Winter 05

Alumni News

1944

Frank Adney Jr., MD, has taken up surfing, but don’t look for him to be “hanging ten” off of Oahu’s North Shore. He reports that his chief hobby is surfing the Web at his home in Richmond, Ind.

Maybe all that traveling to Russia, South America, Australia, New Zealand, China and Tibet encouraged Richard Datzman, MD, to take on a new challenge. “I’ve lost 37 pounds on the Atkins Diet at age 81 and kept it off for a year!” he says. When not journeying around the globe from his home in New Orleans, the retired pathologist pursues his keen interest in the Civil War, World War I and II.

From the land of bluegrass and race horses in Lexington, Ky., Bill McDaniel, MD, reports he is “still working enough to keep active with his medical readings.” He also serves on the local board of health. He recalls his favorite faculty member was JO. Richey, MD, but his best memories of medical school were meeting his wife Judy, a nursing student, and driving in the winning run in a softball game against fourth-year students.

Walton Shreeve, MD, continues to practice medicine at Brookhaven National Laboratory Medical Department in Upton, N.Y., where he serves on several committees. In fact, he recently has been cowriting a nuclear medicine textbook — The Challenge of Genomes and Proteomics to Clinical Practice — a work six years in the making.

He may live in New York City, but his heart belongs in San Francisco when it comes to the NFL’s 49ers or Major League Baseball’s Giants. Isidore S. Edelman, MD, is an avid tennis player and fan of baroque music and opera. He was the founding director of the Columbia Genome Center and is a member of the National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine of the NAS, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his best medical school memories are “participating in the home delivery of infants in our third and fourth years.”

1949

From the Sunshine State comes a glowing report from Thomas Baker, MD. He says he actively practices plastic surgery and participates in the training program at the University of Miami Medical School. His primary practice is facial cosmetic surgery.

Painting, writing, low-level birding, community service and “watching her eight grandchildren’s development” occupy the time of pediatrician Emma Lou Sailors, MD, of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. She has traveled through much of central Europe, the British Isles and even to the Galapagos.

Thomas Covey, MD, retired more than a year ago, but that doesn’t mean he’s left his profession. He volunteers at the Inner City Health Clinic in Sarasota, FIa., and works part time for the county health department of pediatrics. Dr. Covey recalls pathology chairman Frank Forey, MD, who had some wise words for Covey and his classmates: “Medicine is a jealous mistress.”

If you travel to Boca Raton, Fla., you just might find Zia Taheri, MD, playing tennis or hiking. Dr. Taheri reports she is a board member of the Cleveland Clinic of Florida and is a member of Doctors Without Borders and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Charles Yale, MD, is a serious coin collector but sometimes changes his focus to religious topics and current affairs. The Marion, Ind., physician retired from practice in 1990.

1954

Dionysios Botseas, MD, resides in Athens, Greece, where he is active in public speaking and writing about preventive medicine. He recently received awards from the American College of Physicians for cancer research and the Athens Medical Society for his book Early Diagnosis and Prevention of Cancer.

Some memories of medical school are just plain boring. “I was allowed to drill a burr hole in a patient while observing a neurological operation,” recalls Forrest Buell, MD. He continues to practice in Clay City, Ind., and enjoys landscaping, gardening and community activities.

Horses and sheep share the farm with Thomas Craig, MD, in Hagerstown, Md. Though he retired more than a dozen years ago, he stays active by sailing, fishing and biking.

What do you do when you return to the U.S. after practicing medicine in Pakistan for 40 years? Phyllis Roggenkamp Irwin, MD, who returns to that country periodically and is writing memoirs of her experiences. The Noblesville, Ind., physician is active in her church, gardening and reading.

1959

Philip Bradford, MD, spent more than three decades as attending pathologist and laboratory director at the Holland Community Hospital, Holland, Mich. Before that service, he had a three-year tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Europe, where he was a pathologist. Today, he resides in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he enjoys golf, reading and traveling. Any of you remember seeing Stephen “Steve” Dillinger, MD, engrossed in anatomy studies with Fred Hakes, Rupert Edwards and John Farguar? That’s one of the standout memories Dr. Dillinger has of his medical school years. He has since retired from general surgery and has traveled to Nicaragua, Thailand and Alaska, and has explored the Mississippi River extensively when not at his home in Greenfield, Ind.

