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Volume 16 Number 4, SUMMER 1999


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C L A S S N O T E S

 

1930s


 

JOSEPH A. DAVIS, '38, notes that he is now working as the only pediatrician (full-time/volunteer) at the Charles Drew Medical Center in East Palo Alto. "Love it," he adds.

 

 

1940s


 

GEORGE WATT CHAPMAN, '44, spent 19 years in the Canadian Army as a certified specialist in general surgery, after which he practiced general surgery in Ottawa. He retired 15 years ago and is now an "enthusiastic gardener and amateur musician."

 

J. MAYFIELD HARRIS, '49, who is still practicing "full-half time" orthopedics in Los Altos, writes that "oddly enough I still enjoy it even with HMOs, PPOs, etc."

 

 

1950s


 

MARJORIE E. BELKNAP, '52, was named "Physician of the Year" (1998) by the Marin Medical Society "for her many years of service to her profession and the community."

 

MARTIN C. JOHNSON, '59, has retired after 30 plus years in private practice as a pediatric neurosurgeon in Portland. He has also retired from the active reserve, U.S. Army Medical Corps. His son, Martin II, is in practice as an internist/pulmonary specialist in Salem, Ore., and his son, Kurt, is a business consultant for Dave Clark International.

 

ROBERT LEE JOHNSON, '59, a clinical professor of otolaryngology at UCSF and former chief of otolaryngology at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, travels extensively, "most recently to Thailand, Cambodia and India." His hobbies are tennis and photography.

ALAN C. MERCHANT, '55B, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Knee Society (November 1998) and served as guest editor on "Patellofemoral Problems in Athletes" in Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine (vol. 7, no. 2, April 1999).

 

FREDERICK MIMMACK, '57, was promoted in rank a year ago to clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.

 

 

1960s


 

STUART ALAN COPANS, '69, writes: "In February this year I left the hospital where I have worked for the past 22 years to begin work as a 'circuit-riding child psychiatrist.' I'm leaving some time for writing, illustrating and drawing nasty cartoons about managed care. It should be fun."

 

PHILIP I. MCNAMEE, '62, has been elected president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART), which oversees all in vitro fertilization clinics in the United States. Currently, he is serving as president-elect and will be installed as president at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) in Toronto in September 1999. He is also the program director and medical director of the Pacific In Vitro Fertilization Institute in Honolulu and he is on the clinical faculty of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (University of Hawaii).

 

JOHN FRANCIS WEBER, '65, notes that the Webers have now lived in Southern California for 17 years (after nine years in Montana). Their son, Chris (who did not go to Stanford), is beginning his medical practice at PM&R in Springfield, Mo., accompanied by his wife Carla, RN, MA, whom he met at Oklahoma University College of Medicine. Their daughter, Julia, is nine months old.

 

 

1970s


 

ANDREW DANNENBERG, '79, is currently director of the Division of Applied Public Health Training at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, with responsibility for three major training programs including the CDC's well-known Epidemic Intelligence Service ("The Disease Detectives").

 

CLYDE ALAN FARRIS, '73, is in private orthopedic surgery practice in Oregon. He notes: "My daughter, Catherine, is a senior in high school and my son, Michael, is a sophomore. My free time is spent doing forestry (planting only, no cutting)."

 

 

1980s


 

SYLVINE BARER JEROME, '86, has a private practice in psychiatry in San Francisco. She also works with the Bay Area Breast Care Program, where she provides psychiatric care for women with breast cancer.

 

ROGER J. LEWIS, '87 (MD, PhD), a researcher at the Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute, Torrance, Calif., and director of research in the Department of Medicine, won the 1999 Weitzman Award, which recognizes outstanding young investigators for "meritorious clinical or basic research in the biomedical sciences."

 

FRANK LEXA, '85, who has been away for awhile, just received his copy of Stanford Medicine. He sends us this update: "I got married on January 1st to Tanya Humphreys (also an MD) on Orpheus Island in Australia. We are living in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, and would love to hear from classmates. Cheers, Frank."

 

HOWARD M. PRICE, '83, who is now living in Northborough, Mass., and is in urology practice at Milford Hospital, writes that he is "missing Stanford."

