Becker lives in Milwaukee, WI, with his wife Margery. He continues to take courses at UW-Milwaukee and is also a visiting lecturer there in history. He teaches middle school students at Hartland University School in Milwaukee and, when spending time in Florida, teaches at the Education Center in Longboat Key. His hobbies are tennis, golf and biking.
Herbert Giller and his wife, Ruth, live in Fox Point, WI. He continues his involvement in the field of medicine: He is advisory board member for Badger Association of the Blind and facilitator in the Medical College of Wisconsin medical ethics class for second-year students. His hobbies include golf, and auditing history and political science classes at UW-Milwaukee. He and Ruth spend winters in California.
Hans Hartenstein, currently living in Syracuse, NY, with his wife, Mary Louise, retired from private pediatric practice in 1999, but continues to teach part-time at SUNY Upstate Medical University and takes courses in political science and history at Syracuse University. His hobbies are tennis, opera, theater and travel.
Working toward his master gardener certification, Arpad L. Masley, Jr., designed a two-acre demonstration native plant garden with over 115 native trees, shrubs and groundcovers, plus a butterfly-hummingbird garden, in Belfair, WA, where he and his wife Peggy live. The couple has three children and six grandchildren.
A book signing and reception was held at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation in Madison, WI, for James F. McIntosh, a retired Madison physician and veteran. In his book, which is a compilation of oral histories, he acknowledges 220 Wisconsin veterans who review conflicts of the 20th century. He himself served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War aboard the hospital ship U.S.S. Haven. While in private practice, he served as UW clinical professor of surgery and consultant at the Middleton VA Hospital. Retiring in 1988, he now spends his time traveling, writing and volunteering at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum.
Noting that “the swimming is fabulous in Maui,” Robert Natelson is enjoying life in Kapalana, Maui, with his wife, Beverly. His hobbies—understandably so—are snorkeling and photography. They also maintain a home in Los Angeles, where they live part-time. They have two children and six grandchildren.
Ray Rotter and his wife, Muriel, live in Madison, WI, where he continues to work at the Middleton Veterans’ Administration Hospital two mornings a week. He also serves as medical director of a local insurance company. Roy and Murial have three children and five grandchildren.
1948
Digby G. Seymour reports has surprise upon seeing a photograph of his UW-Medical School roommate, William Hedberg (Class of '48) in a book titled, Battle for Korea:III. History of the Korean Conflict, by R. Dvorchak (50th anniversary ed., 2000). Captain Hedberg was photographed treating a wounded GI near Taegu, Korea (formerly South Korea). He received the distinguished Silver Star for heroic actions under fire with total disregard for his own safety. D.G. Seymour currently lives in Knoxville, TN; W. Hedberg died several years ago and was buried in his hometown of Fort Atkinson, WI, where he was given full military honors.
1950
George L. Voelz was awarded the 2000 Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award at the 45th annual meeting of the Health Physics Society in Denver, CO, in June 2000. As a scientist and physician, he has garnered accolades for participating on scientific committees, serving as consultant and expert witness in radiation litigation cases, acting as journal editorial advisor, and serving his community. A highlight of his career has been his involvement in the epidemiological follow-up of the original Manhattan District plutonium workers at Los Alamos, which has provided significant information on the human health effects of exposure to Pu. He currently is serving as occupational medicine consultant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Most recently, he has participated on a committee of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is preparing a monograph on the carcinogenicity of internally deposited radionuclides.
1951
“I used to be a steeplejack and climb forests in the sky. Now I am a teacher with a long grey beard . . .” is the poetic verse of Laurence Giles, a 76-year-old retired Madison physician who writes poetry almost daily. He became a physician when his experiences as a medic during World War II catapulted him into medical school. As a resident at the University of California-San Francisco, he was encouraged to write poetry by the renowned physician-poet, William Carlos Williams. His service to the Madison community through medicine, fused with published verse sharing his love of life, has been a precious gift conferred on the Madison community.
Practicing radiology at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Port Washington, Wis., for 24 years, Audrey L. S. Huckaby admits to “aiding and abetting” the development of its radiology department. Since retirement, she resides in Cedarburg, Wis., and keeps active in the American Cancer Society—at the county and state levels. She and her husband, Karl, consider travel a top priority and, consequently, have traveled the world twice.
Alice R. McPherson has practiced ophthalmology both in private practice and academic practice in Houston for 41 years. She is still in full-time practice as a professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine. She founded the Retina Research Foundation 32 years ago to fight blindness. She currently lives in Houston with her husband.
John E. Thompson practiced military medicine early in his career. Following that, he did a surgical residency at Gundersen Clinic in La Crosse, Wis., and then entered a family practice with classmate Lou Pfeiffer in Nekoosa, Wis. He sums up his career in this way: “If I had my life to live over, the road traveled would still be the same.” He and his wife, Germaine, live in Nekoosa, where he is active in the Lions’ Club visual screening program, human sexuality education in local schools, and a program titled, “Veterans in the Classroom,” which teaches patriotism and good citizenship in the schools.
