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Fall/<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2008</strong>/<strong>2009</strong><br />
Illuminations<br />
Awards<br />
The Magazine for the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> Alumni and Friends<br />
Volume 4 Number 1<br />
Alumni News<br />
Penicillin<br />
Education<br />
Student<br />
Life<br />
White Coat Ceremony
Illuminations<br />
The Magazine for the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> Alumni and Friends<br />
Editor<br />
Kristin Wann Gorang<br />
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<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
Alumni Relations Staff<br />
Kristin Wann Gorang, Director<br />
Melanie Osterud, Associate Director<br />
Baljit Kaur, Office Assistant<br />
What’s Inside<br />
1 Message from the Dean<br />
2 Alumni President’s Message<br />
3 Penicillin, Miracle Drug<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Century, Herald <strong>of</strong><br />
a New Era<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> Alumni Association<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Directors<br />
Mark A. Johnston, M.D. 1990, President<br />
Fred F. Langeland, M.D., 1976, Past President<br />
C. Hilmon Castle, M.D. 1957, House Staff, Vice President<br />
Robert O. H<strong>of</strong>fman, M.D., 1981, Secretary<br />
Lewis J. Barton, M.D., 1964<br />
Randall Walter Burt, M.D., 1974<br />
Christine A. Cheng, M.D. 1997, House Staff<br />
Ali K. Choucair, M.D., 1984, House Staff<br />
Dale G. Johnson, M.D., 1956<br />
August ‘Larry’ Jung, M.D., 1961<br />
Ronald M. Larkin, M.D., 1975<br />
Kirk M. Neuberger, M.D., 1963<br />
Ronald J. Ruff, M.D., 1981<br />
Kent M. Samuelson, M.D., 1971<br />
David N. Sundwall, M.D., 1969<br />
Hugh D. Voorhees, M.D., 1972<br />
Catherine J. Wheeler, M.D., 1991 House Staff<br />
H. James Williams, M.D., 1969<br />
Ex-Officio:<br />
Medical Student Representatives: Stephen Warner, Associate VP<br />
Lindsay Wilson, MSIV<br />
<strong>of</strong> Health Sciences for Development<br />
Ben Johnson, MSIV<br />
and Alumni Relations<br />
Jerry Chidester, MSII<br />
David Bjorkman, Dean, M.D.,<br />
Nick Kroll, MSII<br />
M.S.P.H., 1980<br />
Kristin Wann Gorang, Director<br />
If you would like to submit a story<br />
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alumnus/a who has had something<br />
remarkable occur in their life, or has<br />
made an outstanding contribution to<br />
medicine/society please submit the<br />
updates on line at http://app.medicine.<br />
utah.edu/SOMAlumni/index.htm by<br />
attaching them to the image link, or<br />
email kristin.gorang@hsc.utah.edu.<br />
6 News Notebook<br />
10 Alumni Weekend <strong>2008</strong><br />
• Awards Ceremony<br />
• Alumni Events<br />
14 Distinguished Awards<br />
15 Student Life<br />
• Twain,Thailand and<br />
Tuberculosis<br />
• White Coat Ceremony<br />
17 Becoming a Ballard Scholar<br />
18 Alumni Board Welcomes<br />
New Members<br />
Bookmark our Web site:<br />
www.medicine.utah.edu/alumni<br />
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kristin.gorang@hsc.utah.edu<br />
20 Alumni Notebook<br />
• Highlights<br />
• News<br />
25 In Memorium<br />
25 Giving Corner<br />
Dean David Bjorkman, M.D., M.S.P.H., 1980<br />
This would be a first for the medical<br />
school, and is not good news for the<br />
state at a time when <strong>Utah</strong> already ranks<br />
44th in the nation for physician supply.<br />
We have cut expenditures in every<br />
way that we can, including significant<br />
decreases in funding for our academic<br />
departments. Unfortunately this is<br />
not enough. If we are not able to get<br />
replacement funds for the lost Federal<br />
Medicaid funding, we will not have<br />
enough available monies to pay for<br />
all the faculty time that is required to<br />
teach 102 students per year, compromising<br />
our ability to provide the quality<br />
<strong>of</strong> education we demand. Tuition<br />
hikes are likely. This creates additional<br />
financial hardship for our students<br />
who already carry excessive debt by the<br />
time <strong>of</strong> graduation. The average debt<br />
for our graduates is $132,170. While<br />
tuition will increase, our intention is<br />
to keep the tuition rate at the U in the<br />
middle <strong>of</strong> the pack compared to public<br />
medical schools in the country. We are<br />
doing our best to deal with this fiscal<br />
crisis and I will continue to keep you<br />
abreast <strong>of</strong> happenings in future communications<br />
from our <strong>of</strong>fice.<br />
On a brighter note, our <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> continues to enjoy a great<br />
demand among prospective students.<br />
This year’s entering class <strong>of</strong> 102 came<br />
from a pool <strong>of</strong> 1,336 individuals, 889<br />
men and 447 women. There were 458<br />
applicants from <strong>Utah</strong>, with 108 from<br />
Message from the Dean<br />
I am beginning to believe that change is one <strong>of</strong> the few<br />
constants you can count on in today’s world. Last year at this time I<br />
was writing you to share our hopes for expanding our medical school<br />
class by thirty students; today, due to state budget cuts and the impact<br />
<strong>of</strong> slashes in Federal Medicaid funding we are forced to consider the<br />
possibility <strong>of</strong> cutting back on the size <strong>of</strong> our <strong>2009</strong> incoming class.<br />
Idaho and 770 from other states and<br />
countries. Our entering class <strong>of</strong> 102<br />
students is made up <strong>of</strong> 81 <strong>Utah</strong> residents,<br />
nine Idaho students and twelve<br />
students from other states or countries.<br />
Our overall entering average GPA<br />
remains high at 3.65, with an average<br />
MCAT composite <strong>of</strong> 30. Eight <strong>of</strong> our<br />
entering students have earned Master’s<br />
degrees and three have Doctorate<br />
degrees. Once again we feel we have a<br />
class <strong>of</strong> talented and committed people<br />
who are going to make a difference in<br />
medicine in the future.<br />
In This Issue <strong>of</strong> Illuminations<br />
This year the <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
Alumni Association inaugurated a<br />
Half-Century Club luncheon at Senior<br />
Vice President <strong>of</strong> Health Science’s<br />
Lorris Betz’s home. Out <strong>of</strong> that illustrious<br />
meeting <strong>of</strong> our 1957 and earlier<br />
alumni came the idea for our lead<br />
article for Illuminations. Speaking with<br />
graduates who started practicing medicine<br />
before the discovery <strong>of</strong> penicillin<br />
or the polio vaccine reaffirmed the<br />
huge impact <strong>of</strong> medical discoveries on<br />
world health during the past century.<br />
In this edition <strong>of</strong> Illuminations George<br />
G. Jackson, M.D. ’47 writes how the<br />
serendipitous discovery <strong>of</strong> penicillin<br />
changed disease outcome for the<br />
second half <strong>of</strong> the 20th century.<br />
The fall Alumni and Community<br />
Medical Weekend was memorable,<br />
from the Awards Banquet Thursday<br />
evening, celebrating the class <strong>of</strong> 1958<br />
and Harmon Eyre, M.D. ’66 and<br />
The Spencer F. Eccles family as the<br />
Distinguished Award recipients, to a<br />
successful football game against UNLV!<br />
The weekend’s Continuing<br />
Medical Education conferenc brought<br />
together an illustrious group <strong>of</strong> experts<br />
who spoke on health care reform. Their<br />
program is archived for future viewing<br />
on the Alumni Association Web<br />
site at: http://medicine.utah.edu/<br />
alumni/reunions/<strong>2008</strong>%20CME.<br />
htm The News Notebook section will<br />
update you on recent happenings at the<br />
<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong>, and the Alumni<br />
Notebook will catch you up on fellow<br />
graduates’ activities and successes.<br />
I would personally like to thank<br />
all <strong>of</strong> you for your continued interest<br />
and support <strong>of</strong> the <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong>.<br />
Looking to the future I am confident,<br />
in spite <strong>of</strong> the financial challenges<br />
ahead <strong>of</strong> us, we will continue to provide<br />
the quality medical education that<br />
you knew and now cherish.<br />
Best wishes for the New Year,<br />
David J. Bjorkman, M.D., M.S.P.H.<br />
Dean, <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
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Mark A. Johnston, M.D., 1990<br />
I recall thinking that each <strong>of</strong> these<br />
individuals had directly helped literally<br />
thousands <strong>of</strong> patients during their<br />
careers and that the cumulative service<br />
<strong>of</strong> this one medical school class was truly<br />
remarkable. In a time when language<br />
is characterized by hyperbole and style<br />
seems <strong>of</strong>ten to be more important than<br />
substance, witnessing this ceremony was<br />
both an inspiration and a reminder <strong>of</strong><br />
the importance <strong>of</strong> committing oneself to<br />
activities <strong>of</strong> true value.<br />
Organizations, like individuals,<br />
face decisions about their priorities and<br />
commitments. Alumni associations in<br />
particular must be concerned about<br />
whether their activities meaningfully<br />
serve the needs <strong>of</strong> alumni, students and<br />
their institution.<br />
Being asked in 1990 by Dean<br />
Samuelson to serve on the newly formed<br />
Alumni Board for the <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
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Alumni President’s Message<br />
It was my great pleasure this past September to attend<br />
the awards ceremony honoring the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Medicine</strong> graduates from the Class <strong>of</strong> 1958. It was wonderful to hear<br />
a recounting <strong>of</strong> the pr<strong>of</strong>essional and personal accomplishments <strong>of</strong> these<br />
50-year graduates.<br />
<strong>Medicine</strong>, I have had a special opportunity<br />
over nearly 20 years to witness<br />
the commitments and priorities <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> SOM Alumni<br />
Association and to gauge its growth. In<br />
the earliest days, there were no full-time<br />
staff members, no student programs,<br />
no alumni services, no CME programs,<br />
no Web site and no regular newsletter<br />
to connect alumni. There was, however,<br />
a vision that the Association should be<br />
committed to creating specific services.<br />
There was also a remarkable succession<br />
<strong>of</strong> physicians who volunteered their<br />
time to bring about the many programs<br />
and resources that now characterize the<br />
organization.<br />
With an ongoing commitment to<br />
improving the programs and services<br />
provided by the Alumni Association, a<br />
strategic planning initiative was begun<br />
in early <strong>2008</strong>. A variety <strong>of</strong> new programs<br />
and program enhancements are<br />
in the <strong>of</strong>fing including an expansion <strong>of</strong><br />
web services to connect alumni with<br />
classmates, streaming <strong>of</strong> CME and<br />
Grand Rounds programs, and an expansion<br />
<strong>of</strong> the HOST program for students<br />
to connect them with Alumni through-<br />
out the nation. We are also considering<br />
programs to improve our connection<br />
and service to house staff who train at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>.<br />
As always, we encourage your<br />
contact with us and any suggestions<br />
you have on how we might better serve<br />
our mission to support the <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Medicine</strong>, alumni, faculty and students.<br />
Mark A. Johnston, M.D., 1990<br />
President, Alumni Board<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
jmresearch@qwest.net<br />
Penicillin, Miracle Drug <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Century, Herald <strong>of</strong> a New Era<br />
George Gee Jackson, M.D. ‘47, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> Emeritus<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
The Twentieth Century was a period <strong>of</strong><br />
remarkable progress in medical education,<br />
knowledge, objective diagnosis<br />
and miracle products and procedures<br />
that completely changed the nature <strong>of</strong><br />
hospitals and the practice <strong>of</strong> medicine.<br />
First and paramount among them was<br />
the discovery <strong>of</strong> penicillin, christened<br />
in the press as the miracle drug <strong>of</strong> the<br />
century. The achievement was paramount<br />
as a force changing the discipline<br />
<strong>of</strong> medicine because it immediately<br />
salvaged innumerable lives by the cure<br />
<strong>of</strong> prevalent acute and chronic infectious<br />
diseases. In addition, its development,<br />
which initiated discovery <strong>of</strong> the series<br />
<strong>of</strong> natural molecules with antibiotic<br />
activity, enabled some <strong>of</strong> the most miraculous<br />
landmark achievements <strong>of</strong> the<br />
latter half <strong>of</strong> the 20th Century—organ<br />
transplantation, insertion <strong>of</strong> synthetic<br />
joints and prostheses, invasive diagnostic<br />
and radical surgical procedures, immunosuppressive<br />
chemotherapy, selective<br />
gene replacement, in vitro tissue, organ<br />
cultures and others.<br />
Coupled with the carryover contributions<br />
from the 19th century—ether<br />
anesthesia, opiates, foxglove and early<br />
vaccines, and turn <strong>of</strong> the Century,<br />
X-ray images, the art <strong>of</strong> medical practice<br />
progressively transitioned to the art and<br />
science <strong>of</strong> medicine. The discovery <strong>of</strong><br />
penicillin was the herald <strong>of</strong> things to<br />
follow. The accessible house call physician<br />
and large charity hospitals with<br />
a high proportion <strong>of</strong> beds for people<br />
with infections transitioned to a more<br />
science based discipline, specialization<br />
and smaller private hospitals. Life<br />
expectancy increased dramatically and<br />
concomitantly diseases associated with<br />
aging—cancer, type 2 diabetes, and<br />
chronic degenerative diseases increased<br />
proportionately. Accuracy <strong>of</strong> diagnosis,<br />
vastly better understanding <strong>of</strong> pathophysiology<br />
and increasing ability to intervene<br />
with specific treatment validated<br />
in double blind clinical investigations<br />
