New Jersey College of Medicine - Journal Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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ROBIN L. CURTIS, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy . y Sf IJ JOSEPH P. TASSONI, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy 525552:- eqg 1-'-- 1 --loso or FRANK D. ANDERSON, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy MAY B. HOLLINSHEAD, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy fry X X PAUL J. MIRANTI, M.D. GORDON W. HEATH, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor of Anatomy Assistant Professor of Anatomy

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U in f W if ' . 1 ..- l . NATOMY Upon entering medical school the green novice is terrorized by the fact that he must master the anatomy of the -human body, both grossly and microscopic- ally Wlthln the first four months of his career. This task is great, obviously exhausting, but neces- sary. For if one is to examine and treat this body, and if one is to know the abnormal, the diseased, he must know the normal morphology. Such is the purpose of the department of Anatomy. So, with his cadaver, microscope, and Gray's Anatomy as his guides, the student enters the lab and begins his task. He shudders as he pulls the sheet from his cadaver for the Hrst time and yawns as he stares into his microscope. But after numerous lectures, conferences, exams of every size, shape and description, one finds himself talking about the blood supply of the liver rather than the Giant's game. The frustrations and agonizing concentration which characterize the study of anatomy were only alleviated by such light moments as Pinkney Harman singing Ole Man River, Vinny Oriente painting the arteries red, veins blue and nerves yellow, just like in the book, or Paul Miranti singing out Tom has a nurse downtown. In time not only did we come to realize the im- portance of this subject, but We began to enjoy it-this naturally led to our retaining the matter and mastering the subject. The department is unique in that veal scallapine is served in the conference room, the switch plates in the labs are spotless, and the electron microscope hasn't worked for five years. H W' 1 From the start of the medical school, PINCKNEY HABMAN, Ph.D., has been an im- portant part of our faculty. He joined us after serving two very successful ten year periods on the Georgetown and New York University Medi- cal School faculties. His special fields of interest lie in chemical and electrical studies of the nervous system and in mammalian neuromuscular mutations. Few department heads could make us feel more at ease tl1an'Dr. Harman. Off cam- pus, few could beat P.j. Cor, The Duke, as he is known in Schiavdsj at pocket billiards. Who can forget that familiar sight at lunchtime of PJ., sporting his goatee, carrying a brown bag of groceries with a loaf of Italian bread looming over the top? ANTHONY V. BOCCABELLA, Ph.D., came to us in 1960 from the faculty of the University of Iowa, his alma mater. His chief interests lie in Endocrinology, specifically the thyroid gland and the reproductive system. Few of us can forget his lectures on feedback mechanisms or his cross sectional exams. Others still are chased in their dreams by cadavers covered with tags from the last gross anatomy practical. Now class, he would begin, and then launch into a discussion of how many parts our all-day exams would include, and how many floors they would cover. But we did learn anatomy, and in the process gained one of our best friends.

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IOCHEMISTRY The Department of Bio- chemistry faces an increasingly more diffi- cult problem each year. It must present to the student all the fundamentals of one of the sciences so vital to his medical education while, at the same time, increase the scope of its pro- gram to include the rapid, daily developments in the field. To accomplish this end, each facet of biochemistry is presented in lecture form by an instructor who has done or is doing research in that particular field. Each lecture series is correlated with laboratory experiments intended to enable the student to better grasp the subject. The experiments are designed to illustrate the practical applications of biochemical prin- ciples to clinical medicine. The advantages of the new techniques, such as spectrophotometry and isotope label- ling, in establishing a diagnosis become obvious. Imme- diate benefit is derived from arriving on the wards with some knowledge of the meaning of the basic blood and urine diagnostic tests. As clinical medicine and medical research more closely approach the molecular level, the importance of a firm foundation in biochemical principles becomes in- creasingly evident. The Department of Biochemistry is devoted to the task of instilling this foundation in the physician who graduates from the New jersey College of Medicine. ,gf ,f .. Q Q C RAYMOND L. GARNER, Ph.D., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry. He grad- uated from Westminster College in 1927 and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1932. He was a Fellow at Johns Hopkins from 1932 to 1935. Dr. Garner then served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School until 1956 when he came to our institution. In addition to his departmental work, until last year he served as Chairman of the Admissions Committee and since then he has been appointed Assist- ant Dean of the School of Dentistry. Dr. Garner's research interests revolve primarily about the biochemistry of carbohydrates and leukocyte metabolism. He also derives particular personal satis- faction from his work with the blind. BRII SAXENA, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biochemistry