1952
Dean M. Connors, a retired pathologist, lives in Mineral Point, WI, where he is president of the Mineral Point Historical Society and owner of The Foundry Books, an out-of-print antiquarian bookstore emphasizing Wisconsin historical documents and maps. His future plans are to do more of the same, that is, to delve deeply into the history of the Badger State.
D. Joe Freeman is a retired cardiologist living in Wausau, WI. In 2001, he had the honor of cutting the ribbon with Wausau’s mayor, dedicating a new downtown block/square and a park. His activities include travel, reading, writing, community service/development and serving as president (for the past five years) of North Central Conservancy Trust. Also, he has served as a member and director of the Board of Visitors for UW Systems and as a member of the UW Foundation Board. He and his wife Mary Clare have five children and 15 grandchildren.
Raymond L. Hansen, a retired pediatric allergist-immunologist living in Marshfield, WI, with wife Elaine, received the rotarians’ Service-Above-Self Award and the Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Although his future plans are to “slowing down and smelling the roses,” his present activities do not reflect a slow down. He is involved in a condominium development business and in timberland management; he enjoys wood cutting, travel, genealogy, a lake cottage and his grandchildren.
For the past 33 years, Donald Lieberman and his wife, Janice, have funded the annual Henry M. Castello, M.D., Award, which is given to an outstanding first-year resident at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center. Retired from practice and preventive medicine, he currently lives in Santa Clara, CA, where he is active in tournament chess.
Baldwin E. Lloyd is a retired family practitioner living in Tomah, WI. Currently, he is president of the Monroe County Habitat for Humanity and volunteer for CARE Interfaith and Hospice and for senior services. Besides building houses, he likes making furniture. He and his wife, Florence (Flo), have four children (Chris, Mary, Sue and David) and four grandchildren. His plans for the future include more volunteering and "creating sawdust."
Now living in Beaver Dam, WI, William G. Richards is a retired pathologist who specialized in nuclear medicine. He is past president of the Wisconsin State Pathology Society and the Dodge County Medical Society and a past member of the board of directors at Beaver Dam Community Hospital in Wisconsin. His most recent honor was to be named recipient of the Alumnus of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association. His activities include golf, traveling, bicycling Europe, Canadian fishing and accompanying his wife Sylvia on European choir tours. He and Sylvia have four children and three grandchildren.
Benjamin Schuster of Dayton, OH, was the recipient of three awards showcasing his service to community: the Outstanding Philanthropist for 2001 Award selected by the Awards Committee, National Philanthropy Day; the Richard A. DeWall Award from the American Heart Association in recognition of significant contributions in cardiovascular medicine; and the 2001 Honoree by Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Dayton in appreciation of outstanding dedication and service. He currently is medical director of Kettering Cardiovascular Institute and clinical professor at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton. His most recent overseas travel was as part of Kettering Cardiac team to Hangzhou, China, in April 2001.
1955
I. Bernard Weinstein, director emeritus of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University, was honored with two awards this spring. He was given the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Society of Preventive Oncology, and the American Association for Cancer Research-American Cancer Society Award for Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention. He is the Frode Jensen Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Genetics and Development, and Public Health at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
1956
Clare F. Hutson retired from the Davis-Duehr Clinic and UW Eye Clinic, where he practiced ophthalmology. He resides in Madison, Wis., with his wife, Nancy, and continues to attend UW-Madison clinical conferences. His hobbies include travel to the Hutson’s Big Sky cabin in Montana, some photography and woodworking, and studying Japanese.
Retiring from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1996, Robert E. Weaver and his wife, Pauline (UW Nursing ’51), live in Atlanta, where he teaches CPR and first aid for the Red Cross and helps with registration at blood drives. His hobbies include walking, biking, photography and computers.
1957
William A. Cook lives in Amesbury, MA, and practices thoracic surgery in Andover. He is past president of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association and presently is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society Board of Trustees. He has four daughters and six grandchildren.
H. Leon OxmanOxman and his wife, Karen, live in Golden, CO, where he practices psychiatry part-time at the Colorado Department of Corrections and maintains a half-time appointment at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. His interests are tennis and running. He plans to continue working in the Colorado prison system, which offers a rewarding experience.
E. Dolf Pfefferkorn, now retired from general practice, lives in Three Lakes, WI, with his wife, Carol. He serves as a volunteer fireman in this northern Wisconsin community as a volunteer fireman and helped to form “1st Responder,” an ancillary group of Three Lakes emergency medical services (EMS). His future plans include spending time with three daughters and three grandchildren and traveling in Europe.
Family practitioner George A. Richardson and his wife Jean Ann live in Washington, MO. He recently received the Missouri Athletic Association’s distinguished service award for 30 years as school athletic physician. His favorite activity is golf, which he plans to do more regularly when he reduces his work to part-time in November 2002.
To recognize Hugh Riordan as founder, doctor and president of the Center for Improvement of Human Functioning International, Inc., and to salute his supreme commitment to the advancement of holistic medicine, the Hugh Riordan Dome was dedicated in his honor on October 20, 2001. Located in Wichita, KS, the center is a non-profit medical, research and educational organization that defines its mission as “serving in ways to stimulate an epidemic of health for the benefit of humankind."