characterized the changes. Many believe<br />
the last half <strong>of</strong> the 20th Century was<br />
the golden age <strong>of</strong> medicine; combining<br />
the art <strong>of</strong> the personal, caring, compassionate,<br />
wise physician counselor with<br />
time to spend with the patient and the<br />
knowledge and technology developed in<br />
the science <strong>of</strong> medicine.<br />
THE SERENDIPIDITY<br />
OF DISCOVERY BY THE<br />
PREPARED MIND<br />
In 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming was a<br />
47 year old physician lecturer <strong>of</strong> Scotch<br />
birth working at St. Mary’s Medical<br />
<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> London <strong>University</strong>. His research<br />
focus was on the properties <strong>of</strong> the<br />
staphylococcus and the effects <strong>of</strong> natural<br />
products <strong>of</strong> the body that inhibited<br />
and/or killed it. Of particular interest<br />
was the cellular production <strong>of</strong> lysozyme.<br />
Agar plates were seeded with a lawn<br />
<strong>of</strong> hemolytic Staphylococcus aureus and<br />
its growth, or lack there<strong>of</strong>, observed in<br />
relation to exposure to various products.<br />
Sir Fleming was not known to keep<br />
an overly tidy lab; a fortuitous feature in<br />
the discovery <strong>of</strong> penicillin. Returning<br />
from a long holiday many petri plates<br />
used in a forgotten experiment were<br />
found to be contaminated with mold.<br />
They were discarded to be disinfected.<br />
However, it is reported that some <strong>of</strong><br />
them were retrieved for a discussion <strong>of</strong><br />
his work with a visitor to the laboratory.<br />
The lack <strong>of</strong> bacterial growth around a<br />
contaminating mold on one or more<br />
<strong>of</strong> the plates was the observation that<br />
piqued the curiosity <strong>of</strong> an inquisitive<br />
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mind and subsequently led to a miracle<br />
drug and a Nobel Prize. The mold was<br />
determined to be from the Penicillium<br />
genus. Thus started the work that<br />
characterized penicillin and the effects<br />
on medicine that followed.<br />
Fleming’s work was published<br />
in 1929. It attracted little attention<br />
for about a decade. He continued his<br />
laboratory studies, but never considered<br />
the antibiotic effect <strong>of</strong> the mold as an<br />
opportunity for drug development. The<br />
small amount produced by the mold,<br />
problems <strong>of</strong> its recovery and purification<br />
appeared to him, quite correctly in<br />
his station, to limit its potential use in<br />
therapeutics <strong>of</strong> human infections.<br />
FROM SCIENTIFIC<br />
CURIOSITY TO APPLICATION<br />
DURING WARTIME<br />
Following a hiatus <strong>of</strong> nearly a decade,<br />
two other scientists, Ernst Chain<br />
and Howard Florey, working entirely<br />
independently in another London<br />
institution, became interested in further<br />
scientific study <strong>of</strong> penicillin. Chain, a<br />
chemist, developed methods to isolate<br />
and concentrate penicillin and with<br />
Florey, a physician with pharmacologic<br />
interests, began observations <strong>of</strong><br />
the pharmacology <strong>of</strong> penicillin. With<br />
the background <strong>of</strong> World War II they<br />
carried on the work with the engagement<br />
<strong>of</strong> microbiologists in the US<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Agriculture who sorted<br />
out and developed high penicillin producing<br />
strains <strong>of</strong> Penicillium. Following<br />
the bombing <strong>of</strong> Pearl Harbor, December<br />
7, 1941, the US and UK governments<br />
collaborated in developing systems for<br />
mass production <strong>of</strong> penicillin. At the<br />
end <strong>of</strong> World War II enough penicillin<br />
was made in medicinal form to treat<br />
wounded soldiers <strong>of</strong> all allied forces.<br />
As with Fleming the fame that<br />
came to Chain and Florey was not the<br />
result <strong>of</strong> a determined goal to develop<br />
the laboratory curiosity into a practical<br />
drug, but the opportunity to extend<br />
scientific investigation <strong>of</strong> an interesting<br />
biologic phenomenon. The end result<br />
<strong>of</strong> the interest and endeavors <strong>of</strong> these<br />
astute, but ordinary biologic scientists<br />
following their academic curiosity, gifted<br />
the world the miracle drug <strong>of</strong> the 20th<br />
Century to the benefit <strong>of</strong> all mankind.<br />
INTRODUCTION OF<br />
PENICILLIN INTO CLINICAL USE<br />
In 1945 I received my M.D. from the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> and an appointment<br />
for internship on the Harvard Services<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Boston City Hospital. The supply<br />
<strong>of</strong> penicillin had reached the level<br />
to satisfy the military need and was being<br />
released for clinical trials in civilian<br />
practice. Chester Keefer, a pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> at Boston <strong>University</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong>, known for his interest<br />
and knowledge <strong>of</strong> infectious diseases,<br />
was appointed as “penicillin czar”.<br />
All petitions for its clinical use and<br />
the protocol for doing so were cleared<br />
through Dr. Keefer.<br />
At the Boston City Hospital,<br />
Maxwell Finland, my mentor, was<br />
a recognized leader in infectious<br />
diseases and an expert in research<br />
on pneumococcal pneumonia. My<br />
work with him and the early treatment<br />
<strong>of</strong> civilian cases led to my first<br />
scientific publication and shaped<br />
the destiny <strong>of</strong> my career path.<br />
The sterile vial <strong>of</strong> penicillin<br />
was not the s<strong>of</strong>t white<br />
crystalline powder any recent<br />
physician would see, but a<br />
solid hard brown rock. Its solution in<br />
saline or glucose solution was not rapid,<br />
but possible. When later knowledge<br />
became available it was learned that the<br />
early preparations were composed <strong>of</strong> a<br />
group <strong>of</strong> isomers and racemic penicillin<br />
molecules, one <strong>of</strong> which was penicillin<br />
G, the form that became the standard<br />
penicillin. Intramuscular injection<br />
<strong>of</strong> 10,000 units (one unit being the<br />
amount to inhibit growth <strong>of</strong> a sensitive<br />
strain <strong>of</strong> Staphylococcus aureus) was the<br />
usual regimen. Patients with pneumococcal<br />
pneumonia, Osler’s, “Captain<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Men <strong>of</strong> Death”, <strong>of</strong>ten with the<br />
complication <strong>of</strong> bacteremia were among<br />
the early patients to receive treatment.<br />
The history <strong>of</strong> untreated pneumococcal<br />
pneumonia was if the patient survived<br />
for about a week, the time required<br />
for production <strong>of</strong> natural antibodies<br />
to appear, the patient would undergo<br />
a “crisis” with defervescence, but <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
with sequellae <strong>of</strong> empyema, meningitis<br />
or metastatic abscess formation. Movies<br />
<strong>of</strong> the time <strong>of</strong>ten played out this medical<br />
drama. Penicillin was indeed a miracle<br />
drug for the patients and their physicians,<br />
as those treated with it usually<br />
recovered clinically in 24-48 hours and<br />
had a remarkable reduction in complicating<br />
sequellae.<br />
Frequent daily doses were necessary<br />
because penicillin was cleared from the<br />
blood stream with each single passage<br />
through the kidneys. Thus the half-life<br />
<strong>of</strong> the drug (the time for elimination <strong>of</strong><br />
50% <strong>of</strong> the dose) was only a couple <strong>of</strong><br />
hours. In the very early days with the<br />
scarcity <strong>of</strong> the precious drug, urine<br />
<strong>of</strong> treated patients was sometime<br />
saved in order to<br />
recrystallize<br />
penicillin<br />
from<br />
Benzylpenicillin<br />
model<br />
the urine, which was as rich a source as<br />
the liquor from the Penicillium growth.<br />
Designation <strong>of</strong> penicillin as a<br />
miracle drug was applied and justified<br />
again in its mechanism <strong>of</strong> antibacterial<br />
action In the chemotherapy <strong>of</strong> bacterial<br />
infections drugs were sought that had<br />
a favorable differential ratio <strong>of</strong> toxicity<br />
for bacteria and host cells.The penicillin<br />
binding protein was not present in any<br />
host cells. This mechanism <strong>of</strong> action<br />
endowed the drug with its miraculous<br />
toxicity ratio <strong>of</strong> all against the bacteria<br />
and none for host cells.<br />
RESULTS AND EXPECTATIONS<br />
In the early part <strong>of</strong> the 20th Century,<br />
the fatality rate from pneumococcal<br />
pneumonia was estimated to be about<br />
40%. Specific antiserum and sulfonamides<br />
reduced it substantially, but it<br />
remained a principal cause <strong>of</strong> death.<br />
Within a decade, the results <strong>of</strong> treatment<br />
with penicillin erased fear <strong>of</strong> the<br />
disease, permitted treatment without<br />
hospitalization and eliminated it as a<br />
significant cause <strong>of</strong> death. A decline in<br />
empyema, chronic bronchiectasis, lung<br />
abscess, purulent sinusitis and other sites<br />
<strong>of</strong> local respiratory infection followed.<br />
Other infections caused by organisms<br />
<strong>of</strong> somewhat less susceptibility to<br />
penicillin were treated successfully<br />
as doses <strong>of</strong> millions <strong>of</strong> units replaced<br />
the initial use <strong>of</strong> a few thousand.<br />
Decreased frequency, severity and<br />
fatality across the spectrum <strong>of</strong> the most<br />
common severe bacterial infections<br />
became an accepted expectation. .<br />
When penicillin was introduced<br />
in 1945, fatalities from rheumatic<br />
fever in the United States<br />
exceeded 2,000<br />
per year. Within 25 years, with a much<br />
larger population, there were fewer than<br />
100 recorded fatalities; today the fatality<br />
rate is less than 1 per 300,000 population.<br />
The reduction in the prevalence <strong>of</strong><br />
acute rheumatic fever since the introduction<br />
<strong>of</strong> penicillin is estimated at<br />
99.9% with an equally dramatic decline<br />
in rheumatic heart disease and<br />
other sequellae.<br />
Treponema pallidum, the cause<br />
<strong>of</strong> syphilis is among the most sensitive <strong>of</strong><br />
microorganism to penicillin. Treatment<br />
<strong>of</strong> acute, congenital and neurosyphilis<br />
with penicillin yielded impressive cures<br />
in each <strong>of</strong> these syndromes. Latency,<br />
failed case detection and social behavior<br />
regarding sexually transmitted diseases,<br />
including gonorrhea, have combined to<br />
restrict the efficacy <strong>of</strong> effective treatment<br />
to eradicate or more completely diminish<br />
their prevalence. A side effect <strong>of</strong> this<br />
success is a cavalier loss <strong>of</strong> fear <strong>of</strong> acquiring<br />
infection which has permitted cyclic<br />
increases in infection rates to continue.<br />
Unfortunately human behavior is the<br />
first trump people have exercised<br />
in defeating the potential benefits<br />
<strong>of</strong> the miracle means <strong>of</strong> treatment<br />
and prevention <strong>of</strong> infections with<br />
susceptible bacteria.<br />
IRRATIONAL EUPHORIA<br />
With recognition <strong>of</strong> all its miraculous<br />
properties and the emergent capability<br />
<strong>of</strong> fermentation chemists began to<br />
produce large amounts <strong>of</strong> pure penicillin<br />
cheaply, and the expansion in world<br />
wide use <strong>of</strong> penicillin proceeded<br />
at a whirlwind rate. Indications<br />
for its use were broadened to<br />
include any whimper <strong>of</strong><br />
justification for treatment<br />
or prophylaxis<br />
<strong>of</strong> suspected bacterial<br />
infection.<br />
Within a quarter<br />
century after the introduction<br />
<strong>of</strong> penicillin, more<br />
than 90% <strong>of</strong> people in the<br />
developed countries <strong>of</strong>the<br />
world had received one or<br />
more courses <strong>of</strong> penicillin;<br />
it was found in sewer<br />
samples from urban<br />
areas and in up to<br />
10% <strong>of</strong> dairy milk<br />
samples, illustrating<br />
the spread <strong>of</strong> its use in veterinary<br />
medicine. Confidence in the drug was<br />
so high that even the placebo effect led<br />
some to the belief that in unknown<br />
ways penicillin was “just good for you”.<br />
The trend was an unquenchable social<br />
phenomenon with ineffectual academic<br />
restraints; some academic leaders even<br />
declared victory over infectious diseases,<br />
disbanding the academic specialty from<br />
their faculties. “Why take time in a<br />
crowded program and claim space in a<br />
building …for a field <strong>of</strong> medicine presently<br />
regarded as having only historical<br />
interest?” This quotation from Rene<br />
Dubos in 1954 captured the irrationality<br />
<strong>of</strong> the euphoria that had penetrated<br />
academia and was prevalent in all <strong>of</strong> the<br />
society during the last half <strong>of</strong> the twentieth<br />
century.<br />
The fictional term, “antibiotic last<br />
rites”, captured the universality <strong>of</strong> confidence<br />
in miraculous results <strong>of</strong> antibiotic<br />
treatment. The interaction <strong>of</strong> medical<br />
practice and human desire for perpetual<br />
health and longevity has shown it has<br />
consequences and lessons to be learned<br />
for application to the advances <strong>of</strong> the<br />
21st Century.<br />
The short sighted detriment <strong>of</strong><br />
the social attitudes <strong>of</strong> the period was<br />
effective in diminishing vigilance in<br />
the epidemiology <strong>of</strong> infectious diseases,<br />
and slowing acquisition <strong>of</strong> academic<br />
knowledge <strong>of</strong> primary host pathophysiology<br />
in susceptibility and immunity<br />
to infections <strong>of</strong> various types. With the<br />
high expectations that chemotherapy<br />
was sufficient to control infectious<br />
diseases the well developed state public<br />
health departments which informed<br />