 

1990s


 

LEE BARDWELL, '92 (PhD in cancer biology), has accepted a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology at the University of California, Irvine.

 

JILL LUNDE JONES, '91, is on the faculty in the Division of General Medicine at Vanderbilt University and TIM JONES, '90, is an epidemic intelligence service officer with the CDC. Tim just returned from three months in Yemen assisting with the World Health Organization's polio eradication effort.

 

ANDREW PEARLE, '98, writes that he is "set to begin his second year of residency. After finishing surgical internship at New York Hospital, he will start his orthopedic training at Hospital for Special Surgery in July 1999 [and] also set to embark on married life; he and his fiancee, Katherine Hays, will be wed in October 1999 in Telluride, Colo."

 

DANIEL YUNG-HO SZE, '91, after finishing a residency in San Francisco, returned to Stanford for a fellowship and joined the faculty. He writes: "I am now the lowest-paid interventional radiologist in the country, but even so it's a great place to be. My 17-month-old daughter, Katherine, will be entering Stanford in the fall[!] She will be allowed to start dating at age 30."

 

JEANNETTE WOLFE, '93 (EM residency), is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Tufts University Medical School, where she "enjoys working with interns and residents." She and her husband, David Gerwe (a former Stanford Development and School of Earth Science employee), have a son, Ryan Christopher, who turned one in December 1998. O TO ROSANNE SPECTOR, Stanford University Medical Center Office of Communications, 701 Welch Rd., Suite 2207,

Palo Alto, CA 94304 (fax: 650-723-7172; e-mail: medmag at stanford.edu).


OBITUARIES

 


 

 

Howard Hammond, MD, School of Medicine, class of 1938, died April 5 in Greenbrae at the age of 86. Hammond, onetime president of the Marin Medical Society and partner in the San Rafael Medical Group, was Marin's first specialist in obstetrics and gynecology.

His daughter, Ann Hammond Clark, noted that "Dad loved Stanford and the Medical School deeply. I think it formed a significant part of the core of his life."

Hammond, who was born in Stockton, attended Stockton High School, Stanford University and the School of Medicine. He married the former Elizabeth Fallows in November 1938, trained at Stanford Hospital and San Francisco General Hospital and in 1941 he began his medical practice in San Rafael. With the start of World War II, he joined the U.S. Army as a flight surgeon. After the War he returned to Marin and continued in the practice of gynecology and obstetrics. He retired in 1984.

A renowned silversmith, Hammond won first prize at the American Physicians Art Association in 1952 and he exhibited his work in a one-man show at the Haggin Museum in Stockton just three years ago.

He was a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He served as president of the San Francisco Gynecological Society and as director of the Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society.

Memorial contributions may be made to Marin General Hospital, Stanford School of Medicine or a favorite charity.

 

 

William Kuzell, MD, School of Medicine, class of 1941, died April 12 in San Francisco at the age of 84. Kuzell, a rheumatologist who pioneered in the clinical development of treatments for arthritis, was a clinical professor emeritus of medicine at Stanford.

Born in Great Falls, Mont., in 1914, he attended high school in Clarkdale, Ariz., was a student at the University of Grenoble, Switzerland, and at Lingnan University in Canton, China. He graduated from Stanford University and the School of Medicine. During World War II, he served as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps with the Sixth Armored Division in North Africa, Italy and in southern France, where he met his wife. After the War, he opened a private practice in San Francisco.

With Frank Gerbode, MD, he co-founded the Presbyterian Medical Center, which later became the California Pacific Medical Center. While chief of rheumatology at Presbyterian, Kuzell carried out his pioneering work on butazolidine, a treatment for arthritis. He founded Oxford Laboratories Inc., of Foster City, which subsequently merged into G.D. Searle & Co., of Skokie, Ill.

Kuzell was founder and director emeritus of the California Pacific Medical Center's Kuzell Institute for Arthritis and Infectious Disease Research, which was named in his honor

"He was revered by both his colleagues and his patients, many of whom were among San Francisco's most prominent citizens," said Lowell Young, MD, current director of the Kuzell Institute.

Among many other honors and affiliations, he was a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American College of Rheumatology.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Kuzell Institute for Arthritis and Infectious Disease, 2200 Webster St., San Francisco 94115, or to a charity of the donor's choice.