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

Text from Pages 1 - 208 of the 1969 volume:

xv ww 2 Q 9 Q intros state university of new york clownstate medical center brooklyn, new york V 1969 6 ucy F rank Squire, M.D. Those of us who have been taught by Lucy Frank Squire have had the privilege of being exposed to a truly dedicated medical educator. A native of Washington D.C., she attended George Washington University and Women's Medical College. After internship at Women's Hospital, Dr. Squire went to Massachusetts General Hospital for training in radiology. Desiring to teach, she spent ten years at the University of Rochester, and in 1960 came to New York City to write Fundamentals of Roentgenology, the text which is so familiar to many medical stu- dents. About this time she also began to commute to Boston to teach radiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Squire joined the faculty of Downstate in 1966 as an Assistant Professor and set forth instruction in a totally relaxed atmosphere. She brought to this institution a dynamic and imaginative approach which won for her the respect and appreciation of her students. In July, 1968, Dr. Squire was promoted to Associate Professor. Unfortunately, ill- health forced her to relinquish this position at Downstate. During the period she was with us, however, she managed to bring a fresh outlook while encouraging meaningful change in our medical education. Teaching, she has said, is only guidance toward the excitement of discovery. Surely to this end she has successfully directed her life, she is a master guide, and a constant source of inspiration. It is for these reasons that we, the Staff of the 1969 Intros, gratefully dedicate this yearbook to you, Dr. Squire, a physician, an educator and a friend. A true physician is a scientwc scholar of human biology who practices his profession as a perceptive humanist. Dana W. Atchley I 9 You cannot be a peffect doc- tor, till you have been a patient. Stephen Paget 'W-. Surgery is the ready motion of steady and experi- enced hands. Galen Can there he a better preparatory school for the physician than the study of the natural sciences? I think not! Theodor Billroth Great births are hard in the labour, and many glorious men have been cut out of the womb. john Hall 'I3 xi' fm You will have to learn many tedi- ous things which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all. W. Somerset Maugham 3- To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. Sir William Osler To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. Anonymous The Histor of Downstate Long Island College Hospital, 1860 I n 1860 21 degrees were conferred on the first graduates of the Long Island College Hospitals. At that time Brooklyn was a bustling seaport of 250,000 people, the third largest city in the United States. 109 years later Brooklyn has expanded in both size and population and the Long Island College Hospital has evolved into one of the largest medical centers in the world. lt was an inauspicious beginning in 1856 when a small group of German doctors founded a chari- table institution known as the Brooklyn German General Dispensary housed in a small brick building. ln 1857 they expanded and made plans for the St. Johns Hospital. However, this hospital was never built. Dr. William Dudley, who had recently returned from studying medical education abroad, convinced the group to help in the establishment of the first American medical school associated with a hospital. Thus Long Island College Hospital was chartered in 1858 and Brooklyn's only medical school was born. This hospital was located in the former Perry Mansion in Brooklyn Heights. It was not an immedi- ate success, closing down in September of 1859 with debts of over 55,000 Plans were made to sell the property. After numberous disputes, staff resig- nations and policy changes the hospital reopened on March 29, 1860 and classes began the following day. 17 gang Qallmarcl Ma Mgr gmiagpiita OP BROOKLYN, INTEVV' YORK- THE FIRST COURSE OF LECTURES IN THIS INSTITUTION, WILL BE COMMENCED ON THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1860 AND CONTINUE SIXTEEN WEEKS. . .. . H.. ...W .. -.- .... ..,.. ':.-.-.-....---....:1-:,....-.. BOARD 0? HBGRNT32 HON. SAMUEL SLOAN, PRESIDENT. LIVINGSTON K. MILLER, ESQ., Sacxmralzv. , common.: T. L. MASON, M. D. C. L. MITCHEL, M. D. WM. II. DUDLEY, M. D. J. H. HENRY, M. D. P R 0 F 3 S 8 0 R 8 X AUSTIN FLINT, M. D., fNew-Orleans School ot' Mcdicineg Protbssor of Practical Medicine and Pathology. FRANK II. HAMILTON, M. D., fllniversity ot' Butialo,j Professor of Surgery. ' JAMES D. TRASK, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and diseases ot' women and children. R. OGDEN DOREMUS, M. D., QNew-York Medical College,l Profes:-lor of Chemistry and Toxicology. JOSEPH C. IIUTCIIISON, M. II., Protcssor of Surgical Anatomy and Operative Surgery. JOHN C. DALTON, M. D., fColl. ofPhysicians and Surgeons, N. YJ Prof. ot' Physiology and Microscopic Anatomy. DE WITT C. ENOS, LI. D., Professor of General and Descriptive Anatomy. EDWIN N. CHAPMAN, M. D., Protbssor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. DIUQNBTBATOR OF ANILTOUY! J. G. JOHNSON, M. D. 18 9 ff iw l .-2' FACULTY UF THE COl.I.I1IUE, 1860. AUSTIN FHNT, SR., MJD., l.l,.Il. FRANK H. HAh!ILTON, M.A., M.D., LL.lJ, JAMES IJ. 'I'l:,xsx, MA Nl D josmfu C. Hl'TCHlS4JN, M.D., LLD. JQHN C. 1JAl.'roN, ILA., M.D. Ijli xVlT'l' LL. lixus. X R. OGDEN DoRh:m's, M.A., MJD., I,I,.U. I-luwxx N. Cu.-svn.-xx, BLA., BLU Alexander I. C. Skene, M.D. After a nationwide search for candidates a distinguished faculty of eight was selected. Their teaching responsibilities included two sixteen week courses of lectures. Dr. Austin Flint, Professor of Practical Medicine and Pathology, was the most eminent member of the faculty. Known as the American Laennec, he was the chief proponent of the stethoscope in the United States, stressing its importance in physical diagnosis. He is best known for his characterication of heart murmurs. Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, Professor of Surgery was the first advocate of skin grafting. He was Medi- cal lnspector of the United States Army during the Civil War and returned to Long Island College Hospital to chair the Department of Military Medi- cine, the first of its kind in the United States. Dr. John C. Dalton, Professor of Physiology and Microscopic Anatomy, was the most renowned physiologist in America in his time. He studied under Claude Bernard, championed the use of ether anes- thesia and introduced animal experimentation into medical education. The other members of the faculty included Dr. R. 20 Ogden Doremus, Professor of Chemistry and Toxi- cology, Dr. James D. Trask, Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Dr. Joseph C. Hutchinson, Professor of Surgical Anatomy and Operative Surgery, Dr. DeWitt Clinton Enos, Pro- fessor of General and Descriptive Anatomy and Dr. Edwin N. Chapman, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. An 1863 graduate, Dr. Alexander J. C. Skene, joined the faculty in 1865 and became Professor of Diseases of Women and Clinical Obstetrics in 1870. He devoted 34 years as teacher, Dean of the Faculty and President of the College. He was an authority in his field and discovered Skene's ducts. The first graduates were mainly confronted with infectious diseases such as cholera, dysentery, com- sumption, small pox and yellow fever and street and industrial accidents. Students graduating in 1861 were offered training in Military Surgery. As many used this in the service of the Confederacy as in the Union Army. The Class of 1869, which was photographed in front of the Long Island College Hospital, had E If w+....,,,...Q-,-f-Q,-e-,..5.,ssk.x.x..,bNmMw:X 5 X XJ.- , l . . i2, : iQf,iZ l g ' ' M...-' N...-f J if ',, 4 T :vP4 Y W .1 N.: 1 PP, N., .f5g2.vAk,, ,865-3 'fs s ,, A R. K mt' lm -F 'rf ,. W Class of 1869 L --.HM ---Q-msn M W-A M-w...L ,. completed the requirements for both an MD degree and license. These included being at least 21 years old, having a three year tutorship under a reputable physician and completing two courses of lectures at a medical school, at least the second being at Long Island College Hospital. As years went by both the physical plant and curriculum changed. In 1879 the term was expanded from four to five months. No medical school in the country offered more instruction. Pathology was introduced as a separate course in that year. By 1882 autopsy attendance was mandatory, reflecting the increasing importance of the department. Graduation requirements now included passing of oral and written examinations in ten subjects. In 1886 a Department of Medical Jurisprudence was estab- lished which lasted until 1931. In 1888 the Hoagland Laboratory opened across the street from the main hospital on Henry Street. Originally intended as a bacteriology research center, it was later used to teach basic science to the medical students. One of the finest institutions of its kind, it was favorably compared with Johns Hopkins Hospital. The first director of the laboratory was Dr. George M. Sternberg, an authority on yellow fever and malaria. His most famous protege was Walter Reed, who interned at Kings County Hospital in 1871. Sternberg was the first in America to demon- strate the tubercle bacillus, living malaria plas- modium and Salmonella typhosa. In 1893 he became Surgeon General of the United States Army and appointed Reed to head the Army Yellow Fever Commission. The 1890's were a time of change in medical education. In 1891, under a new state law, a three year graded curriculum was inaugurated. In 1893, an equivalent of three years of high school was re- quired for entrance into medical school. In 1897 22 George M. Sternberg, M .D. this was increased to four years, as was the medical school curriculum. In the same year the Polhemus Memorial Building opened on the corner of Amity and Henry Streets. It included a dispensary, admin- istrative offices, lecture halls and laboratories. In 1905 the old Perry Mansion was torn down and a new Long Island College Hospital built on the same site. In 1910 the roof fell in. This was the year of the Flexner Report, a full scale investigation and evaluation of medical education in the United States and Canadaf' The study was conducted by Abraham Flexner of the Carnegie Foundation for the American Medical Association. Its sharp criti- cism forced many poor medical schools to close. This included about half of those then in existence. Long Island College hospital received a Class B rating because it had no full-time teachers in labora- tory subjects, no pathology museum, no student library, inadequate clinical laboratories and no laboratory teaching in physiology and pharmacology. These defects were remedied and in 1914 the school was rated Class A. Other changes followed. In 1914 a Department of Tropical Medicine was formed. It was eliminated in 1928. In 1917 Long Island College Hospital began a thirteen year association with Columbia University. Dr. Nicholas M. Butler, President of Columbia, arranged for the appointment of James Egbert, Director of University Extension Teaching fat Columbiaj to the presidency of Long Island College Hospital. Egbert started a two year premedical course run by Columbia, given at Long Island Col- lege Hospital. This course or its equivalent became a requirement for medical school admission. It was the long term scheme of Columbia University to Walter Reed, M.D. 23 Long Island College Hospital in 1897 ,...a.,mM av. kb, f Hoagland Laboratory Polhemus Memorial Clinic Dissecting Laboratory Amphitheatre AUred Adler, M .D. turn Long Island College Hospital into a school for general practitioners while making Physicians and Surgeons a school for training of medical specialists. As late as 1929 Dr. Butler retained his hope for an affiliation. The movement away from Brooklyn Heights began in 1923 when Long Island College Hospital became affiliated with the Department of Public Welfare. Medical students were sent to Kings County, Greenpoint and Kingston Avenue Hospitals. With the advent of these multiple training centers, Long Island College Hospital lost its function as the primary teaching hospital. Thus, while many trustees and teaching staff were retained, the long Island College of Medicine was created in 1930, as an independent entity. The birthday present, a piece of land at Grand Army Plaza, was to be the site of the new centrally located medical school, with af- filiations at Long Island College, Kings County, Brooklyn Jewish, Greenpoint, Kingston Avenue, Coney Island, Methodist, and Brooklyn Hospitals. Hopes for the new building collapsed with the stock- market. 26 In 1927 didactic lectures were eliminated from the fourth year. This policy was extended to the third year in 1946. The first clinical schedule in- cluded twelve weeks of medicine, eight weeks of obstetrics-gynecology, eight weeks of surgery, four weeks of pediatrics and thirty hours of psychiatry. Jean Redman Oliver became Chairman of the Department of Pathology in 1929. During his twenty- five year tenure he became world famous for his work on the kidney. His most significant accom- plishment was the microdissection and study of individual nephrons. The famous Viennese psychiatrist Alfred Adler joined the faculty in 1932, remaining until his death in 1937. He had worked with Freud, but his theory that social drives and needs were the key to human behavior led to the foundation of a separate school of psychiatry. .. ,fav jean Redman Oliver, M.D. i no . W ,J , 5 al Q , 5234? fl 4 ,1 . gig , 4 i i i Lk g Q -,ex .R Q fb, ' l XT Drs, jean A, Curran C right Q and Frank Babbitt Long Island College of Medicine to Borough Pres Kcenterj explaining plans for development of the ident john Cashmore. 27 Cornerstone Laying of Basic Science Building, 1954 'Qi E dpkg S. 28 fl l During World War II a year round teaching schedule resulted in graduation in three years. The college established the Seventy-ninth General Hos- pital and the sight of marching columns of medical students in uniform became commonplace. In 1944 President Jean A. Curren presented the Master Plan for expansion of the Long Island Col- lege of Medicine, with construction of a new building opposite Kings County Hospital. A large fund raising program was begun. In 1945 six and one half acres of land were purchased on Clarkson Avenue. The 2 lil? Clarkson Avenue, 1963 long range plan called for raising five million dollars by 1950 and fifteen million by 1960. By 1950 only nine hundred fifty thousand dollars had been col- lected. In the meantime the State University of New York had decided to establish two medical schools. Syracuse was chosen for the upstate site. Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx vied for the downstate site. On April 5, 1950 a formal merger was signed and the Long Island College of Medicine became the State University of New York-Downstate. The ultimate cost of the center was over forty-five million dollars. The new State University medical school re- cruited six department chairman between 1950 and 1953. Drs. Long, Hellman and Harmel came from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Dennis from Minnesota, Dr. Fitzgerald from Sloan-Keetering, and Dr. Day Cwho 29 'QTY of 'Q .,.wnr,'b 1 2 4? 