and served the public in control <strong>of</strong><br />
community epidemics were dismantled<br />
and fiscally starved to a shadow <strong>of</strong> their<br />
earlier prominence. Fear and need for<br />
preparations for continuing epidemics<br />
and pandemics is once again being realized<br />
and expressed.<br />
Perhaps the most severe ultimate<br />
cost <strong>of</strong> the irrational euphoria ignited<br />
by penicillin and its antibiotic sequitors,<br />
was prophylaxis and trial and error<br />
therapy, and a utopian aim to have<br />
broad antibiotic regimens that would<br />
prevent and/or cure the entire spectrum<br />
<strong>of</strong> human infections. It set the stage for<br />
the emergence <strong>of</strong> penicillin resistance<br />
and sequentially more extensive and<br />
complete resistance to other antibiotics<br />
that followed. That is the yield being<br />
harvested in the present era.<br />
A NEW PERSPECTIVE<br />
The antibiotic story <strong>of</strong> the 21st Century<br />
will not have the aura nor realize the<br />
fullness <strong>of</strong> the benefits, at least not with<br />
the same drugs, that were so miraculously<br />
effective during the golden last half <strong>of</strong><br />
the 20th Century. It is likely that new<br />
and perhaps equally miraculous chemotherapeutic<br />
agents can be developed<br />
using the advanced knowledge gained<br />
about the sophisticated molecular biology<br />
<strong>of</strong> bacteria, viruses and fungi and<br />
new capabilities in microbial genetics<br />
and combinatorial chemistry. The<br />
expectations and accepted patterns <strong>of</strong><br />
their use will need to be more specifically<br />
directed and general use against a<br />
broad spectrum <strong>of</strong> targets limited, if the<br />
medical pr<strong>of</strong>ession and public learned<br />
the lessons from use <strong>of</strong> the miracle<br />
drug that heralded the 20th Century<br />
era--penicillin.<br />
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Reynolds Foundation Grant Helps U<br />
Strengthen Geriatric Training and Care<br />
A report from the Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
published in April <strong>2008</strong>, “Retooling for<br />
an Aging America: Building the Health<br />
Care Workforce” highlights the critical<br />
deficiency in healthcare providers with<br />
the training needed to provide care for<br />
older people. “As the population <strong>of</strong> older<br />
adults grows to comprise approximately<br />
20 percent <strong>of</strong> the U.S. population, they<br />
will face a health care workforce that<br />
is too small and critically unprepared<br />
to meet their health needs.” The 7,000<br />
geriatricians in the United States will not<br />
be able to meet these demands and older<br />
people will receive the majority <strong>of</strong><br />
their care from the 220,000 primary<br />
care physicians.<br />
In response to these projections<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Medicine</strong> launched an innovative program,<br />
“Advancing Geriatric Education<br />
Through Quality Improvement” or “AGE<br />
QI” in 2006. The program is aimed at<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Tabin, M.D., Honored With American Academy <strong>of</strong><br />
Ophthalmology <strong>2008</strong> Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award<br />
John A. Moran Eye Center<br />
Ophthalmologist Dr. Ge<strong>of</strong>frey<br />
Tabin received the Outstanding<br />
Humanitarian Service Award at the<br />
American Academy <strong>of</strong> Ophthalmology<br />
(AAO) meeting in Atlanta, Georgia<br />
this past November. The Outstanding<br />
Humanitarian Service Award was created<br />
to recognize individuals involved<br />
in humanitarian projects, including<br />
participation in charitable activities,<br />
care to the indigent and community<br />
service. Out <strong>of</strong> a membership <strong>of</strong> more<br />
than 27,000 ophthalmologists, Dr.<br />
Tabin is one <strong>of</strong> only two physicians to<br />
receive this prestigious award for <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
Dr. Tabin serves as the Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Division <strong>of</strong> International<br />
Ophthalmology at the John A. Moran<br />
Eye Center, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> in Salt<br />
Lake City, <strong>Utah</strong>. He is a specialist in<br />
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helping primary care physicians in the<br />
state provide higher quality care for their<br />
older patients. The school is now using<br />
AGS QI, which is based on an initiative<br />
originally developed through the<br />
Michigan Geriatric Education Center<br />
to help more than two dozen clinical<br />
practices in <strong>Utah</strong> upgrade care<br />
for their aging patients.<br />
The program is funded by a grant<br />
awarded to the SOM by the Donald<br />
W. Reynolds Foundation “Aging and<br />
Quality <strong>of</strong> Life” program. Mark A.<br />
Supiano, M.D., pr<strong>of</strong>essor and chief<br />
<strong>of</strong> geriatrics and executive director <strong>of</strong><br />
the U <strong>of</strong> U Center on Aging, is principal<br />
investigator for the $2 million grant<br />
that supports comprehensive projects<br />
designed to strengthen geriatrics training<br />
for medical students, residents and<br />
practicing physicians.<br />
Through the onsite educational<br />
program, a <strong>Utah</strong> medical school geriatrics<br />
corneal disease and refractive surgery.<br />
He is currently conducting international<br />
ophthalmology missions as<br />
part <strong>of</strong> the United Nations Millennial<br />
Villages Project in Bonsaao, Ghana,<br />
where he and Moran ophthalmologists<br />
Paul Bernstein, Alan Crandall, and Bob<br />
H<strong>of</strong>fman, and a team <strong>of</strong> health care<br />
specialists, recently examined 4,600<br />
people and performed<br />
159 surgeries in a very<br />
remote and logistically<br />
difficult area.<br />
Dr. Tabin also<br />
founded the Himalayan<br />
Cataract Project in<br />
1994, with Dr. Sanduk<br />
Ruit, a native <strong>of</strong> Nepal.<br />
Since the founding<br />
<strong>of</strong> the project, Drs.<br />
Tabin and Ruit have<br />
faculty member and a geriatric nurse<br />
educator work with the entire staff in<br />
a given primary care practice presenting<br />
a 2-hour geriatrics review, then help<br />
the staff develop, complete and<br />
analyze the outcomes <strong>of</strong> a quality<br />
improvement project focused on a<br />
common geriatric condition.<br />
Because more than a third <strong>of</strong> older<br />
people fall each year and many experience<br />
significant complications resulting<br />
from fall-related injury, all ten <strong>University</strong><br />
Health Care Community Clinics are<br />
participating in AGE QI and are directing<br />
their QI efforts by conducting a fall<br />
prevention program. The fall prevention<br />
program systematically screens all<br />
Community Clinic patients age 65 years<br />
and older to identify those at risk for falling.<br />
They then conduct an evaluation to<br />
identify strategies – such as home safety<br />
assessments or exercise programs – to<br />
decrease this risk.<br />
directly restored sight to over 65,000<br />
people. This year in Nepal alone more<br />
than 120,000 people will have their<br />
sight restored, due in large part to the<br />
extraordinary efforts <strong>of</strong> the Himalayan<br />
Cataract Project. Drs. Tabin and Ruit<br />
are working to develop other international<br />
eye care programs in India,<br />
North Korea and other areas <strong>of</strong> Africa.<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Tabin, M.D., in Nepal<br />
Kathy Pedersen, MPAS, PA-C<br />
Appointed to the Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Directors <strong>of</strong> the Global Health<br />
Education Consortium<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> Physician Assistant<br />
Program faculty member, Kathy<br />
Pedersen, MPAS, PA-C has been appointed<br />
to the Global Health Education<br />
Consortium (GHEC) Board <strong>of</strong> Directors<br />
for a term <strong>of</strong> 2 years. PA educators have<br />
been involved in GHEC for the past 10<br />
years. The mission <strong>of</strong> GHEC is to foster<br />
international health medical education in<br />
curriculum, clinical training, career development,<br />
and international education<br />
policy. GHEC addresses health needs,<br />
human rights, and global workforce<br />
issues. Over 70 North American medical<br />
schools are represented in the GHEC.<br />
Ms. Pedersen’s background and<br />
interest area is studying, facilitating and<br />
cataloging the global development <strong>of</strong><br />
physician assistants. “I have an interest<br />
in learning about the different processes,<br />
educational models, and intended outcomes<br />
<strong>of</strong> physician assistant (PA) education<br />
outside the United States.” She is<br />
also interested<br />
in fostering<br />
international<br />
health medical<br />
education in curriculum,<br />
clinical<br />
training, career<br />
development,<br />
and international<br />
education policy.<br />
She has been<br />
on the faculty <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>Utah</strong> Physician<br />
Assistant Program<br />
for 20 years, facilitated global electives<br />
in Papua New Guinea and Thailand,<br />
and has helped to host delegations from<br />
these countries, in addition to Russia and<br />
Ghana. She also has served on international<br />
committees <strong>of</strong> the American<br />
Academy <strong>of</strong> Physician Assistants<br />
and Physician Assistant Education<br />
Association (PAEA) for the past 10 years.<br />
<strong>Utah</strong> Biomedical Informatics Department<br />
to Partner with <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Texas at Brownsville<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>’s nationally<br />
recognized doctoral program in<br />
Biomedical Informatics received<br />
a grant <strong>of</strong> $975,000 from the<br />
National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health to<br />
foster a new partnership with<br />
their program and the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Texas at Brownsville (UTB).<br />
This bridging partnership will:<br />
1. Provide an interactive Master’s Program<br />
between UTB and the U <strong>of</strong> U which<br />
would adequately prepare minority<br />
students having an interest in the field<br />
<strong>of</strong> biomedical informatics for acceptance<br />
to the U <strong>of</strong> U BMI Ph.D. program;<br />
2. Provide mechanisms for acceptance<br />
and funding by the U <strong>of</strong> U BMI<br />
Department for bridging students who<br />
satisfy the Ph.D. entrance requirements;<br />
3. Closely monitor students’ progress and<br />
provide activities as needed to fill gaps<br />
and promote their success in the<br />
program; and<br />
4. Provide an effective and measurable<br />
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Kathy Pederson and PA student Kelly Keller in Kikori Village<br />
in the Gulf Province <strong>of</strong> Papua New Guinea.<br />
She authored the PAEA White Paper<br />
on “International Physician Assistant<br />
Education”. Her Masters work included<br />
A Survey <strong>of</strong> International Activities <strong>of</strong><br />
United States Physician Assistant Programs.<br />
The PAEA International Activities<br />
Committee has continued using this<br />
survey yearly since she conducted the<br />
original survey in 2003.<br />
means <strong>of</strong> evaluating the success <strong>of</strong><br />
the program.<br />
Biomedical Informatics is a relatively<br />
new field <strong>of</strong> study, but it is growing very<br />
rapidly. It is now viewed as essential,<br />
not only to the delivery <strong>of</strong> high quality<br />
healthcare, but also to the advancement<br />
<strong>of</strong> all the biomedical sciences. Although<br />
most students and many faculty members<br />
at institutions <strong>of</strong> higher learning are still<br />
unfamiliar with the field <strong>of</strong> Biomedical<br />
Informatics, it <strong>of</strong>fers many challenges for<br />
research, creativity and career opportunities<br />
for individuals at the doctoral level.<br />
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Nanomedicine at the U: The Dawn <strong>of</strong> a New Era<br />
What if doctors could search out and<br />
destroy the very first cancer cells that<br />
would otherwise have caused a tumor to<br />
develop in the body? What if a broken<br />
part <strong>of</strong> a cell could be removed and<br />
replaced with a miniature biological<br />
machine? What if pumps the size <strong>of</strong><br />
molecules could be implanted to deliver<br />
life-saving medicines precisely when and<br />
where they are needed? These scenarios<br />
may sound unbelievable, but they are<br />
the long-term goals <strong>of</strong> the evolving field<br />
<strong>of</strong> Nanomedicine, which we anticipate<br />
will yield groundbreaking medical benefits<br />
within the next decade.<br />
Nanomedicine refers to highly<br />
specific medical intervention at the<br />
molecular scale for curing disease or<br />
repairing damaged tissues. A nanometer<br />
is one-billionth <strong>of</strong> a meter, too small to<br />
be seen with a conventional microscope.<br />
Biological molecules and man-made<br />
materials and devices function at sizes <strong>of</strong><br />
100 nanometers or less.<br />
In collaboration with scientists<br />
and physicians worldwide, Dr. Margit<br />
M. Janát-Amsbury, M.D., Ph.D. and<br />
her colleagues are seeking solutions for<br />
the delivery <strong>of</strong> nanomolecules for the<br />
diagnosis and treatment <strong>of</strong> many conditions,<br />
including ovarian cancer. This<br />
work requires a detailed understanding<br />
<strong>of</strong> cellular structures in order to repair,<br />
treat or build novel “nano” structures<br />
that can safely operate inside the body.<br />
Dr. Janát-Amsbury trained clinically<br />
in Germany and the Netherlands. Her<br />
focus lies on women’s health with special<br />
interest in gynecologic cancers. She<br />
joined the Department <strong>of</strong> Obstetrics<br />
and Gynecology at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Utah</strong> after initiating the first clinical<br />
trial at Baylor College <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> in<br />
Houston, Texas, in which a nanoscale,<br />
polymeric delivery system delivered an<br />
immunomodulating agent to patients<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Family and Preventive <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
