Alumni News
1941
Joseph E. Ferrara, MD, practiced general surgery in Franklin, Ind.,
but he now embraces retirement by fishing, gardening and fulfilling
his role as the household "handyman." He and his wife
Elizabeth have three daughters.
Jack Hannah, MD, was an anesthesiologist until his retirement in
1980. He and his wife Marian live in Elkhart, Ind. They have two
children, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Dr.
Hannah enjoys collecting coins and gardening.
Charles Klamer, MD, retired from general medicine and surgery and
lives with his wife Cecile in Santa Claus, Ind. When he was still
practicing, Dr. Klamer donated one month of service in Africa each
year as a medical missionary. He and his wife have three adult children.
1946
Richard W. Dyke, MD, of Indianapolis, retired in 1991 from his hematology/oncology
practice, but he still volunteers at the hematology clinic at Wishard
Memorial Hospital. Dr. Dyke devotes much of his time to reading
about Civil War personalities and early American history. He also
enjoys playing bridge. Dr. Dyke has six children and six grandchildren.
Donald L. Rogers, MD, of Indianapolis, retired from pediatrics
and enjoys woodworking, traveling and boating. He lost his wife
A. Louise Rogers in May 2000. Together they had four children.
Roy Whitman, MD, practices psychiatry part time in Cincinnati,
Ohio, and is a professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine. He enjoys playing tennis and golf, as well
as writing and traveling. He and his wife Esther have five children.
1948
Jim Dobyns, MD, also known as "Yoda Doc," retired after
twenty years in the Air Force, where he served as an orthopedic
surgeon and a part-time administrator. After his retirement, he
served as a surgical consultant at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
He currently leads hand surgery training programs in Rochester and
in San Antonio, Texas. He and his wife have been married for more
than 50 years, and two of their grandchildren are physicians. Dr.
Dobyns encourages his classmates to contact him at jamesdobyns@prodigy.net.
1952 Alumni Profile
From the Midwest to Japan and back, former IUSM associate professor
THOMAS SAMTER, MD, followed a varied career path.
Dr. Samter, who grew up in Egypt, was halfway through an internal
medicine residency at IUSM when he was drafted into the Air Force
in 1955. Later serving as a medical officer in Okinawa, two important
events took place in his life. First, he met and began dating his
future wife Hiroko, "a lovely woman from Tokyo." Second,
he again became a U.S. citizen. This was monumental as Dr. Samter
and his parents had been stripped of their citizenship by Nazi Germany
during World War II.
When his military tour ended, Dr. Samter and his bride returned
to Indianapolis. He later was appointed to the Atomic Bomb Casualty
Commission in Nagasaki, Japan, and joined a team of scientists studying
long term health effects of exposure to radiation.
In 1963, the Samters once again returned to Indiana, where Dr.
Samter served as an assistant professor of pathology at IUSM for
two years. The family then relocated to Milwaukee, where Dr. Samter
served as a surgical pathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital until he
retired in 1997. He was known as the "crazy doctor" there
because he rode his bicycle daily to and from work, a twelve-mile
trek.
Both of the Samter's two children are native Hoosiers. David is
a licensed architect and construction site engineer in southern
Florida, and Naomi is a first-year medical student at the University
of Miami (Fla.).
1961
Jimmie Eller, MD, is a radiologist in Aurora, Colo. Although most
of his patients are humans, he has enjoyed the unique experience
of assisting veterinarians to care for sick animals at the Denver
Zoo hospital. He enjoys traveling, biking, volunteering, reading
and photography. He and his wife Margaret have three children and
enjoy doting on their seven grandchildren.
John R. Fenoglio, MD, practices occupational medicine and rehabilitation
in Indianapolis. In his spare time he enjoys woodworking, gardening
and taking his dog for walks. He and his wife have four sons and
three daughters, all of whom are college graduates.
James Vandivier, MD, practices internal medicine in Indianapolis.
"Dr. Jazz," as he is often called, sings in a choir and
leads two jazz bands. Dr. Vandivier was named St. Vincent's Doctor
of the Year in 1998 and won the hospital's distinguished teaching
award in 1997. That same year, Dr. Vandivier was named the Genessaret
Free Clinic's Volunteer of the Year. He and his wife Sharon have
four children.
1966
Janet Susan Johns Bullard, MD, and Harlan Bullard, MD, reside and
work in Lafayette, Ind. She is a family practice physician and he
is an ophthalmologist. Both of their sons are dentists.
Ron Gardner, MD, is a general surgeon in Buffalo, Wyo. He and his
wife Diann own a 5,300-acre ranch raising registered angus cattle
and paint and quarter horses. Dr. Gardner is proud of the successful
surgery department he has developed in his small rural Wyoming hospital.
He and Diann have five children ranging in age from 11 to 35.