'Q 0 a I 1 2 . ..- v- 4 0 5 , Q' .r 9 'P 4 1.1945 DUWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER Pres. Robert A. Moore at the laying of the Corner- InaUgUVUti0n Ofpfesident 10391911 K- Hill stone ofthe University Hospital 2215.4 . I ,. t 1,3 ' 1, ' f 4 A Y t ,I fy lj fl 1 It .I 5111 Na. rs zifla. headed Pediatrics until 19603 from Columbia. Class size increased from 100 to 200 as a result of state take-over. Almost immediately state architects began to plan the new medical school. The ground breaking for the Basic Science building, which occurred in 1953 resulted in a large T shaped excavation, af- fectionately called Nthe largest hole in Brooklyn. The building was completed in 1956 at a cost of fourteen million dollars. A 1953 state directive required that all state medical schools have university hospitals. Planning was begun in 1956 and groundbreaking occurred in 1963. However construction did not proceed as planned. As Newsweek said on August 5, 1963: lt might have been Birmingham, but this was Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. Tired of sitting and waiting, Negroes were marching and chanting and singing for skilled construction jobs at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and at other building sites across the city. They courted arrest by plunk- ing down in the path of trucks trying to navigate through to the projects. And police obliged them. ln all, 518 demonstrators were arrested during the week--the biggest bag yet in a Northern city in the civil-rights revolt of 1963. The building was finally completed in 1967. Dormitories were constructed following a study of available living space in the area and were opened in 1964. A two million dollar parking garage was swiftly completed in 1966 and has not been used since. A Student Activities building is presently under construction. During the last four years sig- nificant academic changes were made. The first major change in medical school curriculum in over twenty years gave fourth year students six months of elective time. Meanwhile the medical center ex- panded to include a College of Nursing, a College of Health Related Professions, a School of Graduate Studies and a Computer Center. Plans for the future include a College of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences, additional Student Residence Halls, a joint animal farm with Stonybrook, and physical expansion into the sur- rounding community. 31 Y Y--Y -H 2-W - 1 32 i tory of the Class of 1969 Afew leaves crackle under your feet as you walk along the sidewalk. It isn't very far from your dorm room to the basic sciences building, but, oh, you feel like a prisoner walking the last mile-both of you are going to meet your destiny, yet neither knows what lies in store for him. You stop on Lenox Road and wait for the light to change. Upper classmen, in their sacred short white jackets, stand beside you murmuring medically and you envy their professionalism. One or two fellow freshmen now approach and you all share a brief second of anticipation and anxiety over your impend- ing fate. The light changes and now you are part of a phalanx of tender young sacrifices to the god Cadu- seus. As you turn through the gateway towards the jaws of mother Medicine you stoutly resist the impulse to turn swiftly around and run for your life, but rather, with head erect and shoulders back, you enter the basic sciences building ready to prostrate yourself on the altar of altruism and dedication to mankind. You walk up the escalator to the second floor Clater in the year you will learn that the up escalators work only between two and four A.M. on alternate Thursdays though the down escalators always are working? As you turn down the hall toward the anatomy section the fragrance of formaldehyde teases your nostrils and you wince imperceptibly. Now down to business. You snap open the cel- lophane wrapper on your snowy white laboratory coat and it feels good as you slip your arms into the sleeves. You button the front slowly and then care- fully open up your new dissecting kit and set it down on the work table. Finally, the moment you have been anticipating apprehensively has approached. You tense a little but firmly take down the top of your table and face your cadaver. All the fears and fantasies which have previously gone through your mind disappear and the first reality of your medical school life has been learned. You are not shocked nor nauseated by the sight, but rather realize that you have a serious trust being invested upon you. From today on many men and women will be putting their bodies into your hands with wholehearted faith in your ability to heal them. This first day of medical school has wrought its small change in you and as 33 you begin to work, a little extra care guides your hand and deep concentration holds your mind. From green to brown and then red to yellow, the leaves turn colors and die while the autumn days pass. The novelty has worn off and below this veneer is the rough, corrosive surface of the day to day grind. Your eyes are bloodshot, your back stooped and your fingers eternally wrinkled from formaldehyde. You exude an odor which compels your mother to avoid you and your once spotless laboratory coat is now irreparably stained with a multicolored array of insoluble substances. You have never worked so hard as you work now to learn Anatomy and when you find you are catching up you remember all the work Bio-chemistry has given you to do. One of you has already quit school but you hang on with the optimistic hope that things must get better because they certainly cannot get any worse. ef! 34 One day, while you are sitting in the lobby of your dormitory floor, a friend rushes off of the elevator, screaming exultantly, The Anatomy marks are out . . . and I passed!! Your cardiac rate doubles and your sweat glands go into overdrive. All thought of studying is gone and one question permeates your mind: did I pass? You walk, half running, to school and go up the escalator steps two at a time. As you turn towards the bulletin board, however, sudden paralysis strikes. Your legs wonlt move, your body is frozen. Slowly, painfully, you maneuver the fifteen feet to the bulletin board and slap your hand over the marks which are around your number. Little by little you let your fingers slide down until, with one courageous move, you face your fate S S. Now you are a quivering lump of protoplasm and relief fills you as the day looks a little brighter than before. fi.-if The flakes melt as they hit the big warm window of your dorm room. This first snow doesn't look too promising, but itls a nice change from the unseasonal warmth of the past week. You've changed too, now that you think about it. How scared you were that first day of school. Remember the first anatomy test? Now that's all behind you. Finals will be coming soon and you've been studying hard. With that A on your urine report Cyou can still savor the chalky taste of your last can of Metrecalj you might do well in bio-chemistry. You don't understand how you've done it but you find that you can absorb much more material than you ever could in college and still be ready for more. Your patterns of study and work have changed as you molded yourself into the new school and the new subjects. Life is tough, but some- how you have the feeling that you have made the grade, that you are over the hump -wistful, wish- ful thinking. S S-a mixture, disappointment and relief, go through you. You thought that you had a chance for honors in Biochemistry, but yet you are satisfied to have passed. You worked hard for an A and when you think about it a second time you wonder if all that work was worth it. Suddenly you realize that even if a good mark didn't come your way, you learned something you need for your career. In con- trast to all those required undergraduate courses, now you feel that everything you learn is directed toward a goal-your goal. A changed perspective that makes disappointment a little easier to bear. Histology and physiology now seem anticlimactic. The newness, the anticipation, the fantasies of September have given way to the realities and drudgery of February. You work hard, harder than before, but your attitude has changed. No longer awed by the vastness of knowledge confronting you, you throw up your hands in exasperation at your inability to learn everything. You feel that as one new fact enters your right cerebral hemisphere it slips elusively out of your left external auditory meatus. You picture yourself on a treadmill and the faster you walk the more quickly the treadmill moves. Just as you see yourself sliding down into a bottomless abyss, soon to be rejected as incompetent and unfit to be a physician, you pass all of your courses and the first year is over. Over! You are one quarter a doctor. You shine up the Lilly stethoscope that has been collecting dust in the closet and put it into the black bag which has been languishing in the lower drawer of your desk. You take out the short white jacket which you have been concealing sur- reptiously all term and try it on for size. You have reason to be elated. You are on your way and the future looks rosy. But you're still a long way from home and there are many more changes to come in the future. , 'fa 36 ast night it was champagne and celebration and this morning it's the cold reality of the second year. Or so it seems. It's amazing how it sneaked up on you so unexpectedly, hiding behind the last week of August and springing down on you from atop Labor Day. You unpack the old white labora- tory coat with its multicolored reminiscences of past encounters and prepare once more to enter the field of battle. Other old soldiers join you in your march toward the basic sciences building, and, after arming yourself with coffee and danish, you relax momen- tarily, waiting impatiently to do battle against your fierce opponent, the pharmacological armamen- tarium. You greet the brave warrior with mixed emotions, some sympathetic and some parasympa- thetic and after the first lecture you find a need for extra reading on stimulants, antiemetics, and cathar- tics. It doesnlt take many lectures to find you a hope- less drug addict. You're 4'hooked for life, con- demned to an eternal search for some miraculous posset to cure all the ills of mankind. You sit and memorize every reaction of the most trivial pharma- ceutia but everything seems to act as a cerebral laxative. You know in your heart that you will never be a physician if you cannot control this mighty arsenal of knowledge and so you struggle vainly on, forgetting the uses of two drugs for every new one that you learn. Was it Robert Brown who first described cells and animules with his primitive microscope? It doesn't really matter now as you try to make some sense out of the wriggling, swiggling, shapes you see before you. It just amazes you how scientists could have classified all of these bacteria with their poor equipment and you cannot tell a blue, metachromatic swirl from a red squiggle with your high powered, binocular, Bausch and Lomb with its built in light source, flat field, high powered, etc., ad nauseum. Whether you watch them jumping around or you french fry them to your slide and paint their bodies Cand your tingersj with a spectrum of hues, the elucidation of their genealogy escapes you. It seems the only species you can identify positively is Trep- onema pallidum, but that experiment induced such psychotic hand washing that its repetition was for some reason avoided. Still you persevere. You come into lab, a pubescent Pasteur, and quickly scan the directions you should have scrutinized the night before. How deftly you manipulate the culture plates and media, only contaminating them two or three times. Carefully, you streak out your cultures, mark them, incubate them, and then retum to find the expected result-Proteus overgrowth. At times like this you sit and meditate over your microscope, questioning seriously the myth of the pure culture. But wait! Oh no! Tomorrow-blood drawing. You go to sleep dreaming of giant hematomas and fondly caress your antecubital fossas in a warm farewell. But in the morning, it is with head erect and arms held high that you stride into lab. Strange how you never recognized that sadistic gleam in your partner's eyes. You roll up your sleeve and brace your arm against the desk. Your partner's deft fingers poke for a vein with all of the surety of Moses in the desert. Then the icy coolness of alcohol heralds the im- pending moment of decision. Finally, the cold glint of the needle, which has been pre-dulled, strikes and everything goes smoothly-or so you are told fifteen minutes later when you are finally revived. Though you may not be so aware of it now, the first time you approach some defenseless patient in the hospital youlll think about this morning's agony. Perhaps your technique may not be perfect and your needle not in the right place, but sympathy and understand- ing will be right on the mark. All the world's necrotic-in seven different varieties. Your flesh feels a little weak as you walk out of the first pathology lecture. Finally youlve reached true medicine, the failure of the flesh. As you study and learn more, you see all of mankind rotting away, disintegrating in an awesome display 38 of pyknosis and karyolysis. With pith helmet and jungle suit, you hack your way through forests of rotten tissue searching, ever searching for courses of arteriosclerotic arteries, ready to battle any ugly nidus of infection that may rear its head. You push hard through dense bands of cirrhotic livers and tread lightly on fresh myocardial infarctions. More and more, however, you become frustrated as each trip, like each lecture, ends in the enigmatic and inconquerable hydra known as cancer. No matter where you turn, its creeping crawling tentacles encircle you and block your path. You cut it, burn it, irradiate it, drop drugs on it, resect it, but to no avail. And so you retreat to the curable safety of pneumonia or hepatitis, steeling yourself until you are ready to battle your omnipresent, patho- logical nemesis. Till then you look at slides and safe preserved specimens, but you realize that the enemy still lies abroad. The pathologist has shown you your greatest enemy, and like a latter day St. Geroge, you must slay the neoplastic dragon. Day after pleasant day goes by. Your path is a neat circle between the Basic Sciences Building and your dorm room, a path whose depth merely indi- cates the psychological rut that you are in. One-and- one-half years of medical school and you are still chained to textbooks and lecture notes. You know that the structure you can see across from the basic sciences building is a hospital, ergo, there must be patients inside. Your patience to see them is wearing thin. You've strengthened considerably since that first day in medical school. Your mind is filled with a compendium of isolated facts which seem as closely correlated and related as apples and pears. You yearn to break out of the lecture room that binds you, to let your physician's soul ride free, and unfetter your clinical