(DFPM) Teaches the Teachers in Ghana<br />
The DFPM’s Physician Assistant<br />
Program (UPAP) has collaborated for<br />
two years with Ghana, to bring continuing<br />
medical education to their physician<br />
assistants. In Ghana, physician assistants<br />
(PAs) are called ‘medical assistants’ and<br />
developed 40 years ago to meet the<br />
primary care needs <strong>of</strong> underserved<br />
populations.<br />
Ghana is a country <strong>of</strong> 22 million<br />
people with only 2000 physicians and<br />
500 medical assistants; the country has<br />
long suffered from a ”brain drain” where<br />
roughly 2 <strong>of</strong> every 3 M.D.s trained in<br />
Ghana emigrates to work in the United<br />
States or Europe. This leaves over 70%<br />
<strong>of</strong> primary care services in the hands <strong>of</strong><br />
medical assistants. Clinics are located in<br />
remote areas with non-existent Internet<br />
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access. Clinicians practicing in these areas<br />
have difficulty updating their continuing<br />
medical education. The focus <strong>of</strong><br />
the Ghana Clinical <strong>Medicine</strong> Service<br />
Experience is to improve the education <strong>of</strong><br />
medical assistants.<br />
This effort has been carried out in<br />
conjunction with the Ghanaian Ministry<br />
<strong>of</strong> Health, the KNUST Medical <strong>School</strong>,<br />
and the Kintampo Rural Health Training<br />
<strong>School</strong> where medical assistants receive<br />
their education. A ‘teaching the teachers’<br />
approach was determined to be the most<br />
effective model to bring sustainable educational<br />
support to the Ghanaian health<br />
care system. UPAP faculty and students<br />
host a 4-day CME conference during the<br />
two-week trip. Recordings <strong>of</strong> the classes<br />
are provided to faculty and practicing<br />
medical assistants for dissemination to<br />
their colleagues.<br />
suffering from recurrent ovarian cancer.<br />
Within her first year she has applied for<br />
funding from the NIH (pending) and<br />
received funding from the <strong>University</strong><br />
based on her collaborative efforts with<br />
researchers from various basic science<br />
fields including pharmaceutical chemistry<br />
and bioengineering.<br />
Fostering these interdisciplinary<br />
collaborations strengthens the USTAR<br />
Nanotechnology Institute and Center<br />
for Nanomedicine here at the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>. It is widely anticipated that<br />
<strong>Utah</strong>’s programs in nanomedicine will<br />
result in new diagnostic tools and engineered<br />
nanoscale structures designed<br />
specifically for treatment <strong>of</strong> a number<br />
<strong>of</strong> conditions including ovarian cancer,<br />
as well as train the next generation <strong>of</strong><br />
scientists and clinicians.<br />
This service experience has included<br />
more than 25 volunteer <strong>Utah</strong> M.D.s and<br />
PAs specializing in Family <strong>Medicine</strong>,<br />
OB/Gyn, Infectious Disease, Internal<br />
<strong>Medicine</strong>, Gastroenterology, Pediatrics,<br />
Dermatology, and Emergency <strong>Medicine</strong>.<br />
Over 500 Ghanaian faculty and medical<br />
assistants have attended the seminars<br />
scheduled every summer semester.<br />
In <strong>2009</strong>, <strong>Utah</strong> students and faculty<br />
will participate in a Women’s Health<br />
Initiative designed to bring preventive<br />
health care to rural communities.<br />
Training in cancer screening will be<br />
provided to the medical assistants with<br />
follow-up on outcomes planned in one<br />
year. If you are interested in learning<br />
more about this global health experience,<br />
contact Nadia Miniclier M.S., P.A.-C<br />
at 585-3050.<br />
Learning Day at <strong>University</strong> Community Clinics Goes National<br />
Care by Design model in use at Centerville Clinic<br />
Organizations across the country have<br />
sent over 240 healthcare pr<strong>of</strong>essionals<br />
to <strong>University</strong> Health Care Community<br />
Clinics to learn how patient-centered<br />
care is delivered through their Care by<br />
Design (CBD) model. Pr<strong>of</strong>essionals<br />
from Loyola <strong>University</strong> Health System,<br />
Wellspan Medical Group, Mayo Clinic<br />
Two Wyoming counties and one in<br />
Idaho have been added to the National<br />
Children’s Study (NCS), the largest<br />
investigation ever undertaken to assess<br />
the effects <strong>of</strong> environmental and genetic<br />
factors on child and human health in the<br />
United States.<br />
The 25-year, national study began<br />
in 2005 when seven vanguard centers,<br />
including Salt Lake County, were named<br />
to launch the effort. The <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Utah</strong> Department <strong>of</strong> Pediatrics, with the<br />
support <strong>of</strong> Primary Children’s Medical<br />
Center, was awarded the contract.<br />
Edward B. Clark, M.D., chair <strong>of</strong> pediatrics<br />
and medical director <strong>of</strong> PCMC, was<br />
named principal investigator for the Salt<br />
Lake County Vanguard Center.<br />
In October <strong>2008</strong> Uinta and Lincoln<br />
Counties in Wyoming and Bear Lake<br />
County, Idaho were named among 39<br />
and Cedars-Sinai<br />
Medical Group are<br />
just a few <strong>of</strong> the<br />
47 organizations<br />
participating in the<br />
two-day training<br />
program called<br />
Learning Day.<br />
Community<br />
Clinics created and<br />
started implementing<br />
the CBD model<br />
in 2004, now called<br />
the “<strong>Utah</strong> model”<br />
by some people<br />
outside the state.<br />
This model, characterized<br />
by appropriate<br />
access, a care team, and planned<br />
care, integrates acute, chronic, and preventive<br />
care into a unified system. This<br />
redesign <strong>of</strong> primary care utilizes the<br />
skills <strong>of</strong> well-trained medical assistants<br />
to enhance the patient experience while<br />
improving the efficiency and effectiveness<br />
<strong>of</strong> the physician.<br />
new study locations. The three counties<br />
join Cache County, which was awarded<br />
in 2007, as part <strong>of</strong> the study center<br />
administered by the NCS team in the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Pediatrics.<br />
Authorized by the Children’s Health<br />
Act <strong>of</strong> 2000, the National Children’s<br />
Study is being conducted by a consortium<br />
<strong>of</strong> federal agencies, including<br />
the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National<br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> Child Health and Human<br />
Development and the National Institute<br />
<strong>of</strong> Environmental Health Sciences,<br />
the Centers for Disease Control and<br />
Prevention, and the U.S. Environmental<br />
Protection Agency.<br />
The National Children’s Study will<br />
follow a representative sample <strong>of</strong> 100,000<br />
children from before birth to age 21.<br />
Study volunteers will be recruited<br />
throughout the United States, from rural,<br />
News Notebook<br />
“Due to our redesign efforts,<br />
Community Clinics is now positioned<br />
to play a significant role in the national<br />
Patient-Centered Medical Home<br />
(PCMH) movement that is sweeping<br />
the country,” states Michael K. Magill,<br />
M.D., executive medical director <strong>of</strong><br />
Community Clinics. “Recreating the<br />
delivery <strong>of</strong> primary care is critical to<br />
improving health and reducing health<br />
care costs.”<br />
Marlene J. Egger, Ph.D., with the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Family and Preventive<br />
<strong>Medicine</strong>, was recently granted the<br />
F. Marian Bishop award to examine<br />
how well the CBD model succeeds as<br />
a strategy to meet the national criteria<br />
for the PCMH. Areas to be evaluated<br />
will include patient access, information<br />
systems, coordination <strong>of</strong> care, and<br />
performance reporting.<br />
If you are interested in finding out<br />
more about Learning Day visit healthcare.utah.edu/primarycare/learning.<br />
National Children’s Study Adds Counties in<br />
Wyoming and Idaho to <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>’s Vanguard Center<br />
urban, and suburban areas, from all<br />
income and educational levels, and from<br />
all racial groups. The study will investigate<br />
factors influencing the development<br />
<strong>of</strong> such conditions as autism, cerebral<br />
palsy, learning disabilities, birth defects,<br />
diabetes, asthma, and obesity.<br />
Within just a few years, the study<br />
will provide information on disorders <strong>of</strong><br />
pregnancy and birth, and because women<br />
will be recruited before they give birth,<br />
and in some instances even before they<br />
become pregnant, the study will provide<br />
insight into the causes and contributors<br />
<strong>of</strong> preterm birth. Fully operational,<br />
the study is expected to include up to<br />
50 study centers in the planned 105<br />
study locations throughout the United<br />
States, according to Clark. “The National<br />
Children’s Study will benefit the nation’s<br />
children for generations,” Clark said.<br />
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<strong>2008</strong><br />
Alumni<br />
Weekend<br />
Connecting With U<br />
10<br />
1968<br />
Back Row (left to right): Bruce<br />
McIff, Nathaniel Matolo, Curt<br />
Kaesche, Edward Heyes, Richard<br />
Wallin, Andrew Grose<br />
Front Row (left to right): Bruce<br />
Irvine, Reed Heywood, Jon Ord,<br />
Lawrence Astle, Jon Lloyd<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 1958<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 1968<br />
1958<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 1963<br />
Back Row (Left to Right): Glenn L. Johnston, Clayton R.<br />
Gabbert, Ward H. Hedges, Richard M. Hebertson, John<br />
E. Meyers, Herbert B. Spencer, Harry L. Gibbons<br />
Front Row (Left to Right): C. Gary Loosli, Barry A.<br />
Clothier, Arthur F. Budge, James O. Mason, Joseph M.<br />
Heath, Joseph H. Nelson, E. Ute Knowlton<br />
1963<br />
Back Row (left to right): Kent Pomeroy,<br />
A. Mason Redd, Donald Reay,<br />
Thomas Caine, Robert Duncan Wallace,<br />
Robert Gibbons<br />
Front Row (left to right): Alvin Cobabe,<br />
Kirk Neuberger, Joseph Knight, Walker<br />
Ashcraft, Kenny Ashby<br />
1988<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 1978<br />
LeeLee Colter; Peter Novak;<br />
Tim Wolfe: Eric Vanderho<strong>of</strong>t;<br />
Sheryll Vanderho<strong>of</strong>t; John<br />
Hardy; Michael Measom: Bart<br />
Johansen; Teresa Ota;<br />
Ivan Flint; Ken Nielson;<br />
Steve Roberts; Bryan Timmins;<br />
Brian Heaton: Dan Hammon;<br />
Lisa Burton; Craig Foley<br />
1978<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 1993<br />
Paul Larsen;<br />
Robert Christiansen;<br />
Eliot Brinton;<br />
Kristina Hindert;<br />
Garner Meads;<br />
Brent Jackson;<br />
Jeffrey Labrum;<br />
Michael Lahey;<br />
Jeffrey Mathews<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 1988<br />
1993<br />
David Sabir,; Jay Clark;<br />
Neil Callister; Wendell<br />
Johnson; Sheila Garvey;<br />
Matthew Hughes; Trent<br />
Jones; Ryan Evans;<br />
Richard VanLeeuwen<br />
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Class<br />
2003<br />
<strong>of</strong> 1998<br />
<strong>2008</strong> Alumni Weekend<br />
Robert H. Ballard, M.D. ‘44,<br />
Alumni Association President<br />
Mark Johnston, M.D. ‘90,<br />
Awards<br />
and Alumni Relation Director<br />
Kristin Wann Gorang<br />
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Nicole Lynd Draper, Jennifer Holmes,<br />
Jon Martin, Ryan Stewart, Rebecca<br />
Hendryx, Robert Christensen<br />
Medical Alumni<br />
Awards Banquet<br />
1998<br />
Back Row (left to right): Carmen Arkansas<br />
Nations, Ed Peterson, Raphael<br />
Allred, Jim Reynolds, Michael Martineau,<br />
Michael Pingree, Tom Clark,<br />
Chris Jones and Trent Holmberg.<br />
Front Row (left to right): Trena<br />
Bonde, Gina Cox, Marc Johnson,<br />
Sarah Maulden, Stephanie Carney,<br />
Janell Jager, Brian Fukushima,<br />
Tammy Park Fukishima, Jennifer<br />
Brinton, Mark Sheffield.<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 1958 Honorees<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 2003<br />
Stephen Warner, Associate V.P. <strong>of</strong><br />
Health Sciences Development and<br />
Alumni, Tom Caine, M.D. ‘63,<br />
and Richard Boyer, M.D. ‘73.<br />
Alumni Weekend<br />
The Alumni Weekend <strong>2008</strong> continues to expand to include not<br />
only M.D. graduates <strong>of</strong> the <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong>, but also former<br />
house staff graduates, other <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> graduates, and<br />
community medical members. This year celebrated the 16th<br />
year the Alumni Association has hosted an Awards Banquet,<br />
celebrating the 50-year classes’ achievements and recognizing a<br />
Distinguished Service member and Distinguished Alumni member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the school. These awardees are nominated by their peers<br />
and voted upon by the Alumni Association board each year.<br />
(See page 24 for <strong>2009</strong> nomination information).<br />
Greg Poulsen, Sr. Vice President, IHC presents<br />
Health Reform Issues.<br />
Education<br />
CME Audience listened intently to topic “Health Care<br />
in Crisis: History, Challenges, and Opportunities.<br />
Panelist Jay Jarvis, M.D. ‘82,<br />
speaks as Greg Poulsen and<br />
Jay Jacobsen, M.D., listen.<br />
Continuing<br />
Virgil Parker, M.D. ‘57, and Carol Fay at CME conference<br />
Friday morning eight different <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> departments<br />
sponsored breakfasts and programs for alumni followed by a<br />
“State <strong>of</strong> the <strong>School</strong>” address by Dean David Bjorkman. Friday<br />
night 220 alumni closed down Little America as they celebrated<br />
their reunions, laughing, reminiscing and renewing friendships.<br />
Saturday the annual CME conference drew over 100 attendees<br />
from both alumni and the greater community as the topic Health<br />
Care in Crisis: History, Challenges and Opportunities was presented.<br />
That presentation is currently available on the SOM Alumni<br />
Association web site www.medicine.utah.edu/alumni.<br />
Saturday ended with a tailgating party at the Alumni House and<br />
a 42-21 football victory over UNLV. We encourage many <strong>of</strong> you<br />
to make plans now to attend the <strong>2009</strong> Alumni and Community<br />
Weekend on September 24-26.
