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Karen Sebastian, MD, Assistant Professor, Emergency MedicineDr. Sebastian received her medical degree from Georgetown University and completedher residency here at SUNY Upstate. She has been on staff at Community GeneralHospital and has been a member or our voluntary faculty.The College of Nursing is pleased to announce 3 new faculty members starting Fall2009. JoAnne (Jody) Coppola, MS,FNP Assistant Clinical Professor; Barbara(Bambi ) Carkey, MS,PMHNP-BC, Assistant Clinical Professor; and Carol AnneKozik, CAS, MS, RN-BC, Assistant Clinical Professor_________________________________________________________________In MemoriamIn Memoriam_________________________________________________________________Dr. Robert B. "Bob" Barlow Jr. July 31, 1029 – December 24, 2009Robert B. "Bob" Barlow Jr., 70, of Jamesville, NY, and Woods Hole, MA,passed away December 24, 2009, after a battle with leukemia. Bob wasborn in Trenton, NJ, and lived in Freehold, NJ, where he met his wife, of48 years, Patricia. He graduated from the Peddie School in New Jersey,received his bachelor's from Bowdoin College and his doctorate fromRockefeller University in New York City. After Rockefeller, Bob becamea scientist, researcher and professor at Syracuse University for 28 years until the late1990s, when he joined the faculty at Upstate Medical University.There, he was the driving force that established the Center for Vision Research, a groupnow that numbers 50 people and is the largest clinically focused research group atUpstate Medical University His leadership was critical in establishing the SUNYUpstate Foundation's endowment to support vision research and the SUNY EyeInstitute, a collaboration of all four SUNY medical schools performing vision research.Bob had been the recipient of many awards, including the President's Award forExcellence and Leadership in Research at Upstate Medical University in 2002, SeniorScientist Award-Research to Prevent Blindness in 2005, State University of New YorkChancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2007, andthe ARVO Gold Fellow in 2009.He also held leadership positions on several boards, including being a vice president ofthe board of trustees of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, onthe board of trustees of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole,Massachusetts, and a director for the Doreen Grace Brain Center in Mashpee,Massachusetts. He had been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, University ofCambridge in England, and the University of Tsukuba in Japan and had a long list ofinvited presentations as a lecturer. He had been featured in many scientific journals andprograms, including Nature Magazine, Discovery Channel and the BBC.- 40 -