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30's

1935: Samuel E. Einhorn is active and well in Lantana, Fla.
1938: Joseph George of Las Vegas is doing well and enjoys reading the Bulletin magazine.
1939: Oscar Hartman and wife Lee of Sarasota, Fla., recently celebrated 90th birthdays and their 67th wedding anniversary.

1940s

1941: Franklin E. Leslie of Towson, Md., ran a half-marathon in four hours, four minutes in October 2006.
1943M: Irving L. Samuels of Delray Beach, Fla., reports that grandson Aaron will be graduating from Maryland in spring, the fourth family member to cross the stage.
1944: Harry F. Rolfes of Sarasota, Fla., recently celebrated his 87th birthday. He enjoys playing golf and is keeping fairly active. Rolfes extends his best wishes to classmates.
1947: E. Anne Mattern of Rockville, Md., is excited about representing the class of ’47 at the 2007 convocation, and she is delighted that her fifth child, Carola Nesbitt, will be representing the class of ’86. Eugene P. Salvati of Bound Brook, N.J., enjoys fishing since retiring two years ago.

1950s

1951: Kathleen McGrady of Hendersonville, N.C., continues working at the Free Medical Clinic of Hendersonville County, 4 Seasons Hospice, and Friends of Santa Claus, a support group for children with cancer. Mario Garcia-Palmieri of San Juan, P.R., received an honorary degree in medical education from the Caribbean University School of Medicine in San Juan. Georgia Reynolds of Pompano Beach, Fla., reports that she suffered a stroke on December 22, 2006.
1952: Lawrence Egbert of Baltimore continues examining people who have escaped torture in other countries and are seeking asylum in the U.S. His work is sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights.
1953: Rafael Longo and wife Dali of San Juan, P.R., enjoy spending half of their time in Newnan, Ga. He would love to hear from classmates!
1954: John F. Hartman of Baltimore is an active member of the Knights of Columbus, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Council 13073.
1955: Otto C. Beyer and wife Patricia recently moved to a condominium. They are enjoying their 14 grandchildren. Neal C. Capel of Bountiful, Utah, reports that son Winston is board certified in neurological surgery. Henry Diederichs of Springfield, Ohio, has retired from his full-time pathology practice and director of the clinical laboratory of Grady Memorial Hospital, associated with the pathology department of Riverside Methodist Hospital. He has been invited to be a part-time teacher for pre-medical students at Wittenberg University. Norman W. Lavy of Westfield, N.J., continues to consult, teach, and work with students as a clinical professor of medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He and wife Marion have a long-term vacation home in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., where they spend much of their time reading, sailing, and biking.
1956: Richard Belgrad of Bozeman, Mont., received a certificate of distinction for 50 years in the practice of medicine from the Montana Medical Association. He continues to practice as a locum tenens radiation oncologist. Belgrad and wife Carol are planning a trip to Russia and the Ukraine in June to visit son Dan who is on a Fulbright teaching fellowship in Kiev. Richard L. Plumb of Houston announces the birth of his fifth grandchild, Sara, on August 3, 2006.

1960s

1960: Julio E. Figueroa retired from his nephrology practice at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans and moved to San Antonio after Hurricane Katrina. Philip M. La Mastra of Fairfield, Conn., is a member of the board of directors at Bridgeport Hospital and remains active in the practice of OB/GYN. James A. Yates of Lemoyne, Pa., continues enjoying an active practice in plastic surgery.
1961: George Bandy and wife Shirley of Paradise Valley, Ariz., recently celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary. Bandy retired from active practice in early 2006. Karl Devenport of Holladay, Utah, has been under treatment for multiple myeloma since August 2006; so he has temporarily suspended singing with the Utah Symphony Orchestra & Chorus as well as his birdwatching activities.
1962: Paul J. Edgar of Towson, Md., continues plugging away in his full-time private practice of endocrinology.
1963: Robert M. Beazley of Boston is emeritus professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. Eric E. Lindstrom of Laurel, Miss., is president of the Mississippi State Medical Association and serves as an alternate delegate to the American Medical Association for MSMA. He reports the job to be challenging and time-intensive but very rewarding.
1965: William H. Choate of Mayo, Md., is a South River High School teachers aide, working with an autistic student.
1966: Charles H. Classen of Kinston, N.C., represents his state on the board of councilors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery. William T. Mason of Salisbury, N.C., recently joined the staff at Davie County Hospital. Mason practices orthopaedic surgery.
1967: Elizabeth A. Abel of Los Altos, Calif., continues practicing dermatology with a special interest in psoriasis and new biologic treatments. She enjoys visiting Baltimore as her son Barton F., completed residency training in radiology at Maryland and her two granddaughters live here. John Rogers of Baltimore retired in March as chairman of the department of medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital.
1968: Carl G. Quillen of Maplewood, N.J., proudly reports that his first grandchild, William Charles, was born to his son Carl Jr., and wife Kathy on November 10, 2006. Wilfred Bryan Staufer of Kalamazoo, Mich., retired in January after 20 years in general practice and 13 years in college health at Western Michigan University.
1969: John C. Blasko of Kenmore, Wash., plans to retire this summer. He will remain in the Seattle area but plans to spend time in the San Juan Islands.

