Spring 2005

Alumni News

1944

Elmer Billings, MD, has retired from his internal medicine practice. He enjoys gardening, working on latch-hook rugs, volunteering with service clubs, and spending time with his grandchildren.

By the time you read this, Charles Cure, MD, might have returned from “wintering over” in Naples, Fla. The retired Columbus, Ind., neurosurgeon plays violin, viola and cello.

Hooray for Hollywood! That’s the California community Larry Lawrence, MD, calls home. One of his best career recollections is teaching Parisian medical students how to use otoscopes and ophthalmoscopes. His most memorable moment as a medical student: “wheeling a Rube Goldberg contraption to the surgeries in the Clinical Building to measure gases in the expired air of anesthetized patients.”

If you ever want a second opinion – about wine – give Stanley Hoffman, MD, a call at his Paso Robles, Calif., home. He is a winery consultant, golfs, reads and works on his computer in his leisure time. In the 46 years that he practiced medicine, he reports with a hint of pride: “I was never sued.”

1949

In his younger days while playing on an intramural baseball team, Dale Habegger, MD, threw a pitch that was pounded into a home run. He doesn’t fret about it too much because the slugger happened to be Ted Kluszewski (a former IU football player), who would go on to play first base for the Cincinnati Reds. The Indianapolis retiree enjoys piano, the symphony and spending time with “all his children, grand and great.”

Zia Eden Taheri, MD, is a board leadership member of the Cleveland Clinic of Florida and holds memberships in Doctors Without Borders and Physicians for Social Responsibility. The Boca Raton physician plays tennis, hikes and travels.

He was very proficient as a physician; now Lain Tetrick, MD, is trying to “conquer” watercolor, acrylic, oil and pastel painting at his Bloomsburg, Pa., home. In trying to single out a favorite faculty member, he says, “They all contributed to the ‘sweat shop’ of our medical education.”

1954

George “Doc” Clark, MD, of Indianapolis, is past president of the Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology and president of his national fraternity’s Bloomington chapter. In 1997, he retired and turned his practice over to his son and daughter-in-law. Dr. Clark enjoys aviation, professional sports and history. Dr. J.O. Ritchey was his favorite teacher during his medical school years.

There is no shortage of activities for Dallas Fouts, MD, who retired from his internal medicine practice in Lee’s Summit, Mo., a decade ago. He enjoys genealogy and crafts such as making jewelry, stained glass, woodworking and woodcarving, cake decorating and weaving.

Carolyn Harvey Lingeman, MD, was honored last year with an award from Montgomery County, Md., for her work with the Victims Services Advisory Board. She resides in Bethesda where she gardens, travels and listens to music.

1959

Warren Betty, MD, doesn’t show up on the silver screen like the actor whose name is nearly identical, but he does shine as commissioner of the Cultural and Heritage Commission in Cape May County, N.J. He’s retired from pediatrics and spends his free time with family and railroad models.

Russell Noyes Jr., MD, Iowa City, Iowa, is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, where he still practices. He enjoys gardening and painting with watercolors.

1964

David Chizek, MD, has won several windsurfing races including Minnesota’s Ultimate Challenge, and the Minnesota Ironman competition. The retired ophthalmologist, who specialized in cataract surgery in Excelsior, Minn., says Dr. Parker Beamer was his favorite faculty member, and “spoke favorably for him when he got into trouble just before graduation.”

Anyone remember the Workingman’s Friend restaurant located just west of the IU medical campus? Lawrence Lumeng, MD, chief of IUSM’s Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, remembers visiting the place with his classmates for post-test parties. He has been involved in building a division that often has been ranked in the Top 20 of digestion disease programs by U.S. News and World Report.

1968

Sidney Miller, MD, was awarded the Frederick A. White Distinguished Professor of Service last year from Wright State University. The Dayton, Ohio, surgeon is director of the Regional Adult Burn Center at Miami Valley Hospital. Dr. Miller has spent more than two decades advocating for a statewide trauma center.

1969

Curtis Bush, MD, Monona, Wis., works full time in family medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School but adds the day is not far off when he “enters the glad path to retirement.” He served as director of Regional Medical Affairs at the University Community Clinic. His most vivid medical school memories are sandwiches and beer with the “family practice club” and spending time with his friends.

