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1940s
RALPH J. SPIEGL (’48) has joined the board of governors of the Stanford
University Alumni Association for a four-year term.
1950s
CARL F. VON ESSEN (’52) writes "We have moved from Marion on
the shores of Buzzards Bay ‘into town’ to Cambridge, Mass.,
in order to simplify lifestyle, reduce chattel and enjoy the activities
of this marvelous city of Boston."
1960s
DANIEL C. IHDE (’69), who is retired, now lives in Albuquerque,
N.M., with his wife, Mary. He received the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award
for Lung Cancer Research in September 2000 for "important contributions
to lung cancer research which have led to a reduction in mortality from
this major disease." The prize was presented in Tokyo at the triennial
World Conference on Lung Cancer sponsored by the International Association
for the Study of Lung Cancer.
AUGUSTUS WHITE III (’61) is the recipient of two honors announced
in August 2001. He was appointed master of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society,
one of four academic societies at Harvard Medical School, and he was named
the Arthur R. Shands Jr. lecturer by the American Orthopaedic Association.
He is a professor of orthopedic surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center, Boston, and a member of the Health Sciences and Technology faculty
at Harvard Medical School.
1970s
DIANE S. SILVER (resident ’79) co-authored "Acne rosacea occurring
after carbon dioxide laser treatment" in the Journal of the American
Academy of Dermatology (May 2001) — with two of her sons, Eli, who
is a fourth-year medical student at UC-Irvine, and Adam, who is a first-year
medical student at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in
Vallejo, Calif.
MADLYN STEIN (’79) was featured in the September 2000 EMJ (Engineering
and Mining Journal) along with several other women working in the mining
industry. She worked from 1982 through 2000 as an occupational physician,
providing medical consultation services to several mining companies. Her
work took her to Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and South America; she
evaluated health risk, health facilities and delivery and provision of
health care in 32 countries visited. She also planned health facilities
for local nationals, expatriate populations and visitors. Now she directs
and owns Travel Doctor Two, a San Francisco travel medicine clinic providing
full immunization and travelers health services.
1980s
RICHARD P. LIFTON (’82), who is chair of the Department of Genetics
at Yale, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in May 2001.
PAMELA STEELE (’83) and Alan Theo-dore Sherman were married Oct.
20 at Washington National Cathedral, D.C. She is a cardiologist with the
Department of Veterans Affairs and the groom is an associate professor
of computer science at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County.
KEVIN STONE (resident ’81), an orthopedic surgeon specializing in
knee and shoulder injuries, is founder and chair of The Stone Foundation
for Sports Medicine and Arthritis Research and The Stone Clinic, in San
Francisco. He founded and serves as CEO of two venture-funded start-ups:
CrossCart, an orthopedic device company, and Joint Juice, producer of
a flavored glucosamine drink. He enjoys windsurfing under the Golden Gate
Bridge as well as skiing and bike riding with his wife Susan and daughters
Jennifer and Juliana.
1990s
LISA M. GIBBS (’96) completed a geriatrics/faculty development fellowship
at UC-Davis, where she is now a faculty member. She works with the Center
for Healthy Aging at UC-Davis Medical Center.
HOSSEIN JADVAR (resident ’96, ’98) completed fellowships in
positron emission tomography and nuclear oncology at Harvard Medical School
and returned to the West Coast to join the faculty at USC as an assistant
professor of radiology and of biomedical engineering. He is also a visiting
associate in bioengineering at CalTech and the recipient of a Nuclear
Medicine Tetalman Young Investigator Award. He and his wife live in Pasadena
and visit the Bay Area often. He says, "I miss my days at the Farm
and always look forward to my next visit there."
DON R. WOLFF (’98) is chief resident in ophthalmology in New York.
He and his wife welcomed a new son, Jay, who was born April 18, 2001,
and weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces.
Obituaries
GOODWIN ELLIOTT, a prominent San Francisco Peninsula pediatrician for
more than three decades, died Oct. 23 of cancer at his home in Portola
Valley, Calif., at the age of 78. He earned his Stanford medical degree
in 1947 and continued a long association with the university, enjoying
Stanford football and helping catalog a huge collection of artifacts at
the old Stanford Museum after the Loma Prieta earthquake forced its closing
in 1989.
PAUL F. LESTROHAN died Aug. 3 at the age of 91. He was born in San Francisco,
received his MD in 1937 and earned a law degree from the University of
San Francisco in 1952. During his long medical career he served as an
emergency physician with the SF Public Health Department, maintained a
private practice in urology at 450 Sutter St., volunteered in the U.S.
Naval Reserve Medical Corps and served as a battlefield physician in World
War II.
ROBERT C. RUBENSTEIN, class of 1952, died Dec. 11 after a brief illness.
He was 75. He did his residency at Yale Medical School and went on to
become a professor of psychiatry at Yale. He served as co-director of
Yale Psychiatric Institute until 1973, when he became medical director
of inpatient psychiatric services at Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco.
When he retired from practice 10 years ago, he began a second career as
a fine arts painter.
GEORGE F. SOLOMON, an innovative leader in the field of psychoneuroimmunology,
died Oct. 7 in Los Angeles of a stroke. He was 69. The medical school
alumnus (class of 1955B) served on the medical faculties at Stanford (1964-75),
UCLA and UCSF. He conducted pioneering research on the effects of psychological
factors on diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and he linked stress to
altered immunity.
PAUL E. STRANDJORD, founding chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine
at the University of Washington, died of a stroke June 29 at the age of
70. He received his Stanford medical degree in 1959. During his career,
he served actively in the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and
Scientists, which established the annual Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator
Award in his honor.
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