hands and brain. But, as you reach the nadir of your spirit and desire, you rise again, like a phoenix, towards your desired goal, next week you start Physical Diagnosis. Well, doctor!? That's what you call yourself, isn't it? Or how should you call yourself? The long awaited day has finally approached. The past few weeks of examining your colleagues are over and today you do battle with your first live patient. The morning classes drag on endlessly and lunch time ticks away second by second. You cross the street to what you now easily recognize as Kings County Hospital and enter the main door with great assurance. However it is with less assurance that you eventually locate A building, and it is with less assurance that you wait the ten minutes for the eleva- tor and turn toward A 42 an overwhelming feeling of nausea comes over you and you notice the sudden onset of vertigo. Eventually you make your way to the nurses's station and confront a ripped piece of progress sheet with four names on it. Summoning up all of your diagnostic acumen, you pick the name which sounds the least Spanish and cross it off the list. Then you stand timidly until the ward resident is ready to recognize you and inform you of the location of your fortunate patient. Slowly, calmly, you review in your mind the long sheets of instruc- tions which you have sweated over so diligently and, as you introduce yourself and extend your hand in a warm gesture of greeting, you suddenly realize that you have forgotten every bit of medicine that you had ever known. The first examination was a horror. If you hadn't gotten the history all mixed up, and if the light in your ophthalmoscope hadn't burnt out, and, finally, even if the patient's arm hadn't turned blue while you took his blood pressure, you still committed the cardinal sin of physical diagnosis-you sat on his bed while you listened to his heart! With tears flowing from your patent lacrimal ducts and your conjunctivae markedly hyperemic, you pick up the shattered pieces of your medical career and care- fully place them into your black Lilly doctor's bag. But take heart! Those downcast facies of your colleagues can only connote a similar degree of success. This first encounter has made you realize that there is more to medicine than textbooks and lectures. There is an expertise of dealing with people that is required, a medical personality. This will take time and effort to develop but this first sharp blow may be what you need to start you on the way. You may be down but you are not out, and besides that, this was only round one. 40 mM.,a-,,,,.....--- Another write up! It's May and each Tuesday and Thursday means another long write up. Don't they know that you can do them? But you know the answer to this question. This might only be your fourteenth patient, but yet you can sense a degree of smoothness in your performance, You know what questions to ask, how to pursue lines of thought, how to direct your thinking. Your physicals are orderly and you can finally tell a systolic from a diastolic murmur. You are superb-if you donat say so yourself. It seems boring and inane, but yet with each physical you feel a greater degree of confidence in yourself and in your knowledge. You don't know much, but at least you know you are going in the right direction. There is a degree of self-satisfaction as you end the second year. You have started working with patients and have accomplished some degree of confidence in yourself. The future ahead looks bright-a clinical clerkship this summer and the third year on the wards. Only one thing stands between you and J uly-the National Boards. Only ten days to study for the National Boards you say as you open your books on day one. Only nine days left as you open your books on day two. By the day before the tests you have accomplished five hours studying and 267 hours of complaining. As you go to sleep that night you toss and turn, thinking how your stupendous lack of knowledge will be quantitated in six diffent categories. The tests are not as bad as you thought they would be-they are worse. Three part questions, four part questions, even five part questions are not too bad, but those eight part questions are too much. Thank goodness you have ten fingers! One after another you wade through these examinations until, after the final one, you flow out of the room like a stream of liquid protoplasm, joining all the other little streams in a slow progression to the sea. As you put on your white jacket in the morn- ings a special feeling comes over you. Though this is only a summer clerkship there is a feeling of belonging which you just cannot put your finger on. Information that you see and hear falls into place more readily as the medical computer in your head starts to be programmed. You enjoy this summer experience. Is it the pseudosophistication that a clinical environment gives you or rather just an inner feeling that this is the right place for you. In its way July yields languishingly to August and the third year schedule is published-Surgery, Psychiatry, Medicine, Ob-Gyn, and Pediatrics. In a flash you live an entire year, trying to visualize what each service has in store for you. In the end however you realize the futility of this endeavor and concentrate on preparing yourself for that first day on the surgical wards. 41 Q if fi enggmswy 'mi You awaken five minutes before the seven A.M. alarm and a shudder passes through you. How easily two years of anxious anticipation yield to the reality of a warm September morning. You dress and eat quickly, and as you leave, you slip your stethoscope into your pocket of the short white jacket that you now so richly deserve to wear. With strong steps and head erect you swing onto the surgical ward with all the breathless anticipation of innocent youth. You profoundly hope that your intercostal muscles will retain the strength and desire to respire. After a day of rounds, conferences, lectures, rounds, and conferences you may never move again. And you didn't even go to the operating room! And could you imagine if you had to be on,,? You are sure that all those fourth year students must be transfers because nobody could survive the third year. Weary, disillusioned, frightened, and disgusted you read about the hernia operation that you are going to observe in the morning. Four hours in the operating room and you feel terrific. You never thought it possible, but after a month on the wards you can't believe the change. Your capacity for work Cat least in your own eyesl has expanded far beyond your expectations and though you are weary at times, the disillusionment and the anxiety have disappeared. Now you prowl the emergency room at night looking for hot bellies 42 U while you tie knots all day during lectures. This clerkship has convinced you that you are destined to be a surgeon. Are you sure of that? Are you sure of anything? All of your latent neuroses aren't so latent as you take Psychiatry. All the self-doubt, inferiority feelings, repressed hostility and ambivalence which you thought you had submerged so well are creeping up on you day by day. You find yourself relating too well to your patient. Could it be? Are you really? Only your analyst knows for sure. It is much to your chagrin and relief that the course lasts only four weeks. How many times can you listen to a heart? How many questions can he ask you? Medicine should be renamed Advanced Write-ups II in the catalogue. You think about all those patients which you have written up, minute details that you have covered with your attendings, and, of course, the millions of CBC's and urinalyses. You've learned so much in these three months it's astounding. Waving your double-edged sword of digoxin and ampicillin, you feel well-equipped to handle the many-headed hydra of disease. But the final exam, that's another question. Finally, you decide that you cannot palpate the liver or test the reflexes any longer. You call in the attending and tell him that you are ready. You stand tensely as he goes over the physical findings. Why is he listening to the heart so long? Oh no! He's taking the blood pressure in both arms! Those agonizing moments feel like hours and you make a self- diagnosis of sinus tachycardia. You passed-the world is beautiful-that twenty- five page Written, too. Birds sing, the sun shines, and peace reigns over all God's creations. But wait, what is that lurking around Sunday, waiting to spring on you on Monday morning? Oh no, it is that ter- rifying killer of third year medical students- Ob-Gyn! You cherish your sleep that night, knowing that it may be the last good night for many to come, but inevitably, the alarm rings and you start your first day on Obstetrics. Thirty-two hours later you finish your first day on Ob. You realize that all those premonitions you had were groundless-life was twice as bad as you dreamed it would be. You feel that there isn't even one more g'puja left in you-and you didnlt even get to deliver a baby. Little needs to be said, for the depth of your despondency is reflected in the fitful- ness of your sleep. I All right now-take it easy-fully dilated, +2 station-this one is almost ready-take her in, quickly-on the table-quick, quick gloves! drapes! towel! Puja! Puja! Success-the supreme mo- ment-you've just had your first baby-you're on top of the world-all these hours seem worth it. Somehow this separates you from the underclassmen -there is something about the first delivery that changes you from the textbook student to the prac- ticing clinician. The feeling of accomplishment- you've delivered a baby-alters your life structure just a little bit and brings you just a little closer to your goal. Like Gulliver in the land of the Lilliputians you come to the final clerkship of the year-Pediatrics. Little people medicine-thatis the way your class- mates look at it. But somehow you donlt see it that way. To you the problems of children seem unique and you find yourself drawn to working with them. With endless lectures, conferences, and rounds you don't get to see very many children, yet you know this might possibly be the service for you. After three diaper changes, four feedings, and a few scattered physical examinations, the four short weeks come to an end and only one thing stands between you and freedom-the Ob oral. Oh, the horrible tales you have heard of third year students condemned to four weeks at hard delivery for im- perfect performance. You shake visibly as you wait your turn, especially since you must face the chair- man of the department. With legs like cast iron and a mouth full of sand, you walk in ready to face the most difficult delivery of your life. Thirty minutes and two cups of coffee later you walk out much relieved and suddenly realize that the year is over- you are a doct CM of a doctorl and you couldn't be happier. In a philosophical moment, you think back on all that you have gone through this year and every- thing that's been learned. You realize what a tremen- dous change there has been in your attitudes, abilities, and analysis of problems, and finally come to accept the fact that, yes, you too may be a doctor. But you also realize deep frustration at all you've forgotten of your training and all you will never know to forget. This last free summer of your life you use for a two month honeymoon in Europe-your last vaca- tion for a long while to come. All thoughts of medicine are three thousand miles away, but you can't help feeling new responsibility to your wife and to your profession. No longer the apple-cheeked lad of three years ago, you see clear-cut goals and responsibilities before you and feel a need and a duty to do your best. Wnter in Sun Valley, springtime in Paris, perhaps a trip around the world. You pick your electives and the world is open before you. Many of your friends have selected exotic clerkships. One student went to Sierra Leone and another is going to Pakistan. However after a few days of Walter Mitty- ship, you return to the mundane world of Brooklyn and select your services. Two clerkships at the County and one at Long Island Jewish seem interesting and you scurry around getting signatures on little blue cards. After some juggling, erasing and readjustment, you crystallize your program and file it with Student Affairs. You are ready to begin your predestined destiny but one last detail remains before you-the required courses of the fourth year. From ophthalmologist, to plastic surgeon, to urologist, to otolaryngologist, you pass chameleon- like through each day of surgical specialties. Each service rotates kaleidoscopically through your brain and you cry out to stop the operating room, you want to get off. Each service leaves its mark on you, however. You cringe in pain at the remembrance of those lectures on cystoscopy and think back with horror and awe about the before and after shows of plastic surgery. You doubt the efficacy of their method, but four weeks later you must admit that they gave you a merry-go-round. A weekend's rest returns your sanity somewhat and you are fresh to start an intensive course of radiotherapy. It depresses you at first to deal with so many f'hopeless patients but you are heartened somewhat by the amount of relief and comfort radiation therapy is able to give them. The cobalt machine impresses you, but you decline a free intro- ductory offer. Two weeks pass pleasantly as you finish a full course of treatment. IN-u-. Finally, when you have been thoroughly exhausted by the strenuous tasks of the past six weeks, your reading period finally arrives. Now is the time to sleep late in the morning, read the paper and relax with a good book-or so you think. What about all those internship interviews you have to go to? Mon- day morning you are up at 5:30 A.M. to catch that 7:00 A.M. plane. You kiss your wife good by, grab your suitcase and you're off-some rest! Three days and two thousand miles later, you are back with visions of services dancing in your head-four days rest and youire off again-by this time the stew- ardesses are calling you by your first name and the porters are waving at you. Finally, five hospitals and many interviews later, you return to finish up the remaining two days resting before embarking on your final required course-Environmental Medicine. Without passing go and collecting two hundred dollars, you arrive at Baltic Street one blustery morning in November. After two hours of inter- ai f ,if esting and informative introductions you awaken and go out to meet your new 'ffamilyf' Eleven physicals, histories and urinalyses later, you wend your way home. What you have seen and heard, in broken Spanish-English, has shocked and nauseated you. All of your middle-class life you have intellectualized about the problems of the poor, but there is a stange unreality when you are forced to face them. The wretched odors in the hallway, the greasy bannister, the single naked lightbulb in the 46 hall-you almost turned and ran before you met your family. Then, that poor pathetic figure of a woman with her ten ragged children around her made you want to cry out against the moral injustices of the world. You boil over with empathy and out- rage and vow quixotically to right the wrong. But now, as you drive back to the safety and comfort of your apartment you realize how hopeless this woman's situation really is. Still, if you accomplish some small thing for her, it will have made this whole month worthwhile. Moralize, rationalize, intellectualize with social workers, case workers, nurses, colleagues, and doctorsg go over the case until you feel there isn't another word in you on the subject. Out of all this verbiage one or two good suggestions did arise and you present them at the treatment conference. Pride goes before a fall, but yet you can't help feeling self- satisfaction at accomplishing this small humanitarian goal. Thoughts of the pompous self-righteousness of your freshman days come back to you and you chuckle at your past naivete. No longer out to con- quer the world, you realize how you have altered and molded your goals over the years in school. You feel you've finally attained a true perspective of life, a true understanding of your future role. It is as though this family project was the culmination of a long series of changes. But wait!