Richard Stiehm, past distinguished recipient of the UW-Madison and UCLA Medical Alumni Citation awards and the Mead Johnson Award for Pediatric Research, lives in Santa Monica, CA, with wife Judith and practices pediatrics and immunology at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. His future plans allow for little relaxation: He contemplates finishing the fifth edition of Immunologic Disorders in Infants and Children.
1959
George P. Bogumill retired from Georgetown University as distinguished professor of orthopedic surgery in July of 2000. Since that time, he has spent three weeks at St. Jude Hospital in St. Lucia with Orthopedics Overseas and has planned to spend a week in Honduras with Hand Surgery Overseas. Also, he works with residents at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Children's National Medical Center in the Washington, DC, area. He and his wife Bonnie reside in Arlington, VA.
On November 2, 2001, a special dinner was held to pay tribute to the accomplishments of David L. Cram and to establish The David L. Cram, M.D., Fund for Parkinson’s Disease Research at the University of California Medical School, San Francisco, CA. His latest publication, Answers to Frequently Asked Questions in Parkinson’s Disease: A Resource Book for Patients and Families (Acorn Publishing, 2002) is his fourth in the past five years and bears testament to his long-admired and prestigious career as a caring physician.
1961
The American Diabetes Association has given H. Peter Chase of Denver, Colo., the Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award, established to stimulate, acknowledge and reward superlative clinicians in the field of diabetes. For 20 years, Chase has served as clinical director of the Barbara Davis Center for Children’s Diabetes, one of the country’s premier treatment centers. His book, Understanding Insulin-dependent Diabetes, is used extensively to educate newly diagnosed patients.
Acknowledging that she is enjoying her “freedom from any scheduling,” Patricia A. Joo retired in 1993 from pediatric practice and currently does volunteer work in Madison, Wis., with Head Start and the Dane County Coalition for Neighborhood Child Health. She and her husband, Paul Heiser, have two children and four grandchildren. Her hobbies include auditing courses at UW-Madison in literature, traveling, and cooking and baking.
Retired from medical practice in July 1999, George M. Kopf and his wife, Sandra, live in Zanesville, Ohio. He is past president of the Ohio Ophthalmological Society, and his most recent medical involvement includes volunteer work as an eye surgeon for the Christian Eye Ministry in Ghana, West Africa (January 2000), and for Fundacao Esperanca in Santarem, Brazil, on the Amazon River (January 2001). His hobbies include hiking, tennis, swimming, gardening and growing roses.
Robert Manis lives in Atlanta, Ga., with his wife, Judge Stephanie B. Manis. He maintains a private, solo practice in adult, adolescent and child psychiatry, and teaches and supervises child and adolescent psychiatry fellows at Emory University. Aside from his work and travel, he mainly focuses on his three grandchildren and Duke, his champion golden retriever, who accompanies him to work.
1962
In his 31 years of practice in Rockford, IL, Ronald E. Burmeister has delivered over 3000 babies. He retired from obstetrics in 1990 and practiced infertility and gynecology at the Rockford Reproductive Health and Fertility Center until 1995. Since then, his practice has been confined to infertility. Working with two reproductive endocrinologists in private practice, he has achieved excellent pregnancy statistics in all phases of infertility treatment. He is an assistant organist at Our Savior Lutheran Church and enjoys fly fishing and cooking.
David W. Cline received the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s award for 42 years of meritorious service. He and his wife Wanda live in Minneapolis, MN, where he practices psychiatry, specializing in child, adolescent and adult addictions. He enjoys tree farming, polo and the music of Richard Wagner. In the future he hopes to develop a nature preserve on the farm that his father left to him.
Living on 40 acres of wildlife preserve in the Kettle Moraine area, Bernard (Bernie) A. Huizenga maintains over a mile of trails through its varying terrain. He quit performing surgery in 1993, but continued to follow his patients through post-operative healing and back to good health. He officially retired from medicine in 1997. Bernie recounts having a wonderful career, but admits he has enjoyed being “a slacker for some time now.” He and his wife travel extensively in their motor home to distant parts of the country and attend a few bluegrass festivals every year. His combined interest in travel and family genealogy took him to Argentina in 2001 where he welcomed meeting his Huizenga cousins.
Retiring after 30 years on the urology faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, John W. Konnak received the appointment of emeritus professor of urology. He is currently writing a history of the urology department at the University of Michigan.
After 14 years as chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Rush Medical College and Rush-Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical Center in Chicago, Jerry P. Petasnick retired from his position at the end of 2001. He continues to practice musculoskeletal radiology and will assume the directorship of the Radiology Residency Program. He and his wife, Barbara, have lived in the Chicago area for the past 40 years. He is hopeful that his departure from chairing a major academic department will allow him more time for traveling, working on his golf game, and enjoying the company of Alexander, his first grandson.
Recently, Walter F. Piering received a 35-year faculty award from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he has served as Medical Director of the Dialysis Program since 1967. He and his wife Bea live in Brookfield, WI. They have four children.
