ALUMNI NEWS

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M *Richard R. Crutcher, M.D., MD'37, HS'37-'40, '45-'46, retired in 1978 after practicing surgery since 1947. He and his wife, Dot, are enjoying retirement and their five children, nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

*William W. Davis, M.D., MD'37, provides this update on his children – who have three Ph.D.s, but no M.D.s, among them. Don is a math professor at Lehigh University, and has established a program for talented young math students from the eastern Pennsylvania region. Bill is a statistician, working on probability statistics at the NIH. Richard has his doctorate in South Asian Studies and teaches at Bard College in New York. Debby is in charge of the Science library at Ursuline College and has raised four children. One of Davis's granddaughters, a statistician with the Department of Energy, recently gave him a great gift – his first great-grandchild.

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*Blair E. Batson, M.D., MD'44, HS'44-'45, '48-'50, served as chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine from its opening in 1955 until he retired. The University of Mississippi Medical Center's Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children is named for him.

Henry M. Gewin, M.D., MD'45, retired in 1994. He has two sons, internists, who received their undergraduate degrees from Vanderbilt, and a grandson, also a Vanderbilt graduate, who is a third-year resident in Psychiatry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Sam H. Hay Sr., M.D., MD'40, reports he is living well and loving life in Huntsville, Ala. He retired 10 years ago from his Murfreesboro, Tenn., practice.

William (Mack) Hibbitts, M.D., MD'48, has lived in Midland, Texas, with his wife, Edna, since 1970 and was recently recognized by the Midland Exchange Club for his many years of community service with a Book of Golden Deeds Award. He helped start Hospice of Midland during the 1980s and served as its first medical director.

*George W. Holcomb Jr., M.D., MD'46, HS'46-'48, CF'57-'00, is retired and reports that his son, *George W. Holcomb III, M.D., MD'80, HS'80-'85, FA '88-'98, is the Katherine B. Richardson Chair in Pediatric Surgery at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, where he is also surgeon-in-chief and director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery at Children's Mercy Hospital. Holcomb III has also edited a textbook in pediatric surgery with two other authors, published by Elsevier-Saunders in 2005.

Howard H. Nichols, M.D., MD'45, HS'50-'51, retired in 1990 after 45 years in Pediatrics. He is still participating in several volunteer jobs, none of which are in the field of medicine.

Clifford Tillman, M.D., MD'44, HS'44-'49, '50-'51, is still practicing medicine at the age of 85. He and his wife, Sarah, a graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, have four children, all Vanderbilt graduates, including one son who graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

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*John Wesley Boldt, M.D., MD'54, HS'54-'59, is being honored by the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio by an endowed chair established in his name for excellence in gynecology. He traveled to Guatemala in July on a medical mission trip, and in September, will welcome his 22nd grandchild.

James Callaway, M.D., MD'56, HS'60-'64, retired from private practice in Maryville, Tenn., in 1995. He and his wife, Van, who he married in June, are living in Maryville.

Eugene T. Davidson, M.D., MD'56, FE'59-'60, is living in Mars Hill, N.C., completed a six-month term as medical director of Lakeland (Fla.) Volunteers in Medicine in May, and is working one day a week at the Asheville Free Clinic. His daughter, Anne, one of four children, continues a job in advertising. He has five grandchildren and a new golden retriever named Sparkle.

Marshall A. Diamond, M.D., MD'57, lives in West Columbia, S.C., and enjoys traveling the world with his wife, Ann, and playing tennis two or three times a week. He also enjoys golf and yard work. The Diamonds have two sons and three grandchildren.

Cecil B. Howard, M.D., MD'53, retired from the practice of Pediatrics in Maryville, Tenn., Aug. 1. Shortly before that, he was commended by Tennessee State Senate Resolution #282 for his 50 years of exceptional medical service to the people of Blount County. In February, the Maryville-Alcoa Daily Times selected him as one of the "people who matter" for his community service.

*Joanne Linn, M.D., MD'50, retired in 1991 and is living in Nashville.