Distinguished AlumnI AWARD<br />
Distinguished<br />
<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
Distinguished Awards <strong>2008</strong><br />
The first major gift to the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Utah</strong> Health Sciences from the Spencer<br />
Stoddard Eccles family was a generous<br />
bequest given in 1965 to construct<br />
the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences<br />
Library. This original family gift was<br />
followed up with annual contributions<br />
to the library from the Spencer<br />
Fox Eccles and Nancy Eccles Hayward<br />
families, that resulted in an endowment<br />
that has been used to support the<br />
collection, introduce technology and<br />
provide seed money for innovative projects<br />
and programs.<br />
In 1975, the Eccles families<br />
provided a gift to the hospital for the<br />
construction <strong>of</strong> the Hope Fox Eccles<br />
Clinical Library and have made annual<br />
gifts to support an endowment. More<br />
recently the Nancy Eccles Hayward<br />
Harmon Eyre, M.D. recently retired as<br />
Chief Medical Officer and Executive<br />
Vice President for Research and Cancer<br />
Control Science at the American Cancer<br />
Society. As an American Cancer Society<br />
volunteer for over 22 years and National<br />
President in 1988, he has been instrumental<br />
in developing the Society’s<br />
priorities, including efforts to decrease<br />
smoking, improve diet, detect cancer at<br />
the earliest stage, and provide the critical<br />
support cancer patients need. Dr.<br />
Eyre guided efforts to enhance and focus<br />
the Society’s research program,<br />
upgraded its advocacy capacity, and<br />
Family donated<br />
$100,000 to provide<br />
an endowment for the<br />
library’s Open Reserve<br />
Collection, which<br />
includes core health<br />
sciences textbooks.<br />
In 2005 the family<br />
continued its generous<br />
support for the Health<br />
Sciences in <strong>Utah</strong> by<br />
Spencer and Cleone<br />
making a personal<br />
gift <strong>of</strong> $7 million to<br />
provide major funding<br />
for the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles<br />
Health Sciences Education Building.<br />
This facility provided much needed<br />
classrooms, labs, and training facilities<br />
for the medical school and for all<br />
Sr. V.P. <strong>of</strong> Health Sciences, Lorris A. Betz, M.D., Dean David Bjorkman, M.D.,<br />
and Harmon J. Eyre, M.D. ‘66<br />
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SERVICE AWARD<br />
oncentrated community cancer<br />
control efforts in areas where they<br />
were most effective.<br />
Previously he had a successful<br />
academic career as a medical oncologist<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>, where<br />
he served as Associate Chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
Internal <strong>Medicine</strong> and Deputy Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Huntsman Cancer Institute. He<br />
has been recognized for his service to<br />
numerous pr<strong>of</strong>essional societies, government<br />
groups, and voluntary health<br />
agencies in the United States<br />
and abroad.<br />
Spencer F. Eccles family representing the Spencer Stoddard & Hope Fox Eccles Family<br />
other students in health sciences<br />
specialties. This state-<strong>of</strong>-the-art building<br />
has greatly benefited the training<br />
<strong>of</strong> the next generation <strong>of</strong> health care<br />
providers for <strong>Utah</strong>.<br />
Distinguished<br />
Alumni Award<br />
This award is presented<br />
annually to a graduate<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
who exemplifies the practice<br />
<strong>of</strong> medicine. Achievement<br />
is recognized through excellence<br />
in clinical practice,<br />
academic activities and<br />
research accomplishments.<br />
Distinguished<br />
Service Award<br />
This award recognizes<br />
individuals, both alumni<br />
and non-alumni, who<br />
have made outstanding<br />
contributions to the school,<br />
the community, and the<br />
practice <strong>of</strong> medicine.<br />
Awards<br />
Student Life<br />
Twain, Thailand, and Tuberculosis<br />
By Anne Bennett (MSIV)<br />
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry,<br />
and narrow-mindedness . . . Broad, wholesome,<br />
charitable views <strong>of</strong> men and things<br />
cannot be acquired by vegetating in one<br />
little corner <strong>of</strong> the earth all one’s lifetime.”<br />
Such words written by acclaimed American<br />
author, Mark Twain have also proven their<br />
relevance in the study and practice <strong>of</strong><br />
medicine. “Broad, wholesome, charitable<br />
views <strong>of</strong> men” is what is needed today<br />
for success in the medical pr<strong>of</strong>ession<br />
and frequently “prejudice, bigotry, and<br />
narrow-mindedness” is still the platform<br />
upon which resistance to progress is<br />
launched. Many <strong>of</strong> the international programs<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>, including<br />
The Thailand International Elective (TIE5),<br />
are founded on these ideas and strive to<br />
instill training in medical open-mindedness<br />
in their participants.<br />
The director <strong>of</strong> TIE5, Dr. Han Kim,<br />
repeatedly reminded me and the other<br />
traveling students that his objective was to<br />
make us uncomfortable. While he certainly<br />
succeeded, he never told us that in our<br />
discomfort we would come to love with a<br />
first hand knowledge the complexity <strong>of</strong> the<br />
human experience that makes medicine<br />
so rewarding.<br />
Thailand was the full-blown production<br />
<strong>of</strong> the script<br />
that is required<br />
reading for all first<br />
and second year<br />
medical students.<br />
Our trip brought<br />
questions and<br />
discussions to the<br />
statistics <strong>of</strong> social<br />
medicine, faces<br />
to the viruses <strong>of</strong><br />
microbiology, and<br />
an urgency to the<br />
understanding and<br />
appreciation <strong>of</strong><br />
pharmacology. In<br />
Thailand the facts<br />
<strong>of</strong> medical school<br />
came alive in real<br />
Author at Thai orphanage<br />
world presentations.<br />
The implications <strong>of</strong> lifestyle<br />
related illness was<br />
made poignantly clear<br />
during a stroll through<br />
the Red Light district<br />
in downtown Bangkok<br />
where STDs are being<br />
traded like baseball cards<br />
in elementary school.<br />
Our visit to the AIDS<br />
hospice became a devas- AIDS Hospice<br />
tating, yet unforgettable<br />
pictorial encyclopedia <strong>of</strong> the opportunist<br />
infections inflicting the victims <strong>of</strong> this viral<br />
assault. The experience <strong>of</strong> cachexia, which<br />
meant little to me as a two-dimensional<br />
word in a microbiology syllabus, is now<br />
burned into my brain as the very definition<br />
<strong>of</strong> suffering. Diseases which I had deemed<br />
only <strong>of</strong> historical significance were brought<br />
to the forefront <strong>of</strong> my concern as I learned<br />
how to diagnose leprosy in a young woman<br />
standing frightened in the clinic.<br />
The gurgle <strong>of</strong> expectorated sputum, the<br />
crackling <strong>of</strong> fibrotic lungs, and the droning<br />
monotony <strong>of</strong> an ongoing Buddhist prayer<br />
have become my new association with<br />
Tuberculosis; my previously learned triad<br />
<strong>of</strong> fever, night sweats, and weight loss now<br />
seems somewhat<br />
less impressionable.<br />
Diseases became<br />
more significant<br />
because <strong>of</strong> their<br />
devastation and, I<br />
realized, cannot be<br />
fully understood in<br />
a context devoid <strong>of</strong><br />
their implications on<br />
an individual body<br />
and soul. Our days<br />
in Thailand provided<br />
this context.<br />
Our trip to<br />
Thailand presented<br />
us with an understanding<br />
<strong>of</strong> the<br />
depth <strong>of</strong> the public<br />
health challenges facing today’s population,<br />
but the Thais were determined not to leave<br />
us without solutions. It was inspiring to observe<br />
a unique health care system from the<br />
legislative, theoretical, religious, and clinical<br />
angles. The Thais have structured their<br />
health care system on ideals <strong>of</strong> individual<br />
responsibility, equality, and efficiency, while<br />
relying on a vast network <strong>of</strong> community<br />
volunteers who educate, test, and advise<br />
their neighbors. Our month in Thailand<br />
was shaped by countless bus rides in which<br />
issues such as those mentioned above were<br />
discussed and debated regarding their value,<br />
relevance, and relation to the United States<br />
health care system. In many cases we were<br />
able to see the problems and possible solutions<br />
<strong>of</strong> the American health care system in<br />
a new light.<br />
TIE5 was not a month <strong>of</strong> comfort and<br />
ease. It was a time to explore the foundations<br />
<strong>of</strong> our future pr<strong>of</strong>essions and the<br />
systems in which we will operate. It was<br />
a time to feel sad, angry, grossed-out and<br />
uncomfortably sticky from sweat, but also<br />
a time to feel inspired by individuals and<br />
their personal triumphs. Just as Mark Twain<br />
implicated travel as a means <strong>of</strong> overcoming<br />
narrow-mindedness, so too can medicine<br />
open our minds and our hearts–but only if<br />
we embrace the vulnerability, humility and<br />
awkwardness <strong>of</strong> the situations in which it<br />
may place us. Our experience in Thailand<br />
helped us to do just that.<br />
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Student Life<br />
The Cloak <strong>of</strong> Compassion-<strong>2008</strong> White Coat Ceremony<br />
n August 22 the seats <strong>of</strong> Kingsbury Hall on<br />
the campus <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> filled<br />
with proud family members and friends as the 102<br />
members <strong>of</strong> the Class <strong>of</strong> 2012 were initiated into the<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>ession <strong>of</strong> medicine by being cloaked with a medical<br />
white coat. <strong>2008</strong> marked the 12th year that the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>’s <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> has celebrated<br />
this event. Richard Sperry, M.D., Ph.D., Associate<br />
Vice President <strong>of</strong> Health Sciences, and Director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Governor Scott M. Matheson Center for Health Care<br />
Studies gave the keynote address, focusing on how<br />
the increased technology <strong>of</strong> medicine should never<br />
overshadow the importance <strong>of</strong> the caring tradition <strong>of</strong><br />
medicine and the ability to see each patient as a fellow<br />
human being. Students recited the Hippocratic Oath,<br />
publicly acknowledging their new responsibilities and<br />
their willingness to assume the obligations <strong>of</strong> their<br />
new pr<strong>of</strong>ession. Dr. Fred Langeland, M.D., outgoing<br />
President <strong>of</strong> the Alumni Association, presented<br />
each incoming student with a Littman III Cardiac<br />
Stethoscope given to them as a personal gift from a<br />
White Coat Ceremony<br />
medical school alumnus/a.<br />
Richard Sperry, M.D., Ph.D. addresses White Coat recipients<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 2012 prepares to recite hippocratic oath<br />
O<br />
BECOMING A BALLARD SCHOLAR<br />
2007 Ballard Scholars Griffin Jardine, and Mitchael Steorts with<br />
Robert H. Ballard M.D. ‘44<br />
n the Fall <strong>of</strong> <strong>2008</strong> the second two<br />
Robert H. Ballard and Dorothy<br />
Cannon Ballard scholars for the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
were named. This award, generously<br />
endowed by Robert H. Ballard, M.D. ’44 in<br />
2007 is given to the two most outstanding<br />
candidates <strong>of</strong> each incoming medical school<br />
class based on grades, test scores, research,<br />
and service to the greater community.<br />
This year’s recipients were Michael S.<br />
Enslow and Christopher “Todd” Sower.<br />
Michael graduated from the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> with a B.S. in Health Promotion<br />
and Education with a minor in Chemistry.<br />
Along with his school work he volunteered<br />
for the Special Olympics, served as<br />
an emergency room and nursing home<br />
volunteer and as a football coach for Alta<br />
High <strong>School</strong>. He was a group coordinator<br />
and health educator in La Paz, Bolivia,<br />
raising over $20,000 and soliciting donated<br />
medical supplies for the trip. His research<br />
has included studying familial resemblance<br />
in body composition in Tongan-Americans<br />
and testing ventricular assist devices in calves<br />
with the hope <strong>of</strong> being able to use them in<br />
people in the future.<br />
Christopher “Todd” Sower graduated<br />
with a B.S. in Human Development and<br />
Family Studies and a minor in Chemistry<br />
from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>. As an undergraduate<br />
he received a Colleen Cluff Caputo<br />
Honor Scholarship and served as a teaching<br />
assistant. He spent time as an emergency<br />
Ballard<br />
Scholars<br />
room volunteer, tutored inmates at the Salt<br />
Lake County Jail and taught basic first aid<br />
to 5th graders through the American Red<br />
Cross. He volunteered at Primary Children’s<br />
Hospital and researched echocardiographic<br />
measurements <strong>of</strong> pulmonary regurgitation.<br />
We welcome them to this prestigious<br />
group <strong>of</strong> scholars and look forward to their<br />
future accomplishments.<br />
In the year and a half that has passed<br />
since the first two Ballard scholars began<br />
medical school they have taken the opportunity<br />
to reflect on what receiving the Ballard<br />
Scholarship meant to them. Griffin Jardine,<br />
MSII wrote:<br />
“I feel overwhelmed when I think <strong>of</strong><br />
how much this scholarship has helped my<br />
family this past year. My wife and I had<br />
our first child the week before my first year<br />
<strong>of</strong> medical school started. Our financial<br />
situation changed dramatically in the course<br />
<strong>of</strong> that week – I stopped working completely<br />
in order to focus on school and my<br />
wife significantly cut back on her hours to<br />
take care <strong>of</strong> our daughter. This scholarship<br />
made all the difference during that stage <strong>of</strong><br />
transition. We have been able to focus on<br />
the things that are most important to us<br />
without being burdened or distracted by excessive<br />
debt. This will continue throughout<br />
our lives because my medical school loans<br />
won’t dictate my career choice. I have also<br />
felt empowered this past year to try to live<br />
up to Dr. Ballard’s legacy because <strong>of</strong> how he<br />
has benefited me and my family. Having<br />
my education funded by this incredible act<br />
<strong>of</strong> kindness has been inspiring. Among the<br />
many legacies Dr. Ballard has left throughout<br />