David Strang has lived for approximately 16 years in northeastern Pennsylvania, where he practices dermatology at the USVA Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre. There he runs the dermatology clinics, which are integral to the center’s internal medicine residency program and a local family practice residency. Acknowledging that the VA system of today has re-invented itself to serve the large number of outpatients, he finds it ironic that he is working “harder than ever” as he approaches the end of his professional career. A singer since his days in grade school, David now sings weekly in a Latin Rite choir and considers himself fortunate (i.e., blessed) to hold season tickets to the Metropolitan Opera.
1964
After doing volunteer work in Tanzania, Africa, retired orthopedic surgeon Ernest Pellegrino, Jr., decided to focus his volunteer efforts toward his community in Middleton, WI, and surrounding areas by starting the Benevolent Specialist Project (BSP). The project supports a fee clinic to serve the uninsured patients who fall through cracks in the current healthcare system. Volunteers consist of 28 specialists in 15 different fields and include such notables as Drs. Ray Chun, Robert Schilling and Walter Sundstrom.
1966-67
David L. Bearman received the 1999 Santa Barbara County Medical Society Humanitarian Recognition Award and the 1999 Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Health Hero Award. Residing in Goleta, CA, he maintains a solo practice in Santa Barbara where his specialty is public health/addiction medicine expert witness. Active in community service, he has served one term on the Goleta Water Board and four terms as a member of the Goleta West Sanitary District. He hopes to focus in the near future on writing a book on the history of drug policy.
Specializing in hand surgery with the Department of Orthopedics at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Robert D. Beckenbaugh is past president of the American Association of Hand Surgeons, professor of orthopedics at Mayo Medical School and fellowship director of the Hand Division at Mayo Clinic. He is currently active in the development of prosthetic replacements for the hand and wrist, including the “Biox Wrist” and Ascension pyrocarton mep prosthesis. He and his wife, Dana, have five children, two of whom have followed their father into the field of medicine.
Susanna Forbes Buchanan retired from family practice in West Chester, PA, in 2001 and moved to Salisbury, MD. For the last 3 ½ years, she has served as medical director for Community Volunteers in Medicine, a free clinic (funded through private donations) for the uninsured in Chester County. Much of her free time is spent renovating an older home on the river, quilting, reading, gardening, and swimming. Her interests in traveling are currently limited by her husband, David, whose new job is provost of Salisbury University.
Living in Houston, TX, Martin Grabois is professor and chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine. He currently serves as president of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, secretary of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and board member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine.
Neil A. Hoffman works in surgical and forensic pathology at The Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, PA. He is the recipient of the 1999 Berks County Medical Society Community Service Award. He has been involved in investigation of genocide and crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia. He and his wife, Judith Kraines, live in Sinking Spring, PA, where he is an active member in the Lions Club and his synagogue, and she is an elected county official, avid clarinetist, bicyclist and sailor.
Thomas C. Jackson was a recipient of the 2002 Medical Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. He and his wife Carolyn live in Milwaukee, WI, where he currently is a professor in the Department of Medicine at the UW Medical School, Milwaukee Clinical Campus. Last year, he received the 2001 Distinguished Internist-Wisconsin Chapter ACP/ASIM Award; in 1997, he was the honored recipient of the Governor’s Award in Wisconsin Primary Care Education. His professional focus is on medical students and providing a free clinic for underserved populations.
Living in Coon Valley, WI, with his wife Karen, John G. Jaeger practices anesthesiology in LaCrosse, WI, where his focus is on urgent care and occupational health. He has received Army commendation medals for his service in Desert Storm in the Army Reserves and for service on a medical mission to Bolivia. He is active on the board of directors of God’s Word to the Nations Mission Society and board of directors for Westby and Schools Scholarship committee. His hobbies are golf, gardening and piano lessons.
William J. Klish practices pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX, and is professor of pediatrics and head of pediatric gastroenterology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He received the 2000 Schwaenman Award for Lifetime Achievement from the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the 2001 Arnold J. Rudolph Award for Lifetime Excellence in Teaching from Baylor College of Medicine. He presently chairs an obesity task force for the State of Texas to research solutions to the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States. His plan for retirement (someday!) is to spend the majority of his time in his newly remodeled house in Eau Claire, WI, located in the same neighborhood where he and his wife Marian grew up.
Frederick J. Lamont, a past recipient of the Physician Citizen of the Year for Brown County, practices internal medicine in Green Bay, WI. He presently is a member of the Board of Trustees for St. Norbert College in DePere. In September 2000, he and his wife Kathy adopted two boys from the Kamchatka Peninsula in far-eastern Siberia. He discloses a “scary,” but undeniable, possibility that, when he retires at age 65, he could be his boys’ soccer coach.
Peter A. Langhus and his wife, Becky, reside in Boise, Idaho, where he practices diagnostic radiology. His hobbies include automobile collecting and restoring, skiing and summer activities in Sun Valley, and avidly supporting—for over 20 years—the Boise Art Museum and Boise Philharmonic.
Victor A. Levin is a full-time faculty at the University of Texas, Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Neuro-Oncology in Houston. He is founder and first president of the Society for Neuro-Oncology, serving from 1995 to 1997. He also founded Signase Inc., which develops drugs to inhibit tyrosine kinase signaling proteins involved in cancer and immune function. His future plans include “scaling down” and spending time with wife Ellen in Lake Tahoe, where they ski in winter and bike in summer.