1970s

1970: Stephen B. Greenberg of Houston is senior vice president and dean of medical education at Baylor College of Medicine. Kenneth Hoffman of Severna Park, Md., announces that daughter Sara married Randy Lawrence on October 7, 2006. The newlyweds live in Portland, Oreg., where they work to help save the world by preserving the environment. Robert F. Sarlin of La Jolla, Calif., retired from practice after 15 years with Southern California Permanente Medical Group and 22 years with the U.S. Navy.
1971: Steven Feig of Beverly Hills, Calif., is clinical chief of pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and is past president of his local chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Paul Rogers of Churchville, Md., received an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and wife Cami graduated from law school.
1972: H. Hershey Sollod of Denver reports that daughter Michelle is a senior in high school; so he has a few more years of psychiatry practice ahead.
1973: Greg Elliott of Salt Lake City received the outstanding physician award at the Pulmonary Hypertension Association’s International Conference. The award was presented for service to the PHA, conducting research, providing outstanding and compassionate care to PH patients, and increasing advocacy and awareness in the PH community.
1975: Andrew Rudo of Owings Mills, Md., is in the private practice of psychiatry at the Valley Village Professional Center. He also serves as medical director of Main Street Behavioral Health Associates in Reisterstown. He and wife Carol have two daughters, Julia and Melissa. Rudo continues to play rock and roll with classmate Jon Book in Shrink the Deficit.
1977: Terrence L. Posluszny of McAllen, Tex., is looking forward to catching up with classmates—including brother-in-law Charles Graham—during his 30th reunion in May. Posluszny and wife Sherry have two granddaughters.
1979: B. Jeanne Horner of Ashland, Mass., passed the psychosomatic medicine subspecialty board exam. She and her family traveled to New Zealand for three weeks. Glenn Koteen moved his gastroenterology practice to Bend, a four-season resort town in central Oregon. The move from Pasadena, Calif., was precipitated by his desire to provide gastroenterology services to this rapidly-growing community. H. Russell Wright of Baltimore is president of the medical staff of St. Joseph Medical Center. Son Alex is a captain with the U.S. Marines as an Iraqi cultural specialist, and daughter Morgan is a senior at Davidson College. Wife Judy works with Wright as his administrator and nurse.

1980s

1983: Protagoras “Tag” Cutchis of Highland, Md., was named to the Scientific American 50, the magazine’s annual list of leaders in science and technology. Cutchis, a senior engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, developed a device that may enable amputees to communicate desired movements simply by thinking about them.
1984: Joseph C. Eshelman Jr., of Brecksville, Ohio, is area medical director of Concentra Medical Centers in the Cleveland/Akron region. This follows completion of an occupational medicine residency at West Virginia University.
1985: Laszlo Trazkovich and wife Shelley (Klein) Trazkovich, ’86, of Reisterstown, Md., report that son Alex, age 19—a freshman at the Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts—was named a presidential scholar.
1987: Michael Flanagan of Port Matilda, Pa., is associate professor in the department of family and community medicine at Penn State College of Medicine. Stephen Houff lives in North Canton, Ohio, with wife Marci and daughter Marissa. He thinks 20 years have passed much too quickly and is looking forward to catching up with fellow classmates at Reunion in May.
1989: Patricia A. Bray of California, Md., works in the office of occupational medicine for OSHA in Washington, D.C. John T. Alexander of San Diego recently graduated with honors from law school. In addition to law, he will continue to practice medicine. Since completing residencies in surgery at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and plastic surgery at the University of California San Francisco, he has been in private practice with father, John T., ’59.