Tom Trainer, MD, practices orthopaedic medicine in Indianapolis
and recently began practicing with a group of 60 physicians. He
is an avid golfer who has shared the green with the likes of Jack
Nicklaus, Ray Floyd and Fuzzy Zoeller. Dr. Trainer also enjoys writing
poems and short stories, and he has been the recipient of a national
poetry award. He and his wife Jenny have three children.
1970
Janice F. Gable, MD, has practiced in the Appalachian village of
Konnarock, Va., since 1971. In fact, she was the only physician
in the community until 1999, when another physician joined her practice.
In March 2002, Dr. Gable's practice became part of the Community
Health Centers system, a federally funded program for underserved
areas.
1971
Thomas Bodnar, MD, was originally an orthopaedic surgeon but now
practices industrial medicine in Phoenix, Ariz. He survived a quadruple
bypass and prides himself on two second place finishes in Arizona's
senior poker open. Dr. Bodner has four children.
Kenneth G. Busch, MD, is president of the Illinois Psychiatric
Society. He is in private practice in Chicago. Dr. Busch also serves
as co-chairman of the Council on Medical Services of the Illinois
State Medical Society and vice president of the northside branch
of the Chicago Medical Society.
Jewell Ward, MD, is a professor of pediatrics and chief of the
division of medical genetics at the University of Tennessee School
of Medicine in Memphis. She and her husband Jim Brooks are working
together restoring a 1916 home and are hand selecting and restoring
arts-and-crafts-era furnishings to fill it. Their son Travis is
a graduate student in physics.
1977
Stephen Wayne Perkins, MD, FACS, is a facial plastic and reconstructive
surgeon and owner of Perkins Hamilton Facial Plastic Surgery, an
Indianapolis-based surgery center specializing in treatment of the
face and nose. He is past president of the American Academy of Facial,
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and is a clinical associate professor
at IUSM in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
1981
Geilan "Jill" Ismail, MD, was a cardiologist in West Lafayette,
Ind. until she decided a year ago to leave her practice to work
part time in New Mexico. She is married to Alan Mahrenholz. They
enjoy bicycling, backpacking, camping, traveling and spending time
with their dog Dakota.
K. Jeff "Samurai" Myers, MD, is board certified in emergency
and occupational medicines as well as aerospace medicine and medical
toxicology. Dr. Myers is employed by the Kennedy Space Center in
Florida. He was privileged to serve as the emergency medical coordinator
for the KSC's launch control center during the 100th U.S. manned
space flight. Dr. Myers and his wife Erin Wills have two young daughters.
Richard B. Wenzler, MD, is a cardiovascular consultant in Zionsville,
Ind. He is married to J. Valentine Corcoran.
1983
Martha J. Mechei, MD, practices internal medicine in Crown Point,
Ind. She is a member of the Lake County Medical Society.
1985
Philip Countryman, MD, is a family practice physician in Indianapolis.
1989
Mark D. Lisby, MD, recently became a faculty member with Indianapolis'
Community Hospitals Family Practice Group. Previously he had a private
practice in Zionsville, Ind.
1992
Tapan A. Padhya, MD, is an assistant professor of otolaryngology-head
and neck surgery at the University of South Florida College of Medicine
in Tampa, Fla. He also is a member of the head and neck oncology
program at the H. Lee Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center affiliated
with USF. He completed an otolaryngology residency at the University
of Louisville, as well as a fellowship in advanced head and neck
surgical oncology/skull base surgery at the University of Cincinnati.
1995
Blair Brengle, MD, is a family practice physician in Indianapolis.
1997
Scott A. Beckman, MD, has a solo practice in obstetrics and gynecology
in Jasper, Ind. He and his wife Chris have two children, eleven-year-old
Ross and three-year-old Alec.
Joy L. McKamey Stone, MD, is a physician with New Castle Clinic,
Inc. in New Castle, Ind., where she has hospital and clinical duties.
1998 Alumni Profile
When the call of the wild beckons, JULIE WILSON, MD, responds. After
completing her residency in Alaska in 2001, the former U.S. park
ranger says she felt drawn to have a "wider breadth" of
training, particularly in the great outdoors.
She and her husband Russell Hood set their sights on the world's
pinnacle - the Mount Everest Region of Nepal. As volunteers selected
to serve the Himalayan Rescue Association, Dr. Wilson and her husband,
an emergency medical technician, hiked ten days to reach their remote
clinic located 14,000 feet above sea level. As one of only two physicians
in the region, she led daily high-altitude health risk education
sessions and treated Everest climbers who suffered from hypoxia
associated with high altitudes. She also treated more routine illness
among the Sherpas, natives who often serve as guides or porters
for those attempting to conquer the world's highest point.
"It was incredible to realize I was treating medical problems
that few physicians worldwide have ever even seen," recalls
Dr. Wilson, the daughter of R. Stanley Wilson, MD '68. She and her
husband have since returned to Alaska where she's in family practice.
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