2025 Alumni Notes

Director Message

Fostering Connections and Community

Dear alumni and friends,

As we move into another season of connection and growth, I’m struck by the incredible stories shared throughout these class notes. They include updates that celebrate career milestones and life events, new adventures, and deep loss. I’m excited to share a few ways we’re evolving to better connect and engage with you. I’m also excited to share that Steven Leach, MD, will lead Geisel School of Medicine this year as interim dean. Dr. Leach served as director of Dartmouth Cancer Center for eight years and is a nationally recognized leader in cancer research and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. I look forward to his leadership and hope to provide an opportunity for you to interact with him in the months to come.

We’ve refreshed the way we deliver alumni news and updates. We’ll now be connecting with you four times a year: twice through a new flagship publication that celebrates alumni impact and institutional milestones, and twice through dedicated class notes to keep you connected with your peers. Our goal is to create more timely, meaningful touchpoints with our alumni.

We’re also continuing to invest in experiences that bring our community together. For example, we are reconvening the U.S. Surgeons General as part of the UN Symposium on Mental Health on Monday, October 27, and continuing to host alumni conversations centered around mental health and well-being. And Dartmouth’s Innovation in Medicine & Healthcare Event Series, co-hosted by Geisel and Dartmouth Health, is in full swing, with events around the country that each highlight research, discovery, and the future of healthcare delivery. We invite you to join us as we continue shaping these conversations together.

A consistent and ongoing need in the alumni community is mentorship. Whether you’re mentoring students or residents, providing career guidance, or opening doors to research or clinical opportunities, your time and experience are invaluable. We are working to expand these opportunities for alumni, visit dartgo.org/GSMGetInvolved to explore ways to get involved.

Finally, I encourage you to keep sharing your stories. They are a reminder of how personal connection shapes our work and our lives. On behalf the alumni engagement team—Annette Achilles, Jenn Woodside, Amy Cramer, and myself—we hope to hear from you, see you at an event, and support your engagement in ways that are meaningful to you.

With gratitude,

Mae Leonard Director of Alumni Engagement

Medical

& Healthcare Advancement

10 Years of IMPACT

During Duane Compton's ten years of service as Dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth from 2014 to 2025, the school has experienced a decade of remarkable momentum: expanding its research footprint, strengthening its financial foundation, and gaining national recognition for its educational and clinical mission. From launching major wellness initiatives and hosting national thought leaders to supporting groundbreaking vaccine research and achieving historic fundraising success, these milestones represent a transformative period in Geisel’s evolution.

Geisel launches Healthy Students/ Healthy Physicians Program 2020

This wellness initiative aimed at fostering resilience and well-being among medical students and trainees reflects Geisel’s commitment to physician mental health and sustainability in the profession.

Geisel raises $290M via Call to Lead fundraising campaign 2023

This fundraising milestone significantly advanced Geisel’s mission, supporting scholarships, research, inclusion efforts, and infrastructure, while strengthening alumni and donor engagement.

DEC

Groundwork for COVID-19 vaccine laid at Geisel labs 2020

Geisel scientists contributed foundational research on mRNA vaccine delivery systems, showcasing the school’s vital role in the global fight against COVID-19.

Former U.S. Surgeons General discuss the future of healthcare in Geisel roundtable event 2023

This landmark event convened all current and former U.S. Surgeons General, positioning Geisel as a national thought leader on the evolving landscape of American healthcare.

Williamson Translational Research Building constructed

This state-of-the-art facility added 178,000 square feet of lab and collaborative space, dramatically expanding Geisel’s capacity to support translational research bridging bench science and clinical application.

JAN

2022

Important facility upgrades to Vail/Remsen/Kellogg

Modernizing these key teaching and research spaces ensures that Geisel’s historic facilities match its cutting-edge programs and growing student body.

Geisel launches massive restructure to stabilize budget

This major organizational restructuring helped address longstanding financial challenges, positioning Geisel for long-term sustainability and renewed focus on excellence in education and research.

APR

JAN

2024

Geisel ranks in top 20 best medical schools for primary care

This national recognition by US News & World Report affirms Geisel’s leadership in training compassionate, community-focused physicians and reinforces its enduring commitment to primary care.

Geisel announces participation in Call to Lead fundraising campaign

By joining Dartmouth’s historic campaign, Geisel secured a platform to raise transformative philanthropic support for scholarships, faculty, and student life, boosting its national competitiveness.

OCT

Geisel co-hosts Dartmouth’s inaugural Innovation Summit 2024

This summit spotlighted Geisel’s role in interdisciplinary innovation, promoting collaboration across medicine, engineering, and business to solve health care’s most pressing challenges.

BOOKSHELF

A selection of books written by alumni within the last few years. Being featured here is neither an endorsement nor a critique.

Halsted R. Holman and the Struggle for the Soul of Medicine

By Matthew H. Liang, MD, MED ’67, and Edward R. Lew

A charismatic figure, beloved doctor, brilliant bench scientist, innovative teacher, mentor to many leaders in American medicine, and leader of one of the world’s great academic medical centers, Halsted Holman, MD, was a change agent who challenged orthodoxy, injustice, and arrogance and took others to a vision they could not imagine. He was a major figure shaping and reacting to the rise of molecular medicine and all the changes in U.S. healthcare: the beginning of Medicare/Medicaid, the growth of the health insurance industry and the medical-industrial complex, health maintenance organizations, the disappearance of municipal hospitals and chronic disease and mental health hospitals, widening health disparities, Obama’s Affordable Care Act, and the tension between healthcare as a basic human right and as a business. Holman’s responses were singular, humanitarian, principled, action-oriented, data-driven, collaborative with patients, and a departure from a worldview that knowledge and technology will solve all ills and that only experts can see the truth.

Ladies in Waiting: Finding the Joy in Pregnancy

By Brita Reed Lucey, MD, PsyD, MTS, D ’76, MED ’82

Are you pregnant? Congratulations! Are you a bit anxious? That’s pretty common, and you are not alone! This is a book about finding the joy in pregnancy. As a retired obstetrician and gynecologist, and now a fertility therapist, I see how patients grow psychologically during the nine months of pregnancy by understanding their feelings of hope and fear. The stories of these patients will resonate with you.

Human H5N1 Flu in Missouri 2024 and in Asia and Egypt 1997-2009

By Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH, MED '82

This book offers historical context for the 2024 USA outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Influenza A in humans, birds, cattle, cats, and other animals. From the initial outbreaks in 1997 in Hong Kong, to subsequent spread into Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia, and across Asia to Egypt, the fear of a human pandemic of this virus starting in Asia drove global preparedness until 2009. The author, who traveled from 2004 to 2009 to China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and Egypt to meet with colleagues fighting H5N1 avian influenza virus, provides over 100 real-time commentaries on the spread of the virus and global actions written during these five years. The unexpected emergence in 2009 of a new human pandemic influenza virus, pH1N1, in North America, abruptly decreased the focus on the pandemic threat of H5N1 avian influenza. The virus did not disappear, however, or stop mutating and spreading. In early 2024 it was recognized in the USA infecting dairy cattle for the first time.

What Happened to the Herd: A Kitchen Guide to the Presidency

By Mark P. Yeager, MD, Internal Medicine ’79, Anesthesiology ’82, Critical Care Medicine ’83

Have you ever wondered if America could witness a presidential candidate able to break the shackles of politics as usual? What Happened to the Herd presents a captivating, fictitious account of events that might bring about such an unprecedented political transformation. Jane McQueen is a resilient single mom whose life takes an unexpected turn when she receives a discarded computer with artificial intelligence capabilities. Jane swiftly trains her newfound assistant to help navigate the complexities of family life, and then, when her child’s social studies class nominates her as a presidential candidate, she combines acquired political skills with the capabilities of her AI assistant to launch an unprecedented campaign for president. With the financial backing of a bake sale and a voter base not yet old enough to vote, Candidate McQueen embarks on a remarkable journey deep into the heart of presidential politics.

Healing the System

By John McB. Hodgson, MD, D ’75, MED ’78

As a healthcare provider, do you feel frustrated and fatigued with an impersonal, administrative-heavy system where you don’t feel your opinion matters? Do you feel powerless to effect change? You’re not alone! Provider burnout is rampant due to bureaucratic overload, long work hours, and the lack of community, respect, and autonomy at work. But these issues can be addressed without significant expense or a major system overhaul. The approach of John Hodgson, MD, D ’75, DMS ’78 to healthcare change re-empowers healthcare providers to do what they love to do—care for patients, solve problems, and influence the delivery system. In Healing the System, Hodgson draws on his experience as a seasoned cardiologist to suggest easy-to-implement changes that healthcare providers and administrators can make to combat the increasingly dysfunctional environment typical of current practice. These simple changes can bring a sense of fulfillment, joy, and satisfaction back to the practice of medicine, and the entire system will be energized. Hodgson’s solutions include getting back to mission purpose, rather than focusing solely on the numbers; empowering teams and community; encouraging equity in the place where providers practice; involving providers in administrative functions and decision-making; and honoring one another, no matter the position or the department. The message in this book encourages physicians and other healthcare delivery professionals to create an environment and culture in which everyone can thrive.

Prescription Poker: Playing the Odds with Medications

By R.L. Aplin, MD, Interventional Cardiology ’90

Two-thirds of Americans take prescription drugs, and drug spending tops $600 billion per year. But how many patients actually benefit from the drugs they take? Through a deep dive into pharmaceutical-sponsored trials, R.L. Aplin, MD, demonstrates how numerous patients will receive little to no benefit for every one patient who reaps the medication's intended result.

The Science of Weight Loss

By Lawrence J. Cheskin, MD, MED '80

This book describes a comprehensive, science-based program to help the public lose weight and keep it off. It has practical details about diet and nutrition, eating habits, movement and motivation, medications for weight loss, supplements, and bariatric surgery.

Physician Heal Thyself: Nearly Dead and the Journey Back to Health

By Michael J. Hession, MD, MED '80

This is a deeply personal memoir and part self-help guide for those recovering from a critical medical illness. I use my perspective as a patient who is also a physician to help normalize what it is like to recover from a critical medical illness and to rebuild your life. The book was written to help both patients and family members who have to navigate the agony of such an illness. I discuss the strategies that helped me during the different approaches that I used to rebuild my life and find meaning, purpose, and happiness.

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55December 7 was a personal day of infamy for Ted Gasteyer. While leaving his daughter’s home in a Chicago suburb near where he lives, he tripped and fell, suffering a right femoral neck fracture that required a partial hip joint replacement. By mid-February he was recovering and looking forward to visiting his Florida condo, for the first time in two years because of storm damage to the building. He shared an amusing essay by a physician about why people, including himself and his mother, lie about falling to avoid a cascade of events that could lead to an ER visit and possibly residence in a nursing home.