Presently living in Tomah, Wis., Robert Seward has practiced internal medicine for the past 15 years in solo practice. Prior to this, he practiced at a Veterans Administration hospital for 12 years. He says he is “still going strong” despite having undergone bypass surgery. His plans for the future include a possible move to a VA hospital in Spokane, Wash. He enjoys jazz, golf, biking, reading and enjoying his three “wonderful kids.”
Judith A. Wynnemer practices internal medicine and endocrinology at a clinic in Wilmington, NC. Her many activities include volunteer work with the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the literacy council and the county museum. Her future agenda as a volunteer will be to offer her time at soup kitchens and Meals-on-Wheels.
Stephen W. Zimmerman is a professor of medicine at UW Medical School and was selected for the distinguished list of “Best Doctors in America.” His avocation being biking, he completed a bike trip of 815 miles: from Madison, Wis., to the Mississippi River, to Ashland, Wis., and to the shores of Lake Michigan in Door County. His special plans for the future include more biking—“before the body falls completely apart.”
1970
After spending her entire medical career at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI, primarily focusing on patient care and teaching dermatology residents, Margaret Douglass took an early retirement in mid-March 2000. Highlights of her career at Henry Ford Hospital were serving as program director for Dermatology Residents since 1998 and as president of the Michigan Dermatological Society, 1984-85. Post-retirement plans include tennis, gardening, getting together with friends and reading, that is, “all the pleasures in life our careers rob from us.”
1971
Robert Jaeger has been elected to the Executive Board of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and is the first Wisconsin physician to serve in this capacity since 1962. He has practiced as an obstetrician and gynecologist in the Rice Clinic and as a member of the staff of St. Michael’s Hospital in Stevens Point, Wis., since 1976. A long-time active member of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, he is a member of its Commission of Public Health, and represents Wisconsin physicians as a member of the state delegation to the American Medical Association.
N. Lynn (Sullivan) Kealey lives in Nepean, Ontario, Canada, where she practices psychiatry. She worked as a child psychiatrist for10 years and has done psychoanalysis for the past 11 years. She added a complementary practice in integrated Kabbalistic healing for the past three years. Her hobbies include choir, gardening and travel. Her love of singing offered her the opportunity to sing at the wedding of her son, Matt.
Douglas A. Kramer of Madison, WI, received a master of science degree in zoology (ethology) from UW-Madison in December 2000.
John (Jack) P. Shannon currently lives in Walla Walla, Wash., where he practices general surgery with St. Mary Medical Center Physician Group and is a senior aviation medical examiner. Having filled numerous roles in his medical career, such as chief of staff and chairman of the department of surgery, he now states, “retirement looms as the next major goal.” His hobbies include commercial piloting, music and “still trying to sing and strum the guitar.”
1976
Bill Charboneau and Andy LeRoy received the 2001 Mayo Clinical Diagnostic Radiology Carmen Award for Clinical Excellence. The award is bestowed on two radiologists each year, by a vote of the 120 staff radiologists, to recognize excellence in clinical radiological care.
Donn D. Fuhrmann practices family medicine in New London, WI. He serves as chairman, and past president, of the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians. He enjoys hunting, fishing, and politics—an interest that undoubtedly was enhanced by the 2000 presidential campaign. He takes great pride in his 5 children and 3 grandchildren.
Passing her recertification exam for internal medicine, infectious diseases and geriatrics, Elizabeth L. Gabay works part-time in internal medicine at the Interfaith Community Health Center in Bellingham, Wash. She and her husband, Stephen Lui, have two children and have been married for 27 years—“and still like each other.” Her hobbies focus on reading and speaking the Irish language in preparation for her first trip to Ireland in summer 2001.
Willian A. Gahl and wife Mary live in Kensington, MD. He conducts clinical research at the National Institutes of Health and continues to study metabolic disorders and cell biology in treating abandoned populations. His hobbies include softball and volunteering as a high school wrestling coach.
Leaving private practice in 1998, David Goetz is currently director of orthopedic trauma at a level-1 trauma center in the Greenville, SC, area and is established as an associate professor of orthopedics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. His hobbies include golf and woodworking.
Thomas A. Lingen lives in Cumberland, WI, where he is a senior member of a 4-partner, independent family practice. His activities include running marathons (personal best: 3:07) raising llamas (currently 17), and riding his Harley Davidson with his wife, Kathy. He considers himself blessed to have survived the total lose of his home in 1989 through fire, and, on a lighter note, to have survived 5 daughters in college all at the same time!
After 26 years of pediatric practice, Robert J. Miller has spent the last five years as vice president of medical affairs at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He and his wife, Charlotte (a successful Chinese brush painter), live in Mukwonago, Wis., where his hobbies include cross-country skiing, biking, and hiking the Kettle Moraine. He currently serves as a board member of the Southeast Ronald McDonald House, Visiting Nurses’ Association, and the Medical College of Wisconsin and Affiliated Hospitals.
