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The UI Carver College of Medicine quarterly alumni magazine

Fall 2007

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Alumni News

1940s

Charley F. Gutch (’41 BA, ’43 MD, ’47 R), of Sioux Falls, S.D., retired in 1988 as professor of medicine at the University of South Dakota Medical School. He and his wife, Betty, have a son, John, in Reno, Nev., and two granddaughters and five great-grandsons all in California. Charley’s hobby is narrow gauge railroads and he belongs to the Colorado Railroad Museum and the Rollins Pass Restoration Association.

Clarke W. Mangun Jr. (’40 BA, ’43 MD), of Lenexa, Kan., worked for the American Medical Association, where he established the Physician’s Recognition Award program for participating in a required amount and kind of continuing medical education. He has continuously qualified for the program since it was established in 1969. More than 30,000 physicians are currently holders of the award.

F. Ross McFadden (’40 BA, ’43 MD), of Davenport, Iowa, retired from obstetrics and gynecology in 1986. He enjoys playing golf.

Warren H. Randall (’41 BA, ’43 MD), of Billings, Mont., and Green Valley, Ariz., reports that he and his wife, Molly, sold their house of 55 years in Miles City, Mont., and moved to a retirement community. Their oldest son practices veterinary medicine in a nearby town.

Rodman E. Taber (’41 BA, ’43 MD, ’52 F), of Grand Rapids, Mich., reports that he and his wife, Mary (’45 BS/GN), moved back to the Midwest from Punta Gorda, Fla., in 2003.

William R. Updegraff (’41 BA, ’43 MD) lives with his wife, Terry, in Vero Beach, Fla. He received the St. Francis Hospital Franciscan Award in 2004 and the annual Diamond Gala award from Vassar Brothers Hospital in 1998. He retired in 1999 after 47 years of practice in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Reuben B. Widmer (’43 MD), of Green Valley, Ariz., reports that at 91 he is healthy and able to be the caregiver for his wife, Annabel.

M. Wallace Friedman (’48 MD), of San Francisco, is a retired professor of ophthalmology from University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He and his wife, Faega, spend part of the year in St. Helena, Calif.

Kenneth E. Gudgel (’48 MD) is clinical associate professor emeritus at the University of Washington College of Medicine.

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1950s

Bob S. Arkoff (’50 BA, ’53 MD) retired in 1986 from the practice of radiology, mainly in diagnostic pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital in San Francisco. In retirement he is playing tennis, playing the oboe and taking classes at San Francisco State University.

Dexter H. Hake (’49 BA, ’53 MD), of Los Altos Hills, Calif., reports that he and his wife, Carol, have enjoyed hosting UI medical students.

James A. Holbert (’51 BA, ’53 MD), of Coos Bay, Ore., is a retired orthopaedic surgeon whose longtime hobby is running a 250-acre tree farm.

Dick W. Ulman (’51 BA, ’53 MD), of Florence, Ore., is semi-retired from family practice.

William R. Anderson (’55 BA, ’58 MD, ’62 R), of Bloomington, Ind., reports that he has retired from the practice of obstetrics and gynecology but is a volunteer MD at a local clinic. He enjoys travel, golf, gardening and friends.

Robert Q. Christensen (’55 BA, ’58 MD, ’62 R), of Carroll, Iowa, recently completed 12 years of service to the city, including two years as mayor.

Howard E. Denbo (’58 MD), of San Francisco, discontinued his private practice in cardiology eight years ago but patient demand keeps him in the office four days a week. He and his wife, Lana, enjoy good health and report that their sons are busy and successful. A grandchild is due in January 2008.

Harold E. Eklund (’58 MD) has returned to part-time practice in occupational medicine after seven years in retirement. He and Audrey J. Eklund (’56 BA) live in Urbandale, Iowa.

Patrick E. Garry (’54 BA, ’58 MD), of Elgin, Ill., retired from the practice of anatomic and clinical pathology in 2000. However, he continues as a member of the hospital ethics committee and covers for vacationing pathology colleagues.

Howard P. Hogshead (’54 BA, ’58 MD, ’63 MS, ’63 R), of Jacksonville, Fla., is enjoying semi-retirement. "I visit my cute cubicle at the U.S. Department of Labor two to three times a week," he writes. He and his wife, Janet, travel and spend time with family.

Gordon W. Jacobs (’58 MD, ’63 BA), of Charlotte, N.C., retired from active surgical practice in 2003. He does locum tenens surgery work to help finance medical mission trips to Africa.

Clyde K. Kitchen (’55 BA, ’58 MD, ’62 R) is "almost retired" as an ophthalmologist in Fullerton, Calif. He and Janet (’56 BSN), his wife of 51 years, have five children and 19 great-grandchildren. He has authored a book on eye care, Fact and Fiction of Healthy Vision: Eye Care for Adults and Children.