Ross McIntyre and Helen both caught a vicious dose of COVID in February. They hoped to recover sufficiently to activate their van for a planned trip to Guatemala, with a stop at their favorite place on the South Carolina coast on the way home.

At the time of this writing, Jay Chandler was finalizing

his plan to set up an endowed scholarship fund at DMS, in a sense matching what his wife Fleur did several years ago at her alma mater, Mount Holyoke. Jay reports that she is sleeping much of the time, in the late stage of Alzheimer’s, but is always happy to see him on his twice-daily visits.

The alumni office asked me to promote and help organize a 70th reunion for our class in September. It turns out that among the 10 of us, the only ones willing and able to attend are Ross McIntyre and Ben Gilson, who live in Lyme and Hanover, respectively. This is in keeping with the past experience of classes of our era, when all of us attended the College and those reunions were the big draw. DMS reunions in recent years for our small classes have drawn little or no attendance. For our class, the lack of interest in an actual 70th reunion is countered by plenty of enthusiasm for a Zoom meeting, which Ross has agreed to organize.

Lloyd Tepper’s sudden death in early February came as a surprise, since he had been doing very well and was in quite good health. His outstanding career was presaged by his graduation summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with the Class of 1954. He transferred to Harvard Medical School after two years at DMS. While there, Dave Lee arranged a blind date for Lloyd with Lamonte [roommate of Dave’s date, Rosemary], telling Lloyd that he was sure she would be his future wife. They were indeed married in due course, with Dave as best man; it was a marriage of 67 years. After four years of postgraduate training at Mass General, MIT, and the Harvard School of Public Health, Lloyd had a distinguished career in both government and the private sector and became a leading figure in the broad field of environmental health, toxicology, and industrial medicine. Among his many awards and achievements, he was president of his field’s most

prestigious society and editor of its primary journal for 13 years. More germane to these notes was his well-deserved DMS Alumni Distinguished Service Award in 2020. His full obituary will appear soon in our class newsletter.

Bob Oneal’s wife of 69 years died on January 23. Mary Elizabeth, known to all as Zibby, dropped out of Stanford to marry Bob, who was then at Harvard Medical School. They moved to Ann Arbor in 1957 for his general and plastic surgery training and never left, except for a brief period in Omaha. She obtained her BA in English at the University of Michigan in 1968, after which she joined the faculty as a lecturer—teaching, among other subjects, a course on great books. Her publishing career began in 1971 with a series of adolescenceoriented books, all of which became award winners. Other publications included picture books and a biography of Grandma Moses. As mentioned in these notes before, both she and Bob, then well into their eighties, published books in 2017—Bob’s about the history of plastic surgery at Michigan, Zibby’s (titled Paralyzing Summer and coauthored with our D ’54 classmate Marty Lindenauer) about mysterious deaths at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital. Her career aside, Zibby was a deeply devoted wife, mother, and grandmother, known for her welcoming charm, quick wit, and humor. Bob often said she was the smartest person he’d ever known.

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John Stanley reports that he and Manel have combated challenging medical problems in the past year but

have been able to remain in their home. John has been contending with illnesses that are the burdens of seniority, while Manel has been inflicted with a more serious illness but has responded to intensive therapy. All members of the DMS Class of 1956 send their best wishes for improved health to John and Manel. Your class secretary is well after having sustained several illnesses over the past year that prompted a move to the Sarasota, Florida, home of my daughter, Dr. Jennifer Mayer, D ’85, DMS ’89, and son-inlaw, Dr. Peter Mayer, DMS ’87, where all is well at present. I completed my direct patient care responsibilities in midAugust 2024, but I continue to go to the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital weekly and sit in the conference/ workroom in order to listen to the presentations/discussions of the patients being seen by other pediatric endocrine faculty, residents, and students, and I also attend grand rounds.

Please send me some of your thoughts and comments and up-to-date information about yourselves and your family for inclusion in the next column. I hope the coming year will be a peaceful and healthy year for you and your families.

Allen Root

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Stu Hanson wrote that his broken and repaired leg is healing nicely. He also informed me that the Midwest Independent Publishers Association presented his book A Senior’s Guide for Living Well, and Dying Well with the award for best entry in the health category. He is now a writer, publisher, and book award winner in his mid-eighties. The book is selling well around the Midwest. I always enjoy hearing from Tip Putnam. He shows good humor in his messages and also has a great memory for the facts of our time at DMS.

Barry Smith

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Joe Okimoto’s wife, Jeanie, has written a play and is in the process of producing a staged reading for her local community theater. It’s a play about liberal-leaning seniors in an assisted living facility who have to deal with a new MAGA resident. Joe has a very small part in the play, where a ukulele group plays at a memorial service. The reason this is a staged reading is that the actors are all in

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their seventies and eighties and have difficulty remembering their lines! Other than the play and family, Joe and Jeanie are trying to stay active in the resistance.

(The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine’s March-April 2025 issue has a very moving and touching feature titled “Life Interrupted,” a fascinating account of Joe Okimoto’s path in life, written by Richard Babcock, D ’69. To say that Joe got off to a tough start is an understatement, yet he still went on to accomplish and contribute to society in many meaningful ways.)

David Vaules writes: “First grandchild marriage. One of seven grandchildren a senior in college, and six gainfully employed. We are still in Cooperstown, New York, in a house much too big for two older people!”

Marty Weiss writes: “Not much to report from here other than our recovery from the devastating fires. We were under mandatory evacuation for six days after losing power the night before the evacuation was declared. We moved to a hotel in Pasadena for two days but then moved up to Santa Barbara when the air in Pasadena was causing some respiratory discomfort for Debby. Fortunately, the fires did not move to our community, but a number of friends and 40 medical school faculty lost their homes. A true tragedy.

Don Bartlett communicates: “Chris and I are still holed up in my childhood home in Norwich, more or less intact. Our New Year’s adventure so far has been that we had an uninvited guest in our closed summer cottage on a Casco Bay Island. He arrived in a stolen rowboat on a

stormy night, got in easily, spent one or two nights, turned on the electric heater, and used the frozen toilet. Portland police, who have been very helpful, photographed him wearing Christine’s coat in the city a couple of days later.”

From sunny California, Tay Weinman reports that his heating bills have been drastically reduced this winter. He and Jeannie are pretty much maintaining the status quo medically, but it’s always something. He says that it’s nice to see so many of us are still alive and kicking!

Eric Sailer writes: “My partner Elaine and I are doing our best to stay active and not get old. She turned 80 last August and now gets to ski free at most places! We are now in the depths of winter, with 22 inches of snow in the backyard. I am skiing a lot at the Dartmouth Skiway and mostly sticking to the easy trails; I hope to ski into my nineties and don’t want to get banged up and have to quit. We are nursing our cairn terrier, Scooter, who is recovering from surgery for a torn cruciate ligament. Dartmouth hockey games are our biggest night out—always a fun time. They beat Harvard last night. My friend Walker Weed, D ’40 and WWII 10th Mountain Division, always warned me, ‘Keep moving or you’ll seize up.’ We are doing our best. Best wishes to classmates.”

Yours truly continues to get help for cardiac and renal issues. My amyloidosis condition is treated with Vyndamax/Vyndaqel. I am on dialysis twice a week. Next on the agenda is another procedure for my cardiac rhythm issues. Fortunately, I have a wonderful wife and family who take great

care of me and keep me going! Sol Rockenmacher

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By my count, there are 19 of us still alive, and two of you responded to my request for news, plus one widow. Carol, Roy Abbanat’s widow, wrote that Roy, her husband of 60 years, passed away in October 2024. They met during our freshman year at an AKK party; she was a student nurse at the Hitch! Judi and Mike Norman remain very active both physically and mentally in their community. John Schwarzell let me know that despite chronic renal disease and arthritis, he and Linda have moved from Ohio to Florida and are still playing golf; he wouldn’t reveal his handicap! The Nine East South group of Roger Christian, Bill Couser, Kenneth Danielson, and myself have been Zooming monthly, and we recently added George Gewirtz and Gene Lariviere. We have plans to get together this fall in central Vermont. Stay well. Do good.

Alan Rozycki

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Seven of us attended our 60th medical school reunion, held in Hanover in late September. Many came with their wives. Present were Larry Audino, David Bergman, Phil Boulter, Richard Edelson, Rick Hayes, George Olsen, and Elliot Prager. Brian Catlin, who lives in Hanover and still teaches at the medical school, stopped by to say hello to us. We had a tour of the school and witnessed many changes. Basic science is still taught at the

school that we all went to, but it is now markedly expanded, with many research labs. The clinical programs are at the “new” hospital, which is in Lebanon and is now not so new. The curriculum is integrated, with many disciplines, both clinical and basic science, involved in the same courses, such as anatomy. Lectures are deemphasized, and group learning in small teams is much more common. Many lectures are online and read online before the group meets. Small groups work on problems and projects together, and there are teachers available to guide them. All the students live off campus. Whereas we had an administration of three— Phil Nice, Harry Savage, and Henry Heyl—now there are many administrators for such programs as rural medicine and international medicine. The size of the class is now about 100. I think we were all favorably impressed.

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Deane Mosher: “We are sprucing up our house to host members of my lab who are coming back to Madison in May for my retirement event. It’s amazing to consider their diversity and how well they have done. I remember sitting on a northern Vermont hillside at about age 10, thinking about my place in the world. I never imagined that I would have the chance to mentor students

and fellows from so many countries!”

Sandy Hight: “Sue and I had an interesting year of good health and travel. I started raising a hunting dog puppy that eats everything in sight: gloves, hats, and pens! Hopefully, she will earn her keep finding pheasants, etc., this fall. I traveled first to Mongolia and then to the annual eagle festival in Kazakhstan, which was spectacular—watching the riders competing in games of strength, horse-riding, and eagles landing on dummy rabbits from the hillsides. The Eagle Huntress is the story of the first girl to win the competition—a great movie (available on Amazon) about the culture of eagle hunting and subsistence living in Kazakhstan.

“We are soon to be off to Sardinia to attend their pagan festivals (like our Mardi Gras) for 10 days of celebrations in villages that date back to 300400 AD. It will be great to get away from the Northeast’s ice, cold, and difficult driving.

John Kaiser: “A year ago, my wife Polly died of cancer after a short illness. We had gone to San Francisco for Thanksgiving with our son’s family, and she vomited in the SFO airport and the next morning developed serious tachypnea and was weak and pale. At the Stanford ER, a CT scan showed a plumsize liver tumor that had extended to the peritoneum. Even with all the modern tests, they couldn’t determine where it started and they didn’t have any effective drugs. She died comfortably in hospice.