*Joseph C. Ross, M.D., MD'54, HS'54-'55, FA'79-, has spent much of the past few years occupied with family. His brother, Jeff, a Sparta, Tenn., dentist, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma; his daughter, Jennifer, with breast cancer; and his grandson, Jonathan Schaub, is still recovering from a near-fatal accident in New York.

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Edward E. Anderson, M.D., MD'61, HS'61-'63, retired in 1998 after 30 years of practicing invasive and interventional cardiology. He has built a home on a hill and has turned to the important things in life – "children, grandchildren, travel, hunting and fishing, plus returning to my roots in West Tennessee." He has four children and three grandchildren nearby, and last year, at the age of 68, gave up his motorcycle. "I thought I'd quit while I was ahead," he reports.

Robert M. Carey, M.D., MACP, MD'65, FE'70-'72, is chair of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

*Thomas Chesney, M.D., MD'69, HS'70, was featured in a March issue of the Baptist Hospital Memphis newsletter, Baptist Leader, about his decade-long work as chairman of the Metro Performance Improvement Committee of the Medical Staff. Chesney and others helped develop new advances and ways to enhance patient care quality.

*Frank Gluck, M.D., HS'65-'71, was named an American College of Physicians (ACP) laureate in 2004 and was inducted into the Seton Society (Saint Thomas-Baptist Hospital Hall of Fame) in 2005. He is currently working half time, teaching at Baptist Hospital's residency program.

*Antonio Gotto Jr., M.D., MD'65, has joined the board of directors of the scientific advisory board of Arisaph Pharmaceuticals, where he is expected to bring his considerable knowledge in basic and clinical research to the product development programs of the privately held drug discovery and design biopharmaceutical company. Gotto is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City.

David Gregory, M.D., MD'67, HS'67-'71, FE'80-'81, FA'73-, was featured in an article in the June American College of Physicians Observer. "Doctor follows Golden Rule to overcome cultural divide," talks about Gregory's volunteer work in caring for Nashville's growing immigrant population. Gregory, an associate professor of Medicine, founded the Siloam Family Health Center, a faith-based primary care clinic in Nashville. Gregory was honored this year with the ACP's Oscar E. Edwards Memorial Award for exceptional volunteerism and community service.

*John D. Hutcherson, M.D., MD'60, HS'64-'66, lives in Englewood, Colo., and was named a fellow of the American College of Cardiology in February.

Richard M. Hutson, M.D., MD'66, retired from private practice in Paducah, Ky., in 2000. He and his wife, Jane, moved to Fort Collins, Colo., in 2004 and are busy enjoying all that a lifestyle in the Rocky Mountains offers – majestic scenery, rafting, wildlife, hiking and fly fishing.

*Richard B. Johnston Jr., M.D., MD'61, HS'61-'63, is professor of Pediatrics and associate dean for Research Development at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, a respiratory and immunology center.

*Verne Lanier Jr., M.D., MD'66, HS'66-'71, retired in July 2005. He and his wife, Dean, have three married daughters and five grandchildren.

*John B. Neeld Jr., M.D., MD'66, HS'66-'67, lives in Atlanta with his wife, Gail, and is the immediate past president of the Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Association (VMAA). He is completing his 20th year as chair of the anesthesiology department of Northside Hospital in Atlanta where he is a member and past chair of the hospital's board of directors. He is a past chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and chairs the society's delegation to the American Medical Association house of delegates. He is also a member of the board of directors of the American Medical Association Political Action Committee, serves as vice-chair of the council on legislation of the Medical Association of Georgia, and was a recipient of the distinguished service award from the Medical Association of Atlanta.

Preston Russell, M.D., MD'66, had a spring art show at Stanford Fine Art in Nashville. Retired in Savannah, Ga., Russell continues the painting he studied while attending Tulane University. In 1976, he was among artists chosen by the French government for the American Artists in Paris bicentennial celebration. Russell's works are in private collections across the country as well as in southern museums. He is the author of "The Low Country: From Savannah to Charleston," "Savannah: A History of Her People Since 1733," and the recently released "Lights of Madness: In Search of Joan of Arc."

