Winter 2008/2009 - University of Utah - School of Medicine

Alumni Notebook
1945
A. Hamer
Reiser, Jr.
BA, M.D.
Dr. Reiser has
been a specialist in
internal medicine
for more than 60 years, retiring from
full-time practice in Salt Lake City
in 1987. Since 1990 he has provided
medical services for missionaries of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and continues to maintain his license
in order to make pro bono publico
house calls for those in need. He and his
wife, Betty Jo, also served for years as
volunteers at the Utah State Prison and
received the Salt Lake County Medical
Society Auxiliary’s Distinguished
Physician Award. In 2008 he received
the University of Utah’s Emeritus
Alumni Board Merit of Honor Award
for his distinguished service to
the University, his profession,
and the community.
1958
Maurice G.
Baker, M.D.
Dr. Baker
practices family
medicine and is
currently working
at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City,
Utah. He has also served as a mission
president for the LDS church. He is
happily married to his lovely wife
Laura Baker.
Eugene L. Bellin, M.D.
Dr. Bellin loves playing violin and
feeding people at the Bowery Mission
in New York City. In the past he
worked with International Physicians
for the Prevention of Nuclear War
(which won the Nobel Prize for peace
in 1990). He was also a member of
the Innocence Project of the Cardozo
Law School in NYC and helped 180
innocent people get off of death row
through the use of DNA testing.
Kay H.
Blacker, M.D.
Dr. Blacker
served for many
years as the
Chairman of
the Department of Psychiatry at the
University of California, Davis School
of Medicine. He is now semi-retired.
Alumni News
Due to the large response from alumni, this edition of Illuminations is
featuring alumni highlights submitted by members of the classes of 1945
through 1969. The Spring/Summer 2009 edition will feature
submissions from the classes of 1970’s to 2008. You may go on-line
at http://medicine.utah.edu/alumni to view all submissions.
Arthur F.
Budge, M.D.
Dr. Budge retired
in 1990. He
spends his spare
time gardening,
fishing and traveling. He was President
of the Ogden Surgical-Medical Society
in 1987. He is also active in the LDS
Church and Boy Scouts of America,
having been registered in the Boy
Scouts for over 36 years.
Barry A.
Clothier, M.D.
Dr. Clothier retired
in December
of 2008. He is
looking forward
to spending his spare time bird watching
and writing a book on medical
mnemonics. He taught part time
at Scottsdale Family Practice
Residency Program.
Rodger K. Farr, M.D.
Dr. Farr retired in 2006. He is a
Distinguished Life Fellow and a
Gold Medal recipient of the American
Psychiatry Association and the founder
of Skid Row Clinic for the homeless
mentally ill in Los Angeles. He still
enjoys teaching and finds gardening
relaxing in his spare time.
Clayton R.
Gabbert, M.D.
Dr. Gabbert
retired in 1998
from practicing
Orthopedic
Surgery. Since retirement his interests
have included trap shooting, golf,
bridge, walking and trading commodities.
He also likes observing and naming
wild flowers. He is in “Who’s Who
in the West” and has been honored
with a Mosby Book Award.
Harry L.
Gibbons, M.D.
Dr. Gibbons
is semi-retired
and still serving
as a consultant
in Aerospace Medicine. He was the
Director of Salt Lake County Health
Department for 22 years. Dr. Gibbons
has been awarded two international
awards for achievements in aerospace.
He has received many honors for his
service to medicine, including the
Distinguished Alumnus Award from
the University of Utah School of
Medicine in 1998.
Joseph M.
Heath, M.D.
Dr. Heath was
very active in his
family medicine
specialty his
entire career. He was President of the
Utah Academy of Family Practice from
1974-1975 and was an active lobbyist
for establishing and funding the Family
Practice Residency at the University of
Utah; plus served on the Department
of Family and Community Medicine
faculty. He has been on three missions
to Brazil with his wife and likes fishing
and traveling.
Richard M
Hebertson,
M.D.