“I visited my son and family in Kalispell, Montana, last summer. He took me to visit an assisted living facility six minutes from his house. I liked it, sold our house in Florida, and now live in Montana on the west side of Glacier National Park. I was surprised to realize that I am thriving, with three square meals a day and lots of company, concerts, and lectures in town. Stay well. Very sad news about John Zaia’s death.”

John Kaiser also had this to say about Sandy Hight’s news: “Polly and I were in Kazakhstan several years ago—a fascinating country. We visited with a man who took his golden eagle with us to a field with a rabbit. Polly held the eagle on a leather glove, and when he gave the signal, the eagle swooped up high then dive-bombed and killed the rabbit. We own a DVD of The Eagle Huntress movie, a fascinating story of a teenage girl trained to become the first girl to compete in—and win—one of Mongolia’s most prestigious competitions.

“Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital city, has many new skyscrapers…all clad in Carrara

marble. The impact was so large that it doubled the price of marble on the world market! Also, when the USSR dissolved in 1991, the population was half Russian, and most fled back to Russia so quickly that they left an armed atomic bomb behind! And the Soviets launched their space shuttles from Kazakhstan. I think it is amazing that today we launch our shuttles to the International Space Station from there!”

John Looney: “Is it time for a Zoom reunion?”

Dave Zamierowski shared a wonderful account of John Zaia’s life, available on the City of Hope’s website: https:// dartgo.org/JohnZaia66.

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This kind memory came from Richard Reese: “Between our first and second years, in the summer of 1966, I worked with Dr. Marsh Tenney, a physiology professor and acting dean of DMS. Five medical students volunteered as my lab subjects, including Jack MacDonald and Jim Markworth. It resulted in a publication about maximum

breathing capacity (Tenney SM, Reese RE: The ability to sustain great breathing efforts. Respir Physiol. 5:187-201, 1968). Totally intimidated by Tenney’s intellect and academic intensity, I was mesmerized by his personality, and from then until his untimely death in 2000, we were friends and stayed in touch; occasionally, my wife, Shirley, and I visited Marsh and his wife, Carolyn. Several years after his death, I spent a day in Hanover while Shirley attended a meeting in Vermont. That day, I called Carolyn to see if I might stop in for a few minutes. She said yes and invited me to join her for tuna fish sandwiches at their home. An hour later, she greeted me with a huge smile and a hug and said, ‘Dick, before I forget it, I have something for you. Come in and sit down while I go get it, because I don’t want to forget it.’ Within minutes, she returned and, still with a big smile, handed me my original black Efficiency Notebook, with all my original summer research project handwritten notes and results from the lab study in 1966. As she handed it to me, she said, ‘Before he died, Marsh set this aside carefully and said to me, “The next time Dick visits, I need to give him this!”

David Bush reports on three sons, all doctors—two nearby in Portland, Maine, and one in Camden, New Jersey—and a total of 10 grandkids in four states. So far, only two grandkids are leaning toward medicine, contrary to the

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Nick Perencevich, MD, MED '70, was recently recognized by the New Hampshire Medical Society (NHMS) for his outstanding leadership and advocacy. A retired surgeon, Nick was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes distinguished physician members who have made substantial contributions throughout their career to the mission and ideals of NHMS. In addition to their significant achievements, the recipient exemplifies the integrity, courage, and leadership that the Society and the field of medicine aspire to uphold.

Bush MD dynasty. Dave opines, “This is quite a change from our generation, when the really good students all seemed to want to become doctors. There certainly is some reluctance to consider medicine. Maybe we lived through the golden age. When I am asked about medicine as a career, I respond that it’s awesome, it’s interesting, you get paid for it, and people thank you.”

Extracts from Matt Liang’s note: “We are medically stable, but our extended family has hosted COVID, parvovirus, and surgical dramas and have done well. My niece has lost 23 of her extended Palestinian family since the beginning of the war. I submitted my last R01 grant application online. The process and paperwork is longer than ever, but the process made me feel alive. The last 5% of the scientific thinking was 70% of the effort.”

Frank Sharkey’s holiday missive focused on incredible achievements of five grandkids, but also had these autobiographic points: Vacation trips in 2024 included Türkiye, Spain, Austria, Czechia, and Germany. (Enviously, I’m certain the high point must have been a day in Brno, where our hero Gregor Mendel founded genetics.) Besides sampling all the new recipes that his wife, Shirley, prepares, Frank has continued his part-time roles at the University of Texas at San Antonio medical school, taking care of a biorepository, teaching, and interpreting tough liver biopsies. But at the year’s end, he bit the bullet and retired from UTSA, though he continued doing College of American Pathologists inspections in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Hawaii, and Japan, plus six in the continental U.S.

Your class secretary, John Mulvihill, is an imperfect retiree from the NIH and the University of Oklahoma, as he still volunteers for the NIH’s Undiagnosed Diseases Network. His business trips included a two-day workshop on genomic ethics in Geneva, Switzerland, and a celebration of the quartercentury career of the genetics lab director at the University of Oklahoma. But the year’s high point was going to Hanover to receive a Career Achievement Award from his alma mater, preceded by lunch with four fellow alumni, two of their wives, and John’s brother Tom.

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From David Tee: “The Class of ’71 years were indeed very special years, representing close bonds to the education at hand, with remarkable, dedicated instructors and camaraderie among us.

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Now, after passing through three 50th reunions, I am fortunate to be having my 50th wedding anniversary this year. After medical school, I spent three years in Dallas at Parkland, followed by a year back in Boston at Joslin. Finally, I opened my own practice of internal medicine in a Boston suburb. Overall, it was a wonderfully rewarding experience until the rigors of primary care in a solo setting became too much. At 72, I became a grandfather and learned much more about hands-on child-rearing through babysitting that I had not appreciated when my son and daughter were born. Our family has had medical issues, some ongoing, but we are enjoying life near the grandchildren. My son developed type 1 DM at 13 but is doing well as more precision therapies come into play. My wife had colon cancer at age 38, cured by an excellent surgeon. I so far have survived hairy cell

leukemia and treatment for HBP and paroxysmal atrial fib. I love to walk despite some limitations from an old trimalleolar right ankle fracture. The King Arthur store in Norwich keeps me in flour for bread-making in our Aga range. TV ads keep up the pharmacology lessons of yore. All in all, we are good and wish the same for y’all (Texas jargon).”

From Kirk Aleck: “I can’t relay much wisdom, except for the advice I got from my proctor in Wigglesworth my first day at Harvard. He said: ‘Never take a low-level “no.”’ My addition to that advice would be: ‘Be sure to know the difference between what is low-level and what is not.’

“I’ve mostly retired. I still do some locum tenens and lecturing. I had a long career in medical genetics. The major preoccupation of genetics, beginning in 1978, was syndromology. I bucked the trend and instead trained in

biochemical genetics (as well as cytogenetics and clinical genetics). There weren’t any jobs in biochemical genetics in 1978, so I took jobs that required cytogenetic and clinical genetics board certification. With time, my interests became narrower, and I spent my last 20 years working primarily in the lysosomal storage disease field. My primary employers were the University of Arizona and Phoenix Children’s Hospital. I feel very lucky to have chosen a field that continues to evolve rapidly. I am now living in La Jolla, California, to be near my grandchildren.”

From Hank Ingersol: “I happily retired in 2015, after 38 years in private practice as a cardiologist in a large multispecialty group in San Diego. I have no complaints about my professional career and saw rapid technological changes in cardiology during that time. Marsha and I are in reasonably good health. We just returned from a three-week cruise to the Far East. I am still playing tennis, but I struggle somewhat and can now only play doubles. Marsha and I took up bridge just before COVID, and that has become a hobby that we both enjoy. We are planning on staying in our one-level home in La Jolla as long as possible. We have three grown children and four grandchildren. Overall, life is good.”

From Charlie Antinori: “I am semiretired and enjoying life in Cape May at the southern tip of New Jersey. I work just two mornings a week in a wound care clinic. Most of the time I spend exercising, working on

Shout

Out 1972

Chuck Wira, PhD ’72 , was chosen by the Alumni Council of Delaware Valley University as the 2024 recipient of The Alumni Achievement Award for Excellence in Animal Science. This prestigious award, first presented in 1967, is designed to recognize outstanding alumni who have devoted time, energy, and resources to the betterment of the University and alumni at large.

my house, and mostly seeing my son, daughter, and three granddaughters. I am also putting a fair amount of time into a book I recently published, Make America Healthy Again.”

Joe O’Donnell 72

This column includes news from the twoyear class of 1972 and the three-year class of 1972-3.

Ron Polinsky reports spending the winter in Florida (no snow!) and riding his bike daily, plus lots of news regarding his grandchildren. A granddaughter has just left for Denmark, where she will play for a professional soccer team, and a grandson is doing amazingly in dance/ ballet and performed in The Nutcracker in December!

A note from Chris Hollowell in Concord, New Hampshire, reports that he is still hiking and biking—a good reminder to all of us as we move into the sixth decade since our DMS days!

Dan Wing in Vermont reports being concerned about news as

it relates to public health. On the other hand, he is pleased to report that his granddaughter is graduating from medical school and will be doing a urology residency in Maine.

From Palo Alto, California, Richard Mamelok reports that in October he and his wife spent three weeks in Japan and South Korea. He has also been appointed to the editorial board of The Pharos as a reviewer of poetry and has also started volunteering at Stanford’s Bechtel International Center, where he meets weekly with graduate students from Taiwan to help them practice conversational English.

Joe Schwartzman reports that though he now happily has emeritus status at Geisel, he has continued to teach first- and second-year students various aspects of microbiology. He had already taken over parasitology from Elmer Pfefferkorn about 10 years ago, but last fall the faculty member who taught general microbiology left Geisel,

so Joe has now taken on all the micro content, too.

Lucy Tompkins, still Stanfordbased (though now emerita), reports that David Taylor visited her back in August in Montana, where she spends part of each summer (and where she would also welcome other DMS class visitors!). She was pleased with David’s visit since they have an interest in infectious diseases in common, and also since David worked with several investigators that her late husband, Stan Falkow, knew well. She enjoyed learning more about David’s career and discussing infectious diseases. She thinks it likely there may only have been three of us (LT, DT, and EB) who took an ID career path (?).

Lucy also reports that though she retired from Stanford in January 2024, she did spend the year working half-time doing faculty mentoring and guiding the fellowship program. She is now keeping her hand in by giving some continuing ed courses at the university on ID topics and also helping the Infectious Diseases Society of America with lobbying and support. She also reports being concerned about federal actions related to public health.

