Alumni News

1945
Tom H. Ebbinghouse, MD, is retired and enjoys world travel, video movies and time with his grandchildren. He lives in Richmond, Ind.

H.M. Manifold, MD, continues to be in solo practice. He and his wife Alice live in Bloomington, Ind., where she is involved in volunteer work. Their two daughters are nurses and their son is a teacher. Dr. Manifold was named 1988 IUSM Alumnus of the Year.

1955
M. Barbara Backer, MD, retired from cardiology practice in 1997 and from her position as part-time medical education/library services director at LaPorte Hospital in 2000. She and her husband, a retired radiologist, live in LaPorte, Ind. Two of their five children are IUSM graduates.

Don Fields, MD, is retired from his private pediatrics practice and lives in Kokomo, Ind. He serves on two hospital boards and two scholarship committees and recently volunteered in Russia and Haiti.

Richard Jontz, MD, is retired and living in Bonita Springs, Fla., for six months each year. He enjoys playing golf and spends the summer at his home in the Sycamore Hills Golf Club area of Ft. Wayne, Ind. He and his wife Jackie have four children. All of them are IU alumni.

1960
Jack Alexander, MD, retired from pediatrics in April 2000. He and his wife Helen reside in Muncie, Ind., and have been married for more than 45 years. Their four children have successful careers in pharmacy, law, engineering and forestry.

Fred W. Clemenz, MD, is active in general surgery in South Carolina. He is the past chief of surgery and past member of the board of trustees at his local hospital. After the death of his first wife 21 years ago, he remarried and has been married for 19 years. He has four children. His oldest daughter is a nurse and another is a radiologist. His other children are a teacher and an electrical engineer. Dr. Clemenz has 11 grandchildren.

Ian H. Cook, MD, is in solo general surgery practice in Fort Wayne, Ind., and serves on the board of trustees for the Fort Wayne Medical Society. His wife Ruth was stricken with Waldenstroms macroglobulinemia, but her disease is in remission.

John Dragoo, MD, is retired and enjoys fishing, grandparenting and participating in the Shrine and Masonry. Dr. Dragoo is a past potentate of the Mizpah Temple, a member of the Scottish Rite Masons and was named a distinguished citizen by the City of Wabash, Ind., in 1996.

Donald Hooker, MD, practices at the Dunlap Urgent Care Centers in Goshen and Elkhart, Ind. He remarried in January 2000 and has two children and five grandchildren.

1965
William Bohnert, MD, practices urology in Phoenix, Ariz., but plans to retire in 2005. He and his wife Joyce have been married for 35 years and have three children, two of whom are pursuing medical careers.

James C. Camarata, MD, is in full-time practice of diagnostic radiology at Marion General Radiology, Inc., in Marion, Ind. He is past president of both the Grant County Medical Society and the medical staff of Marion General Hospital.

1970
Louis Bixler, MD, is a radiologist in Grand Rapids, Mich. He is a past president of the West Michigan Chapter of the Michigan Radiology Society. His son Stephen graduated from IU in 2000 and works in Carmel, Ind. His daughter is a junior in high school.

John Brown, MD, is a full-time faculty member at IUSM, where he is the Harris B. Shumacker Professor and serves as director of the division of cardiothoracic surgery. He also is a co-surgical director for Clarian Cardiovascular Services. He spends the vast majority of his time doing congenital heart surgery at Riley Hospital for Children.

Edward P. Feutz, MD, is a diagnostic radiologist with Dugan Radiology Associates and performs general radiology, ultrasounds, mammograms, CTs and MRIs. He works in five small hospitals and five offices in the St. Louis area. Dr. Feutz's wife Cheryl is a volunteer and an avid walker and tennis player. The couple has a Tibetan terrier.

Shelly Friedman, MD, practices cardiology with three partners in Noblesville, Ind. His wife Cheryl is a psychiatrist. They have a son who lives in Carmel, Ind., a daughter who just graduated from Emory University, and a son who attends IU-Bloomington. Dr. Friedman enjoys fishing and reportedly snared a 31-inch redfish on a 10-lb. line at Pine Island Sound last year.

Robert Hongen, MD, is medical director of Indiana University Health Center. He enjoys skiing, raquetball, softball and traveling to national parks. Dr. Hongen's wife Joan is a volunteer community worker. Their son is a student at IU.

David A. Pardieck, MD, has been in solo practice for about four years, performing only hernia surgery. He practiced general surgery for 20 years. In 1998, he published an article about laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs in the South Carolina Medical Journal. Dr. Pardieck's wife Rita is a French instructor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina and their children all graduated from the college. Matt is an aeronautical engineer, Renee studied marine biology, Ben attended The Citadel and majored in business, and Rachel graduated from the College of Charleston in May.

1990
B.D. Blyton, MD, is actively practicing in the radiation oncology department in Dubuque, Iowa. He and his wife Kim have a daughter Allison, who is a toddler.

Cathy A. Bryant, MD, is a full-time faculty member at St. Vincent's Family Practice Residency center in Indianapolis, Ind. During her third year of residency, Dr. Bryant learned Spanish and now uses it to communicate with patients and students. She enjoys playing the clarinet in the Indianapolis Municipal Band.

Michael R. Carter, MD, is a partner with the Associated Anesthesiologists of Fort Wayne, Ind. He and his wife Peg have four children - Justin, Matt, Nick and Sarah - who range from two to 10 years old.

David Cox, MD, and Elaine Cox, MD, are married and live in the Indianapolis, Ind., area. David is an infectious disease doctor/consultant at St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove, while Elaine is a pediatrician in the pediatric infectious disease section of Riley Hospital for Children. The physicians have three children: Connor, Keenan and Carson.