-there is one more step in your metamorphosis. After three-and-one-half years of constant tension and pressure it is hard to relax and enjoy your elective courses. Learning can be fun and you find you don't anticipate Fridays as much anymore. True, there is the annoyance of that thesis and those Saturday morning correlation conferences, but in general, the work is interesting and informative and you feel it is a worthwhile experience. You dream longingly of your colleagues in England and France, not to mention San Francisco and Los Angeles. It would have been nice to get away for awhile, away from beautiful downtown Brooklyn to some more congenial area. But the fresh air of freedom is enough of a contrast to your past experiences to serve as a refreshing change of pace. The winter months move along and slowly melt into March and April. The fourth year boards come, but this time it is you who conquers. Much more confident than two years ago you are well-prepared and well-rewarded. This last turn in the road leads onto a wide open vista with graduation glaring at you on the horizon. Strange, how you never thought this day would come. After so many years, watching the orderly progression of fourth year students into interns, you realize the inevitability of graduation, yet you cannot quite face the fact that in two hours you will be a doctor. As you pace nervously in your robes, your thoughts go both backward and forward. Backward, you think of all the memorable experiences of the past four years. Forward, you wonder, not a little anxiously, what is awaiting you on July 1. All your training, experience, knowledge will be called upon and you realize this will not be a climax, but rather, a beginning for you. The years of school you have gone through are mere preludes for the training and specialization to come. But the roots that you have planted these past four years will determine how you will stand or fall in the future. How easy it was! With one short breath he changed your name to Doctor. As you leave the stage, you realize how many changes you have gone through since that first day of school. Many factors have shaped and directed the growth of the physician you are today. Over the past four years a common foundation has been established. Each student stands on this foundation ready to pursue his special interests and develop his individual talents. 48 Q f aj- - . .Q -4 Wg 'hub 1 A ,J 4 .sl Qs' .lie fx 4, ...N ',,A 'n. 5 5 if .1 L' 6 '2 5 5 Q ' 5 , 1 x -26.77 x W- Vu -- 45's-'I'-if ' -Q :, -rF.'J'v5H., :rf Q . v3 2 ',., 3'xE..'Q.5 Q,-,. U 5.3.3.1-A Im: - T.-Q. 2. ,,.,4.,--.11-.,.x ,A 1 , Ea .'-.-.j,5,'r'.--rx'-:'f'-we, ' ff -ers-.ce .7 'J' M5 , 'z',':n'58 ' f.'7f.5'55 -', 4:5 bv? 'ag- ?fQbg'T:' Q 4, ., :Y-qv...L W. ,I --1 ,-3-.1 . - .' ' ' 3 65' 4' il .J7 . ,Af fe- .. 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JEFFREY LAWRENCE ANKER Brooklyn, New York Comell University Slate University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating ROBERT DAVID ARGAND Maplewood, New Jersey Columbia College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine ELLIS JAY ARNSTEIN Brooklyn, New York City College of New York U.S. Public Health Service Staten Island, New York Medicine PAUL B. AVONDOGLIO Corona, New York New York University Roosevelt Hospital New York, New York Pediatrics WILLIAM E. BAUER Stamford, Connecticut We-ntits ,sii Brandeis University Montefiore Hospital New York, New York Rotating MARK BENNETT Maplewood, New Jersey Rutgers-The State University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating at ALAN MICHAEL BERGEN Kew Gardens, New York Tufts University Montefiore Hospital New York, New York Rotating JEROME BIERMAN Brooklyn, New York Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating HAROLD H. BLOOMFIELD Brooklyn, New York University of Pittsburgh Kaiser Foundation Hospital San Francisco, California Rotating fm mm N RICHARD ALAN BOBIS Brooklyn, New York Tufts University Montefiore Hospital New York, New York Rotating BRUNO BORENSTEIN Brooklyn, New York City College of New York Lenox Hill Hospital New York, New York Medicine THOMAS BRESCIA, JR. Mineola, New York St. Lawrence University Meadowbrook Hospital East Meadow, New York Medicine Y 1 ,f1'ul f X ff?-fag' I E K - 7 7 , . 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CHOTINER Brooklyn, New York Alfred University North Carolina Memorial Hospital Chapel Hill, North Carolina Medicine ROBERT BENJAMIN COHEN Brooklyn, New York Drew University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine DOUGLAS MARSHALL COOPER Malverne, New York Queens College General Rose Memorial Hospital Denver, Colorado Rotating THEODORE ALAN COOPER Brooklyn, New York Cornell University State University--Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine DAVID L. COPEN Brooklyn, New York Ohio State University Yale New Haven Medical Center New Haven, Connecticut Medicine MICHAEL JOSEPH CORRIGAN Brooklyn, New York St. Bonaventure University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine .qsamm JOHN ROBERT CROUSE III Brooklyn, New York University of Michigan New York-Memorial Hospital New York, New York Medicine HARRY SALIM DAVID Great Neck, New York Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn St. Luke's Hospital New York, New York Surgery LAWRENCE MARC DAVIDSON Brooklyn, New York University of Pennsylvania Lankenau Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rotating 4 'ms GARY JAY DELLERSON Seaford, New York Alfred University Long Island Jewish Hospital New Hyde Park, New York Rotating ALEXANDER R. DIMOND Brooklyn, New York University of Vermont Montefiore Hospital New York, New York Rotating DEAN IRWIN DOBBIN Brooklyn, New York Lafayette College Long Island Jewish Hospital New Hyde Park, New York Rotating MARK SAUL DRAPKIN Brooklyn, New York Massachusetts Institute of Technology State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine RICHARD DREYFUS Brooklyn, New York Lafayette College General Rose Memorial Hospital Denver, Colorado Rotating RICHARD HARRIS DuBOU Far Rockaway, New York Brandeis University Presbyterian--Pacific Medical Center San Francisco, California Rotating rv 7' Vffmwmmwmmmunu.2m:.1iy-.Lmmfx K :S 1 715755 Qi , 5 s WILLIAM P. DUGGAN Brooklyn, New York Manhattan College St. Vincent's Hospital New York, New York Medicine PAUL JEFFREY EDELSON Brooklyn, New York University of Rochester Yale New Haven Medical Center New Haven, Connecticut Pediatrics DAVID R. ERNST Brooklyn, New York Tufts University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine f A MARK S. FEIERSTEIN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Grady Memorial Hospital Atlanta, Georgia Surgery JAY BARRY FINE Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College of Pharmacy ...fr y f-'Y State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Surgery 'E 11 x. 'uw , ' I -S .f l of xii S I State University- RONALD FINE Brooklyn, New York Columbia University Kings County Hospita. Brooklyn, New York Medicine STEPHEN A. FISHMAN Brooklyn, New York McGill University Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine ROY MITCHELL FLEISCHMANN Brooklyn, New York Columbia University Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine DIANA WOLCOTT FURST State Line, Massachusetts Mount Holyoke College Medical Center Hospital of Vermont Burlington, Vermont Rotating MELVIN SETH GALE Brooklyn, New York C in Brooklyn College University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, Kansas Rotating MARVIN ROBERT GAROVOY Forest Hills, New York New York University New York University-Bellevue Medical Center New York, New York Medicine 1 2 f ROBERT MICHAEL GIASI Brooklyn, New York College of the Holy Cross U.S. Naval Hospital Great Lakes, Illinois Rotating ,ww zgzyw in A fx- N N I EUGENE LLOYD GITIN Brooklyn, New York Hobart College Bronx Municipal Hospital Bronx, New York Medicine ARTHUR MARVIN GOLD Columbia University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating ANDREW PAUL GOLDBERG Forest Hills, New York Clark University State University-Kings Coi7nty Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine ARTHUR I. GOLDBERG Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College New York-Memorial Hospitals New York, New York Medicine HARVEY ELLIOTT GOLDBERG Brooklyn, New York Adelphi University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine MARC GOLDBLATT Jamaica, New York University of Wisconsin N. Y. 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HILLER Brooklyn, New York L' ' Harpur College as-...N We General Rose Memorial Hospital Denver, Colorado 'TN Rotating JOHN KEVIN HURLEY Valley Stream, New York College of the Holy Cross Children's Hospital Los Angeles, California Pediatrics KENNETH S. HURST Brooklyn, New York Franklin and Marshall College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York H Medicine ROBERT STEPHEN IMPROTA Manhasset, New York Colgate University Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Missouri Surgery ARLENE ANNA JOHNSON Brooklyn, New York Wagner College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating ff x z Ni-in 9' ALAN ROBERT KAGAN Howard Beach, New York Columbia University Denver General Hospital Denver, Colorado Rotating THOMAS EUGENE KASPER Brooklyn, New York Cornell University Boston City Hospital-B.U. Division Boston, Massachusetts Surgery EDWARD RICHARD KATZ Brooklyn, New York Queens College D. C. General Hospital-Georgetown Division Washington, D. C. Medicine ARTHUR KAUFMAN Brooklyn, New York University of Chicago St. Vincenfs Hospital New York, New York Medicine DAVID H. KAUFMAN Jamaica, New York Lafayette College Mount Zion Hospital San Francisco, Caliornia Pediatrics SETH JAY KAUFMAN Brooklyn, New York Union College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating A A STEPHEN M. KAUFMAN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College U.S. Public Health Service Staten Island, New York Medicine DENNIS BERNARD KELLY Bayshore, New York College of the Holy Cross St. Vincent's Hospital New York, New York Medicine EDWARD S. KERSH Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Montehore Hospital New York, New York Medicine STEPHEN KING E Brooklyn, New York New York University University Hospitals Cleveland, Ohio Pediatrics JOAN EVELYN KINLAN Yonkers, New York College of Mount St. Vincent U. of Connecticut A ffliated Hospitals HarU'ord, Connecticut Medicine MICHAEL ALAN KIRSCHENBAUM Bronx, New York City College of New York University Hospitals Columbus, Ohio Medicine 2 .gg r VM, ,.,, ,,,.n'M 'M P A wk . fwfr . W u nr'x'i! 5I' .. -1 f 2323, s -gf? 1 .- f K' so '3 Q 4 I ' F5 1 k ,J 1.1, JAMES JOSEPH KIRVIN III Brooklyn, New York University of Notre Dame State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating ALAN H. KISELSTEIN Brooklyn, New York Temple University State University-Kings County Hospital 4 Brooklyn, New York Medicine y A RONALD JAY KLAYTON Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Lehigh University Presbyterian-University Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Medicine CARL H. KLEBAN Brooklyn, New York University of Vermont New York University-Bellevue Medical Center New York, New York Rotating DENNIS G. KLEBAN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Georgetown University Hospital Washington, D.C. Pediatrics J UDITH KOSSOFF Jamaica, New York City College of New York Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating I -..--f 92 MICHAEL JULIUS KRANE Brooklyn, New York Purdue University Mount Sinai Hospital Los Angeles, California Medicine JOHN DOUGLAS KREINCES Brooklyn, New York City College of New York Long Island College Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating MARTIN WILLIAM KREMENITZER Brooklyn, New York City College of New York State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine STEVEN S. KRON Brooklyn, New York New York University Montefiore Hospital New York, New York Rotating it , 'faq an SPENCER LEE KULICK Flushing, New York University of Michigan Mount Sinai Hospital New York, New York Medicine STEPHEN JAY KURZWEIL Brooklyn, New York New York University N. Y. Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital New York, New York Medicine .5 few A V, xp -Wig . lx -nh ,ii .. - ew-f::f , -,,- , N BRUCE WARREN LEFKON Great Neck, New York Columbia University Los Angeles County General Hospital Los Angeles, California Rotating HARVEY LEONARD LEFKOWITZ Brooklyn, New York Columbia University Beth Israel Hospital New York, New York Medicine JAY STEPHEN LERMAN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine VH.