David Taylor (in Montana) reminisced regarding several career-shaping events he had during our DMS days. First were Elmer Pfefferkorn’s lectures on the control of disease outbreaks. Second was hearing visiting parasitologist Harold Brown lecture about tropical diseases. Third was a suggestion from Jack Slater that he talk to Ford von Reyn ’69 (who went on to a long ID career at

Hitchcock) about the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program, which, among other things, teaches outbreak investigation skills to young public health physicians. Ford, who had just started his own two-year EIS program in New Mexico, convinced David to apply to the EIS as well. After his residency, David then joined the EIS and was assigned to the enteric diseases branch at the CDC in Atlanta. At the same time, Eric Brenner was doing two years with the CDC’s TB program, which also brought him to Atlanta so that they housed together. The EIS launched David on a fulfilling career in clinical research and public health. David also commented that the NIH and CDC have been training grounds for countless important medical researchers and is concerned about cuts to medical research grants having a profound effect on medical schools.

As for me, Eric Brenner, I am now retired from my years of work with disease control programs at the South Carolina State Health Department, from two decades of teaching infectious disease epidemiology at the USC School of Public Health, and from years of occasional teaching in courses on health emergencies in large populations (HELP) in a number of countries. I nonetheless remain on the lookout for various ID/epi needs (e.g., with the state health department during the height of COVID) and teaching opportunities with USC public health classes, including recent ones devoted

to the work of the World Health Organization (WHO). Many students were not familiar with the organization but have now been hearing about since the U.S. withdrew from it on the first day of the new administration.

Eric Brenner

73This column includes news from the twoyear class of 1973 and the three-year class of 1973-4.

Greetings to the class of ’73/73-4: For the roughly twothirds of us who transferred and obtained our MDs after two years elsewhere, this is the 50th anniversary of our graduations. For our threeyear colleagues, this marks the anniversary of their completing their internships. So much has changed in the practice of medicine, and yet the change certainly isn’t about to stop here. I disclose that this column is not written by ChatGPT, because I have never tried it. But, as an experiment, some Mayo internists are using AI to create their medical notes. I don’t know how their test will pan out. Yikes!

I have been fortunate to stay in contact with Pearl O’Rourke, Scott Emery, Rob Smith, and Andy Roberts and a bit more infrequently with Don Raddatz, Nick Hill, Andy Bragdon, Marian Petrides, Tom Echeverria, and Will Chamberlin. I hope I haven’t missed anyone. As our classmate Stu Geman said to me once, “Time is nonlinear,” and those friendships made nearly 54 years ago are timeless and deeply gratifying. For those

not mentioned, I would be thrilled to hear from you.

David Knopman

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This column includes news from the twoyear class of 1974 and the three-year class of 1974-5.

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Bill Thorwarth.

Left page top: ’74 Members of the Class of 1974 were on campus to celebrate their 50th reunion. Left page bottom: ’79 Members of the Class of 1979 were on campus to celebrate their 45th reunion.

Shout Out

1978

Paula Trzepacz, MD, MED '78, was awarded the Gary J. Tucker MD Lifetime Achievement Award in Neuropsychiatry. This, the most prestigious award of the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA), recognizes Dr. Trzepacz’s more than three decades of leadership, commitment, mentoring, scholarship, and service to ANPA.

75This column includes news from the twoyear class of 1975 and the three-year class of 1975-6.

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Oge Young

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If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary Arminda Perez

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79It’s 2025—46 years since we graduated!

The movie about Ben Barres, whom we knew as Barbara, is continuing to be developed. It is a docudrama, so there will be actors portraying Ben, some of us, professors, etc.

They are done with the factfinding. It’s going to be called Ask the Question

I heard from Steve London: “I’m still an actively practicing anesthesiologist and so glad to have found my calling in life! Still banging on the drums— have had a jam night each week for years here on Maui with a group of friends: We play a little bass, keys, drums, pennywhistle, and ukulele and laugh a lot!” Steve was also very concerned about federal policy as it relates to the CDC and the MMWR

That’s all I have for this issue. If any of you want to share news about what’s going on in your life, please contact me! Otherwise, have a safe, healthy, happy 2025!

Dennis Angellis

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Thank you to the DMS 1980 classmates who provided updates. I hope to hear from more of you for the next column in six months, just after our 45th reunion in

Hanover on September 19-20, 2025. And I hope to see as many classmates there as possible.

Mike Hession published a book, Physician Heal Thyself: Nearly Dead and the Journey Back to Health, in August 2024. The book is Mike’s story of near- death from a communityacquired pneumonia that progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome. See more about Mike’s book on the bookshelf page 8.

Diane Arsenault has been retired from her family practice work at Mid-State Health Center in Plymouth, New Hampshire, since mid-2022. She’s still connected with Pemi-Baker Hospice and Home Health in Plymouth, New Hampshire, as a board member, after several decades as hospice medical director and a four-month stint as interim executive director. Her other volunteer endeavors include board membership with the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative (PAREI), an organization that supports sustainability in many arenas, and as a host at Quincy Bog, a nature center in Rumney, New Hampshire. Helping family has a larger role than expected, as she has weekly after-school “play dates” with her grandson, Micah, in Maine, and does occasional childcare for her disabled

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granddaughter in Rhode Island.

Diane also kindly shared some updates on our classmate Bob Brew, who has become an accomplished philatelist and won numerous awards for his “Aviation Poster Stamps 1909-1914” collection at a regional stamp-collecting show. Also, Dave Cunis, DMS ’79, retired after many years as a wellrespected pediatrician in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and moved to southern New Hampshire to be closer to family.

Ron McRipley moved to Fort Lauderdale with his wife, Sharon Lombard, DMS ’82. He is still working part-time for Geisinger in northeastern Pennsylvania but will fully retire at the end of the year. Ron and Sharon are enjoying time with his 7-year-old twin granddaughters and 3-month-old granddaughter. Both of his daughters had daughters, so Ron is happily surrounded by girls! Glenn Reynolds retired from medical practice, but his days are filled with assisting certain family members who suffer from degenerative diseases. Glenn fondly reminisces about our Dartmouth Medical School years, which he says were probably the happiest years of his life. Glenn sends his best wishes to all classmates and expressed a personal thank-you for helping with alumni engagement.

Pat Hopkins has been

practicing rheumatology for 30 years. She serves on the boards of the Health Information Exchange for the state of Massachusetts and the South Shore Physician Hospital Organization. Her new book, The Unmaking of a Drug Dealer: A Physician’s Journey to Becoming a Healer, reflects 35 years of experience helping patients shed the burden of disease and welcome the experience of wellness.

Eric Donnenfeld was named Newsweek’s best ophthalmologist in the country in 2023, 2022, and 2021. He received a near-perfect score for quality of care, continuity of care, and the quality of the technology used in his practice. Eric was also named one of Ophthalmology Management’s 25 Leaders in Innovation, was on The Ophthalmologist’s Power List in 2018 and 2022, and was named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Ophthalmologists in the United States by the journal Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today. Eric is an internationally recognized expert and pioneer in refractive, corneal, and cataract surgery and one of the leading refractive and cataract surgeons in the United States. He serves on the editorial boards of nine journals and has participated in over 40 FDA studies. He was one of the first five people in the world to perform both laser vision correction and laser cataract surgery. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and has received its Honor Award, Senior

Honor Award, Life Achievement Honor Award, and Secretariat Award. He’s performed laser vision correction on over 70,000 patients, including more than 1,000 eye doctors and members of their families.

Celine Stahl is retired; has lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, for 27 years; has raised three wonderful children; and has been blessed to share the past eight years with her devoted service dog. Together, they travel to visit her three young grandchildren (25, 19, and 4 months) in San Francisco and Houston and attend lectures, opera, theater, ballet, and dance locally and in NYC. Visiting gardens and museums, especially the Met, are regular outlets for enjoyment and learning. Celine volunteers locally, primarily at the Greenwich Library’s Flinn Art Gallery, and has been instrumental in selecting the past three speakers for the library’s annual Flinn Reeves Lecture. Swimming, reading, and following the news round out each day.

Celine Stahl

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Brita and Dan Lucey went to Japan in April 2024 and were enchanted by the cherry blossoms there. They spent time with Mary Ann Zetes and Peter Mazonson while touring and swapping stories about their children and grandchildren.

Caroline Flint wrote to say she’s been retired for two years now. She had joined the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge just before COVID and is now volunteering twice a month with food banks, trash pick-up, and other activities. The club also partnered with clubs in Ghana to help treat hypertension with screenings and equipment. They also visited and helped with a training school for children with CP. The team included two physicians, one sociologist, and three nonmedical members. This summer they plan to travel to northeastern Brazil to work on dental care with children and to bring sports equipment to children. They are fortunate to have a member of their Rotary who is from Brazil. Caroline is enjoying volunteering in her retirement.

This past spring, I went to Peru; I was fulfilling a lifelong dream to see Machu Picchu and was fortunate enough to spend two days on-site. It is so amazing to be on the ground of a place you’ve only seen in pictures. I also welcomed a new grandson with my son, and a new Siamese kitty after losing another of my older cats. I’m still working, but only three days a week now— still on call. It was great having a bit of news to share, and I look forward to others in our class reaching out with their news.

Patricia Edwards

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First, I want to congratulate Judy Silverstein Currier. Judy was selected as a recipient of the 2024 Career Achievement Award by the Geisel School of Medicine/Dartmouth Medical School. I’ve seen a lot of the research she has done on HIV. Great work, Judy!

I heard from Diane McGrory regarding Judy coming to Dartmouth for the event.

She wrote, “I had dinner with Judy Silverstein Currier and Suzanne Bird. Both are well. Anne Mosenthal, Suzanne, and I attended the awards ceremony.”

On a sad note, I received this word from Holly Hendrikson: “Greetings. I am reporting the sad news of Steve Massicotte’s death on April 5, 2024, in Indianapolis. He struggled with pulmonary fibrosis for the last few years—a tricky disease to diagnose and even harder to treat. It was really tough watching his world and energy shrink. He and I had divorced amicably in 2010, and I helped care for him in the final months. We have three daughters and one grandchild who all spent time with him as the end drew near.” I sent a copy of his obituary to anyone I could find an email address for. If anyone did not receive it and wants me to send them a copy, or just wants to give me an updated email address, let me know.

I am still working as a family doctor at Indiana University Health Primary Care. It was supposed to be a 0.6 FTE position when I signed on eight years ago, but it has crept up

to 0.78 FTE! I am planning to adjust and slow down a bit in the new year. I have a new partner, John Cornell, PhD, a great guy I met at our Unitarian Universalist church. He is a European history professor and a flute player. The music is making me wonder about Todd Greenwald, our class of ’85 flutist, and about Ann Massey I continue to enjoy folk and contra dance, my UU church, and my garden. It’s always good to get news from our classmates!