Leland E. McNeill (’58 MD), of Charleston, Ill., and Las Vegas, Nev., is semi-retired, working part time as a clinical allergy director.

Joan B. Nickol (’56 BA, ’58 MD) continues flying hot air balloons in her retirement. She and her husband, Donald L. Tauke (’60 BS), live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

H. Streeter Shining (’58 MD) retired in 1999 and is active in Black Hills Community Theater as an actor and assistant director. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Rapid City, S.D.

James W. White (’58 MD), of Dubuque, Iowa, has increased his interest in farming since retiring from his otolaryngology practice in 2000. "Now it is weed infestations requiring various remedies and plant diseases that require treatment," he reports.

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1960s

William H.M. Lo (’60 MD) was awarded the 2007 Gold Medal by the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology. He spent 40 years in practice with the St. Vincent Radiological Medical Group in Los Angeles.

David S. Dahl (’61 MS, ’63 MD, ’66 R), of Shorewood, Wis., retired in March 2007 but still teaches bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and does free neurological consultations at an inner-city clinic.

Jim C. Mershon (’60 BA, ’63 MD, ’66 R, ’68 F), of Wichita, Kan., has retired from the practice of invasive cardiology after 30 years. He served as president of the Kansas Heart Association and director of the cardiovascular labs at Via Christi Regional Medical Center.

William D. Shepard (’63 MD), of Inverness, Fla., and Gas City, Ind., is retired from the practice of orthopaedic surgery.

David F. Wilson (’59 BA, ’63 MD), of Portland, Ore., is past president of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society Inc. (aka the Triological Society).

Charles "Chuck" Bendixen (’61 BSME, ’66 MD) is semi-retired after 30 years in family practice and occupational medicine. He fills in for physicians needing time off from various Arizona Indian Health Service facilities. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, and was named Arizona Civil Air Patrol Pilot of the Year in 2003.

Carol K. Tharp Almy (’66 BA, ’68 MD), of Winnetka, Ill., practices dermatology three days a week. On another three days she teaches math, chemistry, literature and the Bible to behavior disabled young people.

Stephen R. Dunn (’68 MD) is chief of urology at the Portland, Ore., VA Medical Center and associate professor of urology at Oregon Health & Sciences University. Prior to that he was in private practice in urology for 25 years in Northern California, followed by two years as an associate professor of urology at UI Hospitals and Clinics.

Linda M. Fahr (’68 MD, ’74 R) retired for 21 weeks and then went back to work as associate professor of radiology at Baylor College of Medicine. She and her husband have two sons and three grandsons.

Lynn A. Benson Glesne (’65 BA, ’68 MD, ’75 R) plans to retire in June 2008 after 11 years of teaching dermatology at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. She was previously in private practice in Alexandria, Minn.

Thomas E. Jessen (’64 BA, ’68 MD), of Newton, Iowa, is in his 33rd year as team physician for the Newton Cardinals football team. He is medical director of two nursing homes in Newton and volunteers monthly at the free medical clinic there. He was recently board recertified in AAFP.

Randall R. Maharry (’64 BA, ’68 MD, ’75 R) retired from his solo dermatology practice in Des Moines six years ago and moved with his wife, Janet, to Estes Park, Colo., where he volunteers at the Salud Family Medical Centers of northeast Colorado.

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1970s

Shirley M. Mueller (’71 MD) founded MyMoneyMD, which provides unbiased investment information to physicians. She started the company after working for seven years as a financial adviser following retirement from medicine in 1995. She works from Indianapolis and New York City. She and Tom Mueller (’72 MD) have a daughter, Ellen, a designer.

Edward D. Brasted (’72 MD) is semi-retired and doing locum tenens anesthesiology work in North Carolina.

RoseMary Mason (’68 BA, ’72 MD) and her husband, Marc, have a private practice in Denison, Iowa. They have three sons, Matthew, Luke and John. She plays and teaches the violin and cello.

Edward McCarthy (’72 R, ’74 F, ’76 R) received the Medal of the International Skeletal Society presented in Budapest, Hungary, in October. He is professor of pathology and orthopaedic surgery at Johns Hopkins.

Kim P. Petersen (’68 BA, ’72 MD) travels throughout the U.S. giving lectures and training about dementia, helping communities establish

Memory Diagnostic Centers. He has edited and published a DVD and training manual about Alzheimer’s disease for caregivers.

Susan G. Nayfield (’72 MS, ’74 MD), of Rockville, Md., is chief of the geriatrics branch of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. She has been there since 2003 and was previously at the National Cancer Institute.

Dean H. Gesme Jr. (’73 BS, ’77 MD) was appointed corporate medical director for Navitas Cancer Rehabilitation Centers of America Inc., with headquarters in Denver. Dean has been a medical oncologist in the Twin Cities.

