Alumni News

1942
Griff Marr, MD, is enjoying his retirement and trying to master the Internet and e-mail. He is also busy winning some of the Grandview Yacht Club's sailboat races and earning his commercial, instrument and glider ratings. He said he was surprised to learn that he is the oldest physician in Bartholomew County, Indiana.

1944 April
Paul Siebenmorgen, MD, is retired from surgery and obstetrics. He serves on the medical executive committee of the Terre Haute Regional Hospital and of HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital. He also serves as a board member of the Dean's Council for the IU School of Medicine and the Indiana State University Foundation Board. He says he is thrilled by his high quality of life after seven coronary bypasses four years ago.

M. Hunter Smith, MD, is retired and working as a volunteer for the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. He is a member of his church choir, the author of a newspaper medical column and the president of a national Scottish Clan Association. For five years, Dr. Smith served as a medical missionary in West Africa.

1944 December
Howard J. Henry, MD, says he is "95% retired." He set the USA 24-hour run record for the 70-74 age group in 1994 by running 95 miles. He also set the record for the 75-and-over age group by running 83.5 miles in 1997. Lewis H. Walker, MD, is working part time practicing pediatric allergy/immunology. He serves as the emeritus chairman of the Department of Medicine at the children's hospital in Akron, Ohio. He is also an associate professor of medicine.

1954
Dean M. Hall, MD, is retired but keeps busy with his hobby - aviation. He is president of an experimental aircraft association chapter and spends time flying aerobatics, doing photography and traveling. Dr. Hall was an assistant clinical professor of surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology at University of Southern California for 20 years. He was director of the Experimental Aircraft Association for 15 years.

Phyllis Roggenkamp-Irwin, MD, ended her 39 years of service as a missionary doctor in 1995 but has returned to Pakistan twice since then. Her three children also served as missionaries in Pakistan. Dr. Roggenkamp-Irwin helped establish a hospital in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province.

1959
Philip F. Bradford, MD, retired in October 1998 after 34 years of practice as a general pathologist. He served the same hospital for 31 years. He now lives in Scottsdale, Ariz.

John W. Davis, MD, continues to practice urology and teach at the University of California, Irvine medical school. He is chairman of the board of trustees at St. Jude Medical Center and was also named physician of the year at St. Jude Medical Center.

Paul R. Dyken, MD, is semi-retired from the practice of child neurology and is in graduate school at the Spring Hill College of Art and Literature in Alabama. Dr. Dyken paints, draws and runs marathons.

1962
Leonard E. Lawrence, MD, is associate dean of student affairs at the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. He serves as the chairman of the Texas Youth Commission, is immediate past chairman of United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, and president of the San Antonio Area Foundation. He is married to Barbara Lawrence, PhD.

1964
Thomas R. Woehler, MD, planned to sail right into the next millennium...providing Y2K didn't hamper his plans. He retired January 1, 2000, and hoped to spend the first two weeks of 2000 on a sailboat in the Virgin Islands. He is currently a shareholder in a 12-person allergy practice in Houston and is the medical director of a national clinical research company.

1967
Robert M. Pearce, MD, was elected recorder of the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association in May 1998.

1969
Allan Abbott, MD, continues to move at a record-breaking pace after setting an international bicycle speed record of 140.5 mph in 1973. He is currently a professor of family medicine and associate dean for curriculum at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.

Alvan L. Eller, MD, enjoys being a "country doctor" in Flora, Ind. His 29 years have included solo and group practice. He is now part of a multi-specialty group and is doing more work in geriatrics and hospice care.

1975
Terry Ihnat, MD, recently became recertified by the American Board of Surgery. He currently practices in Indianapolis.

1976
David C. Stump, MD, is senior vice president of drug development and a member of the operating committee at Human Genome Science, Inc. in Rockville, Md. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and on the Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology of the American Heart Association. Deborah I. Allen, MD, director of the IU School of Medicine Bowen Research Center, has been elected treasurer of the American Board of Family Practice. She also is a trustee of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and a delegate from the American Academy of Family Physicians to the AMA.

1979
Don Clutter, MD, is a facial plastic surgeon in a 14-person private practice otolaryngology/head and neck surgery group in Sacramento, Calif. His three daughters, ages 15, 12 and 9, command most of his free time; he also enjoys his Arabian horses.