Barbara J. Olson lives with her husband, John O. Lastetter, PhD, in Nashville, Tenn., where she practices pediatric neurology. She and John are currently building a new house, which will include a studio for her metal and stained glass hobbies.
Suzanne Shanley Toce is professor of pediatrics at St. Louis University and practices hospital-based neonatology at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, MO, where she heads a project entitled “PATHS” (Pediatric Approach to Hospital Support). She also serves as medical director of the neonatal ICU at St. Mary’s Hospital in Blue Springs, MO. When finding time for relaxation (when?), she and husband Joseph enjoy spending time in Cuba, MO, the “foothills to the Ozarks.”
1979
Lauree Thomas accepted an appointment as associate dean for student affairs and admissions at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in July 2001. Her career has included work in urgent care, and geriatrics and gerontology at the Sinai Samaritan Hospital and Veterans Administration Hospital in Milwaukee. In 1989 she joined the faculty at Medical College of Wisconsin as an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, and also served as assistant dean for minority student affairs. Throughout her professional career, she has been heavily involved in academic administration and has been well recognized as an advocate and resource for students. She currently lives in League City, TX.
1980
Moving back to Madison after living in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, Julie A. Jagemann enjoys having Lake Mendota “just beyond her yard.” Practicing internal medicine/college health, she works for UW-Madison University Health Service. Her community activity involvement includes historic preservation, while her hobbies include home renovation and gardening.
1981
Diane K. Christel lives in Brussels, Wis., and practices at the Internal Medicine Prevention Clinic in Green Bay, Wis. Building a log home on the bay in Door County, she shares her love of water with her 11 nieces and nephews via boating and jet skiing. An avid Badger fan, she is a season ticket holder and previously followed the UW football team to the last two Rose Bowls.
Juanita Halls lives in Monona, WI, with husband Doug and their two children, Andrea and Ben. She practices general internal medicine at the UW Hospital and Clinics and enjoys the opportunity to teach both medical students and residents. She serves as clinical service chief of the UW Section of General Internal Medicine. Her hobbies are boating, water skiing and downhill skiing.
Living in Minneapolis with his wife, Dr. Dawn L. Martin, and their three children, Gregory T. Lehman practices internal medicine at the Park Nicollet Clinic in Maple Grove, Minn. Although he finds leisure activities to be few since the births of their children, he does “remember fishing, water skiing cross-country skiing and playing in a band called ‘The Dads.’” His view of the medical profession is noteworthy: “I still enjoy practice despite the economic and bureaucratic forces that exist—I still see the practice of medicine as a privilege.”
Edward J. Lesnefsky lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with his wife, Deborah L. Nelson, CPA, and their two children. He is chief of the Cardiology Section at Louis Stokes Veterans’ Administration Medical Center and holds a concurrent position as associate professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. His hobbies include cycling, coin collecting and being a Boy Scout leader.
Susan Nondahl (Porter), who lives in Middleton, WI, enjoys a private practice in pediatrics affiliated with Associated Physicians. She and husband Dave, who works as a statistician for the UW-Madison Department of Ophthalmology, are parents of twins Eric and Tiffany. Susan’s activities include gardening, camping, swimming, and learning Spanish.
James A. Raczek lives in Bangor, ME, and specializes in family practice. He currently is chair of the Department of Family Practice of Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC); part-time faculty within the EMMC family practice residency program; vice president of the EMMC Medical Staff; and patient care administrator of the EMMC pharmacy department and the diabetes, endocrine and nutrition department. His hobbies are racquetball, running and golf.
Currently living in Carlsbad, CA, James Sinclair practices hematology/oncology in his roles as chief of staff at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Encinitas, CA, and medical director at Vitas Hospice in San Diego. Year 2001 has become a benchmark year for him: his wife completed law school and son Colin, the oldest of 3 children, graduated from high school.
Jami Walloch currently practices pathyology/cytopathology. His affiliations include Midwest Diagnostic Pathologists, Inc., and Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn, IL. Recently married in spring 2001, he contemplates the family dynamic: 2 boys from his previous marriage plus 2 girls from wife Carolyn’s previous marriage translates into “a retro TV sitcom.”
1982
Paul R. Kaesberg of Madison, WI, has been appointed clinical vice-chair of human oncology at UW Hospital. He served as chairman of Physicians Plus Oncology/ Hematology from 1994 to 1998.
1984
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) selected William G. Buchta as one of 25 physicians for the 2001 Class of Fellows. The award recognizes him for engaging in the practice of occupational medicine over a lengthy period and for providing leadership to promote optimal safety of workers, workplaces, and environment. He is medical director of occupational employee health for Franciscan Skemp Healthcare in LaCrosse, Wis., and board certified in occupational medicine and family practice.
1985
Residing in Minneapolis, MN, David J. Rhude is an assistant professor of medicine and director of rheumatology training at the Hennepin County Medical Center. Also he serves as an advisor to the University of Minnesota Wilderness Medical Society student group. He served as team physician to the 1990 International New Zealand Everest Expedition (6 summiteers). In the 1990 American Pamir Expedition, he served not only as team physician, but participated as a climber. After undergoing 5 knee operations, which “slowed things down a bit,” he is now “mostly” a retired climber/runner. His hobbies include watching Badger sports!