Andrew W. Walker, M.D., MD'60, is retired from his plastic surgery practice in Charlotte, N.C., where he performed the first total hand implant in Charlotte in 1972. He married Brenda Cotter in June, and his son, Bruce, a Vanderbilt graduate, now works for Lending Tree.

Robert H. White Jr., M.D., MD'65, is retiring in December from his pediatric ophthalmology and occuloplastics practice. His daughter and son are both married, living in California, each with one daughter.

Fremont Wirth, M.D., MD'66, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), presided over the group's annual meeting in April in San Francisco. He is assistant clinical professor in the Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery) at the Medical College of Georgia and practices neurosurgery at the Neurological Institute of Savannah. A member of the AANS since 1980, he is a member of five committees and of the new AANSPAC Board of Directors. Wirth has served as president of the Georgia Medical Society, the Southern Neurological Society, vice president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, governor of the American College of Surgeons and director and vice chairman of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons.

G. Wallace Wood, M.D., MD'66, HS'66-'68, has been in private pediatrics practice at Green Hills Pediatrics Associates in Nashville since 1971. He and his wife, Patty, a 1963 Vanderbilt University graduate, have a son, Michael, daughter, Katie, and four grandchildren. In his spare time, he has season tickets to Vanderbilt football and basketball, Nashville Predators hockey, and Tennessee Titans football.

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Alan Birnbaum, M.D., MD'75, has relocated his neurology practice to Spruce Multispecialty Group in North Fresno, Calif. In addition to his practice related to the management and evaluation of work injuries, his predominant activity for 25 years, he has added to his weekly schedule an interesting group of patients with a wide array of general neurological problems. He also continues as the editor of the local cycling club newsletter – www.fresnocycling.com – and has become active in forming a new community service-oriented group, tentatively called Valley Cycling Foundation, which promotes safe and sociable Central Valley riding.

Kendall T. Blake, M.D., MD'71, retired in 2004 after 25 years of private practice of orthopaedic surgery at the Jackson (Miss.) Bone and Joint Clinic. He is now employed by Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Quality Assurance. He still sees consults, and operates six to eight times a week. His wife, Kathleen, died in 2001, and he married Rebecca Wilcox in April 2004. A daughter, Barbara, lives in Nashville and is expecting her first child in November. A son, Thomas, teaches at Auburn.

*John Cobb, M.D., MD'78, spent much of July climbing the Alps. He and a guide took a train to the start of their rock climb of the Riffelhorn and reported incredible views of all the peaks around Zermatt, Switzerland. He successfully climbed Mt. Blanc (4,808 meters).

James L. Fletcher Jr., M.D., MD'76, has become the functioning president of Alta Pete Inc., a southeast Missouri agribusiness named for the Latin phrase, "Aim High."

*Edwin Grogan, M.D., MD'71, has a busy general surgery practice in Paducah, Ky., and serves as an elder at Lone Oak Church of Christ. He reports that his son, Eric Grogan, M.D., MD'99, HS'99-'06, his wife, Melanie, and three children now live in Charlottesville, Va., where he is doing a thoracic fellowship at the University of Virginia. A daughter, Julie, lives with her husband and two children in Memphis.

Douglas C. Heimburger III, M.D., MD'78, was given two awards by the Class of 2008 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham – best small group leader and best course director. Heimburger was also awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study, for six months, the nutritional needs of those with AIDS in Zambia, Sub Saharan Africa.

Lawrence Judy, M.D., MD'77, HS'77-'80, is marking his 25th year in a multi-specialty group practice in Southern Indiana. His wife, Marion, works part-time at a community-supported clinic and their middle child looks forward to starting a pediatrics residency in July. As a senior aviation medical examiner, Judy examines pilots for their aviation medical exams, and flies a Cessna 210L. He flew to Estes Park, Colo., for the internal medicine review course, returning via South Dakota and Mount Rushmore, and also landed his small airplane at Chicago's O'Hare, where he went to visit friends at the Elmhurst Clinic.