Laurie Draughon

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Todd Troxell writes from Utah to say that he is comfortably retired in Salt Lake City. SLC is booming, with a massive influx of people moving in and a vibrant tourist industry, primarily due to skiing and Utah’s five national parks. The Troxells get to see a few DMS classmates with some regularity: Marvin Palmore and family, Brad Baldridge and wife, and Lynn Farnham Andrew Dodds was a good friend who had lived nearby, but as previously reported, he passed

away last August. Harriet Williams Hopf also lives nearby and continues to work at the University of Utah. She has been acknowledged as being a highly respected mentor and power at the U of U.

And this came in from Judy Hills: “I have been going to Uganda for the last 15 years to work in hospice and palliative care. I am still living in the Upper Valley. I am retired and having fun doing volunteer work. We have two grown children and four grandsons.”

Cathy Cantilena

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It seems like a busy time of year for our class. There were no updates submitted for this column. Hang in there.

Harper Randall

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One of my fondest memories from our first two years at DMS was the Thursday Classic at Mount Ascutney. Skiers of all levels would line their skis up along the back wall of Chilcott Auditorium, and around noon, they would gather their gear and head out for an afternoon of outdoor recreation and camaraderie (okay, and maybe a little schnapps, too). Some were there just for the fun, and others were really serious skiers. Two of the most accomplished alpine enthusiasts in our class were Neil Sullivan and Anne de Papp. Neil is still working full-time as a rheumatologist in Norfolk, Virginia. He writes, “Sorry I missed reunion. I hope to see Dave Bullis or Bill Laycock while I am skiing in Vermont in March. I may come

back to New England when I retire.” Anne took time away from working on her tan in São Paulo, Brazil, to send me a quick note. (Funny how Anne can find the time to email me from Brazil, but Tony Mega can’t find the time to contact me from Providence. But I digress.) Anne was in São Paulo for a work meeting. She wrote, “I am definitely not retiring here, but it’s an experience! In fact, I am not retiring soon at all, as I recently took a new position at Merck as head of global medical modernization.” Anne has held various leadership positions with Merck throughout her illustrious career. I, too, have worked extensively with Big Pharma: Fran makes me go to CVS to pick up my vitamin D pills and flossers.

Kathy Zug—who is kind of, sort of retired from dermatology— recently shared with me that her daughter received her BSN and is working as an RN on the birthing pavilion at DHMC. How exciting to have a kid working at the same place where you worked!

Another of our DartmouthBrown classmates, Michael Coburn, sent in this update: “I retired from a 22-year general, vascular, and bariatric surgical practice, changed careers with new board certification, and for the past 10 years have been the full-time medical director of AdCare Rhode Island, an 80-bed inpatient substance use disorder treatment facility. In addition, I operate a small private practice exclusively in addiction medicine. My wife and I have been married for just over 40 years, and with the exception of my middle daughter, who is

a veterinarian, our four children have pursued careers outside of medicine. I continue to be an avid fly fisherman and possess too many guitars for the degree of proficiency I display at playing.”

Someone who most definitely is thinking about retirement is Betsy Buchanan. “I don’t know about you, but I’m planning to retire in 157 days. I’ve been a family doc in Exeter for almost 32 years. The closer retirement gets, the more bittersweet it feels. Saying goodbye to 20plus patients a day really brings home the deep connections made in a long career in the same place. Fortunately, I won’t be bored. My husband and I live on a small horse farm we built, and our time is filled with the care, training, and enjoyment of the animals we have here, including not only horses but also chickens, a cat, and our Australian shepherd. Both kids live in Maine, and our son is marrying this summer near Blue Hill, with the promise of grandchildren as time goes on. Life is sweet. I hope it also is with you and yours.” Betsy and I have shared many patients over the years, and they truly will miss her.

Finally, this from Dawn Richardson: “I have gone to the dark side, in utilization management. I last practiced clinical emergency medicine about two years ago. My days are now filled with talking to fellow physicians, who may or may not be feeling cranky. Then I composed ‘The Great American Technical Document.™’ It is of course a masterpiece and would make my

late high school AP English teacher beam with pride. To redeem myself, I work parttime in a Suboxone practice. Cheers, and I love hearing about everyone’s adventures.”

Thanks to all who reached out to share bits and pieces of their lives with their DMS ’88 classmates. If you are reading this and you, too, would like to pass along word of your latest adventure, feel free to call me or drop me an email. Or maybe just run into me at CVS.

Aris Damianos

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This fall was heralded by the return of several classmates to the Hanover Plain for our 35th reunion! We traveled from as far away as the San Francisco Bay area, including Joyce Sackey, a preeminent academician at Stanford; Peter Lunny; and myself. Helen Manber sent her best, and I know she will be at our 40th! Local classmates included Diane Riley, Sarah Johansen, and Terry Vacarro, plus New Hampshire resident Carrie Crosby. Wisconsin sent its best with Phil Yazbak, Jonathan Rubin, and Rick Baker Anjuli Chuttani came up from the Cape, and Jonathan Wood and Liz Laverack came from Maine. Chris Blaski, Chip Trayner, Terri Van Buren, and David

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Sutcliffe traveled from nearby Massachusetts. Carl Bromwich was the international traveler, from Canada. And Melissa Brannon Gillespie came from Colorado.

Kathy Gill contacted me from Southern California. She is proud to share the news that her son Michael Hagopian, DO, is joining her practice. In 2024, she designed, directed, and presented the Osteopathic Cranial Academy’s annual national conference on embryology, growth, and development and received fellowship designation from the OCA. Tragedy has unfortunately struck Kathy and her family with the loss of their home in the recent Pacific Palisades fires!

Jen Root Mayer lives with her husband, Peter Mayer, DMS ’87, in Sarasota, Florida. They were also victims of a natural disaster, as their house took a direct hit from Hurricane Milton and sustained roof and

house damage. Repairs have been made, and they have resumed their frantic-paced life. Jen is on the faculty of the Cancer and Blood Disorders Institute at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) in St. Petersburg. Her expertise includes childhood leukemia, lymphoma, and vascular anomalies. She has been named the program’s inaugural fellowship director. Her father, Allen Root, DMS ’56, continues to contribute to the literature in pediatric endocrinology and to work as a consultant physician at JHACH! Jen promises to be at the 40th reunion.

It was wonderful to hear from Jeff Thomas. He is still working part-time as a hospitalist in Chico, California. He plans to

work another two years. He is involved in teaching family practice residents. He and his wife, Tess, whom we all remember, will be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary this September. Their son, Alexander, is in his third year of medical school, and their daughter is finishing her marriage and family therapy degree. He has a vacation house on the coast of California. I’ve included a picture of them from their nephew’s wedding.

I was able to get in touch with Will Rogers. He admits he has been flying under the radar for the past three decades regarding our class. As he puts it, he has made the “leap” into homeopathy. He serves on the board of the Pacific NorthWest Homeopathy Association and is living in Portland, Oregon. His direction toward homeopathy was influenced by Jungian psychology, which he first encountered at DMS. Will shared his adoration for our class and, as I agree, considers it “the best class ever”—a reference to George Vaillant’s graduation address to us.

Chris Bean writes: “I am vacationing in Japan now, having just skied in the Sapporo International Worldloppet cross-country ski race. I am still practicing general orthopaedic surgery in little Montpelier, Vermont, but get to our newly remodeled lake house on Clearwater Lake in Maine as often as possible.” His three children—Theodora (married last fall), Walker, and Antonia— are in Burlington, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine, and stop by when they can.

Anne Gendron Natterer has

been living in Texas for almost 27 years, working for Cook Children’s pediatric primary care practice. She tells us that she is now seeing children of many of her former patients. She also teaches medical students at Texas Christian University.

Laura Robertson reported in after returning from a trip to North Africa. She retired after eight years working in industry, leading development teams focusing on gene therapies for heart failure and inherited cardiomyopathies. Prior to that, she was working as a pediatric cardiologist at UCSF. She has enjoyed the challenge of learning new science and translating insights into treatments. Her retirement goals are to be “less responsible” and to say “yes” to opportunities. She just finished traveling to Tunisia and Morocco and will be heading to Antarctica, hiking in Patagonia, sailing along the Turkish coast, and hiking around Durango.

Annette Headley missed the reunion due to a hiking adventure out west with her daughter. Annette continues to work full-time in her dermatology practice in Mystic, Connecticut. Her oldest daughter is married and lives in Boston with her new husband, Xavier. Her youngest daughter, Sarah, was engaged over Thanksgiving. A wedding is planned for August 2026 in Rhode Island. Annette has caught the travel bug and has recently taken trips to Disney World, Nashville, Alaska, and the southwestern national parks. She unfortunately fell victim to a freak ski accident and tore her ACL. She was planning on

surgery in April. We wish her good luck in the surgery and rehabilitation. She expects to recover for baseball fantasy camp next January.

James Hartford

If you have news to share, contact Class Secretary E. James Wright III 91

Hello, fellow ’91s. Have you heard? We have a new class secretary! Thank you to those who opened and responded to my email. So lovely to hear from you.

First to respond was Alison (Woodin) Vogt, who retired last August after 33 years at the University of Rochester Department of Anesthesiology. She continues to work a day or two here and there to help her colleagues. She enjoys the ability to finally attend every soccer game for her son’s final college season and to mentor other women in her field. “I never imagined spending 33 years working for one institution, but I did many different things during my time there and felt like I made a difference both for my patients and for my colleagues.” She volunteers at a local animal shelter, takes some classes, and is working on refinding hobbies.

Brian Harrington sent news of family life with Lori (Eitrem) Harrington—a twofer! Brian and Lori live in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where they raised four children, one of whom will be married this spring. Lori retired a few years back and keeps busy with Bible study, gym classes, book club, game nights, kayaking, and paddleboarding. Brian serves as their county’s

public health medical officer. “Just waiting for the next pandemic crisis to occur. I got a master’s degree in public health at the University of Washington, but never predicted I would be so involved in an actual pandemic.” He stopped taking call and doing hospitalist work this year and is contemplating joining Lori in retirement over the next few years.

I got an email from Jeff Strong, who retired to his sailboat

in Seattle about six months ago. After his IM residency in Tacoma, he moved to Utah, had three kids, and most recently had an outpatient practice and did hospitalist work in Park City. After shutting that practice down, he sailed up and around British Columbia, then spent some time teaching in New Zealand, which he loved. “I took six months and cruised the South Island in a hippie van, then returned to Seattle, where I have been sailing around Vancouver Island, as well as Corsica and Sardinia.”

As for me, I retired after 33 years in OB-GYN at TPMG (NorCal Kaiser), including working in San Francisco and San Jose and starting a satellite clinic in Santa Cruz nine years ago. I am a willing poster child for retirement. If you need a nudge, I’m your gal. My first year was a time of travel and reconnection. My second year looks to be an homage to nerdy lifelong learning, taking classes on rose pruning, soil enhancement, and climate change, and I am signed up for a series on molecular bio at UC Santa Cruz, so I can finally understand some of my son’s research! Kris and I will celebrate 39 years of marriage in April. We are starting a major remodel of our home in Santa Cruz (I welcome all the remodeling pearls you care to share). We love our beach walks, game nights with our three kids (when we can get them all to gather), and hosting our Monday Night Football parties.

