1942
George R. Horton Sr., MD, retired in December 1986. He and his wife Jane
now live at the Country Club of North Carolina, Pinehurst, N.C.
1943
Betty J. Dukes, MD, and her husband Joe Dukes, MD, practiced medicine in
Dugger, Ind., for 45 years and are now retired and live in Bloomington,
Ind. It is estimated that Dr. Betty Dukes delivered more than 10,000 babies
in the Greene and Sullivan county area.
1955
Paul R. Santrock, MD, retired from his family practice in May 1998. Dr.
Santrock ended his 42-year family practice in Cross Lanes, W.Vir. He plans
to stay in Cross Lanes and be more active in his church, the Baptist Temple
in Charleston, and to spend more time playing the piano for his own
enjoyment. He and his wife also plan to travel.
1956
John F. Williams, MD, cardiologist and director of Wishard Health Services
in Indianapolis, Ind., has retired after eight years at the helm of WHS.
Dr. Williams and his wife Jan have no specific plans for retirement.
Golfing with friends and being active doing volunteer work are on their
agendas. Dr. Williams will continue to stay active in health care and will
continue as a board member of the Wishard Foundation and Visiting Nurse
Service.
Edward R. Bakos, MD, retired from his practice of thirty years at Western Reserve and resides in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
1959
James B. Gillick, MD, Arthur A. Hockey, MD, and J. Victor Vore, MD,
attended their 34th class reunion in Cannon Beach, Ore. These friends have
been meeting since the mid-1960s. The friendship has functioned as support
group, book discussion forum, and, now that nearly all are retired, travel
and future planning group. Drs. Gillick and Vore made their 40th medical
class reunion this May.
1963
John E. Pless, MD, is still engaged in the full-time practice of forensic
pathology at IUSM, where he is the Culbertson Professor of Pathology and
associate chairman of education. In July 1998, Dr. Pless was on the team of
forensic specialists from several countries who gathered in Nigeria to help
find the cause of Nigerian political prisoner Moshood Abiola's death.
(Abiola, who had not been in good health, collapsed and died during
meetings with Nigerian and American officials that were called to arrange
his release from prison.) Heart problems were cited as the cause of death.
Dr. Pless says, "It was an awesome responsibility, and yet
the process went remarkably well considering the circumstances."
1966
Harry C. Wolf, MD, recently retired from his family medical practice and
now teaches part-time at the St. Vincent Hospital Family Practice Residency
Training Program in Indianapolis, Ind. Dr. Wolf's son David Wolf, also an
IUSM alumnus, is an astronaut, recently having spent four months on the
Russian Space Station Mir.
1968
Elaine H. Waiss, MD, of Munster, Ind., celebrates 31 years as a physician
this year. Her daughter Elizabeth Blok works as a space operations
supervisor at L.B. Johnson Space Center (NASA) Houston, Tex.
William D. Cutshall, MD, has passed the certification examination for
hospice and palliative medicine. He now is certified to help with pain
management and care for terminally ill patients. Dr. Cutshall is associate
director of the hospice program in Bloomington, Ind., and director of the
Cook Group Family Health Center, estab-lished in 1993. He also has been
appointed as regent for the state of Indiana by the International College
of Surgeons.
1976
Mark W. McClure, MD, FACS,
currently resides in Raleigh, N.C., where he continues his practice of
urology. Dr. McClure established one of the first urology practices in the
U.S. to offer both conventional and complementary medicine.
1980
Joseph D. Sanchez, MD, has been named medical director of The Health
Alliance's new OccNet
center in Sharonville, Ohio. Dr. Sanchez has specialized in emergency
medicine for the last 16 years and recently started working in occupational
medicine.
1981
William H. Beeson, MD, of Carmel, Ind., served as the 1998 president for
The American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS). Dr. Beeson was presented
with the prestigious President's Award in 1993 for his contributions to
cosmetic surgery.
1983
Thomas R. Mather, MD, ophthalmologist, formerly from West Lafayette, Ind.,
now resides in Charleston, S.C., with his wife Carmi and sons Drew, 11,
Wesley, 6, and Layne, 4. Today Dr. Mather performs a range of eyelid
surgeries. Some of his procedures repair droopy eyelids, lift eyelids,
improve tear drainage, remove cancerous tumors and reduce the bulging
caused by thyroid problems. When he is not practicing medicine, he can be
found at his 25-acre farm in Awendaw. It's located near the Francis Marion
National Forest and Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge.
Stephen F. Levinson, MD, was recently appointed chairman of the Department
of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Rochester. Dr.
