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2001-2002

Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine

 


Hoffert

 


Paul W. Hoffert, M.D. ’45, of Mamaroneck, N.Y., notes that his granddaughter Rachel Light (left), a member of the Class of 2006, represents the family’s third generation at the School of Medicine. Rachel Light’s uncle, Marvin J. Hoffert, M.D., graduated with the Class of 1972.

    1970s


Halperin

 

Edward C. Halperin, M.D. ’79, the L.R. Prosnitz Professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Duke University, has been named vice dean of the Duke University School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at the Duke University Medical Center.

George L. Kelley, M.P.H. ’74, of Albany, Ga., will be profiled in the 56th edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America. Kelley is also the subject of a notice in Volume VIII, Dictionary of International Biography, for distinguished service in international mental health and education.

     


Moffic

 

H. Steven Moffic, M.D. ’71, a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), recently received two awards. The Golden Apple Teaching Award was presented in June by the residents in the department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at MCW. The Hero of Public Psychiatry Special Speakers Award was presented to Moffic in May by the American Psychiatric Association. Moffic is also director of Luminous, a managed behavioral health care system developed by the department and comprising a network of 238 clinics and 1,742 providers.

     
 


Rahn

 

Daniel W. Rahn, M.D. ’78, HS ’80, FW ’81, professor of medicine and vice dean of the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) School of Medicine and senior vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer for MCG Health, was installed in April as the seventh president of MCG, Georgia’s health sciences university in Augusta. Rahn was on the faculty at Yale until 1991.

 



Webster

 


Barbara S. Webster
, R.P.T., PA-C ’78, received the 2002 Alice Hamilton Award from the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) in June. Webster is a researcher with the Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and Health in Hopkinton, Mass. She received the award for her work in the areas of cost and disability burdens of musculoskeletal disorders and the diagnosis and treatment of low-back pain in the workplace.

1980s

Patricia Hellman Gibbs, M.D. ’87, HS ’90, received one of six Bicentennial Medals for Distinguished Achievement from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. The presentation was made at the college’s 200th anniversary celebration in April. Gibbs and her husband, Richard D. Gibbs, M.D.’86, are the founders and directors of the San Francisco Free Clinic, which serves the uninsured.

 



Kuhnley

 


E. John Kuhnley, M.D., FW ’81, has relocated from Winchester, Va., to Lynchburg, Va., to serve as medical director for the Child and Adolescent Unit of Virginia Baptist Hospital. Kuhnley also notes that his daughter Lisa graduated from Shenandoah University in May; his daughter Sheila graduated from Penn State University in August. Lisa has a one-year-old son, Christopher.

David L. Mork Jr., M.P.H. ’82, former vice president of operations at South Jersey Health Systems, was appointed vice president of operations for the South Georgia Health System in Valdosta, Ga., in January.

 



Lee


Benhur Lee
, M.D. ’95, an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, was named a recipient of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Charles E. Culpepper Scholarship in Medical Science for the year 2002. Lee will receive $100,000 a year for up to three years to fund his research on how HIV attaches itself to dendritic cells.

   

Tori Williams Reid, Ph.D. ’99, writes with this news: “I have departed from the laboratory and work for Accenture, a technology consulting firm. I am quite happy to have returned to my home state of North Carolina. My best news is my new husband, Marc V. Reid. We were married on April 13.”

 
   

A bid to fight hunger

Among the more interesting items at the medical school’s annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction have been an evening at the Met with an opera-singing medical student, a weekend at a faculty member’s vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard and dinner for eight lovingly prepared by an accomplished biochemist. Last year the auction raised more than $30,000 for New Haven shelters and soup kitchens. This year student organizers are hoping to get alumni involved in the auction, which has been a student and faculty event throughout its 10-year history. “We’d love to have alumni attend the event, and we welcome their donations,” said Brenda Ritson, a second-year student and the auction’s co-chair. The event will take place on November 21 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium.

For information send an e-mail to: hhauction@ yale.edu or contact Ritson directly at: brenda.ritson@yale.edu or by phone at: 203-507-4663. Donations may be made online at:info.med.yale.edu/yaxis/auction

Wanted: early copies of Yale Medicine

Calling all alumni who may be contemplating an attic-cleaning: we’d like your back issues of Yale Medicine. Of particular interest are copies of the Alumni Bulletin from the 1950s and 1960s. If you have copies to donate, please drop us a line at the address on the masthead on page 3 or phone 203-785-5824.



Send alumni news items to Claire Bessinger, Yale Medicine Publications, P.O. Box 7612, New Haven, CT 06519-0612, or via e-mail to claire.bessinger@yale.edu.

 
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Originally published in Yale Medicine, Autumn 2002.
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