William R. Dodd, MD, is working full time in the emergency department at St. Mary's Health Center in St. Louis. He received his MBA from Washington University in 1995.

Laurel B. Yocum, MD, and Richard Kebler, MD, married and have three children. Dr. Yocum is practicing pathology while Dr. Kebler is practicing nephrology as a member of a 60-person multi-specialty group. Dr. Yocum also serves as the chairman of the Institutional Accreditation Committee for the Oregon Medical Association.

1980
Michael C. Foster, MD, resides in Columbia, S.C., with his wife Laura and their four children. He is director of preventive cardiology at the South Carolina Heart Center and past-president of the South Carolina Affiliate of the American Heart Association.

1984
Steve Moenning, MD, has taken to the world of invention and now holds patents for accessories for robotic and cancer surgery, a medical bed and a restraint apparatus. He is also the founder of CA GUARD, a small medical device company. He is in private practice for colon and rectal surgery and general surgery and is also co-owner and founder of Harborside Surgery Center in Florida.

Michael McMahon, MD, is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was diagnosed with leukemia in November 1998 and has undergone chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.

1986
Mark A. Bernat, MD, JD, and his wife Jeanne are proud parents of one-year-old Jacob Daniel Mark. Dr. Bernat is an emergency medicine physician and director of medical education for Southeastern Acute Care Specialists in Rocky Mount, N.C. He is also a member of the law firm of Hollowell, Peacock & Meyer, which is a physician advocacy firm specializing in health law. Dr. Bernat is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and of the College of Law and Medicine.

1988
Ara A. Chalian, MD, practices and teaches otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been on the faculty of the university since the completion of her fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the head and neck in 1995. She also recently became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

1989
Theressa Wright, MD, is a cardiovascular unit clinical research physician with Eli Lilly Research Laboratories of Indianapolis. She was a cardiology fellow at the University of Iowa Hospital from 1992-1995. Dr. Wright is also a member of the Franklin College Board of Trustees.

1993
Melody A. Gongwer, MD, graduated in June 1999 from the career training program in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences in Topeka, Kan. She was named a Seeley Fellow. She plans to join the Center for Behavioral Health in Bloomington, Ind. She earned her MS, MD and PhD degrees from IU.

Kylene K. Huler, MD, and Mark Muckaway, MD, who completed a three-year residency at the IU School of Medicine, have founded and serve as co-presidents of Comprehensive Neurologic Services in Avon, Ind.

1994
Elizabeth A. Blanchly, MD, moved back to Indianapolis with her husband Mark after she completed her residency at Loma Linda University in California. She served as chief resident during her third year of family practice residency and is currently working in private practice at New Palestine Family Medicine. Her husband Mark teaches physics at Arsenal Technical High School.

Michael Curran, MD, practices urology at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. In 1997, he was awarded the first prize for clinical research from the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Urology. He married Susan Murphy in 1995. They have two children.

Derek S. Wheeler, MD, is a pediatrician in the Navy and was recently transferred to Beaufort Naval Hospital in South Carolina for his final year in the Navy. In July 2000, he will begin a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati. He and his wife have four children: 7, 5, 3 and 1 years old.

1995
Enrico Jones, MD, completed his residency in family practice at Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, N.C. He has been the university physician at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and has published an article in the Journal of the National Medical Association on the need for patient histories on youth sports program physician examination forms.

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Hattery to Receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award

Following the traditional strawberries, shortcake and cream, Robert R. Hattery, MD '64, will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award during this year's Spring Medical Weekend luncheon at the IU Medical Center campus. Dr. Hattery served as chairman of the Mayo Clinic Board of Governors from 1994-98, completing his exemplary service to Mayo since he joined the medical school in 1973.

Dr. Hattery's medical work focused on applications of computed tomography for imaging organs and disease states. He had a particular interest in imaging the genitourinary tract and the diagnosis of diseases affecting the genitourinary system.

Dr. Hattery served as president of the Society of Computed Body Tomography in 1983 and the Society of Uroradiology from 1986 to 1988. He also served on the American Board of Radiology, the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees, the Clarian Health Partners Board, the Radiology Society Board of Directors and the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors.