1960
David L. Alvis, MD, reduced his stress by ceasing to practice surgery
in 1989. He continues to practice ophthalmology and remains active in helping
physicians recover from drug and alcohol addictions. Dr. Alvis is a member of
the Indianapolis Medical Society's professional affairs committee.
James L. Doerr, MD, is a retired general surgeon. He practiced in a 47-member group in LaGrange, Calif., and now splits his time between LaGrange and the mountains of western North Carolina. He enjoys fly-fishing and playing with his three granddaughters. Dr. Doerr and his wife Kay have been married 39 years.
Joseph Kerlin, MD, has been practicing family medicine in Danville, Ind., since 1966 and is the senior partner in a group of 12 physicians. His base practice is in geriatrics, and he is medical director of two nursing homes in Hendricks County. Dr. Kerlin was a Good Housekeeping Family Physician of the Year finalist in 1981 and was the Indiana Academy Family Physician of the Year in 1983.
Robert L. Peake, MD, retired in September 1997 from the University of Texas, Galveston. He enjoys fishing, darkroom photography, tennis and computers. He and his wife have been married for 42 years.
Edward C. Wheeler, MD, Carmel, Ind., enjoys his retirement by spending time with family and friends, traveling, golfing and doing volunteer work. His first wife Jane died in September 1992; he's now engaged to Anne Hastem. Dr. Wheeler is past president of the Indiana Roentgen Society and Northwest Radiology, PC. He also is a fellow in the American College of Radiology.
1965
Clifford W. Fiscus, MD, retired in 2000 but plans to continue medical
missionary work. His hobbies include sports car racing at Indianapolis Raceway
Park and serving as a board member of CART Ministries and other professional
auto racing organizations.
John Hare, MD, Boston, Mass., is director of affiliated programs at the Joslin Diabetes Center, where he conducts domestic and international continuing medical education programs. He has twin grandchildren who were born in March 1999 and another who was born in February 2000.
D. Duane Houser, MD, is an associate professor for pulmonary allergy, critical care and occupational medicine at IUSM, where he helped establish the asthma center. He moved his practice to Indianapolis after 27 years of private practice. He and his wife Ruth have three children and four grandchildren.
Walt Lippard, MD, has delivered more than 8,000 babies in his career. Aside from his practice, Dr. Lippard serves on two Christian-based boards and trains to run marathons. His wife Diane is earning her master of divinity degree at the Phoenix Seminary in Arizona.
Juliana Simmons, MD, was named Best Doctor in the area by the Washingtonian magazine in 1999. She has been chair of radiation oncology at Washington Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C., since 1986. She is also a member of Washington Radiation Oncology Group PC. Dr. Simmons survived breast cancer and is now involved in community outreach to increase breast cancer awareness. She has four children ranging in age from 21 to 28.
R.V. Stephens, MD, is in general surgery in Phoenix, Ariz., where he is team surgeon for the Phoenix Suns, the Phoenix Coyotes, the Arizona Rattlers and the Phoenix Mercury. He also serves on the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors and on the executive committee for the Society of Surgeons - Alimentary Tract. Dr. Stephens and his wife Sarah have been married 39 years and have three sons.
Robert Walker, MD, is retired and active in conservative politics and church in Bloomington, Ind. He is on the board of FAME, an organization dedicated to building hospitals and clinics around the world. Dr. Walker and his wife Phyllis have three sons, Philip, Greg and John, all of whom graduated from IUSM.
1970
Richard Huber, MD, recently was appointed by Gov. Frank O'Bannon
to a four-year term on the Indiana Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Executive
Board. The program has been allocated monies from the state's tobacco settlement
earmarked for tobacco education, prevention and control.
Stephen Dickey, MD, is the CEO and medical director of Doctor's Walk-In Clinics, a network of eight urgent care centers in the Tampa/ St. Petersburg, Fla., area. In 1990, Dr. Dickey was a finalist for Ernst and Young and Merrill Lynch's Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Emale Gottbrath Flaherty, MD, directs the child abuse program at the Children's Hospital in Chicago. She has two children, Megan and Josh.
Sharm McDonough-Means, MD, is completing a two-year fellowship in pediatric integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. Her research project is to evaluate scalp acupuncture and osteopathy, and to help improve the quality of life in children with cerebral palsy.
Jack Miller, MD, closed his psychiatric practice in 1999 and works full-time with athealth.com, an on-line service that publishes mental health information for the public and for professionals. They also publish Friday's Progress Notes, a large mental health e-mail newsletter. Dr. Miller's wife Jill closed her law practice to work for athealth.com and his daughter Kristan also works for the company. His other daughter Erin lives in Santa Barbara, Calif.
William Morgan, MD, Phoenix, is founder and partner of Arizona Asthma and Allergy Institute. He is also a colonel in the U.S.Air Force Reserve. He has been married to Beverly for 30 years, and they have two children.
Gordon A. Saskin, MD, has a solo practice in general otolaryngology with an interest in head and neck surgery and voice and swallowing disorders. His wife Deborah is a master stone sculptor. Dr. Saskin has four children: Sonya, Marcus, Amanda and Sam.
1975
Steven F. Isenberg, MD, Fishers, Ind., received the Honor Award from
the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery in September
in Washington, D.C. Dr. Isenberg's third book, The Practice Improvement Program,
also won the prestigious Morris Fishbein Award for 2000, presented by the American
Medical Writers Association.
1980
John Bax, MD, PhD, Appleton, Wis., is in private practice in hand and
microvascular surgery. He also is a scoutmaster and a member of the Boy Scouts
of America Council Executive Committee. In 1999, Dr. Bax was named the Wisconsin
State Medical Society Physician Citizen of the Year. He currently serves as
secretary and annual fundraiser chairman for the American Foundation for Surgery
of the Hand, and is president of Valley Independent Physicians.
Fred T. Creech, MD, Cape Coral, Fla., writes that he is a solo dermatologist "in the land of sunshine and skin cancers, rich folks and crackers, leather-faced fishermen, bad Hemingway imitations and over-developed swamp golf courses."
Bill Dalton, MD, is chairman of the Department of Oncology and deputy director of the Moffitt Cancer Center at the University of South Florida. His wife Karen is active in volunteer groups. She and Dr. Dalton have three children, Seth, Adam and Kyle.
1992
Vance A. Raham, MD,
recently was certified with the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
He currently owns and operates independently Connersville (Ind.) OB/GYN. He
and his wife ReGina have been married 14 years and have four daughters, Crystal,
Rachel, Jessica and Andrea.