Patrick Meacham, M.D., MD'76, HS'76-'82, has opened a private, solo, vascular surgery practice in Hendersonville, Tenn. He operates mostly at Hendersonville Hospital, but some at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. For the past two years, he has been working on a minimally invasive technique for aortic repair using videoscopic guidance. He has been married to Gwen for seven years, and has two daughters – Molly, 26, in graduate school at Northwestern, and Alice, 23, who is finishing college at St. Benedict in Minnesota. Meacham's father, W.F. Meacham, M.D., MD'40, HS'40-'44, FA '51-'88, a clinical professor emeritus of Neurological Surgery at Vanderbilt, died in 1999 at age 85; his mother, four years later on the same day.

Susie Merwin, M.D., MD'76, has moved to a new office in a northern suburb of Cincinnati.

Harry Stanley Morehead Jr., M.D., MD'71, reports that after 20 years of a neurology practice in the Boston area and four years in the Middle East, he and his wife, Betty, have moved to Phoenix where he works at a neurology and pain treatment clinic. After 38 years of marriage, the couple has a son, daughter and two grandchildren with another on the way. Morehead is an elder at the Phoenix Valley Church of Christ, and Betty does some counseling and dabbles in real estate.

*Philip M. Rosenbloom, M.D., MD'70, HS'72-'73, became a Bar Mitzvah at The Temple in Louisville, Ky., at the age of 64, before about 200 friends, family, associates and beloved patients. Medical school classmates in attendance included John Fitts, M.D., Stephan Sweitzer, M.D., and John Tarpley, M.D.

Wally Schlech, M.D., FE'78-'80, has been living and working in Nova Scotia since 1982. He's currently professor of Medicine at Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine, and has been a visiting professor at the Infectious Diseases Institute in Kampala, Uganda, for two to three months a year doing HIV clinical care, teaching and research. His wife, Mary, is involved in Ark Outreach, a program ministering to homeless and youth in Halifax, and their five children are all educated and "scattered to the winds," including eldest AJ, now a C-130 pilot in the U.S. Air Force.

David Slater, M.D., MD'75, is a professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville and has also been in the private practice of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery since 1985. He and his wife, Gail, a 1972 graduate of Vanderbilt University, have a son, Billy, currently a junior at Vanderbilt.

Peter Stacpoole, M.D., Ph.D., MD'76, HS'76-'78, FE'78-'80, has been at the University of Florida for the past 18 years as its GCRC Program director, and more recently, as associate dean. He's heading UF's response to the NIH Roadmap initiative, entitled, "Clinical and Translational Research Award." His own research focuses on the causes and treatment of genetic mitochondrial diseases and on the pharmacotoxicology of xenobiotics relevant to environmental health. Stacpoole and his wife, Sara, a neurocognitive psychologist and professor of Psychiatry at UF, have two children, Sarah, a Sewanee graduate who plans to attend graduate school, and Daniel, 11.

Daniel K. Winstead, M.D., MD'70, currently serves as the director and president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and also director for the American Board of Family Medicine. He and his wife, Jenny, live in New Orleans and had five feet of water in their home from Hurricane Katrina. They are living in an apartment while it is being rebuilt.

Steven Wolff, M.D., HS'74-'77, is back at Nashville General Hospital, serving as chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Meharry Medical College.

Charles Woodrow, M.D., MD'78, HS'78-'79, his wife, Julie, and children, Kent, Grace Anne, Sarah Beth, Andrew and Benaiah, have been on a whirlwind tour of American churches recruiting missionary laborers for work in Mozambique.

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*Katherine A. Bertram, M.D., MD'86, HS'86-'90, continues her private, internal medicine and geriatrics practice in Cookeville, Tenn., and also serves as chairman of the Department of Medicine at Cookeville Regional Hospital and medical director of NHC Healthcare, Bethesda Healthcare and Caris Hospice. Her daughter, Amy, is recently engaged and is working toward her Ph.D. in French.

Chris Cates, M.D., MD'82, HS'82-'86, FE'86, had an article published in the May 2 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, demonstrating that training on virtual patients improves carotid angiography skills.