Dr. Hebertson
was involved in
the University
of Utah OB/Gyn department and
the Residency Training Program in
OB/Gyn at LDS Hospital much of
his professional life. He introduced
fetal monitoring at LDS Hospital and
co-developed the fetal monitoring
system that is currently used in the
IHC system. He has been married for
56 years and has five children, twentythree
grandchildren and thirteen great
grandchildren. Besides being a volunteer
in the LDS Church he likes writing
poetry, painting, traveling, gardening
and spending time with his family.
Ward H.
Hedges, M.D.
Dr. Hedges
retired from
the practice
of Psychiatry
in 1997. He has nine children and
fourteen grandchildren. He is a fly
fishing instructor and enjoys studying
botany. Along with psychiatry his
professional interests included ENT
and Dermatology.
Glenn L.
Johnston, M.D.
Dr. Johnston
is recipient
of the 1996
Norman S. Anderson, M.D. Award for
distinguished service to community
mental health. After his retirement Dr.
Johnston moved to Montana and built
a new home on an 700-acre ranch near
Kalispell. He has been very active with
management of the farm and timberland
and is involved in projects to preserve
and enhance a wildlife sanctuary
along one mile of the Flathead River.
He was honored with the Audubon
Conservation Achievement Award in
2008 for his conservation efforts.
E. Ute
Knowlton, M.D.
Dr. Knowlton
retired in 1996
and is enjoying
his time with
eight children and twenty- nine
grandchildren.
C. Gary
Loosli, M.D.
Dr. Loosli is retired
and spends
his spare time
coaching square
dancing, teaching high school tennis,
competing in senior track and field,
playing pickleball and horseshoes and
hunting and fishing.
Harold Markowitz, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Markowitz retired from laboratory
medicine and medical research in
1985. He has been married to Peggy
Markowitz for 55 years and has four
children. Two became physicians and
all are in some area of medicine. For
the past twelve years Dr. Markowtiz has
been in poor health, but continues to
dearly love his family.
James O.
Mason, M.D.
Dr. Mason spent
most of his career
in the service of
public health. He
was the head of the Utah Department
of Health, served with the United States
Public Health Service and was a member
of the World Health Organization
Executive Board. Besides spending
time with his wife Marie, children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren,
Dr. Mason likes family history research,
gardening, reading and traveling.
John E.
Meyers, M.D.
Dr. Meyers practiced
Aviation
Medicine in the
airforce as a flight
surgeon since 1960, until he retired in
1989; he currently works for NASA.
Dr. Meyers considers work as his hobby
and raising three successful children
as one of his biggest achievements. He
felt the training he received at the U
of U Medical School prepared him to
practice medicine as well, if not better
than, any school in the country.
Stanley N.
Mogerman,
M.D.
Dr. Mogerman
has been happily
married for
fifty-two years
to Barbara, who he met his freshman
year at the U and married his junior
year. They have three daughters and six
grandchildren. He and Barbara enjoy
ballroom dancing and make every
attempt to go dancing as often as they
can fit it in. They also enjoy cruising
and have been on twenty-eight
cruises so far!
Joseph H.
Nelson, M.D.
Dr. Nelson retired
in 1998. He has
six children and
twenty-six grandchildren.
He has been honored with a
Medal of Commendation from the US
Army and was the Utah Doctor of the
Year and President of the Logan, Utah
Kiwanis Club. His hobbies are woodworking
and pen making. He served
a medical mission to Ukraine from
1998 to 2001.
Ronald F. Read, M.D.
Dr. Read worked for over 30 years as a
staff psychiatrist at Community Mental
Health in San Diego. Music has always
been an important part of Dr. Read’s
life. For over 50 years, he was a tenor
soloist and a member of various choirs,
performing in numerous productions
and programs. He was also the publisher
of the San Diego Seagull, a newspaper
committed to the interest of members
of the LDS Church in San Diego
for 18 years.
Lawrence E.
Reichmann,
M.D.
Dr. Reichmann
retired in 1992.
He has four
wonderful children. He is a Diplomat
in the America Board of Anesthesiology
and enjoys studying family history in his
free time.
James G.
Smith, M.D.
