Fall/Winter 2006 - University of Rochester Medical Center

alumni news
DOWN THE STRETCH — School of Medicine and Dentistry alumni
and friends enjoyed a day at the races in July at historic Saratoga
Springs, N.Y. At right is Suzanne Inglis, Helen Inglis (BA ’49) and Allan
Inglis, M.D. (M ’55).
Family Medicine residency program in northeastern
South Carolina at McLeod Regional
Medical Center. I am responsible for the
obstetrics, newborn nursery, and pediatrics
portions of our program. I am the only family
physician delivering obstetrical care in our
hospital, and my aim is to make Family
Medicine/Obstetrics a more attractive method
of practice for our graduates.”
Class of 1984
Peter R. Kurzweil writes: “I moved to the
West Coast for a fellowship in sports medicine
in 1989 and never looked back. I am
married with two children: Andrew, 13, just
had a Bar Mitzvah and plays club soccer; and
Kendall Rose is 8 and quite a dancer. In terms
of career, I am the fellowship director of an
ACGME-accredited sports medicine fellowship
at the Southern California Center for Sports
Medicine in Long Beach, Calif. I have the
privilege of serving as associate editor for
Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic
and Related Surgery.”
Brian J. Zink has been appointed the
inaugural chair of the Department of
Emergency Medicine at Brown Medical
School. Zink also will hold the titles of emergency
medicine physician-in-chief at Rhode
Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital and
president of the University Emergency
Medicine Foundation. Zink is a researcher
with current studies supported by the
Emergency Medicine Foundation, the National
Institute for Neurological Diseases and
Stroke, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism, and the National Heart, Lung
and Blood Institute. In addition to being the
recipient of numerous awards recognizing his
contributions to teaching medical students
and residents, Zink is a past president of the
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
as well as a member of the Neurotrauma
Society, the Research Society on Alcoholism,
and the American Association for the History
of Medicine. He is also the author of Anyone,
Anything, Anytime – A History of Emergency
Medicine.
Class of 1985
Larry Marks and Caryn Hertz (M ’86) remain in
North Carolina. Larry is a professor of radiation
oncology at Duke. As residency program
director, he researches radiation-induced
normal tissue injury (inspired by Philip Rubin,
M.D., in Rochester). Primarily, he takes care of
patients with breast and lung cancer. Caryn is
in private-practice anesthesiology at an infertility
center. Larry writes, “Life is good; three
kids, ages 17, 14 and 12, are well. Both sets
of parents have relocated to North Carolina,
so family life is full and fun. Caryn works part
time so she has time to captain the ship.”
Class of 1987
Diane Hartmann (R ‘91), associate professor
of obstetrics and gynecology and associate
dean for graduate medical education at the
University, was given the Physician Award
from the University of Rochester Medical
Center board. She oversees 70 residency and
fellowship programs and helped the Center
receive a six-year accreditation for graduate
medical education programs, a first for any
medical school in the nation. Hartmann
specializes in geriatric women’s health.
Class of 1990
A study led by Alex Macario, professor of
anesthesia at Stanford University, has found
that the use of radio frequency ID tags can
help surgeons eliminate the problem of
sponges and other instruments being left
inside a patient’s body after surgery.
The study appears in the July issue of
The Archives of Surgery. Macario was quoted
in a New York Times article, Wall Street
Journal’s Web site and several other publications.
Marny Turvill recently acquired a retail business
in Evanston, Ill. Healthy Green Goods
offers an online store and information on
creating a healthy home and lifestyle
(www.HealthyGreenGoods.com). Marny
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