his career, this endowed scholarship is a<br />
tribute to his generosity. It will impact the<br />
course <strong>of</strong> my entire career and life. Thank<br />
you Dr. Ballard.”<br />
Mitchael Steorts, MSII wrote:<br />
“Receiving the Robert H. Ballard<br />
and Dorothy Cannon Ballard Endowed<br />
Scholarship has already significantly<br />
impacted my medical school education. It<br />
has made me a better student by pushing<br />
me to ‘live up’ to the honor <strong>of</strong> receiving this<br />
scholarship. My wife and I feel less stress<br />
about the financial aspect <strong>of</strong> medical school,<br />
and because <strong>of</strong> this, I have been able to focus<br />
less on finances and more on course work.<br />
However, I strongly feel that the greatest<br />
impact this scholarship will have on me and<br />
my family will not be fully realized for years<br />
to come. The one thing I don’t think I really<br />
understood before starting medical school is<br />
just how many options there are for practicing<br />
medicine. It seems to me that there is a<br />
field <strong>of</strong> medicine as broad or specific as any<br />
physician’s interests. However, with the cost<br />
<strong>of</strong> medical school, it is all too <strong>of</strong>ten the case<br />
that debt repayment becomes a driving force<br />
when selecting a career path. I am pr<strong>of</strong>oundly<br />
grateful for this scholarship because<br />
it ensures that the only factor influencing<br />
the field <strong>of</strong> medicine I practice in will be my<br />
personal desires.”<br />
Incoming students Carlos Casamalhuapa, Joseph Cho, Heather Dr. Bjorkman cloaking Roberto E. Montenegro<br />
16 Wark, Roberto E. Montenegro, and Marie Flores<br />
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Alumni Highlights<br />
Alumni board<br />
welcomes new members<br />
A native <strong>of</strong> Beirut, Lebanon, Dr.<br />
Choucair started his undergraduate education<br />
in Germany and graduated Magna<br />
Cum Laude in Biochemistry from Rice<br />
<strong>University</strong>, where he was the recipient<br />
<strong>of</strong> the National Science Foundation<br />
stipend for undergraduate research in<br />
Biochemistry. He earned his M.D from<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Calgary <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Medicine</strong> (1976-1979), and completed<br />
training in Internal <strong>Medicine</strong> (<strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Calgary 1979-1981), Neurology<br />
(<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> 1981-84), and<br />
Neuro-oncology (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California<br />
San Francisco’s Brain Tumor Research<br />
Center 1984-86).<br />
As a founding member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Society for Neuro-oncology he currently<br />
serves on its International Outreach<br />
and Award committees. He was on the<br />
faculty <strong>of</strong> the Marshfield Clinic for 15<br />
years where he founded the Cancer<br />
Dr. Cheng is a<br />
board certified<br />
plastic and<br />
reconstructive<br />
surgeon in private<br />
practice.<br />
She is originally<br />
from Kansas<br />
and attended<br />
the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Kansas on a music scholarship<br />
(violin), obtaining a B.A. in Human<br />
Biology. She then attended Duke<br />
<strong>University</strong> Medical <strong>School</strong>, graduating<br />
in 1990, and followed this with five<br />
Pain Program as well as the Division <strong>of</strong><br />
Neuro-oncology, which he chaired until<br />
his resignation in December 2000 to<br />
return to <strong>Utah</strong>. He is currently adjunct<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> and Neurosurgery<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>, an Associate<br />
Member <strong>of</strong> the Division <strong>of</strong> Medical<br />
Ethics and Humanities, on the faculty<br />
for the Cultural Competence and<br />
Mutual Respect in Healthcare course<br />
for the Health Sciences, and on the<br />
teaching faculty for the combined<br />
Internal <strong>Medicine</strong> residency training<br />
program at Intermountain Medical<br />
Center. Dr Choucair serves as the<br />
Medical Director for Neuro-oncology at<br />
Intermountain Healthcare.<br />
As a physician citizen <strong>of</strong> the State<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> and a graduate from one <strong>of</strong> its<br />
training programs, Dr. Choucair believes<br />
in having ownership in supporting the<br />
mission <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> SOM,<br />
Ali K. Choucair, M.D.<br />
years with the Duke Department <strong>of</strong><br />
General Surgery Residency Program.<br />
She moved to <strong>Utah</strong>, having matched<br />
for a plastic surgery fellowship at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>, finishing that<br />
program in 1997.<br />
Currently, she is completing a<br />
four-year membership <strong>of</strong> the Lakeview<br />
Hospital Board <strong>of</strong> Trustees, is a UMA<br />
delegate for the <strong>Utah</strong> State Plastic<br />
Surgical Society, is a Fellow <strong>of</strong> the<br />
American College <strong>of</strong> Surgeons, and a<br />
member <strong>of</strong> the American Society <strong>of</strong><br />
Plastic Surgeons.<br />
Her interests also include her<br />
Alumni Notebook<br />
especially<br />
when it comes<br />
to medical<br />
education. He<br />
believes it is<br />
an important<br />
responsibility<br />
to invest in<br />
the education<br />
<strong>of</strong> our<br />
graduates<br />
both inside and outside the classroom.<br />
Having the privilege to serve on the<br />
SOM Alumni Board is an opportunity to<br />
pay back for the indebtedness <strong>of</strong> having<br />
a life generously blessed and shaped by<br />
so many dedicated teachers in Lebanon,<br />
Germany, Canada, and the United States.<br />
It is part <strong>of</strong> our mission to maintain our<br />
students’ connectivity to the mission <strong>of</strong><br />
the SOM, to be our ambassadors to the<br />
greater community.<br />
‘84 House Staff<br />
family, pickup soccer, hiking, running,<br />
biking, cooking, books and movies.<br />
Plastic surgery has been a wonderful<br />
opportunity to meet outstanding<br />
patients, work with skilled colleagues<br />
and realize a lifelong dream.<br />
Dr. Cheng feels that being a<br />
board member <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Utah</strong> SOM Alumni Association is<br />
a privilege and an opportunity to<br />
work with some <strong>of</strong> the true leaders in<br />
medicine. She hopes experience gained<br />
from her private practice and other<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essional activities will contribute<br />
to Alumni board goals.<br />
Christine A. Cheng, M.D. ‘97 House Staff<br />
H. James Williams, M.D. ‘69<br />
As a native <strong>of</strong> Salt Lake City, Dr.<br />
James Williams (Jim) received his<br />
undergraduate and medical school<br />
education from the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> (’69). He completed<br />
his residency training in internal<br />
medicine at Duke <strong>University</strong> in<br />
North Carolina before returning<br />
to the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> as the chief medical<br />
resident. Following two years <strong>of</strong><br />
service in the U.S. Army at Fort<br />
Riley, Kansas, he returned to the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> for training<br />
in Rheumatology and to join the<br />
faculty at the medical school.<br />
In addition to his practice as a<br />
rheumatologist, he was involved<br />
in clinical research and also<br />
served as associate chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
the Department <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
and chief <strong>of</strong> the Division <strong>of</strong><br />
Rheumatology. He was the<br />
program director for the internal<br />
medicine training program for 14<br />
years. He has also served as the<br />
governor for the <strong>Utah</strong> Chapter<br />
<strong>of</strong> the American College <strong>of</strong><br />
Physicians. He retired as a pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
in 2004 when he was called<br />
to preside over the Denmark<br />
Copenhagen Mission for his<br />
church but returned to part-time<br />
practice at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong><br />
Medical Center in 2007. He and<br />
his wife Janet have seven children<br />
and 12 grandchildren. This is his<br />
second stint on the Alumni Board<br />
and he hopes to continue the high<br />
quality <strong>of</strong> the CME conference on<br />
Alumni weekend.<br />
Alumni Notebook<br />
Dale G. Johnson, M.D. ‘56<br />
Dale G. Johnson,<br />
M.D. joined the<br />
surgery faculty<br />
at <strong>Utah</strong> in 1971,<br />
following recruitment<br />
from faculty<br />
positions at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Pennsylvania and<br />
the Children’s<br />
Hospital <strong>of</strong> Philadelphia, (CHOP).<br />
A native <strong>of</strong> Salt Lake, Dr. Johnson<br />
graduated with <strong>Utah</strong>’s medical class<br />
<strong>of</strong> 1956. General surgical training<br />
at the Massachusetts General Hospital<br />
was followed by three years <strong>of</strong> research<br />
at the Walter Reed Army Institute<br />
and the U. <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania’s Harrison<br />
Department. Dr. C. Everett Koop<br />
sponsored additional fellowship training<br />
in pediatric surgery followed<br />
by promotion to faculty associate<br />
at CHOP.<br />
Dr. Sundwall<br />
feels honored<br />
to serve on<br />
the SOM,<br />
especially<br />
because he<br />
never felt<br />
quite worthy<br />
to even<br />
have been<br />
admitted to<br />
the school in the first place. During<br />
his student days he never would have<br />
guessed he’d have had this opportunity.<br />
Dr. Sundwall completed his Family<br />
<strong>Medicine</strong> internship and residency at<br />
Harvard teaching hospitals in Boston<br />
and found that he had received a very<br />
fine medical education at the U <strong>of</strong> U<br />
and could certainly hold his own with<br />
peers trained in prestigious schools<br />
Dr. Johnson stepped down<br />
as Surgeon-in-Chief at Primary<br />
Children’s Medical Center in 2002,<br />
retired from active surgical practice in<br />
2006, and currently enjoys Emeritus<br />
Faculty status. Career highlights<br />
include presidencies <strong>of</strong> the American<br />
Pediatric Surgical Association and<br />
the Pacific Association <strong>of</strong> Pediatric<br />
Surgeons along with membership<br />
in 25 pr<strong>of</strong>essional organizations<br />
including The American Surgical<br />
Association. Visiting pr<strong>of</strong>essorships<br />
have involved multiple institutions<br />
in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and<br />
the United States.<br />
Dr. Johnson is anxious to<br />
help in developing more efficient<br />
methods for communication between<br />
medical alumni along with improved<br />
access to ongoing developments at<br />
the Medical <strong>School</strong>. Dr. Johnson<br />
believes such class and school ties<br />
are important for maintaining<br />
physician identity.<br />
throughout the country. He returned<br />
to <strong>Utah</strong>, and had two relatively brief<br />
stints on the faculty <strong>of</strong> the <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Medicine</strong> (1975-77, and 1978-80) but<br />
maintained his ties with the school<br />
and to his knowledge holds a world<br />
record, for the longest continuous<br />
“leave <strong>of</strong> absence” ever granted a medical<br />
school faculty! He kept his position<br />
as an Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, tenure track,<br />
in the Department <strong>of</strong> Family and<br />
Preventive <strong>Medicine</strong>, from 1981 until<br />
2004, when he returned to <strong>Utah</strong> and<br />
regained active status. He is proud <strong>of</strong><br />
our school, and knows <strong>of</strong> its reputation<br />
nationally and the contributions<br />
it has made to our state and the<br />
Intermountain West. Dr. Sundwall<br />
hopes to lend support for its continued<br />
success and an expanded role in<br />
medical education.<br />
David N. Sundwall, M.D. ‘69<br />
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Alumni Highlights<br />
<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> Health Care Heroes Named<br />
Every fall <strong>Utah</strong> Business<br />
magazine names community<br />
health care heroes in seven<br />
categories, Lifetime Achievement,<br />
Health Care Provider-Physician<br />
Health Care Provider-Non-<br />
Physician, Volunteer, Community<br />
Outreach, Administrative<br />
Excellence and Corporate<br />
Achievement. This year four M.D.<br />
graduates from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> were<br />
recognized for their achievement.<br />
Lifetime Achievement<br />
Scott D. Williams, M.D.,’82, M.P.H., ‘89<br />
Scott Williams, M.D. has spent 23 years<br />
working in every sector <strong>of</strong> health care.<br />
Currently he is Chief Medical Officer <strong>of</strong><br />
HCA’s MountainStar Division and was<br />
formerly an executive director <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Utah</strong><br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Health. He has spent his<br />
career focusing on improving preventive<br />
health care services to patients, stating,<br />
“If we focus resources at the early end<br />
<strong>of</strong> health care problems, we’ll prevent<br />
people from having more complications<br />
and improve their health now. They<br />
won’t need as much treatment down<br />
the road, which saves money later on<br />
too.” He focuses on the dissemination <strong>of</strong><br />
electronic health records (EHR) which<br />
updates patient records and reminds physicians<br />
when preventive services are due<br />
Weber Medical Society names<br />
Lyle Archibald, M.D. ’71 Doctor <strong>of</strong> the Year<br />
Lyle Archibald, M.D. has practiced as<br />
a surgeon in Ogden, <strong>Utah</strong> since 1976,<br />
performing approximately 25,000 surgical<br />
procedures and played a major role<br />
in developing the McKay-Dee Hospital<br />
trauma program. He has also served on<br />
the <strong>Utah</strong> State trauma task force, was chief<br />
for individual patients.<br />
Community Outreach<br />
Tamara Lewis, M.D., ‘89<br />
With one in four <strong>Utah</strong> children overweight<br />
and nearly one in ten obese, the<br />
threat <strong>of</strong> early onset diabetes and other<br />
problems associated with overweight is creating<br />
a crisis in healthcare among today’s<br />
youth. Tamara Lewis, M.D., her associate<br />
Pauline Williams, and Intermountain<br />
Healthcare decided to educate adolescents<br />
by directing LiVe, a public education<br />
campaign aimed at kids ages 11 to 15,<br />
with the goal <strong>of</strong> making eating healthy and<br />
staying active cool for kids. The program<br />
uses television, radio, and print ads,<br />
outdoor public service announcements,<br />
and an interactive Web site (intermountainlive.org)<br />
to reach out to kids. In <strong>2008</strong><br />