1964

George Azar, MD, has a new job since retiring from his practice in Valparaiso, Ind. His new job title is Chief Cook. “Retirement has been great and grandchildren have enriched my and my wife’s lives.” They spend fall and winter in their own little piece of paradise — a home in Maui, Hawaii. “Stop in and see us in Thailea!” he encourages his classmates.

Donald Cline, MD, is a volunteer clinical professor with IUSM’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The Zionsville, nd., resident reports that he and a colleague have successfully developed a process whereby they have successfully frozen and then fertilized human ova. They also offer fertility preservation by freezing the ova of women who are about to be treated for cancer with chemotherapy or radiation.

1969 Maestro, if you will.. Glenn Bothwell, MD, is on the board of directors for the Boise Philharmonic. He enjoys attending concerts, ballet, operas and plays. St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center recently established the Glenn C. Bothwell, MD and Gilda Bothwell Medical-Surgical Ward in Boise, Idaho. He still works part time at that medical facility in the emergency department. Dr. Bothwell is the founding medical director of the Ada County (Idaho) EMS.

Sandra Ward Lamberson, MD, is president of the Piedmont Dermatology Society near her home in Easley, S.C. She enjoys doing medical mission work, hiking and adopting greyhounds. She recently hiked throughout Alaska.

1974

From 1993 to 2001, Lareau “Al” Allam, MD, Kalamazoo, Mich., served as medical director for children’s services at Bronson Children’s Hospital. He spends his free time hiking, golfing and running. In 1999 he finished the Chicago Marathon. Patricia Reed Tate, MD, resides in New Albany, Ind., and enjoys the “best of both worlds.” She maintains a private practice and is also a clinical professor of dermatology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Of her medical school years, she says, “I enjoyed clinical lectures by Drs. Norms and Hackney because they had such delight in their specialty and it inspired several of us to follow in dermatology.”

1976

More than a year ago, Philip J.A. Ryan, MD, traded racecars and the flatlands of Indianapolis for the bucolic rolling hills of Berkeley County, W.Va. He now serves as the medical director of the Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism in Martinsburg near Washington, D.C. He recently was appointed clinical assistant professor at the West Virginia University School of medicine, where he says he enjoys teaching medical students and residents. You can contact Dr. Ryan via email at pryan@cityhospital.org.

1979

Brent Caudill, MD, Steelville, Mo., recalls getting off to a good start as a medical student — “fainting when our freshman class was shown a movie about OB delivery!” He’s since overcome such responses and works in the emergency room at Salem Hospital, Salem, Ore. In his leisure time, he plays tennis and the banjo, and studies health and nutrition and the “unifying theory of religion, science and philosophy.”

1984

Diane Daly, MD, is proud to have had a role in helping build Summit Radiology into the largest specialty groups of its kind in the Fort Wayne, Ind., area. She further reports being satisfied to have “arrived at a satisfactory balance between work and family.” She cites Drs. Dykstra and Dillon as her favorite faculty members and recalls her most stellar medical school memory was having “exposure to patients with all sorts of unusual diseases.”

1985

The word active does not seem adequate to describe Martha L. Twaddle, MD, post medical school. She is chief medical officer of the Palliative Care Center and Hospice of the North Shore, Chicago, Ill., and served on the national committee that produced the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care in April 2004. She is a faculty member in internal and palliative medicine at Northwestern University School of Medicine and Lurie Cancer Center. Dr. Twaddle was the 2001 recipient of the Stephen A. Weisman Humanitarian Award for Cancer Care.

1989

David Wilmont, MD, a colonel in the Indiana Army National Guard, was deployed to Bosnia with his unit for three months. Today, he practices family medicine in Brownsburg, Ind., and serves his community as chief of staff for Hendricks Regional Health. He says James Madura, MD, was his favorite faculty member and that his most memorable times at IUSM were his lunchtime games of bridge with classmates.

1994

In Fairview, N.C., Sonia Schaltenbrand Humphrey, MD, spends her leisure time hiking, working in her yard and reading magazines about home improvements. She reports that she will be bariatricboard-certified this year. Her favorite faculty member was Tal Bosin, PhD, assistant dean and director of the Bloomington Medical Sciences Program. She remembers her “the awards dinner and party afterwards” at the end of her second year of studies.