A new home on the shores of Lake Michigan is where Sylvia Dygert Manalis, MD, and her family find R&R these days. The Beverly Shores, Ind., physician retired five years ago and now has time to garden, swim, walk, cook and work part time at a local mental health center.

Edward Lefrak, MD, McLean, Va., is learning Spanish and has been traveling to countries in Latin America. In 2000, he received the American Heart Association Award for Outstanding Achievement. He created and developed the Inova Heart and Vascular Unit which opened in September 2004.

1974

Peter Blomgren, MD, Greensboro, N.C., has derived much satisfaction serving as president of the Guilford Primary Care Alliance, Greensboro Society of Medicine and serving on the North Carolina Medical Society of Managed Care Committee. He’s also served as a peer review editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association.

He has served as president of the Indiana State Medical Association and Indianapolis Medical Society and now sits at the helm as medical director of managed care services at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. Bernard Emkes, MD, resides in Zionsville, Ind., and enjoys golf, the outdoors, traveling and photography.

Donna Horton Hobbs, MD, practices psychiatry in Waverly, Ohio. Her hobbies include mountain biking, raising and training horses, gardening and photography.

1975

When they were awarding medical degrees last summer at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, it’s highly likely many of the students could thank Mark A. Malangoni, MD, for helping get them there. He was awarded the Kaiser-Permanente Award for excellence in teaching. He’s a professor of surgery.

1979

Kathy Richard Eggleston, MD, resides in Weston, Fla. Her personal highlights are the “challenge and blessing of raising four great kids.” She fondly recalls her pediatrics rotation at Riley Hospital for Children, playing basketball at the Cold Springs VA unit while on a psychiatry rotation and – “disco lessons with classmates!” Dr. Eggleston says her favorite faculty members were Drs. Grosfeld, DeRosa, Eigen and Provisor.

When in Portland, Ore., keep your ears open. You might hear Evelyn Whitlock, MD, MPH, singing backup in a soft-rock band or a capella in a trio that belts out tunes from the ’40s. She has been promoted to senior investigator and director at the Research-Healthcare Integration at Kaiser-Permanente Center for Health Research.

1981

Margaret M. Gaffney, MD, was nominated for the prestigious 2004 Association of American Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine Award. She is an associate professor of clinical medicine at IUSM. Dr. Gaffney, an internist and dermatologist, keeps a busy teaching and clinic schedule at the IU medical center. Dr. Gaffney also is the director of the Moral Reasoning and Ethical Judgment Competency Section for the School’s Office of Medical Education and Curricular Affairs.

1984

David Beeson, MD, practices family medicine in Anderson, Ind. He has served as medical director of Med One Urgent Care at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Kokomo, co-directed free sports physicals for Howard County athletes, and was team doctor for Kokomo High School.

She’s a poet – and many folks know it. Valerie Berry, MD, Palo Alto, Calif., helped found a nonprofit press that publishes poets in the San Francisco area. She’s also had a book of poetry published, Difficult News. Dr. Berry is the medical director of the Primary Care Associates program at Stanford University, where she oversees the didactic and clinical training of nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

1989

Susan Haney Kozak, MD, helped launch “The Wonders of Women, Mind, Body and Soul,” a seminar that has been held the past several years in Ft. Collins, Colo. She enjoys church activities, horseback riding and sailing.

“I work with a wonderful group of people in Indianapolis, where I have a private practice in child and adolescent psychiatry.” So reports Ann Adinamis, MD, Zionsville, Ind. Her clinical interests include childhood onset bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders and ADHD. She’s practicing part time, she adds, so she can spend more time with her family.

1994

If you’re ever down Charlotte, N.C., way, be sure to touch base with Stephen Lods, MD. He recently opened a new practice facility. If you can’t physically make the trip to see him in the Tarheel State, feel free to take a virtual journey and connect with Dr. Lobs at www.suburbanpeds.com

1995

Katrina Dipple, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 2005 Ross Young Investigator Research Award at the Western Society of Pediatric Research annual meeting in Carmel, Calif. She is an assistant professor in the departments of human genetics and pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA. Her research focuses on how changes within genetic material can cause disease and why some people are more severely affected than others.