a high-energy school assembly program<br />
explaining how to make healthy choices<br />
was shown at 75 junior high schools across<br />
<strong>Utah</strong>, with plans to increase the number to<br />
reach more than 30,000 <strong>Utah</strong> students in<br />
the next few years.<br />
Robert B. Clark, M.D. ‘82<br />
In 1990 Robert Clark became involved<br />
with the Neonatal Resuscitation Program,<br />
a low-tech and highly effective program<br />
used by doctors and midwives on babies<br />
who can’t breathe at birth. In 1991 Dr.<br />
Clark obtained a Thrasher grant, which<br />
helped spread the program not only<br />
throughout the U.S., but also to China,<br />
Vietnam, Russia and Indonesia, where it<br />
has influenced health initiatives, programs<br />
<strong>of</strong> surgery at McKay-Dee Hospital and<br />
chairman <strong>of</strong> McKay-Dee’s medical staff.<br />
He is a member <strong>of</strong> the American College<br />
<strong>of</strong> Surgeons, Southwest Surgical Society,<br />
Ogden Surgical Society, the American<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> Breast Diseases and the <strong>Utah</strong><br />
State Medical Association and is currently<br />
Alumni Notebook<br />
and outreach efforts. “Whether at home or<br />
abroad, the health needs <strong>of</strong> people always<br />
exceed the resources available for their<br />
care,” Clark says. “At home, I have been<br />
privileged to follow many <strong>of</strong> my patients<br />
from their birth through childhood,<br />
adolescence, adulthood, marriage and the<br />
birth <strong>of</strong> their children. Overseas, I have<br />
been privileged to help establish systems<br />
that allow large numbers <strong>of</strong> newborns to<br />
have a healthy start on life, and hopefully<br />
attain the same goals.”<br />
Health Care Provider-Physician<br />
Scott Albert Leckman, M.D. ‘83<br />
Scott Leckman was recognized not<br />
only for his role improving the quality<br />
and safety <strong>of</strong> patient care at St. Mark’s<br />
Hospital, but also for his extensive volunteer<br />
efforts around the world. He served<br />
for a month aboard the USNS Mercy<br />
providing medical relief for survivors <strong>of</strong><br />
the 2004 tsunami in northern Sumatra,<br />
Indonesia and for years has been involved<br />
with RESULTS, a grassroots citizens’<br />
lobby group dedicated to ending hunger.<br />
Serving on the board <strong>of</strong> directors <strong>of</strong><br />
RESULTS has taken him to Bangladesh,<br />
India, Pakistan, El Salvador and Capitol<br />
Hill to work on hunger issues. In 2001<br />
he assisted in initiating the Health Access<br />
Project which has provided nearly $2<br />
million in donated health care to qualified<br />
individuals through a network <strong>of</strong> 600<br />
physicians and nine hospitals affiliated<br />
with the project.<br />
the medical director for the surgical clinical<br />
program at Intermountain Healthcare.<br />
In <strong>2008</strong> he was recognized as the Weber<br />
County Doctor <strong>of</strong> the Year by the Weber<br />
Medical Society for all <strong>of</strong> his contributions<br />
to the community.<br />
Rita Leavell, M.D. ’81 featured in USAID Health News<br />
Dr. Rita Leavell <strong>of</strong> Abt Associates, Inc.<br />
was recognized in the Women Making a<br />
Difference spotlight in USAID Health for<br />
her work in Jordan to improve the early<br />
detection <strong>of</strong> breast cancer, the second<br />
leading cause <strong>of</strong> death for women in that<br />
country. A pediatrician with an MBA,<br />
Dr. Leavell has worked in international<br />
health for 22 years, 17 <strong>of</strong> which were<br />
focused on using the private sector to<br />
achieve sustainable health goals.<br />
Lonnie Paulos, M.D. ’73<br />
creates Andrew-Paulos<br />
Research and Education<br />
Institute<br />
Many individuals<br />
in <strong>Utah</strong> know<br />
orthopaedist<br />
Lonnie Paulos and<br />
his research and<br />
clinical expertise on<br />
the knee. He has<br />
worked on more<br />
than 100 studies<br />
in orthopaedic research and holds 20<br />
U.S. patents, the majority being bracing<br />
devices and procedures for the knee.<br />
He received national attention for his<br />
work on the left knee <strong>of</strong> Carson Palmer,<br />
the former Heisman Trophy winner and<br />
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, in 2006.<br />
He is now the newest big name to join the<br />
Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and<br />
Sports <strong>Medicine</strong> in Gulf Breeze, Fla. He<br />
is partnering with Andrews to create the<br />
Andrews-Paulos Research and Education<br />
Institute at the Andrews Institute.<br />
Under Dr. Leavell’s leadership as<br />
project director, the United States Agency<br />
for International Development’s (USAID)<br />
Abt Associates-led Jordan Private Sector<br />
Project for Women’s Health (PSP Jordan)<br />
helped establish the Jordan Breast Cancer<br />
Program. Its five-year goal is to detect<br />
at least 70 percent <strong>of</strong> breast cancer cases<br />
in the early, curable stages. The program<br />
encourages all women to regularly have<br />
clinical exams and women ages 40 to 60<br />
to receive annual mammograms.<br />
Through her leadership Dr. Leavell<br />
has been instrumental in fostering partnerships<br />
with PSP Jordan. She worked<br />
with the King Hussein Cancer Center, the<br />
King Hussein Cancer Foundation and the<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Health (MOH) to launch the<br />
Pink Ribbon communication campaign<br />
that informed women and health <strong>of</strong>ficials<br />
that “early detection <strong>of</strong> breast cancer saves<br />
lives.” From this partnership was born a<br />
draft plan for the nation and the Jordan<br />
How <strong>of</strong>ten does it occur that you<br />
deliver a baby and over 30-years<br />
later that baby takes over your<br />
practice when you retire? That<br />
is what<br />
happened<br />
to Norman<br />
Fawson,<br />
M.D. ’66 and<br />
Curtis Carter,<br />
M.D. ’03.<br />
In 1975 Dr.<br />
Fawson delivered<br />
Curtis<br />
Carter at the<br />
St. George<br />
Clinic; now,<br />
33-years later Dr. Fawson found<br />
in Dr. Carter a perfect fit for<br />
Alumni Notebook<br />
Breast Cancer Program. Community<br />
health workers from PSP Jordan’s doorto-door<br />
outreach program have met more<br />
than 770,000 women ages 15 to 60 to inform<br />
them about breast cancer and teach<br />
them how to perform self-exams. They<br />
also communicated through TV and radio<br />
spots, brochures, and posters, encouraging<br />
women to see their doctors and check for<br />
breast cancer.<br />
In October 2007, just one year after<br />
the launch <strong>of</strong> the Pink Ribbon Breast<br />
Cancer Campaign, local initiatives were<br />
expanded to enhance its effectiveness.<br />
During the initiative, more than 31,000<br />
women received checkups for breast cancer,<br />
a remarkable increase from the 12,000<br />
women who had them in 2006. In addition<br />
hotline calls increased tenfold over<br />
2006, with four times as many women<br />
willing to have a mammogram.<br />
Recruiting from Past Deliveries<br />
Curtis Carter, M.D. ‘03<br />
and Norman Fawson M.D. ‘66<br />
someone to replace him. “I’m sure<br />
it happens, but personally I don’t<br />
know <strong>of</strong> anybody else,” Carter<br />
says <strong>of</strong> replacing the doctor who<br />
delivered<br />
him. With his<br />
practice<br />
in good hands<br />
Fawson now<br />
plans to<br />
work at the<br />
St. George<br />
Doctors’<br />
Volunteer<br />
Clinic, teach<br />
violin and<br />
viola for the<br />
school district, and take care<br />
<strong>of</strong> his apple orchard.<br />
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Alumni Notebook<br />
1945<br />
A. Hamer<br />
Reiser, Jr.<br />
BA, M.D.<br />
Dr. Reiser has<br />
been a specialist in<br />
internal medicine<br />
for more than 60 years, retiring from<br />
full-time practice in Salt Lake City<br />
in 1987. Since 1990 he has provided<br />
medical services for missionaries <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Church <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ <strong>of</strong> Latter-day<br />
Saints and continues to maintain his license<br />
in order to make pro bono publico<br />
house calls for those in need. He and his<br />
wife, Betty Jo, also served for years as<br />
volunteers at the <strong>Utah</strong> State Prison and<br />
received the Salt Lake County Medical<br />
Society Auxiliary’s Distinguished<br />
Physician Award. In <strong>2008</strong> he received<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong>’s Emeritus<br />
Alumni Board Merit <strong>of</strong> Honor Award<br />
for his distinguished service to<br />
the <strong>University</strong>, his pr<strong>of</strong>ession,<br />
and the community.<br />
1958<br />
Maurice G.<br />
Baker, M.D.<br />
Dr. Baker<br />
practices family<br />
medicine and is<br />
currently working<br />
at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City,<br />
<strong>Utah</strong>. He has also served as a mission<br />
president for the LDS church. He is<br />
happily married to his lovely wife<br />
Laura Baker.<br />
Eugene L. Bellin, M.D.<br />
Dr. Bellin loves playing violin and<br />
feeding people at the Bowery Mission<br />
in New York City. In the past he<br />
worked with International Physicians<br />
for the Prevention <strong>of</strong> Nuclear War<br />
(which won the Nobel Prize for peace<br />
in 1990). He was also a member <strong>of</strong><br />
the Innocence Project <strong>of</strong> the Cardozo<br />
Law <strong>School</strong> in NYC and helped 180<br />
innocent people get <strong>of</strong>f <strong>of</strong> death row<br />
through the use <strong>of</strong> DNA testing.<br />
Kay H.<br />
Blacker, M.D.<br />
Dr. Blacker<br />
served for many<br />
years as the<br />
Chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
the Department <strong>of</strong> Psychiatry at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California, Davis <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong>. He is now semi-retired.<br />
Alumni News<br />
Due to the large response from alumni, this edition <strong>of</strong> Illuminations is<br />
featuring alumni highlights submitted by members <strong>of</strong> the classes <strong>of</strong> 1945<br />
through 1969. The Spring/Summer <strong>2009</strong> edition will feature<br />
submissions from the classes <strong>of</strong> 1970’s to <strong>2008</strong>. You may go on-line<br />
at http://medicine.utah.edu/alumni to view all submissions.<br />
Arthur F.<br />
Budge, M.D.<br />
Dr. Budge retired<br />
in 1990. He<br />
spends his spare<br />
time gardening,<br />
fishing and traveling. He was President<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Ogden Surgical-Medical Society<br />
in 1987. He is also active in the LDS<br />
Church and Boy Scouts <strong>of</strong> America,<br />
having been registered in the Boy<br />
Scouts for over 36 years.<br />
Barry A.<br />
Clothier, M.D.<br />
Dr. Clothier retired<br />
in December<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>2008</strong>. He is<br />
looking forward<br />
to spending his spare time bird watching<br />
and writing a book on medical<br />
mnemonics. He taught part time<br />
at Scottsdale Family Practice<br />
Residency Program.<br />
Rodger K. Farr, M.D.<br />
Dr. Farr retired in 2006. He is a<br />
Distinguished Life Fellow and a<br />
Gold Medal recipient <strong>of</strong> the American<br />
Psychiatry Association and the founder<br />
<strong>of</strong> Skid Row Clinic for the homeless<br />
mentally ill in Los Angeles. He still<br />
enjoys teaching and finds gardening<br />
relaxing in his spare time.<br />
Clayton R.<br />
Gabbert, M.D.<br />
Dr. Gabbert<br />
retired in 1998<br />
from practicing<br />
Orthopedic<br />
Surgery. Since retirement his interests<br />
have included trap shooting, golf,<br />
bridge, walking and trading commodities.<br />
He also likes observing and naming<br />
wild flowers. He is in “Who’s Who<br />
in the West” and has been honored<br />
with a Mosby Book Award.<br />
Harry L.<br />
Gibbons, M.D.<br />
Dr. Gibbons<br />
is semi-retired<br />
and still serving<br />
as a consultant<br />
in Aerospace <strong>Medicine</strong>. He was the<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> Salt Lake County Health<br />
Department for 22 years. Dr. Gibbons<br />
has been awarded two international<br />
awards for achievements in aerospace.<br />
He has received many honors for his<br />
service to medicine, including the<br />
Distinguished Alumnus Award from<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Medicine</strong> in 1998.<br />
Joseph M.<br />
Heath, M.D.<br />
Dr. Heath was<br />
very active in his<br />
family medicine<br />
specialty his<br />
entire career. He was President <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Utah</strong> Academy <strong>of</strong> Family Practice from<br />
1974-1975 and was an active lobbyist<br />
for establishing and funding the Family<br />
Practice Residency at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Utah</strong>; plus served on the Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Family and Community <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
faculty. He has been on three missions<br />
to Brazil with his wife and likes fishing<br />
and traveling.<br />
Richard M<br />
Hebertson,<br />
M.D.<br />
Dr. Hebertson<br />
was involved in<br />
the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> OB/Gyn department and<br />
the Residency Training Program in<br />
OB/Gyn at LDS Hospital much <strong>of</strong><br />
his pr<strong>of</strong>essional life. He introduced<br />
fetal monitoring at LDS Hospital and<br />
co-developed the fetal monitoring<br />
system that is currently used in the<br />
IHC system. He has been married for<br />
56 years and has five children, twentythree<br />
grandchildren and thirteen great<br />
grandchildren. Besides being a volunteer<br />
in the LDS Church he likes writing<br />
poetry, painting, traveling, gardening<br />
and spending time with his family.<br />
Ward H.<br />
Hedges, M.D.<br />
Dr. Hedges<br />
retired from<br />
the practice<br />
<strong>of</strong> Psychiatry<br />
in 1997. He has nine children and<br />
fourteen grandchildren. He is a fly<br />
fishing instructor and enjoys studying<br />
botany. Along with psychiatry his<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essional interests included ENT<br />
and Dermatology.<br />
Glenn L.<br />
Johnston, M.D.<br />
Dr. Johnston<br />
is recipient<br />
<strong>of</strong> the 1996<br />
Norman S. Anderson, M.D. Award for<br />
distinguished service to community<br />
mental health. After his retirement Dr.<br />
Johnston moved to Montana and built<br />
a new home on an 700-acre ranch near<br />
Kalispell. He has been very active with<br />
management <strong>of</strong> the farm and timberland<br />
and is involved in projects to preserve<br />
and enhance a wildlife sanctuary<br />
along one mile <strong>of</strong> the Flathead River.<br />
He was honored with the Audubon<br />
Conservation Achievement Award in<br />
<strong>2008</strong> for his conservation efforts.<br />
E. Ute<br />
Knowlton, M.D.<br />
Dr. Knowlton<br />
retired in 1996<br />
and is enjoying<br />
his time with<br />
eight children and twenty- nine<br />
