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2002 Lasker Awards for Stanford medical Alumni

Two Stanford School of Medicine alumni received Lasker Awards for Medical Research in 2002: RANDY W. SCHEKMAN, PhD (class of 1975), shared the basic medical research award with James E. Rothman, PhD, for the discovery of the universal molecular machinery that orchestrates the budding and fusion of membrane vesicles; and BELDING H. SCRIBNER, MD (class of 1945), inventor of the "Scribner shunt," shared the clinical research award with Willem J. Kolff, MD, PhD, for the development of renal hemodialysis, which changed kidney failure from a fatal to a treatable disease. The Lasker Awards, often called "America's Nobels," represent the nation's most prestigious honor in biomedical research. Schekman is now a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at UC-Berkeley and Scribner is a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

1940s

GENEST DE L'ARBRE, '45 (resident), writes "much enjoy reading Class Notes [and] could use more such news!" and adds "our two grandchildren are over 21!"

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1950s

F. WILLIAM BLAISDELL, '52, received in October the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor given by the American College of Surgeons. He was honored as an "eminent scholar, leader, surgeon and mentor"; he was recognized for his original contributions in the care of patients with peripheral vascular disease, shock and thromboembolism and for his service to the ACS and the field of surgery. He was earlier recognized at a Pacific Coast Surgical Association meeting for his contributions to vascular surgery, trauma care and surgical education.

HAROLD J. FORNEY, '56, has retired from orthopedic surgery but still teaches part time at UCSD Medical School and does volunteer work overseas. He and his wife of 47 years divide their time between homes in San Diego and Maine.

IVAN KOCHAN, '58 (PhD), who retired in 1989, devoted three years to working on the first Ukrainian textbook of immunology, which was approved in 1994 by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine for use in medical schools and biology departments. In summer 2002 Kochan and his wife Jean spent two weeks as guests at King Daniel Medical University in Lviv, Ukraine, where he presented his research. Now he spends his time in Grass Valley, Calif., writing his memoirs and creating wood carvings.

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1960s

JEROME ENGEL Jr., '65 (MD), '66 (PhD), a professor of neurology and neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the UCLA Seizure Disorder Center, was named to the new Jonathan Sinay Chair in Epilepsy. Engel received in 1999 the William G. Lennox Award from the American Epilepsy Society and the Pierre Gloor Award from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.

JOHN EPLEY, '65 (resident), won the Hallpike-Nylen Prize, the highest international award for clinical research in the field of neurotology. The prize was awarded by the Sweden-based International Barany Society for the most significant contribution to clinical research. He is known for developing the Epley maneuvers, a procedure used worldwide to treat benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, the most common debilitating form of vertigo.

DONALD J. PROLO, '61, completed a two-year term as president of the Western Neurosurgical Society with the organization's meeting in Victoria, B.C., Canada.

MARIA V. SMITH, '68, writes "I am celebrating a first grandchild: Isaac Elliott McKenna arrived 4/17. Kids are doing great and I am still enjoying private psychiatric practice in Concord. See you all in 2003!"

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1970s

MICHAEL J. GELFAND, '71, chief of nuclear medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, is president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, a 13,000-member professional organization of nuclear medicine physicians, scientists and technologists.

EDWARD P. GELMANN, '76, professor of medicine and oncology at Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University, was appointed the Dr. William M. Scholl Chair in Medical Oncology. Gelmann conducts basic and clinical research in prostate cancer. He is principal investigator of the Prostate, Lung, Colon and Ovarian Cancer Screening Site at Georgetown and the National Lung Screening Trial.

BEVERLY E. HASHIMOTO, '78, was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology. She is section head for ultrasound in the Department of Radiology at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Washington Medical School and the Seattle University School of Science and Engineering.

MACK ROACH III, '79, was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology. He is a professor of radiation oncology, medical oncology and urology at UCSF.

JOHN A. ROMERO, '78 (MA), is married and has two daughters. He lives in Chevy Chase, Md., and provides physical therapy full time in his private practice Sports and Orthopaedic Therapy Services.

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1980s

LINDA D. BOSSERMAN, '81, announces "I am happily remarried to Judge Ted Piatt after we both lost our first spouses" and adds "Eric will enter USC to study film and Alex will be a sophomore and a star runner." She writes that medical oncology practice continues to be "busy and challenging."

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1990s

KARYN AALAMI-GOODMAN, '99, wrote that she and her husband were expecting their first child in December 2002. She is a fourth-year radiation oncology resident at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City.

LOUIS M. BLAKE-INADA, '92, writes "My years at Stanford changed my life forever! Go Cardinal!!" He is with the Swedish Heart Institute in Seattle.

ROBERT B. BURNS, '91, and CAROL L. OZAWA, '93 (resident), announce the birth of their seventh child, Brian Francis Tadao Ozawa Burns, born at Stanford Hospital Oct. 19. He joins six siblings, ages 11, 9, 7, 5, 3 and 1. Burns works full time as senior manager at R2 Technology in Sunnyvale, Calif., and part time in adult urgent care at Chaboya Clinic in San Jose. Ozawa directs the newborn nursery at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.

HARRISON S. CHOW, '94, was elected president and CEO of the East Bay Anesthesiology Medical Group, a 22-physician practice covering the Oakland/Berkeley area.

JAMES PATRICK DOLAN, '95, is enjoying life as a laparoscopic fellow and "enjoying life even better with Marian and baby Patrick!"

IRIS GIBBS, '95, was honored by the University of Delaware, her undergraduate alma mater. In October, she received a Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement, which recognizes alumni who have exhibited great promise in their professional or public service activities.

GREGORY T. GULDNER, '97, is now the co-director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center.

ERIC HEIDEN, '91, five-time Olympic gold medalist in speed skating in 1980, who received his undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford, is an orthopedic surgeon at UC-Davis Sports Medicine Clinic and an associate professor at UC-Davis Medical School. Heiden, who was profiled in the San Francisco

Chronicle, Sept. 22, 2002, is a team physician in amateur and professional sports.

KRIS C. KEALEY, '91, was appointed chair of the Department of Medicine of Seton Medical Center, Daly City, Calif.

PETER C. KRAUSE, '96, announces the birth of Lucy Elizabeth Krause, Feb. 23, 2002.

PATRICIA A. MORENO, '90, writes that she is excited about the birth of her first child, a girl in April 2002, and continues enjoying private practice in Alamo, Calif..

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Obituaries

George J. Ferris, MD, class of 1941, Aug. 18, 2002.

Stewart B. Gross, MD, class of 1951, Aug. 27, 2002.

Glenn W. Koford, MD, class of 1939, Aug. 14, 2002.

Clyn Smith Jr., MD, class of 1944A, June 17, 2002.

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