- J ACK EDWARD LEVINE Brooklyn, New York Hofstra University Long Island Jewish Hospital New Hyde Park, New York Medicine JOEL BANARD LEVINE Brooklyn, New York Tufts University University of Chicago Clinics Chicago, Illinois Medicine BRUCE H. LEVY Brooklyn, New York University of Rochester Meadowbrook Hospital East Meadow, New York Medicine 'hae .ivy --wife-.win ARNOLD LICHT Brooklyn, New York Columbia University Long Island College Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine RICHARD LEWIS LITTENBERG Brooklyn, New York Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute San Diego County-University Hospital San Diego, California Medicine CARY H. LOURIE Brooklyn, New York Cooper Union Los Angeles County General Hospital f ,msg .Q H Los Angeles, California Rotating .J MARGOT F. O. LUNA Brooklyn, New York City College of New York EUGEN MORDECHAI MANDEL Brooklyn, New York Yeshiva University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine MARTIN E. MARGOLIES Brooklyn, New York Hunter College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating I 5 fi. J w I , I dc, I ,Q ff iff . C X if , Q 5 i f A ' if 1 ,Y Io? 3 4 ' Qi iix' , ,, ,1 ,N n X Q x LOUIS A. MARTORELLA Brooklyn, New York St. John's University Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn Brooklyn, New York Rotating ROBERT ALLEN MATLIN Brooklyn, New York Queens College St. Vincenfs Hospital New York, New York Medicine I JAMES O. MENZOIAN Arlington, Massachusetts Boston University University Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Surgery MARGOT F. O. LUNA Brooklyn, New York City College of New York EUGEN MORDECHAI MANDEL Brooklyn, New York Yeshiva University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine MARTIN E. MARGOLIES Brooklyn, New York Hunter College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating ARNOLD LICHT Brooklyn, New York Columbia University Long Island College Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine RICHARD LEWIS LITTENBERG Brooklyn, New York Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute San Diego County-University Hospital San Diego, California Medicine CARY H. LOURIE Brooklyn, New York Cooper Union Los Angeles County General Hospital Los Angeles, California Rotating -nv'l t JACK EDWARD LEVINE Brooklyn, New York Hofstra University Long Island Jewish Hospital New Hyde Park, New York Medicine JOEL BANARD LEVINE Brooklyn, New York Tufts University University of Chicago Clinics Chicago, Illinois Medicine BRUCE H. LEVY Brooklyn, New York University of Rochester Meadowbrook Hospital East Meadow, New York Medicine BRUCE WARREN LEFKON Great Neck, New York Columbia University Los Angeles County General Hospital Los Angeles, California Rotating HARVEY LEONARD LEFKOWITZ Brooklyn, New York Columbia University Beth Israel Hospital New York, New York Medicine JAY STEPHEN LERMAN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine -'l!f Mi .1-..,, STEVEN S. KRON Brooklyn, New York New York University Montefiore Hospital New York, New York Rotating SPENCER LEE KULICK Flushing, New York University of Michigan Mount Sinai Hospital New York, New York Medicine STEPHEN JAY KURZWEIL Brooklyn, New York New York University N. Y. Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital New York, New York Medicine df., M- A-,WQ 'ddgwwwfibf ANDREW F REDERIC MEYER Brooklyn, New York Syracuse University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating JAY AARON MILLER Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn Brooklyn, New York Medicine 1 PETER MICHAEL MILLER Queens Village, New York Pennsylvania State University Children's Hospital Los Angeles, California Pediatrics umm 5 Q JOAN GRODE MILNER Brooklyn, New York Wellesley College The New York Hospital New York, New York Pathology JOEL MOLLIN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn Brooklyn, New York Medicine l02 JOHN RUSSELL MOOTZ Brooklyn, New York United States Air Force Academy Davia' Grant U.S. Air Force Hospital Fairjqeld, Calhfornia Rotating ROBERT STEPHEN MOSKOWITZ Brooklyn, New York Temple University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine JOHN ALAN NASTRO Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine FRANCIS LAWRENCE O'DONNELL Staten Island, New York Georgetown University St. Vincenfs Hospital New York, New York Medicine ' f1QL5ffn,FT':T' A ' K iiffflk- 6' wr? wi gs h . ,A f . . 'J' Y .,fl1.::f-f- rf 1 5. I , 5, if , 5 9 Air Y f 5 K Ll Mika ? ' M. N : a n ,ggiilif g w m lif- T ' . 7'f?7'f 7 Q www ' M-'M 1 z 4-Sf fic., 'K IM - ,V , iif Lg , f ig - A f,Qli'3f'X'ijg' gwfiigffxf iiy . . iiwetag - 'Iii- Z' , , fx is , -fm , if ,af K s ' 5' -4 6 f 4 F A , -Ci? i I L :A K may 'A swf ff A 'Q - w , lggjgfiff I 'J kv J2 bg 'K 'riff ,, DOMINGO PAGAN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College N. Y. Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital New York, New York Medicine ALLEN KENNETH PEARLMAN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College of Pharmacy Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine JEFFREY STEVEN PENSO Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College University of California Hospital Los Angeles, California Pediatrics JOHN H. PRESPER Lindenhurst, New York Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine JOHN PROVAN Brooklyn, New York Pratt Institute William A. Shands Hospital Gainsville, Florida Medicine SUSAN GRADSTEIN RAMOS Brooklyn, New York Brandeis University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Surgery .Q-,W 4'- ,pm ,. TM 'W MICHAEL E. RAY Brooklyn, New York City College of New York New York-Memorial Hospitals New York, New York Medicine LAWRENCE SAMUEL REED New City, New York Harpur College Bronx Municipal Hospital Center Bronx, New York Surgery BARRY ALLEN REITER Brooklyn, New York City College of New York State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine '1,!..--dll E Q DANIEL I. ROSENBAUM Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Long Island College Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine MARJORIE SUE ROSENBLUM Brooklyn, New York Barnard College Children's Hospital Los Angeles, California Pediatrics STEVEN IRA ROSS Wantagh, New York Allegheny College Beth Israel Hospital New York, New York Medicine KENNETH EDWARD ROTH Flushing, New York Queens College Long Island Jewish Hospital New Hyde Park, New York Rotating RICHARD DALE ROTHBARD Brooklyn, New York WMP W W MVA Trinity College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating HOWARD STEVEN RUDOMINER Brooklyn, New York Rutgers University Queen's Hospital Honolulu, Hawaii Rotating .ww MICHAEL SACHER Brooklyn, New York University of Wisconsin Brooklyn-Cumberland Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating SHEILA R. SALAMA Forest Hills, New York City College of New York State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating ELLIOTT S. SALTSTEIN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Pediatrics f Ws2,4Q2t+31zasEssm ' ' ' e ,wh Y JOHN RICHARD SCANDIZZO Bayside, New York Fordham College St. Vincenfs Hospital New York, New York Medicine GEORGE STUART SCHER Brooklyn, New York University of Wisconsin Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Los Angeles, California Rotating EDWARD HENRY SCHLAM Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating NORMAN BARRY SCHNEIDER Bronx, New York New York University Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating HERBERT JOSEPH SCHOEN New York, New York University of Michigan State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine MELVYN STUART SCHOENFELD Brooklyn, New York Cornell University Long Island College Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine ALAN ANTHONY SCHOENGOLD Brooklyn, New York St. John's University York Hospital York, Pennsylvania Rotating STEPHEN MARK SCHREIBMAN Flushing, New York New York University State University--Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine ELLIOTT NATHAN SCHWARTZ Great Neck, New York Johns Hopkins University Long Island Jewish Hospital New Hyde Park, New York Medicine ,f,, f. .digg E HOWARD ROBERT SHAPIRO Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Montefiore Hospital New York, New York Rotating NANCY PACKERT SHASHATY Fair Lawn, New Jersey College of New Rochelle St. Michael's Hospital Newark, New Jersey Rotating JULIUS SHULMAN Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn College Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Medicine HWM...-.Q MARILYN J. SIEGEL University City, Missouri Washington University Montefiore Hospital New York, New York ' Pediatrics ELLEN FRANCES SILVERSTEIN Brooklyn, New York Brandeis University Presbyterian Hospital New York, New York Medicine BERNARD DONALD SKLANSKY Jackson Heights, New York City College of New York University of Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Medicine ,p.......... MM CARL ARMAS SODERSTROM Bronx, New York Hunter College N. Y. Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital New York, New York Rotating PETER MICHAEL STRASSBERG Brooklyn, New York Columbia University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine CHARLES STROBER Brooklyn, New York Queens College Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating STEVEN JAY STROBER Brooklyn, New York New York University Lenox Hill Hospital New York, New York Rotating JEFFREY SVERD Queens, New York University of Wisconsin Long Island Jewish Hospital New Hyde Park, New York Medicine PAULINE SWEET Brooklyn, New York Columbia University Stale University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Rotating MARK IRA TAFEEN Brooklyn, New York Brown University Children's Hospital Washington, D.C. Pediatrics VICTOR TESORIERO Brooklyn, New York Fairfield University New England Medical Center Hospitals Boston, Massachusetts Pediatrics LEON JOEL THAL Brooklyn, New York Tufts University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine 43 O .560 6 9' 0 Q 9470 :wg BX gi YE LAWRENCE HENRY TYDINGS Long Beach, New York University of Rochester Long Island Jewish Hospital New Hyde Park, New York Rotating MARTHA PARIS VIEHE Hamburg, New York Cornell University University of Michigan A ffliated Hospitals Ann Arbor, Michigan Pediatrics WALTER VUKCEVICH Brooklyn, New York City College of New York Long Island College Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine WESLEY R. WALLACE Bronx, New York Fordham College New England Medical Center Hospitals Boston, Massachusetts Surgery LESLIE WALTER Bronx, New York Yeshiva University Maimonides Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine RICHARD GORDON WANDERMAN Brooklyn, New York Western Reserve University State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Pediatrics KENNETH BARKER WEISE Brooklyn, New York University of Bridgeport Mount Carmel Hospital Columbus, Ohio Rotating BRIAN H. WEISS McKeesport, Pennsylvania University of Wisconsin D. C. General Hospital-Georgetown Division Washington, D. C. Medicine ROBERT WEITZMAN New York, New York City College of New York Long Island College Hospital Brooklyn, New York Medicine A!! JESSE STUART WEXLER Massapequa, New York Hamilton College Presbyterian-Pacwc Medical Center San Francisco, California Rotating ARTHUR LEE WOLLMAN Brooklyn, New York Middlebury College U.S. Public Health Service Staten Island, New York Rotating STEVEN MARVIN YABEK Brooklyn, New York City College of New York State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Pediatrics OREST VSEVOLDO ZAKLYNSKY New York, New York New York University The New York Hospital New York, New York Surgery ROBERT STEPHEN ZEIGER Great Neck, New York Tulane University Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, Maryland Pediatrics PHILIP MARTIN ZICKERMAN Brooklyn, New York Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medical Center Hospital Burlington, Vermont Rotating LEONARD ZIMMERMAN Brooklyn, New York Yeshiva University N. Y. Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital New York, New York Medicine MARY GEDA ZOLAS Brooklyn, New York Hunter College State University-Kings County Hospital Brooklyn, New York Pediatrics LESLIE ELKIND New York, New York Cornell University French Hospital San Francisco, California Rotating MATTHEW R. KAPLAN WILLIAM VEDERMAN Uniondale, New York Brooklyn, New York Colgate University Cornell University New Y0fk-Mfmwial HOSPUGIS Kaiser Foundation Hospital New York, New York Oakland, Calyfornia Pediatrics Rotating l28 K 2.211 kr L1.z4f.ff1A f ., - fi ' 1,1 A Q ' A ff f-.. N ., 7 ,M ,,7g,,.,5, .73 my ,f- f., fi' ' Wifi-' ' -mammal. ff-2 W 1, ,Lg 31 -W .W K A ARSQQ1 ,'LifLiisiiE2E L1 .HS fflii.. , f m i n- ,E V+: Lsxgz EM ,AL ZAV 'Eli 551 3 5 ' .xg- ,- my 1 . 'fix '-A 'lisa' -im l 'WH .1 K H ,ihwwzh ,A , K s Q5 f Tfx-fiwiigq ' 2 QP' 'S' lit? - , , :J 5 ,M EK, A- WM .L M N fmw.. . gigs-frisv - , L 1. Q 5 xg .. K ,Saw . 1 ' 2 hi -f:.wQQLEQ3gf 4 ik 2? ' mm 1.4. Q45 -1 ,, swf fn X QS wg? -f :H 'sfv f,:i'f? gi: .mpg A? 1 Q 2 , Student Council Seated: Al Marrone fTreasurerl, Nancy Smolen tSecretaryl, Michael Merson fPresident7, Bob Lasser tVice- Presidentl. Standing: Danny Yellon, Warren Regelmann, Richard Petrelli, Robert Argand, Nancy Chase, Robert lmprota, Paul Cohen, Martin Wertkin. The purpose of the Student Council as stated in its Constitution, is: f'to promote the interests and welfare of the students in the College of Medicine? The Council is composed of twenty-four voting members con- sisting of the class officers plus two representatives from each of the four classes. Also, spokesmen of the various school organizations may attend the regular monthly meetings although they do not have a vote. The Student Council plays an influential role in both the determination and coordination of the activities of the student body. It serves as a liaison to bring student problems to the attention of the administration and faculty, and also functions as a vehicle of communication and exchange for the four classes. Several committees are involved with the faculty and administration re- garding such problems as student admissions, curriculum changes and eval- uation of student needs. A new responsibility will be a hand in the manage- ment of the expanded facilities at the Student Center. One of the topics of greatest concern this year has been the formulation and presentation to the student body of an honor code, which the Council feels will prove satis- factory to the entire Downstate Community. The activities of the Student Council are a reflection of the students' willingness to assume an increasing role of responsibility within an expand- ing medical center. Alpha mega Alpha Seated: Richard Littenberg, David Copen IFirst Vice-Presidentj, Ellen Silverstein tPresidentD, Michael Ray tSecond Vice- Presidentj, Joan Grode Milner, Bernard Sklansky. First Row Standing: Stephen Kaufman, Arthur Wollman, Harold Chotiner, Robert Zeiger, Stephen King, Eugene Gitin, Richard Berkowitz, Stephen Kimler. Second Row Standing: Brian Weiss, Stephen Kurzweil, Joel Levine, Michael Corrigan, Mark Ginsberg, Arthur Goldberg. Third Row Standing: Steven Turman, Marvin Garovoy, Spencer Kulick, Michael Caruso, Fred Swerdlow, Ivan Lowenthal, Alan Fields. Alpha Omega Alpha is an honorary medical society whose members are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship and high moral character. The motto of the Society is: To be worthy to serve the suffering . It is the duty of members to promote its ideals, to foster the scientific and philo- sophical precepts of the medical profession, to look beyond self to the welfare of the profession and of the public, to cultivate social-mindedness as well as an individualistic attitude toward responsibilities, to show respect for col- leagues and especially elders and teachers, to foster research, and in all ways serve to ennoble the profession of medicine and advance it in public opinion. The program of the Eta Chapter of AOA is centered around monthly meetings. This year guest speakers at these meetings have included Dr. Ludwig Eichna, Dr. Edward Meilman, Dr. William Dock, Dr. I. Snapper and Dr. Seymour Glick. The highlight of the year was the Annual Lecture and Initiation Banquet during which Dr. Sol Sherry delivered the Annual Lecture and Dr. J. Edward Hall was the after-dinner speaker. I35 ridge Club Seated: Jackie Gibson, Anna Pecoraro, Michael Lane Cco-Chairmanl, Dennis and Mollie Kleban. Standing: Charles Citrin, Everett Lautin, Stephen Chan, .lay Fine. Lively bridge games are the hallmark of the Bridge Club. Students, their wives, interns, residents and other members of the Downstate community are eligible to play duplicate bridge weekly in an informal atmosphere in the residence hall lounge. Prizes are distributed to winners, and refreshments are served to all. 136 Classical Music Group Seated: Richard Wanderman QProduction Managerl, Nancy Chase fConductor and Secretaryl, Ruth Swimmer, Paul Guida Standing: Howard Nathanson, Christina Ukrainski, Jeffrey Marx, Noah Kromholz fAssistant Conductorj, Zev Rosenwaks Ronald Bashian, Seth Arlow. The Classical Music Group, originally known as the Baroque Music Group, was organized to provide an enjoyable outlet for the musically inclined. The group concentrates on instrumental music, although there is also a choral group, and there are numerous subgroups including string quartets and trios. The Classical Music Group has performed small orchestrative works consist- ing mostly of chamber music. Last year a concert was given for a church, and this year a concert is to be given at the medical center. 