Class of 1975: Distinguished in Many Ways
Members of the class of 1975 attending their reunion party at McCormick & Schmick's Restaurant  The Class of 1975 celebrated its 30th anniversary this spring, as more than 50 members of the class and their guests were able to attend reunion activities. Among the 135 class members, several have gone on to distinguished academic careers, others have risen to prominent positions in practice, and virtually all remain very loyal to their medical school. In academic medicine, George L. Drusano is professor of medicine and chief of clinical pharmacology at Albany Medical College, and he is co-director of Ordway Research Institute; Kenneth V. Iserson is professor of emergency medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson and director of the Arizona Bioethics Program; Thom E. Lobe is professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and is a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery in children; James A. Reggia is a professor in the department of computer science and the institute for advanced computer studies at the University of Maryland, College Park; and Michael E. Weinblatt is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in the division of rheumatology, immunology and allergy. In practice, nephrologist Charles E. Andrews is president of Dialysis Associates in Fort Worth, Tex., and he is director of renal transplant services at Harris Methodist Hospital; Kathryn Peroutka is a hematology/oncology specialist with Andrews & Patel Associates in Camp Hill, Pa.; Jeffery L. Quartner is head of the division of cardiology at Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital; and Richard Stephenson is medical director for the Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., caring for more than 250 patients. This class has remained fiercely loyal to the medical school. Its 27 members in the John Beale Davidge Alliance—the society for major donors—is 10 more than the class of 1970, which ranks second. In addition, neurologist Rick Taylor, founder of The Taylor Medical Group, served as the association’s 125th president in 1999; geriatrics specialist Charles Hoesch was a board member from 2002 to 2005; and Stephen H. Pollock, a cardiologist with Midatlantic Cardiovascular Associates, and chief of cardiology and director of the heart institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital, is a current board member.
The 27 JBDA Members from the Class of 1975
Anonymous Charles E. Andrews Robert J. Beach Bruce E. Beacham Noel M. Chiantella Karl W. Diehn L. Thomas Divilio Gregory F. Harne Darvin Hege	Charles F. Hoesch Donald S. Horner Kenneth V. Iserson Thomas F. Krajewski Thom E. Lobe Charles E. Manner Scott M. McCloskey Harvey B. Pats Kathryn A. Peroutka	L. Edward Perraut Jr. Stephen H. Pollock Jeffrey L. Quartner Sandra D. L. Quartner Gregory B. Richardson Robert E. Roby Gary B. Ruppert Michael B. Stewart Richard L. Taylor