Raymond Dufresne Jr., M.D., MD'80, HS'80-'87, was promoted to professor at Brown University Medical School, where he is a dermatologist. He was also selected as the 2006 Teacher of the Year.

*Richard Gray, M.D., MD'86, is chief of the Division of Surgical Services at University Community Hospital in Carrollwood, Fla., and is currently developing an orthopaedic surgery residency program in conjunction with the University of South Florida. He is also hand surgeon for the Tampa Bay Lightning NHL hockey team.

Barbara Greco, M.D., FE'87, is a partner in Western New England Renal and Transplant Associates in Springfield, Mass.

C. Wayne Holley, M.D., MD'85, lives in Albany, Ga., with his wife, Lori, and daughter, Caroline, 12.

Stephen Jones, M.D., HS'86-'92, directed a recent Cleveland Clinic study that found that most vasectomy patients fail to verify their sterility. The study was published in the April issue of the British Journal of Urology. The study found that of 436 men who participated, a mere 21 percent complied with post-vasectomy instructions, which include submitting two consecutive semen samples declared free of sperm to determine the procedure's success.

Michael Wein, M.D., HS'89-'92, is president of the Florida Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Society and is writing a chapter on allergy for the medical textbook "Conn's Current Therapy 2006." He and his wife, Deborah, have two children, Matt and Samantha.

Frederick White, M.D., FE'86-'89, has recently been named senior vice president of Risk Management for the Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company, a physician-led mutual insurance company providing professional liability products and services to physicians and other health care practitioners in Louisiana. The company provides medical liability insurance for more Louisiana health care providers than any other company.

Joe Wilson, M.D., FE'81-'83, has been elected from Georgia to serve on the American College of Cardiology Board of Governors from 2007-2010.

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Bond Almand III, M.D., MD'99, recently completed otolaryngology training at the University of Washington and has joined a private practice in Maryville, Tenn. He and his wife have one son, Bond IV, and are expecting their second child in November.

David M. Arehart, M.D., HS'98-'01, traveled to Indonesia in 2004 after the tsunami with a Christian missions group.

Beth Baxter, M.D., MD'90, has a full-time psychiatry practice and continues to write and speak about her story of recovering from serious mental illness.

Suzy Humphreys Bradshaw, M.D., MD'99, HS'99-'02, is practicing general pediatrics in Ithaca, N.Y. She and her husband, John Bradshaw, M.D., FE'93-'95, '98-'02, have three children – Zachary, 5, Helen, 3, and Joshua, born in March. John is practicing pediatrics and pediatric infectious disease in Ithaca, and is on the rotating faculty in Syracuse.

Reuben Bueno Jr., M.D., MD'97, is assistant professor of Plastic Surgery at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. His practice includes pediatric and general plastic surgery with a special interest in adult and pediatric hand surgery, congenital hand and face anomalies, microsurgery, brachial plexus reconstruction and facial reanimation surgery. Prior to his appointment, Bueno completed two, one-year fellowships – in pediatric plastic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto; and in hand and upper extremity surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

Leslie Stark Doherty, M.D., MD'95, married Cameron Doherty in November 2005.

Lisa Gangarosa, M.D., FE'94-'97, is clinical associate professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She and her husband, Jim Harrison, who works in the Raleigh radio market, have two daughters who are 7 and 12.

*Katrina Gwinn-Hardy, M.D., MD'91, HS'91-'92, received an NIH director's award for neuroimaging atlas and received a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Merit Award for her work in neurogenetics.

Anne V. E. Hansen, M.D., MD'90, HS'90-'93, is working part time with the Lexington, Va., Health Department and is happy to be back in medicine after 13 years in "retirement" raising her four children.

*Louise Hanson, M.D., MD'90, HS'90-'94, is chief of Clinical Services at Vanderbilt's Student Health Center. She and her husband, Walter Smalley, M.D., FE'90, FA'91-,a gastroenterologist at VUMC, have two children – Hannah, 8, and John, 5.