1990s

1990: Kenneth J. Oken and wife Ilene live in Harrisburg, Pa., with daughters Rebecca, Dani, Molly, and Skyler. Oken enjoys his practice and for the past four years has served as chair of the department of OB/GYN at Pinnacle Health. Jeffrey Rosenfeld of Charlotte, N.C., is chairman of the department of neurology at Carolinas Medical Center.
1992: Vasiliki Anvari of Yuma, Ariz., is board certified in emergency medicine. She and husband Darren, a Navy seal, have two children—Trinity and Athena. Anvari has also become a multi-award winning belly dancer.
1993: Aminatu J. Shehu of Los Angeles married Richard Brown in January 2006 and is expecting her first child. Douglas A. Smith of Hudson, Ohio, is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Toledo and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
1994: Charles W. Curtis and wife Donna of Severna Park, Md., announce the arrival of twins Shannon and Cian on October 9, 2006. They join brother Kellen, age two.
1995: Mitesh Kothari and wife Erin of Hagerstown, Md., announce the birth of Ryan Harrison on December 28, 2006. He joins sister Kendall, age seven, and brother Jack, age five. Edward L. McDaniel of Clarksville, Tenn., returned home from Iraq in September 2006 after a one-year deployment as a battalion surgeon. Steven Svoboda and wife Emma of Alamo Heights, Tex., announce the birth of daughter Carolina Elizabeth on July 4, 2006. She joins brother Will, age seven, and sister Georgia, age two. Svoboda is an orthopaedic surgeon at Brooke Army Medical Center.
1996: Renee Alexis of Plantation, Fla., reports that daughter Sophia is three years old. Christian Bounds and wife Marybeth of Salisbury, Md., welcomed Garrett Christian on November 11, 2006, and Garrett’s big sisters Catherine and Elizabeth are thrilled. Teresa Cox of Carlsbad, Calif., is in her 11th year of active duty with the U.S. Navy and is now a commander. She is an AP/CP board-certified pathologist and serves as the medical director of the clinical laboratory at the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in San Diego. Melyssa Paulson Hoffman and husband Michael of Maplewood, N.J., announce the birth of son Matthew on October 25, 2006.
1997: Bari Rudikoff of Ellicott City, Md., practices primary care at the Baltimore VA, seeing patients and working with residents three days a week. This allows her to spend time with her two children. She is looking forward to seeing everyone at her 10th reunion in May.
1998: Mark G. Burnett of Annapolis, Md., has joined the Brain & Spine Group, having completed a residency at the University of Pennsylvania and fellowship training at the Barrow Institute. Joseph J. Ciotola of Ellicott City, Md., married Lisa Nicole Stark on July 4, 2006. He moved his practice to Mercy Medical Center in May and is pioneering the muscle-sparing anterior approach for total hip replacement. Otha Myles of Columbia, Md., is double-board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases after passing the infectious disease exam. Kevin Reed and Herlene Chatha of Kensington, Md., report that their two children, Ajay and Simrin, are getting bigger every day. They are hoping to catch up with classmates.

2000s

2001: Teresa Kulie of Madison, Wis., is associate residency program director at the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine. Barton F. Lane of Elkridge, Md., is completing a fellowship in cross-sectional imaging at Johns Hopkins. He and wife Akiko announce the birth of Delaney Mitsuki, their second, born July 22, 2006. Marcie O. Wertlieb of Silver Spring, Md., reports the birth of daughter Sela Rose on August 13, 2006. Sela’s big sister, Zoe, is three.
Faculty & Former Faculty

Dr. Prasanna Nair was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame on March 14th. Dr. Misbah Khan was the first woman physician from the University of Maryland to be inducted in 2001.

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