Alumni News
1938
James J. Feffer, MD, is retired and living in Clearwater, Fla. He
writes that even at age eighty-eight, he remains grateful for the
education he received at IUSM.
1941
William Thompson, MD, and his wife Jane now bask in the sun of Ft.
Myers, Fla. They have grown children. His favorite memory of attending
medical school? "Meeting my wife."
Lowell L. Henderson, MD, retired from Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minn., where he was an internal medicine specialist. He and his
wife Virginia have five daughters.
1946
Roy Whitman, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio, won medals in the Senior Olympics
in his hometown and at the state level, but reports his victories
came to an end in the national quarterfinals. He also attended the
World Series of Poker in Las Vegas - though he doesn't say if that
visit was as a spectator or participant. Dr. Whitman teaches at
the Psychoanalytic Institute and Department of Psychiatry at the
University of Cincinnati.
Charles "Chuck" E. Boonstra, MD, takes a swipe at turf
in two ways: gardening and golf. He and his wife Esther reside in
St. Joseph, Mich. Dr. Boonstra, by the way, was the recipient of
IUSM's Otis R. Bowen, MD, Distinguished Leadership Award in 2000.
1959
Lindley H. Wagner, MD, retired as director of the Lafayette Center
for Medical Education, recently relocated with his wife to Vista
Pointe Estates, a retirement community in Lafayette, Ind. They escape
to the warmer and dryer climate of Mesa, Ariz., during the winter.
1963
John E. Pless, MD, FCAP, is the Clyde G. Culbertson Professor of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at IUSM. He was recently appointed
a College of American Pathologists alternate delegate to the American
Medical Association. Dr. Pless lives in Indianapolis with his wife
Lois Stevens Pless. They have three children.
1971
Christine Robb, MD, practices family medicine in Plainville, Maine,
where she also teaches students and residents from Brown and Tufts
universities. She writes that she is "owned" by a Newfoundland
dog and is slowly restoring an old house.
Robert Cak, MD, practices general surgery in Waterloo, Iowa, where
he also helped establish a multispecialty clinic. He and his wife
have three grown children.
1973
Michael C. Braunstein, MD, is president of Michael C. Braunstein,
MD, Ltd. in Las Vegas, Nev.
1974
Gregory C. Gifford, MD, JD, is chief of staff at the Castle Medical
Center in Ulikahiki, Hawaii. He was recently board certified in
hospice and palliative care medicine. He serves as a consultant
for end-of-life health care and legal issues.
1980
Bonnie Strate, MD, practices family medicine in Indianapolis with
three other IUSM grads.
To read about one of them, skip down to 1998.
1982
David A. Wolf, MD, is an astronaut at NASA's Johnson Space Center
in Houston, Texas. He will serve as mission specialist for a July
2002 mission that will travel to the International Space Station.
It will be his third mission into space.
1987
H. Clifton Knight Jr., MD, is the new director of the family practice
residency at Community Hospitals Indianapolis. He will oversee educational
rotations, curriculum and operations of the Family Practice Center,
the Pediatric Care Center and the Maternity Care Center.
Mark M. Hamilton, MD, is a partner with Perkins Hamilton Facial
Plastic Surgery, an Indianapolis-based surgery center specializing
in treatment of the face and nose. Dr. Hamilton is board-certified
by the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and
is actively involved in teaching facial plastic and reconstructive
surgery at IUSM. He has authored several books and scientific articles.
1993 Alumni Profile
It's fair to say that Gregory C. Risk, MD, applies his expertise
in emergency medicine in some lofty ways. In addition to serving
as the regional director of the New Bern, N.C.-based Emergency Medicine
Physicians' group, Dr. Risk serves as a physician for NASA astronauts
and provides them with medical support during and after space shuttle
missions.
A lieutenant colonel and flight surgeon for the U.S. Army National
Guard, Dr. Risk was selected to travel to Patrick Air Force Base
and Kennedy Space Center to join other physicians on site at space
shuttle launches and landings to provide medical support if needed.
Most recently, Dr. Risk was present at a December 2001 shuttle launch
and, at press time, was scheduled for mission support.
As a flight surgeon, Dr. Risk flies helicopters a couple of weekends
each month and provides necessary medical support for injuries that
may occur during training. He also travels to San Antonio to teach
advanced trauma life support to his fellow soldiers.
Dr. Risk, who completed his residency at Indianapolis' Methodist
Hospital's emergency department in 1996, is married to Sharon Ross
Risk. The couple has two children, Lauren, 7, and Nathan, 4.
Dr. Risk misses his IUSM classmates and said he looks forward to
hearing about their achievements at the Class of 1993's ten-year
reunion in 2003. He can be reached at grisk@coastalnet.com and would
enjoy hearing from old friends.
1997
Deborah S. Edmonson Kinnamon, MD, completed her pediatrics residency
in June 2000 and is working at Mooresville Pediatrics in Mooresville,
Ind. She and her husband Daniel had their first child, Victoria
Irene, in September 2000.
1998
Randall James Strate, MD, completed a family practice residency
at Chicago's Ravenswood Hospital in June 2001 and joined the Indianapolis
family practice owned by his mother, Bonnie Strate, MD '80. He married
Maria Mancia in July 2001.
1999
John D. Howard, MD, is a senior emergency medicine resident in IU's
Emergency Medicine Residency Program. He and his wife Megan Howard
have a son David, who is a toddler.
2001
Kevin R. Finnegan, MD, is completing an internal medicine residency
at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He is married to Carrie
Freyberger Finnegan, who earned her master's in health care administration
from IUPUI in 2001.
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