1986
Diane M. Biskobing lives in Richmond, Va., with her husband, Doug Dabson, and their two children, Kevin and Dana. With a specialty of endocrinology, she is in charge of the second-year endocrine course at the Medical College of Virginia and also sees patients in wards and in clinic.
Ellen M (Gilbertson) De Vries lives with her husband, Thomas, and two children in Apple Valley, Minn. She practices general pediatrics two and one-half days a week and is chief of pediatrics/medical director at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minn. She also is a child abuse consultant for the Children’s Hospitals of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Her activities have undergone a paradigm shift, they are “now all kid-oriented.” She plays the piano for a children’s choir at church, teaches Sunday school and is a volunteer mom at her children’s school.
1989
Gerald Adler, an orthopedic surgeon with the Wilkinson Medical Clinic and medical leader for the Sports Medicine Institute in Oconomowoc, WI, was accepted into the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. The Marshfield native joins 21 other physicians in Wisconsin who are members of the society, which is based on an ongoing commitment to sports medicine through service and education. Concomitant with his experiences in treating amateur, high school, collegiate and professional athletes, he has published an article on testing of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injuries in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
Jon J. Cherney moved to Appleton, WI, to join North East Wisconsin Center for Surgery and Rehabilitation of the Hand, Ltd.
1990
Lynn M. Budzak works in family practice at Prevea Clinic in DePere, WI. She balances her busy professional career with family life; specifically, her dog family. This includes a bichon frise named Moe, a new brindle Scottie puppy named Urban, and a Scottish terrier named Olivia, who was a participant at the AKC National Obedience Invitational in Chicago this past June. Talk about a proud parent!
Sheri A. Morris of El Granada, CA, practices internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. Admitting that she could not stay away from school for too long a time, she enrolled in classes to study acupuncture. Her hobbies include cycling, hiking, music and sharing quality time with her dog, Sierra.
1991
Living in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband, Tom, and four children, Lisa M. (Ortengren) Buell is a family practice physician. Since the birth of her youngest daughter, Emily, on in Feb. of this year, and the start-up of her own practice in Oct. 2000, she finds time for her hobbies—tennis and running—at a premium.
Dan Hagengruber resides in Eugene, Ore., where he currently practices anesthesiology. This year, he visited China for two weeks on his third Operation Smile trip to do pediatric cleft lip and palate repairs. He spends his free time riding his Harley Davidson, bow hunting, cooking, hiking, scuba diving and spear fishing off the Oregon coast.
Mary McSweeney, anesthesiologist, was part of a Children’s HeartLink volunteer medical team that traveled to India, February 16-March 3, 2001, to provide surgery for children with heart disease. The team, led by Dan Cohen, pediatric cardiac surgeon at UW Children’s Hospital, and accompanied by colleague Grad Hollman, a pediatric intensivist who did his residency at UW-Madison, will visit Madras Medical Mission, a prominent hospital and training center n Chennai (formerly Madras) India. The HeartLink team’s mission is to supplement the efforts of the Madras surgical team, by performing up to 30 surgeries on needy children, and to provide education and training for the Indian medical teams, particularly in the area of intensive care nursing and perfusion.
1992
Anne Fabiny of Brookline, MA, was awarded a five-year geriatric academic career award by the Health Services Research Administration, Department of Health and Human Services in September 1999, and in December 2000, she became director of the Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
1995
Eric T. Boie lives with spouse Jennifer A. Lisowe in Pine Island, MN. He practices emergency medicine in his role as assistant residency director of the Mayo Emergency edicine Residency and staff emergency physician at Saint Marys Hospital-May in Rochester, MN.
Matthew F. Connolly of Racine, WI, is the current medical director for Latin American Medical Providers, a group of primary care physicians and surgeons who provide medical care to needy patients in Guatemala. He has participated in the provision of care to Guatemalan patients since 1998.
Jay Lehrer and his wife, Laura, live in Sacramento, CA, where he practices general surgery. After completing his residency at UW Medical School, he did a one-year fellowship in Cheltenham, England.
1996
After completing his residency training in emergency medicine in Indianapolis, Michael J. Foley returned to Madison, Wis., as a member of the emergency medicine staff at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center and as a Med Flight physician at UW Hospital and Clinics. He also serves as medical director of emergency medical services (EMS) for both Oregon and the Town of Madison.
Paul Heinzelmann completed a family practice residency at St. Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee and now is a physician for Andean Health and Development (AHD), a U.S.-based non-profit organization working to build a reliable primary health care model in rural Latin America. He travels frequently to the Ecuadorian jungle and then returns to Milwaukee for stints as an urgent care physician. He also recently completed tropical medicine training at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and is planning to pursue a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from the Royal College of Physicians in London. When he is in Baltimore, Heinzelmann stays with his former UW Medical School friend, Dr. David Derdzinski (Class of ‘97), who is completing a residency in anesthesia at Johns Hopkins. While the two were students in Madison, they started the UW International Health Exchange, collecting over seven tons of supplies and sending them to hospitals in Eastern Europe. More information on Andean Health & Development is available at: www.andeanhealth.com.