As part of our travel/ reconnection tour last year, we enjoyed the fab hospitality

of Brian and Jean Dwinnell while in Denver. We took in a Rockies-Giants game; played some golf; and talked politics, travel, medicine, and the joys/ challenges of parenting three young adults. While Jean just retired after 30-plus years of OB-GYN in December, Brian is still dean of student life at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

I’ve been lucky to be able to keep up with Margot Wheeler over the years, with assorted IMGYN bicoastal teleconsults and occasional visits. She saved this mama bear’s heart by taking in my ailing college freshman after a ruptured peritonsillar abscess and doctoring him back to health, for which I will be forever grateful. Our attempts to meet up lately have been thwarted by her reluctance to retire, plus wanting to spend her precious vacation time with her far-flung offspring (one daughter at St. Andrews in Scotland, one in London, and one in Boston). She continues her work as an internist at Georgetown in DC, teaching residents and maintaining a clinical practice.

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Since a feel-good story is always a boost, Alison Friedmann shared two pieces of exciting news: “(1) I got remarried in October and am now a proud stepmother to 13-year-old Allison (spelled incorrectly, with two l’s instead of the proper one). (2) My youngest daughter, Lu Yao, was just accepted to UCLA for medical school in the fall! This is the ‘girl’ from China

Below: ’92 Paul Cardosi MED ’92 and Andy Auerbach MED ’92 taking a barista class in Portland, Oregon.

Right: ’92 Members of the Class of 1992: Larry Hastings MED ’92, Rich Lawlor MED ’92, Greg Hunter MED ’92, Steve Schultz MED ’92, and their wives in Seaside, Oregon.

Left: ’92 Greg Hunter MED ’92 and Rich Lawlor MED ’92 on the beach in Seaside, Oregon.

Left: ’92 Alison Friedman MED ’92 and Andrew Friedman MED ’93 got married in October; pictured with their children.

Shout Out 1993

Bonnie An Henderson, MD, MED '93, president and CEO of HelpMeSee, has partnered with new initiatives to address the global cataract blindness crisis, focusing on empowering women in low- and middle-income countries. Through training and education, the organization aims to reduce gender inequality and improve socioeconomic outcomes worldwide.

E.Lynne Kelley, MD, MED '93, was recently appointed chief medical officer at Tissium, a medtech company developing biomorphic programmable polymers for tissue reconstruction. She brings invaluable expertise and leadership to the role that will help propel Tissium’s mission to revolutionize tissue reconstruction, while her deep medical and clinical knowledge will be instrumental in bringing high-impact solutions to patients.

whom I treated for orbital rhabdomyosarcoma when she was five, before adopting her (at which point a colleague took over her care). She has had an incredible journey, and I couldn’t be prouder. She fancies herself a pediatric oncologist in the future as well.”

Paul Cardosi took empathy a bit farther and decided to be a patient. He is recuperating from ACL surgery. Thankfully, he had expert guidance from Jeff Albright to make sure he got what he needed.

Rich Lawlor shared some more and this news: “Last fall my wife, Cathy, and I flew out to Seaside, Oregon, to spend a week at the

beach. Steve Schultz joined us, and at the last minute Greg Hunter and his wife Andrea came out and spent a few days as well. I hadn’t seen Greg and Andrea since graduation! I also had a chance to visit with Eric Dahms and his wife, Kathy, when Cathy and I were in San Diego in December of 2023.

As for me, I continue to work as a staff anesthesiologist at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts (it’s part of MGB), where I’ve been since finishing my residency in 1996. I’ve given up most of my committee memberships and stepped down a while ago as medical director

and chief of the department. Now it’s back to just taking care of patients again, so life is pretty good! I hope all of you are healthy and well and weathering the ups and downs of all that is happening in our world. I’m grateful that a true constant remains our incredible DMS ’92 class. It’s always a pleasure to hear from you. Please keep in touch and stay well. Warmly, AV. Anna Vouros

The class of 1993 has been unusually quiet this go-round. I have news only from Brian Boxer Wachler and Chris May. (Chris noted that I managed to send out my request for updates on his birthday.) Both their updates are included below.

Otherwise, the gossip on the street that I’m aware of through my own interactions includes the retirement of Loyd West, who has been busy traveling, cycling, and helping his siblings with aging in-laws and hurricane-damaged properties. Liz Bradley left her position as medical director of the Center for Functional Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and has started a virtual functional medicine practice. The last time we connected, she and Rich were in Connecticut, with plans to return to New Hampshire. Liz’s timing was impeccable, as I closed my practice just months after she started hers, so I had a wonderful landing place for my patients. I continue to work at the VA as a clinical gynecologist part-time.

Here’s the update from Chris May: “You reached me in a

reflective mood, as today is my 60th birthday. What once seemed impossibly ancient feels like any other normal day today, and I am just glad to have had the chance to reach what has been a grand old age for most of human history.

“I am still with the former Scottsdale Medical Imaging, which is now renamed Southwest Medical Imaging Ltd., and hope to finish out my career there. We are all sucking the fourth-quarter oranges these days, but I am still going back out on the field to finish the game.

“Barb and I have downsized a bit to a new house in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Its most salient feature is a large Neapolitan pizza oven that I hope to master.

“Kids are still doing great. Nick is a financial adviser with Equitable, is having much

success, and in fact has been killing it with my investments. He’s recently become engaged to a lovely young lady, originally from Venezuela, who is a resident in the family practice program at one of my hospitals. Her father speaks enough English and I speak enough Spanish that we enjoy getting together for a wee dram of good Scotch now and then.

“Megan has decided to go back to school to become a PA, maybe working in psychiatry. She and Barb and I are planning to walk the Camino de Santiago pilgrim trail in northern Spain next summer.

“Barb and I celebrated our 35th anniversary last year with a delightful tour of Mexico City, which is becoming one of the world’s hot spots for gourmet dining and has one of the most amazing archaeological

museums I’ve ever seen. We also spend a lot of time playing with our West Highland white terriers, Winnie and Wally.

“We hope all is well with the Class of ’93. I really enjoyed seeing some of you at the reunion a couple of years ago and would be glad to hear from you if you pass through the Valley of the Sun.”

And this came from Brian Boxer Wachler: “It’s been a whirlwind!

Right after New Year’s we had the fires in Los Angeles. Fortunately, our home is fine, but we have many friends who lost theirs in the Pacific Palisades fire, and through it I’ve seen a great reservoir of resilience with many of them.

“Our daughters are freshmen in college now. Two weeks after move-in, one called us with, ‘Is it strange, with us not being home?’ to which I replied, ‘No.’ She said, ‘Whaaaat?!’ I explained that Selina and I were welltrained by them over many summers when they went away at camp. So, essentially, it’s their fault we don’t miss them that much—LOL!

“I’ve got a trove of pics from the last reunion, and it’s on my list to make a more extensive video and send it out! Be well, y’all!”

I hope that all is well with you. I will be stepping down as class secretary, so if anyone wants to take over keeping the news flowing, please let us know!

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What a fun 30th reunion we had on a perfect fall weekend in Hanover. If you did not get Kristin Pisacano Casale’s very complete reunion recap, please

let me know and I will forward it to you.

I just spent a girls’ ski weekend with Kristin Pisacano Casale, Susan Anderegg, and Nancy Forbush McNulty, Class of 1995, at my ski house at Sunday River in Maine. It was an incredible weekend skiing and catching up with these amazing women. All of us have had challenges, both good and bad, but I don’t think any of us have regrets about choosing medicine.

Susan Anderegg does six 24-hour shifts per month on a high-risk OB floor and amazingly does not have any gray hair despite all that stress! She is an empty-nester and has two kids in college and one in graduate school for speech pathology. Her husband, Bill, is a captain in the Merchant Marine. She

offered amazing insight when we were discussing loss and said that instead of continuing to miss someone you loved, you realize they are a part of you! I think Kristin may be discussing that insight at her next Bible study class!

Kristin is retired but is currently learning a new technique for cataract surgery that can be performed in Third World countries that do not necessarily have the surgical tools that we use in the United States. Kristin visited Uganda recently and worked in an ophthalmology clinic with her daughter, Grace, who will be applying to medical school after she finishes her undergrad degree at Dartmouth.

Matt Kelly is on his way to Christchurch, New Zealand,

where he will be presenting and moderating a session at the annual meeting of the International Society for Arthroplasty Registries. He has written several papers over the years utilizing data from the Kaiser Permanente Joint Replacement Registry, where he serves as the lead for Southern California, and has presented this research in numerous countries.

Cecilia Clemans said her son, Owen, who is a freshman at Wake Forest, is planning a career in medicine. She is now the most senior partner in her practice and spends most of her clinical time in a mentoring role at Dartmouth Health in Manchester/Bedford, New Hampshire, delivering babies and teaching robotic surgery. She is seeing the light of retirement!

Mark Ellerkman lives with his wife, Ariane, on a 25-acre farm in Baltimore County, Maryland, along with two horses, too many sheep and barn cats to count, a couple of pigs, and some good laying hens (which is a good thing right now). Ariane is a family practice physician who has her own integrative holistic medical practice. They have a daughter, Sophia, who graduated from Denison University last year with a double major in environmental studies and global health and came ever so close to making it to nationals as a sprinter in track and field. She is spending this spring traveling through Vietnam and Cambodia before moving into the next chapter in her life. Richard

continues to serve as director of urogynecology/reconstructive pelvic surgery at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. He has a busy referral practice and enjoys teaching fellows and residents but finds himself spending more and more time at their second home in Costa Rica surfing and enjoying the stress-free life.

Ariel Vitali writes that he and Terry have been married now for 18-plus years. His daughter Anya is a visiting fellow at Cornell’s Department of Archeology. His younger daughter Sarah is working on her second MFA at the University of Central Florida and has worked as an actor, dramaturge, and jewelry artist, as well as an activist for Latino/a, Jewish, and LGBTQ+ causes. One of Ariel’s personal joy-related projects last year involved seeing at least one stage musical a month, whether local, regional, or getting up to see something on Broadway. And in the spirit of remaining unrepentant nerds, Ariel and Terry will set sail on Star Trek: The Cruise VIII, going to Mexico and Belize.

Ariel also reports that “I’ve now

been at Sheppard Pratt for over six years, still working as an inpatient psychiatrist, but was transferred to two other units. I never thought I’d ever want to practice addiction psychiatry, but they needed a second MD at our dual-diagnosis unit, and I’m fitting in perfectly, especially with the staff and colleagues I have worked with in the past but on other units. It’s steady and stable work, and I intend to retire from this place— someday.”