Alan S. Hillibrand, M.D., FA'96-'98, is vice-chair of the communications cabinet of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). He will serve a two-year term on the cabinet charged with communicating the Academy's activities to members, patients and the public. He is associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, and director of Medical Education in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Jefferson Medical College and the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia.

Christopher Hudson, M.D., MD'98, and his wife, Christiana, welcomed George Brooks Hudson on April 28. He weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces, and was 22 inches long. The family lives in Albuquerque, N.M., where Chris is a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force.

*Ahad Mahootchi, M.D., MD'92, HS'92-'96, married Carole Jahns, a clinical pharmacist at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, on April 15 at Ca 'd'Zan Mansion at Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla. He is employed by the Eye Clinic of Florida. The couple lives in Tampa, Fla.

Jobe Coy Metts III, M.D., HS'91-'97, and Peggy Cabell Metts, M.D., MD'97, live in Wilson, N.C. They are in private practice in urology and radiation oncology, respectively. They have three children – Carrington, 6; McGuire, 4; and Cabell, 3.

Thomas R. Repine, M.D., MD'98, is assistant chief of Hematology/ Oncology in the Department of Medicine at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas. He was in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2004 with the 31st Combat Support Hospital. He and his wife, Stephanie, have two daughters, Taylor, 6, and Whitney, 2.

Leopoldo Rodriguez, M.D., HS'96-00, is medical director and chief of Anesthesiology of a Surgery Center in Miami, Fla. He has two children – Alexander, 6, and Nicholas, 4.

Thomas Samuel, M.D., HS'98-'01, completed a hematology/oncology fellowship at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia in 2004 and joined the faculty at Temple University in the Division of Medical Oncology as assistant professor and assistant director of the hematology/oncology fellowship. In January, he was appointed to the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, as assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/ Oncology. His wife has also joined the internal medicine residency program as a first-year intern.

Harry L. Schroeder, M.D., MD'90, and his wife, Darcy, have a son, Braeden Lowell, 5.

David J. Stallard Jr., M.D., MD'91, married his wife, Tina, in July 2005. They moved into a new home on Lake Murray in Lexington, S.C., in April.

Kathryn Teng, M.D., MD'97, HS'97-'99, is leaving her internal medicine practice at Massachusetts General Hospital to take a clinician educator position at The Cleveland Clinic, where she and her husband, Derek Abbott, M.D., Ph.D., MD'00, an assistant professor of Pathology at Case Western University, will be moving in October.

Jasminka Vukanovic-Criley, M.D., MD'95, HS'95-'98, is at Stanford University and this spring helped design the course on cardiovascular examination and created a cardiovascular exam test, using virtual patient examinations, for first-year students as part of their SP final exam. Criley, an adjunct clinical instructor, received the Society of General Internal Medicine's 2006 award for best precourse, "Virtual Patient Examinations: Improving Cardiac Clinical Skills Teaching for Clerkships and Residency Programs."

Blake Weathersby, M.D., HS'98-'01, and his wife, Ashlea, former Housestaff Alliance President, welcomed twins, Mary Phares and Rowan James, on Sept. 20, 2005. Weathersby is a partner with Charleston Nephrology Associates in Charleston, S.C.

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Yasmine Subhi Ali, M.D., MD'01, was in the inaugural class to achieve board certification in clinical lipidology, becoming one of the first diplomats of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology.

Sarah Bixby, M.D., MD'01, lives in Belmont, Mass. She and her husband, Kevin, are expecting their first child, a girl, in October.

Michael Edward Bowen, M.D., M.P.H., MD/MPH'05, HS'05-'09, married Lizza Connor in April in Nashville. While Michael finishes his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics, Lizza continues to pursue a career in the music industry.

S. R. Evans III, M.D., MD'01, is in solo Ob/Gyn practice in Morganton, N.C., with his wife, Amy, who graduated from the FNP/CNM program at Vanderbilt in 2001. They have a daughter, Ella, 2, and are expecting their second child in February 2007.

Austin Garza, M.D., MD'00, HS'00-'01, has joined Associates in Gastroenterology in Colorado Springs, Colo. He and his wife, Sarah, who received her undergraduate and Master's of Nursing degrees from Vanderbilt, have a son, Will, and are expecting a daughter in December.