137 Iatros Seated Paul Avondoglio, Joan Kinlan, Marjorie Rosenblum, Harvey Lefkowitz. Standing: Herbert Schoen John Kevin Hurley Kenneth Roth, Orest Zaklynsky, Steven Ross, John Scandizzo. Formerly known as Lichonian, the yearbook of the Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine now has a new name, IATROS, and a new appearance. Publication of this yearbook is primarily the result of a dedicated and coordinated effort of several members of the senior class. The staff has created a pictorial and written review of the memorable people, places and events that were so much a part of our experience here at alma mater. Some of the many changes in this yearbook include an extensive photo essay, the rein- troduction of the history of the medical center and greater coverage of the expanded activities at this institution. It is hoped that future editions will benefit from this effort and future staffs will continue to build upon a tradition of improving its quality. 5 W! Seated: Robert S. Improta, Martha Viehe, Rebecca and Jeffrey Penso. Standing: Frank O'Donnell, Phil Zickerman Larry Slotnick, Dennis Kleban, Alex Dimond. We -f-av Carlo Valenti, Faculty Advisor n if ,.r., e ..,. 139 ri . Y i Maimonides Society Seated: Mel Haller, Jack Haller, Sidney Tessler 1SecretaryJ, Sammy Hutman lPresidentJ. Nat Begelman fTreasurerJ. Leslie Walter. Slanding: James Israel, Charles Feldman, Arthur Feinerman, Sidney Jacubovics. Stephen Schreibman. Robert Kulak. Robert Mann, Josh Weinstein, Seymour Edelstein. The Maimonides Societyis programs are aimed at meeting the cultural, social and religious needs of its members. Annual services are conducted by the Society on various Jewish holidays, arrangements are made for students to attend High Holy Day services, and members participate in Sabbath observ- ances in the homes of Orthodox Jewish physicians. A rabbi conducts biweekly lecture discussions on the Talmud and members of the medical profession are invited to speak on such topics as medical ethics and Jewish culture. 140 Medical Student Wives Association Seated: Phyllis Ross, Cathi Raniolo. tCorresponding Secretaryh, Sharon Nelson fNewsletter Editorl, Gail Gitin, Mollie Kleban. Standing: Karen Larsen, Edie Fine, Micki Hellenbrand, Bronia Dibble, Joyce Lasser, Esther Tanenbaum, Shelli Shulman, Margo Berkman. This organization, a chapter of the National Women's Auxiliary to the Student American Medical Association, was founded at Downstate in the fall of 1966 and has been playing an increasingly active role on the medical center campus. Its purpose is to help its members prepare themselves for their future roles as wives of physicians, and to develop a sense of camaraderie among the group. This is accomplished through a variety of activities: serving as guides and hostesses at official Downstate functions CFreshmen Week, Orien- tation and Alumni Dayjg doing evening volunteer-work in pediatrics at SUHQ fund-raising for the SUH Pediatric Library, holding club social events and attending monthly lectures on topics of interest to the wives. Membership is open to all students' wives. l4l New Caducean and Cornmentar Robert Argand CPoetryJ, Alice Sorieiro CArtJ, David Abraham fEditorD, Paul Guida fAssistant Editorb The New Caducean and Commentary encourage creative writing, original art work and photography. Contributions are welcomed from everyone asso- ciated with the medical center. The New Caducean is published annually as a literary magazineg Commentary contains articles on subjects of current interest and appears at irregular intervals. Newman Club 5 Seated: Beverly Rossi, Robert Zurawiecki, Christina Ukrainski, John Murphy fPresiden0, Mary Flynn, Richard Petrelli John Scandizzo. Standing: Paul Nuccio, Joseph Ryan, Greg Rauscher, Samuel Mann, Kevin Reilly, Frank O'Donnell Paul Avondoglio. For thirty-six years the Newman Club has been contributing to the devel- opment of physicians as sensitive and aware individuals. To achieve this goal the club holds discussions on such topics as birth control, abortion, euthanasia, ecumenism, and other areas of ethical concern, sponsors open forums and conferences with representatives of other professions, and attempts to encourage the practice of Christian charity within the commu- nity. Although basically Catholic in philosophy, membership is open to all students. 143 Student American Medical Association A Robert Tantleff CVice-Presidentj, Martin Levine tPresidentJ, Paul Quentzel tSecretary-Treasurerj. The Student American Medical Association is a national medical organ- ization of medical students, interns and residents in the United States and Canada. Membership at the Downstate chapter includes nearly eighty- tive percent of the student body. In return for an initial nominal fee, members receive a monthly journal, The New Physician, and are entitled to partake of low group insurance rates, car purchase plans and charter flights to Europe. This year, in cooperation with the Brownsville Community Health Center, SAMA sponsored a program aiding in the early detection of lead poisoning in Brooklynis ghetto children. Besides an annual Christmas toy drive for the Kings County Hospital pediatric patients, other activities include movies and bi-monthly dances which are free to members. This past year, the Chapter of The Year award was presented to SAMA at Downstate for being the most active chapter in providing and initiating programs. Student Health rganization Danny Yellon, Robert Johnson, Warren Sweberg: Not present: Eric Cameron fChairmanJ, Audrey Smolen CSecretary7 Kay Dufrene. The Student Health Organization is adherent to the philosophy that good health care is a rightv and it actively pursues this credo. Its goals are: the initiation of programs improving health care delivery to the commu- nities surrounding the medical centerg the improvement of the medical stu- dent,s educational experiencesg and the recruitment of more Negro medical students by the Committee on Black Admissions. Guest lecturers are invited to speak on topics concerning community health care. The only requirement for membership in S.H.O. is that the individual belong to one of the health- related professions. Other Organizations Appendix Biophysics Lecture Club Film Society Medical Student Committee to End the War in Viet Nam Student Forum 6 Alumni Association Theodore Cohn, '31 CI-listorianj, Horace Herbsman, '53 CPresidentJ, Lucy Attarian 1Executive Directory. Parents Association Scared: Mrs. Musto tRecording Secretaryh, Mrs. Nadler fCorresponding Secretaryb, Mrs. Attarian CExecutive Secretaryb. Standing: Jacob Feierstein fFirst Vice-Presidentl, Joseph Ryan CSecond Vice-Presidentb, Barnett Kulak fPresidentJ, Jules Granat fThird Vice-Presidentl, Leon Gitin CTreasurerJ. .,gc:.g, , ' -' '- .,qw,rf:Q:,- f:,, , QU, 'fl-fif.f..,'1 xx psy, ,Lei V: .fr ' , ,, 1 icfii' 4, N X 'f X, ,guy ' -N , 1 ,XG,,,JN,V, Q' V. -W X .. ,lv x ' - V - , 'IQ-IQ5 ., X5 4 . ,t . I ,. A4 1 ,ft-', 1 , , x '1,f,':jf'- ' Q - 'jiri' X K .xc X 1 f 4- '4 uf: , kf ,, - f,f.1 f'4f5 Cff,'f f , , .. ' f' ' A AQ fffv f 1m1 N 2 fl 7'f: 1. 1 F .,,f r xL , 7 I 1 M ' 1 K bv. x I if ,I 1 A . i .,, 'cf ' 4 '5' n 'ff ,NVZJIAPA . H ,'v'v I ' LTV. . X 7 ffifrl 'fjiif V '.:,L1l95'f -FX ',WP' 7: f Q ff' , 1 Q .Q- , V' H , N. X .. . ..f H K if 5,551 ,k,V ,I,:v:,,E. .4.7,.x,:::g,f,ggf'.,-'XJR N kk 4 K I V.,-if gf W W , - ff ' ' N KX: .6 I Q al - bf ' If giw, x' ff-w .f-fm-4,,g':,?izf,Q., -k.'w'-- mv ' FX - . -: K. :M fffjzk ggi, if 'yt SQ N 1 ig fir' sim Xl ?wgAg:'WWg . .- LQ ?g'EfQ,1sgsg . x 4' f - if ww-f . ' . 1 'iffizf' fri ffgf '4 I ,,' ', A -. V Q '-,' V. WQLQQ-M 0 ,gc-5 '4 48 JOSEPH K. HILL Dean of the College of Medicine President, Downstate Medical Center ATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK DOWN STATE MEDICAL CENTER - ofricf OF THE PRESIDENT It is indeed a pleasure for me to congratulate you on the occasion of your at- tainment of the degree of doctor of medicine. You, the members of the Class of 1969, are to be congratulated, also for the contribution you have made to your own medical education. You may justifiably take pride in the part you and your contemporaries in medical schools across the country have played in questioning existing curricula and proposing changes lVlost educators agree with you that a change is overdue. lVledical school pro- grams based on the recommendations of the Flexner Report of 50 years ago cannot meet the needs of 1969. According to Dr. Leroy P. Levitt, Dean of the Chicago Medical School, 80 percent of current scientific knowledge has been formed in the past 15 years. Keeping abreast of this revolution in scien- tific knowledge and of the demand for more and more doctors has for too long a time occupied medical school educators to the exclusion of curriculum revision. Now, with the recent passage of massive amounts of health legislation designed to revolutionize the delivery of health care, traditional methods of program planning have reached a point of diminishing return. A core program that cuts across disciplinary lines for better integration of sub- ject matter, early clinical experience, and greater individualization in selection of elective programs are some of the principles that will be basic to the more flexible and more effective medical school of the future. It is my belief that, at a time when 85 percent of doctors go into fields of specialization, a more flexible and individualized program in medical school will mean that not only will doctors be better trained in their particular fields, but also better prepared for the lifetime of education that is the physician's lot. You have shown praiseworthy qualities of leadership and initiative in the plan- ning ofthe revisions that have already taken place in your curriculum. These are qualities that I sincerely believe will be of inestimable value to you in your future medical careers. l urge all of you, regardless of your particular choice of a career in medicine, to continue the intellectual pursuits and investigative curiosity that you have had an opportunity to develop over the past few years. lVly very best wishes go with you. : SCHUYLER G. KOHL STANLEY M. ARONSON Associate Dean of the College of Medicine Assistant Dean of the College of Medicine DAVID M. KYDD Associate Dean of the College of Medicine 150 CHANDLER MCC. BROOKS JEROME P. PARNELL Dean of the School Of Graduate Sludi6S Assistant Dean of the College of Medicine Nlqdky .,,4mgf,ff H' EDWARD KUCHINSKAS Assistant Dean of the School of Graduate Studies 151 5' , is ax A 1 . . 5 M - -ww-X wiwqk X EDWARD W. MOLDOWSKI Director of Student Affairs 01 WM,,,.y' MARTIN METZ Director of Health Service ALVIN LOVELL Health Service Q S A H lv ,Q Q ' JOSEPH NEWMAN Health Service H- LUCY ATTARIAN Alumni Secretary HELEN KOVACS Director of Medical Center Libraries ROBERT L. RENCK N811 LEONARD ASTER Assistant Vice President for Facilities and Assistant Business Director Planning 4 EVELYN GOODWIN MILTON MILLER Assistant to the President and Vice President for Business Ajjfairs Director of Public Relations HOWARD DORFMAN Vice President for Personnel Affairs 1 ..'K1--w.- 1:rrfuwz:u:smw.-x::qw',w:1.f::w4-:1'p:ae k- -1--'----J .3358 -e .fu Biochemi tr The other course of the first freshman semester is Biochemistry. Whereas Anatomy is purely medical school aspirations, Biochemistry is largely college course remembrances. One learns all the minutia and then some. And, oh, how tedious it is! EDWARD MUNTWYLER had been Professor of Biochemistry at the Long Island College of Medi- cine since 1944 and in 1950 he assumed the chair- manship. He has probably reviewed more student urine reports than any other man in the nation. Aher many years of distinguished leadership, Dr. Munt- wyler is retiring. We are appreciative of his efforts and wish him well. A native New Yorker, EDWARD KUCHINSKAS attended Stuyvesant High School, Queens College, and received his Ph.D. degree at Cornell Medical College. He has been at Downstate since 1956 and is doing research in sub'ur amino acid metabolism, and perioxidation mechanisms. Dr. Kuchinskas is not only a well-liked teacher, but also is active in administration, admissions and numerous scientific honorary societies. He believes: The students have the highest potential but they are not aware of it. , ,C S e x .f. o Y l- S V It 8 n e k e 1 V 1 1 Q it l 1 S E l 1 l 3 I fi 7 1 49 A .. Q. , A t Row 1: Robert Carty, William Sanslone, Thomas Detwiler, Leo Kesner, Morris Silverman. Row 2: Edward Kuchinskas, Edward Muntwyler, Alfred Stracher, Leon Lerner, Philip Chan. PHILLIP CHAN hails from Amoy, China. He came to the U.S.A. in 1949, received his Ph.D. at Columbia and did post-graduate work at both the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. He is presently doing research on the structure and function of biological membranes. Of Downstate, he says: The Center is expanding steadily. It is becoming one of the key centers of medical training and research in the coun- try. Dr. Chan, his wife and daughter live in Brooklyn. He enjoys theatre, music and reading. 159 Physiology The Physiology Department gives one an intro- duction to the dynamic functions of the human body. The faculty is well-represented in many specialized areas. CHANDLER MCC. BROOKS, who has been the chairman since 1948, has won the admiration and re- spect of successive generations of students. He is not only an eminent physiologist, but also a man of diversified interests and broad knowledge. Three years ago Dr. Brooks assumed the Deanship of the School of Graduate Studies and has instituted the successful Visiting Scholar Program. Dr. Brooks is in the forefront of the expansion of the medical center. He feels that the function of Downstate is to teach and all else must be subordinated to that cause. V A native New Yorker, FREDERIC KAVALER attended De Witt Clinton High School, Columbia College and Johns Hopkins Medical School. He has been at Downstate since 1958 and says. 'The Medical Center is becoming steadily larger and taking on increasingly complex tasks. This makes for some dU'ficulties for individuals here fboth students and facultyi. On balance, however, this is a challenging and interesting time for all of us. How faculty and students can carry out most effectively their mutual tasks needs a great deal of thought and experiment. It's encouraging that 'research' of this kind is also underway here. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and two sons. There is little spare time, but the family enjoys going to the theatre. 