SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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For many of us, Thursday morning psychiatry lectures with RICHARD A. DROOZ were a wel- come relief from the cadaver and spectrophotometer. His incisive wit and friendly manner helped simplify the diflicult material he was presenting. A native of Albany, N.Y., Dr. Drooz received his A.B. degree from Cornell University and his M.D. from the Albany Medical College. He obtained the 3rd highest score on the National Boards. Dr. Drooz interned at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York. Follow- ing his internship he was appointed Chief Resident in Neurology and Neurosurgery at Mt. Sinai. After serving as a captain in the U.S. Army, he returned to the Long Island College of Medicine-V.A. Psychiatry training program. He received his psychoanalytic training at Downstate. Dr. Drooz attempts to achieve a balance between teaching and practice. For several years he donated half his time to teaching. He states that the happiest activity of life has been the series of lectures to the first year studentsf, if I g . ,. gpiftfft ,f f ' 5-1,314 jp- ' Q , V , . .,.,,,,.,, . . . ,... . ggi f , , i 1 , g ' 7 J ' N f 'V 195' It is LUDWIG W. EICHNA, Professor and Chair- man of the Department of Medicine, who in our sophomore year lirst introduced us to clinical medi- cine. He stressed the importance of our appearance and bearing in our relationships with patients and emphasized a logical, systematic approach to making a diagnosis. Dr. Eichna was born in Tallinn, Estonia and has lived in the United States since the age of four. He received his medical education and training at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins Uni- versity. He then spent twenty years at New York University and has been at Downstate since 1960. He believes that many formats of medical education and practice today are outmoded and inefficient, and that major changes will soon occur. He also feels that only by reaching for what seems to be beyond our grasp and by never being satisfied with our present state can we achieve our maximum potential. In his leisure time, Dr. Eichna cherishes the solace he finds in hiking alone in the Adirondacks. He also collects old medical tracts. The warmth Dr. Eichna radiates to his patients is but one example of his love for life. To have been exposed to him has been an invaluable privilege. 29

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DOMINICK J. DI MAIO, Lecturer in Pathology and the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York in charge of Brooklyn, is well known to us for his colorful lectures and fascinating elective in forensic pathology. Dr. Di Maio, a native New Yorker, attended DeWitt Clinton High School and Long Island University. Upon graduation from the Marquette University School of Medicine he re- turned to New York for an internship at Columbus Hospital and pathology residencies at the Maimon- ides and Greenpoint Hospitals. He began studying forensic pathology in 1950 and came to Kings County Hospital in 1960. Dr. Di Maio feels that at least five academic lectures and a series of informal seminars would be necessary to give the students the basic fasts of forensic pathology, an increasingly im- portant aspect of medicine. Dr. Di Maio has lived in Brooklyn since 1940 with his wife and four children. His son, Vincent, is currently a resident in pathology at Kings County Hospital, and his oldest daughter, Therese-Martin, is in our class. Playing the piano and collecting and reading old books on forensic pathology occupy much of Dr. Di Maio's time. We can only hope that future generations of Downstate graduates will receive increasing exposure to this lively teacher and his exciting specialty. 28 Whether discussing Virginia Woolf or schiz- ophrenic behavior, FERRUCCIO DICORI never loses the enthusiam or interest of the students. A Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Dr. diCori attempts to see psychiatry from a social and artistic point of view through the media of theater and journalism. He sees the theater as an expresson of social movement, an expression which deals with the why, how, and where of life. A graduate in medicine of the University of Rome, Dr. diCori received his psychiatric training at Har- vard. Prior to coming to Downstate he served as a Scientific Lecturer for the Voice of America and Supervising Psychiatrist at Hillside Hospital.

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IRWIN FEINBERG believes that the function of a medical school is to pass on to its students the information and ethics of medical care. A familiar, friendly face in the Psychiatry Department, Dr. Fein- berg feels that Downstate shares in the dilemmas faced by medical education today-full time versus part time teaching, and teaching versus research. He would like to see the leadership solve these problems so that Downstate might achieve its potential as a top school and likewise attract top personnel. Dr. Feinberg grew up in Brooklyn not far from Kings County Hospital. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Swarthmore CMasters in Psychologyj, and New York University College of Medicine, he served at Boston City Hospital, Massachusetts Mental Health Clinic, and the National Institutes of Health before coming to Downstate. He also spent a year with Piaget in Switzerland, where he also learned to ski. His interests include studying sleep and thought disorders. Dr. Feinberg spends his leisure time sailing or skiing. 30 .XX X XX A native of Brooklyn, New York, HAROLD FINK received his B.A. degree from Columbia Uni- versity in 1923 and his M.D. degree from Long Island College Hospital in 1926. After interning at the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, he was their as- sistant pathologist for three years. He has been a pathologist at Coney Island Hospital for the past thirty-six years, and also Chief of their Hematology Clinic, Chief of Laboratory Services and Executive Director of their Research Institute. In conjunction with his appointment as special consultant to the World Health Organization, he traveled throughout Southern Europe during the fall of 1966 to organize a joint program with the Cooleyfs Anemia Founda- tion for the study and treatment of thalassemia. As Curator of Tissue Registry of the Cooley's Anemia Foundation, tissue removed at operation and autopsy in the United States or in Italy or Greece is sent to him for study. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology at Downstate Medical Center and Iinds pleasure in teaching second-year students their clini- cal and anatomical pathology. During his leisure time, Dr. Fink enjoys playing bridge, continuing his philatelic collection which dates back to 1908, and growing roses at his summer home in Gardiner, New York. Recently he was made an honorary Kentucky Colonel in honor of having been the National President of Phi Epsilon fifteen years ago. His family includes his wife, a former junior high school music teacher, a son, a graduate of Downstate Medical Center 119573 and presently a Clinical Instructor at Yale, and two grandchildren.