Dr. Smith served
as Chief of the
Department of
OB/GYN at
Kaiser Hospital/Permanente Medical
Group in Vallejo California for 17 years,
in which time it grew from three to 14
doctors, plus four nurse practitioners and
one nurse mid-wife. He also established
a rotating residency in OB/GYN with
Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield and the
Contra Costa County General Hospital
in Martinez, California. He served as
an LDS Area Medical Advisor in Chile
for 18 months supervising medical care
for 1800 Missionaries throughout eight
missions in Chile.
Herbert B.
Spencer, M.D.
Dr. Spencer still
assists his partners
in surgery once a
week, but is “almost”
retired. He served as the mission
president for the LDS church in Sweden
and as a regional representative of the
Council of the Twelve. He has survived
three coronary by-pass procedures starting
in 1980 but continues to be active
working and adopting seven children,
currently ages four to nineteen, whose
mothers are meth addicts.
John Robert Stewart, M.D.
Dr. Stewart recently retired from the
University of Utah where he taught radiation
oncology for decades. He was involved
in the planning for the Huntsman
Cancer Center at the University and
currently serves as a “Spirit of Caring”
volunteer at LDS hospital. Dr. Stewart’s
wife Ann died in April 2006 after over
fifty years of marriage.
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1963
Walker J.
Ashcraft, M.D.
Dr. Ashcraft is the
Medical Director
of Hospice and
a member of the
Board of Trustees at the Marcus Daly
Hospital in Montana.
Michael S.
Clement, M.D.
Dr. Clement is
the author of the
book Children at
Health Risk and an
editor of ten other books on preparing
for passing board exams. He is a medical
photographer and has work displayed
in numerous textbooks. He is also a
consultant to the Arizona Prenatal Trust,
Maternal and Child Health with the
Arizona Department of Health Services.
Robert B.
Gibbons, M.D.
Dr. Gibbons is
a Master in the
American College
of Physicians,
a Clinical Professor of Medicine at
the University of Colorado School of
Medicine and the Chairman of Medicine
at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in
Denver. He has also served as Treasurer
of the American College of Physicians,
President of the Rocky Mountain
Rheumatism Society, and Governor of
the Colorado Chapter of the American
College of Physicians.
Kendrick O.
Morrison, M.D.
Dr. Morrison is
married and has
five children and
17 grandchildren.
He retired as Chairman of the
Department of Surgery at Cottonwood
Hospital in Murray, Utah. He has served
a medical mission for the LDS Church
and has a private pilot license, flying a
single-engine twin instrument plane.
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Kent L.
Pomeroy, M.D.
Dr. Pomeroy lives
in Scottsdale,
Arizona and
practices
Orthopedic and Rehabilitation and Pain
Management Medicine. He lost his first
wife Brenda, in September 2005 from
metastatic breast cancer and recently
remarried another wonderful redhead,
who is keeping him young since she was
born two years after he graduated from
medical school! He is listed in Who’s
Who in America, Who’s Who in the World,
Who’s Who in the West, Who’s Who in
Science and Engineering and Who’s Who
in Medicine.
Donald T.
Reay, M.D.
Dr. Reay is
recently retired
as chief medical
examiner in
Seattle – King County, WA. He is also
an emeritus professor of pathology at the
University of Washington.
A. Mason
Redd, M.D.
Dr. Redd worked
as a Psychiatry
faculty member
at the University
of Utah following his residency training
until he retired in 1999. He and his wife,
Karen, then served an LDS mission as
Area Medical Advisors in the Asia North
Area for a year and a half and had a
great experience traveling around that
area caring for missionaries. They will
celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2009
and hope to gather their seven children
and seventeen grandchildren together for
a party and a family picture.
Paul Sondrup,
M.D.
Dr. Sondrup lives
in Virginia where
he is retired as
President and
CEO of Professional Resource Services.
Otto S. Shill Jr., M.D.
Dr. Shill retired from Otolaryngology
in 1995 and lives in Mesa, Arizona. He
presided over the Florida Jacksonville
Mission from1995-1998 and has served
two other medical missions.