grandchildren.<br />
C. Gary<br />
Loosli, M.D.<br />
Dr. Loosli is retired<br />
and spends<br />
his spare time<br />
coaching square<br />
dancing, teaching high school tennis,<br />
competing in senior track and field,<br />
playing pickleball and horseshoes and<br />
hunting and fishing.<br />
Harold Markowitz, M.D., Ph.D.<br />
Dr. Markowitz retired from laboratory<br />
medicine and medical research in<br />
1985. He has been married to Peggy<br />
Markowitz for 55 years and has four<br />
children. Two became physicians and<br />
all are in some area <strong>of</strong> medicine. For<br />
the past twelve years Dr. Markowtiz has<br />
been in poor health, but continues to<br />
dearly love his family.<br />
James O.<br />
Mason, M.D.<br />
Dr. Mason spent<br />
most <strong>of</strong> his career<br />
in the service <strong>of</strong><br />
public health. He<br />
was the head <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Utah</strong> Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Health, served with the United States<br />
Public Health Service and was a member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the World Health Organization<br />
Executive Board. Besides spending<br />
time with his wife Marie, children,<br />
grandchildren and great grandchildren,<br />
Dr. Mason likes family history research,<br />
gardening, reading and traveling.<br />
John E.<br />
Meyers, M.D.<br />
Dr. Meyers practiced<br />
Aviation<br />
<strong>Medicine</strong> in the<br />
airforce as a flight<br />
surgeon since 1960, until he retired in<br />
1989; he currently works for NASA.<br />
Dr. Meyers considers work as his hobby<br />
and raising three successful children<br />
as one <strong>of</strong> his biggest achievements. He<br />
felt the training he received at the U<br />
<strong>of</strong> U Medical <strong>School</strong> prepared him to<br />
practice medicine as well, if not better<br />
than, any school in the country.<br />
Stanley N.<br />
Mogerman,<br />
M.D.<br />
Dr. Mogerman<br />
has been happily<br />
married for<br />
fifty-two years<br />
to Barbara, who he met his freshman<br />
year at the U and married his junior<br />
year. They have three daughters and six<br />
grandchildren. He and Barbara enjoy<br />
ballroom dancing and make every<br />
attempt to go dancing as <strong>of</strong>ten as they<br />
can fit it in. They also enjoy cruising<br />
and have been on twenty-eight<br />
cruises so far!<br />
Joseph H.<br />
Nelson, M.D.<br />
Dr. Nelson retired<br />
in 1998. He has<br />
six children and<br />
twenty-six grandchildren.<br />
He has been honored with a<br />
Medal <strong>of</strong> Commendation from the US<br />
Army and was the <strong>Utah</strong> Doctor <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Year and President <strong>of</strong> the Logan, <strong>Utah</strong><br />
Kiwanis Club. His hobbies are woodworking<br />
and pen making. He served<br />
a medical mission to Ukraine from<br />
1998 to 2001.<br />
Ronald F. Read, M.D.<br />
Dr. Read worked for over 30 years as a<br />
staff psychiatrist at Community Mental<br />
Health in San Diego. Music has always<br />
been an important part <strong>of</strong> Dr. Read’s<br />
life. For over 50 years, he was a tenor<br />
soloist and a member <strong>of</strong> various choirs,<br />
performing in numerous productions<br />
and programs. He was also the publisher<br />
<strong>of</strong> the San Diego Seagull, a newspaper<br />
committed to the interest <strong>of</strong> members<br />
<strong>of</strong> the LDS Church in San Diego<br />
for 18 years.<br />
Lawrence E.<br />
Reichmann,<br />
M.D.<br />
Dr. Reichmann<br />
retired in 1992.<br />
He has four<br />
wonderful children. He is a Diplomat<br />
in the America Board <strong>of</strong> Anesthesiology<br />
and enjoys studying family history in his<br />
free time.<br />
James G.<br />
Smith, M.D.<br />
Dr. Smith served<br />
as Chief <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong><br />
OB/GYN at<br />
Kaiser Hospital/Permanente Medical<br />
Group in Vallejo California for 17 years,<br />
in which time it grew from three to 14<br />
doctors, plus four nurse practitioners and<br />
one nurse mid-wife. He also established<br />
a rotating residency in OB/GYN with<br />
Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield and the<br />
Contra Costa County General Hospital<br />
in Martinez, California. He served as<br />
an LDS Area Medical Advisor in Chile<br />
for 18 months supervising medical care<br />
for 1800 Missionaries throughout eight<br />
missions in Chile.<br />
Herbert B.<br />
Spencer, M.D.<br />
Dr. Spencer still<br />
assists his partners<br />
in surgery once a<br />
week, but is “almost”<br />
retired. He served as the mission<br />
president for the LDS church in Sweden<br />
and as a regional representative <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Council <strong>of</strong> the Twelve. He has survived<br />
three coronary by-pass procedures starting<br />
in 1980 but continues to be active<br />
working and adopting seven children,<br />
currently ages four to nineteen, whose<br />
mothers are meth addicts.<br />
John Robert Stewart, M.D.<br />
Dr. Stewart recently retired from the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> where he taught radiation<br />
oncology for decades. He was involved<br />
in the planning for the Huntsman<br />
Cancer Center at the <strong>University</strong> and<br />
currently serves as a “Spirit <strong>of</strong> Caring”<br />
volunteer at LDS hospital. Dr. Stewart’s<br />
wife Ann died in April 2006 after over<br />
fifty years <strong>of</strong> marriage.<br />
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Walker J.<br />
Ashcraft, M.D.<br />
Dr. Ashcraft is the<br />
Medical Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> Hospice and<br />
a member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Trustees at the Marcus Daly<br />
Hospital in Montana.<br />
Michael S.<br />
Clement, M.D.<br />
Dr. Clement is<br />
the author <strong>of</strong> the<br />
book Children at<br />
Health Risk and an<br />
editor <strong>of</strong> ten other books on preparing<br />
for passing board exams. He is a medical<br />
photographer and has work displayed<br />
in numerous textbooks. He is also a<br />
consultant to the Arizona Prenatal Trust,<br />
Maternal and Child Health with the<br />
Arizona Department <strong>of</strong> Health Services.<br />
Robert B.<br />
Gibbons, M.D.<br />
Dr. Gibbons is<br />
a Master in the<br />
American College<br />
<strong>of</strong> Physicians,<br />
a Clinical Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Colorado <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Medicine</strong> and the Chairman <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in<br />
Denver. He has also served as Treasurer<br />
<strong>of</strong> the American College <strong>of</strong> Physicians,<br />
President <strong>of</strong> the Rocky Mountain<br />
Rheumatism Society, and Governor <strong>of</strong><br />
the Colorado Chapter <strong>of</strong> the American<br />
College <strong>of</strong> Physicians.<br />
Kendrick O.<br />
Morrison, M.D.<br />
Dr. Morrison is<br />
married and has<br />
five children and<br />
17 grandchildren.<br />
He retired as Chairman <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Surgery at Cottonwood<br />
Hospital in Murray, <strong>Utah</strong>. He has served<br />
a medical mission for the LDS Church<br />
and has a private pilot license, flying a<br />
single-engine twin instrument plane.<br />
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Kent L.<br />
Pomeroy, M.D.<br />
Dr. Pomeroy lives<br />
in Scottsdale,<br />
Arizona and<br />
practices<br />
Orthopedic and Rehabilitation and Pain<br />
Management <strong>Medicine</strong>. He lost his first<br />
wife Brenda, in September 2005 from<br />
metastatic breast cancer and recently<br />
remarried another wonderful redhead,<br />
who is keeping him young since she was<br />
born two years after he graduated from<br />
medical school! He is listed in Who’s<br />
Who in America, Who’s Who in the World,<br />
Who’s Who in the West, Who’s Who in<br />
Science and Engineering and Who’s Who<br />
in <strong>Medicine</strong>.<br />
Donald T.<br />
Reay, M.D.<br />
Dr. Reay is<br />
recently retired<br />
as chief medical<br />
examiner in<br />
Seattle – King County, WA. He is also<br />
an emeritus pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> pathology at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Washington.<br />
A. Mason<br />
Redd, M.D.<br />
Dr. Redd worked<br />
as a Psychiatry<br />
faculty member<br />
at the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> following his residency training<br />
until he retired in 1999. He and his wife,<br />
Karen, then served an LDS mission as<br />
Area Medical Advisors in the Asia North<br />
Area for a year and a half and had a<br />
great experience traveling around that<br />
area caring for missionaries. They will<br />
celebrate their 50th anniversary in <strong>2009</strong><br />
and hope to gather their seven children<br />
and seventeen grandchildren together for<br />
a party and a family picture.<br />
Paul Sondrup,<br />
M.D.<br />
Dr. Sondrup lives<br />
in Virginia where<br />
he is retired as<br />
President and<br />
CEO <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Resource Services.<br />
Otto S. Shill Jr., M.D.<br />
Dr. Shill retired from Otolaryngology<br />
in 1995 and lives in Mesa, Arizona. He<br />
presided over the Florida Jacksonville<br />
Mission from1995-1998 and has served<br />
two other medical missions.
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D. Ray Thomas,<br />
M.D.<br />
Dr. Thomas<br />
retired in 2002<br />
from 36 years <strong>of</strong><br />
private practice<br />
as a pediatrician<br />
in Holladay, UT. He has a great wife,<br />
seven children and 35 grandchildren.<br />
He served a church assignment in the<br />
Philippines from 2003 to 2006 and is<br />
currently serving at the BYU Jerusalem<br />
Center taking care <strong>of</strong> students.<br />
1968<br />
Elijah Reed Heywood, M.D.<br />
Dr. Heywood retired as Chairman <strong>of</strong> the<br />
OB-GYN department at Women and<br />
Children’s Hospital in Charleston, W.V.<br />
in 2002. His son took his place as the<br />
residency program director and he occasionally<br />
consults with the department<br />
about educational issues. He went on<br />
a three year mission as President <strong>of</strong> the<br />
San Jose Mission for the LDS Church.<br />
He is recovering from back surgery but is<br />
getting around well with a cane.<br />
Wayne “Curt” Kaesche, M.D.<br />
Dr. Kaesche was a U.S. Navy Lt.<br />
Commander from 1970 to 1972. He<br />
was in private orthopedic practice<br />
from 1976-2002 and also worked as<br />
an Associate Clinical Pr<strong>of</strong>essor at the<br />
Oregon Health Sciences <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Jon C.<br />
Lloyd, M.D.<br />
Dr Lloyd is a<br />
Senior Clinical<br />
Advisor at the<br />
Plexus Institute in<br />
Pennsylvania where he coordinates a 60hosptial<br />
PD/MRSA prevention network.<br />
From 2005-2007 he was the co-principal<br />
investigator for a Robert Wood Johnson<br />
Foundation grant supporting six beta<br />
site hospitals in using Positive Deviance<br />
(PD) to prevent MRSA healthcare<br />
associated infections. Dr. Lloyd and<br />
Jacqueline have been married for 46<br />
years and have two children Hilary, age<br />
35, and Hardy age 31.<br />
Nathaniel M.<br />
Matolo, M.D.<br />
Dr. Matolo<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficially retired<br />
on December 31,<br />
2007. However,<br />
a month later,<br />
he went back to work on a part-time<br />
basis two or three days a week teaching<br />
surgery residents and medical students at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California Davis/<br />
Sacramento VA Medical Center and San<br />
Joaquin General Hospital. He belongs to<br />
over 20 surgical and pr<strong>of</strong>essional societies<br />
and is widely published. He enjoys foreign<br />
travel, golf, swimming and hiking<br />
in the Sierras and around Lake Tahoe.<br />
E. Bruce McIff, M.D.<br />
Dr. McIff retired from neuro/interventional<br />
radiology practice on June<br />
30, <strong>2008</strong>. In his long career he served<br />
as President <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Utah</strong> Medical<br />
Association from 1985-86 and was<br />
selected as <strong>Utah</strong> Doctor <strong>of</strong> the Year in<br />
1987. He is very grateful for an unbelievable<br />
40 years in medicine.<br />
Craig H. McQueen, M.D.<br />
Dr. McQueen has had a busy and<br />
fulfilling career in Orthopedics and<br />
Sports <strong>Medicine</strong>. From 1973 to 1990<br />
he served as a team physician for the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> and from 1980 to<br />
<strong>2008</strong> as the team physician for Highland<br />
High <strong>School</strong>’s football and rugby teams.<br />
He’s also worked with the Salt Lake<br />
Trappers, Buzz, Stingers and Bees. He<br />
was Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Sports <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
Committee <strong>of</strong> the United States Figure<br />
Skating Association from 1998-2000<br />
and the team physician to one Jr. World<br />
and two World figure skating teams.<br />
Anthony R.<br />
Temple, M.D.<br />
Dr. Temple has<br />
spent his career in<br />
pediatric clinical<br />
pharmacology<br />
and medical toxicology. He taught at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Utah</strong> College <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
for eight years, then worked for McNeil<br />
Consumer Healthcare for 29 years. He<br />
semi-retired in 2005 and moved from<br />
Pennsylvania to St. George, UT in <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
He has been married to Mary K. since<br />
the start medical school in 1964 and has<br />
four children and seven grandchildren.<br />
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The <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> Alumni Association Board<br />
invites you to nominate your colleagues and classmates<br />
for consideration for the <strong>2009</strong> Distinguished<br />
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the practice <strong>of</strong> medicine. Achievement is recognized<br />
through excellence in clinical practice, academic<br />
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<strong>2009</strong> Medical Alumni Weekend<br />
September 24-26<br />
Thursday, September 24<br />
Awards Banquet and 50-Year Class Celebration<br />
Friday, September 25<br />
<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> Department Events<br />
Dean’s State <strong>of</strong> the <strong>School</strong> Address<br />
Class Reunions: 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979,<br />
1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004<br />
Saturday, September 26<br />
Continuing Medical Education Conference<br />
Topic: Infectious Diseases<br />
Tailgating Party at Alumni House<br />
U <strong>of</strong> U Homecoming Football Game<br />
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The Date<br />
Joseph R. Carlisle, M.D. M.D. 1951 15 Nov 02<br />
Joe Lawrence Lara, M.D. M.D. 1976 02 Nov 08<br />
John Hal Marsden, M.D. M.D. 1948 14 July 08<br />
Charles C. Sorensen, M.D. M.D. 1968 03 Jan 08<br />
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