James Scott Heinzen lives in Columbus, WI, with his wife, Barbara, their four children and Fuzzy, the family rabbit. He currently practices full-time emergency medicine in Beaver Dam. After finishing a family practice residency in 1999, he continued in family practice for one year before switching over to emergency medicine. He notes that, for him, it was “a good switch.”
On September 1, 2001, Thomas Mc Ilraith was promoted to hospital medicine sub-chief at the South Sacramento Kaiser Permanente hospital, where he has worked for the last two years. He heads a group of 10 hospitalists and assists in the management of a rapidly growing medicine department with 45 internists. As a co-founder of the UW Medical School band, titled “The Arrhythmias,” which will be 10 years old in fall of 2002, he is pleased to see that the band is still “providing a creative outlet for hard-working medical students.”
Jennifer L. (Pack) Rho and Richard H. Rho will be finishing residency practice in Jacksonville, Fla., in internal medicine and anesthesiology/pain management, respectively, and will then be moving to Minnesota, where they both took jobs at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Along with their one-year old daughter, Lauren, and Honey, a Russian dwarf hamster, they plan to call Rochester home for quite some time.
Rick Thyes of Pontiac, MI, recently was elected president of the Michigan Radiological Society-Resident Section. He is currently preparing a 1-day Resident Conference, to be held on March 16, 2001.
Having completed a psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Anthony P. Weiss is doing a two-year research fellowship in neuroimaging of schizophrenia through a Harvard/.MIT program. He recently was married to Iris in Sept. 2000; they reside in Brighton, Mass. He admits that he never stops “rooting for the Red Sox (this is the year!)”
1997
A general surgery resident at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Subhasis Chatterjee is the 2001 recipient of the Vivien Thomas Young Investigatory Award of the Council on Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery of the American Heart Association. When finding time to relax, he enjoys a competitive game of tennis.
Taking the summer off after residency rejuvenated Jayne A. Laszewski, who started a private practice in psychiatry in downtown Portland, OR. She and her partner, Lance Anderson, who is also a psychiatrist, are enjoying camping, hiking and cross-country skiing in the Northwest’s great outdoors.
Cortland J. Lohff reports that, after being taught in medical school how to take care of patients, he—ironically—has not provided care to patients. He is assistant state epidemiologist at the Iowa Department of Public Health. Notable recent examples of the work he does include dealing with the anthrax scare and other threats of bio-terrorism, investigating disease outbreaks and providing health information through all venues—television or one listener at a time.
Jill Waalen completed a preventive medicine residency at the University of California-San Diego in June 2001, and accepted a chief resident/junior faculty appointment there for the 2001-02 academic year. Additionally, she practices epidemiology in the form of genetic screening research at The Scripps Research Institute. She presently resides in San Diego with spouse Douglas Schulz, MD, class of ’94.
Post-Graduate
Martin Grabois was selected by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R) to present the 33rd Walter J. Zeiter Lectureship, established to honor a psychiatrist making consistent contributions and outstanding accomplishments in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), on November 3, 2000. Martin served as president of the academy from 1995-96 and received its distinguished member award in 1997. He received his MD from Temple University School of Medicine in 1966, following an internship at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. He is currently professor and chairman of PM&R at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and is co-editor of CRC Critical Review in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Cyril “Kim” Hetsko became chief medical officer for the Commission on Office and Laboratory Accreditation (COLA), a national health care accreditation body based in Maryland, in June. He will continue his internal medicine practice at Dean Medical Center in Madison on a part-time basis. He will advise COLA’s management, staff and committees on professional issues related to physicians and the practice of medicine. Hetsko, who is medical director for laboratory services at Dean and chair of Wisconsin’s delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA), will retain those responsibilities. COLA is a non-profit agency created by the AMA and other health care organizations, and it accredits several thousand medical laboratories and some physician practices.
The American Board of Radiology (ABR) formally recognized M. Pinson Neal, Jr., currently of Richmond, VA, for the years of service and dedication given to the board. By selecting him as recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, ABR acknowledged their appreciation for the time, expertise and energy dedicated to its mission to serve the public.
C. J. Wheeler, Jr., a retired major in the United States Marine Corps Reserve (1942-45), is a recipient of the Purple Heart and the Presidential Unit Citation. He is former chief of thoracic surgery at Lewisburg Community Hospital in Tennessee (1973-75) and past medical director of Schick-Shadel Hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth (1991-93). He now has retired--albeit, “restlessly,” he admits--in Richardson, Texas. From 1954 to 1956, he served a fellowship in thoracic surgery at University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics while he maintained a collateral position as instructor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Faculty Notes
Rudolph C. Hecht, and his wife, Ilse, both former full time faculty members in the UW Medical School Department of Family Medicine and Practice, this summer attended a small reunion of Mexican graduates of UW doctoral programs from the 1970s and 80s. Honorary Consul of Mexico in Madison since 1974, Hecht reports, “It was a most stimulating experience to share time with this group of important professionals and scientists who years ago had their advanced training at UW-Madison.” They all return to Madison from time to time, and continue to have much contact, both professional and personal, with colleagues on campus.
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