John Bassi is currently enjoying working at St Paul’s School in New Hampshire. He says he is having the “best years of my educational life!”

Steve Brada is still in Wisconsin, working with the same anesthesiology group in Green Bay that he has been part of since 2001, and he remains blissfully married to Jacki, the labor and delivery nurse from Hitchcock that Josh Yamamoto made him ask out in the middle of third year. As soon as the last two of his five children went off to college in 2022, they left the mean streets of Green Bay in favor of a 3,200-person lakeside town about 30 minutes away. Yes, there’s a short commute (“traffic” = getting stuck behind a milk truck on the county highway), but he says it’s worth it to have your backyard be a cliff looking out over Lake Michigan and the entire town within walking distance.

Steve is not quite ready to retire (see the mention above of two of five children still being in college), but he and his wife are taking more time off for traveling

(Japan, New Zealand, Egypt). Otherwise, he occupies himself cycling, hiking, kayaking, and puttering around his vacation home a few hours away. Also, this past year, he fulfilled a lifelong dream and finally wrote a real novel (it’s just about finalized), which he reports was immensely gratifying. He writes, “In the meantime, if you ever find yourself in northeastern Wisconsin, please look me up!”

Angie Patel Erdrich is working on illustrations for a new children’s book about a boy who meets some caterpillars. Her first book illustration job was Josie Dances by Denise Lajimodiere, which was published in 2021. Angie reports that she is still an avid gardener and is not ready to retire from medicine anytime soon. Her illustrations are amazing! Jodi Wenger is heading into empty-nest territory, with one child at Reed and another soon to attend Vassar. But her special-education son continues to lives at home, so her nest will not be completely empty. Sadly, Jodi and her family said goodbye to their dog in December after a long and energetic life. Like many of you, Jody is thinking about what she wants next. What are you all wanting? Good question, Jodi!

I ask that question of myself all the

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time. Medicine is stressful. I developed idiopathic optic neuritis two years ago, which has left me with permanent visual loss, halting my microsurgical career. The loss of my ability to

perform microsurgery has diminished my feeling of worth as an ophthalmologist, but it also made me a more compassionate physician. The disease has also made me stop putting off my bucket list trip— my husband, Tom, and I are heading to New Zealand.

Kimberly Mooney-McNulty

95I hope spring is finding all of you feeling refreshed and looking forward to some warmer weather. I know that I am! I was lucky enough to hear from several of you after my latest request.

Brian Pierce wrote, “Andrea and I are doing well here in Union, Maine. We both lost our moms last year but are excited to have our first two grandchildren due this spring.

“I’m still busy with my practice after adding a pediatrician last summer. We hosted a couple of residents for a DPC (direct primary care) elective, including one from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, which was interesting.”

Steve Holtzman reports the following: “Had a great time at the DMS reunion this past fall seeing old friends. We picked up where we left off decades ago without missing a beat. It was fantastic to see and hear about everyone’s journeys.

“I proposed to Allison Kimpton on February 12. I have a successful start-up that shows educational videos to patients, mostly for interventional

radiology and cardiology. The idea is to take over the educational part of the visit and allow patients to process the information before meeting their doc so they can have more time to discuss specific questions and connect. We are in all of the University of California hospitals, the U of Arizona, MD Anderson, and Emory, to name some of our bigger clients. I also have a new start-up called Turbo Radiology that is launching this spring. It is a way for radiologists to create high-quality reports very fast. And Steve Hilty is doing well in San Luis Obispo. His son Zach is shining at TurboRad!”

Congratulations on the engagement and thanks so much for the pictures. Hope to see you in Hanover again this fall!

Nancy McNulty said, “Things are good here. Cameron is a sophomore at UNC in Chapel Hill and loves it, and Charlie will be going to Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, next year. Ben and I would never have guessed our two kids would end up in North Carolina! Happy to know that they will be near each other.

“I got promoted to full professor, so that’s exciting. Work is going well. We have a new chairman, so lots of changes happening, but all putting our department in the right direction. I continue to teach at the medical school, which I really enjoy.

“Recently went on a ski weekend to Sunday River with Sue Anderegg, Kristin Pisacano Casale, and Kim Mooney-McNulty. It was a ton of fun and they are all doing really well.” Congratulations on your promotion. Can’t wait to see you this fall, Nancy! I am assuming you will be there?

Fingers crossed.

I also heard from Drew and Cecily Peterson. Drew wrote that they “celebrated 30 years of marriage this New Year’s Eve. Now we are the ultimate emptynest people, with both boys at college. It was great to have this event at Park City again this year with the whole clan.

“Chip is finishing his senior year in nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan. He will be staying an extra year for his master’s degree, then joining the workforce with a career in fusion energy development. He will be completing an internship this summer in Denver at Xcimer Energy.

“AJ is a freshman at the University of Georgia in the premedical honors program. He left football as a possible college sport but made the Georgia lacrosse team in the FOGO position. The team is currently undefeated and ranked #6 in the nation.

“Cecily continues to live the good life in primary care in the Duke Health System and is super active at the medical school, teaching for the leadership curriculum and serving on the medical school admissions committee.

“I recently transitioned out of the urology residency program director position after 17 years in the job. I still serve as the vice chair for education for the Department of Urology and continue to run a very busy reconstructive urology practice.” Thanks for the update, Drew! Congratulations on 30 years of marriage and some pretty impressive kids!

Lynn Webster sent an update: “I am doing very well! I left the White River Junction VA hospital in 2023 after nearly

Below: ’95 Cecily and Drew Peterson MED ’95 at Park City with their sons Chip and AJ.

Left: ’95 Lynn Webster MED ’95 in Quebec City.

Right: ’95 Steve Holtzman MED ’95 and Allison Kimpton got engaged in February!

Left: ’95 Kristen Ostrom Hansberry MED ’95 and her family (husband Mark, and kids Matthew, Christopher, Sarah, and Charlie) in Italy in summer 2024.

20 years and did a short stint with a concierge telehealth company called WorldClinic. Not really a good fit. Happily, I stayed in touch with Kristen Hansberry during this time, and she introduced me to key people with Elevance, formerly Anthem. Now I am working remotely for them and still living in New London, New Hampshire. I love my new job doing utilization management for the individual market, in the East primarily, and see many growth possibilities, for which I am grateful. Rich may be retired at this point. He is uncertain, but we are enjoying having him back home and not traveling any more. We did lose our 151/2 year old corgi, Toby, in January, which has left a hole in our family. All five of our other children are doing well otherwise. We have two granddaughters—Vivian, 6, and Violet, 3 months—and Josh and Molly are getting married September 20, 2025. Sadly, I will be missing alumni weekend to be stepmother of the groom. But I will catch up again with everyone in 2030. My kids, Cameron and Emilie, are the youngest of the five and are doing super in life, living nearby in the Boston area. Rich and I had a lovely trip to Italy in September and have just returned from Quebec City’s winter carnival, where we embraced the cold and bonhomie (see picture).

“I wish everyone well in their professional and personal lives. Miss you all!” Thanks so much, Lynn. We are sorry that we will miss you this fall. Congrats on

the new job! It is fun working “with” you.

Peter Millett sends well wishes and is enjoying the snow in Vail, Colorado. Rick Redett also sends his best.

Mark and I finally took the kids to Italy last summer. What a blast! Although it was well over 100 degrees most days, I highly recommend it. It is highly satisfying to have your children thank you for the “best trip of their lives.” Total win. My job as a parent is done! Ha-ha.

Thanks to everyone who sent news! Just a reminder that our reunion (OMG—30 years) is September 19-20 in Hanover. It sounds like a lot of us are empty-nesters now, so no excuses! Looking forward to seeing most of you there!

Kristen O. Hansberry

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Hello, Class of 1999!

Thanks for your patience regarding news of our incredible reunion back in Hanover on September 27-29, 2024. It was a wonderful weekend to reconnect, celebrate, and appreciate the journey since our graduation 25 years ago. We had a great turnout. Friday night there was a welcome reception, with awards given to alumni who continue to make a huge impact on their communities and beyond. A highlight was seeing Mike Mahoney and Dr. Joe O’Donnell

reunite. Remember—sharing is caring! On Saturday, many of us met to take a tour of the medical school campus. The anatomy lab has come a long way since 1995, with a ventilation system and digital upgrades. Saturday afternoon we had a memorial service In Chilcott Auditorium in honor of Paul Morton, who passed away on July 16, 2024, in his adoptive hometown of Dillon, Colorado. Please read his obituary to appreciate his amazing life: https://dartgo. org/PaulMorton99. A beloved husband, devoted father, and cherished friend, Paul is survived by his wife, Rebekah Layne Zaemisch, MD, and two children, Gabriel and Varenna, in addition to his parents and many other family members. Erik White and I took turns reading his obituary to the group and had a live Zoom call with Jonathan Birnkrant, MED ’00, Heather Wolford, and Geoff Emry. Paul’s family shared some pictures that we projected, and some members of our class shared stories. It was emotional but necessary to reflect on the loss of this great man. Our class then joined other classes for a great dinner at the Hanover Inn. Serge Kaska inspired a few of us to rent a house in Hanover, where we had an after-party. It was fantastic to have a space to hang out and catch up on our families and careers. Our class is full of incredible people. I hope everyone is well, and I look forward to any updates.

Danielle Tobia Albushies

00It’s been 25 years! Come join the reunion on September 19-20! If you didn’t get my email about it, please reach out to me at mayamland@ gmail.com so I can

make sure you are on my list. I heard from so many of you. Even Pascale Anglade is trying to make it there in September from the UAE!

It was great to hear updates from folks as they replied. Here is one from Kris Parke in Santa Fe, New Mexico: “I am seeing patients and still fighting the good fight and am the executive physician of ambulatory care and clinical informatics over our regional medical center. I totally agree that, although I think I’m right out of residency, hiring docs for whom I could totally be their mom is humbling! My two boys are 15 and 11, and my wife is the director of the local animal shelter.”

And this came from Elizabeth Wolfe: “I’m still living in Grantham, New Hampshire, and now work at the VA in White River Junction.”

Please come ready to chant, sing, and dance with your classmates of ’00. Bring a clean boot for beverages—whether it’s still Schlitz or is now O’Doul’s.

Maya Mitchell Land

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Brett Young, MD, MED '06, was recently named Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nationally recognized as an academic clinician for pregnant patients with obstetrical complications and maternal and fetal disorders, Brett has mentored medical students and faculty members, is a sought-after speaker across the country, and has published dozens of clinical studies.