51. i ll, p U I Row 1: Fisher, Ushiyama, Vassalle, Koizumi, Iaria, Pinkston, Brooks, Collin, Kao, Ferreyra, Levey, Lange, Yasumura. Row 2: McDaniel, Frankel, Asmar, Hibbert, Platania, Mei, Murphy, McCoy, Elgland, Polimeni, Yamashita, Birnbaum. Row 3: Heineman, Gattariell, Tolles, Baxendale, Alexis, Harris, Robertson, Picarelli, Lin, Holder, Posner, Spencer. FREDERICK F. KAO age 94 has been a facul- ty member of the Physiology Department since 1952 and has greatly contributed to the present strength ,,,, M ' r Q and reknown of that department. He is very much 5, 'k i' ' interested in his research, which covers a broad spectrum extending from high altitude physiology to iw it CSF-blood potentials under varying physiological is L? ' states. 5 4- Q wp get 5 'fi He maintains that the excellence of the faculty members is an integral part of the healthy university environment in which the excellence of students can be achieved. The crucial force that binds students and faculty in any university is created through the transmission of knowledge which the faculty gains in research and which the students learn in class- rooms, these processes all demand constant struggle and effort. He considers that the involvement in university affairs voiced by the students can survive and have meaning only if the ideas are constructive, goal- directed, and have vision and insights which are penetrating enough to cope with the evolution and development of the community, whether immediate or worldwide. With a twinkle in his eye, but experience and concern for excellence in his thoughts, he says that students must sweat a little. nw? l6l Pharmacology The Pharmacology Department presents a basic course which is interesting, well-organized, and one of the students' favorites during the first two years. Its chairman, ROBERT FURCHGOTT, received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and aher holding positions at Cornell Medical College and Washington University, came to Downstate in I 956 as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology. He is a member of numerous sci- entifc societies. Married and the father of three daughters, Dr. Furchgott enjoys swimming, surf- fishing, and skiing. RONALD RUBIN came to Downstate in 1964, after receiving his Ph.D. and doing his post doctoral work at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was raised in Gloversville, New York, and attended the Williston Academy and Harvard College. At Downstate Dr. Rubin is doing research in autonomic pharmacology. He enjoys working with his fellow faculty members because they are young, eager, and enthusiastic. His own enthusiasm as a teacher keeps the second year pharmacology course lively, especially his great lecture on the pharmacolo- gy of alcohol. Dr. Rubin can be found any Sunday afternoon in winter watching a televised football game at his Woodmere home. 'lg .R L Yi v 5 4 ' Y' . w Szttzng S M Kxrpekar Julius Belford Robert Furchgot Kwang Lee. Standing: Lawrence Spero, Donald McMillan, KWANG SOO LEE is from Seoul, Korea. He holds medical and pharmacology doctorates from the Orient plus a biochemistry Ph.D.from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to coming to Downstate in 1956, he was Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Dr. Lee likes being at Downstate and doing his research on cardiac metabolism and mechanisms of drug action. I enjoy being associated with good students and seeing them develop into wonderful doctors. At 50, Dr. Lee remains a sports activist. Skiing and swimming are his special likes. 163 Microbiolog and Immunology 164 From the cholera epidemics on the Ganges to Chagas disease in Venezuela, Microbiology takes one on a worldwide expedition among man's micro- scopic enemies. What a shame so few from the school intern in Bombay or Caracas! THOMAS P. MAGILL received his medical de- gree from Johns Hopkins in 1930 and was at the Rockefeller Foundation until 1938 when he joined the Long Island College of Medicine faculty. In 1948 he became Chairman of Microbiology and Immunol- ogy. Unfortunately, the seniors did not benefit from his knowledgeg but Dr. Craig ably substituted for him in 1966-67. 1 like to deal with students. Ifind them stimu- lating and interesting. Students feel the same about JOHN CRAIG, who, as an Associate Professor, has repeatedly demonstrated an energetic and intelligent approach to course material and to the teaching process. Dr. Craig came to Downstate in 1954. He had received his M.D. degree at Western Reserve and later studied at the Harvard School of Public Health. He feels that Downstate's nucleus is the medical school, and that the success of the expansion pro- grams will be judged only by the better quality of medical education which, hopefully, will ensue. Row 1: Rostom Bablanian, Harold Neimark, Barnet Sultzer, Thomas M 'll, H'd K , J h C ' . R ' 2' Allen, Sheila Jacobs, Shelly Seide agl I eo usama O n ralg UM ' Emma Although a comparatively new faculty member, ROSTOM BABLANIAN has already won the re- spect and admiration of many students. Hailing from Addis-Ababa, he was educated at the American Uni- versity of Cairo and Rockefeller University. Before coming to Downstate three years ago, Dr. Bablanian was a Research Associate of the Animal Virology Department at Rockefeller. The medical center, he says, can have a great future. I enjoy teaching very much but think that a good teacher should also be actively engaged in research. . Dr. Bablanian, his wife, and his daughter live in Oyster Bay, Long Island. . , W.,,,....---f-'A 165 Pathology X-,K Pathology is a subject which is so vast in its scope and so demanding in its particulars. Here for the first time one is exposed to disease entities Cin more ways than one.J Obscure basic science facts become useful knowledge which is sweated out of students in numerous exams. PATRICK J. FITZGERALD has been Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology since 1953. Born in Haverhill, Massachusetts he attended the University of Massachusetts, and received his M.D. at Tufts. Dr. Fitzgerald did post-graduate work at Boston City Hospital and Memorial Hospital in New York. Students respect and admire his dedica- tion. Many students are still seeing spots after counting cells as part of his research projects. Blunt, brash, demanding and caustic, VALENTIN YERMAKOV makes the oral examination in pa- thology an experience not to be forgotten. To this day frightened girls are still crawling out of the woodwork. Learning has many motivations and Dr. Yermakov makes students learn because of one of them-terror. Still students learn, and they're grate- ful. He was raised in Yugoslavia and France and studied at the Universities of Belgrade, Munich and Heidelberg. He did his pathology residency at Kings County Hospital and has been on the faculty since 1955. He foresees a great future for the medical center if it can attract faculty members with diversi- fied interests and achieve greater interdepartmental cooperation. As to the student, well, they would be great iftheyld lose their spasticityf' I I S ',, . 1 ' '.::.. ,Y it. L.,. i t 'w t ,f . V. . . 4 Mi A Mi Row 1 Nlcastrl D1Ma1o Toreson Aronson Athanasslades Lupulescu, Gruber. Row 2: Ginsberg. Kauffman, Appleton. Parsa Herman Anderson Steen Sher Row 3 Zeichner Cottle, Klavins, Coppola, O'Connor, Yermakov, Horia. Kress. Abrams Row4 Lee Losada Abels Mleczkowskl Kim Lee Mtrra, Minkowitz, Peralta, Valsamis. THOMAS J. ATHANASSIADES, born in Greece, attended Haaren High School and the City College of New York. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Tulane, and trained in pathology at Kings County Hospital. Dr. Athanassiades makes it his business to steer students through the maze of Pathology. To this end, he adds humor, understanding, and his special ability to place complicated material in its proper perspective. He believes that the students are bright, hardworking and resourceful. His research interests involve im- munopathology and ultrastructure. Dr. A and his family live in Brooklyn. In his leisure time he enjoys listening to opera. 167 nvironmental Medicine The Department of Environmental Medicine and Community Health is many things. To freshmen it is statistics, to sophomores nutrition. And to seniors it is release from the protective confines of the medical center and the chance to be a physician to the community. DUNCAN W. CLARK is a graduate of the Long Island College of Medicine and has been a faculty member since 1941. He is proud of the accomplish- ments of the medical center but feels the traditions and values of the school are being overlooked and new curricular changes encourage premature spe- cialization at the expense of experience in ambula- tory health care. ROBERT HILLMAN, a most popular teacher, comes in contact with medical students throughout their four years at Downstate. Never does he fail to en- liven discussions and lectures with his special brand of humor. Dr. Hillman is a native Brooklynite who attended Columbia University and received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Long Island College of Medicine. A Captain in the Naval Reserve, Dr. Hillman is an active recruiter and liaison for the Ensign 1915 Early Commissioning Program. Dr. Hillman, with his wU'e and two sons, resides in Garden City, New York. He enjoys playing bas- ketball, tennis and, to say the least, is an avid sports enthusiast. Sitting: Wendy Hiller, Duncan Clark, Sophie Grosbard. Standing: Mahfouz Zaki, Morris Siegel, Edward Falsey, Robert Hillman. MAHFOUZ ZAKI was born in Egypt and earned his medical degree at Cairo University. He received a Doctorate of Public Health from Columbia Uni- versity and joined the Downstate faculty in 1962. Dr. Zaki is a likable and enthusiastic teacher who has always been available to students whether it be to answer medical questions or just to have a friendly conversation. He and his wife live in Huntington Hills, Long Island. He enjoys photography, tennis and travel. I69 Medicine For the student on the third year medical clerk- ship the prevailing thought is: So this is what itls all about. The basic sciences, which seem unre- lated and inapplicable, now become meaningful. The techniques learned in physical diagnosis are ex- panded to understanding the patient and establishing proper rapport. The quantity of material is over- whelming and unconquerable but at least there is some meaning to being addressed as doctor. Most students have the greatest respect and ad- miration for LUDWIG EICHNA. He, in modesty says: The guts of the teaching, the men who deserve the honor, are not the chairmen but the faculty. I unfortunately can do so little. WARREN GLASER received his medical degree from Columbia University. He has been a member of the Downstate faculty since 1956. He says, Since I came here the student body has not only increased in size but has also improved in interest, commitment and intelligence. It is the equal of the best in the country. Dr. Glaser lives in Brooklyn with his wie and his children. He enjoys reading, music and sailing. We hope his sabbatical this year has been rewarding. 3'?'A?E UMW? A W J' Row I: Silverstein, Holden, Delano, Levison, Shai, Eichna, Carter, Goodwin, E. Feldman, E. Witkin, Bernheimer. Row 2: Dreizen, Carroll, Rapp, Lazarus, Lawson, Kydd, Lichtman, Reichsman, D. Feldman, Rieder. Row 3: Seligman, Crocco, Lyons, Rooney, Sztejnbok, Mosesson, Baker, Kaplan, Metz, Chenitz, Josephson, Gerber, Krasnow. Row 4: Friedman, Abrams, Levere, McNally. 'f HERBERT C. LICHTMAN is an alumnus of the Q Long Island College of Medicine and has been on , the Downstate faculty since 1951. Prior to coming here, he served as a Research Fellow in Hematology under Dr. Max Wintrobe at the University of Utah College of Medicine. As Clinical Professor of Medicine, Dr. Lichtman supervises both the second-year program in Clinical Laboratory Medicine and the Hematology Service at the medical center. He professes to teach . . . because I enjoy it-and probably learn more in the process than those I presumably teach. Dr. Lichtman lives with his wU'e and three teenage children in Scarsdale, New York. His principal di- versions are tennis and paddle-tennis, gardening, bird-watching, and classical music. l7l A native of Brooklyn, EDMUND MCNALLY attended Johns Hopkins Medical School and did his residency at Kings County Hospital. Dr. McNally, who claims to be one of the biggest men in gastro- enterology, is a popular personality and teacher. Outspoken and never afraid to voice his opinion, he would like to see more contact between students and faculty. He lives with his wU'e and children in Douglaston, New York. ln his spare time he enjoys exploring local cemeteries, a subject on which he is an author- ity. A graduate of Brooklyn College and Downstate, ELI FRIEDMAN did his post-graduate work at Harvard from 1958 to 1961 before returning to practice renal medicine at Kings County Hospital. Presently he is doing research in the field of renal transplantation. On the subject of the importance of clinical training, Dr. Friedman says: The physician is the professional who must blend the teachings of the disciplines of basic science with the art and mystique of clinical diagnosis and therapy. Until we honor patient care as we have worshipped research, we will fail to inspire students to the full extent they de- serve. Contact with students during the Hrs! blush of clinical experience in the junior medical clerkship is most enjoyable for me. it BERNARD M. WECHSLER was educated in Berne, Switzerland. He came to Downstate in 1960 and is now a leading cardiologist at Kings County Hospital. He says that perhaps the present problem he faces is not having enough hours a day to devote to teaching. The solution, he feels, lies in increasing the size of the faculty with an emphasis placed on the clinical training of students and house staff In his spare time he enjoys relaxing at home and swimming. DOROTHY M. HOLDEN grew up in Centralia, Illinois and received her education at the University of Illinois and Meharry Medical College. As a hematologist at Downstate and even more so as a vivacious teacher, she is admired by all. Dr. Holden finds today's students better qualified than in the past and believes this is because they are presented with more information and thereby chal- lenged more. Dr. Holden lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn. In her leisure time she enjoys music and reading. 