Levinson, formerly known as F. Stephen Vinson, and his wife Susan J. Levine
legally combined their last names when they married in 1985. Following his
residency at Stanford, Dr. Levinson accepted a position at the National
Institutes of Health, where he expanded the research he had begun at IUSM.
His work, which uses ultrasound to study the biomechanics of muscle, took
him to Tokyo Institute of Technology, for the summer of 1990, and
ultimately to University of Rochester, a world leader in biomedical
ultrasound. Dr. Levinson has been there since 1992 and holds joint
appoint-ments in the Medical School and in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering.
1984
Rebecca E. Galante, MD, is practicing internal medicine in Hammond, Ind.
She also teaches
a course on medical history and physical diagnosis at the IU Northwest
Medical Center.
1985
Tracy Gage Carmellini, MD, completed two years of general surgery residency
at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn., and a four-year residency in
radiology at Hartford Hospital. She has a six-year-old daughter and a
three-year-old son.
1987
James B. Gardner, MD, has been named president of Cook Group Inc.'s Cook
Family Health Center. Dr. Gardner is responsible for the administration of
the center, which opened in 1993. The center serves as a primary health
care provider to Cook employers and their families. Prior to joining Cook
Family Health Center, Dr. Gardner was a vice president of Unity Physician
Group.
1988
Michael S. Scheeringa, MD, is practicing in New Orleans at Tulane
University School of Medicine. He is an assistant professor in child and
adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology. This
year he was awarded a five-year research grant from the National Institute
of Mental Health to study post-traumatic stress in pre-school children.
Michael L. Kramer, MD, is a partner in Orthopaedics Indianapolis. He has
four children, ages 5, 7, 10 and 12.
1990
Mark A. Muckway, MD, has joined the staff of Hendricks Com-munity Hospital.
He is a neurologist and co-president of Comprehensive Neurologic Services,
an organization founded and developed by Dr. Muckway and his partner. He
resides in Danville, Ind.
Sara Hatfield Steelman, MD, is currently working in the pediatric emergency
department at the University of Chicago Children's Hospital. She also is
raising her two young children, Grant and Trent.
1991
Matthew Hicks, MD, returned to Fort Wayne in July 1997. He has completed a
fellowship in trauma orthopaedics and has been practicing at Fort Wayne
Orthopaedics.
1992
Michael J. Louthan, MD, is a fourth-year anesthesia resident at IU Medical
Center. His wife Mary is a part-time nurse at a Noblesville pediatrician's
office. They are parents of two-year-old twins.
Mark M. Hamilton, MD, of Carmel, Ind., has joined Perkins Facial Plastic
Surgery in Clay Town-ship. After a surgical internship at Methodist
Hospital in Indianapolis, he completed his residency program in
otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at St. Louis University, and then went
on to complete a fellowship through the American Academy of Facial Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery. He is certified by the American Board of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and is also a member of the American
Academy of Otolaryng-ology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Hal S. Dickson, MD, is a board certified neurologist working at Eastern
Indiana Neurology in Muncie, where he and his wife live.
Brian Crites, MD, has finished his orthopaedic surgery residency at Duke
University and now is at the University of Maryland Medical Center for a
sports medicine fellow-ship. He will be practicing with the Baltimore
Ravens. His goal is to join the staff at the Center for Hip And Knee
Surgery in Mooresville, Ind.
Daniel J. Fagan, MD, has completed his residency in internal medicine and
is currently a staff physician at Cook Family Center in Bloomington, Ind.
Dan is married and has three children.
1993
Angela T. Meyer, MD, completed her residency in physical medicine and
rehabilitation in June 1997 from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Dr. Meyer and her husband Joe moved back to Indiana-polis and had their
first child Teresa Rose in September 1997.
Lawrence C. McBride, MD, recently joined the otolaryngology- head and neck
surgery practice of Drs. Sibbitt, White, Pugh, and Sarpa in Bloomington,
Ind. He is practicing out of three offices: Bloomington Hospital, Southern
Indiana Surgery Center and an office in Bedford, Ind. Dr. McBride
completed a five-year residency at the IU Medical Center in June 1998.
1994
Nate Ross, MD, has joined the private practice group of Ob/Gyn South in
Birmingham, Ala. He did his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the
Medical University of South Carolina.
1995
Joe Lauer, MD, completed his internal medicine residency at the Medical
College of Virginia in Richmond, Va. He has begun a cardiology fellowship
at IU School of Medicine.
1997
Judy Zacher, MD, is in her second year of residency in obstetrics and
gynecology at Sinai Hospital in Detroit. Dr. Zacher says she is work-ing
hard but enjoying it very much.