Terry L. Martinson (’73 BS, ’77 MD) is vice president of medical services at Fairview Lakes Health Care in Wyoming, Minn. He and his wife, Katherine, have two daughters, Amanda and Rebecca.

Nancy A. Loeb (’79 MD) is a faculty member in internal medicine at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Ore. She mentors students on a 1:1 outpatient care team, and also attends to inpatients. Previously, she worked for Kaiser Permanente for 10 years.

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1980s

Wayne Yokoyama (’81 R, ’85 F) has been named director of the medical scientist training program at Washington University School of Medicine. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Shirley J. Hartman (’82 MD) practices at Mandarin Wellness Center in Jacksonville, Fla. She and her husband, Bob, have three children.

Stephen J. Scheckel (’78 DDS, ’82 MD) is the medical director of the Emergency Care Unit at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. He also is the chief medical examiner for Johnson County.

Kay R. Rankin (’81 BS, ’85 MD) has been selected to participate in the 2007-2008 class of the Medical Society of Virginia Foundation’s Claude Moore Physician Leadership Institute. The Institute is a yearlong program that provides physicians with practical leadership training.

Michael A. Blackmore (’79 BA, ’80 MA, ’82 BS, ’87 MD, ’91 R) has a private psychiatry practice in Mason City, Iowa.

Katherine M. Broman (’87 MD, ’90 R) practices in Mason City, Iowa, at Broman and Jenkins Family Practice and North Iowa Laser Skin Solutions.

Kathy Perisho Cook (’87 MD, ’91 R) owns Skin Solutions Dermatology in Ames, Iowa. She and her husband, George, have two children.

Gail Pairitz Jarvik (’80 BS, ’87 MD) is professor and head of the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

Jeffrey Segar (’89 R, ’92 F) is the first UI faculty member to serve as president of the Perinatal Research Society. He is director of the division of neonatology at UI Children’s Hospital and begins his term in 2008.

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1990s

Thomas M. Gellhaus (’90 R) is in private practice at Obstetric and Gynecology Specialists in Davenport, Iowa. He is a member of the executive board of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) as the new chair of ACOG District VI. He also is medical director of Medical Ministry International, where he and a team of volunteer physicians have performed more than 1,200 surgeries in several countries.

Beverly V. Torres (’90 MD) works for Kaiser Permanente in Oxnard, Calif. She is the physician- in-charge.

David J. Fisher (’85 BSE, ’88 MS, ’90 PhD, ’94 MD) recently began neuroradiology practice at St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan, Wis. Previously, he was practicing at Seattle Radiologists, APC in LaConner, Wash.

Javier M. Sanchez (’96 MD) is clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

John Wemmie (’96 MD/PhD, ’00 R) is an assistant professor in the UI Department of Psychiatry. He received a 2007 Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD): the Mental Health Research Association. He is researching an acid-sensing ion channel found in the brain, ASIC1a, which is implicated in fear and anxiety.

Gregory R. Hill (’93 BSE, ’97 MD) completed an orthopaedic surgery residency in Detroit, and now is practicing at Great River Orthopaedic Surgery in West Burlington, Iowa. He and his wife, Lisa, have two children, Jason and Lindsey.

Tyler M. Prout (’97 MD) is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He has two sons, Jack and Alex.

Matthew W. Ruble (’97 MD) received the James H. and Susan M. Jackson Academy Fellowship in medical education from Harvard University Medical School for his project, "Resident as Teacher-Psychiatry." He is a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital.

Deborah A. Weyer (’97 MD) is a pediatrician with Shands Starke Medical Group in Starke, Fla. She lives in Keystone Heights, Fla., with her husband, Richard, and stepdaughter, Isabelle.

Natalie Lanternier (’99 MD, ’02 R) is practicing family medicine at UI Family Care in Lone Tree, Iowa.

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2000s

Kacey Jasper (’97 BA, ’00 RadT) is a sonographer with the Ovarian Cancer Screening Program at the University of Kentucky. She also is an instructor in the sonography program at St. Catherine College. She and her husband have one son.

James C. Miller (’96 BA, ’00 MD) was awarded the Van Wagenen Fellowship by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. The one-year fellowship is for research in neuro-oncology at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. After completing his fellowship, he will begin a faculty appointment at Indiana University in the Department of Neurosurgery.

Shawna L. Patterson (’01 PhD/MD) completed a two-year research fellowship in stroke rehabilitation and joined a neurology practice in Panama City, Fla. Her daughter, Carmen, was born in June 2006.

Kimberly M. Coyne (’03 MD) is a physician with the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Idaho. She and her husband, John, welcomed a son in April.

Chadi A. Calarge (’05 F) is an assistant professor in the UI Department of Psychiatry. He received a 2007 Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD): the Mental Health Research Association. He will research metabolic and hormonal abnormalities in children taking the drug risperidone.