173 bstetrics and ynecology A greater responsibility for patient care is first awarded the student during his clerkship in ob- stetrics. Although he sleeps little, and suffers humili- ation under Dotty Lee, R.N., the excitement of de- livering a baby grows as he masters full control. LOUIS M. HELLMAN is the distinguished chair- man ofthe Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He received his bachelor's degree from Yale Uni- versity and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Hellman came to Downstate in 1950. Years of research and clinical experience have culminated in Dr. Hellman's writing one of the most renowned textbooks on the subject of obstetrics. Dr. Hellman is presently the Chairman of the Ad- visory Committee on Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Food and Drug Administration. To be a satisfactory teacher takes a great deal of thought and time. I look upon my responsibilities as a teacher as the most important aspect of my profes- sional life. I contend that the main purpose of a faculty at a medical school is to teach, and there- fore develop a proper physician at the completion of the student's educational career. It is this devotion to teaching thatmakesl . EDWARD HALL a favorite among students. Obstetrics and Gynecology rounds are always a pleasant learning experience when he is conducting them. Dr. Hall has been on the Downstate faculty since 1952. He was Associate Pathologist at The Brooklyn Hospital, after receiving his M.D. degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Hall lives in Brooklyn with his wUe and currently is a grandfather Jive times over. His special interests include farming and gardening. ,, --'ffl-t s gQeQ'4i.,. is M, 'QQ 41? 3? if diff 'J W,-1 , Seated: Carlo Valenti, James Nelson, J. Edward Hall, Louis Hellman, Schuyler Kohl, Leon Chesley, Vincent Tricomi. Standing: Walter Tolles, John Boyce, Frederick Friedman, James Jones, Alois Vasicka, William Pomerance, Morton Schiffer, Paul Pedowitz, Edward Savage, Mitsunao Kobayashi, Marvin Lavenhar, George Solish. JAMES H. NELSON, a graduate of Marietta College, received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the New York University School of Medicine. He then interned and did his residency at the United States Naval Hospital, St. Albans, New York. Teaching and research are his main interests at Downstate. He is investigating the immunological reaction related to placental tolerance during preg- nancy. Married and the father of two sons, Dr. Nelson's outside interests include football and goM His con- fidence in Downstate is expressed by the fact that his eldest son is a member ofthe second year class. l75 Psychiatr ,fi The Department of Psychiatry acquaints the second-year student with basic psychiatric principles through an introductory series of lectures. The imagi- native use of video tapes affords a glimpse of actual patients, speaking and emoting, though electronical- ly remote. During the third-year clerkship the stu- dent encounters the mentally ill atfirst hand. Through numerous interviewing sessions with a patient and interpretive formulation of the case, the pathology of a psychiatric patient is unraveled and his frustrating struggles with mental illness become more apparent. The Department of Psychiatry is headed by MARVIN STEIN from St. Louis. He had been Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College before assuming the reins at Downstate in 1966. Students, he says, have impressed me as being bright, conscientious, and interested. It is my hope that the Medical Center will continue to develop in keeping with contemporary trends in basic re- search and the delivery of health services. A native New Yorker, CARL T. WOLFF attended The Horace Mann School, Yale University and Harvard Medical School. As an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Dr. WoU'f is in charge of the second year course. His friendly, informal manner and his interest in student affairs has won him the appreciation of the student body and faculty alike. Living in Manhattan with his wife and their infant child, Dr. Wobff enjoys sailing and fencing in his spare time. Damel S Papernlk All A Kawl Lawrence N. Sabot, Thomas J. Luparello. Although FERRUCCIO DI CORI admires the enthusiasm of youth, it is his enthusiastic presenta- tions that enliven the third year psychiatry clerk- ship. A Summa cum laude graduate of the University of Rome, Dr. DiCori has been at Downstate since 1961. He developed an interest in literature and the theatre while on the Harvard Medical School faculty where he did studies on the psychology of the theatre. He and his wife live in Manhattan's upper East Side. 1 have tried to follow in my professional career norms of behavior in such a way that, in the Hnal analysis, life is applied to psychiatry rather than psychiatry to lifef' I77 Pediatrics The single month that the third year student spends in his pediatric clerkship cannot do justice to the complex field of childhood disease, for it is indeed true that the child is not a small adult. Laboring under these limitations of time, the Pe- diatrics Department offers opportunities for further study through its comprehensive senior elective pro- gram, which features a ward externship that is unique to the medical center. The chairman of the department is JONATHAN T. LANMAN. He received both his bachelor's and medical degrees at Yale University, and was As- sociate Professor of Pediatrics at N.Y.U. before coming to Downstate in 1960. He is concerned about the problems at the medical center but feels there is great potential for their solution. Because of his time-consuming tasks of teaching, patient- care, research and administration, he is surprised at those students and physicians who look upon academic medicine as a quiet refuge from the stresses of private practice. A most welcome addition to the Downstate faculty is RAMON RODRIGUEZ-TORRES. He came here in 1961 from Havana, Cuba, where he received his M.D. degree. He also did post-graduate work at The National Heart Hospital in London. His lively personality and keen interest in teaching have been praised by many students who know him. Dr. Torres believes there are not many medical schools that offer their students the clinical material available at Downstate. Dr. Torres lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons. For relaxation he plays ping-pong. Seated: Orti, Rodriguez-Torres, Lanman, Robinson, Kanof, Milman. Standing: Blumer, Castells, Fikrig, Goldstein, Merenstein, Watson, Harper, Falter, McVicar, Broadman, Berkovich, Wiener, Russo, Qazi. . L-.. Quiet and compassionate, JANET WATSON is an integral part of every student's medical education at Downstate. She has been at the school since 1945 when it was still the Long Island College of Medicine and has taught many hundreds of students. Con- cerning her role as educator she says: 1 like it best because 1 enjoy student contact. She was born and lived in China for I6 years. Although a member of the pediatrics department, she has lej7 her mark in the field of hematology. Her training in hematology was at Harvard's Thorn- dike Laboratory. Dr. Watson lives in Brooklyn Heights and enjoys birdwatching and bridge in her spare time. I79 Surgery During the third year the Downstate student is exposed to two months of surgery at Kings County Hospital. He finds large wards overflowing with patients and is promptly thrust into the operating room to assist at innumerable procedures. He quick- ly learns to scrub, gown, glove, hold retractors, probably to cut sutures, perhaps to help close up. The legendary dictum for learning to handle cases is see one, do one, teach onef' CLARENCE DENNIS is the eminent chairman of the surgery department. He attended Harvard College and Johns Hopkins Medical School, held a surgery professorship at the University of Minne- sota, and came to Downstate in 1951. He says, this medical center has the potential to be one of the Hnest in the United States. I would rate our students as at least the equals of those in any center l have visited. Students will never forget the real conclusion of the surgery clerkship. They wait in the hall, trying to look nonchalant and confident. One by one, they enter the offce of BERNARD GARDNER to be told that surgery is for perhaps is notj their forte. Dr. Gardner, who organizes the third year surgery clerkship, views his role as a challenge to orient new doctors toward ejfective goals in medicine and stimulate young minds to further study. A native of Brooklyn, he attended New York University for undergraduate and medical education. His major fields of interest are tumor spread and metabolic effects of cancer. Dr. Gardner lives in Cedarhurst with his wife and three children. He enjoys duplicate bridge, bowling and political history. t Sitting: Grosz, Gardner, Stuckey, Dennis, Shaftan, Gombos, Song. Standing: Kottmeier, Klotz, Munters, Golding, Gourin, Herbsman, Seidenstein, Harshaw. PETER K. KOTTMEIER, originally from Munich, received his medical degree in Germany ana' did post-graduate work at Ohio State University. He has been a member of the surgery faculty since 1957 and is Chicf of Pediatric Surgery. He says that high American infant mortality rates are in part due to the lack of special pediatric facilities at many of our medical centers. A disciplined and dedicated surgeon, Dr. Kottmeier states that physicians who do not like to teach do not belong in a medical school. He also pays close personal attention to patient care on his services. He lives with his wife and three children in Baldwin, New Yorkg his non-medical interests in- clude water-skiing and music fwith a strong pref- erence for classical in the operating room. I 181 4 'I is J i Z Q - , I . . w1s':Ti,!e:T:i f - wi ' X -' ,WM , X .1 .5-,, H, , V' ' Efgff 'i : . 5 ..,,,,m.L-L. .S . A ui., K 3, v 'I82 From Lausanne, Switzerland, ROLAND GIRARDET attended the Faculty of Medicine at Lausanne University and did post-graduate work in Switzerland and London. He has been at Downstate since 1960 and is interested in gastrointestinal and transplantation surgery. The medical center is ex- cellent but with still unused potentialitiesf' Dr. Girardet, his wife and child live in Brooklyn. He skis and enjoys music, history and literature. R. KEITH WATERHOUSE, Professor and Chief of Urology at the State University and Kings County Hospitals, is a familiar figure to the fourth year medical student. Although he has an extremely full schedule, Dr. Waterhouse finds time to personally meet with all the students on his service. Aher completing his education at Oxford and Cambridge in 1954, Dr. Waterhouse came to the United States and to Downstate. Dr. Waterhouse, his wife, and their five children live in Long Island and spend their summers at Cape Cod. He enjoys traveling and collecting Chinese antiques. adiolog It is the Department of Radiology which first in- troduces the third year student to the field of shadow pathology. From the early beginnings as weekly lectures to the later informal conferences on the wards, the student through the guidance of the de- partment slowly learns about the roentgenographic world of disease. In the fourth year, one finds that all of radiology is not film, but that a sister science of the x-ray exists in the form of radiotherapy. HARRY Z. MELLINS, is Professor and Chair- man of the department of Radiology. Born in New York City, and a graduate of Columbia University, and Long Island College of Medicine, Dr. Mellins has been at Downstate since 1956. Before coming to Downstate, Dr. Mellins was Clinical Assistant Pro- fessor of Radiology at Wayne State University and Head of the Department of Radiology at Sinai Hos- pital of Detroit. Seated Dziadrw Mellins Strutynsky Margolres Standing: Balthazar, Smith, Benninghoff, Dosik, Moskowitz. 183 Anesthesiology It is often said that the unsung hero of the operating room is the anesthesiologist. In the present era of modern surgery where organ transplants and radical surgery are becoming commonplace, his ef- forts in the O.R. are most apparent. MEREL H. HARMEL, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He also served his residency in that institution's hospital. Prior to coming to Downstate in 1952, Dr. Harmel was an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Albany Medical College. One of his greatest in- terests lies in the field of respiratory physiology. if K 4, it 1 5? l , r 5' ' 'L x 5 - 5 4' , 5. r , , I. Seated Blumenfeld, Kip, Aldeguer, Mijares, Manahan. Row I Standing: Weitzner, E. Fox, J. Fox, Ito, FIND ROW 2 SIl1f1ding.'Martinez, Jeretin, Urban, Berenyi. Rehabilitation Medicine The purpose of Downstate's department of Re- habilitation Medicine is to help handicapped in- dividuals become productive members of our society. It is through their dedication to this goal that the department serves the hospital community. JOSEPH G. BENTON is Professor and Chair- man of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and presently serves as Dean of the College of Health Related Professions. A graduate of Brooklyn College and New York University College of Medicine, Dr. Benton has been at Downstate since 1959. Seated: Rodriguez, Colin. Standing: Lamber, Delerma, Rogers, Benton, Goldman, Feldman, Goldberg. 185 J' maxi ALUMNI ASSOCIATION .X 5,0 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York H203 College of Medicine Greetings To The Class Of 1969: CONGRATULATIONS and WELCOME into membership in your Alumni Association. You are now a member of an organization with a long and distinguished history. Since 1860, when the first class of 21 members was graduated from The Long Island College Hospital Collegiate Division, 8, 679 degrees of Doctor of Medicine have been conferred by our Medical School. Amongst the recipients are many of the immortals of medicine, physicians who have contributed to all fields of medical knowledge and service to mankind. Graduates of our institution are in practice throughout the world, and in many cases have attained major positions in medical school administration, teaching, research and government. One of the major purposes of your Alumni Association is to maintain Contact with all of our graduates in an attempt to perpetuate their interest in the College, the undergraduates, and their fellow alumni. judging by the recent response to our annual appeal for donations to The Alumni Fund, it is evident that we are meeting with great success. During the current school year, the Alumni Association has granted 535, O00 in tuition aid, 56, 200 in summer re- search, clinical and travel fellowships, sponsored two concerts, increased to 12 the number of instruments in our Microscope Loan Pool, donated to the Dean's Fund, and made loans to students on a short term and long term basis. This program is made possible only by the support of our alumni of whom we now have more than 5, 100 on our roster. We welcome the Class of 1969 into this active body. We wish you every success as you enter the field of Medicine and your chosen specialty. We urge, as you prosper, to remember the school which equipped you for the practice of your profession and that others, following in your footsteps, need your support. Every alumnus receives our magazine Alumni Today . Through its pages we will attempt to keep you posted on what is happening at our school, in the Alumni Association, and to your classmates. In return, we ask that you keep in touch with the Alumni Office by informing us of your progress and whereabouts, and that you join us in making Downsrate and its Alumni Association second to none. Horace I-Ierbsman, M.D., '53 President F HIIIIIISS Suzanne and Jeff Anker Shari and Mitch Buchbinder Paula and Harvey Goldberg '? Hollis and Edward Schlam Helen and Steve Yabek Sue and Howard Shapiro and Dorothy, Arthur and Robert Nome and Steve Kron Snicker Graff, and Finnegan Mahfooz and Jahbah 188 Marian and Ken Hurst, and Bogey Seena and Marvin Garovoy Nancy and Richard Wanderman Mary Ellen, John Leo' and Bob Giasi '01 , on A. 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