Robert "Beaver" Garza, M.D., MD'01, HS'01-'02, has started a plastic surgery fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has a 9-month-old daughter, Camilla Marguerite.

Scott Hande, M.D., MD'00, has finished his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In July, he joined a GI practice near New Haven, Conn. He and his wife, Karen, live in Guilford, Conn., have a daughter, Olivia, and are expecting a baby boy in September.

Neil Harris, M.D., MD'01, HS'01, and his wife, Brenda Harris, M.D., MD'04, have a new baby, Colby Allen Harris. He joins big brother, Zach.

Cameron Johnson, M.D., MD'01, HS'02-'05, has just completed a cornea fellowship at the University of Florida. He is starting practice in Phoenix, Ariz. He has two sons – Hayden, 4, and Reese, 2.

Michelle Koo, M.D., FE'00-'01, won the Outstanding Publication Award for Young Electrophysiologists for her publication, "Calmodulin kinase II activity is required for normal atrioventricular nodal conduction," at the Heart Rhythm Society meeting in May.

Timothy Kuo, M.D., MD'00, has joined a hematology/oncology practice in Mooresville, N.C., after completing fellowship training at Stanford University.

Vipul Lakhani, M.D., MD'01, and Carmel Lakhani, M.D., MD'01, have moved back to Nashville with their son, Kavi, 1. Vipul joined Vanderbilt's faculty in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism on Sept. 1.

Judy C. Liu, M.D., MD'00, is joining an all-retina practice in Phoenix this fall – the Retinal Specialists of Arizona.

Amy Lo, M.D., MD'01, and Samir Parikh, M.D., MD'01, married in May 2002. Amy is in her last year of a gastroenterology fellowship and Samir finished his nephrology fellowship and is an attending at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. The couple plans a fall trip to Provence, France.

Sovana R. Moore, M.D., MD'00, HS'04, practices Ob/Gyn in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and recently became a partner at Women's Health Specialists.

Kate Dixon Ness, M.D., MD'00, HS'00-'01, FE'00-'06, and her husband, Erik Ness, M.D., HS'98-'01, FE'01-'04, have moved to Santa Fe, N.M. Kate has joined Presbyterian Health Services in Albuquerque as a pediatric endocrinologist, and Erik, Northern New Mexico Gastroenterology in Santa Fe. Their first child, Caroline, was born in July.

David Pearson, M.D., MD'02, recently completed his four-year emergency medicine residency at Denver Health Medical Center.

Brent Pennington, M.D. MD'00 HS'01-'02, has established a new dermatology practice, Nashville Skin and Cancer, in conjunction with Jason Robbins, M.D., MD'99. Pennington married Kathleen Emerson of Rock Hill, S.C., on Aug. 5. She's a registered nurse at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.

Patrick H. Pun, M.D., MD'01, is completing his third year of a nephrology fellowship at Duke University. He recently received an NIH/institutional grant to continue clinical research in cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney patients, and will transition to clinical faculty at Duke later this year. He is married to Brenda Truman Pun, VUSN MSN'99, a clinical instructor for the UNC School of Nursing.

Tyson Thomas, M.D., MD'00, HS'00-'06, has begun practice with The Surgical Clinic, PLLC, and is based at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville. He and his wife, Amy, have a 16-month-old son and are expecting their second son in November.

Don Udall, M.D., MD'01, found Navy life interesting for awhile, but has come full circle – moving back to San Diego, where he was an intern, to take a clinical research fellowship at the University of California San Diego to prepare for applying to a residency program. His wife, Amber, works full-time taking care of 7-month-old twins, Nick and Luke, and Jayden, 2.

Ron Wells, M.D., MD'00, finished a residency in pediatrics at Madigan Army Medical Center in Fort Lewis, Wash. He spent two years as a general pediatrician at Bassett Army Community Hospital at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, and is currently a fellow in pediatric cardiology at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. He and his wife, Elizabeth, welcomed their first child, Caroline, in May.

*Indicates CRS member