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I hope 2025 has been going well for you and yours. Our reunion in the fall of 2024 was well attended. It was great to catch up with classmates. I am glad to say that long after the whole thing was over, we were the only class that hung around to keep socializing. A bunch of people continued the festivities at a local bar. There was an apparently wonderful hike early the next morning as well. We had classmates come in from all over the East Coast, as well as California, South Dakota, Puerto Rico, Washington, and Colorado! A time was had.

Trevor Braden, who couldn’t make the reunion, wrote in with a big announcement: “My wife, Kate, and I are happily raising two children. Nigel just turned 10 and Beatrix is nearly 6. They are wonderful and kind children and I cannot believe my luck! After 16 years working as both a primary care physician and hospitalist in Maine, we have decided to pick up the family and move to New Zealand, starting this summer. We have been itching for a new big adventure, and I will be working in primary care on the North Island in a town called Tauranga. It will be hard to leave the Maine winter, as we love to ski, skate, and hike wintry peaks, but I am looking forward to raising children in a different culture, surfing more, and seeing a different part of the world. I am afraid I have been remiss in keeping in touch with such a wonderful class, but I think it is my nature to get caught up in my present. I do miss you all!” We wish you all the best in

this new chapter, Trevor. Send pictures from New Zealand once you settle in!

Todd Burdette, who did make it to the reunion, also sent in a wonderful update: “Just did a week exploring Death Valley and Joshua Tree on motorcycle last week of February. Highly recommend. Getting ready to go to Guatemala with Andy Smith and Peter and Shimae Fitzgibbons for a week of fun work.

“Mostly loving my work these days but realizing I may only have 10 years left to do it. Avery harassing me for my age definitely tracks. Still feeling inspired by seeing many of you at the reunion this year. I loved meeting your spouses and children and learning about your careers and lives. Definitely

Shout Out

Shout Out 2018

Lars Matkin MED ‘18

Lars Matkin MED ’18 sits with patient Michael Craig, post-surgery, in January at South Peninsula Hospital. The surgery marks the first time in recent years that a total hip replacement was done locally. (Photo courtesy of South Peninsula Hospital)

looking forward to the next one.” Todd, much respect to you on a motorcycle in Death Valley. Looking forward to hearing more about your adventures.

Moksha Ranasinghe also reached out. She is in neurosurgical private practice in Los Angeles and recently opened a surgery center. Congratulations!

I encourage everyone to keep the updates coming. Stay safe and be well! Ndidi.

Stay safe and be well! Ndidi. Ndidiamaka Onwubalili

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06I am officially taking over as class secretary. I will kick things off by recounting some exciting news—John Raser, aka “The Raze,” and I recently summited Mount Everest. We had talked about doing this together all the way back during our residency days in Lawrence, despite planning setbacks. I credit the gentle heart of Andrew Seisennop in making this amazing accomplishment possible. After years of rigorous conditioning and training, I was able to make it to the top— although I do admit that John carried me the last mile. John actually took a month off his usual everyday training regimen before the ascent, because he wanted it to be, and I quote, “not too easy.” Unfortunately, no photo evidence of this accomplishment exists, as The Raze destroyed my phone on the hike up because he said it was making me “mentally weak.” In closing, please share your updates with me. And Greg Dadekian, if you’re reading this: XOXO.

Jean-Paul Dedam

Sophia Allen, MPH ’22 , was promoted to research operations manager for the Dartmouth Health Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.

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The Class of 2019 is hard at work!

Congrats to those who have finished residencies and fellowships and started practices. And a strong “keep it up” to those still in training— you’re almost there! A special shout-out to our classmate Carrie Bryant, MED ’20, who is currently a pediatric rheumatology fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital. Carrie wants to complete a pediatric sports medicine fellowship and take care of all our kids’ MSK issues. She has lived with (and conquered!) MS for 20 years and is both commemorating this milestone and giving back to MS research by running the Providence Half Marathon this spring. She can use our support: From the Class of 2019, you got this, Carrie!

Kathleen Leinweber

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PhD & MS

Fred Dick (Biochemistry PhD ’88—Trumpower Lab): “My wife, Karen Townsend, was also a PhD graduate from Dartmouth. She got her degree in pharmacology—and toxicology in 1998. I’m writing to say that she passed away, after battling cancer, on April 7, 2024. Here is a link to her obituary: https:// dartgo.org/KarenTownsend98.”

Nicole Soucy (Pharmacology and Toxicology PhD ’03— Barchowsky Lab): Last September, Nicole had the chance to return to Dartmouth for the first time in many years to attend the 3D Symposium (Dartmouth Device Development). It truly felt like coming home for her, as did her recent relocation back to Maine after nearly 30 years following her husband Mike’s military career. She continues to work as a senior director of global toxicology, biocompatibility, and chemical characterization at Boston Scientific and was thrilled to learn about the rich medical device ecosystem that

has been cultivated at Geisel since her graduation in ’03.

Jordan Isaacs (Microbiology and Immunology PhD ’24— Rosato Lab): Jordan is currently working as a technology specialist at Foley Hoag in Boston and will be taking the patent bar exam this spring. In addition, last summer, she got engaged to Adam Crego (Psychological and Brain Sciences PhD ’19)!

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Kira Chaney (MPH ’03) was recently promoted to be the director of product management for Blue Circle Health. Blue Circle Health is a nonprofit that provides free telehealth care for adults living with type 1 diabetes in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and five other states. In her role as director of product management, Kira oversees the strategic product roadmap that drives exceptional patient experience and improved clinical outcomes at Blue Circle Health.

Daniela DiMarco (MPH ’09) is an assistant professor of medicine in the infectious diseases division at the University of Rochester. This academic year held a few professional milestones for her, including being named associate medical director of the UR Center for Community Practice, receiving the New York State Department of Health Commissioner’s Special Recognition Award for work in the field of sexually transmitted infections, and receiving a

five-year CDC grant as principal investigator for a project titled “Capacity Building Assistance for HIV Prevention Programs to End the HIV Epidemic in the US.”

Devyn Thurber (MPH ’11) coauthored a chapter on diabetes management in a textbook titled Primary Care of Children with Chronic Conditions. The first edition of the textbook was released in July 2024. For the past 10 years, Devyn has practiced as a pediatric nurse practitioner in primary care and diabetes management at a federally qualified health center

on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Cheryl Shefchik (MPH ’18) and family welcomed a healthy baby girl on February 11, 2025. mom, dad, baby, and big sister are all doing great and adjusting to the new family dynamic.

On a public health note, the hospital provided Cheryl with a “post-birth alert” bracelet to identify her in the event of an emergency—an effort to improve maternal outcomes by recognizing the significant biological changes and care needs following childbirth.

Cameron Francis (MPH ’20) graduated from law school

in May of 2024, passed the bar, and was admitted to the Idaho State Bar in September 2024. He joined a firm in Eagle, Idaho, called Garrett Richardson, PLLC. Among other things, Cameron has worked with his colleagues to represent physicians in medical malpractice litigation. Additionally, Cameron welcomed his second child in September of 2024.

Ashleigh Bennett (MPH ’20) recently started “You Can’t Do It: The Podcast,” where she hosted alums Lauren MastersonRodriguez, MPH ’20, and Hema Karunakaram, MPH ’20, for her most recent episodes. Check out the podcast: https://dartgo.org/ AshleighBennettMPH20Podcast Amol Saxena (MPH ’23) and several other podiatrists recently performed surgery at Benjamin Bloom National Hospital in San Salvador as part of Operation Footprint, at the invitation of the chief of the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics there, Odir Amaya. The team performed 13 procedures, operating on neglected clubfoot, vertical talus, and deformities due to cerebral palsy. Pictured are Neeta Hasmukh (from Texas), Matt Roberts

(from Oklahoma), Bhavesh Shah (from Texas), Marc Benard (from California and North Carolina), Amol Saxena (from California), and Maria Cifone (from New York).

Sara Rodriguez (MPH ’24) writes: “I have been admitted to a DrPH program, and I will be starting in the fall. I have yet to decide which program I will choose but will be happy to share that for the next update.”

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Residents & Fellows

Simon Khagi (Internal Medicine ’12): In 2023, Simon was named medical director of neurological oncology at the Hoag Family Cancer Institute in Newport Beach, California. In September 2024, he went on to co-found ENZ Biopharma, a biotech start-up focusing on novel drug delivery systems. In addition, he will be completing his MBA degree later this year.

Ogechi Agogbuo (HematologyOncology ’27): “A new member was added to my family. My newest baby was born on the eve of Valentine’s Day 2024. Zion of Joy had her first winter and Christmas experiences in Lebanon, New Hampshire.”

Harold Sox (Internal Medicine ’72) retired 51 years after completing his medical residency at Dartmouth. He worked at the VA, Dartmouth Medical School, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. He lives in West Lebanon with his wife, Carol. Freddy Nguyen (Transfusion

Medicine ’23) has co-founded Nine Diagnostics, a company pioneering AI-enabled nanosensor technology to advance functional precision medicine. His work focuses on developing a platform that uses carbon nanotube sensors to analyze molecular interactions in patient blood serum, creating disease-specific spectral profiles by detecting changes in proteomic and metabolomic markers. This technology enables earlier disease detection, real-time monitoring of treatment effectiveness, and optimized therapy selection. Over the past year, Nine Diagnostics has gained momentum, securing funding from the Merck Digital Sciences Studio and the American Cancer Society’s BrightEdge Entrepreneurs Program, as well as earning a Golden Ticket to LabCentral in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a year of lab space sponsored by Novo Nordisk. Matthew Rasmussen (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship ’25), after completing his fellowship, will be joining the Dartmouth Health child and adolescent psychiatry faculty this summer.

Editor

Left page: TDI Cheryl Shefchik MPH ’18 and family welcomed a healthy baby girl on February 11, 2025.

IN MEMORIAM

The following deaths have been reported to us as of October 1, 2025. To report the death of an alum, please contact Annette Achilles at 603-646-5297 or Geisel.Alumni.Relations@Dartmouth.edu.

ALUMNI

Robert M. Oneal, MD, MED ’55

Lloyd B. Tepper, MD, MED ’55

John F. Barlow, MD, MED ’56

Kevin G. Ryan, MD, MED ’57

Alan M. Larimer, MD, MED ’62

Kenneth E. Quickel, MD, MED ’62

Eugene R. Lucier, MD, MED ’65

Lawrence R. Muroff, MD, MED ’65

Paul E. Bates, MD, MED ’66

Frederick L. Trowbridge, MD, MED ’66

John A. Zaia, MD, MED ’66

Martha J. Parmington, MD, MED ’86

Peregrine B. Spiegel, MD, MED ’95

Christine M. McDonough, PhD, MD, MED ’03, MED ’07

FACULTY

Allen J. Dietrich

Robert E. Porter

Susan R. Pullen

Alison Ricker

RESIDENTS/FELLOWS

Nicholas P. Skiadas, MD, FEL ’10

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